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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1889)
fffl ai A \S a ft \ I -X m m 3 mi i f p m Sjg m »*j Vf [T t <> M < VJ ; a , -:■: y JL>I \ UNDER MASONIC HALL, IN FRONT OF COURT HOUSE' CONYERS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN ALL KhNDS OF m - a *Fm i mmM 111 ll lB ™ i V & SSSj A SSI 0 A h V s iuu; LT - A m AX m EB M '' iis ,‘v ' r~; V • mm, S t;J B P;-'r y 3 m&w W 5 ard-W are 5 ^la ^ ntaticm t> 5 * , v . , - ; £ , , * v . Shoe & Leather Haines, Alliance Patent Flour, the best on the market. Sucli WAGONS, CARTS, BUGGIES, MOORE'S RAKES, REAPERS and BINDERS. jfetpAny goods not in store furnished on short notice. as OUR PRICES I DYERTI8E OUK BUSINESS! ROCKDALE B ANNER PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY O'KELLEY & MADDOX CONYERS, GA., FEB. 12, 18 89. Local Gatherings, One hundred reasons can be as¬ signed why Rockdale should be famous as a manufacturing county. This paper for only $1 per year. Local industries we need, Aecal industries we want and we must and will have them. The manu¬ facturers are the money makers. Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Dyspepsia. Rockdale is accredited with the honor of being the pleasantest ; place to live in in the whole coun- ■ try. Our city schools are in a flour¬ ishing condition. The daily at¬ tendance is very large. Covington has both barrooms and free schools. Conyers has neither. Canned goods, goods of every description, eries, fruits and confection¬ too cigars, and many other Call things numerous to mention. on G. L. Kennon. . Capt. G. W. Weaver will order the inspection of the Conyers Vol¬ unteers about the first of March. MgBrce'iWiKE OF CARDUI for female diseases. Morris Shephard, col., was coll¬ ected in the justice court of this district last week of hog stealing. He is out on bond of $100,00 for Us appearanc at the February term of the superior court. U you fail to get your paper bo sure to inform us of the fact. for Anyone wishing plants or seeds garden or flower yards cannot R end to a more reliable man than to James Vick, seedsman, Roches¬ ter N. Y. We have bought plants °f several times and uniform } found tfeein what they were recommended to be. Mr. Tip Treadwell of Atlanta V ' as f n tho city last week on busi¬ ness. ^*-lACr.-D55AUSHT tea cares Constipation. The young people had a pleas f n ;hf Thursday rt y at Mr. Jack Stansell’a feff evening. r "° e -J c U e an has at last -us, sure enough, and gone to ft ac 3 tiie \ a ' S9th something less Ce for effort., but he is now h a Get. We predict that 8 T 80011 return; but whether v does or not we wish him great Access. iea s " ron gcst man we have I 0t * ls whose breath ir ,a oae ® * whisky bottle drunk „ hat it fe.fi BO h*. off the he afimf bh «“ “ d l i burEt j. tett, ‘ Snke ‘ms-Txhe $i now. the pries. Tlie richest pocket of gold ever discovered in Georgia was at Dahlonega, tke yield from it being $72,000. The largest nug¬ get weighed seventy-two penny¬ weights and sold for $70. Few remnants of dry goods at cost at G. L. Kennon’s. The prospects of trouble with Germany about Samoa, is not as promising as it was a day or two ago. Secretary Bayard has re¬ ceived Bismarck's proposition for tlie continuance of the conference of 1887, relating to Somoan mat¬ ters, and has accepted it. The conference will be held in Berlin. in Fulton county last year there were 828 marriage licenses issued and 128 divorce suits. Go to H. A. Parker to get your flour, meat, sugar, coiloe, meal and confectioneries. The man who sends Ins money off to other towns for goods that he can buy at home just as cheap is not the man to build up home enterprises. Found—A lady’s, breastpin. Owner can have it by paying ioi this advertisement. Mr. Map Glenn has moved into the house with Mr. Jack Stansell. Mr. John Bagbv has moved in¬ to J. S. McLean’s house on Acad¬ emy St. Don't forget to call on II. A. Parker when you come to town. Three northern millionaires were in Conyers last Sunday, the guests of our distinguished fellow-citizen, Capt. prospecting G.W. Collins. with They, view were of down anxious a to investing. They dinner are Sunday the invest. After provided with capitalists turnout were from Mr. Jam: a fine and driven the Pierce’s stable would over country as far as time per¬ mit so they could board tne 4:35 train at Lithonia for Atlanta, xxii arrangement was made lor Captain several Collins in company with to meet tnem ^ other Kimball gentlemen house in Atlanta Mon¬ a the take diamar together day and all interests. and talk over business The meeting at the Kimball, so we understand, was real around, pleasant and verv satisfactory all l capitalists are well pleased witn two this section, and but one or things appear to stand m their way as a barrier to their investing and settling among us. We feel quite safe in saying that tne people or Conyers and Rockdale wul gladly welcome these gentlemen to our midst and will render all tiae en¬ couragement necessary or desired. As for ourselves we can not attora to let the opportunity pass without mibliclv expressing efforfe.-o appreciation bum. of Captain Collins people. up Conyers and her When you want applet, turnips, oranges, bananas,“cabbage, call J. A- or Dukes. con¬ i fectioneries, on ! The snow on last Sunday n i-ht I was ^complete surprise to us. Wt are barely down over the shock now. L we ha(l it In time o» rend era might have been treated this week to an ode. That Bad Cat. Monhoe, Feb. 8.—Tlic news has inst reached the city of the terrible .'A deadi i ,i of nr Mr. Henry tt ‘ w„„ \ < om ac, a respectable young j farmer, wlio lives six miles below Mon roe. The facts'as related are as follows: Last Saturday a week ago Mr. 'Womae was sitting by the fire with one of his hands hanging liis down, when suddenly one of house cats began to bristle up and growl. Before he could realize . what the • cat meant by her peculiar actions she sprang upon • his hand wand fastened her teeth into one of his fingers. her** loose and grab- . He slung shovel killed her imme bing the ^Heoaid no attention to what had lmpoened, and his linger soon * healed. just Last Saturday the morning, time lie one week from made was bitten, he gob up early, attend a fire and went to the lot to to the stock. act of When his wife was hi the getting up to dross, the other old cat, that was sitting by iighb torn and. are began to show signs pf under the with bristles raised, thought ran nota bech Mrs. Womae ing of it until her feet struct tne ft lloi “°s&ipcoolil”oi StetoK kt Hie raring rat her screams, rushed to the house, am i had to choke the cat loose, KWisiSwt “UhtUlw kmed “ 09 ■ About 12 o’clock his finger be gan to swell and pain him, and by niglit ho was having spasmswlnca when continued until wild yesterday, .arid'‘ferocious ho became so" that his menus lum v. erc coiapelloa to fjlen - up Of by drophobia, Mrs. Womac’s foot is . three t or four times its natural’ size, find, no doubt, she will meet the same sad f\te as her husband in a few days, MsElrce’s Wine of Cardul and THEOFORD’3 BUCK-DRAUGHT are for sale by the following merchants in Rockdale ikdale county: county: Bon, Conyers. Dr. W. Lee & M. R. Stewart, Conyers. Geo. T. Smith, ______ ; Conyers. v Richardson, , W. Tl. Richardson, -------— ■ Dr. Quigg preached Sunday two last power- at the fell sermons church. Presbyterian “It sjmpsy , an informal . , , f was & Vhi.o ‘YA-S7Lply J infernal ', Rif. “intelligent corn \-' J J -- another "» ' invitation ■ UO,U f,., .that tnai o-et . , ha3 . The United States oi Ol 000 000 men ready to figllt their country's battles whenever services are needed. These ^eable men enKfe ,, rr , i n nee B^on. uot latrio* But they are and ! *c, quick to in learn, the world. fighters _ INE CF CARDUI * Tcaic for Women. They Will Build. Atlanta, Fob. 8.—Tim Presby tarifta University synod commission its last , ere ated by ^ the at sea sion cl(l a meeting here this afternoon to forward the action of that meeting. determined The university but it has been upon, has not yet been located. I he commission this afternoon appoin¬ eliar ted eommitecs on finance, ter, etc. elected cliair J 3 r _ Strickler was the conimis p^o tempore of during the absence of Dr. Barnett in Europe. Scott of Atlanta Mr. Win. comraia- was fleeted a member of the ^ion iu place of Rev. Wm. Adams ^ Augusta, who has removed from the State. . , Mr. John Kirkpatrick of Atlanta wiXi , elected treasurer. : The resignation of It. IL Jack rion as president of the Georgia Farmers’Alliance, is a matter of congratulation. Mr. Jackson has been a disturber in the Alliance foi adong time, and his methods bad proven so tyrannical and dictate rial as to cause serious hindraue to the work of ,.the order.—Alliance Herald. “Mrs. Bush’s medicine is worth i|; ., weio . ]lt iu g . 0 U.« D. M. Almand . liou. j«mng J - *• J ' . to Emory Oolfe^e presidtsit^of as apornanont the rcsi.iooco of t'ao college xho pneo paid and it for Um cA property was 81,000, is w s; “ six acres of land attached to it. r j.’h e in la.rgesfe.gohl Georgia is mining located cora- in panv Dahlonega, operating nine stamp m illaancl employing 600 hands. The Gordon county f alliance has reg6lyed to raise tUe r home sup £ eott ™ » C °L The republican , ac - bitterly organs since Bounce Gov. Hill he went to Washington. This is what the governor gets for being a presidential possibility. Tramps are not treated with any of partiality in Macon, When one of them is brought $25, be the mayor, lie is fined or compelled to work on tho streets days. Tramps will be likely By the to give Macon the go-by. dealt ^ with way, are colored tramps as sternly as white tramps m Ma eoJ1 y Mrs. Bush's Specific Cure for sale by II. P. & D. M. Almand & Co _ Emmet Womack was tories tailing shout some the of Lis ™m P «i-n K Kimball last stories night. will If Emmet ks»I bin. ist't Ids inxt» into congress cm 0 Xt..S. No fate is “ too 1 teXTIOIe lor a campaign RarriCllst. of yesterday. j ^ ELREE 1 # w,xz OF CARDUI for Weak Nerves. Congressman Barnes of Geor . gia is *>5 yesfrs of age and has never i tasted tobacco m anv form, no ksnova even had a cigurbetweeu played Ups, of nor has hg las ever Lie he a ganle cams in a j major says he would not kno a a , jack from a king. Grand and Petit Jurors. The following is the list of grand and traverse jurors drawn for the February term of Rockdale Supe or court: OP.AND JURORS. John E King, G P Elliott, Le¬ roy Oglesby, W Bates Reagan, W F McDaniel, C V Sanford, J C Browning, B J Marbut, G W Sim¬ mons, W E MeCalla, A J Smith, John A Mann. A J Ogletroo, M Maddox, F M Ayers, W J Turner, Jas T Stansell, John J Cowan, A Whitaker, W S Veal, Joel A Ow ons W II Camp, J Hollingsworth, J P McDaniell, J W Hollings¬ worth, J M Zacliry, E F Cook, C Humphries, IV J Williams, W L Peek. TRAVERSE JURORS. PM Born, R II Farmer, John y/ McDaniel, John H 'Blake, J O jr ardill j na A Parker, W Z ’ sterling _ ML 0 o x , Tnsin.li G Ray, John It Rosser 1 J.v lace, j 0 ] m <3 Thompson, Leno Parr, T j Hi n g, Thos II Sharp, W H Guf fin j H McLean, M F MeCalla, ( , T F J S Granade, T C MeCalla, TJ Hollingsworth, Sn. ney Rodgers, Frank L Bryant, E W IX Jeter, J A Stowers, John W kuXrew 0 »k M . J C Wil liams, Thos L Peek, G L Kt’-nnon Roily George, Wm A Scott, Wm ^ McKnight, A II Dozier, John J Hamby. The B. F. Carr farm, four miles from Conyers, is for rent, It is in the hands'of Mr. John II. Al¬ mand. For terms, etc., address or apply to him. Dr. Carswell filled bSFSSI his regular th were line. Thursday next will bo V alentine day. The road congress, to meot in Atlanta, will be a very important Geor gathering. Every county in gia ought to be officially represen- ■ ted, if possible. i Mr. S. L. Dennard visited rela- 1 tives and friends in 3*''“ UOVingCOn Sunday. Col. J. N. Hale ol McDonough week, TT j ' Times was in the city lively lie Ilia ' reports everything oven way. The youftgmen had a fine oys- j ter supper at Turner’s restaurant • Saturday night. | CoLR . W . M iner of Lithonia , ' was in town yesterday. He is a blight attorney and has a promis ».»g future befo re lnm. — - ~ m£frff |||ML| (IfiBMCT'SuSdanX ~,71.If ' I UjimF lulu Win i ll-egl-T j Jkri: Sit ihem. w will seed rroe IQ o°« PM I “ WlTq-'.T,Ja . jxSfa sf«r ginger SSkSaTS u,, p**«><*. I , tklu * c«.. uo* T*o, M«i«. Col. A. C. Perry has moved in¬ to the house'with Mrs. Clemmons. Mrs. Penn, editress of the Jas¬ per County New*, was in Conyers last Sunday on a visit to relatives. This family is somewhat remarka¬ ble. The children, girls and boys, sot up the type for two pa¬ pers, while father and mother at¬ tend to the editorial and business management. Miss Maud so well known in newspaper circles, now has charge of a telegraph office on the M. & C. road. Hon. W. L. Peck, of Rockdale, is the member of the state com¬ mittee on the experimental farm, from this district. Carrollton is putting forth a de¬ termined effort to build a cotton factory. LOOK HERE. People wishing anything in tho Granite line will do well to call on or address 0. W. Edwards & Co., Conyers, Ga. Notice. From and after this date the legal advertisements of both the ordinary and sheriff will appear in both tho Solid South and the Rockdale Banner. O. Seamans, McDonald, Ordinary. A. D. Sheriff. NOTICE. I will be in Csnyers the firet Sat¬ urday in every month, patients wishing to see me will find me at the hotel or at Dr. Leo’s drug store* Du. L. G. Brantley home and farm, LOUISVILLE, KY. Vh« Leading Agriculture! loarnal «f lha Svuth end Wett. Mado by Farmers for Farmer*. Price, 50 Cents a Year. Though the tuwription pGce of Ho*« a*i> f.- M It vii»uuciiv«ty lh« FARMERS* PAPER, A rtcord of their daily experience, preened io * lonn and language which make it plain to all. ITS UST Of CONTRIBUTORS 1. unequaied. containing the names of the mort luccc**._. ,f u l and yrogrc**ive farmers of the West. ----- . „ ... . These writers treat nol of a theory, but of inc actual conditions of life on the farm. Among them are found (he names of IS. K. Johnson. Waldo F JSrowo. Bill Arp. Henry Stewart. A, P. Ford, Hugh Static Brooks, It' eff welborn, Foxtiatt. John C. others. Edgar, % ayou, '^XZTTn T. IS. DaWwin and a host of n the children A e une lcd for fu n nes , , od variety. Faith ^"Swe' ndo,h “^ l ^!iS" ‘" health at iiomb, ^ «-• “ BOWERS' FARM ” i sa „ interesting and inspiring story or the ?a ccm In short »o portion of the farm is neglected. la its Editorial D*Ft«T«aNT are presented the claimsofihe farmer for fair treatment in the halls ^dlrical 6 r i. g i^»on ^ « journal, agnxnlture. its time, space andenergyarede -edto every uat* to.u " - fair TRADE AND FUMES* RIGHTS." E v«r y subscriber to Ht>*. a«x> n entitled to a guess at our coffee jar, the successful “* H0 « F «"* WE rEA “* F,FTY CEm - SOMS - -AW - _
