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ROCKDALE BANNER.
SUBSCRIPTION:
PER YEAR (in advance)........$1.00.
FOR 6 Months................50cts.
Entered at the Conyers Post Office
as second class mall matter.
Advertising rates made known on
Demand"
Job Work Neatly and Promptly
Executed.
T. 1). O'KELLEY - I iti.si ness Maimger
JOHN K. M ADDOX 11 litor
The twenty years' lease of the
Western and Atlantic railroad has
only nine more months to run.
Geovo-G -'the'd accordin'* to the re
rovt, lU M,-u-tment of —ri
culture 11‘> 2 ;1 bead of horses
;U1 v !’.AK'V^<r-OoM<-b i -I r. A('i 7 ,,, 1 .... , v Hb ' an
au-aigi' . uni ■ •
Dr. Young of Cartersville has a
vial of oil of cinnamon which was
brought from Ireland in 1815. It
seems to have increased in
strength as it grew older.
In Sunday-school at Jesup last
Sunday two dudes amused them¬
selves with a tiny deck of cards—
playing seven up.
All the talk about new gold dis
covenes m California has been
pronounced a “fake” by a man
who has been there and seen for
himself.
The Senate confimed the nomi¬
nation of Editor V hitelaw Reid
as Minister to France Saturday
and Whitelaw will soon begin to
“edit” Paris.
“History repeats itself. At
Pineblnff, Ark., last week, Dr. J.
L. Cain and bis partner in the
drug business, Dr. Able, had a
light, and Dr. Able was worsted.
We are aware that there is a
strong repugnance in the com¬
munity to hanging a woman for
murder, and it is a repugnance
we should share if all f womon
would show an equal repugnance
to murder.
It is said there is not a farmer
in Walton county who devotes
any attention to line stock. Some
fi \\ have good breeds of hogs
and some drink Jersey milk, but
there is not one who drives be¬
hind blooded trotters or skims
,
over his plantation on a race nag.
Death has again robbed the
Supremo (,’ourt of one its most
able jurists. Justice Stanley
Matthews died at 10 o'clock Fri¬
day morning, after an' illness of
about seven months with heart
and kidney trouble. Justice
Matthews was sixty-four years of
age, and was appointed to the Su¬
preme bench by President Arthur
iu 1881. His home mhs in Cincin¬
nati, Ohio.
Georgia is entitled to fourteen
ficiiolav-whips at the Nashville
Normal OoiieRe, ami there will
Weight vatmie* this fall. The
examination of applicants will
be held some time iu August.
These scholarship are in great de¬
mand.
Some one has figured that on
]y one young man out of fifty who
marries asks the old. man’s' eon
sent. If he isn't hooted off the
iloorsteb or chewed up by ih > dog
he takes it as a sign that the old
man is willing, and he reasons
correctly the'
H ueqroes leave North Car
oiina such \ ‘great , liumocrs . as it •,
in
is vnmoml that thev will ,!o very
ah atlv, the exodus wilt very yroat
lv .1 ' avase Hie republieau vote io
that state. TUi. is very iuteres
tiny, in view of flic fact' that the
.eouhii.ans have ........ c! ,,i l ., i
Noith t'a.oliatiou account of the
failm e to repeal the tobacco tax.
Mr. Blaine had his son Walker
appoint'd examiner of claims for
the State Department.
The other d-y a liu^in-* bee
was-iven Gr the “ benefit of a
ceXVhat , ..
n T«;r Rl'”s wL wWW^ind ;
Al-G - 1, W . - - u , ,fi s LT r
a na.udcs w , ,:°nt knowing it.
M huu he did fim i ont who it was*,
he got mad and wanted his fifteen
cuts lack, His wife was mad
ure tliat ho -.vas.
A $G bill of Virginia state cur
lency. issued in H77, is a curiosi
ty in the possession of a Dalton
gentleman.
Soon after the death of Alexan
der H. Stephens a number of la¬
dies and gentlemen organized the
Stephens Monumental
tion. Its object was to purchase
Liberty Hall and preserve it as a
memorial of Mr. Stephens; to es
tablish a school on the premises,
and to erect a monument over the
grave of the Great
This worthy design has been al
most accomplished. The old
homestead and eight acres of land
about it have been bought
paid for and a flourishing school
lias been established there. The
remains of Mr. Stephens have j
been transferred from the vault
in Atlanta in ' vhi( * the y ' v f e
lin$t mtcrml au<l MOW uuder
tl,e shadc of thu trees m fr ° ut of
Libelty HalL Jud&e LlUtOU
Stephens was buried near Sparta,
but his remains will be transfer!
ed to a final resting place close
beside those of the brother whom
he loved with almost more than a
brother’s affection.
The visit of tl.e Inmon-Hewitt
party will probably result in the
investment of a great deal of capi
tal in the South, and Georgia is
sure to come in for her share
The distinguished gentlemen who
compose the party are shrewd
business men, and it is not to be
supposed tliat they will pass un¬
noticed the many advantages the
South offers as a field for the
investment of capital. Neither
can it l>e doubted that the gentle¬
men have been well pleased with
what they have seen and heard.
The capitalists are pleased with
the hospitality of the Souther¬
ners, as well as the unlimited re¬
sources of the South. Ex-Mayor
Hewitt, of New York, one iff the
most conspicuous and important
figures in the party, is qu ted as
having said: “The South is the
heir of science and patient inves¬
tigations. and experiments. It
has just passed through the elem¬
entary stages of civilization—it
has acquired clothing, food and
li times.
Sheriff Monday of Hall county,
and Chief Hanie of the Gaines¬
ville police came to Atlanta Fri¬
day last having in their custoday
John Coffee, who is under indict¬
ment for the murder of United
States Deputy Marshal Merritt.
It was believed to be unsafe to
keep him longer in the jail at
Gainesville and he was brought
and placed in the Fulton jail for
better security. The prisoner
was accompanied there by his
physician, Dr. J. TV. Oslin, who
has been attending him since his
capture, at which time he was
frightfully wounded. These
wounds are now healing and no
serious results are apprehended
from them. The celebrated des
i wr8jo , “ 8 *Iisappo lu tment to
11,080 " 1,0 cx ? ootod “ 00 »
u, °' ,8ler - TT Ho ls 8 hue-look,ug
man, rather pleasant and ageeable
in his manners and bears himself
in a way to disarm the timid.
Most of tho applicants for the
consulship at Jerusalem are min
“k™, for the obvious reason that
Jerusalem is an interesting point
to Bible students. Besides, the
duties are mainly nominal, and
there is plenty of time for the.
consul to study the city. The
consulship at Glasgow has come
to 1,0 aft01 ' * U l f >T‘
i)le it held . by Bret
8 smcc was
N«v\„rkeva apply , chlef- -
Jv (° r eoijsulslnp la Canada vvhen
they vv«„ to be seat out of the
eountr yi ’he P eo P l8 of tho Pacific
coast prefer the fetand-whieh Is-
1 aamUai>an-.thesou h
People prefer Mextcoaud the
Ce “ tral a8<1 boutli Amenea states,
but the Ohio man is not at all
particular as to locality, and will
gobble up anything he can get.
° r
The bouthern states are waking ,
up to the necessity of improving
tb S1UmUg ° ir to ‘ l,nderS T h ° tAUd ^\e thHt are g °° be- d
vojids arc essential , to the progress
and Jevel X,learnin<* Iuellt of auv region.
T j. V ev are ' ' '" that money
- . expended u ma.m
^ aifeoaco in the value uf
l au ds which are accessible by first
class roads and those which must
fie reached by the average
way in the South is very striking.
MANUFACTORIES.
Believing that the time has
come when the thinking me n
among cotton growers realize that
something must jre done of a radi
ca i nature in order to sustain
themselves, and also believing
that it is possible to accomplisli
this and even to lift ourselves
a b OV e all other known portions of
the world, I send the following,
an d ask that you publish as an
Alliance article, which the writer
thinks is worthy of adoption by
them and all others interested in
the betterment of the south.
Financially, we are as greatly
behind the north as we have been
politically distanced. The
ufaeturing sections of the union .
are Massed with prosperity, not
on account of any inherent
tage of climate or locality, but be
cause national legislation has
been shaped in their interest, till
the “infant industries''have grown
to be “giant monopolies,” and like
all pets, they have been ty
r “ nio “ 1 ’ a “ d tlle l >oace tl,a * is
P rat » d 8bout ,s 08 , V °l' tamod . ljv
submitting to their exactions,
Not as a matter of right, but of
It therefore becomes us
to look above for a means of re
lief from this hydra-headed mons¬
ter, whose many cerebral protu¬
berances known as pools, trusts,
combines, corners, ete.have either
charmed or poisoned the masses,
till we are paralyzed by their pres¬
ence and power or hopeless of re¬
lief by national legislation.
Therefore, let us see if there is
not a way to escape the torture of
a prometheon existence.
If the cotton grown within their
limits, and when the tax of one
crop lias been collected by the
sheriff of the counties and paid
by them to the auditors of the
states the governors of said states
to assemble tho said tax-payers
as “share holders” by proclama¬
tion, and when they are so assem¬
bled they are to organize and
with said fund build factories, and
in every way prepare for and man¬
ufacture as much of the cotton
grown within their bounds as they
can, then could we, the growers
of this specialty, “King” cotton,
become the lords, earls, etc. that
would rightfully belong to such a
kind when once enthroned. Just
think what Inis been accomplish¬
ed by legislation or co-operation.
Our rich, alluvial Mississippi bot¬
tom is protected by legislation,
our school system established by
legislation, and New England iegis
made rich and we poor by
tion. Truly we can demonstrate
the truth of the adage: “G'od helps
those who help themselves.”
This may jostle the fixed ideas
and ways of many; habits frequent
ly dominate by reason of the rev
erence that is accorded to estab
iisked usage upon the principle
that “Dad carried that rock to
balance bis peck of corn, and I
will too; but this is the century of
startling innovations. However,
it took a “Congressional appro
priation to enable Morse to bless
the world with telegraphy, and the
co-operation of two continents to
cable the Atlantic God has the
wealth of his kingdom to bestow
upon the world, whenever and
wherever its inhabitants are will
ing to work for the good of others
as well as foi tuemselves. By
common consent and co-operation
the south can enhance threefold
her income, and do it quickly.
Then could the grower ot cotton,
if he preferred, send his raw ma
terialto the factory and have it
enhanced in value by man&fac
ture, without having to part title
with it till It- reached its greatest
value. I don’t wish to be under
stood as meaning that this should
be a state enter|>rise, but that the
power and machinery of the state
government be used to bring
about that co-operation of indi
vidua l s t fi at will enable them, as
^ « s fi. ire Linfertiiring fi o ld 0 rs ” to perfect a w^ld svs
of that
be commensurate with the needs
{ } T, Jn x x alike
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Cl ^ Can you * not give • tlie , , help . of
yoiir influential pap-f to the
eaniw?—boaitoii_LMltivut<»r.
The Hessian fly is destroying
the wheat crop in North Georgia
In some places whole fields have
been destroyed.
The Georgia State Agricultural
Society oilers a prize of ST50 in
coin for measured the Urgent yield. during oi
corn on one acre
1889.
There are 7,000 dogs in Talbot
county, just ten times more than
there are goats or sheep, and
the New Era is making a mighty
kick.
The sixth annual convention of
the Georgia Bar Association will
held in Savannah May the
stli. Chief Justice Fuller has
been invited to deliver the annual
address.
A gentleman of Franklin county
re j ates t j ie following strange
j heard a truthful, religious
lady say tliat when she was a
tle irl slie v , as se nt to pick corn
willl a child of a reputed
w jtch. Growing weary of the
work tll0 c bild of the witch mother
j )r0 p OSe d to collect the stalks
without further labor. A few min -
utes later the wind began to rise,
furious whirlwinds made their ap
pearance in different parts of the
field, the stalks were lifted in tlie
air and were being rapidly whirled
into large heaps here and there
over the field when my informant
becoming very much frightened
begged that it might be stopped.
The witch child waved her arms,
the wind subsided, and stalks were
left in their disarranged condition.
A telegram from St. Louis an¬
nounces that the bagging trust
has been reorganized. It is stated
that the trust expects to go slow
at first. In other words, the screw
will be brought to bear upon the
farmer by degrees, and if the trust
funds that there is no way for its
victim to escape, then the whole¬
sale robbery practiced last season
will be repeated—possibly sur¬
passed. If reports are true, tlie
trust has “cornered” the world's
supply of jute butts. This being
the case, there is only one re¬
course left to the farmer, and that
is to secure a substitute for jute
bagging. There is no time to he
lost. Let the farmers be up and
doing. They cannot stand to
bear a burden similar to the one
the bagging trust imposed upon
them last season. Forewarned is
forearmed, and we believed that
the cotton planters of the South
may yet he able to give this in¬
famous trust a black eye. We
hope so, any way.—Columbus
Sun.
Improvement in the-ln.eed of
chickens in Perry is as noticeable
^ lle improvement of cat-tie
throughout the country,
Senator Brown’s attack of
pleurisy excites the uneasiness of
his friends. The Washington
winters do not agree with the sen
ator.
“Starve or work for lower
wages" is what the protected iron
manufactures of Pennsylvania
now say to their empoyes.
Tfie oldy color which can be
determined by the sense of touch
; s blue. A blind man would know
when fie is feeling blue,
Yellowstone Kit, the well-known
medicine man, who has made ex
tensive investments in real estate
in Brunswick, purchased Wednes
d $ 7;000 WO rth of city lots
Thisistbe second investment in
the lasfc sis mont fi s . Kit’s last
p Urc fi ages amounted to $6,000, and
f rf tj v11 „„
wick dirt will no doubt be the
cause of his purchasing more
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Any one paying ns *1.20 in ad
vance, whether a new or old sub
briber, can get the Rockdale Ban
ner and tae L.oinc ana Farm for
one year. Two papers fora little
more than the price of one. The
Home and Farm is two well known
to need any encomium from us.
B is simply a first class paper de
voted to the interest of
to making home happy.
Those who have paid us one
in advance, may gG the Home and
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S " nh A 3So /f in % CaK ttilord l °
miss the opportunity. <
It is said that a Terrell countv
maa pfi int od a bottle of
Boaua" the other -lay vo that he
count supply the country as he
tnonght tiiu prern. ut prmc too
steep,
Subscribe for the
While there is Life
Every means should V*o tried to save the patient.
Wiifc'i all other remedies have failed, Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral luis been repeatedly known to
make a complete cure. “ Twenty years
write* Samuel Griggs, of Waukeguu, Hi., “ I was
troubled with a disease of the lungs. Doctors
afforded no relief, and said I could not live
many months. 1 began using Ayer’s Cherry
Pectoral, and soon found it was helping me. I
continued to take this medicine until a cure was
effected. I Lave no doubt that
Ayer’s Cher
ry Pectoral saved my life.” Scores of testimo
nials,equally as satisfactory, ale on tile.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mas*.
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Arriving and to arrivd
this week.
All the Latest
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Every b'oby invited to come and SC' i
them. Respectfully,
EL P. & D. M.ALMAND SCO
OAKLAND SEMINARY
The Spring Term of this Institutior
Opens Second Monday in Janu¬
ary, 1880 .
FOURTH Grade per day........ «
THIRD “ “ ‘‘ GC -
........
SECOND “ “ ........ 11
FIRST C6 15
INCIDENTALS month ......10 “
per A. Murray, Principal
Thos.
A Vh' onderful Discovery
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For Bums, Scalds and Spasmodic Croup.
OVER 7,000 BOTTLES SOLD IN HER OWN COUNTY, WALTON
This medicine of Mrs. Bush’s does exactly what it claims, h ^
classed blessing to humanity, No specific doubles* fas been
as a household d
so popular and done so perfectly its work, To every -
indispensable.
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• .ore urc *‘rce free the be.-f best Kwiap-sacaae rog-machino in in the me worid. wonu. and «uu the ibo
ert ever shown toother inAmerica.
Th er o •5 Hops,
contracted a severe lx y*ar$ ago f
lungs and cold which settled
soon developed ail ,>«. wT'.‘ ...... m mv
consumption. I v,as so <, r, v : ' :ai •{
ai to be confined to mv |, w i .* r ’ ^rate.j
After trying various wtesc-:..tV' ’ the ••
eat, my physician " liuaV " y A 0l!amed Wuiu,l,t t0
me Ayer’s Cher- give
ry Pectoral*.
I took three bottles of this Preparation,
now well.” and ari
Sold by al! Druggists. j, . dh bottles,
Col W. Li- Feek's Card
At Home, near Cosier E0CK
dale counly. Ga.— I scalded 5::
hand with steam iroin a boiler.. _
tried every imaginable remedy _
I then * *» r '
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family physician. Of MliS. 0 ; 8 SrEfIf iq
bottle minutes > 0 - f : r -E
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application 1 ; * ,1 T?rnri JDA’.Cv (I*- 11
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wishing to see me will
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