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ROCKDALE BANNER.
SUBSCRIPTION:
PER YEAR (in advance)... $ 1 . 00 .
FOR 6 Months........... 50 cts.
Entered at the Conyers Post Office
as second class mall matter.
Advertising rates made known on
Demand-*
Job Work Neatly end Promptly
Executed.
T. D OMtELLBV • Business Manager
JOHN U. MADDOX Editor
Local elections were held in the
four largest towns of Montana
Wednesday, and all went demo¬
cratic, though last fall the repub¬
lican majority was large.
Secretary „ . Isolde _ T , , said .. recently, ,
“Wherever I find an inefficient
democrat I am going to discharge
liim and till his place with au effi
cient , rep ublican. , „
The Michigan legislature i 8
. the against •
carrying war cigar
ettes beyond the action of any
other state. Its lower house has
prttesed a bill prohibiting the
manufaturo, of cigaiettes aalo m the or state. g n ;i „ g array
The strength of the Mormon
Church, according to statistics
read at the Mormon conference at
Salt Lake, is very considerable,
consisting of 81,899 families, 215,
9l5 officers and members and 49,-
302 children under eight years of
ag»- The chances of Utah he
coming a state will be very slim
for some years to come.
The Charlotte Chronicle says,
in its notice of the burning of
Gen. Longstreet’s residence: “For
several years the general has been
carefully preparing a book on his
campaigns as a confederate gen¬
eral. It is not yet known whether
this manuscript was Saved or not,
but for the sake of history it is
earnestly hoped that it was.”
0ov. Gordon has made an excel¬
lent choice in his selection of rep
reaonatives of Georgia at the cen¬
tennial of Washington’s inaugu¬
ration, which will occur in New
York on the 39th of this month.
Hon. N. J. Hammond of Fulton,
Hon. A. T. McIntyre of Tiioimw,
Col. C. C. Jones of Richmond and
Capt. George A. Mercer of Chat¬
ham make a delegation of which
the state may be proud.
The losses by lire during March
in this country and in Canada
amounted to #10,912,009, an in¬
crease over those for the same
month of last year. Such a blus¬
tering month as March ought to
make au appalling showing in
tires, but if there is not a falling
off during the next eighteen days
in the record for April, March
will brohahly be outdone in this
respect by the tearful month.
The commissouers who are to
fix » the location of the . Georgia ,, .
Agricultural Experiment Station
and Farm have inspected all the
proposed sites. It is announced
that their decision will not he
made , public ... until Min , r _ <. . I ni here
were seven application for the sta
tion and farm. came from
Bibb county, from the Georgia
Southern Fieri,h. milroad,
from . the counties of Monroe, bpal
ding, Coweta, Greene and Clarke,
Liberal iudueemets were ottered
by every one of the apblicants.
irable Eurhtondoredlarp land and handsome lots of cash dos
Bubseriptious. The commissioners
have acted wisely in taking full
time to consider all these r propsi- J
tions and , make , up their ... decision. .
—■t J!
The recent of the _ Far
action
mers’ Alliance indorsing the use
of cotton bagging for the next
cotton crop, has given rise to a
good deal of speculation as to the
probable course.of the jute bagg
ing trust, and the prices that will
rule next fali. An Augusta
Chronicle reporter has taken a
tour .___ among the eotton .. men, and ,
obtained the opinons of a number
of them on the subject. They
think the bagging trust has been
bagged by the farmers, and that
they have the whip hand in the
ud again, hut
that dealei-s r t -hre using the trust
o to sell their stocks on hand.
SABBATH HELPS.
Fesson for April 21st.
Title of Lesson —The Two
Great Commandments.
Golden Text —“Love is the ful¬
filling ofthelaw.” Kom. xiii. 10.
Time —Tuesday, April 4th in the
afternoon.
Place—I n the temple court.
Pakallel Account.— Mutt. xxii.
34-40.
Review and Connection —In our
last lesson Jesns gave the rulers
of the dews a parable, which was
intended as a kind of looking
glass, in which they could see
themselves. This was in the mor¬
ning. “After Jesus had spoken
the three parables, one of which
we studied last there were
three attempts by three different
parties to entrap him into sayiug
something which would give them
an occasion for arresting him and
bringing him before the Roman
court. First the Pharasees went to
him witli a delicate question, of dune con
cerning the payment ti to
Caesar. It seemed to them that
was no escape for Jesus.
Hemusi either offend the Romans
or the Jewish people. But Jesus
an . uisu -er 0 f marvelous wis
J om . which made their question
recoil upon their own heads,
Next came some Sadduces, seep
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tion. No answer seemed possible with
to them without conflicting simply told
the law. But Jesus
the full truth, and the question
was answered. Once more comes
a lawyer, a great and learned doc¬
tor of divinity, and asks another
question, to try him, as recorded
in to-day’s lesson. Again Jesus,
by the simple but iulinite and
glorious Peloubei. truth, is triumphant.”—
28 And one of Hie scribes came,
and having heard perceiving them reasoning that he
together, and
had answered them well, asked
him, Which is the first command¬
ment ofrnll?
29 And Jesus answered him,
The first of all the commandments
is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our
God is one Lord:
30 And thou shait love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all tby
mind, and with all thy strength;
this is the first commandment.
31. And the second is like, name¬
ly this'Thou shait love thy neigh¬
bor as commandment thyself. There is none
other greater than
these.
32. Anil the scribe said unto
him Well, Master, thou, hast God; said
the truth: for there is one
and tliert? is none other but he:
33. And to love him with all the
L au t, and with all the understan¬
ding, and with all the soul, and
with all the strength, and to love
his neighbor as himself, burnt-offerings is moi©
than all whole
and sacrifices.
34. And when Jesus saw that he
answered discreetly, he said unto
him, Thou art not far from the
kingdom of God. And no man
after that durst ask him any ques¬
tion.
Explanatory —v. 28. “And one
of the scribes:” Matthew calls him
a lawyer. and The scribes preserved
copied, “Having lteara Kninded them the law.
together.” Ho had heard reasoning Jesus’
answers about the tribute money
and tho resurrection, and seeing
they \\ eje v\ ell ansv, ered, he
proposes for lamself one ot the
popular theological questions of
the day. “Asked him:" perhaps
for information, perhaps lor cmi
os *W; “’VShich is the first cbm
lament of all?” That is which
is hrst in importance? Ilns was
a constant bone of contention
among Jewish teachers. Mat
thew inserts into this verse the
VjDrds does not 4 tempting ueresaan him. m„,lv But t! ,t this >t
y U
was malimousiv done. luelmrd
Glover think* that the Pharisees
were tempting undesignittg Jesus through this
pure ana scribe,
He adds, It is still the practice of
j it n still f ron often t 0 f their happens movement. that honest And
men, suspecting ^. .|\\ none of subtlety,
0i ose
would despise if they knew them,
Y 2 9. part of our Sa
vior’s reply embraced in these two
verses is nearly an exact
tions from Dent, vi, 4-5. It was
perhaps as well in known as any
^-her passage :'°and Tt Holy 11 rit; for
every day was bisci ibed
on the parchment enclosed in their
foreheads phylacteries, and were on their
and arms during prayer.
H'vaseaHed the Skema. meaning
Hear the first word oi the quo
tatkm . Tho 29th verse gives the
introduction to tlie
while the 39th gives the command
itself, and it embraces the
e^nlete,' ^5®* UMfiSlTb? ' ),H ‘ ; duguo. 11 e
more
th “*• OM
v. 31. But Jesus, though he had
answered the question to the satis
faction of those asking it, wished
to give them something else for
their consideration; and so adds,
“And the second (in position Thou shait and
importance) is this.
love thy neighbor last as six thyself."
This embraced the com¬
mandments of the Decalogue.
The law is divided into two parts
love to God, anti love ought, to man. will It
we love God as we we
never sin against him; if we love
our fellow creatures (man or beast)
as we ought, we will do them no
»>«««•. is .ft®
OI tlio l<iw • liOlll. Xlll, -*• )• xl-icii
we observe, that self-denials: true religion but is
not a system of a
mire work of love
A. v ao 3-, -at »J. “Well " ell, " an <m ex(*lama CX( lama
non, equal said ‘well the truth,” done. literally Master,
thou hast
“spoken truthfully. And then
the scribe repeats the substance of
Christ’s answer, and adds that
these are ‘ more than all WllOle
burnt offerings and sacrifices,
This reply seems to us to be also
a good one; for if Jesnshad omifct
e<l anything in his answer, it was
the purely Levities! law; and this
! truly wise man simply adds in
'substance that to worship tlie
Lord “inspirit and 'ill truth” is
better than ceremonies.
v. 34. “Discreetly” means wisely
literally having possession and seemed of his
mind.” He was wise,
to be earnestly seeking the truth.
Then how could such a man be
“far from the kingdom?” Jesus
said he was not. Yet, sad to say
there seemed to be a great many
who get very near tlie kingdom,
without ever entering. Still, an
honest heart seeking the truth is
very near the kingdom. Dv. Ed¬
ward Judson tells the following:
“Before, and for some time after
the war, General Wallace was in¬
clined to be sceptical in religious
matters, particularly the divinity
of Christ. One day, while travel¬
ling on a railroad, he chanced to
meet Colonel conversation Ingersoll, the turned infi¬
del. Their
on religious topics, and in the
course of tlie discussion Ingersoll
presented his views; Wallace lis¬
tened and was much impressed,
but finally remarked that he was
not yet prepared to agree with In
gelsoll on certain very extreme
propositions relative to the non
divinity of Christ. Ingersoll
urged Wallace to give the matter
tlie careful expressing study and research,,
that he had, his confi¬
dence that Wallace would, aker
so Ingersoll doing, fully acquiesce After parting, in the
view.
Wallace turned the matter over
in liis mind, and determined to
give it the most thorough investi¬
gation. For six years he thought
studied and searched. At the end
of that time Bon-IIur was pro¬
duced. I met Wallace at a hotel
in Indianapolis naturally not long the after.
The book was topic
of otuj onversation. After liavii g
told me the story I have just giv¬
en, Wallace turned to me and
said: the ‘The absolute result of conviction my long study that
was
Jesus of Nazareth was not only a
Christ and the Christ, but he was
also my Christ, my Savin *, and
my Redeemer. That fact settled
in Hnr? my own mind, I wrote Bcn
”
i. \ i • < *■.
-A'O.'.'nig.. Ionic, or riiiimcn I'.ot want building
imOtVS'S uji, hliiiii'i! take
IKON UfTTERS.
11 is tii take, emus I.IH.laria, liuligcs- It.
tion, and Dilioubuoss, All u oaleis kc< p
a T~> A-,q
IVo respectfully c.ill the attention o
our friends, customers and tko
PUBLIC GENERAL T ; T V
To the FACT that we now have in STOSF one of the Largest and
as well assorted Stock of
erchandise
To be found anywhere: embracing in endless variety and qualities
all kinds
OF DRY GOODS
Notions, Mens’ antl Ladies' Shoes, Hats anil ClotFing, Shplo
FANCY GROCERIES
Har ness, Bridles, Saddles, Sa\ Ac. Also full line of
armina iT ^
All of which we bought for SPOT CASH, getting the benefit of all
DISCOUNTS, which euables us to Sell as low as the .Lowest
FOE CASH OE ON rm li 1. paw-lrj^ n K
IVRieh we are determined to do
OFR LIYFT?)^?Tt" L doof°e < L A WH BEF ° AVAXT OKE ANYTHING A h WE IN
vill be S tfoe Respectfully, -
Aimand x-i^, IDT & Langior - cl.
vspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
and often leads to self-destruction. Distress
after eating, sour stomach, nick headache,
heartburn, loss of aipetite.afaiui, “nilgpft^
<*** -
Distress some of the more conjraon
fitter symptoms. Dyspepsia does
. not get Welt of (itself, it
Eating requires careful, persistent
attention, and uSARAUiUN a remedy ince Ifood’sSar^
regulates the digeslioiij creates a
-good appetite, and fiy thus gfck
overcoming the local ^
toms removes tlie gympa
tIiet!c cffects (,f ti;e < iisc:is0 > banishes the
headache, and refreshes the tired mind.
•• ihave been troubled with dyspepsia. I
had but little appetite, and what I did eat
Heart distressed me, or did me
- good. In hoar
little an
^ after eating I would expe
ce p _ lntness> or tired, all-gone feeling,
„ though I hadnotcatenanything. My trou
tile,. I think, was aggravated by my business,
which is that of a painter, and from being
Dl0re 01 ' ] '; ss f hut Ep 1U * Sotir
.
Stomach
rffla _Itook three bottles, it did mo an
immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
the craving I had previovts^ experienced,
CB0BGB A ' Watertown, Mass.
Hoed s s Sarsaparilla
SoM by all druggists, gl; six fur go. Prepared only
by C. I. ROOD & CO., Apothecaries, Dowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
DON'T FAIL
TO SEE
' ^ i T UIC ~r "1 *0
4 4 1 _A_
Full line o!' Home-made Harness and Shoes
of the best Quality kept always on hand
Will sell cheap lor cash.
Wonder for Neatness!
Fine Boots and Shoes m*de to order and fit
guaranteed. All kinds of repairing- doneneat
ly and promptly.
iNGYer jEtippinCf "Workl
Remember.that wo use t!:e eeio'.i-atod Brass
Screws; will not rip—will not rust out your
shoes.
COME TO SEE UP, AND BUY
OIJR GOODS OR LEAVE YOUR
OR DEI! S
T. J. King.
Scott building. 1 door below. Br.
Lee’s drug store.
Conyers, Go., Oct. 18th 18 8.
LOOK HERE.
People wishing anything in the
Granite lino will do well to call on
or address
O. W. Edward-;, & Co.,
ConyciK, Ga.
nB^ aass&T&CTBn
fj Fen vet timekeeper. ^.ranted. Heavy' War-X 4oiii .ItEiJLl Gold
,v^\liuuung t
Cast->. U G Judies*
“ ni * S em -‘ siz.es, v. ith works
and cases of equal value.
in each lo
together calt '> with r can secure one and free, v?.l*
cur large
uablo lino of HousHtold
Sammies. tho These -h, samples, send. ay
well as xvat we
them in home for £ Free, and and shown after you them have thoso kept
your months to
v. bo may have called, they become your own property. Those
who Sampler. write at once can be sure of receiving the vVrsteU
and We pay all express, freight, etc; Address
teliuxoti. d&z Co,, iivx. giZtZ’avLliasxd, 3Z£ti.lnG*
I have used and am still using
Holmesteraee level, the “Eclipse.”
It works like a charm. I know
nothing- bettc-r. G. W. Weaver,
Conyers, Ga
If you fail to get your paper be
sure to inform us of the fact.
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Conyers, - - (xa.
Our stock of Goods is
pect; J Friends
are limited to
them
A aJISI r% ° r i
9
Are of al in-ces, any QUALITY
from ilio .. cheapest , to the BEST
market. We feci almost like cballon»i»» oa tin
til 0 wor W on PRICES and QUALITY. h\
this department wo are able to supply the
wants of the trading public.
Lixd , ,1 QTO'Yl uO JLx
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Thirty-six inch wido fine cashmeres for
only 25 cts a yard. This is an offer that
only the lias to be known to secure a rush for
goods. BARGAINS! BARGAINS!
feebly expresses it 1 tu WJIO EVER
HEARD TELL OF SUCH AN OFFER!
1. JU
For Boys and Men. Saits to fit
quality guaranteed, Our Spring
is almost perfect. Nothing is wauling
from the BEST down to the COMMONEST.
Prices and goods to suit all.
lucxtuOJbniilib T> Anp "OTTPO I i
e
Embrace everything marketable.
Our pride is to niake.it meet every
demand of the public. When you
goods come to see us.
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V
j iL All A ji ;Jxt
This department 5^4 « s superb and
endless. Our s took is the Rockdale. prettiest
ever offered for sale in
Anything wanted can be had.
CD u riSa FOR (~JD v§- j ; n c\
«•
To pleas© the eye and suit tlie
pocket-book spread out in extrava
gant profusion. The store is flood*
ed with a magnificent display hie
most attractive ever offered toi
sale on this market. Styles tne
and the deSigHS the prettlOSb
HATS! jdLd T’T a
Range from J-iong the have plainest we nan to g H,
ioa>'4 „ A and we have an unexcell
stock. Come and see.
On the. market. Dress goods uh*
in beauty.