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ROCKDALE BANNER.
SUBSCRIPTION rates:
Per Year (in advance) $1.09.
Six Months 50 cts
Entered at Conyers postoffice
AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MAVTER.
Advertising rates made known
on demand.
Job work neatly and promptly
executed.
All obituaries, resolutions of respect, etc.,
charged for at the rate of two and one-half
cents per line.
JOHN R. MADDOX Editor
T. D. O’KELLEY - - Business Manager
It is stated that during the last
year 25 per cent, more people
went abroad than during any
other yesrs in the history of ocean
travel. No doubt the statement is
correct. The shortening of the
time for the trjp, and the unusual
attractions on the other side,
caused the increase.
State School Commissioner
Hook says the condition of Geor¬
gia’s common schools was never
so good as at present and that
they are being steadily improved.
Georgia is working out her own
educational salvation without
federal aid, and she desires none
of it.
What people need more than
education is tho courage to act
honest, for all tho wickedness of
mankind is embraced within tho
circle of knowledge, which ex¬
plodes tho theory that education
cultivates honesty. It is tho in¬
herent instinct of human nature
to be honest, for wickedness is
impossible prior to the advent of
knowledge.
The Amcricus Recorder is au¬
thority for the statement that Sen¬
ator Colquitt will at tho expira¬
tion on his present term of office
move to New York, to become
president of a life insurance
company at a large salary. This
will be news to most people in
Georgia and will be held under
consideration until the official re¬
turns are in.
A dog was seen on the streets
of Montezuma a few days ago
with five well developed feet.
It is a subject of regret to
thousands of his fellow-citizens
that Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D.
D., is to leave Georgia. Ho has
been prominent in many move¬
ments of public interest, and his
influence has always been on the
side of progress. Probably no
man in this state has done more
to arouse popular interest and
enthusiasm in the cause of educa¬
tion. Ho gave Emory Collego a
great impetus and was instrumen¬
tal in securing for it the favor of
Mr. George I. Seney which re¬
sulted in a liberal contribution to
the institution. Dr. Haygood
goes to Sheffield, Ala., where he
is to be at tho head of a college
for girls, and that he will succeed
in building up a great and useful
school there is the confident be¬
lief of all who know him. He has
high qualifications for tho noble
work he is to undertake, and Ala¬
bama is to be congratulated on
winning him as a citizen.
The religious editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal was
so enthused on the morning after
the election that he concluded an
article by saying: “It was a dem¬
ocratic cyclone from Cape Cod to
Kalamazoo, from Alpha to Omaha
from hell to breakfast!"’
A minister of the gospel, a son
of a prominent minister of Lex¬
ington, Ky., is attempting the ex¬
traordinary task of committing
the entire New Testament to
memory. He has been working
on it for years, and, as he has a
wonderful retentive brain, the
work is in a fair way to an early
completion.
Senator duBignou, in his fare¬
well address to the Senate an
Bounces that be will retire to
private life and not be a candi
date tor Governor neat year.
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cleAman mvititui^J Iho haveV of T . m “>
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ed-ed stock.
THE FUTURE LIFE.
I feel in myself the future life.
I am like a forest which has been
more than once cut down. The
new shoots are stronger and live¬
lier than ever. I am rising, I
know, toward the sky. The sun¬
shine is over my head. The earth
gives me its generous say, but
heaven lights me with the reflec¬
tion of unknown worlds.
You say the soul is nothing
but the resultant of bodily powers;
why, then, is my soul the more
luminous when my bodily powers
begin to fail? Winter is on my
head and eternal spring is in my
heart. Then I breathe at this
hour the fragrance of the lilies,
the violets and the roses as at
twenty years. The nearer I ap¬
proach the end the plainer I hear
around me the immortal sym¬
phonies of the worlds which unite
me. It is a fairy tale and it is
history.
For half a century I have beeD
writing my thoughts in prose,
verse, history, philosophy, drama,
romance, tradition, satire, ode,
song—I have tried all. But I
feel that I have not said the
thousandth part of what is in me.
When I go down to the grave I
can say, like so many others, “I
have finished my day's work, but
I cannot say, “I have finished my
life.” My day’s work *will begin
again the next morning, The
tomb is not a blind alley; it is a
thoroughfare. It closes in the
twilight to open with the dawn.
I improve every hour because I
love this world as my fatherland.
My work is hardly above its foun¬
dation. I would be glad to see it
mounting and mounting forever.
The thirst for the infinite proves
infinity.—Victor Hugo.
McELREE’8 WINE OF CARDUI fur Weak Nerves.
A farmer once employed a
young man to labor on his farm
without inquiring to his habits,
and upon learning tliat he was
addicted to drinking, the farmer
offered him a choice sheep if he
would refrain from drinking that
season. A grown son of the far¬
mer said: “Pa, will you give me
a sheep too, if I will not drink
this season? ”Yes,” replied the
father, “you may liavo a sheep. 1 ’
Then the little boy spoke up, and
said, “Pa, will you give me a
sheep too, if I'll not drink?”
“Yes, son, you shall liavo a slioep
also.” After a moment’s pause
tho little boy turned to his father
and said: “Pa, hadn’t you better
take a sheep, too?” The father
must have felt sheepish.
A western journal has the fol¬
lowing in regard to a brother
editor. The editor of the dead
wood Roarer attended church for
tho first time last Sunday. In
about an hour he rushed into
the office and shouted to the tele¬
graph editor: “What in blazes
are you follows doing? How about
the news from tho seat of war?”
“What news?” “Why, all about
the Egyptian army being drowned
in tho Red Sea. Why, the gospel
chap up at tho church, was tel¬
ling about it just now, and not a
word of it in this morning’s paper.
Bustle ’round, you fellows, and
got the facts, or the Snap Shot
will get a beat on us. Look spry,
there, and run an extra edition if
necessary, while I put on- a bulle¬
tin board, ‘Great English Victory
in the Soudan.”
A typewriter is in Perry copy¬
ing the record and bill of excep¬
tions in the famous AYoolfolk case.
There are about 1500 pages and
it will take nearly a month to
copy lhe whole record.
Snelson’s fertilizer bill reducing
the cost of inspecting fertilizers
j has become a law.
Forakor will retire from politics
at tho end of his present term
and resume the practice of law.
Foraker is a rather sensible fellow
after all, and knows when he has
enough.
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tb '' l >risolier ’ penalty had!
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!“n taken out defe oi ,° my d me sentence. 0ught . to be
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THE TRAVELER’S REST.
In passing thro’ a foreign land
To view the scenery wild and grand,
We paused to rest in a country town,
In a wooded valley nestled down,
When a mournful dirge,—the village bell,
Pealed out slowly a funeral knell.
A Wildwood- in a Southern clime
A village church bell’s doleful chime,
We knew at once that solemn toll
Spoke the freedom of one more soul.
The village beil swung slow a loft;
Somebody there had loved and lost.
A veil of crape with border deep,
An ach'ng hearts lone to weep;
The Master cal’ed—a loved one went,
Tho’ bleeding hearts in twain were rent;
The darksome river he has crossed,
And wife end chldren loved and lost.
Laid in a forest church-yard dim,
With silent grave stones tall and grim,
Neath a radiant, Southern sky.
Somebody’s loved one bad tod e;
We’ 11 never know the tears it cost
The mourning hearts that loved and lost. •
Tis we 1 ! that in the future dim
Out 1 weal or woe is left to Him
And He who doetb aT things well
Allows for good that funeral bell.
Tho’ in earth’s troubles tempest tossed,
We feel that we have loved and lost.
—Minnie Scott.
Let home stand first before all
other things! No matter how high
your ambitions may transcend its
duties, no matter how far your
talents or your influence may
reach beyond its doors, before
everything else build up a true
home! Be not its slave; be its
minister! Let it not be enough
that it is swept and garnished,
that its silver is brilliant, that its
food is delicious, but feed the love
in it, feed thought and aspiration,
feed all charity and gentleness in
it. Then from its walls shall come
forth the true woman and the true
man, who shall together rule and
bless the land.” Is this an over¬
wrought picture? We think not.
What honor can be greater than
to found such a home? What dig¬
nity higher than to reign its un¬
disputed and honored mistress?
What is the ability to speak from
a public platform to large au¬
diences, or the wisdom that may
command a seat on the judge’s
bench, compared to that which
can insure and preside over a true
home that husband and children
“rise and call her blessed?” To be
the guiding star, the ruling spirit,
in such a position is higher honor
than to rule an empire.—Mrs.
Beecher.
A great artist once painted a
picture of a woman clinging, with
both hands, to the cross, amidst
foaming billows. But somehow
it did not please him, and he
painted anothor. It was the same
woman, tho same cross, the same
raging sea; but this time she held
on with one hand, and with the
other she upheld a sinking, drown¬
ing one. This was a true picture
of tho gospel; and every genuine
Christian is clinging not only to
the cross himself, but, like the
Savior, seeking to save those who
are sinking amidst tho waves of
sin and sorrow.
The only life that is worth living
is that spent in worthy undertak¬
ings. “Idleness,” said Jeremy
Taylor, “is the burial of a living
man.” Goethe puts it in these
words: “An idle life is death an¬
ticipated.”
A wise colored man is quoted
as saying: “Pears to me like dar
was some kind of misdecomposi
tion in all dis talk about babies
cuttin’ de teef. De way I look at
it, it's de teef cuttin’ de babies.”
Tramp—“Madam, will you
please give me something to eat?”
Lady—“Yes I will give you some¬
thing if you will work for it.”
“Certainly, madam, I will be
pleased to work for you in the
line of my trade.” “What is your
trade?” “Grave-digger.”
The best thing to give your en
emy is forgiveness; to an oppo
nent, tolerance; to a friend, a heart;
to your child, a good example; to
a father, deference; to a mother,
conduct that will make her proud
of you; to yourself, respect; to all
men, charity.
Sub-Editor—“Here is a story
about a couple who lived together
for seventy-five years without
having a dispute. Where shall I
put it?" Editor—“Run it it in
L_ the department of ‘Odd Happen
? ?>
There are no politicians in
Heaven. Jf there had been the
streets would never have been
paved with gold. They would
have run in brass blocks on the
con ‘ raet “»d fixed it with the
surveyor at gold rates.
TAX NOTICF.
This is my last round. The Tax
book will be closed after Dec. 10
1889.
The tax book is now open for
the collection of state and county
taxes of Rockdale county. Office
at J. H. Almand & Co’s store.
I will be at the following pre¬
cincts on these days:
Honey Creek district, court
house, Wednesday Nov. 20th.
Lorraine district, Richardson’s
store, Sheffield Thursday district Nov. Friday 28th. Decem¬
ber 6th ’89.
D. W. Murdoch, T. C.
This Sept. 30th 1889.
NOTICE
To applicants for county school
commissioner.
Persons desiring to pass the
examination as applicant for coun¬
ty school commissioner of Rock¬
dale county can have the oppor¬
tunity on 1st Tuesday in Dec.
next at the Cpurt House in Con¬
yers at 9J o'clock a. m. By order
of the board. G. M. Jones,
Oct. 3. 1889. Secretary.
ELECTION NOTICE.
In pursuance of an order of the
city council of the city of Conyers
an election will be held in this
city on the first Saturday in De¬
cember next in conformity to sec¬
tion 10 of an act of the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia,
for the adoption or rejection of a
pnblic school system for said city
and the election of six school
commissioners for said public
schools.
Two of said commissioners to
be elected for one year from the
first day of January 1890, two for
two years from the first day of
January 1890, and two for three
years from the first day of Jan¬
uary 1890.
Those in favor of public schools
will have wirttpn or printed on
their tickets “For Public Schools’
and those opposed to public
schools will have written or prin¬
ted on their tickets “Against Pub¬
lic Schools.”
J. R. Maddox, James C. Barton,
Clerk Mayor City of Conyers.
The tax books of the city of
Conyers are now open for pay¬
ment of taxes for the present year,
and they will positively be closed
on the 1st day of December next.
By order of Mayor H. J. C. Barton.
W. M. Austin
T. C.
Neuralgic Persons
And those troubled with nervousness by resulting taking
from care or overwork will be relieved
Brown’s Iron Bitters. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
MONEY TO LEND.
I liave tlie cheapest monoy yet
offered to farmers.
To place in loans on farms in
Rockdale, DeKalb and Gwinnett
counties.
No delays.
Address
R. W. Milner, Att’y,
Lithonia, Ga.
COTTON SEED.
The Conyers Oil &
Fertilizer Co. will
pay the highest
price for cottonseed.
Bring us your seed.
Patronize and build
up your home in¬
dustries.
J. P. Tilley,
Supt.
Piso's Remedy Dr. H. for Lee Catarrh Son's. is
for sale at W. &
The medicine is guaranteed.
Don’t fail to try it.
~ DR. PASSER'S
I i jJ Medical &. Surgical Institute
St. ■ -151 N. Spruce St., Nashville, Tenn.
X Treatand Cureall and Chronic Surgical Dis
wSBgeases. Deformities
-■I Cases. Sexual Diseases of Men,
tip of Women Imperfect and Children Development. the results Evil
Hnbits or Excesses. Opium Private and the Whiskey
Habit, etc. Sanitarium and Lying-In Hos¬
pital in connection. Write for circular.
Favorite Singer
Sewing Machine.
HIGH ARM $25.00.
I Each Machine has a drop leaf,
I m fancy cover, two large drawers,
1 with nickel rings, ami a full set
U of Attachments, equal to any Sin
* ger Machine sold from $40 to
$60 by Canvassers. A trial in your -home be
fore payment is asked. Buy direct of the Manu¬
facturers and save agents’ profits besides getting
certificates of warrantee for five years. Send for
testimonials to Co-operative Sewing Machine
Co., 269 S. nth St., Philadelphia, l’a.
PAY mEIttHT.W*
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Agreeable to an order of the Court of Ordf
nary of Rockdale county, will be sold at pub¬
lic outcry at the court house door at Conyers
on the first Tuesday in December next within
the legal hours of sale the following property
to wit: Two hundred and fifty-seven acres of
land bqing parts of lots numbers 209,243, and
244 in the 11th and 16th districts of originally
Henry then Newton now Rockdale county,
and bounded on the north by Elat Shoal road
and William Pluuket, on the east by E. C.
Granade and B. F. Hill, on the south by B. F.
Hill and D.M. Parker, and on the west by D.M.
Parker and J. Roberson.
Sold as the property of Timothy Granade
deceased for the purpose of paying the debts
of said estate and distribution among the
heirs of said deceased. Terms: Cash,
J. W. Granade,
4t. Executor of said deceased.
AGENTS WANTED
TO SELL AN
Entirely New Book.
The most wonderful collection of practical
real value and every-day use for the peo¬
ple ever published on the globe. A marvel
of money-saving and money-earning for
every one owning it. Thousands showing of beautiful,
everything. helpful engravings, No just how to do
in the universe. competition; When nothing like it
you select that which
is of true value, sales are sure. All sincere¬
ly desiring something paying employment and looking
for extraordinarily thoroughly First-class at an
low price, should write for
discription and terms on the most remarkable
achievement in book-making since Ithe world
began. SCAMMELL & CO., Box 5003,
ST. LOUIS or PHILADELPHIA.
WIDOWS ALLOWANCE.
The application of Mrs, Martha V. Crow,
widow of H. H, Crow, late of Bockdale county,
deceased, for a years support for herself and
her minor children, from the estate of her
deceased husband having been duly filed in
the Ordinary’s office as the law directs, and
if no objections be filed by the 26th day of No¬
vember next an order will be passed setting
apart a years suppart for the widow and her
minor ehildeu as prayed for.
This the 24tfi day of September, 1839.
O. Seamans,
100\v 4t. Ordinary.
SALE FOR DISTRIBUTION.
Will pe sold on the first Tuesday in Decem¬
ber 1889 during the legal hours of sale the
following described property to-wit:
One hundred acres of land more or less sit¬
uated on the Decatur road two miles above
Conyers and known as the W. H. McDaniell
home place. One seven room dwelling house
well finished with all necessary ont buildings;
aotmaut h kiwi situated on said place
The farm is lu a good state of cultivation, and
everything necessary to make a pleasant
home. The dwelling is situated within two
hundred yards of the railroad crossing, mak¬
ing it very convenient for the accommodation
train in any d.rcotsion.
ALSO
One grist and flouring mil! aud cotton gin,
situated on Honey creek, four miles west of
Conyers. The mill is in first class condition,
has a splendid local patronage aud pays a
good interest on six thousand dollars. Has
splendid rock dam. all tho buildings are in
good repair. With the mill will le sold the
mill yard, water power and rightof high water
marks, containing about eleven acres, also
ene blacksmith shop situated on said yard,
The purchaser of the mill site will have the
privilege of taking one piece of land on the
west side of the mill containing fourteen and
one half acres also one piece situated on the
creek above tho mill containing 45 airos (al
forest) at tho appraized price, otherwise these
pieces of land will be sold to the highest bid¬
der. Will aiso have privilege of taking Mr.
Frank MeDaniell’s home place at fifteen hun¬
dred dollars.
Terms of th - 'sale will be one half cash, the
remainding half December : 5th ISDO with 8 per
cent interest. E. J. McDameli.,
300w 4ts. Agent by agreement
aDMINSTRAIOR sale postponed
GEOUGIA Roekdale county: By virtue of an
orderlof the court of Ordinary of said county,
will be sold before the couvt house door in the
town of Conyers, said county, at public out¬
cry between lawful sale hours on the first
Tuesday in December next, all the lands be¬
longing to the estate of Henry Wilson late of
said county deceased, being three hundred
acres, more or less, and parts of land lots Nos-
290, 305, and 314, in the 16th district of origi¬
nally Henry, now Rockdale county, and the
lands whereon said deceased resided at the
time of his death, and to be sold for tho pur¬
pose of paying debts and distribution among
the heirs of said deceased. This land will be
sold in two tracts as follows: the place known
as the House Place being part of lots Nos. 290
and 305, containing two hundred acres, more
or loss, and one hundred acres, more or less,
being part of lot No. 314, Isold seperate. This
land is about two and one half miles from
Conyers, and contains some|seventy-flve acres
of original forest, with considerable pine field;
also fine rock quarries, and a good amount of
open cultivatable lands, and would make a
flue stock farm. Stewart Bros. hold|collatoral
deeds to this land, but will, by agreement,
make quick claim upon payment of their
debt to purchaser
Terms cash. Sept. 28, 1889, A. M. Helms,
Admr. of Henry Wilson.
564w 5ts.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
By virtue of an order from the Court of Or¬
dinary, will be sold at public outcry before
the court house door in the city of Conyers
within the legal hours of sale on the first Tues¬
day in December next the realty belonging to
the estate of W. F. C. Smith deceased, better
known as tho estate of Mrs. Efifie S. Smith
deceased, to-wit: One store room under Ma¬
sonic Hall. 60 by 3314 feet, fronting Center
street in the city of Convers; also the Home
Place of Mrs. E. C. Smith on McDonough street
with excellent dwelling and a perpetual
branch running through the backside of lot,
said lot containing four acres, more or less
and bounded on the north by J- J. Green,
east by McDonough street, south by Mrs.
Green, west by Mr. Knox.
Terms of sale will be one-half cash, and one
half in twelve months, with 8 per cent interest
from date, with the privilege of paying all
cash.
Possession of the dwelling given immedi
| ately, of the store room 15th of January 1890.
I Nov. 5th 1889.
John H. Almand,
Admr. W.F. C. Smith deed.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
All who have claims against the
estate of W. F. C. Smith, or
Mrs. E. C. Smith will please report
them to me at once, and oblige.
Respectfully, Almand
John H.
Admr. Est. W. F. C. Smith.
drw.h.
Corner Center and comm
eree Sta.
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School Books.
BIBLES and TESTAMENTS
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spectacles
MIXED PAINT!
Paints ready mixed for h ouses
carriages, furniture etc
TERMS CASH.
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J. B. of Goodwyn, Coweta County SurJ
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DON’T FAIL
TO SEE
T. J. KING'S
Full line of Home-made Harness and Shoes
of the best Quality kept always on hand
Will sell cheap for cash.
Wonder for Neatness!
Fine Boots and Shoes made to order and lit
guaranteed. All kinds of repairing done neat¬
ly and promptly.
Never Ripping Work!
Bememberthat we use the celebrated Brass
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shoes. BUY
COME TO SEE US AND
OUR GOODS OR LEAVE YOUR
ORDERS
T. J.King.
Scott building, 1 door below. Dr.
Lee’s drug store. 18th 18 8.
Conj’ers, Ga., Oct.
notice
Is hereby given that at the P ieS
ent session of the General Assent
bly a bill will be introduced en¬
titled an act to establish Boacls a and ‘ ,
•f Commissioners of
Revenues for the county of Rock
dale to define their duties and to
H. Y. McCord, Committee from
the Grand Jury August term 18
August 24th 1889.
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