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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1889)
c*x W tei ta I W m Ul ce LU LO o •-< -^LLEY^MADDOX 1889. gtfYEKS, CtA., DEC. 3, Pre.idenaTT^LiAYgston, jjOC&l of state farmers alliance has to ItoSt. Louis, to attend the Sonal alliance week. meeting, He was which ac¬ convenes this then compan ted by Hon. AY. J. Nor an d Felix Corput. )| Jim Downs of Monticello r , week. vas in the city last Hr George Piper and family of Covington spent last Sunday with jjj }£A. Parker in this city. Hr. Gus Veal is now boarding m tli Hr. H. A. Parker. fe are sorry to learn that Mr. G M. Langford's little boy is quite sick. Last week Mr. D. C. Langford, carriage-maker of Logansville, Lad Iris hand badly torn up in some machinery. Dr. S. ?• Downs and wife of Honticello were in Conyers last ireek visiting relatives and friends. : Any one wishing to buy Italian lees will find it to their interest to call and see Mr. AY Y. Al Hand. Mrs. Nannie Yinson of Snap¬ ping Shoals is visiting Mr. H. T. Stewart's family this week, j Dr. Moore of Oxford preached Lis last sermon for this year at the Methodist church Sunday. I Mr, Albert Roberts is again very sick. AVe hope however that ' lie may be out very. soon. 1, A. Dukes keeps on hand the test Christmas goods that were erer brought to our town. Now is the time to get your toys cheap. Mr. John Murray of Alcovy tated friends in the city yester fe Little Claud Osborn, son of Mr. [iB. Osborn, is the champion Norseman of the town. | Shoals Mr, Charlie visited Elliott of Snapping his father’s family Sunday in the city. Our city election will be held tot ticket Saturday. So far only one for mayor and aldermen have been announced. Itisprob ahle there will be no opposition to ib re-election of the present ambers of the council. Judge Speer of Madison, Col. Hai Lewis of Greensboro, and hi. Calvin George of Madison attended our court last week. Some of our city boys arebless G with lungs. The strains that ,*yB our out on the mid-night a ‘ r is not distressing, nor alarin nor is it in all respects per *% musical, f.' Still we are glad ^ are no worse. I . hanta Jk au returned d Mrs. home Sam Stovall yesterday of L er a ver y pleasant visit to Mrs. j t** " ara h Turner’s in the city. S. Marbut, who has L 2 bus ™ess in Almon for the |f-t too years, has sold out to K?® !U 8 - Hardwick & Holder, and make Conyers his home for aT hile. ^ Th LACK-DRAUGHT tea curea Constipation. 0 drummer always brings e a ^ es h Hick. Here it is: Take MP°ol °f white basting cotton. it. j Cv v -t A an "° y°ur inside coat and threading a needle Li at ’P ass it up through the ta7 u UeT incb ° f y0T3r coat long - Leave the f or so on the out teeip ' ° Ur coat and take off the > e ^ our men out of five will ^ 1 t ° [ ,lck • that whole thread off 10u lder and will pull on the 10 ugh actually does seem Ni your clothes are all *S, and that they were un r ehn ? not only your clothes but pourself. ^WneofCardu. buck-draught are ^county: following merchants in Leo T C ' Eichardson. H. ft e { Layers. r p, ^Lnand *? ar) Con y ers - <fc Co., Joe Thompson, a young man living in Loves district was ac¬ cidentally shot by a negro boy who was sporting a $1.25 shot gun a few days since, Air. Thomp¬ son and the negro boy were hunt ing rabbits, and as one of the nimble footed “varmints” fled thiough tne tall broomsage, with his flag of truce floating from the stern of his vanishing craft, the colored lad let drive and filled Air. Thompsons commissary depart¬ ment with a hand full of shot. Air. Thompson tumbled to the racket, and was hauled home, where the sympathising pillmon ers spent the best part of two days fishing for them with knit¬ ting needles. We are happy to state that the young man “is doing as well as could be expected,” and that he expresses himself satisfied with what he has—leaving the balance of the little coon’s lead for some other luckless wight.— Henry County Weekly. Alan enters newspaper office. Editor looks up in alarm, “I have a bench Avarrant for your ar¬ rest. ’ Editor: Thank God it is no worse. I thought you had a poem. All who have dry cow hides to sell will find it to their interest to see making AIcDaniell, Smith & Co. before a sale elsewhere, as we are paying have more for hides than they brought at this market for several years. Judge E. B. Trippe, of Atlanta, committed suicide, last week, by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. The Bible has been printed in twenty nine diflerent languages to supply the people living in Pennsylvania. McELREE’S WINE OF CARDUI for Weak Nerves. Prof. Luther Brittain, formerly of Covington, will be married to Aliss Lettie AIcDonald, daughter of Rev. Dr. AIcDonald, of the Second Baptist church, Atlanta, at an early day. Hon Jas. H. Blount has many warm friends in this county and if he should decide to enter the race for governor, as has been in¬ timated, he will be a strong and formidable opponent. He has had an ambition in the direction of the governorship for several years, and there are a great many people throughout the state who would like very much to see him governor, He would call to his support a strong and enthusiastic following. McElree’s WiNE OF CARDUI for female diseases. Hitchcock's new and complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, one of the most complete works on the Bible it has been our pleasure to examine, is now before the people in this county. See it. Examine it. Buy it. The Walla Walla Aledicine Co. gave three very enjoyable enter¬ tainments in the city last week. The Lithonia New Era will re¬ ceive the legal patronage from the ordinary’s and sheriff’s offices af¬ ter the 1st of Jan. next. Bro. Steadman is to he congratulated on his good fortune. Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Dyspepsia. Air. Lawson Aladdox of this place moved last week to DeKalb county, just above Lithonia, at which place he intends to make his future home. Air. Tillingliast, the piano tuner from Atlanta, will arrive here this afternoon. If you desire his ser vice, apply early at the Banner office as his time is limited. Air. James Marston, the ever humorous Jim, was in town last week, we are glad to state. He knows a good thing when he sees it. TO YOTFRS. The book for the registration of voters was, in accordance v* ith law, opened on Nov. 1, and will remain open till Friday night, Dec. 6th, at 6 o’clock. It is the privilege of every citizen of Con¬ yers to register. The book will be open from 7 to 12 m., and from l£ to 5 p. m. o'clock in the Banner office. Ever}* one is urged to attend to the registration of their names at the earliest possible date. Respectfully, John R. Maddox, City clerk. Conyers, Ga., Nov. 5th 1889. BIG GRAIN CEOP. Mr. AV . L. Peek, of Conyers, Ga., is competing for the prize of $500 offered by the American Ag¬ riculturist for the best acre of corn grown in America. The Georgia Agricultural soci¬ ety offered $100 for the best acre of corn grown in Georgia, agree¬ ing to pay $250 if the acre took the American Agriculturist's prize. Mr. Peek came up with 131 bush¬ els of corn to the acre. This took the prize in Georgia—beating Mr. George Truitt a few bushels. The biggest yield of corn ever taken from one acre was 202bush¬ els. This was done in South Carolina. The acre was enclosed with irrigating ditches so that the supply of water was absolutely under control. Two hundred and two bushels of corn was gathered from the acre. Mr. Peek beats the South Carolina contestant this year 29 bushels, the prize in that state having been taken with 102 bushels. Mr. Peek will get $850 cash if he wins the American prize. The American Agriculturist’s prize of $500 for the best acre of oats was taken by E. AV. Strick¬ land, of Albion, N. Y., with 134£ bushels. Only two contestants w r ent over 100 bushels of oats. - jjgjj^WiNE OF CARDUi a Tonic for Women. When you want to do something nice and that will do you good for days to come, bring us $1.00 and subscribe for the Banner. The Alliance store wants one thousand bushels of peas at once and will pay the highest market price for the same. 2m. Invitations are out for the marriage of Aliss Eula Maddox, of Atlanta, to Air. Henry S. Jack son, a popular young business man of Nashville. Aliss Aladdox is the only daughter of Col. E. E. Maddox, of Atlanta, and the grand daughter of the late Judge P. Eeynolds, of Covington. The marriage will take place on the 12th inst. Bishop Keener, of the South¬ ern Methodist church has deliver¬ ed an official utterance condemning the peculiar doctrine of holiness which has many adherents in both northern and southern churches. Airs. A. P. Tommy and family of Atlanta visited Air. A. P. Alitch ell’s family in the city last week. Air. Ben Clarke of DeKalb coun¬ ty visited relatives in the county Sunday. Now is the time to turn your land so that the stubble may have time to decay and the freezes to pulverize the soil. Wo have the best one and two horse plows on the market. Points cost only 10 cents for one horse and 25 cents for two horse. Everyone guar¬ anteed. Yours truly, H. D. Terrell A Co. Conyers, Ga., Dec. 3rd 1889. Alaster Dick Sanford is clerking for Air. J. A. Dukes, Air. Algy Thompson of Coving¬ ton visited Air. E. Al. Ewing’s family Sunday. If you have not registered, please come forward and attend to the matter at once. Book closes next Friday at 6 o’clock p. m. Congressman John D. Stewart in company with his colleagues is announced at his post of duty in AVashington. He is ready always of for business and the interests bis constituents is foremost in his mind and efforts. He has repre¬ sented this district with marked ability and satisfaction, so far as we know. / Only two liquor cases were tried during court week, those of Air. J. A. Robinson and Air. Sam Hill, and both were acquitted. Uncle Alartin Ewing, one of the best and oldest engineers on the Ga. E. IL, has been at-home for several days with his family. Air. Ewing is a true friend, a kind and obliging neighbor, and so far as we know a genuinely honest man. Messrs. E. A. Ewing and Ed Langford have been hunting for several days past. Monday last they killed 13 partridges and 3 rabbits. This is Aladdox printed to little stir Fieldman J. E. to a more activity over in the neigh hood of Haygood Hill. A kinder jocose brother ob¬ served on the streets the other day that liquor was so plentiful in Rockdale that some people drink whisky in prefence to water. LINTLESS COTTON SEED. Air. T. F. Ferguson, a farmer of Spartanburg, S. C., has pro¬ duced, after many careful experi¬ ments, a cotton plant that grows seed without any lint. The ag¬ ricultural bureau of South Caro¬ lina will investigate tne plant ana make a report to the public. Meanwhile, Air. Ferguson claims that the experiments ho has already made show that this new variety of cotton plant will yield four hundred bushels of seed to the acre, as against thirty live bushels of lint cotton, and trustworthy cotton planters who have watched his experiments, agree with him. A box of the matured bolls was sent to the Charleston New r s and Courier by Air. Ferguson, and the editor says that an exam¬ ination of the contents of these bolls fully confirms wliat has been published in regard to their pe¬ culiar characteristics. The bolls were opened in the office of the News aud Courier, and each boll was found to contain as many seeds as it could hold, each seed as free from lint as a Boston bean or a buckshot. This new* variety of the cotton plant promises to give to the far¬ mers a new product that will prove to be a valuable one. There is no limit to the demand for cotton-seed oil in its various forms, and if four hundred bush¬ els of seed can be raised to the acre, the crop wall prove to be more valuable than the lint cot ion itself. THE TAX BOOKS Will positively be closed after the 10th of December. Every one would do well to call at the Tax Collector’s office and pay up their tax before it is too late. Airs. Howell Cobb, of Athens, wife of the late Gov. Howell Cobb, died on last Wednesday morning, at her home in the classic city. She was 72 years of age, and mother of twelve children. The latest estimate of the ber of houses burned in the fire at Lynn, Alass., last puts it down as follows: 42 blocks, 112 stores and and 142 dwelling families houses, number of homeless by the fire, is 162, the number of shoe factories troyed is put at 87. The loss is estimated at $5,000,000. The two year old child of Air. and Airs. George Chamberlain Alissouri was buried here day. ’A party of revenue scooped down upon field district in this county week and made a successful! raid on the business of a number illicit distilleries. The captured several stills, but all the men escaped. The trustees of the Seminary urged to be at the court house next Friday, the 6th inst, 10 o’clock a. in. for the purpose of attending to some very impor¬ tant business. Every trustee, iressed we feel assured, will feel imj witli the duty of attending the meeting. The armory of the Conyers Vol¬ unteers has been neatly and at¬ tractively fixed up and the “boys ’ now are quite comfortably work¬ quar¬ tered. The Volunteers are ing hard to have a determination cracking com¬ is pany and their commendable and it almost in¬ sures for them the gratification ought of their ambition. Conyers feel to, and we presume does, proud of her Volunteer boys. The company is composed honor of our best young men, who our city at home or abroad. It will of course be a pleasure the Volunteers to our readers to" know are prospering and moving along so nicely. Air. George Tilley, who has been for some months in business in Atlanta, is in the city visiting his brother, Air .Jas. P. Tilley. Ex-Treasurer Vincent, of Ala¬ bama, who is serving a thirteen years’ sentence for having embez¬ zled $223,000 of the state's money, is a man of resources. in this connection has no ence to the $223,000 Mr. embezzled, but to his genius in inventing schemes for his release from prison. He proposes that the people of Alabama vote upon the question whether or not he shall be pardoned. “If the ma¬ jority vote no,’” he says, “I will content myself Vincent to serve should out have my term .” Air. meditated more upon the joys of freedom before he skipped with the $223,000. DAVIS LAND COMPANY. Ever since the Avar Mr. Jeffer¬ son Davis has been a poor man. Though he has often needed fiuaneial assistance he has persis¬ tently refused all contributions. He has courteously but firmly forbidden all efforts to induce him to accept gratuitous aid. He has preserved perfectly the high in¬ dependence and the noble pride Avhieh are constituent elements of his character. Soon after his visit to Alacon two years ago a movement Avas set on foot in this city for his relief. As soon as it Avas begun there Avere ready and liberal responses from many sources, and a handsome fund would undoubtedly have been raised in a short time had not the design been thwarted by the emphatic request of Air. Davis himself. No other poAver could have stayed that generous move¬ ment, but Air. Davis requested its abandonment in a Avay Avhieh its projectors could not fail to res¬ pect. Fortunately there is now an opportunity by which the peo¬ ple of the South can come to the assistance of the noble old man in a Avay to which he cannot ob¬ ject. He oAvns 5,700 acres of ex¬ cellent land in Arkansas on the White river and a stock company for its purchase has been formed. Shares have been put at $10 and in many places in tlio South practical steps have already been taken to aid this laudable enter - prise. That it will bo carried through there can be no doubt. All over tlio South there are many men, and Avomen too, who will be glad to have a part in this Avork, who Avill .accept readily the op¬ portunity to take stock in the land, tlio sale of which Avill relieve Air. Davis of his financial distress. Something should bo done in Alacon and undoubtedly there will bo. Air. Davis is uoav dangerously ill. His needs and those of his family .are greater than ever. There is only one form in which he or they will accept assistance and no time should be lost in ma¬ turing the plans of the Davis Land Company. Its complete and immediate success avouUI be but a small tribute from tlio peo¬ ple whom Air. Davis served so faithfully and for Avhom lie lias suffered so much.—Telegraph. President AV. J. Norfcheu closes an admirable article in December Southern Cultivator, Avith this timely and pointed paragraph: The usual farm Avork is hoav over, and before another season’s labor is fairly begun there is ample time for tho improvement of tho farm in all its needed changes and re pairs. Give everything a bright brush of paint and Avliitewash; light up tho homo Avith comfort, happiness and cheer; make every heart about you glad, and then the sunbeams will come to you burnished in the smile of God’s approval and the rain drop sparkle in the splendor of your thrift. Judge Hines of Sandersville held court Thursday and Friday of last week in place of Judge Boynton. He appears to be an able judge. LOOK OUT FOR JESSE W. JONES (Successor to Jones & Hardin.) They carry a full line of dress goods of every description as Prints; Worsteds, Cashmeres, Checks, Sheeting, Shirting, Drills, Jeans, Flannels, etc. 7 m 3 7K1 r Li Their line of Shoes is complete; prices are cheaper than any id A TS FOR EVE RYBODY! Hats at your own price, Our line of hats is lacking in no respect; neither price, quality nor quantity. CLOTHING UNEQUALLED ! GEOCERIFS are so cheap you can’t help but buy them. THINGS IN VARIETY ! A full line of hardware. Best ax in towrn for the lest money . Harness till you can t rest. Bridles a specialty, They can beat the world on brides. They keep cotton bagging and arrow ties and sell them as cheap as anybody. A full line of ladies and gents sachels and trunks on hand. Their line of notions is complete. Shirts cheaper than ever before; they will sell you four for one dol¬ lar. Call and see them and they will save you money. They pay the top of the market f or co tton and country produc ONES, e. JESSE W. J HEALTH HINTS. Don’t coneradict your wife. Don't tell a man he is a stran¬ ger to the truth • because he hap¬ pens to be smaller than yourself. Errors of this kind have been known to be disastrous. Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. Leave them besides the kitchen fire, where they will be handy to put on in the morn mg. It is bad to learn your back against anything cold, particular¬ ly when it is an icy pavement, upon which your vertebral ar¬ rangement has caromed Avith a jolt that shakes the buttoms off your coat. Aiwa}* cat your breakfast be¬ fore beginning a journey. If you haven't any breakfast don't jour ney. After violent exercise—like putting up the stove or nailing doAvn carpets—never ride around toAvn in an open carriage. It is better to walk. It is also cheap¬ er. When hoarse spoak as little as possible. If you are not hoarse it won’t do you any harm to keep your mouth shut too. Don’t light the tiro Avith kero¬ sene. Let the hired girl do it. She hasn’t any Avife and children. You have. A writer in the Scientific Amer¬ ican speaks of three kinds of so called hoop snakes, themilksuake, the queen snake and the hull or pine snake. All of these appear to take their tails in their months and roll like hoops, but nono of them actually do it. It is an optical illusion, produced by tlio snake’s peculiar mode of traveling by making a succession of loops, like a measuring Avorrn, hut much more rapidly. President W. A. Candler, of Emory Collego, is a Avorker in any field, and last Sunday ho visited his old home in Augusta and helped Pastor Bigham lift a debt of $2000 from St. James clmreh. atarrh \. May nlTcct any portion of the body whero the mucous membrane is found. Hut catarrh of the bead is by far tlio most common, and tlio most liable to bo neglected. It cannot bo cured by local applications. Being a consti¬ tutional disease It requires Ringing a Hood’s constitutional Sarsaparilla, remedy which, Uko Moisos working through tlio blood, eradicates the Impurity which causes and pro¬ motes tlio catarrh, and soon effects a perma¬ nent cure. At the same time Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla builds up the whole system, aud makes one feel renewed In strength and health. It you suffer Impure from catarrh, bo sure to Blood try Hood’s Sarw.parilla. “ I used Hood’s Sarsaparilla for catarrh, and received great relief and benefit from It. Tho catarrh was very disagreeable, especially In the winter, causing constant discharge from my nose, ringing noises Hood’s In my cars, and pains in Sarsaparilla the back of my head. Tho effort to clear my bead in the morning by hawking and spitting was painful. Hood’s Sarsaparilla gavo me relief immediately, while in time I was en¬ tirely cured. I am never without the medi¬ cine in my bouse as I think It is worth Its weight tu gold.” CurOO* Mns. G. B. Gibb, 1029Eighth Catarrh St., N. AV., Washington, 1). C. “ I was troubled with that annoying disease, nasal catarrh, and never found relief till I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” .1 . L. Koutt, Marksburg, Ky. N. B. Bo sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla hold by all druggists, gl; si x for £5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mai*. IOO Doses One Dollar
