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Vol. 12.
home, sweet home
Xbe following' will never get too
old to be good. Let the young
, efl( j jk thrilling
Perhaps the most
quarter of an hour of John How
anl Payne's life was that when
Jenny bind sang “Home, Sweet
Home” to him. The occasion was
the Jenny Lind Concert in Wash
iuo-ton, the night of December 17,
1850 The Assembly was perhaps
.
the most distinguished ever seen
in a concert hall in this country.
The immense National hall, hasti¬
ly constructed for that occasion
on the ruins of the burned Nation¬
al theatre was filled to overflow
ino-. Among the notables present
and occupying front seats were
President Fillmore, Daniel Web¬
ster, Henry Clay, and John How¬
ard Payne. Jenny Lind opened
with the “Casta Diva,” and follow¬
ed with the “Flute Song,” in
which her voice contested rivalry
for purity and sweetness with the
flute in the duet, then the famous
“Bird Song,” and next on her
programme the “Greeting to
America.” All the pieces were
applauded to the full capacity of
an enthusiastic audience, and Mr.
Webster, who was in his most
genial after dinner mood, empha¬
sized the plaudit by rising from
his seat and making Jenny a pro¬
found bow, as if responding for
the country to her “Greeting. ’
But when the “Swedish Nighting¬
ale'’ answered the encore by turn¬
ing in the direction of Jolin How¬
ard Payne and giving Home,
Sweet Home, with all the won¬
derful tenderness, purity and sim¬
plicity henefitting both the words
and air of that immortal song,
the difference was at once seen
between the mechanical applause
called out by a display of fine vo¬
calization and that elicited by the
“touch of nature that makes the
whole world kin.” Before the
first line of the song was com¬
pleted the audience was fairly “ofi
it's feet,” and could scarcely wait
for a pause to give expression to
its enthusiasm. People ordina¬
rily of the undemonstrative sort
clapped, stamped and shouted
as if they were mad, and it seem¬
ed as if there would be no end to
the uproar. Meantime all eyes
were turned upon Payne, a small¬
sized elegantly moulded, gray¬
haired gentleman, who blushed
violently at finding liimself the
center of so many glances.
KINGING NOISES
In the ears, sometimes a roaring
tarrh, buzzing sound are caused by ca¬
that exceedingly disagree¬
able and very common disease.
loss of smell or hearing also re¬
sult from catarrh. Hood's Sar¬
saparilla, the great blood purifier,
I tor s a this peculiarly successful remedy
purifying disease, which it cures suf- by
Dr the blood. If yon
from catarrh, try Hood's Sar¬
saparilla, the peculiar medicine.
The first street railway was oper
riedin 1832 from N evqY ork to Har
Yffi- It did not appear in Boston
until 1856. The first “horse-car”
line was opened on the Baltimore
4 Ohio line prior to the introduc
hou of the steam engine, but
esignated as a street railway,
■fom a comparatively recent
ginning a vast enterprise has
*pfung twenty-five up; to-day there are
thousand cars in use
f treets of cities iu the
mted States, requiring . the ser
^ U 4 .es of hundred and eighty
one
thousand horses.
The metal output of ibe
»iC„l oradola8t , vns wort]l
159,000 .900. 000 As most of f*i the met- l
a! was ' e b u R°t remarkable
tv, j is
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CONYERS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1890.
ONE YEAR S STEALINGS.
The business men of the country
lost nine million dollars last year
through dishonest agents.
Alfred Post, the Chicago claim
agent, made the biggest steal.
His boodle amounted to a cool
million. Ex-Treasurer Burke, of
Louisiana, stands next with an
alleged scoop of about seven hun
dred thousand dollars, and close
at his heels is Joseph A. Moore,
of Indianapolis, who took five
hundred thousand dollars from
the Connecticut Mutual life.
Some of these defaulters went
to Canada, and other countres,
some committed suicide, and few
were caught.
It is interesting to know that
January, March and August had
the largest number of defalcations
but February, July and Septem¬
ber were also very bad months.
The epidemic of dishonesty
seems to be confined to no partic¬
ular season, and to no one class.
As a rule, however the very man
whose steady habits and godly
walk in life had secured for them
the greatest confidence, were the
chief offenders.
It is evident that we need a
revision of our extradition laws.
In this age no civilized country
should be refuge for men who
have violated a trust and embez¬
zled the money of employers,
friends, and widows and orphans.
—Constitution.
A SOUND LEG AL OPINION.
E. Bainbridge, Munday Esq.,
County Atty., Clay Co., Tex. says:
“Have used Electric Bitters with
most happy results. My brother
also was very low with Malarial
Fever and Jaundice, but was
cured by timely use of this med¬
icine. Am satisfied Electric Bit¬
ters saved his life.”
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse
Cave, Ky., adds a like testimony,
saying: He positively believes he
would have died, had it not been
for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off,
as well as cure all Malarial Dis¬
eases, and for all Kidney, Liver
and Stomache Disorders stands
unequaled. Price 50c. and $1. at
Dr. W. H. Dee & Son.
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A glass trust is the latest.
It is one of the few trusts that
can be seen through.
Boston is advertising for a
cold snap. The east wind isn’t
raw enough.
“Golly!” gasped little Johnny
as he finished the second crock of
stolen perserves, “I feel as if I
had been smoking pa's pipe. ’
A peculiar result ef the drink¬
ing of ice-cold water from a spring
in Stonington, Conn., is reported.
The water flows from a crack in a
high rock, and the veins of a man
who drinks from it begins to swell
and he looks and feels as though
he were about to burst for the
next ten minutes, The swelling
gradually subsides and no serious
effect is felt, except a slight buzz
ing in the ears, Itis the talk of
the neighborhood, and everybody
13 eager to try the effect of the
water, A specimen has beeD sent
to Boston for analysis.
A , 5“? “ll C iripue" a( lvan
j i* “jA'et TR a th-;T vary tight grip upon
ji^ppears/ r & ,* u country before it
! Animals, he says,
w p] catch it much quicker than
( persons, and tuem.^ it will be far “8^
i severe on lfavtlee/only
i JounHv batfcolds’
i n that lie may not be far from
j right, but there are no indications
j that his theory wuh regaru to
' !ST ^
j A „ (’mciunati , Vl „aian being iu Elmwood, taken ill
> r .o r
requested her
j f t take her to the office of
l ' r si'-' knew
; an undertaker 1 - 1 - ,r ,-hnpi vliou and she sim 1 died Knew
w e n. He did so,
! few minutes after her arrival.
1
&N EMPERORS F0RG1AEHESS
The Emperor Nicholas, during
a visit to one of the prisons of his
i realm, inquired of the hrst inmate
i be met the cause of his punish
ment. The man replied lie suf
fered under an unjust sentence,
The emperor asked the same
question of several other prisoners
an(1 each made the same reply,
They all declared themselves in
liOCent , or unjustly imprisoned,
though they had been convicted
of robbery, drunkenness, and
other crimes.
Finally the Emperor caught
sight of a ragged convict, who
sat in a corner by himself.
“And you?” he said, turning to
to him; “you also are here thr ou gh
no fault of yours, I suppose?”
“No, your majesty,” was the re¬
ply; “I deserve to he here. I
stole a horse, and I am sorry for
it.”
The emperor was pleased with
his frankness, and decided at once
to liberate him.
a What!” he exclaimed; “you
have stolen a horse! Then get out
of here. You are not a fit com¬
panion for the innocents around
you; you will ruin the whole lot
of them, Jailer, set this man
free.”
To acknowledge our faults is
the best way to obtain forgiveness
whether from God or man.
A VALUABLE REMEDY
A letter from S. P. Ward-well,
Boston says: “I used Clarke’s
Extract of Flax (Papillon) for Hay Catarrh Fever
Cure in Juno last,
with great satisfaction, and find it
is the only thing I have seen
which would allay, without irri¬
tating, the inflammation of the
nostrils and throat. Its soothing
and healing immediate.” properties Large were mark¬ bot¬
ed and
tle $1.00. Clarke’s Flax Try Soap it is
the latest and best. 25
cents. Ask for them at ail lead¬
ing Drug Stores.
The Largest Telephonic Cir¬
cuit on the Continent of Europe
has been recently opened. The
line is from Vienna, in Austria,
to Leipsic, in Germany, and
every word could be perfectly un¬
derstood and the voice recogni¬
zed without difficulty. The dis¬
tance between tho two cities, by
rail, is something less than three
hundred miles. The telephone
wires, however, instead of being
carried along the routs of the
railways, where the noise of pas¬
sing trains was found to interfere
materially with the working of
the long-distance instruments,
are strung along the highways,
where the results are found to be
muck bettor. The actual distance
on Ciese rou tes is nearly three
hundred ami fifty miles,
A gentleman whom Bradstreet’s
describes as “one of the most
omineut of Southern iegmeers,"
sai( l |Tie other ^ay. We can
make iron in Alabama, send it to
Pennsylvania and sell it there $5
a ton c fr ca p e r than they can make
This is exactly f, in line with
what lias been said . by other prac
tical and experienced Southern
; rtm - mas ters, and, perhaps, repre
-eat, uhouUhetruthofthomta
j lion. come the The great South seat is bouucHo of iron pro- bo- j j
duction on this continent, with !
i the tariff or without it—but more j
j quickly without it.—Macon Tele- *
graph.
DeKa]b County Alliance met!
, jj G< | an Alliance last Thurs-1
j ^ an( j among the business
trai iaeted was the adoption of an 1
«*
Tlic lutbou.a .W Era
wa s made tlnu organ. Me con
grafcoiate brother Steadman on I
j bs % o-ood fortune f “Great is the !
reward of the faithful L—m . this
Educational Taxes.
In his last annual report the
commissioner of education prai
ses the southern white people for
what they have done and are do
ing for the education of southern
blacks. He says: “They have
directed their efforts to bestow
the advantages of education
equally upon the children of both
races, upon the principle that it
is a duty, and that universal eel
neat-ion alone will avert the ills
of universal suffrage.”
Too high praise cannot he
given to the southern white peo¬
ple for what they have done since
the war for the cause of education.
The close of the war found them
in no condition to do anything in
that direction. They were im¬
poverished by that conflict-.
Since then they have paid all
taxes required of them, including
a part of the rapidly increasing
pension burden for the exclusive
benefit of ex-union veterans,
which part amounted last year to
about $20,000,000. Notwithstan¬
ding this, they have gradually in¬
creased their taxes for education¬
al purposes, and tills, too, when
they knew that a very large part
of what they paid would be used
for the education of the colored
children. At this time they pay
for education more in proportion
to their wealth than the northern
people. Since 1865 the south
has paid $122,000,000 for educa¬
tion, and she will pay this year
$37,000,000, of which amount the
colored people, whose children
get the benefit of nearly one-lialf,
will contribute only about onc
tliirtieth.
In his recent message to the
legislature, Gov. Buckner, of
Kentucky, said that the white
people of that state taxed them¬
selves annually for the education
of colored people more than
$250,000, and that the colored
people paid for the education of
the children of the state, white
and black only $ 12 , 000 . In
Georgia 49 per cent, of the ben¬
eficiaries of the public school
fund are colored children, and
yet the tax for the greater part of
that fund is levied upon $368
000,000 worth of property owned
by white and $10,000,000 worth
owned by colored people. It is
about the same way in every
other southern state. If ever a
people deserved credit for what
they have done and are doing for
education, the southern people
do.
THE NEW DISCOVERY
You have heard your friends
and neighbors talking about it.
“Kow l e o,r P ol!Id
experience just how good a thing
it is. If you have ever tried it,
&re?L e woiderfuUM!,gal»it given trial,
it is, that when once a
Dr. King’s New Discovery ever
after holds a place in the house.
If you have never used it and
should bo afflicted w_ith _ a cough
cold or any Throat, Lung or Chest
trouble, secure a bottle at once
and give it a fair trial, it is
guaranteed every time, or An*L“‘ money- j I
store.’ ’ ^ °
----—--- leathers is j
The costliest of all j
. k BO wn as piano leather, and is
used solely for covering piano
. ^ e y g _ The world’s supply of it
' comes from Thuringia, in Ger-;
many, where a family of tanners
fi a nd down the secret of propura
tion from father to son. Tj 10 j
j iu northern tlie neighborhood lakes. They of are the woith gveut
twenty stripped cents off. a AV pound hen they when jnstj
co ™ e j
back to us as 1 piano leather the
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once has risen so v io o. v i« a
|THE INDIANS APPEAL FOR
I HOME SCHOOLS,
The Washington correspondent
of ihc Independent 1ms mtoi- .
an
esting discription in that paper,
of the Sioux Indians who have
been visiting the Capital, and of
the special audience given them
at the White House, by the Pros
ident. We quote from her letter:
“Here were the Indians, perhaps
fifty of them, the very flower of
J j the Sioux—the representatives of
the greatest Indian people, and
who have just sold eleven million
acres of their lands, over half of
the big reservation making the
western bank of the Mis
souri. Help they were before the
President of the United States,
not bargaining, calculating nor
dickering over acres and dollars,
but praying that the first step in
their new life may be taken by
their children in the school house
—but the school house at home—
‘at our agencies, where our chil¬
dren will be ivell and strong in
the free air and Great Spirit's
sunlight, and whore they will die,
as they do at Carlisle, or. after
they come back to us,’ prayed
American Horse, from the Pine
Ridge Agency. ‘I want a big
boarding school, big enough for
six hundred, where our children
can have white children’s educa¬
tion, and he happy, and we can
be happy too, because we can soe
them every day strong and well,
and growing up to be useful men
and women, and all of tho time
we shall be learning from them
the ways of your people.’ John
Grass, a chief from Standing
Rock Agency, and a Sioux of
great influence, had spoken first.
He is regarded as one of the most,
if not indeed the most progressive
among the Indians of prominence.
He has for some years been a suc¬
cessful farmer, and he is now the
Chief Justice of the Indian Court>
performing his duties, they say,
with strict impartiality. Chief
Grass is a Si-lia-sapa or Black
foot Chief, whoso age is fourty
four, though like all the others,
lie looks younger. Like Ameri¬
can Horse, Chief Grass rose above
the business of selling lands, to
the work of education and the fu¬
ture ofhispeople. He, too, urged
that school should be established
at home, and prayed that their
children might not be taken from
them. ‘Many of our children die
in the schools East, Rut if the
climate is not fatal to them, they
come back helpless. You edu¬
cate them hero and fit them for
your life. You send them back to
us, who have no shops for their
tradas, no farms for their farming.
What can they do? Nothing.
They wear out the clothes yon
give them, and then they put on
the blanket like the rp.st of us.
You fit them for your life full of
civilization, and send them buck
to us who have no civilizaton.
You spend a great deal of money,
and make our people very unkap
py- It will not cost so much Jto
give us schools at home on our
lands, and it will be better for our
children and for our people too.’ ”
DeKa'.b alwayn loads. She is
going to make Iter own cotton |
bagging, gnano, etc., in the future
This is one of the best moves yet
made. Let the good work go on. j
Era. Then why cannot
Rockdale do the same? The way
cotcou bagging was sold this last I
season there is a better profit in
it than there ever was in jute.
?<* £“«■Yd
Las tne water “& power aim oftj otnei
advantages, and the Co-operative I
co ™P ai b 1 ® no ' %
order, he ais a* ways on the
s iJ e of improvement; and if we
assist s kHn*nv in any wav way, Unslamw let us know.
WORDS TM RRIESDS:
Job work sod&iisitand satisfac¬
tion .
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TEliMS REASON A BLlt\
No. 46
GEORGIA RAILR3AS
Stone Mountain Route,
GnomiU RAii.rto.tD Co.. \
Office General Manager. t
Augusta. Sent. 21, ISS 9 ,
COMMENCING SUNDAY. 22 . inst,
the following Passenger schedule will be
operated. Trains run by goth meridian
F A S T L I N E.
NO. 27 WjiST DAILY.
Lv Augusta 7.45 am | Lv Athens S. 3 O ana
ArConyers 11. 57 -un | Ar Atlanto 160 pm
NO. 2S east daiio .
Lv Atlanta 2 42 pm | Ar Athens 7 00 m
Ar Conyers 34O pm I Ar Aug-ista 8 15 ;a
NO 2 EAST DAILY NO I WEST DAILY.
Lv Atlanta R.Oo am | Lv AuguatalLOs-irr,
Lv Conyers 9.19 am | Lv Macon 7 . so am
tr Athens 5.1f> pm | Lv Mil rt'vi o 19 am
ArWVsh’n 2 30 pm | LvWash’n 1 Lie am
ArNJild’vo 4.0 pin | Lv Athens 8 . 4 O
Ar Macon 0.00 pm j Ar Conyers 4 24 pm
Ar Augusta 1 35 pm | A 1 Atlanta 5.40 pm
COVINGTON ACCOMMOD tVloN.
Daily except Sunday.
Lv Atlanta 6.20 pm | Lv Cov’gt’n 5.4O am
LvConyers 8.07 pm | Lv Conyers 6.12 am
LvC'vlhiis 8.35 pm | Ar Atlanta 7 .50 am
NO. 4 EAST DAILY 1 NO, 3 EAST DAILY
Lv Atlanta 1115 pm | Lv Augusta] Loo pm
LvCony’rs 12 . 39 am | Lv Com ets f, 07 am
Ar Augusta 6.45 urn | Ar Atlanta 6.30 am
UNION POINT & WHITE PLAINS It. U.
Lv Union Daily Point.....0.10 except Sunday.
Silonni..........iO n m & 5 . 4 O p m
Ar 35 a m 0 05 p m
Ar White plains... . 11 .10 a m 6 40 p
Lv White Plains . .8 o 0 a Di 3 30 p m
Lv Si loam...... . . 8.35 a m 4.05 p m
Ar Union Point -9 00 ft tn 4.40 j. in
i nun Nos. 27 and 28 will stop at
and recievc passengers to and from
the following Harlem stations only: Grove
town, Dealing Thomson,
Norvvo d lb-nett Crawfordville
Union Point. Greensboro, Madison
Rutledge, Conyers, Social Circle, Covington,
Litbonia, Stone Moun¬
tain and Deca.Ji
Train No, 1 connects for all points
Wet and North West. Train No. 2
connects for Charleston and all points
Fat No. 27, for all points West
and South West, No. 28 for Charles¬
ton and Savannah. No. 3 for points
West and North West. No 4 for
Charleston, Savannah And all points
East.
JOHN IV. GREEN, Goti. Manager
IS. R. DORSEY, G’ea. IV, Aeea
JOE W. WHITE,Trav. Pass. Agt.
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