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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1891)
GKO ALE BANNER. IUSHED EVERY WEDN ESD AY. S'YERS, DA., March, 18 ,1891 . I ;Y PRESENTMENTS 1 : ockdale Superior Court, March Term, 1891. e, the Grand Jury, selected sworn to serve for the March i of Rockdale Superior Court, [ ask leave of his Honor ? Gamble, Jr., to make ge R. L. ^following general present its:— f e find that the roads have i reasonably well worked, but ugto the heavy rains during the few days the roads have been bed into holes in many places, we recommend that the Road imissioners look after the mat' md have the roads put iu law •ondition as soon as praeti e. r e find that Pine Log bridge asafe, owing to the decay of cords on span over the water, wing said span to sink down, find that said cords were made Id timber when the bridge [built. \Ye recommend that i bridge be repaired and made at an early day, and said re¬ ts be let to the lowest bidder. e find all the books in the Ik's office nicely, neatly and fectly kept, properly indexed, all in good order. Ve recommend that the Clerk’s be in the Court House up rs be removed to the jury box the west side of the Court ,se. IT find the Sheriff’s books cor lly le kept and properly indexed, find the Tax Collecters Iks neatly and correctly kept. me find the buildings on the |>r Farm safe and comfortable, Kept lerwise one that needs ceiling, everything is in good ler. There are ten inmates (6) Ites, two males and four fe¬ tes, (4) blacks, two males and I females. lYe find the dockets of the Jusr Is of Peace all correct and Itly kept. pe find the Treasurer’s books Iperly and correctly kept. jYe lasurer find in the hands of the I on jury funds, $1.45; pauper funds, $573.57; fines I public roads, $1.66. Total jount find on hand, the Ordinary’s $576.68. books re [redly and neatly kept, pe Rotary recommend W. W* Swann Public in Honey Creek tnct to fill vacancy caused by r resignation of David F. Clot ;er. " e recommend S. A. Helms as 'tary Public in Lorraine dis “t, at expiration of W. A. Mitch- 8 term, ending in May. Ye recommend the assessment Rie followiug taxes for 1891: Fundi Connty purposes 33£ cts. on ed dollars, or Jury purposes 18 cts. on Fuudred dollars. 01 Daup:r funds .04 cts on the Fired dollars. ^ M the jail well kept, aQ 5 an( ^ the prisoners well - 'ed for. iVe recommend that two bunks S r lU?V ail - ^ recommend JaiUOekS that “ r9 :e an tl 1 secu re locks be put i . ’ doors on ' D 2 at the very earliest ^ e - ^ also recommend, and it, that the jail be inclosed 11 m foot planking, safe and ua S, 16 or 20 feet fro m the jail r I lle round. Court House leaks. 70 1 ^ ^ be lre( . l at ea s re once. "e also i( _-ommend that . the Mive missing ■fids e 1 -dupand the lights be put in the needed places. We also recommend that com¬ fortable seats be put on each side of the cross hallway, facing east and west. We recommend that our present Representative, the Hon. W. F. McDaniel!, have passed at the summer session of the present Legislature a bill providing for a Board of County Commissioners for Rockdale county; said Board to consist of five members, two from the Town district and one each from the other three districts to be elected by the Grand Jury of said county at the first term of the Superior court held therein after the passage of the bill, who shall hold their office until the next regular election for Ordinary of said county, when their suc¬ cessors shall be elected by the qualified voters of said county at the same time, and hold their of¬ fice for the same teim as the Or dinary, and that said commis¬ si cners be paid each $24.00 per annum for their services, and the Board to have power to elect a clerk at the same salary as them selves, said Board to have charge of all county matters, to meet at least once a month, and audit all claims against the county. We recommend that these pre¬ sentments be respected by the Ordinary, and if they are not by the next term of court, the Solic¬ itor-General take such steps as are necessary in that direction. We find the book of the County School Commissioner kept in a business like manner, and in ac¬ cord with the report submitted. We find the total white children in school attendance during 1890 to be 1072; blacks, 872. Total school attendance 1944. Total amonnt of school funds received for year 1890, to be $3519.77. Total expenditures, $3418.07 Amt. on hand to date, $101.70. We recommend that these pre¬ sentments be published in both county papers, and that they each receive for same $5.00. In taking leave of his Honor, Judge R. L. Gamble, Jr., we beg to thank him for his special kind¬ ness and courtesy to our body, and to Solicitor-General Womack for so ably assisting us in the discharge of our duties. D. N. Hudson, foreman, T. A. F. Stansell, W. D. Brodnax, J ohn W. Williams, John T. A. McCol¬ lum, Robt. Hollingsworth, T. T. Thrasher, A. J. Ogletree, J ohn R. Maddox, J. L. Pate, E. C. Gran ade, W. P. Plunkett, J. G. Mann, J. J. Cowan, J. C. Browning, S. M. Still, Z. T. Almand, A. A. Born, J. N. Stowers, C. A. Blake, J. T. Stansell, G. W. Walker, P. G. Tucker. I hereby certify that the fore¬ going is a true copy of the Gen¬ eral Presentments of the Grand Jury for March Term, 1891, of Rockdale Superior Court. W. T. Huson, Clerk S. C. Rockdale county. THE FI RST SYMPTOMS OF DEATH. Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in various parts of the body, sinking loss at the pit of the stomach, of appetite, feverishness, pim¬ ples or sores, are all positive evi dence of poisoned blood. No D r . Acker's English Blood Elixir ! has never failed to remove scrofu ^ ^ ous or syphilitic poisons. Sold j ! under R. Stewart, positive Druggist. guarantee. Dr. McElree’s Wine of Carduf and THEDrORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are j for sale by the following merchants iu r Rockdale county: i Con °er COnyerS - YV. M. Richardson, 5 Richardson, 3 Geo. T. Smith (near) Conyers, H. P. <fc D. M. Almand & Co., 1 Conyers. TEMPERANCE COLUMN. This Column Is Under The Control of the W. C- T. U., of Conyers. The W. C. T. U. meets every Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the residence of the president, Mrs. Kate Hardwick. It costs more to furnish the peo¬ ple with intoxicating liquor than with their bread. Prohibition will prohibit when officers will have to depend on the votes of Prohibitionists for their election and not before, It is not economic to license an army of men to sell intoxicating liquors, and then pay another ar¬ my of salaried officials to help keep the drunken men in order. A HOOD THING IN ITS PLACE An exchange interested in the liquor traffic quoted Riv. Dr. Guthrie as believing, with most Scotchmen, that whiskey is a good thing in its place. A correspond¬ ent questions the item: “Can it be possible,” says he, “that Dr. Guthrie, enthusiastic temperaece worker that he was, said such a thing?” Yes, he said just that, and more, which it evidently did not suit the liquor advocate to quote. We canrot quote it ex actly, but it was something like this: “Whiskey is a good tiling in its place—its place for preserving things that are dead. If you want to presere a dead monkey put him in whiskey, but if you want to kill a live man, put whiskey in¬ to him.” THE DRINKERS 1 SHARE. The products of one bushel of corn made into whisky is four gal¬ lons, worth $16, out of which— The Government gets $4.00 The farmer gets - - .40 The railroad gets - 1.00 The manufacturer gets - - 4.00 The vendor gets 7.00 The drinker’s share is delirium tremens. But there still remains much more. The drinker’s family has a share—misery, poverty, suf¬ fering. The community has a share—it loses honorable and use¬ ful citizens and gets in thefir place sots and vagrants. Total results —loss of manhood, health, hap¬ piness, comfort, sustenance, la¬ bor, money, peaee, order.. Who gains when all lose so heavily. A POOR SLAVE. A man who drinks is not free; he is a slave and drunkness is his master. His hands do not work for bread, but for rum, and he of¬ ten loses the control of his hands and the proper use of his feet. You cannot see the chains which entangle him, so that he stumbles and falls, because they are not outside—they are liquid chains and he has poured them down his throat. But you see he is not free; his feet are bound in fetters so that he cannot walk; his hands are hampered with gives, so that he cannot use them to advantage; evsn his brains and his tongue feel the effects of this degrading slavery. He does not think like a free man, he does noc talk like a free man, he does not walk like a free man; he is a poor slave, the slave of a tyrant who takes away his money and refuses to give him any food or clothing or shelter in retain. THEY ALL BRIN&, that at certain, , It is well known central agencies a record is kept of the name, position, ana stand-, ; ; no . c f near ]y every business man in the country. Careful men are «on!°a„ e d -t tcMes iuforma -1 amount d of U property ody w the 1 j . parties are worth, but aiso their, standing as regards puntuality, promptness, integrity, temperance morals, etc. A number of years ago, it is stated, a firm of four men in Boston were rated as “A 1. They were rich, prosperous, young and prompt. One of them had the curiosity to see how they were rated, and saw these facts on the book and were satisfied; but at the end of it was written: ‘“But they all drink.” He thought it was a good joke at the time; but to-day two are dead, another is a drunkard, and the fourth is poor and living partly on charity. NOW TRY THIS. It will cost you nothing and will surely do you good, if you have a cough, cold, or any troub¬ le with throat, chest or lungs. Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con¬ sumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed will be to give relief, or mon¬ from ey LaGrippe paid back. Sufferers found it just the thing and under its use had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try and a sample bottle at our expense learn for yourself just how good a thing it is. Trial bottles free at Dr. W. II. Lee & Son’s drugstore. Large size 50c and $1. —» • POETRY. Foreclosure of the Mortgage. It is hard to be drove from the dear old home, That has sheltered us all of these years: I’ve been thinking- it over and over to-da.v, Till my poor eyes have shed all their tears. Yet the debt must be settled--we mortgaged the farm, ’T'»as the foolishest thing we could do; But our children were just gettin’ started in in school, And we done it to carry them through. That was long, long ago; our children to-day Live in well furnished rooms of their own, An’ they seem to forgit their old father an’ me, In our poverty strugglin' alone. It is seldom we enter their houses so fine, An’ they never get time to come here; How foolish our hope of a happy old age. With ourchildreu to comfort and cheer. We tried to be faithful in bringin’ them up, To perform everv duty made known; Wo were strivin’ to raise up such worn-n an’ men As we’d not be ashamed to own. And somehow the thought to us never occur¬ red, Durin’ all those dear, happy days. That we'd eversee them when ashamed to own us With our ignorant, old fashioned ways. We might have foreseen how the matter would turn, If we hadn’t been foolish and blind We were puehin' them on to the front every day. While we were a failin’ behind. We gave up our papers—we’d no time to read, With so many a needin’ our aid— An' we soon lost all track of th • world’s on¬ ward march. An’ the changes new fashions had made. But *tis too late to worry; our day is almost Bpent; We shall need little more here below; If the summons to leave finds us homeless an’ will poor. It find us more willin' to go. And we cling to the hope in our feeble old age— More precious than silvor or golo— That soon the kind father will give us a home That can never be mortgaged an’ sold. Thfi Overflow. It’s a raining and a raining. And the farmer i* complaining, About the overflow. His fields are very boggy. And It's getting mighty soggy, Around the stable door. The creeks are a rushing. And the springs are a gushing, Bo' Bight unde- bis feet: Keeps corn him nor cotton planting, a ranting. About his debts to meet. He has bought his fertilizer, And it’s not an appetizer, A lying in the binn. The wav he will nip and tuck. To keep out of the cunnin-.- suck, Will really be a sin. Buthe is a brave hearted fellow. And though his fields arc very mellow, With tons and tons of water. He will hold his head quite level, Fearing neither man nor devil. Nor ever ask for quarter. He will whistle a merry tune, In the leafy month of June. When he grapples General Green, He will burv them in the furrow, With scarcely a demurrer. And no more he will be seen. In October and November, I want you toremember. If what I shv comes true. His pocket full of money. And h jug of peach and honey, He will treat me and you. —Aztec in Marietta Journal. The Boys We Need. Hr.Rr’R to the boy who’s not afraid To do his share of work; Who never is by toil dismayed, And never tries to shirk. The boy whose heart's brave to meet All lion’s in the way: Who’s not discouraged by defeat, But tries another day. The boy who always mean to do The very best lie can ; Who always keeps the right in view, And aims to be a man. The future of our land; and we >,!tt tv ,lk 11 UIth ” n< ‘ e * AH honor to the boy who is A tnan at heart, i «av: Whose legend on his shield is this, ‘’itighi always wins the day.” —Golden Days. jf roc** r.Arw Acrrrs o r 70 a are »ui worn out, n-abycood for nothing a i* general odd, rt y. try ji tin u s’s lito.v r, tTTuns. It will cure you. and give a gotxl atipeiite. Sold by all dealers iu medicine. DON’T BLUSH When the Naked Truth is brought forcibly to your notice, that you can save your time and stretch your money by buyin gyour FAMILY GROCERIES AT ALMAND & LANGFORD’S. TO HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, BUY YOUR HAMMER, Farm Tools and Staple Hardware AT ALMAND & LANGFORD’S. RICH AND POOR Receive the same careful and respectful treatment at the store of ALMAND A LANGFORD. SPEER & KING’S BARBER SHOP. Jake Speer and Duncan King 1 want their friends to come to see them when in Atlanta. No, 6 ^ Wall St. H. P. A D. M. Almand have on hand, viz: Rockdale Standard Guano. John Patapsco Merry man u (( Eutaw Acid. At bottom prices. MOTHERS PORTFOLIO. Exquisit Lithograph Double Cover. Music, Games. STORIES, AMUSEMENT and INSTRUCTION combined. Alice B. Stockham A Co., No. 116 La Salle St., Chicago. titllw luriuiM-a linr* W«*sn madaal work for up, l»v Anna I'af*, Tailed AttHin, avid Jm<>. Bonn, a, Ohio. pier Wtot eatf. Other* *red«m* av*r§694>.#© ■* well. Why bnotuii. you? Solve e*m a T».u run do the work and liv« (at tukoie, wber*»ver y«u are. Eve® t>«- 11® rianara &r« tafUv aarntHf fcom Ht %• a day. A 11 **•*. W• show you how and mart you. Cun work Ut *F*r« time nr all tfa* titu*. Mlg vnewey for work¬ ers. Failure uakaim* avoonf tfa+W. XE W aud wonderful. Tar-titulars fire*. H.IIallettA €«»., Box tt&O I*uri(and,MalM MONEY •»uc rapidly »wu i»b*T ho ta,n l«>#*alrtiv*,frl(vrcrar sex, aarntJ U® and voangor i)iv h<>ti<»rab!r, at work. •nr SEW old, Easy Ih by Mn» and oj kvv. those t« of ki work, loam. tk«4r Any of We furnish everything. W« start you. No risk. You ran devoto y«vur spare iti*»in*viM, or all your time to the work. 'This Is an entirely new brings *r«n4W<il aurces# to every worker. Beginner* sre earning froui ftt to $4ii per week and upwards, aud more after a little experience. We ean furbish you the em |/leyiueef and FKBE. teaeh y«m TRUK rltKK. Ho CO., spare to At&ttTA, eiplain hore. Fait ii.formation A MAlA*. j- a raar Is being made by Jakn R. 9^ you Goodwill,'Troy.K.Y.A* may not make as work buivIi, for but us. Header, we »«» UBA teaeh y«»«i quivkly te ram fn*»n 96 to 910 a day at tlia start, and more as yon go on. K<it*h sexes, all «£**. In any part vf ring |Amenta. all your >-«>u iinte,«tr ran eommem-e s|mre momeuts at home, aaly giv- to tl»e work. All ta new. £reat pay for 2j£r every worker. VVe start you, fnmlahU>9 Qrl •r.rrtMng. l-Alft-lCULAKS EASK.V, Sl-El-DILY fA 1'KEl.. A<lrirfU*l <mc«, HTiiisc;; a «*., ixktlzm). * THE MUTUAL Life Iosorance Co. of New York RICHARD A. McCURDY, President. Statement for the 7 CS .7 ending December 31 , 1 C 90 Assets, $J47,ir> 4,961 SO IicBcrvc on Politics at 4Vo, - SXCf5.Gfi8.3fiS rtG Liabilities other than Kcserve, 505.5.* 9 rti Sarfius, ----- 0,981,283 SS> Receipts from ali sources, - 31.018,1*8 69’ Payments to Pollcy-H* i-iers, - Ifi,978,200 Off Risks assumed, 43,188 policies, 1 CO.985.985 oH Risks iu force, 206,055 policies, C33.22fi.SC5 2 i TK2 ASSETS ARE iJsVESTED AS FDLLSV/S: j V.iu' beans, T 'into nnd Boiid A Mortgage $76,529,£81 T2 ---- United Stater. Bonds and oi:i*r' 51,511.631 Securities, - 5 + j Iannis (.a CoIlRter.-.l Securities. 03 ] t ush in Hanks aasl Trust Com5mides r,556,iil 83 at iiitere.si, - interest aecrned, Premiums fJefcr- 7.X83.256 33 icd, etc., -. Sif7.15J.iiC2 23 T br.ve carefully examined t!:C U ir.r statement Sind i.r.d the sa.n:e to be correct. utlltor. A. N. V atkkhouee, I roil; the Sisrplr- above stated r divuieuJ be apportioned as usual. Tito Xiusitjcss Per 1390 shows INCE1.ASI over .list of I-SSS, as follows: Iu Assets, ?:a,753,685 r * Xu Reserve *.:i i’clirir.) "s<» i r— m*s. 10,551.08’ Pi In HereI;iO, - 3,839,753 67 la Payuieiits i J PoSiry-iloWern, 1,772,331 C 7 Risks AsscmbU, 4,6‘ 1 polit ies, 9,383.302 21 *it Risks la Carre, 23,715 policies, 72,270.931 32
