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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1891)
% « m ■m m j ID I 1 m&M §#) fXfr ft j® an. A '’hi Voi. xiv. STATE NEWS. ITEMS of interest for ALL. Fara?raulis Bfifrtliwr with Hu m ^_Terrapms Fall from tiie pi ollf l—Strange Antics of a Dog, etc. There is a man in this vicinity who says he has a cow that his wife milked a three gallon bucket an d all of her jugs, jars and two or three washing tubs full.—Oco nee Enterprise. Somebody ought to invent a machine to kill rats. Why wont au electric wire do the act? If it will we are in a quarter to have au electric plant established here for the benefit of killing rats.—Ac worth Post. Mr. Cullen Lane of this county has a clog that is built somewhat ! on the Dr. Tanner plan, when it ' to fasting. The dog got comes wedged in hollow tree his head chasing a rabbit, one day, while a and, failing to release hims elf, re¬ mained in that position • eleven days, without food or drink, when the master found him and got him out. ’ He was alive, but it is not known what became of the rabbit.—Cordelian. Uncle Tom Gibson went nett¬ ing for birds not a great wileh ago. He located a fine covey, set Ins net and was in the act of driv¬ ing them in when a hawk swooped down on the covey, caught a bird n n ar the entrance to the net and I I flew into it while attempting to fly off. The remainder of the I birds followed the hawk into the net, and as Uncle Tom rushed [ forward to secure which the prize he jumped a rabbit, also ran i into the net. Thus he secured the hawk, birds and rabbit all at one time.—Talbotton New Era. “Busybodies” are three times referred to in the Bible, and al¬ ways with disapproval. themselves They are persons who concern a g»eat deal about the affairs of other persons, when they have properly and rightfully nothing be to do with them, and should content to mind their own busi¬ ness. Such jjmrsons’ ai»e a stand¬ ing nuisance *o every circle in which theyjnove. They are usu¬ ally exaggerating “tattlers,” as well as busybodies.—Independent Last Friday during the rain Capt. George Caraker who was sitting at his open door, saw somtthins: fall from the clouds # ' and bounce like ball in his yard. a He went out to discover what it could he, and found it a live and kicking evidently little terrapin who had descended with the rain from the clouds. The little ani¬ mal waj about an inch and a half in circumference, was a dark green on its back, and striped (some¬ thinglike a king snake) under¬ neath. The Captain showed his little pet to several gentlemen and says it certainly fell from the clouds. There was no tree in the n icinity from which it could have laiien, besides, who ever heard of ? terrapin climbing a tree? This ! 4nahT„ snaxe Story. Ph e “ It T?j” 8, Simple “ d l AT fact, Capt. IS a L Caraker E^r saw saw it It fall ian, took too*, it it ap in Ills nands afterwards and. 8h e d i fc t0 .?, 0m ® of ^ friends \ri - ■ milleageville i Chronicle. -r- rublic Opinion _ ziz runs a very 2 ag course. Right runs on a l[n f- The newspaper that sticks to the L line of right occa Sionallv y rvnt OUt nt Of the line of , PUDllc opinion. But further on the two are sure to come together T)aVy Crockett's motto, Ue 8 ”/ e y°U are right, mav tem sKAUUA JUCh. to the riadlt and nubile for . onin e 7*“'- CO Jilt ,, , . n you 99 T a wnue. _ OJ CONYERS, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1891. Recently we saw a boy about as Rg as your fist coming up steps that lead to our establish¬ ment, smoking a cigarette. The next thing he will be seen w’tli will be a bottle of liquor and a pistol. It is not the correct plan to let boys have a through ticket to the devil so early in life-—Li thonia New Era. Mr. E. F. Bynum, of tills coun¬ ty, has a comb made by a mess mate while in prison in Carnp | Douglass, Illinois, in 1863. the He has carried it in his pocket all | ! while and states as a positive fact I that no women has ever used R. 1 The comb is made of born and bids fair to Inst a century.—Cuth bert Liberal-Ente: prise. Last year, as we gather it, a rather narrow escape from a crushing death tided over a gent worthy though in straights. A fearful ramstrom overtook a trav eler, and seeing but one place hoi- of security he scrambled into a low log near by the road side, Tne storm roared, the ram poured in torrents, and the log became thoroughly saturated and began to swell, thus closing m on Finally its un comfortable occupant. the lotr had the poor fellow in its merciless grip. Death seemed in etable as he was wholly unable to extricate himself. He bethought himself of his past life. Errors and evils came thick and fast. At last he remembered how ungrate ful he had been in paying his sub scription to the Banner, and by some effort, unknown, he was so suddenly and mysteriously reduc ed in size that he slide out with the greatest ease. Coin. The price of corn is climbing have the golden ladder. Sales been made, this week, at $1.10 per bushel on time. Next weok the price will probably be still higher. Cotton continues to firing unsat¬ isfactory prices. With the price of corn going up and that of cot¬ ton going down, it would seem unnecessary to urge anv farmer to give an increased acreage to provision crops and let the cotton crop go short. The Ishmaelite is glad to note the fact that the Alliance leaders throughout the South are earnest¬ ly counselling a lessened acreage in cotton and an increased one in provision crops, The wisdom of their suggestions will be apparent, it would .seem, to all intelligent farmers, whether members of the Alliance or not. The most pros¬ perous of all our farmers are those who, in the past, have made cot¬ ton their surplus crop; and those only who pursue a similar method wiii never attain a like prosperi¬ ty.—Sparta Ishmaelite. Progress It is very important in this age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, heal¬ ac¬ ceptable to the stomach and thy in its nature and effects. Pos sessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect laxative and most gentle diuretic known. Mbs Gadd _j hear Mrs> Dadd i8 going to move. ‘‘Had you rather be a mounted policeman bis -sister. or one on foot?” said a little boy to then if I “O, a mounted peliceman, because found any robbers I could get away faster. — Courier des EtatsUnia. He taught his wife the sin of dress With eloquence and power, And then plaved billiards all day long At 60 cents an hour.—Cloak Review. “So you’re going to marry Miss Humphrey?' ;:i a h ”; ’ both her upper and lower teeth are false.” bother “So much the better. She won t me of with having the toothache, the teeth; expense see?” drawing and getting new sets of *•«»<*, state Journal. —er—appears to bequite favorably impressed & , ^ k .ussa. , %a !RS?5 that, sss be rich some day. “Iam glad to hoar *‘Yes. vour uausrbter and I have been secretly married, and *he hfi» promised me half you ’eave,”—New Yor's Weekly, I f H ||X £jj | \ j || BY OUR OAK GROVE CORRESPONDENT. It is very pleasing to speak, love and write of children. I love their merry prattle, their jubilee notes of sport, their laughing eyes, and blossoming faces. I Jove their eagerness for knowl 'lw their ,, sohcitmio .. ., . lie c - . o men an d- v - ( omen.. : >iu, e,of all I [ ove *‘ jl 'ur -nenasnip and artless iovo : love. a sweetyuiing 1« full .o enjoy and a cin.G s is so n>ee i Baturin ann tender. It rmmnns one ot t.M- !<c. es of heav •, 1 ? en 3°y » ' L1 u 1 s lov18 to taste of sweetness to , be a never forgotten. To lose them, would be to lose islands from the sea. They are flowers of heaven sown on earth. They bear fra gra nee from the skies, ' What a pleasing testimony is this to the original purity it and beauty of human nature, as ex j s t. s f n every child. It shows us w ] ia t we should be—innocent, confiding, teachable, beginning; happy, such such W e were at the we should continue to be. I see nothing to compare with the beauty, perfectness and moral grandeur I see in human nature, When we see human nature in its primal, simple natural beauty, in childhood, should it not appear interesting to us. Should we not then love a child? Childhood brings to us so many sweet re membrances of friendship, of in nocent pleasure, and gladness, Children help to keep alive our childhood. They will not let us forget that we were once children. I have often thought how lonely this world would be without them. The laugh and shout of childhood are the grand song of human joy. Heaven! are there to be no child¬ ren in there? Heaven's rosy bow¬ ers sing with children’s laughter. A great number go from their parents in infancy—where do they go? “Of such is the kingdom of heaven.” How often do we see parents’ hearts breaking in the loss of dear children! A large number of children are taken to heaven in infancy; infinite so that heaven will have an host of those who wei^p here prat¬ tling innocents. It is very pleas¬ ant to think that the little ones are cared for. I often think how much child¬ ren advance the interest of civili¬ zation and progress in life. How can a child help loving its parents? For as God first loved us, so we should love our parents. Why, do they not see their par¬ ents daily toil? are they not indi¬ cations of their love? Christ loved every body, and the child that loves and does good to every body is a little Christian. It is very easy for a child to be a christain. If tlie power were mine, I would put every child in tlie Sunday school, and have them there ev¬ ery Sunday till manhood was put on. would children honor Then their parents, from which would ascend devotion and love. A Little Girls Experience in a Light House. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are keepers of the Gov. Light¬ house at Sand Beach, Mich., and are blessed with a April daughter, four years old. Last she was taken down with dreadful Measles, follow¬ ed with a cough Doctors and turning into a fever. at home and at Detroit treated her, but in vain, she grew worse rap¬ idly, until she was a mere “hand¬ ful of bones.”—Then she tried Dr. King’s New Discovery and after the use of two and a half bottles. was completely cared. They say Dr. King's Discovery is worth its weight in gold, yet you Dr. may get a trial horde Lee at W. H. Lee & Son’s drugstore. WASHINGTON BY OUR SPECIAL. i ON DEN i. - Itumors of War fill the Country— The Situation Outlined—Of¬ ficial Corruption Umar tiled and Harrison sits Uneasily— Other Important News. or W ashmgton, , . , J). „ n C. April A ., 3, _ 91. ni • was no ‘April fool sens a tion . which struck this town this week when Baron Fava, tlio Ital lan minister, who seems to have studied the great American game of draw poker to some purpose during Ins ten years residence in Blaine’s Washington, private walked and into made Mr. office the bluff of his life by presenting a letter from the Italian govern¬ traordinary ment recalling him as Envoy ex¬ and minister pleni¬ potentiary by emphasizing to the United States its dissatisfaction at the failure of this government to make reparation for the recent leans, lynching of Italians at New Or¬ but a real genuine, all woo!-and-a-yard-wide, shrink warranted not to while being cabled around the world sensation. It has shaken the administration from stem to stern and from “Ba¬ by” McKee to “Jim” Blaine, and will probably cause a slump in the price of Macaroni in the New Orleans market. I am afraid some one will ac¬ but cuse I me of levity in writing thus, can no more take this ab¬ surd Italian blunder seriously than I can the announced retire¬ ment of John Sherman from pol tics. If this act of the Italian government be seriously taken and followed to its logical conclu¬ sion it can mean fcut one thing— war. Had the same filing been done by that government at the court of any first-class European power it would undoubtedly ere this have resulted i* a declaration of war. But in this ease there will be war. We can’t fight Italy because we Raven fc the ships, and Italy can t light us because al thsugh she has the ships, she hmurt iiasnttliG the monev money. What will we do to resent this insuR? • N othing. Our minister to Italy will Mafiia, remain at his post, unless the which King Humbert evidently fears more than the citizens of New Orleans M Z represented at the World’s Fair. An official statement of the af fair has been made nnhlie which makes tratioEls it plain in’no^way that the ^responsible adminis for the slap m the face it has re ceived from the nation of organ- 'and grinders and bogus counts, j the absence of a navy powerful enough to cope with that of Italy stands in the way of our trying to assume too aggressive an atti¬ tude. The following remarks made by Representative M ;Creary of j Kentucky, who Committee was chairman of the House on Foreign Affairs in the Fiftieth Congress, and who will probably occupy the same position the in the Fifty^-second, represents general sentiment in regard to the occurrence: “The Italian government has acted has¬ tily and without the dignity which ought and usually does mark dip¬ lomatic negotiations. In the first instance Italy had a grievance, or believed she had, in the killing of three of her subjects in a riot. The United States promptly res¬ ponded to inquiry her demands by insti¬ tuting perfect an into the matter 1 in good faith. While this investigation United is being made, be¬ fore the Stated has had time to take any action further than to institute the inquiry, the . Italian government suddenly No, 4. W punster ami breaks off diplomatic relaticns with the IJni i ted States. This turns the tables United States is nowthepar j ty The having 1 a grievance ” j popular song “Theyyr’e af ^ ' i particularly applicable er me s to the man who disburses $135. 000,000 a year in the payment of pensions. The “they” in the pre¬ sent case are several hundred de¬ partment clerks wdio have invest¬ ed something like $30,000 in a suburban real estate scheme of which Commissioner Raum was at the head, that is apparently as great, a fraud as was the Refri^ erator company so cleverly un¬ earthed by Representative Coop • er last year. This “snide” enter pr i se and Commissioner Baum’s connection therewith has been brought to Mr. Harrison’s atten¬ tion, and once more there is a ru¬ mor that Raum’s resignation will be asked for. Ex-Secretary Whitney and ex¬ private Secretary Dan Lamonfc were welcome visitors to Wash¬ ington associated this week. They are now in business. It is expected that Mr. Harri¬ son and as many of his cabinet as care to go will start on that much talked of trip to the Pacific coast on the 15th of this month. It has been decided to make it a sta^g party. The Kinesaid murder trial is drawing to a close. It looks like acquittal. Faulkner’s Senator wife died at his residence here last Tuesday evening. She was very popular. Secretary Foster has offended the Knights of Labor by refusing to make an investigation of cer¬ tain charges they preferred against the chief of the Bureau of Engraving bring and printing. They threaten to the matter be¬ fore the House when Congress meets. * Liberty Chapel. Inclement—weather. Some of our farmers are about doue i ting ‘ p an cor n. If T ,,, tt “ mcl . , f“ e n ‘ , leather con tmues .. “we think’ . will bo corn worth $2.00 per bushel next fall and cotton worth 20c. per pound. We heard an allianceman say, he thought there would be a can put out in > 92 for president of tlio XTnited States 0ur Sunday-school is in a Hourising and substantial condi la t ’ J " 1 , el ?£ Saturday Jnrrlntll , evening i f ^®q at 3 ty o’clock. Her funeral was preached by Rev. & £ ‘ B Armstrong of Braswell, churehJ ^ me.eenT.Jeii Oongregatio.ad J j i s-“r mber of relatlvcs and Sister, thou wast ipild and lovely, Gentle as the Summer breeze, Pleasant as the air of evening, When it floats among the trees. Peaceful be thy silent slumber, Peaceful in the grave so low; Thou no more wilt join our number. Thou no more our sorrows shait|know. Dearest sister, thou hast left us, Here thy loss we deeply feel; But ’tis God that hath bereft us. Hg can all our sorrows heal. Yet airain we hope to meet thee, When the day of life is fled. Then in heaven with joy to|greet thee. Where no farewell tear is.shed. Dixie. When Baby wai sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, sho clung to Castoria, When*eha had Children, she gave them Castoria, KILL-GERM Cures the itch in thirty minutes with only^ one application. Son, For sale by W. H. Lee & Con~
