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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1896)
yiie Rockilais , T, D. O’KELLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 1 year $ 1.00 % ” .50 14 ” .25 When paid in advance for any length of time we will rend the Bannkr to any address at the following rates: One tear. $ ,80 1-2 .40 1-4 .20 NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. CONYEKB, GA., JAN. 28, 1896 If you love a girl, why, tell her so. Nor keep her .spirit sad. If you've a business, make it “go’ By putting in an ad. And tlie Banner is a good advertising medium. Maj. E. H. Aim and has been appointed one of the Advisory Board of the Ga. Volunteers. This is a com¬ pliment worthily bestowed, and we are glad to note Maj. Almand’s popularity in the military field. Social Circle has just con¬ tracted to have a new school house built, and the amount agreed upon was $5900. It costs something to build and furnish a school house, but it seems that many people in Conyers do not think so. In the latter part of this coming summer the soldiers at McPherson barracks will buckle 011 their ammunition hags, shoulder their rifles and march to Bremen, Ga., fifty miles from the barracks, in Harralson county. Near Bremen the XL S. authorities have selected the site for their long rifle range, The total length will he about two miles. The first issue of the Cleve land Progress under the man¬ agement of Mr. Joe Hugh Reese came to us last week full of spicy, sparkling news. The citizens of White county are to be congratulated intelli¬ that they have for their gence this young man, and we can vouchsafe for them a good, readable paper. Joe Hugh was in Conyers of long he enough to naturally get some belongs t push that to the Conyers hoys and we believe lie will succeed. Joe Hugh’s paper is a welcome visitor to our sanctum. The Cotton Acreage. Much is being written and said of this year’s cotton a creage and it is well that this matter should he considered. A statement in the Finan¬ cial Chronicle of last week showed that if the farmers kept the cotton acreage with¬ in reasonable hounds, they would stand a good chance to get 10 cents a pound for the next crop. AW intelligent eo t t on planters now know that free silver has nothing to do with the price—that the price is governed by supply and dt maud. There are some men, no doubt, that try t 1 lake the farmers believe that if we had free and unlimited coinage Of silver .. the' , <* oll,< , , ‘ become rich by raising cot ton. The views of such agoguerv at one rime naa great deal of influence with , , . our tanners, but that time i lias , passed, j , the | past . sea as son 1 lu\s proved J very __ clearly 1 that the more cotton we raise the lower the price will be and that the price of cotton, or any other prod tee, is gov erned ent-irelv by supply and demand* and' not by silver. We hope the farmers Rockdale will not go too far in the cotton crop this year and plant too much just be cause the price was better the past season, for just as sure as there is an over-crop the price will be low ; and, on the other hand, if the crop be short, they will realize the the same amount of money from one bale as from two with a large acreage. do Let Rockdale’s farmers their part in this matter and trust to other counties to do the same. Should Not Authorities Act ? The cruel manner in which the Turkish government is allowing the wholesale mas¬ sacre of the Armenians should be treated with the very se¬ verest punishment of every civilized country. We be¬ lieve that this state of affairs should be stopped even be¬ fore the boundary line of Venezuela and Great Britian is settled; for human lives are much more precious than gold The vast number of lives that have been taken in the last few months is horrifying, and the massacre continues and will not stop until the civilized world takes a hand in the matter. We quote below an extract from a sermon by Dr. Tal mage on Sunday, the 12 th inst., which gives a dim idea of the state of affairs: “ * * ’* Hundreds of vil¬ lages destroyed! brush-wood, Young men put in piles of which are then saturated with kerosene and set on fire! Mothers,, in the most solemn hour that ever comes in a woman’s life, hurled out and bayoneted! Eyes gouged out and dead and dying hurl¬ ed into the same pit! The slaughter of Lucknow and Cawnpur. India, in 1857, e “ clipsed in ghastliness; the worst scenes of the French revolution in Paris made more tolerable in contrast! In many regions of Armenia the only undertakers to-day are the jackals and hyenas. Many of the chiefs of the massacres were sent straight from Con¬ stantinople to do their work, and having returned were decorated by the Sultan, To four of the worst murderers the Sultan sent silk banners, in delicate appreciation of their services. Five hundred thousand Armenians put to death or dying of starvation! This moment, all up and down Armenia sit many people, THE NEW YEAR Finds Hood’s Sarsaparilla lead¬ ing everything in the way of med¬ icines in three important particu lars, namely : Hood’s Sarsapa villa has 1 . The largest sale in the world. It accomplishes 2. The greatest cures in the wo.Id. It has 3 . The largest Labratorv in the world. Wlnu more can be said*? Hood’s Sarsaparilla has merit; is peculiar to itself, and most of all, Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures. If you aro eickj it * s the me dicine for you * . ... _______ \yANTED.Severn trustworthy gentlemen * or UuV.es to travel in Georgia for isiied. reliable house, salary ?tso ard e * ponses. Steady position. Enclose reference son-addressed stamped envelope. The D n on Comoany, Third Floor, Omaha , Chicago, iv freezing in the ashes of their destroyed homes, bereft of most of their households and awaiting the club of assassi nation to put them out of their misery. No wonder that the physicians of that region de dared that among all the men and women that were down with wounds and sickness and under their care, not one wanted to get well,” Nearly all the reports that have come to us of these out rages have been modified and softened and the half of the story has not been told, On top of all the horrible mur¬ ders and cruel outrages, near¬ ly all, if not entirely all, the American Mission buildings and^schoolhouses have been destroyed. This should be destroyed beyond all hope of resurrection and the wicked Sultan of Turkey hurled from his throne of as¬ sassination, together with his band of butchering fiends, in¬ to the darkest pits of perdition It is time some authority of our civilized nations were acting in this matter, for we believe we have a right, as well as it is our duty, to pro= tect these suffering people. If it is not soon stopped, God will curse us as a nation for not doing it. The Turkish ^government should not be suffered to ex¬ ist any longer on false prom¬ ises, but we, as a civilized na¬ tion, ought to rebel against this forsaken country. TRASHY MEDICINES. Many such flood the market. Bo¬ tanic Blood Balm is a conseienti - 1 ously compounded years’ medicine, the result of forty practice It is by an eminent physician. offered the best blood purifier ever to the public, and is guaranteed Try. to it cure if given a fair trial. for all skin and blood diseases, in¬ cluding catarrh and rheumatism in its worst form. One bottle of it contains more curative and building up virtue than a dozen of any other kind. Try “The Old Reliable.” See advertisement else¬ where. For sale by druggists. A CORRECTION. John H. Almand, Treasurer of Conyers Public schools, submits the following correction of state¬ ment as rendered to the press Jan. 18th, 1896. The statement was lengthy and somewhat complica¬ ted and was hurriedly gotten up for the press. In checking over since publication, I find the fol¬ lowing errors: The amount received from the City Treasurer in 1895 should have been $2327.78 instead @f $2186.12. Voucher No, 56 should have been $8-70, instead of $8.07. Amount paid W. P. Fleming in 1895 should have been $680.00, in¬ stead of $595.00. Amount paid janitor in 1895 should have been $39.00, iastead of $34.00. These changes make a balance of cash on hand of S11S.77, in¬ stead of $66.90. The balance on hand of $118-77 tallies with my book. I noticed at the time I made the statement there was a differ¬ ence between the book and state¬ ment; but, as I did not have time to check it, thought I would let it go to press and check afterwards. Respectfully, John Treas. H. Almand, BUCKLENS ARNICA SALVE The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, s°lt rheum, feversor?s, tetter, chapped chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively it IS gUiremeed O to ^v^nerfect STIV© peilect oat isfaotion L ’ or U lYiortev lOL A refunded. Price 2oc. per , box. h or sale , , by -p. l>r rr- >> m. 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