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citizens are feasting on ,e»f« or **»• ntiine case of leprosy in UrsiJ«g e ‘““lushing wt b > s l? oil,g out on very at a well. live jfgrid * 3 tun-ing .err fine. hand Almaiul will have a „ „ ^number of farmers are lying mi ^P 8 ' this are two weeks later elons this section. m a6 t in peach crop in this section M( l f late crop is promis •Hare The Clkaow say county that garng next will fall be plen ifut i« this manv years- Young patridges far numerous. *L „ rV shields man who he who a \obe guilty of a crime is just as * the man who receives stolen ^knowing them befalls to the be stolen. grape crop it Juwwnse. disaster behave never seen ,fines more full r^wrenceville, Brand, a rising young was in the city 1 ^ qji professional business. It tnury twenty-five a fifty dollar dollar wife salary. if you A reconcile the with the ■iannot one leam that Col. John R. Maddox ^Solid f invited to South, has been f I !hea ddre3s at the close of Mr. ft school. ^ Carr says that Samson defeated ,Philistines by bolding his jaw- Bet toe judge wouldn’t say so to Sam" 1 li "ft iace. see that the Rockdale fellow who utashirt nine months without having ras hed is still being passed around ,1ft press. We think It about time i IO p jfji s shirt tale and change the ;?ct- It looks as if we might have weather. !te past f-w days have been lively jgjy here in coasequence of the many dir belles and dashing beaux who (attending the commencement exer L and Mi's. Clarence McOalla, of At kareoua [Conyers visit ta relatives and friends and Rockdale county this ft Siss Georgia Langford, who has been nvisit to friends in Covington has lamed, and the eyes of our young (nldown the street looks brighter l (Way [tol the boys of Gain’* & O’Kellev’s prance to the front and split ti e jnrith their loquence. I.rffl’s band, of Atlanta, passed rim ihe road Sunday afternoon tir way to Oxford, and furnished otjr suple with some excellent music during eir stop here. If a majority ol the people of Rockdale inly are in favor of prohibition then should prevail, and those who show a sward ior the will of the majority Wd be made to obey it Hawkins says a Newton county sheep ire birth to seven lambs the other if* The man who thinks there is less imkennesB here now than before the wriction law was passed should have M out on the streets Saturday night. Here was no less than a hundre 1 men ktotm under the influence of whisky. Sir.T. \Y. Bearden and his estimable Mv, of Gainesville, passed down the rsd Friday to Covington, on a visit to natives. We are glad to learn that ityare enjoying excellent health in feir oew home. What they call water down at Coving pitas a tendency to give a reddish cast pa man's nose. I i friend of ours remarked the other jifvthat he have never knew a girl who wore W to brain fever. I The sweet girl graduate is now ripe. I Eev. Dr. Quigg, of this place, preached j&coinmencement College rerrnon of the Jones pra Nience on last Sunday. The vast seemed magnetized by the piraiug p speaker. words and oratorical flights of & Amos Moore, of Atlanta, lost a sil pr [Hudson’s, watch between this place and Mrs. two miles above town, last Ppky parted afternoon. by leaving The finder will the be the same at NoRlr. It. N. Hudson. A Httle daughter of Mrs. Jane Minn, •itMscounty, was bitten by a supposed ml dog some tight or ten days since, ii vet tke child has shown no symp . i3 «sof hydrophobia. A hog bitten by same dog has since died There ia a lamentable want of 81 women among ths half grown of onr place. • Loudness, 153 '’“lgarity are the too ^aracteristics, aud the class of Sta *ho show most glaringly **0 to be most influential with ®er sex, and are disposed to down to their own level. condition of the present day Hinie a different aspect if the 1.1I gj ve these young men to I'jod -“d ihat such conduct would not sra iu their presence. u Si v>- b i PI m m . ■V m S'. if 1 ! Ml m m r. I li Vi m m to ®r >'. m m WS2 ■ V 1 m m m ;33 Volume vi. Commencements will soon begin to end, thank the Lord. Some of our young men are amusing themselves, but not their neighbors, by practicing on the horn. Jeff Almand told his girl Monday night that “ I cannot exist without you, dar ling.” This is what we would call love lie¬ There are about twenty-five women in Conyers who support themselves and— their husbands too. Stock raising beats truck farming aU hollow*. Any kind of a milk cow com mauds fifty dollars in Rockdale. having aiabbit 0 se ,, Any one 00 can dispose of if at a valuable eonsidera tion by calling on Loss Johnson. Messrs. Armistead, Til’ey, Ethridge and.,Lee spent Tuesday last on Yellow river fishing. The net proceeeds of the excursion were an aged crawfish and a sick “ squealer.” We have yet to hear of a county which regrets having adopted the stock law. We are glad to state that the music escaped uninjured last Sunday afternoon at the mass meeting it, is evidently true that Crowley and Mai are not includeded in the list of those “ whom the gods love.” Two young men from Atlanta were in our city several days this week beastly drunK- These young men bear irre proachable characters at home and they would almost suflVr death before they would bS seen in that condition by their friends. A cyclone pass d over Elberton last Sunday Afternoon blowing down sixteen houses and killing a negro man. Tiie destruction to timber and crops is said to be very great. A great, many would be politicians op pose the stock law because they think by do'ng so they are taking a near route to the. Legislature or some other office. When such men are around honest peo¬ ple should lock up their valuables. Med docs are still a terror the citizens of the southern part of the county. The people of this section demand a dor law an d the legis ator who refuses to give it j his support sill most probably speud the ! remainder of hia days in p.ivacy. qhe June bug has arrived and the small boy and ‘ colored cuss” are in , th fir glory, I Miss Cora Be 1 , the sweet little daugh j ter of Mr. J. W. Bell, of Harlem is on a i visit to relatives in our city, the guest o. j her cousin, Miss Belle 8ims. j a tariff for the protection of the chick j en roosts of Sheffield b has made been its found ap : unnecessary since the 'ar ! pea ranee At Social Circle, the other day, a little J son of Mr. Gresham fell into a tub of scalding water, from the effects of which he died in a few hours It is pleasant to see the price of meat going down. Those who saved their ba coa should not be tempted to use it too generously. One reason why meat must go lower is that a great many farmers all over the South made enough to do them j jhis year, A 1 It is said that Messrs Jeff and Joe mand have the finest cotton crop in the county. They are live and energetic voting men and will in a short while reap the reward of their industry. Frank Key, the negro who created a disturbance on Almand street Saturday night, was up before Mayor Helms Mon¬ day morning and fined ten dollars and cost We were threatened with a cyclone on last Sunday evening, and a sweet young lady up the street was beard to softly murrner “ Hold me tight, dear George. A cyclone might come along and blow me away from you.” Even cyclones have their advantages. If Governor McDaniel continues as he starts out he will be re elected without opposition. The people are universally satisfied with his administration so far. The sweet girl graduate season is fullof life and beauty and white muslin a ,t lovely flowers, but no one seems to thin of the mental agony of a reporter, as he | chews up the ends of six pencils, and re ! fleets 'hat there are only three or four adjectives that will apply to a gnl s ^ auc * *‘ e ^ as t0 raa ~ places. If this silly and vulgar fashion, some men indulge in, of catching on to young help them along, is persist¬ girls' arms to ed in, there will come evil, and evil out of it. Any girl who will permit a man, except he be her father, or brother, to put his fingers around her arm, is de¬ serving all the mortification and suffering that is the result of it- This thing has gone far enough, dtop it, at once forever. Conyers, Georgia, June 29. 1883. Miss Annie Hudson, a fascinating lit tie maid of Sheffield, has been visiting in Conyers for a week past, the guest Miss Livia Summers. Unlike our friend recently from Ath ens, tlie Oxford student does not “sleep” overh's interests, and is not blind to the charms of Conyers’ lovely daughters. Future de elopment will ex¬ plain this item. Conyers has about seventy-five girls between the agea of fifteen and eighteen who are just as sweet and pretty as girls ever get to be. They are the most in¬ teresting feature of onr city, and we would give three crates of “cokes" if we could only substract ten years from onr age. The marshal was compelled to use his “bifly” quite freely on a fceligerant Shef¬ fieldian Saturday night, last, inflicting a wound on his head from which the blood flowed profusely. lie was walking about town Sunday morning the bio diest man we have ever seen. A couple cf law breakers were up be¬ fore the Mayor last Saturday and contri¬ buted about five dollars to the city ex¬ chequer. A member of the local fishing club re¬ ports that he saw a catfish in Y’ellow river, the other day, below the paper mill, that could not weigh less than sev¬ enty five pounds. The aforesaid mem¬ ber most nobly sustains the reputation of the club for veracity. Rev. R. J. Bigbam will preach, iu the Methodist church, next Sunday after¬ noon at 5 o’clock, to the men—-with spe¬ cial reference to the young men. Sub ject, Cause and Effect. No boys under 16 years will be admitted. He also con¬ templates protracting his Sunday’s ser¬ vices through the week. The Commencement sermon of Emory College was preached on last Sunday by Pre. ident Ilaygood. Several of our citi¬ zens went down and reoort it a fine ef fort. A pleasing loveliness would be added to things just about now by a tussle be¬ tween council and thestreets. If it does not come soon both should bo abolish ed. “The good farmer” w II be sent to Legislature from Rockdale when perpet mil motior is discovered. AmI the chronic Senatorial aspirant u ill get there chi’n the goats begin to fly. I have past.‘rage for two or three milk cows inside the city limits. Terms easy. J. i\ Tilley. We have been the recipient of copious showers this week, and vegetation is on a boom. Tke editor of this paper, accornpaired by his estimable lady has been on a vis¬ it to relatives and friends in Henry coun tv this week, and the short comings in this issue must be attributed to bis ab sence. It is reported that the street overseei nas been lost in the wilderness on catur street. We notice that Mr. Jeter is doing an exceeding pretty job of painting on Mr. D. M. Almand s house. Mr. Jeter un derstands the use of the brush. AVe notice in the last issue of the Solid South savs that fifty-seven counties have adopted the stock law. If the Solid South will name them we will “set up” the watermelons. There are a great many people iu this community who do not believe that the uegroe becomes any better by education, and they are reusable people, too. Have you ever noticed that the laziest f irmer is generally the one who brings in the first cotton bloom? Bev. Mr. Golightly, of preached an interesting sermon at the First Baptist Church in this place on last Sunday morning, and also at night. Mr. W. A. Brightwell, the man who, it was alleged, outraged the person of Miss Mary 3 Cook, of Atlanta, had a hear : n „ last Monday and was discharged, This was one of the plainest cases of blackmail that has ever occurred in th s gtate _ j jf a single farmer in Rockdale the has reports ever i der i ved any information from ^ (!omuliss i on er of Agriculture that j wou Id be of benefit to him in cultivating and gathering his crops, we have failed to hear of it. Then why should the peo¬ ple of Georgia be taxed to keep up a thing that is of no earthly benefit to any one but the Commissioner himself? It will be a bright day for Rockdale when her present political leaders are no more. They would not make a single sacrifice for the good of the county have sacrificed the county that they might be raised to power, When they are driven to the rear Rockdale reasonably expect to have bet claims r cognized, aud not before. Every young man in Conyers should go out to hear Mr. Dighara Sunday aftet noon. He will do you good. Victor Smith a son of Bill Arp, is on the editorial staff of the New York Her aid. Seductions and sbooting3 are the prin¬ cipal tonics in die metropolitan papers now. Even ministers of the Gospel are engaging in these affairs. Preparations are being made in Angus ta for celebrating the one hundiedth an¬ niversary of the Richmond Acad my*, founded on the 29th of June, 17S3. Tbe Gainesville postoffice has more than doubled its net receipts to the gov¬ ernment in the past two years and a half, and its business in every department has much mo e than dotiDled. Peter Mnlholland, while intoxicated shot and killed his mother at Mingo junc tion, 0 .. on the iSih. Just before she died she feebly exclaimed to her son: “Pete, my boy, I love you still.” Col. A. ,T. West, of Turnerville, has a black bottle over 200 years old. The great grandfather of Geo. A. Vandiver was killed in the battle of Brartriock’s defeat, and tho bottle was found in his pocket. The g, eat need of the present age is regular employment for women. Be¬ cause a girl has nothing to do she w ill sit up till 12 o’c’ock at n’ght weaving her fingers in some young man’s hair like a family of snakes crawling through the grass. The girl does not seem to mind it much, but it’s awfully demoralizing lo the young man When a Conyers girl has reason to be¬ lieve her fellow is lying to her, she doesn’t tell him so, but advises him to “pitch his tent somewhere in the neigh' borhood of that virtue for which the ‘Father of his counfvv’ had such a rev- erence in the days of his youth,” and “tabernacle there for a time.” This is putting it delicately, but any fellow with gumption can tell what she means. The Columbus Times says: The truck furor can not last in Georgia. The sliip ers, in the end, will lose, and the freignt gatherers and middle-men will make it a n. Many shippers have already had accounts of sa’es horn their eomnns ion merchants bringing them in debt. ” Seveml weeks since a dogbe’onging to Mr. D. M. Stringer was severely bitten by* another dog and one of Hr eyes torn nut. Now, strange to relate, another perfect eye is forming in thehollow from which the other was torn, and the dog is able to see out of it even now, although Ihe eye is yet smell but steadily growing. Tliis is one of the strangest freaks of nature that we ever heard of. Mr. String Pr will consult some oeculist concerning (ho dog’s recond sight.—Gainesville Eagle. It is a great mistake to suppose, that rces of Georgia cannot be de veloped without the aid of foreign oapi ;The v,eople are prepared to web come Ml good men who desire to csst their lots into the common urn ; but it ; sn -t true that without them the State is going to retrograde or even stand still, Unnatural booms are to be avoided, High pressure development is to be dreaded, and something more than time is wasted in the blowing of enormous bubbles—Macon Telegraph. Children ought to be taught affine use f u ; trade in addition to the knowledge imparted by high schools and colleges. The tendency of young people fo crowd the professional calling wouldn’t be so great if their education embraced more the practical- A good carpenter is worth more t0 a community than an dinarj member of auy pro ession -a con Telegrap 1. Cotton may have been the great power which raised the South from abject pov erty to compand rte nee; But with the eo'ton area steadny rnc.easing each year; with prrspeets for annual crops of from seven to nine million bales, and with a prospect of a maximum price of 8 cents, its excessive and imprudent culture will cause it to be the force to press the southern farmers down from comparative independence or.ee more to debt and poverty.—Thomasville Enter prise. The Philadelphia Press concludes an article on the crop outlook as follows: “ Fortunately for the general prosperity food is now certain to be cheap. is going to be low, because the supply excess in the United States is larger ever bef>re. The corn crop well, and the first sign of its effect is in the MvGoech failure. It is now parently certain that people who their food will find next fall that ei Jit„. five cents will go as far m filling the nr a ket basket dollar last year. ’ a& a Number 15. SUNSET GATES AJAR, To night I sat in my window, When the West was all ag’eam With that strange and wonderful splen dor That is fleeting as a dream; I thought that the hands ot the angles Had flung open Heaven's gateway wide, And I caught a glimpse, of the g’ory From the hills on the other side. Is it not a beautiful fancy, This sunset thought of mine, That the gates of Heaven are always Flung open at day’s decline; That those whose days are ended, Of earthly woes and ills. May pass to the morning sunshine. That dwebs on the heavenly hills? When for me the sunset gateway Shall at day’s decline iinefise, And I pass in through <he portals To that long and sweet repose, I know that I shall remember, In that city so fair and far, My strange and beautiful fancy Of the sunset gates ajar. Perhaps, whils I sat there dreaming Of the gateway in the West, Some poor soul went through its portals To a long and endless rest— Passed through a sunset gateway, To that “city paved with gold”— Passed into the new life's gladness, To be no longer old. It may he true, as ha» been charged, that certain Democrats, prominent in the Sou b and in Washington City, sold out Tilden tr, Hayes. Onr coni plaint against Ti deD is that, “as a sheep before its shearer is dump, so he oprned not his mouth.” He pres fened quiet in the stock market to the triumph of the right. He ought not to have submit'ed so quietly to the delivery of the goods. In digging down to get a founda¬ tion fur the new dim at Edwards’ mill, Mr. Norris struck a rock bid, <)l U which gushed a stream of pine m ucral water. The spring will be walled up and cemented and an acq ie duct will convey the wa.er out, so it will be convenient for everybody. We have procured a bottle ol the water f„ r t |, e purpose of having it analyzed, a d will in ft few days furnish the pub lie with a list ol iugredieots contain* o l in it —[Hampton Curr. Ileary Co. i\ eckly. “One negro shot and another killed by a threshing machine,” was the 8‘artling bead over a telegram in the Augusta News last werk. V v e desire to ca l the attention of the authorities ft) this outrage committed by a threshing machine. It this nurchitn has fallen into the bad habit ot wear j U g (,jp pocket aud goes “heeled” it is time the strong arm of the should be invoked, or else it will surely ... thin out the ,, ranks , of - our negro j population. Let the governor offer ia liberal reward for the apprehension ! and conviction of this blood-dliirsty ihreshing machine that is so deadly in j| ie use 0 f f[ re amis, j | 1 he grandest treasure .f t. pebble ; for man lo possess ou earth is a good w jf 6< The poorest investment he c , ln ever TOake ; 8 a worthless one. ! p erg0 „ a j adornment may please ttie j ( . ve 0 f die vulgar, but it will not’ hide ]ieart Sin rnay n } oak iUe ], , |lief seagon t l, e garment of A1 J or , ater shall judgment, lure affection . . come to is j a priceless jewel, the ernbodime.it ot t . {l , tlAy bliss. In the true union of jiusb . mf) ,, n(1 wi j e ^ey should not en’ov into the consideration. The happiest homes the world^ ever knew have been bought and paid for by the i mutual earnings after marr iage. The ; good and true wife adorns her home nnc ] makes of it a lit’le heaven, It ; a , bu a fi, l( ie of a royal family, a king anJ n da . (J ji wil hi D . Thery at 0 j no false gods in Rueh a household. t o r two hear ts beat as on*. The Tempter dare not enter its sacred portals. “Marry foi love ard work lor ,jchcs” may he a stale old proverb, ^^ millions of happy 1 ' ‘ homes testify J j \Q V*® . ^ utbfuluess* j \\ Y e'iriv*-;e everybody to tJve f‘,r <c Pastry Patent a trial. It is the finest jjianr in tire 1 market. ( *!1 on ILL F, liar tier & Bro. Ferferr Pastry Patent flour for eu’e at Frank ilarg er’s oh. aper than at any oth¬ er place in the city. We have something that will Ix» of in fervsl to those who Imve houses to rent sell. Call at this office Fine Dotted Swiss cheap at Pierce ,V Quiegft. Fine Lawns by (he thousands at Picreet x Q liggV GEOBGIA Rockdale CVmnt J— To all whom it may concern, Rf. X. Howaittof RrKalb county’ h«v ng in proper form applied to nuv fine letters of Administration on the estate of Benjamin Gregory late of K«ck-> dale County, deceased, this, m to cite all and singular the creditors and next ot kin ol Benjamin Gregory to be and appear at my office within the* time allowed by law aud show cau-e 'f auy they can why permanent lets ters of ndininistration should not bo granted to E. W. Howard iu Benja tiiin Gregory’s estate. Witness my hand and official Signature. 0. SEAMANS Ordla ry> This June ‘20th 1883 4t. GEORGIA Itockdn e County— Whereas, K. TV. Howard, of Dev kalb county, having iu propel* foru» applied to me for letters ol adminia-v nation on the estate of Elizabeth Gregory late of Rockdale county, deceased, this rs to cite all ctid singu¬ lar the kindled aud creditors of Elix« abeth Gregory to be and appear at my office the first Monday in August,, next, and show curse if any they can why letter of administration should not be granted to It. W. Howard on Kltlaboih Gregory ’s estate. \\ itv ness my hand and official signature. June 2Gth1883 O* Seamans, 4t, Ordinary. GKORGIA Rockdale County— ...hereas W ,\i. II. Waldrop, adininis tiator of the estate ol Levi L„ Waldrop, dccM represents to the court ly filed of aud Ordinary in his petition diwe* entered on record that he has fully administered Levi I*. Waldrop's estate. This is therefore to cite all persona eoncerntd Itelrw and creditors to show cause, » if any* they can why said administrator should not be discharged front bin administration and receive letters of dismission on tit e first Monday in, August 1883 O. SEAMANS, April 27 3m. Ordinary ^ GEORGIA. Rockdale County.— Win reus. J. N. Nix and J. E. Lev* re: t administrators of J. T, (). Nix, dic’d represent to the ooitrl in their petition duly filed that they have fully administered J. N. O. Nix* es¬ tate. this is therefore to cite all and singular, the kindred and eieditors of said deceased, to show cause if any they can why said administrators, should not be discharged from their admin stration and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in September, Next. This May lltli 1883. O. Seamana 3,ii Ordinary, GEORGIA, Rockdale County— To all whom it may concern t .1. T. Adair having in proper lorm aps plied to me for permanent letters ot administration on the celate of James (1. Kirkpatrick, lr.te ol Bind county, deceased, this is to cite all and singu¬ lar the creditors and next of kin of said James G, Kirkpatrick, to he and appear at my office within the tenn allowed by law and show cause it any thoy can why permanent letters of ad ministration should not be granted to J, T. Adair on James G. Kirkpat¬ rick's estate. Witness 111 v hand qfn fiend signature, a SEAMANS June 1st 1883.. Ordinary, NOTICE-. This is to give notice that there will be a bill introduced in the Legislature at the July session of 1883 to prohibit the liquors manufacturing or saie of alt intoxicating or intoxicating bitters iu the county of Rockdale, except (or medical purposes, aud to regulate the disposition and the sale of the same for said medical purposes. June 1st 1883;, ESTRAY SALS Will be sold on the free hold of Robert Oglesby 0x1 Saturday the 23rd inst.. at 2 o’clock, r- a., one lied Bull yerling about one year old, medium size, read, with short horns and inclind back war Is; also one small wh'te spot just above the left eye; no other mark or brand; ap¬ praised to be worth three tkdhirH. Junc yth I8S3. A. F. Mitchell Sh’ff FOR RENT, \VhIteli<:ad-Uous«, Csaycfn, Ua, This splendid hotel situated in the very center of the city, right among the liiisinesa houses and convenient to the railroad, is now for rent—and to good parties will be rented low down. It has just undergone a thorough renovation, and ia now in most excellent order, We know of no better opening for a good hotel man anywhere as this house cart easily be made to pay handsomely. Bar¬ ries desiring to rent will address or call on J. N- H<>le, Real estate agt. Conyef Ga.