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G- M- Jones & Company Corner Commerce and Warehouse Sts. COhrr^s. GA. 58 <3 _-headquarters for all kinds of General Merchandise at Bottom PrieeS. I^-We sell the NEW HOME Sewing Machine. BSSU We keep all kinds of HaT-SEWINO MACHINE NEEDLES.-yg® Headquarters For all School Books adopted by the Board ofScbaol Commissioners of’.his county. -BY £ W IaANQFOHD m * Carriages Wagons, Bugies, MV own make. ^Ikeep ill WAi ANTED TO BE FIRST-CLASS IN REVEY PARTICULAR also a GOOD LINF^ ofWes^ern^ Carriages and Bug Repairing of Carriages, Wagons and Bugg es, Fa.ni.ng and Trimming *( all iivades done on short notice. ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE REPAIRED AS GOOD AS NEW have now on hand the largest, and best, stock of waggons, of my own Jake, bogies bargains homemade bad ana better of western call. build All wh that I have ever for work carried. I ou wan t you > owe me are ear jestly request to come forward and settle promptly. I need the money and must have it. These who do not pay promptly will be given but short, time. So you will please settle promptly. f It should be rememberd that My establishment is HEADQUARTERS UNDERTAKERS GOODS COFFINS and CASKETS of all grades and sizes, and COFFIN HARDWARE in fact everything tha is kept in a first class Undertaker. Jg’COFFINS 'DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN CITY OR COUNTY Most Respectful!v. .1, W. LANGFORD. OB&&2* S. POPULAR—-- Jfiir TOiuTOBlL®*- ii ms. I m I * aSTTVoduction—One EUROPE Largest The OJR r ryru:. ■'£: w.\ every OR CE> ■IE.!, ;<• a o eVo 8 : q' |, e I ten Organ MOST i m a a !§ if . minutes. AMERICA! -THE -M m Factory 1 I 7 I v in fholseale Southern Depot for ESTEY ORGANR, Steinway Weber, Decker Brothers and Gate City PIANOS. —DEPOT OF— 382M&P SB-4PS3®S. -IMPORTERS DIRECT PROM ETROPE OF Fiolins, Guitars, Harmonicas Etc iiRINGS, AMD ALL KINDS OF MUSICAL MERCHANDISE i •^Nobody Ljn underbuy us, Nobody can undersell us. Estey Organ Company Atlanta Ga W,H. LEE, Agent. JOHN NEAL AND COB PANY J ---WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN SOS, 7 and 9 SODTH BROAD STREET ATLANTA, GA. :o: Special inducements offered to DEALERS and others in all grades ot Far* hare. A share of the patronage ot Rockdale and adjoining counties ernestly elicited. Be sure and give us a trial before making your purchases. THE OLD RELIBLE FIRAM OF ) -dealers in I beral Merchandise Etc. RAILROAD BLOCK CONYERS, GEORGIA Jiving and been most established complete slocks for 18 in years, eoutry, and carrying sell one goods ot the as largest lou a the we can baud we guarantee satisfaction. When you want MY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING Call 7 on &C „ ^ J.H. ALMAND&S0 THE LIFE OF A COWBOY. X Western Editor tells ns how He Feeds and Tends His Flocks. [From the Cheyenne Leader.] In a roundup party of cowboys there ;re all sorts of men, some careful enough h* their living, though the liveliness and dash of the work may make all alike seem recklet*. In one. respeet there is a strong good re^mblanee in all—their perfect hum»r and good fellowship. Among the bojg this year are a good many te nderfee. some of whom have come on the rangy to get an insight into the stock business, with a view to follow ing it. Besides several young English¬ men, disguise, who, we all knev, were dukes in there were vitli one of the roundup parties I spent s. few days with, a son of a prominent New York" Judge, two graduates of the Chicago University, a law student who had keen eighteen months in Roscoe Conkling’s office, and a, Texas gambler after the boys’ money. As I have said, some of the boys were careful to get their creature comforts even in a country where it was raiBiug every day and the nights were frigid cold. While watching some who seemed to have the best of it, aud not to mind the hardships, I saw they did it because they knew how to take care of them¬ selves. One old campaigner gave me the particulars of his daily life. He never took off his rubber coat while it “chaps” ■vas raining. all daylong. He wore his leathern He wore shoes, not boots, bnt also wore leggings. In the evening he was dry from head to foot, even if it had rained all dav. He was especially careful to keep liis feet dry. His bedding was not nearly as nuiky as that <. some others, but he thought it ample. Some men carry with them heavy coverlets, and eves make up a kind of mattress. This man. however, had three woolen blankets, a rubber blanket, and a large piece of tar¬ paulin. In making up his bed at night lu spread the rubber he blanket on theground hist. Next laid his tarpaulin so that its top was even with that of the rubber blanket. Then he stretched the tarpau¬ lin out fiat, and it Hvas perhaps twenh feet long and eight wide. Next he put a coarse woolen double blanket down over the rubber and tarpaulin, leaving the lower half of the blanket rolled up at the feet. Another was placed in the same way. On the top of these he laid another blanket. Then the half of the other two blankets which had been roll: d up was drawn upon the rest. In this way a bag bottom was made at the foot of the bed, protecting the feet, Tin lower part of the tarpaulin was then turned up over everything. It reached a foot above the sleeper’s head. Last of all, the sides of the tarpaulin wen doubled under the bed. The man worked his way down into this sack from the head, and no cold could penetrate it. I should add that before making his bed lie dug away the ground to conform t< the curves of the body, and he said it made him as comfortable as if he were in a feather bed. On the roundup, there is an abun¬ dance of canned fruit served out to the boys. The rest of the food is fresh meat, bacon, dried fruit, beans, soda bis¬ cuit, tea and coffee. But little can be said to the credit of the average cook. In crossing the plains fifteen years ago 1 thought the surely race of bad cooks then at work must die out in this age of progress. But some of the same school are on the roundup this summer. I spoke to the careful chap I have men¬ tioned, and asked why it was that fine steaks were spoiled by being cut up in little bits and fried black in grease, when they could be j ust as easily broiled. He said he doubted if the cooks knew* what a broiled steak was, but that if steaks were broiled a cowboy might walk off with a whole steak, eat of it what he could and throw the rest away, just as, when loaves of bread are baked, he breaks off a quarter of a loaf, munches a portion of it, and flips the rest at some fellow’s head. This man said he always kept a piece of wire about the wagon and cooked his own steaks on the end of it over the coals. Soda biscuits are perhaps a necessity of camp life, according to the dim light let iu on cooks’ minds, but they are un¬ wholesome. Common crackers would prove in time better for the stomach, and would taste quite as good to one having a healthy appetite. From the sight of fried bacon good Lord deliver us. The canned fruit is often good, but occasionally it tastes of the can. I have no donbt that if an enterprising firm of fruit eauners were to paste on their cans the date when the contents were put iu it. a hungry public would not only for¬ give them if they were to do away with the high art chromo work that usually adorns fruit cans, but would buy up those dated within a year. The subject of fruit absorbing the solder and tin of cans has already received attention in some of the Eastern States where there is an ami-adulteration law. Wyoming is greatly interested in the purity of canned fruit, a fact attested by the piles of empty cans that fringe every camp ground. A lot of Metal. A man would hardly dare Federal attempt metal to compute the weight of hurled into Vicksburg, from first to last, says M. Quad in a letter from that city, biit he wiio would visit the place, and look for what he may consider legitimate re¬ sults, will be* greatly disappointed, "here are not six builuings in the city Not showing signs of bombardment. more than two or three buildings were fired and destroyed, and the citizens do not remember a case where any one was killed in a house. Cannon balls and pieces of sheli and grape-shot were thick enough in the streets, the bullets could be picked up river, everywhere, from first and yet to last, the fire from the amounted to little more than throwing away ammunition. Upon one occasion an iron-clad steamed slowly along a dis¬ tance of two miles, throwing grape into the town as fast as her guns could be fired, yet only one house was hit hard enough to ;eave any scars. That house is there to-day. and so are hundreds of people who passed through it all, and dodged death so often, and in so many different forms that they come to con¬ sider themselves bullet-proof. HOW WE PROGRESS. THE WAY MAXES WERE RTN' DURING THE LAST CENTURY. Searclty ol Correspondence In Those Days W hat was Necessary to Guarantee a Trip—Mode ol Travel from Boston to New York. The newspapers and the inventions for transmitting mails and intelligence have worked a marvelous change, among other things, in letter-writing. Few men have now time or inclination to ctrry on correspondence with their friends in distant cities, and when they do write, their letters treat of some matter which is disposed of in the few estpossible words. Then it was differ¬ in’., and the men who had fought to geiier at the Bradywine, who had stood shudder to shoulder at Trenton end Germantown, and had shared each otler’s rags at Valley Forge, took plasure in communicating with each otler as often as possible. Their letters coitained many items which now are fouid in the papers under the head of geieral news. The nrices of various articles of use, the cost of living, the las election, the current opinions of the da;, were all found iu letters simply be¬ cause they could be gathered from no otler source. Practically there was no sudi thing as mail. Leas than two hrndred years ago a patent was issued crating the office of Postmaster for the cohnies of America, but nothing came of t, because there were not enough letters mailed to justify the establish¬ ment of a service. About 1720 a tine of riders extended from Philadelphia to several points in Virginia, but the ser¬ vice was extremely irregular beemse with the post rider was never sent out a mail until enough letters had been gathered to pay the expouse of the trip, rnd no one could, therefore, tell when uis missive would be forwarded. The speed was usually about thirty miles a day, and when, at the first of this cen¬ tury, the rider, by changing horses, made 100 miles in the twenty-four jionrs, the achievement .vas marveled it. More mails are now received in a .single day in New York than were then in six months: and more letters there in pne day than then in the whole country during n year. The mail then between Hew York and Boston was carried in a single pair of saddle bags, and when the quantity increased so that two pairs had to be used, the carriers remonstrated so loudly , that the matter , , became ol , eo.i siderable consequence. To receive a tetter then was a great event m a neighborhood, since le.ter being years sometimes passed without a brought to a country town, and when one came, it was a signal for an die neighbors to come m and hear it read. Letters often look six ueeks to go from Philadelphia to the country towns of Massachusetts, and during this time the carriers had abundance of leisure to read them and get their contents by heart, an opportunity they were not slow to use There was no law forlnddn g them to do this, and as they enjoyed telling the news they bore, and the people liked to listen to them, this arrangement was very satisfactory. This practice, so abominable to those who corre sponded, continued for many years un til the number of letters and greater ex pedihon in then- carnage prevented the carriers from reading them. For this reason the majority of the public men corresponded in cipher of some kind or another, a habit which has been mis taken for evidence of oralt, when, in fact, it was merely to render corre spondenee private. Bad as the system of postal facilities service was for traveling it was so that superior few to the were disposed to complain. In those days the man who, for any purposes attempted t os. art on a joitiney from Virginia to Massachusetts, called his friends together, gave them a fareweh dinner, made Ins had prayeis for liis safety offered up m . the church, and made his general arrangements as a man now would if intending to go to In dia or Africa or a term of years. In . Washingtons time two stages carried all the travel between Neu YoA and Boston, posting eighteen hours of each day and reaching their destination in only six days. Wnen they stuck m e mud all the passengers turned out, as they do now out of a street car, got rails and helped the driver. When New York was in sight the w etched passengers were sometimes compelled be to wait for ten days, if there chanced to a wind, before they could cross the river, and not infrequently, when ice was running, a ferryboat would be crushed in the floes and the passengers forced to clamber out on the cakes, where they would float for hours at the immediate* danger of being carried out to sea.—.SV. Louis Democrat. A Grain Speculator. Phil. D. Armour, one of the grain and pork speculators of Chicago, is of sturdy Scotch Presbyterian stock. New Bom York, in one of the central counties of on a farm among the hills. It was the highest ambition of his boyhood days to eam money enough to buy the farm ad¬ joining his father’s. When the gold fever broke out ho was still a mere strip¬ ling; but, full of youthful enthusiasm, he started for California, driving a wagon across the plains and mountains. He remained there three or four years, and in that time saved a few thousand dol¬ lars. He had cash enough to buy the farm and settle down. He had no sooner reached home than he experienced a sudden revulsion of feeling. The streets of the village looked narrow, cramped and dull. The house appeared mean and dingy. He only remained on the farm two or three days, and then took himself to Cincinnati. Later he drifted to Milwaukee, and at the close of the war he sold a great lot of pork at #40 a barrel, and bought it in again at #18 to #19, realizing a profit of about a million. To-day he ranks as the wealthiest man in Chicago, being rated by those who know something of his business at 3*25.000,000 to 330,000,000. Hi, W sactions are colossal. His firm employs between 5,000 and 6,000 men, and on his pay rolls are about fifty men who re¬ ceive salaries of #5,000 and over. He is not yet 55 years of age. When are watches easily stolen ? When they are off their guard. -----— A War Incident. A New York TYibune correspondent says: The ex-Goufederafce General Gor¬ don told me an interesting story about two interwiews he had with General Barlow. At Sbarpsburg, Barlow was apparently mortally wounded and fel into Gordon’s hands. Gordon took a liking to him and asked if he coaid not do something for Barlow. “I think not, General, ’’said the young man; “I shall be buried here, no doubt I do not expect to live. But you can do one tiling for me; here is a package of letters from my wife which I wish you to destroy before my eyes.” Gordon, who was then a young man also, took the letters and was about to destrov them when Barlow, with a bub ble at‘ his throat murmured: “Would you take the trouble to rend me one of them first? Anyone will do.” Gordon opened one of the letters and read it to the dying man—his last friendly words, perhaps, from home. Then the letters were destroyed. But. the incident touched Gordon so that he made special exertion to have Barlow sent through the lines or to have his whe admitted to him. This being done, the two armies fell apart and these men saw ?aeh other no more. Gordon considered Barlow to he dead. Barlow hail also seen that a General Gordon had been killed somewhere. They met again at a friendly table in Washington, but did not know each otlier through the changes of time. After some lapse Gordon said: “General Barlow, are yon a relative of that Barlow who was lulled at An tietam ?” “No,” said the General, “I am the same man. Ave you any relative,” in quired Barlow iu turn, “of that General Gordon who was recently killed on the ‘ . Confederate side?” “That was my cousin; I am John B. Gordon.” Then at the request of the persons who overheard, Barlow told the tale amid tears and emotion on everv side. Peek’s Bad Boy. “There is nothing pa likes better than to go out on a farm and pretend he knows everything,” said the bad. boy. “When pa’s farmer friend got pa and ma out there he set them to work, and ina shelled peas, while pa went to dig potatoes Liu dinner. I think it was mean for rhe deacon to send pa out in the cornfield to dig potatoes, and after he kad du „ a whole row of corn without finding anv potatoes, to set the dog on , atK ] tree him in an apple tree near tke 1)ee ] 1 i VCSj ml( q then go and leave pa - n p. ge w jth the dog barking at him. p a sa i<i he never knew how mean a dea c(m coldd i 3e until he sat on the limb of thftt Je tree all tho afternoon. About j.; mc Jo chores the farmer came and fonnd and cn iled the dog off, and pa came down, then the farmer played the meanest trick of ai ], He said people d j t ln’t k v,ow bow to milk cows, and pa gaid he wiahed be p ad aR man y dollars M he kuew ll0W to milk cows. He said jpg B p ec hulty was milking kicking cows, aud farmer gave pa a tin pail and a mdk j n „ s fooi, and let down the bars, and . )0 u d<J( ] ou t to pa ‘the worst cow on the pj ace y p a kHt >w his reputation was and at g f ake aud [ ie went up to the cow £ hed it in the Hank and said, ‘hist, rafotmd you.’ ' Well, the cow wasn’t a hfeti h co but a hurting bull, and pa kne , y it was a buI] as qnick a8 he se0 it dovnl its head and beller, and pa dr0 p ped the pail and stool and started f nr the bars, and the bull after pa. I don ’t think it was right in ma to bet two f w ith the farmer that pa would ^ . t( the 1)ars 1);fo ro the bull did. ^ h sho WO n the bet. Pa said he kne it was ft V mll just as soou as the horns got tangled up iu liis coat tail, and ^ j u> s t, }llck 0 n the other side of the alld ilis nose hit the ash barrel wilere t hey make lye for soap, pa said f saw mo re fireworks than we did at ^ ^ Soldiers ’ Home . ra wouldn’t ce leb ra te any more, and he came home, after thanking the farmer for his courte sj i JU ; he wants me to borrow a gun , uld g0 w ;th him hunting. We are going g , loot ft j m j] and < t dog, and some maybe we will shoot the farmer, if keeps on as mad as he is now. Weil, we won't have another 4th of July for a „ ' A Strong Way of Stating It. The Toledo Blade says: As a matter of course, the beer drinker will have beer. He knows that the fresh and lively beer, made a feiv weeks ago, and full of yeast, which ferments in liis stomach is constantly congesting his liver. He knows that liis kidneys are becoming will horribly diseased, The condition but never¬ theless he have it. ot his liver and kidneys does not cheerfully appal or deter him. He comes up with his liver and kidneys in his hand, as it were, and lays them a willing sacri¬ fice upon the only altar he knows any¬ thing about, the saloou bar. There is no help for this and never will be. Each man is the sole proprie tor of his own liver and kidneys, and he has an inalienable rigiit to congest the one and enlarge the other at Lis own sweet will. This is his privilege, and no one can prevent him. Bnt what an ass the man must bo who, having dedicated his entire inward or¬ ganization to the brewer and beer seller, goes any farther than that. What an idiot he must be to howl for the “protec¬ tion” of a man who is selling him beera.t a profit of #4 a keg. What an unac¬ countable dunderhead he must be who does not know that the brewer and beer seller has protection enough and to apart in him the tape Can’t worm appetite that is eating up. he understand that after his liver and kidneys get into certain conditions he cannot stay out of the saloon, and that the brew'er and beer saloon people have a mortgage on his stomach that is just as binding as though It were written upon parchment and witnessed and sealed. Scene at the base ball ground: A ball was knocked sidewise and caught on a «£ SLiiS ejaculates: H&XS ,, “Ah, , girl looking at the game really, how can it be a fowl ? I don’t see any feathers J” And she turned to her attendant with an inquiring look. “Well—oh! Yes, you see,” he stam¬ mered, “the reason yon don’t see the feathers is because it belongs to the picked nine,” A SISTER'S KISS. THE VALUE A BROTH KK. Pl.ACKO UPON IT. Why a YotinK Han Refused n Friend’s Invitation to Otiuk—He Haifa His Rea¬ son* and W ins llis Friend Over to the Temnernnce Cause. “Now, Tom, what will you have to brink?" “Nothing more than I have, Boland,” . and the speaker raised a glass of water to his lips as tie looked toward the corn panion with whom he was dining at a first-class hotel. "Nonsense, Tom; surely glass you with will me?” not refuse to take a friendly yes.” “Of anything stronger than this, “But, Tom, you do not mean me to understand that you never touch it ; that you have not. sufficient self-respect to touch it as only a gentleman should ?” “IT land. I have known stronger men than 1, with just as much self-respect, I who have yielded to the tempter and gone beyond the limits of the. social i glass, but even the knowledge of that might not have kept me lrom indulg mg. What w,i« it, then?” “A sister s kiss. sentimental nonsense! Did die bribe you with a kiss?” “No; but listen. I have a sister just •orniug into womanhood — one of the purest, lovliest women I think God ever made. I have always had, whether I deserve it or not, a largo share of her warm, young heart, and Cvery evening when I enter the house she puts her arms about my neck and kisses me, with a glad look of welcome in her eyes. Roland, there are many things I prize in this life, but 1 would give them all up rather than that evening kiss. I thought, as yon did once, that I could 1 take a friendly glass and let it go so tar and no farther, and I even had the glass in my hand to carry it to my lips for the first time, when the thought of the kiss 1 would have that evening came into my mind. Could I take it if I drank the wine ? "Would not the odor of it still cling to my breath and poison the kiss ? I knew then that I must give tip one or the other, aud the glass was put back, for I could not give up tlio other, mid than I registered a solemn vow that, if I could help it, no stain of that kind should ever soil my sister’s lips. A few where" !V cnings after that we were out together the social glass was handed round. Now, there was no one there who did not consider himself a gentle¬ man, and who would not. under any circumstances, have kept within bounds before ladies, and yet I saw my sister shrink from any she had seen touch tlio wine, and when we went home she spoke of it, and, laying her head on my shoul¬ der, said, sadly: feel for their . 11 It makes me so sorry sisters, Tom.’ “Then I made another vow—that I would never take to the house one who took even a social glass. Perhaps I think was wrong to go so Jar, but I did not of its being so hard. You see yon are one of niv oldest friends, one of the noblest aiid truest fellows I know, and one I am proud of knowing, aud when I heard you were coming hero to live I made up my mind that our house should, be like a home to yon.” companion, soberly, "Tom,” said his “you have not gone too far—no. not even iu excluding me from your home. I think I will like, you all the better for it. I am glad you have told me what von have. If I had had ft sister—” “Would you have done the same? Then do it now. Stop for the sain: of some other fellow’s sister. Surely, the time will come when you will want another’s sister for your own.” "I don’t know, Tom,” wan the hesitat¬ ing reply. “If I did stop for the sake of'any other other fellow’s fellow. sister, What you would have be that you said makes mo a little envious. Suppose I were to stop and then grow so very envious—” companion, look¬ “Roland,” said his ing up, “I must give her up to some one, I know, aud there is no one to whom I would so willingly give her as “Then, Tom, you have my word for it that I will not touch wine again so long as I live. Your sister’s kiss has saved me as well as you—from what? God knows.” sisters Young men, there are other in this world like the one I have told you of, and such sisters make wives such ns a man may he proud of having won. For the sake of the one you may meet who would make your home so bright and cheerful you would bo glad to go fo it, sure of a welcome—for her sake, I say, stop ere it. be too late; bring no shadow of that kind info her life, but ba strong to resist, that the time may coma when she will put her hand in yours and tell yon you have made her life a very Liappv one.— Arthur's Home Magazine* The Country’s Wealth. Mr. Mulhall, of the Royal Society of London, who writes bo acceptably Kingdom, ou the wealth of the United haa given some attention to the growing wealth of this country. In his opinion the wealth of tho United States in 1880, as represented l>y houses, furniture, bul¬ manufacturers, railways, shipping, lion, lauds, cattle, crops, investments abroad, etc., was #12,000,000,000, which, adding roads, public lands, etc., valued at #7,700,000,000, gives a grand total oi #49,770,000,000, or about #1,000 for every human being in the kind. While the aggregate wealth of this country, according to Mr. Mulhall, is #9,000 000,000 in excess of the aggregate wealth of Great Britain, the wealth per inhabitant in that country is #1,16<V against #995 in this. A Cholera Factory. Sir Samuel Baker, writing to the Lon¬ don Times with reference to the out¬ break of cholera in Egypt, says:—“Da- of Oriental mietta is a disgusting example long, neglect and filth accumulation. A narrow street runs parallel wiih the rive* at the back of the dilapidated rise houses, frona which for a distance of a mile the level of the stream. This street is without drainage, and is a miserable channel of communication, deep with poisonous mud after a- heavy shower, and full of pest holes emitting germs of pestilence during hot and sultry weather, f cholera could be manufactured, factory.” there ould not be a more elaborate