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■FICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
! W. SHAVER .Publisher.
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fp^-Remember tribes every one who sub
and and pays the cash $1.25 for
he Weekly will be entitled to a draw
onr fine buggy which is to be given
J -av with this paper.
I “ Lookout for weddings.
We are for harmony and success.
Atlanta is to have a calico print
actory. f
We will soon he in need 0 more
.
•rain.
Mr. Sam Shaver has gone to Ral¬
eigh, N. C.
Save your money by buying goods
iat, Geo. W. Gleaton’s.
Candidates should begin to plant
heir advertisements.
Messrs. Jones and Brother are ex
client stage actors.
It is said that Jackson’s boom has
seen struck by Collins’ ram.
The tax receivers have all closed
ieir books in this town and county.
Mad dogs, graduates and candi
ates have the world by the tail.
We miss the dots from “ Roxana”
much when they fail to make
appearance. has about
Arch Orme, of Atlanta,
The spring goods at G. M. Jones
jjfc Co., are the prettiest ever seen in
this place. Call and see them.
Mrs Hancock, formerly Mrs Sparks
of this county, and daughter, of Fla,,
are visiting relatives near Cora.
The beautiful Miss Sadie Tallia
|l ferro has returned after a fetv weeks
visit to Augusta.
Meessrs. II. P. & D. M. Almand
[have had a pavement put in front of
j their s'ore on Center street.
There is no use talking, the Nats
have taken this county, congression
ally speaking. good
11 you want something that is
get the Self-Raising Buckwheat for
gale at U. F. Harper &3ro
Our county should have an active,
vigorous executive committee. There
H is much work to do having this fall. cool
W e have been some
nights and hot days, which is caus
ing some sickness,
e l When you want barter call on G.
The place to sell
and the place to buy.
Luther wears the broadest smile of
any hoy of his size in town, Luther
is to be congratulated.
“Little Annie” gives promise of
wielding a graceful and useful pen
| in the future.
Wheat has not been as badly dam
aged by the recent rains as was at
first thought. the
G. M. Jones & Co., lead van
when it comes to dress goods of
every kind and description.
The bird is having very poor suc
cess in catching the early worm since
the piscatorial club organized.
A mad dog has been creating con
I siderable excitement in town this
week.
■ Hon. W. L. Peek is having some
becoming improvements made on his
beautitul country place.
Dr. Stewart has one of the finest
pieces ot corn in the county behind
the Court house.
’ We are still in the race for Coronor
and we do not want our friends to
v forget it. 4
I Longshore & Sharp will buy all
the good oats they can get, and
l| will pay the highest market price for
| it.
Rockdale may yet have a candi¬
date fqr congress. This is something
Ithat should not be entirely forgotten
lis we move along.
1 Some of the dailies have discon
nued Talmage’s sermons so as to
Aake room for the base ball and
Walking matches.
The boys of Guinn & O’Kelley’s
school will prance to the front next
week and astonish the natives with
their eloquence.
You can now get all the brick you
g want right here at the depot by call
jpi ing on Messrs/ H. P. & D. M. Al
# mand. They are of the best grade—
made at Yellow River.
There are several houses in our
towu owned by able parties that
should be renovated and re-painted,
! Fix up your homes, gentlemen.
We were glad to see our young
friend, Mr. Fletch McCalla, of At¬
lanta, in the city this week.
The new style a baby’s dress, is
sixteen yards of dress for eight
inches of baby.
Bluster, loud swearing and a want
of respect for ladies and old arc not
qualities possessed by a gentleman.
There is a room in the Whitehead
House in which five attempts at sui¬
cide have been made. Two succeed
ed.
Funerals are getting to be so high
that editors, railroad magnates and
bank cashiers are now about the only
classes that can afford to die.
This section was visited by a con¬
siderable wind storm last Saturday
night. In some places fences and
trees were blown down.
It is said that a burglar got into
the house of a lawyer, the other night
and after a terrible struggle the law¬
yer succeeded in robbing him.
George W. Gleaton has a large
stock of general merchandise for sale,
at cost, for cash or on time, in the
Sigman stand, 2d door below hotel.
Mr. Jim Rhodes and Miss Mar
celle Harris, both of Atlanta, ran
away and married in Rome on last
Sunday night.
Sunday drinking is getting to be
too common with some of our young
men. We advise them as a friend
to desist.
v\ e believe there are only about
7 or 8 Jackson men in our town now.
The boom seems to have collapsed
quite suddenly.
The ladies will find s; ecial attrac¬
tions in dress goods, laces, trim¬
mings pockets, satchels, hoisery, &c.,
at Hudson’s.
The charming Miss Eunice Hud¬
son is spending some time in our
city, much to the delight of Augus¬
tus.
Hon. N. J. Hammond is expected
to address our people congressional
ly at an early day. We w ill be glad
to hear him.
I ask everybody to examine my
stock of shoes, hats, clothinn, etc. 1
propose to sell them at cost, for cash,
or on time. Geo. W. Gleaton
We go to press too soon this week
to give anything definite from Chic
ago. The indications are that Cleve
land or Bayard will be the nominee.
We have heard several good men
say that they would be pleased to
see D. N. Hudson again sheriff of
this county.
Many of our ladies have had their
yards cleaned and shrubbery trimmed
by a traveling colored man this week,
A considerable improvement is dis¬
tinguishable.
Alf Doyal’s trial has been put of
again and ex-Judce R. P. Trippe
and ex-Governor James M. Smith
added to the array of counsel, Doyal
will never hang.
We want our people to send us in
the news. If anything happens of
any interest to the county as news,
send it to us, and we will gladly
make a note of it.
The fellow who whittles the most
whitepine and cultivates the largest
patch on the seat of his trowers is
generally the one who makes the
largest score in a walking match.
Mr. Arch informs us that Tom’s
field was so large that he didn’t hear
a man halloa across it and that sev¬
en chickens eat all the wheat he
made but about 4 or 5 bushels.
The fast local mail between here
and Covington is all right again and
makes regular trips. Is it true that
the carrier makes it his regular occu¬
pation ?
Mr. Henry M. Few, of Longview,
Ga., formerly of Madison, but re¬
cently with Goldsmith & Co., of At¬
lanta, was found dead on the railroad
track near his home on last Monday
night. Killed by a freight train.
We notice by the proceedings that
the cemetery committee has made no
report. We think it is high time
that the cemetery at Conyers, Ga.,
was receiving some attention. It is
surely in a bad condition.
Tbe musicale at Almand’s Hall,
given by the “Conyers Musical
Club” on last Monday night was
good. A large number of our peo¬
ple were out and were highly enter¬
tained for several hours.
The crop prospects m Rockdale
were never better than at present.
Corn is being “laid by” and cotton
is growing and fruiting rapidly. A
good crop this year w ould place the
farmers of Rockdale on a firm finan
c i a ] foundation. We do hope they
will have it.
Chunks of wisdom ns large as muss
tsrd seeds are being thrown at the
unsuspecting voter by Congressional
aspirants. ’
We learn from 1 fr. W. IT. Camp
that the buttm.ent of flat bridge has
been moved around and that it is
impassible to cross it with a horse or
team of any kind. It should receive
immediate attention.
We bought a lot in the cemetery
and had our names marked on the
diagram, yet there are three graves
put there by other parties. Our city
administrators have been very slack,
inleed.
Charles and George have pur¬
chased a dog together which they
hire a boy to hold near the Metho¬
dist church, and pinch his tail and
make him howl until after eleven
o’clock. Then the “mad dog’’ disap¬
pears and they can cro home.
We are for our county first. We
would oppose our iriend legitimately
and earnestly for the good of our
county; but where there is any
doubt as to who is the most availa¬
ble for a position, put us down for
those who are for us.
We regret to chronicle the death
of Mr. J. J. Bailey, a most estima¬
ble gentleman, of Henry county,
which occurred on last Monday
night at his residence, of lung dis¬
ease. He leaves a widow and chil¬
dren to mourn his death.
The negroes of this county ar e
working better, under better con¬
trol and are better behaved this
year than at any time since freedom.
We think this improvement is at¬
tributable to the abolition ot whig.
*y
We are sorry to learn that our
young friend, Mr. C. J. Almand, of
Carrollton, is at his father’s in this
county quite side. We hope soon
to chronicle his complete restoration
to health.
A dead-beat, professing to be a
jeweler, and swindling the people un¬
der the name of Woolsey, stopped at
the Butler House a few days this
week, am^ under the pretense ot put¬
ting up a shop here, gol several
days board. He left here Wednes¬
day evening for Atlanta, leaving his
board bill unpaid.
The Solid South has contended
from its foundation tbat no mat
should be raised to any position of
trust whose moral character is not
above reproach. If the Solid South
will take the trouble to examine the
criminal record of Fulton county
something may be found that will
cause it to change its favorable atti¬
tude toward a certain candidate or
its ideas of morality. You are in a
predicament, brother, from which
you should extricate yourself.
We planted a wheat crop last fall
a nd yesterday got it safely housed.
We have enough wheat farming. It
costs too much. We rented one and
a half acres of land, and paid $1.50
to have it broke up; $4.50 for fertil¬
izers; $2 for seed wheat; $1.50 for
ploughing in; $1.00 for harvesting;
50 cts. for threshing and $1.50 for
rent. We now have in our posses*
sion five bushels of wheat which in
its wet state is worth about $3.50.
Recapitulat’n. Expenses $12.50
Yield . . . 3.50
Loss . . . $9.00
There has been mouey made by
our wheat farming, no doubt, but we
want it distinctly understood that
we didn’t make it, and that we
sow no more wheat.
The Rockdale Piscatorial Club has
been permanently organized with the
following officers:
G. P. Tilley, President.
C. W. White, Vice-President.
J. A. Guinn, Secretary.
T. E. Sims, Treasurer.
The past experience as well as the
fast increasing business of the Club,
has demonstrated the fact that a gen
eral business manager is necessary
and they have secured for that re¬
sponsible position the Hon. I. M.
Annistead. Parties having bills
against the Club wiU present same
properly audited to the Treasurer at
the Club Rooms, corner Decatur and
veneer, utrepts otit. Anv j e> erentlemen de
•
sirous oirona of Oi heoominor ueoumu a member of this
&
pi,.}, piuu u-ill wm be ^ subletted j one day - 8
trial on Yellow River m company of
,lut not ' Ipsh than two regular
of the Club
, , „
Wanted -Seventeen bushels OI
for „ fishing .
earth worms to use pur
^ noses. None but first quality wan
‘ted. G- ^ P- ... I ILLEY, a resided
J. S. Johnson and Frank Smith
having duly made applies’ion to be¬
come members of the Rockdale Pis*
catorial Chib, were recent!v subjec¬
ted to the necessary test., but were
unanimously declared unfit for duty.
The Gainesville Soutbron says :
•‘Mrs. Smith laid on our table, yes¬
terday. the largest egg that we have
ever seen ” Mrs. Smith must be a
very remarkable woman; or proba¬
bly Uncle Pete was just recovering
from a severe ‘case of hen-peck.’
If you cannot forgive a person who
you fancy lias injured you how can
you expect the one who, every day
of your life, you have wronged and
sinned against to forgive you? By
refusing to forgive, you are simply
knocking down the bridge over
which you yourself must pass.
We regret to chronicle the death
of Annie May, the little infant of
Mrs. M. J. Hollingsworth. Only
a short while ago her husband died
and this is the last of their three
children. We deeply sympathise
with the bereaved lady. The baby
was six months old, died on Monday
night and buried in Rockdale ceme¬
tery on the 8th inst.
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and beneficial. It is the most elegant,
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tre, and texture.
The public exercises of Conyers Male
and Female Academy will take place
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, i 6 th,
17 th, 18 th inst, which time will be taken
up about as follows : Wednesday, be¬
ginning at 8 0 clock, a. in., will be devo
ted to the examination of primary and
common school classes. Wednesday
evening, beginning at 8 o’clock, to pub¬
lic meeting of the L- A. Society ; Thurs¬
day morning to the examination of the
more advanced classes ; Thursday even¬
ing, beginning at 8 o’efock, to annual
entertainment ; Friday morning, to reci¬
tations and declamation by the larger
pupils, and concluding with a literary
address by Prof. S. C. Caldwell, of Home
Female College. Everybody most cor ¬
dially invited to attend all the exercises.
R. A. GUINN, \
T. D. O’KELLEY, / Principals.
Death of Mr. John Mitchell.
We stated in our last issue that
Mr. John Mitchell, son of Capt.
Thomas Mitchell, of Walton county,
who died at the Whitehead House in
this place on last Friday night, took
morphine. While this is the opin¬
ion of the physicians there is no pos¬
itive proof, and many are inclined to
the belief that bis death was natural.
We learn also that the story in the
Constitution about iiis betraying the
confidence of a young lady, is also
untrue. He was a young man of
brilliant mind and many noble qual
ties, and his death is a heavy blow
10 his family and friends. Capt.
Mitchell arrived Saturday morning
and when he looked upon the dead
body of his boy his grief was great.
We extend to him and his family our
sympathies.
On The Wing.
More rain and less dust.
Cievtr Ed Ragsdale spent several
days in town this week.
Another crank skipped the town
this week.
The Conyers Musical Club was a
grand success, and every tody was
.highly pleased.
“Dixie” is mistaken whoa he said
A. 1). lost his hat when he went to
Atlanta.
Louis Bellah is the best Marshal
Conyers has ever had.
We regret to announce that Mr.
* J. W. Johnson is vtry ill. We hope
he will soon recover.
Dr. J. H. Seamens, our popular
dentis , has been quite sick this week,
but is able to be out again.
The lovely Miss Eva Carr return
ed home this week fiorn Covington.
Louis Bellah will challenge Mr. D.
& Butler for a «ne hour walking
match.
Arthur Sharp is ODe ot the best lit¬
tle fellows in (own, and we know
somebody else will agree with us.
A. D.
Not a Single Gray Hair, I
| hair ^notonly. quite ,
t sain—made in New York, I think—did won
|dcrsforme. really does what Try I it say, if you and have restores occasion, the color it
also.” Not a dye, not greasy, highly per
fumed. Only reliable50c. dressing.
cheer _— Up , Hg1d is at ... Hand. |
“I’m afraid I shall have to betaken to
! pital or to the poor house. I ve been s.ck so :
! l° u 2 t!iat my husband, good and patient as he ;
I is, can’t stand the worry and expense much i
i longer.” No, you won’t dear wife and moth- j
i er. See what Parker’s Tonic will do for you. 1
i plenty of women as badly off as you art,.have
stomach, ^"bmidyon^p'^curing'i^amnln^of liver and kidneys, and is simple, 1 "the |
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Council Proceedings.
Conyers, Ga., July 7th, 1884.
City Council met and was called
to order by A. lit. Helms, Mayor,
Aldermen present: Willis IrwiD,
A. J. Pierce, J. J. Langford, S. D.
Night and G. M. Jones. Minutes of
last meeting read and approved.
Street committee was ' given until
next meeting in which to report.
Cemetery committee made no re
port.
Finance committee report received
and adopted.
Mayor's report received and adop
ted.
Clerk’s report received and adop
ted.
Marshal’s report received and
adopted.
Treasurer’s report received and
adopted.
Street overseer’s report received
and adopted.
On mot on, Ci’y Council adjourned
to meet the 1st Monday in August,
at 4 o’clock, p. m.
A. M, Helms, Mayor.
M D. Irwin, Clerk.
Wayside Gathering’s.
All of our wheat came nigh being
ruined.
The neighbors bottom corn was
damaged u great deal by the late
washing rains.
Miss Julia Ivey, one of Conyers
lovely young ladies spent several
days in this neighborhood visiting
friends, the guest of (Milly.) We
hope Miss Julia will come again soon
A certain young lady of Conyers
says she is learning how to tuck on
the machine. She said when she
learned, she wa3 going to be a-a-a
•‘Tucker.”
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the First Baptist Church, is doing
a good work. We hope to see more
of t l >e members take hold of the good
work than is.
The storm on last Saturday night
did considerable damage to the fruit
trees in this neighborhood, as they
were heavy laden with their delicious
fruit.
The cotton in this neighborhood is
looking fine since it has been worked
over after the rain.
Milly.
Liberty Chapel Dots.
The mos^of our farmers are done
laying by corn.
The Weekly comes out in a neat
new dross, clean type and good
enough for any man, so, hurah for
the W KKKLY.
The prospect for a good corn crop
was never better in this immediate
vicinity.
Mr. J. M. McDonald is 011 c of the
happiest men in the county—it’s a
girl
We had cotton blooms by the 30th
ult.
The protracted meeting will com¬
mence at the F. M. P. Church, Sat¬
urday before the 4th Sunday.
Mr. J. N. Veal, of Longview, Ga.,
is visiting relatives and friends in
our neighborhood.
Capt. A. D. had to go and tell on
me; now boys when you see A. D.
board the train you may know for
a certainty that he has gone to At¬
lanta to see his doney. Look out
next time and don’t loose your hat
Major.
Elder G. A. Hill, preached in the
Chapel last Sunday morning to an
attentive audience.
We failed to go the pic-nic at Oak
Hill on the 4th. We were busily
engaged in kiln drying our oats. I
guess the philosopher, (Rockdale
Boy), will give a history of the day
and tell us something about the ban¬
quet; brother Rockdale Boy, you
must remember that the pic-nic and
camp meetings are coming on at an
early day, and you ought to inform
Mr. Paddie about it, before he con
sumes all the chickens in Egypt.
Now, brother, you, must remember
that a goodly number of the Egyp
tains are fortune-tellers, and I would
like for some one to tell me if my
doney is a Rockdalean or an Egyp¬
tian.
Dixie.
A walking Skeleton.
Mr. E. Springer, of Mechftniesburg, Fa.,
writes: “I was afflicted with lung fever and
abscess on lungs, and reduced to a walking
Skeleton. Got a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, which did
me so much g< od that 1 bought a dollar bottle.
wjth a hearty rpnetite, and again in fiesh of
^ •> call at Dr. W. H. Lee's Drug Store
an(J ^ et a bottle of this certain cure
for a jj i, UDg Diseases, Large bottles $1.00.
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I lie Georgia „ T?., r i:bmer is one < i
the best agricultural journals in the
State.
Items From Flippen.
Mk. Editor: —As we have been
absent for some time, we have not
gathered the news around our little
town.
Owing to the wet weather the
wheat and oats of this section is
sprouting, and is almost ruined.
There is more grass in this portion
of Henry county than has been for
several years, and if the rain Contin¬
ues one week, cropA already will he a total
failure; there has been en¬
tirely too much rain for cotton.
Moss brothers have gathered six
hundred dozen bundles of oats, from
13 acres, and one hundred and fif¬
teen bushels of wheat from 9 acres.
Mr. John Jones, a man who lost
one leg in the late war, says he will
walk a race with any one Ieged man
in Georgia.
Dr. Ira Richardson, has opened a
school of 50 scholars, at Stockbridge.
Success to you old friend.
Mr. Sam Rowan killed a crane l^st
week, that was 5 feet and 6 inches
high and 6 feet and 3 inches from
tip to tip.
Mrs. Glass, wife of Judge Janies
Glass, returned home Thursday from
Moran, where she has been for sever¬
al months, for her health. She is
very much improved.
Messrs. Ben Brennon and Wm. A.
Rose are gone to Fayett county as
delegates from Salem church to a
general meeting.
On the evening of the 26th ult., at
the residence of Mr. Alex. Crumbly,
Capt. John F. Moss was united in
the holy bonds of wedlock to Miss
Laura Bryans. Rev. John Jackson
officiating. Capt. Moss is tax collec¬
tor of Henry county and one of the
most prosperous young farmers of
the county, w r hile the bride is one of
Henry’s fairest daughters. May your
lives be one of peace and happiness.
John, has your heart abated ?
The annual celebration of the Hen¬
ry County Sabbath School Associa¬
tion will be held at Mt. Bethel church
cn the first of August.
Mr. Allen Crumbley will teach a
singing school at Zoar during the
summer.
Rev. Albert Gray preached an able
and impressive sermon at Zoar the
other Sabbath. Nick.
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fifty cents abottle by Dr. w. H. Lee.
MONEY TO LOAN
I am prepared to negotiate Loans
on improved farm lands in Rockdale
county. C. McCalla,
A.
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