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DENTIST.
TICE 3 WHITEHEAD HOUSE
Conyers, Ga.,
RUG STORE.
DR, M, R. STEWART,
lOMMERCE STREET, CONYERS, GA.
FreBh Line of Drugs and Fancy Goods just received, and will from
lis date be kept constantly on hand. All kinds of DRUGS, MEDI
ilNES, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES- TOBAC¬
CO, CIGARS, STATIONERY, FANCY TOILET SOAPs.
ind in. fact every thing to be found in 8b
First Class DRUG STORE. My terms are
STRICTLY CASH!
And on this account I can offord to sell my goods low, in fact
CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST
MY PRESCRIPTION
DEPARTMENT IS COMPLETE!
An all prescriptions sent to me will be promptly and carefully
Compounded.
I Sell The Famous A. Q. C.
C nceeded to be the best blood purifier known to the science
you want any thing in my line call on
VERY TRULY
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ONYERS GEORGIA.
CONYERS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. MAY II, 1887.
THE AMERICAN
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Address:
R. T. BUSH & SON, Publishers,
130 & 132 Pearl St., N. Y.
TH0S E BROADNAX,
13 AGAIN AT HIS
LIVERY STABLES,
And desires us to say to the
public that he is prepared to fur¬
nish the BEST TURNOUTS at the
LOWEST PRICES
Ever offered in Conyers.
NEW BUGGIE
FANC Y H0RSS,
Horses Boarded Cheap.
He keeps on hand a large lot of
Columbus Buggies.
And STOCK which he sells or
trades, just to suit the purchaser.
Call and see me at my old stand.
T. E. Broadnax,
Conyers, (xa £
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and guarantee all work. We also
v eep a full supply of Engine and
BOILER FIXTURES.
We are prepared to do »1, kbd.
of Engine work in the best of style
and at prices as low or lower than
Atlanta. Send your work at once.
H, D. Terell <fc Co.
Conyers, Gf
GRENADES*
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Liberal discounts to ag-ents.
for circulars and testimonials.
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01 & 53 Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
PRINTING
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AT THE OFFICE OF THIS PAPBB
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parties wanting these m»
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' MACON, Ga-
LABORS AGITATION.
Strike* Ordered nil Over TKe Country*
Bricklayers, bricklayers’ laborers and
carpenters; to the number of two hun¬
dred, have gone on strike in London,
Ont., for an increase of wages.
House painters in all Wilmington,
Del., shops struck for $2.50 per day, a
raise of 25 cents. granted Two tfie of the largest atid
employers is probable have that increase, will follow.
and it others
All the carpentets in Washington, to-day, City,
numbering because nearly 300, refused quit work to give them
employes
the same wages for nine hours work as
they received last season for ten hours.
A large number of carpenters struck
at Hamilton, Ont., for an increase in
wages to 22 $ cents an hour all around.
Printers in the Hamilton Palladium office
are to refuse be called out because the the proprie* of
tots to discontinue use
stereotype plate matter. The Palladium
is a labor paper.
The glass mixers and teasers, df Pitts¬
burgh, Pa., who struck two returned weeks ago
for ten per cent advance, to
work at their old wages. The recent
decision on the coke questiou was the
principal argument against arbitration,
and the fact that the Knights of Labor
did not support the strike, left the men
without resources;
A general strike of the coke Workers
of Connellsville, Pa., region is certain.
One-half of the men refused to go to
work, and others it is thought will strike.
The operators issued their ultimatum in
which they refused to make any conces¬
sion at present, but promised to consider
the matter as sotm as there Is an advance
in Cok for «- They are preparing tt) close
| down a long and bitter fight,
Sotne of the hands employed by Me
j ** * &j,
of wages. The demand arose from the
fact t “ at tke hands employed by R. L.
Bloomfield on his Clayton street improve
i ments were getting higher wages. Mc
; Ginty & Co., acceded to the increase,
stipulating however, that work should
begin earlier in the day than heretofore,
and that the stopping time should be
later.
KX0TTKJJENT IS FRANCE
Young Men Parade the Streets af Parle
and Sin* Patriotic Sons*.
A procession carrying a banner inscrib¬
ed, “To Berlin!” marched to the palace
of the Elysee, the residence of President
Grevy, in Paris, where it was dispersed
by the police. Another mob in the
neighborhood of Eden theatre, where
formed, Wagner’s shouted: “ Lohengrin” “ABaS^Alleniilgtie!" was being per¬
“Down with Germany!” “Vive La
France!” “A Berlin!” “On to Berlin!”
“A Bas Bismarck 1” “Give us back our
clocks 1” referring to Strasburg. A mob
composed of studpnts and gamins march¬
ed about shouting. They halted in front
of the army and navy club and there cried
out: “Vive i’armee Francaisel” “Vive
Boulanger!” “A Berlin!” Another mob
went to the building, occupied by the
Russian embassy, shouting, “Vive La
France!” “ Vive la Russie 1” “Vive Dal¬
liance Russie-Francaise!” The leaders
of this mob then proposed to their fol¬
lowers to march to the German embassy,
Place De La Concorde, singing the air,
“Lampions,” to the words of the song,
“Nos Pendules,” but it was stopped by
the police and turned away before it
could reach the German embassy.
Be sure if you do your very best in
that which left is laid without upon help yon when daily you
trill not be some
mightier occasion arises.
HAT TERS,
AND
0 £*ttts J'ttritisIjTrs.
THE BEST $1 SHIRT IN THE CITY.
Yalises, Umbrella’s etc.
9 PEACHTREE STREET.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
JosEriius Compton, present member of
the Legislature of Alabama, has left his
home mysteriously, Compton settled in
St. Clair Co. four years ago, coming from his
Kentucky, so he stated. He took up
abode in the little town of Eden, where
he followed the trade of a carpenter.
His life was exemplary, and in a year or
so he was elected town marshal. Last
year; after a seasonable Methodist probation, preacher, Comp¬
ton was licensed as a
and his sermons and exhortations were
of the most fervid and eloquent charac¬
ter. It turns out that thirteen years ago
he was engaged • in making- moonshine
whiskey in one of the mountain counties
of North Carolina and shot an officer, escaped. for
which he was imprisoned, but
He was tracked, and a requisition was is¬
sued for him recently, but he escaped
the officers.
Three hundred residences, Ala., are in With coursi
of erection iu Anniston, during a
prospect of twice this number,
(ho present summer.
The private batik of T. R. Beard at
Richmond, Tex., the liabilities amount to
$64,000; assets are valued at $62,000.
For several years the bank has been con¬
ducted by Mrs. Beard, under the name of
her deceased husband.
George' 8 . Hancock and Oiik Moore,
two citizens of Augusta, Ha,, had Wash¬ an
altercation at the artesian well on
ington street, which culminated in Han
co ek cutting Mo'ofe with a knife, inflict¬
ing wounds which may iff ore fatal.
A Young Men’s Christian Association
Mas recently been organized at Newberry, the
S. C.; there are now- one hundred on
roll. Money is being raised to erect a
building for the use of the association,
and already more than $3,000 has been
secured.
The trustees of the Monroe Female
ollegc at fVrsrth, Ga.f have devised a
jdan,°and arranged will toon boarding tf'Cct a commodious department
and well which
connected with the college, sup¬
plies a long-felt ivant to that institution,
and will place it in competition with the
best iu the state.
Capt. Burke of the Gate City Guards
and William Atwood Editor of the Capi¬
tol newspaper, had a fuss in Atlanta with
reference tci an article in the paper re¬
flecting on the conduct of the Captain the in
connection with the European trip of flour¬
Guards. Canes and cowhides were
ished around and the daily papers the mat¬ are
filled with lengthy accounts of
ter, It is hard to tell who had the ad¬
vantage in the scuffle.
juugu Hancock sentenced Holmes lb
Furyear at Petersburg, Va., to be hanged
on July 15 next, for the murder of his
wife by poison, The crime was com¬
mitted id Dinwiddic county nearly two
years ago.
Jones 8 . Hamilton, lessee of the peni¬ of
tentiary, and R. D. Gambrell, editor
the Sword and Shield, had a quarrel killed al¬ at
Jackson, Miss. Gambrell was
most instantly, having received several
shots in the head. Col. Hamilton is mor¬
tally wounded, being shot through the
body. The cause of the unfortunate af¬
fair wfls an article in the Sword and
Shield, a few days ago, severely criticis¬
ing Col. Hamilton’s private and public
character.
Six negro boys, thirteen to seventeen
years old, were at the wharf of the Wil¬
mington, N. C., compress, preparing rice to
go across Cape Fear river to shoot
birds. One named Grant Best had bor¬
rowed a double-barrelled gun from a
negro man which, he says, had no caps
on the tubes, and he did not know it was
loaded. While in the act of blowing and out the
one of the tubes, the hammer fell
barrel discharged, killing instantly Ed
Smith and B. Fillyaw. Ben Connoly and
Ed Fillyaw were also shot and died soon.
The annual parade of the fire grand depart¬
ment of Columbus, Ga., was a af¬
fair. Champion No. 6 won the first prize
in the colored companies’ contest.
Deputy United States Marshal John
Knox, at Lexington, Ga., arrested one
Adam Pope, colored. Adam is accused
of cheating and swindling, thougli he
claims to be blind.
Fire bugs in Macon, Ga., are Recently giving
the police plenty of anxiety
Policeman Watkins caught Jim Williams
starting a fire under a house, escaped. but two
companions of the incendiary
Capt. Dawson, of the Charleston, S. C.,
News and Courier, has just returned from
Europe where he was decorated by the
Pope for using his influence as a journal
ist against dueling. His first action on
landing from the steamer was to sue the
New York Sun for libeling him.
The coroner of Cartersville, Ga., held
an inquest over the body of a negro,
Babe Stafford, who died from the. effects
of a blow on the head inflicted with a
post of a chair by one Dee Stafford
This was a most unprovoked murder, and
the accused will doubtless suffer the ex
treme penalty of the law.
A shock of earthquake was felt at El
Paso, Texas, recently. It was percepti
a burned 'riie ri trie ns that onW invalids
and the helpless were left within doors.
For probably two minutes proceeding the !
£ k ,T.C ETrfMJpbt" articles
While the vibrations lasted, many
hanging on walls oscillated and some fell ^
to the floor, while plastering fell from Hie
fronts and ceilings of many dwellings and
businsss houses.
Though true self-denial is harsh at
the beginning, it is easy in the middle,
and becomes most sweet in the end.
His that injures another injures him
self.
NUMBER 11.
LATEST NEWS.
Paul Grottkan, an anarchist. who made
incendiary speeches in Milwaukee, Wit.,
was sentenced to one year at hard labor
in the house of correction.
A hot sirocco blew a whole week
throughout Hungary, parching vegetables
and rendering them inflammable. At Tot
razko three hundred houses were burned
and four lives were lost. The conflagra
tion lasted two days. At liuskburg ft
church and thirty-seven houses were de
stroyed. Many houses were burned at
Maregys. At Eperies all the churches
and public buildings were destroyed.
William Slaughter, one of the wealth¬
iest stock raisers in New Mexico, was
killed in American Valley by two men
named Youngblood and Adkins. Slaugh
ter was riding along the road unarmed
when Youngblood and Adkins met him,
and after a few words shot and killed
him. Last year Slaughter was a member
of the Sococro county grand jury, and a
large number of men were indicted for
cattle stealing, among them Youngblood
and Adkins.
The New York city police authorities’
learned that one of their own officers was
carrying on a regular policy and lottery
agency at his post of duty and in hi*
uniform. The policeman named was
Morris Colbert. He is assigned to a post
at the Mercantile building in lower
Broadway. The superintendent with a
pair of scissors proceeded to cut the brass
buttons off of the policeman’s coat. The
stripes were ripped from his trousers and
his badge taken from him. He waft than
placed in a cell .
France has concluded a defensive alii-
atfee with certain other powers, and
henceforth France will not be alone in
event of aggression against her.
Col. W. H. Bolton, ex-superintendcnt
of second-class matter in the Chicago,
III., post-office, who was convicted of the
embezzlement of about $25,000, was sen¬
tenced to four years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
John L. Lewis, colored, who has been
a trusted letter carrier for twelve years in
Cincinnati, O., was caught stealing mon¬
ey letters. He confessed his guilt.
The crib in Lake Michigan is in a dan¬
gerous condition and liable at any mo
ment to collapse and cut off the water
supply at Chicago, Ill. The foundation®
are exceedingly shaky, and an ordinary
gale of wind mokes the structure rock
like a cradle.
In consequence of the refusal of Eu¬
ropean powers to take part in the Pari*
exhibition, the French government will
postpone the opening until 1890, in order
to disassociate the exhibition from the
celebration of the hundredth anniversary
of the Revolution. 1
Editor McGuire, of the Mercury, of
Quebec, Can., was sentenced to six
mon tbs’ imprisonment and $200 fine for
libeling Mayor Lamglier and his brother.
McGuire charged them with having re¬
ceived a large sum of money from a con¬
tractor for securing a contract in connec
tion with city work.
The Western Export Association ha*
practically ceased to exist, although it*
organization is intact at Chicago. Many
distilleries refuse to coma into the pool.
They, therefore, decided to pay no as
sessments, pay no closed houses for the
coming month and to reduce the price on
whisky from $1.13 per gallon to $1.05,
decreasing the income of the pool $ 12 ,
000 per day or $2,000,000.
The anti-German “ * feeling h is so strong * in
Pan* that the proposed , performance of of
Lohengrin has been prohibited.
The Chinese government ha* ordered
c \ . m ; gsionary mugt hold
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a passport from his own government, in
order that his nationality may be shown,
otllcr passports are declared invalid.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
ed three men charged with ebbing . the ,
express car near Tucson, Ariz. They are
„ ame( i Barrock, Swain and McCussick.
^ were sa i oon keepers.
the Engle- .
Rev. Charles W. Ward,
wood, N. J., rector, recently accused of
attempting to murder his wife,was found
dea(] flt tbe jj 0me 0 f Judge Drew, his
counsel, at Rockland Lake, from an over
dose of chloral.
H Vanderbilt used to return his
f»p-v«
after his death the same property was as
,e^sed at $ 10 , 000 , 000 . The executors
” _ d t0 pa * _ on $5 000,000 or move out
of New York. A compromise of $8,000,
000 has just been agreed upon.
Thx Divine purpose tn unclothing is
only to clothe upon, He impoverishes
only to make rich, becoming in secret
himself the substitute for all he takes
away.