Georgia Historic Newspapers

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DENTIST.
ICES WHITEHEAD HOUSE
Conyers, Ga.,
RUG STORE.
DR, M, R. STEWART,
MMERCE STREET, CONYERS, GA.
resh Line of Drugs and Fancy Goods just received, and will from
date be kept constantly on hand. All kinds of DRUGS, VIE DI¬
NES, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES- TOBAC
). CIGARS, STATIONERY, FANCY TOILET SOAPs.
nd in fact every thing - to be found in a
hst 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.
^°ficeeded to be the best blood purifier known to the science
:U y° u want any thing in my line call
H VERY TRULY
DR. M. R SThWART i
CONYERS GEORGIA
CONYERS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 , 188 T,
THE AMERICAN
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Address:
B. T. BUSH & SON, Publishers,
130 & 132 Pearl St., N. Y.
TH0S E BROADNAX.
IS 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 BUGGIF
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, Qa £
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Owners and Operators of the
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and guarantee all work. We also
Veep a full supply of Engine and
BOILER FIXTURES.
We are prepared to do all kinds
of Engine work in the best of style
and at prices as low or lower than
Atlanta. Send your work at once.
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Conyers, Gf
GREIADES,
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Ql &53 Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
PRINTING
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
AT THE OFFICE OF THIS PAPS?
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THE EXCELSIOR
I i - j COTTON 6IN
: FEEDERS
AND
« CONDENSERS
■Guaranteed Itbe to be Kqnal Seed to
Best. Flelu the
I Clean. Gin* Fast and Make*
f The*Circular a Fine Staple.
Boll Box is
Patented, and no other ma¬
nufacturer can use it.
Send for Circular. No
' n trouble to communicate with
parties wanting these mt
P | Old Gins Repaired at short
Snotice and cheap.
■Massey Cotton Gin Works,
MACON, Ga.
A BRAVE OFFICER
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“ MOTHER 2 ™ 1 MM IZmSmT BADLY WOUNDED.
Alexandria, Vet., Excited Orer the DeviUik.
hes» of a Gnus ofBflfslar*
Julian Arnold, a pdliceman, was killed
hurt, and Ernest Alexandria, I, Padgett, a companion, while trying was
at Va., lot is
to arrest burglars. Near the circus
a sa!ooi h kept by Sefer Blouse, who had
taken in considerable money during the
stay of a circus. Between 11 and 12
suspiciously, crept up near Enough to of
overhear them plan the robbery
While discussing; what _
Blouse’s saloon.
it was best to do, the officers were joined
by another policeman and Padgett, w for to
had been an unsuccessful candidate
l? lice superintendent at the last election.
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saloon, and thus the four should inter
rupt the burglars. In following out this
plan, Arnold and Padgett discovered two
men lying flat on their backs in the circus
ring. They called to the suspected forward bur
glars to surrender, and rushed to
capture them. As they did so, the two
men drew revolvers, and one of them
shot Arnold in the breast and escaped,
Padgett knocked the other man down
witli a stick, when a life and death strug
gle ensued, the robber endeavoring to
kill or disable Padgett with a revolver
shot. One of the bullets fired inflicted a
scalp wound just over Padgett’s ear but
ho held on to his assailant until the other
officers arrived and captured him. The
murdered man had been on the force six
teen years. When but fifteen years of
age, he left home and.entered the Con
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die ii. Alexandria is in a state of fever
ish excitement, and threats of lynching reported
are made on all sides. It is
that the policemen themselves were pre
! vented from lynching Curran, one of the
burglars, by their superior officers.
an unhappy lord,
Made So, by an IrUh Editor.
At Montreal, Can., Mr. O’Brien the
Editor of the Dublin United Irishmen,
had a great ovation and made a speech offer of¬ m
which lie said : “I come not to
fense to any section or class of the Ca¬
nadian people. Quite the contrary; I
come not to meddle in Canadian affairs
not to deal with the career of Lord Lans
downe as governor-general, but as the
exterminator of five hundred human
beings. This being a free country, we
cannot expect everybody to agree with
us . but I believe we have such a strength
of justice and truth upon our side that
when all have heard our story, all will be
convinced. And that the Oanidian peo¬
ple will stretch out their hands and save
the lives and properties of these five
hundred poor tenants of Luggacurran,
for both are at this moment at your mercy
and in your hands.” It is feared the
Orangemen will meet Mr. O’Brien’s argu¬
ments by violence, and ample bloodshed. preparations
;\re being made to prevent
NKW CORPORATION.
Judge Clarke, of the Superior Court,
Atlanta, Ga., recently granted a charter The in¬
to the Atlanta Construction Co.
corporators are E. P. Barns, W. K. Park¬
ins and James A. Barns. The objects
are contracting, building, etc., etc. The
capital stock is $10,000, with the privi
'ege of being increased to $100,000.
1UOTIS & MW,
HAT TERS,
AND
t it t s Jfttritisfjfrs.
THE BEST §1 SHIRT IN THE CITY.
Valises, Umbrella __ , -n » S etc. x
ft 9 PEACHTREE PEACHTREE STREET STREET.
ATMSfA 980.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Birmingham, Ala., has a ful-lfledg'etl
dl Atlanta, Ga., until Detective pre ? tj ni Buch¬
anan laid him low with a pistol shot.
Incendiaries tried to fire several hofises
qj, Capitol avenue, Atlanta, Ga, out
happily failed in their dastardly work.
RomePh Rubiera, national secretary of
the Cuban federation of cigar makers,
who was expelled from TaifipM for attempting Fla.,.by
the v joilance committee, has to
to organize the cigar makers, gone
Washington J>. C. to enter a claim for
Z”.}
y s expnlsion. Sam
^ ,. onfxrcs?a ti 0 M greet Rev.
j onM and g a m Small at their
serviceg iu R om e, Ga. Ho weirs compress
j iag | jeen g p ec ; u lly fitted up for this pur- [
| gg \ and w ;|] comfortably seat 5,000
)eo A11 the ra i lr0a ds and steamboats
SUSdfr SffiS
* ‘‘Jack, *- u »—?* the Rabbit,” one o ® n !Y
groes chargedI with the murder of Pope
Wooten, in Walker County, Ala., has
been arrested at Birmingham.
The Piedmont Fair at Atlanta, Ga., is
booming, and the city has paid eighty ovei
$15,000 to its management. In
days the buildings Will be ready lor oc
cupancy. the murderers of
Albert Turner, one of
j enlde Bowman, has been indicted by
t ] ie grand jury at Louisville, Ky., tried
un( j er h; a confession of guilt and sen
tence( j to p, e Ranged July 1st.
Thirston Taller, ’ a member of the Cen
Church gu nd ^ hool of Macon,
Ga attended its first picnic, and batli
& “ OcmuWee was seized with
P and drowned h c was the sole
8 fc q{ a widowed mother.
paper - was sold recently ■»x£S5Xr or $105,000.
A negro woman who claimed to be 200
years old, and said her name was barah
Kiefer, has made matters pretty lively at
Toccoa, Ga.
The British government City emphatically Guards of
refuse to permit the Gate
Atlanta, Ga., to go to London with arms
or uniforms.
The Milledgeville Cadets won the first
prize, the Southern Cadets of Macon the
second prize, the Moreland Park Cadets
the third prize, at the Macon, Ga., drill.
L. W. Couch and T. N. Burdette had
a difficulty at Senoia, Ga., about chick¬
ens. Couch shot Burdette with a pistol,
and the latter brained him with a hatchet.
Couch died at once and Burdette cannot
live.
Allen Warder Hatch, who many years
ago was the merchant king of Wiscon¬
sin, and who resided in Milwaukee, died
at Chattanooga, Tenn. He was 84 years
of age. He came to Chattanooga a few
months ago for his health, but he was
broken down in every way and never re¬
covered. Mr. Hatch was worth more
than two million dollars at one time, but
he died penniless.
Invitations have been sent by the Press
club and chamber of commerce, of Bir
mingham, Ala., to Jefferson Davis and
his daughter, Miss Winnie, asking them
to attend the meeting of the state press
association, as guests of the city.
Goodson Hillyer, alias Bill Goodson.of
Monroe, Ga., who was pardoned out of
the penitentiary two months ago by Gov.
Gordon, died from hydrophobia. Shortly
after his return home, he was attacked
by a mad dog and the wounds healed up,
but recently he became delirious, and
died in great agony.
Peter Tripp and Alexander Caldwell,
of the town of Catlettsburg, Kentucky,
well-known fanners, quarrelled about a
fence, and parted threatening to kill each
other on sight. Both armed themselves,
and met on the road near town, and at
once opened fire on each other. Tripp
was instantly killed. Caldwell lived un
til the next morning.
meeting in New Orleans. Grand
Chief Conductor Wheaton praised strike. mem
bers for their action in the last
j Twenty-one new divisions have been
formed since the last annual meeting, and
2,386 new members added to to the order,
which has a membership of 10,330. A
bill was presented providing for the li¬
censing * of railroad engineers and con
ducto > and a resolution appointing action a
committee to secure congressional of 200 to
on the bill was passed by a vote
10 .
J. W. Fitzgerald, a fugitive from jus¬
tice in Abbeville county, 8. C,, was ar¬
rested at Westminster. H. B. Ziminer
I man, postmaster at the latter place, re
I ceived a letter a few days since from
Thomas L. Moore, trial justice at Ninety
Six, asking him to look out for a man
calling for letters addressed to J. W.
Brown, 8. 8., or J. W. Brown, D. W.
Mr. Zimmerman had been delivering let
ters for some time with such au address,
and he had no trouble in having Fitzger
aid arrested at once, He has served one
sentence in the South Carolina peniten¬
tiary, and there are now several warrants
against him, the most recent of which is
grand larceny. Fitzgerald escaped while from
the officers of Abbeville county
they were carrying him to jail.
CHANGED HER MIND.
Mr. Nun of Cumming, Ga., while
plowing, turned up a nest of young rab¬
bits which he carried home, giving odb
to an old cat that had lost her kittens.
She tenderly nursed it a few days till
probably concluding it too great a strain
upon her imagination, ate it.
NUMBER 12 .
LATEST NEWS.
Melonite the new explosive invented by
the French is a failure.
The governor of Pennsylvania has
signed the high license bill.
Minneapolis has a genuine case of lep¬
rosy brought from Norway.
Mrs. Grant, wife of Ex-President TJ.
S. Grant nearly died from diphtheria lately
hut is now recovering.
Over 2,000 engineers and artisans of
Bolton, Eng., have gone on a strike, and
it throws out of work over 10,000 work¬
men.
The _ Pope , has informed . . , „ Rev. Dr. T . Mc
Glynn that unless he presents himself at
Rome immediately, he will be turned out
. .. n a tholic Church
So many incendiary fires have taken
place in Minneapolis, Minn., that police
men with Winchester rifles are guarding
mills, lumber yards and factories.
Clinton J. Farrell receiver of the Bank
era and Merchant's Telegraph company of
Hartford, Conn., has sued the Western
Union Telegraph company for $1,000,000
for damage caused by cutting their wires'
two years ago.
The English government, acting on in¬
formation from secret agents in New
York, has sent the cutter Orwell to Car
rigaholt, Ireland, to watch for the arrival
of an American vessel with a cargo of
arms and explosives.
The subject of home rule in Cuba was
brought up in the Spanish Congress at
Madrid with considerable vigor. It has
been a long time since there were any
indications of the renewal of open rebell¬
ion on the island, hut the feeling that
greater independence is desirable is never¬
theless growing.
Never in the history of New York have
the Sunday laws been more rigidly en¬
forced than they are now, and those who
have heretofore defied the police, had to
close Sunday.
Miss Lily F. Brown, of Oakland, Cal.,
inherited $50,000 and expressed herself
desirous of marrying a sick man, who
would soon die, so that she could be a gay,
young widow. She met up with a young
printer named Frank McKee, who was
thought to be dying with consumption.
They were married, and the ideas of the
lady being made known to the printer
afterward, he not only refused to die,
but Lift his wife in disgust.
One hundred and forty thousand Aus¬
trian soldiers are under arms in Dalmatia,
prepared for the campaign.
Mrs. J. D. Pughand and her mother,
Mrs. Jackson, were fatally poisoned at
Portage, Wis., by eating head cheese.
The French government has closed a
velocipede factory at Maransville, near
Tunneviile, the property of a German
named Schmeitzer, who employed men
belonging to the German imperial army.
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro,
which arrived at San Francisco, Cal.,
from China and Japan, brings confirma¬
tion of the news of a disaster in the strait
settlements to the steamer Benton, ply¬
ing between Singapore, Penang and
Malacca. Of 200 persons on board, only
, 50 thus far have been saved.
j Another tragedy has just been enacted
,
at Lake Stamberg, Munich. . 1 wo young
ladies of Munich, Baroness Anna and
; Baronegs Louise, of Guttenburg, rowed
in a boat to the spot where King Ludwig,
of Bavaria, met his death and delibe,
ately threw themselves into the water
and were drowned. They were found
, c i aS p ed ln eac h other’s arms. Both were
pretty? rich and cultured .
Gov. Hill, of New York, has signed
the half-holiday bill. Hereafter, every
Saturday afternoon will be a legal holi¬
day in New York.
The high license bill passed the Penn¬
sylvania Senate by a vote of 36 to 11.
The bill was at once returned to the
House for concurrence in Senate amend
ments. After a brief discussion, the
House concurred in the amendments—
yeas 122, nays 57.
The Gettysburgh Memorial Associa¬
tion, who declined recently to assist in
the erection of a monument to commem¬
orate the magnificent charge of Pickets
at Gettysburg’s great battle, is a pri¬
vate corporation and has no connection
with any veteran Union organization.
No doubt the association will be “sat
down” upon very emphatically by the
Union soldiers, who at all times show a
disposition to recognize Confederate he
oism.
GONE DOWN.
The American ship Charles H. Mar¬
shall, which cleared from London Decem¬
ber ath, for Philadelphia, has not been
heard of since, and has been given up for
losi with her crew of twenty-three men,