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CONYERS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER T, 1887.
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Owners and Operators of the
Who sell the entire products
Bf their immense factory direct to the public.
Prom tbi you can purchase npon liberal terse.
THE BEST ORGANS MANUFACTURED.
1 WARRANTED FOB SIX YEARS.
Catalogue and full particulars free.
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DR. J. J.
DENTIST.
OFFICE 3 WHITEHEAD HOUSE
Conyers, Gba.,
DRUG STORE.
DR, M. R, STEWART,
COMMERCE STREET, CONYERS, GA.
Fresh Line of Drugs and Fancy Goods just received, and will from
this date be kept constantly on hand. All kinds of DRUGS,
CINES, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES.
CO, CIGARS, STATIONERY, FANCY TOILET
And in fact every thing to be found in
First Class DRUG STORE. My terms
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.
Conceeded to be the best blood purifier known to the science'
IVhsn you want any thing in my line call on
me. VERY TRULY
DR. M, R STKWART,
n ONYERS t ■ GEORGIA
THE EXCELSIOR
; COTTON CII
: FEEBESS
AND
COHDEKSEES
Guaranteed Best. Picks to be E«pi*J the Seed *®
the Post and Stakes
Clean, Gins
it Fine Staple#
The Circular Boll Box is
Patented, and no other ma¬
nufacturer can use it.
Send for Circular, No
trouble to communicate with
parties wanting these ma¬
chines. Repaired at short
Old Gins
notice and cheap.
i Mat&ey Cotton Gin Work*,
iMACOti, <**.,
We will insert you a, nice, well-diSplayed ad
vertisement at as low rates as any first-class
paper can afford to do. Advertising rates made
known on application.
SUPPORT YOUR HOME PAPER.
A PLANTER’S HOME,
1 PROltUCTIVE FARM. IN THE
MISSISSIPPI VELTA.
.1 Lordly piac« l.ikc Unto An English Bsr
oninl Sent—A *30.000 Bin House
For tl 3,000 Bale Fttrm.
“And how many acres does lie culti¬
vate?”
“Well, I could never get him to say,
but I think it is about 4,000, though it
may be more.”
The speaker was Treasurer Heming¬
way, of Alississippi, and he plantation was speaking in
of ex-Governor Alcorn’s
Cphoama county.
Four thousand acres in cultivation is
, than 90 of the .
arger . per cent tarms in
Ceorgia, including every bit of laud m
the tract. It is a question whether there
are 1° 4,000 plantations m Georgia AIississippi that con :
tain acres, and yet a
planter cultivates that number. Gov.
Alcorn s place is admitted to be perhaps
the tmest in the southwest. A man of
large wealth,he farms in the most liberal
manner. Gov. Lowry said the other day,
speaking of him and his plantation, there
!* »othn,g J. like it any where En in 1,sl1 the ba conn
y ; 1S .r re hke ah f T U
seat than the river home , ot a southern
planter. It is a lord y place with every
thing on the most magnificent scale.
Hie house is a perfect palace, built for
comfort and entertainment and furnished
with everything that a refined and cu -
Uvated taste could suggest ot demand,
The plantation is on the same magmh
cent scale; and if it could be artange.l it
would be a treat to any one to sjiend a
day upon that domain.
The gin-house on the Alcorn place Peach¬ is
about as costly as a mansion on
tree street in Atlanta, and it ts estimated
that it eoilld not he replaced for less than
$30,000. It is necessarily obliged 3,000 to be
large, for within a very few months
biles of cotton have to be marketed at
that house. These large places are only
possible with great wealth, and this char¬
acterizes Gov. Alcorn and others vi'ho run
them, blit it shows What can be done on
the river bottom, or in the “Delta coun¬
try,” as the Mississippians are pleased to
call it. Stock raising and grass culture
are carried on to a very large extent. The
matter is in its infancy, hut already there
are stock farms where tliero are 60
dams for mules. These mares are
worked to make the corn crop and in
harvesting the hay for the entire place.
This work is not injurious and adds con¬
siderable to the profit Of stock raising by
making the dam earn her salt in many
ways. For the purpose of raising mules,
the half Percheron mare is said to be the
Lest. Tlie finest pair of mules sefen
here were bred from this stock. They
Were Strong and powerful, add bald but
little of the heavy clumsiness character¬
istic of the Percheron stock.
With hay, the Bermuda seems to be the
favorite. It is regularly cultivated, and
the yield is prolific. During the past
few months hay has been very scarce,
and the price consequently very high,
and the stockmen have seen the wisdom
of raising large quantities of he it. bale In of a
year or more there will not a
Tbe western stock hay imported in devoted Mississippi.
fates hre not exclu¬
sively produced to horses and numerously mules, though than these
are more any
other variety, but on nearly all the large
places you see fine cattle. The Jersey is
the most common, though the Durham
and the Holstein are frequently met with.
'J he advantage tlie Jersey has the over rcadi- the
other breeds in the South was
ness with which it adapted itself to its
new surroundings. With the Holsteins,
they were good breeds to have on rich
bottom lands where food grew luxuri
antly, but for upland places, where a cow
has to knock about right smart for her
living, the Holstein was does not a success. It
is a Is;/,y animal; it not know how
to provide for itself, and unless every¬
thing is in tlie greatest abundance about
it, it will not thrive without It feeding
and Jersey constant in watching. excellent is superior beef to
the that it is an
cattle, and the cows at the same time are
by no means poor milkers. The most
popular cattle are the Devon, for
working purposes. the of winter
One of best specimens
provender in Alississippi is mixed clover,
which grows as well as it does in the
best sections of Kentucky. The planters
put it in freely, and they are rewarded
with sire. as In splendid the spring a crop and as one could liet- de¬
summer no
ter grazing can be found than that af¬
forded by the prairie land, and cattle
numbers, can be kept at a nominal cost keep in larsre them
it is possible to cured
up in Winter by feeding prairie
grass to them, but this is seldom done
unless provender is ven* scarce. The
other and finer qualities of grass grow
too failure, luxuriantly to make its crop ever a
and he is a very poor and indif¬
ferent farmer who fails to bale more thin
enough for winter consumption.
ducing Alississippi is not solely a cotton this pro¬
state. It is true that season
the cotton crop there has been better than
it has been in any Southern state. The
early drought did not affect it, as it did
in Georgia, Alabama and Texas, con-e
quently ibe yield was better, and qualify
better, and in every way the crop more
of a success. But the corn crop of the
state is a large one. .and will hereafter
grow larger and larger. The corn lauds
of Mississippi yield surprisingly. At
tor r. cent large fair held in the state the
premium for the greatest number of
bushels of corn made fer acre was
awarded to a mart who gathered 145.
Thi- was phenomenal, but sixty to sev
enty-five is not in certain quarters. In
C oh'.arn i county, corn is made in a larger
quantity than in any county in Georgia;
in Washington county, and in ail the
Delta counties, not Very much is raised,
but thr upland counties in other parts of
the slate produce well .—Atlanta Cw*ti
tutiou.
A GEORGIA WOMAN
tUlngs Pretty Lively at the National
Convention 6f th* Prohibitionists*
The national central conSuffttee of the
prohibition party met in Chicago, 111,
There were probably 500 persons present
during the day. The principal select objects
of the meeting were to u successor
to the late .)dhn B ; Hindi, chairman of
the committee, to select a time and
place for the holding of the national con¬
vention, and to discuss ways and means
for carrying on the campaign, The na
tional committee as arranged embraces
L. 0. Calisin, of Alabama; !<<•;. F. F.
Watkins, of North Carolina; J. W.
Smith, of Tennessee; B. Craufiil. of
TexUs, and Frank Burt and J. D. Cars
caddeit, of West Virginia, The meet
i n 4 g was more like, a Sunday-school contention con
v tion thau a po ‘ , iti( , a! , uq
(iu d } sc<lsSion ur0Re a motion to
make j^WreSce Lord a legal
delegate e from the state of Oeorgii. i'
Mrs Lord addressed the convention “I
stftnd hcre as represen i tative,” said site,
.< Bnd not a9 a W0 WI1< in this work, I
waftt }fc ander8to od, woman stands on an
4 { ^ ° ^ ^ [App | inl8ei]
B L d . b w wi j, vdto „ ith [Up
r rious cheering.) 1 ask to be placed
^ upon this committee because f want to
j wU1 ° back to Georgia and
ize ^ rt part ^mbet if we have none there
1 a of the national
committec at p itts burg, & and did not an
^ ^ an /o trouhle in beillg appointed had
h t0 . da The lady almost near
enough ^ votes to diacU8gion secure her appointment. it,
but f aa the looked as if
wou d never en(J ’ tbe motion was laid on
thft h withou beiDg voted 0B<
PROHiMTIONIST killed.
An Atlanta Alan Rocked H r r 1!I1*C lie Sale
lie Was
Charnel! HlghLVwer, li young man who
was struck by a negro' 'M Atlanta, Ga.,
on Ivy street, died at the St. ut&rfte Ho¬
tel in the James’ Bank block, liis re¬
mains will be sent to Fort Valley for in
termOrif. In Ms ante mortem statement,
Hightower said: “I was walking down
Ivy street, near th6 liORpltal, and met
three or four negroes, and one' Of them
asked me if I was wet or dry. I did riot
answer, and attempted to pass on. The
crowd then got in front of me and in¬
sisted that I tell them if l was wet ot
dry. I replied that I was htth, but this
did not satisfy them and I had to tell
them the truth, that I was dry. I then
moved rapidly away, fearing trouble,
when a rock struck me on the left side
of my head, jilst behind the ear. I did
not know the negroes, and don’t know as
I ever sftw them before.” The jury de¬
cided that an autopsy was essential, and
after fffaking one rendered the following
verdict: “We, a coroner’s jury, this day
impaneled to inquire info the cause ol
the death of Charnell Hightower, evidence here ad¬
lying dead, find from the
duced and the opinion of the count]
physician, after autopsy made in oui
presence, that the deceased came to bis
death from effusion of blood on the brail
from a blow received on election day by
a rock thrown by some been unknown connected party.’ with
Mr. Hightower had
Kuhn’s photograph gallery for years, anc
Was a young man of tine character. Ht
was a member of St, Paul’s Methodist
Church and of A the Young Men’s Prolii
bition Club. Committee of live front
the Young Men’s Prohibition Club wen
appointed to wait upon the Governor and
request the offering of a reward of $300
for the arrest of the murderers. By un¬
animous vote the club resolved to offei
an additional reward of $500 for the ar
red with proof to convict of the murder¬
ers of Charnell Hightower.
A CHANCE Foil SHARP.
The New York Court of Appeals of has
reversed the decision in the case Jake
Sharp, convicted of bribing New York
aldermen, for which he was sentenced
to state prison and a new trial was or¬
dered. When the news of the Sharp
decision reached the court house in New
York city, it created considerable stir
among the lawyers present in the numer¬
ous courts. Mr. Clark, law partner of
Congressman Bourke Cock ran, who ar¬
gued the case on appeal, on Ludlow receiving the
news, at once started for street
jail to convey the glad tidings to Jacob
Sharp. He first saw Mrs. Sharp. had heard She.
cried with jov, and said she
so many rumors that she found it diffi
cult to "believe it. She then broke the
news to her husband. He manifested no
emotion whatever, anti seemed even to
take but little interest in the matter.
Since his conviction he has fallen into a
moody, stolid state of indifference to all
outward things, from which it seems
impossible to rouse him.
IN THE TOII.IS AGAIN
The Dr. James O'Malley, who is ac¬
cused, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., of crime l i
Annie Davis, aged J8 years, whose wid¬
owed mother jives in that city, is the
James Malley who, with his cousin, Wal¬
ter Malley, was made notorious by hi
trial for the murder of .Teunie Cramer i;
New Haven, Conn., in 1881. Dr. James
O’Malley has been leading a fast life lot
some time past. Immediately after tin
New Haven scandal he was sent to ihc
New York College of Surgeons, where he
graduated. He then went to Wi kis
barre, and his brother, Dr. A. P. O’Mal
ley..fitted up an office for him and pu
hint on his feet. The same brorbei
warned James that be must quifhisbad
habits and not bring disgrace upon him
self. The doctor is about 33 years ot
age, and handsome in 'appearance.
A COBB PI.ACE
The coldest day ever known in Water¬
loo. Iowa, at this season of the year, v as
expe ienced recently, the temperature
reach ng thirty-nine degrees below zero.
NO. 41.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL i
INTERESTING SUMMARY OF IN¬
FORMATION ABOUT CONGRESS.
Tire OeparliiietttaTery H»*y - Knpid Itec®n
*!i-nction of the Navy—Con*res»S»«»a*
Proceedings—Personals.
PEPPERMINT RAISERS TROUBLED.
Hundreds of petitions from around
Lyous, N. Y., have been forwarded to
Secretary Fairchild to rescind the recent
order to tbe effect that Japanese or de
mentholized peppermint oil may be ad¬
mitted to the United States in bond and
may be repacked in American bottles for
export. Peppermint oil is by far the
most important factor in the thousands agricultural of
wealth of that, locality, and
people derive their livelihood therefrom.
Japanese peppermint is very cheap and
can soon drive out American peppermint
oil.
RIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
Tlie annual report of the life-saving
service, shows that the establishment
embraced, at the close of the last fiscal
year, 218 stations, as follows: One hun¬
dred and sixty-six on the Atlantic, 44 on
the lakes, 7 on the Pacific and 1 at the
falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. The
number of disasters to documented ves¬
sels reported within the field of station
operations during the year was 332. On
hoard these vessels were 0,327 persons,
of whom 6,273 were saved and 55 lost.
The total number of lives lost during the
sixteen years of existence of the life-sav¬
ing system is only 357 out of over 35,000
involved.
THE FREEDMAN’S BANK.
The resolutions serf up by the Macon,
Ga., depositors in iue Freedman’s bank
will receive attention. Jeff Long, the
committee of one who was selected by the
Macon depositors to deliver the resolu¬
tion to Congressman Blount, says that
Congressman Blount is in receipt of the
following letter: Executive Mansion,
Washington.—Hon. James H. Blount,
Macon, Ga. Dear Sir:—The President
directs me to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the ULh inst., enclosing a
petition from certain stockholders of the
Freedman’s bank, and to say that con
sidefrttion will be given to their request.
Very respectfully, D. S. Lamont, Pri¬
vate Secretary, “The Macon depositors
are highly elated at tbe interest mani¬
fested in their behalf by Congressman encouraged
Blount, and are very much
by President Cleveland’s assurance to
give their request consideration. There
is about $52,00(1 owed by the bank to
the Macon depositors.
NOTES,
Secretary Vilas has become almost a
millionaire since he entered the Cabinet
by the rapid development of mining land
on the southern shore of Lake Superior
The acting Secretary of the Treasury
has appointed the following storekeepers North
and gttagers in the fifth district of
Carolina: Henry V. Hix, at Wilkesboro;
James H. Gilbert awl George W, Adams,
Jr., at Mulberry.
Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager
has refused the application of portion parties to of
make homestead entries of a
the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., to which it
is claimed the city has no title. The
acting commissioner holds that the lands
are reserved for the town site and are not
subject to individual appropriation,
MOST GU1I.TY. 1
When the trial, in New York, of John
Most, the noted anarchist, was resumed,
bis counsel, Mr. Howe, arose and dis¬
claimed, on the part of his client, any
connection with or knowledge of the
threatening letter sent to Judge Cowing.
He expiessed the belief that it was sent
by some enemy of Most’s to prejudice his
case. Most was then called to the wit¬
ness stand to testify in his own defense.'
At the conclusion of Most’s testimony
both sides announced that they had no
more evidence to offer. Judge Cowing
said he would limit each side to one hour
summing up. Judge Cowing, iu lib'
charge, told the jury that Most was not
to be tried for his past life, nor for his
belief, but his speech at Kraemer’s hall,
“Our love of free speech aud freedom of
the press” he continued, “has made us
do away with many restrictions. We ate
jealous of our liberty. Free speech does
not mean that an individual has the right
to slander his neighbor, or to incite riot.
We don’t tolerate license; we encourage
freedom. We throw open our gates to
all to come and enjoy citizen-hip, which
we esteem a greater privilege than to be
a king. W T e marvel that in this country,
where everyone is so free, there should
be such men as anarchists, and ask what
more do they want. Revolutions have
come from injustice, but never from jus¬
tice.” The jury promptly returned a
verdict of “guilty.,'
DEFYING THE FI,AG.
Capt. Brown, of the steamer Harlan,
from Blue Fields, which arrived at New
Orleans, La., gives the press the follow¬
ing letter, which is the only information
soYar received ou the armed subject: force, “Dear
Sir: This morning an boarded wear
iuo- the uniform of Nicaraugua, aud
the steamer William S. Moore
schooner Merida, both owned wholly by
American citizens, aud having licenses
from the Mosquito government to cany
on the business they are engaged in. and
took forcible possession, which they now
hold. I have abandoned everything authority to
them. When asked for their
they showed me their rifles, Please have
this published as soon as you arrive, so
that the United States government can
hear of the outrage, and oblige. Your#
truly, N. P. Alien, Owner of the
Schooner Meridan.”