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Vol.
TIIE FIRST MESSAGE
THE ATTENTION OF THE WORLD AE
EESTED 0V EE IT.
Cleveland Shuts the Door on the OfHceseek
ers—Off to New York to Yote.
Washington, Nov. 3, 18S5.
Only a few weeks now remain be¬
fore the assembling of congress. Not
only the United States, but the whole
civilized world awaits with interest
the first message from a democratic
president since I860. Mr. Cleveland
has not yet put pen to paper in prep
scat ion of this message to congress,
nor have any suggestions or memo
randa been submitted to him. He
will commence this work early in
November, and will devote some
hours to it daily until congress
meets.
In view of the seclusion needed for
this work came the president’s edict
on Wednesday, closing the white
house to the ofliceseeker and his in¬
fluence from the first of November
to an indefinite time. Colonel La¬
ment. thinks the rule may be relaxed
a little when congress meets, so as
to admit senators and represonfca
lives, but the desire of the president
is to withdraw from the annoyance
permanently.
Under the new arrangement aspi¬
rants for positions will have to reach
the president through the heads
departments: but he will still feel
under obligation to seek information
as to their fitness for office from such
sources as lie may prefer, and in
such ways as he may sec fit to adopt.
No one at a distance from the cap¬
ital—indeed no one whose
does not bring the rnattet directly
his notice—can realize the
demands that have been made upon
the president's time, since his inau¬
guration, by petty place hunters.
Those who appreciate the duties
his office, and who know how Mr.
Cleveland's performance of them has
been impeded by these exacting im
portunates will commend the new
rule. In order to prepare himself
for the questions of the winter, the
line had to be drawn at last, not in
a spirit of exclusiveness, as the ira
thinking may claim, but in defense
of the public interests.
The growth of the country and tho
modern systems of rapid transit may
yet make necessary some limitation
to the freedom with which the exu
live is approached. This being a
republic, of course the president be
longs to everybody. He is a peren¬
nial circus that must be seen and
shook. He is by far the most easily
approached ruler in the work Any
citizen can w.-dk mlo his office un¬
announced, introduce himself, and be
accorded a personal interview. Men
call upon him because they voted
for Buchanan; bridal couples call
upon him as a spectacular part of the
honeymoon; and politicians lrom
all parts of the union insist upon
making his person acquaintance.
Candidates for the district offices
and their friends are growing anx
ious as November approaches, for it
is thought that early in that month
the president will begin to make the
long discussed changes, The latest
gossip says that Gen. Farnsworth
will be the next marshal of the Dis
triet of Columbia. It is known that
the president has wished to have a
personal friend in the office which is
so close to himself, Gen. Farns
worth is a eiose friend of the presi¬
dent, and was upon his staff when
he was governor of New York.
The president is experiencing ciil
ficulty in re organizing the civil ser
vice commission, Ile regards re
form in the civil service one of the
most important features of bis ad¬
ministration. and ue is trying to se
cure men for the place whose names
will guarantee a practical
>ut of the duties of the office. It
, ,r 1 to find such men its possess
cations, an : who
the B a- i.ice
only $3,i0d a year.
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 7,
gentlemen have already declined ap¬
pointment. Congress will probably
be asked during the winter to in
crease the compensation.
There are quite a number of house
hunting congressmen in the city who
are deploring the scarcity of suita¬
ble residences. The transient win¬
ter population of Washington is so
large that the supply of desirable
furnished houses for rent was ex¬
hausted some weeks ago, and many
of the late coiners will be compelled
to put up at hotels. This mode of
living is not fashionable here, how
ever. It is the custom for puplic
men to keep house. Congressman
Fisher, of Michigan, and Bayne, of
Pynnsvlvania, failing to get the kind
of houses they went, made arrange¬
ments yesterday to board their fam¬
ilies during the session of congress.
The latter, though a republican, re
marked that the Cleveland adminis
tration was a good one, and suited
the people of the country.
The president left last Sunday
evening for Buffalo, where he cast
his vote for the democrrtic state
ticket Tuesday, and then returns di
rect to Washington. Secretary
Manning, who votes in Albany, left
Saturday night, an-.l Secretary Whit
ney, who votes in New York city,
left on Monday. Private Secretary
Lamont also left on Monday morn¬
ing, to vote in Cortland count}'.
. Mr. Blaine is reported to have
ouce said, in rep]}' to a remark:
“In politics there is no gratitude.
Politics mean ambition and success.”
He may now change the
to read that “in Republican
there is very little of honor, and
sometimes means defeat”
Tn the year 1833, on Nov. 13, a
grand shower of meteors or shooting
stars ocetired in America for several
hours before day. It caused great
fear, especially among the negro pop¬
ulation of the South, who thought
the world was burning up and cried
out in extreme terror. This was the
greatest display of meteors on rec
ord, none so great having been
known previous to it. There were
seveial other notable meteoric show¬
ers, the most prominent of which
was probably that of Nov. 14, 1806,
visible in England.—Courier Journ
al.
Ferdinand Ward, with a tin buck¬
et on his arm containing his hash for
dinner, iu Sing Sing prison, is in
quite striking contrast with the
brilliant financier of Wall street.
The young man has plenty time for
meditation now, and can ponder
over the wrecks he has made.
The Toccoa News gives some
wholesome advice to the illicit dis¬
tillers ol that neighborhood. It
tells them that the business is un
lawful, the government is determin¬
ed to break it up, and that sooner or
later all concerned will be arrested.
The best thing for toe distillers to
do is to expend the same amount of
ingenuity on their farm work, and
they will soon be well off.
“Are you sure of securing the
diadem?” asked the minister of the
dying man. And when tire man
said that lie “didn’t want to di
adem bit,” the minister and doctor
flew, and as a natural consequence
the man got better.
The good Bishop Thompson once
wrote that “there is. no velvet so
soft as a mother’s lap, no rose so
lovely as her smile, no path so
as that imprinted with Her foot¬
steps.” Perhaps he was
spread upon her lap for demerit, and
imprinted with her slipper.
The Atlanta Journal says
“Senator Joseph E. Brown, of
ta, is about the only Southern
j who has given any considerable
I of money to education. He
tv and $50,000 to the Baptist
logical Seminary at Louisville,
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FEUITS OF VI0T03Y.
No better proof of the disappoint¬
ment experienced by the southern |
people in the result of the democrat¬
ic victory last year can be afforded
than a mere statement of the chan
ges that have been made in offices
held by negroes. The editor of the
Freeman, himself a negro, finds
“that of 2,000 colored men in the
subordinate federal positions
throughout the country not 2 per
cent, have been removed, and of the
1,000 colored clerks and employes in
the Washington departments not 1
per cent, have been turned out. The
substitution of Rosecrans for Bruce
is the only case where a colored man
in an important office has been su¬
perceded, the other four still remain¬
ing unchanged; and of the three
holding diplomatic and consular po¬
sitions two have been succeeded by
colored men, and the other holds his
old place.”
The southern people are not place
hunters. Public office is less sought
after by people of this section, than
those of any other, if wc may credit
tho testimony of all department of¬
ficers in Washington. The disap¬
pointment does not lie in thier fail¬
ure to receive an office at the hands
of this administration, but in its
failure to remove from public posi
tions the tools of the infamous Re
publican rings that have oppressed
them. W T e state it without fear
contradiction, that to the
people the victory of last
meant chiefly freedom from the
noxious agents of an unfrendly
ty. It was this that illumined
cities with bond fires and awoke
orator’s eloquence.
It was not an unreasonable
struction. The reform
in the platform of the
party was never intended to stab
friends and shield its enemies.
er in the history of any political
party has reform been attempted
with the tools that made reform a
necessity. How many Southern
votes would have been cast for Mr.
Cleveland in the nominating conven
tion, had it been stated in advance,
that a year after hi3 election the
Republican party would still frown
upon the Southern people from the
vast majority of the public offices in
theii midst? What Southern dele
gate would have cast his vote in that
direction if he had been assured that
in November, 1885, ninety eight out
of every hundred negro Republican
office holders in this section would
hold their positions? We venture
to say that not a Southern vote could
have been secured upon these con¬
ditions.
Not two per cent, of the negroes
who are in office could escape even
the puerile “offensive partisan” rule
if it was enforced. It is notorious
that the negro keeps his office
through partisanship of the most
offensive stripe. In the South the
negro officeholder is the surviving
remnant of the Republican party.
He has made himself obnoxious
upon every occasion that presented
itself and will to-morrow turn out,
work for and vote the Republican
ticket if be can do it without endang¬
ering his office. These are truths
that may not be palatable, but they
are truths nevertheless. They are po¬
litical facts as grave as any the peo¬
ple of this section have confronted
since 1876; facts that will be mar¬
shaled when Congress meets, and
will shake the party to its founda¬
tions if the representatives of this
people are bold enough to speak the
people’s mind. The South does not
demand the spoils of battle, but
security from insult and freedom
from oppression. If these are not
guaranteed, where are tiie fruits of
her victory?—Macon Telegraph.
A New EegUed oclitor **«,
that the woman who knows how to
cook a beefsteak and boil a potato is
j more to be admired than the best
1 1 ‘gn^ei” that ever flapped a wing.
No. 42 .
RESOLUTIONS ON A WEDDING DAY.
When the celebrated Theodore
Parker married Miss Cabot, he un¬
tered in his journal, on his wedding
day, the subjoined resolutions, the
keeping of which made his married
life a happy one:
1. Never, except* for the best of
reasons, to oppose my wife’s will.
2. To discharge all duties for her
sak e freely.
3. Never to scold.
4. Never to look cross at her.
5. Never to weary her with com
mands.
6. To promote her piety.
7. To bear her burdens.
8. To overlook her follies.
9. To save, cherish and forever de
fend her.
10. To remember her always most
affectionately in my prayers.
Thus, God willing, we shall be
happy.
Matrimonial Item.—“I and very
sorry teat I did not get acquainted
with you until 1 had become a wid¬
ower,” said Col. Percy Yerger to his
second wife, with whom he does not
live very happily.
“What do you moan by that?”
asked the partner of his joys.
‘Nothing,except that I would much
rather that you had been my first
wife,” replied tho fond husband,
carelessly.
“Why do you wish that I had
been your first wife?”
“Because some other woman
would he my present wife, darling.”
B, M. Hollis, of Covington, has
large white oak tree standing at
front gale, from which he has
ered eight bushels of acorns, and
pects to gather at least eight
more the present fall.
A good man sorrows over the
discretions of liis fellows. A vile,
licentious individual gloats over
them, and uses his strongest efforts
to pull them to his own depraved
level.—Madison Madisonian.
A great many hogs are
from cholera in Elbert county.
oral gentlemen have lost,nearly eve
ry hog they had. A large
of dogs have died from eating
and it is said to bo certain
to every dog that eats of a hog
dies of cholera.
There arc some grounds for
lieving that sensationalism in
alism—at least among journals
which make any claim to respecta¬
bility—lias had its day. To magni¬
fy and gloat over the frail;ies of
poor human nature; to cast a slain
upon the highest names; to paint the
unguarded actions of the thought
lessinllie darkest colors of vice;
to attribute unworthy motives to
the most disinterested acts—this is
the province of the vulgar scandal¬
monger, but not of a public journal.
The aim of the latter should be to
elevate, not to degrade, public mor¬
als create higher standards and no¬
bler purposes, not to pander to the
vitiated appetites of the vulgar.—
Hartwell Sun.
A down-cast fire company, in a
resolution on a deceased member,
says; “He has responded to his
last alarm.” It is a wonder they
didn’t add that lie “has gone to his
last fire.
The Covington Enterprise learns
that an Oxford man is suoing a
Georgia c daily newspaper for $30,000
u , am ages. Sian lei c^b(,
Atlanta has as a resident a 7 year
old lad who is a born thief. lie is
in jail for the twelth time. Thirty
five dollars in cash is the biggest
haul on his record.
“Are your domestic relations
agreeable? the question . put to
' was
» “Oh, domestic relations "D”"
inanity. my
are all right, was toe reply; “it’s
my relations that arc causing the
trouble.
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SHERIFFS SALES.
Rockdale county.
YT7ILL VV be sold before The court house
door in the city of Conyers, within
legal hours of sale, on the first Tues¬
in December next, to the highest
for cash, the following property,
to-wit: A certain house and lot in lb#
town originally of ^Conyers, Henry the ICtl. district of
now Rockdale county, i
a part of lot Nft. 900 and bouncle
as North follows: Begining right in' the middle of
street on of w ay of Georgia
railroad and running N, 54 deg. W.
along sixty links; said right of N way *12? eight chains and
then 4 deg. E. one
chain (leg. and fifty-tour chains links; then S. 87*£
E. two and fifty three links;
then S. Iff deg. TV. one chain and fifty
one links; then S. 87^ deg. YV. four
chains the middle and seventy links; to a stake in
of tliwstreet four chains and
seventy four links t« the begining cor¬
of ner; containing two and one-hundredth
an acre—levied on as tiie property of
TV. .1. Carr and Mrs. N. A. Carr, to satis¬
fy a mortgage fi. fa. from the superior
court of said county in favor of TV. J,
Turner and IT. A. I). Turner, adminis
tratora of the estate of A A 'Turner, (de¬
ceased), against said TV J Carr and N A
Carr. •Property tenants pointed out by mort¬
gage. fi fa. and in possession no¬
tified ;---- $9.19
—also—
At the same time and place the follow¬
ing described property: A certain tract
or parcel of land in the-th district of
Rockdale county, containing twcuty-fite
(25) acres more or less, bounded as fol¬
lows: On tile cast by John Day. .South
by James Radius, on the west by lands
of the estate of Dr. 8. TV. Bryant, and on
the north by lands of Eliza Hart, (dee’ll)
Levied on as the property of Sarah Hart,
to satisfy an execution issued from the
superior court against of faid county, in favor
i'!‘ N. Bennett said Sarah Iiart.
'I • umtii in possession notified.
This October 27th, 1885.
A. V. Mitchiii.t.,
$4.35 Deputy Sheriff.
SHERIFFS SALES.
WILL be sold before Hie court home
* » door in the city of Conyers on the
first Tuesday in December next, within
the legal hours of sale, to the highest bid¬
der for cash, the following property:
One hundred and fourteen (114) a*re#,
more or less, of land in the Kith district
of originally Henry then Newton now
Rockdale county, lifting part of lots Nos.
201 and 202, and bounded as fellows:
On tiie North by A 0 MeCnlla, East by
Dr. J A Stewart, South byJ If AJinaiiil
and Bentley, West known by A Riley and
T George Mitchell Baker, home and place, as Ibe John
sold to A C Met'alia (except Sheriff's eighty
acres at
sale on ii fa froth ruperioi court of said
county in favor of TV 'J' Moon vs. Joint
T Mitchell), as the property of said Joint
T Mitchell, defendant. Said land lev¬
ied on as the property of suid John T
Mitchell to satisfy two (2) fi fas from the
superior dale, court in favor of of said VV comity of Rock*
one T Moon vs John
T Mitchell, and the other in favor of
John S Shipley vs John T Mitchell sod
Irene Mitchell. Tenants in possesion
notified. This October 30th 1885. $8.25
— ALSO—
At the same time and place the follow¬
ing property,to wit: Five thousand and
five hundred pounds of seed cotton more
or less, sixty bushels, more less, of corn,
one dark Day mare mule ten years old,
and one black mare mule about nine
years o 1/1 and blind. Levied on as the
property of G I’ Higman and JC 8 Slr
man superior to satisfy one Ji fa issued from the
court of Kockdale county in
favor Of WE A, T J Treadwell. Prop¬
erty 13th, pointed out by Ji fa. This October
1885. $3.64
—ALSO—
At the same time and place tho follow¬
ing five described of property, to-wit: Twenty
acres cotton, more or less, fifteen
acres of corn, more or less, in the field,
twelve hundred pounds of seed cotton,
wore or less, to sari- fy » distri re warrant
in favor of F M Clayton against John
T Rodgers for rent due for the years
1882, 1883, 1884 and 1885. Levied on by
K F Helms L (J and turned over to me
This tiie 20tb day of October, 1385.
Vt .11. ii. Austin,
$3,04 Sheriff.
ADMINISTRATOR SALE.
D 3 > Y virtue of an order from the court of
Ordinary of Ho'-kdale county, w ill bo
sold on tho first Tuesday in December
1885, at the the court house door in said
county within the iegai hours of sale, the
tract of bind in raid county whereon Rob¬
ert Plunkett resided at the time of his
death, containing one hundred and fif¬
ty one acres, more or iess: adjoining
lands on 11 • north belonging to J I Ros¬
ser lands and belonging J A Plunkett; the on tiie east by
to heirs of Thomas
Fee, (deceased), and K S Stanton; on
the south by it S Stanton and D (J
Got ■; and on the we t. by lands belong
inir to the estate of J H Turner, (de
>. eased); also one half interest in one
tent at Smyrna camp ground; also ono
cow'and calf, Sold as the property of
Robert Plunkett, (decea'cd), for the pure
pose of paying debts and making dixtri
!iu-i.n among the heirs, Terms of sale,
( J A Pi.i.NKf rr,
Administrator,
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Bneklen’s Arnica Salve,
The Best Salve in the, world for Cuts,
Bruises, Seres, Dicers. Salt Rheum, Fe¬
ver blams, Sores, Coras, 'J i tter, and Chapped all Hands, Chil
Skin Eruptions,
anf j positive!v cures Files, or no pay re
"m?
25 cets per box. For rale by Dr. W. II.
Lee.
Good trace chains at 35 cts at J,
II. & N. M. Alrnand’s.