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POSTPONED SALE.
beorgia, blLL Rockdale county. the court house
W be sold before
door in the city of Conyers, within
Lie™! L iif hours of sale, on to the the first highest Tues
January next,
Bidder C,vit: for cash, the following property,
A certain house and lot in tbe
Cni IrPmally of Conyers, the Rockdale 16th district county, of
|cin<r Henrv now and bounde I
a part of lot No. 200
L follows: Begining in the middle of
liorth Iiilroad street on right of way of deg. Georgia W.
and running N, 54
Blonu-said lily right then of N way 12% eight deg. chains E. and
link?; one
Bhiinand Beg. fifty-four links; then three S. links; 87%
lien E. two chains and fifty
S. 15.deg. W. one chain and fifty
■Delinks: then S. 87%deg. W. four
■rainsand seventy links; to a stake in
■it middle of the street four chains and
■venty four links to the one-hundredth begining cor
■er: containing two and
■f an acre—levied on as the property of
K. J. Carr and Mrs. N. A. Carr, to satis
■a Burt mortgage fl. fa. from the superior
of said county in favor of VV. J,
Burner Batovs and H. A. D. Turner, adminis
Based), of the estate of A A Turner, (de
Kit. against said W J Carr and N A
■ge ft (a. Property mid pointed possession out by mort
Bitxf tenants in no
B $8,25
A. P. Mitchki.i.,
Deputy Sheriff.
Decree ot the Court.
A ThomasonBill for account ete. in
vs. Rockdale superior
Dirge 8 mliers.' Phil-f v court, verdict i-decree
Aug. adj’d term 1885,
immianee of a decree, of the court,
above stated cause, I will sell at
outcry, before the court house
r i' 1 the city of Conyers within the
o.' sale, on the first Tuesday
1886. the following describ
property, to-wit : A tract or parcel of
H said county containing being one. hun
pNos acres more or less, parts of
Brict of 315,324 originally and VV'alton, 325, in the 4th
now Roek
pcounty. Bounded on the west by
fd I Thomas lately owned A White; by Joel north Smith by ; south Big
lynes creek ; east by lands lately own
Py Gleb A. Blake, and being tbe
lion which Mrs. Elizabeth F. Phil
her children reside. Said land
e:l ' i ed for sale in obedince to the de
(■'ftlio conrtin the above stated bill
etc., in said ease of A. A.
eE., Elizabeth yg. Charity E., George 8.,
F. jr., Arrington D„
'Uiyestus not said Mrs. Phillips, defendants, chit
Elizabeth F. Phillips.
• proceeds of said .sale to be distribut
Nireetcd and ordered in said decree,
jtttns of sale cash. Put chasers to be
possession oi\ compliance with
berms. This November 5th 1885
A P A] ITCHKLI,,
Deputy Sheriff.
pUMSTRATOE P tbe 1st, Tuesday in SALE. January,
fJ-Lie dwelling house and lot of
r*”■ C McLean, (dec’d) in the
U°‘ will . Conyers, on McDonough
p be sold before the court
pnoor. The lot contains one
IM land. The house has four
P footns. The place has a splen
I b, ot water, good garden, or
I?: and the place is undet good
Pf° at the same time and place
rfold r> more the plantation, less, belonging 135 acres
or to
L rtmi-ict, sl “ e estate, lying in Honey
known as the Ephraim
f L efe( L has The about plantation 30 is
L ( acres of
r^al . J forest land; about 25 acres
1 land, all the tilla
l?.., ? in a state of cultiva-
13 rein arkably productive,
O |j.j r ® 8 f or the dwelling and
ooehalf cash and the
K ' rf , ' ae ext fall with
n interest.
'f° 3EPH S. Mcr.EAN.
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CONGRESS MEETS.
PROBABLE SUCCESSOR OF HENDRICK
DISCUSSED.
Pascals Daily Being Passed Out of Fat
Positions.
Wasikikgtok, Nov. 5, 1855.
When this letter reaches you the
Forty-ninth congress will be in ses¬
sion. Probably the much discussed
question of a successor to Vice-Pres¬
ident Hendricks will also have been
settled; though this is not certain.
Indications are that at the caucus
of republican senators to beheld to
night there will be a sharp fight be¬
tween the friends of Senators Ed¬
munds, Logan and Sherman.
The possibility of either of the
latter senators being elected to pre¬
side over the senate is extremely
distasteful to democratic congress¬
men. Logan and Sherman are the
representatives of the bloody shirt
wing of their party. They are both
bitter sectionalisms and prospective
partisans. It is thought the repub¬
lican senators ought at least to
choose a more conservative member
of their body for presiding officer.
Since a republican has to he taken, prefer
democratic senators would
Senator Edmunds. There is consid¬
erable opposition to him, however,
among those who will decide the
question. A republican senator
said, “I would bolt Edmunds for
two reasons; first, his attitude in
the last campaign; and secondly,
because of his uncalled for decision
during the last presidential count.”
Senator Edmunds held that the
senate could exercise no judicial
function during the count. “Wheth
er right or wrong,” continued the
disaffected senator, “it was merely
an expression of opinion, which any'
senator might have made, but being
made at that particular time and in
that particular way, it will be quot¬
ed as a precedent.”
The revision of the rules will be
the .first subject brought to the bill at¬
tention of the house. and some
providing for the succession of the
cabinet officers to tbe presidency
will have early attention. But the
great features oft lie winter's session
will be the silver question, the tar¬
iff, and civil service reform.
There is a marked contrast be
tween the situation now and that of
the week preceding the opening of
the Forty eighth congress. At that
time Representatives Carlisle, Ran
dull, Springer and Cox were actively
engaged in a contest for the speak
ership. Rival candidates for the
positions of clerk, sergeant at arms,
doorkeeper, house their postmaster, etc.,
were busy with canvasses.
Each arriving congressman was but
tonholed. Now Mr. Carlisle is ton
teded are-election without question
or opposition. Mr. Cox is on duty
in far away Turkey. Mr. Springer
is enthusiastic over his plan for re¬
vising tiie house rules, and the dis¬
tinguished head of the appropria¬
tions committee is devoting his
time to financial literature, at his
quiet home on Capitol hill.
The last important appointment
made by the president gives great
pleasure to the democrats of the
District of Columbia. It was the
inarshalship of the district, and Col.
Albert Wilson, a well-known demo
cratic citizen of Washington, is the
-*»• He ... born within . tew
squares of the white house forty five
years ago. and has a ways lived c
this city. Last evening he stood in
bis cozy parlor, and received a
oratuTate "™ 18 ^ ^ ^ ^
g office'U hi
His considered the most
valuable Federal office in the dis
Its compensation .. . . • ,
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ed by congress to $6,000 a year, any
excess over that amount from the
fees ol the office being turned into
the treasury The patronage of the
n eh?pfhaTfiff S at $1100 $i 'another at
s;,l ' C 00 and several at ,100 each.
The' office had come in recent
years to be so closely associated
with the Social president personally', and
wkh the ceremonies at the
whiv house that it was expected to
he be filled fille t bv \ a friend of the president, *,
. , .
^VtfTwirh’the identified with theloca localUv y eon Id not *
but be acceptable to tbe democracy
of the distuct.
There is a gradual removal of the
republican clerks in tbe departments
here. Men and women have drawn
salaries month after month in Wash
ington under past administrations
without working for them. Out ae
partment records will show this. It
z r.
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 12, 1885.
tonished. The cleaning out is slow,
but sure. Almost every day some
of them go from each department.
A partridge with plumage as white
as the driven snow, with the excep¬
tion of half dozen feathers on the
head, was killed by 7 a young man
named Dave Horn, near Outlaws
bridge, in Irwin county Thursday.
The Roman asi ronomer who an
nounces that the inhabitants of the
planet Mars are trying to at tract the
attention of the people of the ea' th
ought to be put in communication
with some of the rural weather proph
ets of tliTs State.
A Philadelphia man is at work
upon a wonderful invention. It is
an apparatus for babies to wear in
front of their mouths to make their
crying sound like the soft murmur¬
ing of a flute.
The state convention of the Young
Men's Christian Association will be
held in the State in early spring.
Sam Jones denoonees Gov. Mar
maduke, of Missouri, as a “swill tub”
end some members of the Supreme
Court as “old mash tubs.” Accord¬
ing to Jones, Missouri is haunted by
eminent tubwumps.
When ahov is very young they
tell him not to eat candy, for fear of
worms; when he gets older tliev ad¬
vise him to get lip early in the morn¬ catch
ing, because the early birds models of
the worms. Parents are
inconsistency'.
Some idiot has started the tale
that Hon. Jefferson Davis contribu
ted twenty-five cents to the Grant
memorial fund. The St. Louis Re
publican remarks that Mr. Davis
never yet did anything on the twen¬
ty-five cent scale.
The dispatches state that R. B.
Haves “occupied the place of honor ’
in the Hendricks funeral. This is an
error. The place of honor in any
funeral attended by R. B. Hayes is
in the hearse.
Counterfeit five dollar gold pieces
of 1836 are in circulation in Ealon
ton.
The liquor license at Montezuma
has been increased from $75 to $500
per annum.
Monroe elected a prohibition believed mu¬
nicipal ticket Friday. It is
that all Forsyth will go dry in
April.
“Oh. mamma, mamma!” said a
litile girl the other day, as she saw a
chicken without any feathers on his
tail, “dat old hen has lost the rib¬
bons out of her polonaise.”
“Mamma, what’s blank idiot? ’
a
“It’s what I was when 1 got married.
I used to have four new hats a year,
but I’m awful lucky to get one new.”
A town neverdies a natural death,
nor is killed bv strangers. Its ow n
citizens inflict the mortal wound.
Several children who were bitten
b“ a mad dog are to he sent bom
Newark, N. J., to Paris that they
may be treated according to Pas
teiir’s method. If success attends
the experiment it sho.uld lead to the
establishment of hospitals at con
venient points in this country,
equipped to combat the frightful
malady, hydrophobia.
Jo|m Stsr „ an . „ ^acting
Vice-President of the United Stares,
1 blic , anDoU „ces himself in favor
^ t]caUy disfranchising the color
ci ti Z ens, to whom he wasso active
in givi “^ th ° bene<Us of the ballot:
Three negroes were hung in Gates
county, N. C„ for burglary.
A number of persons who attend
ed Dr Hartborue's church before
tLe prohibi tion campaign, have
avoweJ their intention not to do so
^
Judge Lochrane has proven his
faith by his woiks. and last evening
he carried into execution his prom
ised purpose of emptying his stockof
spirits into tbe streets. 1 he judge
had about $250 of liquors, mostly
foreign wine and brandy, and the en
tire lot went up, or rather down into
the Rt.reet erulter Ju^s and bottles
were opened with impartiality and
the ««« cosl i J y fluid poured out.—Atlanta
Ao U8ta Chronicle.
North Carolina leads off with ... a
diking church innovation Sarah
A Heughes. a likely mulatto having
.
been ordained to preach. Hereafter for
tbe church bell will go ringing
Sarah.
-nr t p 0 ; nt Press mentions
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COL. BILL PEEK
ADDRESSES'! LARGE CROWD OF FAR¬
MERS, AT STARRSVILLE,
On Practical Questions of Farming success¬
fully Today.
(From the Covington Enterprise.)
Gknti.emen:—M ore than sixty
years ago our fathers settled about
this place, and near Alcova river.—
At that time this was the best part of
our state. The soil was lich and
productive, making from twenty (o
thirty bushels of corn, ten (o twenty
bushels of wheat and one half bale
of cotton per acre without any kind
of fertilizer. Every lot of land was
decorated with the grandest of yrel
low heart pine and giant oaks ready
to be convened into buildings for
all farm purposes with plenty to sup¬
ply gcnei atious yet unborn. But onr
fathers we:e raised careless and h.zv
as to pains taking and if : hey ever
studied the multiplication table they
did not study the multiplication of
man. Their only - thought was to
cut down more land to buy more ue
groes to cut down more land, and
before that generation past away
their sons were driven tioui their
fathers’ homes, to find a home in
tliedistsnt west. No thought was
given to saving much less improving
toe soil, but all possible effort lands was
made ignorantly, to aid the in
poorer away
by plowing up and down every in
ciiued or declined acre, letting the
rains sweep all the loose soil into the
branches and rivers until they were
filled with the cream of mother earth,
atu j to-day you have no virgin soil
but children many. You have no
master pines to convert into lumber,
no oaks to make boards. Gentlemen,
you cannot protect yourselves from
the weather if you had to depend on
your own forest. 3 ’ou cannot cover a
shuck pen except witli old field pine
planks and si ill you continue in the
same old ruts. Y r ou are now de¬
stroying the old pine fields, God’s
second blessing, sea r'ng them in all
shapes until you have struck the
hard pan indeed. You howled and
shook like Belshazzar and cried for
help and the Guano agent heard
your ciy, 3 ‘oti were weary and he
took you in, you were clothed and
he stripoed you and he held you until
3 'oti have paid him five times the val
ueofyour lands and you are not yet
saved. Then you rented your lands
for two bales of cotton to the mule
and before six months hope fled.—
Continue Gentlemen, in this way and
my word for it the scripture which
says “The foxes have holes, and the
birds of the air have nests, but the
son of man hath not where to lay his
head” will be verified. But let us lake
courage and renew our efforts, be
lieving there is truth in the old ad
age. “as long as old
hope.” There may he life in the
land yet. I am satisfied that we will
get a third blessing, a better day is
ahead of ns, we can improve tbe old
fields, they will again blossom and
hi ing forth fruit for man and beast.
This can be done by preventing sur¬
face washing and creating a vegeta
hie mould. I have given much
thought to this and the first thing to
be done is to terrace our land.—
I h.s should be accurately done.and
never in a hurry, no two plantations
are exactly alike and before the work
» ’£?Ej3?LfS?£2 f i
|“S e ‘" r ei™ “" nation, the face of
™ ^ d siii? d commence S“s at
e r et our be on
level inthoni aim-ro strait
across small breaks and gullies, when
your guide is run go back and make
such changes as common sense will
suggest, then run on lower side first
“ borse plow throwing dirt
wj b a two
P h ]] Above, nest twenty or twenty-five
in che8 this piles the dirt and
j the earth unbroken in the
center of terrace, complete with four
or six furrows, then go over with
shovel and fifilow places on terrace,
fill up gullies oreakse.c., with brush,
leaves, straw or anything convenient
In plowing raise plow over them
first year, be careful to have base of
terrace broad enough and not too
high at first. Steep lands can be
terraced as well as level lands. A
rise of three feet is common and
should he adhered to on moderately
level land, but in steep land more
may £ be allowed, here good judgement
t|al> should the plow not
jnake loeves a8 higb | a8 desired, use
hoe or road scrflp Natural water
'perrace e8 should be left opened.—
distributes in piace of gath
ering water. They will occasionally
break for the first few years, a little
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No. 47.
not hurt you. Now r you have just
started on the road to improve your
soil. Break deep with terraces us
ing side hill plow if possible turning
under all grass, weeds, stalks, etc.
Turn from first of November till first
of March, never burn stubble or hay,
run off rows with each terrace, let¬
ting short rows be in the middle.
Plant stubble in cotton, then corn,
then wheat or oats, then rest one
year. Cultivate less land and use
more manure. Pursue this plan and
you will leave a homes'.ehd your
children will delight to honor.
Gentlemen, l am sick and tired of
seeing the farmers of this country
scratching over so much unproduc¬
tive land, working our boys from
day light till dark, feeding them on
western bread and side meat and
making them the close companion of
the mule for six months in the year,
raising seven millions of bales of cot
ton just for a name when five mil¬
lions would briug the same money.—
Now let us change our tactics: let
us build up neighborhood schools,
save and improve the soil, use im¬
proved labor saving machines, raise
onr own bread and meat and onr
own stock. Let the boys drive a
pair ofthorough breads to the plow
and reaper, give them something \o
call their own and they will love the
farm.
1 am sorry to say ns yet it is an un¬
mistakable (act that farmers are less
true to each other than any other
class of people. Some of you will go
home this very day and try to hire
your neighbors’ hands when you
know they would like to remain and
the employer would he glad to keep
them. As long as you pursue this
course you cannot control labor, nei¬
ther will you prosper so long as you
curse and abuse those who do pros¬
per. Let the farmer study his busi¬
ness; like a successful merchant, be
knows who will and who will not
pay, you must calculate and find out
if this or that will pay. We must
systematize our labor, if we do not
it is our fault and we are behind all
other civilized countries. If our
“brother in black” will not pan out
l am for domestic immigration, bone
of our bone and flesh of our flesh.—
“United we stand divided we fall.” I
would unite 3011 gentlemen in all
things except religion; in that I
would not, for some sny you can and
some say you can’t, some say you
shall and others sa}' 3 r ou shan't.—
They areal! right indeed, “but love is
holier than creed.” llut I would
have you unite in every thing that
interests the fanner, I beg 3011 to
cooperate, come together, make
yourselves and 3 ’our occupation re¬
spected.
“Do unto otlierB as 3 'on would
have others do unto you,” then, and
not until then will 3 'ou be a power in
this land.
The greatest consolation to one
growing old, is the improved stir
roundings which come with age, ex¬
perience rnd wisdom.
We are reminded of this fact by
the appearance of the new seed An¬
nual of D. M. Ferry A Co., the cele¬
brate! seedsmen ot Detroit. Mich.
(They enjoy the enviable reputation
of being the widest and best known
firm, in any business in the United
Slates.) Millions of people, garden¬
ing both for profit and pleasure,
have found ever increasing satis¬
faction and delight in usiDg their
seeds. • ,
Every ore desiiing seeds of the
highest type and best quality,
should secure their Annual. It is
sent free on application.
On Monday Washington witnosed
the familiar scenes attendant upon
the assembling of Congress. Sher¬
man was elected President of the
Senate and Carlisle Speaker of the
House, the Democrats of the former
body casting their votes for Senator
Harris and the Republicans of the
latter body voting for Mr. Reed, of
Maine. The long session has begun,
and we may expect Congressional
news until July, at least.
A man who gets safely through
the primary department of the
world’s great school neeu not go to
college.
The other day a man wanted to
bet that half dozen men could not be
found in Waycross who knew which
was the fourth commandment. On
passing tbe question around it was
answered in ten different ways and
only one was right.
S. Brown drove an ox to Jug Tav
ern a day or two ago whose ho.ns
from tip to tip measured 36 inches,
His weight was estimated at 1,500
pounds. He was born in Arkansas
and brought to Gwinnett county by
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returning immigrants.
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l*:iy for advertisements is always
due after the first insertion, unless
otherwise contracted l'or.
Guaranteed positions 20 per cent
extra.
Entered post,office as second-class mail
matter.
TEE MEN WHO RESCUED TOOMBS.
Toccoa News: Charles E. Irvin is
a man with a history. When the
Yankee soldiers (twenty in number)
went to Toombs’ home to arrest the
general, Irvin was the man who went,
to the general’s house single handed
and alone. During the night ho
carried a horse to General Toombs,
and on this horse Toombs escaped
to Elbert county. Mr. Irvin traveled
with Toombs through Georgia and
Alabama and on to New Orleans,
Mom which city Toombs embarked
for Cuba and thgnceto Fiance. Mr.
Irvin guarded the Confederate bul¬
lion while it was in Washington, and
afterwards, under orders from Gen.
Lawton, shipped it to familiarly' Augusta.
“Charley Irvin,” as he is
called in Washington, is a lit.tlener¬
vous man ol about forty years, ap¬
parently quick spoken, and square
to the point everv time. He calls a
spade a spade and a thief a thief.
He weighs about 135 pounds, and
about 250 pounds of that is concen¬
trated Southern manhood.
There are a great many farmers’
boys in ibis conn try today who
have had an opportunity only io be
come ambitious, and who believe
that their circumstances—their en¬
vironment—will prevent them from
making their way. But the desti¬
ny of every young man is in his own
hands, and the farm is a vantage
ground from which some started of tbe
greatest Americans have on
their career. The farmers’ lad who
thinks that his opportunities are lim¬
ited should bear in mind the fact
that schools and colleges do not
make men. These institutions ore
helpful enough, hut the youth who
is determined to win has no need of
their help. The farm is a good place
to start from.—Constitution.
That grand old man, Samuel J.
Tikleu, sends a letter to Speaker
Carlisle, in which he sets forth the
necessity of our coast defense in the
most patent manner, and at the
same time the ways and means for
their improvement. He suggests
that the surplus funds in tile treasu¬
ry be used in this way, and thereby
giving work to the iron and steel in
dustry of the count ry. The letter is
a plain, practical and statesmanlike
view ol the situation, and will doubt¬
less command the attention of Con¬
gress and the President.
The Albany News moralizes thus:
Our life is our monument. Our
good deeds are the inspiring in¬
scriptions upon it. Are we so order¬
ing the manner of our life that its
monument will he one of glory, or
one of shame? Each man is the
architect of his own life. Each day
makes some prog css in this monu¬
ment building. How shall our lives
be spent today? What shall the
“record” be?
“To thine own self be (iue and keep
Thy mind from sloth, heart from fo : |;
Press on ! and thou shall surely leap
A heavenly harvest for thy toil.”
Capt. West Mil why, chief clerk to
Mr. Uenfroe when lie was Treasurer
of Georgia, has been appointed to a
position Department in the to succeed State Agricultural Col. T. C.
Howard, who resigned to go to
Washington City as Secretary to
Senator Colquitt. The salary in the
Agricultural Department is $1,200
per annum.
A practical test of the faith cure
is proposed by a Nashville dominie
who offers to give $ 10,000 to any be¬
liever in that doctrine who will cure
a disease winch lias been pronounced
incureablc by a reputable physician.
He evidently has faith that his mon
ey is safe in his own possession and
that it will not be claimed.
Mr. Freeman, of Barlow county,
thinks he has one of the smartest
dogs in the country. He minds the
bal> 3 ‘ through the day, drives tip the
cows at night, sees that they arc
milked, seperafes the cows and
calves in the morning, and puts
them id their proper places, and
makes himself general I v usefu 1
about the house.
Macon has a rnan who is a verita¬
ble Alexander Stephens for observ¬
ing tbe weather signs. He laid
much stress on the weather vane on
the court house position. spire, and daily took
note of its Lately, in re¬
pairing the spire the workmen dis¬
covered tbe vane had not moved out
of its place for 3 - ears.
The Young Men’s Prohibiton club
of Atlanta is.to Vie continued as an
organization. It is given out that
the determination to perpetuate the
organization has no political signifi
cance, and that it is done solely with
the view of being in existence if an
emergency arises.