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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1885)
hlishedevery Saturday by the i’u MM* COMPANY. I® ®H J" linK -n a ?rwin f Pro P rietorB * SUBSCRIPTION. year $L 25. ■ (i&e (55 gix months 35 fhree " Specimen copy free. fasJ is 2 infl P m Hi m 2 03 z o B £ CO i CD s mm mi i - sc This medicine, oombining Iron with pure fitaXMVlwrla.Cl.lH. A 1SS&.S2 vf- 0 eM and Fever., “fuanunfillUng remedy for Diseases of tbe S15i€ KWeartbnrn p and «bf^f,^v» Belching, and etrengtb SSSHS^ eennine baa above trade ltuae,I maTk ^ and of oSd The Take no other. re d lines on wrapper. „ k , agOWS CHSaiCll. CO., BM.TlSOBI.tt. 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. r*’ Ua n Nov. 4th 1885. -, . w ,--- •' r Rlc “s"?* \ f ^ 1 ■ % ms k_ CM % 1 K- ESI «s» Yol. 3. 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 .. . . • , tnct. * 8 „ 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 u. 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 «— «* ^ 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 * returning immigrants. -ifSOF ALL KIND DONF^E NEATLY AND PEOMPTLY. , f — ^ y , ADY ERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND 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.
