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PUBLIC NOTICE!
1 persons are positively prohib
from hunting)'•fishing or other
trespassing on my farm, a
ec ,Id Johnnie P. Carr plantation,
STgTd-. Mat Maddox.
10* 1»*
notice
Ljil m ake professional visits to
vers the first Saturday in every
itii. Patients wishing to see W hite- me
find me at my office in the
House or 'at Dr. Lee’s drug
re. Dr. L. G. Bkantly.
DISSOLUTION notice.
[be firm ot'G. M. Jones & Co.
Ibis day dissolved by limitation
i mutual consent. G. M. oones
fins,'his "'ho interest >viE continue to Mes rs. the Stew bus¬
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ts at the same stand
[pities [tedness of the late firm, all collec in
to said firm will be
by Stewart Bros.
G. M. Jones.
Stkwart Bros,
iters, Ga., Dec. 17 i885.
Javing sold my entire interest
the firm of G.‘ . Jones <fc Co. to
gars. Stewart Bros,, I take this
hortunity to return public my thanks who have to
friends and the
liberally given me their patronage
ring my connection with the linn
l respectfully and earnestly solicit
continuance of the same to my
Sccsaors in business*
G M. Jones.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
Ull who are indebted to myself or
(re. A. M. Lee will confer a great
yot by calling immediately and
ttling, as we are needing all that
due us to meet our obligations.
Dr. W. U. Lee.
layers, Ga., Oct. 23. 1885.
IT WILL PAY
jou rest U you propose going
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me. I represent tl e
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UGGIES AND WAGONS,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
I am well prepared to do all kinds
Ciggy and wagon repairing in the
‘St etyle.
jge Having employed a first-clas car
painter I can do anything in
ls line in the most satisfactory
anner.
Fine Buggies,
! 1 have on hand a? splendid lot ot
|ie tie buggies of my own make, also
western buggy—will sdl cheap.
Mso rhich keep a splendid line r.f wagon-,
I will sell low down.
Coffins and fkfilr
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r arm Blacksmitliing,
i kind of blacksmithing done at
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Yol. 3.
SHAKING THE HANDS
OF TEE FLEES—TEE PRESIDENT'S
■NSW YEAR'S RECEPTION.
Who Was there and How They looked—
Grand Display.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 1.1S86.
New year's day at the white house.
Legati, literati, panes conscripti,
indices, niulieres, mililes, et nantae.
Blobs, “profanum vulgus,” et ai'ri
cani.
The event here today was tiie re
ception at the white house The
first to arrive at a presidential new
year’s reception are the correspond¬
ents of newspapers and the Marine
baud. These are all stationed in
the large ante room or main v o&ti
bide, the band to furnish the music
for the great procession, and t ie
representatives of tiie pi css '-0 tell
who were there, what they wore, and
how they looked and bowed and
smirked and smiled. A few fortu
nsite pend rivers were amitted to the
holy of holies (the blue room) where
they could make accurate notes of
the'dresses of Miss Cleveland and
the cabinet ladies who assisted the
president in receiving. Your own
correspondent was among these fa¬
vored ones.
It has been said that Mr. ( love
land never appears to better advan¬
tage than when receiving callers.
He stood, as is customary on such
occasions, in the blue room near the
door of the red parlor through which
guests enter, lie is of heroic size,
and, buttoned up in a well fitting
Prince Albert coat, he looked phys¬
ically equal to the ordeal of four
hours of handshaking that was
about to begin. And so Improved
to be, for at 2 o’clock r. si., when
the doors of the mansion were closed,
and after he had shaking the hands
of about five thousand people, and
gi ven each one a smile and a cordial
•I am glad to see you.” it was re
marked that, through it all, he had
not permitted hiinselt to sigh or
look tired even if he felt so. One
sympathetic caller among the last
took time to remark to him in pas¬
sing that he must be very weary.
“Oil, no,” he replied pleasantly, “this
is one of the easiest things I have to
do.” reception
The next to arrive this at
were the cabinet officers, who, I may
say, led off the reception, being the
first callers on the programme
Each one of them looked eherful and
and well and in good condition e-eiy
wav. The secretary of stat” first
wished the president a happy new
year, and then paid the compliment?
of the season to the James all along
the line, followed by the other mem
bets of the cabinet. They passed
ou to the cast room, as the diplomatic
corps was coining up in their rich,
gaudy attire, Some of these diplo
mats came to tiie white house in cor
oneted carriages, and adorned with
swords and sa lies and gold lace, with
their padded chests covered
stars and crosses and other insignia
of rank or office. Among those more
notable for elaborate decorations,
were the English, F rencli, Spanish,
Russian, Japanese and Chinese min¬
isters. As fast as the president dis¬
posed of the gilded foreigners, they
marched into the east room where
they had more extensive scope tor
tiie display of their brilliancy. Then
the supreme court of the United
States was on hand, that august
bode, which has recently been so
basely libeled in regard to keeping
for its own special use a bar room in
some mysterious recess of the Capi
tol. President
Congress next greeted the
!
1 ^ iiisi,k "’ iie J,u "
cial officers of the the District, ex
members of the Cabinet and ex min¬
isters of the United Sates. The ar¬
my and Navy officers m their impos¬
ing uniforms came next and then
followed Department officials and
civil organizations associations too
tedious to enumerate. Finally the
people came, and for an hour a
stream of promiseuos humanity
swent through and" the parlors. They
were old oueg, white and black,
richly dressed and poorly clad, citi
j zens and strangers, with here and
! there an Indian from the for West.
I
\ •The Conyers Solid South, ot f _
cetnber 19 th, published
i ing letter irom Miss Laura L. nay
! good, who is China.-Coviugton engaged m teaching bur. at
; Shanghai,
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, JANUARY 9, 1888.
TEUE COURTSHIP AID MARRIAGE,
Marriage should be made a study,
and every girl or man—for the latter
are as often at fault—should so con
sider it. Courtship >s too often looked
on as a season of mere pleasure, its
clieif objects to i»e wooed, charmed
and caressed, rather than a period
afforded for a judicious selection
of a life companion, a time wlu-n
habits, tastes, opinions and modes
of thought and feeling should be
learned. A writer has truly de
lined courtship as a voyage of discov¬
er!' or a court of inquiry to see where¬
in and to what extent there is a har
irufnv existing between the twain in
terested.
And this is true courtship. In¬
stead of sentimental moonshine and
me aning'.eas gush, let The youth en
deayni . to learn whether the young
• j aJ . p j g 8 j de? Jin( j v j,. e versa, is the
0 ne whom, of all the world, is best
adapted to make the journey of life
with him. Love, but love not blind¬
ly, so that no stumbling block may
be left to become a torment after
marriage. Ascertain well before
marriage who and what is the
young girl or man upon whom your
affections are centered. Employ
calm and careful consideration.
To the young girl marriage is a
world from w(iieh she can not return;
let her then be careful with whom
and under what circumstances she
enters it. Let not hot haste or
blind stupidity bring for her a life of
unhappiness and misery. As men and
women prepare themselves for the
different professions, trades and call¬
ings in life, so likewise let them pre¬
pare themselves for entrance into
that grand social institution of hu¬
manity whose laws and relations are
of momentous importance to the race.
—Ex.
Some are moments, some are hours.
Each catches a lint or feels a shad¬
ow, flashes, fades and is gone tor
ever.
Captain Harry Hill, of the Geor
gia fast line, has one of the finest
farms in Georgia. It is located in
Oglethorpe -1——:-—— county.
The Charleston Presbytery has
declared against Dr. Woodrow and
advises students to withdraw if he
remains in the Columbia Seminary,
A n election on the prohibition
question will be ordered at an early
day in Eunnin. the required number
of petitioners 1 having been obtained.
Jokes are like nuts—the dryer
they are the belter they crack.
The first train ever run on the
Georgia railroad was in 1836.
Gainesville will not issue any liq
or license this year.
Solomon was very wise. The owl
isve.y vpi'v w'se wise because because he he is is a a solemn
Whet a man nas been m anted
three times it is drivelling idiocy to
doubt his courage.
There is an unfailing recipe for
making any woman beautiful. You
have only to fall in love with her.
„ ..omchoi.y . , sen os , ns a c
with fullness Alitor’ in the stomach’” And
this this to to an an Mini. Ye = m>ds!
Henry county is badly ^ need , o.
in
a new jail. The present structure is
a shame on humanity, so the Me
Donough Weekly says.
Mr. Cicero Sims, an old citizen of
Henry county, has been adjudged a
lunatic.
Uncle Jones Tnrncr. of Stock
' ild at
one snot, last week.
A forty, two pound watermelon was
cmt bv Mr. Tom Steele in Boston,
Thomas county, on Christmas day.
There’s many a slipper ’twist
mn'her household! and «on 11 in every ' well re^ula- °
ted
The trouble in politics is that the
square man is never round when he
is wanted.
The city council of Milledgev ille
proposes to do away with all wooden
sheds and will substitute brick pave
j ments for wooden platforms,
\ , knocked , , down
1 ! When a man was asked
and tramped by a sheep and
how he felt, ho said: “A little under
t h e W eather.
j lid ^ e Brooks, of Muscogee conn
g; issued 18 ^ 52 marriage licenses dur
montU of December. The
j ^ doring the year was
349.
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A PBOUD IMAGINATION.
; IT TASTES THE PANGS OF EELL AND
JOYS OF HEAVEN.
From the Rising of Time to Eternity’s Set¬
ting', It Goes swiftly On.
The man of imagination—that is
to say, ofgenius—having seen a leaf
and a drop of water, can construct
the forests, the rivers, and the seas.
In his presence all the cataracts fall
and foam, the mists rise, the clouds
form and float.
To really know one fact is to know
its kindred and its neighbors. Shake¬
speare looking at a coat of mail, in¬
stantly imagined the society, tiie
conditions, that produced it, and
what it produced. He saw the castle,
the moat, llie drawbridge, the lady
of the tower, and the knightly lover
spurring over the plain. He saw the
bold baron and the rude retainer,
the trampled serf, and all the glory
and tiie grief of feudal life.
The man of imagination has lived
the life of all people, oi'all races. He
was a citizen of Athens in the days
of Pericles; listened to the eager
eloquence of the great orator, and
sat upon t he cliff, and with the trag¬
ic poet heard “the multitudinous
la lighter of the sea.” He saw Sue
rates thrust the spear of question
through falsehood; the shield and heart of
was present when the
great man drank hemlock and met
the night of deatli tranquil as a star
meets morning. He has followed
the peripatetic philosophers, and has
been puzzled by the sophists. He
lias watched Phidias as he chiseled
shapeless stone to forms of love and
awe.
He lias lived by the slow Nile
amid the vast and monstrous. He
knows the very thought that wrought
the form and features of the Sphinx.
He has heard great Mernnon’s morn
ingsong—has lain him down with the
embalmed and waiting dead and felt
within their dust the expectation of
another life mingled with cold and
suffocating doubts—the children
born of long delay. mighty
il;ls wa lked the ways of
. with his
Rome, has seen great Caesar
legions in vine field, lias stood with
vast and motley throngs and watch
ed the triumphs given to victorious
men, followed by uncrowned kings,
the captured hosts, and all the spoils
"f ruthless war He has heard the
sh,H,t t!,at Gmok Hie Coliseums
>'«<»%«? * Com the reeling
gladiators harm the short sworn k*n,
while from bis bosom gashed the
stream of wasted life.
j!° ^ the^Lperate Ll^Ds^Dent YLrhs’ iile -ml
game of or
deal h has matched Ids thought
against the instinct of the beast.
He knows ail crimes and ail re
grets, hks all virtues and their rewards,
fj e been victim and victor, pur
sner and pursued, outcast and king;,
|j as heard tJie applause and curses of
jj ie >vor | ( u t! ,id on His heart have
fallen all the nights and noons of
J failure lie knows and success. the unspoken thoughts,
j dumb desires, the wants and
| the
wavs of beasts. He has felt the
| ' thrill, the of
cro nching tiger’s with terror the
| tDes am' prev, and
eagles he has shared the ecstasy ot
flight and poise and swoop, and he
j has lain with sluggish serpents slowly on
j the barren rocks, uncoiling
j in the heat of noon.
j lie has sat beneath the bo tree s
j contemplative shades rapt in Budna s
| mipfity tbought, and he ureamed aw
I dre ; ims tilat l] } e
, <****£»
i
l«w;.snl>tle l.l"o ; l.
| l JIe liag knelt with awe and dread ,
1 at every sarine, has ofie.ed eveiy
j sacrifice and every prayer, has felt
j the consolation and the shuddering
1 has f^ cn ^ llas !riwked
| j ! ’ i nd woishipped ail the gods tnjoy
^ *****
I He has lived all lives, and through
his blood and brain have crept the
shadow and the chill of every deatli,
an l his soul, Mezzepalike, has been
lashed naked to the wild horse of
every fear and love and hate.
| The imagination hath a stage
; within the brain, whceon he sets ad
8teues that lie between the morn of
, 1&uphteran d the night of tears, and
, where his players body forth the
i false and truu. the joys and ^ r,ei y ? *
; the careless shallows and the tragic
■ deeps of every life.—Robert G. *n
gersoii in North American Review
• for January.
Col. James Smith, the
of Clarke count)', has a ,».* If
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No. 51.
PATENTS GEA HTED.
Paten's granted to citizens rtf the
southern states on Dec. 29, 1985 and
repo]• led expressly for the Sonin
South by C. A Snow A Co., patent
lawyers, opposite U. S. Patent Office,
Washington, 1>. C.
W. KBcJding, ML View, Arkan¬
sas, Fireplace grate; W. C. Dibb,
Atlanta, Ga., Machine for crushing
ore; C. Bremaker, Louisville, Ky.,
Paper pulp digester; D. C. Camp,
Gainesville, Ga., Chu n motor; W.
M. Cass, Cat-lock, Tenn., Car brake;
A. H. Iverson. Fort Worth, Texas,
Coffee pot; W. Webb, Bristol, Tenn.,
Brick machine; J. W. Durham, De¬
catur, Texas, Bedstead brace; T. J.
Fisher, Carthage, Tenn., Book case;
J. S. Ford, Owensboro, Ky., Elevator
and carrier; R. G, Hunter. Palatka,
Fla., Pocket knife; IV. A. Obencha
in, Bowling Green, Ky., Dip net; A.
F. Purefoy, Wake Forest, N, C.,
Spring bed bottom J. Y. Savage,
Scotland Neck, N. C. Fertilerizer
distributor; L. L. Taylor, Seaboard,
N C. Colton press; J. W. Whit¬
more. Ri'-hmond, Ya., Hinge.
Dodge county voted for prohibi¬
tion by 7 b major ity on the 1st of Jan¬
uary.
It is “All quiet along the Poto¬
mac to night,” but it may not be
quiet all along the Potomac very
long.
A seal skin sack and paper soled
shoes on a damp, cold day- is a com¬
bination that suggests blooming
idiocy.
It is stated that changes will take
place in over 200 presidential post
offices during the next forty days,
and the Republicans are preparing
to weep and wail and gnash their
tcetii.
Judge John II. Houser has issued
150 marriage license since Jan. 19
last, at which time he assumed the
office of Ordinary of Houston coun
ty
There may me, as alleged, a vast
army of people who are opposed to
* Bible into public
the use of the
schools, but just think what a vast
army are opposed to using it any
where.
«.j wa j {e U p sometimes in the
night,” said president Cleveland to
Henry Watterson the other day,
‘- an d seeing where I am, imagine it
is all a dream.’ It is the Democrat
j c party that has been Having, the
iffghf-mare over it. for these many
months.—Macon Telegraph,
Gen. Logan lias not vet introdne
ed a bill to pension all Republicans
who supported nun lot the 1 l esulen
«.V* wlif ? support
J*, think. 1 ^he'^ivlm^or^uch Uy e a'^ rewal'd
as i, tile as the country could , do
for such patriots.
The Stone Mountain Granite Corn
nnnv have about 60 convicts employ
,.j working in the qu; mes at 80
cents per day, in competition with
r, se labor which can be obtained at
«st per day. The policy of the com
|K .ny in employing convict labor is
. !a1 *<j to be condemned by the citizens,
and it is hinged that it there is not
some change in the management it
will piobably end wuh a serious re
su ' lt for the company.
A timid'man is liable to lose bis
head in a crowd and do the most.re
dii . l ,; 0lis things. At a white house
reCl . r , t j OD • the other day a gentleman
. t , j ine of callers got a little rat
tied and shook hands in an agitated
;;™ 1 xhe'ian-iiter in'
of the crowd
)j}m ()f his njistak ,, but it was
repair the blnudcr.
-
The new broom in an office sweeps
clean until it becomes dirty.
cess?ul brains alone make the sue
politician. It takes some
check *
One trader in every 86 through
oat the country faded last year, and
J n the south one m every 61 wenfc
under, and the average • iab ’ i U' V
$12,282. The average liability in
the south was very high last year.
J p re9 j den t Cleveland expresses
, £ h f , “ no personal inter
i iive question. He fa
j | a business like revision of state
j tftrilD ^ He also doubts the
t h a t the senate will spend its
| ^ . haggling ° over his appoint
; u * o-»lv ' i) the bride who is given
awv at a u • , T t, to J'-e
jjri vouthfu l
dew room has given ”i„„ himself many
. =>. betore . the day of ,.r the teicmo co re mo
times
ny.
JOB fflORI?
~?^OF ALL KIND DONEES
NEATLY AND PROMPTLY,
AD VEliTISJKG KATES
MADE KNOWN OK DEMAND
Pay for advertisements is always
due after the first insertion, unless
otherwise contracted l'or.
Guaranteed positions 20 per cent
extra.
Entered postoftiee as second-class mall
matter.
BEAUTIFUL COUPLETS.
A GRAPHIC DESO RIPTIOU OF LOVE .
BYEABEY EDWARDS.
A Spark of Sum-Line from an Eternity of
Loveliness.
Through the [.a in ted window the
sunlight, falls. Through the high
arch of blue, through lhe base of sea
green, through the boundaries of
crimson, through rose, lake and scar¬
let through golden sheen and saffron
glow, through silvery white and
shadowy blendings, aye, through
sombre hues it streams, a gust of
splendor translated into every tint
and written in the silent room.
Life is the painted window, the
loom our world, the sunshine, love.
From the sky it comes smiling
through the plans and circumstan¬
ces of our being, shedding many pat¬
terns at our feet.
Through the vivid, luminous
depths of blended color about us, each
transformed and made visible, float
the atoms, flecks of gold within a
sea of light, passing, passing, pass¬
ing with slow and solemn pace out of
the gloom into the glow, out of the
glow into the gloom.
A bird’s shadow sweeps lightly
across the window, a leaf floats down
and is cut lined as it passes. They
but darken for a moment a few at¬
oms that float in the luminous sea
about us, leaving its depths, its sur¬
face undisturbed.
Across our moments'tbe shadow
of a care is cast; like the leaf, like
the bird’s shadow, it vanishes.
Little clouds float through the
bosom of the eternity of space be¬
yond lhe painted window, shedding
darkness upon it; gone is the gush
of translated sunshine; gone are the
fairy lines upon the floor. But the
sunshine conies again and the beau¬
ties, too, return.
Black though the gloom of a grief
may be, love sliines thiough at last.
Beyond the window the winds
arise and blacker clouds shut out
the sunlight. Great tree arms toss
before the glass, and on its surface
fantastic fiends in frenzy dance.
Yet, but a little while; the storm
vi \ -s not forever. The sunshine
ics again. The tears we left upon
,c glass turn to jewels and lend
Uieir beauty to the scene.
Time conquers grief, as the sun¬
shine dispels the clouds, and love
o’ercome disti ust.
But the pains grow dim, not in
sudden shadow, not by clouds o’er
cast. The sunshine fades, the col¬
ors die, and only with us the shadow
remain. We may press our faces to
the window w Idle the hours pass, but
the sunshine has left us, the paint¬
ed glass is dumb. We may stretch
ourselves upon the the floor, but the
plans, the patterns have vanished as
dream lira s. Darkness at last, too
surely, So" is upon us. Gently fade the
age comes.
lines, the plans, the colors of life, and
face to face we stand with the wall
of night bearing down upon us.
Gone is the sunshine, indeed; scat¬
tered—dead—estranged the lovers
young and old.
But beyond the window, out of the
■doom, a spark arises, a fleck of gold
the black expanse of eter
nj ; Another comes, andyet anotli*
t . 1(]iJicg ? t!ie shadowy vault with
f (f(>ldon ‘ t rioJs . Then, up across
h(? wind w vims the silver moon, full
eyed and beaming fn solemn sweet
ness through the night. We
ma y stand by the window now, may
see' glorified in the space behind us,
it plans and patterns. All colorless
j ' there are, but veiled in a “* halo of " k< sil
,'T ““ l "’°" ’ “
\ ! ’oii'age^ooks golden out days of the and sh.do. periods
to where the
of life hang radiant in the eternity of
time 0 ne by one they rise and
lake their places ’sunshine for memory lights
them with the that has
passed 'peace us by. And when comes
J serene to flood the mind with
j J JntTOspective^yran^'sce^heTinS l aH col
j fl and p ‘ U1 . po se ofbfe
j ^ ^ ^ wra )ed in a h;do sleep
; ir)!r within In that glorified light,
even the faults and failures we have
i red rtened aspect.
j ea Jj „ 0llutt , we£u . a go
ut n ioon and stars go dswn.
Ave. and Memory slumbers amid
th ' e , n ,]y ;e n days she numbers in her
;
stand by the window sometime
| when dawn is breaking an unseen
| j iand will swing it open, will and fly upon
| w i„gs T \*et ungiven you eternal day, to
mt . e the dawn of an
| leaving the lituD prison an^ its vex
! ing changes for a home across whose
skies comes never a shadow, into
; wh • c life comes never a change and
1 I w cere sunshine is unbroken,—love
^.-nai.-Macon Tclcgraj h.