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lid So‘U.tu3 Saturday by the rtisbed every company. §30!i POOL ishing L £'f). ybnklo-v. I proprietors. > subscription. 25. $i ■ear cr. loath* to ijilCD copy free. tfks of dismissions. _fi*. Ro< f kd l a nl ! a"'P lunkett, admin concerned “ UiUhs aii.i creditors hv gai to Q f^V ,, r'should not be discharged hi f,, ?. ^rKlVeC-e.aber2d, ail " 1 '"£ £ the first Monday 1885. in ; !, > K ’ ' Skamans, Ordinary. o. 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¬ Bros, assuming all 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 [rite or North-West, to me. I represent tl e port D. BUSH, Line. . D. P. A., Atlanta, Ga J. I LIKE raiiMarf J manufacturer of 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 » SPta'M Ita.Of HOftorta emarkably close. r arm Blacksmitliing, i kind of blacksmithing done at pasonable work prices. L ie rfeet satisfaction. is guaranteed to give J- W. LANGFORD. SOLID ___ SOUTH CLUB RATES. Y>ijd Soux H and Weekly Cjmsti f on one year $2.00. Southern it yo Tal0r ^ Home and Farm gkB Savannah Weekly News ^viile OMic" ui Weekly Telegraph $2.00. Cornier Journal Aup eig0Ils . due either bv ie C0Uat ’ please call and set f, eHed ©nev COra P t0 __- ’ t d Richakbson & Cowan >>** M :d 7 «»sp "-V,. n pr'l 8 I ! • •' te y * if *! JLj * I | te'i ft & 23 I V A 1 i Pv V V -LiN & a ■ i as ^ i TBS -2 _i ■ rv_y . ; ti- cahiis ad3s» Q _ 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, S "LSSdS h rtf i 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. I» j ^ 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 | al * f 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.