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PUBLIC NOTICE!
tteridj !WI “bunting, are positively probib other
■ota fishing or apart
Sjofir.e farm,
L P. Carr plantation,
' river. Mat .Maddox.
7,<5ti kS Ga„ Dec. 10th 1886.
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l.OOpd notice
ill make professional visits to
L the fiwt Saturday in every
b, Patients wishing to see me
find me at my office in the W hite
! House or at Dr. Lee s dru
Dn. L. G. Brantly.
10.50)
^SOLUTION NOTICE.
le firm of G. M. Jones & Co.
9.oo,i lis day dissolved by limitation
4.23p I mutual consent. G. M. Jones
5.40p L; his interest to Mes rs. Stew
1.55); Us, Lt who will stand continue assuming the bus all
TICK Lies the same all in
[edness of the late firm,
to said firm vvill be collec
PV Stewart Bros.
G. M. Jones.
Stewart Bros,
vers, Ga., Dec. 17 I 880 .
AIL! laving [the sold of my G. entire Jones & interest Co. to
firm .
Lsrs. Stewart Bros., f take this
jortunity [friends and to return the public my thanks who have to
literally given me their patronage
If ,ij. ing my connection with the firm
d Fig respectfully and earnestly solicit
sndrd pntinnance of tiie same to my
felloJ pegBors in business*
real G M. Jones.
r •. SPECIAL NOTICE!
lived • -H fill who are indebted to myself or
Th-sl A. M. Lee will confer a great
[or jtling, by calling immediately needing all that and
I as we are
!'l , I due us to meet our obligations.
Dr. W. H. Lee.
pyers, Ga.. Oet. 23, 1885.
Li J
)u if you propose going
est or North-West, to
r s rite me. I represent the
tort Line.
D. BUSH, D. P. A., Atlanta, Ga
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1 J. I. LAIGFORD,
*: MANUEACTURER OF
•■UGGIES AND WAGONS,
■ CONYERS, GEORGIA.
ti^HH*viDg P ainter employed I do a first-clas anything car¬ in
can
! 'Hi-' line in the most satisfactory
anner.
t»i Fine
Buggies,
d have on hand a splendid lot ot
N pe buggies of my own make, also
western buggy—will sell cheap.
j^Jsokeep I will a splendid sell line of wagons,
low down.
■Fomns and Caskets,
T ,
a 8 kets and Haidware and will seli
‘tnarkably close.
arm Blaeksmithing,
All kind of blaeksmithing done at
asonable prices.
Ail work is guaranteed to give
!r h*t satisfaction.
________J- W. LANGFORD.
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Department Clerks Dance to time and Do
Good Work.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, ’80.
The recently scattered cong-ess is
together again. The organization
of the house has been completed by
the announcement of the standing
committees, and both branches have
settled down to a solid six months
session.
The speaker of the house is at
last through with his delicate an 1
difficult work of committee making.
Helias been subjected to very heavy
pressure, and has ha 1 quite a hard
time over some of the popular
places. The pressure has been much
worse than it was two years ago,
some of the new members being par
ticularly unreasonable in their de
mands. Almost every man called
for a chairmanship, and certain new
members asked that old and experi¬
enced congressmen be made to stand
aside for them.
Speaker Carlisle looks pale and
care-worn, and the strain of his re
cent task has left oilier physical
marks upon him. Many questions
important and grave to the people ot
the United States will lie considered
by the committees he has just ar¬
ranged. He made them up alter
mature deliberation, solely with re
gard to the interests of the country,
and with reference to maturing leg
islation and securing a favorable
hearing on the floor of the house.
certain 'members are disappointed
with the assignments they have re
ceived, of course, but their irritation
will subside as the session pro
gresses. Mr. Carlisle’s work com
mends itself as a whole to those who
realize his difficulties in trying to
please three hundred men whose
abilities and opinions differ widely
on many questions, and whose ego
tism and ambition are unparallelled,
Possibly he has made some mis
takes, but-even his political em-mies
concede that his judgment is excel
lent, and that Ids motives are pure,
One thing, at least, is certain. No
committee has been made for any
ignoble purpose, as has been the
case often in the last quarter of a
century- Nor will there be trading
of chairmanships, for personal inter
ests, that there has been in the past,
The usual importance attached to
the formation of the committees this
year greatly increased the speakers’
work and added to his trying per
plexilies. He worked day and night
while congress was enjoying the
holidays. Indeed Mr. Carlisle has
as much industry as President
Cleveland, and he is equally unre
milling in giving his attention
whollv to businsss. Like the presi
dent ' too he is rarely - seen out in so
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Secretary Manning is another
hard worker. No one unfamiliar
wit h the details of the treasury de
partment can have any idea of the
immense amount of mete routine
work he takes upon himself. Most
of this work he could Distrust to a
subordinate as his predecessors did,
but be prefers to look after his own
responsibilities. Unlike the presi
dentand speaker .I. of the house, Mr.
,, Manning - likes societyq •. especia *n lv
dinner parties, and he expects to en
te, Srr»e'wJeh7eL',r
much . stricter , . . enforcement ot -f ne j a
to beat their desks now bv nine
I. «
not permitted to leave them ^ nl, l fhe
V 1<X StnkeS f0U T 10 l he T
w
and tardy clerks ate requited tore
port the time of their arrival to the
chief clerk. Consequenth treasury
employes are kept in a state of
turbation from the time they awake
every morning until they get into
the department safeiv on time. The
government gets a good deal more
work for the money it- pays them
When these rules went, into effect
the daily average of tardy clerks at
the treasury was over two hundred,
New, out of about two thousand em
ployes, the average of delinquents is
from six to ten, though occasionally
the record is entirely clear.
There is a steady removal going
on in the departments here, and
scarcely a day passes without some
displacement, of republicans and
j oointment K of democrats to fill their
es St U the incumbents hope
everything and with such menae.rg
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, JANUARY 16, 1886.
clerk recently. And there was much
t ruth in Ids remark, All idle and
inefficient employes will go in the
course of time.
II. H. Phinizy, editor and proprie¬
tor ot the Athens Chronicle, sold out
to Joe Stone, the former proprietor,
and Walter S. Christy.
Mr. D. C. Goode, of Rockdale coun
tv, has killed the largest hog in the
state, which weiged 572 pounds, net¬
ting 516 pounds, making fourteen Mr.
and one half gallons of lard.
Goode is a progressive farmer, and
has success in all his undertakings.
Erwin’s law office was burned
down in a fire last Monday in Ath
ens.
Mr. Dan Cleaver, for many veats
a citizen of Rockdale, is now at
Temple, Ga., doing well for himself.
The length of railroad track laid
in this country last year was 3,113
miles. Missouri Jo-ads the list w'r h
282 miles followed by Kansas with
276, Florida 251, Nebraska 214. lex
as 211, Penhsylvania 175, and Geos
gia 151. The other states show less
er amounts ot track laid. Georgia s
track laying was chiefly confined to
feeders and branch lines, but was
not the less valuable on that account.
We need more feeders than trunk
Lnes in this stale, and i.ie x cD’inces
are we will get several of the former
this year.
Signs are not wanting of a disa
greeiuent between the Northern
Methodist and the African Mel un¬
dist.churches. The Northern Aieth
odist have never taken kindly to the
secession of the negroes into a church
of their own. Failing to realize that
in this social and religions segrega
lion the nogreoes were obeying a
race instinct, they struggled to hold
the two races in one church, It is
now charged, by Bishop Turner, that
wherever an African Methodist
church in debt, the Northern Metli
odist buy in the property and estab
1 ish it as a mixed church
In spite of this, the African Meth
odist—which is to say the negroes
who have seceded from the northern
church and organized conferences
and congregations oi their own—arc majority
already an overwhelming
and are gaining constantly. In
Georgia they have three conferences
and 55,000 members—while the Nnr
them Methodist have only one con
ferenee, smaller than eit or o! the
other conferences and only 15.00
members. On the Atlanta circuit.
Elder Gaines has built nine African
churches and is now finishing a tine
college. Tiie Northern Methodist
have fhe money and the learning, but
the negroes catch the recruits and
ride the tidal wave.
_ Evei “ 7 h of r
automatic >’. J’ c type * r or sett w ter, ,° ™ but ™J the ma- an
chine neve.- materializes. The la
v \f ave *^l"sj.ne.s by M -
Jam f n ’ the * ew 1 " r * f T?
“"“f® ciaims that Ins
machinei will set type, justifyit .lead
lt n " d P lace ’ on a h “
machine tha d st I, n tos
type automatically. The new type
seUl »S machine is operated by
means of a perforated ribbon Al
,er machine, l ' e n, it .' bon may > h f be taken “fl to the n new
^ 0 te | e ra|lh and fae similes
pwJ ucedatanv number of
»>e ted into the automatic tvpe ‘ set
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! the ocean atid woidd come out
in New York evc-v morning This
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! Owing to the repeated violation ot
the prohibition law, in Warren'-on,
Hu* citizens met and resolved to
j “collectively wnd indi\i iua lv au
! thorize the chairman of this meeting
] to appoint a committee of twenty
, one to collect evidences and bring to
; justice every*, peraoh violating said
| n w: and we likewise pledge our
selves individually and collectively
to sustain such committee financial
ly and morally in every • ffort to sup
p,- ess said illicit tiaflic. pmi that, this
vigilant committee be instructed to
search diligently* wherever they have
! reason to believe that whiskey is
j concealed and and sold that in they open violation
j 0 f the law, in searching use and
best energies out
oxposin" f all parties, white or colored
t may be engaged in the ilii.dt
town.
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{ Vpry Yorkers carrv narss^Js snil
es .t f, „o,« tbe ir
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A PSALM OF LIFE.
Blessings thick and fast, aye, mu!
liplied blessings, shall follow him
all the days ot Ins prilgrimage who
forgelelh not to subscribe and to
pay for his paper.
His soul shall not hate his enemy
with envy, but witn fatness shall be
filled.
In the vigor of youth shall he
flourish and prosper, and in old age
his strength d.eparteth not.
For gout rac keth him neither by
day nor night; but in his dreams
visions of peace skip over his brain.
Yea, verily, his children shall not
torment; they shall grow to man
hood, sober and pure.
Neither shall bis neighbor worry
or annoy; lie shall be as a tree plant¬
ed by waters.
Hie sickness shall be short and of
little pain; but bis soul shall be
filled with sadness" at the folly of his
neighbors
if is cattle shall be well favored
and low on a thousand hills, and the
nr mher thereof shall be as the sand
0 f the sea shore,
The great men of earth shall rise
up and praise hi« name: he shall be
hi( ; ssed ahovt , h5s fellows,
His railnent *hall be both fine and
,. ^ h . lU his food t \ lK best
ifftdieearth,
Wliuji he walketh I>y day hissing
serpents shall not disturb; neither
^ devour his grain; Vea, verilv,
feha(| hjs barns burst out with ful
ness.
Mis wife shall love all the time;
neither bv night shall bis feet want
covering, nor shall be on a cold day
appear wit bout a clean handkerchief.
lie shall he fruitful above his
neighbors; yea, thousands shall call
him daddy.
Colicky children shall disturb his
family never; they shall rejoice his
soul.
From strength to strength shall
his children grow, and mighty men
shall they become; they shall be
surprised at their own shall largeness.
From among them he named
orators, poets, philosophers, states¬
men, governors; yea, of their much¬
ness shall all the people he as ion
ished
All these blessings shall the cash
paying subscriber receive; he shall
dwell in the Laid, and his name dieth
not. With the other map it shall
not be so; he sit ill die; iiis few
friends shall mourn, and his end
come th.
A Perry merchant advertises to
sell a pound of meat for a pound of
cotton, the cotton to he delivered next
October.
There are more bar-rooms ia the
Second Congressional district than
in any Congressional district in the
State.
A Connecticut chastuer has fil'd
Canada with a large amount of spe¬
cie. This a great triumph for. the
silver men
In Rome, Saturday night, the
weather was so cold that tlx- pt ison
ers were turned out of the calaboose
that they might not freeze.
The State Agricult ural < /'(invention
will meet at Columbus F< b. 9. A
meeting of tiie local society will be
held Saturday to arrange for the oc
casion. The City Council has ap
preprinted $50 for tlie rent of a hall
for the meeting.
Married on 7th instant, at the res¬
idence of the bride’s parents, ai Li
thonia, bv Rev. M. L. Underwood,
Mr. J. fl. McClellan to Miss Eliza
K W iaS i„, ........... frien.is
of the young couple wish Hum a
pathway strewn with roses.
* , '' , *: ,! Tenf ‘ d ‘ °'°i. °n< e sato to
G-m. Sbo-bis: i ‘■How is it .ha.. Ina
'eg obtained so much glot.v, \on^ tili
seek for more. ‘Alt, nuulatn, h p
with more force than polite _
ness, "how is it that you, who have
onich beauty, should stiil put on
paintr
'pin* “-Fa * her of the House” is af
tt>r ,.}, e ‘-Dollar of our Daddies.”
JudgeKeUev'sbilllimitingtliecoin
a £ ge of silver dollars to $ 1,000 ratio’ a year
t . 0 , n untill a common be
twuen g 0 j,} an ,j s u vt *r be established
py the commercial nations has the
, ne rit of being Simple, easily under
s tood and practical.
'* 'zen (.ot oun !y ei.t <> j ,_„y *_
“ nc on, u.i ry no n o » ■ “ 1 1
wt‘ s :l surprise to ni", b umis.
tho.tght that you and he were b.Iter
a nit U er o{ \f eaI ’,, hut in the f&ce „f
death, inv detir friend, the he.trfc soft
«». A.A I S « Wets aline
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JCMESTiWAET’S R3TIEEMLUT.
Judge John P. Stewart’t resign a
tion Went into effect vest-via v.
He has been five years ori the bench,
and lays aside the ermine without a
stain on it. During bis occupancy
of the position of judge of the supe
rior court, lie has patiently beard
hunpreds of intricate, perplexing
eases, and has impartially measured
out even handed justice. He leaves
the bench with more popularity than
worn he went on it. His long career
and arduous services have endeared
him to the people whom he lias
served, and he retains their regard
in higher degree than ever.
Much has been said in the papers
about his probable candidacy for eon
gress. We believe we present him
correctly in saying that while he
would not refuse to be a candidate for
the nomination, if his friends desire
to bring him forward, he will not en¬
ter into a scramble for it. His re¬
gard for the party which lias honored
him in the past, will not allow him
to jeopardize its interests by push¬
ing his own claims. If he does enter
the race, his course will be, as it has
been in the past, honorable to him¬
self and satisfactory to Iris friends.
The foregoing, which we take Iron)
the Griffin Sun, may be accepted as
a true outline of Judge Stewart’s fut¬
ure course, while his valuable servi¬
ces to the state in the past, in vari
ons high capacities, are not in the
least overestimated. There is no
man in the district who has gone to
more extreme lengths in preserving
democratic harmony, on all occa¬
sions, and more than once his self
abnegation has cost him disappoint
meat when be had a right to expect
recognition and reward. But bis
splendid manhood has always been
equal to the most crucial emergency,
and he lias past tluough every or
deal without smirch or blemish, fully
attesting those fine qualities for
which he is much admired. Should
he conclude to make the race for con¬
gress he had hundreds of friends in
the district who, remembering his
self sacrificing course in tlx* past,
will rally to bis support from every
diiVetion. — Ib-nyy County Weekly'.
CineinnaUi was 37 years old lust
week. About twenty settlers loea
ted there Dec. 28, 1788. The city
was incorporated in 1802.
Ex President Arthur’s income is
said to be about $ 20,000 a year, >nd
be can enjoy himself pretty well tiie
ballat'Ce of his life, if lie is not an
noyed too much by ins climbs.
Chicago is going to have n aroma
torv erected right away, but some o!
the projectors of the enterprise ob¬
ject to billing it in the noted suburb
of that city known as Little Shed.
A cyclone swooped down on II. W-.
Watt's place. 8 mics from Aaiericus,
occupied by E. A Edwards, Sunday,
niaht, carry ing destruction to fences,
trees, etc A barn was partially de
stroved. 600 sounds of foxier blown
away and other damages done.
Later reports from Lawrenceville,
Ga , are to tlx* effect tHat the vote of
the town $1,500 Council placing the license
at was a surprise and it
t urned out to be a huge practical
joke. At a recent meeting a liquor
dealei, who is an Alderman, moved
to reduce the license, and was defeat
ed. He got very mad, .and at tiie
last meeeting lost his head and
mo* ed to make the license $2,500.
This motion was lost, when the deal
made a motion to put it at $1,500.
The mayor put the motion to the
body, but before it was votrffl upon
|he mover asked leave to w.Umniw
I »*• At tins juncture a pro!,.baton
, yi., VO |-. under the circumstances,
> t .ould do nothing else than comply
. with the request, and put the motion
j j before the council. the motion To the make surprise
j oi’the mover, to Hie
|j t . t . nse jj 1,500 was adopted. This
j makes Lawrenceville a dry town, and
the ex councilman is the madest man
in the state.
—
When a man talkes about earning
« n honest dollar, he cannot mean a
silver dollar. There arc no honest
dallars.—Boston Host,
, The attendance at the State Uni
| versity at At’ens is very good now.
: About 200 students are now at the
’institution. About fifteen new ones
j,ave entered since Jan. 1.
: 1 he newspapers are full of pre
j Hshoti. ^-ription It of is all this: has not Cold y< t been ied. pub
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10 OUR FARMERS.
The following timely advice is
given to the farmers of Georgia free
by the Macon Telegraph: disputed
It is a fact probably not ad$
that Hie farmer is a thoroughly
vised individual. No matter howr
difficult all other professions, thatof
fainting, to the ordinary looker on,
seems easy, and the true course of
the agric ultural man perfectly plair.
Notwithstanding this, we propose to in
renew the advice tendered year
and out at this seasoD. But that we
realize the utter uselessness of such
ail admonition, we would be disposed
lo paraphrase Artemus Ward apd
say—to the farmer about to go into
debt—don't
But the Telegraph recognizes the
fact that the Georgia farmer, at
least, is obliged to go into debt. He
must have money on which to do
business, and to get it he must bor¬
row. That is all there is in it.
Some there are, indeed, not so situ¬
ated; to such we say earnestly, don’t
go iulo debt. But to those who
must, we add—except for what is
absolutely necessary to your busi¬
ness. Don’t use one cent of bor¬
rowed money in purchasing anything
that can be avoided. Hard as it is
to borrow, it is even harder to pay.
The unnecessary goods are paid for
at prices far above their worth; they
are paid for with unnecessary labor,
unnecessary sweat, unnecessary
uight planning, unnecessary heart¬
burning, care, wrinkles, and with
positive slavery—tiie slavery of iron
ribbed circumstances.
But there is more than these. Ev¬
ery farmer’s credit is limited; gen¬
erally by the number of plows ho
runs, when he is credited at all.
How often does it happen that he ex¬
hausts his credit by unnecessary ex¬
penses and finds himself confronted
by contingencies affecting his plant¬
ing interests and no money on hand.
Thus, then, the farmer who make*
unnecessary purchases, really gam¬
bles upon the principal that ho re¬
lies upon to pay It is debts.
Anil behind all this is even more.
tie makes his debt when suppli«s arc
high and pays for them when his
products are low. It matters little
how, cheap other things may be when
his crops are sold, the purchasing
power of the money he receives must
be expended upon debts based on
nigh prices, with interest added.
VVe are far from saying that the
farmer is more improvident than
many who depend upon the business
ant, the money he creates. The truth
>s, he feeds the men who abuse him,
and who, but lor him, would have to
StiUcv other communities or become
producers also. But we do say that
the farmer will Dever become inde¬
pendent until he does business upon
the proceeds of the crop that preced¬
ed, and riot upon advances, which are
based upon the crop that is y*et to
come. The only possible way for
him to achieve this independence is
to avoid all but absolutely necessary
expenses for a year or two. Now i*
the time to begin.
A spe< ialist in throat troubles was
called to treat a Bostou lady who
manifested somuch interest in his
surgical instruments that he ex¬
plained their uses to her. “This
laryngoscope,” said, be, “is fitted
with small mirriors and electriclight
the interior of your throat will be
seen by me as clearly as the exteri¬
or; you would be surprised to know
how far down we can see down with
an instrument of this kind.” Tho
operation over, the lady appeared
somewhat agitated. “Poor girl,”
said her sister, who was present; “it
must have been very painful.” “Oh,
no, not that, not that,” whispered
tiie Boston lady; “but just as ha
fixed iiis iDstrnmen in place I re¬
membered that I had a hole in my
stocking.”
A brother editor says a newspaper
is not noisy, yet it frequently creates
a bustle.
Last month there were thirty-two
stills seized and destroyed by the
revenue men in tLe Atlanta divis¬
ion.
Whenever there is any doubt
about a dog’s sanity*, an ounce of
>ead is worth a pound of cure.
Two of a kind—the youth who
wishes he had the monkey back
which he paid for a present to a girl,
and the girl who wishes the mean
thing had his old present back.
In these days of hy drophobia it
may be well to remark that no per¬
son who has paid for his newspaper*
in advance v.as ever known to be bit¬
ten by a mad dog.
In Chicago the other day a land¬
lord shot one of bis boarders for jok¬
ing about the butter.