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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1886)
lid.' S°"°" tla. ede«ryS»t»rf»y'>y t, ‘ e lWW ffflfflU s3!l l L ;; yhui<l°?> l Proprietors. UsD. L"' vin ) SUBSCiamON. $1 25. year - 03 |ce months CO ‘‘ cimen copy free. THE BOOMERANG. I®® fSf ™ s 0PEN U and Forgers Put in Office Under Lshington,D. Eepnblican Rule. C.Feb., 15, 86. Lm-emeOts for the great Tele suit are still in progress. Ex me arrived m the city ...tor iv Thurman preparing the pa¬ to assist in s' There is something like poet j’stice in Mr. Thurman’s reten bv the government in the iele i suits." friends allege that ne Mis L s' been kept in corporations, retirement and lie¬ [ be fought public life to do be returns to re lighting of the same kind, fou remember about two weeks ce, a congressionrl committee was powered to investigate the Pan etrio and Bell Telephone offairs. , republican members of the com tee put on their war paint and eatened to make some startling wveries. Their first step was sk the tiie Secretary of the Inte¬ nd the Attorney General what cy had been expended by their fitments in the Telephone suit. Lamar replies, after careful' m L that thirty-five dollars for tiling etc., was the only money ex¬ iled in his department, while Mr. Hand says ncr money has been ex ided yet in his. Counsel has been dined for the government suit, but money has yet been paid the nsel. In I an executive session of the sen yesterday, Mr. Edmunds pre Ited a protest signed by citizens ■customs in that state. The ob tion to him was that he had ap Inted a deputy whose reputation, Iras |r alleged, was not the best. Sen Is Beck and Butler thought that flimsy pretext and said if every lublican official had been held, re fcnsihle for all his deputies, there juld Senator have Sherman been many made rejections. an attack ripen session upon the President’s Rtudewitk regard to giving‘Tens a’and Senator Edmunds expects do the same next week. Senator |ar the and presidency others who in 1888 are candidates only [ are [iting for the semblance of an ex Be to score the administration in Flic. They fee! it is high time to juse the rej ublicans to the fact it they are actually losing the post ices. It is true this is not a greai ue, hut there is nothing greater hand just now. hither willfully or ignorantly the il issue in the pending controver between the senate and the exec ive has been misstated by certain latovs and certain partisan pa rSi 1 he attempt has been made place the administration in a posi u which it has never taken. It sheen assumed thatthe President desirous of concealing his reasons removals; that he desires to make between private and i i le papers,—between executive g>siative papers. From his of replies to the senate through to of be the dra cabinet, the clear fa¬ ,, wn is simply this: the chief ,. executive of the nation m his possession certain pa which public interest demands m to withhold. Expressions of opinion on the sub !\ the relations between the and senate are diawn now Vm , Stft . . 1 P art lines nit ' j y among the th^w.A representatives. Both at 0 reco - Di2e the fact 4 Can be in dcffinitely a£nsffi° time * nSlderpreSidential gr .°7 in g opinion that it nom en S Ssion- Some say [reform refe P W ards j trne civil ser Nominees would , be takea in this can > assailed in on t N na °Y‘' T, es of hand their accusers, mat n? CaD 6 COnfirmed ’ unworthy offetse^ with a 0Ee aDswerable for TK , 0118 have been con a» b i° U Tf bar rsonal g ains eonsid- There a n unwritten - allow;— a ”" 80 ca Bed conr „ ^ decide fitness of fl? the '°, minec 1,6811 fro ® his ' l!i s desire h teriurers a ^ a crowd f Zfft or halbjt boT stnf theives d a 1 mrmncr ot S ei ed rafa iS" as 8 ; rew e Wards t r for high ° ffices of the great r Solid h 4t jTriwG’ IMS ■ 9 ■ .... . ... TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. Yol. 4. CONYEBS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 20, 1886. No. 5. The Hampton Helper will be out March 1st, and its novelty will un doubtedly popularize the issue. Rev. N. N. Edge will be down next week with his family. The Three Conditions.—“Why don’t you marry?" “Well, you see, I am very patieu lar how r my intended should be—” “Explain yourself.” “My wife must be rich, handsome, and. stupid.” “Why all that?” “Very simple. Bhe must be rich and handsome, otherwise I would not have her, and she must be stu pid, otherwise she would not have me.” A true bill has been found against the superintendent of the pauper farm of Jackson, for mistreating the inmates of the poor house. The grand jury also recommended his im¬ mediate discharge and that another man be substituded. A few night since one of Our “bloods” called on a young lady. By request he was reading a selec¬ tion from some eminent author to the fair damsel. He happened to think of himself, and he was reading with his back toward her. He immedi¬ ately turned and asked the lady to excuse his back, when she remarked that the “back of a goose was a de¬ sirable as any other part ” The young man “blushed” and continued reading*—Dooly Vindicator. The railroad now being summed from London, Ky., to Toccoa, makes the western connection by way of Elberton and Augusta. A three weeks old girl baby in Brunswick has two teeth. - -.x, ■ - r ■ ' - . Lulu; Ilurst lias entered Shorter College at Rome for the purpose of educating herself. In Greenland there are no ipen over sixty years of age. When a man of that age falls seriously ill he" commits suicide by throwing him¬ self into the sea at the demand of his relatives. In Georgia, if a man of that age is a widower he dj’es his hair and goes Chasing around after every fourteen year old girl he sees. If not, the state relieves him of jury duty. If the discharge from the bladder is light colored, and demands night fre¬ quent attention, especially' at you have reason to suspect an un¬ healthy condition of the Kidneys, use Dr. J. H. MeLenans Homoao phatic Liver and Kidney Balm. For sale by Drs. Stewart and Lee. Jan. 30, 3 m. It the cowboys go to fight the In¬ dians, who will be left to terrorize "travelers on the Western railroads. When the difficulties at Seattle aie settled, no doubt many new settlers will settle in Washington Territory. Spring is approaching and it is time to begin to organize anti-cat societies in the cities and towns in the country. At Albany Friday night fifteen dogs, some of them valuable point ers, bit the dust from poisoning. The Hill monument at Atlanta will probably be unveiled April 10. The affair will probably be made one in which the whole State will be represented. Rev. Dr. Armstrong, of the Pro¬ testant Episcopal Church, on trial in Atlanta under charges of drunkeness and immorality, has been fund guilty of violating his ordination vows, and suspended from the ministry, not ex ceeding ten years, in the discretion of the Bishop. The charges were made by the reporter of a Cincinnati paper, to the effect that Dr. Arm¬ strong, in that city last summer, was intoxicated and visited houses of ill fame. The Doctor admits that he took a glass of beer in a hotel, and also that he visited several houses of . the kind mentioned, but his visits were for the purpose of trying, to rescue a y'oung female rel¬ ative, who had recently become The an inmate of one of those houses. substance of the finding is that the doctor has been guilty of indiscre¬ tion rather than crime. A. H, STEPHENS ON LEE. THE GREAT COMMONER WRITES OF GEN. R. E. LEE. The ancestors of Lee were many of them military- men, and he, born in Strafford, Westmoreland county, Va., Jan. 19, 1807, was, in boyhood, almost in sight of the ravages made by the fleet of Admiral Cock burn along the Chesapeake Great during our sec ond war with Britain. His father died when he was 12 years old, and he became a cadet at West Point in 1825. He is said to have been so studious and blameless in deportment, and at .the same time so courteous to all, as to have passed the four years without demerit or reprimand, and graduated at the head of his class July, 4, 1829. He w-as appointed Second Lieutenant of Engineers, and soon after promoted to First. In 1832 he married Mary Custis, a granddaughter of the wife of Washington, and in 1835 he help¬ ed to mark the line between Michi¬ gan and Otiio. His estate of Arling¬ ton came later, through his wife. In 1859 he was in Washington city, and on the night of Oct. 17 of that year really began his first ser¬ vices in the cause of the Southern States. On the 16th John Brown, an old and notorious offender against law in the Territories, had, at the head of a band of- conspirators, seized tire arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, with its 50,000 stand of arms, which he proposed at once to distribute among the slaves of Virginia. The negroes entirely failed to respond, and John Brown’s iortress, the en¬ gine house, was carried by storm, after he refused the unconditional surrender 1 tendered him through J. E. B. Stuart, the Lieutenant of Col. R. E. Lee. Mr. Brown was tried and hanged, and w-hatever progress his soul has made in the “marching on,” of which a popular song speaks, he ended his Cartlily journeyings in Iiis first bloodshed of the war, and the man then in his way was the United States officer and Virginia gentleman, RobertE. Lee. On April 20, 1861, live day-s after the call for invading troops, Gen. (then Colonel) Lee, now commanding his regiment, resigned, by letter, from Arlington, Va., to Gen. W. Scott. Upon the day of my arrival in Richmond he had been made Ma¬ jor General of the- Virginia army. On the day after my arrival this rank of Major General of the army of Virginia was solemnly conferred upon him by President John Jan ney, of the convention, in the Hall of Representatives. As he stood there, fresh and rud dy as a David from the sheepfold, in the prime of his manly beauty-, and the embodiment of a line of he foie and patriotic fathers and w-or thy- mothers; it was thus I first saw Robert E. Lee. I had preconceived ideas of the rough soldier, with no time for the graces of life, and by companionship almost compelled to the vices of his profession. I did not know then that he used no stim¬ ulants, was free evon from the use of tobacco, and that he was abso¬ lutely stainless in his private life. I did not know then, as I do now, that he had been a model youth and young man, but I had before me the most manly man and entire gentle¬ man I ever saw. I remember seeing him in Savan¬ nah, conspicuous by the blue uni form which he w-as the last of the Confederates to put off, scarcely no tilted among the gay uniforms of the new volunteers, and ledst likely- of all men to become the first charac¬ ter in the war for States right. Toward sundown at the battle of Seven Pines, Virginia, on May 31, 1862, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston fell severely wounded, and, as the com¬ mand devolved for a time on Gen. G. W. Smith, the time of Gen. Lee had come at last. His appointment by Mr. Davis was very unpopular, as the South had little confidence in him, and even Virginians doubted their old idol. From that time I need only to call the roll of his battles. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Celebrated Catarrh Powder will cure Catarrh, Cold in the Head, Ozena, and sores up the nostrils. With this little in¬ vention -a bent glass tube—which will be in every box hereafter, y-ou can blow the Catarrh Power up and on the inflamed mucous membrane. If you blow to hard and some of the Powder goes down your throat, will do no harm. For sale by Drs. Lee and Stewart. 3 m. It is estimated that Henry Ward Beecher has received for his “chin music” during the last forty years the magnificent sum of $750,000. A teacher in one of our schools asked the class what w-as the longest day of the year, and promptly got the answer: “Sunday.” Mayor Reese, of Carrolton, has been appointed United States Com¬ missioner for-Carroll. The combined ages of Sheriff An¬ derson and ex-Sheriff Ilight, of Newton county, is near 140 years. At Atlanta eight sat down to a quiet game of poker Saturday- night in a private room. Before the game wound up Sunday morning $1,400 had been lost. One actor lost $200 and another showman $250. Three drummer boy-s scooped in all the money-. A bailiff in Hart county- found it necesary, .after levying, to whip the defendant in fi fa. The South Americans put sausage in bark. The North Americans put bark in sausage. Sitting with the girls is pleas¬ ant pasttime, but remember, young man, that it takes hog and hominy to keep house. In close application to business nothing on this footstool exceeds a mustard plaster. At a recent meeting of the town council of Summerville the license to retail liquor was fixed at $200. Clay county will soon test the strength of prohibition. Meetings have been held recently in its inter¬ est. A day or two since a local walker, Mr. Emmet Walker, of Alexandria, La., met, while out walking, Miss Walking. They concluded to get married. It was go-as-you please match, so they- ran away. The bluebird twiltereth at this writing, and “spring time is coming, gentle Annie.” The patriotic ladies of the McDuf¬ fie County- Association will soon be¬ gin preparations for the annual ob servance of Memorial Day. It is an almost settled fact that Hartwell Is to have a cotton seed oil mill and guano factory. Some body should persuade the home missionary societies to under¬ take the work of converting the Sal¬ vation Army. The idea of sending men and money to enlighten the for¬ eign heathen while these people are running wild at home is preposter¬ ous. Two defeated candidates for the Presidency-, both Democrats, have died within the last week. The rumor that Lulu Hurst re tains her Electric powers, we fear, betokens an early reappearance of the y-oung lady upon the stage. Alimony of $5 per month was giv¬ en last week at Jackson county- court. This is the smallest one on record. The lawyer’s fee was $25. i The Queen of Italy employes a fe male physician. Whenever the Queen feels a. little out of sorts she sends for her phy-sician, and the two talk about the latest fashions. This is a medicine that w-ill cure almost any women. For horses or other Animals, Dr. J. H. McLern’s Volcanic Oil Lini¬ ment is superior to all other remedies in cases of Bruises, Fistula, Sprians, Sores, Cuts, or an special disease. It is a specific for Rheumatism, Neu ralgia and Nervous Pains, which im mediately yield to its magic influ¬ ences. When used according to di¬ rections it relaxes Contracted Mus cles, renews elasticity in stiff joints and shriveled limbs. For sale by Drs. Stewart and Lee. 3 m. A genuine professional beaver trapper passed through McDonough last week. He captured sixteen of these varmints down on Towaliga river last week, and was on his way to the headwaters of the Oconee. The beaver hides sell in New York at $1,50 per pound. For their services in Cincinnati Sams Jones and Small received $802. They were in that city about 5 weeks. Emanuel county- boasts of a child now about six months old, which wheighs less than five pounds cloth ing and all. The little midget is al¬ most perfectly formed, its arms be¬ ing about the size of an ordinary person’s thumb, and its legs very little if any larger. The child’s par¬ ents are average sized people, and this is their first child. At Oxford, recently, a horse, be¬ longing to Rev. W. A. Farris, bit off four inches of a cow’s tongue. The State Fair committee, consist ing of President Livingston, Mobley of Hamilton, Lyon of Cartersville, Hollis of Macon, Nisbet of Bibb, and McCall of Quitman, will meet in Macon on February 23, at which time the place for holding the state fair will be thorougly discussed. A Kentucky Judge has improved on Solomon, oral least made a varia¬ tion on that wiseacre’s famous de¬ cision. Two mothers recently came before him to claim a baby', and he settled the dispute by declaring that neither of the women was fit to take the child, and then sent it to an orphan asylum. A million dollars, it is said, will weigh one and two thirds tons in gold, twenty-five tons in subsidiary silver coin, tw-enty six and three fourths tons in standard silver coin, and one hundred tons in nickel. The J. Woods Pierce—J - Pierce Weaver injunction case was called by Judge Marshall J. Clarke at At¬ lanta, Saturday, but continued till to day because of the absence of Mrs. J. W. Pierce on account of unavoida¬ ble delays. Business men, Lawyers, Clergy¬ men and others, whose occupations are of a sedentary character, often have the feeling of being literally worn out, and are reminded very for cibly of declining years, when if they knew what ailed them, they would find all their troubles arose from the inaction of their kidneys or liver if they would at such times, take Dr. J. II. McLean’s Homoeopathic Liver and Kindey Balm, would again feel the vigor and strength of maturity, For sale by Drs. Lee and Stewart. 3 in. In the Mississippi legislature on last Saturday in a contested case for a scat in that body between a white man and a negro the negro was awar ded the seat. This act does not smack much of the old shot gun policy. A little white boy who was struck by the stream of water while Gaines¬ ville’s new fire engine was being tes¬ ted, is in a more serious condition than was at first imagined. He is now spitting up blood and undergo ing much pain. Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has been suggested for president of the Geor¬ gia Press association, in the event Colonel Estill declines a re election. Hancock and McClelland’s funer als were unostentatious. It was not necessary to whitewash their char acters with the pomp and pageantry of uniformed processions. It is alleged that Fred Freeman, a boy of fifteen, killed and robbed the boy Mauldin, in Toccoa, Ga., whose mutilated remains were found a few days ago. It is whispered that Judge Estes will be a candiate for Congressional honors in the Jackson county dis¬ trict. The Univcrsalists church is gain¬ ing ground rapidly in Franklin county. The President will stand by his Cabinet, and the Democrats in the Senate will stand by the President. Some Stewart county farmers are beginning to raise their own horses and mules. At Athens, Friday, a carriage ran over and broke the neck of a retriev er dog worth $100., Vermont is talking about estab¬ lishing a whipping post for drunk¬ ards, but, as Vermont is strictly a Prohibition State, how can there be any drunkards to whip? job raokij ALL KIND DONEES NK4TLY AND PROMPTLY. ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND. Pay for advertisements is always due after the first insertion, unless otherwise contracted for. Guaranteed positions 20 per cent extra. Entered postoffice as second-class mail matter. *EASTY MAKEIAGH. “I had rather be in the hands of God than in my‘ own hands,” wrote a young Western girl after a few months of married life. They found her dead with her throat cut. This girl was the daughter of wealthy parents. The man she mar¬ ried was not acceptable to them and so she ran away with him. Tfic judgment of the older heads proved good. The romance wore off in a few months. Her husband began to come home drunk, and fi¬ nally he deserted her entirely, leav¬ ing her in wmnt and misery. Her despairing cry adds one more to the many warnings that have come back from undutiful daughters. Marriage without love is not to bo advocated, but marriage without other judgments than a school girl can exercise is not to be thought of. —Macon Telegraph. £. C, Whitehead, who at the re¬ cent term of Superior Court, of Oconee county was convicted of the murder of J. L. Hardeman, has been granted a new trial. Aunt Hannah—“But don't you think people will talk and say all sorts of things about you re marry¬ ing so soon alter the death of your first wife, Henry?" Henry—“That’s just like you wo¬ menfolk. It is no fault of mine, is it, if Clara should be so inconsider¬ ate as to die a short time before my second marriage?" The registration books were opened in the various districts of Baldwin county on the 10th inst., with an eye to the prohibition election which it is understood, will be ordered for the 22nd of next month. “Why do you swear at such a lit¬ tle thing?" Bhe asked. “It’s very wrong, j ou know.” “The size,” said he, “don’t indicate the thing. ‘Tull oaths from little ache corns grow. 9 9* A Western paper wants to know why a woman always sits on the floor to pull on her stockings. Prob¬ ably it is because she can’t sit on the ceiling. “Some one 1ms invented a theatre hat that shuts up, to be worn by la¬ dies.” That’s all night. Now lot the same party invent something that will hold a young man in his seat between the acts and tw r o nui¬ sances will be abated. A manuscript epitaph now in the possession of an Italian reads: “Here lies Salvino Armotod’Armati, of Florence, inventor of spectacles. May God pardon his sin. The year 13- 18. Parson (sternly-)—“How could you come to church to be married to a man in such a state as that?” Bride (wceping)““It wasn’t my fault, sir; I never can get him to come when he is sober.” The man tvho prayed for those who sit under the “drippings of the sanc¬ tuary” was a near relative of anoth¬ er who besought the Lord to “prop up de brudder and sister with tho properations of de gospel,” It is said that Gainesville is about to have a morning paper. Commenting on the quiet funeral of Hancock, the Philadelphia Rec¬ ord says: “So the soldiers of the peo pie should be buried—their bodies in the earth, their memory hidden away in the lasting remembrance of grieving hearts.” Some time ago a negro died at In¬ dian springs. There were some cir¬ cumstances attending his death that justified the suspicion that he had been poisoned. In order to satisfy themselves, the Butts county author¬ ities secured the services of an At¬ lanta chemists, who analyzed the dead man’s stomach. Last week the chemist presented a bill for $500 for performing the service re¬ quired of him. Judge Carmichael thinks the chemist’s charges are ex¬ orbitant and has refused to pay the bill.
