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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1886)
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Mason will.pilot ist schooner “over the bar.” lerc doesn’t seem to be any L tidal wave, ground swell, or other convulsive indication hg the people of Rockdale, at lime, on political questions. Let Lx take off his Jamb skin and Us unpin his ears, for the peo iave penetrated the flimsy dis IS. hoy of the ace of spades variety, one of his fingers shot off while iessly handling a pistol, the oth >y lie Lithonia widower does not b over his interests, and is not tl to the charms of Conyers’ ly daughters. paders Famous of history remember well game of whist played be in George Washington, Aaron r,Jeff Almand and George TH¬ AI r. Tilley still retains posses [of the deck of cards used in the ic. lie boy that would faint under jopprssive lad chopped heat of the sun, before three sticks of wood,, spend the hottest half of the est day of July as the toiling ft stop of a baseball club, and fir he had never seen a better p. This is total depravity'. here is an illicit distillery in full ration in a few miles of Conyers, re are reliably informed. This fg should not be tolerated in a iibitk® county. Fheneyer J egotism a man becomes so filled as to think his opinion rid have presedence over the Hons of the entire Community in eh he lives, it is the duty of the rie to take him down a peg or olitieians wlio have grown gray ' J ald headed in the service of r country, are entitled to they a rest, ause are willing is no reason au UD gnteful country should . k them to death. ■harles Hudson has about 5 f his reeov rom surprise ______ suicide when accom '!1 Friday !\ nother to the entertain right Ga ’^ R is Hying the Athens - cri ca ) « steel rail. ®ge their They' will ie. guage on the first of Jack O’Hakts. ds . gethorpe county there -is a [ B ,* rock 1Zed of the wij ich snrface the freeze hoff.n u three to a utr-. ) inches, making a % are f.-U w/ r\wm ■ a_» I * 3 1 mm SS %Bfc r: A •i 1 ; -- r V- :■ - r ,3 9 TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. Yol. 4. CONYERS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY '27, 1388. No. 6 A public men is like an old book. When he gets out of print he is for gotten. “Too'tired to tell the truth,” is the latest expression of extreme weariness in Toccoa. Work on the State Capitol is prog¬ ressing rapidly. The town council of Jug Tavern planted out white mulberry trees on the streets, and are now making each man take care of the trees in front of his dwelling. “A man never loses anything by politeness.” How about his seat in a street car? John Drake, murderer, confined in the jail at Thomaston, has professed religion and is ready to meet his doom. „ The young men’s prohibition club at Milledgeville have raised $900, to be used in the campaign in Baldwin county. Two Georgia editors have married recently. Their wives have our pro¬ found sympathy. How easy lies the head that crowns a politician. The cotton seed oil .mill of Athens makes twelve barrels of oil per day. There is a liquor house in Gaines¬ ville called the Last chance, which is quite significant. It is rumored that a new paper will soon be started at Snapping Shoals, in Niewton county. Judge Lynch has settled with an¬ other negro brute, in Virginia. Still the assaults upon unprotected white women continue all over the South, a serious element of the black prob lem. . David King, of Locust Grove, was seriously injured last week by being kicked in the face by one of his mules. The Toccoa town council has passed an ordinance directing the marshals to arrest all boys fonnd on the streets of that town after 9 o’clock at night who have no legiti¬ mate excuse. * ETohn,” said she at the breakfast table the other morning, “don’t you think that this oleomargarine is bet¬ ter than usual?” “Ido. Very like ly the grocer has sold you axle' greese, by mistake.” It is believed that Rev. Sam Jones could knock out Col. Bob Ingersoll on the first round. It is noticed that Boh doesn’t lecture near by when Samuel is assaulting satan and his servants. “Mother, what is an angel?” “My dear, it’s a little girl with wings, who flies.” “But I heard papa telling the governess yesterday that she was an angel. Will she fly?” “Yes, my dear, she will fly away the first thing to-morrow.” ‘ - Here is a true story of a little girl, three yearn old, who was charg¬ ed with breaking a flower from its stem. She said: “Ifo, ^I-“^idn’t Weak it.” Still,., the older, person argued that she must have done it, for no one else had been in the room; but she said, “Deed, deed I didn’t.” Thinking to make her confess, the older said, “Now, Ada, I see a story in your eye.” Her reply was, “ Well that’s one I told the other day, for I didn’t Weak the flower.” And it was found that she didn’t. Fred Kessler, of Guyton, bought a hive of bees in 1859. It. was an old hive then, and he has robbed it for the past twenty-seven years, and the bees are still Jiving and appar¬ ently as well as ever. 1 > The people of Missouri threaten to boycott colored house servants be cause of their ptonentss to pilfer, and the colored house servants threaten to boycott the Missourians because they have nothing worth stealing. A Mr. Tilden is reported to have gained twenty pounds in flesh since (last full. PRESENTMENTS OP THE GRAND JURY, PEBRUARY TERM, 1886. We, the grand jury chosen for the February term, 1886, of the superior court of Rockdale county, respect¬ fully submit the following present¬ ments: We, have examined the various records of the county and find them correctly kept. We find in the hands of the coun¬ ty treasurer $1,237.53, $218,33 of which belongs to the county fund, $167.70 jury fund, and $851.5,0 pau¬ per fund. We find the public build in good order, but would recommend for the comfort of prisoners that sash be put in the windows and a stove be properly adjusted in the jail. We find the pool farm very well managed with seventeen imates, af¬ ter excluding one, namely, Josey Smith, which we hereby recommend. We recommend the levying of a a tax of 30 per cent for county pur¬ poses, 18 percent for jury and 12 per cent for paupers. With a few exceptions the roads and bridges are in the best condition ever known and the commissioners and overseers deserve special com¬ mendation. We recommend that so much of the road that is in Rockdale county, commencing at Roland Vaughn mill leading into the Covington road near Hope Ogletree’s, befmt upon re¬ cord as a public road of the second class. We recomend that that the Ordi¬ nary furnish suitable material for the erection of such footways across streams and swamps, as may be of public utility, provided the commis¬ sioners have them substantially put up. P. H. White, of Sheffield, J. W, Hollingsworth, of Honey .Greek, and W. B. Parker, of Lorraine district, ane elected as members of the board of education for a term of four years. We recommend J. I. Rosser as a suitable person for the office of nota¬ ry public of Honey Creek district, number 561, G. M. We recommend that the Ordinary be'paid $176.80, for extra services performed. We commend the proficiency of the county officers, and would.especially name M. L, Wood for the very effi¬ cient manner iD which he has per¬ formed his duties as tax collector. In taking leave of his Honor, Judge Boynton and Solicitor Gener¬ al Womack, we extend thanks for courtesies shown this body during the present session. We recommend these presentments be published in the Solid Sooth and Weekly-Farmer and they be paid each five dollars for the same. John M. Zachry, foreman, Leroy Oglesby, E. D. Harris, J. W. Hol¬ lingsworth, W. P. Lard, O. S. Hay good, J. G. Mann, J. W. Langford, joel Marks, N. W. Maddox, J. W. Johnson, Willis Irwin, J. M. Mann, W. S. Veal, S. E. McMicbael, B. J. Marbut P, H. White, J. S. Albert, G. T. Smith, E. C. Granade, A. F. Sims, J. M. Summers! It is ordered that the foregoing presentments be spread upon the minutes of the court and published in the county papers as requested. James S. Boynton, Judge S. C. F. C. A true extract from the minutes. J. R. McCord, clerk. 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, you 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. Fori sale by Drs. Lee and Stewart. 3 m. An Athens mother quilts shot in her boys’ pants to break them from wearing out their knees. Petitions are circulating in Clay county’ for the ordinary to order an election : on the whiskey question. Mr. Hugh Henderson, who com¬ mitted suicide at his home near Maysville, had $2,000 buried under his house. The money has been dug up and turned over to his relatives. A woman in Bradford, Pa., while sewing a button on her husband’s vest, was instantly killed by'a lamp explosion. Still we think it is wo¬ man’s duty to sew buttons on her husband’s vest. It is the blankest folly to suppose that Bacon and Simmons, of Macon, will have the gubernatorial recc to themselves. The woods and fields are full of aspirants, and a wave of the hand is all that is needed to start them off at full speed—Albany Medium. Smallpox having been declared an epidemic in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday the Mayor of Dallas issued a proclamation quarantining against thatcity, and all the towns in North Texas will issue similar proclama¬ tions to-day. Gov. McDaniel received by mail Thursday from the Trio America’s exposition a photograph of a banner prepared for the American Peace day, Nov. 16, at the New Orleans Exposition; also, a little book and some acrostic leaflets bearing on the subject of National peace. They were accompanied by a very neat letter explanatory oi the movement, signed by four ladies resident in New York, Massachusetts, Colorado and Louisiana. A cordial invitation was extended him to visit New Or¬ leans and participate in the Veteran Peace day ceremonies, set for March 30, next. Perliaps the very latest phase of the boycott business makes it ap¬ pearance in a small town not a hun dred miles fron Grcenesboro. There is a certain cigar dealer who has a beautiful and winsome daughter. A young man of the place paid her at¬ tentions and won her affections, but the old man objected arid forbade the young mau his house, But nothing dismayed, the young man organized a club of sympathizers, and they' have boycotted the old man’s business—refusing to buy ci¬ gars of him unless the barricade be raised. At last accounts the old man was growing week kneed. Henry Hy'ndman, one of the lead ers of the^recent mob in London, is said to be an able writer, an eloquent speaker and a man of stainless pri¬ vate life. His virtues make him all the more dangerous, because they add to his influence. It is a singular fact that in the bloodiest revolutions a few good men are al way's thrown to the surface, and be¬ fore the troubles are over they be¬ come violent extremes t. Robespierre once resigned a judgeship because he was too humane to impose the death sentence. A few years later the heads of the nobility could not fall fast enough to satisfy him. So with Hyndman. In the midst of a revolution he would put his good principles out of the way, and howl for blood with the loudest of the mob. Nothing will build up a town or community more than a good school. If a man wishes to move into a town or community, the very first ques¬ tion is, What are the educational and church facilities? Then, every man who has any public spirit or enterprise in the upbuilding of his town or community, will be united in the effort to maintain and sup¬ port its institutions. Every one is benefited financially, if not other¬ wise, by the increase in the value of property, by such intitutions; then if from no nigher motive than a sel¬ fish one, he should give them his support. He who would pull them down is recreant to his own interest. He is the balky horse in the team, and the others have to drag him up the hill of progress. LAZY THESMOTHETES. REPUBLICAN SENATORS WRANGLING OYER APPOINTMENTS. Susan B. Anthony on the Hustings for “Woman’s Rights.’ Washington, D. C. Feb., 21, ’86. At last the issue between the pre¬ sident and the republican senators has been directly raised, and the senate’s ultimatum is the talk of the day. What does it amount to, and whither will .it lead? In reality it amounts to nothing more than the expression ot an opinion by a small portion of the senate. Some republican senators, in cau¬ cus, declare that they will confirm no nominations made to fill vacan¬ cies created by removals unless the reasons asked for]- are furnished. This position will probably lead to a temporary dead-look between the president and senate in certain test cases. It is not likely, however, to bring on a very serious conflict, though there will doubtless be hot political discussions over the ab¬ stract principles involved. The president will not bo coerced into abdication of a vital feature of the executive prerogative. He may be relied upon to hold his ground. The republican senators are by no means united. A number of them who were not prepared to take such extreme ground, absented them¬ selves from the caucus. There is a widespread opinion that the republi¬ can leaders who are prominent in keeping up the. agitation, which grows out of this matter, are doing so for political effect in their own rival interests. Still, the ultra-republican mem¬ bers carried the day, for their reso¬ lutions were finally adopted as ex¬ pressing the sense of the caucus, and however much individual sena¬ tors may feel that their party has committed a grave error, they are now bound to act in conformity with the caucus decision. The women are here again in an¬ nual convention wanting to vote. They have much speech making, much personal glorification; and much criticism of hard and cruel mankind. About the latter, all that they say is meant, and has been said many times before. It is interesting to look over an audience at a woman’s right conven¬ tion. For, though this is the eigh teenth winter that the association has made a rendezvous of Washing¬ ton, many people will tell you, half apologetically, when you meet them at the deliberations of this body, that they thought they would, like to come once just as a matter of cu¬ riosity. There is always a predom inancc of the feminine element at these meetings, but there is also a fair sprinkling of masculine visages expressive of a consuming desire to know what is going on at such places. The feminine faces express various feelings. Some show sym¬ pathy or earnestness, others look bored, others cynical, and many ex press the sweet silliness of woman kind as they sit receiving informa¬ tion as to the rights and duties of their sex. Susan B. Anthony presides with a dignity and copfidence engendered by her long familiarity with the platform. There is nothing new in what she says nor in her manner of saying it, but she always commands an attentive bearing. She triumphs in what she calls the successes of the woman’s rights movement, and expresses earnest faith in its future. At last evening’s session Miss Anthony became enthused with the speeches and asked the audience to vote. “Those who are in favor of woman suffrage say “aye,” she call¬ ed, and there was a loud chorus. “Those who are opposed say “nay She turned away as if the question had been settled by a unanimous af¬ firmative vote, when a few men, far back in the audience, daringly pip- JOB HIORIJ -;^OF ALL KIND DONFUfr* NEATLY AND PROMPTLY. —pr.y-gTs-.^^.. ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON DE AND. Fav 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. ed forth “no,” and lied instantly'. Miss Anthony looked surprised, as did eyery one, and some hissed while others smiled. As to the weeks doings in con¬ gress, Fitz John Porter’s plea has monopolized the house and the great Educational bill has had the right of way in the senate. Mr. Morri¬ son’s new r Tariff bill wa9 introduced in the house, also a number of anti Chinese measures. Among new measures presented in the senate was a bill granting a pension of $5, 000 a year to the widow of General Hancock, and another appropriating $250,000,000 fora monument to Gen. Grant. More steps were taken to have a thorough investigation of the Pan Electric affairs, at which the Attorney General expressed his gratification. Mr. Garland does not intend to re¬ sign, but after the House has finished its investigation of the telephone business, he say’s he willtakO steps to meet all criticisms upon his con¬ nection with the Pan Electric company, in a way that cannot fail to secure the approbation of those who really desire to be satisfied. Ex-Senator Thurman, who will be the senior counsel in the coming telephone trial has had almost as many callers since his return to Washington as if he had come to be inaugurated President. Entering the Senate chamber a few days ago he expressed surprise at the changes in its personnel. “Is this the place where I spent twelve years of my life'.” exclaimed he, Surveying the chamber he missed, Blaine, Conk ling, Hamlin, Wallace, Anthony, Burnside, Randolph, Matt Carpen¬ ter, Ben Hill, Sharon, and thirty six others who sat with him in the Sen¬ ate only a few years ago. Many of the South Georgia people are bold in their assertions that a LeConte pear orchard is much better than an orange ’grove. An English girl of uncertain age , has oflerered to bet $2,500 that she can out swim any girl in America. Now, girls, here’s a chance for one of you to gain fame and fortune in a few minutes. Villa Rica wants a paper. The town has twenty business bouses, be¬ sides two harness shops, three black¬ smiths shops, one cabinet shop, one livery stable, two first-class hotels, two churches, a Masonic hall, one grist mill, two plaining mills, three gins, a beef market, a school and two good Sabbath schools. A y'oung man of Tatnall county asked for his sweetheart and se¬ cured the consent of the parents to the marriage, which was arranged to come off on a certain night. In the evening? of the proceeding day lie ran away with the girl, carrying her to Stark, Fla., when lie abandon • ed without marrying her. There are now three claimants for the dead body resting out in West view cemetery in Atlanta, under a marble slab on which J. W. Fierce has been cut. The third claimant was added to the list Friday, Mrs. Weaver, of Indianapolis, claims the dead man as her husband. Mrs. J. W. Fierce, ot Texas claims the dead man as her husband. 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