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citv executive committee.
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i’ is Rev. J. B. Haw
to speak
of Atlanta.
is a family living m Ran
, re who have been using
■mecoilard county seed for more than
years. They brought them
them from North Carolina in
and tyve been planting of the
| kind every year since.
L> monument to be erected over
U| and Mrs. Toombs’ groves is
'Italian marble, and lias been
sjv ordered. I he shaft will be
h five feet high. The inscrip
: to be on the monument hdve
icen decided on, but will be situ -
The graves are located in a
iy place near the entrance ot the
ten - and east of them are bean*
,
[pine trees.
Worcester, Mass., doctor is to
1 over bis grave a stone with
Ascription; “Here lies the body
Lhn McLean Hayward a man
never voted. Of such is the
Lm of heaven.” The habit of
[ng falsehoods on toombstones
i yet dying out. No man can
jire of heaven who is too cynical
IS too little public spirit Unvote,
[jf the inscription were to read:
man who never voted the Re
lean ticket,” the latter part of
ight be something to be proud
■gh Shoals is thoroughly astir
■ie subject of of inventions. Mr.
Hrlie Lutinius has invented a ma
Be—a “power strenghtener.” It
Biases the power of force of ma
Bery It inimitably. He leaves in a
B while for Washington City to
it patened. Mr. Hill Starr lias
JPnled jicity of a flouring machine mills to increase and to the im
■e the quality ef the flour,
Bie term of office-of the present
■missioned of Agriculture, Judge
Itlei'son, will expire on August
B. The question has’been asked
1 will be the next .commissioner
■ who are probable candidates
■this office. Some little inquiry,
I so far failed to uncover -ano new
■rant for the place, though there
■onbtless more than one compe
I citizen who would not need to be
illy liel pressed to take it. Gov. Mc
will have the appointment,
I there is an impression at Atlan
I Baked that Judge Henderson will
to be his own successor.
|he Postmaster General, in re
pise to the inquiry resolution of
•Senate, reports that 8,635 re
pis | e made of fourth from class March postmasters 4, 1885
ph to
3,1886, inclusive. New York
r s the bst with 1,053, Pennsylva
[ F<1 is next with in line with 938 and Ohio
878. Illinois has 613,
•ana 499, Iowa 399, Virginia 316
r die other States average be
(cn 100 and 200 removals each.
fhere are 100 people living in De¬
ri county whose combined
legates 8,229 age
-'age of 82 j years, making an
years. One citizen
' ncar Stone Mountain a few
fs since at the ripe age of 96: and
tther was seen in his yard chop
? wood some weeks ago, and up
Lis a S e ’ re pl'cd tliat
97. He was hale and hearty,
dung his ax with all the agility
-0years-old boy, chopping
get off to a Saturday pic
The strike has struck the ctergy.
i« Just possible that the regular
larilf 8 P a aid -® d fhe ! ssati traveling * fied at the large
, T , llS IS wIlat lm evange
iim-vi ! ma - t0WD PPend in a
There esbvLT ° a last Sl,nd ay
Sa Sen8atlon in the ‘'ttle
C , lUl ' cb ofNew London,
star’s 5 £'' yes I te R I da Ci - v > *^ ca osed refusal by the
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’Vnd £ J h h tirae ^ themorn
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onnng until about llo’clock
sendcnmY^L dee ® ed advisable
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k°w by the mini' ! st 1 ! 7’ w '’ h° wanted W_€re there to
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
Vol. 4. CONYERS, GEORGIA, APRIL 3, 1886. No. 11.
WHY THE EDITOR SWORE.
A friend sends us tire following gem.
We do not know the author, but there is
truth and poetry in the lines:
With a territie cold in his iiead,
And Ids eyelids heavy and sore.
The editor sat in his broken chair,'
And bitterly, earnestly’ swore.
A youth had dropped in with a poem,
And-was there with a dun.
And a chap had entered to tell him
How the paper ought to he ran.
An irate subscriber had told him
That hi? sheet wasn’t lit to be read,
While another had carefully promised
To punch the editor’s head.
The foreman was whistled yelling for copy. door,
And the wind in the
And this, with a few other reasons,
Is why the editor swore.
But HeCorded the angel this who verdiet took it there: to heaven,
“The jury find in the present case,
’Twas a justifiable swear.”
‘•Ah, me,” she said yesterday, af¬
ter arriving at home from church,
“I’m a afraid most of the women at
church this morning heard but lit¬
tle of the sermon.” “Why not?” in
quired her husband. “Because most
of them spent the entire time look¬
ing at the clothes worn by other wo
men ” “How do yon know they did
that?” “W hy , I kept my eyes on
them all through the services.”
She wondered why her husband
laughed.
The survey of the Niagara Falls
and Whirlpool railway, which is to
run below the bank at the edge of
the river from the falls to the whirl¬
pool, says a Buffalo dispatch, will
probably begin tills week.
When the Florida legislature pre
pares to elect another senator it
should select a man with .a wife and
nine children.
Mr. Ingalls says a party change in
the c ontrol of affairs should be fol¬
lowed by a clean sweep, Mr. In
galls is a republican, but a very
bright one.
Mr John A. Logan is spoiling for
a fight with somebody. Failing to
arouse the ire of people at home, he
now announces himself to be
a believer in the Monroe doctrine,
hoping thus to become the Chief
champion of the bird of liberty.
The surest way to get rich in this
country is to sell something on the
installment plan. It does not mat¬
ter what the merchandise is. It will
go like hot cakes when sold in this
way. Anjnstallment book publish
er who was not worth a dollar thir
tceu years ago is now rated by Brad
street as being worth $1,000,000, but
this is an under estimate.
An artesian well is to be bored in
the park at Macon.
T. DeWitt Talmage does most of
his work on railway trains and the
entire series of sermons on “The
Marriage King” were composed on
the cars on a week’s trip last Sep¬
tember. When he looses sleep he
keeps account of it and balances
the account in summer time by
sleeping light straight ahead.
The easiest man on earth to man
age and lead is your so called great
man. His peculiar weakness is in¬
ordinate vanity and jealousy. Play
on these strings and you can make
him dance to the music. Take John
Bright. Undoubtedly he is a great
mat. A short time ago a friend
spoke to him of one ofDilke’s most
scicccssful speeches and asked him
what he thought of it. All that
he said was: “The young man seems
to be getting on.” Rather tneager
praise. Another time Bright de¬
clined ,to take part in a debate.
“What’s the use,” he said, “they
don’t report me.” It came distributing out that
the great man had been
prizes in a remote country town, and
no report of has speech had appear¬
ed in the London papers. This was
the secret of his soreness. Godwin
once grew very spiteful when the
crowd took no notice of him but
cheered a popular singer. The more
fame a man gets the greedier he
grows. If he opens a newspaper
without finding his name on it he
grows morose. He measures the
cheers of the crowd and notes the
falling off of enthusiasm. In fact
there is a no end to the vanity of a
great man. This is one reason why
the intimates of great men are gen
erally tricks ters or weak minded
persons. It i w the interest of the
former and the impulse of the latter
to pay court to superiority, hence
they are always to be found around
statesmen and rulers. After all,
they are the power behind the
throne.
-i •
' It does no necessarily follow that
a man of, “striking the appearance” is a
member of Kilights ©f Labor.
-.Some trhinps mre of “striking ap¬
pearance.” -
EX-PEESIDENT DAVIS AT ATLANTA
The proposed visit of Mr, Davis
to Atlanta on the unveiling of the
Hill statue recalls his first visit to
Atlanta. It was in 1854. He was
then Secretary of war, traveling qui¬
etly with his private secretary. old
Just before reaching Atlanta an
man named Camp had bis pockets
picked. On reaching the Trout house
he was asked to point out the man
on whom his suspicion fell. He
pointed out Mr. Davis, and the offi¬
cers started to arrest him. He made
himself known and the situation
changed. through Atlanta
Mr. Davis came
when he went to Montgomery to be
inaugurated. From Chattanooga to
Atlanta the trip w'as made at night,
and in an almost ujibroken blaze of
of bonfires. At every station he
was forced to show himself and
speak. At length Dr. Lewis, superen
tendant of the road, tried to get Mr.
Davis some sleep, told the engineer
to stop only a moment at the next
station. The people with torches
movted in front of the engine, and
would not let it proceed until Mr.
Davis had shown himself. The
next time fires blazed along that
road they lit up the camps of John
son’s army as it sullenly retreated
before Sherman’s overwhelming ad¬
vance.
A Kansas girl was presented with
a three-years’ scholarship in a high
school for rescuing three little chil¬
dren who were lost in the snow. She
was very-much disappointed that
she did not receive instead a box
of chewing gum or set of new frizzes.
A photographer of Washington
has during the present session of
Congress been taking the votes of
all his visitors upon the questions
who are the handsomest and the ug¬
liest Congressman. So far, Butler,
of South Carolina, heads the poll as
handsomest Senator, and Hiscock,
of New York, as the handsomest
Representative; Maxey, of Texas,
leads as the ugliest Senator, and
. ugliest
West, of New York, as the
Representative.
The low cut dressing mania
among Washington women criticisms are re
ceiving some very severe modest
among ladies of more mean
and among gentlemen who appreci
ate female virtue. No wonder fash¬
ion among the gentle sex blights
and damns the character of many
women.
A scientific writer estimates that a
spider eats four times its weight for
breakfast, nine times its weight for
dinner, and thirteen times its weight
for supper. To this the society and
chicken salad editor of the New Ha¬
ven News adds: “In this respect the
spider resembles the young lady of
fashion, who declares that she has
no appetite at all.”
It is stated that the Knights of
Labor propose to support Mark
Twain for Mayor of Hartford. This
is probable because Mark has al¬
ways been shrewd enough to keep
from doing any work.
Two {Travelers being robbed in a
woods and tied to trees, one of them
in despair, exclaimed, “I am un
done!” “Are you,” said the other
joyfully, “then I wish you’d come
and undo me.”
Some of the anti-prohibitionist of
Pennsylvania argue from the Bible
that Noah and several other great
biblical characters were drunkards.
Perhaps they would not have been
such had there’been an effective pro
hibition law in force when they
were citizens of the world.
A single locomotive recently drew
one hundred and forty one cars in a
train across Louisiana at an average
rate'of ten tniles an hour.
A correspondent writes: “i send
yoffa little" poem .called ‘The Lay of
the Lark.’ If accepted let me know.”
Dejected with thanks. If you will
send a few specimens of the lay of
the hen we will accept.
It grows so slowly, one would easi¬
ly mistake the Grant monument
fund for a government conscience
fund.
Expect great things, attempt
great things.
Human progress is always the re
sulant of conflicting forces.
Why is it that men who run away
with their sweethearts to marfy
them, often wish to run away from
them after marriage?
It is foolish to inquire of certain
people “At wbatchureh will you
wofshp to-day?” The question to
put to them is, “At what church will
y(m sleep today?” ■ i t
MIKE CONNOR’S CAT
Litto Black Tom, who is an Offensive Par¬
tisan and Performs Tricks.
“Did you ever see a trained cat?”
asked Mike Connor, as he stroked a
little black feline that stood on the
bar of his saloon at the corner of
Thirty-eight and Market streets on
Saturday afternoon.
“Tom,” he continued, removing
his hand “you look sick.” The lit¬
tle animal dropped down on his side
and stretched put its legs as though
suffering great pain.
“Poor puss. I’m afraid you’re go
ing to die.” The legs became rigid,
the eyes closed and to all appearance
the cat was dead.
“Rats!” yelled Connor. Like a
flash the cat was on its legs, its
back arched and every hair on its
end,
“Look for ’em,” and the little ani¬
mal dashed back and forth over the
bar like a black comet. At another
word or command it stopped short
and its trainer produced a long,
keen-edged butcher knife. Holding
the edge toward puss, he said: “Now,
see if that knife is sharp.” It sac
up onits haunches and stretching out
one paw it passed it gently down
the keen edge of the blade. It then
examined the blade with paws,
while the little black head was
cocked off at one side and almost a
human look of intelligence shone
from its snapping eyes. the
Mike is a Democrat, and so is
cat. The former placed a Repub¬
lican newspaper, at one end of the
bar and asked puss if it would like
to read the news. Puss took one
hasty glance at the paper and then
savagely tore it to pieces witli its
teeth and claws. Then Mike placed
another newspaper at the other end
of the bar and told puss that was a
Democratic organ and puss curled
up on the sheet, purred softly and
went to sleep.
What you don’t know about men
often makes them respectable.
In Waslungton society that old
familiar song: “Riding in the Low
Backed Car,” has been given way to
“Waltzing in the Low-Necked
Dress.”
There are some people who step
into the front door of a church with
such largeness that it would not
surprise them to see the pulpit
flop up like the short end of a teter
board.
Miss Cleveland doesn’t say “The
White House;” ’tis “The President’s
House,” first, last and all the time
with her.
Men make laws, women make
manners.
Can man or woman choose duties?
No more than the}- can choose their
birthplace, or their father and moth¬
er.
Foot notes—the patter of the mule’s
hind legs on the nigger’s ribs.
The action of men socially is the
product of their action individual¬
ly
Gen. John B. Gordon will deliver
the address at the unveiling of the
Confederate monument at Myrtle
Hill cemetery, at Rome, on May 10.
“I see the scoundrel in your face,”
exclaimed the judge to the prisoner.
“I reckon, Jedge” was the re
sponse, “that that ere’s a personal
reflection ain’t it.”
But one thing on earth is better
_
than the wife—that is the mother.
It isn’t as far lrom the top of a
hill to the bottom as it is from the
bottom to the top.
The real estate in Atlanta was as¬
sessed last year at $21,000,000 and
this year it is assessed at $22,500,
000. Five hundred thousand dol
lars of this is credited to new
•buildings and improvements. The
increase of a million dollars is a
shade under10 per cent, on the prop¬
erty touched.
On the question of pardons Gov.
McDaniel says: “It is curious what
small things give a prisoner hope.
In visiting the penitentiary camps,
convicts are frequently brought up
to talk tome. Usually no allusion
is made to their sentence, but they
invariably leave mvjpresenee with
the hope that they will be pardon
ed. The keppers say do matter how
depressed a prisoner may be, a talk
with some one in authority lifts
them up and inspires them with
hope.”
Some one said to a man of the
world, “So and so has been speak¬
ing ill ofyou.” “I am surprised at
that,” replied the latter, “for I never
did him any service.”
DREAMS AND ILLUSIONS
Some Interesting Suggestions of the stuff
that Dreams are made of.
Wundt regards most of dreams
representations as really illusions,
since the}’ emanate from sensorial
impressions which, through weak,
continue during sleep. An incon¬
venient position taken by the sleep¬
er causes the representation of pain
ful work, perilous ascent of a nioun
tain, etc. A slight intercostal pain
becomes the point of an enemy’s dag
dcr or the bite of an enraged dog.
Difficulty in respiration is agony
caused by nightmare, the nightmare
seeming to be a weight rolled upon
the chest or a horrible monster which
threatens to stifle the sleeper. An
involuntary extension of the foot is
a fall from the dizzy height of a tow¬
er. Flying is suggested by the
rhythmic movements ot respiration.
Further “those subjective visual and
auditory sensations which are rep
resented in the walking state visual as a
luminous chaos of an obscure
field, by humming and roaring in the
ears, and especially subjective essential reti¬
nal sensations, have an
role,” according to Wundt. “There
are shown to ns innumerable birds,
butterflies, fish, multicolored pcayls,
flowers, etc.” But if there be some
cutaneous irritation, these visions
are usually changed into caterpil¬
lars or beetles crawling over the
skin of. the sleeper.
The sleeper sometimes dreams of
his appearance on the street, or in
society, only half dressed; the inno¬
cent cause is found in some of the
bedclothes having fallen off. An in¬
convenient position of the sleeper, a
slight hindrance to respiration or
interference with the action of the
heart, may be the cause of dreams
where one seeks an object without
being able to find it, or has forgotten
something in starting upon a journ¬
ey. The movements of respiration
may suggest to the sleeper, as prev¬
iously mentioned, flying, but this
flight may be objective, and ‘instead
of himself flying he sees an angel
descending from the heaven or a
luminous chaos where birds are
swiftly moving.
The representations of dreams
having sensorial origin may have
mingled with those which rise sole¬
ly from the reproduction of the past
memories. Thus parents or friends
cjut off in the flower oflife ordinari¬
ly appear in dreams because of the
profound impression which their
death or burial has made, “hence
the general belief that the dead
continue during the night their
intercourse with the living.”
No man can carry a feather bed
and look graceful.
The more a farmer raises at home
the less he will have to buy; and
the statement embodies the philoso¬
phy of success at farming.
An editor is a man whose biziness
it is to my investigate a nuspaper.
He writes editorials adn weddings,
sorts manuscript, keeps a waste bas¬
ket, “blows up the devil,” steals
matter, lights out other people’s bat
lies, sends his paper for a dollar a
year, takes white beans, turnip
greens and apple sass for pay when
he can get it, raises a large family,
works nineteen hours out of tweni.y
four, noze no Sunday, gets dammed
by every body, lives poor, dies mid¬
dle aged, and often broken hearted,
leaves no munny, is rewarded for a
life or toil by a short but free obit¬
uary puffin the opposition nuspa¬
per.—Josh Billings.
Sam Jones says he has more re¬
spect for a roan who drinks whiskey
than for a man that drinks beer.
Many men who drink neither have
nospect for an evagngelist “for rev
ue only.”
EffofU are being made to organ¬
ize a reading club in McDonough.
The movement is in the hands of ex¬
cellent literary tallent and the pros
pects are flattering. We shall he
more than delighted to record the
success of the projectors.
“A nasty Christian” is what the
Nashville Banner calls Sam Jones
since his endnrsement of of Mr.
Mood’s position on the tobacco ques¬
tion. Well, a nasty Christian is bet¬
ter than a clean infidel.
Mr. F. E. Rowan died Wednesday
evening at 4 o’clock at his residence
five miles west of MeDonough. Wr.
Rowen was one of Henry county’s
many good citizens and best farm¬
ers.
The conclusion that has been
reached by many eminent pbysici
cians that “low necked dresses are
aids to the medical men and under¬
takers.”
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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.
E0ETH THEY TREAD.
Man that is born of woman is
small potatoes and few in a hill.
He riseth up today and floiirisheth
like a rag weed, and tomorrow, or
the day after, the undertaker has
him in the ice box.
He goeth forth in the morning
warbling like a lark, and is knocked
out in one round and two seconds.
In the midst oflife we are In
debt, and the tax collector pursueth
him wherever he goeth.
The banister of life is full of
splinters and he whoslideth down it
does so with tears and tears his
clothes.
lie walketli forth in the bright
sunshine, with a pleasant counten
ance, and goeth straightway to the
office of the Solid South, where
he payetli for his paper, and de
parteth like a wise and happy man.
What power lies in the lives of
good women! What noble influ¬
ences? These are safeguards of so
eiety—t.he anchors that never drag,
but hold firm through eternity. The
errors of life, the folly of fashion,
passion and impulses would make
sad wreck of our homes and of our
civilization, but for tiiese conserva¬
tors. Well, indeed, may men bare
their heads in reverence, and before
the lifeless clay of one of these in¬
voke the blessings of God upon the
vanished spirit,—Macon Tele¬
graph.
Moderation is a trump card in any
controversy.
Every citizen should feel a just
pride in his own section, by helping
to build up and sustain home indus¬
tries.
A lovesick poet says that a kiss
is “the meeting ot two souls.” Very
true, and it is a protracted meeting
too.
The time to advertise is when you
have something to sell. If you
havn’t anything to sell, don’t adver¬
tise: There is money in it.
Glory hallelujah, shout the glad
tidings, rejoice and be merry, the towel. ag¬
ony is over—we have a clean
—Warren ton always Clipper.
Some folks crow over their
less fortunate neighbors. The Sun’s
backbone is composed of an old of¬
fice towel, and is moral stiff. Go to,
thou shameless braggart! Wipe off
your chin and keep quiet.—Hart¬
well Sun,
An Arkansas editor puts the mat¬
ter in the following new, but forcible
light: “You may hive all the stars
in a nail keg, hang the ocean on a
rail fence to dry, put the the sky in a
gourd to soak, unbuckle belly
band of eternity and let the sun and
moon out, but never delude your¬
self with the idea that you can es¬
cape that place on the other side of
pugatory unless you pay for your
newspaper.”
Temperance puts coals on the fire,
meal in the barrel, flour in the tub,
money in the purse, credit in the
country, contentment in the house,
clothes on the children, vigor in the
body, intelligence in the drain, and
spirit in the whole constitution.
While the Alabama papers are
speaking of Jefferson Davis as “a
noble old patriarch, the Iowa papers
are referring to him fis “a hoary
traitor.” There is a good deal of
variety about this big country.
Gov. Hill, of New York, has ap¬
pointed New five York women as Notaries gives Pub¬
lic in city. This
much satisfaction to a great many
women who bavemade themselves
publicly notorious during the past
few years.
If you will take one of those little
Pi 1 lets every evening before going to
bed, you will have an evacuation of
the bowels every twenty four hours,
killing off and removing those terri¬
ble human pests, Bacterial Animal
culic, created by unhealthy mucus
in the organs and bowels. They
live on the mucas whichjhould aid
nature. Dr. J. II. McLean’s Homoe¬
opathic Liver and Kidney Pillets
will eradicate then and assist Dr.
J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney
Balm in giving health and strength
to the suffer. For sale by Drs. Lee
and Stewart. 3m..
Conyers is going ahead with her
preparations for building a cotton
seed oil mill. That is a good move,
and we hope it will be a profitable
enterprise.—Covington Star,
J. C. Mathews, col., appointee for
recorder of deeds in Washington, has
not yet been confirmed by the senate
A Macon cynic says: “Take the
fashions out of the mouths of the
women, and they would be dumb*
two thirds of the time.”