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.licL £0^3-tlx Saturday by the .ishedevery Ljflf COMPANY. P0BIMIN& I jladdox, ) Proprietors, Is "p. Irwin i subscbi i>ti0N - $1 25. roar 65 35 ben copy free. fl^ranee L)-r local people option are fully elec K for the the 26th r.| takes place Mayo on chair Khe Afr G. w. is citv executive committee. L meeting will e held in¬ on n C 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 - to ‘dattluT USUal congregation assem ’Vnd £ J h h tirae ^ themorn ^ C P ati ently awaited the onnng until about llo’clock sendcnmY^L dee ® ed advisable ee bis raidence. ’riit' f r f ;" ,n ' 1 thc doors lock h ft admisslon , they fi k°w by the mini' ! st 1 ! 7’ w '’ h° wanted W_€re there to ir. Cl£fc the nf fe i t0f there intrusion. , Jele aUon L^be Msgfews dUit’a h a d so™? lecdfciUv l becoiDe dissat- S t r* m A mm 1 ill | 5 H m ■u / ll Ii 3S i n II r o S i B m m .1 j a m m 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.” 30 B 0101 $ -IffOF ALL KIND DONEltS NEATLY ANI) PROMPTLY. **» -r &Sjg&=4a=;---» 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. 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.”