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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1886)
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Revs. Sam Jones and Sam Small Included Sunday, their religious and received services $3,- in ;0ea°ch jicago their four weeks’ work. for A petition for ordering an election .1 prohibition has been filed in ladison. The number of mortgages recorded Meriwether county for the first tree months of 1886, is reported by ie clerk to be about 1,500. A well todo farmer of Wilkes conn went to Athens a few days ago to p trading, and while there he had Js picture taken, and when he reach il Iho, home he presented it to bis wife, on seeing it, asked him why he las so selfish about it. why didn’t fe bring a picture of her also. He lied to explain, but she would not k comforted. [Col. J. B. Smith’s gold rpine in Filkes is still turningout well. Dur pg 1885 he took out over $5,000 li the precious metal, giving employ lent to many and aiding many who Med help. There is considerable nterest in gold mining now in lilkes. j bntiary The principal has keeper of the peni furnished the Comptrol fer General the per capita hire of onvicts and the amount due the itate by each of the penitentiary pm panics for the year ending April , 1886. The following is a state tent of the amounts due by each: company No. 1 21)2 8-13 convicts. i4S38 99; ('ornpany No. 2—C07A con¬ irts, $10 018 47; Company' No. 3— 15 11 24 convicts, $10,142 64; Total 25,000. The companies, under the »w, have thirty clays in which to V up. Col. Will S. Hays, the Ohio river 'apt hip pilot lays claim to the author of “Dixie.” Gwinnett county has never fur isdied a Congressman for her distret, ud yet she has been one of the Deni viatic strongholds for balfacentu i’. The oil mills at Athens have closed own for the season, and are waiting 01 l ' ie m ‘xt crop of cotton seed. Hon. II. H. Carlton,'of Athens, has i eora pleted one of the handsomest md most convenient houses in north 'ast Georgia. M hat a murderous-looking villain fie prisoner is,” whispered the old ai } to her husband, in the court 0 ?,q.' ^ d be afraid to get him. near warned her husband, “that 'fought P n soner, he hasn’t been “It isn’t—who in yet.” is it then?” R s the Judge.” LLLl'!. * ” r Ihe be first nur office on1 T and of wisdom great s t .' thin 0 , If' J lve gs their due valuation, ire irth, and a r the ght second how much is the y m accor dmg to treat to their worthiness. The world moves. It probably . 'fids it ch eaper to move than to 'ent. pay LE" rl t0 1 ’" 1,18 111 t0 dead a man ifit shall axe ax. l left- such ancestors to "' an offspring. e rg y® en of the Methodist EL , Urd,eS , •ill 0f New York ee t tl ngs t0 secure signa -fires re\o to . ltl0n . aSki ti,e 'titutioLl atu sub b lhequesti . ° g Le g‘ s ' t °n of con¬ note. Prohibition u L to a popular Chicago Bf amnsemL that an Fe au ir d,ence nnmerou3 at place in theuplLL! i a , 8 viewed from - he 1 ° . ? \ beatre for all »orld like a cobblestone J > Bent. pave- o 1 j hr! 1 ” Jmm Wk : $ £ t . i i f 1 O ^ TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. Vol. 4. CONYERS, GEORGIA, APRIL 10, 1886. No. 12. NAILED AT LAST. The following special from Cov ington to the Macon Telegraph very forcibly denies an article published in the last issue of the Solid South. This article, we presume, is a cor¬ rect report of the “Bucket letter” and its origfn: place Your correspondent at this mentions in your issue of April 1st a “Bucket letter” that Editor J. W. Anderson received, stating that it contained “two hundred pages, well written and w’orded and generally be¬ lieved to have been the work of a prohibitionist for effect in the com ing Campaign.” The author of this letter was a stranger in this section, I suppose, or to say the least of it, he knew very little about the public opinion of this “Bucket letter.” The letter Mr. Anderson received con tained only two pages, one written with pen and ink, the other with lead pencil, both of which badly were worded very poor¬ and ly written and prevailing belief is spelled. The that the writer had two notions, one to cover his fiendish work already perpetrated in this place, and the other object is that the anti prohis might u§e it in their peristaltic way. Father—Be sure and carry in that wood this afternoon young man. Son—What’ll you gimme? “I'll give you till supper time to do it.” “If that’s all there’s in it I’ll strike.” “If you do I’ll follow suit, and don’t you think that the old man’s good right arm has lost its cunning in the use of the hame-strap, eith er.” At a concert give at Charlestown, W. Va., a violin was used which at one time belonged to Gen. George Washington. This venerable relic is now the property of Mr. Thomas B. Washington, who received it from Judge Bushrod Washington at Mount Vernon. A card on the in¬ side of tiie instrument shows that it was manufactured by Jacob Steiner, a celebrated German workman,in the year 1675. It is therefore over two hundred years old. The violin, in its original case, a quaint old box, was presented to the audience by Hon. W. L. Wilson in a felicitous address. Thomas A. Hendricks’ portrait is to be placed on the new $10 silver certificate. Miss Cleveland has already gone to the seashore. This is a little ear¬ ly, but Miss Cleveland probably de sires to put a stop to low-neck dress es while there is yet time. She is right when she says that no respec¬ table member of society should show her peach low bust. Several militia districts in Stewart county are preparing to secure the stock law. J. G. Smith of Colquitt county owns a hen that always perches upon the limb of a tree to lay and never breaks an egg. A Chicago church it is said, recently put up in the vestibule this sign; “Salvation is free, but the pews are not.” This must be a St. Louis yarn. In democratic Texas, the new cap itol is being erected by contractors the who employ over 600 convicts to exclusion of free labor. The Presbyterian church at An¬ napolis has formed among the young people an association for intellectu¬ al and spiritual improvement. “The boycott,” says the Philadel¬ phia Times, “is a two edged weapon and in ninety nine cases out of one hundred, it must boycott labor much more than capital. In nineteen cases out of twenty it is simply a farce, as men of ordinary manhood will always buy and sell as suits them best, regardless of arbitrary orders, and the general result of the labor boycott is simply labor boy¬ cotting labor.” A baker county farmer has just disposed of a load of sweet potatoes in Albany at 65 cents a bushel. Baker county is wet, but there are only two barrooms in its limits, and these, it is expected, will soon close up. The present charter of Montezuma is a very defective instrument, and application for a new revised one should be made to the next Gener al Assenbly. For instance, there is not an ordinance against gamb¬ ling, and the authorities say they Ail have no right to arrest parties. the they can do is to report them to grand jury. A WORD FOR BOYS. Truth is a precious gem. Its val¬ ue cannot be estimated. Many a youth lias been lost in society by foolishly throwing it away’ and al¬ lowing equivocation, prevarication and falsehood to tarnish his charac¬ ter. Truth is always ennobling. Never be ashamed to keep it upon your lips. Profanity is a mark of low breeding. Mark the man w T ho commands the most respect Au oath never trembles on his tongue. A profane word never pollutes his lips. Read the catalogue of crime. Inquire in the habits of the vicious, intemperate, vile, wicked, thieves, robbers, murderers and probably you will not find one among them all who is not profane. Think of this fact, and never a vile word fall from your lips Honesty, frankness, generosity, Be virtue, what blessed traits! these yours, boy, and you shall never fail. You are watched by those wuo are older. Men of business have their eyes on you. If you are profane, vulgar, untruthful, they will not want you. If you are upright, steady and industrious 1 you will soon find good places with prospect of a useful life before you. Mr. John S. Candler issueing the Georgia railroad for forty-thousand fell dollars damages, In 1883 he under the night express just this side of Atlanta and had both of his legs cut off. The Ordinary of Baldwin county will declare the result for prohibi¬ tion, and if the matter is fought over again it will be in the courts. The negroes have quieted and gene to work. Many a man doesn’t realize that he has had a swell time at an even¬ ing party until he attempts to put his hat on the next morning. A new novel iscalled “A Bachelor’s Paradise.” A bachelor’s paradise? Well, that must bea place where but¬ tons grow on shirts. One of the candidates for Justice at the recent election in Dakota an¬ nounced that if elected he would mar ry couples for $1 and wait for bis pay until the first child was born. He was elected. At Atlanta Friday Judge H. K. McCay signed an order releasing 47 Federal prisoners from Fulton conn ty T jail. Friday morning the Judge received a telegram from Attorney General Garland telling him to use his own judgment as to releasing the prisoners in jail. After carefully considering the report of Dr. Stiles, United States surgeon, in which was urged the necessity of having the men released and allowed to return home in order to prevent a spread of the meningitis or spotted fever, their the judge signed the order for release till July 10. The first temperance agitation in the country occurred in 1651 in a little town on Long Island. And ordi nance was passed forbidding the sale of more than half a pint among four men, and otherwise regulating the traffic. In 1655 au ordinance was passed limiting the quantity of li quor to be sold to Ifcdians. In 1676 Virginia prohibited the sale of wines and spirituous liquors. In 1760 re¬ ligious societies protested against drinking at funerals. In 1785 Dr. Benjamin Rush published his cele¬ brated article against alcoholic li quors. In 1789 twelve hundred per sons in Litchfield county, Conn., pledged themselves not to use li¬ quor. Down to 1826 the temperance men considered wine, beer, ale and cider harmless, and objected only to spirits. After that year the Ameri can temperance society began a fight all along the line. Societies sprang up in nearly every state. In 1839 Mississippi passed the “one gallon law.” The Washingtonians and the Sons of Temperance became a pow¬ er in the land. About this time John B. Gough commenced his ca¬ reer. In 1849 Father Mathew lec¬ tured through the country. In 1851 the order of Good Templars'was or¬ ganized. The agitation got into pol¬ itics, and the national prohibition party has had presidential candi¬ dates. Black, in 1872, received 5, 608 votes; Smith, in 1876, received 9,759; Dow, in 1880, received 152, 070. Sunday in Rome presented a strange spectacle. The water had receded, and the people went to work to make inhabitable the homes from which they had been driven by the flood. Stores were open, with pro¬ prietors and clerks equally busy putting things to rights. Such a scene emphasizes the terrible ex¬ perience through which the city has passed. A HEW TAXBHjL BEFORE CONGRESS. For kissing a pretty girl, one dol lar. For kissing a homely one, two dol lars. The tax is levied in order to break up the custom altogether, it being regarded as a piece of inexcu sable absurdity. For every flirtation, ten cents. For every young man who has more than one girl, five dollars. For courting in the kitchen, twen¬ ty-five cents. the For courting in parlor, five dol¬ lars. For courting in a romantic place, five dollars for the first time, and fifty cents for each time there¬ after. Seeing a lady home from church, twenty cents. dol¬ Failing to see her home five lars and cost. For ladies who paint, fifty cents. Proceeds to be devoted to disconso¬ late husbands who have been de ceived by “outside appearances.” Wearing a hoop over eight feet in diameter, eight cents per hoop. Bachelors over thirty years of age, taxed ten dollars and banished to Utah, All pretty ladies taxed from ten cents to twenty dollars, ow’ing to the grade of beauty, and each lady to decide the grade herself. Any amount of revenue is expected to be realized from this provision. Each boy baby, fifty cents. Each girl baby ten cents. dollars Twins, one hundred pre¬ mium, to be paid out of the fund ac cruing lrom the tax on bachelors. Heads of families of more than thirteen children, fined a hundred dollars and sent to jail. The town council of Danielsville decided to dispense with the services of a marshal, as there is no necessity for one since the abolition of the whisky business. Bill Nye is a professional humorist and a good one. Mingled with hie fun there is a thread of common sense. In his advice to a literary aspirant Bill writes: “Seriously, I would suggest that you make a bold dash for success by writing things that other people arc not writing, thinking things that other people are not thinking, and saying things that other people are not saying. You will say that this advice is easier to give than to take, and I agree with you. But the tendency of the age is to wear the same style of collar and coat and hat that every other man wears, and to talk and write like other men; and, to be frank with you, I think it is an infernal shame. If you will look carefully about you you will see that the preacher who is talking mostly to dust} 1 pew cushions is also the preacher who is thinking the thoughts of other men. He is ‘up¬ ending’ his barrel of sermons annu all}’, and they were made in the first place from the sermons of a man who also ‘up-ended’, his barrel annually. Go where the preacher is talking to full houses and you will discover that his sermons are full of human¬ ity and originality. They are not written in a library by a man with interchangeable ideas, an automatic cog-wheel thinker, but they are pre¬ pared by a man who honestly and earnestly studies the great aching heart of humanity, and full of sin eerity, originality and old-fashioned Christianity, appeals to your poetry? better impulses. How is it with our As a fellow traveler and seasick tourist across life’s tempestuous tide, I ask you who is writing the poetry that will live? Is it the man who is sawing out and sandpapering stanzas of the general dimensions as some other poet, in which he bewails the fact that he loved a tall, well behaved, accomplished girl, sixteen hands high, who did not requite his love. Ah, no. He is not the poet whose terra cotta statue will stand in the cemetery, wearing a laurel and a lumpy brow. Show me the poet who is intimate with nature and who studies the little joys and sor¬ rows of the poor, who smells the clo¬ ver, and writes about live, healthy people with ideas and appetites. He is my poet.” “Make room for the girls!” cries the Woman’s Journal. Oh, pshaw, the girls don’t want much room. A chair that will hold one with a tight squeeze, will bold two very comfort¬ ably. Room for the girls, indeed! Sit here girls. A man who can give np dreaming and go to his daily realities; who can smother down his heart, its love or woe, and take to the hard work of his hand; who defies fate, and if he must die, dies fighting to the last—that man is life's best hero. gos ami® -S^OF ALL KIND DONE^r NEATLY AND PKOHPTLT. r , 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 postofllce as second-class mail matter. SOUTH RIVER DEBATING SMEW. The society met according to ad¬ journment. Col. C. T. Zachry being absent, Mr. F. O. Fielder was called to the chair. Minutes read and adopted. Before debating the sub¬ ject Prof. Snelson, of Peaclistonc Shoals, made a short but interesting talk on education. The subject for debate was: “Which has the most influence over man, Money or Wom¬ en?” Mr. J. E. Bailey was leading disputant on the alfirmative, and Mr. Eugene Hull on the negative. Some lengthy speeches were made by Messrs. William Chapman, T. J. Pool, Mr. Beard, Prof. Snelson, and others. After all the members had spoken the President called on the visitors. Messrs. J. B. Grayham and J. D. Scott addressed the society. Mr. J. E. Bailey closed the speech. debate with a long and interesting The decision was given in favor of the negative. The following names were enrolled as new members: Messrs. J. B. Grayham, W. A. Scott, E. T. Hull, J. C. Baker and J. D. Scott. Subject for the next meeting: “Resolved, That a property qualifi cation for voting is right and would give T, us a better government.” Messrs. J. Pool and J. F. Baker were ap¬ pointed the leading disputants—Mr. Pool for the affirmative and Mr. Baker for the negative. There being no further business the society ad¬ journed. A FEW PERSONALS. Mrs. Mary Scott lost a fine cow last week. The animal fell into a ditch about fifteen feet deep, and was supposed to have bt*m fighting. Mrs. Rachel Crow died very sud denly last Saturday at the residence of her son, Mr. Harry Crow. She was buried in the family graveyard, near Mr. Crow’s residence. We extend our sympathies to the bereaved fam %• The newly organized Sabbath school at Zion church is rapidly ini proving, now members being added every Sunday. Mr. William Chap man is the teacher. Mr. Bill Watson caught a gray fox last Thursday morning a week ago. It had only been five weeks since he caught another one. He says he is going to average one a month as long as they stay in his neighborhood. Success to you, Bill. Catch two if you can. Subscriber. The Maryland Legislature has re¬ duced the price of marriage license to $1 per “pair,” the’measme and the people of that State hail as “a wise and salutary^reform.” Sam Jones is to be put into Ger¬ man by the Western Methodist Concern. Dr’ Liebhart is preparing a volume in that language to be en titled, “Sam Jones—his Biography, Speeches, Sermons, and Sayings.” Supposing a man lost both his arms in the war, what is he going to do in case a mosquito alights on his nose? Call the first man he meets a liar. A young married lady, who moved into the country from a city (home, considered keeping hens a pleasant and profitable duty. As she became more absorbed in the pursuit her enthusiasm increased, and “hens” made a favorite subject of her thoughts and conversation. During an animated descriptions of them a friend inquired: “Are your hens good bens?” “Oh, yes,” she replied in a delighted tone:,“they haven't laid a bad egg yet.” While it is feared the leading Democratic officials of the govern¬ ment are killing themselves at over¬ work, it is still remembered that the grand Republican officials used "to almost kill themselves overfoiick ing. But then the Regublicans left an Augean stable, which the Demo crats aie obliged to clean out with out auy delay. “William, dear, Mrs. Smith has never received that letter of mine which I gave you to mail a month ago. You posted it, didn’t you?” “Why, of course I did, my love.” And far down in the mo6t sulphur ous corner of the infernal regions a chorus of redlegged fiends blew a paean of joy on b-flat cornets, as they heated to incandescence a brimstone pit labeled “Reserved for William W. Jones.” THE REASON WHY. Merchants often wonder why The people do not call, grand To see their choice and supply, Of buyers one and all. The reason why is they forget To do what should be done, And day by day tbe.v fail to let The public know the goods they get Through columns of the Solid South. LET 'EM MARRY. Glancing over the census reports we note the fact that the female sex preponderates in Georgia. Unless we get extraordinary outside help some of these ladies are doomed to single blessedness. We send out about as many young bridegrooms brides, to other States as we do and extraordinary outside While help is not apt to be forthcoming. we do not believe that any marriage is better for woman than none, or that the maiden lady may not achieve great good, we do consider any woman who is the loving and loved wife of an honest, industrious, healthy hus¬ band, well off. If she can do better, if she can marry one who has city lots and moral perfection in addition to his honesty, health and industry, so much the hotter. But when all these arc made prerequisites to mar¬ riage, too many human young men and human young women are barred, the State is damaged and society is corrupted. Our observation has been that the young man, and we mean the average young man, who earns more money than liis necessities re¬ quire, does not grow more moral as he advances in age. We admit that he should, but, ns a matter of fact, he does not. But throw upon him the duties and responsibilities of a husband, and around him the safe¬ guards of a borne, and he is placed in a position to develop. He does develop, and generally in the right direction. Look about and note the proof. of will No amount business sense ever take away the risks of matri¬ mony. Some of the best equipped men go to ruin from the altar. The marriages of old men—men with a half century’s experience behind them—are ofiener unhappy than the married men of twenty-one. Love counts for a great deal, and training in economy is as necessary for the woman as the man. The union of hearts is easier when hearts are young, and without this union there can be no happy marriage.—Maeon Telegraph._ Guiballard is astonished at the re¬ volts which have occurred in some of the prisons. “I can’t understand,” he said to one of his friends, “how a man can revolt when he is in chains.” “Oh, I can understand it easily enough.” replied the other, “Why, I am married myself.” It seems that dueling is practical¬ ly at an end in Virginia as well It as is everywhere else in the Union. something unusual for a challenge to be passed now in any part of the country. The Code Duello has giv¬ en place to the justcr and more hon¬ orable decrees of public opinion. A man’s honor does not depend so much on his skill in the use of the pistol or the sword as on his con¬ duct. The person who now seeks notoriety through a dueling sensa¬ tion usually becomes the subject of ridicule. The code is obsolete. The Marietta Journal states posi¬ tively that Hon. A. O. Bacon is op¬ posed to the Railroad Commission, and that as Governor he would lend his influence towards breaking it down. And this, too, in face of his recent remarkable letter in which Mr. Bacon gives an alleged defini¬ tion of his alleged position on this very subject Well, it is an easy thing',for a candidate; to write a let¬ ter. At Greenesboro, Saturday, after probably the most exciting contest in the history of that town, the elec¬ tion resulted in a victory for the wet ticket by a majority of twenty-four. The prohibition question was made the only issue in the municipal elec¬ tion which was held Saturday. The prohibition ticket was headed by Hon. W. H Branch, and the anti¬ prohibition by Hon. H. T. Lewis for Mayor. The fight was clearly a county one, for had the Prohibition¬ ist won it would have made Greene county a dry county. The county voted on the local option question in December last and went wet by a majority of less than eighty votes. The new Council has the right to fix the license lor the town, and had the prohibitionist won they would have made an exclusive license, thus shutting out the sale in that coun¬ ty John Longfellow, a cousin of the poet, has been arrested in Boston for housebreaking, As long ago as 1865 he robbed a number of residences in Boston and was sent to the peniten¬ tiary for seven years. The grand jury of Schley county, before adjourning last Saturday, found true bills against some thir¬ teen or fourteen citizens of Ellaviile for giving liquor to minors.
