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Soon "to leave your love and care,
,uto live that I might show thee,
! La all the strength of filial love,
tis wrongf live this above. passing murmur,
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L re thee well my gentle life’s glad sister,
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have loved each
[ Think of me when I am gone,
balm the anguish in your bosom,
I kerish, Pit the tears you freely shed;
too, this simple ringlet dead.
When my form is with the
Fare thee well, my youthful brother,
With vour kind and loving heart;
ffhciwh you seem so calm and manly,
I can see the tear-drops start.
In the coining scenes and duties,
Ever he both true and brave;
Cherish, too, this little Bible
When I’m sleeping in the grave.
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.
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fie prisoner is,” whispered the old
ai } to her husband, in the court
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near
warned her husband, “that
'fought P n soner, he hasn’t been
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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®
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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.