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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1886)
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It was *B>' ■eaHj days of this country, eaten ted for more than a ;unl it is said no amount jHB Ko r could in induce it overnight. a Greenfield In fIBlii'ii stay in SH the bouse was an un ■ey, state, hut nearly ready for a party of live men, bent ^Bill'd |B,yir revelry u ’°k ! until ,oss,;s ’ morning. <)n ’ 3iid H|ng EB-erc their shockingly conscience impious, with and li |B IKrsed of whisky, God in brandy turn. and A Di rum, ble Hi up burned and the ashes ■vitii the fiery beverage. Then IBioi)fusion K, lifted high their cups, drank of the Christian God fBcws officii. to the During prince of the darkness dread IHst Bpd a terrible storm sprang up. > ! blazed from the dark - H ami a fierce clap of thunder H the house to its founds ■ making the blasphemers ■ Three day after one told Hther four he had a frightful fl. In the visit he saw himself ■comrades as they were three ^■before. Hearing and lie reduced saw the carbon sacred to Mingled Hiizcd with the liquor, and he in the dap of thunder tbe Hof God telling the five that Hi meat was to be visited upon Hs a singular and well attested Hliat a fearful fate befell the par ■nts, and the superstitious of Hfleid regard it as the vengeance Hvcn in fulfillment of that vis ■ Adam Schober was the first B. Ilis end was made horrible Biirium tremens, and he raved B Blenions everlasting torments and hid with spears. Joseph ■went next, being drowned in a Bant pond. The third, George Be, perished by the hand of an ■own assassin, who plunged a Br into his body in the dark. Is Larkin was struck dead on a ■a, and his horse drew the body I- lhe doom of Peter Fuller ■suggestive in of his pledge to sa¬ that blasphemous bowl. He ■imprisoned in a burning build ■no roasted alive, and hischarr •ones^ P- tor were gathered from the loelieved many years the place to be haunted by the Its of the “Fearful Five,” as they I called. It was insisted that r ever J' anniversary of the unho fS3' their specters entered the F and went through the bible frog Inch and drinking scene again, r " each was seized with the f ,es ' Peculiar to Twenty the death which | "hen j five years the evil reputation of the r„ ffas at its height, Noah W. u, i agent at Erie of the Ameri Mispress Company, with a party pong and ghost proof compan Metcimined to dispel the fears pla? ' P T? bbe 3 ' J baViDg assembled a daDce against ia „j • tbe ithr m-mi oldest ghost seers, L h mu dle of a waltz a mighty nf T? ld air extinguished da , the I p*p!i r ‘'iul , ncers shrieked and lL:-. ea of being seized by K 18 »'‘lie dead mea. Most hts ■ a pst Of wind put the iv - but ma ny still believe ' natt a supernatural rning. wa _ hh'eoi- binSOD ’ of Tallulah, find sino- mahlmlvT' JLJ ate . aD 'i so il adapted huS lateI to L Rabun v - 1 set ont Dd county, and flout lumhe CS '- ° f walnut trees. ’•Robin- "' 1 18 on the rise, and '»'<Ur.B°hu rC * , ”‘ riCh riptsL puzzling manu "If \P 21 % Li m * I A sfiig ■SV£3ylfi i jggpjg&i 3'-r - $ m maJm — TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. --^ Vol. 4. CONYERS, GEORGIA, • APRIL 17, 1886. No. 13. SAM JONES AND THE LAWYERS. Extract from a Chicago sermon: Sometimes I’ve asked everybody that never told a lie to stand up. Every fellow was looking around to see if anybody was going to get up. If anybody bad a got up I’d given him the floor and sat down. If you all would stop lying you’d starve the lawyers to death. I like a grand lawyer who defends the good man from the assaults of the wicked. But those mean little$5 lawyers! They do some mean thing, and then say, “I did that as a lawyer, not as a man.” When they drop down in hell I suppose they’ll go about say¬ ing, “I’m here as a lawyer.” The young lady who made seven hundred words out of “conservatory” last fall, has eloped. We feel sorry for the young man; it is bad enough where one word brings on another, but just think of one word bringing seven hundred. When a certain bachelor was married the members of the Bache¬ lor Club broke him all up by send¬ ing him as a wedding present a copy of “Paradise Lost.” “A navigable river,” said a reflec tive Atlantian a few days ago, “is a good thing to have around, as long as it let you navigate it; but whcyi i t takes- a notion to navigate you, the hill country acquires sud den charms.” Woman is not much of a philoso pher, but she is proverbially a clothes observer. “What is your idea of love, Mr. Sinnick?” “Three meals a day and well cooked.” The mayor of Cnthbcrt has issued his proclamation to dog owners, and has orderd the police to kill all dogs acting strangely. A writer in the Atlanta Journal suggests Mayor George Hilly hr, of that city, for governor. “Are you prettywell acquainted with your mother tongue, my boy?” asked the school teacher of the new schol¬ ar. “Yes, sir,” answered the lad, timidly; "Jla jaws me a good deal, sir. Some of the boys yet believes that the nearest way to a girl's heart is through her stomach, so says the Harmony Grove Signal. This is the new version. It is said that we will have a tough spring. We must have a in ugh spring once in a while or grade we would run short of a certain of spring chickens. “How does blood reach tbe heart?” was one of the questions written Vassal' out on an examination paper at College. And one of the flyest of the fly girls wrote the answer: “Ice cream, oysters and champagne, box of bon-bons, Sunday night calls, no gas, one chair.” She evidently had met the “blood,” and he was hers. When the young citizens of tbe country are wise enough to under¬ stand that the politicians whom they rally to and carry torches for and shout themselves hoarse in honor of, are as a rule, selfish men, striving for the gratifying aspirations, and wiio when elected give little thought to the zealous followers who voted for their promotion, then the young citizens will come to hold the pro¬ fession of politics at a more News. conser vative valuation.—Albany When some one steals the office towel of a Georgia newspaper, the editor writes an article which con¬ signs all mankind to the infernal re¬ gions. The praise of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are but what we ought to be. If you wish to purchase at Atlan¬ ta prices, the best quality of Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Paint Brushes, Glass and Putty', go to Dr. Lee’s Drugstore. AlPof these goods are bought direct from the manufactur¬ ers. Call and get a sample card oi colors. He who knows the world will not be too bashful. He-whoknows him¬ self will be too impudent. A Chicago reporter, in writing a description of a criminal, describes him as possessing a heavy' black moustache and breath. What is black breath? Don’t all answer at once. j Last week M. G. Butler killed, near seagull, Bright Star, Douglass county, a which no doubt had been blown there during the severe of storm last which prevailed the first and 5 in¬ week. It measured 5 feet ches from the lip of one wing to the tip of the other. A JUSTICE’S FIRST CHARGE. He said: “Gentlemen of the jury, charging the jury is a new business to me, as this is my first case. You have beard all the evidence, as well as myself; you have also heard what the learned counsel have said. If you believe what the counsel for the plaintiff has told you your verdict will be for the plaintiff; but if, on the other hand, you believe what the de¬ fendant’s counsel lias told you, then you will give a verdict for the defen¬ dant. But if you are like me, and don't believe what ctiher of them have said, then I’ll bed—d if I know what you will do. Constable, take charge of the jury.” Colonel G. W. Bryan of Henry county, has one of the largest and best kept vineyards in the state. He has now about nine thousand vines, comprising the choicest and most prolific varieties to be found any where. Make your table .pretty ; it makes food taste better and refines the man¬ ners. Just before Sam Jones quitChica go a reporter said to him: “How do you feel after your work here, Mr. Jones?” “I feel like I could be bought fora nickel, and believe I would cheat the man who bought me. I never felt lower down than I do right now.” At the depot there was no one to see Brother Jones off but Dr. Joshua Smith and this same reporter. An editor instead of saying that “the longest pole gets the persim¬ mon,” says “the longest tongue gets the salt.” Both decidedly vulgar. He should have said: “The pole that exceeds in longitude succeeds more surely in dislodging the autumnal fruit” or that “the organ that sub¬ serves the purpose of taste, prehen sion, deglution and articulation in man that is susceptable of excess ive protrusion is the daisy that dis¬ turbs the salt.” This is the era of free schools, remember. Circuit Court—Sneaking around the house to avoid the dog. Wealth was the engine of destruc¬ tion that brought demoralization to ancient Rome. Immense riches in the hand of a few are beginning to produce mutterings of discontent in the North and West. It has been discovered that the plain girl never figures in print as a bold bad viilaincss, but confines her¬ self to work. “Though she may be homely enough to stop a clock,” says the Tribune, “she is never heard of as breaking her husband’s heart. Let some novelist arise and immor¬ talize the plain girl, for she will nev¬ er do herself that service,” Mother—Did you steal the cake, Johnnie? Johnnie—No, ma'am. Did I Maudie? cake)—No, Maudie (who ’deed, got a piece of the mamma! I saw him didn’t! Every time your pulse beats a soul departs to the Great elsewhere, and when your pulse don’t beat your’s goes. Newton county owes $30,600, up¬ on which she is paying interest at the rate of 9 per cent, per annum. At a large party given at Boston by a couple who bad recently re¬ ceived a large legacy, a lady said to the hostess: “I do not see your bus band’s brother here.” “No,” said the hostess ingenuously, “you know we must draw the line somewhere.” The April term of Henry Superi¬ or court will cost the county between twelve and fifteen hundred dollars. Any man who can corral nerve enough to spit on a nice carpet in a church is unfit to be in a civilized community.—Newnan Advertiser. The Athens Presbytery will meet in regular session in Presbyterian church, in Gainesville, on Wednes¬ day, May, 5th. The Waynesboro Citizen hints that Gen. Henry R. Jackson, of Sa¬ vannah, comes home from Mexico just in time to assist in working the wires here for gubernatorial honors. There’s one thing very certain. Mr. Cleveland has shown the repub lican party that he does not belong to the neuter gender, as was fondly hoped when he first entered the White House. The Chicago Times refers to Ruth¬ erford B. Hayes as “a living notabil¬ ity,” but most people regard him as a dead cock in the pit. The definition of innocuous desue tude given by the Philadelphia Press is “played out.” It takes a repubti can to appreciate this. THAT WIFE OF MINE She met ine at the door last night, All dainty, fresh, and smiling, And threw her plump arms round me In tight, Then, manner in her most beguiling. impulsive sweet, way, She hugged me, as she kissed me, And told me how the live-long day She’d thought of me, and missed me. She helped me off with coat and hat, And led me, still elose-elinging, Into the dining room, and sat Down at the table singing. The meal was perfect; fresh-cut flow’rs, The tire light warm and rosy, Made all seem bright; swift flew the hours, And we were, oh! so eosey. Then, after dinner, she and I >Ve Sang the old songs together used to sing in days gone by— My heart was like a feather T Our happiness made earth a heaven. And now, as I review it, I recollect ’twas past eleven Almost before we knew it, We sat thereon the sofa then. She nestling close beside me, Softly she smoothed my hair, and when I kissed her did not chide me. She fondly pinched iny cheek, and so, Her dimpled hand upon it, She whispered: “Darling, di. you know 1 need a new spring bonnet?” Fathcr-in-law—Perhaps, sir, you think I’m going to support you for the rest of your natural life. Son in law—Well, I don’t know why you shouldn’t. I took your daughter off your hands. A committee in the Kentucky legislature has reported as to the treatment of convicts in the mines of that state. They set forth that the convicts are cruelly treated, ill fed and corralled and fashed like beast. This is a most shameful picture of brutality. Lincoln county can boast of a youth who possesses some strange powers, which “lay in the shade” the pheno¬ menal power of Lula Hurst. He is represented as a siinon pure fire eater. He can with impunity swallow the blaze from a burning torch. Some, who are intimately acquainted with him, say that he is absolutely inconi bustible, give as an instance that once when burning a coal kiln, he fell in, yelled powerfully, but, when he came out complaining of smoth¬ ering and not burning sensations. He is the terror of every negro in five miles who imagines that it is the work of the devil.—Liucolnton News. The New York Graphic has a long editorial on the weather, iu which the remark is made that “the ocean is well enough.” We are glad to hear this. The following are Ben Hill’s im mortal words and may be found on the shaft of his tomb: “If a grain of corn will die and then rise again in infinite beauty, why may not I die and then rise again in infinite beautj'of life? How is the last a greater mystery than the first? And by so much as I ex¬ cel the grain of corn in this life, why may I not ex'cel it in the new life? How can we limit the power of Him who makes the grain of corn to die, and then make the same grain again in such wonderful newness of life,” The Henry county Weekly says Mr. W. W. Amis has twenty-five or thirty bales of cotton piled up under his ginhouse that he appears to have no use for. For horses or other Animals, Dr. J. H. McLern’s Volcanic Oil Lini¬ ment is superior to all other remedies in cases of Bruises, Fistula, Sprians, Sores, Cuts, or an special disease. It is a specific for Rheumatism, Neu ralgia and Nervous Pains, which im mediately yield to its magic influ¬ ences. When used according to di trecions it relaxes Contracted Mus cles, renews elasticit}' in stiff joints and shriveled limbs. For sale by Drs. Stewart and Lee. 3 m. Capt. Jim Hicks, of Wrightsville. has in his possession a road stone which is said to have been found in the carcass of a deer many years ago. The stone is oval in shape, polished surface, a deep, rich red in color, and through the centre is a smoothe bor ed bole about tbe size of an ordinary broom straw. Gross ignorance produces a dog¬ matic spirit. He who knows noth ing thinks that he can teach others what he has himself just been learn¬ ing; he who knows much scarcely be¬ lieves that what be is saying can be unknown to others, and consequent¬ ly speaks with more hesitation. Miss Alberta Lamar, one of Ma¬ con’s most charming young ladies, is to be married on the 28th instant to Judge H. Washington, of Tennessee. Miss Lamar has many friends in Georgia, who extend congratulations and good wishes. JOB OlOIffi -^OF ALL KIND DONE^ NEATLT AW PROMPTLY, ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND, Fay for advertisements insertion, is always due after the first unless otherwise contracted for. Guaranteed positions 20 per cent extra. Entered postofficc ns second-class mail matter. THE GIRL AT THE FB0NT GATE Heaven bless the girl at the front gate witli peach bloom on her cheeks and love light in her eyes. She can never grow old to those who have been with her. Years may come and go, but the music of the low voice is stilled but the memory of the cher¬ ry lips we kissed will hold out faith¬ ful to the end. What if the old gate does saw and the hinges rattle and its latch refuse to bold it shut? What if the post are shaky and some of its pickets gone? We love the dear old relic still. We love it for the sake of the girl who used to stand out there by it with roses on her cheeks and nectar on her lips. We counted the stars and bid good by and then counted the stars again. How many times was good-by said? How many times did lips meet o’er the old dear gate? And what of the girl? Ah! me! She married another. She forgot her vows and married a richer and handsomer man. And I? Well, I went off to another front gate where there were other peach bloom cheeks and oth¬ er lips as sweet and as many stars to count. And now I have a front gate of my own and a girl of my own who counts the stars with the boy of the girl whose vows made with me were broken. But he is a true, good boy and my girl is a good true girl, and Heaven bless them both as they stand to night at the front gate.—St. Louis Magazine. This is a special from Covington, April 12, to the Constitution: The temperance campaign was fairly opened here yesterday by a powerful sermon at the Presbyterian church by its brilliant pastor, Rev. H. Quigg. His arraignment of the retail liquor traffic was a master¬ piece of eloquence, logic and fact, and created an impression that will not soon be forgotten. The increase of apoplexy may be easily explained. As more persons now reach the apopletic natural age, between fifty and seventy, it is that a greater number of deaths should be reported from this cause. Among the causes usually cited as tendiug to apoplexy are the degenerative changes in the blood vessels natural to old age, chronic alcoholism, spe¬ cific diseases, and continual expos¬ ures. One cause has been overlook ed, and that is the greater mental tension of this age. Too much brain activity results in the bursting, not of a single large blood vessel, but of a number of small ones, producing the condition known as aneurism. Gen. Sheridan is coming South on a tour of inspection within the next few weeks. He will inspect the site for the new barracks to be establish ed in Atlanta. Rev. Dr. Young J Allen is on his way from China to pay a visit to his son in Emory college. J. C. C. Black has been selected as the orator of the day at the unveil¬ ing of the Ben Hill statue at Atlanta, which takes place May 1. If you will take one of those little Pillets 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 culm, created by unhealthy mucus in the organs and bowels. They live on the mucus which should aid nature. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Homoe opalhic 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 A Sunday school golden text for the riotous Knights—“The Devil finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Henry county averages 250 births and 125 deaths per annum. It is predicted that the political pot in Georgia will soon be boiling over. Why not let everybody keep cool, so that it won’t reach the boil¬ ing point? Editor Pulitzer, of the New York World, also a member or congress from New r York city, and who has answered to roll call six times m that body during its present session, has resigned his seat. The Marshallville Agricultural Club, which is composed of some of the best posted practical farmers in the country, after due discussion came to the conclusion that on the best lands, with economical and per sonal management, the profit on cot tou at 7-£ cents for middling is $125 to $150 per mule. The Marshallville Club has probably worked the prob len down to a pretty fine point THE FARMER'S QUIET LIFE The farmer is less disturbed thart any other occupation or profession by the strikes and the contest that is being and waged between the employ¬ ed the employer. All things considered, we don’t believe any young man makes a mistake who decides deliberately tlint “a farmer’s life is the life for him,” and decides to fit himself for it. Not to settle down, living in a starvation fashion, raising a patch of corn, beans and potatoes; but who with an enlight¬ ened grasp, will go forth to his work with mind fitted for the highest achievements in this pursuit. Far¬ ming lias been raised from the ruts of drudgery, and has become a real science, requiring as much special preparation as any other pursuit in life. Every day we meet men with bent forms and careworn, anxious faces, who are looking forward to the happy day when their accumulations shall amount to enough to buy a farm, to which they can retire and receive something of the enjoyment of life before the curtain falls. If it is a comfort to those who have ex hausted their best energies in other pursuits, what must it be to those who in their youth choose it as a lifo calling. Along with the hard work there is joy ami comfort, a contented mind, a healthy body, and if riches do not coinc, their absence is more than made up by something far more enduring. A mass meeting of all the prohi¬ bition clubs, both white and colored in Dooly county, is called at Vien¬ na for Saturday evening, April 17, at 3 o’clock. The object of the meet¬ ing is tu arrange to fairly and squarely meet the next issue on April 19. There is a great deal of specula¬ tion going on in Athens over cotton futures. It is a common thing for a man who seems to have ho busi¬ ness carrying a 1,000 bales of cot¬ ton futures. An anxious mother telegraphed her son in college at Athens asking about his health, to which the fol¬ lowing reply was sent: “Am all right but busted. Send me $30.” The mother, thinking her child was badly hurt, sent him the money immedi¬ ately. The definition of “gentleman” is given as “a human being combining a woman’s tenderness with a man’s courage.” This is new to us. Wo have always understood the term “gentlemen” to mean “a traveling salesman wearing a plug hat.” Col. Larry Gantt’s friends still want him to run for congress in the Eight district. A New York doctor says that small feet signify a quick temper and an evil tongue. Now every¬ body will be staring at his wife to see whether her feet are large or small, and no matter which way the verdict is she won’t be pleased. “I do wish you would come home earlier,” said a woman to her hus¬ band, “I am afraid to stay alone. I always imagine that there’s some¬ body in the house, but when you come I know there ain’t.” “What is a woman?” asks an ex¬ change. It is—well, we suppose she is a combination of dynamite and mule, for she looks as innocent as a mule and talks like dynamite when she is mad. Women are braver and more hero¬ ic, oftentimes, under disaster than men. During the recent flood, a Rome man said to bis wife, “When you married me I was worth three or four thousand dollars, now its all gone.” “Well,” said she, “we have four boys, and we have good health. That is all we need.” Mr. Gladstone introduced his bill for an Irish parliament in the house of commons last Thursday. It was a great day for oppressed Erin. “Are you married?” asked the justice of a man who had been arres rested for vagrancy. “No, I am not married, but my wife is.” “No trifling with the court.” “Heaven save ns! I’m not trif¬ ling with the court. I was married, but got a divorce. My wife got married again but I didn’t; so’I am not married but my wife is.” When a tall woman thrashes her short husband with a shovel she stoops to conqner. “The Lord loveth a cheerful giv¬ er,” but there’s no use chucking a copper cent in the box so loud as to make the folk in the back seat think the communion services has tumbled off the altar.
