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dispatch from Erie, Pa.,
be newspapers last week
[thrilling account of the
Lie ; of Samuel number Mceter, of of
tirades, who with a
bad an imitation
IrU’a L Supper case with bread somewhat and
; e has a the
n h- that five lives were
if blasphemy, instead of one.
the tragic events occurred
i
j in tbe press, remember
kjder inhabitants
stinctly. shown an old
•espondent Greenfield was township, east
, which attached a
SiH:itV, i-Bramatic to It is large
story. a
" Be L three stories high, erected and of
rcliilecture. 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.
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
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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
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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.
