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t)n [ tbe 29th of the present month,
Georgia Press Association will
let in Macon. The Macon Tele
pli,in welcoming the brethren of
quill, uses the following lan
tge:
[So legrapb far as the great and good
is concerned, we do not
Hate to say that our door is off
hinges, theportierre which screens
innermost sanctum is rolled up
t of sight, and the white banner of
Ice waves from the battlements,
ntlemcn of the press, the road to
radia is unobstructed, and a com¬
ice awaits you at the terminus.”
there are two things that a wo¬
rn likes to get into papers—her
pt hair and her name.
i Father asked his little boy how
cot |l; along at school. “Oh, very
I’ve got so I can turn a somer
|it without putting my head on the
iunil, and I can stand on my head
limit putting my foot against a.
(ho old confederates of Georgia
[ling 1 forget a great many things in
| days; suit they lien will remem
Jeff Davis’s and Hill's de'o
P the southern confederacy.
I tramp woke up suddenly with
P sweat standing in great heads
lbs forehead. “What’s the
per, asked his companion. “A
liitfuldream! I dreamed I was at
Ik!" “I told you that last mince
wou Id give you a horrid night
e.”
r one particular we think the
pucratie [example president of hisjiepubliean should imitate prede
foi s. Hell sould “turn the rascals
ke Augusta Presbytery in session
" aynesboro by a vote of 8 to 7
t n l Jle ^ er charges against
L)r - Woodrow, , _ of the Columbia
eoiogical Seminary, for his theo
! un evolution, which, it is
l Teo, are not in accordance with
interpretation of the scripture
A Adams 1>resb notified .Vterian the church. Presbytery Rev.
- le would table the charges
[ inst Dl '- Woodrow now, but would
[ me Prosecutor before the Pres-
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ust.
though heavy to carry
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,n nothing better is to be had, es
‘ to those who like editors,
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Se them.
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IN THJ2 COUNTRY JUSTICE'S OFriCE.
He wanted justice. You could
see it in hiss eyes afar off. He didn’t
want a little bit o’t justice wei 0C lied
out in a gingerly manner an one
up in coarse brown ci* he
wanted justice by the carload and at
wholesale rates. He. hitched his old
horse and dilapidated buggy in
front of the drug store, mounted the
stairs running up outside to the sec¬
ond story, and his eyes brightened
as they rested on the tin sign on the
door: “George Boxetn, Attorney at
Law.” The lawyer was in. So were
a two dollar desk, two fifteen cent
chairs, a huge cuspidore and a rusty
stove.
“Morning.
“Morning. Live by
“I’mMim White, sir. out
Gray’s corners. Bought the Tomp¬
kins farm, you know.”
“Ah?”
“Skinner i 3 farms with me.—
i my corn. I want
damages hut lie C O at me. I
turns my hog int patch.
“Good! I like a man of spunk.”
“And he kills one of’em.”
“What?”
“He kills a hog worth two dol¬
lars.”
“You don’t say? Well, that man
ought to be made to understand that
lie doesn’t own this country. What
an outrage! Have you demanded
pay?” said he’d like
“Oh, yes; and he to
shoot me.”
“Is it possible? Why, he’s a dan
gerous man—very dangerous.”
“I came to ask you if—if—”
‘■Why of course you have the host
kind of case against him. It is your
duty to push it.”
“Yes, I want justice; but how—
bow much will—•’
“Oh thecost will be nothing. Just
leave me $5 as a retainer and we'll
make Skinner sweat. I haven’t
heard of such an outrage for years.
He probably reasons that you're
chicken-hearted and afraid of him.”
“Well, lie’ll find that the Whites
have as much grit as the Skinners.”
“And as ranch money to law with?”
“You bet!”
“That’s the talk! We’ll make
him a very sick man. Your ease
appeals to me as a citizen as well as
a lawver. Now we’ll secure a war
rant as a starter.”
Skinner visits the other lawyer in
the same village, and the conversa¬
tion is about the same. White gets
a warrant for Skinner, and Skinner
gels a warrant for White.
Hrst year—Two adjournments, a
disagreement, twenty-four days of
lost time, and an expense of $50 to
each farmer.
Second year—Three trials, one
disagreement, four adjournments,
one appeal, and a cash expense of
$1-10 to each farmer. Time lost,
thirty-five days. trials,
Third year—Two two farina ap¬
peals, two decisions, and two
pass into the hands o! two lawyers.—
N. Y. Sun.
The following item is found floating
around in our exchanges. If noth¬
ing. more, it shows how Oconee
stands on the rotation system:
“James R. Lyle will be put forward
by his friends in Oconee count}’ to
represent the district composed of
the counties of Clarke, Oconee, Wal¬
ton, Newton and Rockdale.”
Within the past two weeks several
counterfeit dollars have been seen
in Perry. They are of the 1885 is¬
sue, and much lighter in weight
than the genuine coins, though very
clever counterfeits in other respects.
We understand that during the
last rain storm, the lightning struck
a small pine tree on a graveyard it
above town, and circled around
until it reached the ground, where it
scooped out a hole clear down to the
coffin, and scattered the bones around
on top of the ground—Lawrenceviile
Herald.
Congressman Hammond has had
not only a judge of the superior
court after bis present position oecu
pied so honorably to himself and sat¬
isfactorily to his constituents, but a
preacher popular with his church be
side, in the person of ex Judge Stew¬
art. He has not only had the ad¬
vantage of Using his position as
Judge of the Flint circuit to make
friends, but as a good, popular and
zealous Baptist preacher be could
coddle the brethering every Sunday.
Whether he has availed himself of
these strong advantages we can’t
say. We hone, however, he has not.
—Madisonian.
Ordinary Thrasher has issued the
order for the prohibition election
in Oconee county to come off on May
20.
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, APRIL 24, 1886.
THE LOVE STOEY.
Her pretv face, her Hashing eyes,
hersjdendid waist, attracted his at
tention. He seeks an introduction
—they talk about fashion, parties,
the weather, etc, and another meet
ing is appointed, which they spend
together, each in perfect delight.
The lovers talk about flowers, stars,
Skiff the jeweler and poetry; give
signs and tokens. They are engaged
and got married, and are as happy
as happy can be for awhile,, as Skiff,
the jeweler was. But life is real and
married life is frill of cares, vexa¬
tion and disappointment. To be
continued.—Daniellsville Monitor.
Will some of our friends be so
kind as to send a telescope to this of¬
fice. Wc want to goon top of some
high hill and Gordon view boom.—Senoia the landscape
o’er for the
Sentinel. Get from behind the Ba¬
con rind and Gordon’s boom can be
seen.
The whipping post bill lias been
defeated in the Kentucky legisla¬
ture.
A man who is not ashamed of him
self need not be ashamed of his early
condition.
A lady writer asks, “Why don’t
bachelois marry?” That’s so—why
don't they? Come to think about it,
we have never yet seen a bachelor
who was married. It’s lamenta¬
ble too.
Laus Deo! The shooting gallery
nuisance has, at last, like the Arab,
folded its tent and quietly stolen
away, we hope never again to return.
—Madisonian.
Business men, Lawyers, Clergy
men and others, whose occupations
are of a sedentary character, often
have the feeling of being literally
worn out, and are reminded very for
cibly of declining years, when if they
knew what ailed them, they would
find all tlieir troubles arose from the
inaction of their kidneys or liver if
they would at such times, take Dr
JM. H. cLean’s Homoeopathic Liver
and Kimley Balm, would again maturity.* feet
the vigor and strength of
For sale by Drs. Lee and Stewart.
3 m.
Fashionable bonnets are now be¬
ing made of paper. The press is
gradually working its way upward.
From the bustle to the bonnet is a
great stride.
Daniel Webster once wrote, after
continued provocation, to the editor his
of a newspaper which referred to
private affairs, and especially to his
debts. He said substantially: “It
is true that I have not always paid
my debts punctually and that I owe
money, One cause of this is that I
have not pressed those who enclose owe me.
As an instance of this I your
father’s note made to me thirty
years ago for money loaned him to
educate his boys.”
Senator Jones, of Florida, has at
last spoken, and says he went toDe
troit for his health and his stay has
been prolonged very much against
his inclination. Since the ridicu
lous stories circulated in the press
concerning his personal welfare have
been afloat, he says he did not feel
disposed to return to Washington
until they had ceased, and which
time he will return to his seat in the
senate, and not before.
Dr. Talmage receives on an aver¬
age 40 letters a day.
It is announced that the president
has formed no decided plans for the
summer, which shows that in one re¬
spect, at least, he is in agreement
with his party.
There seems to be a very fatal
type of measles prevailing in the
western portion of Campbell county.
About ten days ago James A. Cook,
a prominent young farmer, aged
28 years, died from the effects of
them, and Friday Lacy Hataway,
an estimable young man, aged about
27 years, living in the same neigh¬
borhood, died from the same cause.
Mr. Hataway leaves a young bride.
A man in the coal region put a lit¬
tle dynamite in thecookstove to re¬
move clinkers. It removed them.
It also removed three chairs, one ta¬
ble, the family cat, a twenty-tour
hour clock, $4 dollars worth of dish¬
es, and the stove. The fact that the
man was likewise removed, in some
thing of a hurry, will be apt to pre¬
vent his mode of removing clinkers
becoming popular.
It is Sam Jones who says: “The
lullaby of my cradle lingers with
me today like the memory of a prec¬
ious dream.” But one thing we are
. the . ,
apt to forget is mother num bad ier o piec
ious dreams tbe to give
up to keep the luilably going.
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EEVS. SAM SCOTT AND W. D. HEATH.
These two news items are from
Sunday’s Constitution:
“The Presbytery then examined
Mr Sain Scott, a candidate for the
ministry, who is a graduate of Da¬
vidson college, North Carolina, and
who has recently returned from the
theological seminary at Columbia,
S. C. Mr. Scott passed a rigid ex
animation iu a most satisfactory
manner. He was assigned to preach
It is trial sermon at the Third
Presbyterian church Monday night.
Kev. W. D. Heath, of the Metho
dist church, having applied for ad¬
mission, presented-himself, and his
his case was referred to an ap¬
propriate committee. The commit¬
tee after considering the ease made
a report recommending that the ap¬
plicant be received in the usual way,
which report was sustained. The
applicant, Rev. W. D. Heath, was
then examined by being asked the
usual questions and was enrolled as
a member of the Atlanta presbyte¬
ry.”
Assemblyman Platt ofPougbkeep
sie, who has just retuned to Buffalo,
where he acted as chairman of the
special committee to investigate the
aldermen, returns with a piece of
news that settles the matrimonial
prospects of President Cleveland.
While in Buffalo he was shown a let
ter from Mrs. Folsom, in which she
referred to the approaching marriage
of her daughter to President Cleve¬
land. Mrs. Folsom and her daugh¬
ter are in Genoa, Italy, at present.
An Atlanta correspondent says
that General Gordon is certainly in
the gubernatorial race. Yes, and
lie’ll “get there, Eli.’—Jackson News.
A few days since an old man in
Washington presented himself at the
president’s house and said to the
doorkeeper: “I have waited thirty
years and have come from Michigan
to shake a democrat president by the
hand.” Shortly afterwards Mr.
Cleveland’s hand was shaken by two
hundred people, but the old man was
riot among the number.
Confidence is a plant of slow
growth in an aged bosom.
Kirby’s Dick Lyndon, lake last of Newton, week went fishing. to
While sitting on the bank tempting
the minnows with his baited hook, a
large snake seven feet long and big
in por port inn came rushing down on
the opposite side, plunged into the
water and made a bee line for the
fishing tackle, rearing his tall head
far above the water. Dick had no
time to say his prayers but made
hasty preparations for battle. Gath¬
ering a pile of sticks, he began to
hurl them at the horid monster,
which grew larger and larger as it
neared the hither shore. His snake
ship seemed to bear a charmed life,
for he artfully dodged every well
aimed missile, and finally retreated
unhurt.
A little girl, delighted with the
singing of the bobolink, asked her
mother: “What makes him sing so
sweetly? Does lie eat flowers?'’
In one particular we think the
democratic president should imitate
the example of his republican pred
ecessors. He should “turn the ras¬
cals out.”
If the discharge from the bladder
is light colored, and demands fre¬
quent attention, especially at night
you have reason to suspect an un¬
healthy condition of the Kidneys,
use Dr. J. H. McLenans Hornoeo
pliatic Liver and Kidney Balm. For
sale by Drs. Stewart and Lee. Jan
30, 3 m.
At a recent dinner party the sub
jeet of eternal life and future pun
ishment came up for discussion, in
which Mark Twain, who was present
took no part. A lady near him
turned suddenly toward him and ex¬
claimed: “Why do you opinion.” not say Twain any¬
thing? I want your
replied gravely: “Madame, you
must excuse me, I am silent of ne¬
cessity. I have friends in both
places.
Good Results*
D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper
dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn. writes,
that he was seriously afflicted with
a severe cold that settled on his lungs
had tried many remedies without
benefit Being induced to try Dr.
tionPdid King’s New Discovery for Consump-
80 an( l was entirely cured
by use of a few bottles. Since which
tune lie has used it in his family for
all Coughs and Colds with best re
suits. This is the experience of
thousands whose lives have been
saved by this Wonderful Discovery.
Trial Bottles free at W. H. Lee’s
Drug Store.
No. 14.
OEAZY I’EOM TBG0BLR
The ease at Atlanta of Mrs. Bar
ton, the chain gang convict’s wife,
has been an exceedingly pitiable one.
The lady is very fine looking and
well dressed, and of refined manner.
She gave an entertainment that
evinced theatrical talent, experience,
and versatility. She has devoted
herself with a touching devotion to
the worthless fellow. Shelias, when
able to do so, gone out daily to the
place where he, with the other con
victs, is working on Spring street, ill
the city, and carries him dinner and
talks with him. She is now show¬
ing decided symptoms of mental dis¬
turbance under her troubles, and
has been held in confinement in her
room and restrained from taking her
own life. The poor woman is entire¬
ly unhinged. In the last day or so
some gossip has been unkindly and
untruthfully spoken of her, which
has come to her ears, and this last
calamity has unbalanced her mind.
General Heard, of Washington.
Wilkes county, owns a chair which
has a history. It was brought to
America bv the Scotch colony in
1756. This colony settled near
ker’s Ferry, and had some special
privileges from the King of England.
They had a regular council cham¬ Used
ber, and this chair was the one
by the president of the council. It
is made of walnut, and it is very
large and strong, and very much re
sembtes the chairs at Independence
Hall at Philadelphia, which were
used by the signers of the Dcclara
lion of Independence.
An old lady who died recently in
London bequeathed to the doctor
who had attended her for the last
thirty five years a huge box contain¬
ing all the bottles of medicine lie had
ever sent her unopend. The doctor
cannot understand, for the life of
him, what caused her death.
Since the late floods the Oconee
river is full of fish.
There is no luck, but there is such
a thing as hard work and knowing
how to make it answer for what oth
ers call “luck.”
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, Ncn
ralgia and Nervous Pains, w hich im
mediately yield to its magic influ
ences. When used according to di
trecions it relaxes Contracted Mus¬
cles, renews elasticity in stiff joints
and shriveled limbs. For sale by
Drs. Stewart and Lee. 3 m.
If Johnson, the Nebraska despe
rado, had lived in the south, repub
licau papers would point him out as
an outgrowth of southern civiiiza
tion. The truth is, desperate men
are the products of no particular
clime. They are met wnth in every
land, and are loyal subjects of his
satanic majesty.
Two weeks ago a young daughter
of Jacob Nipcr, at Petersburg, N. J.,
walked a distance of two miles with
her parents, wearing new shoes and
red stockings. The shoes were tight
and greatly irritated her feet. began Three
days afterward her feet to
sw’ell, and three clays later still both
legs were swollen to nearly twice
their natural size and the girl’s
mind became affected. Thurday she
was attacked with spasms, which
continued for some time at intervals
of from five to ten minutes, She
died in great agony. Blood poison¬
ing, induced by the coloring matter
in the stockings, is supposed to have
caused death.
General Joseph E. Johnson, ex
Confederate, is seventy-eight years
of age. General Sheridan is but tif
ty four, though he looks older—be
ing much the youngest of the great
military generals on the Union side.
General Sherman is sixty-five, Han
cock sixty one, Buckner sixty-four,
Sickles sixty-three, Scofield fifty
four, and Wade Hampton seven. Ad¬
miral Porter is seventy-two, and Ad¬
miral Rowan seventy nine. If Gen¬
eral Robert E. Lee were alive he
would be nearly eighty, and “Stone¬
wall” Jackson sixty-one. Abraham
Licoln would be seventy six, and
Jefferson Davis seventy-seven.
Dr. J. H. McLean’s Celebrated
Catarrh Powder will cure Catarrh,
Cold in the Head, Ozena, and sores
up the nostrils. With this little in¬
vention -a bent glass tube—which
will be in every box hereafter, you
can blow the Catarrh Power up and
on the inflamed mneons membrane.
If you blow to hard and some of the
Powder goes down your throat, will
do no harm. For sale by Drs. Lee
and Stewart. 3 in.
JOB HlOkfi
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A WONDERFUL MAN.
People who find fault with fato
ought to learn a lesson from Mr.
George W. W. Stone, of Oxford.
When George Stone was a small boy
one of his eyes was put out by a
goat’s horn and the other eye went
out later through sympathy. Tho
blind boy received a four year’s
course at the academy for the blind,
and took a scientific coure at Oxford.
He then set out to make money. At
the academy for blind he had learn¬
ed the trade of broom making. He
started a broom factory and made a
success of it, taking the road and
acting as his own drummer. Later,
he invested in a farm. Last year lie
made “enough to do him” and sold
forty bales of cotton. His profits for
the year were a thousand dollars,
lie superintends his business, keeps
well informed in all current events,
asks nobody any odds on account of
his business, and is a valuable citi¬
zen in every way. He is a steward in
his church, and manages a flourish¬
ing Sunday school. Although not
yet thirty years dollars old, he is Worth mak- sev
et al thousand of his own
ing. He sets an example that many
more fortunate Georgians would do
well to follow.
Ordinary Dickson, of Rabun coun¬
ty, was awakened nl 12:30 o’clock
Wednesday morning by Jeptha Lit¬ N.
tleton, aged 82, and Mrs. R.
Thompson, aged 75, who came to bo
married. They were duly united.
An Americus lady, out fishing re¬
cently, heard a pig squealing near
the edge of a pond. On looking
around she saw that a targe turtle
had seized a pig, that was rooting
about in the edge of the water, by
the hind lag, and was trying to drag
it into the pond. She called to a gen
t Fern an, who went to the pig’s assis
tance, and the turtle was captured.
It weighed 48 pounds, and the flesh
was feasted on for several days.
In Cleveland, O.. a policeman has
been discharged for dozing on Had a
doorstep. Served him right.
he gone into the house and slept in
bed, as wise policemen always do, ho
would not have been caught nap
ping.
To all afflicted females. If you
are suffering from any of the diseases
peculiar to woman, Bradfield’s Fe¬
male Regulator will cure you. Try
it.
Send for our Treatise on“IIealth and
Happiness oftVoinan,” mailed free. ‘
Bradviki.d Regulator Co..
Atlanta, Ga*
Massachusetts boasts of a man
who has been married nearly fifty
years and lias never failed during
that time to get up and kindle the
kitchen fire in the morning. Why
don’t she boast of the woman who
made him doit?
He was a Dutch barber on a coro¬
ner’s jury, and after sitting quietly
for an hour during the inquest, arose,
peered into the face of the corpse,
and then, turning to the rest of the
jury, said: “Mein Gott, dot man ish
dead!”
It only cost9 a dollar now to get a
marriage license in Maryland. This
cheap style of marrying is a good
deal like a church fair, where it cost
ten cents to get in and everything
you’ve got to get out.
“Mr. James G. Blaine thinks of
painting his summer cottage at Bar
Harbor a pure white. This is the
nearest Janies will ever get to the
White House.” So thinks the New
Haven News.
There seems to be a great desire
in every community to erect monu¬
ments. The monument to the con
federate dead, to be erected in Mont
gomery, was preceded by one to
the memory of Ben Hill in Atlanta.
There is a movement now on foot in
Richmond to mark the spot on which
General Jeb Stuart was killed, by a
memorial shaft. The latest move¬
ments is that inaugurated in Mobile,
to commemorate the naval victories
of Raphael Semmes. Mr. Davis will
lend his presence to the movement
on his return from Atlanta.
End to Bone Scraping.
Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg,
Ill., says “Having received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel
it my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had a running sore
on my leg for eight years; my doc¬
tors told me I would have to have the
bone scraped or leg amputated. I
used instead, three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve, and my leg is now
sound and well.”
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty
cents a bottle, and Buck ten,s Arnica
Sale at 25c per box by W. H. Lee.