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TC-BIVEB DEBATING CLUB.
Fy [ iv met last Saturday
£ S °S discuss greater curse the subject, to hu
h is " the oV"whisky?” The club
iied oorderby William Chap
resident. Roll was called.
ad and opened approved. the debate
Affirmative T M Pool followed by
Lelson side, Ma
on the negative. deliv
Uting C speeches by the were members.
both sides fetor
Hsion was rendered »n
inegative. The subject debat
(weeks ago will meeting, be discussed as the
at the next make de
en t was unable to a
on the former discussion,
iubject is, “Resolved, that a
•tv qualification for voting is
jnd would give us a better gov
nt ;> The society then ao
d to meet today at Peachstone
PERSONALS. South
f Snelson’s school at
Udeniy [stone will picnic today at
Shoals. Editors Soi.id
and South river debating so
are respectfully invited.
[ fanners their are farm moving work. Many along
with terraced in this
i have been sec
bis year, work that should have
Bone years ago. and bringing
ton is coming Most up of
rass with it. us are
I Lars. for it.
Editors, I have two new
[libers for your paper. Every
likcs the Solid South. It is a
[me [ the visitor county to and nearly will every soon make fam
Ly [all into the every one, maker. I heard one He
[hen it a peace
his wife began to scold he
hand her the Solid South and
[wild (sing smile and say, isn’t this
to us.
I the prohibition election in
[on boiled county 1,596; last week 898 the “against total
was
hie" and 758 “for the sale”—
rity 80 against, and the result
[en so single declared, illegal without throw- The
uta vote.
jd shows in over Newton 700 illegal, county. de
|ng votes
iere to find the longest verse in
iible. It is found in the 8th
ker and 9th verse of the Book
fether, and contains 90 words
126 letters.
[n br thousand neighbors of the of greatest less faults
are conse
p to us than one of the small
I ourselves.
bnan who was seen coming out
fi’exas newspaper office with his
split open, one oif, eye gouged out
pneear chawed explained to
[olieeman that he was not a sub
ler to the paper~he had simply
ted die office to ascertain if the
r was in. “And he was in.” ’
ournfully added,
itlier Ryan, the poet priest, is
• To him was given the inspi
nto embalm in verse “The Con¬
ed Banner,” enshrining in sen
et the emblem for which brave
had shed their blood. As long
e “stars and bars” tell their sto
n history, so long will live the
- ot the one confederate poet
oite.—Constitution.
he lady who tapped her hus
gently with a fan at a party the
r night, and said; “Love, it’s
fuig late, I think we had better
iome, is the same one who af
getting under home shook the rolling
his nose and said,: “you
mal oid scoundrel you, if you
eok at that mean, nasty,
10 face( T mackerel-eyed thiu°
J-ou looked at to night, I’ll bust
r “ead wide open.”
'unge.ist Moody says that his
f.tion '§ man 18 13 he his could "-av. Before he
do as much
m two weeks as he can in
fi*** 1% now
i is a feet that the
i reSU I x ts foll owing the
acted by meet
c our great evange
Un overe 8t>mated. Com
g on the stateD ent that 4,000
. .
chra <£ ll® tde Cincinnati
" result of Sam tones’
“ n B ! the Herald and Prea
f would be a large
hvteH t L° 8e Who i° ine<i the
77 “ churches tlle ^ > and diligent
1 to show a P t * st pastors
uv iSStSi-S i ? V p more than fifteen or
^hl £V that Staying
8 r 1 tora f e a
'I thave that riiff: mei wJn w 0 e 8tj , avealwaj »y out at ' 8
6 d,fficnlt , y in finding the
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Vol. 4.
A LITTLE BIT POLITICAL
Gen. Gordon has not, as yet, an
nounced his intention formally of
entering the race for governor. His
long looked for letter, so much fear¬
ed bv enemies, will be given to the
country some time during May, so
it is said. That is all his friends
want to fill them with the w ildest
enthusiasm. It will also have a de
pressing effect on his political ene¬
mies, but, to be sure, they are very
few, and not to be feared.
Coffee county has instructed dele
gates to the gubernatorial convention
for Bacon. Chalton county, on the
other hand, has instructed dele¬
gates for Simmons. Thus the mat¬
ter stands. Wouldn’t it bean easy
matter for General Gordon to run in
as matters now exist? Bacon and
Simmons, it will be observed, are
dividing each others strength. Ba¬
con will do exceedingly well to con
trol one half the vote in the state
convention be did two years ago. So,
if one wishes to be on the winning
side, he will do well to steer clear
of either Bacon of Simmons.
It seems that ex President Arthur
began to improve as soon he as his
friends quit claiming that was
suffering from over work.
A leading republican paper feels
gratified that Blaine is not jealous
of Black Jack Logan. It does not
venture to guess what Logan’s emo¬
tion towards Blaine are.
Gordon or some other man will be
our next governor, besides the two
Bibb county candidates. Mark the
prediction.
Although the gubernatorial can
vass has been going on for over a
year in this state, it seems that it is
only about to begin. There is not
the least occasion, however, for ex¬
citement on the subject. Let every¬
body keep cool, and if they can’t
keep altogether cool, let them keep as
cool as they can.
Mr. B. M. Blackburn, of the Madi¬
sonian, nominated for the Madison
postoftice, is experiencing some
trouble in the senate. It is said
that several of Blackburn’s caustic
editorials have been used in the ex¬
ecutive session to prove that he is
an “offensive partisan.”
Nothing can exceed the brass and
gall of a man who names himself as
the one person best fitted to be sent
to congress. Compared to such a
man the champion prize fighter is
modesty itself.
The democrats of Louisville, Kj\,
are red hot over the re appointment
of Mrs. Thompson as postmaster—
she beiug a republican.
Senator Colquitt made a speech
before the Maryland Temperance Al¬
liance on last Tuesday, and was fol¬
lowed by Sirs. Mary D. Lathrop,
who commenced by saying that “if
we could fill Congress with such men
as Senator Colqutt, God Almighty
would have some show ih this coun¬
try.”
Mr. William Walter Phelps, just
returned to Washington from Maine,
declares enthusiastically that noth
ing can prevent Mr. Blaine’s nomi¬
nation bv the republican convention
'
of 1888.
If Attorney Ceneral Garland
should resign his position in Presi¬
dent Cleveland’s cabinet, we would
like to see Hon. N. J. Hammond
made bis successor.—Covington
Star.
President Cleveland has oblitera
ted the color line in the army by ap¬
pointing Rev. Allen Allenworth, of
Ohio, a colored preacher, Chaplain
of the Twenty Fourth United States
Infantry. It is true that this regi¬
ment is composed of ‘colored troops,”
but all the officers are white. Lieu¬
tenant Flipper, of Atlanta, graduated
from West Point into the army, which
he was subsequently dismissed, so
that Chaplain Allensworth is the
first negro to be directly put into the
army by presidential appointment.
He was recommended by Senator
Brown, of Georgia.
True to her traditions, Tammany
Hall has declared open war on the
president She failed to defeat Mr.
Cleveland at the election, and now
seeks revenge by making war on his
methods.
When some politicians are weigh¬
ed they are found wanting—every
office in which there is a vacancy.
It is now positively stated that ex
President Arthur is in a dying con¬
dition and cannot live many days
longer. He has the fatal Brights steadi¬
disease. He has been sinking
ly tor a month, and is now in a con¬
dition beyohd hope.
The old home of Grier, the alma¬
nac man, is near Sharon, Wilkes
county.
I . fpfir TVS
E i A i ■z i * i m
••
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, MAY 1, 1886.
A PHILOSOPHER.
He Reasons Powerfully and Impressively
with a dying Creditor.
A merchant wrote as follows to an
Arkansas man: “I am on my death
bed and would like to have the mon
ey you owe me. My physician says
that I can live but a few davs long¬
er.”
The Arkansas man replied as fol- . ,
lows: “I received your letter a few
days ago and I expect you will be
dead by the time you recieve this.
If not, J beg your pardon for not
sending the money. My experience
teaches me that a dying f b man does
need . T If , I dj v • it • i
not ^ money. were )n „
0
wouldn’t make any difference to me
whether I had ten dollars or was in
debt. I have never been dying, you
understand and can not speak ‘ from
. but t T I who . „„„ can
experience, am „ a „ man
forecast things pretty well and
therefore do not sneoh m . hop-hnn
ard way. Some fellow, I ha\e foi
gotton who, said that a dying man
can do nothing well. Perhaps you
know more about this than I do, but
.How me to.., that a d.iog ,i.
a mighty poor bill collector. If I
were sent out to find an efficient bill
collector, I would never select a dy
ing man, no matter what his stand
ing in the community might be. Let
me see, I have owed you for some
time. I regret this very igjes much but
<wt suppose tha, I itauy
deeper than you do. If i had paid
you I would not now owe you any
toing. At first this may not stilike
you as the truth but mature reflec
tion has taught me that is a fact.
At one time after receiving the
last letter which I shall doubtless cv
er get from you, 1 thought I would
immediately forward the amount
which I owe you, but then I thought
that you would be dead and would
Dever know it. When ldo a man a
favor I want him to know it. In
gratitude is one of the roots of ail
evil. 1 would rather pay a man ten
cents and impress him with the fact
than to pay him ten dollars and
know he would ever remain in igno
ranee of the fact; therefore I hope
that you will understand my posi
tion. But what is the use of all this?
You may be dead by the time this
reaches you, in which event you
would never give me credit for all
these expressions of sympathy.
As J previously remarked, a dying
man has no need for money. Mate
rial things are of but little use to
him. Well, I must close. If you
are not dead when you receive this
please let me know and I will write
you another letter.—Arkansas Irav
eler.
The Dawson Manufacturing Com¬
pany is now making a lot of walking
canes of old plank and post taken
from the stockade at Andersonville )
They are shipped North, where they
find ready sale at from $2 to $3 each,
as relics of “the late unpleasant¬
ness.”
Rabid dogs continue to attack
children in different parts of the
country. The dog nuisance is get
ting to be unbearable in some sec
tions.
Do you want . to presene your
health? lo bring health and hap
piness to suffering women, is the
mission ot Bradfield s Female Regu
lator. Try it and you will be con
vinced.
Send for our Treatise on“nealth and
Happiness ofWoman,” mailed free.
JBradfiei.d Regulator Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
The Atlanta Constitution printed
a learned editorial on “when girls
ought to marry,” to which the Mad
isonian, a married man, replies:
“After reading it we think girls
should marry when they are old
enough, feel competent to make their
° willing fore¬
husbands happy, are to
go every external privilege make him she
happy and can find a man that
knows will make her happy and
provide for every cohufort, and can
get her parents consent to the mar
riage.”
Not long ago, as an elderly couple
were out walking, a lady on the op
posite side of the street slipped and
fell down. TMie old gentleman rush¬
ed across the street, raised his hat,
and offered to assist her in any pos
sible way. His wife followed him
across at a slow pace, and witnessing
his devotion to the Stranger, shook
her fist at him. “It’s all right—it’s
all right?” he whispered. “Yes, I
know °it is?” she exclaimed, hotly,
“Herc’s an unknown woman hurts
her toe, and you plow across the
street to eat her up with kindness,
The other day when I fell down-stairs,
you stood and laughed, and wanted,
to know if I was practicing fora
9
THE CONQUERED BANNER
Furl that Banner, for ’tie weary,
Round its staff ’tie drooping dreary:
Furl it, fold it,—it is best;
For there’s not a hand to wave it,
And there’s not a sword to save if,
And there's not one left to lave it
I” the blood which heroes gave it.
And its foes now scorn and brave it;
Furl it. hide it,—let it rest 1
Take that Banner down! ’tis tattered;
Broken is its staff and shattered,
^,,(1 ji IC valiant hosts are scattered
Over whom it floated high
Oh, ’tis hard for us to fold it,
Hard to think there’s none to hold it,
Hard that those who once unrolled it
Now must furl it with a sigli!
Banner--turl . sadly;
Furl that it
Once ten thousands hailed it madly, gladly,
^nd ter. thousands wildly,
Swore it should forever wave—
Swore that foeman’s swords could never
Hearts like theirs entwined dissever,
And that flag should float forever
O’er their freedom or their grave I
Furl it!—for the hands that grasped it,
And
And While the Danner—it is trailing, wailing
around it sounds the
For Of its people conquered, in their woe; they adore it
ICp'lLVSiiSoSi though they ‘bT’iT;
1 *’
pardon those who trailed and tore it;
And oh, wildly they deplore it,
Now to furl and fold it so!
Furl that Banner! True ’tis gory,
Yet ’tis wreathed around with glory,
And’twill live in song and story
Though its folds are in the dust!
.
g 0 sounding down the ages—
Furl its folds though now vve must!
p u ,.j Banner, softly slowly,
Treat it For gently—it it droopes is holy, above the dead;
Touch it not—unfold it never;
Let U flld.
—Abkam J. Ryax.
Clnrke Superior Court adjourned
Saturdajq after a session of two
weeks. The grand jury adjourned,
Friday, and the most noticeable part
of their work was finding true bills
against several parties in the city
for selling liquor on the si} 1 —eleven
against one firm, six against anoth
er, and three against another. The}'
recommend that the cases be tried
before the Superior court instead of
the city court.
A turkey was killed and eaten in
™arrea county . a , few weeks , since
that was setting at the time of Sher¬
man’s raid through Georgia in
1864.
A little son of Mr. Turk, of Monroe
coun t v ,has pelted andtamed a mouse
so thoroughly that it lets him place
i 1(li ncss 0 n it and hitch it to a wagon
i >e> tli oi Ihe boys construction and
drive it about at will. We remem
ber to have seen in Peale’s museum
when a medical student in Phila
delphia, a louse ha' ncssed to a chaise
and made to pull it. The entire
movement could he seen only by t he
aid of a magnifying glass. Possibly
some may not believe this, nor would
we if we had not seen it.—Madison
ian.
A colored beau of Hartwell got a
young white gentleman to write a
letter from him to the object of his
adoration, a dusky damsel in a
neighboring town. Inadverently he
s j^. ne( j uis own name to the tender
miss iye instead ofthe colored beau’s,
(j ou ut the young lady is elated
ovcr unexpected mash she has
mac j e) an fl w ill respond favorably to
the overtures of Cupid.
A new proverb says. “A restless
mind like a rolling stone gathers no
moss.” That’s all right. Moss is
no ^ w hat a restless mind is after. It is
usually fame and shekels, which are
generally worth much more than
moss.
George Washington has been ap
pointed . , , to . a Michigan . . posanaster- . .
ship. Republics are not altogether
ungrateful after all.
There appears to be an uneasy
f ee ling about Atlanta because Broth
er j^iton maintains an ominous
8 i]ence concerning gubernatorial af
fairs. The people should feel grate
ful when the doughty doctor main
tains any kind of silence.
Miraculous Escape.
W. W. Reed, druggest, ofWincbes
ter, Ind., writes: “One of my cus
tomers, Mrs. Louisa Pike, Bartonia,
Randolph Co., Ind., was a long suf
ferer with Consumption, and was giv
en up to die by her physicians
She heard of Dr, King’s New Discov
ery for consumption, and began btiy
ing it of me. In six months’ time
she walked to this city, a much distance
of six miles, and is now so im
proved she has quit using it. She
feels she owes her life to it.”
Free Trial Bottle at Dr. W. H. Lee's
No. 15.
WHAT AN OLD FARMER SAYS,
This is the advice ot an old man
who has tilled the soil lor fifty
years: old upwards of
I am an man,
three score years, during two of
which T have been a tiller ofthe soil.
I cannot say I am now, but I have
been rich; and still have all I need,
do not owe a dollar, have given my
children a good education, and when
I am called away will leave them
enough to keep the wolf from the
door.—My experience has taught me
that:
1. One acre of land well prepared
and well cultivated produces more
than two, which receives only
the same amount of labor used on
one.
2. One cow, hog, horse, mule or
sheep well fed, is more profitable
than two kept on the same amount
necessary to keep one well.
3. One acre of clover or grass is
worth more than two of cotton where
no grass or clover is raised.
4. No farmer w ho buys oats, com
or wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule,
for ten years, can keep the sheritt'
from the door in the end.
5. The farmer who never reads the
newspapers and sneers at book farm
ing and improvements, always has
a leaky roof, poor stock, broken
down fences and complains of bad
“seasons.”
6. The farmer who is above his
business and entrusts it to another
to manage, soon has no business to
attend to.
7. The farmer whose habitual bev¬
erage is cold water is healthier,
wealthier and wiser than he who
does not refuse to drink.
The evidences that the president is
to be married in June to Miss Fol¬
som accumulate. A Buffalo corres¬
pondent of the New York Times says
that he has it from Col. J. B, Folsom,
of Folsomdale, Miss Folsom’s grand¬ take
father, that the marriage will
place in June. Miss Folsom is now
buying her trousseau in Europe, her
grandfather having furnished her
with the means. Col. Folsom made
the further remark that he gave his
grand daughter $1,600 when she
went away, and that he had just sent
$600 more, to be used in buying the
trousseau.
There is much dissatisfaction
among Griffin merchants that the
contracts for the Georgia Midland
should be given to convicts instead
of free labor.
Betting and boycotting are the
lastarguments in favor of a feeble and
dismal cause.
Sam Jones has a tour laid out
which runs through October and
takes him to Maryland, Indiana,
Michigan, New York, Missouri, Ohio
and Canada.
W. W. Jackson, who moved from
Henry county to Pineapple, Ala., 20
years . ago, is on a a visit to his pld
home for the first time in about eigh¬
teen years. Air. Jackson formerly
owned nearly the entire site upon
which Hampton now stands. At
the time he left it was known as
Bear Creek and the town consisted
of about two houses and an old box
car used for a depot.
There’s nothing like having a
good wife around—when a man has
no mind of his own, his wife is apt
to give him a piece of hers.
“I guess, sister, you needn’t both¬
er about having the parlor swept out
to day,” was the remark of a Ma¬
con j’outh as he started to school.
“What on earth do you mean,
George?” “Well, I heard father
tell mother that ii that young man
of yours came to night he’d wipe
the floor with him.”
A little girl heard some one re¬
mark that her mamma and auntie
were the pillars of their church,
when the small woman gravely said: pil¬
If mamma and auntie are the
lows, papa and uncle must be the
bolsters.”
The annual meeting of the Ameri
can Medical Association will be
held in St. Louis, beginning May 4
and lasting four days. The object
of the meeting of the medical men
is to discuss the methods of treat¬
ment of diseases, the prolongation of
life, and give to the profession in
general anyknowledge that they may
possess individually.
Gross ignorance prodnccs 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
believes that what he is saying can
be unknown to others, and conse¬
quently speaks with more hesita
lion.
JOB CIORLJ
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ifiattcr.
SLIGHTLY FRIGHTENED,
Tuesday night a young man was
walking around in the cemetery
at Americus and as he was going
toward the gate lie saw a light
which he thought was a lamp, about
100 yards off in another part of the
cemetery. He started toward it to
investigate, thinking he would see a
ghost. He says that he had not ta¬
ken half a dozen steps when the
light flashed lip right at him ns big
as a house and then went out. So
did he, so badly seared that he could
not find the gate, but went over the
high fence without touching it, and
lie didn't think a telegram could run
the wires faster than he made tracks
for home. He believes in ghosts
now for lie has seen one.
The thousands of friends of Ma¬
jor .John W. Green, of the Georgia
Railroad, will join in sympathy with
him in the death of his venerable
mother.
“You never saw my hands as dir¬
ty as yours,” ‘No said a mother to did,” her
little girl. but your ma
was the prompt reply.
In the First Baptist church of
Columbus, Ga., last Sunday, two
violins were played as an addition to
the music of the organ. We may
soon have a repetition of the nn
nouneciDeint of the old fogy preach¬
er in a Pennsylvania town, who, when
instrumental music was first intro¬
duced in his church gave out, “We
will now fiddle and sing the 49th
hymn.”
Dr. P, Fret well and wife, of Flori¬
da, have been visiting relatives in
Midway during the week.—Coving¬
ton Star.
Ambition is never satisfied. From
one success spring a thousand new
designs. Gratification only intensi¬
fies desire. Like the eagle’s flight to¬
ward the morning sun, lights, for a
moment on the mountain top, only
to soar to greater heights, so ambi
tion, after one achievement, pauses
only for an instant before attempt¬
ing greater conquests. For an am¬
bitious man there is no repose this
side of the tomb.—Hartwell Sun.
The Barnesville Democrat, the
recognized organ that of the anti-prohibi¬
tion party in section, gets of
the following: “A. A. Lemon is the
ordinary, and N. A. Glass is the
sheriff, of Henry county. Now, if
you squeeze A. Lemon N. A. Glass,
and add a little sugar and water, the
compound will be highly apprecia¬
ted in a dry county.”
At Oglethorpe court last week Joe
McWhorter served on the grand and
petit juries both on the same day, a
thing that has never before been
known in that county. The grand
jury lacked one man on their body,
and Mr. McWhorter was appointed
by Judge Lumpkin to fill the vacan¬
cy. Alter he had discharged the
duties of his office he was summoned
by the sheriff as a petit juror, thus
serving on both juries the same day.
Clarke county has on hand $18,-
369 44. The grand jury says: The
operation of the prohibition is a sub¬
ject prominently before the people
and we wish to bear testimony to
the beneficial effect of the law in
this county. The dockets of our
courts number show a of remarkable falling off
in the cases of crimes and
misdemeanors traceable to the use
of liquor, and the observation of this
body corroborates this evidence in
the improvement of peace and or¬
der, of the community. We have
found a number of bills for violation
of this law, but hope and believe
that a strict enforcement of the same
now will discourage future viola¬
tions, and that soon the courts and
juries will have no busines before
them arising from either the use or
sale of liquors.
The local paper in Bullock county
gives a list of th'irty two families in
that county which contain 376 chil¬
dren. Not one of these families have
less than ten living children while
one has twenty two living lesponsi
bilities. It is not to be wondered at
that Bullock is such a populous conn with
ty, and that the children, along
houses and lands inherit their fath¬
er’s democratic proclivities.
A petition has been handed th«
grand jury of Clarke county, numer¬
ously signed, asking that this body
permit the use of the county con¬
victs to work the highways and so
change them as to avoid the hills.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Watterson
have gone home from Old Point Com¬
fort to pack their baggagee for their
European tour. They will sail on
May 12th.