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E this section daugnter of the of Judge State.
Hed Cartersvilie, a and leaves
i ’ oT children. The gen
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session is that was
ensiis statistics indicate that
tij jj C in 1880 caused the wage
of this country a direct loss
DO,000 in wages,
minent farmer of Hart conn
r knew until last week that
icoln was dead.
• who is too puny to draw a
nf water can turn over an acre
id looking for eel worms.
t argue with a fool or listeners
r there is a pair of you.
ral Toombs’ estate will go
md what has been reported,
inent lawyer of Washington
will reach two hundred and
jusand dollars.
or A. H. Colquitt is very
i ; ntly mentioned for presi
Sa the prohibition ticket. He
tave a strong following north
[itli, [ but would be unable to
the rote of a single state.
(end of ours the in an Solid outburst South of
ss refers to
white winged messenger of
Nothing could be more
ill or correct. What do yon
limit it?
Malone was given four years
Scorgin penitentiary at Atlan¬
ta! reday as a punishment for
ault upon England several
ago.
Ikinsville’s brass hand has
Ingaged to play in Grant’s
Rllanta, for a season of sixteen
■for$200 a week. The band is
ied of twelve members.
le i9 no habit so fruitful of
I as that of evil speaking. It
fcfls friend), makes hitter en
I and destroys social inter
[. ■evil There of their are some best friends who would for
jere L It is pleasure sign of indulging of in
a true a corrupt,
Inerate jo heart, and if those who
I freely in the habit do not
I they will find the pearly gates
[ortal against them, when they leave
sphere.
pat led himself John B. Gordon candidate has an
as a for
imueratic nomination for Gov
pf knts Georgia. the best and General Gordon
felement most progres
in southern politics,
fervicos in the senate and his
|l influence in restoring harmo
tween the sections make him
f of any office in the gift of the
t of his State.—New York Star,
old soldier at Acworth wants
[signing w ^t all his this fuss about Gor
seat amounts to?
ts “Didn’t Bacon resign the
antcy during of the ninth Georgia reg
the war to get a soft
1D the quarter master’s depart
gentleman tells the following
mve e ^wood thing about Columbus :
lw jers stood Colquitt campaign
and five for twenty-nine Colquitt tor
polled this Thev
week and stood
.two for Gordon, six or seven
>mmittal and five for Bacon,
ntleman added: “Gordon has
- united the leaders of
1D gs of the party’ on him
U >‘<1 and does not look like
an
Wim P h,m resent il his malady is
Stan is P robab b’ a
W a- disease, and, while
a to¬
«br,S i ^h r ,ir.. port for
h-ntf t *' ap,cter is like a fence
[ DOt stren gthen it by white
^tkmamiieand a -JiS*
mSY' Scotchmen,
ay. b< Juse of commons
; SfffilP
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Yol. 4.
STIMULANTS.
There is a time when the pulse
lies low in the bosom, and beats low
in the veins; when the spirit sleeps
the sleep which apparently knows
no waking-—Sleeps in its home of
clay, and the windows are shut, the
doors hung with the invisible crape
of melancholy—when we wish the
sunshine pitchy darkness, clouds and wish
to fancy clouds where no be.
This is a state of sickness when
physic may be thrown to the dogs,
for we want none of it. What shall
raise the spirit? What shall make
the heart beat music again and the
pulse throb through all the myriad
thronged halls in the house of life?
What shall make the sun kiss the
eastern hills again for us with all
his old G the
night and
flowers? Love itself is the greatest
stimulant—the most intoxica
ting of all, and performs all these,
and is a miracle still, and it is not
at the drugstore, whatever they
say. The counterfeit is in the mar
ket, but the winged god is no mon¬
ey changer, we assure you. things, hut
Men have had many
still ask stimulant.
Men try to bury the floatingdead
of their own souls in the wine cup,
but the corpse rises. We see their
faces in the bubbles. The intoxica¬
tion of drink sets the world whirling
again and the pulses to playing mu¬
sic, and the thoughts galloping, but
the clock runs down sooner, and an
unnatural stimulant only leaves the
house it filled with the wildest rev¬
elry. more silent, more sad, and more
deserted.
There is only one stimulant that
never i n tox i cates— duty. Duty
puts a clear sky over every man, in
to which the sky lark of happiness
always goes singing.—Prentice.
An illiterate fool who married a
rich wife and obtained a foothold,
asked a discreet friend how he
should conduct himself. He was
advised to wear a black coat and
hold his tongue. He did so and
people pronounced him a Solomon
and a Chesterfield.
Editor Blackburn of Madison is
threatened with the loss of his posi¬
tion as postmaster, because lie had
expressed some very clear and just
opinions of republican senators. If
defeated, Editor Blackburn will fall
in a good cause, nevertheless we
should like to see him confirmed.
The talk about Fred Douglass or
ganizing a movement to induce the
negroes to settle in the Northern and
Western states does not disturb the
south. The colored brother will not
leave a section ot the country where
the watermelon crop never fails and
the possum is always on deck.
Words are the daughters of the
mind but actions are the sons of the
soul.
Dr. Felton’s acceptance of an or
ganized nomination would be a sight
for the gods.
General Gordon has received a
letter signed by a hundred of the
best citizens of Newton county ask
ing him to come there and make a
speech. He will do so sometime
during the campaign if possible.
“Kill grass while the sun shines”
is a good motto for Georgia farmers,
no matter who may he a candidate
for governor of the state.
Every man in this country would
he a millionaire if he w’ould work with
half the energy that'his wife does
when she starts out to catch a flea.
When the poet sang of something
that was “strong without hands,” he
probably referred to “so called” fresh
• butter.
All men are iets, though bin
few can voice th melodies which
are bom in them.
The baker is the only loafer enti¬
tled to respect.
If you cannot lick a man be leni
ent with his faults.
The grand jury of Jefferson county
counted noses, and nineteen were
for Gordon, one for Bacon, one for
Lester and one for Simmons. Poll
all the votes of the state and the re¬
sult will be maintained.
Bob Washington, an old negro
man well known in Burke county, at¬
tempted to commit suicide Thursday
by drowning in the McIntosh. He
fastened a chain around his neck,
and was on Bis way to the pond in
McIntosh stream, jnst below the rail¬
road culvert, when his friends dis¬
covering his intention, followed him
and persuaded him to desist. He
gave as his reason for the attempt
domestic troubles. He says his
wife “deviled him to death.”
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, MAY 22, 1886.
THE DYING HUSBAND’S CRY.
“In the year 1861.’’ says the New
nan Herald, “when the troops were
volunteering for the war, a married
man living in Coweta county, having
a wife and four children, enlisted to
the arm}' as private soldier. At the
battle of Missionary Ridge, near
Lookout mountain in Tennessee, he
received a box of supplies and a suit
of clothes, which his wife had sent
him. He put on the suit, but re¬
marked to his comrades that it was
the last suit he would ever put on
as he would be killed to morrow.
His companions who heard this
strange prediction, told him if lie
felt so he should not go into the
fight, but remain back. This he
refused to do, stating that an officer
should lead his men w henever duty
called them. Next morning, at the
head of his company, he entered the
fight and about noon a bullet from
the enemy hit him in the stomach,
killing him almost instantly.
In his last moments, while a fel¬
low comrade held his head in his
lap, he cried aloud, “My poor wife
and four little children, what will
become of them!” and then expired.
On that day about noon his wife
was startled by the cry of “My poor
wife and four little children.” The
voice seemed so familiar to her and
so certain was she that it was her
husband that she rushed to the door
to meet him. Failing to
find him, she went around the house
rnd looked for him, and then went
to one of her neighbors to inquire if
they had seen her husband. On the
next day after this she received a
letter from the soldier, who was with
her husband in his dying moments,
relating to her the last words that
he uttered, which as she now claims
was the very words she heard.
Green plumbs, aj pies and salt are
in great demand among the pretty
girls.
Bruce, the negro, will attempt to
represent Mississippi again in Con¬
gress.
Clarke county has three times as
many democratic voters as Lee.
Therefore fortyonc men in Clarke’s
little hasty primary, and 141 in Lee’s.
Gordon can ied Lee. Wherever the
people speak, Gordon gets the dele¬
gates.
A Michigan man, by feeding a
tramp, found a long lost brother of
his wife. We suppose this ought to
be taken as a solemn warning against
something or other, because he has
had to keep on feeding him ever
since.
A blizzard and a mad woman are
apt to catch a man by the ears.
Tbe selfish man has most pres
ence of mind. He never forgets him¬
self.
Willis Goodwin is a candidate for
sheriff of Henry county’.
Gen. John B. Gordon has accepted
an invitation from Prof. Lambdin to
deliver the commencement address
at Gordon Institute at Barnesvilie.
Many’ leading republicans now de¬
clare that the nomination ol Blaine
is a foregone conclusion. It may be
said that his defeat is a foregone
conclusion also.
Dan Tucker, in the neighborhood
of Tison, Tattnall county, was fatal
ly stabbed by his mother-in-law on
May 10.
The crop report for May of the
Georgia Department of Agriculture
is at hand. The acreage of corn is
reported above the average except
in southeast Georgia, and it is stated
this is due to the fact that much
laud on which the oats were killed
by’ frost was planted in corn. The
condition of the corn crop is fair be¬
ing about 94 per cent. The acre¬
age in oats shows a reduction of
nearly 25 per cent, while the pros¬
pect for a crop is not at all flatter¬
ing. Unfavorable reports about the
wheat crop come from nearly every
section of the state. About the av¬
erage acreage in cotton is reported,
and the conditon and prospects of
the crop are good.
It is reported that many dead fish
are seen floating in the waters of Lit¬
tle river. One gentleman says the
numerous quantities of guano de
nosited in the fields along this stream
has been washed into the river by
the heavy rains of the past and has
poisoned the waters of the river.
When a man dies suddenly, “with¬
out the aid of a physician,” If the cor
oner must be called in. a man
dies regularly, after being treated
by a doctor, everybody knows why
he died, and the coroner’s inquest is
not necessary.
In 1880 there was a bloody fijfiit
between moonshiners and revenue
men at Red Oak, Cambell county,
this state. In the light an officer
named Jones was killed, George
Ratteroe was shot and several wound¬
ed. It was one of the ugliest fights
ever known between the moonshin¬
ers and revenue men, and at the
time it caused a considerable sensa¬
tion. Willis Cook, a mconshiner,
was in the fight, hut managed to
evade arrest, and skipped out for the
west, where he remained until a few
weeks ago when he ventured back
to this state, and upon finding the
coast clear lie returned to his home
near Red Oak. Deputy Marshal Me
Donald heard of Cook’s presence in
the neighborhood, and on Friday
he went out and captured Cook.
At a debating club in and adjoin¬
ing county the question was discuss
pd whether there was more happiness
in the possession or pursuit of an
object. “Mr. President,” said a
young orator “suppose I was court¬
in’ a gal, and she was to run away
and I was to run after her, wouldn’t
I he happier when I cotched her
than when I was running after
her?”
Col. James H. Guerry has an¬
nounced himself for congress from
the second district. Mr. H. G. Turn¬
er is the presentable representative.
“Well, I’ll he hound,” as the man
remarked when lie heard quoted the
lines, “Chains of gold are fetters
still.”
The reason why Samson retains
the cfcrdit of being the strongest man
that ever lived is because he died be¬
fore Limburger cheese was born.
Since the marriage license law went
into effect in Pennsylvania the 17
year old girl who wants to wed puts
on a big hustle to make people believe
she is over 18.
Primary' elections are “a Pando
ra’s box” in tiie eyes of the Bacon
newspapers. But the people would
be glad to open this box. All they
want is to be allowed an opportunity
to express their choice.
A whiskey war is going on at
Oglethorpe. One glass of calamity
water and two glasses of beer can be
had for a nick.
“I know that she was well dress¬
ed,” said Dr. Johnson, ifa speaking
of a lady, “for I do Dot remember
what she had on,”
It is now fashionable to name pat¬
ent medicines after the saints.
This is because the saints soon get
those who take them.
At a whale exhibition, a young¬
ster asked his mamma if the whale
that swallowed Jonah had as large
a mouth as the one before them why
didn’t Jonah walk out at one corn¬
er. “You must think Jonah was a
fool; he didn’t want to walk out and
get drowned,” was the quick reply
of a younger brother, before the
mother could answer.
The negro wife of Parsons, thedy’
namite fiend, seems to he playing a
conspicuous part in Chicago. One
day’ she writes a letter to the press
defending the murderers, and the
next day she is interviewed by re¬
porters. In the interview she says
there are two or three thousand dy¬
namite bombs hid out in Chicago,
and that terrible things will happen
some of these days.
A y’oung lady who graduated from
a high school last July is teaching
school np in New Hampshire. A
bashful young gentleman visited the
school the other day, and was ask¬
ed by the teacher to say a few words
to the pupils. This was his speech:
“Scholars, I hope you will always
love your teacher and your school
as much as I do.” Tableau—gig
ling boys and girls and a blushing
schoolma’am.
A gentleman somewhat advanced
in life, and who was never remarka¬
ble for his good looks, asked his
grandchild what he thought of him.
The boy’s parents were present.
The youngster made no reply.
“Well, why won’t you tell me what
you think?” “’Cause I don’t want to
get licked,” was the answer.
An English editor headed a long
article “Our Mammouth Fleet.”
The compositor left the “L” out.
When the paper appeared the quill
driver solemnly swore he would nev¬
er import another American print
er.
The Chicago anarchists have gain¬
ed much notoriety, but all together
they have not done as much damage
to the city as did the single historic
protest of the right hind foot of Mrs.
O’Leary’s cow.
No. 18.
F IEST AND SECOND LOVE.
“Am I your only and first love,”
asked a bright-eyed girl, as she re
dined her classically moulder brow
upon the shoulder of her lover.
“No, Leila, you are not my only
nor my first love—I have loved an¬
other. Long years before I saw you
I loved another, and I love that other
still.”
“Love that other still—-and better
than me! Paul, why do you tell me
that?” said she raising her dark
blue eyes and gazing steadily in
those of her lover, half in astonish*
ment and half in sorrow, while her
jeweled fingers tightened convulsive¬
ly on his arm.
“You asked me, Leila, and I an
swered you with sincerity—you
would not have me decieve you,
would you?’
“You love her still, then?”
“I love her still.”
“And better than you do me?”
“No better, hut as well.”
“And will love her still?”
“Until death and even after death
—over her last resting place I will
strew spring’s earliest flowers, and
bedew the spot with the purest tears
that love ever shed.”
“Handsomer than I is she not?”
“Her eyes are as hlack as night,
and her hair in glossy blackness out¬
lives the raven. She hasn’t your
sweet blue eyes, your soft brown
hair; yet, oh Leila! her eyes have
been the sweetest eyes to me that
ever looked the look of eternal love.”
“Paul, why do you wish to break
my heart? Wtiy have you taught
me to love you so wildly—so blind¬
ly'—and then in the midst of my
happiness tell me that thee is an
impassable harrier between us?
This night. Paul, we must part lor
ever! I would not have believed this
had another told me,” as her eyes
grew dim with tears.
“Be not too rash, Leila hear me
to the end; you love me too dearly
to part with me thus! Think you
that you could not shave iny heart
with one I so dearly love?”
“Never, Paul, never!”
“You shall, Leila, and must!
Listen for a moment while I tell you
of my first love, and I am sure you
will be willing to share it with her
then.”
“I will lisfen, Paul, but will not
share your love; I must have it all
or none; I am selfish in that respect
—and who that loves as I do is not?
Forget me Paul or forget her forev¬
er!”
“Forget her Leila! Never! I
would not loose one jot of her pu*e
affection for the fairest face that ever
bloomed; no not for the girdle of Ve¬
nus or for the love of a second Hel¬
en.”
“Then Paul you are lost to me
forever; we must part. Farewell to
our every’dream of a brighter future.
I love you well, and am too proud to
share your love with aught created.
Oh, Paul! you have wronged me
deeply,” and he exquisitely chisel¬
ed lips curled indignant sotrow.
“Stop, Leila, or you will deeply
wrong me also. I met this loved
one, as I said before, in one of the
sweetest, sunniest vailes of our
broad land; wandered with her hand
in hand, lor long y’ears beside the
sparkling waters of my childhood’s
home. First, by her smile of ex¬
quisite sweetness, she taught my
heart that she loved with un¬
utterable fondness, and never have I
doubted; my trust in her has ever
since been steadfast and fearless;
never has her eyes looked coldly up¬
on me, and never will it till the
death angel shall dim it for the long
sleep. Oft in the still hours of the
n’ght have I been awakened as if
by the gentle fanning of sleep God’s
wing, and beheld that face, those
eyes gazing upon me with all the
beaufific tenderness of a guardian
angel over a repenting prodigal; rnd
a kiss would fall upon my b'ow more
soothing than the dew of Hebron.
The same gentle hand has held me
along life's flowery way, and beside
its unruffled ivateis; and if ever my
arm was raised to do a deed of wrong
or my heart steeled to conceive it,
that gentle, admonitory voice came
whispering in my ear, and stayed
the one midwav, and drew' the iron
from the other. And I do well re
member, in my manhood riper years,
when deep sorrow fell upon my
soul, and I fain would have drank
oblivion from the wine cup’s fiery
brim, that same dark ey-ed woman
came and bade me in the name of
God, to shun the fatal snare, and
twinning her arms around my neck'
while her eyes beamed with love’s
deepest inspiration, she poured oil
upon the troubled waters, told me of
purer hopes and brighter aims, and
in my ear whispered a golden word
that has outlived all sorrow. Leila,
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would yon know the name of my’ first
love? ’Tis my mother!”
“Oh Paul! I’ll forgive you and
share your love— indeed I Will.”
“I knew you would, Leila. Sec
ond love is as dear as the first.”—
Selected,
Mr Carson, of Athens, has a $70
hill of continental money that was
issued to his grandfather for services
as a soldier in the revolutionary
war,
The mother of David Lyons, a col¬
ored man, living in Hampton, by ac¬
tual record, is 101 years of age and
his stepfather 95 years of age,
If the barbers strike there will be
a revival of the old question—what
shall we do to he shaved
An unkown person robbed an old
vault in Jamestown near Atlanta i
Saturday night, of a part of a skele¬
ton. The vault is dismantled and
the skeleton was exposed to view.
The skull is missing.
Col. Frobel who has been at work
as government engineer on the river
between Hawkinsville and Darien
for seven years, says that river is
just as navigable as the Ohio.
Sam Small says he has had the yel¬
low lever and got over it at once,
and that it took him seventeen years
to get over an a ttack of whiskey, and
now he would much rather have the
fever than the whiskey’.
It is evident that a etisis is ap¬
proaching in English polities. Air.
Gladstone adheres to the principles
of his home rule bill, while theoppo
sition to it is exhausting itself in noi¬
sy demonstrations. Whichever way
the majority goes, there will be a dis¬
solution of parliament and an appeal
to the people.
The jury in the case of Alderman
Jaehte, one of the "boodle” Aider
man of New York, returned a verdict
at 2 o’clock Sunday morning of guii
ty.
“Mr. Smith,” said a Jady at a
fair, “won’t you buy a bouquet to
present to the lady you love?”
“That wouldn’t he right,” said Mr.
Smith, “I’m a married man.”
Near Griffin. Friday, little Marion
Bridges fell off an excursion train
while it was going at full speed, hut
fortunately escaped uninjuied.
A widower in Athens called on a
young lady and stated that he had
pray’ed to the Lord to send him a
wife, and in a dream that night he
had been directed to her. The wooer
was informed that the Lord had cer¬
tainly directed him to the wrong
pet son this time, and he was advised
to try’ anol her pray'd' and dream.
On June 3 and 4 Major Slaton,
Superintendent of the public schools,
will hold an importat examination in
Atlanta. He will examine applicants
for admission to the Massachusetts
School of Technology. Applicants
from four States—Georgia, Flordia,
Alabama and South Cutolina will he
examined.
If there is anything lovelier than
a maiden of “sweet sixteen,” decked
out in a white dress, we would like
to see it.
If the “lie” that Major Bacon is
“hurling” around happens to hit
General Gordon, we honestly believe
that he will hit it hack.
The Mavietta Journal says: “We
are for Gordon because we prefer
him to Bacon.” That’s about the
size of it, and three fourths of the
people ol Georgia are with the Jour¬
nal in its choice.
Those people of Georgia who keep
moderately cool during the cam¬
paign will have just as good a gov
ernor as those who worry around and
perspire all the colors out of their
suspenders and destroy the elastic¬
ity of these useful contrivances.
“Major Bacon,” says the Athens
Banner, “has never been honored
with an office at the hands of the
people.” There are several hundred
thousand citizens in the same condi
tion, yet they cannot all be govern¬
ors.
The Newnan Herald “can’t go
back on the hero of Appomattox,
the right hand of Lee,” and says:
“Yes, General Gordon resigned a
political office, which thousands had
done before him, but he did not re¬
sign when yankee bullets were flying
thick and sabre strokes were falling
fast to go into a “boom proof.” He
loved his native Georgia too well for
that.