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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1886)
ell -idS'O-atli Saturday by the ’'Zimrn rer y COMPANY V yfaddox, ) Proprietors. pD. I rffin __ SUBSCRIPTION. 25. $1 irear - Cl months CO ee free. ijmen copy SAM JOKES RESUME. Remarkable Sayings ol the of the Revivalist said to me the other night: on missed your 1 I wouldn’t have the ^2daSdtbat peS ' e * 10 ” and vet when man r^Tnheeyourselfso Kr'aet umlerhold of that an you. an¬ L Led! me an underhold. creed? It , the _, What is is of truth set up and stuffed with host and sand. If I had a creed ,Id sell it to a museum ere are wishy-washy fellows in thurcli that have a cotton string fa few ribs tied to it, and they L il backbone. free. The best S ets a man [in the world to kill a man is to him to death; then you don’t to bury him. takes less sense to criticise to do anything else. I here great many critics in the luna isvlum. too to have known women poor a pair of shoes, hut I nevei tone too poor to own a looking e devil is too much of a gen L [ to stay where he is not wel f? Why ’does he stay in your Uaps [religion if you because don’t talk havn’t about it is you religion to talk about, lien" some of you members of thurcli get to heaven the an |will have to introduce you. Relieve liquor is a good thing in lace, and I believe its place is in e sweetest rest man ever had is test he finds in activity, inv a fellow is praying for rain pistol)bottom side lip. kl liquor and Christianity won't s in the same hide, pm is the law of fools, and it is ing this country, e matter of church doctrine is L'idect. rally is the starch of tli tv 6d. The more dignity a fe las got the nearer death lie is. e grandest epitaph I ever saw |home wife's tombstone was: “She [•- happy.” road to hell is the road to In. The only difference is in ray fan*t you arc going, bribe God’s grand jury fly 1st day. the Court that tries me ou lould rattier lie in heaven learn iy A. I!. Gs than in hell reading [s liain the about part of trifles. wisdom not to thing Even if (ays goes wrong, as a rule it host never to say anything it. Commend when you can, N only when you must, P t be ashamed of your town jounty, favorable but speak of They them and manner. may pore credit to you than you to doesn't look well when men 1 moi 'f* money in hurying their I than they do in supporting ;*kile they are alive. I love letters are much like P U P- A love letter that tele |s a delightful tingle to the tip pt the thump fingers and toes, makes r* fast and even warms I stomach when first written, P after the flame which inspir P , dle( b possesses all the fat ptaleness and nauseating qual ,' U ar V- n a pork T bean broth , laid in the , refrigerator since , ■' Itca n be warmed over, ‘ove , letters cannot. ticians say that everything is e and poUtics * This same m <,e T * uit dc ctrine “that d justifies ir the means.” “•d.’SeTf' hint 1 without ''" 1 * 110 '”" giv a of it. L *ell, or to be t lt > are as much dif Work >ug hard is from be !cs thon art a fraud—to lhal gets beat. the I Kwabo^i buttons, SWabow without flattery as hue 'hp trouble tr that follow? anv may had been reading the bap, d cradl *ng wheat: w y u - Jg* 'our cradle cut i replied ! .h" theold 86 U ’ s dull, I I boy , cca “an.” No,’ In." ‘ ° u*e U goes against Solid Vol. 4. GORDON'S KINDNESS. An incident proving the devotion of Gen. Gordon to his soldiers was related to us a few days ago by a young friend who lives on the line of Randolph and Stewart counties, near County Line church. In his neighborhood lives Mr. Robert Ware, who was immediately under Gen. Gordon during the war. Just after one of the hardest fought bat¬ tles of the war, in which the troops ot both sides were mowed down like the ripe wheat before the scythe, Mr. Ware was commanded to go on pick¬ et duty. It was a bitter cold night The snow was on the ground many inches deep. Mr. Ware had come out of the battle just fought without receiving any wounds, but with the loss of nearly all his clothing. To have stood at his post of duty din¬ ing the night would have been sure death. As Gen. Gordon rode down the line that night he discovered the situation of Mr. Ware, only a poor soldier as he was, and his heart went out in sympathy to him. Removing his own coat, hat and shoes he turn¬ ed them over to the trembling guard andfinisbed liisride in that condition. Mr. Warren survived the conflict, re¬ turned home and settled down ou his farm, but he never forgot this simple act of kindness, and his first boy born after the war was christen ed “Gordon Ware.” It cannot be disputed that Gen. Gordon has a heart for his people, capable of sym¬ pathizing with them in their needs, both in the war and since, bis past life has demonstated this fact to the perfect Satisfaction of all unbiased minds.—Cutlibert Appeal. An Atlanta reporter who once “pulled a hand press” on a country weekly tells this story: One day while the paper was be¬ ing worked off a man from the coun¬ try came in and walked all around the room, finally stopping near the press and watching the work very earnestly*. do for you?” ask “Anything lean lever, pausing be ed the man at the tween impressions. reply. “I don’t “Naw,” was the want nothin’, jis come in to see ye edit.” Sunshine is like love—it makes everything shine with its own beau tj “Now,” said the photographer, have “look cheerful, if you want to a good picture.” How “Cheerful, the Dickens! can a democrat look cheerful .with no post office in sight?” The Sunny Clime girl speaks of “hair, black as night, ” We never knew that night had an}’ hair but we suppose this is the newest fash¬ ion. “Jefferson Davis was hung in effi¬ gy on Saturday by some excited in¬ habitants of Tiffin, Ohio.” The breed of idiots still flourishes in Ohio. Smiles are said to date from Eden days, when Adam smiled because Eve stubbed her toe (figuratively dismiss speaking), resulting in ber al from the garden, but because Ad¬ am had to go too is really where the laugh comes in. The plaster form of a man on his hands and knees has been moulded in the ashes in Pompeii. It is sup¬ posed that when the calamity over took the city the man was on his bands and knees looking for a col¬ lar button under the bureau. Said a young man, the other even¬ ing: “Is it etiquette, in writing to a young married woman whom you have known well, to call her “my darling pet?” My dear sir, it is not a question of etiquette, but of athletics. It depends how far you can distance her husband in a mile. “Bill, you’ve been in love, hain’t you?” said one stripling to another a year or two older than himself. “Oh, yes, Tom; I’ve been there head over heels a couple of times.” “Does it make a fellar feel as though his ciothes didn’t fit him?” “That’s it.” “And sorter gloomy and saddish most of the time?” “Well I should rather say so. If you've got it in earnest Tom, you feel as though you’d been a fishin’ and didn’t get a bite.” “Bite! Gosh? feel as though 1 didn’t even have no bait.” The more counties Gordon carries the dirtier will become the abuse that is heaped on him. General Clement A. Evans says; “There is no man in Georgia whom the people of Georgia could not bet ter afford to see defeated than Gene¬ ral Gordon.” 4 1 \N a M ..:si si IS „„ A■’ ,j ;.v p p,!. TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. CONYERS, GEORGIA, JUNE 12, 1886. THE HEROIC REMEDY. He had been courting a West Find girl for a long time, but he has quit now. It happened Sunday night at' ter church. They’ were sitting as close together as the sofa would per mit. She looked wi^h inetfable ten derness into his noble blue eyes. “George,” she murmured, with a tremor in her voice, “did’nt you tell me once you would be willing to do any great act of heroism for my sake?” “Yes, Fanny; and I gladly reiter ate that statement now,” he replied in confident tones. “No noble Ro¬ man of old was fired with a loftier ambition, a braver resolution than I.” “Well, George, I want you to do something real heroic for me.” “Speak, darling; what is it?” We’ve “Ask me to be your wife. been fooling long enough.” The sequel is stated in the preface. A little black boy stood with his small sister at the edge of a water lilly pond in Florida. ‘ Ephium,” said the girl, “what makes heah so pon’?” many cat tails grow in dis “Doan you know?” inquired Ephi¬ um; “why dey grow up from kittens that people has drowned in de pon’, ob course. ’ The commencement sermon of the Southern Methodist Female college will be preached in Covington June 13th, by I. S, Hopkins, president of Emory college. The literary address will be delivered by Captain John Milledge, of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Lula Treadwell, daughter of Mr. Bill Treadwell, of Atlanta, was married to Mr. Win. H. Warren, of Marietta, last week by Rev. J. M. Brittian, of Covington. A California w-oinan, while split¬ ting wood, bit her tongue into lengthwise. The fact that she now discharges both barrels at her hus¬ band makes him regret that lie ev er delegated the kindling recreation to her. Every dinner or picnic reporter speaks of the “groaning tables.” This is a misnomer, for the table never groans, but the guests do af¬ ter dinner. An Irishman sleeping with a ne gro, had his face blackened by’ a practical joker. Starting off in the morning, he caught sight of him self in a mirror and exclaimed; “Be gorra, they’ve woke the wrong man!” “Habit” is hard to overcome.— Take off the first letter and it does not change “abit”. If you take off another, you still have a “bit” left. If you take off another, the whole of “it” remains. If you take off anoth¬ er, it is not “t” totally used up. All of which goes to show that if you wish to get rid of a “habit” you must throw it off altogether. “Dear me!” exclaimed a red haired girl to her brother, “I see that bonnets are now made of paper. What next 1 wonder?” “Well, sis, if you put one on, I think a conflagra tion would come next.” “Are you a marrying man?” was asked of a sombre-looking gentleman at a recent up town reception. reply; “Yes, sir,” was the prompt “I’m a clergyman ” Young man, never marry a girl who chews gum. Her jaw w ill work just the same after marriage. A policeman’s club is not a suita¬ ble ODe to join. One generation has a sw-elled head after the meeting. “You are pretty as a picture,” he prettily remarked; and then added something not so pretty to the effect that: “It would have been much cheaper for me if I had taken your picture instead of yourself, the morn¬ ing we were married.” No, Ethel, when you hear of a girl having made a good “match” it does not signif} 7 that she has got something that will get up every morning andjight the fire. “What do they do when they in¬ stall a minister?” inquired a small boy. “Do they put him in a stall and feed him?’’ “Not a bit,” said his father; “they harness him to a eliurch and expect him to draw it.” Thursday of last w eek Mr. G F. Turner and Miss Cora L. Brown, both of Henry county, were married by Rev. J. F.'Kimbell. Every honorable man who votes in a party nomination will vote for the party nominee, whether it is his choice no not. A man who votes in tbe primary thereby pledges him pledge. " * Dr. Felton to the contra r Y- •r 1 ‘-S '"' ' § At a large and enthusiastic meet ing of the citizens of Douglassville and vicinity Saturday, addresses were delivered by Colonel MynaU, Judges Stewart and Glenn, and from expressions since, it is very evident that Colonel Mynatt has captured the citadel. At least three out of every four who listened to the speeches are pronouncedly in favor of Colonel Mynatt for congress. We find in a recent poem that, “she fell, alas! and hundreds wept.” We don’t believe it. If she fell, which looks reasonable enough, and there were hundreds standing around which we have no cause to doubt, we’ll wager that every mother’s son of them laughed. Judge Pittman. ex-Ordinary of Fulton county, who dropped dead about three weeks ago lroin heart disease, had $3,000, of insurance on his life, divided as follows: Mu¬ tual Reserve Fund of New York, $5, 000; Royal Arcanum, $3,000, and a paid up policy in the Northwes tern Life Insurance Company for $ 1 , 000 . The minister was struggling to put on a new-four-ply collar, and the perspiration was starting fiom every pore. “Bless the collar,” he ejaculated. “Oh, yes, bless it. Bless the bless¬ ed collar. “My dear.” said his, wife “what is your text for this morning’s ser¬ mon?” “T-twenty first verse f fifty-fifth Psalm.” he replied, in short grasps. “ ‘The w words of his m-mouth were s smoother than butter, but w-war was in his heart.” If Col. Felton is preparing to be an independent candidate for Gov¬ ernor in the event of Gen. Gordon's nomination he had better be bus banding his strength and eloquence. Capt. W. H. Harrisson, clerk of the executive office, is preparing an alphabetical list of all named ex Confederate soldiers entitled to re¬ ceive payment on account of lost limbs. The list will be printed and copies furnished to all of the ordina¬ ries in the state, in order to prevent the perpetration of frauds by evil disposed persons. The next pay¬ ment to maimed soldiers will be made in September. Since the joint discussion termina¬ ted, Bacon is in Gordon’s rear, fol¬ lowing him around. lie is still keeping up his old practices. He was in Gordon’s rear during the war. Thursday Mrs. Lucy Watson, a widow lad}* about 50 years old, who lives in Gwinnett county near the Walton line, committed suicide by hanging herself. She took a pillow line, climbed upon a high stump near a pi no sapling, tied the rope to the pine, then around her neck, and jumped off. She was dead when found. No cause is known for the act. She had a good home and w r as well thought of by ber neighbors. Said William to Martha: “But 3 ’ou must remember, ni} 7 dear, that my tasleis better than yours.” Said Martha to William: “Undoubtedly when yon come to remember that you married me and I married }’ou.” And William said not a word, but seemed to be thinking. Henry county’s paper fund amounts to $867 per year. “What is your idea of love, Mr. Sinnick?” “Three meals a day and well cooked.” Marriage is a slice of bread and butter, spread with jam, given to overgrown children. The jam soon disappears, and nothing remains but dr}’ bread, though even that is some¬ times appreciated. “Why did Adam bite the apple?” asked the school teacher. “’Cause he had no knife,” repled addressed. the boy to whom the question was When a small boy in Boston was asked by his Sunday school teacher if be did not want to be ‘born again,’ replied: “No, I don’t, I’m afraid 1 might he born a girl next time.” Tht ordinary of Henry county, Judge W. N. Nelson, was sworn in by Judge Boynton, and entered up¬ on his duties last Thursday. The whisky men of Oconee county will not contest the prohibition elec tion if the ordinary will allow them to sell until next January. It the ordinary refuses to allow them to sell until that tune, then they W, V* contest on what they consider good grounds. One of the barkeepers has open the others ought to have the same right. No. 21. FROM FAR OFF TEXAS, Flatokia, Texas. June 4th, 1SS6. Editors Solid South:* At the house of my neighbors, Tom and Burt McLean, I find a copy of your paper, peruse its columns and de¬ cide to “talk back” at you a little. Our friends, Burt and Tom, are well to cto farmers with hebits of morality, industry and economy, hence good citizens. But they’ arc bachelors. That’s bad. Did you ever see the insides of a bachelor’s hall? Theirs was up, or down, to the true standard until their sister ar rived last January to grace their goodly house. And right graceful¬ ly does she preside and much to the improvement of their home. No woman had ever lifted their gate latch before. Upon her entrance the old rooster gave a warning note. The hens made a fuss, chicks took notice and all fled to hiding places. But since she has scattered “crumbs of kindness” among them and giv¬ en them such care as only a woman can give, they 7 have learned to love her. I might tell of her skill at shoot¬ ing acquired in this country, but I will let a bullet hole in the roof of the house and the sad story of a care less old hen’s death toll tlie tale. In fact 1 promised not to tell, so 1 will not. I might tell of her horse back ex¬ ploits but she says don’t. So 1 will only hint thusly: Went out riding on a Texas pony with an air of “final perseverance.” Proceed very well; confidence improves; rides fast; lost confidence. Tableax. She stand¬ ing in the road, facing the rest of her party who'are riding up. These all were her words, “How came you meeting me?” Cause of perplexity: i she world had turned around. But these scenes have passed. First les sons have been taken and tbe new coiner seems to feel at home. Will write again and possibly more than once, describing the country to some extent as to the climate, the soil, the products, etc., and also something of the people as to their habits, moral status, etc., more or less. Respectfully Camp yours, Bell. Principal Keeper of the Peniten tiary John R. Towers has ordered the convict camp at Graysville to had be broken up. This camp originally twenty convicts, but the number is now only ten. It is not the policy of the Principal • keeper to maintain camps so small. The fight now going on between the people upon one hand and rings upon tiic other, the former led by General John B. Gordon and the latter by Hon. A. O. Bacon, is grow¬ ing more and more interesting every day, and from the signs in the po liticnl horizon, the people will get the best of it tiiis time. The people are getting disgusted and begin to feel humiliated in being bossed over by a few court house rings. Let the people speak and you’ll hear it thun¬ der. Alexander Hayes, aged 101, is the oldest man in Clay count} 7 . I. II. Elliott, of Alapaha, has inven ted an appliance to his grist mill which fans the corn as it falls from the hopper to the rocks. It is a sort of bellows and is worked by tbe same power that grinds the corn. This is an important invention, as it prevents trash or dirt of any sort from being ground with the corn. An excursion party from the neigh¬ borhood of Springfield, Piqua and DaytoD, Ohio, arrived in Atlanta Sat¬ urday. Otheis have gone to Thoin aston and other points. AtWaycross last Monday night three different houses were entered and the ladies frightened almost out of their wits. In every instance the men folks were absent, and it is sup posed the same party did it all. On last Saturday night Captain and Mrs. E. P. Howell, of Atlanta, celebrated their silver wedding at their beautiful home in West End. There is not a more popular, genial and liberal hearted man in the state of Georgia. When a Maine man was shot at the other day the bullet was turned aside, not by a pocket Bible, but by | j a there plug is of moral tobacco. to the Consequently no case, j I ])r FclU)n he organized ig speaUing de- in | cara , )a *rSis p rn a s an , n()crat is undoubtedly true, an a U» prove it he says he w ill not j t General Gordon if he be : meg tlie d emo eratic nominee. | has Barlow four co„p, thousand y ia.ut dollais of debt in and the i treasury. 30 B 0101 ® ►SglOF ALL KIND DONKI^r NEATLY Am PROMPTLY. ADVERTISING RATES ADE KNOWN ON DE AND. Pay for advertisements is always due after the first insertion, unless otherwise contracted for. Guaranteed positions 20 per cent extra. Entered postotfice as second-class mail matter. A JUMPING SLEEPER. A rather amusing incident oo curred recently in Gwinnett conn tv. A gentleman who is in the habit of walking in his sleep had a dream. He dreamed he saw a fine covv of partridges running along re¬ ward an old house and then go in. Thinking this a good opportunity to capture them, he quietly slipped along until he got to the door, when he suddenly jumped inside and closed the door. What was his as¬ tonishment to discover a mad dog in there, which rushed at him at once. His only chance of escape was to jump through the window, and through he went with a bound. When he awoke he was lying out¬ side of the house on tlie ground, having jumped through a window in his bed room and carried the sash with him. He was badly bruised mi l bis leg severely cut by the glass lie had broke through. Col. Avery, who is at present in Athens Writes to the Atlanta Capi¬ tol the following item: “I can give you some railroad gossip that if true will make a sensation in certain quarters. It is that the Macon and Covington railroad is to be divert¬ ed from Coyington to Athens through Madison. The road is gra¬ ded to Monticello and a force has been at work between Monticello and Covington, and this force has been told withdrawn—that Madison was that if she raised $60,000 she should have the road. She lias raised $53. 000 and guarantees the balance, and so the company has to redeem its pledge. This is the story Which parties represent to be true. Cov¬ ington will make a big fuss over this if it is correct. Madison and Athens are jubilant.” In Lumpkin county twenty Gor¬ don men walked eight miles to vote for the old hero. They said they had tramped with him on longer marches than that, and would respond when¬ ever lie called for them. Mr. J. B. Hutcheson, of the Jones¬ boro News, has retired from control of that paper, and will be succeeded by Mr. Frank Oliphant. Pulaski county is about to estab¬ lish a poor house for its paupers. Some of the ambitious men w ho have attached themselves to the Ba¬ con faction would have fewer dis¬ appointments in this life if they made it their business to study the people of Georgia. “Isn't it heavenly?” ejaculated Miss Gush, in reference to Miss Pedal’s performances on the piano. “Yes,” replied Fogg, “it is indeed heavenly. It sounds like thun¬ der.” It is related of a popular clergy¬ man that lie started a dull prayer meeting, recently, by announcing that lie didn’t propose to aet as um¬ pire for a sleeping match. (I “Are you a Christian, young * man?” asked a melancholly mission • ary of a bystander whom he thought might prove a hopeful case. “Oh! dear no,” was the cheery reply; ‘4i’m a choir singer.” If thqv indulge in many more ter lific tornadoes in the brisk and breezy West Horace Greeiy’s fa¬ mous admonition will have to be modified to “Go West, young man and blow up with the country.” “The doctor said he’d put me on m.v feet again in two weeks.” “Well, didn’t lie do it?” “He did, indeed. 1 had to sell my horse and buggy to foot his bill.” According to tlie Sparta Ishmae lite “the only way for Bacon to keep from getting left is to come out for Gordon.” The clock for the Mijledgeville court house has readied its destina¬ tion. It weighs 1,700 pounds. Smith, the other day, while look¬ ing at the skeleton of a donkey, and admiring and wondering at the structure of that despised animal, made a very maladroit quotation. “Ah,” said he, “we are fearfully and wonderfully made.” “It is healthier to lie on the right rather than the left side,” says an astute health journal. Of course “left” nobody wants to be on tbe side, but a lawyer for instance, of¬ ten finds it healthy to lie on either side. South Georgia is doing as well as could be expected. Gordon has car¬ ried Dooly, Lee, Mitchell and Screv¬ en in that section, while Bacon has carried only Clinch and Liberty since Gordon came out. And yet the Gordon counties in south Geor¬ gia have hardly started.
