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,inhering Tn« led,
iS footsteps feet,
thick beneath my
' [0c go-bed overhead;
of 'I dismantled fort
icc
ra grave.
mlile ^ with the weed
ISElffifrV .
»r«.
KtW* to the reverent ground, hand,
i it with a words to clear,
h Lebad dust its all but these:
blotted
teorgja Volunteer.
[the [»th» Shenandoah vale below, roll
Ee Alfeghenes rise
Ll the realms of snow;_
[lev campaign and rose then to lnincl,
Wer’s name, had been one
| [onewall the sleeper Jackson’s men.
L- what need to question now
were wrong or right? just ,
V- ere this whose cause :s
pd, the Fattier’s sight,
1 , 1 8 no-warlike weapons now,
lit ni- nofoeman’s thrust; revile
a toward would
onored soldier’s dust?
henandoah, proudly roll
rn thy rocky glen; of
thee lies the grave one
bnewal) Jackson’s men.
Ii the cedar and the pine
litiule austere, lies
an, unnamed, forgotten
jrgia volunteer.
iy, Bertie, you suprised me!
t your father say grace be
-eakfast?”
that’s strange. M hat docs
wants to know why the
wasn’t called sooner.”
\ K ee pea re gays; “Who steals
pe steals trash.” This shows j
pe bard of Avon wasn’t an edi- I
f who steals an editor’s purse
la vacuum.
pity United States Marshals
pilectors N. II. Upshaw and
t Boon captured a still near
|in, in Heard county’, Thu ra¬
id destroyed 200 gallons of
This makes the eighth still
has been captured in Heard
I this year, and from the same
I United States Commissioner
plendon hg the internal has tried 25 men laws. for
revenue
lame was recounting that her
tidwas ill tfie night before, and
necessary to send for a doctor
’clock in the morning. “But
jight you had a doctor in the
your eldest son?” said a
)or • ‘-True, but we only let
jictor the servants.”
jnow stated that instead of
| l he Rev. Dr. Sunderland a
lew $100 bill, as reported, the
ent really gave his old pastor
carriage I here fee a check for even
is nothing small about
pveland.
Itianta there are 200 new rev¬
ues on the docket to be tried
6 October terra of the court.
-
JleUay is still absent at Cum
d Island.
iJ'ou think I could mould pub
pinion?” asked an aspiring
•ion. politician of a veteran in the
[baps I“some you might” said Vou the
of the stories in
in your speech seemed a
poulfly,
I Barnesville Democrat head
Its accounts of the anti n ™h;
btetory in Spaldin^ countv
[ratio ows: “For the Sale—Grand
p—-The Victory_The Ribu vir,
[Bookworm_Moses* Koran is Perns nded
te s? wesr-j an 1 tl
N defeats prohibition by 239
K S l hvia S in Athens,
;lS/ff 6 steboard ° DCe p,ayed abond:
rom nnr! Thursd l [ r da v evening P°
t ; efoek - l0W at 3
« 12 M ° nday
o bh
lll eman lost?910 dnring^he
‘dling ct to the creed of the ue±sa B
*on to vote for ‘
Estate” and rnl* lS [°
ts, that tn br Gordon
my the St t Can * i s
uf more ririi i there b o
ot ^foldeJ^b^cli- partisan f?, tbac this
Assertions G 56 as J i? a8 lcb ^sach bas
er f stomach t C<UH
i e People of r '
them •
against Ba-' Baeomsm. 813 and
: 1 |hOTSEE!b|
Vol. 4.
Husband—“That fence wants
painting badly. I think I'll do it
myself. Wife—-“Yes, do it yourself
if you think it wants to be done bad
ly.”
Before marriage a man thinks ids
giri prettier than his friend’s, after
marriage he thinks his triend’s wife
prettiei-ihan his own.
There is more butter brought to
Athens than was ever known before.
It is very cheap aad none of the
merchants care to buy it.
An exchange says: “What does a
man make by getting married?'’
Sometimes he makes a fool of him¬
self; more frequently he makes his
wile miserable.
Col. P. L. My-natt delivered a po¬
litical speech in McDonough last
Saturday. A special to the Constitu¬
tion says: “Col. P. L. Mynatt spoke
here to-day at two o’clock for an
hour and a half to a large and ap
preciative crowd ofHenry county’s
best people, and made a most favor¬
able impression. He discussed the
issues of the congressional race in a
masterly and convincing manner,
and made many warm friends and
supporters. His sentiments and po¬
sitions on the issues discussed met
with most hearty, if not unanimous
indorsement. Representative men
from every district in the county
were present. At the close of Col¬
onel My’natt’s speech, it was freely
declared that “that speech delivered
throughout the county will carry
Henry for Mynatt.” Our folks be¬
lieve Colonel Mynatt to be a man of
the people, that he is with the peo
pie, and for the people.
Some very important matters will
come before the next legislature—
matters that small men cannot ban
die wisely and successfully. In all
of them the people have a deep inter¬
est. In fact, the welfare of the state
is to a certain extent dependent up¬
on them. The best men, therefore,
in ench legislature.—Savannah county ought to be sent to
the News.
The tramp who entered a bakery
and stole a loaf of gingerbread, took
the cake.
Size ain’t everything. A watch
ticking can be heard farther than a
bed ticking.
“Dyspepsia,” says Carlyle, “kills
poetic ambition. It dyspepsia
would only get its work in more
constantly it. would be for the com
fort of the world generally’.
In coversation with a prominent
physician of Athens, he says that he
lias been practicing medicine for the
past 35 years, and that there is
more sickness than he has ever
known before, It is not confined to
one locality, but is all over the
whole country’.
Concentration is the secret of
strength, in politics, in war, in trade
—in short, in all management of hu¬
man affairs.
We are sent into this world to make
it better and happier; and in pro
portion as we do so we make our¬
selves both.
Look on slanderers as direct ene
mies to civil society; as humani- persons
wlthout honor, honesty, or
ty ’ Wb oever entertains you with
tbe faults of others, designs to serve
you in a similar manner.
A celebrate( * tragedian had a
broken nose. A lady once cemark
Gflt0 bira: “* like your acting, but
to bu frank wilh > T ° n » 1 can 6 " Gt
over your nose.” “No wonder, mad
am ’” said the tragedian- “The
bridge is gone.”
cl ™i cjsrs
land from Hon. R. M. Heard, adjoin
ing their present church property,
and are erecting two beautiful cot
tages of seven rooms each with a fire
place in each room. One is for the
pastor of the church there, and the
other for the Presiding Elder of the
Elberton district. Both houses will
be completed as soon as the work
can be done
“Is he a man of much calibre?”
said a Connecticut avenue girl to a
Dupont circle belle about a certain
gay and giddy congressman. “Oh,
yes,” was the confident replv, he is
the greatest bore I ever saw.”
Gordon has never been whipped in
P eace ov in war, and he is getting
l< ? old to learn new tricks.
The executive committee of the
eighth district has decided to hold
Die convention in Athens on the 20th
of Jbly- Col. Nisbet sent word that
he would actively enter the cam
paign.
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, JUNE 26, 1886.
Both the senate and house have
passed the bill giving $200,000 for im¬
provements in Savannah. It re
mains only'for the president to sign
it before becoming a law.
Gen. Gordon says that every word
of Felton's charges are infamously
false and slanderous.
The state fair opens in Macon on
Monday, October 25th, and continues
for two weeks.
A malishus man who has no bet¬
ter argyment to induce bizness than
lying about his nabors, need not be
surprised if the people laff at his
c.hildeshness. Some phules do not
learn wisdom even by bitter experi
ence.—Josh Billings.
It is stated that Major Bacon rail¬
rides on a free pass on all the
roads of the state, while conducting
his canvass. Is it true? If so the
people should weigh the fact well be
fore voting for him—Sparta Ishma
elite.
The Washington Post, the demo¬
cratic newspaper of Washington
city, says that Gen. Gordon was
known as one of the purest and most
incorruptible men in the United
States Senate, and was so respected
by all men, without regard to politi¬
cal affiliation.
Bacon’s law firm drew $23,000
from the Central railroad last year
in fees, and $20,000 from the East
Tennessee Receiver. Just think!
Forty three thousand dollars from
the railroads in one year. No won
tier he didn't want the poor farmers
to get pay for their stock killed on
the railroads.=—Dalton Argus.
A mule one day kicked a Chicago
drummer on the check, simply ns a
brilliant practical joke; but the
drummer coaly’ walked into a bar¬
ber’s shop and washed the dirt off
his face, while the mule had to be
hauled to a drug-stove in an ambu¬
lance for medical treatment.
“Everything seems to grow in
, me,” said the
this>country except you?”
stranger sadly’. “Who are sympathy.
was .asked with much
‘'“Alas, cruel fate,’’ Ncw'Yoik was the mourn¬
ful reply, “I am a monu
merit fund.”
Friend (taking leave after spend
ifig the evening)—Admirable talk¬
er your wife, is. Brown. I could list
en \o her a whole night.
Brown (with a sigh)—Ah! I often
a.
■ ' “My dear,” be said, “what is the
difference between ingenious and in
gemious?” The difference between ii
and i, my love,” she replied, and lie
scratched his head for a diagram.
It I were just a candidate,
Yimibet I’d be a hummer:
I’d ente into tbe field of fate,
And electioneer all summer.
I’d visit every' cross roads town
And have just lost of fun—
I’d always hand the cigars down,
And taffy by the ton.
I’d compliment tbe ladies.
And that, too, with great vigor,
I’d kiss the female babies,
And some that are much bigger.
When on the ground election day,
I’d fail to be elected,
Tlie only thing that I would say
Is—“Just as I expected.”
The largest safe ever brought tor
Augusta was being moved along
Broad street Saturday. Its weight
is 19,900 pounds, and requires an
iron track and a very large
force of hands to move it. It will
bo used by the Georgia Railroad
BanE for a safe deposit vault.
Jlusie teacher—The object of this
lesson is to inculcate obedience. Do.
S ^ er n ,ue w.
‘
The esteemed Savannah News has
some mighty ideas about a dark horse
in the present campaign. There wul
be n0 dark horse. The next govern
or o f Georgia will be Genera! John
B Gordon, Gordon,
A-week or two ago Di Hockerahull,
of Dawson county', took three liun
dred and forty’ rocks tbe size of a pea
from a boy six years old, which the
nttle fellow had swallowed as a pas
time, and which had became impac
ted in his lower bowels.
A correspondent tells a story of
Congressmen gathering around a
{ „ on 5 in front of the capitol and
hrowino . dimes and nickels into the
water to see the fish dive after them,
The thing is preposterous. If the
correspondent had told us that the
fish stood around the pond and threw
climes and nickels into the water to
gee the Congressmen dive after them
we might have belicyed it.
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9
A TALE Of LOVE.
One quiet day in leafy .June, when
bees and birds were all in tune, two
lovers walked beneath the moon.—
The night, was fair, so was the maid;
they walked and talked beneath the
shade, with none to harm or make
afraid.
Her name.was Sal, and his was
Jim, and he was fat; nd she slim; he
took to her, and she took to him.
Says Jim to Sal, “By- all the
snakes that squirm among the brush
and braikes, I love you better’n buck¬
wheat cakes.
Says she to Jiin, “Since you’ve
begun it, I love you next to a new
bonnet.”
Says Jim to Sal, “My heart you’ve
busted, but I have always gals mis¬
trusted
Says Sal to Jim, “I will be true, if
you love me as I love you, no knife
can cut our love in two ”
Says Jim to Sal, “Through thick
and thin, for your true lover count
me in— I’ll court no other gal again.”
Jim leaned to Sal, Sal leaned to
Jim—his nose just touched above
her chin; four lips met—when—
ahem—ahem! And then—-and then
—and then! 0 gals! beware of men
in June, and underneath the silvery
moon, when frogs and Junebugs are
in tune, lest you get your names in
the paper soon.
The Gordon war cry up in For
syth county took to the shape of po¬
etry and ran thus:
“John B. Gordon 5s a mighty good man,
Eats up the Bacon and sops out the P an -
A special of last Saturday to the
Constitution says: “About twenty
five Bacon men met at the court¬
house in Covington to organize
a Bacon club. Their efforts, it is
needless to say, were a blank failure.
A bulldozing speech or two was
made to the few that congregated,
and a yell for Bacon was all they ac¬
complished. General Gordon has a
strung and enthusiastic following in
old Newton, who will remain with
him and support him, first last and
all the time.
Be sure you are right—then go
ahead and leave the consequences to
au allwise and omnipotent God. A
man, a community or a nation pur¬
suing this course can safely abide
the consequences.
Revivalists Jones and Small are
said to be campaign planning for a New England
seashore the summer.
An Arkansas farmer writes that
last year, when'coons made havoc
in liis corn field, he went to the
drug store to buy strychnine with
which to kill them. By mistake the
druggist "next gave him morphine, field arid
the morning lie found his
full of sleeping ’coons. He advises
the use of morphine instead of
strychnine.
The bones of about forty confeder¬
ate and federal soldiers w-ere buried
Saturday in West View cemetery,
Atlanta, in the lot where the monu¬
ment to the blue and the gray is to
be built. The bones had been gath¬
ered from various places about the
city where the brave men were bur¬
ied when they fell in battle. The
bones w r ere unearthed all around At¬
lanta. In some of the graves brass
buttons, bullets and pieces of shells
were found. These relics of the war
are now at the West View cemetery’
office.
The hardest thing in this world to
please is a woman. Mr. Young of
Wabasha, Minn., locked his wife in
the house. Mr. Potts of Pepin, Wis.,
locked his wife out of the house.
Now both women have sued for di
voice!
11 i,o r r, ?r; pr r for
srs r
“ lttees have Axed the tunes and
^ite 1 °in m-mv^ns^nccrsuch / to/ has'
raa not be objected it
q 0 if there was a disposition
to f’dVe . advSt^e , f locka] ,
undue advantage betbre be.metric the onno oppo
siUon has had time to organize and
be heard. It woukui be abaci idea
so arrange that all the counties of
tb e state conld elect delegates on
the game day, of which clue notice
should be given, so that everybody
concerned could have fair play.
and the whole business ended at
once.
There have been 204 students this .
rear at tbe University at Athens,
192 in the college and 12 in the law
school, 188 take the English course,
Latin 140, Greek 86, mathematics
1<>4, history 131, drawmg 51, engin
eermg 1 1 , agriculture 4, aboiatorv
16, agricultural chemistry In college 49, and and
book-keeping 1-. the
Us branches arc 1,064.
No. 23.
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.
As a wife and mother woman can
make the fortune and happiness
of her husband and children and if
they did nothing else, surely this
would he sufficient destiny. Ey her
thrift, prudence and tact she can se¬
cure to her partner and herself a
competency in old age, no matter how
small the beginning or how adverse
a fate may he theirs. By her cheer¬
fulness she can restore her husband’s
spirit shaken by the anxieties of bus
iness. By her tender care she can
often restore him to health it disease
has overtasked his powers. By her
counsel and love she can win him
from bad company if temptation in
an evil hour has led him astray. By
her example, her precepts and her
sexes insight into character she can
mould her children, however adverse
their dispositions, into noble men
and women. And by- leading in all
things a true and beautiful life, she
can refine, elevate and spiritualize
all who come within reach; so that
with others of her sex emulating and
assisting her, she can do more to re¬
generate the world than all the
statesmen or reformers that ever leg
islated.
Old Ben Buttler is conjuring up a
war. He say’s the southern people
are regaining control of the govern¬
ment; that it will not be long before
they willmake demandfor payment of
their war losses. When this is done
he anticipates a flaming out of the
old time Northern war spirit, winch
may lead to trouble before 1890.
Butler once boasted that people
might call him a scoundrel, but no
one had ever believed him a fool.
He is getting to that point where it
can safely and truthfully be done.
A Campbellite preacher and a Uni
versalist will commence an argument
belorc the public, of their different
religious views at Jug Tavern on
Julv 7: The discussion will proba¬
bly last for three days.
“Oh, sir,” said a woman, before pleading the
for her husband, who was
Police Judge for beating her with a
poker, “lie wasn’t: always that way.
There was a happy time w hen lie on¬
ly struck me with his fist!”
Some of the papers of the country’
arc commenting on the fact that
three fourths ot‘ the prizes in the
schools this year are carried off' by
girls. The prevailing impression is
that the boys will have a good deal
more studying to do as soon as the
. lds „ (air , chance at x «hc _ ...
£ e ^ [' be a cigarette, fine cut c o- -
bacco, and a weakness for ge ting
grown very early in life, will oper
ate against the >oys. Ibe oys
will have to wake up. I le a es
Wld survive whether the un ittes
like it or not.
A large party of stone cutters ar¬
rived at Stone Mountain and Litho
nia, last week, from Scotland. They
were all Scotchmen, and came direct
from the stone quarries in that
country’.
The Misses Talmage, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., have returned home, after a
pleasant visit of two weeks at Kirk
wood, the guests of Senator Col
quitt’s family.
Judge Junius Ilillyer, ofDecatnr, promi
one of the oldest and most
nent citizens of Georgia, died on
Monday morning. He was the fa¬
ther of Mayor Hillyer, of Atlanta.
GEIT.
Some call it luck, dear brother Jim,
Some term it common sense;
While others still with equal vim
Pronounce it Providence.
But I believe, in spite of all,
Fate, Providence, or wit.
Bull-headed luck or brazen gall,
It’s proper name is “grit.”
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With time an t easli to spare
To lift their hearts and hands to Him
In everlasting prayer. win the fight,
But prayer alone won’t
In spite of holy writ;
’Tis acts that tell, or wrong or right,
And actions call for “grit.”
I’ve seen in trial tests of speed
The horse that bulks and breaks,
Although he sometimes takes the lead,
He never takes the stakes.
While “sure-and-steady-on-the-stride,”
Though slower on the bit,
Is often on the winning side
Because lie’s got the “grit.”
,, 9 fellowg !n my time
Good, noblemen and strong,
hearts less human than divine,
Who couldn’t get along. them, Jim,
No matter where you placed
They didn’t seem to fit;
They couldn’t win or sink or swim;
They didn’t have the “grit.’ :
Amid the countless ills of life,
Are steady licks and blows; always win j
An(1 though will we mav submit not
We ________ never
But still wade in, dear brother Jim,
And dm like men ot gnu
JOB ( 60 KR
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THOUGHTS ON MAEBIAGE.
Bill Eye Bewails the woes of Eis Sex.
Marriage is to a man, at once the
happiest and saddest event of Iris
life. He quits all the companions
and associations of his youth, and
becomes the chief attraction of a
new home. Every former tie is
loosened, the spring of every hope
and action is changed, and yet ho
flees witli joy to the untrodden path
before him. Then wou to the wo¬
men who can blight such joyful an
ticipations, and wreck the bright
hopes of the trusting, faithful, fra¬
grant masculine blossom, and bang
bis head Up against tire sink, and
throw him under the cooking rnrge,
and kick him into a three corncieU
mass and then sit down on him.
Little do women realize that all a
man needs under the Broad cerulean
dome of heaven is love—and board
and clothes. Love is his life. If
some women or other don’t love
him, and love him like eventually a hired climbs man,
he pines away and
the golden stair. Man is born with
strong yearnings for the unyearnabte
and he does not earn so much for
wealth as he does for some one who
will love him under all circum¬
stances and in all conditions.
If women would spend their even¬
ings at home with their husbands,
they would see a marked change in
the brightness of their homes.
Too many sad-eyed men are wear¬
ing away their lives at home alone.
Would that I had a pen of fire to
write in letters of living and—son light the
ignominy and contumely e
more things like that, the names of
winch have escaped my memory—
that are today' being visited jq on
my sex.
Remember that your husband lias
the most delicate sensibilities, and
keenly feels your coldness and neg¬
lect. The former may be remedied
by toasting the teetover a brisk tire
before going to bed, but the latter
can only be remedied try a total re¬
form on your part. Think what you
promised his parents when yon sued
for his hand. Think how his friends,
and several girlB to whom he had at
different times been engaged, came
to you with tears in their eyes and
besought yon not to be unkind to
him. Do these things ever occur to
you as you throw him over the card
table and mop the floor with his re¬
mains? Do you ever feel the twinge
of remorse after you have put an
octagonal head on him for not wip¬
ing the dishes drier? Think what a
luxurious home you took him from,
and iiow his mother used to polish
his boots and take care of him, and
then consider what drudgery you
snbject him to now. Think what
pain it must cause him when you
growl and swear at him. Perhaps
when you went away to your work
you did not leave him wood and coal
and water; docs he ever murmur or
repine at your neglect?
Ah, if wives knew the wealth of
warm and true affection locked up
in the bosoms of their husbands,
and would draw it out, instead of
allowing the third girl change to got all
the benefit, what a there
would be in this world of ours. But
never do until the companion of
their joys and sorrows lias winged
his way to the evergreen shore and
takes charge of the heavenly orches¬
tra, and then for about two weeks
you will see a violently red probocis
glimmering and sparkling under a
costly black veil, after which tne
good qualities of the deceased will
be preserved in alcbohol, to be
thrown up to No. 2 in the bright
days to come.
Then, in conclusion, wives in Is¬
rael and other railroad towns, love
your husbands while it is yet day.
Give him your confidence. If your
active corn manifests a wish to leave
the reservation go to your husband
with it. Lean on him. He will be
solid moulden. He will get an old
wood rasp and make that corn sick.
He is only waiting for your confi¬
dence and your trust. Tell him your
business affairs and he will help you
out. He will no doubt, offer to go
without help in the house in order to
economize, and be will think of num¬
berless other little ways to save
money. Do as we have told you and
you will never regret it. Your lives
will then be one great combination
of rare and beautiful dissolving
views. You will journey down the
pathway of your earthly existence
with the easy poetical glide of the
fat man who steps on the treache
rous orange peeling. Your last days
will be surrounded with a halo of
Jove, and as your eyes get dim with
age and one by one your teeth drop
out, yon can say with pride that yon
have never, never gone back on
your solid pard.
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