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J 11 id. Satnr day bv the ijsbedetery c.....a I®: ‘■“tn jiSIh •- i L to. l Proprietors. Irwin j SUBSCRIPT 1 ®^ I $1 25. ear (55 paths 35 ■ copy free. SSttlVOMOTEHl ,00n " “g ,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. if i i wtjjisaF* 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. irjfl't 1 !. 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.” ^ Jl - 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 ~5pOF ALL KIND DON Eg|s NEATLY ANI) PROMPTLY. > :** ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND. Bay for advertisements is niways due after the first insertion, unless otherwise contracted for. Guaranteed positions 20 per cent extra. Entered postolliee as second-class mail matter. 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. hi