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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1886)
gso-j-tli 3 ® box, t proprietors. lirffiu j :b ^bipti° n - n x y cr. Ox <^> Cji bpf free. A SUCCESS. tt yfhich was not Entirely [ Ire Satisfactory. his 'f" Ecksoo and w e [their bridal tour, Euk lu'e want to sliow people eff lj--niarried people are do Henry.” the train. ieC we attention get on to each L” from each oth tan L apart been rnar t. if we have won’t we?” bh I tell VOU what would Lest idea in the world, seats, fell [while take different we’ll, get acquaint l that be nice?” lass: boarded splendid.” the train _ they ' iev Henry took ' seats. isite Mollie looked paper and .vering landscape. After Ly Itor looked sitting with up and Mollie. saw Lckled. “Thinks thebride- she is in iiiini, I reckon,” »sed. “Believe I’ll go for [take a smoke.” His ci [havebeen unsatisfactory, and pn threw it away re is seat opposite his wife, actor was telling an laughing am us and Mollie was She did not even look at fed. ■s playing a little too fine,” ■sed." Ht “J like to see good she acts a little too lain stopped at a station, ■undue-tor leturned got up and went It immediately, and clown by Mollie. Just loung woman came along share U Henry if she could ■ He gladly consented, ■hat be could play even ■wife. A few moments la ■ he was busily talking, lie n a sweetened .thrill of re ■at his wife was .looking at ■ the nextstation the young pot off the train, and when lietor went out Henry sat I Mollie it know what you want to I here for,” she snapped. liiin’tyou ly get off the train l do yon want to talk that [precious?” [ous nothing! Goon; I don’t B [pose here.” you would rather talk Inductor?" rather talk to anybody that t me with respect.” darling-” log be train nothing. I’m going to and go home, that’s [live rn going to do. I’m not with you, that’s what pnd k to when tell him pa asks me why, that you didn’t r W| th respect. You don’t band never did. You used I ike you did, but you don’t that any more.’’ ie-_ h nothing. Go on, I don’t |u I<Wt here.” be foolish. You know "fu on with the conductor saw him before, either.” • mischief I haven’t. He’s e - 1 "’as going to introduce but I didn’t want him Wat we were married until J™ we got off the train.” it?” i’t you forgive me?” Ight not U) ’ ^ 0,1 are 80 mean.” »«i “ s jealous and_” bus?” [» Ma t know you loved Ho be jealous.” me 1 1 do. Don’t love little?” you me •> more lh an you do me.” J on 3 do, don’t, precious.” ' ie5e pP darling.” ie you. w ere not looking r v > after short . silence, re t h ■ You* bead tb |?‘ on r business.' shoulder. my «t bi a arm e thought, around D* \ and ber. no one was looking, J°a love “ore you. 1 ' " eas ' J ed. a ^eiie u live a PP- v -’ win EQe won’t » -■ always. bridal Wn ii. ... l oll L' tonrti. “ e e u 3cs l> don't Solid VoL 4. “Yes.’ “And we don’t care how many people are looking, do we?’ ‘No.’ ‘And if they don’t like it, they can get off the train, can’t they?’ Yes, and you will live with me, won’t couldn’t you? live without I you. I couldn’t live without you, eith er. Because you love me. don’t you? Just then a man got up, opened his valise, took out a piece of cake, handed it to Henry and said: It’s y-ours. Take it. I don't want it.. But you have earned it. I won’t have it. The man threw the cake on the seat, and as he made a break for the forward car, said: “That is the sickest bridal affair ever I saw, and. .1 u$ed to be a cap tain of a steamboat. Tailor—You have recently inher¬ ited a nice lump of money from your uncle; why don’t you pay me? Customer—I hate all outward show. I don’t want it to be said that my new-]y--acquired wealth has caused a departure lrom my former simple habits. At Macon the Young Men’s Chris¬ tian Association is rapidly assuming shape, in fact they are having their rooms fitted up in splendid style. Mr. M. L. Flowers, of Rome, has a mad stone which he carries in his pocket. It was about the size of a iiickorynut, flattened in 6hape, smooth of a brownish color, and very on the surface. It was given him by a lady in Thomasville. It was taken years ago from the maw of a deer killed in Colquitt county. The president has issued a com¬ mission to Matthews, the colored im>n„ of Albany,.N. Y., whose aomi nation as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia the senate re jected. Jenny Lind has given up her Lon¬ don mansion, and is now living in contented retirement at Malvern Hill. She is 65 years old, and her voice still retains much of its pow er. Henry C. Branan, a train hand on the Georgia railroad, was instant ly killed Monday morning near Lithonia. Branan w-as on top a freight train, walking towards the engine, when, in some w 7 ay, lie dropped between the cars. His body was terribly mangled and his death was instant. Young Branan’s home was at Rutledge and his remains were taken to that place for burial Monday- evening. He has a broth er who is in business on Broad street, Atlanta. He was a yonng man of fine reputation and the son of old conductor Capt. John Bran¬ an on the road. George Hamilton was conductor of the train, and with Engineer Bud Wallace, rendered the dead body- every attention pos sible.. Mr. Tilden’s will has been read. He provides handsomely for his kin dred and gives large amounts to public Charities. Among the items provision is made for three public libraries—in New York city, Yonk ers, and New Lebanon. By the best calculation there are now twenty five senators whose joint wealth aggregates $162,695,000. The richest of democratic senators are Payne, $5,000,000; Brown, $4, 000,000; Beck, $1,000,000; Kenna, $300,000. The republicans are tbe money- kings. It is now about time to put in some poor men. The Madison Madisonian, whose editor lias been on a trip through middle Georgia, reports that the corn crop will be one of the best since the war. The prospects for a heavy yield was never better. After the 26th of September the ordinaries of each county in Georgia will be forwarded the necessary funds and a list of maimed soldiers who are entitled to receive money from the state. It is said there are people living in the Blue Ridge, eighteen miles above Dahlonega, who have never seen a negro. It is known that there is not a negro living within miles of the Blue Ridge except the porters at Porter springs, The papers which are trying to drive Mr. Garland out of the cabi j net are only wasting their time. Mr. Garland, in an interview at | Arkansas Pittsburg, home, while said on his that way he had to his j (intention no of resigning. He isn’t | 1 the sort of a man to admit, by resign ing, that he is unfit for-the position I of Attorney general. |W- TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. CONYERS, GEORGIA, AUGUST 14, 1886. FAOTS ABOUT GEORGIA. The following statistics of Geor¬ gia are of interest: Population, whites 816,900, color¬ ed 225,130, males 762,980, females 779,700 , voters, whites 181,400, col¬ ored 240,000; farmers 145,000, la¬ borers 184,000, teachers 6,000, phy¬ sicians 2,000, clergymen 1,750, law yers 1,439, journalists 175, insane 1,700, idiotic 1,430, blind 1,630, deaf 820, paupers 1,280, criminals, white 230, black 1,600; illiterates over 10 years of age unable to read and write, whites 128,930, colored, 391,- 480. . i ■ The state is divided into 137 cofin ties, has an area of 58,980, square miles, or-37,740,000 acres. The val¬ uation of the property of the state is: Whites $5,764,000; wealth per capita, whites $2S6, colored $8. In the production of cotton Tex¬ as leads, Mississippi being second and Georgia third. The largest crop ever made in the state was in 1882, being 942,000 bales. In 1880 the corn crop was 23,200,000 . bush els, an-average of nine bushels pel acre; wheat 3,160,000 bushels, an average of 6$ bushels per acre; oats 5,548,000 bushels, an average of 9 bushels per acre. The geographical center population of Geor¬ gia, the center of colored of Georgia and the center of colored population of the United States are all near the same spot in Twiggs county, near Jeffersonville, The center of aggregate popula¬ tion of Georgia and the center of white population are both near For syth. has largest population Fulton the of any county, 49,130, and Gbarltoh the smallest, 2,154. Decatur has the largest area, 1,160 square miles, and Glasscock the smallest, 100 square miles. The man who jumped from Brook ffyn bridge is going to be prosecuted, not for attempting to commit sui cidc, but for obstructing a police man in the discharge of his duty. Great heavens! did he wake up.one of the officers while preparing for the jump? Suitor—“Sir,.you are undoubted ly aware of the object of my visit?” Father—“I believe you desire to make my daughter happy. Do you really mean it?” Suitor—“Unques¬ tionably.” Father —‘‘Well, don't marry her then.” Now that Cincinnati has boycott eel the Georgia granite because it come from the South, the Atlanta Constitution suggests thaLJSoutliern merchants and business men boycott Cincinnati. The suggestion is a good one. •‘I saw- reference to “dirigible balloons” in the* paper Fangie,” re¬ marked Snaggs; “what are they?” U l Dirigible’ means manageable; so of course, ‘dirigible balloons’ are balloons that can be managed.” “Oh! I see. Say 7 , Fangie.” “Well.” “Do you think there will ever be such things as dirigible wives?” Kate,Field says that women bear with their eyes. We reckon that Kate is right. When a number of women are conversing at the . same time it is all that any one of them can do with her ears to hear herself talk. A new military company was or¬ ganized in Atlanta Wednesday night. The new company will be known as the Atlanta Riffles, and they start out under the most favor¬ able prospects. The young men who compose the company met one night last week and held an inform¬ al meeting. It wus agreed to hold another meeting Thursday night and perfect organization. This was done and forty-five of the very best young men of the city are on the roll, and eyery man has pledged himself to yse every effort to make the company a success. Capt. A. C. Sneed, late commander of tbe Gate City Guard, and a thorough mihta ry man, was nominated for captain. Capt. Sneed, will**oeept the nomina¬ tion, and Will make a good ma'deof officer. The uni form adopted is to be green suits, gold trimmings, white helmet, with ostrich plumes. An Illinois editor recently brought suit against forty three men who would not pay tbeir sub¬ scriptions, and obtained judgment in each and every case for the full amount of the claim. Of these twen¬ ty eight, made affidavits that they owned .no mtfre property than tbe law. flowed them! Then, under a decision of tbe Supreme Court, they were arrested for petty larceny and bound over ip the sum-of $300 each, All but six gfcve boBd, wh$e th%six wept to jail. ^ _ jj I $ A lady in Alanta, who has a well of good water, allows a number of her neighbors to use it at the rate of two dollars each per month. From this source it is estimated she real¬ izes the handsome sum of $50 pci month. Atlanta is an enterprising city, and her people have learned to be quite shifty. The latest candidate in the field for the United States Judgeship is Gov ernoUMcDaniel. It is now reported that his friends are feeling the way for him, and probably a strong move¬ ment will be made for bis appoint ment. A Washington dispatch in¬ dicates a split between Senators Brown and Colquitt on this appoint¬ ment, Colquitt working for a new r man and Brown for Judge Brown, of Canton. There is much talk in AJ> lanta over the situation, and now there is great uncertainty as to who will get the appointment. The politicians are watching ihe outcome of the fight between the two Sena¬ tors. “Ah,” said the summer tourist, leaning over the fence and address¬ ing the farmer, “may 1 make bold to-inquire what that great quantity of' green vegetation growing over there is?” “Cert’nly, mister; that’s corn.” “Ah, thanks. And those large animals over bey ond the fence, they are, er—” “Cows, my friend; every one of ’em cows. Say, you .don’t seem to be very well posted on these ’ere things.” “Perhaps not. The fact is that my business has |s kept me so closely confined that this the first chance I’ve had to get 6nt in the country.” “Running a bank, or something like that?” “No sir; I am editor of an agricultural paper. 1 have held that position for thirty years.” She—“Come and sit on the sofa, Henry?” He—“I would. Jennie, on¬ ly I am engaged to three girls now, and I don’t wan’t a fourth to get in¬ terested in me.” An exchange asks: “Why do men seek wives?” Perhaps it is because a suspender button has lost grip; and he doesn’t know howto repair the damage. When a wife, seeks the man he is generally 7 in some beer sa loon spending the money that should support the family. In Macon and Bibb county Messrs. Huff, Felton and Schofield have been nominated for the legislature. Maj. Huff, led the ticket, and he will be heard from in the next session. A doctor declares that kissimr is positively dangerous. He has prob¬ ably 7 been recently employed to poultice the foot prints of an elder brother. “The born poet,” truly remarks Miss Cleveland, “has no agony 7 in his song.” Indeed, no. It is the poor wretch who listens to his song who lies awake and mourns for chloroform. It is wrong to speak of a “respect able” embezzler as a “goood man gone wrong.” He is a bad man found out. m The deepest shades red, we learn from a fashionable authority, are fashionable this summer. It is time, then, to stop poking fun at-the red nosed man. He is just in style. William Beil killed two rattle¬ snakes near James Stewart’s place, in Rocky Plains district, Newton county, one day last week. One of the reptiles had sixteen rattles and the other fourteen. It has been years sinee a rattler was seen in this sec¬ tion, until Mr. Bell run across this pair. ' He found them near rock a fence where a number of walnut trees are growingby the roadside. Hay Fever Sufferers.—The num¬ ber of people annually afflicted with this most annoying malady seems to be greatly on the increase. The editor of this journal is annual vic¬ tim, and, with a view to discover a specific cure, has tiied numerous remidies. Of these, “Ely’s Crean Balm” is by all odds the quickest and most satisfactory, two appliea tions greatly allaying the usual .symptoms in the nose and eyes. We would recommend its use by all subject to hay fever, and we gladly bear unsolicited testimony its.etfi ciency in our own ease. .. —Media, Pa., Record. • John _ Ruskin “when J says: see] a girl dancing I thank heavefl.” §o do we, John ; a girl can’t talk while she is damnng—that is,-sot to any extent. At Atlanta the wholesale liquor licenses of Cox, Hill <fc Thompson, and of John M- Hill expired Satur¬ day, and the license of Paul Jchfes retires from the field within the next ten days.'f; " ^ No. 30. “Who’ll be tho last man on earth?” is the sudden inquiry by a Boston paper. Well, ifno one else will ac cept—if our country calls-—if—but you probably see the drift. - Young swell: “I should like to have my mustache dyed.” Polite barber: “Certainly, did you bring it with you?” “Mamma,” exclaimed three and a half-year old Walter earnestly, as lie came running in at the back door, “now 1 know what the sky- is; it’s s the roof to all over.” Some “horrid” man say’s that in the present style of dressing young ladies’ hair, it is hard to tell- which is switch. A woman is never thoroughly in¬ terested in a newspaper article un¬ til she reaches the place where the balance is torn off: ' The patriotic citizen who is “in the hands of his friends” is now abroad in the land. The Kansas Democrats have nominated Mr. Governor. Moonlight as their candidate for Now let them come out by the light of the moon and elect him. A State census of Florida 191,185 lately taken shows a population of whites and 147,221 colored—total, 338,406. It is rumored that U. S. Minister Jackson has resigned his Mexican commission, but Secretary Bayard has not accepted it. This “land of the free and home of the brave” must be more closely guarded than ever against impost ure. The shipped paupers of Europe can now be in bulk by the trans Atlan¬ tic steamers from Hamburg to New York at $10 per head. The anthori ties over the water will, doubtless, consider it cheaper to export their paupers now than to support them at home. Marshal R. L. Jones, of Atlanta, who'several months ago killed Frank P. Gray, a resident of that place, is still confined in Fulton county jail, where he is likely to remain until his trial comes off, which will take place at the next term of the Superior Court of that county. At the time of the killing an effort was made to have Jones released on bond, hut a hearing of the motion was deferred on account of the sickness of one of the most important witnesses in the ease. A second date was arranged for the hearing and again the heal¬ ing was postponed for thesanie cause. Since then no application has been made to Judge Clark, and it is pre¬ mised that Jones’ lawyers are will¬ ing to have him remain in jail un til the trial off. In Atlanta a cream punch goes by the rather dubious name of “milk shake.” The Cartersville dynamiter, Tohe Jackson, has been sent to the peni¬ tentiary for ten years. There are now about one thousand hands grading the new- Mac-on and Athens Railroad, betw-een Madison and Montfcello. Work on the Cov ington branch has been discontinued. Ex Senator Bruce is actually go ing to lecture on “The race Prob¬ lem.” He probably thinks nobody but colored men are competent to throw the correct shade of light on the subject. Bascom My rick, writing to the Ma con Telegraph from France, says the best regular French soldiers he has seen compare unfavorably with the Georgia militia. He did not see a company at the recent Chatham Centennial that did not excel the best French soldiers in looks, drill and general make up. Nothing casts a man down more than to have his last match go out, especially- after he has bitten the end off his cigar. Dr. Felton will not be a candidate for governor, but proposes to come to the legislature again. The old man has to keep the pot boilfng. It is something of a paradox, but the man who gets over Niagara Falls never gets over it. AT first. He sat and twisted his blonde mustache She toyed with a straying curl, beau silently, thought of her other And he of his other girl, jIFTEKWARI >8 . Slie with her head on Ills shoulder laid ; He had' toyed with tlie straying curl, beau She no of thought his other of girl. her other Nor he The New York Sun - rises to re¬ mark: ’‘There now lives in all this land but one man ever elected as president.by the rotes of the people. His game is Grover Cleveland.” job raoffif -S^OF ALL KIND DONElfr NEATLY AND PROMPTLY. advertising rates MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND. Pay for advertisements is always due after the first insertion, unless otherwise contracted for. Guaranteed positions 20 per cent extra. Entered poSioifiee rts,second-class mail matter. NRWSPAPER BORROWERS. Do you ever think, as week after week you borrow your neighbor’s paper,bow the man who publishes the paper would live if everybody did as you do? Just imagine yourself iu the publisher’s place, and see how you would like some’fellow to come to your house every- Sunday regular ly week after week from one year’s end to that of the next, and borrow a loaf of bread and take it away and eat it without making you any re¬ turn. True you don’t ent the news¬ paper you borrow, but you do—eve¬ ry mother’s borrowing son of you—rob the printer by your neigh¬ bor’s newspaper and reading it, be¬ cause you deprive the printer of the opportunity of selling a paper. You say this is a small matter; you are right, it is a small matter in your ease, but suppose everybody was as mean ns you are, w ho would take the papers then, and where would you find one to borrow-? Does it ever occur to you, that your neighbor who, with long suffering chnrity and forbearance, continues to supply you with literary food through sum¬ mer’s heat and winter’s cold for many a weary year, thinks you are the meanest and most despicable wretch on the face of the earth, and wishes you were transported to the North Pole or sunk to the bottom of the deep, deep sea?—Ex. How to raise beets—take hold of the tops, and pull. Flies are chief actors in the great “speck” tacular drama of life. The discovery- of a very rich vein of gold ore in Warren county is ere* ating quite a sensation in that sec¬ tion, and farmers are beginning to hold their lands at fabulous prices. The land on which the rich ore is being found is the Methodist camp¬ ground. Tbe ore is very rich, and $2,400 has been realized on one ton. If the vein extends any distance, and the miners have struck and extend¬ ed vein and not a pocket,* a big ho¬ nonza is in store for the lucky-own¬ ers of the property. Prohibition is developing into a good thing in Atlanta. There is nothing there hold now- (only by the quart) to political conventions together, and they make quick time and adjourn, have ' The prohibition schedule will another good eG feet—it will help the legislature greatly in its deliberations, with and pos¬ sibly do away adjourned ses¬ sions of that body-.—Dalton Cifci zen. A scolding w-ife Is like araihy day. —Ex. Not hardly. You go into the house to escape a rainy day-, and yen go out of the house to escape a scolding wife. The Wriglitsville Recorder of a recent date has this to say- of a friend i “Prof. E. F. Marston and family, late ofTennille, have located in our town occupying the beautiful Blount residence fronting the Common on Marcus street. We welcome this , splendid family to our midst, and trust their stay will be long, pleas ant and profitable.” Dodge county can boast of a crow¬ ing mocking bird. The bird stayed around Mr. Jesse Browne’s premises. Ilis crow-ing was as clear and distinct as that of a bantam rooster. GRAND JURY. Grand jury drawn for tlie Au¬ gust, term of Rockdale Superior Court, Monday 16, 1886: Leroy- Oglesby, J. W. Johnson, Joshua Fincher, G. T. Smith, I). C, Goode, Madison Tucker, Jno. (J. Farmer, John F. Rowan, Notley W. Maddox, Wm. W. Swann, Jno. W. Granade, James II. Peek, Emory M, Owens, O. V. Sanford, E. C. Granade, Rich S. Sims, D. F. CJotfelter, Win. L. Peek, Jno. W. Langford, G. P. Elliott, Jno. W. Ilollingswotb, sr., A. J. Pierce, Jas. H. Hollingsworth, N. H. Capehart, Bur J. Marbut, G. W. Weaver, P. G. Tucker, G.W. Sim¬ mons, W. H. Brisendine, W. S. Veal. TKAVERSE JURY. Henry A. Parker, Augustas A. Born, Marena D. IrwiD, Joseph D. Echols, Rob. H. Farmer. Thos. P. George, Thos. S. G. loung, G. A. Lucas, Henry J. Boggu's, Iven J. Born, Dickson H. Bowen, Wesly A. Browning, Benj. F. Cook, John D. Hardin, Jas. W. Farmer, Josinli James, I. C. Hawkins, Jas. B. Lyons, Geo. M. Kennett, Jas. I. Coleman, J. W. Jones, Wm. F. King, Jas. M. I.eflwich, sr., G. W. Clemmons, Jcfli-r F. Keen, Geo. A. Keen, John h Al mand, Thos, M. Almand, FranlC M. Ayers, Asbury H. George, John F. King, Lewie A. Lee, James W. Gow an, Frank M. Chandler, W. F. Cur ry, Win. H. Camp.
