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box, t proprietors.
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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
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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.
