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hand the Largest and Best Selected Stock of
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ptliing, Jeans, Piece Goods,
Wats, Shoes,
Boots,
Trunks, Valiees,
Saddlery, Harness,
and Farming Implements,
GROCE R I E S,
and Ties. Wheat Brau, Flour Sugar, Sirup, Coffee, Tobacco,
Hardware, etc. that has ever been offered in Conyers. This is
; BUT SOLID FACTS!!!
KO JOKE,
ford, Tucker & Co.
PRIDE THEMSELVES ON KEEPING
I Goods and giving Honest
Weight and _ _ Measure! ™ I
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YOU KNOW THEIR MOTTO,
[Profits I .
cl Goods*. Short air
and n T htOi r L( L j TA LJ0filing. 1* ™
A.NGF0RD, Tucker
Will offer for the next thirty days,
EABGAB3 IS lim AH HISSES’ GLOVES, CORSETS, HOSIERY
jdkerehiefs. They have an immese line of NOTIONS and
IFa2^.c3T GrCOcLs,
res, Tricots, Eadies’ Walking Jackets, Shawls and Jersey Jackets
REMEMBER THAT
ngford, Tucker & Co
ARE SOLE AGENTS, IN CONYERS, FOR
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EVERY PAIR WARRANTED!
Eighmie’s Pa ent shirts,
i'nd they have a large stock of
ns Sheeting Shirting 1 Checks
Tucker & Co.
HAVE OPENED A LARGE
Furniture Store
1 oimerly occupied by J. H. & N M. Almand, and can now
! S e, h°oin Set, a Set of Chairs, a Bedstead, also Mattresses
ain thing ol the kind, CHEAPER than you can buy
Them In .Atlanta.
and DON’T FORC ET IT!! I frl
Intel Tier k Co.
[Heir ^erefo GOODS DIRECT FROM HEADQUARTERS, and can
re make it to the advantage
of their customers.
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/ r r rice Paid for Cotton and Produce,
^ 3 and 5 C ommerce Street,
CONYERS GEORGIA.
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 9,1886,
NEWTON’S TAXES.
From the grand jury presentments
of Newton county these two items
are extracted:
We find the current expenses of
the county to be about $6,000 per
annum. This, added to the inter
est on the debt, at 8 per cent,
amounts to $2,960.00, which inter¬
est added to the current expenses
amounts to $8,960.00, still leaving
a debt of $37,000 on the tax payers.
We have thought it proper to rec¬
ommend to the county' commission¬
ers that they secure, by proper leg
islation the authority to assess
$10,000 per annum to be exclusive¬
ly used to cancel the present imiebt
edness.
We find in the hands of file chair
man of the county commissioners
$1,785.98 in cash. Wefini cash ou
hand in county treasury for county
purposes $226.25, for pauper fund
$247.50, for jury purposes $3.00.
The increased taxation recommend¬
ed will be about fifteen cents on
the hundred dollars of taxable prop¬
erty in the county, additional to the
assessment now made, which we be¬
lieve our people are willing and
ready to bear to clear the county' of
debt, which will be paid in five
years, at the rate reommended.
A little girl in DeKalb county’ re
cently' made a nice quilt before she
was four years old. She is the daugh¬
ter of Mr. Jordan.
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Atlanta, about two years ago, and
who was convicted of stealing the
l»y ^ of the Air Line railroad,Hast
year, has escaped from the Dale
coantv coal mines, and is now at
large ,
Men are not to be judged by their
looks, habits and appearances, but by
the character of their lives and con
versations, and by their works. “Tis
better that a man’s own works than
that another man’s words should
praise him.”
“Invisible seam umbrellas” are ad¬
vertised. A great many of the old
style umbrellas invisible seem when
you come to look for them.
A Lain man named Reese, on the
second section of the through
freights, was killed at Madison, on
Monday morning while his train
was being “switched,” at that place.
A Nashville paper announces that
there is an alarming increase of cigar¬
ette smoking among the boys of that
city’ And this in sight of the Her
milage where Old Hickory lived and
died. There is a proverb that child.” says:
“Spare the rod and spoil the
It has long been believed that it
was the bogus and not the genuine
workingmen who make the trouble
during riots. A New York police
officer says “that the police force
there has not been troubled during
strikes bv the real strikers, the work¬
ingmen, but by the gang of 50,000
thieves and cutthroats who infest
New York and Brooklyn, and are on
lv too glad to take advantage of such
an opportunity to plunder.”
Four tons of giant powder were ex
ploded in a well sunk thirty five feet
deep into the solid granite ot Stone
Mountain at 4 o'clock Saturday after
noon. After the powder was stored
away in the chambers at the bottom
of the well, the well was Idled up to
the surface and ignited by means of
eleetricty’. Apeisonatthe foot of
the mountain would probably have
heard the explosion, but as a sensa¬
tion the blast was a failure. Wheth
er it was a success in breaking up
the stone it will take several days to
determine. Slight cracks were dis
covered here and there. Quite a
number of persons went from Atlan
ta to witness the blast. Future
blasts will be made at a depth of
from 100 to 200 feet in which from
thirty to fifty tons will be employed.
“The Sam Jones College” will be
one of the glories of Cartersvilie.
The citizens, headed by Mr. Jones,
have subscribed t°n thousand dol¬
lars towards the enterprise, and all
arrangements for the
erection of the building have been
completed. In this work Mr. Jones
will leave behind him the best mon¬
ument.
“Why is it,” asked Mine. Z, one
day, “that you don’t get married?”
“Impossible, my dear raadame,”
responded X. “I have such a horror
of divorce.”
“Yes, I am opposeed to the girls
marrvin’ furniners,” said old 5lrs
ggf, m ; r “ E 5
their own sex they needn’t marry at
all, and that’s all there is about
it.”
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WILL THEY SEOEBE?
The Knights of Labor from all
parts of the United States and Can¬
ada have been in session in Rich
tnond, Va., during the present week.
T. V. Powderly, the chief of the or
ganization, presided at the meeting
and many new sentiments, new at
least to the southern Knights, ha v e
been developed.
The freshest thing asyet is the
advocacy of social equality by As
sembly 49 of New York. It con¬
sisted o( 61 delegates, one being a
negro. They made application to
a hotel for lodging and the proprie¬
tor refused to accommodate the ne¬
gro, whereupon the entire delegation
became offended and went with their
colored brother—we presume to a
negro hotel.
Tuesday night the delegation,
headed by this negro, marched into
the theater and took seats in the or¬
chestra. This is the only’ ease
on record when a negro occupied a
seat, other than those reserved for
them, in a Richmond theater. Wed¬
nesday night the manager of the
theater had thirty extra police on
hand to prevent the negro and the
assembly from again insulting the
good people of Richmond.
The negro was selected to intro
duce Powderly and during his
speech made use of the following
language. led the aspi
“As Virginia has in
rations of our country in the past,
we look with much confidence that
she will lead in the future to a real¬
ization of the objects of the noble
order, which include the abolition of
those distinctions which are main¬
tained by class, by creed, by color
and by’ nationality. I believe I pre¬
sent to you a man who se mind is
above these superstitions which are
involved in these distinctions. Here
we stand as brethren and equals.
My experience in the noble order
of the Knights of Labor, and my
training in the district to which I
belong, lias taught me that we have
advanced very far towards the elim¬
ination of these unfortunate and
regretable distinctions.”
In concluding his speech Mr.
Powderly said that some of the mem¬
bers of the visiting delegations who
were of a darker hue than their
brothers could not find places in
some ot the hotels. This was in ac
cordiance with what had long been
a custom here, and old customs and
prejudices do not readily vanish.
There had been particular mention
made of one instance where a delega¬
tion numbering sixty members had
one colored member among them
He was refused admission to the
hotel where they intended to go, and
the delegation, standing by the prin¬
ciples of the order, which recognizes
no distinction of creed, nationality
or color, went with their colored
brother. That, he said, was why he
made the selection of that brother to
introduce him to them, so that it
might go forth that they practiced
what they preached. will
Now the question is the
souvhern Knights allow Powderly to
put down their throats the bitter
pill, social equality, that the repub¬
lican party has tried to choke down
the southern people for twenty It years,
but failed ignominiously. scheme now
looks as if this was another
oftlie republican party to If accom¬ Pow¬
plish their hellish designs.
derly, or any other of his Massachu¬
setts brethren, see proper to equal
ize themselves socially with the ne¬
gro let them do so, but the south
will regulate her own social affairs
and that too without any advice
from her northern friends, Will the
southern Knights secede, or will they
swallow the negro?
“Do you preach from notes?” ask
ed the deacon of an up town church
during the examination of an ap¬
plicant for that pulpit. “Well, no
—not exactly,” hesitated the app'i
cant; “I preach for notes—bank
notes.” lie was summarily ex
ponged.
The Boston Globe says a police
man of that city chased a burglar a
mile in his night shirt. When a
policeman can afford to wear a night
shirt large enough to chase a burg¬
lar a mile in it, we must accept it as
another evidence of returning proper
ity under the new administration.
hat makes Pompey! what you ’fraid of?
vv you shake and slubber?”
“ Law chile! lse got de ague
An “De got tropic de tropic libber libber.”
I don't know what Pompey?
But you means:
By taking you can cure your ague
SMITICS BILE BEANS.
Two bits a Lottie, don’t pay more!
You’ll get dem atde drugmans store.”
The most economical and best remedy
for ague. 25 cents, j-er bottle.
No. 38.
ORGE 1 CAIN.
The popularity of this
house is known far and
wide.
Hisline of goods iseom
plete and of the best. Any
and everything in the
mercantile line you want
anc be found at his store.
Fine line of every kind
of jewelry, Gold and sil¬
ver watches, all at aston¬
ishing low prices.
Cain is still selling 10
pounds of cotfee for $1.
Go and see the bar¬
gains Cain is offering.
John Hardin
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE LOT OF
Crockery and glassware,
and is selling them at prices never before heard of in the city of Conyers.
Prints and dress goods
at astonishingly low prices.
The best tobacco at the
ZLjo*west UPrlce
BEST SHOES AT LOWEST PRICES, PATENT ZYONITE COLLARS
AND CUFFS, HATS AT PRICES NEVER BEFORE HEARD OF.
Tie test Hour always on taut City.
SHIRTS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. CHEAP! CHEAP!
The Best Ax in the market for the least money
Full line of Hardware!!
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Us SELLING GOOD SHOES FROM ONE DOLLAR ON UP,
GRANULATED SUGAR 13 POUNDS TO THE DOLLAR,
LIGHT BROWN SUGAR 14 POUNDS TO THE $1.00
Good coffee 81bs for $1.,*
CALICO FROM 4£ to 6£ CENTS PER Y'ARD, GOOD
JEANS FROM 15 to 35 CENTS A YARD,
Hats from 35 cents up.
KEEPS A FULL LINE OF
Groceries and Canned pods very Cieap.
FLOUR FROM $2 20 to $3.00 PER HUNDRED; CIDER,
VINEGAR, SIRUP, KEROSENE OIL, AND
Everthing usually kept in a General store. Everything at bottom prices.
Call and see him in the Nuckoll’s building on Commerce Street.
JOB OIOSS
-5HOF ALL KI'ND DONF^S
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 postoffiee as second-class mail
matter.