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hand the Largest and Best Selected Stock of
Have now on
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ins, CtotlnDg, Goods,
Hats, Jeans, Piece
Roots, Shoes,
Trunks, Valices,
Saddlery, Harness,
and Farming Implements,
groceries,
Ties. Wheat Bran, Flour Sugar, Sirup, Coffee Tobacco,
inl> VHardware ,„d been offered in Conyers. I Ins is
DUM etc. that has ever
NO JOKE, BUT SOLID FACTS!-'!
ans ford, Tucker & Co.
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PRIDE THEMSELVES ON KEEPING
od Goods and giving Honest
Weight and Measure!
YOU KNOW THEIR MOTTO,
iod Goods. Short Profits Pair
and Honest Dealing.
Langford, rp UCKER& CO
Will offer for the next thirty days,
11 EAEBiffiS 111 LADIES’ Mi MISSES’ GLOVES, CORSETS, HOSIERY
landkenfuel's. They have an im uiese line of NOTIONS and
t G-ocds,
[lores, T.i jpots, Eadies’ Walking Jackets, Shawls and Jersey, Jackets.
REMEMBER THAT
ingford, 'Fucker & Co •
ARE SOLE AGENTS, IN CONYERS, FOR
£&3
EVERY PAIR WARRANTED!
Eighmie’s Patent shirts,
And they have a large stock of
Shelving ° Shir tins: ~ Checks
Langford, Tucker 4 Co.
HAVE OPENED A LARGE
Furniture Store
L 01 y fUnneily occupied by J. H. & N M. Almand, and can now
r edioom Set, a Set of Chairs, a Bedstead, also Mattresses
| anything of the kind, CHEAPER than you can buy
Them In Atlanta.
C^AND DON’T FORGET IT!!! jf I
Intel Tiler k Q.
DIRECT FROM HEADQUARTERS, and can
€ R to the advantage of their customers.
pT Price Paid for Cotton and Produce.
laaganasg^j tea & m
I . mm m i i I m $
Vol. 4.
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 23, 1886.
HOW TO BLOW UP A TOWN,
Oppose improvements.
Mistrust its public men.
Run it down to strangers.
Go to some ot her town to trade.
Lengthen your face when a stranger
speaks of locating in^it.
If a man wants to buy of anybody
else interfere and discourage him.
Refuse to see any merit in a
scheme that don’t directly benefit
you.
If you can’t hog everything, judge
everybody by yourself and accuse
them of doing it.
Do not support the newspaper.
Consistency is a jewel, but incon¬
sistency is the paste diamond which
I etty politicians are wont to wear.
During a thunderstorm recently
in a town up in New York State a
man hurrying to ashelter was
knocked senseless by a flash of light¬
ning. He was taken into a hotel,
and after he had been labored with
for some time he recovered. Strug
gling to his feet lie gaged upon the
anxious faces surrounding him, and
remarked with an air of severity:
‘•Gentlemen, if order has been re
stored, we will proceed with the
game.” his
It is unnecessary to mention
profession.
“Come, let’s cross the street,”
said a tnan to a friend, with whom
he was walking. “I don’t want to
meet that fellow Spiggot. I owe
him.”
“Why are you so much afraid to¬
day? You met hi in yesterday and
shook hands with him?”
“Yes, but it was different then.”
“Why, so?”
“Because 1 had on old clothes
yesterday, but have on a new suit
today. My dear fellow,” affection
ately taken bis friend’s arm, “noth
ingcan rival a suit of new clothes
in the matter of inviting duns. If
you owe a man he thinks it is your
duty to weal* sack cloth and ashes
until you pay him.
There is a sharp point to Bur
detle’s humor. Commenting on
Kate Field’s assertion that prolii
hition has made sneaks and hypo
crites out of hundreds of people here
tofore honest and straight forward,
Burdette says: “It is" terrible. It
proviatliat prohibition is a great
evil. Now, if Kate will only look
around she may ascertain that free
whisky has a tendency to reclaim
hypocrites and sneaks and make
honest men of them There is
nothing like unlimited grog for el
evating men That can be proved
by the men who have tried it.”
A popular Philadelphia preacher
recently lectured on “Fools.” Be
fore the doors opened, however, not
a ticket had been sold, but a big au¬
dience paid the cash at the door and
went in. The next day he discover¬
ed why no tickets were sold His
manager had them printed: “Lee
ture on Fools. Admit one.” One
what—fool? Of course such tickets
wouldn’t sell in a nice village like
Philadelphia. It reminds usofthe
country landlord who had a rush at
his hotel, where the legislators hoard
ed, and he divided the crowd thus
unfortunately: “Members of the leg
islature eat at the first table, and gen
tlemen at the next.” Of course the
legislators got mad at not being
classed as gentlemen.
It now turns out as we always
thought, that the leaders cf the
Knights of Labor are gulling the
members by windy speeches of the
great results to be accrued from the
organization. At the national con¬
vention, which lias been setting two
weeks in Richmond, they have ac¬
complished nothing towards reme¬
dying the great evils that are com
plained of by the working people.
The leaders manipulated the con
venting and had their salaries doub¬
led and the time of holding their
offices increased to two years
instead ol one. This is a fair sam¬
ple of the intention of these north¬
ern republicans to fleece the south
ern workingmen. Mr. Powderly, the
autocrat of the American working¬
men, and his subordinate salaried
officers, are acting the parts of
“Knights of Leizure,” while the toil
ing masses make themselves slaves
to support these leaders in their
idleness and luxury. There is much
dissatisfaction among the Knights,
many prophesying that the order
will not last o“er three years. There
is not an officer of the order that has
done any work in the last ten years.
Sanies Melton lias a pair of j
oxen
that.can make a mile in four min r
utes. He has been asked to trot
them at the state fair in Macon next
week.—Covington Enterprise.
SATURDAY NIGHT,
Copied from lines, by an unknown
author, found in an old Bible belong¬
ing to Rev. James O. Andrew, (son
of Bishop Andrew.}
Pause, mv soul! a week lias ended ;
One the less for thee below :
In this week there hath been blended
Hope and fear, and cai’ist" joy and woe.
Weary heart, thou not murmur,
O’er the sky a bow is cast!
One week to thy haven nearer,
One week nearer to thy last.
Pause, my soul! a week has ended ;
What its record borne for thee?
Whom oppressed hast thou befriended?
Who the happier been for time ?
Hast thou love for hate requited?
To thy neighbor west thou true?
What, my soul, hast thou neglected?
What performed thou shouldst pot do!
Pause, my soul! a week has ended ;
Time is hearing thee away ;
Only for while ’
a. extended
is tiie life we live today .
What may be upon the morrow
God in mercy hides from thee;
But so live, come joy or sorrow.
As thy day thy strength sliajl be.
Blaine has taken the stump in
Pennsylvania and his appearance
there is understood to be the open¬
ing of his campaign Jor the pfesi
dential nomination.
Marshal Irvin, of Wilkes county,
is aheadon squashes. While he has
several good varieties for table use,
he raises one for making dish rags
and scrubbing brushes, and it seems
to answer the purpose admirably.
It is long and conical in shape, and
when the pu'p dries, it looks and
feels something like a sponge except
that the fibre is coarser.
Husband (going fishing)—“Good
bye wifey; l won't come until late
unless I catch something.” Wife—
“If you don’t come until late, hubby,
you will bcsiire to catch something,
you hear me?”
Doctor—“And so you think Flori¬
da is the garden spot of America, do
you? Returned tourist—do.
Nearly ad my friends who have gone
there have been planted there by the
friendly natives.”
It is very mortifying for a young
man to ask for a girl’s hand and re¬
ceive her father’s foot.
A common impression prevails to
the effect that the Turks, a mong
their other virtues, number that of
sobriety. This cannot he literally
true, for our late Minister, Mr. Cox,
has been investigating the matter.
The Turks have laws upon the sub
jects of drunkenness a (id its punish¬
ment. and this is one of the clauses:
“Intemperance is proven, either by
admission of the person accused, or
by witnesses who have seen him in
the act of drinking. The flavor of
wine from one’s breath is not a suf¬
ficient proof; he may have eaten
quinces, which give the same odor.”
In view of the punishment provided
in Turkey for the offense, it is pre¬
sumed that quinces have to bear a
heavy burden. “Punishment for in¬
toxication is ‘good advice for the
first time,” a severe admonishment
for the second time, and for every
subsequent time eighty blows of the
cudgel over the stripped body. The
striker, in operating, must not lift
his hand higher than his shoulders,
and the club he uses for this occasion
must be a short one.”
On Wednesday of last week, in
Shenandoah, Fa., a servant girl went
into the basement of a house on West
Coal street,opened the door and found
herself standing on the brink of a
cave-ir, about 18 feet in dianie
ter and 100 feet deep. The whole
bottom of the basement had fallen in¬
to the workings of the Oakdale Coal
Mine. The house is still standing,
but the people are in terrible excite¬
ment for fear that the entire neigh¬
borhood may fall into the mine.
The cool wave—When the girl’s
father waves you to the front door.
The unit rule is a very bad thing
when the other fellow gets the best
of it
“Does an editor always live in pov
erty?” inquires a correspondent.
No, not always. Sometimes he has
the good fortune to die.
A phrenologist says that fullness
under the eye denotes language.
The phrenologist must have run
across a lied. man who had told somebody’
else he
“It is discouraging to think,” said
a complaining shoemaker, “that
what ever pains I may take with my
work it is sure to be trampled under
foot.”
Among the curiosities in Griffin
Monday were Francis Darnall and
S on, of Atlanta. The father is 56
years of a<;e and is only 4 feet 4 in
t hes in height, and the son is 17
years of age, and only 3 feet X inch in
height.
No. 40.
trarrl ORGE W. EM.
The popularity of this
house is known far and
wide.
His line of goods iseom
plete and of the best. Any
and everything in the
mercantile line you want
anc be found at liis 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 coffee for $1.
Go and see the bar¬
gains Cain is offering.
3$ "5^5!
John Bardin
IIAS 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
Z-iOTX 7 -est ZEPrlce.
BEST SHOES AT LOWEST PRICES, PATENT ZYONITE COLLARS
AND CUFFS, HATS AT PRICES NEVER BEFORE HEARD OF.
Tie lest lour always a laid Cheap.
SHIRTS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. CHEAP! CHEAP!
The Best Ax in the market for the least money
Full line of Hardware!!
V¥ _____________ uuu
Just received at Richard¬
son and Cowan’s. Any¬
thing you need in this
line. They are selling prices ev¬
erything at bottom
and will make it to your
interest to examine our
goods. Bought for cash
and can sell very low
down. Come.md see us.
Richardson j$ Cowan,
JOB mORK
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