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Saddlery, Harness,.
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groceries,
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Weight and Measure!
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and Holiest. Dealing.
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Will offer for the next thirty days,
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rarLC3^ G-ocds,
serfs, Tricots, Eaflies’ Walking Jackets Shawls and Jersey Jackets.
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ARE SOLE AGENTS, IN CONYERS, FOR
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EVERY PAIR WARRANTED!
Eighmie’s Patent shirts,
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Langford, Tucker i Co,
HAVE OPENED A LARGE
Furniture Store
°<-‘eUpied by J. H. & N M. * Almand, and can
«u«".m$el. a Set of Chairs, a Bedstead, also Mattresses
-mulling ot the kind, CHEAPER than yon can buy
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 25,1886.
ADJOURNED.
The Legislature Takes a Becess Until the
Fir A Wednesday In July 1887.
Atlanta, Ga„ Dec. 22lh 1S86,
Today at 1 o’clock both adjourned branches
of the G neral Assemby
until the JBrst Wednesday in July
next. The legislature has just been
in session for fifty days and has
accomplished much more work than
its predecessor. The Senate lias
acted on about one-third more bills
than the last senate did and has
only been in session five days long¬
er/ There has been very little time
lost in useless debate during the
present session, in fact, it has hoi n
more of a working than • gasing”
1 ) 0(1 v.
The penitentiary' sys^f m is now'
tae “white elephant” of the legis
lature. Both branches have appoint
ed. sub committees to investigate
the question during thercciss and
report their findings to the adjourned
session. There is but one thing the
matter with the present sy stem, and
that is the state does not receive
anything like a proper compensa¬
tion for the services of the convicts.
Senator James, however, is equal to
the quesiion, and will, no doubt,
make a solution of the perplexing
problem. Davidson made the fol
President
lowing touching speech at the close
of il e session:
Senators: Permit me as the pre¬
siding officer ot 3 our body, to speak
a few parting words at this hour of
separation, after the duties of the
session have ended. These words
shall mingle congratulations yyit'i
farewell for you may teel satisfied
with tire result of your labors.
Occupying but five more days
than your predecessors, you have con
sidered, as I learn from the record
two bundled and twenty oiemeas-
u res affecting more or less die pub¬
lic's interests, and some of them, 1
dual t not, will redound to the last
ing advantage of the commonwealth,
and be for many years a monument
to your prudence and. wisdom.
W Itile yon wasted no time in use
less debate you have gi'en to all
matters demanding it careful. earn
cst ami thorough investigation, and
• have directed your discussions to
wards a well formed purpose to as
certain what was best calenbiied to
promote the welfare of Georg'a,
whose devoted sons you claim to be
and for the protection and advance¬
ments ot whose glory, I confidently
believe, you would willingly give
wlnit man holds clearest and prizes
most.
I o you it must also be a source
of .pleasure that all your legislative
duties have been discharged with a
strict regard for all the proprieties
which should work well ordered con¬
tentions upon affairs of state and
that at no time during the entire
session has there been found occa¬
sion to enforce any rule of your body
intended for ‘lie preservation of or¬
der anti decorum in debate.
For the unvarying kindness and
helpful consideration I have received
you have here and now my profound
acknowledgements.. With it, though
imperfectly performed, my- duties
it.ive been pleasant. Without it I
could not have hoped for would either sat¬
isfaction or success, and not
h;-r.r deserved in ary degree the
valued words of commendation you
< h ive to- a. expressed. And now,
j fellow which senators, bring in speaking parting, the
J j words no may
1 not wish for each and all a happy
reunion with the loved ones of
home; a bright and joyful partiei
pation in the pleasures of the Christ
mastide; an abundant blessing upon
the threshold and throughout tlie
new year, to whose coming footsteps
we soon shall listen, and finally with
health and vigor unimpareu are un
broken answers-to the cali of tlie roll
when public interests shall demand
our reassembling. tlie
In pursuance of the terms of
joint resolution providing therefor.
1 do now declare the senate of G**or
gja adjourned until 10 o’clock a. m.
on the first Wednesday in July, 1887
It is thought, by those who- are
well posted on the subject,-that pro
hihitton will win in Atlanta by 500
majority.
Col. Stone Steadman, who has
been holding the helm of the En
teiprise during Col. Hawkins’ stay
in tlie legislature, was in the eitv
yesterday shading hands with his
‘YTlTeh y ou Tiirr to get your Solid
South at the postoffiee call at this
office and you can git it.
A ... . tiled . from
i p«i ies ate pion
hunting on my premises.
G. G. Baker.
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MOTHER MADISON.
An Interesting Personage who Lived to a
Great. Age.
The mother of President Madison
lived to the great age of 98 years.
From her marriage to her death she
lived at Montpelier, the ancestral
seal of the Mauisons, a roving, old
fashioned mansion in Virginia, filled
with the mementoes of turee or four
generations. This was her home in
1755, when Braddoek’s deleat filled
the region with panic stricken lugi
tires, and tlie.e she lived when her
illustrious son retired from the
presidency in 1817. She was still in
cheerful health when General I.alay
ette [.aid his respects to her in 1825.
Alter her husband’s death, in
1801, her son James, who inherited
bis father’s landed estate, greatly
enlarged the mansion, but left the
old part of it unalli red and reserved
ii for the exclusive use ol his moth
or. He held her In the deepest ven
oration, and studied her comfort
and preferences in all the arrange
meats of his house. 8 he kept her
old servants about her, and lived in
all respects according to her own
fancy. who had
One aged negro half man, still
waited upon her a century,
refused, at 90 years, when his bead
was crowned with a halo of snowy
hair, to give up bis p!u;e behind her
chair. Die sometimes slept upon
the post of duty and stumbled about
the (lining room in an alarming man
ner.
Several negroes upon the estate
were older than Mother Madison;
for so she was called to dialinguisli
her bom the wife of the president.
When General Lafayette he'loved was stroll at
Mortpelicr in 1825 to
to the cabin of ‘Granny Milly,”
a oed 140 years, whose youngest
grand(kuij-h' er vigorous was 70 years old. past
Milly was a woman Lord
50 when Lafayette chased
Cornwallis across Virginia during
the revolutionary war, and there she
was in excellent preservation would when
he returned in 1825. He
come smiling to the mansion house
bringing in Ids hand a Ircsh egg or
a bum'll of flowers, tlie gift of Gran
ny Milly. interest¬
Mother Madison was no
ing personage to the visitors who
frequented the house-. She had to
the last her uwn special garden, laid
out in the formal and angular plan
of the olden time, and cultivated by
her own gardener. modern ad*
Nothing novel or was
milted to anv portion of her domain.
At, 2 o’clock every day, when guests
were at the house, she held a recep
tinn in her quaint sitting room, when srr
rounded by elies of the time
George III. was king. placed
She sat upon a couch in
the middle of this large and com¬
fortable apartment, with, a table at
her side, on which could always be
seen her old Bible and prayer book,
the stay and comfort of her age.
On the sanfe table lay a number ol
nail's of gloves and stocking, knitted
by her own bands, and marked with
the names of favored guests lor
whom slio had made them.
Here she received her company,
chatted with them pleasantly, and
often gave them gloves or stockings
as a parting gift trurn the
great heap.lx fore her. Thus Mother
Madison is pictured for us by one of
her descendants: the author of the
“Memoirs of Dolly Madison.’ —
Youth’s Companion.
The Marietta Journal gives this
short history of Santa Claus’ origin;
“SantaClaus was one of the oldest
ideas of live Celtic. West in Pagan
times, as he was of the Pagan East
before. In Christmas times he was
still regarded with religious rever
enee. sitting as 'he had sat for ages
in Egypt and elsewhere, in the aims
of his mother. Santa Claus was, in
fact, his mother.- Santa Claus was,
in fact, the child Jesus in the middle
ages; and throughout that period,
the festive cree-l of Germany and ull
Celtic Europe was that he visited all
fa-i.ily dwellings of Good Christians
os tlie eve of his anniversary, a>»d
brought with him gifts and blessings
for the children. This beautiful tra
dition is still to be found lingering
in Germany, though Santa Claus
does not seem to be specially truth con
nee Led with it by; name. The
of this original belief is plainly
enough inflicted by the word “clans,”
which in the Gothic or ancient Ger
'man, means “child” and “som”
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j An aiutn sprirg has been discov
! ered near Crtiwloiitville, Ga., which,
if if* claimed, will positively cure any
case of rheumatism alter one night’s
bathing.
No. 49.
PENCIL POINTERS.
A Few Thoughts on the Occasion of the
World's Jubilee.
Christmas day.
Through what scenes, sad. joyful
and painful we have passed during
the present year. While many
tilings have possibly been- unpleas
ant and at tiroes distressing there
have been enough joys to equalize
matters and make life indeed de
sirable. It is so with the year 1886;
it lias doubtless always been so, and
will no doubt continue until the stars
are lost in the night of time by the
splendor of eternity.
The moving of the draping hearse,
with its sleeping gem. lias for a time
stolen our affections from things of
earth, robbed our joys and left us
alone in the agony ol painUnd dis¬
tress. Few are the homes that have
not entertained on some occasion
the uninvited messenger of deu'h.
On the one hand appears the man
tle of gloom, darkness and despair.
But over it into the sunny land of
the future the rainbow of hope ap
pears, and on it sport our highest
aims, brightest prospects and fond¬
est desires.
We can in n measure catch a dis
tant sound of the notes that first
fed on Judea to enrich the songs of
the world. It, might be that the
earth heaved to grasp a clearer
sound, and heaven stooped to let its
sweetness down.
Rich in love and mighty in all
the conquests of the woi Id, today a
gratelul people lays universal horn
age at the feet of the manger babe.
Gratitude, as it is, boundless and
undying, finds ox mission on ibis
occasion in its holiest and wildest
lot ms. 'loitering age looks with
tenderness and delight upon the
beaming faces of happy children.
Young people go wild amid.the fierce
ness of joys. Children go romping,
rumbling and tumbling, lost in the
ecstacj of their own leelings.
Christmas lias come. The fire
cracker, tlie tin horn, the*other
weapons of destruction are also here
in multiplied abundance, Tin
quiet dog’s tail also comes m liandi
ly as a suitable instrument for re
moving oyster cans and tin pans.
This is an exercise frequently in
ilulgcd in by the dogs for tlie de
light of the laughing millions.
Santa Claus comes rushing through
the house an -1 frightened chi’dren
scream with tke frenzy of madness.
The swinging stea l lugs grow rich
with the tokens of affection 1 . Spa¬
cious moms resound wit Pi the merry
tin ! iia ! of a reunited family. A
buxom youth eat lies a cunning smile
from his best girl, is overpowered
nnd thinks tlie back bone of the uni
verse lias given way. A playful
biick bat interviews a two story
hat and the wearer feels as though
the planet Jupiter had sat down up¬
him. ’ A cracker off sudden
on goes
ly and the boy’s finger is picked up
in an adjoining county. Fantasties
take the streets nnd front porches
while the little children scream and
take refuge under the beds, under
rho houses and in the faithf'eri back yards
On such occasions the dog,
the midnight terror of the'emirting
lad, beats a quiet, positive hut rapid
retreat. The noisy serenade ! 1 comes
prowling around, eroptys the fat
lifnek bottle, fills his pockets with
cakes and retires by ransacking the
lien roosts. Your neighbors come
in, make merry by-eating up all
your Christmas goodies and leave
without extending an invitation lo
tome over and least with them.
Two boys dispute over a cracker, go
to blows and next morning two boys
wake up with Hack eyes and badly
disqualified noses. A good wife
fills her loving husband with sylla
luib and at night puts him to bed
with boots on.
But, Christinas fs Christmas in
these United States of America
After nli it may be well enough to
let t hings on one occasion at Least
assume an air of genera 1 hilarity.
Vaunting custom, however, has in
a great measure robbed the occasion
of its natural sneredness Tlie wild
whoop, the ribald jest, and tlie
screaming yell, is rjft in keeping
with the diameter whose birth it is
-ftctetjdert to celebrate.
BE. GLLSS'S CARP.
A new and good tiling. The sew
ing machine’s relief spring. Ev* ry
s-houbl have * me. Worth its I
weight in gold. Apply to Dr. J. J. j
W. Glenn. Agents wanted. '
JOB IHOkh
-SpOF ALL KIND DONE^r*
NEATLY AND PROMPTLY.
ADVERTISING RATES
MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND.
Pay for advertisements is always
due after the first insertion, unless
otherwis: contracted for.
Guaranteed positions 20 per cent
extra.
Entered postoIRce as second-class mall
matter.
SMYRNA POTTIKGS.
Wo have boon very busy this week
denning: up and attending to our
domestic affairs around home, nnd
the women folks are cooking one
thing and another. So we are count¬
ing on having a good time generally
during Mr. the George Christmas Hollingsworth, holidays.
from
near Atlanta, visited his father, Mr.
Aaron Hollingsworth, a-day or two
this week. Mr. Aaron is in feeble
health.
The prayer meeting Sunday night
was led by Mr. Otto Clotfeltcr.
The meeting was very interesting.
Mr. Joint Hollingsworth, (Bob’s
John), Sunday will loud the next meeting.
The school decided last
Sunday to have their jplirsitma? tree
this evening at half past 2 o'clock.
The following names are 1 tu> commit¬
tee of arrangements: J. 0. Bohanan
and wife, G W. Warren nnd wife,
John Hollingsworth nnd sister,
(Bob’s John), John Hollingsworth
and sister, (Tom’s John), Wm Hol¬
lingsworth and sister and Miss Nel¬
lie Stowers. Everybody arc.iespect
fully invited to be with us.
Tlte writer and Mr Wardie Ogle
tree wont to- Atlanta this Week to
1 ay in Christmas supplies.
After serving their constituents
with distinguished ability, Cob W.
L. Peek and Dr. J. A. Stewart, our
immediate representatives, fatted are at
home, ready to eat their tur
keys and to receive the curses of en¬
emies and plaudits of friends.
• Malaria! The very mention of it is a
nightmare! this blighting Whoever disease has knows suffered what from
a
dread scourge it is, and how it seems
almost impossible to e'adieate it from
tlx; system. SMITH’SJHLE BEANS
will most surely destroy tlie germs of
Malaria, Dose, and bean. afford permanent z bottle. releif.
one 2 o cent tf. per
For sale by all druggists and dealers in
medicine, or sent post paid oh receipt cf
price, to any part of tlie count ry.
Christmas is Coming.
All persons indebted to tlie firm
of H P. & D. M. Almand and the
firm of H. P & D. M. Almand *k
Co, are respectfully’ asked to enme,
forward and make settlements be¬
tween now and didst mas, 3 t.
McLean’s Notice.
I am compelled to have the money
owning lo me Those indebted to
me will please come forward and set¬
tle at once, and thus su'e themselves
cost. Jos. S. McLean.
Cox VERS, Gn . Dec. 13 1886.
NOTICE! NOTICE !r
•All persons indebted to myself or
Mrs A. M. Lee will please call and
settle immediately, as we are need¬
ing tlie money, Please //II. do riot wait
for further notice. - Lee.
Black Morgan.
G. P. Elliott has bought the Mote
ly stallion and wifi keep him at his
livery stable. Morgan is one of
• he finest stallions in the country.
His reputation is established ns one
of the finest blooded animals in the
state.
Weddings
Remember 11. P & D. M. Almand
& Co. will close up eh> istmas day.
We invite all our customers to come
the day beford and get their apples
and oranges and candies for Christ¬
mas.
A Sale Notice.
I have this day sold half interest
in the livery business to C. S. Elliott
including all the rolling slock and
the fine stallion, to be kept there all
the time, and the business will be
run by C. S. Elliott, and lie invites
the public to give him a call for fine
turnouts cheap. G. P Elliott.
Conyers, G.v, Dec. lGih 1886.
John © H. Hardin keeps the best
flour in-town for the* least money'.
When you want good apples at
lOets per dozen go to John 0. H.
Hardin's.
For the best, jeans in town go to
John O- H- Hardin.
Fok Rext or Sale —FaVm two
miles from Conyers, apply to
S. S. Ncjcrollb
L. F. Scoft will be headquarters
for toys etc.
Now is tte time to pay your city
tax. jo. 8 . Bellah, C. T. C.
Good iszor, strop and cake soap
for 50 cents at L. F. Scott's.
When your young friends are
about to marry, remember them by
a nice present of silverware, fine
castors, butter dishes, knives, forks
and spoons etc. at low figures ami
warranted at L, F. Scott’s.