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ATTENTION FARMERS.
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Do not sell your cotton and
spend the money before y 0ll
visit RUSK & OLOTFELTER’S store. They carry
general line and can give you good values for your money
KlISK & CMTFEim
THE FRENCH CAGE.
A Sample of Royal Tyranny In
Eighteenth Century.
Dubourg’s real name was
de la Cassagne, a journalist of
land, who had taken the liberty of
censuring the acts of the king of
Trance, Louis XV. This criticism
appeared in a public print at Frank¬
fort. Although he was living be¬
yond the borders of French terri¬
tory at Leyden, in Holland, he was
not safe from the emissaries of
Louis. The agents of the royal po¬
lice succeeded in gaining possession
of his person and conveying him to
Mont St. Michel. There he was
confined in the cage.
Touched by his supplications, the
prior of the abbey consented to
nend a letter to his wife at Leyden,
the mother of four children, ac¬
quainting her with the fact that he
was alive, hut entombed in the cells
of Mont St. Michel, He was cer
tainlv entombed! Overcome by de¬
spair and by the sufferings and pri
vntions which he had endured, Du
bourg died in the night of Aug. 27,
3 74G. Jn the morning his body was
found almost devoured by a legion
cf rats.
The state papers contain an ac¬ -
count of the burial of “the body of
ft man named Dubourg, aged about
30 years, who died in a cage situated
in the castle of the town, where lie
had been detained by the order of
his majesty.” It is creditable to
the humanity of Charles X that
when he visited the island fortress
its Count d’Artois in 1777 he order¬
ed the. cage to be destroyed. This
Command was not carried out.
though the cage was no longer used
*s Louis a place of confinement until
Michel Philippe visited Mont St.
in 1837, when he caused it
to be broken up before his eyes.
The present cage is a restoration
*nd exact representation of this
ancient relic of barbaric tyranny.-
Gentleman's Magazine,,
A FRlCANA will euro Ecxema and Ca
** tir-b to Stay Cured.
A NEW BUSINESS.
Every body come in and see the elegant line of goods I am opening up in the Turner
next door to bank. You will certainly see something to please you. Thimble skeen
and iron axle wagons, [one and two horse.] Buggies to burn. New ones arriving most
every day As pretty line of harness asyoucare to see. Somethin g new. Different size
buffers from $10.00 up Best on the market- Anddon’t rorget to come in and get an
Ideal Deering Mower to cut your hay with- None other so good. Only 2 or 3 left. Low p r ices
I have plenty of room and welcome you to make my place headquarters wi ile in town
If you want to buy guano or acids see me- I have it. Soliciting liberal patronage
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I am with much respect.
s. &
WEEKLY - BANNER-
Jno. C. Stephenson.
ESTABLISHED In 1890.
He was the foremost salesman for the largest house in Conyers for 15 years, and has beeD
in business for himself for 10 years. He has the leading business of the town after 25 years ex¬
perience Show and display have no part in his store. Solid, reliable business has made him
popular with all and he will be glad to supply you with everything in the various lines of
Dress Goods, Notions, Trimmings, Shoes, Hats
Caps, Clothing, Trunks, etc, -Groceries of all kinds:
Meat, Lard, Flour, Meal, Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, Can
ned Goods of all kinds.
You have nothing to do but call for what you want if you fail to see it, and the prices and
terms will be lower than the lowest.
We buy Country Produce and pay the highest pri¬
ces for Cotton.
Don’t go out to buy Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes or anything else as we have have the new.
est and best styles.
Miss m Ula r» Keagan and , , Messrs. r Lola t i Granadge, , Walton t t t i Granade ^ and humble
your
servant willon you * Your iriend.
Jno. G. Stephenson.
A Complete Apology.
A prominent official at Tabrm
in the course of an altercation with
an English gentleman called his ad¬
versary^ a liar. The result was a
challenge, which seemed to the Per.
sian preposterous.
“I fight?” said he. “What shall[
fight for ? I only called him a liar”
“Well,” said the gentleman who
took the note to him, “he says you
will have to fight him. There is no
way of getting out of it. It will
never do to call an English gentle¬
man a liar.”
“But I say I won’t fight,” replied
the other.
“Then you must apologize.”
“Apologize! apologizing?” What does he mean
by all
“Why, take it hack and say
you are sorry you called him a liar,
That is what it means.”
“Is that all ?” replied the Persia
“Of course I’ll apologize. I’ll sa i
whatever he wishes me to say.
lied when I called him a liar. I am
a liar, the son of a liar and the
grandsoi o liars. What more does
he want 3 CD to say?”—“Persia and
Persians.”_
Haw Deep Does the Earth Quake?
At Virginia City, Nev., the noticed great
earthquake of 1879 was not
by the miners in the deeper portion! fa¬
of the Comstock mines. The
mous earthquake at the same place in
1874, which shook down chimneys,
fire walls, etc., and cracked every
brick building in the city, was miner! mere¬
ly noticed by some of the
working in the “upper levels,” but
did them no damage, not even shak¬
ing down loose rocks and earth. The
station men in the various shaft!
felt it strongest, and the deepest by
point where it was noticed was
the ninth station man, who was on
watch at the 900 foot level, which
is. of course, 900 feet below the sur¬
face. He said it felt like a faint
throb or pulsation of air, as t ougn
a blast had been fired above, below
or in of some the indefinite Virginia City direction, mines tbi jn
some ew*l
shock was not felt at all, not
the shafts. 1