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ATTENTION FARMERS. - • • \-f. -Ai 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 a 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