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    ^nEEXAM INER . ing We this have week, had which a good has run kept of Jolj u
(jONVEKS, GA, FEB. 23, 1878. bu$y, with oftr limited force, hut
endeavor to accommodate all who
"^RIPTION RATES. anything in that line; J '
one yeflr ......................... \ The Revenue officials made des>
i r.>py months nn a
S1X " ........................... Rockdale, this week, looking
i ropy 50 j af
8 ^,;; h ^" ^ k
o*«a » **»<.«* 7 h r wt
e lJ, 8 oftenormore^, bht it turned out to be the wronr
NOTICE. They were after Jno. Stowers,
after this date Feb., 16th, James Stowo r s, who, of course, ^
Froth and leased.
- 8 the Sheriff sales of Rockdale county
.,'j J, e published in the published Conyers Exam- in said TVVfeNTY-FIVE CENTS \
iner, a weekly paper, bhy a bottle of Sbriner’s Indian V
county. .u g e, the too, reliable agent in de,
JOHN :H. TAYLOR, mg and expelling worms from
Sheriff. and adults. Try it. Every bottle
anteed to give satisfaction, For
From and after this date tPeb., 16tli Cohyei’s by Dr. w. II. Lee; .
a u the advertisements of the Ordi- We regret to learn _ that Prof.
nary ’ s Office of Rockdale county, willbe Bailey, President of the Conyers
published in the Conyers Examiner, a College, has tendered ids
weekly paper published in said county. the Trustees ol that institute.
O. SEAiViONS, Ordinary. templates fdilrent going to North
NOTICE. engage in business,
The Post Office will be open on Sunv tadrily will still make their home in
only. h' 2 °’ cloclc t0 3 P* P, yers. The school at the College will
(by, ora n» r ably iii be continued ,.
, under , the
p. Jones, P. m. February, 23d., 1878. merit Mrs. Montgomery, and the
WANTED. Department by Mrs. Bailey
A situation by a young man of 3 years A . new feature , . ot amusement On
experience as either Book-Keeper or re street ,s a Professor showing
Salesman in a dry goods -stote. Salary tent, in “bogmansh.p The hog
moderate. Address with terms, T. S. Gq rather too much for Professor,
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JSYERS : : GEORGIA,
L prastieo in the Superior aiid Supreme
■irts of the State.
I lM ' i a i attention rjiven to the collection of
■ tilliS. may3-ly
A. C. McCALLA,
homey at Law
DNYERS, 6 GEORGIA
ill practice in Rockdale and adjoining coun
v3-n!5-ly
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/% a SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1878.
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While I hear heavenly music afar.
O, Jesus, my precious Redeemer,
Is such bliss for a lost one like me ?
Shall 1 drink from loves fountain forever
When in rapture I gaze upon Thee ?
I am praising to-day, I am praising.
Such matchless and wonderful love,
'While all heaven sweet anthems is raising
In that beautiful mansion above.
Why is a novel writer the most pecu¬
liar of all animals 1 —Because his tale
comes out of his head.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart owns the largest
single diamond in the land ; value, $35,
000
A Clergyman who was annoyed by the
squeaking shoes of Ids parshioners, re
maiked that some people had “too much
music in their soles.”
A Nevada girl has discarded her lov
er because he refused to drink with her
father—adding the cruel words : “Ketch
me marrying a man who can’t stand a
drink of whiskey !’’
A man with lout wives was brought
before a Dutch Justice for commitment
on charge of bigamy. “Four wives! ex
claimed the astonished Ilans, “four wives
Ditvos a mast hinoeious crime! Dis
charge him at vonts.” “Why,”
ted the prosecutor, “ why discharge him
when the proof is positive ? Will the
court explain V “Yes, I explains.
he live mit four wives he got punishment
enough; I live mit von, and I got
tttueh bunishment already,”
Frnncis Murphy, the temperance re ~
former, called at the White House the
other day and had a talk with Mrs.
Hayes. During the interview a servant
brought in some oranges and placed
them before the guest. Air. Murphy
knowledged the kindness by a bow but
declined the Quit, saying that he never
look rum p unch in any form.
The question of the Bible in the
schools is before the Wisconsin Legisla
ture In the shape of a bill prohibiting all
religious exercises in State educationl in
stitutions. Public meetings to protest
against Milwaukce^aud the passage of this bill ate hold
iip* ° at other places
Cope’s Tobacco Plant estimates that
the tobacco annually consumed in the
world amounts to about 2,000,000,000—
two thousand millions—of pounds, and
that if the leaves were made into a roll
two inches in diameter, we should have
“a tobacco serpent” which, following the
direction of the equator, would wind
around the earth thirty times, And we
should have a serpent, too—the T. P,
might have added—that would “ out
venom all the worms of Nile”
I - i -
Frog culture is the latest Western in
dustry, and is being systematically ear.,
ried on in Minnesota. It is a simple
process, consisting chiefly in the protec-*
tiou of eggs and tadpoles ironi birds and
other enemies by meaus of wire screens.
Tilt product thus far reported amounts
to 3,000 dozen legs, of which two-thirds
have been shipped to St, Louis, where
they bring an average of twenty cents
per dozen.
A Chinaman in Virginia City, Nevada,
married a recently-imported Chinese wo¬
man the other day, paying the company
who brought her over $600 for her. And
then somebody immediately blasted his
happiness by telling him that by simply
marrying the girl he could have secured
a legal title to her without paying a cent.
Ever since then he has felt pretty much
as the ©Id farmer did who, having bought
a new clock, found out, after winding it
up regularly every night for fourteen
years, that it was au eight-day clock.
[From the Thomasville Times.]
tattlers.
coul i ^ t i here ia the world be found,
Without the village tattling.
How doubly blessed that spot wortld be,
Where a11 mi ?ht dwell in liberty,
Flse . fi 'om the bitter misery
Cf gossip’s endless prattling
Every community is cursed bv the
of a class of people who make
1 tbeir business to attend to everybody's pile 1™
business but their own. Such
lh e meanest spec,mens AU-wTZTl^ of depraved Im.
which an
,P«rmi.. to exit on this cursed earth. It
« well-known that almost every person
* *■
. deposed ,. .
to speak evil of
; and tattling is a sin from which
very few can claim lobe entirely exempt.
But the object of our present article is to
pi ,, u ot th3t distiaot clasg of ^ who
mate tale bearing the constant business
lheir lives . Xi) ioto Ule
Mlirs 0l ev , ry family in lha
hood, they know the exact taste of one
neighbor’s feeling towards another : they
understand everybody’s faults, and no 11 a
tie blunder or misdemeanor ever escapes
lh( : U ^U» 3ant HdtJifulncss. ihey are
phi Ucu ai y we posted upon everything
connected with courtship and matrimony,
know who are going to marry whom,
and can guess the exact time when it will
take place. They watch the movement
of parties suspected of matrimonial inten¬
tions, and if there is the slightest chance
to create a disturbance, excite jealousy,
or “break up” a match, they take imme¬
diate advantage of it, and do all in their
power to keep people in a constant state
of vexation. They glide quietly from
gentleman to lady, from mother to
daughter, from father to son and in the
ears of all, they pour their dark, bitter
whispers of slander and abuse, and at the
same time pretend to be the most sincere
friend to those thay talk to. Their black
and nauseous pills of malicious slander
are sugar-coated with smiles and honeys
ed words of.friendship.
Tattlers are confined to no particular
e-lass*of society* They belong to all class-'
and operate iti ail. We find them
among the rich and the poor_“upper
ten” and “lower million,” in the church
and out of it. They are people who
have no higher ambition than to be well
informed in regard to other people’s j>ri
vate business, to retail scandal to their
neighbors, and exult in fieudnh triumph
over the wounded feelings and bruised
hearts of their innocent victims. Bean
less old maids and childish matrons
make the most accomplished scandal
mongers in the world. They seem to
take to tattling from the prompting of a
nv tural instinct and they prosecute it
an ener gy W ould <J 0 infernal
^ >nor to their great leader the prince
darkness himself. Our contempt to
guch graceless creatures knows to bounds,
‘
an( j we 0?n g Q( j no v vords in which to
GX p resg infamy. What punishment
they deserve we cannot know ; but God
knows, and as sure as his eternal justice
reigns they will receive a retribution
proportioned to the magnitude of their
offenses against the laws of God and the
interest of humanity.
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IIow T Choice Liquors are Made.—A
Special dispatch to the New York Times
from Goshen, N. Y., January 17th, says :
“An eiiicit distilery, belonging to Thom
as Hanlon and C. E. Lee, of New York,
in the town of VYawayanda, this couuty,
was seized yesterday by Deputy United
States Internal Revenue Collector WiU
cox. The distillers were not there at
the time of the seizure, and escaped.
Eleven barrels of spirits were seized.
These, it was found, were distilled from
sour beer and common molasses, and
ware then purchased by parties in-whose
hands they become cognac brandy. Boar
bon whisky, apple whisky, gin, peach
brandy, etc., and were sold as pure li
quors of these brands.”
It is said that in one neighborhood,
near the mountains in Missouri, there are
several large steam mills engaged in
grinding the vast quantities of crystals
found there into au tnpapable powder to
use in the adulteration of flour, candy,
etc. If Jupiter, the Thunderer, takes any
interest in the purity of the bread tve eat,
he ought to watch for an opportunity'’ J
when these mills happen to be uninsured,
and then scatter a few red-hot bolts
among them, and knock down the first
fallow who starts towards -Ahem with a
fire-engine,
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It is a fact that the entire chain-gang oc
cupies the same sell in the lock--up, irres¬
pective of sex ? Il so, somebody is res¬
ponsible for a breach of morals. Be the
convict force ever so steeped in crime
the moral standard ot a community
should certainly remedy this evil.
THE DEEPEST ARTESIAN WELL.
The deepest artesian well in the world
is being bored at Pesth, ar.d has
reached already a depth of 951 meters,
1 tie tveli at Paris, which measures 547
meters, has hitherto been the nrst. The
woik is undertaken by the brothers Zeig^
nlondy, partially at the expense of the
city, which has granted <£40,000 tor the
, 5f , ' „ ...... ' a enuou ot oblauimg
, o SUp1 ’ f,.°; warm '™ tn tm
1h „ 71 , •"■‘‘■‘T* “1 ' S
w, * fuipemtute of 101 degrees F
\TfZ ,a” tTZZ Lt “Til T"'” ,77 8
CI It d «„ ,1 ,f7- • of J, m l ,
taint cl. About A i ^ io,000 gallons ot warm
%aler strearaout ^ a hci , ht
G f ^5 p.,. t
This amount will not only supply all
the wants ot the city, but convert the
surrounding region into a tropical garden,
femce last June the boring has penetra
ted through 200 feet of dolomite. The
precediug strata have supplied a
number of interesting facts to the geolo
gist, which have been recorded from
time to time in the Hungarian Academy
or Scences. Among some of the
engenious engineering devices in
during the course ot boring are especial
j y noteworthy the arrangements for driv
ing in nai’s at the enormous depth men
tinned above, for pulling them out (with
magnets) for cutting off and pulling up
broken tubes, and above all, a valuable
mechanical apparatus by means of which
the Water rising from the well is used as
a motive power, driving the drills at a
rate of speed double that previously ini
parted from the mouth oi the well—fNao
tuie.
TItE BOOK KEEPER.
We asked Amos how his bev was get
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tmg along , at school.
“l leg take , dat , < , by, t I done , tuck ... him
away ^ from dat . < school . . !
“Why. ‘ what for V
“uh, . TT . oh! , he was gettm . < mos , too
smart , down . dar . wid .. dat . book , , larmn, , . ,
crn ‘Iwont do . for some niggers . to , be too
a , ..V, . q ,,
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LVn ,J °'’Q , ,noa
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‘ ( Well sah, tess take dat boy, fnstrance,
J
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r 1 put dat . boy . ter keeps booKS , fur
rue
‘bout de sell in’ of de garden truck dis
summer. Well, sah, he jess rib down
charges dav in de book for all da truck
dat I took out de gaiden, an’ charges fur
dat we G%t in de house, an’ credit his
se! f wid de little’moan's dat I let him
l* a h ‘ on ,g odd ’casions, an’den he go
an (icm a!l u ?» ail <l struck a balance,
says r '
“And how did you come out V
“Come out ? ’Fore de Good Master,
I didn’t come out at all : Dat boy done
stuCK me f° r ’bout thtitty five dollars,
’ ^ es wages as book keepah. Now,
s
data what de figgers sed,”
“Well, what did you do f ’
“I jess burned up dat book right dar,
a n’ den J schurged the book keepah, an’
hire him ober dgAtn ter saw wood fer Ids
b° a, 'd an clothes.’
Ji You did : ’
r Yes sah, I did dat. Why, boss ef dat
boy bed kep’ dat book on me till now,
he ’ d doDe » W11 d:lt hoaSQ a! >’ gtrdin'
P atob » and biu chargin’ me and his ole
mammy fer bed an’ bread! I tell yer
dis hyar book lamin’ is ruiniu dis young
bjeed of niggers—’tis sho !
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mi They were sitting . at the , breakfast , t ta
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,, ble. lie was reading tne , morning . pa
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per. bhe was pretending i . to eat,
r i v
Finally „ , he said . “Kooshuns _
: are cross
the , *L Danube, , ,,
mg °
“ _ I do . W’sh . , you would ,,, learn to proper
ly , , geograpmcal , • i names,’ „
J pronounce 1 tnese o o i
sbe sa ^ d ’ P ctt Bh>y.
IIe a sniff of ^ ^content,
and sai,1 > “ Sorae W 1 ® llaTC raore lca, n '
ing than sense.’
“And some other people,’she rejoined,
“never open their mouths without dis¬
playing their ignorance.’
“I’ve seen folks who made very great
pretensions to learning who couldn’t earn
their own living,” said he ; “with other
people whose ideas never rose above a
full meal,’ she responded, icily,
“Confound you, madam !’ he yelled,
“(vheve would your old bankrupt of a fa¬
ther been, if I hadn’t indorsed for him V
“He would have moved in better so
defy than your sisters, if my family
hadn’t introduced them into the best so¬
ciety.”
“ Your family are a pack of beggars!”
he howled, throwing down the paper.
“And yours are—no better—than—
swine,” she answered, angrily, moving
back from the table, and shooting the
last word at him as she left the room.
He takes his meals in a restaurant notv,
alone. There are two applications for
divorce—no cards.
TWO DOLLARS Per Annum.
A, LITTLE DOG’S OPPORTUNE VISIT.
The Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ILxami **
ner of the 27th inst. says: “Last night
the residence of Dr. P." W, Hiestand, at
Millersville^ was burglariously entered,
while the family were quietly asleep in
their beds. The bold intruder bored a
hole in the outer cellar door, through
which he managed to insert some instru
raent and push back tire inside bolt. In
>•“> «»» •>« fo “ n ' 1 »* «. "' uh » hicl1 he
* b ° ,<! in tl,e kitoh “ *«* *•
of the cellar stairs, and so succeeded in
" ” 7 ^ ^ ,r f ed 7 10 J' 3 dwn
7 T"' , 7 77 “ Ve
of mi k money. 3 In r the kitchen was the
doctor's dog—small and gentle—quite
unable to cope with a burglar, but, as
the sequel will shpw, possessed of that
sagacity which often is move effective,
than mere brute strength. After the
biirglar had tho/ougly inspected the low
er precincts of the house, with the indiff
event lesidt above stated, he bethought
himself of the more promising regions
obove. But no sooner had he opened the
door leading up stairs than the little dog
began his part of the drama. Quietly
that dog looked on the first floor ; without
any audible protest had he seen his mas¬
ter’s boots and the uiilk«money of his
mistress stolen before his very eyes ; evi¬
dently the opening of the up-stairs door
was what lie had waited and hoped tor
tJnostentatious’y insinuating his little
body into the crack of the door made by
the burglar in opening it, the dog passed
noiselessly iuj to the doctor’s chamber,
and had told him of the robbery below
and the danger above before the caii'
lions thief had got. half way up. Of
course, the doctor sprang to the rescue
011 the instant arid made some noise in
doing , . m live , burglar , , heard , the
J so. J noise, ’
. hastily and made good . Ins
retreated, es
cape. But the , house was saved, , and
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“^7 inteihgentiv , .‘I' , 6 ** , ! and really . than **> , the ,
more
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geese saved , „ Rome. T It will be some
con
soiation , . to ^ the foiled . . burglar know
?. to
,, the cause . of his ridiculous fiasvo, and to
learn that Dr. Hiestand got a good look
athimandwillbave notroubleinidenti
fvmg , . him . . when , the , time
“ comes.
BOBBERS KILLED,
The Dalton Citizen says: Quite a
startling tragedy, we learn, occurred in
the neighborhood of Tyron Factory one
night last week. A man went there with
a load of cotton, which he sold for the
money, several hundred dollars. On his
return honie he camped for the night
within a mile or two of the factory, and
j ust before retiring to his impromptu
bed in the wagon, a large, coarse-look^
woman came up and asked it she
warm at the fire, as she was very cold.
Permission was given, and soon after the
man went to bed in his wagon ; but be
fore going to sleep his little son and a
negro boy wo were sitting around the
campfire, dicovered tnat the supposed
woman had on a man s boots and pants,
and the.son went and told his father of
the tact, which aroused his suspicions
and put him on the alert. After some
little time had expired, the booted wo
man, supposing the man and titfle boy in
the wagon were asleep, blew a whistle,
when two other men, with their faces
blackened and their persons otherwise
disguised, immediately apoeared upon
the scene from the adjoining wood and in
stantly t ,, cut . the tin oat . of „ il the negro , boy,
who , was sitting .... , by the .. n fire, , killing , him -
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on the , spot, . r ihey „, then ,, started , , . r for the .
wagon when , the who watch'- , .
owner, was
. their .. . movements, , opened , firo „
ing upon ‘
them with ... double-barrel killing
a gun,
„ two , tl them . their tracks. . , The rn ,
m one
dressed in woman’s clothes made his es>
cape. Upon the examination of the
dead men it was found that they were
white, who had evidently seen the man
receive the money at the factory for his
cotton, and whose object w r as of course
murder of the whole party and robbery.
Pay Your Debts. —Clean hands in
matters of money among the young cer¬
tainly ought to be the indispensable con,,
dition of gentlemanliness. No man wto
borrows and does not pry r , and does not
care whether he pays or not, is a gentle¬
man, no matter how witty, or gay, or
fine he may be. To speak in good plain
English, the man who dresses himself at
another's expense, not knowing how to
pay, not caring whether he pays, is a
genteel scoundrel! And yet such things
are done by good-natured folk, by kind
hearted people, by persons who never
prove them morally; to as certain what
their tendency is, and what they lead to.
A Lumpkin man proposes to eat thirty
geese in thirty days, i hey say his^ ap
petite is as Lig as the inside of a North
Carolina tobacco wagon, ]
NO. 9.
TWO YOUNG MEN MURDERED.
Selma, Ala;, February 4,—dn the
26th ot January, John Hunter Smith, son
of Robert White Smith, formerly a Wall
street broker, and grandson of the late
Judge John Iluuter, invited ten or twelve
young men to join him ia a deer hunt.
After a social dinner, a message was
brought to the effect that a friend and
cousin, young .Murphy, with his intended
wife, were waiting at Choctaw Bluff—
young Smith’s private plantation landing
—about two hundred yards off, contem¬
plating a runaway marriage. The party
Went down and witnessed the ceremony;
and after it was over, young Smith picked
up his guitar, entered his storeroom on
the bluff, sat down, find commenced play¬
ing and singing. Hearing ail unusual
noise outside the warehouse, he went to
the door, and saw that a Mr. Johnson, 1 a
powerfuLbuilt man, in truth a Southern
giant, who had been Murphy’? rival in the
affections of the bride, had knocked Mur¬
phy down,•and was about to stab him,
Smith hurried to Murphy’s assistance,
knocked Johnson down, and gdt away
the knife. Johnson sprang up, raised
his pistol, fired at Smith, and wounded
him in the side. The young nian clasped
his hand to the wound, leaned upon a
tree, and said, “I have my death shot,’’
Johnson then sprang at Smith, knife in
bandj to stab him, whereupon, in selfde¬
fence, Smith fired at Johnson, but, miss¬
ing his aim, stritck and seriously wourN
ded yoiing Murphy. Again Jbhnsorf
fired at Smith, this striking the tree
against which he leaned, and cnce more
Smith fired, this time, tjo, missing John¬
son, and again hitting and mortally
wounding his friend and ooiiseu, Mur¬
phy-
This was all the work of a moment,
and while the young men were taking
the wounded ones to the house, Johnson
disappeared. Smith was assisted in -
io the house. lie closed his ey^s, and
pressed ins hands to his wounds. At
that instant, while all were striving to
do something for him, the coward John¬
son sprang into the window, and, before
any one could prevent, reached Smith’s
side, placed Jr is pistol to the young man’s
closed eyes, fired and killed him instant¬
ly. At latest advices from Choctaw
Bluff, the people seemed to be paralysed,
and no steps had been taken for the ar¬
rest and punishment of Johnson, Young
Smith’s friends say that Johnsdn shall
not escape.
The lfev, David Rosenberg, of Co¬
lumbus, Ohio, has issued a call for a na
tional convention of “all Israelites who
are willing to accept Jesus Christ as the'
promised Messiah of the world.”
What Wilkins Says About THE
Gkogg Tax.— Wilkins, who presides
over the Grog Tax in Virginia, as collect
ted through the Moffett Register
prints in the Richmond Dispatch the re¬
ceipts, from twenty.seven counties for
the month of December, They amount
in gross to $13,393,81, and comprise one
third the whole number .of Registers.
At this rate the year’s revenue from these
countries would be over $200,000, and in
the whole State, about $800,000. This
would meet all accruing interest of the
State debt, and pay up the principal in
time. Such arc the powers of the grog
lax. Let it be adopted in insolvent ci¬
ties of Georgia,—Let grog pay the whole
municipal debt of the Slate. Let all who
“take sugar in their’n” enjoy also the
sweet consolation that they are drinking
the city out of debt,— lelegraph and
Messenger'.
Trrc Spread op Infidelity,— The
great excitement at the North at the
present time is over the duestion of eter¬
nal punishment. It is disturbing society
greatly, Beecher takes the ground
against eternal punishment and attempts
to-^n-ove that the Bible only intends lim¬
ited punisment. Rev, De Witt Talmage
and other orthodox preaches cite many
passages from the meaning intended is
nothing.else than an endless and eternal
punishment. To show how rife is the
spirit of atheism, R. J. Iugersoll, an open
and avowed in fidel, is lecturing in New
York to immense audiences. He ridi¬
cules the Bible and scouts the idea of fu¬
ture punishment in any shape. Crowds,
unable to gain admission to his lectures,
are turned away every time he has ap¬
pointed to speak, Christians are justly
alarmed at the rapid spread of false and
fallacious doctrines throughout the land*
The human mind is naturally too skeptic
cal anyhow, and the sacreligious utteran¬
ces of Ingersoll and such men are wor<
king much harm ,—Southern Home.
a fAtoufiMlgoJanyolS of preservation,
ahificial pl . 0 cess are sent
{0 England by every steamer, and arrived
m excellent condition*