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W. & HARP, Publisher. VOL- 1* T H E CONYERS EXAMINER, * pulisbed every Saturday, Sv J W. E. HARP, two dollars per annum. at , lTFS V FOR ADVERTISING: “ nts will be inserted for ONE A d square, for the first insertion. r TAR per Vi’S per square for each con dF fVoncramtWo'' , y For ■" tinuance, I«*. a. long ■. >m] disc ; 0 unt will be made. W One inch in length, °r less, constitutes b square- ‘fXTcent, in the local column will be in per line , each insertion. rinses «nJ deaths will be published charged « of news, but obituaries will be h*' (l ms advertising rates. ^ Liberal ' rates desire will be to given advertise to merchents by tbo 6nd others, w bo HARP. w Af year. Business Manager. GEO. W. GLEATON f attorney at Law, ONYEBS : : • : GEORGIA, jiH p r a£ tice in the Superior and Supreme , • ftation jieen to the may3 collection -’ of y A. G. MeGALLA, Attorney at Law CONYERS, : GEORGIA Will practice in Rockdale and adjoining cottn ties. A PAP Kit TIIE PEOPLE. T HE: LOU 1SV \ LLE COURIER-JOURNAL. Largest, Taper Host and Cheapest Family in h U lilted States. EDITED DY henry wattebson. The Coin ier-Jonrnal is a combination (made in 1808) of three eld Louisville papers, viz. : the Journal, established in 1830 ; the Courier, in 1813; and the Democrat in 1844. Its rep utation is national, as well as its circulation, nftd it is pronounced one of the ablest, spiciest, wittiest, strongest and best, arranged papers in the world; its matter being especially ad ,ptcd to tht) Merchant, the Farmer, Ladies and Cnil dren. The Weekly Courier-Journal is not a mere hasty hotch-potch thrown together from the daily edition, but a complete, able, spicy, fam¬ ily newspaper, carefully and intelligently ed¬ ited in ever column and paragraph. TO AGEfrTS AND CLUBS Extraordinary inducements in the way of cash commission and valuable premiums are offered to Agents and clubs. Choice from 250 standard Books, or any one Of the lea ling Magazines or Illustrated Peri¬ odicals of the day furnished in combination With t e Weekly for a mere pittance in addi¬ tion to the price of the Courier-Journal alone. A new edition of Prentice’s Poems, beauti¬ fully printed aud bound and the Weekly Cou¬ rier-Journal one year for $3.00. A SPLENDID MAP OF TIIE SOUTH Size 281x32 inches, handsomely colored, var¬ nished and hung on rollers, retail price, $2; mailed free of postage, and the Weekly Couri¬ er-Journal, one year, for $2.25. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION haily Courier-Journal, a year $12 00 Sunday Wcekly Courier-,! ournal, a year, 2 00 Courier- J ournal, a year,, . 2 00 Or in clubs of five at $4.70; of ten at $1.60; and of twenty and over at $1.50 each. [Postage in all cases prepaid by the Proprietors ] Specimen copies, list of Books and Maga¬ zines, and descriptive circulars sent free on applicatior. Letters should be addressed to W* N, HALDEMAN President Courier-Journal Co., Louisville, Ky. NEW ATTRACTION! L H. Almand, Son & Co JJAMNG purchased one of ALLEN’S PA 01LSAFES ! lf '*/* thillons capacity, are now prepared to oils from “HEADQUARTERS/’ and Wl11 sell such oils as linseed, L.VRD, TRAIN and P r that MACHINE, ' (es defy competition, The Oil Safe 'curiosity, within itself. jan5 ’78 tf FARMERS BEST Steel Turn and Scooter and Plow Clevises, Singletrees, Haines, Col Lines, at ALMAND SON & CO’S t OATS 1 bush/i’^I/FIFJOF L H, OATS an 75 cents CO’sf per ALMAND SON & Knocked Do’wn. J. the^v^^P, ^ & CO, have Reduced ilg and Fish WCek ^ on Sn & ars > Syrups bMfo a. AND °attle powders, 111 0r prevent s e—a . plffl 01 I I m 1 0 1 am D J SR rfj © “ Error Ceases to be Dangerous, While Truth is leftF to Combat it.’* ree CONYERS, GA.. SATURDAY. MARCH l«, lS 78 GO TO bq>b Mioroan's FOR WINES, LIQUORS, CIDER, Oysters, . CHAMPAGNE, &c. Sardines, Crackers, Soaps, Blacking, FINE CIGARS and TOBACCO. Pickles, Peanuts, Candies, &c., BOTTLED BEER OF THE BEST BRANDS, A Specialty. &STAH Kinds of FANCY DRINKS, at buort Notice. A FINE BILLIARD TABLE attached and Privately arranged. Under the Whitehead House, Conyers, Ga. Feb. 16, 1878. II can at will anything make start you. money else. $12 faster Capital per at day work not made required for at us home than ; Ave by the industrious, Men, women, boys and girls Avanted everywhere to Avork for us. Now is the time. Costly outfit and terms free.— Address True & Co., Augusta Maine. LOOK BEFORE YOU BITS. WEAVER & SILHIBUX, DEALERS IN NOTIONS, Oil£©8©S, J HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, Ac. OF ALL KINDS. Fine Tobacco and Cigars, Confectioneries and in fact, Everything Kept in a FIRST CLASS STORE. HONEST DEAlINf, IS OUR MOTTO. IJkfflTTERMS CASH and Short Profits. Conyors Ga. Feb. 16, 1878. tf J. II, .11,MAI SON & CO J J^AVE IN STOKE and to arrive, Forty Tons of Groceries 9 which they are prepared to SELL ON TIME, to parties who are not Afraid to Make the BIGHT KIND OF PAPERS. Conyers, Ga. Feb. 2, tf VEG-ETINE Purifies the Blood, Renovates and Invigorates the Whole System, i Its medical properties are Alterative, Tonic, Solvent, and Diuretic . Vegetine RELIABLE EVIDENCE. Vegetin© Vegetine Mr. H. R. Stevens Dear Sir,—l estimony will most the cheerfully ndd my t to great num¬ Vegetin© ber you have already received in fa¬ vor of your great do and good think medicine, enough VEOETiNE.for in I praise; not for X Vegetin© can be said its was troubled over thirty Catarrh, years with that dreadful disease. coughing-spells and had Vegetin© such bad that it would seom as though I never could breath cured any more, and and Vegetine has me; I do feel to thank Vegetin© God good all a medicine the time as that Vegetine, there is and so 1 also think it one of the best med¬ Vegetin© icines feelings for at coughs, the stomach, and weak and sinking advise everybody to take the Vegetine, is of Vegetine for I can assure them it one the best medicines that GORE, ever was. Mrs. L. Sta, Vegetine Cor. Magazine and Walnut Cambridge, Mass. Vegetine Vegetine GIVES Vegetine Health, Strength, Vegetine AHD APPETITE. Vegetine My daughter has received great benefit from the use of Vegetine. Her declining anxiety health all was her a friends. source Vegetine or great to restored A lew bottles of Vegetine appetite. her health, strengthLiind Vegetine Insurance No. and 49 Sears Real Estate Building. Agent, Vegetine Boston, Mau. Vegetine CANNOT BE Vegetine EXCELLED.. Vegetine Charlestown, Mass. Vegetine Dear H. R. Si Stevens. r,—This is to certify that I Vegetine in have usedyour family for “Blood several Preparation’’ years, and think mv Scrofula Canker¬ that tor or Affec¬ Vegetine ous Humors or Rheumatic tions, it cannot be excelled; and, as a blood purifier thing or spring 1 have medicine, used, Vegetine it is the best almost everu turns, hing. and I have used eve >ry nd it to I can cheerfully need of reco mmena h medicine. wj Vegetine any one in suen 'lJiNSMORE, a a mecucui Y 0 U K P A 3 A U Vegetine No. 19 Russell Street Vegetine IT IS A Vegetine Valuable Remedy.* Vegetine South Boston, F«b. 7. 1870. Vegetine MR. Sterns. VjfGETrNE.^and b<Atles ot your am Vegetine and general uebility recommend of the system. it to a'J Vegetine I can heartily the above comp.amta. suffering S1361SMwk from v K ee,. Vegetine 86 Atboas Stree* VEGETINE Prepafed by H.R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. yegetine is Sold by"ill Druggists, POKTttY. little chris' letter TO JESUS. A postman stood with puzzled brow, Ahd in his hand turned o’ei‘ and o’er A letter, with address so strange As he had never 3 een before, The writing cramped, the letters small, And by a boy s rough hand engraven The words ; ran thus : “To Jesus Christ,” And underneath inscribed, “In Heaven” The postman paused; full well he knew No mail on earth this note could take, And yet ’twas writ in childish faith, And posted for the dear Lord’s sake. With careful hand he broke the seal, And rev rently the letter read; Twas short, and simple too, For this was all the letter said: “My Lor i and Savior, Jesus Christ, I ve lately lost my father dear j Mother is very, very poor, And life to her is sad and drear. Yet Thou hast promised in Thy word, That none can ever ask in vain For what they need of earthly store, If only asked in Jesus’ name, “So I am writing in His name, To ask that Thou will kindly send Some money down; what Thou canst Spare, And what is right for us to spend. I want so much to go to school; While father lived I always went, But he had little, Lord, to leave. And what he left is almost spent. “I do not know how long ’twill oe Ere this can reach the gslden gate ; But 1 will try and patient be, And for the answer gladly wait.” The tidings reached that far-off land, Although the letter did not go, And straight the King an angel sent, To help the little boy beloAv, Oft to bis mother he would say. “1 knew the Lord would answer make When he had read my letter through, Which I had sent for Jesua’ sake.” Ah ! happy boy, could you out teach Mj heart to trust my Father’s love, And to believe where aught’s denied ’Tis only done my faith to prove. [ Christian at Work, Listen to the Georgia Grange: If the planters of South would make their plantations strictly self sustaining, and buy nothing which they could them¬ selves produce cotton would never be be¬ low thirty cents per pound, and they would become the wealthiest people un der the sun. The Fort Worth Democrat says that Wiley Horn, of Parker county, Ala., was recently presented by his wife with five boys at one birth, and the mother and boys are doing well, Mr. Horn is forty tight years of age, and the father of fifty two children Law is like a siive ; you may see through it, but you must be considerably reduced before you can get through it. It is proposed in Indiana to change the marriage service so that it will read. ‘Who dare take this woman ! And the bridegroom shall answer, ‘I dare.’ There is a family in Madison county, Florida, of remarkable stature. The father is seven feet four inches high, the mother is six feet eight inches, two sons are seven feet three inches, and one daughter is seven feet nine inches. A self asserting parishioner, who was trying to browbeat his pastor, said ‘You can’t make twice three seven, not by a good deal, great as you may think your¬ self.’ ‘I can come within one of it/ qui¬ etly replied the clergyman. ‘Suppose we pass a law/ said a severe father to his daughters, ‘that no girl 18 years old who can’t cook shall get mar¬ ried until she learns how to do it ?’ ‘Why. then, we’d all get married at 17 !’ res* ponded the girls in a sweet chorus. Two Hollyoke women gave birth to three babies each on the same day. One of the fathers is described as being ‘as much set up as a country store/ but the other declared that the triplets were ‘too darned much of a good thing.’ The dressed . carcass of „ a call weighing ... 150 pounds contains 93§ pounds of wa ter, and 5fq pounds ot d.y substance; the lattei quanti.y is ma e up o pounds of dry nitrogenous substance and 24f pounds of fat. A sharp old gentleman traveling ont West got a seat by bis wife by request¬ ing the young man who sat by her ‘to please watch that woman while he went into another car, as she had fits.* A lady asked a minister whether a per* son might not be fond of dress and orna¬ ments and not be proud. ‘Madam,’ said the minister, ‘whenever you see a fox’s tail sticking out of a hole you may be sure the is within.’ The Cutlibert Appeal says the planters of that section are manufacturing their own fertilizers to a large extent this seas 8 on. They are made principally of lime, salt and saltpetre, and are said to make a valuable compound. The doctors. A GOOD STORY TOLD ABOUT ALEXANDER STEPHENS AND BOB tOOttBS. (New York World.) A doctor named Royston had sued Peter Bennett for his bill, long overdue, for attending the wife of the latter. Alex. H. Stephens was on the Bennett side, and Robt, Toombs, then Senator of the United States was for Dr. Royston. The doctor proved his number of visits, their value according to local custom, and his own authority to do medical practice. Mr. Stephens told hi 3 clieut that the phy¬ sician had made out his case, and as there was nothing wherewith to rebut or off¬ set the claim, the only thing left to do was to pay it. “ No,’ said Peter, ‘I hired you to speak to my case, and now sperk.” “Mr. Stephens told him there was noth', ing to say ; I have looked on to see that it was made out, and it was. Peter was obstinate, and at last Mr. Stephens told him to make a speech him self, if he thought one could be made. “I will/ said Petter Bennett, “if 3ob> by Toombs won’t be too hard on me,’ Senator Toombs promised, and Peter began : “Gentlemen of the jury—You and 1 is plain farmers, and if we don’t stick to> geiher these ’ere lawyers and doctors will get the advantage of us, I ain’t no lawyer nor doctor, and I ain’t no objecs tions to them in their proper place ; but they ain’t farmers, gentlemen of the jury. Now, this man Royston was a new doctor, and 1 went for him to come ’an a doctor my wife’s sore leg. And he come an’ put some salve truck onto ic and some rags, but it never done it one bit of good, gentlemen of the jury. 1 d m’t believe he’s no doctor, no way. There ts doc¬ tors a-* is doctors, sure enough, but this man don’t earn his money, and if you send for him, as Mrs. Sarah Aikinson did, for a negro boy as is worth $ 1 , 000 he , just kills him and wants pay tor it/ “I didn’t!’ thundered the doctor. “Did you cure him ?’ asked Peter, with the slow accents of a judge with a black cap on. The doctor was silent, and Peter pro¬ ceeded : “As I was saying, gentlemen of the ju ry, we farmers when we sell our cotton, has got to give vally for money we ask, and doctors ain’t none too good to be put to the same rule. And I don’t believe this Sam Royston is no doctor, nohow.’ The physician again put in his roar, “Look at my. diploma if y ou think I am no doctor.’ “ His diploma!’ exclaimed the news fledged orator with contempt. “Ilis di¬ ploma ? Gentleman, that is a big word for printed sheepskin, and it don’t make no doctor of the sheep as first wore it, nor does it of the man as now carries it, A good newspaper has more in it, and I’ll pint out to ye that he ain’t no doctor at all,’ The man of medie'ne was now in a fu ry, and screamed out: “Ask my patients if I am not a doetor ?’ “I asked my wife/ retorted Peter, “an’ she said as how she thought you wasn’t.’ “Ask my other patients,’ said Dr. Roy* ston. This seems to be the straw that broke the camel’s back, for Peter replied with a look and tone of unutterable sadness ; “That is a hard sayin, gentlemen of the jury, and one that re*quires me to die or to have powers as I’ve hearn tell ceased to be exercised since the apostles. Does he expect me to bviug the angel Gabriel down to toot his horn before his time, and cry aloud : “Awake, ye dead’ and tell this court and jury your opinion of Royston’s practice * Am I to go to the lonely graveyard and rap on the si¬ lent tomb, and say to ’em as is at rest from physic and doctor’s bills, “ Get up here, you, and state if you died a natural death, or was hurried up some by doc„ ^ He says Mk his ients gent | emJn of the jaryj tlieyVe all dead , wher3 is M ,. s Beazley - a ,„ a0 S am ? Go the worms in the graveyard where he ^ Mrg peak( , 8 wom>n Sarah wag at . tended by him, aod her funeral was ap¬ pointed and he had the corpse ready. Where is that, likely Bill as belongs to Mr. Mitchell ? Now in glory a’ expressiu' his opinion of Royston’s doctorin’, Where is that baby girl ot Harry Stephens' ? She are where doctors cease, from troub lin t and infants are at rest. “ Gentleman of the jury, he has eat chickens enough at my house to pay for his salve, and I furnished the rags, and I don’t suppose he charges me for ma kin’ her worse and he even don’t pretend to charge for curing’ of her, and I am humbly thankful that he never give her nothin’ for her inwards, as he did his other patients, for somethin’ made ’eqa die mighty sudden—’ TWO DOLLARS Per Annfm, Here the applause made the speaker sit dowu in great confusion, and in spite of logical restatement of the case by Sen¬ ator Toombs, the doctor lost and Peter Bennett won. On Wednesday last, in the Randolph settlement, four miles from Clarksville, Tennessee, a negro named Winston An* derson, aged fifty, attempted to commit an outrage on a young wite girl ten years of age. He failed to accomplish his hel¬ lish purpose and made no effort to get away, The young lady would not tell her father of the matter, but told some girls who reported to an old negro wo¬ man. It was then told to the fatbei. The negro had fled. He was pursued and captured in Rcbartson county Friday. He was immediately placed in jail in Clarksville. On Friday night about one o’clock Jailor Perkins was awakened by the breaking in of his door. He found himself in the presence of several armed men, who demanded of him the keys, lie gave them up, and a part of the mob went up to the cell of Anderson, put a rope around his neck and carried him off. The body of Anderson Was found Sat¬ urday morning hanging on a small thorn tree about one mile from town. He was evidently choked to death, as theie were no marks of violence on bis body. There is considerable excitement among the negroes, who threatened to lynch Per¬ kins on Saturday night for giving An* derson up. Perkins has moved his fam* ily out of the jail, and with friend were prepared to receive them. The white people all talk one way, that the negro deserved his fate. ALL ABOUT HEADS. “Heads are of different shapes and si¬ zes. They are full of notions. Large heads do not tell just what a person is by the shape of his head. High heads ave the best kind. Very knowing people are called long headed. A man that won’t stop for anything or anybody is called hot headed. It he isn’t qui'e so bright, they call him soft headed. If he won’t be coaxed or turned they call him pig headed. Animals have large heads. The heads of fools slant back. Old heads are coveted with hair except bald heads. There are barrel heads ; heads of ser¬ mons—and some ministers used to have fifteen heads to one sermon ; pin heads ; beads of cattle, as the farmer calls his cows and oxen ; head winds \ drum heads; cabbage heads ; at logger heads • come to a head, like a boil ; heads of chapters; head him off; head of the family ; and go ahead—but first be sure you are right/’ THE TRUE WIFE. What, do you think the beautiful word ‘wife’ comes from ? It is the great word in which the English and Latten lan¬ guages conquered the French and the Greek. I hope the French will some day get a word for it, instead of that dreadful word “femme.” But what do you think it comes lrom ? The great value of the Saxon words is that they mean sorathing. Wite means “weaver’. You must either be housewives or house moths ; remember that. In the deep sense, you must either weave men’s fors tunes and embroider them, or feed upon and bring them to decay. Wherever a true wite comes, home is always around her. The stars may be over her head ; the glow-worm in the night cold grass may be the fire at her foot; but home is where she is and for a uoble woman it stretches far around, better than houses cealed with ceder or vermillion shedding its quiet light far for those who else are homeless. This I believe to be the wos mans true place and power.— RusJcin. There was a duel, the other day, in Elberton. Ga , between a newspaper man and a couutryman. It was a sham duel on the part of the former, but stern real* lty to the latter. The countryman fired first, and to his untutored eye his antago nist fell dead. ‘Foul play/ shouted one secoud of the quill driver: ‘Murder/ cried the other, ‘let me kill the scoun¬ drel/ and he seized a shot gun and fired its two blank cartridges at him. The countymen took to his heels and ran six miles in forty minutes. The Supreme Court of Georgia deci¬ ded the other day in the case of McDade vs, the Georgia railroad company, that the employee of a railroad company who receives a physical injury, partly by his own faults or partly By the faults of other servants or employes of the company, cannot recover.—Atlanta Tribune, Buffalo hunters just in from the range report that there are now in the neigh¬ borhood of 1,400 Kiowa and Comanche Indians about 150 miles northwest of Fort Griffin, camped between Middle Pe cos and Red rivers, and acting in a dem¬ onstrative manner. The SixthCavahy have been ordered to the camp. frO. 12. GOOD ADVICE TO THE BOOSTS. Probably not oue in a hundred can do any one thing thoroughly.—They can all dig away at anything that comes handy/ but, as for excelling in ah f trade, busi* ness, art or profession) that is utterly out of the question. One of the j oUng mett calls upon us ; perhaps he is a graduat e of some college, has his diploma, and plenty of recommendations from clergy men and members of Congress. We ask him what he can do? He is notpatticU* lar—can turn his hand to most anything. We give him a trial, and find he cannot write*a decent hand, nor spell or punctu* ate correctly, nor Write with any degree of rapidity, nor read a strange nianu* script, nor do anything whatever With promptness and judgment, which is re¬ quisite in business, He has no khowl edge on any subject ; has simply a jum¬ bled mass of information, which may be Sound or otherwise, and which be cannot turn to any practical account. He has been all his life reading about how things are done instead of learning to do them* This is wrong. Young men should i educe their education to practice as they go along, They should learn to do. 1 hey should study less, practice, or Work more ; read less, and think more ; that instead of being useless, superficial, im¬ becile automata, they may become thor** ough, practical, executive men, capable of doing what they undertake, to the last degree of perfection, aiid with a vigor and rapidity in keeping with the charac¬ teristics of the age. The Mexican ladies dress in the *mo 3 t vivid colors and striking contrasts. They combine the handsome articles of attire with the commone t and poorest. In the intervals of dancing the women re* tire to the dressing room and refresh themselves with wine or beer and cigar¬ ettes. Even the younger girls smoke* The dancing is similar to ours, except it is much slower. They only have one na¬ tional dance, which is called the ,danza.* This is danced in the slowest possible manner, and is well adapted for warrft climates. A young lady, in describing it, said ‘it was the easiest thing in the world to learn—'you only can stand still and be hugged.’ —--- ^ mm m -— Power of a Little child.— Two ttieti engaged in an angry dispute on San Francisco street, during which one shook his fist beneath the other’s nose and ap¬ peared to have worked hiniseli into a fe ver heat of passion, Just then a little girl, almost an infant, who had been going by, but stopped, apparently paralyzed by the man’s fury, moved quite close to him, and, looking up into his face, inquired t ‘What, makes you so cross, mister?’ It was so unexpected that the man evident** ly experienced a complete revulsion of leehrig. Gradually his countenance cleared, and finally was lit up with a smile as he patted the little peacemaker’s bead, and remarked as he ttloved away, ignoring the other man altogether i ‘t guess you’re right, little pet/ Neuralgia and Rheumatism. —A very simple relief for neuralgia is to boil A small handful of lobelia in half a pint of water till the strength is oUt of the herb, then strain it off and add a teaspoonfol of fine salt.—Wring cloths' out cf the liq¬ uid as hot as possible and spread over the part affected, It acts like a charm.— Change the cloths as soon as cold till the pain is all gone; then cover the place with a soft, dry coveiing till all perspiration is over, so as to prevent taking cold. Rheumatism can often be relieved by application to the pain'ul parts, of .cloths wet in a weak solution of saLsoda in water. If there is inflamma¬ tion in the joints, the cure is very quick { the wash needs to be luke warm. Old Georgia is the best place after all for Georgians. Last fall a number of cit„ inerts of Stewart county emigrated West, notwit,h8tafidind the advice of friends and all that could be said and done to keep them from forsaking their old homes. Now they ate all dissatisfied ahd would willingly return if they had the means to do so. Such is the experience of nearly all who forsake Georgia to better their condition in the far West, •» Wiiting paper which will resist the most intense heat has recently been in¬ vented, A single sheet will carbonize, but will net burn, wl ile if a roll of pre«* pared paper be placed in the fiercest fire, although the outside leaves and extreme edges may carbonize, the interior will re¬ main unaltered, and the writing and print¬ ing will be perfectly legible, Paper al¬ ready written or printed upon may un¬ dergo the process of preparation witbont injury.