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[/Wage in all cases prepaid by the Proprietors ] zines, Specimen copies, list of Books and Maga¬ and descriptive circulars sent free on ‘pplicatior. Letters should be addressed to W. N. HALT) KM AN President Courier-Journal Co., Louisville, Ky. NEW ATTRACTION! J. H. Almand, Son & Co • > jTAVlNG purchased one of VLLEN’S PA H TENT IL SAFES "f -WO Gallons capacity, are now prepared to handle 0 i] s f rom “HEADQUARTERS,” and *>11 sell su«k oils as LINSEED, LARD, 1 RAIN and prices MACHINE, that defy’ competition, l’be Oil Safe 1 'cmiogity, within itself. jan5’78 tf FARMERS THE 'VERY BEST Steel Turn and Scooter Urs ^ ev * s( 8 Singletrees, Hames, Col ' ’ J II. ALMAN T D SON & CO'S J an J20 knocked Down. J J- ALMAND SON week) a CO. Sugars, have Reduced Syrups on ^ScYt^p’o^s, A <1 n * TO Pure or prevent Disease. J 0B PRINTING, AT THIS ©FFICE. L i i fr C HI Wi m Di | l| rr H LV M k> '/A l fl 1 ] V Lil a Wl i h^l eS^. JO Error Ceases to be Dangerous* Whilg Truth is Left Frefe to Combat it.’* CONYERS, GA.. SA TURDAY. MARCH 23, 18? ®@B JkAMF©&]rg FOR WINES, LIQUORS, CIDER, Oysters, CHAMPAGNE* & c . Sardines, Crackers, Soaps, FINE CIGARS Blacking. and TOBACCO. Pickles, Peanuts, Candies, Ac., BOTTLED BEER OF THE BEST mm , A Specialty. .iffisSS' af J " AK<JY natNKs. A FINE UtLLtARD TABLE attached and Privately arranged. Under the Whitehead House, Conyers* Ga. Feb. 3 6, 1878. Dm M e 39, Whitehall St. Atlanta, 0a. WHOLESALE AVD EETAIL DEALER IN ■jactery, China, Mass and Stone Wares, Lamps, Lanterns, SIbVER-PLA FED GOODS, tnd ffi^TGooda Short Profits, Oaref for ully CASH. Repacked. Established Quick sales march 2. 1878. 1850 g, CLOTHING. r their -ALMAND entire Stock SON of & CLOTHING CO., are offering at ALMOST COST. RoW is your tittle to buy. jan 12tf LO' F B: FOftE YOU BUTi. v mr & xumiiui, DEALERS IN »IE¥ fSeSBB, NOTIONS, ‘ HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c. tfotOGEBlES OP ALL KINDS. Fine Tobacco aud Ciarars jpR*G»*u-* aw anu in lact, everything Kept in a FIRST GLASS STORE. HONEST DEALING IS ODE MOTTO. &STTERMS (’ASH and Short Profits. Conyers Ga. Feb. 16,1878. tf VEGETINE Purifies the Blood, Renovates &nd Invigorates the Whole System. IT0 MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARC Alterative, Tonic f Solvent, and Diuretic• Vegetine RELIABLE EVIDENCE. Vegetine Yegetiae Mr. H. R. Stevens Dear Sir ,—I will mo*t the cheerfully add ber niy testimony already to received great num¬ in fa¬ Yegetiite you have and vor of your great good medicine, Vegetine, for l do not think enough Vegetine can be said in its praise; for I was troubled over thirty years with that dreadful disease, coughins-spells Catarrh, and that h Vegetine such bad would breath seem as rnougn 1 never Vegetine wmu any more, and has cured me; and I do feel to thank Vegetine good God all a medicine the time as that Vegetine, there is and so I also think it one of the best sinking med Vegetine icines for coughs, and weak feelings at the stomach, and advise everybody to take .the Vegetin it is a Vegetine the for best I can l'.iedicines aefiure them that ever^was. one Vegetine Cor. Magazine ana Walnut Sts* Cambridge, Mass. Vegetine Vegetine Gives Vegetine He^Pfch, Strength! AND APPETITE. Yegetine Vegetine be^efiUrmnthe use ^Vias™! Her declining health was a source Yegetine of great anxiety to all her friends. A few bottles of Vegetine restored Yegetine her healthj^st^i^th^and Estate appetite. Agent* I»suran ce and Real Wo. 49 Sears Buildiiig, Mass; Vegetine Boston, Vegetine CANNOT BE Vegetine EXCELLED Vegetine Mass. Charlestown, Vegetine if. it Stevens. Vegetine In think my that family for for Scrofula several or years, Canker, and Vegetine ous Humors or. Rheumatic Affec¬ tions, it cannot be spring excelled; medicine, and, as a blood purifier thing or h«v« used, Vegetine it is the best I ever a nd I have used almost recommend everything, can cheerfully it to Vegetine any one in need of such a medicine: Y0U M&8**A° NSMORE, Yegetine No. 19 Russell Street Yegetine Valuable IT IS Remedy* A Yegetine Yegetine South Boston, Feb. 7,1870. Yegetine Mb. Stevens. Dear Sir,—l h»ve tiken several bottles of your Vegetine, and ain Yegetine convinced it is a valuable remedy for Dyspepsia, debility Kidney Complaint, and general of the system. Yegetine I can heartily re ommend Y t to aU suffering from M{jNRok’PARKER. the above con>i)iauit». Y M£ r Yegetine 86 Athens Stree* VEGETINE Prepared by H. K. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. yegetine USoJd by"illDruggiefa wirit The following Riddle has been handed in puolication. It is probably not new to ot our readers, but may interest othei-s. There was a thing in days of old In whibh I make a wonder, It had in it a living soul That afi^r God did hunger. It never sinned in all its life. It was so well behaved.; It never had one spark of And how grace, could it be saved P Although this thing obeyed Goa, ‘ It wasn t a professor, But it was given as a rod To punish a transgre sshr. A farmer in Cobb county has in to systematic gone chicken raising and experts to net $1,500 a year by it. An Iowa justice refused to fine a man to? hissing . a ghl against her consent. He thought she ought to have consent¬ ed. The principal articles exported from the United States to Europe are grain, pork, lard, savings bank presidents, riiedt., butter, heiresses, weather predictions, and horses. Sally, said a fellow tj a girl who had red hair, ‘keep away from me or you’ll set me on fire,’ Don’t fear,’ she answer¬ ed, ‘you’re too green to burn.' ‘What to eat and how cook it,’ is the naDie of a book recently published, What to eat and where to get it,’ would meet with a livelier sale among the la boring classes jlist now. ‘Piety,’ remarked an Arkansas preach¬ er to his congregation the other day, ‘does not consist in noise. The Lord can see you give to the needy just as ea sily as he can hear you pray the roof off, Albahy Jotiroal : 'For consistency’s sake piano makers oiistht w live in har rnony.’ Well, who says they don't? Even when fighting among themselves, and one ot them smashes another s nose or bungs np his eye, he is merely playing Among the curiosities in the army ihedieal museum at Washington, is the withered and parched hand and arm of a man who leit it on the battle field at Gettysburg. A bfihHCffi ball earned it to the top of a high tree, where the wind and sun shriveled it to its present well 'armed condition; A Crested business man is said to have adopted and posted up the following as his motlo'? To trust is to btlst—to btist is bed. No trust, no bust, no hell, A man who announced his first attack of rheumatism learned in one half hour that, the following would cure it : Iodide of potassium, quinine, glfittbel* SfiltS; otis ions, raw lemons, raw silk, oil silk, gin and tansey, rock candy and whisky, Turkish ba'hs, a potato carried in his pocket, a horse chestnut carried in bis pocket, an eel skin around bis leg, a suit of red flannel, eMoviform liniment, hot lemonad 0 , a trip South, a dry atmos¬ phere, equable temperature, sulphur baths, mustard and hot water, camphor liniment, and electricity. Forest and stream describes the nov¬ el manner in which a two inch water pipe that bad become clogged was clean¬ ed. A hole was punched through an feel’s tail and a string was passed through. The eel was th.m started through the p : pe. An occasional jerk reminded the eel to advance, which he did, going the entiie length. A bunch ot rags was ther tied to the string and the pipe wat, cleansed; A maiden in San Frfincieeo, California, whose parents objected to her going out riding with r certain young man, crawl¬ ed out of the window and got stuck on the awnitlg; whereupon she screamed and attracted the attention of an old man, who brought a ladder out of an under takef’s shop and rescued her. Then the mother of the girl appeared in the door wa y and asked the policeman, who was restraining the hilarity of the crowd: ‘Sir, were you ever a mother? And the office v ; after a few moffieiits of contem¬ plation; vVas forced to respond, ‘No mad_ aup, I neVer Wds.’ But the lotet had his livery bill for nothing; A ship on the broad boisterorts find open ocean needeth no pilot, but it dare not venture alone on the piscid bosom of a little river lest it be wrecked by some hidden rocks. Thus it i9 with life. ‘Tie not in our opeu, exposed deeds that we need the still voice of the silent mon itor, bul in the small secret every-day acts of life, that conoience warns us to beware of tfa bidden shoals of what we deem too common to be dangerous. abolition Of national Bank notes: House Committee On fjaiiking and CurreH-y has matured a bill for the re¬ tirement of national bank notes, and for the issue instead thereof of Trea*iiry notes. The chances are thal this bill will pass and become a law. It provides in effect as follows : ‘That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have prepared an issue of Treasury notes equal to the whole amount of out« standing national bank notes (about $32.-5,00 >.030); these Treasury notes are to conform generally to the greenbacks, and shall be receivable for all taxes, etc.* due to the United States, and be payable for all claims against the ttnited States as national blink notes fire flow receivable and payable j and, in addition, be reeeiv able foi customs duties to the am 3 ur,t of one-third of each payment of duties. The Treasury notes shall be exchangea¬ ble at par with le^al tender notes at the Treasury. They stiall also he receivable in exchange at par for 4 per cent, bounds of the United SrateS. The notes Us soon as prepared shall be Sent to the Several Sub-Treasuries, wiih instructions to cease to pay out upon any account whatever any national bank not s, but to pay out m plate of such bank notes these Treasu> vy notes* and this to cohtme until the whole of such notes of the national banks shall be retired to be sent to the Treasu¬ ry every thirty days ; and whenever the no'es of any batik 10 file amount of $5, 000 shah be received fit the "ftefiSury, the t>ank is to he notified and bh ehtitied to receive, on payment of an equal sum in legaLtendev notes, bonds oi such batik bn deposit with the Treasurer. Any bank may withdraw all its bonds upon payment to the Treasurer of legal tender notes equal to its circulation. The Seere lary of the Treasury is to use the legal' [''"U " k " 0te T ’’ " 8 "" Tu't d ,he Trea3Ur >’ noles re ‘ change tor 4 percent, bonds, 'AT"’?? bo,lfl9 ' 01 ' ln ‘>>o ° u,s,andins firchdse ? of 6 gold P* r «»«• sil or T" h ?" h anli W . ury, receiving therefor the full market y a |u e of such bonds in Treasury notes, together with the accrued interest on such bonds, National banks issuing notes redeemable in gold shall make a monthly deposit of gold equal to 5 per cent, of their whole circulation until the same is wholly redeemed. No circulat¬ ing notes are to be hereafter issued to any bank;’ MoUk Official Ciiookf.dness.— A Washington dispatch says it ifi under¬ stood that among the investigations which are now to be prosecuted is the in qtrry into the management of the Post Office Department under the ifist admin isti’fition, the jettiHg of rtifil dorttiaijts the in the Territories; fetti; A member ot Post Office Cortlrttit;efe say tha f the ins vestigations finder the Ifist House of Repi’eseiitatiVes scfircfely touched the cor ruption which formerly prevailed in the Post Office Department. It is said that some ‘crookedness 1 lias already be«n . hronaht to light of a damaging charac* ter, in which several prominent officials are implicated. iNtEltESTtNG TO PENSIONERS.—Mfemi beta of Congress are daily receiving let¬ ters asking them to recommend suitable Washington lawyers as pension agents to persjns interested in the pension bill just passed refitoiiilg pensiohs to the stir vivors of the wav of 1812; Senator Withers, of Virginia, atilhoiHeS the Cor¬ respondent of the Richmond Dispatch to stale that all pensioners have to do is to write to the Pension Bureau here for blanks, which will be furnished as soon as they can be prepared. Then, when filled up, the part) has only to swear to then before a Notary and forward them direct to the Pension Bureau. If the testimony furnished is inadequate; they w jn be informed of the fact by the peri s i on officers, There are so many rascals who use res Ugi.oh as a Cloak for their misdeeds that you have to look at some religious peo¬ ple twice before you can be certain that they fire \Vhat they profess to be. In this respect we should be glad if the dis Cipline of Lent could be extended throughout the whole community; The outside world is eitremely hungry f^r truthfulness and sincerity somewhere, and we do not see who ‘should be mate ready to make prooi of these qualities than Christians themselves; but Lent could be observed with wholesome effect quite beyond the immediate circle of re ligionisL What we warn is not less in'* dustry, or devotion to business, but some recognition of the fact that man does not live by bread alone—Boston Beretd. TWO DOLLARS Per Annum. A CURIOUS HISTORY. The Stewart Palace (savs the New York correspondent of the Utica Herald ) has thus far rather a strange history. The lot was purchased by Townsend, the Sarsaparilla niaris who made a fortune out of that nostrum and bdilt \Vhat was then (1854) the finest bouse in the city. Such was its beauty that it was exhibited be¬ fore the family took possession at twenty five cents admtssidn, for the benefit of a charity. Townsend afterwards failed, and Stewart bought the property at Sheriff s sale. He pulled down the bouse and planned the present palace. This was done before the war, when prices were low, and the inflation so increased the cost of labor and material that the bohtract became a heavy loss. Stewart held the don tractor to this ifi'ter. Aud the unfortunate riian suffered to almost fi Kiinous degree. It is seldom that a buil¬ ding constructed diider such circumstan¬ ces avails much to the owiier. St-wart wds eleven years preparing a palatial home for his old age, but he died soon Uftei* tdkihg possession. The grandest, palace In Amentia is rtow occupied by a childless old woroart ftHd hef Servants. The gorgeous parlors, the picture gai lery, and all the luxurious interior fire now a silent waste. The lofty ceilings render ihe staircase a labor, and the mis¬ tress, being lame from a tall, is unable to meet such a difficulty, A person in such a condition must be contented with the limits of a bedroom, and lienee the largest pan of the paiaoe is useless. Such is the condition of an establishment which cost a round million and on which the taxes alone are $7,000 a year. &ULF STREAM. There is a liver in the obean. tn the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its hanks and bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is i^| fountain) and its mouth s in the Aictic Seas. It is the Gulf stream. There is in the world no other so mages tic a flow of water, Its current is swift, its Volume more thfih fi ihbttsfind UrxfeS greater. Its waters, as far aS the Caro* lina coasts, are of Indigo blue. These are so distinctly marked that the common sea water can be traced with the bye; Ofte i one-half of a Vessel may be per> ceived floating in the Gulf Stream water, while the other ha f is in the common water of the sea, so sharp is the line and the want of affinity between these waters, and such, too, the reluctance, so to speak, on >he part cf the Gulf Stream to mingle with the common waters of the sea. In addition to this, there is another peculiar fact; The fishermen on the coasts of Norwfiy fife supplied with wood from the tropics by the GUli Stream. Th»nk of the Arctic fisheriiiatt burning upon tlibit* hearths thb pfilHis bf Mayti; the iflfihog ony of Honduras, and the precious woods of the Amazon and the Orinoco. Counterfeits in Circulation, —Pe¬ terson’s Counterfeit Detector bids the community beware of counterfeit notes printed from plates of three banks—two in New York and one in FennSylVfinia — With tho name changed to Some other bank • also to cotirltpi-feit ten dollfii’ tiotes altered from Richmond Nationfil Rank, Ind:, to Richmond, Ya., by pasting “Yir sfinifi” oVer “ Ibdiaha.” Among the counterfeits latest put into circulation is one on a bank in Indiana, seven on banks in New York, one on a New Jeisy bank, one < ti fi CottntfV bank itl Pennsylvania; Neitt conies fin advice id fefiise SVe dol¬ lar iioteS of eight national banks in Illi - nois, one in Indiana and three in Massa¬ chusetts, on the ground that nearly the entire amount of the genuine notes of these bfinks has been withdrawn frotn circulation, and no additional issues will he rfifidfi. Lastly thefe is a list of counterfeits of notes which may be balled merely imaginary, “for the reason they purport to be on banks that have not and never had any existence.’ There are thirteen of these imaginative notes, pure perting to have been issued by non-ex¬ isting banks in the States of New York, New Jersy, Rhode Island; Illinois and Dekoto Territory. -- -Sfc - A story is told ot an editor tVfao went to heaven, and waS denied ad¬ mittance lest he should meet some delin¬ quent subscriber, abd bad feeling would be engendered in that peaceful clime. Having to go to some place; the editor nest appeared in tho regions of darkntSS; but was positively retused adtiiiftfinbe, as the place Was filll Of delinquent subsoil - bets; Weakly the editor turned back towards the celestial city, and was met by the watchman of the portals with « smile, who said : “I was mistaken ; yo B can enter, there are no delmqueEt sub icribers in heaven.” NO. IS. A NEW COTTON PICKER. A cotton picker which promises id work a revolution irf the hafvefitifcg of cotton, and it is said wili do the work of one hundred laborers in the field, haS just been invented and patented by * North Carolina h!an. The niachtne is about the size and weight of a two-horse wagon, and is upon three wheels, the centt-e one running between twd fowS and the o!hei ; two outside of them. The two driving wheels, fiotfl which is work-# ed the machinery, is high efiodgh to car* fy everything afeoVe the Gotloti: The front Wheel is about half the height, and works on a pivot joint, to which are at* tached the horses, which walk between the rows. The picking machine consists ot two hundred finger shaped hards od India rubber workirig Up and dowd through the stalks as the ffiaciiirie ads vanceS. These cards will not tdke fecfld of dnf thing but the lint of the open«cottdn; and takes that whether it is on the groiinit of on the top of the stalk; Leaves; twigs aud hulls will not stick to them; but the cotton touched in ever so siiialt d degree xnStaritly adheres, and will not let go until brushed off at the top by tbd brasher* whence it is taken da an aproti Oi bands find deposited in a receptacld in the leaf id a light Straight; form, en* lirely free from dirt. The machine is t educed to its‘lowest simplicity, has ad¬ parts, is very durable aud easily managed. The diiver by leaning back in his seat, can stop ths picking iff brdef to drive to the place to unload. This U done without throwing the driving wheel out ot gefif. ra» harvester 5g estimate?! to pick but the cotton at the rate of one dollar per bale* find in etrefy vtmy a com¬ plete machine* as has been proved r practical use. MASONRY’S TWELVE APOSTLES. Mr. Wait T. Huntington resigned hifi position in the New York Post Office; last week, says the N. Y. Sun, in ofdef that he might spend the rest of his days in peaceful retirement. Mr. Huntington firoo Ka*"m An A in May, 1821. The chaftef of Eagle Lodge; No. 60, in whibh Mr. Huntingtoii was initiated; bears the signature of De Witt Clinton, Grand Master, and its shrivelled and blackened parchment gives eVidenbe cif the i’fige that animated the anti-Masouio multitude during thd excitement that followed the abductiori of Morgan. While other Masons shrank from the fury of the mob, and sneaked to t! e lodge through lanes and by-ways; Mr. Huntington went boldly in at thti front door; indifferent alike to sneers and execrations, He stood b} the lodge afi long as enough members remained to do the work, and when it became becfc&sary; at length to close it, he rescued the char¬ ter fiom the destruction that overtook the i’efcords; Among others who remained faithftll in these dark days for Mafionty; were twelve members of Fdelity Lodge, Nb; 51, of Trumansburg, known in the Ma¬ sonic annals as the Twelve Apostles,— Their names were Elias J. Ayers, Uriel Turner, ,T. W. Hart, H. Taylor, Janies McClellan; Milo Yah Dusen, Philemon If, Thompson, Nicoli iiulsey, Nathaniel Ayers; Lyman Strobfidge, Daniel E. Mc¬ Clellan; and John Cregue, These twelve pledged themselves that; whatever should happen, they would maintain the Organ iza ion ol the lodge, meet at stated timcS; elect officers and pay their dues. They kept their pledge. In 1847, learning that it was intended to revive Eagle Lodge of ithiefi; the ttvelVe proposed to Mr. Huntingtoii that Fidelity, No. 51* be transferred from Ti’Uraansburg to Ithaca. This was done, and Mr. Htmt ington was elected the first Msstef of the lodge in Ithaca. The lodge is now one of the most prosperous in the State and has refused to accept any dues iroftt Mb Hiintmgtoti; on the ground of his services add devotion to Mafionty. Mr. Huntington is also ah honorary member of Eagle Chapter, No. 58, of Ithaca, having been initiated in the Chapter in 1822. The gold balance in the treasury avail* able for specie resumption teii months hence, is but $65,000,000; Bet (keen now and January 1st. the mints will probably coin 30,000,000 in silver; Assuming that the gold balfibce can remain undisturbed, and that every siltrei* dollar can be retain¬ ed until then, the government rviJJ have lefi> than $100,000;0d0 with which to redeem $350,000,000 in greenbacks,— Forced specie resumption on tbe date fixed is, therefore, impossible and the resumption act is a dead letter. But Specie resumption in a natural way—the obliteration of the gold and preni um through biiver remonet zition a favorably bai ance of trade—-is January not only possible, but probable before next;