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JAVIXO- 1 purchased one of AXLEN’S PA
TENT
i Lsafes
f 400 Gallons capacity, are now prepared to
Andie oils from “HEADQUARTERS,” and
'ill sell such oils as
IXSEFI),
Lard,
4 RAIN and
. prices . MACHINE,
that defv competition. The Oil Safe
1 ' curiosity, within itself. jan5 ’78 tf
n jlEVERY BEST Steel Turn and Scooter
LOW 8, Clevises, Singletrees, Hames, Col-
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tne Pj i CWl (this week) on Sugars, Syrups
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H 0 RS?AND S5.U™,
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HEAT.
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0r CM h. would do well to call c n
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“ Error Ceases be Dangerous,
to While Truth is Left F ree to Combat it,”
CONYERS, GA.. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 187S.
VEUETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates
and Invigorates the Whole
System.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent,
and Diuretic.
Vf.getixe is made exclusively froni the juices of
carefuUy-setecte.d barks, roots and herbs, and so
strongly concentra ted that it will effectually eradicate
from the system every taint of Scrofula, Scrofu¬
lous IluTucr, Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous
Humor, Erys’.pelcs, Salt Rheum, Syplii
l:tic Diseases, Canker, Faintness at the
Stomach, And u .1 di3r*.H<>s that arise from impure
blood. Sciatic n, Infla minatory and Chronic
Rhctunaci!*-;.., Nc»:ra1^ia, Gout, and .Spinal
Complaints, cun on:y be effectually cured through
the blood.
For doers and F.ruptivc Diseases of the
Skin, Fus t . lee, Pimples, Blotches, Boils,
Tetter, Kent ahead, and Ringworm, Vegetiue
ha, never fa 1 »ii to effect a permanent cure.
For Pai n in the Back, Kidney Com.
plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leu.
cotiltoci'., tri.ung from internal ulceration, and
uterine diseases and General Debility, Veue
Tine acts directly upon the causes of these com.
plaints. It.invigorates aud strengthens tb* whole
system, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam¬
mation, e rres ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catnrrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Cos
tivencss, Palpitation ol I lie Heart, Head¬
ache, Piles, Nervousness, and General
Prostration of the Nervous System, no
medicine has ever given such perfect satisfaction aa
the \ EGETINE. It purifies the blood, cleanses all of
the organs, and pcseuses a controlling power over the
nervous system.
liie remarkable cures effected by Vegetixe have
induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we
know, to prescribe and use it in their own families.
In fact, \ eoetine is the best remadyyet discov¬
ered lort e above diseases, and is the only reliable
ll-LOOD P L IMF lERyet placed before the public.
UNQUALIFIED APPRECIATION.
H. R. Stevens, F.sq. Boston, Nov. 18,1875.
liiur .Sic,— duruiK the past five .years I have had
ample opportunity to judge ot (ho merit of Vegk
•3 1 N I'- Aly mie has used it for complaints attending
a lauy of delicate health, with more beneficial results
than anyth mu else which she ever tiled. i have
given itto my cluioren under almost evevy < ircum
Btance attending a large lainiiy, and .uwavs with
inarkea benefit. 1 have taken it myself with such
gi eat benefit, that 1 cannot find words to express niy
unqualified appreciation of its goudm ss.
wane performing my duties as a Police Officer in
this city, it hast been my lot to fall in with a fere oat
deal oi sickness. 1 unhesitatingly recommend Veg-
11 INK, and i never knew of a case where it did not
prove all that was claimed for it. Particularly in
cases o! a debilitated or impoverished state 01 the
Blood its effects are really wonderful; and for all
complaints arising like from an impure stale ol the blood
it appears to work a.charm, and J do not bene.ve
theie are any circumstances under which Vegetine
1 an be used with injurious results, and it will always
atfoi d me pleasure know to give any further information
&b iu « iia t i about YEgetine.
WM. B. HILL,
Police Station 4.
CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
H. R. Stevens- Chaiilestown, Mass.
Dear Sir,—This is to certify that. I have used your
“ Biooil i'lejiiirutiun ’’ in my lamiiy for beverai years,
and think Unit for Scrolula or Cankerous Humors or
.puiiwtt it* »» l\ e«et ions it. ottinot be excolWd ; nml nu ;i
b oott ptniii* r arid sprint medicine ii. : - the ue-i liiing
1 u:»ve ever used, find i have used almost everything.
1 can cLeemiiiy i coomme ud it to any one in need of
buck a medicine
Yours respectfully, i9
Mrs. A. A. JOINjaMORE, Russell Street.
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A FINE BILLIARD TABLE
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CLOTHING.
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» their entire Stock of CLOTHING- at
almost cost.
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Groceries
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Fine Tobacco and Cigars, Confectioneries
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Conyers Ga. Feb. 16, 1878. tf
pokyhy.
“ FIGHT IT OUT ”
A story is told o' a daughter of a
prominent person now in the lecture fie’d
which is peculiarly interesting and sug¬
gestive of unconcious wisdom. A gen¬
tleman was invited to the lecturer's house
to tea. Immediately after being sea’ed
at the table the littie girl astonished the
family ciicle and guest by the abrupt
question :
“Where is your wife ?”
Now the gentlemen, having been re¬
cently separated from the partner of his
life, was taken so completely by surprise
that be starnered forth the truth :
“I don’t know.’’
“Don’t know !” replied the enfant ter
rible. “Why don’t you know ?”
Finding that the child perssted in her
interrogatories, despite the mild reproof
of her parents, he concluded to make a
clean breast of the matter and have it
over at cnce. So he said with a caim>
ness which was the result of inward ex¬
pletives ;
“Well, we don't live together; we
think as we can’t agreed, we’d better
not.”
He stifled a groan as the child began
again, and darted an exasperated look at
her parents. But the little torment
would not be quieted, until she exclaim.,
ed :
“C’mi’t agree ! Then why don’t you
fight, it out, as pa and ma do ?’
“Vetigenee is mine,’ laughingly re¬
torted the visitor, after “pa” and “ma’’
exchanged looks of 1 oly horror, followed
by the inevitable roar .—New Haven
Register.
She Didn’t Scare,— A boy was disap¬
pointed the other day in making a sale
of tinware to woman on Park street,
Detroit, soraelliimj which ex
cited her indignation, and she gave
a great big piece of her mind. In “j.nv
itig back” he said :
“Your husband ought to be arrested
for working on Sunday !’
“Working on Sunday-come yon'prove here,
bub ! Now. bub, if that my
husband ever wefrked on Sunday, or any.
other day in the week, I’il give you a
dollar! I’ve lived with him for twenty
yeais, and have always had to buy even
his whiskey and tobacco, aud now if he’s
gone to work I want to know it 1 ’
The boy backed oft without another
word.
A Curious Animal Incursions.— A cu¬
rious incursion on the sheep runs of two
brothers in Australia is described by a
correspondent : These gentlemen lived
hundreds of miles r.pavt, and I under*
stand the misfortunes here recounted ocn
eurred within a short time of each other.
One brother had an incursion of myriads
of kangaroos, which came close around
his house, so that a man could not make
for it without actually jostling the brutes.
One had only to step out at the iront
door, blaze away at them, and knock
them over ad libitum, or even club them.
The other brother had an inclusion ot
opossums, fierce, ravenous and in a
mighty multitude, which swarmed round
iiis house and terrified his servants so
that they all left it. The doors and win¬
dows were constantly closed against the
brutes. At night, poisoned milk would
be p aced outside, and in the morning
hundreds of dead opossums would fringe
the puii. Yet the horde remained for a
period of three months and were very
destiuetive.
A light-headed Parisian, who had
been long suffering from an aching tooth,
but feared going to a dentist, lately tied
to his offending molar a long string, at
th.e other end of which was a heavy
stone. He leaned his head from a window,
and let the stone drop. He succeeded in
having the tooth drawn, but the shock
was so vio'ent that a portion of the jaw
tvas also wrenched away. His neck was
so painfully jerked that he fainted, and
on recovering for several hours he was
found to have lost bis power of speech.
Twenty thiee years old and the mur¬
derer of nine pearsons ; twenty years
old the murder of three persons. They
were brothers, Joseph and George Bras~>
sel, and to their record of crime they
confessed before being hanged, m Cook
vilfe, Tennessee, on Thursday. The one
that had killed nine persons advised
young men not to follow his example.
Then he called for whiskey, saying that
as he hadn't long to live he was deters
mined to get all the good possible out ot
that beverage. r i his was in the
presence
of clergymen who were trying to pre¬
pare him for death. The young men
had been literally the terror of the neigh
borhood, and ten thousand persons sur¬
rounded the gibbet to see them die.
AVOIDING THE RESPONSIBILITY.
roller Noel was ‘sore troubled’ atthe
scan. a. Brother Crump brought upon
himse t by drinking too much, and es-
pecially regretted the injury it. brought
to the society at Sharon. So one mop.
rung he stepped over to Brother Crump’s
and found the old man in a doze iu the
littie porch.
W on \ou take ^ a dram V a>ked
Biothei ? Crump, as soon as he was made
aware of the presence of his neighbor.
W by, yes. I m not agin a dram w hen
a body wants it.’
Brother Crump got bis bottle, and he
and his friend took a dram apiece.
‘Don’t, you think, Bvotfier Noel,’ said
Crump, ‘that sperits is a blessing V
‘Yes,’ replied Noel, ‘spirits is \ bless¬
ing that some of us abuses.’
‘Well, now, Brother Noel, who do you
think abuses the blessing?’
‘Well, it is hard to say—but people
talk don t you drink a little too much,
Brother Crump ?*
‘It is hard to say,’ relumed Crump,
‘sc im? times I have though I was drink¬
ing too much, and agin I’d think maybe
not. YV hat is m m ? A weak won urn
of the dust ! So I left it for the Lord to
say whether I was goin’ too iur in sperits.
I put the whole ’sponsibility on him ; I
prayed et I was drinkiu’ too much lor
him to take away my appetite for sperits.
I’ve prayed that prayer three times, and
he hain t done it. So I'm clear of the
‘sponsibility, any way.’
Without a Newspaper.—A n ex
change says : Nothing presents a sadder
commentary upon the present conditions
of society than the large number of fam¬
ilies, both in town and country, but more
especially in the latte:, that subscribe to
no paper of any kind. Hundreds and
growing
T , * n#n,Br of * lwt 18 lrjM P ir '
‘" s U,e worid aI0 "" d l^m-ignorant
°V can "nghty tell the eveot. vast of amount the day. of injury But
l 'iat is being.iiitiioted on tile Using gen
cration-tliose who are to take our pi t.
«« la the bony wo. 1,1 at no mam tiny
-S™u mg up wtlhout any knowledge of
1 lG l tltSLll b any study ot the past, this
too > ■*'"* imLuc '3 into them
by the sanction ot thoce who chonld, and
doubtless do, know better, did they on¬
ly think of the injurious effects of their
insane course. Let the head of every
family think of this, and place in the
hands of those for whom he is responsic
ble, the means of acquiring some knowl¬
edge of the moving panorama in which
we act the different parts.
The Russian Government officially es.
timated its loss ot soldiery at over eighty
thousand, but there has been, probably,
quite as large a loss of Russian subjects,
other than military, from maladies aris¬
ing out ot the war. At Alexandropol
owing to the passage through the town,
since the war began of seventy thousand
sick and wounded, and the neglect of the
sanitary authorities to take much disease
that all who can have left the toivn ; the
death rate has reached fifty-five in one
thousand ; and at Tiflis all the doctors
of the Red Cross Society are dead. In
the Caucasus a plague is expected. The
Turkish prisoners from Arrneria are all
more or less infected with disease, and
wherever they go epidemics follow in
their train.
A: Penza small-pox and raeasels ate
so rife that public schools and institutions
have been closed by government order
The official report gives an invalid to
every house. Near St. Petersburg the
black small pox, a form ot the Persian
plague, has broken out among the Tur¬
kish prisoners at Gatchina, and is caus¬
ing great alarm in the capital. A month
ago ten thousand sick and wounded were
at Sislova awaiting removal, so many of
whom were suffering from typhus that it
was proposed to have typhus specials to
carry those so affiicted.
For some w r eeks Mr. Pierce, who lives
in Georgetown, has heard a peculiar
noise at night, and discovered the grad¬
ual loss of chickens. He came to the
conclusion that it must be made by rats.
Friday night he and his wife were awak¬
ened by a sharp cry of distress from the
crib adjoining their bed in which their
two-year-old infant was Bleeping, Mr.
Pierce immediately sprang out and din
covered a weasel at his child’s throat,
Catching the animal with his hand, he
threw it to the floor, killing it at once.
A few moments later the little one would
certainly have been killed, as a deep gash
was already made in its throat.— [ Wash¬
ington Star.
The fat girl of Iowa is dead. She
measured seven feel around the waist>
and was never completely bugged iu her
life,
TWO DOLLARS Per Annum.
The following are interesting statisties
of the Empire State, Cut it out and
paste it away for future reference: The
population of Georgia in 1870 was J,"
184,109 ; of these 638,926 were white
and 595,192 were black, only 11,127
were foreign born. The number of fam
dies in the State was 237,850, and the
ave-age was five persons to a family.
I he number of dwellings were about the
same 38 families ; ol 236,436 persons in
Georgia 48.9 per cent, are male and 51,1
per cent, females; 54 per cent, arc
whites and 46 per ceut. negroes. Of
militia, between 18 and 45 years of age,
9.1 per cent, are whites and 7.9 per cent,
negroes. Of voters over 21,109 per cent,
are white and 9.1 per cent, negroes.
The centre of population of Georgia is in
Monroe county, near the Oemulgee river
about leu miles— a little northeast—from
Forsyth, The centre of the white popu
lation is on life border of Monroe and
Butts counties (near Dublin, Butts coun
ty), and about twelve oc thirteen miles
northeast of Forsyth. The centre of
population is about forty miles northwest
of ’.he geographical centre. The centre
of total population differs only about ten
miles from the centre of white population.
Of the people of Georgia six per cent.
are engaged in manufacturing ; four per
ceut in trade and commerce ; fifteen per
cent, in professional and personal set
vices, and seventy, five per cent, in agri¬
culture. And if a larger per cent, ox the
population was engaged in this laudable
avocation, the country would be in a
much healthier condition, aud the people
would be happier.’
CURE FOR POISON.
Take a heaping teaspoonful of common
salt and as much ground mustard, stir
them in a cup of warm water and drink
quickly. This preparation will have
hardly reached the stomach before it re
turns, bringing with it ihe cause of the
trouD'e. Lest any remnant of the poison
remain, Jet the white of an egg or a tea¬
cup of strong coffee be swallowed as
soon as the stomach is quiet, because
those very common at tides nullify a lar¬
ger number of virulent poisons than al¬
most any medicine.
This conundrum is now in circulation ;
“What is tne difference between a pota¬
to and a lemon ?’’ When the questioned
party says he doesn’t know, the other
8 f ys: “Then I don’t want you to -buy
any lemons for me,” aud then comes the
“ha ! ha ! ha!”
The State Geologist of Georgia reports
that her agricultural, pastoral, and lum
ber resources are equal, if not superior,
to any State on the Pacific Slope, or in
the North west. She lias water power
far more valuable and more generously
diffused than New England. In gold
she is equal to California, in copper to
Tennessee, in coal to Fencsvlvania in
iron to the most productive country, iu
lumber to Maine aud in climate she is
better aud more unchangeable than any
of them.
A pious man has hired space in the El
lenville(N. Y.) Journals advertising de
partment, in which he published every
week, in large type, a verse of scripture.
Nuw York March 28. — Rumors are
again current of the probable reconcilia¬
tion between Theodore Tilton and his
wife. The Times this morning publishes
the statement of prominent members o c ‘
the Plymouth Church, who sav that Til¬
ton has tried to effect a reconciliation
with his wife, and that, as the result of a
recent interview, they will soon be re¬
united as man and wife and go to Europe
together.
The Rev. Mason Chenowith stepped
down from his Baptist pulpit iu Bangor.
Me,, after preaching an eloquent sermon
on ‘Purity of Character,’ and was inline
diately surrounded, as usual, by admiring
members of his congregation, who de¬
sired to shake his hands. A constable
then entered and arrested him. He has
since been sent to Ohio, w'here ' he has
three living wives, to be tried for biga**
my. There is also a charge of forgery
against him.
Snipkins refused to get his wife a new
hat, and soon after his little girl came in
and said ; ‘Mamma, won’t you buy me
a raonkev to play with when you go
down town r . No _ darling-wait till
vou llre older , and Ulen nlllrry 0 „ i
did,’ replied the griet’.stHckim wife, her
tears bursting forth afresh,
Having held a baby show and a cat
carnival in its Music Hall the past winter
Boston has now treated itself to the ch«.
max of a dog show, where Trai', Blanche,
and Sweatheart, with 800 other dogs of
both sexes and all breeds, colors, ard siz
es » aj 0 * -> bay, and wail m «! *•• >!*
^ ant conc-ord. Boston is nothing if not
musical. i
NO. 15.
A man j u Haroiu, N. II., has sued the
d latory lover of his daughter, for $300
for room rent, fuel and lights during four
years of corntship.
A family, consisting of man, wife, aud,
seven children, live m the woods of south
east Texas, with no other shelter than
that afforded by the forest trees. They
never labor or purchase food of any kind.
subsisting wholly upon i acorns, nuts,
herbs, rats, birds, fish, frogs, and what
they can procure by foraging They
have repeatedly refused offers of assis>
tanee, and express the desire to live a
wild life.
Fifteen years ago a workman in Mars
seilles, France, lost his only child,'a baby
boy, and to have some relic of the little
one left, he cut off the left hand of the
corpse and preserved it in alcohol. Re¬
cently he was again made a father, and
the infant is a healthy boy, but, singular¬
ly enough he lacks the left hand.
There are one hundred and twenty
eight custom houses in the United States,
Of this number there are thirty-six the
receipts from which during the last fis¬
cal year have not equaled, by nearly
ninety tnousaud dollars, the expense of
maintaining them. There are nine ports
from which not a single dollar is collec
ted for customs. There are ten others
from which the total annual collections
do not amount to one thousand
The Perry Home Journal thinks it
safe and reasonable for planters to exer
eise great prudence in the cultivation of
cotton. It says: ‘Cotton goods are
cheaper than they ever were before, and
and certainly the raw material cannot ad
vance prices until manufacturers either
learn to spin and weave at smaller cost#
01 some means succeed in advancing
the .prices of their goods. Last year was
said to be a very unseasonable one, and
in December the receipts ot cotton at
the ports were no less than fifty thou¬
sand bales st’ort, asj'compared with the
corresponding date of the previous year.
And yet prices were materially lower in
the fatter year.'
Several’churehes are being organized
in Micigan, and others are likely to be,
with this simple and brief creed as tlia
only test of membership: ‘We believe
Christianity is not a belief merely, but
rather h file ; that the sayings of Christ
are the plainest possible statement of ret*
ligious truth, and constitute the only true
theology ; and that any person who be¬
lieves and earnestly tries to live in accor*
dance with those savings is entitled to
church privileges,’
A Swedish gun has been invented
which is claimed to be mueli superior to
the Gathling gun, It is worked alter
the manner of pianoforte playing, moves
to and fro in a section of a circle, and
sweeps all the ground that it covers in a
most marvelous manner. It is something
like sweeping a lawn with water from
the jet of a garden hose moved right and
left by the operator The Russian navy
has this wonderful Swedish invention
ready for use in their fleet. It can be
carried up info the maintop for filing on
the enemy’s deck and inside for fortifica¬
tions. In close quarters it would sweep
the enemy’s decks of combatants.
The French Government will not ex
Libit itse'f, nor allow to be displayed, at
the coming Exposition, any war material
or inventions which it lias lately adopted,
or which it thinks ol adopting, for the ar¬
my or navy.
‘What is your chief consolation in
life ?’ asked a pastor of a young lady in
a Bible class. The young lady blushed
and hesitated, but said, ‘I don’t like to
tell you his name, hut I have no objec¬
tion to telling you where he lives.’
The telephone possesses the powerful
virtue of preserving the voice of a man’s
first wife ; he can bottle il up and keep
it tor years. There are such things as
second marriages, and what awkward
revelations the we 1 preserved yoice
might make,
Just About tub Truth— Mr. Keely
of ‘motor’ fame h a helpless bankrupt,—
Exchange. Keely absorbed about $ 100 ,
000 Irom credulous people to develop his
humbug machine, which was going to
supersede steam, and dispense entirely
with the use of fuel. He pretended that
with a teaspoonful ol water he could run
a train of cirs a hundred miles. For
over three years he lived sumptuously,
drove fine horses, woie diamonds, and
drank champagne ft the expense of fhe
stockholders in his motor company—one
of whom, by the way, was a Cleveland
editor. If Keely get s his deserts he will
furnish motive I'owi Ur C U* i
iU Luc pepiteisLary,
f The best farmer is the farmer who pul
vales himself.