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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Crccteiy, Chita, Glass aid Sions fares.
Lamps, Lanterns,
SILVER-PLATED GOODS.
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march 2, 1878. 6m.
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For tin* speedy Cure of Seminal Weakness, Lost
Manhood and all disorders Drought on by indis¬
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DEALEES IN
nil eteiDB,
Notions,
hats, caps.
BOOTS. SHOES, &c.
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OF ALL KINDS.
Fine Tobacco and Cigars, Confectioneries
a nd in fact, Everything Kept in a
FIRST CLASS STORE.
HONEST DEALING, IS OUR MOTTO.
USTTERMS RASH and Short Profits.
Oonyei-8 Ga. Feb. 16, 1878. tf
horse FOUTZ’S
and cattle powders,
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care or prevent Disease.
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While Truth is LeftF ree to Combat it.”
CONYERS, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 1. 1878
,
VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates
and Invigorates the Whole
System.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE '
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent,
and Diuretic.
Vegeitne is made exclusively from the uices of
carefully-selected barks, roots and herbs, and so
strongly concentrated that it will effectually eradicate
from the system every taint of Scrofula, Scrofu¬
lous Humor, Tumors, Cancer* Cancerous
IIMinor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphi¬
litic Diseases, Canker, Faintness at the
Stomach, and all diseases that arise from impure
blood. Sciatica, Inflammatory and Chronic
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout, and Spinal
Complaints, can only be effectually cured through
the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the
Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches, Boils,
Tetter, Scaldticad, and Ringworm, Vegetine
has never failed to effect a permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back, Kidney Com¬
plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leu*,
corrhceu, arising from internal ulceration, and
uterino diseases and General Debility, Vege¬
tine acts directly upon the causes of these com*
p-uints. It invigorates and strengthens the whole
system, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam¬
mation, cures ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Cos
tiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Head¬
ache, Piles, Nervousness, and General
Prostration of the Nervous System, no
medicino has ever given such perfect satisfaction as
the Vegetine. It purifies the b’.ood, cleanses all of
the organs, and posesses a controlling power over the
nervous system.
The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine have
induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we
know, to prescribe and use it in their own families.
In fact, Vegetine is the best remedy yet discov¬
ered for the above diseases, and is the only reliable
BROOD PURIF XEIlyet placed before the public.
THE BEST EVIDENCE.
Tne following letter from Rev. E. S. Best, Paster
of M. E. Church, Natick Mass., will ba read with
interest by many physicians; also those suffering
from the samo disease as afflicted the son of tho Rev.
E. S. Best. No person can doubt this testimony, as
there is no doubt about tho curative powers of
Vegetine.
Mr. II. R. Stevens Natick, Mass., Jan. 1,1874.
:
Dear S r, ~We have good reason for regarding
your Vegetine a medicine of the greatest value.
We leoi assured it has been the means of saving our
son’s life. He is now seventeen years of age. For
the last two years he has suffered from necrosis of
Ins lug, caused by scrofulous affection, and was so
inv reduced mat. nearly all who saw him thought hia
recovery i in possible. A council ot able physicians
couiq give us but the faintest hope oi his ever rally
; two el the number declaring t h..; t he w as beyond
the reach ot human remedies, that even amputation
could not save him, as he had not vigor enough to
endure the operation. Just then wo commenced
giving him yEGETINE, and from that time to the
present he ha s been continuously improving. Ho
has lateiy resumed his studies, thrown away his
crutches and cane, and walks about cheerfully and
strong. Though there
is still some discharge from the
Gpenihg where the limb was I .need, we have the
fullest eonhdenco that in a little time he. will be per¬
fectly He has cured.
taken about three dozen bottles of Vege
ho tine, is but well lately be uses but little, as ho declares that
too to taking medicine.
Respectfully E. S. yours, BEST.
Mrs. L. C. iff BEST.
VEGETINE
Prepared by
II. R. STEVENS, Boston,Muss.
Vegetine is Sold by ail Druggists.
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FOR WINES,
LIQUORS,
01 HER,
CHAMPAGNE, &c.
Oysters, Sardines,
Crackers,
Soaps,
Blacking.
FINE CIGARS and TOBACCO.
Pickles, Peanuts, Candies, &c.,
BOTTLED ■winimT-n.. BEER *r. T -r,« OF THE BEST
A Specialty.
C5TAU Kinds of FANCY DRINIvS
at Short Notice.
A FINE BILLIARD TABLE
attached and Privately arranged. House,
Under the Whitehead
Conyers, Ga. Feb. 16, 1878,
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NO. 19 WHITE FRONT,
CONYERS, GA,
- Dealers in—
DRY GOODS, FAMILY GROCERIES
HARD-WAKE.
CUTLERY,
CROCKERY-WARE,
GLASS-WARE, &c.
HARNESS,
Clotting, Hats. Caps, Bools, anflSHoes, Ckeap.
A full line of Notions and Ladies Dress
Goods.
A FINE LOT OF
good tobacco, cigars, etc.
WOODKN-WAIIf, TIN-WARE,
Jug-Ware, and Braiania Dippers, &c.i
Sardines, Cracker*,
Fancy Candies, Nuts, etc.
In fact wo keep a good stock of all that is
usualty kept in n first class Dry Goods or Gro¬
cery store. All of which we
WILL SELL BN TIME TO GOOD PARTIES.
aplr. Id, ly.
a week in your own town, fa outfit
free. No ri&k. Reader, if you want a
Srit^forYirticu’.ars can ^ make^-reat a pity^ H. Ballet & they Co.Port- woS*
to
1 aid, Maine.
JOS/f BILLINGS' SAYINGS.
When a man measures out. glory for
himself he always keeps the halt bushel.
Old ago has its privileges—one is to
find fait with everything.
A fool s money is like his branes, very
uneasy.
Marrying for her money is very much
like setting a rat-trap and bailing it with
your finger.
Gravity is no more evidence of wis¬
dom than a paper collar is of a shirt.
The hardest thing that any man can
do is to tall down on the ice when it is
wet and get up and praise the Lord.
A man with a few braines is like a
dog with one flea on him, dreadful uneasy.
Fame, is elt tiling a greased pole to
win a purse o! ten dollars and spi’ing a
suit of clothes worth fifteen.
A kicking cow never lets drive until
just as the pale is full, and seldom miss¬
es the mark. It is just so with some
men’s blunders.
About one ha'f the pi tty in this woild
is not the result of sorrow, but satisfac¬
tion that it ain’t our horse that has his
leg broke. >
Give a smart child a pack of cards and
spelling book, and he will learn to play
a good game of high low jack, long bet
lore he can spell a word of two sylla¬
bles.
Young man, when you have to search
Webster’s dictionary to find words big
enuff to <*>nvev your meaning you make
your mind up that you don’t mean much.
Foo’s and drunken men always make
this mistake, the one thinks ihev a"e sen
bi >le, and the other thinks they are so
her.
Speak in 5 of the mineral soring* ot
Georgia, the Gainsvillt' Eagle says : *IIa ]
conn'y in Georgia, is celebrated tor its
mineral waters, and its matchless climate,
both ot which owe their or gin to (lie
geology, and altitude of this section ot
the Aopa’achiar. chain of mountains, be**
ing the oldest in the world. The mine
va.ogy of this county is peculiar. No
country now known, of equal area, can
show so great a diversity < 1 metals, min¬
erals useful in the arts, and precious
stones from the flashing diamond and ru
by, equal to the gratification of the most
fastidious ; and the beryl, the topaz, sap*
phire and amethyst, for the wants of the
masses, and also pr-cious cornundum,
cornelian, garnet and jasper for the poor.
But, our mineral springs give 11s health
of body and piece of mr>d, which neither
gold or diamonds can give. These foun¬
tains ot health are produced by the de
compos tion cf th 1 sulphurets and car
bonates of iron, of lime, lithium, etc.,
which constitutes the body of our rich
and inexhaustible, metal-ifferous veins
of gold, silver, copper, iron, manganese,
tianium, etc.
A Sign on a house on Croghan street
infonusthe public that washing is done
th».v. „„d it w, s q „i. e „„«»! u*,.
.
mechanic working near by should take a
bundle under his arm and cal! there and
ask of the boy on the step : ‘-Bub, is the
washwoman inf’ “No, sir !’ was the
prompt reply—‘‘there’s no washwomen
here at afi !” “But that sign says wash¬
ing done here,’ remarked the man.
“Spose it does V temarked the boy, in a
higher key—“spose it does? A lady may
become the victim of unfortunate cir¬
cumstances to such an extent that she is
willing to wash and iron shirts and s heets,
but that doesn’t make a washwoman ot
her, does it ?’ “I thought it did,’ said
the man, “Humph ! If you draw a
buggy down to the shop to he repaired,
does that, make a horse of you ?’ The
man was silently turning away when the
boy added : “If you want to find the
lady of unfortunate circumstances, go
round to the side d»v>r, but the washwc
man —Free Press.
At Sunny Point, Panola county, Tex¬
as, on Monday last, two negro children,
one an infant and the other about two
years of age, were killed and eaten by a
sow. •The parents left the children in
the care of a girl seven years of age, and
while the girl was playing in the yard
the sow entered the house and seized the
infant Ring in a cradle and dragged it
out and ki led it. But before assistance
could reach the house lhe sagacious an
iron! had killed the intant and ate its ’
brains out and had attacked and eaten
off a leg and arm of ihe eldest child.
The latter lived some five or six hours
after the horrible ocounenoe.
■
One hum ter am . lxty-nme newspa
,
pars and periodicals are now published
in Texas, and yet there is not a paper
- Q ^ g tate .
TRUE INDEPENDENCE.
We have often received the advice
tiom fi lends ‘to take things easy,’ when
we have been anxious to accnmulish seme
important end. YVe distrust the wisdom
of the counsel.
V hen a man tells us that he always
lhln£?s eas Y>' and ‘never puts him
^ °', ,t wa y * or anything or any
body, "6 set him down in our mental
memorandum-bock as a ease of chronic
laziness and selfishness. .It will not do,
when life is so short, and there is so
much work to accomplish before death,
to lake things easy.
Your easy going man will never win
fortune or fame ; he will always be
den under loot and trampled upon by
the rushing, respectaole men of the
who are building fortunes and reputation
for themselves and their posterity.
And he who ‘never puts himself out of
the way tor anybody must not expect
that anybody will ever take the
to do him the slightest service. He per
haps thinks that ind fference is indepen ¬
dence. Nevt r was there a greater rmV
take—a more miserable misconception of
ra in and the ways of the world.
Ileal independence is the off pring of
well diree'ed energy ; the philosophy of
indolence is nothing better than a mean
•and conternptih e sophistry. We are all
under obligations, fir-jf to the great High
Source pf All, and then to our fellow
men, whose sympathy in our labors push¬
es us forward. We cannot separate one
link in that thrilling chain without falling
to the earth in utter helplessness.
No. Real independenqe is to labor
with our whole heart for the prize we
have in view, and to acknowledge the
fellowship of ihos« who sun ound us
through life, putting ourselves out of the
way, if necessary, to help them bear their
burdens, and thus, by this means, rece v
ing in return that holy sympathy which
buoys up the spirit and makes our labois
lighter.
j \rolish the ‘Harlor.’—W hat horrible
associations crowd into our mind when
the word ‘parlor’ is mentioned. We
immediately picture in our minds the ter
rible oppressiveness of that best room,
here the sun is never allowed to shine
tor fear of fading carpet and furniture,
where the chairs have all a stately, pol¬
ished and stiff look about them, where
the children are never allowed to enter,
where what little air there is may never
be allowed to change, and where the
smell is something akin to that of a fam>
ily tomb. This is the best room, and is
too sacrol for the use of the fatnfiy, and
is only kept tor purposes of ceremony
and for the convenience of those people
for whom we do not care a snap. Peo¬
ple whom we like and with whom we
are on familiar terms, come right into
the living room and have a chat in a
a pleasant way ; but the ceremonious visi¬
tor, whose departure gives us relief, is
ushered into the ‘parlor.’
The principle upon which this room is
founded is all wrong. Let, us have no
such room in our house. Open the shut
ters and wtndows. admit the sunlight
and air. If the carpets and furniture
fade, let us enjoy their use in that condi
lion. Let ns not have any tomb in out¬
house, where all should be cheerfulness
and brightness Abolish the ‘parlor’
and enjoy the home .—liwal New York
er.
San Marcos fTex.j Free Press: Mr.
Robinson and bis good wife, of Moun¬
tain City, Ha\ s county, are probably the
oldest couple in Texas. One ; s 103 and
the other a hundred and two years old.
They are Kentuckians, and Were mar¬
ried 82 years ago, Mr. Robinson says
he never swore but one oath, nor bor¬
rowed but fitly cents, and never gave
a note. He. is the same man to whom
Major Burleson presented a homestead
not long before he d'td. He and his
wife play together like children, and af
ter ai y short separation shed tears on
meeting.
The Lmcet advises its readers to
suspend, if not abandon, the practice of
using face powders, paints, and washes
of all but the simplest home made des¬
criptions, as almost all applications ot
t,lis class, down to the vioiet-powder of
lhe nursery, as prepared and sold tor
use on th e skin, may contain or consist
of poisonous materials. Some specimens
yielded ou anaE sis 20 per cent, of arson
ic.
Norway . has . exhibits , . . at
some curious
the , Faru.Exposition. „ . . . She „ , has _ , skins ,.
mm
tanned for” gloves; eel-sking prepared
£,^,. harness ; shark-skins, 10 feet long
an fi 3 feet wide, for various purposes, ,*
and w hale -skins, 60 feet long, for driv
ing bands of machinery.
TWOIDOLLABS Per Annum
THE BEST FRIEND.
Honor the dear old mother. Time
has scattered the snowflakes on her brow,
and plowed deep furro ws in her cheek,
but isn’t she sweetly beautiful still ?
The lips are thin and shrunken, but those
are the lips which have kissed many a
hot tear from the childish cheek, and
r *hey are the sweeteBt lips in the world,
The eye is dim, but it glows with the
soft radiance of holy love which can nev..
er lade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old
mother. It is true she sits waiting by
the side of (he grave ; the sands of life
irave nearly run out, but feeble as she is,
she will go further and reach down low
er for you. boy, than any one upon earth
You can never mount a scaffold too high
for her to reach, that she may kiss and
bless yon in evidence of her deathless
love. When the world shall despise and
forsake you. when it shall paint your
faults so black that scarcely a redeeming
virtue can be seen, when it leaves you
by the wayside to die unnoticed, the
dear old mother will gather you in her
feeble arms and carry you home where
she will tell you of your virtues until yon
will forget that your soul is disfigured
by sin. The best, most faithful of friends,
love her tenderly, and cheer her declin¬
ing years with holy devotion.
Intekkstino Cult h Espox uiiNCE. —Re¬
cently Richmond Jormon, an abie
bodied colored man, of Selma, Ala., ad.
dressed a letter to United States Sena¬
tor Morgan, of .the Slate, complaining
that the Republican Postmaster at Mo¬
bile had promised and then failed to
provide a place for him, and requesting
the Senator to use his influence to get
him a place under the Mobile Collector.
To this Senator Morgan responded that
he had met with such discouragements
in trying to find offices, places and work
for poor women with families of orphan
ch.ldren that need bread, that he could
scarcely hope to find an office for Mor¬
mon. Senator Morgan, however, added:
“As I remember, you are a stout, hearty
black man, raised to labor in the fields,
and well skilled and trained to industri
011s habits. It you are wanting work at
fair wages, J[ can provide foi you, and
will be glad to do so. My son George
plows every day for a living on a coiton
farm, which he is cultivating, and needs
help. He will give you fair wages and
good food He is well educited and can
give you instruction in many ways. He
is a pleasant young gentleman, and will
take an interest in seeing that your time
is pleasantly occupied ; n 1 that your rights
are not endangered,’’
‘New process’ flour is an article that
everybody has heard of, though not ev¬
ery one understands what it is. Strip¬
ped of technicalities, this is about the
story of its manufacture : The best flour
used to be nude of winter wheat.
Spring wheat yielded either much less in
quantity or else so much of the bran got
into the flour in its manufacture that its
color was intolerably dark. The .wheat
would be ground and then bolted. Iu
,be Ief «se~the bran and middliugs
' Je included a large proportion of
weight of the spring wheat, and this
would sell more particularly for feed for
horses. Now the best of floor, and the
most expensive, is made out ot this very
refuse ot the old fashioned process. It
all came out of the discovery of a way
to draw out the bran. Under the new
process the wheat is ground, about as
betore. The first result is an ordinary
fi -ur sold for exportation. Then the re¬
mainder is taken and put upon great hori¬
zontal sieves, and, while agitation is go¬
ing on there, an ingenious system of
drafts, rushing up through, carries off
the bran. What is left is the glutinous
portion of the wheat, the most nutritious
and most productive, and out of this, pu¬
rified now by the drawing off of the
bran, we get our new process flour. The
result of the discovery ol the process has
been to make the poor spring wheat of
vlinnesota and upper Wisconsin the
most valuable kind of grain, and to make
the fortunes of the inventors of the meth
od, who have built up at Minneapolis
immense mills
Columbus (Ga ) Euquircr-Sun : A
pullet was killed in lhe lower part of the
city a day or iwo atro, and when her cou
tents was taken from her ten eggs with
shells formed, besides many eggs minia¬
ture or in emb'-io state, were found. She
was certainly ready for the spring laying.
Who knows the number of these pullets
, bashful , .. , mod**st , . to . , lay their , .
too or eggs,
_^ _L_
A boy who is not strong enough to
spade ur a small onion bed between now
and the Fourth ot July, will dig over a
ten acre lot before breakfast looking for
bait.
NO. 2!i.
M, Faure demanded $8,000 for sing
insr four times in Madrid ou the oceusoti
of Alfonso’s marriage.
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Excellent counterfeits of the new dol¬
lar are being made from b’oek tin, bis¬
muth, and pulverized glass, They are
cheaper than the genuine article, and
where people do not know the difference, *
they answer just as well.
‘I am acquainted with your brothers
in-law, sir,’ said a gnileiees would-.be
reporter to Mr. Greeley. -Then yon
know a couple of mighty mean men.
Good morning,’ responded the philosos
pher. #
The North doesn't think it much of a
fraud to cheat the South, and the North
knows that the South elected Mr. Tilden.
Hie North rather enjoys the swindle, and
doesn’t want to be annoyed about it any
more,—(Vicksburg Herald.
Things are coming to a climax. The
Mrs. R B, Hayes temperance society
at Washington have, ‘Resolved that
the society discard the name of Mrs. R.
B. Hayes and denounce her as com
plete a fraud as her husband,’ There
now.
‘My German friend, how long have
you been married !’ ‘Ye), dat is a ting
rat I seldom don’t like *o tank about but
ven I does, it seems to pe so long as it
never vas.’ «
Jonesboro News • ‘The cool nights,
or something else, have caused the cot¬
ton to die out. Some farmers are re¬
planting with the hoe, while others are
plowing up and planting in
over.
Fete was out sawing, woed yesterday
and didn’t come home till rather late last
night; and while he was passing by an
open lot, some one jumped out and said :
‘Your money or I’ll blow your brains
out.’ ‘Blow away,’ said Pete, ‘for I
might as well be widont brains as widout
money.’
‘Tt was simply an informal affair,',
wrote the editor of a little strawberry
party, at a neighbor’s house. ‘It was
simply an infernal affair,’ read the com¬
positor, and that editor will never get
any more invitations from / that quar
ter.
A growth of human hair, the longest
on record, is among the curiosities to be
seen at the Paris Exposition. It came
from the head of a Norman girl, Merlol
by name, who lived with her mother in
the extremes! poverty. It is sever! feet
long, of an exquisils golden color, luxu-.
riant, and silky
‘W e regret to learn,’ says the (3gle'. Col¬
thorpe Echo, ‘that our neighbors,in
umbia county are suffering from a terri¬
ble scourge m the shape ot mad dogs.
We have not as yet heard of any person
having been bitten by them, but*the? fact
that quite a number have been killqd and
others are known to be at large, renders
it unsafe to travel in some localities,
We recommend a plentiful distribution
ot lead among the canine population ot
the infected district.'
When Abraham Lincoln was a* poor
lawyer, he found himself one coldMay, at
a village some distance from Springfield,
andsarith no means of conveyance, Bee*
nig field a road gent'eman in carriage, riding aljng lie the S^j-ing
a ran up to
him and politely said: ‘Sir, will you
have the goodness to take my overcoat
to town for me ?’ ‘With pleasure,’ an
swered the gentleman; ‘but hovv will
you get it again?’ ‘Oh, very easily,’
said Mr. Lincoln, ‘as I intend to remain
in it.’ ‘Jump in,’ said the gentleman
laughing. And the future Presidenthad
a pleasant ride.
THE CARAT. *1
Possibly many people have speculated
upon the precise meaning ot the word
‘carat.’ It is an imaginary weight, that
expresses the fineness ot gold, etr the
proportions of pure gold in a mass ot
metal. Thus, an ounce of gold of twen¬
ty-two cai'ats fine is gold of which^ twen¬
ty-two parts out of twenty-four are
pure, the other two parts beiag eUver,
copper, or other metal. The weight of
four grains, used by jewelers In weigh¬
ing precious stones and pearls, is spmes
times called diamond weight—t’qe caret
consisting of four nominal grain*, ftlittlo
lighter than four grain troy, or seY^nty
four and one. six-tenth carat graihs “being
equal to seventy two grains tjof. |The
term of weighing carat derives its ojame
from a bean, the Fruit of an A'bys*
sinian tree, called kuata, Yaryiifg little
in its weight, and seems to hal7e been,
from a very remote period, used as a
weight for gold in Africa, In India, aL
so, the beau is used as a weight for gems
pearls. I *
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