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THE EXAMINER
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W,A. HARP I
..Editor and Business Manager.
CONYERS, OA., SATURDAY JUNE S9,1878
Mr. Stephens in his Augusta speech,
cn Wedneseay night last, reiterates the
insulting dogmas of his letter, and de
cLresthat he will “die independent of
party shackles." Docs Mr. Stephens
wish it understood that he belongs to no
■party f If so, under what obligations
are the organized Democracy of the 8 li
district to promote him to office as the
exponent of their political principles *—
•He says he “is d Jeff trsotilan Democrat,
and nobody can drive him from those
pr in si pi w*.’’ But it 6eems that he op
poses the erganization of all men who
c’airo, w ; th equally as good a right as
Mr. Stephens, to be Jeffersonian Demo¬
crats, in order to more effectually carry
out their principles, and denounces eve*
ry man who is not willing to be dictated
to by himself as unprincipled ‘tricksters,’
Has the Democratic party of Georgia
become so corrupt, and so impotent, that
it dare not maintain its organization, and
suffer itself lo be bullied into submission
by political mountebanks, who boMly pro
claim themselves outside o f the party?
The time has been when all such crea
tures would have been kicked by all men
who claimed any affi inlion wi.h the true
Democracy. Then, all true Democrats
stood shoulder to shoulder, and the party
stood us a un to, a solid bulwark found¬
ed upon the principles of the Constitu¬
tion and the true theory of political and
religious liberty, as taught by Jefferson
ittid Madison, and against which the fa¬
naticism of Raidicalism could not ^
vail. Th-n, if Mr. Stephens had dec’ar
"ed himself independent of the true or
• ganized democracy, and played the role.
of apologist for Radical usttrpers,he Would
have been as unceremously kicked
of the way of the party, as Ben Ilill was
when he attempted to lead the party
astlay from its purpose to ro establish
constitutional government.
*** A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
Tie Sr. Louts Republican says! * “It
is a fitting rebuke to the white members
of the Itouse committee on Enrolled Bills
that the only member of the committee
who was sober enough to attend to busi¬
ness during the last night of the late
•session, when they had by far the most
^mj>ortsnt duties and. grave responsibili¬
ties that had rested on them during the
whole eight months of the session, was a
colored man. Josdph H. Rainey, a ne¬
gro from South Carolina was, according
to the reports* the only member of the
committee who was not drunk of those
who were nominally dn duty, and the ex
ception is at- once creditable to bis race
and a reproof to the while men who <=o
shamefully neglected their work.'*
When it comes to this, says the Savan¬
nah New8, that honorable members ot
Congress so far forget the dignity of
their position and their duly to their
country, as to convert the Hall of Rep¬
resentatives into a scene of bacchanalin
revelry, to go reeling and shouting
through its aisles, or gather in groups
upoti the floor and joining in singing the
“Sweet By-and-By,” and “John Brown’s
Soul is Marching On*’’ and to utter neg¬
lect the business of the country in the
last- hours of a protracted session, it is
titce for the people to consider whether
it is not their duty to see to it that they
* are represented in Congress by a better
class of men. Scones like that described
o:i the last night of the session are a dis
giace, not only the actors, but to the
American nartie,
The Vermont Democratic Convention;
at Montpelier, on Thursday,
resoludons congratulating the country
ou the restoration of home rule in the
South and the oveithrow of military
domination, favoring ‘one currency for
a’l and the gradual substitution of green¬
backs for national bank bills,’ and in
view of the overwhelming majority for
the Democratic candidate for President,
that the thanks of the United States aie
due to the men who originated the pres¬
ent investigation of the electoral frauds,
that the revelations already made before
the committee criminating the Secretary
of the Treasury' and the Republican Sen
ntor from Ohio, leave no room to doubt
the wisdom of this investigation, and
that while they would sanction no assault
upon the title of President Hays, they
urge the prosecution and punishment of
all who aided^tbe frauds by which the
Presidency was wrested from the De¬
mocracy.
The Augusta Chronicle and Conslitu
tiohnlist says that in the latter pari of
May last, a mad dog running through
Mr, W. 0. Frazier s place, near the city,
bit a little terrier belonging to Mr. Fra
• «ier. The terrier went made soon after¬
wards, and bit a horse on the head. The
teirier died in a short time, acd on Sun^
day the horse, which went mad a ter it
was bitten, also died.
A terrific hail storm passed over Dooly
county last week. The hail stones are
reported to have been in some places
over two feet deep. The crops ou sev -
cral plantations were totally destroyed.
A Wosderkcl KB-cTCCKt C.vve—A
dispatch from Glassgow Junction. Ky; #
says auother wonderful care has recently
been, discovered near that tower, Ac¬
cording to the J'Spalch this wonderful
cavern has already been explored for a
distance of twetity three miles. In an¬
other direction, called the short route,
the avenues are very wide, and a Span of
horses cm easily be driven through tor
a distance of eleven miles. Three rivers,
u ide and very deep, are encountered on
the long route. One of them is navaga-
ble tor fourteen miles, until the passage
becomes too narrow to admit a boat.—
This forms the third or river route, which
has been explored in a boat. The eave
is wonderful beyond description, and far
surpasses in grandeur the Mammoth
Cave or any other before discovered.—•
Several mumified remains have been chs
covered in one of the large rooms. They
are reposing in stone ccffios, rudely con¬
structed, and, from appearances, may
have been iu this cave for centuries.—
The/ present every appearance of the
Egyptian mummy. Great excitement is
said to preval over this extraordinary dis¬
covery.
A man was sentenced to State prison
for life at Zanesville, Ohio, last week for
a murder which was proved against-him
in peculiar circumstances. In June,
1876, a farmer named Brock was b und
lying dead w ilh a gun-shot wound in one
eye and a guu lying by him. A verdict
of suicide Was Tendered and the body
was bared. Suspicions were, however,
aroused against his farm hand, named
Moorcltead, of whom he had been jealous,
and last February the body was taken up
and it was found th it there had been two
wounds in the head ; one made by a bullet
lrom a , ;ile CMterin S tvom behind > and
J»»e other made by a shot gun discharged
* nt0 lbe ^ flattened bullet and
sCve * a - sbot NVere * ound * n the brain ; the
bube ^ bad keen p*fci*ced by one cr more
8,10t e,,terin « on lhe convcx side » whiub
P oinled t0 the lacL that U had betu firsl
bl bead ’ and l°dgecl in such a posi
* aon lba '- ^ ie ‘h°t on entering had pei -
for.;ted it; Moorehcad was arrested and
tided with the result Its given aUove.
A Georgia farmer tells whv he is poor.
He says: ‘I am poor because I buy more
than I sell. In the fi-st place, I buy a
part of my meat from the North-west ;
my fish corues from Maine* for the tak
ingofwh'ch the Mainlander receives a
bounty from the government; my onion
sets and all my garden seeds I buy fiom
Michigan. I sold wool from eighteen
sheep at thirty-seven and half cen’s per
pound to an agent of a hat maufacturing
company, of Reading, Pa. Four mouths
thereafter I bought a bat, paying at the
rate of s x dollars a pound for the wool.
The hide of a buck; I sold at five cents a
pound. It went to Palmyra, N. Y. was
tanned, sent back, and I paid thirty-five
cents per pound, and it weighed more
than it did when I sold ib’
A correspondent of the Augusta News
from Aiken, S. 0., gives an account of
an o!d negro, near that place, who waC
possessed of a large black mule, that
was noted for his k : ckin ; propensities;
which he seemed to pride huhselt in on
all occasions. Now, the old negro was
a Baptist and hid, with his entire house,
hold, been plunged beneslth the limped
waters, and was a firm believer in the
salutary influence which an effectual
plunge exercised over animal nattire;
so he determined to tiy what virtue wa
ter would exercise over his ungovernable
turtle. He led his muleship to a stream
near by, and with no witness, save the
frogs and moccasins; went through wiih
till the ceremony of a Christian baptism,
and plunged the mule beneath the water.
When he led the mule from the stream
a spirit of docility overspread his couns
tenance* he was and has
‘never attempted to kick since the day ot
his conversion by baptism. Before that
memorable event, his heels were a “ter¬
ror to the family;” but now he is sub¬
missive to even the smallest C’ffiid and
does his master’s bidding without a rnur
mur, and with a degree of cheefalness
hitherto unknown Defote he was convert
ed Mom the error ot his ways. This is
certainly a strange case, and is probably
the first instance on record where a mule
was cured ot disagreeable tricks by such
a process.
The Oak Bower correspondent of the
Hartwell Sun advances the following
novel argument on his side ot the fence
law question : ‘It is thought that the
snakes will take Anderson county, as the
tence law is in operation, and hogs being
kept up, there is nothing bat man to de¬
stroy them, and they have tco much of
the *old sarpeut’ in them to destroy many
of them/
A young girl was struck bliud in
Cleveland, Ohio, one night recently.—
She went to bed with strong eyes and in
excellent health. During the night she
felt a sort of pricking for* a second or ,
two about her eyes, and then a snap, as!
if something had broken. These sensa- 1
lions were accompanied by no pain, and
after they had passed away there was no
uncomfortable feeling about the eyes.-—
In the morning she was C.one blind.
Th» ? noouMgeineiuol home in, Justly
is exemplified to the fullest degfee tf>
Columbus. There, says the Enquirer,
may be seen youug men of wealth dress'
ed in fashionable made suits which cost
only four dollars and fiity cents, and
which are entirely of ^louie product.—■
The cotton is grown in the neighboring
fields, it is spun by the Eagle and Phoe
nix factories, the cloth is cut out by a
Georgia tailor, and delivered to home
seamstresses who make the clothes; In
all this the city of Coluriibtis deserves
great credit.
General Oiook hds had a conference
with General Sherridan, and they both
ajjfree that the situation in the West is
very critical, and that the army is not
large enough to suppress the Bannock
outbreak, to say nothing of anticipated
troubles.
The Port Royal Railroad Company ha&
been reorganized by the bondholders
under the name of the Port Royal and
Augusta Rail way Company. Ji has been
duly incorporated, the Union Trus' Com¬
pany ofNew York, making a deed of the
property, which was lately bought under
foreclosure in its n.airie.
The Auditor of public accounts
Virginia has received re*urns from a’I
counties and cities of that State using
the Moffett whiskey register from the
date of their being put iulo operation up
to Au il 33. These returns indicate that
the total yield of revenues from the sale
whiskey, taxes, etc., will foot up lor
the year $596,474, as against.$262,195
heretofore reported as the amount as¬
sessed on liquor in every form for the
year 1876 77,
TaoBovs started from Rochelle, III.,
in quest of adventure They walke^
along a railroad for t* n mile®; and then,
very tired, they sat down to rest. Very
soon they fell asleep, and one lay with
his head across a rail, so that when u
Lain cam. a ang he was beheaded.
R. B. Hayes is a candidate for the
office ot constable in McLel’an county,
Texa-i. Should he he honest y elected his
position will be infinitely more honoia
ble and estimable than that of his name
sake, the Fraudulent President who uc
Cupies an offi/e to which he , - not •; elec- ,
was
ltd, and which he at aint-d inrou<rh & suo”
cvssfui , , fraud, r . fogery, r and , p vjury.— Sun.
01I1L F© R 0
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The Estey Organ,
in Chfllienggs the Wtfrld for an equal
power and variety of tone, durabil¬
ity and beauty of workmanship. Ex
* traordinary low manufaeturirig facilities al¬
reduced prieeSi
Pianos.
Experts, Centennial artists and the decree of thd
Exhibition place the
WEBER
above all competition. Tiid
HENRY F. MILLER,
Ihcorrfparable and matchless in tone
and actiod. Are Used in the Boston
Public Schools, Massachusetts State
Normal Schools, and New England
Conservatory of Music, exclusively.
Also the celebrated
GUILD,
* and other Pianos, some of which can
be sold as low as
$125.00.
If you w'ant bargains, write tcf
Guilford,
who is the only practical musician and
workman in the music business South.
Guilford,
who has had twenty-eight yeafs expe¬
rience in the business.
Guilford,
who guarantees lower prices and bet¬
ter terms than any other dealer.
XTO LOCAL AGENTS.
Manufacturers sell, through me, di¬
rectly tb customers, charging only a
very small advance on cost.
52 Whitehall St.,
:,. .y
The hostile Indians Riill commit depie
dations in the West. General Crook
regards the situa’ion as growing more
ahd more serious.
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Mrs. Williamson who was murdered
in Caytiga county by her husband, was,
seventeen, ar.d married two years. Her
mother at the time of the Carriage told
Williamson that the girl w as too young
10 choose a husbahd, and that, she would
be sure to fall iff love with some other
man. This’warning did not induce him
to wait* but rtiade him jealous and watch¬
ful of *his wife; His determination to
kill her was made deliberately, afld after
he had good reason to beliete that her
mother’s prediction had been Verified.
After shooting her once and inflicting a
slight wound he said : ‘-That’s too bad—
[ meant you shouldn’t suffer.’ Then he
took a more careful aim and killed her.
His suicide fcllov^ed.
DITCHING BOOTS Very & McC Cheap and
Good, at bTEvVAKT A LI As.
pANAMA and STEWART Sti raw Hats, & Verv McCaLLA’S ( heap, at
Plain and Ornament!
HlllB k SHIS I'tlMI.Mr i
11 [LAVING located in Conyers, I b eg Lave to
notitthe public that, after an experience
of twenty-three years in the business, I feel
confident that I can give entire satisfaction in
House aai Sip Palatini, Pap- Uunpr.
caatlixiilaa ^
Varnishing. Touching-Up Old
Furniture, &c.
Remember, I work us Che«p as the cheapes.,
and all work Guaranteed to Givd Suti.-fac
tioil or no charges. Orders from the coun
try solicited. All orders left at Ayers & Co’s
Drug Store, will receive prompt attention.
Respectfully, P, H. FERGUSON.
Conyers, Ga. june 15, 1878 6 ni
WM, SLODIC,
r S now prepared to do work the cheapest that
1 it has ever been done in Georgia. Prices
down to “hard pan” standard. He will
Clean out a v atch for 50 cts.
Pfii a Main Spring in a wakh ;ur...oO ot-.
Put a Hairspring in a watc. for......50 ots.
Set a Jewel in a watch for ...........50 cts.
Pin Tongue in a Breastpin for......15 cts,
Clean out a Clock for 75 cts,
All work Warranted.
North side Commerce street, Conyers, Ga,
June 8—6m
SAVE MONEY,
Good parties, who are not afraid to gi V se
r fiT a * >ei t!u Can UV Gr 0 c f ri<?s * Uiy Lord,
Clothing, ™ /Shoes, Hats, o and all other goods
from us on easy terms, payable ne^t Fall._
brive us a call. Our goods must be cold before
the “Harvest is past and the Summer is end
el.” STEWART & H c CALL A.
llif MRU 10 CENTS.
E have a large supply of Leaf Lard, in
wW 100 pound cans. Really more than we
need, and will offer\o
Families M Colintrf Merchants,
at ft very low price by the quantity, if they
call soon.
STEWART & McCALLA.
FOR SALE.
One of ES1EYS EINE PAR¬
LOR ORGANS, 5 Octave 7 Stops.
Just received from the Mantr
factory. Will be sold ATABtR
GAIN, apply at this office
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SMITH l FAHMEK
NO. 19 WHITE FRONT,
CONYERS, GA,
— Dealers in— :
DRY GOODS, FAMILY GROCERIES
HARD-WARE.
CUTLERY, CROCKERY-WARt:,
GLASS-WARE, &e.
HA-RISrESS,
Clothing, Bats. Caps, Boots, aMSlioes, Cheap.
A full line of Notions and Ladies Dress
Goods.
A FINE LOT OF
GOOD TOBACCO, CIGARS, ETC.
WOODEN-WAKE, TIN-WARE,
are, and Brataiiia Dippers, (fee,,
Sardines, Crackers, .
Fancy Candies, Nuts, etc.
In fact we. keep a good stock of all that it
kept in a first class Dry Goods or Gro¬
store. All of which we
WILL SELL OH TIME TO GOOD PART®.
aplr. 13, ly.
1E 9 ®SI®S &
Pryor Street, Atlanta <&,
DEALERS IN
Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Looking-Glasses, Buckets
Brass Lamps, Sillers, Coffee Mills, Stamped 1 inwave \v ^ " r °°tok >
Spoons, Forks, Castors and Knives.
Or any article in our line, give ns a chance to price it to you. We >,
made up to work off hard stock, with a f(?tv sets of Teas under cost \\- Ve no offered I
such goods as they can sell and make a good profit oh J if 0n b srsr
article squarely on its own merits, and at the lowest possible v ° u
cash -
fwe beat house that the traveling v, r c ?’ 1)0
drummers, can any pays expenses of S K&r ** J
a list of the artiles you Want, and we will SAVE YDU MONEY ' w 7 ®* Jn «n,) v
we ME AX BUSINESS if you want to buy FOR CAS H, and wiin eodH N
before you buy. Very Respectfully, m and'^ n? price
|#We are the only manufacturers of SHOW CASES in this Hty *Co 7
prices.
Estat>lis3iedL in il
Joseph fl, Almaxd. John U. Aimand, T "» D s«d
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J* EL Almanb Son & fJ
FAILROAD AND COMMERCE STREETS,
Keep constantly on hand a Splended Line of
Sims AH® ?«¥ SRI m
BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, CLOTHING, HARDWARE
i
WOOD&\.%!
Glass, crockery and tinwAR^
andjn IK/Oill, iiddition to feet, our Dry eonstanly Goods filled department/ with Choice we have a' SPACIOUS WthHiii
30 x 65 '
Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Meats, Lard, Floiir, Corn, Bran. tiiadS Meal
Shelf-Goods, Ac. Plows, Plow Stocks, and all
Farminglmplemeats and Carpenter’s Tools;
Saddlery, Collais, Bridles, Whips;
Linseed ami Lubricatifig’
Spts Turpentine &nd
KERO SENE.
We will pay the Top of the Market for COTTON, Merchandise and all kinds 6f Country i’rodart J
Parties desiring anything in the General line, will find it. totlmi 1
tevest to carl on J. H. ALMA.ND SON 4 CO,
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
GEORGIA, Rockdale County.
w II ERE AS W. T. Albert, the Administra¬
tor of John Albert, deceased, represents
the Court of Ordinary, cf said County; by pe¬
tition duly filed, Ac., that he has fully admin¬
istered John Albert’s estate, This is, there¬
fore, to cite oil perrons concerned, kindred ami
creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why
said Administiatov should not be dis charged
from his administration, and receive Letters
of Dismission on the first Monday in August.
Given under my hand and official signature,
May 21, 1878. 3m O. SEAMANS. Ordy
GEORGIA, Rock J ale County.
PUHEHEAS J. B. Brown and W. J. Smith,
V? Administrators of Josiah Brown, deceased,
having made application to Court of Ordinary
of said county, for Letters of Dismission from
their administration of the estate of said de¬
ceased,
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concern¬
ed to show cause, by filing objections in rhy
office, why the said J. B. Brown and W. J.
6mith should net be dismissed from the ad
and ministrationship receive of the estate of Josiah Brown
tile'usual hand Lefteifi and bf Dismission.
Given under my bfficial signature,
Mach 5th, 1878 . O. SEAMANS,
mr.9 3m Oidinary.
Resolved, That the County School Comma
sioner make snch arrangements as to Ifim fc'
seem best and cheapest, for taking the eJ
meration of the seheol population of thN cow
ty, as is required by law. *8
Mr. W. T. Huson, the Tax Receiver,
take the enumeration above mentioned i>
all parties will do Well to make full «nfl
to him, as the amount of the School F«i»
ceived by the county, will be in proportion 5
the number of children in the corn) y
I will examind teachers on Saturday 8ft
15th of Jude, and those wishiug to tewhp 5,
schools will please take due notice.
C. 8. ^
& pril 20 1 m J. 0. BARTON, *
SOMETHING NEW.
N Umbrellas and Prices,^at^ ^ CAl*L^
GO TO
WINES. LIQUORS,
C eHAMPAOSR*
Sardines
Soap^ Blacks
FINE CIGARS and TOBACCO
Pickles, Peanuts, Candies, *«•’»
OTTLED BEER OF THE BESTB^
A Speedy.
FANCY urn* 10
iKte’All Kinds bf
at Short Notice.
A FINE BILLIARD
attached and Privately arrangedn f
A. C. McCALLAt
Attorney at L»»
CONYERS, i . GlOf®
Ues. Will practice in Sockdalc and a ^ oin ^5il^j
STEWART & BRO.'S, I
j \ l ONTR building ACTORS f6i All kinds of work,!tiJ
as
tlmt aiii Saw Mills, iw tali
Including all kihds Ht
SCROLL WORK Am) MOULDINGS
PLANS and SPECIFICATIcfc
For Buildings Furnished at Short Notice I
We are manufacturers and dealera in d
kinds of Furniture.
Conyers, Ga., April 26—ly.
| T can make money faster at work for toll*
8 at anythirg else. Capital not requiM;*
w will start you. $12 per day made at bom
by the industrious, Men, women, boyuil
girls wanted evPfytrhere to work for us, Sm
is the time. CoStty outfit and terms free -
Address True & Co'.; Aiigtista Mainf.
PUBLIC SOHOOL NOTICE.
Iteaolved, That the Public Schools lor t.
county, for the present ye4, he bpefeD
Monday, June 17th, and continued fortta
consecutive mouths from that date.