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\u<?usta, Lin.., Doc, 2/, 18/8.
..jjcinTv Sunday 29th. ’78, Trains will
as follows :
WEST.
I; (ill a a. Atlioda Aeeounnodat ’on.
. Accommodation.
> 3 J U M -Atlanta
tiW *- *■' Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nash
v i 1 1 o, Memphis, Knoxville,
Louisville, Cincinnatti, St.
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ton, 'or jTttcon on mmdays.
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8,52 p. M. -Covington Ac :otn modation.
Uo p. a. -Augusta and Way Stations,
Clmileston, Savannah, Colmn
Vi.., Glim lotto, Danville, Rich¬
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S. K. JOHN HON,
k Superintendant.
K. DORSEy, Vg’t.
Gen. Pass.
A. Ci McCALLA,
ittorney at Law
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CONYERS, GA SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1879.
Conyers’ Church Directory.
FTRS'i BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching every Second and Fourth Sabbaths
at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 3 p, m.
rayer meeting every \\ ednesday night.
J. M. BtittIin, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
At Conyers preaching Iso and 3d Sundays at
LI a. m. S. School every Sabbath at 3 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Tuesday night.
At Ebenezer on the 2d Sunday and Satur
day before. At Prospect on the 4th Sunday
and Saturday before.
J. A. Reynolds, Pastor.
£_
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching every First and Third Sabbath at
11a. m. Sunday school every Sabbath at 9 a
m.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Geo. B. Moore, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching every Second and Fourth Sab
bath at 11 a. m. Sabbath school every Sab
bath at 9 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
H. Quigg, Pastor
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching every Second Sunday at 10 \ a. m.
Isaa{ IIamby, Pastor.
Conyers Post Office.
OKF1CE TIOUR3.
Mail open at 7 o’clock a. m.
“ close “ 8£ “ p. m,
SUNDAY. ..
Open (only) at from, 2 to 3 o’clodk r.vc.
P F. Jonks, P. M.
To X-s^diojs
MBS. R A. RICHARDSON,
Invites especial attention tojher Large Stock
of Ladies’ Primmed and Untriinnied
&
RIB RONS,
LACES and
FLOWERS.
Her stock is Large and Well Selected,
and the ladies can ALWAYS FIND the
LATEST STYLES
IN ALL KINDS OF GOODS.
It you want the Prettiest Hat of
the Season, or a few yards of Tritil¬
ing, or anything kept iu the Millinery
line, don’t fail to call on
MRS. P. A. RICHARDSON.
Compierce street, Conyers, Ga.
U1 GOD cigars and cheap, fine smoking lobac
vT co, and chewing to baecos, ar.d the old
and reliable cheroot, at STEWARTS.
Dr. k W. II; TRAINEE,
MiiateOf Tie Imersity Of
Takes pleasure in informing the citizens of
Hen nry aud adjoining counties that he will treat
all \ihronic Cases, Lungs, Liver and DiabeSs,
And All Other Diseases Of The
MUSCULAR SYSTEM!
(JfigrOalls attended to day and night, dec7 ly
Address Peeksville, He’ vV Co., Os'.
can make money faster at work for us than
at anything else. Capital not required ; wo
will start you. $12 per day made at home
by the industrious, Men, women, boys and
girls wanted everywhere to work for us, Now
is tho .time. Costly outfit and terms free—
Address True & Co., Augusta Maine.
J. \V. THURMOND, Respectfully informs
tho citizens of Rockdale and adjoining coun¬
ties. that he has on hand a fine selection of
Confectioneries,
family Groceries &c. mi cheat
Also fine Liquors of all sorts, Mines, Bran¬
dies, Whiskeys, Ac.
CIGARS OF CHOICE BRANDS.
He asks a share of patronage and guaran¬
tees satisfaction both in quantity of goods White- and
prices. Decatur street, next door to
head House, Conyers, Ga. nov9 ’78 6m
The Latest Ms From feisl) AliaM’s
He has just received a general
assortment of merchandise of
every kind which he will sell
Cheaper than the
CEAHPEST^
He will not be UNDERSOLD
by any house in town, so it will
be to your interest to call and QX
amine his stock of
DEY GOODS, CLOTHING,
Oroceries* <^c.,
before purchasing elsewhere. Call
at Rosser’s old stand and lie will
take pleasure in,showing, buy you liow
cheap you can goods.
Conyers, Ga., Nor, 16—2ai
H business at which
can make graat pay all the time tlmv
BMfflt
SAME OLD STORY.
But With a Different Ending.
A bootblack stood on the post office teps,
s
And nis cap was drawn over his ears,
His nose it was cold, and down his cheeks
rolled
A liquid which Webster calls tears.
Tv as the day before Christmas—the ’78,
An< l Hie year
name of this boy it was Bill;
No ^ mother he had, and that parent qalled dad
Was long since sawed up in a milt
The people did come, and ths people did
And the public their go,
letters did mail;
But Billy stood there in a pose of despair.
And he muttered his thoughts t > the gale.
“A horf an am I, and there’s no one to oare
How often T frost-bite my toes;
X might be found dead in my poverty bed,
And no one would think of my woes.
“There’s Christmas for Sam, and presents for
Tom—
There s taffy for Jack and for Jvm;
And j
every one’s Ned will have a new sled,
And of chicken each boy’ll get a limb.
“If ma’am, was alive I’a be sure of a knife,
And dad. he would get me a hat;
And I d kinder play loose on a crockery goose.
And take in a big candy eat.
“But I’m all alone, an$,my wallet is flat,
And Christmas is nothing to me;
Jaw-breakers must eli te and peanuts* mast
glide,
And with stubs I must satisfied be.”
And he slowly walked ou in the wintry blast,
And a path to the alley he made;
And he entered the shed wherein was his bed,
And his bones on a blanket were laid,
The boy fell asleep with a tear in his eye,
And a chill it played over his back;
While the wind it grew cold os the night it
grew old,
And his toes they got many a whack.
A shaggy old man with a wrinkled brow,
Had stood by the pout office door;
And bending his head had heard what was
said*
Though the wind made a terrible roar.
He followed the boy down the snowy path,
And he saw him curl up for the night;
And he waited .awhile, and he put on a smile,
And he chuckled as if it 'were right.
Then he hurried away on a pleasure trip—
Of course it was old Santa Claus,
,
Aud of bourse he came back with a bag full of
Avhacks,
Intended foi poor Billy paws.
Hold on—not too fast—the end.is not yet—
The boy he was dreaming of heaven;
When, “Oitup here, you woke!” his slumbers
woke,
And the bells they were tolling of 'leven,
A bine-coot was there with the law in his eye,
And the boy to the station dirt drag;
And the Co*,rt did melin sis he set a big fine :
“O I long have we wanted this vag.”
M. QUAD.
NATURAL HISTORY-THE BABY,
Detroit Free Press.
“AVTiat ihuinal is this?”
“This is a baby. It is now about
three years old, and at the wickedest
point ot his earthly career.”
“What countries does the baby most
inhabit ?”
“He can be found in every inhabited
country on the globe, the same as mos¬
quitoes and boils." •I
“Can they be tamed ?
“Yes, quilu easily. After a little judi¬
cious disoiplae they cease to struggle
and become subservient to the will Of
man,”
“Does the baby eat grass ?”
“Yes, or anything else. They swallow
pocket-knives, thimbles, buttons, spools,
or any other subject a little smaller than
a tea-cup. If offered milk they seldom
refuse it/’ , ,
“Do they graze during the day, or only
at night ?’’
“They are always grazing, paying not
the least heed to the hour, When not
actually eating they generally give ut¬
terance to a peculiar cry. Strong men
often j'imp out of bed at midnight in
the coldest weather when hearing that
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“Y£bat meaning is attached to this
CV y ‘P'
“Men of deepest thought have agree*!
that it signifies lo wake up the neighbor
hood and have some fun.”
“Of what benefit to mankind is a do
mesticated baby ?”
“They are of no earthly account for
the first few year*, but by and by tbey
can alide down hill on a wl'ar door am
carry article# out of the house and trade
I them for a wooden sword, or lose them
in the grass.’’ *
. . . where , t .
“Do rV vori Know attacke/the of any Instance
J tae Ub> bM has a ,0 ‘ ei ; KAUM and
,
/lUev 01 injmc an ,dated by
“Such instance* «*■
George Fr»n«
T™"} ! leI “ J but we
I*!* an<
»--i ‘..L i thetU- il0V However ' eV ’
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provoked, there ii uo knowing whal it
mignt do.”
“Are they a healthy animal
^o* Cn the contrary, no druggist
could make enough profit la * year to
buy him a pair of Arctic overshoes, but
for the presence of the baby in every
household. There is hardly an hour in
the day that the baby does not demand
peppermint, paregoric; milk’, sugar, coin
dial, cod liver emulsion, ipecac, or some¬
thing else that cost money.”
“What machinery is made me of to
compel the b&by to take a dose of castor
oil V*
“There are several patent machines for
the purpose, but most people follow the
old rule of knocking him senseless and
getting the dose into his mouth before
he recovers.”
“Is the baldheaded baby rncro domes*
tie than others T”
“Not a bit. He kicks around after the
same fashion, and has even a worse time
fighting flies and mosquitoes.’”
“What music do they seem to prefer?’
“A base drum is their first choice, but
they have a heavy leauing toward the
sound of the stove haudle knocking the
nose off the pitcher with the emptyings
iu it.”
This is all about the baby. Take an¬
other look at him, for next week we shall
write ©t »ome other rsptile,
SPEECH ^ MOTORED BY CHLOROFORM.
The Detroit News records the follow -
ing case, occurring in that couuty iu the
Wagner poor bouse;
“Lizzie Spofford is about thirteen years
old; she was born in Lansing, and as ot ar
as can bo ascertained, did not differ from
other children until She reached the age
of nine years, when she began to lose her
sight and hearing, and in a short time be¬
came totally blind and deaf', but she re¬
tained the ability to talk until about one
year since, when she seemed to Rave for¬
gotten how to aiticulate words. She re¬
mained in this terrible condition, as veri¬
ly alone in the wolld as if shut in a living
tomb, until last week, wlien, meeting
with an accident by which she sprained
her wrist, the attending physician ad
miniatered chloroform that lie mi'^ht the
better examine the injured limb. Ou re¬
covering ftom its effects slu {commenced
first to whisper, and by repeated effovts
lias begun again to talk, and seems to re¬
member everything she ever knew. She.
places her hand under the chin of the
person with whom she converses, and
asks questions, which are answered by a
nod or shake of the head. She is re
maikably quick to a^quvhend the meaning
of a sign or motion brought to her
knowledge, by the sense of feeling. If
she is speaking of a person, and any one
dose* her eyes, she w ill say, Are they
dead V If a motion is made with her
band she will inquire, ‘Are they gone
away ?' aud thus she will frequently con¬
tinue fut £ Half hour, seeming »3 much
interested as though in the possession of
all her senses. Her religious education
was not neglected during her early child'
hood. She expresses her belief in the
existence of a God, and says He can
make her see aud hear if He thinks
belt,”
THE PRICE OF CORN.
‘No,’ the honest farmer remSrtced; in
tones of the deepest dejection, “the big
crops don’t do us a bit of good. What’s
the use? Corn only thirty cents. Every¬
body and everything dead set agin the
farmer. Only thirty cents for corn! Why,
by gum it wm’t pay our taxes, let alone
buy us clothes. It won’t buy us enough
salt to put up a barrel of pork. Corn
only thiity cents! By jocks, it is living,
cold-bloocJed swindle on the farmer.
that’s what it is. It ain’t worth raising
com at such a price as that. It is a mean?
low robbery.’ Within the next ten davs
that man had sold so much more of his
corn than he had intended, that he found
he had to buy corn to feed through the
winter with. The price nearly knocked
bim down. ‘What!! !’ he yelled, ’■thirty
cents for earn! Land alive —thirty
cents / What are yea giving us ? Why
I do riot want to buy yout farm; t only
want some corn I ThirtJ censor corn!
Why, I believe there i« nobody left in
th;s world but a »et of graapmg blood
lucking o raisera. y, g ,an ,
you do not wan , , ny a nations an
with one Well c< ? n I ' * r let .°^ ’ * cattle and CC . n ho«e# * *° r
corn I my
,
mu on corn sta s a ^ lu ,' r ore
nnh^rd . .
,ny ideh an outrageous price
y eoru 88 that, Wtj, and thirty the «oa>.try, cents
flooded with corn, a
bushel is a blamed robbery and I do not
how any man, looking at the
gee ask such
we've bai, cm have the face to
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81.50 Per Annum In Advance.
A MARRYING MAN.
r The Rev, John MandfTtne; of Brook
lyn, sentenced tj five years imprisonment
for bigamy, ju his confession to the Judge
wrote; “Aft' j my first wife died in 137?,
I went to Philadelphia, where I became
acquainted with Mary E Kusteli, and
married her. Soon after oiy wife left me
ongaccount of my religion. I then went
to Newark as a. preacher of the Gospel,
1 here I got acquainted with an old
widow, who proposed marriage to me,
and, after telling her my vireuinstanoes
as regards my wife, w-ho is living, got
married to her. She also h ft me. I then
went to Bradford, Connecticut, where 1
made the acquaintance o! a third woman,
to whom I was married. Hhe found out
the cii camstances respecting ruy previous
marriages, and one morning upon return
ibg from work I found that she also had
fled. I then came to Troy, where I form¬
ed the aquaintance of a servant girl, to
whom I tv as married. She also fled from
me. Learning that this last person in¬
tended lo have me arrested I left Troy
and went to Lowell, Mass., I came
across a friend who introduced me to a
young lady, aud after some time keeping
her company, I proposed and was rnar
ried to her. About a month after she
was informed of my previous maniages,
and I had to leave Massachusetts. I then
came to Winfield, L, I,; where I married
my preseut wife, Miss Wiedel, and for
which marriage I was locked up. I there¬
fore ask for mercy.”
ADVERTISING 1
jn a little book published many years
ago, entitled ‘IIow to get money,’ we
find the following “remarks ou advertise
i 1 *i.
mg.
‘ Whatever your occupation or calling
may be, ii it needs support from the pub
lie, advertise it thoroughly and efficiently
in some shape or other that will arrest
the public attention. There may possi¬
bly be occupations that do not require
advertising, but I cannot well conceive
what they are, Men in business will
sometimes tell you they have.tried adver
tisiug, and that it did hot payi Tins is
only when advertising is done sparingly
and grudgingly, Romeoepathic doses ot
advertising will not pay perhaps; it is
like half a portion ot physic making the
pa'ient sick, but effecting nothing.. Ad¬
minister liberally and the cure will be
permanent. Some say they cannot aD
ford to advertise. They mistake j they
cannot afford not to advertise.’
Miss Callahan, who was a prosperous
milliner in Boston, married Patrick Cain,
who was a lazy loafer. The match was
not liked by the young woman's family,
and her brother John, who was passion¬
ately fond of her, brooded over the mat¬
ter until his hatred of Cain became a
mania. At last he w'ent into the couple’*
bed.room at night, shot Cain four times
as he lay asleep, and then killed himself.
Cain is recovering. Miss Meadows’ mar¬
riage to Elijah Lane, in Waco, Texas,
was displeasing lo her family. Her two
brothers induced heiulo return home, aud
when Lane went there to get bis wife,
she shot him dead ori Ihe doorstep, A
less summary, but equally murderous,
course was taken by Henry Williams, iu
Walla, Miss., who poioaoned his son-in
law in order to rid his daughter of a
drunken husband..
How Lincoln Got Ilrs Pass Renew—
Ei>. —The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph
says: “Here’s a souvenir of the great
Abraham Liuco’n, Ii is a true copy of a
letter on file among the archives of the
Chicago and Alton Road, at the Super¬
intendent’s office in Bloomington, It is
a modest request for the renewal of a
season pass on the Alton Road:
“Springfield, February 13, 1878,—
R- P. Morgan, Supt. C. & A. Railroad:
Dear Sir—Says Sam to John : ‘Here’s
your old rotten wheelbarrow. I’ve broke
it usin’ on it. I wish you would take it
and mend it, case 1 shall want to borrow
it this afternoon.' Acting on this as a
precedent, here’s your oik ‘chalked hat,
I wish yon would lake it and send me a
new one, case I shall want to use it the
1st of March, Yours, truly,
“A, Lincoln.”
Gainesville News: “A few miles north
wejJt Q{ Gainegvi!le there W3g % d {n
depth abollt thirty -fi re and cover
^ about twelve acres of ground, all the
waler f rora which disappeared in one
night, A number.of persons S have visited
the p5fice atld exrlore the sink. A few
years ago, a short distance from the same
[A^ ^ h feUin c Jed a road iu
wWeh hld beea , rar a few
boors before. TFhen we saw tbe
lar hole lhe lop3 of the pine trees that
had ne down vith the earth
visible, and the hollo« was tilled
to the bntll With water.
NO. *
The pbysiciani attendant on Governor
Hampton hare pronounced hitu out of
danger, but his recovery will be lengand
tedious.
They average nine minders a week
now in Nebraska, and the punishment of
cattle stealing is roasting at lU« atakti
There are iu the United Stales at pre-J
sent 4,500,000 yowng ideas who are
learning how to shoot, and the ahootin^
galleries, commonly known as public
schools, $8,000,000. have a total endowmant of
IIek First Sunday at Church __Liti
tie girl—“Nuria, please give me a penny
round to give begging to the organ with grinder; be# coming
a dish.”
Do not trifle with the affections of ail
innocent young widow; do not try to
make iriendi with a mule by iqueezing
bis hind foot. If you aspire either way
why you will fiud that life is li miserable
(ailure.
A woman s hand. IIow beautifully
moulded ! How faultless in symmestry j
How soft and white and yielding; and
oh ! how much of gentle memory its
pressure conveys. Yet we don’t like it iu
our hair, says a crusty old married editor
somewhere in St, Louis,
‘What Men Need Wives Fer 1 is dii*
cussed in the recent issue of an agricul¬
tural exchange. Any man who has gone
around the house at two a. m., pistol in
hand, looking for a burglar, with his wifu
ahead carrying t/ie lamp, ought to be
able to answer that question.
Twenty years ago a gifl was hqrn iri
Flemmingsburg, Ky. Her parents re¬
solved to begin from her birth and
deposit ten cents a day in bank for lie!
benefit. She is now 20 years ©Id, and
the sum amounts to $1,461. The young
man that marries her will entertain a se¬
cret wish that they had made it twenty
cent3 a day.
A Singular Cask.— A New York .Jus¬
tice is trying to do somethiug for a young
man calling himself John Fisher, «n ex
convict, who the other day broke a street
lamp in order to be arrested, because, as
he said, he was starving, and had prorn-r
sed his mother in Germany, who died,
while he was in Sihg-Singj neYer to steal
again.
If you are too poor to get a telescop©
that will discover planets invisible to the
the naked eye, buy a pair of club skates,
strike out boldly ou the ice, and wheu
your blood is up and your heels are also
up, look right into tile blue sky and the
planets will come right down and play
tag on the tip ot your nose,
The Granger movement seems to be
on the decline In Missouri, one ot the first
States in which it took root. At the re¬
cent meeting of the State Grange statis¬
tics were read fthowiug that in 1875 the
Missouri gi’ange/s had a membership 2& of
54,000’ in 1876, 26,000, and in 1878,
000.
Thr political complexion of the next
House of Representatives is now dtSuite*
ly ascertained. It will consist of 149
Democrats, 129 Republicans and 10 Na" 1
tionals, with five vacancies in California.
In a court at Bennington, NTt., the de
fendent asked permission to pray before
opening his case. The Judge said that
it was not customary, but as the plaintiff
did not object the prayer was made,
From sunflower seeds is expressed a
palatable, clear and flavorless Oil, the de¬
mand for which in Russia is very great.
It is exported Rom St. Petersburg At
about fifty-two dollars p«r gross ton, and
is said to be extensively used, like cotton
seed oil, after purifyinfg, for adnUeiating
olive or ealid oil, A domiderable quanti¬
ty is grown in Russia for oil pressing; ’
the plant being largely cult'vated in
Kiels and Podalia,“a!so eastward on tho
black soil lands; the stalks being used"
for fuel.
A Cincinnati lady is the mother of a
bright little boy about three years old
The whooping cough recently prevailed
in their neighborhood, and tho mother
became very much alarmed le#t her boy
should take it. She had talked about it
and worried so much over it that,she had
infee'ed her c'tilJ s> mnuh with her {earn
that he would scarcely leave her side.
One night, after the little ftdlow had beea
put to bed, a donkey w;s driv* a p at fho
house, and when just opposite set up his
loud ‘hee-haw.’ With a shriek tbe boy
was out of bed. screaming at tbe top of
v <> ice » ‘ The whooping cough h» com
mamma! Tlie whooping co igh &
comiag I He did not catch it that fi0 u
however.