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NOTICE TO
Debtors & Creditors.
AL L persons indebted to the
estate of Josiah Brown, late of
Rockdale county, deceased, are here*
by notified that they are required to
come forward immediately and make
settlement*. Also, personshaving de
mands against the said estate, are re
quired to render them in to W J
Smith, one of the Administrators of
said estate, in proper form hy the
first day of December next, that fi
nal settlements on said estate may be’
made.
J. B. BROWN, ) . ,
W. J. SMITH, \ Admrs *
June 20th. 1876—4—4 t
Assignees’ Sale.
WILL be sold before the Court
House aoor, on the-first Tuesday in
July next, uuless sooner disposed of
at private sale, the following proper
ty. to-wit :
1 bay mule, 1 mouse-colored mule,
2 cows and calves, 1 Brooks Patent
Cotton Press, and 1 sixty-saw Gin.
E B ROSSER,
J C BARTON,
assignees of T J Nelms, Bankrupt.
ALSO,
at the same time and place, 1 two
horse wagon and 1 one-horse spring
wagou.
E B ROSSER,
J C BARTON,
Assignees of J M Summers, Bankrupt,
June I7tb, 1876 I—3—3t
J. A. HILL. | F. J. WHITEHEAD.
H!LL& WHITEHEAD,
—Retail Dealers in—
WINES, ALES,
LIQUORS, BEERS
TOBACCOS,
CIGARS, &C.
CONYERS GEORGIA.
HAVING purchased the bar and
bar fixtures owned by S F Smith,
kuown as the n ELDORADO,” they
solicit the patronage of the citizens
of Ilockdale and surrounding coun
ties. They are sole agents at this
place for the BOTTLED BEER,
which they will furnish at reasonable
rates to families. iSilliuril
Table connected with the bar. 1-tf
“ROCKDALfcTPAPER MILLS”
MANUFACTURE ALL GRADES OF
Book & News Papers,
ALSO,
COLORED & WRAPPING
PAPERS,
B. N. McKNIGIIT,.
Agent.
1-tf Conyers, Ga.
"W- H- LEE, M. D,
MASONIC BUILDING,
CONYERS, GEORGIA,
Druggist and Pharmaceutist ,
Keeps constantly on hand a good
stock of pure drugs, medicines aud
chemicals, which he will sell to Plan-,
ters and physicians as low as they
can be purchased at retail.
He also keeps on land all
kinds of patent Medicines, and all
kinda of Liquors for Medicinal pur*
poses. Also, PAINTS,
DYE STUFFS, PUTTY,
OILS,VARNISHES,
DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES
tjeojsses, CUPPING GLASSES,
BREAST PUMPS,
NURSING BOTTLES,
Fancy Goods , Fine soaps, Lilly
White, Magnolia Balm, Hair Oils
Colognes , Extracts, etc.
JG3f Physicians’ Prescriptions
made a specialty. Having had twen
ty y ea rs experience he flatters himself
knat he is prepared to do all he pro
teases to do.
VOL. 1. CONYERS, GA., SAT., JULY 8, 1876. NO. 6.
THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
The rights of woman, what are they?
The right to labor, love and pray;
The right toweep with those that weep,
The right to wake when others sleep.
The right to dry the falling tear,
The right to quell the rising tear,
The right to smoothe the brow of care,
Aud whisper comfort to despair.
The right to watch the parting breath,
To smoothe and cheer the bed of death ;
To rignt, when earthly hopes all fail,
To point to that within the veil.
The right the wanderer to reclaim;
And win the lost from paths of shame;
The right to comfort and to bless
The widow and the fatheiless.
The right the little ones to guide
In jsimgle faith to Him who died •
With earnest love and gentle praise
To bless and cheer their youthful days.
The right the intellect to train,
And guide the soul to noble aim ;
Teach it to rise above earth’s toys.
And wing its flight for heavenly joys.
The right to live for those we love,
The right to die that love to prove ;
The right to brighten earthly homes
With pleasant smiles and gentle tones.
Are these thy rights ? Then use them
well
Thy silent influence none can tell.
If* these are thine, why ask for more ?
Thou hast enough to answer for.
Are these thy rights ? Then murmur
not
That woman’s mission is thy lot;
Improve the talents God has given,
Life’s duty done, thy rest in heaven,
TIIREfJ A TLA NT A NOTABLES
Loclirane’s lair is the arcade of the
Kimball House. It is there that the
men of renown do congregate, and to
heighten the peachy tint of the Irish
cherub’s phiz, wedge his plump per
son into the center of a clump of na
bobs, and ho is happy.
There is a lazy Byrony about his
curled locks —a kind of drooping twist
iness that sends the well-oiled hair in
a stringy luxuriance around a rounded
head. His mouth, a sort of thick-
IJpped concern, is presided overby a
successfully trained moustache, which
laughingly reposes upon the tender
ness of a pouting upper lip. His eyes,
blue as the summer sky, laugh with
all the abandon of a fresh school girl,
and droop with all. the sadness of a
new widow. They look over the arch
of an exquisite nose at you, and iun
through you with the greased agility
of a hot needle. A swallow-tail coat
hugs a well-preserved figure, and the
immaculate shirt front and blue cra
vat betoken the gallant fight youth
makes with stilt-legged age. In con
versation the Judge is as rosy as his
face. The natural proclivity of inven
ting intentional nulls, the borrowed
Bob Toombsy jerkiness of sentences,
the jovial vocabulary of the joker,
blended with his wit and intelligence,
fit him for the parlor, the ball-room,
the caucus, or the stump.
George W. Adair.
George is the Huff of Atlanta. A
small, tireless, money making man,
enthusiastic in enterprise, warm and
wiry in argument, and dry as a pow
der horn in conversation. He is full
of information, has lived in Atlanta
from the first jump, and is a compact
storehouse of good stories. He is
getting gray now, wears his whiskers
closely cropped, and dresses in a plain
way. He is consulted on all matters
of public or private import, and gives
his opinion in a sharp, quick way, as
if he was afraid he’d change his mind
if he hesitated. He has a real estate
office on Wall street, which is the re
sort of all the old settlers who love to
hear George tell how he usd to dance
with his piney woods sweetheart, call
the figures and scrape the catgut, all
at the same time, when Atlanta was
no mor- than a railroad bank.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller
is a man wonderfully gifted with fine
oratorical powers. He is one .of the
very few who can chain an audience to
strict attention and pump a thrill
through every bosom at every burst ot
eloquence. His manner on the stage
is not that which would give you a
good impression of him until he gets
warmed up to the work. He has a
way of walking across the stage as it
in meditation, then, stopping sfeort.
dazzles you with a gush of sweetest
words chained with the neatest links
of thought. .
To the observer his every-day ap-
pearance is unmarked by anything ex
traordinary save the habit of keeping
a cigar between his teeth which is nev
er lighted. His cigars are the gen
uine Partagas, but they are only chew
ed up—never smoked.
He is a good looking man, turning
into the sere and yellow leaf now, but
his mental faculties are in best order
yet. Though pilling is his profession,
he devotes more study to the politi
cal world than to physio. He seeps
the run ©f the game with wonderful
interest, and can tell you any minute
the exact status of the great ques
tions. When we point out Dr. Mil
ler to the stranger, there always fol
lows a long, calm look as if the stran
ger had just seen a giant and was re
luctant to withdraw his gaze,
All these men have a State reputa
tion. Though I have only named a
few, these will suffice for the present. 1
To name all those who well deserve
mention would be a task I would fain
essay; we are proud of them all, and
delight to call over the list. They are
the pets of Atlanta, and each deserve
a blue ribbon in his buttonhole-
Beyond some stray shots, no fight
ing between Servia and the Turks.
Belgrade apprehends bombardment
from Turkish gunboats.
Servians are preparing to blockade
the river Drina.
Montenegrin troops are ready for a
move.
Public opinion at Ccntenge, the cap
ital of Montenegro, is very warlike.
Mukhtar Pasha is entrenched at
Gotchka, with 17,000 men,
The streets of Belgrade are placard
ed with Prince Milan’s manifesto.
It is stated that Bulgaria has issued
a declaration of indepegdence.
The old Turkish flag-staff at For
tress Belgrade has been demolished,
amid artillery salutes.
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A Law Congress is in session in
Philadelphia, One of the objects is
to secure measures by which a unifica
tion of the laws of the several States
may be secured, so as to give uniform
ity to the practice of law.
An uprising of the populace in Je
rusalem against the resident Chris
tians is threatened. An uprising and
massacre in Constantinople is also se
riously apprehended. The foreign res
idents and Christians are arming.
At a church in Scotland, where
there was a popular call, two candi
dates offered to preach, of the names
of Adam and Low. The latter preach
ed in the morning, and took for his
text, “ Adam, where art thou ?” He
made a most excellent discourse, and
the congregation were much edified.
In the evening Mr. Adam preached
and took for his text, “ Lo, here am
I!” The impromptu and his sermon
gained him the church.
“ Ifyour honor please,” said a pom
pous young lawyer, who always tried
the patience of the Court with his
windy rhetoric —“ Ifyour honor please
it is written in the book of nature,
with a pen of light—” “On what
page, sir? on vvhat page?” interrupt
ed the exasperated judge, poising his
pen of steel.
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A young man with a very large na
sal organ and a weakly moustache,
said, m company, “ I wonder why my
moustache doesn’t grow under my
nose as fast as it does at the sides?”
‘ ‘ Too much shade, ’ ’ responded a young
lady.
The meanest man hails from New
York State. lie eloped with a young
wife, took her to Canada, poisoned her,
and expressed her body 0. O. D. to
her husband.
Said a member of Congress from
Ohio to a New Yorker who was trying
to tell him something about hogs:
“ You can’t tell me anything about
hogs. 1 know more about hogs than
you ever dreamt of. I was brought
up among hogs.”
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Ex-Confederate Judah P. Benja
min is the most famous advocate of the
English bar.
Mr. Daniel Brewer, jr., of Wilkin
son county, has a pig eight months
old weighing 40 lbs. that has six per
fectly developed feet. His four legs
branch and the extremities are orna
mented with eleven hoofs.
Dr. Tyng said to a young man in
the gospel tent, “ My friend, are you
a Christian?” “No, sir,” was the
startled answer, “I’m—l’m only a
reporter.”
THE BEST MEN.
Romantic woman are very apt to
take it into their heads that a low
spirited, attenuated individual, with
hollow cheeks, and no chest, worth men
tioning, is a little nearer the angels
than a finely built, bright-eyed man,
with broad shoulders, and plenty of
animal spirits, and a happy temper.
They know the latter is handsomer,
but think the former muet be ever so
good and ever so intellectual. The
nearer an “anatomy” he is, the more
certain they are that he is “very re
fined ; aud they have not the slighest.
doubt, that ha would be quite a sub
ject for revival efforts.
Heaven forbid that I should say
that a man, who was the victim of ill
health, could not be both good and
wise. Many are so’; but the very best
men I have ever known were strong,
rugged, vigorous ones—and health
of body develops health of mind in a
wonderful degree.
The most truly refined men I have
ever met have looked* Idee men , They
have had color in their cheeks, anil
flesh on their bone* Cowardice was
not in them, and about them was a
sort of atmosphere of safety and pro
tection.
They are much the Itest sort of men
to fall in love with, I am sure. It is
the delicate dandy, with the latest
style of mustache, a beautiful straight,
nose, and arms like a girl’s, who, with
his half-dozen love affairson his hands
at once, is never reaily true to anyone.
A manly man gives his heart honest
ly when it is given at all, and to the
heart that isgiven him he is very ten
der in his strength.
And I feel *sure that manly men
look manly, and there is no better
quality than manliness.
Women know so little about, men,
just as men know so little about wo
men, that, really, it is scarcely safe
for us to write about each other—that
a good, pure life, such as we would
like our brothers, our husbands, or
our sons to lead, leaves men strong,
and shapely, and handsome, and light
hearted; and that it is nothing but
dissipation that gives a man that look
which innocent girls are apt to call
“very refined,” and to couple in their
hearts with every virtue.
—Mary Kyle Dallas.
How many sickly ones
Wish they were healthy;
How many beggar men
Wish they were wealthy ;
llow many ugly ones
Wish they were pretty ;
Tlow many stupid ones
Wish they were witty*;
I low many bachelors
Wish they were married ;
How many benedicts
Wish they had tarried.
Single or double,
Life’s full of trouble ;
Riches are stubble,
Pleasure's a bubble.
Miss Temperance Anderson, of Ba
den, Pa., whose hair is six feet and
eight inches long, is on her way to
the Centennial.
■
A TEXAS HEROINE.
There was a batch of convicts from
some interior county seat awaiting the
departure of the Great Northern cars
to convey them on their melancholy
journey to the prison walls of the pen
itentiary at Huntsville. Among the
rough, unshaven and crime-steeped
physiognomies that scowled from be
neath greasy and tattered slouched
hats, amid the clanking of their fet
.ters and chains, was a rather hand
some face of a young man, whose open
features betokened no traces of the
branded felon.
Near him stood—a strange compan
ion for such a crowd —a fair young
girl, scarcely passed her fourteenth
year, whose long hair flowed down
over her shoulders that had not yet
felt the weight of time, and whose
countenance was a living photograph
of innocence anc girlish beauty.
Upon inquiry it was ascertained that
the young man had received a two
years’ sentence for marrying a girl
under the age prescribed by law after
swearing she was of legal age, and
that with the lofty and sacred devo
tion of true heroism his youthful
bride, despite the entreaties of fViends,
was following him to his ignominious
prison, to share his captivity and light
en his punishment, provided the offi
cers of the penitentiary can be pre
vailed on to permit her entrance,
Blessed is the man that bends his
will to his Bible, and not his Bible to
his will.
I wwi e t/traaiaus.
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A MYSTERIOUS AFFIX.
* M r hilo stopping with my friend East
man, at the “Corner,” two summers
ago, 1 rode one day over to North
Conway, to take a look at the new ar
rivals in that place of mushroom ho
tels. I chanced to be in J the office of
the House when the passengers by
the Ogdensburg road arrived. A mid
dle aged gentleman, bearing a valise
in his hand, entered, and having book
ed his name in the register, he took
the key to his room, and followed the
porter to deposit his simple luggage.
As soon as he was gone the clerk
beckoned to several of his friends, and
together they examined the newly-en
tered arrival. Listening to their re
marks I judgod that some wonderful
man must have dropped down upon
them. An English nobleman from
Canada, perhaps—it might be the
tlovernor-Genefftl—or it might he one
of our own lamed generals.
By and by the gentleman returned,
and handed back the key to his room.
“ Ah, my dear sir,” said the polite
clerk, with a syiirk and smile, “will
you allow me to ask you a question ?”
“Certainly. What is it?”
These letters affixed to your name
sir—P. L. B. —we have been puzzling
our brains over them in vain. Will
you be so kind as to elucidate?”.
“With pleasure,” answered the
Gentleman. “P.L. B- simply means
latent Leather Boots. T always wear
them when travelling. The last, time
1 was here l wore a brand new pair of
the same description, and yet, on
leaving, Hound myself charged, among
the extras in my bill, two dollars for
blacking boots. As Ido not like to
dispute seemingly small items in my
hotel bills, I thought I would set it,
down on your register that 1 wear
boots which cannot possibly need
blacking.”
The polite and gentlemanly clerk
had no more to ask.
People who don't want to lend mon
ey hau better be shy of the new cur
rency. It jingles you know, and you
can’t look a fellow in the face and say.
I havn’t any small change about,
me.
There is one thing about a hen tha*
f looks like wisdom—they don’t cockle
much until they have laid their eggs.
Some folks are always bragging and
(jackling what they are going to do be
fore hand.
“ (’an there he anything brought in
to this House, ’ asked a distinguished
member, “that will not be repealed
sooner or later?” One of the oppo
sition suggested a “skinned orange.”
So lady was ever less respected by
by being accused of possessing too
miieli modesty; yet thousands have
lost the respect of all good people by
having too much boldness, though she
“ meant rio harm.”
A German peddler sold a liquid for
the extermination of bugs.
“ And how do you use it?” inquir
ed the man after he had bought it
“ Kctcli de bug, and drop von little
drop into his inout,” answered the
peddler.
“ You do !” exclaimed the purcha
ser. “ I could kill it in half the time
by stamping on it!”
“ Veil,” exclaimed the German,
“that is a good way, too.”
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.Some people are just like a buggy
wheel —always tired.
Until all men master the art of liv
ing without working, there will be
complaints of hard times,
When a man quits subscribing for a
newspaper because it is not enthusias
, tic for his candidate, and then borrows
it regularly from a neighbor, you may
be sure that the sterling patriotism
that characterized the founders ©fthe
Republic lias not entirely departed.
Two hundred and fifty women will
be graduated as telegraph operators
from Cooper Institue, this year.
It is a solemn thing for a penniless
young man to lead a blushing bride up
to the sdtar and promise to endow her
with all his wordly goods.
‘ ; Ma, go down on your hands and
knees a minute, please? What oh
earth shall I do that for, pet?”
“ Cause 1 want to draw an elephant.”
A little girl hearing it remarked that
all people bad once been children, ar
tlessly inquired, “Who took care of
the babies?”