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subscri n n>*. ONE YEAR $1 oo SIX MONTHS 60 three MONTHS 30 BY MAIL, 1 YEAR 1 25 Term*— Ca*h in sdvanoe. All .papers stopped at the expiration of time, unless renewed. • 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. • 0 m mm m 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. - ■ 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.” i— - ■ 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. Advertisements, First lusortion-per inch sqaro, 750. Each subsequent insertion, 500. £3£”Liberal contracts made with all advertisers. For Special rates inquire of Proprietors. Local Notices, 10c. per line, first, insertion, and Bc. per lino thereafter Obituaries, &c., free. 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.” . * -o*o .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?”