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SATUBDA Y, JULY 8, 1876.
LOCAL NEWS-
The Democratic meeting on the Ist
Saturday in August will conflict with
’the Presbyterian camp-meeting,
Mr. J. A. Kennedy reports corn and
cotton in a promising condition over in
Sheffield. He thinks the wheat crop
hi that District will not exceed one
fourth in value—when the quality is
considered— of last year s crop.
Newton county sends Colquitt dele
tes to the convention. W. W.
(’lark W. H. Gaither, J. E. McCon
nell and J. T. Henderson are the dele-
T- Rogers, W. S. Montgomery,
James Wright and T. D. Guinn are
the delegates to the Congressional
convention. They will vote tor * lo >’ a
nd young gent that got “picked
up " last Wednesday mght, at the
Baptist- church prayer meeting, says
that henceforward and forever more
his voice, in church, will be ‘ low and
Mveef.’” Take heed, ye loquacious
gentry!
At the meeting of the DeKalbDem
oeraey, the other day, a motion was
made to have a nomination by dele
gates for the Legislature. > A substi
tute was offered pioposing a mass
nomination, and also another substi
tute in favor of no nomination at all.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Times
says tliat the motion and substitutes
were all voted down. Does this mean
that our DeKalb friends want a scrub
race? i
Mr. John F. Wallace, of this coun.
tv, killed a snake, last week, of the
‘‘coach-whip” species, that measured
<‘J feet in length and 3i inches in cir
cumference. In its mouth were six
tusks shaped like fish hooks. *
The Atlanta Times of Thursday an
nounces in two consecutive paragraphs
that Col. Kibbee is in the city. If the
paper had contained a third statement
to that effect, we might have believed
that Kibbee was somewhere about At
lanta.
The head of the Covington Star
seems to be in a damaged condition.
Nobody is too poor to pay one
dollar a'year for the Courier. Don’t
let the pressure of hard times keep
you from subscribing, but if you
have no money, call at the office and
ask for a/Veficopy. A poor man’s
friendship is worth more than a rich
man’s greenbacks in the long run.
We want our paper to go into the
household of every honest, hard
.working man in the county.
Col. H. D. Capers, formerly of
Newton, is making addresses to the
Boards of Trade in Texas.
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The exhibition of the Misses Mc-
Kinley’s High School take place next
Monday evening. It will consist of
vocal and instrumental music, tab
leaux, etc. Grand illumination of
pink, blue, buff and green fires. See
programmes for particulars.
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The citizens of that lively and pro
gressive town, Lithoma, are erecting a
handsome buildfng for a Female High
School. We are glad to see this move
on the partofour ne’ghbors, and hope
to record its complete success. The
people of Lithonia know what is due
to the cause of education, and they
take a commendable pride in eivins it
their hearty assistance.
A couple of new came to
town this week. It will be twenty-one
yrs. before they are old enough to vote,
on ®, of them is for Gartrell and the
other for Colquitt,
married ,
'Rosa ° f C °" yerS - 10
After the ceremony the bridal nar
vidson nSl tw ng c f i: T^ gC a , nd Mrs - Da '
and MuVft - le Unde’s daughters,
i ! H rn took cars ™
Wintt of'ioleSr 6 'lie’ I ,‘ md oth ?''
have our w 2 i , ha PPy Pair
tions. best wishes and congratula-
P‘ J °P le from Conyers
an! wmuy went to Tooooa city last
Sy-. The, warned last Wed.
perfect2‘; s a a d re P° rted the tri P 3
way tort®, on Us
the'lots had rai °’n 381 Tlmrs,Ji ‘y> and
'!>etunawa, a s aJO ? t,me wlle,!,i “g
1 caches and watermelons !
It will goou he time for candidates
for county offices to put their cards
in the Courier. Come and nuko
your contracts, Gentlemen.
Politics make strange bed fellows.
This was verified last Tuesday.
Covington is improving.
* Anderson, of the Covington Star,
has discovered that the days are
growing shorter. That is no reason
that his local oolumns should do
likewise.
Hon. L F Livingston has resign*
cd the chairmanship of the executive
*ommittee of Newton, Hon. W F
Davis was chosen as temporary chair
man.
One of onr citizens, a prominent
merchant, offers to walk all the way
to the Centennial if another gentle
man will accompany him. As such
a feat would tend to advertise Con
yers we hope it will be carried out.
Up to the present writing 38 coun
ties have gone for Colquit—94 dele
gates; 9 for Hardeman—l9 delegates;
4 for Johnson—9 delegates; I for
James—6 delegates; I for Reese—
-2 delegates'
Prof. Stone, of Oxford, preaohed
at the Methodist church in this
place, last Sunday.
Prof. McClelland has shown us a
letter from Col. S K Johnson which
states that visitors to the Conyers
High School C immencement on
the 11th will be passed over the
Road for one fare.
The following teachers h ive been
licensed by the Board of Education
during the present week ; W B
Johnson, Miss Annie Lawson, Lavi
nia C Mott, Alice McGhee, Mary A
Snyder, Georgia R Berry, Rebecca
Morgan, and Robert Hammond.
All parties visiting Atlan
ta, either to stay a short time,
or to engage in business, will
find a good, first-class board
ing house, kept iu best of
style. by Mrs. Montgomery,
corner of Broad and Marietta
Streets.
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On the Ist Tuesday in August the
Sheriff will sell one bay mare, and one
yoke of oxen, the property of Joe
Smith, to%atisfy a fi fa issued from
the court of ordinary of Walton coun
ty, in favor of Haley Smith.
Sam Wellborn, of Jasper county,
had twenty-five acres of cotton torn to
pieces by the hail storm last week.
The Democratic meeting, last Tues
day, was iu the main pleasant and
harmonious. The relative merits of
the different modes of sending dele
gates to the Gubernatorial convention,
instructed and uninstructed, were ful
ly discussed, and the election passed
off as Jfairly and quietly as anyone
could desire. While the delegates of
our'cliQice were not elected, we feel
that in Messrs. Peek and Zachry the
county will have able and high-toned
representatives. The delegate-* to the
Congressional convention. Messrs.
Gleaton and Barton, will do all that
can be done to secure the nomination
of our favorite, Judge John J. Floyd.
The Executive Committee appointed
by the chair is composed of men of
the right stamp, and will do good
work in the campaign. The resolu
tion ratifying the nomination ofTildcn
and Hendricks offered by Judge Mc-
Calla, was well-timed and embraced a
good deal in a few words.
The action of the meeting in post
poning the consideration of the nomi
nations for the Legislature and county
officers until the first Saturday in Au
gust, will give our people time for de
liberation. Let us be ready.
Gov. Smith pardoned niDe con
victs on the Fourth.
The first watermelons of tbc sea
son have been received at the Cou
rier office. Mr. A1 HardhTpresent
ed us with one on Monday last, aod
on the following day Mr. Jack
Mitchell laid us under obligation in a
similar manner. The luscious fruit
was warmly welcomed and heartily
enjoyed by the Courier force. Our
enterprising friends can do it again
without hurting our feelings.
We regret to announce the death
of Oscar, the little son of Mr. John
Wood. He died July Ist.
TO THE PUBLIC.
A few davs before the first issue of
the Courier oqe of the publishers
spoke to Sheriff Whitehead in refer
ence to advertising the Sheriff’s Sales,
and the negotiations thus commenced
resulted in the following letter:-
Mr. A. IT. Shaver :
Dear Sir —lf your paper is a per
manent thing, and you can afford to
take the Advertisements at SO, each
sale, at any time, I cannot get the
Register to insert them at tlut.
Yours, etc.,
F. .T, W iiitf.it eai? .
The next stop in the matter was a
card in the Conner , announcing that
on and after July Ist his advertise
ments would appear in said paper.
This was enough to satisfy us that
the Sheriff meant what ho said, hut
about the first of July we learned that
he had changed his mind. We uieti
tioned the matter to him on the street,
and he stated that he had concluded
to continue advertising in the Register
because some of its proprietors had re
minded hiui of the friendship existing
between them ; the efforts they had
made to secure his election, etc. For
these reasons he felt, that he could not
give us his advertisements, although
he had fully intended doing so when
he wrote the above letter to Mr. Sha
ver, and when he put his notice in our
paper.
If Sheriff Whitehead is satisfied
with his position in this matter, it is
doubtful whether that satisfaction will
be shared by the people at large. The
citizens are interested in this business.
With them it is a question of dollars
and cents. It coste them ten dollars
to have a Sheriff s sale advertised in
the Register, while in tho Courier it
would only cost five dollars— that be
ing the price finally agreed upon by
publishers. We have been induced to
put our advertising rates at these low
rates, not because we desire to com
pete with a rival by underbidding, but
because we started out with the prom
ise to run a cheap paper in the inter
ests of the people, we feel it to be a
plain duty to relieve them fiorn the
burden of oppressive advertising fees
whenever it is in our power- We
shall continue to present our readers
with a synopsis of all the Sheriff’s ad
vertise me a ts, until they are given to
us by that officer. All that the peo
ple have to do is to look after their in
terests iu this matter.
.The Sheriff has no right, for per
, sonal considerations, to double the ad
vertising fees which the misfortunes
of his fellow-men compel them to pay.
COMMUNICATED.
We announce the following pro
pramrae as the order of exercises for
Conyers Male and Female High
School at the approaching examina
tion The exercises will begin on
Tuesday evening, July 11th, at 2 oL
clock. The following classes will be
‘examined on that evening ; Orthog
raphy, Reiding; Primary Arithmetic,
Primary Geography, Punctuation,
History, Intermediate Geography,
Primary Grammar, Intermediate
Arithmetic and English Grammar.
Wednesday,—commencing at 8 o !
clock, a in, as follows : Dictionary
Common School Arithmetic, En
glish Grammar, Physical Geography,
Algebra, Intermediate Geography,
Geometry, Trigonometry, Lai tin
Rhetoric, French and Greek,
Thursday,— Declamation an and
Composition Reading, to begin at
91 o'clock, am,
Sociable at the Academy 8 o’clock
pur The public respectfully invit- j
ed to attend'
Respectfully,
J F McClelland,
J M Brittain,
Principals
Jamas got twimty four v tcs in
Newton. This tremendous uprising
of the people m his favr was due to
the zealous efforts of the Star and
Enterprise.
Read the communications in this
number. They all relate to local
matters 1
Henry Grady is said to be writing
a book. We eujoyed his History of
Atlanta hugely.
Mr McDaniels house, about 2
miles up the R. R., was struck by
lightning last Sunday. Shingles,
weatherboarding and chimney dam
aged. Nobody hurt.
We are in favor of a Democratic
mass nomination for the Legislature-
A nomination by a little ring of.del
gate3 won’t do in this county. Re
collect this wheD you come out to
the meeting on the Ist Saturday in
August.
Prof. Hudson’s School at Snap
ping Shoals will re-open July 17th.
We take pleasure in calling the at
tionof our readers to the .advertise
ment of Dr. J. H. Seamans in this is
sue. Dr. Seamans is one of the most
accomplished Dentists in the State.
His professional ability is well known
ami highly appreciated in this section,
and great _ numbers of the
most prominent citizens in this
and adjoining counties can at
test his skill in this regard.
In the Lithonia office Dr. Seamans
is assisted by Dr. J. L. Johnson, a
young practitioner, whose ability as a
Dentist has already attracted public
attention.
Miss Augusta Clayton McCalla is
her name!
communicated.
Conyers, Ga. July 4th, 1876.
Pursuant to a call of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of
Rockdale county, for the purpose of
electing delegates to the gubernato
rial convention to be held in Atlanta
Georgia on the 2nd day of August
next, quite a number of Democrats
met at the Court House.
Oq motion, D N Raker was call
ed to the chair, and A M Helms
requested to act as secretary. John
J W Glenn, is a few words explain
ed the object of the meeting'
Ou motion, it was agreed that the
two candidates for delegates getting
the majority of votes, be declared
delegates'
W L Peek and A IT Zachry were
nominated as delegates, to go, and
instructed to vote for Colquitt; T M
Armistead and D N Hudson wore
nominated to go, untramcled; D N
Baker and J C Barton were nomi
nated to go, untrsmeled. After con
siderable discussion, a vote by ballot
was taken wbioh resulted as follows:
W L Peek 95, A H Zachry 95,
D N Hudson 72, T M Armistead
73, J C Barton I*l, D N Baker 9,
with 9 scattering.
Peek and Zachry were declared
elected, having received a majority of
votes-
The next thing in order was to
elect delegates to attend the Con
gressional nomination. Geo W Glca-*
ton and J C Barton were unani
mously elected by acclamation to go,
instructed to vote for Hon John J
Floyd, and Coviugton, Georgia selec
ted, as the wish of Rockdale, for the
place of meeting.
James H Griffin was then elected
permanent chairman of the Demo
cratic Club of Roc {dale County, and
T H Bryans, Vice. A J Haygood
was elected Secretary.
The followiug from each District
in the county were appointed Demo
cratic Executive Committee of Rock-
dale county : Sheffield, Jas. II Mc-
Calla and J A Kennedy ; Town,
J A Stewart and J C Barton ; Mc-
Cord’s, B N McKnight and J S AH
bert ; Alsace, J H Taylor and T D
Swann,
The following resolutions were u
nanimously adopted :
We, the Democratic party of
Rockdale county, Georgia, in con
veution assembled, do hereby rat
ify and approve the nomination of
Samuel J Tilden as President, and
Thomas A Heiulricks as vice-Presi
dent, by the Democratic
C niveniion at St Louis, Mo - , June
27th, 1870.
And, we hereby pledge ourselves
| to do all in our power to promote
and secure their election, to the end
that fraud arid corruption may be
i exposed and punished, and retreuch-
I m-jiit and reform set on foot.
Resolve L, That we call on all whe
desire reform and good government
of, and, for the people to unite with
us to maintain this much needed end.
On motion it was agreed that the
Club meet aga n on first Saturday in
August next, to consider the ques
tion as to how candidates for Legis
larure and county officers shall he
nominated
The meeting then adjourned till
first Saturday in August next.
D IN Baker,
A M U Ef.MS, Chairman.
Secretary.
Read the advertisement of S B
Ethridge, proprietor of the Excelsior
Plaiung Mills. Mr. Ethridge man
ufactures Sash, Doors,Blinds, Mould
ings, and all kinds of machine work,
turnings, etc. Parties needing any
thing in this line will get satisfactory
bargains by calling on Ethridge.
He is an enterprising and ingenious
workman.
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Only one Sheriff’s sate last Tuesday
Sixty acres of land, belonging to Isaac
Lucas, colored, were knocked off to
Judge Rosser for S3O.
The pressure of other important
matter obliges us to leave out several
communications this week. Our
friends will confer a favor by making
their contributions as short as possi
ble. The shortest- articles stand the
bast chance of getting in, and they
are the most generally read.
Emmett Womack, of Newton, is
looming up as a commencement ora-,
tor* He is a very pleasing speaker.
J. Duncan King, our col
ored barber, begs to call the
attention of the public to the
fact that he is still running a
first-class barber shop, on the
corner, opposite the “Sign of
the Big lied Coffee Pot,” on
Commercial street. He is a
steady, deserving negro and
understand* his business. Yom
will always find him at his
post.
COMMUNICATED.
CENTENNIAL PICNIC. .
Look here! Listen! Old folks*
young folks, big folks, little folks,
married folks, single folks, and any
other class of folks that eonsider
themselves folks, that are folks: You
are respectfully invited and earnestly
solicited to attend a grand Centen
nial Picnic at B N McKnight's
Mills, on South River, in this county
Friday, July 21st, at 9 o’clock, a m.
There will be an excursion boat leave
the wharf at 2 o’elock, p m for the
noted falls up the River, near Bent
ley’s Bluff.
Parties desiring to avul themselves
of this rare opportunity of sight-see
ing, will do well to Becure tickets
at once. Fare, for the rouud trip
—minus, free, gratis, for nothing.
We hopo that the gents will make
some sacrifice, if necessary, on
their part to have the fair sex
represented on that occasion.
There will be a committee to take
charge of the provision baskets until
the time arrives for dinner: of which
all will he expected to participate.
The originators of the “ Homemade
Centennial” are bound to have it he a
success; or, at least, use their utmost
endeavors for the accomplishment of
that end. Come one, come all —we
are bound to have a big time, or miss
a-good chance.
PROGRAMME:
The procession will he formed (at
some place designated or named on the
morning of th > 21. st) in the following
order: Widowers and widows in front;
old bachelors and old maids next; the
young people in the rear. The old
folks, of course, will he spectators;
but, at the same time, will be expect
ed to share with us the pleasures and
realities of the occasion.
It is expected that there will he sev
eral speeches that day from those who
are candidates for the next matrimo
nial Campaign. I failed to state to
what ‘"point” the procession would
march ; hut I suppose that some will
get to that point,’ at least.
-. • Visitor.
The Stonewallq of Henry, and the
gooriers, of ILckdale, played a
match game of JB use Ball, at Prospect
in this comitv on Tuesday last. Tiie
score stood; Stonewalls, 23; Sooners,
10.
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KH.MIDKNT DENTIST.
OFFICE : Room No. .3. Upstairs
in the Whitehead House, Conyers,
Ga.
He is prepared to do all kinds of
•Dental Work in the most satisfactory
manner. Haviug supplied himself
with all the latest improvements in
Dental Science, and having had a
long experience in his profession, lie
confidently iuvites the patronage of
the public.
BRANCH OFFICE.
In connection with the above estab
lishment, Dr, Seamans has opened a
Branch Office in Lithonia, over the
store of Smith & Bros , where he
will be pleased to at-end to the
wants of his patrons in DeKalb.
When absent from this office, Dr. J
L Johusou, a Dentist,
will be on hand to attend to the
wants of the public in this line,
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