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Office Under Whitehead Hoote. | VOL. 2.
LOCAL:
This is the short month.
Spring trots in next month.
There are six editors and ex-editors
in C onyers.
How w mid it do to have a few more
schools started ?
Covington is reported to have elect
ed a dry ticket this year.
The dry ticket elected at Stone
Mountain can’t do much as the saloon
keepers there have purchased licenses
for the year.
Athens enjoys visits from theatrical
troupes. What has become of our
Dramatic Society?
An oyster s life is not safe five min
utes in Conyers.
New advertisements will appear
next week. Watch for them.
Subscribe for this pa per for another
year, and fork over your Mexican dol
lar.
.7. H. Almand, Son & Cos. offer
capital bargains to our readers
in this issue.
Our merchants sometimes complain
of dull trade but failures in the mer
cantile lino occur less frequently here
than in any town of its size in the
State,
The Star says Covington has not a
single Jew. So it seems that all the
.Jews in Covin yton are married. A
sensible set.
Judge D. FT. Ansley, our Ordinary,
made an important decision, a few
days since, in a case of halvas corpus,
sued out by Dr. T. N. Pitts against
sheriff Andersen. The case arose un
der a judgment of the county court,
sentencing the complainant to pay a
fine of $l5O or, in default thereof, to
be imprisoned ninety days. The court
released the complainant upon the
ground that there is no law to coerce
the payment of a fine by iPiprison
ment. Emmett Woruack for prisoner,
and Clark Pace for the sheriff. —
Cov. Star.
'Last nisrht the time appointed
for the installation, by Lodge Deputy
w . P, Reed, of the newly elected offi
cers of Crescent Lodge I. O. G, T.
Stewart & McCalla are asents for
the well-known Soluble Pacific Guano,
a fertilizer which has stood the test of
time and use. Read their advertise
ment.
Mr. R. F. Farmer, of Sheffield Dis
trict, raised 2972 pounds of lmt cotton
on 6i aeres of land by using 1200 lbs of
Patapsco Guano. Olemtuons & Petty
are agents tor this splendid fertilizer.
J. & W. E- Treadwell & 00. are
agents for the Arlington Soluble Phos
phate, one of the best fertilizers on
•he market. Read their advertise
ment in another column and give tlrem
a calk
We hear of a good deal of sickness
in the county.
The Post Office will be open from 2
to 3 p. m, Su days, and mail will be
received every day up to ihc arrival ot
the trains.
Hereafter one of the first Teqnisites
of a candidate in this countv will be
his ability to get up a first elass oyster
supper.
seems t: be no end to the
i aging ra of rotten,
(tagm (fariet
[for the courier.
COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY .
Louise loved me, that was sweet:
It was sweeter that I guussed it:
Sweetest was it at her feet
To bend ]ow till she confessed it,
And kisses snatch,
With rapture rate?
Louise fretted, this was sad :
Sadder was it., I provoked her :
It was saddest, I crew mad,
Seized her by the throat and choked
her:
But can’t she scratch,
.And pull out hair ?
Augustus.
J. K. Maddox’s saloon was entered
and robbed the other nierht. Thh
burglar business ought to be stopped
some way.
The Whitehead Houso is getting a
fine run of custom, and it deserves it
for it’s equal is not to he found be
tween Atlanta and Augusta.
NOTICE.
Parties indebted to me for tuition
are requested to come forward and
settle at once, either bv no f e or other
wise. Rob’t Ikwin.
The number of new advertise
ments in the Courier. sho v th it the
value of our prper is appreciated as
an advetti-iog medium in many quar
ters.
There are Irish potatoes enough
in town to feed an army o'" l whiner.
Avers &Cos are about, 'o open a
big stock of goods of every descrip
tion.
Web Almand has remodel and hi*
house.
Ah' Zachry, at Ovrrhav’s store is
a capital clerk to trade with. Fie
don’t care whether you have any mon
ey or not, and ns he makes a prae
tice of forgetting to charge up the
items he sells on the books th re is
no danger of running up bills by tra
ding with him.
Query : ‘Why will men moke
common tohaeoo when they can buy
Marburg Bros. ‘Seal of North Caro
liua’ at the same price ?’ 36 y
Gov. Colquitt’s mistake in not call
ing an extra session of the Legisla
ture will make business for lawy. rs,
and expense and trouble for every
body else.
Capt Whitehead is one of the best
singers in Cowyers, and as a whistler
he has no equals. FTis oce<iona!
serenades nearly dtivc oar compos
tors crazy.
The Justices Court for this res
trict. wis in session last Monday and
Tuesday. An adjrimed term will
be held next Mouday for the trial of
certain cases set down far that dav
by consent. The next regular term
of the court will be ou the fourth
Monday is this month.
Most of the bard money leaders
in Atlanta are very young men whoso
admiration for Ben Hill has led them
astray,
Rockdale county is out oi debt,
with the exception Jef the jury fund
being short $450, on account of the
adjourned term of court last fall.
The funds in the treasury are suffi
cient to run the county through the
year.
Milt Candler, it is reported, wil!
run as an independent candidate for
Congress im hm District.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEB. 2 1878.
Our representative, Hod J, H.
Blount, is all right on (he currency
question.
FI S H ?
J II Aluiand, Sou & Cos. are sel
ling 40 mackerel tor ono dollar.
They also have them in kits and j
hbls, very cheap. Now is your time
to got bargains. 36 2t
.After the municipal supper, dc -
scribed in another place, a number
of tte guests met with l)r. J A Stew
art in the chair, and on motion of
Mr. J N Hale the following resolu
tions were unanimously adopted.
Resolved, that the thanks of this
meeting are due. and wo herewith
fender them to the Town Council
for the entertainment which they
have so kindly pro ided for their
constituents,
Resolved, tha' we assure ‘.he New
Council of our willingness to respond
to any proper call in the future with
the same alacrity with which we did
on this festive oco*iou.
Sheriff Taylor spent Sunday at
;>oraville.
LOOK!
.T. H. A!man<l, Son & Cos.
\ro selling 7 SPOOL? GOOD
TFIRMED for 2> cents,
A good article of New Orleans Mos
lasses at 35 cents.
And eho’ee New Orleans Syrup at
60 cen‘s per gallon.
Other goods accord nriy. 3G-4
FTardv Ren'field. of Wa’ton aged
one hundred and two years, is dead.
The number of sudden deaths all
over the country L quite alarming.
There must be a virulent poison at
work in the atmosphere. That's oar
explanation.
We regret to* announce that the
inf nt Child of Mrs E Sewn t and
on Sun lav morning last. The af
fl ct'.ons of the wid >wed mother are
indeed hard to hoar. They arc
fresh in the memory of all, and the
sympathies *f ever'h>lv go out t>
the bereaved in her hour of trial aud
:i diction
The a hmta Constitution says “Corr
yers has a big Female College which
is already preparing for the Christinas
festivities.”
Our contemporary, it seems, still
has Christmas in its head if nut in its
legs. Ft probably intended to say
‘‘Commencement fe tivities.”
Ihe interior of the Masonic Hall
has been repaired
Wednesday was the most inclement
day of the year.
There is more life, more business,
more cotton, more people, more ev
erything to be seen in Conyers than in
any other town between Atlanta and
Augusta.
Joe Brcwa is not a hard money
man.
Petroleum V. Nasby says that the
saloon keepers in his town have com
menced watering their whiskey eight
per cent in anticipation of a corres
ponding c#preciatien of t> lver-
Covington wants a good Hoot
a'd Ladder eoorpaur to put out
fires if any occur. Every well-reg
ulated town should hate such u com
puny.
TSe day mail cn the 01 a
E R. iatbe ———est system ever
devised and we’ll be ed if we
ftel like standing it. All of our
business men say that it ia a
shame.
The night passeogei train on the
Ga R R. now loavos Atlanta at 4 P
M, and arrives in Augusta at 5; 15
A. M,
Jim Anderson haw discover'd 100
errors in grammar, punofuatioo, or
thography, etc, in the columns of SI
Hawkins’ paper W cannot bilieve
it, and yet it : s doubtless true. One
by one our idols are swopt away.
DEAT.I OF Dll. BRYAN.
It is with deep regret that we an
nounco the death, on Monday morn •
big last, at, Bald Rock, of lir S. W.
Bryan. Deceased had been ill for
sometime with irflamatory rheuma
tism, butne* ot his death was,
nevertheless, a shock to the eoomiu
ni-y.
Dr. Brvans was in every sense of
the phi aeme of nur be-t citizens.
Ho Was dev itedlv attached to his
family and friends, and h : s pleasant
and genial nature and accommodat
ing dispo-ition mi i j friend.- of all
who knew him. Deceased was a
nun of fine business qualifications,
and he w<* p t'Ses-ed of in'ellootuai
tributes w iioh would have mad
iiin sii.uvs-ful in any busmens oi
professimi He was a quiet but keei
observer of men and things, and < n
joyed 1 teraturo and ttie other csthet
ics of refined S 'oity. The death ot
such a man is a genuine has to tin
community, as ell as to the bereavf
ed fami y and friend* to whom we
extend our lieartf It sympathy.
THE MUNICH* kL BANQUET
Pursuant to mnounceuient, on Tues
day nioht la-t, the Oy ster Supper
given ly the ra w Town Council, came
off in the spacious Dining Hall of the
Whitehead House.
At an early hour the parlors, office-*
an 1 hall of ti e hotel were filled with a
concourse of between one and two
hundred citizens. 'I he Conyers ( or
u t Band was| in attendance and dis
o ir e 1 its sweetesf^strains.
The Supper was all that could have
been desired, an 1 just what might
hue been expected from such a bon
tno inf as (,’npt. Whitehead and such
• p eur -s as the Jldermanic entertain
ers—ali Aldcrm *n are ex-officio epi
cu i-s, we believe. On the tables
We think we saw
Some Oysters raw,
And then we viewed
A quantity stewed,
With golden frie.s
Of consid’iable size.
We di 1 a littte more than seeing
and viewing. We knew that our
Council, like England cn a certain
memorable occa-ion, ‘‘expected every
uian to do his duty,” and we did ours
in a hurry. Tiie oyster it,y of the occa
sion was equalled by our dexterity.
The Supper was a grand success,
it was a most agreeable re-union, and
when the crowd dispersed there was
a general feeling that the Mew Coun
cil had successfully mc-t the demands
•i [ha pubbe taste, aud we feel no
hesitation in saying that the experL
ence of Tuesday night will lead our
people to look torward eagerly for the
provisions of any future ordinance that
our City Fathers may pass.
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS.
This brightest of literary weeklies
is now publishing a m w novel by
John Esten Cooke, confederate War
Sketches by prominent Southern
writers and a host of other good
things by M. Quad end other brilliant
authors.
Our town Marshal has not made
aa arrest this year*
NO. 36 JSo OEirrioN: |I ns Advance,
Rockdale Sheriff's Sale for
March.
Will be sold bofore tho court
bouse donr in tbe town of Conyers
within tt e legal hours of sale on the
first Tuesday in March 1878 the fol
lowing describe 1 property to-wit;
Ono house and lot in tho towu of
C nyors, containing one half acre < f
land, part of lot No 273 bounded
East by Baptist Church lot, North
by Welsh, South by Jiui Jones,
Wist by J H Bontlcy. Levied on
as tbe property of James Jones to
satisfy two fi fas in f.ivor of H L
Shipley vs, James Jones issued from
Rockdale county court. Search
made and no personal property to be
f<>uud. Property poiuted out by
plaintiff. Lnfy made Jan. 31 1878
by A P Mitcbell, L C, and returued
to tne.
J. H. TAYLOR
Sheriff.
ALSO
At the same time and plaoo will
be sold tho following property to
wi* :
Fifty-two acres of land more or
less, being the laud on which Wm.
>l. Rhodes now resides, lying iu
Ko.'kdae countv. Number nut
now". Pounded East oy D N.
Hudson, Noith by Manual Fiaygood
South aud West by Mrs C J Mel
ton. Levied on as the property of
vVilliaiu M, Rhodes to satisfy one ti
ft* issued from Justices ‘J< uri 476th
Dist. G. M, iu favor of E ii Rosser,
and two ti fas issued from sa mi court
;i favor ot C J i''elton aguin-a Win.
Rhodes. I, vy made by A P Mitch
*H, LC, Feb. 2.id, and returned to
ue.
J FI. TAYLOR.
.Sheriff.
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