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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
0 FFICIAL ORGAN CITY OF C0NYFR8.
fficial okgan of bockdale county
M. W. SHAVER, Publisher.
NO PAPER.
Nest week being our regular holiday
w« will issue only a small sheet contain¬
ing legal advertisements.
Christmas trale is active.
A merry Christmas and happy New
Year to all.
The best backing a young man can
have is a good back bone of his own.
Tom Meams. a colored draymen here
is dead.
We have had another death, another
birth and another marriage th s week.
Another horse race is booked for an
early day.
Mr. J. H. Felkerhfcs now taken charge
of the Walton News, Mr. Sanders Walker
retiring,
Mr. Joe Stewart wears a brilliant
smile this week. Its a girl and a beauti¬
ful Christmas gift.
Prof. T. D. 0 Kelly has moved into
the residence formerly occupied by Mr.
J. S. Johnson.
When you want a nice novel to read
send around to Mr. T. E. Sims, and get
it. He has them for sale or rent.
Thk Werxly for 1884 will be the pret¬
tiest and best paper ever seen in this
place. We mean business.
K'v. T. J. Christian leaves for Barnes
ville to-day. We wish him success
wherever he may go.
Miw Mattie Hardeman, of Monroe,
Mrs. a. B. Osborn’s beautiful sister is
here visiting her.
Mr. Gus Osborn killed a pig this week
that weighed 800 net. This was a good
one.
Miss Flora Bryans of Indian Springs is
here on a visit to her cousin, Miss Della
Bryans.
Dr. Lee’s Drug Store is headquarters
for Christmas tricks. Call and examine
his stock before buying.
Stewart’s A. Q. C. is meeting with a
fine sale. This is a medicine we can re¬
commend, for we know it to be good.
You can get your fine Christmas beef,
sausage, pork. &c., at W. B. Smith's.
Give friend Smith a call and he will treat
you all right.
Two boys, Jim and West Garrett,
charged with tnisdeuieanot, were arrest
ed by Sheriff Mitchell, and our Marshals
this week and lodged in jail
We expect to give to our subscribers
next year a valuable new buggy. Every
Bitbscriber will be entitled to a ticket
free.
Mr Jack McCulloch, of Walton was
here this week selliug cotton. Mr. Mc¬
Culloch is one of the best farmers in tlie
county.
Miss Lena Christian, the beautfful and
accomplished daughter of Rey. Coe
Christian leaves for Bartlesville thL
week.
Joe Johnson is running the Whitehead
Houseand he is running it in good style
Joe is a clever fellow, keeps a good table
and deserves the patronage of the peo"
pie.
The big race between Sharp's Pet and
Jenkin’s Bullet will come off for 7 O 0
yards on to-morrow week the 29 th inst.
with Bullet the favorite tiiis distance,
"e look for an exciting race and a big
crowd out.
When you want a good smoke, call on
our handsome aad enterprising young
friend, Mr. T. E. Siins, Eddie will be
pleased to have his friends call on him
He also keeps on hand, candies, oranges,
apples, raisins, oysters, crackers, onions
&c., &c.
Fire Insurance.— No man, especially
a poor man, can afford to go without
their business and Pomes insured. We
call on our people especially our farmers,
and mechanics to have their homes in¬
sured, it will cost but litLe and you will
be safe from the ill such that comes to
so many of losing all your lifes work in
a few hours—leaving your wife and
little ones homeless.
An entertainment will be given for the
benefit of the Juvinile Missionary Socie¬
ty, at Almand’s Hall on the evening of
3 ist of Deeember. 25 boys and 25 girls
will take part, assisted by several young
ladies- The admission fee will be i 0
cents. The little folks are out, and will
be from day to day until the entertain¬
ment, selling tickets. Let everybody
buy a ticket and come out, thereby en¬
couraging our Juviniles in a good work.
Married. —At the residence of the
bride's father, Mr. H. P. Almand on last
Wednesday at i2 o'clock, the Rev. D. E
Butler, of Madison officiating. Mr. Hill
Moon to Miss Lula Almand, both of this
county. The ceremony was short, beau¬
tiful and impressive. The bride was
very prettily dressed and with the hand¬
some groom made a fine looking couple
May they ever be happy and prosperous
The attendants were ifr. Sidney Moon
and Mi-s Vannie Almand, Mr. J, E.
Chandler and Miss Cordelia Farrell of
Covington.
TO OUR PATTONS
The old year is fast drawing to a
close. In our n.-xt issue we enter
upon tlie duties of a new year, The
P r ' sent one has brought changes to
all Many of them sad changes. The
angel ot Death may httve entered
your home and snatched from your
fond and trembling embrace your
fairest flower. Lite would be sad
indetd it this closing season represen¬
ted the end ot it. Bui no, Hope
beckons us forward with smiling lace
to a new Spring time, a day of Joy¬
ous gladnei-s. How emblematic ot
our own lives is the closing year. We
look forward triumphantly, confident
ol the goodly things in store for us in
nature’s coming Spring time. Why
not with the eye ot Fai h look still
further, believing, that the Giver of
all is able and will ng to grant us
Eternal Spring. VVe desire before
sending you our Christmas greeting
addrtss a few words to our many pa¬
trons, into whose homes the Weekly
has gone so many Sunday nights
Some of you have been with us
through the Summers and Winters,
some oi them hard ones to us too, for
more than six long years, and it is
not surprising that we feel gratified
of your evident appreciation of our
Our matto has b en and will be in
the future to do right, regardless of
monied influence. If we have caused
you au hour's enjoyment each week
of our coining, brightened your fam¬
ily circle, revived the mossing spir¬
its of one wounded neart, then our
work has not been in vain.
Our paper has grown from a very
small sheet, to its pre.-eut large size
of 48 columns, filled with theehoieest
selections of reading matter aud all
the local and society news worth pub¬
lishing
la addition to this, we will have
for another year, a writer from every
good neighborhood, and our columns
will be filled with news that will be
of interest to even man, woman and
child in Rockdale county.
Nothing is more conclusive proof
of the prospetity of a community than
flourishing newspapers. They bring
trade. They sway the tide of emi*
gration. No man cau afford to do
without his county paper. We have
subscribers from Augusta, Atlanta
and many o her places, who never
lived in our county.
The Weekly is a city and county
offio.al organ, is larger than any other
county paper, wider c rculation, and
tor next year is more fully prepared
than ever before to run a strictly in¬
dependent business, and neither pains
nor money will be spared In make it
the brightest, wittiest and most newsy
county paper in Georgia. We wish
you all a merry Cnristmas and a hap¬
py New Year.
Tuesday evening two horsemen,
solitary and alone, could be seen 300
yards in the rear of a fleeing son of
Ham, moving at a very rapid rate—
Marshal Wallace on bis black charger
and Deputy Marshal Bellah on a
small claybank also a toieral le good
charger. The negro, howe/er, seems
to be the best charger of all. He
charged our Mr. Arthur Shark, struck
an attitude and demotalized Henry
Henderson, run over and crippled
Mr. Cain’s fine cow, knocked old
(3out) in a ditch and finished up hi on
bust half mile by upsetting a carriag at
and mortatly wounding a baby. Ex¬
cited by the terrible work of destruc¬
tion going on, the horsemen grew
wild, flourished their bithers, pistols,
carbines and dirty handkerchiefs, put
on new speed an i jnst as the dusky
fugitive leaped the old College, Wal
lace cast his lariat and gently settled
it around his neck. He teturned with
the flush of triumph upon his face
while his deputy looked a little beat.
He was met at the court house by
a “full board” hand shaking v/as
passed around aud the negrojueged
He had a pistol. His name is
Ned Carter, colored for whom there
was a warrant for carrying conceal*
ei weapons.
Mr. Charlie Grenade came near being
seriously hurt by a mad bull the other
day. Be and Mr. Dabney’s little boy
was attempting to drive him out of Mr.
Dabney’s field, when he ran into a ditch
Charley caught hold of the yoke and was
going to lead him out when he jerked
him into the ditch and with his jamless
head mashed him in the mad and water
After several efforts uharley got out look
ing more like a drowned rat than the
handsome boy he his. Charley in his
magnanimity says he is glad it wasn’t his
I a as he would have got hurt.
PAPER MILL POTS
Il is rumoie l tint there is to be in
the near future a tuartitge in Idgh
life. One of the contracting parties
a physician of high standing from a
neighboring village. Th CD other a res
sident of this place and So lady pus—
sessing all the noble qualities of mind
and person that so beautifully adorn
womanhoo 1 .
Miss Hattie Summers we learn will
not reiurn from Milledgevide until
after Christmas, and Summer’s Hill
will be dull indeed without her cheer¬
ful presence.
The question on docaet is, wheie
will Henry Granode spend the Christ¬
mas holiday s ?
We trust Miss Olivia Swann will
not again bring sorrow as she did last
year, to so many foolishly ? liais ing
lit arts by btsiowing her winning
snides and san light glances on new
victims in a neighboring city.
‘•Pwkens’’ why don’t you come to
see us 1 We’ve got a bunch of on¬
ions hanging in front of our door,
and are ready to weep on the slightest
provocation. Do come and you may
have the whole bunch.
Monday morning last as Mr. Jim
Farmer, who is a very early riser was
attending to some chores around the
house, he heard the rapid noise of
horses teet. Being a very kind hear¬
ted man and thinking ptihap* some
of his neighbors might be sick, he
hastened on to the road to learn the
news, but it was only the Rockdale
Boy returning home, at his usuai
rapid rate of locomotion.
While in Atlanta last week we svw our
old friend andfleighbor, Mr. Zeal Bailey
He is buying cotton oh Broad street and
looks to be well and happy.
Miss Pet Hendrick, sister of Mrs. J. D
Hay, is teaching a flourishing music
class near Panthersvil e. Miss Pet is a
good teacher, a most worthy young lady
and deserves the patronage of the public.
You may say what you please, but
Livy Quigg is one of the nicest and most
handsome young men in this or any
other town. ,
We return thanks to many of ®ur
friends for their cordially expressed
praise of our la»t week s paper.
In a letter received by the publisher
of this paper from Polk county, Florida,
comes the account of ripe tomatoes,
young watermelons aid fast growing
corn. The above information was ren
dered doubly interesting by arriving
when the thermoinetor stood at 22 de¬
grees on our back pioreh.
Mr- Johnnie Cook of Newton county,
was here on a visit to his relatives this
week.
In the horse race this week betwee*
Mr. Arthur Sharp’s Pet and Mr. Joe
Sparks Claybank for $5o, mile heat. Pet
won easily—coming out about 100 feet
ahead.
Read the adveitisement of Mr. W. T.
Wilson, No. S3 Broad street, Atlanta,
Ga. This is a good house and when you
wan; anything in his line call on him.
The Star, of Covington come out in
doable form this week. Uncle James is
a good newspaper man and don’t you
forget it.
Parties wanting to subscribe for any
newspaper Will find it to their interest
to call at this office. We can get you
any book or paphr you want at low pri¬
ces.
Mr. George Hale has returned from
Gainesville where be has been at work
on the fine court house being built
there.
The Methodist Church will contain on
Christmas eve night a beautiful Christ¬
mas tree laden with handsome presents.
Everybody shouidoe out. We make this
request so as to insure a fotll house.
Mr E. W. Jeter has painted up Mr.
Joel Gay's house in nice style. Sir.
Jeter is a good one and knows how to
do his work,
A large number of our people went to
Atlanta this week to buy their Christ
mas goods ' We shouI<i always buy
everything here at ‘ home possible.
Patronize home fiist, always.
Mr. W. H. McCord and family left
this week tor their new home in xla
bama. We are sorry to lose so good
a citizen and cheerlully recommend
him and hia excellent lady and family
to the people among whom he has
gone.
Just received tte lat»st and most fash..
ionabie designs in C a.s at B.ewart s
prices from $2 to $15 °o. •
If you want to begin the New Year
light, go to J. A. & T. D, Stewart’s and
buy you a good clock, so that you can
begin on time.
Remember you can save money by
getting your clothing at Stewart’s,
fetewart’a is the place to buy a hand¬
some Christmas or New Years present
A splended selection of nice books just
received.
Dolls, Dolls, for th# little girls at
Stewart’s
A TALK Willi SPEER.
C •i.i’mbia- S. C , r>ec. 13 , 1SS3
This atterni on, jnst bef >re his depar
part' re fur Ataita, I had a short talk
with K norv Spe r. He says he is very
well ati-tied with tlie genera’ resu’t lie
did net relish the vituperative a*s tubs of
j the N-ws and Courier, and oth* r papers
nor appreciate the hostile and haughty
healing of thejawyerson the other side,
out tiiis was dor.ht e s pirtof the pro¬
gramme, aud they acted their part well.
As soon »s the eases were over the law
vers changed iheir manner toward him
and became cordial and friendly. He
claims to have done only his plain duty
in aiding t lief prosecution, in obedience
to the instruction of the government.
Should he be called upon itf the future
to render like services he Would not
shirk the responsibility nor evade the
duty- “1 am not ashamed of anything I
have done, ’ said lie, as he bade me good
bye.
Nothing noteworthy in the legislature
to day save a long debate on railway
bills.
Found ! That we have too much cloth
ingand will exchange them for ilie cash
cheaper than anybody at J. A. & T. D.
Stewart.
Did you ever ! No I never, saw such
tremendous bargains in Over coats as of¬
fered at J. A. & T. 1 ) Stewar’s.
Life does not count by years. Some
8,lder !1 hie time in a day, and so
grow old between the rising ami set
Hng cf the sun.
Il is impossible that an il'-natured
man can have a public spirit; tor how
should he love ten thousand men who
never loved one.
A man or woman in high health,
with good spirits and full of energy is
an immediate source of happiness to
those with whom he or she associates.
The bh ssing of a house is gootl
ness. The honor ot a house is ht>s
pitality. The ornament of a house is
cleanliness. The happiness ot a house
is contentment.
Sorrow ia the porchway to joy, the
pathway to maturity and peace. No
one has ever become good or great
w ho has not met and mastured sors
tow.
Our brains are seventy-year clocks.
The angel ef life winds them up once
lor all, then closes the case an l gives
the key into the hand of the angel of
the rtsurrecuen.
God’s livery is a vsry plain one ;
but its wearers have good leasons to
content. If’it has not so much
gold Isce aboot it as Sitau’s, it keep
out foul weather better, and is be¬
sides a great deal cheaper.
THE MYSTIC’S CHRISTMAS.
“All hail!” the bells of Christmas rang.
“Alt hail!” the monk* at Christmas sang,
'Ihe merry monks who kept with cheer
The gladdest day of all their year.
But still apart, unmoved thereat,
A pious elder brother sat
Silent, in his accustomed placB,
With God's sweet peace upon liis face.
“Why sitt’st thou thus?” his brethren
cried,
“It is the blessed Christmas tide ;
The Christmas lights are all aglow,
The sacred lillies bud and b ow
“Above our heads the joy-bells ring,
Without the happy children sing,
And all God’s creatures hail the morn
On which the holy Christ was born !
‘■Rejoice with us , no more rebuke
Our gladness with thy quiet look.”
The gray monte answered : “Keepj I
pray,
Even as ye list, the Lord’s birthday.
Let heathen Yule fires flicker red
Where thronged refectory feasts are
spread :
Whli mystery p ! av and mask and mine
And wait-song speed the holy time !
“The blindest faith may haply save ;
The Lord accepts the th’ngs we have ;
And reverenc**, howsoe’r it strays,
May find at last the shining ways,
"They needs must grope who cannot
| see,
The blade before the ear must be ;
As ye ate feeling I have felt,
And where ye dwell I too have dwealt.
“But, now, beyond the things of sense,
Beyond occasions anil events,
I know through God’s excaeding grace,
Release from form and time and place.
“I listen, from no mortal tongne,
To hear the song the angels sung ;
And wait within myself to Know
The Christmas lillies bud and blow.
"The outward symbols disappear
From him whose inward sight is clear ;
And small must be the cht ice of days
To Him who fills them all with praise !
“Keep while you need it, brothers mine,
With honest toil your Christmas sign,
But judge not Hiai who every morn
Feels in his heart the Lord Christ born!”
Your boys Irora 3 years to 30, can
be suited at J. A. & T. I). Sb-wan's.
Arthur Sharp claims to have the the
fastest hone in the State a looo yards for
$000,
188 _|.. 1884..
I
THE
CONYERS W EKLY
JOB OSf ICB
IS NOW
Prepared to do any kind of Job
Printing, such as
Let er Heads,
Note Heads,
Bill Heads,
» Statements,
Invitations,
Wedding Catde,
Posters,
Cards
Dodgers,
Tags,
Envelopes,
Blanks, &o.
All orders will be piomptly filled.
12 YEARS.
W T WILSON,
No. 53 Rrotd St., s Atlanta, Ga
...... Wholesale Jobber of......
Sewing Machine sit pubes, adjusting
tools, oils, needles, patt-and attachments
for all makes of Maehiaes. Steam fit
tings, hand attachments, water motors.
FINE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
,h?K^ Leader. Hartford r and i c " 5 Imported L 2 Singer,
Dec. 2 i-tf.
-1*
A Hetry Gtatiaas
AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
- !
Kind Friend* and the Public Gbx
erally!
der the Whitehead House, next door to
G. H. Weaver and J will keep a neat
stock of goods, such as Fine Papers,
Envelopes, Pencils, Inks, Books ot' all
kinds for sole or rent, papers of all
grades literary and political, confec
tioneries such as candies, fancy and
plain, nuts, apples, oranges, cigars, ciga
reties and fine tobacco, and many oilier
things- Call and see me.
T. E. SIMS.
^Frauk Harper has the best fLutr
ever sold in Conyers C ali and get
some.
A new variety of stock powders,
“said tc work wonders,’’ Call fur
the red tin box, at Stewart s.
W'heu you want se ect cream cheese,
sausage, dried beef, apples cocoanut
cabbage, onions, Ac call on Fiank
Harper A Bro. ,
A fresh arrival of shifts and collar*
at Stewart’s.
The nicest stylps of dark fall and
winter prints, none like them else¬
where, just arrived, at Stewart’s
The Celebrated Cleveland all wool
filled Jeans from 7 to 9"Z for hoys
and mens winter wear, at Stewart’s.
The cigar “Town Talk,’’ for sale by
Stewart, is a tip-top one.
So fir Savannah is nrxt to New Or¬
leans in the amount of cotton receipts.
READ AND CONSIDER
There are yet a large number of my
old customers who have not paid up;there
blacksmith account Now I have waited
ong and patiently foryoii to make settle
ments but have waited in vain you have
my *ahor and material and refuse or neg¬
lect to pay for them. I cannot wait al
ways and give warning to all to come for
ward at once and m*ke settlement and
save trouble and further delay. I need
money and must have iLUYour friend;
W. V. Almand.
When you want nice family gro
ceries of any kind, such as nice meats,
canned goods, cabbages, cheese, crack
era, pickles—in fuel anything in this
lin“, call on Harper & Bro.
special notice.
This is to give notice to the public
generily that i have opened in connec¬
tion with rav blacksmith thop a wood
shop department where I am prepared
to do all kinds of buggy, wrgonAca? rage
work and all general reparing i_at price
as low as anyone and in good style. T
soiieit the patronage^fu my friends and
the public generally.
Respectfully, W. V. Almand
When you want a good cigar- the best
in the city. Call on Ed. Sima and get a
Duke of Durham.
Parties owning Cemetery Iota should
clean them off.
Any one having old books Lr sale will
do well to call on T. E. ffims. He will
pay the cash for them.
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H WEAVER’S.
[ have i 11 a nice slock of Chfislnias
Goods such as toys of every kind,
beautiful vases, mugs, fancy china
ware, candies in all foims and desigui
nii'Sj raisins, apples, oranges etc, be*
sides a good stock of all other kinds
of goods. The highest price paid for
nl 1 pr bin e and goods sold at bottom
prices. I pay cash for fcnnon seed.
G. II. WEA VER.
/| \ BY B. 3 f WOOLEY.M D.
IHM / Atlanta Ga.
1 j HABIT . j Reliable evidence given
CUKE f and reference to cured
p«ti< nts physicians; Office 65 Whi'etlHlI,
st. Send for my book on the Habit atld
ts Cure.
"Will he sold before the coltl't hotise
door in the town ot CobynTs Within
the legal hours of sale, on the first
l’nesday in .Jamlafy 1884 at publiek
cry, the following described properly
to wit; one piece land
lying and being in the 4th distret
of arigiually Walton now Rockda'e
county, and said to contain (48j) forty
eight and one half acers, in re or less
and bounded as follows, on the north
i »» d ” m » 8 ■> «
the south by a part of the Lee Long
place, on“the east by Thomas White,
ltd on 'lie west by the Lee Long and
Mr E It Camp, the iand w hereon J S
G ahatn now resides, levied on as the
property of J Simon ton to satisfy
issued from the Justice court of the
476> b Gist gm of Rockdale comity
in favor ot Thos D. Stewatt & C<>„
v s .1 N Simonton. Property point*
'"Ubvj,f.,„dau,, r.ni„i„
aegaion fiotifled. Levy rilado by S H
Wood, L O and return-d to me, this
the‘26 day of , Nov. 1S8>.
^ . n w- Altlcneil, . n e Shui , *
*
Will 1 e sold before the corn l Hons
door - >" ■ '” . e u,e . to . * n or 01 f ton - -' e,H on oil
the fiist Tuesday in January 138 *
at public out cry within the legal
hours of sale tne following described
property to wit. One tract, of land
said Jto contain (100 me hundred
acres more or less it being the place
where defe.idan', George a ch'ifel'er
now Lies b- irg in the 16th disuict
of originally Henrv n n w Ilockdale
conn'y Ga ( and bounded as follows,
on the north by J H Hollingsworth,
on the south by Mat Tucker on the
east by tne lands of John McNJir and
aud on the we*t by tlie lands of Mrs
Letiwich, known as lot number 203
twa hundred and three, and levied
on as the propet'ty of George a c’ot
felter t>> sHttsty a fi ta issued from
the oiil st dis rict G M, in favor of
Giuldn"& c utis v - G a lotfelter,
property point'd out by defendant
and lit" parti*s in possession notified
as the law directs. Levy made by J
W Sorrow* L c and relumed to me
This Nov- 28ih 1883- a P Mitchell
Sltff
LETTERS OF DISCHARGE.
State of Georgia, Rockdale County:
WheteasJ. M.Overton reton, guardian of
Fannie M. Denard, having made applica¬
tion to the Court of Ordinary for a dis •
charge from his guardianship of Fannie
M. Denard, this is, therefore, to cite all
net sons concerned to show cause why
the said J. M. Overton should not he dis
from h ' 8 Rnardianship of Fannie
M. Denard and receive the usual letters
of dismission 4m the first Monday in
January. 1884.
Given under'my handjand official sig¬
nature, October 2d, 1883.
oct5 3m t). SEAMANS, Oruin'y
ESTRAY SALE.
Wil 1 be sold on the Freehold of J. W.
Hamolton on Monday the I9 of Novem¬
ber next at 10 Oelock A. M. oh K*.l Cow
with horns. Medium size about nine or
ten years old marked with a crop ami
slit in each year gold as a stray this
Oct 3 o 1SS3.
A. P. Mitcbel Shflf
OPIUM HABIT
AND DRlIJlH-ENNKS.
Poalt lvel ^'^eeilUy^ perm iovt"te» anently luvesiig&tion* cured by
form of Opium Truth
Reference* beetin he State. For term*, pamph¬
let* and proof*, address, with three cent stamp,
w. C. BKLUHT, H. ©..
7 1*3 Broad St,, Atlantju Ga.
C*=TOlHtS m4
tog expericscd iu curing di*ea*es of lbs iJ-iod, Sltla
Boat*.—Jiervou* lability, etyphilltle au-I new, Mcreirlal Orgmo
Weakoew, GunorrhcpB,
Affections ftpecinlly treated 00 •cieniibc principle*
with uft aud Bure remedies. Call or write List of Ques Ques
Mens to be answered by these desiring trer’nirut by addre*s\ maU.
»om*« fieri ng from Rupture thou Id I ee* *1 their
m Vend Warn toaaeltffBf U their advaaUgt It. 'UwtalnHt.|
Addre»* DB- BCTTft, »» *. 8* *w.
ISI ABUMP OVJtR THIRTY YI*S«
