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About The Hawkinsville dispatch. (Hawkinsville, Ga.) 1866-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1872)
THE HAWkINSYIIJ.H DISPATCH. *OL. 6. Thera were two cases of meningi* tie at Augusta last week. It Is a funny thing about a dentist, that the stops the faster he It is all Tory well to say* “Take thiigs aa they come,” but suppose they don’t come 7 “Sam, how do you like that knife I sold you last week 7” “bo, so. Its not very sharp, yet you managed to shave me with it.” The death of Mr. Freeman Orr, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Washington county, is announced by the SandersviUe Georgian. A wiso Frenchman says: “If a lady says ‘I can never love yon,’ wait Rlittle longer; all hope is rot lost. Brut if she says: ‘No one has more ’sincere wishes for your happiness than J,’ take your hat.” An lowa boy lias a silver quarter stuck in his throat where it has been for the past three months. lie has tried every way to get it out, hut he can’t do it, and the only hope is that a circus will go that way soon. * Washington county people have a right to be proud of some things, to wit: the county docs not owe a dol lar except it bo on current expenses for the'present year, an<l with t» pop ulation of 10*000, over h vlf of whom are negroes, not a prisoner in jail. Col. B. T. Harris, one of the most prominent citizens of Hancock counts, died last Sunday, alter an illness of six wdeks, in his 50th year. He rep resented that comity several times in the Legislature, was a member of the Secession Convention, and one of the largest and most successful planters in that county. Jefferson Davis has remove 1 to Baltimore anct will make that city his future home. We learn that he con templates publishing at an early day a ‘•vindication of his a lministration” while President of the Confederate States It will be apt to create a con siderable stir in the Southern States. ?hc Illinois Tctn pern tie- I .an Illinois lias for the present aban doned the effort *o enforce the pro hibition of the liquor traffic, and has enacted the Ohio license law. Under this, tile liquor-dealer and the land lord of the premises where drink* is sold are made responsible for all damages growing out of the business. Licenses can be had only upon giv ing secuiity to the amount of The husband, wife, or child of any person injured by the sale of liquor may bsitg suit for damages. The 1 seetiou bearing upon this poiut is in these words: “Sec. 5. Every child, par- Kut, guardian, employer, or other por ous, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by Vny intoxicate! person, or in conse quence of,the intoxication, habitual orotfcrtrfee, any person, shall have' a tfgnfdT action In his or her name, severally or jointly, against any persou or persons who shall, by selling or giving intoxicating liquors, have caused the intoxication, in whole or ]*rt, of person or persons ; and person or persons owning, rent ing, leasing, or permitting the oecu patMknf any building or premises, and having knowledge that intoxica ting liquor* are to be sold therein, or who, having teased the same for nthgr purposes, shall knowingly per mit therein thef sale of intoxicating liquors that have caused, in whole or in part, the Intoxication of any per sonjjpmll be liable, severally or joint, ly, Slth* person or person* wiling or gWlng Bmnxicstin" liquors afore said, for si! damages sustained, and for ex«mjihir£ damages ; and a raarf ried woman shell have the same right to bring suits, and ts control the same and the amount recovered, as a femme tole; and all damages reoov. ,ared by a minor, under this aot, shall bo paid either to such minor, or to h : s or her, parent, guardian, or next L friend, ns the conn shall direct” This legislation Is entirely practi- nod them is no reason why it mij f not be enforced. ,C*3 * fjjfl IT’ ? HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THRUSDAY, MARCH 7, 1872. Tlic Way Postofflce Delwilrw Hot itaelr Trnp*. The Atlanta Constitution of last week states that parties who left Law reuceville, Gwinnett county, Ga., brought tq Atlanta the tidings that Mrs. Claborn, the postmistress at tha‘ place, had been removed and the office placed in charge oi William Harvey. It appears that numerous complaints have been made of loss of money mailed at Lawrencevillc. P. H. Woodward, special detective of the postal department, went there to work lip the case. He placed fifteen $1 greenbacks in an envelope and dropped it in the letter-box of the office. Next day he Intercepted the mail-carrier between Lswrenceville and the Air Liue Railroad, and searched the mail-bags but did not fitid the letter. The next morning the result was the same. Mr. Wood ward returned to Lawrencevillc, and upon examination of the postofllce discovered the letter, postmarked and unbroken, behind a box under a counter.. He interviewed the postmis. tress and she pretested that she never saw the letter. He next interviewed her ass'stant, Scott Tlmtnas, who ad mitted that he had seen the letter and ca I*l the :t < n’-ion of the postmistress to it as a trap set to catch them, and 'hey threw it under the counter to await developments. Scott Thomas lied that night to parts unknown. It is said that Mrs. Clahoru was not arrested, but removed from office. (From the Augiwia Cli'onlelc ami Sentinel I’eiuTtil l'.x|>l ,*tan. FOLK MEN KIM.KO AXI) FIFTEEN WoLNPKm An esteemed correspondent, wri ting from Dalton, (in,, informs us that on last Wednesday the boiler used by the Messrs. Brooker, at their saw mill, near that place, exploded killing four men aud wounding fifteen. The names of the killed are Wilson, ({iiillian, Brinkly and Chastain.— Chastain was a boy, and was blowu one hundred yards through the trees, mid was torn to pieces by a tree top. Snell a sight was never seen before. Mr. Briukly was thrown fifty yards and was torn to pieces on a stump, his head striking first. Wilson and Qtiilliau were young men of the first families of the county and their loss is fell by the vicinity. .Mr. Brooker was in charge of the mill, and says he was waiting for steam to saw an oak log when the explosion took place. Strange to say, the engineer was not killed. The boiler was thrown one hundred yards through the woods, tearing down large trees in its flight. The lumlier yard looked like a slaughter pen, for the blood mid limbs of men were scattered over the whole place. Nothing remains of the mill but the saw, the engine being thrown in every direction for three miles, as some parts of the engine was picked tip actually three miles from the place of explosion. It will be a great loss to the own ers, as we think there was no insu rance. Chlckenwlogy. Why is a hen immortal 7 Her son never sets. Why have chickens no hope in the future 7 They have their next world (necks twirled) in this. Why is a hen on a fence like a cent? Head on one side tail on the other. Why don’t liens lay at night? They are roosters. * Why is the first chicken of the brood like the mainmast of a ship? A little forward of the main hatch. Why is a chicken just hatched like a bull’s tail 7 Never seen before. Why should net q chicken cross the rand? It would he a fowl proceeding. If a ship captain had aaaggs, what would he do 7 Lay to (two) . And to conclude, a hen ts a poor economist, because for every grain she gives a peck. llcm Ulll Working for the Next Governorship. The Atlanta Sun gives the follow ing information: It is understood that a company of Radicals and others are forming to tako the New Era newspaper in this city in charge, put a large amount of money into the concern, and run it on a high-pressure principle during the coming summer and fall; and it is said that Mr. Ben Hill is to be its -real editor, and control its politics; that it is to be run under his direc tion and supervison, and that he lias Gubernatorial aspirations—expecting to make a desperate effort to defeat the Democracy in the coming cam paign, and succeed to the chair now so worthily filled ,by Gov. Smith. The whole is a scheme to defeat the Democratic party, and that means lbs re-election of Gen Grant The Sun thinks the Era will be the organ of the third party that it cred its Mr. Hill with wishing to form in Georgia, and to be composed es all the old Hue Whigs he can seduce from the Democracy and the socallcd “lili eral Republicans”—if lie can find any of that stripe ill Georgia. If this is Mr. Hill’s purpose, wo cheerfully wish him much bad luck in its con summation.— Telegraph. Hie i'owvrn of Ovillnnrlea In Ititrrotv .Wane) on tlic County Credit. A dccisl nos the Supreme Court announced the other day by Justice McCny, is very positive in defining* the power of O ‘(Hilaries to borrow money on the credit of the county, and denying the liability of the coun ty therefor. The case came up from Ceweta, oil an injunction against the Ordinary.. The court below was overruled," and the Supreme Court held— 1. The Ordinary of a county hoe no authority , under any general law of this State, even irifft the, recom mendation af the grand jury of U6t county, to borrow money on the credit of the county, and if, for this purpose, lie issues county bonds and sells them, the county is not liable on the bonds so issued. 2. On a projwr ease made by bill in-the name of citizens in the county —tax payeis —it ifc the duly of the Judge of the Superior Court, ns Clutiiuoilor, to restrain until the hear ing, on the merits, an Or iinnry from ordering such bonds to Iks paid by the Treasurer of the county, provided that the injunction be so framed a* nut to interfere with the right of thq boudholdrers who arc not parties to the bill—to the use of ev,gy remedy allowed by law, through the courts of law and equity to test and enforce any claims they may set up against the county in the premises. The Monroo Advertiser, in which we find the above, is of opinion that the decision will secure an investiga tion of the outstanding indebtedness of that county, and the ultimate pay ment of only ouch |x>rtion of it as was legally created. Beauties or Bullock's Adminis tration.—A correspondent of the Morning News, writing from Atlanta, makes this statement, which our own private advices would seem to Jus tify : Very important discoveries were made on Thursday, touching the lease of the State Railroad. The man who stands high in the Ring “ has turned State’s evidence,” as the saying is lie swears that Bullock was one of the losses*; that he (witness) was to have bad ono share, one half of whioh he was to carry for Bullock; that this arrangement was subsequently ohan ged, and that Kimball took and car ried the interest for Bullock. If this be true, away goes the lease. Other developments were made, involving, It ia reportad, a high func tionary under the Federal Govern ment, The truth ia, people at a dis tance can have no Idea of the cor ruption aud fraud that existed under tlie Radical Government Hr Georgia. It extended everywhere, and into all departments- es business. Railroad men, contractors, merchants, lawyers, newspaper men, bankers, legislators, natives, foreigners white men and Mapiw men, with some so-called ppufocrats, assisted ia plundering State and appropriating t ufe piqney pf the peo ple. " *' ’ A fin Hom Beast than Man. Iu the old town of Sunbury on the coast of Georgia, now a melancholy ruin, James Soinersall, the subject of this notice, was born fifty years ago- His parents emigrated from the Island of Bermuda over a century since, and arc in part responsible for the introduction of that beautiful gross, which is the bane of planters on the seaboard. The father of James was a tailor and cripple, and Ids mother kept a small baker's shop. They had one other son besides J nines, and ware very poor. The former from his ear liest childhood was) utterly unlike his kind, and developed tastes and habits of the strangest and most abnormal character. Once, at a very tender age ho was missing for several days, and finally turnu.l up fast asleep upon a tomb stone in the village grave-yard. Fond of solitndc, bo ever lived in the thick recesses and tangled forests of that semi-tropical climate. A pas sion for natural history w:is thus en gendered, which afterwards pro duced, we venture to say, the most complete work (in manuscript) over, compiled on the ornithology of Ueor-' gia. Skilled in snaring birds, his home was strung around with ingenious cages of his own manufacture, filled with feathered inhabitants, some hith erto utterly unknown to the residents of tho county, lie has been known to watch, and follow up day after day, without ceasing, a paroquet or some other strange Irrd until lie had secured his prize. Nets, bird limo, traps, and robbery on the roost, were the means employed by biui in cap turing liiu feathered treasures. Aud never wore they known to fail. This protracted life in the woods and t-h-sc association with beast and birds, gradually transformed this wonderful creature into a regular sa tjr, or wih! man, and, stmngc to say, his vciy physical appearance under went a change, and his natural tastes and appetites also. The writer lias oocti linn with n pocket (till of live grass-hoppers, which lie would enl like sugar plums or Ism Irons. Liz anrds, locusts, and even serpents, were despatched in the same wav. Indeed, among his other silvan pm* suits, (lie capture es snakes was a fa vorite pastime. Armed with a fork ed stick only, we have seen this man crawl on allfonrs through a covered ditch forty feet wide, filled with ooze and slime, in quest of the deadly moccasin. IVhcn encountered, alter pinning the reptile’s bend to the earth, he would seize it by the neck and inserting a coarse into its mouth no ns to cover the fangs, forcibly extract them with a sharp Jerk. They were then carefully placed in his bosom for shelter and aafe keeping. Wo have seen him stand witli the heads and forked tongues of several huge serpents thus bestowed darting about his cheek, with a broad grin upon his semi-bar barous countenance. But this was not all; our carniver-* ous biped would devour these writh ing monsters, with horrible gusto, alive, squirming, os he tore the flesh with his teeth—seorosoflfving witness es will attest this fact. He was ovon attempted to make this diabolical taste a matter of profit, and actually advertised to oat living sciqtcnts in the cities of Charleston and Savannah in the latter of which he was arrested for the brutality of the perform ance. The dwelling of this man monster was visited by every stranger and an tiquary, who made a pilgrimage to Sunbury, to view the old fort, and the enchanting water seouery of the dilapidated town. it presented a unique appearance. Hung around the walls were the cages of a multi tude of birds, embracing many of every variety to be found in this lati tude, and a long chest u|>on the floor contained hiscollection of serucaU. On ®n« occasion the w*Us»» mucous (o get ft nwpAt-Hte Utffeoua yeptiiee within, pertMty removed tin bd, but quick as thought out glided a huge thunder snake and lie fled inconti nently., Twisted together in huge rolls, Uifeofo. em- bracing rattle snakes, moccasins, vi pers, black snakes, coach whips, the an aconda like blue snakes and many oth er varieties, existed, without food for long mouths, their prison floor being covered with the eggs of the several females. But who would suppose that this snake man courted the muses, and is the author of quite a collection of po ems, mostly of the amorous cast, which were published, we believe, in Charleston. Several of these are in our possesion, and form a curious melange of sentiment, vulgarity, and nonsense. Occasionally’, however, lie wrote quite respectable dndjerel, and his doting mother 1 him to be, net quite the equal of Byron, but the superior of Burns. These pieces, when called upon, be would sing, or rather chant in a mo notonous guttural accent, the same tunc fitting all alike. The writer and" Mr. James Sey mour, of this city, were classmates at school, with this curious genius. At quite a tender age, he astonished our teacher, G. Jlillycr, by de claiming the whole of the inimitable race of John Gilpin. , Previously regarded as a dunce at fMMfepl, he was forthwith put into BRimiy’s grammar, and never, we be lieve, learned the difference between a substantive and verb, though lioaten with many stripes almost every day. Rev. J. S. Law, his first teacher, who essayed to learn Idm the alpha bet had a tough timoof it. When lip would say, “ James, say B,” the pre cocious youth would reply, “James, say B.” It was like the task of Sysi pirns. Dslt as he was, however, the miserable fellow, as before men tioned, did write quite n volume on the natural history of Georgia, which, despite its defects, was really instruc tive and interesting. In-person, Somersnll was a moßt disgusting object. He was callow looking, colorless and cadaverous, rc scniblingm lieast as much as a man. Strange to say, though regardless of hobgoblin < nnd poisonous reptiles, he was the veriest coward in the town. The small st boy could impose upon or whip him at will, with impunity. The limits of a newspaper article pre vent ns rom recalling many’ queer anecdotes and incidents in the life of this underfill individual. He died about six years since, and is still re garded, like the black dwarf of Sir \Vfilter Scott, us one of the celebrities of old Liberty County.— Mama Tele graph. Noble ncntlittciit*. Few men have uttered grander sen timents than did the Hon. Hora tio Seymour, when he said: I have held the lives and liberties of great numbers in my hands. 1 heard ma ny thousands of prayer tor pardon. I have had intercourse with those hold ing the highest place* down to those living in the gloomiest cells. I have seen and felt as much as most men of the harshness and bitterness of the strife of this world. All the exjtcri eiiec has led me to feel kindly to ward my fellow inan. The longer I live, the better I think of men’s hearts and the more loss or their heads. I grow more and more dis posed to chargo the evils men- do to their infirmities, and the more deep ly am I impressed with the great truth of that religion which' teaches as the need of a Spirit to guide, a Saviour to atone, and a merciful God to forgive manifold sins and transgressions. Danqmious Ashaui.t lT ton Da. H. L W. Ceaio.—The Atlanta Sun of last week says that on tho Sunday even ing previous seme person unknown made an attack on Dr. 11. L. \V. Craig tho Representative of Telfair county', as ho was passing from Deca tur street to his Bearding house on Lino street in Atlanta. The attack was with a knife —tho would-be as sassin making a heavy thrust, which cut the Doctor's ooat, and would n« doubt have proved fotul If it had tak e.i effect ia his body. He struck the .man a blow on the head with a heavy Cane, whioh caused him to leave in a hurry. Go to hunts’ lo get Uio beat <WWky— : tens* Thaw wsm'* Bwn Blo ** NO. 10 The Hawkinsville Dispatch Is published every Thursday. •Suitcription: 02 00 a Tear, in intranet. Rules and Rules. i#" Advertisements ft oo per square for rho firm insertion, and 75 cent* for rack subsequent insertion. (A square is the space of leu lines or less.) COHTIIACT AnVKdTfHNo ” 1 in 2in 3 ui I(I in | 12 in 1 square... 0 3 05 f 7 jfio Ifg 2 “ ... 5 8 11 15 89 3 “ ... 7 II 15 20 89 4 “ ... U 14 18 33 89 i column.. 10 10 20 35 45 j “ .. 15 20 30 (SO 7ff 1 “ .. 90 80 40 75 1M A lilicrnl deduction will lie mndc with those who advertise by the year. The money for advertisements is due on the first insertion. Tributes »f Respect, Resolutions by Soci elles, Obituaries, cte., exceeding six lines; to he charged ns transient advertising. I.KUAI. ADVKHTIS2KO. . Oudisakt’b—Citations for Letters ot Administration, by Administra tors, Executors, Guardians. 3 • Application for Loiters of Dismis sion from Ad mi nisi rat ion 4 00 Application for Lcucrs of Dismls lioit from Guardianship 5 50 Application for leave to sell Land 4 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 0 50 Sales of personal or perishable property,per square , 160 Sales of lamds, per square 3 50 SiiKiiirr's—Per lew 3 SO Mortgage sales, ten lim i’e. .. 5 OOf Tax Collector's stiles, pet 'qeiutij 6 9 CLeiik's—Foreclosure of Morlgit- S*s and oilier Monthly advertise. cuts, 01 per square of one inch for each insertion. Announcing County Cninlldiilcs.. 800 Annnnqring District Candidates,. 19 00 Fora man advertising his wife, in advance 20 00 'W Bales of Land, by Administrator*, Executors or Guardians, are required If law lo lie held on ilic first lui -*iav in tlic month, between tin hours of ten in tin- fore noon and three in the afternoon, at lbs Court-house* in the count}' in which tks properly is situated. Notice of these sales must lie given in a public gazette 40 days previous * the day of sale. Notice tor the nale of personal property must Is-given in like manner, lOd.tys pre vions to salr tiny. Notice to debtors and creditors of un es tote must also lie published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must lie published for four weeks. Citations on letters of administration. Guardianship, Ac , must lie published 39 days; for dismission from administration, monthly three months; for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules lor the foreclosure of Mortgages must Ik- published monthly, four months; for establishing lost pu|tcrs, for Ute full tpa.-e of throe months; for compelling lilies from Executors or Adminthfrntnni, where bond lilts Ih-cii given l»v tile deceased, th* I'nll space of three months. Sin-rill'* sales must he published for foui weeks. E. J* JOHNSTON, Dkai.kk in Watches, Olocks, Diamond and other jewel. ItY, Hi Ivor sad I Mat etl Ware, Musi cal Fancy Gimkls, Cutlery, etr. Watches and Jewelry repaired iii the Im-sI manner. 07 Mtu.nt.HY St.. MACON GA. Jan 4 -Uin Wm. 11. Tiso.v W.M. UoUIJON TISON & GORDON, (Succeeded to Tison & Maekay in 1350) COTTON FACTORS, —ANI>— COMMISSION MERCHANTS, HUH;.savannah oa, BAGGING AN!) IRON TIES advanced ofi'CrdAsr ’ Llls-ral Cash Advances made on Cote sigiiiui iilH of Cotton. ' f'uN-fhl attention lo all business and prompt returns guaranteed. sept7-9m Cotton Food, A Fertilizer Specially for Cotton. Bend for Circular la-fore purchasing," Huy it—Try it—and you will nevgf re,, grot it. J. O. JKI.KH, fir., .‘rent, Ilnwkiusvifle.Gs. rw siMs. A- . • Jan&VSm Sttvubn* ,4,it • ; . i.trout Dissolution of Copartnership.’ Tin- i-oparlpersiilp existing hrtwrett It. IBAAt'H A CO. was his day dissolved by mutual consent. Tb« hu«ln<-*A of the linn will he settled by CHAB *W'HI.ANO, to whom nil dohu lonw Ik- paid. M [Haacb. ('HAH BCHLANO Hawkinsville, Ga,, Jan. 31*. 1874. fcilH-U. Fair Warning. A LI, peraoua are hereby forewarned X against trading far a*ceitaln due biff -iron bv the uadi-r»»gn*d during tba e-ntli »f August, 1871. to M IHAACfi for Ftvo Hundred dollars, os' I will not pay old due hill pnlßssnitnpeffad by law. CHAB. 9CHLANG ■ r * ,m -
