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
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