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But ladies who rcad of Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription, read it again, for they dis. ver in it something to prize—a meseenger of gy tothose suffering from fu_nctiomgl derange ments or from any of the painful dwurderg or weaknesses peculiar to their sex, Periodical ns, internal inflammation aud ulceration, mcon-hm and kindred ailnients readily yield “to its wonderful cumtlvefiand healing powers, It s the only medicine for women, gold by druggiets, nnder a positive finqunwge from the manufacturers, that it w fxveaatls fastion in every case, or money will be re et wim eik s End o 1 bottle-wrappe: b 3% By o 3.0 by druggists, e o gmu for $5.00. . Copyright, 1833, by WORLD'S DIS. MED, Asg'x, T —— g . DOCTOR . \QPCe’S rierce's ‘ A ERAvy PELLETS Purely Vegeta -00 e&e\.s e & Harmisss nequaled as a Liver Will. Smallest, U;gat. easiest to take. ©Omne Pellet a g:o Does not grlii»c. Cures Sick Head« [".O, Bilious eadache, Consti “#on, Indigestion, Bilious Atlacflla d all derangements of the stomach an :wols. Put up in glass vials, hermetically ;fled. Always fresh and.reliable. Gently atlve, or an active cathartic, according 0 620 of dose, 25 cents, by druggists. TY M t l i 8 arl n ’ | Laert. = y : N DAWSON, GA. —toe— During the year 1889, I will keep a full and com plete line of FANCY AND Family - Groceries, Whiskies, Wines, Beer, &c. and invite the patron age of the public generally, I ean be found at my STAND : i next o rto A J Bal. dwin & Co., on MAIN STREET. 1 Ll " 4L Mactin: I§B2 a ;B i e Feb.2o, 1839, . ose c = = g B :g_"';,aoc = Seer ;’2& ~:-!C RETIF LS, =o e s BEE = T 8 R -S| B 2 S @=—e e 3 8 R IT2ER =~ ! QR TS @e+ 5 2 B> "'d;‘g": ?\O2 nfl—-z, l 135/ 38"» ST F dFug ;ga \”3;5_,-2 ) “5 5 S e o =_’§l§_==: B S 8 e ‘[ =3 g =3 . - > S o o e S ATES e 2w E 3 ‘gg "'mc-.g.a‘: sB B 8W g 3 % N el = €53 % wIB Tea® Bo B R w? . O CE b - &.5 S A | n,go e ™ ‘:gg.‘:-u TR . 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Tue Rendolph Agncaltursl so ciety has offered a premium of $lO for the best yield of corn on‘an acre of upland in the county, the yield not to be less than forty bushels and as many s ten to en ter the contest, THE approaching spring suggests to us that one thing this country needs is a medicine which will work off the paralysis induced by an overdose of moctgage liens. Provision crops are said to be an excellent antidote for this disease and we strongly recommend them to the afflicted. Jonx HENRY WiLLiam Dran left Toecoa a few days ago just a little in advance of a number of switches in the hands of several Toccoa boys. It is said that Dean was trying to win the affections of a neighbor’s wife and daughter, when the young men of the town instructed bim to display his fas cinating wiles in other parts—and he did. Tuere are fully 1,500 laborers on the farms ot Terrell county who earn on an average of 35 cents per day. This represents $450 aday. The present habit of giv ing Saturday holidays therefore represents a clear loss, in fifty-two weeks, or one yesr, in wages, of $23,500 to the farmers of the county. Thisis the way the peo ple grow poorer. Over in New Jersey they have found an old colunial law, uore pealed, which provides ‘‘that all women of whatever age, rank, pro fession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, who shall impose upon, seduce or betray into matri rimony any of his majesty’s sube jects, by virtue of scents, cosmet ios, washes, paints, artificial teeth, false hair, or high heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty now in force against witchorafi and like misdemeanors.” At Atlanta Saturday morning | two women, with babies in their ! arms, sat in the office at police ’ headquarters. They had drunken | lwshands locked up l\(-hindi the bars. All night bad they| waited and watched for the | sound of approacling tootsteps, and daylight still found them watching and waiting. In the po lice court these fuithtul wives pleaded before the Judge for theiri husbands, and the tears upan their cheeks and the babies in their arms “ softened the judge’s heart and he let the drunken husbands off with light fines—fines which the wiyes paid with money made by lamp~ light with needle and thread. | The Cutest Little Thiggs. | “Cute!” hp echoed, “Well, I den‘t know as the adjective would have ocgurred to me in just that conpeccign. But if you mean’thut they do their work thoroughly,yet make no fuss about it; cause no pain or weaknegs; and, in short, sre everything that a pili ought to be, and nothing that it ought not, then I agree that Pierce’s Pleasaut Purgative Pellets are übout the cutert little things going'” . Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, ‘iblow, disgusting gverybody, but use Dr, Sage's Catarrh Remedy. |sT T Y ORIGINAL. From whom do all our blessings flow? Who dr;aws the scorpion sting of woe! And mokes the heart with trans port glow? 5 ‘ "Tis Woman! Who of & nature more refined Doth soften many a rude, stubbora mind? . And makes it gentle, mild and kind? "lis Woman! Eden she lost, ensnared to vice; But well has she repaid its price- For earth is made a paradise By Woman. Obitu ¢ry. ‘ Died, on the Bth of March, in Wehster county, Mat, the loving son of Mr. and Mrs.J. T. Foster, aged 17 years and three months. He was an obeaient son, a loving brother and a pleasant playmate. He was taken sick on Thursday at three o'clock and died Friday night at nine. He called his mother and his aunt to the bedside and told them he saw the smoothest and brightest p'ace he had ever seen in his life. If we ceuld all say as he did in his last moments that we could see on the other shore it would be joy and pleasure to ue on earth. May we all press on till we reach the bright place he spoke of in his last moments. The bright flowers may fade, the birds that twitter at dark may not be the oues to greet the dawn, sunshine and shadow may come and go, yes, all may sink be neath the tide of time whose waves must at sofnetime lash against the shores of eternity.- But there will be other flowers to bloom, other children to come, but dear Mat will come no more on earth. There are other™thildrén, but none can fill the place of the noble boy who has gone to dwell with his Savior. Too fair a thing to die; oh, could we redeem him with our lives, I go where the loved ones who have left you dwell, Ancd the flowers are not death— fare ye well. Ilis Uncle, J. 8. CARTER Twenty-Eight Stories High. When the news was received that Mnineapolis, Minn., was to have a twenty-eight story building many persons disbelieved it, but the scheme iz gbout to materialize. The plan shows the out line of 729 rooms, all of which open trom the interir court, a:d every one of which bas a window in the exterior wall. The plans are drawn for a building 8) feet square at the level of the sidewalk and tapering a little at the jop, which gives it the ARpEArs ance of a lofty tower with almost countless loophalea. The. court within is scheduled tc be 40 by 40, and in the middle of it sixteen ele vators are outlined to lity the ten ants to their offices in the sky. The building will be 350 feet high and perfectly fireproof, being of Iron, with a thin veneering of brick or terra cotta. Just What the People Want. I have used Chamberlin's Colic, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy with satisfactory results. My neighbors have also used it to their satisfaction. Itisa first~class rem edy, and one that is safe to recom mend for bowel complaints. M. AUE, Postmaster, Leon, Springs, Bexar county, Texas. Sold by .druggists, i N b o —The best and purest whiskey sold in fll‘{i‘ tnnmt3 Old . shion | B "."'“ ".,"Ye' in's sole agent. “ ? DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL&b., 1889, * SOUTHERN: HORMONS. HOW THE UTAH SAINTS PROSECUTE THEIR WORK. A Frightful Siory of Squalor--Preaching Folygamy--Holding Secret Meeiings. It is ‘vearly ten years now since the apostles of Joseph Snith and Brigham Young began their sys tematic mi-gionary work in the southern states, During these years many hums ble but happy homes have been wrecked and ruined avd several thousand converts have been added to the Mormon charch. To-day no mission work in beathen lapds is so thoroughly organized or so vigorously prosecuted as the work of the Mormon elders in the state of Alabama, Georgia and Tennes see. Mormonism has become so strongly entrenched in sections of these states that individual or 0.- ganized opposition is powerless to stop its work. ‘‘We violate no law,” they cry, and those who would drive the cunning elders from a community must become the aga gressors and law breakers. Senators and representatives in congress who have dicussed the Mormon question and have t ied to devise mesns to erush out polyg amy in Utah have never dreamed of the extent of Mormen proselyt ing in the southern states, THE PROGRESS OF MORMONISM in sections of the states named above is appalling. So quietly have they gene about their work and they have selected sections of country so remote from towns and cities that it has been a matter of no little difficulty to ascertain the extent of their work. The elders eater a commuuity without any blare of trumpets, and in many instances they have made dozens of converts belore the more intelligent residents are even aware of their presence o 1 thejr work, For two or three years past brief accounts of the work of Mormon elders in various sections have ap~ peared in the newspapers from time to time, but in no instance has one half the truth been told. A newspaper correspondent is a terror to a Mormon elder. They fear the power of the press more than they tear the power of con gress, For several weeks I have baen quietly investigating the work ot the Mormons in Alabama. Tu the NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF THIS BTATE they have found a fraittul field, and there they have established the first and only MORMON CHURCH IN THE SOUTH. In the guise of a passenger ageut wanting to sell them tickets to Utah, as a mine prospeetor and s a newspaper correspondent. L have vigited (éw localities where they are at work and ghere they number their converts by the hundreds. I have talked with a number of the elders, with their converts, with their vietims and with those who have sought in vain to drive the canning teachers of polygamy from the state. . The headquarters of the - elders working in the south have been at Chattanooga, Teun,, for several years. Eller John Morgan, of Salt Lake, was ;o charge of ' this work for several years, hut about a year ago he returned to Utah and was succeeded by Elder William Spry. who is still in charge of the work, ; : Elders who volunieer for miss ignary work first report to the head of the church at Salt Lake eity. "Tbay are then assigned to some field or Tabor for.a certain puwber ot 'years, - Those nssigned to* the south then report at headquarters in Chattannora, where they are furnished with pleaty of Mormon Titerature, maps of “the locality where they are to work, and then they aré sent into the country, At stated intervals they are re quired to teport to Chattanooga the progress of their work, giving the names and postoffice address of every cenvert they have made, also the nawes of those to whom it will be safe to mail Mormon litera~ ture. There reports are forwarded trom Chastarcoga to - Salt Lake semi-annually or quarterly in order that the head of the church may be kept constantly posted on the pro ¢ress of the work, When a number of converts are rexdy to go west, the elders in charge report to Chattanooga the number ready to leave on a certain date and railroad tickets are for warded from headquarters, An a.ent of the railroad company usu ally accompanies the party as far west as the Mississippi river, and from ove to five elders remain with them until they are | SAFELY LANDED IN UTAH, Arizona or Idahe. | About two hundred elders are now at work in the south aand rearly one hundred of them are in Alabama, They are®operating in about a dozen counties, but their stronghold is in Clay county,whe e their church islocated. From this point they work the adjoining counties of Uieburne, Randolph an Talladega. In a narrow valley, shut out nl most from the world by rough hills and mountains, in the northeastern part of Clay county, is Bethel church, or station, as the elders call it. This church was established about three years ago by Elders Amos, Morrick, Morris and others. The object of the church is to hold the converts together until they can be transported to Utah or Arizona, The people of this section are not ouly very ignorant but extreme ly peor. They live in pertect squalor and very few of them can read or write. It is only in aus tumn and winter after their small crops of corn and cotton are sold that they can rafse enough moncy to pay their way to the west aund during the spring aud summer the eldors work from house to hause, When the scant harvests of these poor farmers is gathered, then the Mormon elders GATHER THEIR HARVEST OF SOULS | and hodies and send them for st\fci keeping to the stronghald of Mot- | monism in the fur wegt, I It sould requise the pen of a Dickens to adequately describe the ignorauce, the poverty and sqlmlurg ot thé people from among whom | the Mormon ellers secure thcir% converts Large faniilies, fathers, | mothers, sons and daughters live | huddled togethey in one little log | cabin oftea not micre than 16 Ly | 20 feet iy size. ‘ In this ane room families of| eight, ten and sometimes twelve person;s eat and sleep, no thouzht of prizacy, no effort of cleaniiness| being possible, At one eabin. as I entered, T stepped over a hog,'; which was suoving itsel! on the | door step, two gaunt, woolfish leok~ : ing curs growled at me from under: the onlv bed in the eabin, while on | one corner of the same article of | furniture two hens were fighting; for the possession of a nest. Half a | dozen children of various ages, al! ‘ sallow faced, baretooted and thinly | clad, scattered in ail directions, ns{ the only unhroken chair in the' raum was brotight Torvard for me to sit down. This was THE HOME 0F A MORMON CONVERT. ~ While posrer than some of his neighbors he was above the avers age in intellizence, heing able to read ¢ little. He was an enthusi astic believer in the doctrives of the Latter Dy Saints and from a largze pasteboard box filled with old cir cug posters snd patent medicine almanacs, he drew forth a package of Mormon literature which he in= sisted would fully explain his reasons for the faith that was in him. The most intelligent, and by far the most communicative of the dez en cr more elders I met, was Elder D. J. Allen, who left Utah only a few wonths ago for three years of missionary wark in Al.bama. Wil the Earth Fali'to Pieces? One writer asks whether it is safe to bore tha earth too much. He assumes the earth to be a hols low sphere, filled with a gasecous substance, called by us natural gas, and he thinks that tapping these reservoirs will eanse disas— troua explozions, resulting from lighted gas camiug in contact with that which is escaping. Eartha quukes, he snys, are probably caused by vacuums created by the outflowing pas. ITe compares the earth to a batloon floated and kept distended by the gas in the interis rior. which, if exhausted, will cause the trust ¢o collapse, aflect the motion ot the earth in its ort. it, cause it to lose its place amonyg the heavenly badiss and fall in pieces. Another writer thinks that boring should te prohibited by stringent law, He, too, thirks thuie is a possibility of an explos sion, though from another cau ‘e, Should such a disaster occur *“the country aleng the gas belt from Toledo thronzh Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will be ripped to the depth ot 1,200 or 1,500 teet and flopped over like a paneake, leaye inz a chasm through which the wa tors of Lake Erie vill come ho vl - down, filling the Ohio and Mis sissippi valleys and blotting them out forever,” Still another theorist has invess tigated the gas wells with tole phoaes and dulicats thernomstors, and he announces sturtling discov~ eries. He distingnished sounds like the boiling of rocks, and esti mated that a mile and a half or so bencath Findlay the temperature of the earth is 3,500 degrees. This scientist says an immense cavity ex’sts under Findlay, and that here the gas s stored; that a mile helow the bottom of the cavity isa mass 6i roaring, seething flame, which is gradually eating into the rocky floor of the cavern and thinning it. l'-)ventumly the flames will reach the gas, a terrific explosion will ensue, and Findlay and its neigh« borhood will be blown skyward in an instant. Sach are som= of ‘the theoriex wiavely propauniet in re spect to this new !u‘el.——loscph F. James, LRI ' Still in the Ring. Everyhody has been. busy with their spring woiK, times have been dull for the last tew weeks and [ have not said much. But [ am still with you, und all the time have been selling the cheupesl. and best groceries and liquors in Southwest Georgia. Come on to see me and I will continue to sell you the bheat, purest and cheapesi ot goods. Specialties in groceries and fine liquora always an hand, The fiest Byck Beer of the s6lom just ur rived, opened fléuh every day. Remembor I handle every kind of bottled beer fu the market. M C. Mius. | Between Sentence and Execution. ’ The rule in England, even in cases where there 18 no d»ubt that 'the sentence will be carried out, allows three Supdays only 1o inter ' vene between the trial and the exs leculion, 8o that if a man is tried ona Saturday he has very little more than a fortnigh* allowed to prepare; but where there is hope ’ of a reprieve, the delay of the ans bouvcement that the man is to die till within a few hours of his exe cution not only adds a torturing element to his punishment which he has not legaily incurred, but it limits the time of his real prepara tion to the ore last agitating day wheu his friends come to teke a fi nal leave ot him. The msatter is vot one of minor importance, as wag keenly felt, we belicve, by the saintly Abbe {roze, the chaplain of La Roquette in Paris, who min istered to all the culprits that dur ing a period of twenty-five years expiatgd their crimes on the guil lotine. The French system of hav ing 4 man in complete ignorance of the time when his execution is to take place until the fatel hour acts vally arrives told very heavily againat that good priest’s efforts to bring such criminals as Tropman, Avignoin, and Billoir to a fit state of preparation for their entrance upon the dre.d eternity. The strange luxity of French S!wipliue ! allowed some of these men to he engaged in playing cards with the'r | Jailers till within a few hours of | their death, but it may" be doubted | whether the more decent provis- | ions of our Euaglish custom, which | dedicates a man’s last day to fares | well interviews with his frends, | can aviil to render that brief space | of time sufficient for the heavy re- | sponsibilities with ~which it is | weighted. Blaskwood’s Maga- | zine, . A Good Place for the Lazy Ciub. A letter from Costi Rica says that the people there take life eas ily. It takes twenty employes to run a short train of cars All dress in georgeous wniforms, and the conductor is resplendent in sil ver and gold decorations. Passcn engers purchase tickets on credit, aud sixty days are a'lowed for the payment of freight billa. Out in the country goods are carried by ox teams, and it frequentiy takes a team a week to make sixty miles. Nobody 18 in ahurry and cares to do to.day what can le done tosmorrow, The necess ries. of life are cheap, <nd long credit is forced upon the purchuser. No body steals anything, and a poor. steamster will carry thousands of dollars maxy miles for thirty cmts.‘ Such a thing as highway robbery | is unheard of. The people have no violent prejudice against auys ! thing but hard work, and they will do anything to help a stranger uns til he proves himzelt disagresable, Then they will notity him to leave, and if he is slow about it they willl force him to go. Altogether, ('os ti Rica is a pleasant place to livei in, Law 3uit Over Ten Conts. Judge W. H. Murray, of Mes Duffic county, bas brought a curi~ ous suit in that county., Judge Murray is a director of the Georgia railrocd, Regently be sent by treizbt a jug of whiskey from Aus gusta to Themson. He called for it, but was required to pay ten cents storage by the local agent because it bad not hogn ealled for before the exniration of ssveniy~ two hours. The Judge expostula ted, but the agent was resolute. The Judge has sued, through Cal. Tom Watsod, tor the racovery, of the whiskey without paying ten Bents, . o net VOL. V.—NQ. 46. ‘ A HAUNTED HOUSE i SUNTER. Sights Seen, Necises Heurd and Dishes l Rattlsd. : We learn from & geutleman whe visited the seen that a certain house in the Fifteenth district is now an | object of interest to the entire cogg l muuity, and every night there are large erowds there to see the ung l seen and to hear the wysterioug sounds from the inhabitants of the other world. , The present oceupant stood the noise as lonyg a 8 possib'e, and thea went to eonie o 1 the family with E tie intention of giving it up snd ‘s king a new home, but was ' promised that if he would remain 1t would be remedied. The proms ;ise to investigate the uvoises was kept, but when the young man - was there nothinz unusual would Lappen. The next night, though, a footiall wes lLeard walking through the house. Doors were slammed, chairs moved, dishes rat. tled, and a white form was soen , moving aroind. The farmer and his family had got use to all this, and as they were not molested stood it very well, but eslled in & cel brated fortune telle: to find out what was the matter. She wor g with Ler pack of cards, and whey the mystery commenced started shuffling her cards, but this didn’s suit the unknown, and she placed a epell on the curds so they would not run smooth. The fortune tell er saye it is the owrer'sy wie who died recently and had eighteen pieces of money byyied, and she li worried about that. She 18 going to try it again some night when maybe the cards will tell tlie whola s-crct | A few nights ginc: a young i farmer boasted that he would go and speak to the spock when it E appeared; that he had the courage to tuke hold of it, and he would find out what it was and what it wanted. In a few minuts after they got there the footstyps were heard, the noise began in the next room, but the brave young man had collapsed. His courage had departed and four men coull not pullhim to the door of the rrom. It is said that if ove speaks to b spook it gets mad and tears up s enerally, making more noise than cver, and we learn that Rev. Mr. Craven says he will take his Bi= ble, go there and read a verse op too to the spivit and ask it what it wante, Our informants says thas the spirit will not allow a Bible te Le read while it is going around, but will become frantic and rushed around considerably. A number of ladies were there a few nights ago when the thing threw them a picee of palt peter. The Ladies’ Favorite. The newest tashion in ladies’ hata will doubtless cause a flutter of pleasurable excitemeut emong the fairrex. Ladies are always sus ceptible to the ch-nges ot fashion plates, niad the more stariling the departure the more éarnest the goesip over the new mode. Dr. Picrce’s Favorite Prescription is & | piomitive cure for all the ills whick afflict females and make their lives miscrable. This sovereign panas cea can be relied on in cases of displacements and all “funetional derangements. Ii builds up the poor, haggzard aud dragged-out victim and gives her renewed hope” and a fresh lease of lite, It is the only medicine for woman's peculiar weaknesses and ailments, gold be. druggists, under a positive guarsass tee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfuctio iv every cams or movey refunded, Read priv ed guarantee on huttle wrag,