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THE NEWS
DAWSON, GA.
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TuE cotton market still refuses to ral
ly.
JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., is feported to
be engaged to a Miss Patten, of Califor
nia, A proper engagement for the
young man would be for a meeting with
his father in the woodshed.
RAIN-MAKING seems to have become a
science or profession. ‘i'wo companies
have been incorporated in Kansas, and
propose to make contracts with eounties
at 3600 a county, agreeing to secure
from one to two inches of rain under
each contract. This is cheap enough,
and the cheapness is due to competi
tion. |
Wirna ruby-set hammer, and mount-‘
ed on a ladder built of precious metals }
and gems, Mrs. Potter Palmer will drive
a golden nail in the woman’s building at |
the world’s fair, Chiéago, to denote its ‘
completion. To secure an interesting
exhibit at the same time, Mrs. Palmer
might nail to the wall that yarn about]
the Chicago girl’s feet. |
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CoUNTERFEIT silver dollars cast in
molds are in circulation. They are of ‘
genuine silver, the counterfeit getting |
his profit from the 25 per cent, seignior- |
age afforded by the difference in valiie
between the bullion and the coins. Of |
course such a counterfeit is perculiarly |
dangerous; but it may be distinguished l
from thejminted dollar by the fine, feath- |
ery condition of the eagle’s wings on the
latter. |
JUDGE MILLER, of Bibb county, has
refused to put a bankrupt defendant in |
Jail for a failure to produce money |
which his creditors claim that he has, [
and the possession of which he denies. |
Judge Miller says that he cannot agree l
with Judge Clark, who has placed Steve I
Ryan in jail under similar circumstan- |
ces. From this it appears that our laws i
are merely a matter of individual inter- |
pretation, ]
:
Mucu is being said in the newspapers |
about the mistakes of the Democrats in '
the present Congress—mistakes tlmt!
have been made and others that are ‘
about to be made—such as the passagze i
of the silver bill, for instance. The ‘
great trouble with the Demoeratie party
Just now is that it is almost without any ;
policy that is distinctively its own, and
upon which the rank and file of thel
party are united. |
Ex-SENATOR INeALLs said in his
speech at Topeka last week: *“I am tired
of the ‘lrish-American,” the ‘English-
American,” the ‘Scandinvian-American,’
the ‘French-American,” the German-
American!” Welcome Irishmen! Wel-
Englishmen! Welcome Scandinavian!
Welcome Frenchmen! Welcome Ger
mans. But welcome only as American-
Americans.” Mr. Ingalls may be out of
polities, but he still knows how to strike
the popular chord of patriotism.
It seems that the Third Party leaders
are a little uneasy about the soldiers’
plank in their pet St. Louis platform.
They made the statement one day that
they were obliged to putitin to cateh
the vote of the Grand Army of the Re
public, but in a later meeting they
say it was only a resolution. This does
not explain things at all, as anyone will
readily see that both the resolution and
the plank amount to the same thing, as
either expresses the standing of the par
ty on this particular subject.
SPIN YOUR COTTON! .
Cotton continues to droop im price,
while its fabric of the loom holds up to
a standard value, and well-managed
mills pay happy dividends to their stock
holders.
The man who makes money is the one
who places his investments in the
schemes which are capable of turning
out profits.
The man who talks about the soutaern
farmer abandoning his cotton cropis a
fool or a scheming villian. Policy, in
dependence, and good management dic
tateés that every farmer should come as
near supplying every tood demand of his
home as the conditions and na
ture of farm will justify, and that he
should look keenly to every side crop
which promises mid-season income from
local markets: but cotton is the only
crop which neither moth, miidew or
weevil destroys, and which the four
quartexs of the globe give uninterrupted
shipping to. It is in the south’s cotton
crop, yet barely developed into one
fourth its possibilities, that demands
| the homage of the werld.
{ But the best theory of making money
’ from cotton growing is the reduction of
ievury penny of expense between the
}!gmwer and the actual consumer to its
[lowest tithe, the grower participating in
{ the profit accruing from such economy.
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| Get the millas close as possi
'ble to the field, and let the grower have
| shares in its ownership, thereby turning
'to his wealth every cent which the cotton
‘ is capable of earning.
( There is plenty of cash in Terrell
icwnty to build [such a mill, if it can be
'drawn together. If there were not our
farmers could, by the pledge of so many
; bales of cotton, create a basis of credit
for the building and equipping of such a
mill. With 20 to 25 per cent. dividends
accredited annually to the mills in some
of the towns near by, and the stock al
most current as bank bills, we have the
proof that Dawson would be a good
place to manufacture cotton.
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NEGRO SCHGOLS.
Since the free term has begun the ne
gro schools s varm with pupiis, A ride
into the country in almost any direction
will prove this, However slow the ne
gro may be on other questions, he is fully
awike to theimpoitance of education.
The Waynesboro True Citizen says:
‘‘He attends school daily under condi
tions almost impossible to the whites,
He can go to school and live on less than
a native of India. Beside him he is a wine
biber and a glutton, With a meatskin
and a few blackberries he is ready for
his day’s tussle with his books. Under
similar conditions a white child must be
at home at work., Such a dict is too
thin for his blood. As well nigh all the
professions are closed to the graduates
of the negro colleges, they nearly all go
to teaching or preaching. And as there
are not beaver hats and long tailed coats
enough to go around them as preachers,
hundreds of them have gone to teaching.
With these conditions meeting—educated
men wanting to teach and ignorant chil
dren who are almost able to live on wind
and water, wanting to be taught, they
have a bright prospect for a good educa
tion. To this no one objects. It is
their own busin-ss, and they are expect
ed to do the best they can for them
§3.Ves.
But when we remember that they pay
into the state treasury for all purposes
only $72,000 and yet draw out for school
purposes alone $250,000, it is not hard to
see who is paying for his education.
While the whites are willing to help him,
still this seems hardly fair, and especial
ly so when the whiteilliteracy of Georgia
is so great.
“We Delieve in the whites aiding the
negroes in the matter of education, but
if our money has to pay for their educa
tion why not educate them in our own
way. They ought to be educa
ted into sympathy with southern people
and southern ways, They ought to be
instructed to lock at things (from
dur point of view, and there is no way
to do 1t except by having them taught
by people of our selection.”
A Curious Indian Custom, ,
In the original settlements in British
Columbia a peculiar institution occa
sioned gala times for the red men now
and then. This was the ‘“‘potlatch ” a
thing to us so foreign, even in the im
pulse of which it is begotten, that we
have no word or phrase to give its mean
ing. [tisa feast and merrymaking at
the expense of some man who has earned
or saved what he deems considerable
| wealth, and who desires to distribute
every iota of it at once in edibles and
drinkables among the people of his tribe
or village. He does this because he as
pires w a chieftainship or merely for the
credit of a “‘potlatch”—a high distinc
tion. Indians have been known to
throw away such a sum of money that
their “potlatch™ has been given in a
l huge shed built for the feast, and
blankets and ornaments have been dis
tributed in addition to the feast.—Julian
Ralph in Harper’s.
How Ancients Squared the Circle.
The rule given by Ahmes requires that
the diameter of a circle shall be short
ened by one-ninth, and a square erected
upon this shortened line. The area of
such a square approximates the area of
the circle, but, of course, is not exact,
and is not even as close a result as that
at which other geometricians have ar
rived.
The Babylonians, who were also great
mathematicians, had a solution, to which
a reference in the Talmud has been
traced. The Babylonian method, how
ever, was not a quadrature, but a recti
fication of the circumference.—All the
World Round.
Home Made Dolls Cheaper.
A ‘*‘doll with real hair” is the desire of
most small girls. As a rule, only the
expensive varieties of dolls are so en
dowed. “But,” suggests a close shop
per, “l 1 buy a seventy-five cent doll, for
which | get a good kid body with bisque
arms and feet, and then at some small
hairdresser's I get the jute curls replaced
with a wig of real hair at much less ex
pense than [ could buy the doll thus en
dowed in the first place.”—New York
Times.
There is no danger from whooping
cough when Chamberlain’'s Cough Rem
edy is freely wiven. It liquifies the
tough, tenaceous mucus and aids in its
expectoration. It also lessens the se
verity and frequency of the paroxisms of
coughing, and insures a speedy recovery,
There is not the least danger in giving it
to children or babies, as it contains no
injurious substance. 50 cent bottles for
sule by Farrar & Farrar, Druggists. |
[ DIVINES DISAGREE.
| A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ABOUT
A REVIVAL
At Americus--A Former Dawson Pastor
Who Objects to Tent Meetings--
The Resnlt. L
~ News has been received here that
' Americus is just now in the midst of
'what might properly be termed a relig
ious sensation, which is being discussed
by the people generally, without regard
to denominational preferences or relig
ious predilections.
gThere are in Americus two Methodist
churches, the First Methodist church,
the Rev. A. M. Williams pastor, who is
well-known in Dawson, having served
the Methodist church here as pastor for
two years, and he is also known every
where in South Georgia Conference as
one of their most earnest preachers.
The second ckurch, better known as the
East Americus church, has as pastor the
Rev. Mr. Snow, also a preacher earnest
in his exhortations and untiring in his
pastoral work,
He learned from Mr. Williams that it
was not his parpose to conduct in his
church the present year what is known
as ‘‘revival sevices.”” So Mr. Snow ar
ranged to conductin April a series of re
vival meetings under a tent to be placed
on a vacant lot near the city hall. This
was objected to by Mr. Williams on the
ground that the locating of the tent was
nearer Mr. Williams’ church than Mr.
Snow’s, which is about one mile from
the city.
These friendly differences wers ap
realed to Presiding Elder McGehee and
finally to the bishop, who decided that
Mr. Snow must not invade the terxitory
of the First Methodist church; that is,
he must pitch his revival tent nearer his
own than Mr. Williams’ church. So the
tent will be placed at the junction of
Church and Russ streets,lnear Oak Grove
Cemetery.
The controversy is a very unfortunate
one and calculated to do great harm to
the cause of religion in Americus.
The difference seems to be this: Mr.
Snow is an earnest beliver in revival
work, even to the extent of intense re
ligious excitement. Mr. Williams favors
calm, intellectual conversions, deliberate
and thughotful consideration of theim
portant step of joining tne church and
becoming one of God’s people.
eB e e
“What drove this poor man insane,
doctor?”’ “He tried to figure out his
wife’s reason for setting the clock ahead
whenever she wished to get up early.”
INOW IS THE TIME
Now is the time to invigorate and
fortify your constitution, by using a few
bottles of Dr, John Bull's Sarsaparilla.
You need it. Everybody needs to take
the excellent alterative, and blood
cleanser at this season of the year, It
will cure you of weakness. It will give
you strength, It may save you an attack
of pneumonia or other severe spells of
sickness, for at the approach of spring
the system is very susceptible to taking
cold unless forttfied by the use of this
remedy. If you are In the habit of tak
ing iodie of potash each spring, try it
this year, dissolved in
, *
Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilia
Thus taken, iodide of potash has no evil
after effect on the stomach, liver and
kidneys. Each bottle of Bull’s Sarsapa
rilla contains 48 teaspoonsfull of medi
cine. A half ounce lodide of Potash
added to a botile of Dr. John Bull's
Sarsaparilla equals five grains to each
tablespoounful, and thus you know ex
actly how much you are taking.
I& " Alfred Howell, Cairo, 111., writes:
*For years I have been aftlicted with an
incurable case of blood disease. Bull's
Sarsaparilla is the only remedy that
gives me any durable relief. Whenever
I take fodide of potash I always take it
with Bull's Sarsaparilla, It always has
a better effect on my system when mixed
with this Sarseparilla.”
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PUBLIC SCHOOL BOOKS.
for all the Schools of City and Country
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VALENTINES,
Comic and Sentimental, at
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Millinery Gone Up,
But not in pricee. We wmean that
Mrs. . L. Mize has moved her Millinery
and Dress-making Parlors up swairs over
Arthur, Crittenden & Whitehead’s store
in the new Grizgs tower building corner
of Main and Lee streets. |
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known to me.” H. A. ARCEER, M. D,,
111 So. O=xford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
“The use of ‘Castoria ' is o universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach.”
CARLOS MarTYN, D.D.,
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$4 00 Hand-Sewed Welt Shoe, fine calf,
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$3 30 Police Shoe; Farmers, Railroad Men
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$2 50 fine calf; no better shoe ever offered at
w this price; onc trial will convince those
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$2 23 and %2.00 Workingman’s shoes
8 are very strong and durable. Those who
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B e) $2.00 and £1.75 school shoes are
Oy.a worn by the boyseverywhere; theysell
on their merits, as the increasing sales show.
L d H £3.00 Handesewed shoe, best
a ifis Dongola, very stylish; equals French
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Ladies’ 2.50, $2.00 and ®1,75 shoe for
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SAN ANDREAS, Cal,, Feb. 3, 1889,
My little boy, 13 years old, was taken sick
with what is called St. Vitus Dance. He had
not been able to go to sehool for two years. As
soon a 8 I read your book, I sent for two bottles
Nerve Tonic and two bottles Iron Pillg, and be
fore the sccond bottle and pills were used up
the boy was restored to his natural health, and
is attending school. MICHAEL O’CONNELL,
WaALNvT, 111, Oct, 7, 1890,
I bave been suffering for years with headache
- and last May I bad it continuously for two
days, and the third day I fell into a fit (apoplec
tic fit, the doctor called it). I sent for a bottle
~ of Pastor Koenig'e Nerve Tonie, and it did me
more good than 1 can tell, and I felt very thank
ful to God, the giver of all good, and to that
remedy. I did not have another fit since,
i MRS, SARAH GONIGAN,
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~ NOTICE.
I am still in the carpenter buisiness
in Dawson, and am prepared to
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gUILD DWELLINGS
or do other work by contract or by
the day. See me before you let your
coL,macts, as I will make it to your
interest. JOHN A. BISHOP,
Dawson, Ga.
M eke i R S
PHYSICIAN WANTED.
At the meeting of the County Lom
missioners in April next, a physician
1s to be elecied to attend upon the
sick at the poor housz and jail, all
necessary medicine to be furnished by
him. Bids will be received until that
time. J, W. ROBERS 3, Clerk.
for Infants and Children.
Tee CENTAUR CoMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW Yorsg,
Castoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrheea. Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes &
estion, ’
Wi tgout injurious medication,
“ For severai years Y have recommended
your ‘ Castoria, ’ and shall always continue to
do so as it hag invariably produced beneficial
results.”
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New York City
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L.ong T\ime,
High Price
system of merchandising has become
panic stricken by the quick, shary
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Be sure I buy for spo cash and sell
the same way. Have no dealings
with that great hindrance,
THE CREDIT KING.
Do not trouble mv mind with ac
counts which ere long must be charged
to account of profit and loss which
must of recessity be paid by good
customers., Am satisfied with a small
ten per cent profit and want and wili
give value received. If the good e
ple of Dawson ana vicinity will favor
me with a call before purchasing
either Dry Goods, Notions, Boots,
Shoes, Clothing, Sugar, Coftee, Rice
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Remember, T am on the cornei, next
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