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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. Rainey,
THE CITY'S LEGISLATORS |
[N REGULAR SESSION MONDAY NIGHT
T magks Mih e Y ‘
: Aldermen--What Was Done.
The city council heid its regu,lar
monthly session Monday night. 1
There were present Mayor Che:’ft-1
ham and Aldermen Kendrick, Kalg-§
ler, Rainey, Deubler, Hannah and
Orr.
The sesslon was a business one from
heoinniug to end, and some import
ant mutters were considered.
After the minutes of the previous
meeting had been read by Clerk
Janes, Alderman Orr, chairman of a
special commitiee to which the mat
ter of putting feur hydrants on John
son street, at a cost of 3200 a year,
was referred, reportec adversely. The
report was adopted.
The printing committee, which had
beci: authorized, at a previous meet
ing, to employ an attorney to revise
the eity code, reported that they had
made arrangements with Colonel. J,
L. Javes to do the work,
Alderman Rainey introduced an
ordinance providing for a scavenger
cart and increasing the effectiveness
of the sanitary service of the city.
After some discussion the ordinance
was adopted, and can be found in the
advestizsing columns of THE NEWS toe
day. Under the ordinance the em
ployment of a sanitary inspector is
dispensed with and a negro, mule,
and cart are used for hauling away
the accumulations of all filth on both
public and private premises. Heres
tofore 2 health inspector has been paid
asalary of £45.00 per month without
avy benefit to the ci'y, This year
one hand and 4 wule and eart will be
under the direction of the sanitary
committee of the council at a total
cost of £30.00 a month. The ehief ot
police was empowered with the au
thority vt a health inspector.
The marshal was instructed to bes
gin the collection of street taxes,
which is three dollars.
Atter some discussion it was de
cided to snbmit the question of issus
ing 87,500 worth of bonds, for the
purpose ot building a ecity hall and
guard house, to the voters of the city.
It 1 proposed to retire one-third of
the bonds every five years, the last
being paid in fiftecn vears. The bonds,
if issued, are to hear 7 per cent. in
terest, payable semi~annually. The
election was ordered for Wednesday,
the 15th day of June.
L. A, Lowrey, 8. R. Chistie and
H. 8. Bell were elected tax assessors
for the present vear. They are exc
pected to begin this work at once.
Colonel Brown.
Colonel, by brevet, Jolin W. Brown,
Vs appointed on last Monday to the
résponsible office of Quarterm. ster ot
the Dawson Guards. Col, Brown
will precede the company in going
and making arrangements for them
for the coming eneampment,
In the H:nTs:).fa Receiver.
On last Monday Hon. R. D. Crozier
Was appointed by the court temporary
feceiver for the southwest Georgia Pub
llshinq(,‘ump:my‘ until they can he heard
and Permanent recejyer appointed. This
“Ompany hag been in existence nearly
WO years, undey the management of Mr,
W. ¢ Gunn, anq we learn has never paid
A cent of dividend, The step was taken
by Anumber of the stockholders to get
their Money out of the concern—Cuth
bert Leader,
e
A Reduced Acreage,
ac;tlni,“ve“ig“ti?n of the watermelon
lal‘fl;lr:lec};};-lll:ted in this secti’on shov‘ts a
This ig not( 0:1 :.;z:nizitog z:r 3 p]antling‘;
NAI L the POQr pric
e year, but is due to}the de
e, ol Plepayn?ent of freight., and the
s, gm“; ses .sustr'uned by a majority of
€IS in this section,
AN
uge Fish,
NS:::E:Z Mr. T.J. Lowe told Tar
1% few days ago, he caught a
sturgeon in Flint river that weighed 250
pounds. The fish was caught near Phi
lema, where Mr. Lowe's saw mill is
located, and was disposed of at 5 cents a
pound to his hands and others,
DEMOCRATS OF CA LHOUN,
Northen Endorsed--Wooten Strongly Fa
vored.
LEARY, GA., April 28.—The lemo
crats of Calhoun coanty met in mass
meeting at Morgan today. Delegates
were selected to the convention to meet
in Atlanta on the 18th, They go unin
structed and favor the nomination of a
Western man.
Resolutions were passed endorsing Gov
ernor Northen's administration, and del
egates to the gubernatorial convention
were instructed to vote for him and the
present state house officers, with Clifford
Anderson for attorney general.
Resolutions condemnring the action of
the district executive committee were
introduced, but were vnceiemoniously
tabled.
Cols. R. F. Crittenden of She!lman,and
Siduey J. Jones, of Albany, made telling
speeches, eulogizing Col. C. B. Wooten,
and picturing him as most fitand worthy
to wear the mantle of the peerless Turner
and gallant Tete Smith. Neither of the
congressional aspirants were present, but
the Wooten men largely predominated.
In Berrien.
The Democratic executive committee
of Berrien county met at Nashville Sat
urday. In order to test the committee a
paper was drawn up pledging each mem
ber to support the platform and nominee
of the Chicago convention. Al signed
it except one. Having retused to abide
the action of the party. the chairman in
formed the gentleman that hLis resigna
ton was in order. He resigned, when
his place was promptly filled by a
straight Democrat. The committee tix
ed the 14th of May as the time for elect
ing delegates to the Atlanta convention,
These delegates will be elected by pri
mary. The recommendation of the ex
ecuiive cammittee of the second district,
that primaries be held on the 30th o Ju
ly for delegates to the congressional con
-lion, was adopted and a primary order
forvhat day.
In Clay.
The congressional primary took place
in Clay county Saturday, and resulted in
the unanimous election of delegates fa
vo-able to the nomination of mon. O, B,
‘Stevens. About two hundred votes were
polled. The non-alliance Democrats, it
is understood, refrained from voting and
~will hold another primary on July 30th,
‘as recommended by the executive com
mittee, and send contesting delegates,
These delegates will, in all probability,
favor the nomination of Hon. C. B.
Wooten.
| In Worth.
- Colonel C. B. Wooten addressed the
people of Worth county last week. Col.
Joe Laing, of Dawson, was present and
spoke in the interest of Mr. Stevens,
From the accounts sent out the discus
‘sion wasa very interesting cne, and cre
‘ated much enthusiasm on both sides.
| In Randolph.
The Democratic executive committee
of Randolph county has been urged, by a
mass meeting held at Cuthbeirt, to re
‘scind their order for a congressional pri
| mary on August 10th and defer action
until July 30th. The committee has
the matter under consideration,
Who Is He?
From the Whigham Grit.
1f the congressional convention of the
second district should getinto a dead
lock, the zountry will still be saved. The
Grit has a dark horse tied out. Do not
forget this,
Speaking at Blakely.
Saturday Col. C. B. Wooten and Col.
Jones, of Albany, will speak in Blakely,
Co!, Jim Griggs and Clarence Wilson
will be there and speak for Mr, Stevens,
Will Speak.
Before the campaign closes Colonel
Jim Griggs will speak in Berrien county
in the interest of Mr. Stevens,
Housekeeping.
The housckeeper, who is on her feet
from morn till night, and who has so
many things to worry and perplex her,
will be better able to perform the duties
which devolve upon her by taking Ayer's
Sarsaparilla, the Superior Medicine. It
quickens the appetite, aids digestion, im
parts the vigor of health to the weak
and nerveless,cures others, and will cure
you. ' /
B & IS e
Careless Hunters.
A mlile and a ha!f of fence is what one
of our fariets lodh by Siils carsiess
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, May 4th, {892.
It will not do, my dear sir, to say you
belong to the rock-ribbed Democracy,
and swallow at a gulp the teachings of
your Ocala confreres, the teachings of
your St. Louis masters, the teachings of
Peek, Post, Daniels & Co. Your intel
ligence does away with the necessity of
enumerating the monstrosities which
have been put forth by this combination,
Yet, you will pardon the recital of a few
cardinal virtues which are claimed by
them and put forth to the world as
equal almost in point of virtue to the
words of holy writ, For instance, the
warehouse system and sub-treasury plan
of the Ocala platform. Suppose a law
has been passed by Congress and is in
effect today, the cotton crop of last year,
under its provisions, is stored in ware
houses in the towns and hamlets of the
land; two-thirds of its value was ad
vanced when stored, the farmers mort
gaged their farms, their stock and every
thing they had to secure the payment of
the advance. Interest, however low,
sleeps not; expenses, however light, ac
cumulate. ILoss in weight is an assured
fact, and a sale when it takes place is a
certain loss to the horny-handed farmer.
The Republican party is in power.
Imagine, if you can, the army of support
ers which your pet measure will give
them, unless you can presume that Dem
crats will be appointed to fill the fat
places. Need I enlarge the picture, and
show all this for the benefit of a class of
the community—class, because the arti
san, the scholar, the student and the out
side world are excluded from the benefits
of your pet measure, and yet you ecall
this Democracy. Will you let me carry
you to St. Louis? That grand conclave
of celebrities who proposed to capture
this hemisphere by the great and good
proposition to be honest to the Federal
pensioners, pensioners who have received
millions of the hard earnings of an im
poverished people. Your guod St. Louis
people say be honest to those fellows the
mouney paid them was not gold, only
greenback; let us give them 50 per cent.
more as a discount for difference in val
uaticn, and it was swallowed with a
whoop. Not a word was said about pay
ing the Southern cotton planter, or ‘he
Western grain raiser, a discount on the
money paid them all these years for their
produce, and yet you call this Demo
cracy—iron-ribbed Democracy.
I well remember the day in the ’six
ties when, in company with some of the
truest men that ever dréw the breath of
lite, from Terrell county, we’tramped
HOBBS TO RAINEY.
THE ACYION OF EXECUTIVE COMMIT
TEE DEFENDED.
Captain Hobbs Replies te The News’ Edi
toriai---Some Interesting Reading.
From the Albany Herald,
Capt. R. Hobbs, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of the
Second Congressional district, addressed
the following letter to Editor Rainey, «f
THe Dawsox Nuws, and the Herald cai
ries it not only to Editor Rainey, but to
the people of the district:
My DrAR MR. RAINEY-- I am in re
ceipt of the marked copy of your issue,
of the 27th inst., and note with pleasure
the correct, clear-cut style of the paper.
because it is an evidence of the progress
and high order of intelligence which
pervades our sister city, Dawson—not
Dawson alone, but the staunch county
of Terrell. Well, now, after that little
dose of soft solder, won’t you allow me
to comment just a little bit on your ar
ticle in which you essay to give the Con
gressional Convention of this district
particular fits? So clear and distinct
that wince as we may, the exclama
tion comes: ‘“‘Rainey is a good fellow!”
Yet, at the same time, it is clear that
he is wedded to his idols—and like the
Brahmins of Delhi, can see no good
beyond the gods which his hands have
helped to set up. You accuse the com
mittee of being swayed by ‘‘waves of
passion and prejudice.” Passion and
prejudice against whom? Not against
Democrats, sur:ly, and not against
others, because the words of the commit
tee are couched respectfully, which pas
sion cannot dosare couched conservative-
Iy, whi¢h predudice cannot do, Neither
do the words of the committee encour
age dissention, rather the reverse. They
encourage caution against avowed oppo
nenis—opponentsin interest, opponents
in principle and opponents in fact—who
ciaim the right p%'»_xjegg%;o;w
tion to control the councils o €mo
cracy.
Virginia and Maryland, with naught for
covering save the blue canopy of heaver,
and naught to protect them from storms
save the worn gray coats and woolen
hats of the Confederate soldier. Where
are those gallant fellows now? I have
seen their bayonets in the charge flash
like lighning in the front. They occupy
unknown graves on many a hillside, on
many a raviue, of that Viiginia they
tried to save. A few indeesd traveicd
home from Appomatox ragged, shoeless
and hatless to wreckced Liomes,scarce one
without a wound, and not one in the
back.
They got down and went to work like
men. Some with their wooden legs,
ploughed steers; all done what they
could, and thanks to their indomitable
pluck the farms of the South are no
longer waste.
Itis with a full heart that I some
times see some of the farmers of Terrell
(in Albany. Their teams and their own
| good selves show that their barn yards
, teem with plenty, But the last of this
l grand old race is nearly gone; but not so
the sons, the widows, the daughters, the
l orphans of the old Confeds—they
|arc here, and you good St. Louis
people want to rob them of their
hard earning to pay more pensions
to Yankee bummers. Old Confeder
ates do not objecc to the payment
of pensions to the old soldiers of the
Federal army who were in service; but
they protest against the army of bum
mers now on top. No iron-ribbed Dem
ocrat will consent; and iron-ribbed Dem
| ocrats do not want to affiliate with men
}who do consent to such an outrage on
what you will allow me to call common
‘decency and common honesty. It is
against these outranges that the Execu
tive Committee seek to protect Demo
crats. If there are men in Terrell coun
ty who objéet to this line of action on
the pact of the committee, they are not
‘the men I used to know in the days lang
syne. Neither do I think, Mr. Editor,
that you can swallow it all. We have
friends’ platform. When we get it in
‘print, if you will permit me, I will send
you a copy, so that you can scientifically
diagnose the dose, Very truly,
R. Hoßßs-
DEAD IN THE ROAD.
A Negro Farmer of Calhoun County As
sassinated.
The dead body of Nathan Bennett, a
successful negro f;u"ncr of Calhoun coun
ty, was found in the roud near lus home,
a few days ago, with a bullet hole
through the left side, just under the
shoulder olade. Nath had been to the
house of a neighbor and was returning
home when killed. He and a negro
named George Roberson had a disagree
ment in the forenoon of the same day,
and it is thought that George wuylaid
him and shot him. Justice Strickland
summoned a jury and held an inquest,
and the jury’s verdict was in accordance
with the above facts, charging Roberson
with the erime. Up to last accounts he
was still at large.
\'ote‘o};l;a};;s:
Eprror DAwsoN NEws :—At the Amer
icus District Conference of the M. E.
Church South, held at Bronwood April
27 to April 30th, the followirg resolu
tions were adopted, with request that
both the Dawson papers publish the
same:
Resolved Ist, That the heartiest thaoks
of this conference are due and are ten
dered the citizens of Bronwood for the
very cordial and abundant hospitality
which they have dispensed to us.
Resolved 2nd, Trat we gratetully ac
knowledge the very fraternal and christ
ian courtesies of our brethren of the
Baptist and Lutheran churches, who so
freely offered the use of their houses of
worship, in case of our need of them.
Resolved Srd, That we earnestly ip
voke the continued blessings of Almighty
God upon these kind people, upon their
churches, and upon their homes.
H. S. BELL, Sec. Dist, Con.
The Missionaries.
Mr. and Mvs. Pruitt, the Georgia mis
sionaries who have been in China for
ten years, arrived in Dawson last Satur
day. Inthe afternoon Mrs. Pruit lec
tured to the ladies at the Baptist church,
and Sunday afternoon she talked to the
children. She was very interesting and
instructive on both occasions, and de
lighted those who heard her, Mr. Pruitt
preached Sunday morning and night,
and those who heard him were deeply
[so SR P SIS i
Yol. B.—No. 48.
A BURGLAR'S BIG HAUL
'
8400 IN HARD CASH STOLEN FROM
THE RESIDENCE
Of W.J. K. MeNeil Friday Night--Class
Perkins in Jail--Good Work by Sher
iff Dave Christie.
When Mr. W. J. K. McNeil, who lives
about three miles south of the city, was
aroused from .is slumber last Satarday
moining, about three o'clock, he saw a
man leaving hisroom with a trunk on
his shoulder.
That trunk contained $4OO in cash,
which represenied Mr. MeNeil's hard
earnings and economical savings.
Mr. McNeil isa bachelor about sixty
yews of aze, and in the room with
him that night was his brother, Mr,
Arch McNeil. '
Mr. McNeil awoke his brother, who
went in pursuit of the thief, but was un
able to overtake him. While chasing
the thiet Mr. McNeil was shot at with a
pistol. :
The burglar gained entrance into the
house by prizing off some boards that
were nailed across the space left for a
chimney when the room was built,
The trunk was carried about a halt
mile up the road, robbed of its gold anad
carried back within a hundred yards of
Mr. McNeil's house and left sitting on a
fence, :
Sheriff Christie was notified of the
robbery early Saturday morning and re
sponded promptly. He had not been
there long before he struck a clue, and
in a little while he had Class Perkins
Dave Folly, Milledge Brewster and Su
san Washington, all negroes, securely
behind the bars. .
The tracks about the trunk exactly
corresponded with a pair of shoes found
in Perkin’s possession, and a piece of
thread hanging on the trunk when found
the next morning was similar to thread
found on the person of Perkins.
The circumstantial evidence worked
up by Sheriff Christie was so strong that
Aba--committal trlal Monday morning
Perkins was sent to jail in defavlt of a
$4OO. The other three prisoners were
discharged,
None of the money has been found,
Sasser Siftings,
Misses Lena Collier and Annie Roby
boarded the train last Friday for Walker
Statior, wheie they will spend several
days with reiatives and fri.nds.
Mr. J. C. Parker, of Americus, spent
last Wednesday with us. We were glad
to have him with us again,
Miss Margie Bowen has returned home
from Richland, where she has been at
tending school.
Messrs, Laing & Prince, two of Ter
rell’s entergetic saw mill men, were
with us last week, and closed a trade for
a fine lot of timber. They will move
one of their mills to at an early date.
They are both clever men, and we are
glad to have them in our midst.
Mr. B. P. Collier is still quite sick.
- Mrs. W, E. lirim is better this week.
~ Miss Mary Hill Luady, one of tle vil
f lage belles, visited Sasser Sunday.
- If we don’t get rain soon oat Ccrops
‘will be a failure,
- Mr. A. Brim was in town monday,
The attendance at ouc Sunday school
last Sunday was small. There is not as
much interest manifestzd among some
of the young folks as we would like to
see. We hope for a better attendance.
On last Thursday, through the kind
ness of Mr. €. C. Brim, the writer had
the pleasure of taking in a large scope
of country. The crops along the road
were fine, though cotton is not through
coming up on account of needing rain,
‘Oa returning home we had the pleasure
‘ of meeting with two young ladies, Misses
Pearl Wesson and Birdie Johnston., Miss
Wesson has charge of a school near Sas
ser, and is an accomplished teacher from
Ardersonville who comes very highly rec
ommended, A,
A Go:(m.
Professor L. D. Lockhart recently
visited the city in th: interest of Fricker
& Co., of Americus, This house has a
national reputation as 4 music and jew
elry establishment. The instruments
sold by this celebrated firm are given
the preference over all others, and espe
cially are their pianos given the prefer
ence by those who desiie the best instru
ments. Their organs are superb as to
melody and construction, The $1,600
piano sold by this firm to 'Dr. Paschal
wears well, and today its melody is as
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