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THE NEWS
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By Y. L. RAINEY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
DAWSON, GA., Nov. 30th, 1892.
OUR PENS/ON BURDENS.
The Georgia legislature has reduced
the pensions paid the widows of confed
erate veterans from one hundred dollars
to sixty dollars per annum, and all of
those owning property amounting to BlX
teen hundred d ilars and over are not
entitled to draw any amount,
This was thought by some of the legal
lights of that body to be unconstitution
al, but it passed by a good m ajority,
anyhow. Tur Newsthinks the legisla
ture acted wisely in allowing only the
needy widows pensions, and if the state
is not able to pay the needy ones one
hundred dollars every year it was right
to reduce the amount.
Now, in justize to all concerned, if
those widows who own property over
and above the homestead are to be de
prived of pensions would it not be right to
treat all alike and pension only those old
soldiers who are in needy circumstances?
™. Nrews believes in a just pension
to 1o confederate soldiers and confed
rat - soldiers’ widows, and does not
wins to be misnnderstood in this matter,
but in justice to the poor tax payers of
the stite we are very decided in the
opinion thatonly those who need finan
cial aid should receive it—that the toil
ing masses should not be taxed in order
that the state might pension those who
in nowise need the assistance.
Tha people of the state are groaning
under the burden of taxation, and it
should be lightened as much as possible.
HOW TO MAKE TIMES EASY.
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One of the best ways in the word to
mmake money more plentiful and times
easier is for eacli and every one of us to
spend our money with home people;
never send Joff for a single thing that we
can get at home.
If the pflice shonld be a few cents
higher it would still be cheaper to trade
at home, for by doing sothe money re
mains among us and each one gets to
handle it oftener. DBut prices are not
higher in Dawson than elsewhere. Our
merchants sell as cheap as the retuil mer
chants of any other city do, so you can
save nothing by sending off, even on the
score of prices,
When a farmer brings in syrup, tar
nips, potatoes, butter, chickens, eggs,and
other things produced on his farm, the
town people ought to, buy them and pay
him just as wmueh for them as the same
things wouid cost t) lay them down here
from some other place. Not asingle thing
should ever be shipped to Dawson that
our farmers can raise at home.
No farmer should ever be made to
hau! back home anything that he hag
brought to town to seil.
Everything that we need to eat can be
raised right here in Terrell couaty, and
when our home farmers arve made to
feel that we will give their products the
preference, and that they can sell every
thirg they bring to town, it will encoutr
age them to produce everything we
need to eat.
It is just as important for the mer
chants to observe this rule of baying ev
erything they can at jhome as it is for
the farmers and other consumers to buy
at home; the rule works both ways.
By giving tha farmer a good price for
his products it encourages him and the
mouey soon comes back to the merchant;
ald so it keeps going around from oue to
aaother, making a littie money go a long
ways and causing all to get along betier.
Every industry started up in our city
or connty ouglit to be patronized and en
couraged,
It is the amounts we send off to buy
the products of others, and which never
come back again, that make money so
scarce and times so dull and hard.
THE SHOOTIN; STARS.
Many readers of Tue News, and es
mevially onr solored friends, have been
ssomewhat excitel by the meteorie dis
play, er the showers ot sh mting stars,
that kava been lizhting the heavens the
past week.
But there is no cause for this alarm.
It is merely one of natare’'s mysterious
displays that every one may enjoy with
out apprenension of danger. Thereis
really more canse for alarm when a me
teor, such as was seen on the night of
the Bth, shoots across the sky like a
racket: for these sometime—probably
yne in a million-—reach the earth before
they are consumed; and since the mass
#hat falls varies in weight from an ounce
to several tons, damage is some times
done. Butthese so-called shooting sta's
are not constructed on that plan. They
are simply masses of substance, whirling
like lightning, and by milions, through
space, and when they come in -contact
with our atmosphere their velocity ig
nites them and they go out in smoke, or
pass in through the atmosphere into
space, where they cool off for another
trip. Probably 10,000,000 of them pass
into our atmosphere every twenty-four
hour , and if they have ever done any
damage it was in the chaotic age and be
fore history began, These meteors are
evidently related in some way 1o the,ap
proaching or recedigg comet.
OUR COLLECTION LAWS.
Tue News agrees with the Fort Valley
Leader when it says that the collection
laws of Georgia are very bad and should
be amended as rapidly as possibie.
As our laws now stand, it isa hard
matter for any one to collecta debt wit: -
out going to great troubie and expense.
This should not be. While the debtor
has a right to be protected from suits
which have no foundation, the creditor
should be protected by the law so he can
recover money advanced, or goods sold,
without being obliged to incur heavy ex
penses in so doing.
Mauny thousands of dollars—we might
say millions—would be invested in the
state, thinks the Leader, if our collection
laws were improver so that they would
guard the men who loan money, ¢r those
who invest in lands companies or manu
factories. And until our legislators revise
our collection laws money wiil be hard
to get even on the best of security.
Wwith good collection laws, which will
make men pay their honest obligations,
the south will see an era of prosperity
never before known, and all business in
terests will feel its effect.
AN Oklthoma man named Southers
tried the faith care racket on a ratile
snake bite a few days ago and now, if he
was as good as he thought he was, he is
walking the golden streets of the new
Jerusalem. The leader of a “christian
science’’ meeting going on near Hennes
sy told his congregaticn thatif they had
faith they could pick up a rattlesnake
and it would not bite them, and if it did
Giod would make the bite harmiess.
Southers was brim full of faith, and
he tried the experiment. His fellow be
lievers gathered around and prayed fer
vently and long, but Southers diedand
was buried the next day. e picked up
the wrong snake.
A Kaxsas demoeciaue member eleet of
the legislature, and there are only two
democrats in the legislature, has set up
business in the capital. e wants to be
speaker of the house and announces he
will help the republicans elect a senator
if he is elected speaker. He thinks poli
tics is business, and is wiliing to go to
any side that will serve his purpose.
Democrats in; the Kansag legislature are
very scarce, but the paity wouldn't suf
fer if they were less by one. All .of
which proves thatit is hard for even a
democrat to be an honest gentleman in
Kansas.
Tur experiments madeubder the su
pervision of the government to induce
rain by «ischarging heavy dynamite car
tridges seem to be only a parcial success.
Itis quite expensive and by no means
certain. Seerctary Rusk, of the agri
cultural bureau, in his annual report
just submitted, throws more cold water
on the rainmakers thaa the rainmakers
have brought down by their experiments.
Tie most important bill that has been
passed Ly the legislature is that by Ma
jor Bacon, which seeks to put a stopto
the wrecking of railroad property in this
state. The public arealready familiar
with the bill and its purposes. It seeks
to keep stock in the hands of the minori
ty stockholders to extent that will retain
for them some power in the shaping of
the destinies of the road.
NoriNG brings out the sappiness of
the average ynut.h'mure forcibly than to
hear hiyp discourse on the loveliness of
face and figure of the circus givls. But,
perhaps, the boys are excusable, as the
paint and padding of the show woman
are hurd to see through. >
AMoxG the foolish election bets was
one made by Mel Braned on the election
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The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum.
Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard
of Tom Wagson. As a' result of Wat
son's defeat Branch will have to walk
from the court house in Thomson to the
court ‘house in Augusta, a distance of
thirty-eight milies.
CondßEssMaNy Otis, third party
man from Kansas, says the third party
alliance out “west is tired of fooling
with the bong'l;t-up democratic alliance
of the south.”” Macune says this insult
will cost the alliance 50,000 *cmbers in
the south.
Tik dog question has again bobbed up
before the Georgia legislature jusi as it
has been doing annually from the earli
est days of th» republic. The cur is
uibiquitous and irvepressible. 2
N&VER bet on another man's game is
a lesson tha some we know of would
have done well to have learned. The
circus taught the lesson, however.
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GovEßNor Tom Joxes will take the
oath of office for a secoud term in Ala
bama tomorrow regardless of the boasts
and threats of snoliygoster Kolb.
Tug Washington treasury is in a vad
shape. "The republicans a e now about
ready to admit that there is nothing in
ir.3
Tur soldiers’ home ouestion has
not yet been settled by the legislature.
The ptople are opposed to its accept
ance.
AT this distance Billy Glenn's legisla
lative investigation of Judge Gober
seems to have originated through spite. .
TuaTr alleged dammn of Mr. Cleveland
has had no perceptible effect on the flood
of office seekers.
Now, that better times arein view,
Dawson must get ready to build that
cotton factory.
GrovEr has had to run away from the
politicians, He's hiding in the woodsin
Maryland. ¢
Dr. NUNNALLY has resigned the pres
idency of Meircer Universiiy.
Tur travel up Salt river has been very
heavy this year. : :
MR. BLAINE is again reported to be a
very sick man.
DawsoN is get'ing ready to grow
again, :
Farrott liems,
Messrs, John Watts and Clifford Gruobs
of Shellman, were in the city this week
the gues s ot Prof. Grubbs.
Rev. M. J. Webb is visiting relatives
near Parrott.
The press at Carter & Pritchard’s gin
bursted this week, and the firm will
gin no more cotton this season.
Misses Mattie Helms and Mattie Fer
guson, of Shellman, visited friends in
Parrott this week. ’
Miss Dora (Culbrcth, of New Bethel,
has been visiting Miss Paula Williford
the past week.
Mrs. S. M. Brown lLas purchased a
houss on College street, and will move to
Parrott in a few days.
T. J. Webb, representing Mark Arn
heim’s mammoth tailoring establishment
of New Yerk, is spending some time in
this section and taking a great many or
ders for clothing.
Mr. Eugene Pinkston is now one of
Parrott’s go ahead merchants, In his
brick store he will sell you the best and
cheapest goods upon the market. Mr.
Pinkston is a good citizen and deserves
a healthy patronage,
Mis. Georgia Kirven is running,sucess
fully,the Parrott House. Good fare and
polite attention will be found there.
Jitdge R. J. Anthony has erected a
new storeshouse and wiil sell from it a
line of merehanadise, but will make a
speeinity of tin work.
Massrs. ~Jennings ™ & Talbot;. of tie
Plains of 2ura, will move to Parrott Ist
of December and will occupy a store
house recently erected. They intend to
keep a fall line of merchandise.
Two new store houses have been built
here recently.
Mr. John L. Pamo, cotton buyer, will
pay the Lighest market price for cotton.
A nice lot has been given to Rev. W.
T. Clark as a gift irom Mr. John L. Par
rott. Mr. Clark will mgve to Parrott
and make his residence there. This will
be a great gain to the people of that
thriving little town, as Mr. Clukisa
‘most useful minister.
Fresh Alabama barrel or bulk.lime at
te Dawson Variety Works.
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NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
Notice is hereby given tl'at an exami
nation for teachers’ license will be held
on Saturday, December 17th, 1892, at
the court house, at 9 o’clock a. m., to last
one day.
Non-residents need not apply.
Applicants will be examined on histo
ry and constitution.
GEORGE KAIGLER, *
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NOTICE T 0 TEACHS
: By order of the Board of E juck?
I‘m rell county all ]Hlblit‘ "‘bi_js‘d.
1893 must begin on or before W¢
Monday in January. No teache!
ceive any pay who uscs any oth
the prescribed text books. .
GEO. KAI(}LEIL (-4
City haxe®
Tax payers arc reques
come forward and P¥
city taxes without delaf
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