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STYLES I HAD
D d ,
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AND MAKES GRAVE CHARGES
AGAINST THE DADE COAL MINES.
Prisoners Are Afraid to Talk Becanse
What They Say Is Caught Up by the
Guards, and Used to Their Detri
ment Thereafter.
From the Atlanta Constitu¥ion.
Styles, the colored member from Lib
erty county, is a member of the penite.-
tialy committee. :
He is so full of his subject that he can
not await the report of the full commit
tee, and presents the following om his
own account.
Atlanta, Ga., November 20, 1892.—T0
the Public Press: 1 have just returned
from an ingpection of the Georgia pen
itentiary. We visited the Dade coal
mines and the Chickamauga coal mine
eamps.
A Close Examination.
We, the!committee,examined very care
fully the condition of things here. On
entering everyth.ng presented appavent
ly a fine appearance, considering where
the prisoners are genera'ly kept. But
on examination we found their condition
was a sad, sad sight to look upon. Great
numbers of them were sick from having
to work in water in caves two or three
hundred feet under the ground, where
the water trinkis down upon the ground
upon their heads and where they stand
in water from ankle to knee deep all
day .o ug. Others are mashed and crip
pled y coal which falls upon them from
e blastings, from which they cannot
escape, The smoking gases are so stag
nacing that itis utterly impossible for
the poor benighted convicts to get pure
air to breathe. The majority of them
were clad in ‘“‘new suits,” as the author
ities knew of the com’ng of the legisla
tive ¢ mmittee. Others were nigh naked
and had to work and sleep in the same
meager apparel in a wet condition.
“They Would Give Him Hell."”
This immediate information was given
me by a white prisoner, who said he
“knew they would give him hell when
we left, but he did not carve if they did,
for he would rather be dead and in hell
than in there, for it could be no worse.”’
This white convict is wetl known in the
state, and 1 would call his name
were it not for the fact that he would be
severly punished for having given me |
this information. l
It is impossible for our committee to '
get the full information desired by thel
state of the condition of the sufferers, |
for fear of their punishment when we
are gone. :
Watched by the Guards.
The contractors and guards foilow the
committee all through the camps, so as
to know what each poor suiterer has to
say, and the convicts are afraid to give
us all the facts for fear of cruel treat- |
ment after the committee has gone,
1f there is any hell on earth it is the
Dade coal mines, where these poor un
fortunate prisoners are so inhumanly
treated. ,
The laws of our great state upon whose
shield is inscrived, “Wisdom, Justice,
Moderation,”” were not enacted to aliow
or permit her prisoners to be so bratally
dealt with, and I feel well assured that
were the facis known, were the condi
tior. of the camps well understood by
the people, Georgia would rise up in her
majesty and crush out the system that
tolerates such cruelty to haman flesh.
At the Chickamauga Camps.
At the Chickamauga camps the con
ditions are the same, cxcept in the con
dition of the gquarters and the clothing.
The prisoners are allowed to change
their clothing at night at this camp.
In both camps the food is too scanty
for the hard labor they have to o.
Now, I want to say that I do not at
tempt to make a report for the commits
tec in what 1 have said, but 1 am only |
giving my individaal impression of what
T heard and saw.
Finally, in justice to humanity, 1 de
clare that these things ought not so to
be. I ¢lose now till the committee re-!
ports, after whic you will "hear from g
me again. Veay Respectiully, ;
W. H. StyYLEs, of Liberty. |
sSpecimen Cases,
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was
troubled with neu:algiaand rheumuatism,
his srfomach was disordered, his liver was
affected to an alarming degree, appefite
jell away, and he was terribly reduced in
flesh and strength. Three botties of Elec
trie Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepterd, Harrisburg, 111,
had a ranning sore on his leg of 8 years’
standing. Used three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and
well. John Speaker, Catawba, 0., had
five large fever sores on his leg, doctors
said he was incurable. On bottle of
Electric Bi ters and one box Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold
by Sale-Davis Drag Co.
hears Seated.
In the legisiature, Wednesday, the
contest between Mr., Seas, the sitting
member from Webster county, and Mr.
Harrell, the contestant, was taken up.
It was found thay there was no partic
ular groand for a case of contest and Mr.
Sears was allowed to keep his seat.
: e .
Fine Shoos Cheap.
Bolton’s and Weylman's Ladies Dress
Shoes at cost. J. W. F. LowREY.
For lame back there is nothing better
than to saturate a flannel cloth with
Chamberlains Pain Balm and bind it on
the affected part. Try it and you will be
surprised at the prompt relief it gives.
The same treatment wili cure rheuma
tism. For sale by Farrar & Farrar.
.
. A fresh car load of Alabama lime just
received and for sale at Dawson Variety
Works.
| HE PLAYED SQUIRREL,
| e
| And In Jumping from ‘ne Tree to Another
l Was Killed.
. Greenup, Ky.,Nov. 20. —Thomas Odell,
la younz man of twenty-two yea"s living
seven miles back of town, hds met death
in a strange manner. He had been a
puzzle to physicia.s for several years.
He was affected by what he ate to such
ap extent that when he indulzed in beef
eating, about an hour afterwards he
would become restless and wander out
in search of cattle and bellow as an ox,
and would get down on his hands and
knces and eat grass like a cow. ANhen
he partook of mutton his actions would
be those ot a shaep, and he would plain
tively bleat like a lamb. When be ate
chicken he went out and scratched for
worms, which he devoured with appa
rent relish. After eating fish he would
wander to the creek and go in swim
ming. Yesterday his fateln killed sev
eral squirrels, of which he ate hcartilyl
for dinner. He left the house shortly af
ter and was followed by his father. The
father saw him enter an oak grove, and
soon saw his son jumping vimbly from
limb to limb, at the same time barking
like a squirrel. He called for him to
come down, but this only seeraed to
make the boy want to escape, and he ~t
tempted to jump from one tree to anoth
er, but missed and fell to the ground, a
mangled, breathless mass of humanity,
and expired in | ss than five minntes.
“Don’t Give Up the Ship.”
Don’t surrender, although the fight be
long and hot, and results thus far
but dismal failuras. Old Bad Blood may
vet be conquered and disease driven
from the citadel of life. You have pot
used the proper remedy, or long ago you
would have felt a change. You have
tried this and that, a hundred bottles of
this and fifty bottles of that sarsaparilia,
and you feel yoa might as well have used
so much rain water for all the cood ef
fect they had, Why have younot tried B.
B. B. (Botanle Blood Bilm) made in
Atlanta, Ga? Because it isn't advertised
80 copnspicuously as other remedies?
That's a poor reason. The greatest hum
bugs can afford the largest advertise
ments. As for B. B. B. try it, and if
six bottles d n’t do you more good than
all the blood medicine you have ever
taken, call it a humbug, a name tha;
has never yet been applied to it by any
one.
Walter Bridges, Athens, Tenn., writes:
“For «ix years [ have been afflicted with
running sores and an enlargement of the
bone in my leg. I tried- eveiything I
heard of without any permanent benefit,
until Botanic Blood Balm was recom
mended to me. After using six bottles
the sores healed, and I am now in better
health than I have ever been. 1 send
this testimonial unsolicited, because I
want others to be benefitted.”” Sold by
Sale-Davis Drug Co.
The Wires Under the Sea.
The world’s submarine cables now
measure about 143,011 nautical miles,
in 1,168 sections. Different governments
control 833 sections, or .13,383 miles,
France claiming 3,269 miles, Great Brit
ain 1,599, Germany 1,579, and Italy
1,027 miles. The remaining 335 cables,
aggregating 129,628 miles, are owned by
private companies. This great length
of cable has been nearly all made on the
banks of the Thames, but Italy now has
a cable factory, and France will soon
have two. To lay and repair the cables
requires the constant service of a spe
cially equipped fleet of thirty-seven ves
sels of 56,955 tons.—Ohio State Journal.
Sold Beds Besides Preaching.
An active pastor, who has now retired
from both ministerial and commercial
life, was for many Yyears partnerin an
iron bedstead business, and was not
ashamed. He was accustomed to boast
that his connection with business en
abled him to live in a good house, fo
dress his wife weil], to educate his chil
dren, to keep a respectable table for his
friends, to help the poorand to benefit
the church, all of which was true.—Na
tional Review. '
A Reply from Tennyson.
On one occasion it was publicly stated
that Tennyson had drawn his inspiration
from Horace and Keats, and a corre
spondent wrote to ask him if this were
go. ‘‘No,” he replied: ‘‘Horace and
Khrats were great masters, but not my
m isters.”—New York Tribune,
The ¥ irst Symptoms of Death.
Tired feeling, dull headache, pain in
various parts of the body. sinking at the
pit of the stomach, loss of appetite,
feverishness, pimples or sores are pos
itive evidence of poisoned blood. No
ma'ter how it becomes poisone 1, it must
be purified to avoid death. Dr. Acker's
English Blood Elixir has never fail d to
remove scrorula or syphi.itic poison.
Sold under a positive guarantee by Sale-
Davis Diug Co. :
An honest Swede tells his story in
plain but unmistakable language for the
benefit of the public. “One of my chil
dren took a severe cold and got the croup.
I gave her a teaspoonfyl of Clamber
lain's Cough Remedy, and in five min
utes later I gave her one more. By this
time she had to cough up the gathering
io her throat. Then she went to sleep
and slept good for fifteen minutes, Then
she gct up and vomited; then she went
back to bed and slent good the remain
der cf the nigh'. She got the croup the
second night and I gave her the same
remedy with the same good results. 1
write this because I thought there might
be some one in need and not know the
true merits of this wonderful medicine.”
Charles A. Thompseen, Des Moines,
Towa. 50 cent bottleg for sale by Farrar
& Farrar, Druggists. .
e
20 Bushels
Genuine Georgia raised Seed Rye for
sale at J. R. Mercer & Co's warehouse.
‘ THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED.
! Can You Find the Word?
| Thereis a 3-inch display advertisment
{in this paper this week, which h.s no
two words alike except one word. The
same is true of each n+w one appearing
cach week, f~om the Dr. Harter Medi
_cine Co. This nouse places a *‘Crescent’”’
‘on everything they make and publish.
' Look for it, send the name of the word,
"and they will returnyoua book, beautiful
lithographs or samples free. \
j He Blowed Things Up.
~ Montgomery Folsom gets off the follow
ing in the Atlanta Jominal:
Of the good many s*ories that are con
nected with Cleveland’s land slide, one
of the best comes from Thomasville.
A few miles from that town resides a
prominent farmer of the oid pianter
style,
He rides about over his plantation with
half a dozen dogs at his he¢lx and half
his time his gun across his l.p, looking
for a chance shot, thus combining bus
iness with pleasure. ®
He was a very enthusiastic “democrat,
and a Cleveland man from away back ot
the campaign.
On the day of theelection he went to
the littl2 precinct near by and cast his bal
lot and then hurried back home for the
reason that his hands were busy making
syrup, and he wanted to get through be
fore the cold nipped it and spoiled the
crop.
B‘:n he was nervous over the result and
unusually fidgety all day, and when
night came he could hardly be still.
The last *‘round” was in the big 75
gallon kettle, and had just gotto boiling
good.
The negroes were busy about the boil
er and the woodpile, and the planter was
standing with his back to the furnace
fire looking away towards Thomasviile
whiie the slow rain drizzled and the
wind biew fitfully.
Suddenly tLere came quivering on the
moaning winds a sullen—*Boom "’
“IHooray! tlooray for hooray!” shout
ed the planter at the top of his voice,
and unslinging the well-filled powder
horn from his shoulder he tossed it into
the glowing furnace.
“Bang?’
Up went the boiler of boiling juice
through the roof followered by sha’tered
fragments of brick and wmortar and a
perfect deluge of red-hot coals, as the
negroes ran over each other tryiag to
get away, and the planter’s wife ran out
into the yard barcheaded and screaming:
“Oh, what is the matter?”’
“Hooray for Cleveland, hooray!"’
And bhe pranced around among the de
bris of the wrecked furnace while the
guns at Thomasville kept popping away
at intervals. It took the balance of the
night to quiet him and some of his hired
negroes are still scouting among the
swamps.
;» There are eight soldiers located in Ire
land to one in Scotland, and over twenty
| boys under eighteen years of age have
- won the Victoria cross. '
" The people of Portland, Me., call the
poet’s mantle that falls in heavy folds
over their statue of Longfellow ‘‘that
rubber overcoat.”
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! Candollo, the investigator, says the
health of dark eyed persons is much su
perior to that of the lighs or blue eyed
' When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla,
I,' When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung fo Castoria,
‘When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
They all Testify
s g o To the Efficacy
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ey KA B B confouning the theorles of
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o : taint which it doesnot immediately
eradicate. Polscng outwardly absorbed or the
result of vile discases from witkinall yield to this
potent but simple remedy. It is an unequaled
tonle, buildsupthe old and feeble, cures 21l diseases
arising from tmpure blood or weakened vitality.
Send for a treatise. Examine tko proof.
Books on “ Blood and Skin Diseases”” malled free,
Druggists Sell It.
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Registration Notice.
The Books of Registration are now
open tor the registration of voters
in the city of Dawson. All persous
entitled to vote for officers ot said
city shall cause their names to be reg.
istered ten days betore each election,
which books shall be closed ten days
betore such election. On the second
Wednesday in UDecember mext the
election will be held.
; J. L. JANES, Clerk.
For Administration.
GEORGIA~— Terrell county.
Toall whom it may concern: R. F.
Crittenden, having in proper form,
applied to me for permanent letters
ot administration on the estate of Z.
A. Criutenden, late of said coupty,
deceased, this is to cite all and singular
the creditors and next ot kin of Z. A.
Urittenden, to be and appear at my
office withic the time allowe 1 by law,
and show caus-, if any they can, why
permanent administration should not
he granted to R, F. Crittenden on Z,
A. Crittenden’s estate. Witness my
hacd and official signature this Ist
day of Novemrer, 1892. i
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from the Or -
dinary’s Court of Terrell county, will
be sold Leiore the court house door
in the town of Dawsor on the first
Tuesday in Dccember pext, between
the legal bours of sale, west half of
lot of land pumber 186, 10 acres oft
o* southwest corner of east bLalt of
lot of land number 166, and 9 7 10
acres off ot lot uumber 166, commen ;-
ing at southeast ot said lot aud run
ning parallel with criginal line to the
right-ot-way ot Southwestern Ry. All
in the 12:h district o Terre!l county,
coitaining one bundred and twenty
acres, mora or less. Soid a= the prop.
erty of J. N. Bowen, late of said
county, deceased, for the purpose ot
paying the debts of said deceased and
distribution with the heirs of said es.
tate. Terwscash. Also, at the sumeJ
time and place, will be so'd 35 shares
ot the capital stock of the Bronwood
alliance giouery, said ginnery locsted
Bronwoon Ga. Terms cash.
W.F BPANKN,
Administrator.
NOtice,
All persons indebted to the estate
of J. F. Bussey, late of Terre!l coun~
ty, deceased, are hereby requested to
settle their indebtedness at once. All
who do not settie within the next 30
days will find their notes and accounts
in the hands of an avtorney.
M=zs. J. F. BUS3EY.
Public Road Notice.
GEORGIA- -Terrell « ounty.
To all whom it may concern: All
persons are hereby notified that an
order will be granted by the board of
county comn.issioners, on the first
Tuesday in December, 1892, estab:
lishing a public road. commencingat
the Dawson road, near the residence
of M. A. Jordan, onthe A./J (an
ver place, in said county, and rue
ning west on the land ot A.J. Car
ver, R. F. Simmoens and J. B. Pery,
to the public road runnieg south
from Dawson to New Hope church
J. W. ROBERTS, Ordiuary,
ard exvofflcio elere B. C. V. T.O
Public Road Notice.
GEJRGIA —Terrell County.
To all whom (it may conceru: Al
persons are hereby notified that a
order will be granted by the board o
county commissionzrs on the finf
Tuesday in December, 1892, estabt
lishing a public road, commencin &
the R. R. depot in the town of Su 1,
in said county, and running 0¥
gouth east direction by the residen
and through the lands of J. C. Jotee
er, G. W. Varper, 0.8. Stevens, B
A. Anthoay and John Bynum aud
intersecting the Dawson and Albauy
road iu# mile ot the Josoph By
residence.
J. W. ROBERIS, Ordinary,
and ex-officio elerk B. C.C. ILY
For Dismision-
GEORGIA | Terretl ounty.
rdimar’s office, Oct. T, 1_"941
Whereas, . W, Clark, admisis o
of Mrs. F. C. Lewis, deceascd, r¢P
sents that he has fully disvh:\r:t‘dl‘h
duties of said rrust and prays for 187
ters of dismidsion. Thisis, there!
to notity all persons cmxcerued,
show cause, it any they can, ™
hetore the tirst Monday 1n -"“.lual
next, why said administrator “M;.
not be discharged from eaid ‘:‘f"l"“f""
tinn. J. W. RRERTS,
()rdinarf:
Twelve Month's Supl
GEORGIA —Terrell county. r
Court of Oedinary, Oct. .-”j)_;';
- The appraisers appnmwd l_l:x:}"%
licati ot Tempy Mock, wid
pilcation o emp) d -
Isham Mock, for a_t“'_t"‘e‘:;;d
support tor herselt and mmt'fl.“';,_;
having filled their returt, al }L;:ht
concerned are hereby cited ‘{e.ue
cause, it anyv they bave, at I‘; 4
December term of this cour* ¥ ]"1
. - Le gr;{!”e“
application should uot € it
J. W. ROBERIS, Ort
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in thiry minutes., For sd¢ &
Brannon.