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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. Rainey.
DAVIS & DOZIER'S
D e e dds QOO LIRS CI e .
PRICES DROP LOWER AND LOWER ON OUR MATCHLESS BARG.' INS!
Our immense trade’and our wonderfully low prices ate the talk of the country., Don’t miss it—the BOTTOM IS NOW OUT. Come to see us
and get goods at your own prices. $lO,OOO worth of new goods just arrived—bought cheaper than everr. R are Bargains and they are for
you. JPon’t fail to see and price our goods before you buy. .
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Domestics.
5,000 yards geod Homespun in Plaids
and Small Checks at 4 cents ver yard.
6,000 yards best Riverside Checks at 6
cents per yard,
5,000 yards best I Sheeting at sc.
4,000 yards good yard-wide Sheeting
at 5 cts.
Drillings, ‘Canton Flannels, Osnaburgs,
Cheviots, and all other domestics just as
cheap.
We have the biggest lot of Domestics
ever in any <one house in Dawson and
cheaper than the cheapest.
Good all Wool Worsted at Bic. per
yard in all the new and pretty colors.
Come and see us. We have the goods and we will not be undersold. We stand ready to serve you. Yours anxious to please,
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DAWSON, GA. DAVIS & POZIER.
WE DO THE REST.
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'‘BATHE: SETOE: STORIE,
"Bl Bddwin Block. J.W.PAUL, Mangr.
Good all Wool Double-Width Cash
mere at only 123 c. per yard
Big lot of these goods just arrived.
2 spools good Thread for sc.
5 balls No. 1 Thread for sc.
100 Children’s Suits, 4 to 14 years old,
at 85c¢. per suit,
300 Children’s Suits, 4 to 14 years old,
at $l.OO.
200 Children’s Suits, 4 to 14 years old,
at $1.50.
We can show you the best line of Chil
dren’s Suits ever in Dawson.
We have a big !ine of Men’s Suits at
$3.50, %5.00, $6.50, $7.50, $lO.OO and up-,
wards. We are selling at a great sacri
fice. Come and give us a look and we
will sell you.
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, December 6. 1893,
Wraps.
We can beat the world in this line. We
have secured some rare bargains in
Wraps and Jackets, and they are for our
customers. We have all the news styles,
shapes and colors. We can sell you a
nice all-wool jacket for $1.25, worth
$2 50. We will sell a beautiful cloth
cape for $3.50, worth $6.00. Don't fail
to sex this line.
Great bargains in Shoes. We are sell
ing Ladies’ Pebble Goat Shoes, 3 to 7, at
70c. a pair.
Ladies’ Glove Grain Button Shoes, at
85¢. a pair.
Ladies’ Kid Button at $l.OO and so on.
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WALL'S SLAYER.
JOHN JOHNSTON NOW IN TERRELL
JAIL.
Emaciated and Maimed, He Is Truly an Ob
ject of Sympathy--A Talk With Him
at the Prison.
John R. Jolnston, who killed Jim Wall
five years ago, an account of whose ar
rest at Galveston, Texas, was published
in last week’s NEWS, is now an inmate of.
the Terrell county jail.
Johnston left Galveston at 1:45 o’clock
last Tuesday in custody of Mr. H. P.
‘Slade and reached Dawson Thursday at
noon.
A large crowd had gathered at the de
pot through curiosity, hoping to get a
glimpse at the prisoner, who was quickly
} put in Sheriff Christie’'s buggy and driven
to the jail. Johnston recognized a num
ber of old friends and acquaintances in
the crowd and pleasantly spoke or bowed
tothem.
Mr. Slade says the trip from the Texas
hospital, where Johnston had becn for a
long number of months, to the Georgia
jail was an uneventful one. The prison
er seemed anxious to return to Georgia,
‘and gave him no trouble. During the
journey here Johnston was frequently
under the hallucination that spirits were
after him, or that he was being ‘‘gonged,”
as he expresered it. Mr. Slade says on the
train Johnston would be conversing
quietly and in a perfectly rational man
ner when suddenly a look of terror would
come over Lis countenance and he would
exclaim:
“Look! there is Jim Wall now! Don’t
let him hurt me!”
SEEN AT THE JAIL.
When Tae NEws reporter walked Into
the cell where Johnstou was resting he
was pleasantly greeted with an extended
hand by an emaciated specimen of hu
| manity, who was reposing on a bed that
had been provided for his comfort. He
has a single bedstead and a comfortable
; mattress, and is as pleasantly situated as
his surroundings will allow.
He is 26 years old, about 5 feet ten
! inches high, and hasa stabby, scattering
beard on his face. His left leg is am
putated near the hip, and a part of his
right foot is also gone, the result of a
‘railroad accident of which he was a vic
tim. He has a handsome artificial leg,
but uses two cruches to walk. When in
good health he would weigh probably
150 pounds, but has dwindled away to
about 75, and his maimed and emaciated
condition reaches the sympathy of all
who see him. |
Johnston had alreasdy been visited by
his attorneys, and it was their positive
instructions to the jailer that he be M 1
allowed to talk of his crime and approach
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Calicoes.
5,000 yards new and pretty Calicoes at
4, 5 and 6~. per yard, worth a great aeal
more. Everybody buys calico here. We
keep the prettiest styles and give the
lowest prices, and that’s »hat the people
want.
100 pairs Men’s Sunday Shoes 6 to 11,
at $l.OO.
100 pairs Sanday Shoes at $l.OO.
1,000 yards good yard-wide Sea Island,
worth 9¢. a yard just arrived; we will
sell it as long as it lasts ai 6e. a yard.
This is a great bargain.
1,000 yards good Ticking at 64c. and
upwards.
ing trial,
On other subjects, however, he talked
freely, and appeared to be glad to have
company. '
After killing Wall Johnston remained
in the county six weeks, being concealed
in different places. He went from here
to the South Carolina coast. From
there he went to New York and drifted
over to Uiverpool, England, where he
obtained employment as a hote] clerk.
During the conversation he referred to
‘the letter he wrote while in Liverpool
‘and sent here for publication in THE
NEws, which our readers doubtless re
‘member. He did not like England and
‘recrossed the waters, and worked at rail
‘roading in the w:st until the accident
‘nearly two years ago which cost him so
‘severely. Since then he has been in the
‘hospital. During these long months,
‘away from kindred and friends, and in a
‘helpless condition, the trouble which
caused him to flee from home was ever
on his mind. He realized that he was a
wreck, and decided to return home, face
‘the charge of murder and relieve his
‘mind. With this determination, and
‘while under the hallucination that Jim
} Wall’s spirit was pursuing him, he
'sought Chief of Police Lordan, of Gal
veston, and made a full confession.
\ Johns'on says that he was advised that
‘it would be but little trouble to keep
from coming back to Georgia, but that
want to tome home, stand his trial and
get rid of the matter one way or another.
The chief of police, he says, also advised
this course.
Johnson says it has been known in
Texas for two years that he was wanted
in Georgia on the charge of murder, but
that the Texas officials never bothered
him. The nearest escape he ever had,
be says, was from a New Orleans detec
tive when he went to that city to buy his
artificial leg. The detective arrested
him and attempted to bring him to Geor
gia and claim the reward offered for his
capture. He claimed citizenship in
Texas, and appealed to the authorities
of that state for protec‘ion, and through
their interference was released.
Judge J. H. Guerry, Judge R.F. Sim
[mons and Col'nel J. A. Laing haye been
enployed to defend Johnston, and it is
‘needless to say that his interests will be
ably looked after. They will ask for
trial this week if they consider their
client mentally able to go through the
ordeal. o .
Colonels J. W. Walters and M. C. Ed
wards wilt assist Solicitor Sheffield in
the prosecution.
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The City Election.
- The city eléction will occur one week
from today. There is but one ticket an
mm the election will in all
v be 2 quiet one. ‘
Vol. 10.—No. 26.
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Gilughams,
1,000 yards new and pretty Dress Ging
hams justin. We will sell them while
they last at 64 and Tc. per yard.
5,000 yards good Jeans at 124, 15, 20
and 25¢. The best and cheapess line of
Jeans we ever had. Bé sure to look at it,
250 yards good all Wool Red Flannel
at 124 c. per yard.
We have also a grand line of Flannel,
Red and White. at 15, 20 and 25¢. pex
yaad,
1,000 yards gcod Dress Ginghams,
Beautiful Plaids and Stripes just arrived
thils week at se. per yard.
~ SUPERIOR COURT.
{CRIMINALS WHO WERE SENTENCED
| TO THE ,PEN.;
Nowithstanding the fact that the pro
gress of business in the superior court
was materially interfered with last week
by the absence of attorneys, Judge
Smith disposed of quiet a lot of business
up to adjournment friday at noo=.
Below are the names of the criminals
convicted and the sentences imposed:
George Brannon, for burglarizing the
store of L. C.Hoyl, Jr.. last February,
Was sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years.
l John Clayton was sentenced for 12
months for stealing a bottle of spirits of
nitre from the Sale Davis Drug Co.
John Lee, who strayed in here with a
band of Gipsies, got 9 months for curs
‘in the presence of ladies,
George Moore, who stabbed Marshal
’C. A. Ragan at Sasser, was given 12
'months.
’ Isreal Beech stcle a hog and will do 12
months service for that past time.
. Anna Bivnis was given 6 months for
‘adultery. -
~ Besides these, a number of cases were
‘tried and verdicts of not guilty returned.
| COURT THIS WEEKs
- The seeond week of court convened
‘Monday morning with Judge Hunt, of
‘ the Flint circuit, on the bench.
~ Judge Huut presides with ability and
‘impartiality, and has already made a
‘good impression upou our citizens.
} Criminal business has occupied most
of the time.
Itis possible that court may adjourn
tomorrow. ;
| Theoksgiving in Dawson.
Thanksgiving day was suitably ob
served in Dawson. Some of the business
houses were closed and many of our peo
ple devoted the day to rest and recrea
tion. All the denominations united in
services at the Baptist church, and a
large ‘congregation listened to a forcible
discourse by Rev. W. H. Patterson. Dr.
Patterson’s sermon was full of sugges
tive thoughts, as he most happily re
ferred to us and a people with a %oodly
heritage, whose duty it was to so live as
to make life a success in all respects.
Everyone left profited by one of the best
sermon’s ever delivered by Dr. Patter
son. The singing of the choir was ex
ceptionally fine, assisted by the accom
paniment of the organ under the skillful
touch of Miss Jessmie Martin,
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Magnetic Nervine quickly restores lost
manhood and youthful Jgor. Sold by
Sale-Davis Drug Ce. G