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\ A BALL OF GOLD,
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THE RICH FIND OF A GEORGIA
NEGRO,
A Ball of Gold Valned at $2,000 Found ina
Crawford County Field--Where
Did it Come From?
Pave Bolton, a ¢ lored man of Craw
ford county, was in Macon recently
and proudly exhibited a bail of gold
about two-thirds the size of a regulation
baseball and weighing about six pounds
or 1,920 pennyweights.
Bolton found this ball last week while
plowing in new ground, and when he
first saw it thought it was an old grape
sh t. When he picked it up, however,
he noticed that it seemed umusually
heavy, but never thought of its being
gold. When his day’s work was done
he took the ball, which was black and
almost the color of old iron or copper, to
the house, and after supper began
scraping the dirt from it. simply out of
suriosity. :
After Bolton had scraped a knife over
‘the ball a few times he saw that it was
not iron, but much softer and brighter.
Still not thinking of gold, he finally laid
it aside with the determination of show
ing it to some of his white friends next
day and ask their opinion ahout it.
The next day he forgot about the ball,
and it was not until last Saturday that
he thought of taking it to somebody who
counld tell him about it, The first man
he showed it to readily pronounced it
gold, and this so elated Bolton that he
took it to a jeweler for his opinion. The
jeveler pronounced it pure, solid gold, ;
and estimated its value at from $1,500 to
$2,000.
For what purpose the ball was made,
those who have seen it are at aloss to
understand, as it is barely probable that
anybody or any country would manufac
ture such precious grapeshot. Chased
on the ball are some kind of hieroglyph
ics that are hardly wisible, which makes
the ball have the appearance of having
been used for some purpose be
fore being lost or buried. One side of
the ball appears to have come in violent
contact with some hard substance, as it
is partially flattened.
The field where the ball was found is
full of pine trees of large size, which
.conveys the impression that it was never
before cultivated, or if it was it was
many years ago, The ball was, as near
as Bolton can estimate, about six inches
beneath the surface of the ground and
must have been there a number of years.
Bolton is without doubt the happiest
megro in Crawford county. He says he
will ¢convert his ball Into cash and take
a long needed rost,
Gimme a Ci; aretta!
How often these words are heard
coming from the lips .of a boy between 6
and 16 years old, ana how disgusting
they sound to older people. The cigar
ette habit has spread in tLe past two
years until now three-fourths of the boys
are slaves to this curse. When a boy
gets a cigarette in his mouth, inhales the
smoke, looks at you with a wise expres
sion about kis eyes, you can bet your
las. cent he will make his mark in life,
but as to the straightness of his mark,
the future will tell. About once a
week you canread of the death of some
brilliant (?) young man from smoking
vigarettes, and still the habit grows
worse each day. We are not here to dic
tate as to how you should raise your chil
dren, but it is our lot to encounter so
many boys who we know would make
useful men if they would give up this
bad babit. We will stop, as some may
say, ‘‘charity begins at home.”’—Doug
lasville New South.
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lAlsrmlng Addictions to Inebriety Among
British Maids and Matrons.
From the New York Sun.
“Drunk as a duchess’ is a popular
phrase in the mouth of the English peo
ple just now, and it is a phrase power
fully suggestive of a strikiug and shock
ing condition of affairs in English society,
coming, as all such popular by-words do,
from apt appreciation of prominent {eat
ures of the life and affairs of to-d My.
Drinking among women in the higher
and highest social ranks of English
society is developing into a national
scandal, says Lady Henry Somerset. And
a public meeting was held here recently,
presided over by this lady, at which
scme remarkable statements were made
of the prevalence of drunkenness among
women in high life.
But drinking is not an attribnte mere
ly of women in high life. What 18 more
serious, and which touches the life of the
whole nation, is the prevalence and in
crease of drunkenness among women of
all classes throughout the kingdom.
“A national shame” is how the Londoun
‘Daily News characterizes the startling
revelations that have been made recently
through public meetings, official re
ports, and a general investigation and
open discussion concerning the great
evil. It was made a subject of special
inquiry by a committee of parliament
this year, and startling testimony as to
the prevalence of the vice among women
was given by magistrates, coroners, offi
cers of public institutions, and medical
men of high standing, the latter headed
by no less a man than the late Sir An
drew Clark, Gladstone’s old physieian.
Of an average of 38,000 women com
mitted to prison annually in the United
Kingdom in the past few years 80 per
sent. were sent there for drunkenness, or
for offenses arising from or allied to
drunkenness. The testimony of the po
lice courts is that the vice is prevalent
among all classes in the East End of Lon
don. Not alone women of a disreputable
class come before the magistrates charg
ed with drunkenness, } at wives of re
spectable workingmen and young women
earning their living, and otherwise con
ducting themselves in a respectable way.
All ages, as well as all classes, are vic
tims of the vice. There are mapy rec
ords of women drunkards of 80 and 85
years of age, and many of those but 15
to 18 years old. Five unmarried girls 17
years old were charged with drunken
ness in one court in a single day, and
girls of tender years are found in the
streets in the early morning, helpless
from a night's debauch. In 1891 there
were in London some 3,000 convictions
of women for drunkenness. Last year
the number of such convictions was in
creased by over 500, and there were in
addition 9,373 arrests of women on the
charge of having been drunk and disor
derly.
“Correct, According to the Statute.”
“It is reported that Hon. Gazaway
Hartridge, of Savannah, a graceful and
popular writer, who went to New York
recently in search of literary fame and
fortune, has secured a position on the
New York Herald.””—Macon News.
We are glad for this. Itis a new way
of stating an actual fact. We don’t be
lieve we ever before saw it stated in a
Georgia newspaper that a fellow had
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the way they always have it. Whena
susceptible young dude, with a base ball
moustache, gets a job of staying ina
store at $8 a month, the little sore-eyed
newspaper is sure to say he ‘‘accepted”’
the place, when the fact is he had been
trying to hem it up and catch it for the
past six months-probably. We like those
fellows whose services are not so valu
able ithat business have to chase them all
over the country in order to catch them
and make them ‘‘accept’ lucrative posi
tions.—Gainesville Eagle.
It May Do as Much for You.
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that he had a severe kidney troubte for
many years, with severe pains in his
back and also that his bladder was af
fected. He tried many so called kidney
cures but without any good result,
About a year ago he began the use of
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Electric Bitters is especially adapted to‘l
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\ T4E LORD EKIPs.
BERESFORD ESCAPES FROM THE
GRESS LUMBER CAMP,
Is Soon Captured--His Plan Miscarried and
He Was Picked Up in a Baudy House.
“Me Lud” Berosford, Georgia's patri.
cian cenvict and book writer, escaped
from Gress convict camp Tuesday night
last and was recaptured a few hours
'later.
Beresford is, above all things, smooth,
and his insinuating, pleasing smooth
ness has always secured the best for him
in whatever situation he has ever been
placed. In the convict camp it won the
keepers and caused special privileges to
be granted him in the way of allowing
i him immunity from stripes.
~ Beresford has always been ailowed
} privileges at the camp, but since the ep
i isode which led to the dismissal of
| Keeper Crabb and the finding of Lessee
Gress, these special libertics have been
' somewhat abriiged.
i It seems that he was still allowed to
‘ cover his convict shirt with a citizen’s
’ coat, however, and allowed to work
about the railroad station without a
guard, Tuesday night last he got aboard
the Savannah, Americus and Montgom
ery train and disappeared. He was soon
‘missed from the camp and the authori
ties were not long in learning that he
had boarded the train for Americus.
Telegrams were sent to sheriffs of all the
neighboring counties.
In Americus and at the camps it was
believed that Beresford had not gotten
far away. It was believed that he was
hidden somewhere in Americus, and the
police of that city were kept busy look
ing for the aristocratic convict. They
searched everywheret hroughout the city
and finally located Beresford in a house
in the suburbs of the city about 3 ¢’clock
the next afternoon. The lord was very
much surprised and shocked at the.intru
sion of the officers, but was taken in
charge and conveyed to police headquar
ters.
He says that the bouncing of Captain
Crabb preyed upon his mind and made
the camp 8o uncomfortable forhim that
he concluded to leave. Accordingly he
stepped on the train and went to Ameri
cus.
- From that point it was intended to
beard a train for the far south, but as no
train leaves at night he was forced to go
into hiding there.
Started With a Bible and Broke the Bank,
““The most peculiar use I ever saw
made of a Bible,”’ said Will T. Fry, ‘*was
in Cincinnati.”” A gambling house there
was conducted by a man named Deßar
deleban. One a night ar agent who sold
Bibles for a living sat down at the table
and lost steadily until he was broke.
The only thing pawnable in his posses
sion was his sample Bible, and the deaier
let him have slon it. The agent’s luck
changed at once; he played all night and
all the next day, and by 3 o’clock in the
afternoon the Bible and furniture con
stituted the sole assets of tha’ gambling
room.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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STANLEY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE,
Thomasville; Georgia.
Book-Keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, and Telegraphy,
)& —Students assisted to positions. No vacation. For full particulars, address,
G. W.HEK.STANLEY, Pres,
H. E. WARDW EILE=
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Pawson; Ga.
Your patronage solicited. Office
upstairs in the building on court
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DR. ]J. H. WILLIFORD,
Physician and Surgeon,
PARROTT, GA,
Offer their professional services to
the people of Parroti” and surround
ing country.
J. H. GUERRY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DAWSON, GA.
(Office in Baldwin Block, Main St.)
Will practice in all the courts of the
Pataula circuit, and elsewhere by special
contract,
J. A. LAING,
ATTORNEY AT LaAW.
DAWSON, GA,
Prompt atttention to all business.
J. L. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
vLAWSON, GA. ;
Businesy respectfully solicited.
Lime at Dawson Variety Works at $1
peér barrel of 200 pounds. .
A. R. McCOLLUM,
Dawson, Georgia. \
M. C. EDWARDS, Jr,
LAWYER. Sl
Room 24 Baldwin Block, Dawson,
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Sunday, 10 to 11 a. m,, 2 to 3 p, m.
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B. F. CURISTIE,
ATTORNEY -AT - LAW.
DAWSON, GA.,
Will practice in the State “and
Federal Courts. Collections res"
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returns made.
. J. Hart,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dawson, Ga
Office over Dean & Brannon's stores
Busipess sojicited anb prompt at—
tentiva givgh,