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DAWSON, GA.
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Democracy has set her sails, and is go
ing to make a square stand up fight.
In Dougherty county the test of dem
ocracy seems to be allegiance to Den.
Russell.
The ;Dawson merchants are going tc
do business this fall. They are already
preparing for it.
The action in Worth county in the se
"ection of congressional delegates is con
demned by tair-mined men.
When Judge Guerry’s friends want
something to use against Mr. Russell
they won't seek under cover of night,—
Thomasville Advertiser.
A Brooklyn carpenter has invented a
bullet-proof coat that is quite as effect
ive in stopping leaden pills as the de
vices of the German tailor.
The little 2x4 Thowmasville politicians
are turning up much sand in their efforts
to perpetrate the old joke upon the peo
ple of the second aistrict.—Thomasville
Advertiser.
The republicans of the state are called
to meet in conyention in Atlanta on
August 20th. It is the general opinion
of leading republicans that the couven
tion will not put out a state ticket.
The second district is not so unani
mous for Mr, Turner for the senate af
ter all that has been said about it. Ter
rell has instructed for Major Bacon, and
Dougherty was saved to Mr. Turner by
only 18 votes after a hard fight.
There is a growing opposition through
ont the state tothe snap action mass
meetings on political questions, espe
cially upon the endorsement of any par
ticular candidate. The primary is pref
erable, It has come, and come to stay.
“My idea of hell,”” remarks Kate Field,
the brilliant Washingt>n newspaper wo
man, °*is the present condition of the
country.” Miss Kield should get a lin
en mother hubbard and a Japanese flip
flap and jseek a sequestered spot in the
mountains,
A 'Topeka dispatch say says: ‘The
populist state campaign is now fairly
on.”’ As mucb might have been conjected
when the press dispatches came withithe
information that Mrs. Anna Diggs had
“cussed out’” Mrs. Lease and shaken her
fist under her nose. The chances ure
good for Kansas [to enjoy an old-time
delirium-tremens-like campaign.
STATE SCHOOL FUND. }
Attorney General Terrell has filed his
opinion in regard to the school fund and }
the repayment;of the money borrowed.
The attorney general says that section 4
authorizes the treasurer ‘“to draw on
the first day of April, on any fund in
the treasury, $300,000 to pay the teachers
quarteily, the same to be repaid from the
school fund when the same shall be re
paid into the treasury.”
The question of the repayment of the
school money borrowed was raised by
State Treasarer hardeman. Ile request
ed the attorney general to give him infor
mation in regard to the construction to
be placed upon the law; that itstaied
$300,000 could be boriow, but be paid
back out of the school fund when it was
paid into the treasury. Holding strictly
to the letter of this act, the teachers
would receive no money during the sec
ond and third quarters, as only abdut
$300,000 is paid into the treasury for the
school.
The attorney general held that if the
money was needed when paid in, that
the school fund, as it aceumulated,
should be placed to the credit of the
fund from which it was originally
taken, but that, however, unless it
was necessary, the repayment should
oilow when the bulk of the school money ‘
came in, which is during the last gqnar J
€er.
PETTING THE FARMER.
The average value per acre of our four
great staple crops for the four years end
ing with 1870 was: corn, $12.84; wheat,
$13.16; oats, $10.92; cotton, €28,01. How
does this compare with present averages?
Here are the figures: Corn, $8.35; wheat,
i 56.00; oats, $5.75; cotton, $10.05. Here
is a difference, says the Texas Farm and
Ranch, of more than 100 per cent. in
favor of the days when money was plenti
ful, and those of us who were parties par
ticipant remember with yearning how
every business flourished. While taxing
the whole people to protect manufactur
ers, the government has neglected the
very industry upon which all stable
prosperity is founded. But, says the
politician, have we not established a de
partment of agriculture, with many
bureaus, and made the head of it a
member of the president’s cabinet, and
have we not established quarantine lines,
distributed super-annuated seeds, and
levied duty of five per cent on imported
egg? And have we not done many other
wonderful works in the the name and for
the sake of agriculiure? We admit that
the government has done all these things,
thus pulling the 15 cent wool over the
farmers’ eyes, while robbing him of half
of the value of his crops, by contracting
the currency,restraining trade and taxing
everything the farmer consumes except
the oxygen he obtains from the atmos
phere by the act of breathing, and the
diamoands he wears in his hickory shirt
front.
TWJ FRIENDS.
The release of Erastus Wyman, Dunn’s
ex-confi lential business man upon a
bond for $30,000 farnished by Charlesll
Broadway Rouss, a New York merchant '
prince, furnishes a story of a friendship
that is peculiarly beautiful in these days ‘
of mistrust and selfish ambitions. ]
Mr. Rouss was one of the first men
whom Mr. Wyman knew when he went
to New York about thirty years ago. ‘
At that time their conditions were the
reverse of what they have been during
the last several days. Mr. Rouss’ finan
cial Interests had become complicated,
and he was placed in the very prison in
which Wyman was confined. During
that year Wyman sent Rouss his Christ
mas dinner to his cell in the tombs, and
later secu;‘ed a repeal of the law under
which Rouss was held a prisoner, there
by securing his release.
While Rouss was a prisonor he wrote
upon a wall of his cell:
“] am forty years of age this day.
When I am fifty, I shall be worth half a
million, and by the time I am sixty.
I shall be worth a million dollars.”
He is now worth in the neighborhood
of three millions, and this wealth has
‘enabled him to repay, in the same way,
the great kindness which Wyman did
him in his early days.
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700 MUCH OF THE RIFF-RAFF.
The Savannih News wants to know if
our immigration inspectors are Going
their duty. It is important that they
should at this time for twe reasons.
The first is that steamships are bringing
immigranws so cheaply that many of
those who are coming are veryundesira
ble. From the Mersey to New York
steerage passage can now be obtained
for £9. And this price includes not on
ly the outfit of bedding, etc., but also
railway fare from London. From conti
nental ports the cost of passage is about
the same. \ith such rates it is appar
ent that thousands of objectionable im
grants are likely to reach our shores
within the next few months. We have
more poverty-stricken people in this
country now than we can properly care
&or,
Another reason why the inspectors
lshuuld be on the watch is that nearly all
the governments of Europe are adopting
most stringent methods againt anarch
ists. So stringeut arethe laws and so
active are the police that tlis class of
people will find it uncomfortable to re
main in Europe. They will come to this
country. We don’t wantthem, and they
shouldn’t be permitted to land if they
come here.
/ All diseases of th.e skin cured, and iost
‘complexion restored, by Johnson's Orien- J‘
tal Scap. Sold at Sale-Davis Drug Co’s.
FORFEITURE OF LAND GRANTS.
The house has passed the bill forfeit
ing the land grants of those railroad
companies which failed to complete their
roads within the time fixed by the acts
granting the land. There are 54,000,000
acres Involved. and twenty five railroad
companies ave affected.
T4e public has no particular sympathy
for those of the railroad companies that
were so indifferent as to when they com
pleted their roads, but it has a great
deal of sympathy for those who have
bought lands from the railroads and im
proved them, believing they bad a good
tit'e.
It is apparent that if the bill should
become a law the courts in a number of
states would have more than they could
do in settling these land cases. The
holders of the lands would be involved in
costly litigatioix, and land titles in whole
counties would be unsettled.
The government is to blame for turning
the lands over to the railroad before the
roads were built. It led the settlers of
the lands into their present unhappy
plight, and in justice it should make ti
tles to ail landholders who are entitled
to them.
This occurred in New Jersey: Mr. Stei
ber, a widower, and Miss Kerr were en
gaged to be married. Some days be
fore the time fixed for the wedding, the
prospective groom took ‘the prospective
bride over to see his house, which was
shortly to be their home. She was de
lighted with every arrangement until
she came to the parlor. Over the man
tel in that room hung the picture of
Mrs. Steiber No. 1, deceased. ‘‘That
will have to come down,” said Miss
Kerr. “Not on your life,” returned Mr.
Steiber. ‘‘Then there will be no mar
riage,”” said Miss Kerr. “That goes,”’
replied Mr. Steiber. And it did. DMiss
Kerr is *suing Mr. Steiber for breach of
promise.
Antiquity of the Alpnavert.
According to Philippe Berger's book
entitled **Histoire de I'Ecritus dans I’An
tiquite,” the alphabet was invented about
1500 B. C., that invented by the Phce
nicians being without doubt the oldest
of all the forms of expressing thought
or sounds by character. Originally it
and all other alphabets were simply a
series of hieroglyphics or picture char
acters, the idlea of an elephant or an ox
being expressed by rude sketches of
such animals, abbreviations being in the
form of a pair of tusks, horns, etc. Pro
fessor Auer (see Vienna edition of his
“Sprachalle,” 1849) says that, taking
both the ancient and modern alphabets
into account, as many as 400 different
sets of characters, hieroglyphics and let
ters may ove enumerated, that these
are all outgrowths of the Phcenician
mode of mutely expressing thought or
sound, and that if we should set aside
slight variations of form the grand to
tal of 400 alphabets would dwindle im
mediately to less than 50.
The best oriental scholars have given
it as their opinion that the original Phee
nician alphabet was composed of but 16
characters, yet it is known that it con
tained at least 21 and probably 22 at the
time when it was adopted by the Greeks.
l Why or by whom these extra characters
were invented, or why such an addition
was necessary, has never been explained,
—St. Louis Republic.
Hunting the Hippopotamaus.
“‘Hippo shooting, compared with other
sport, is poor,’”’ said Mr. Jackson, an
African hunter. “In the first place, it de
| pends more on accuracy of aim and pro
ficieney in quick shooting than stalking.
‘ To crawl up to the edge of a high bank,
probably several feet above the surface of
the water, in which a school of these huge
| beasts is lying basking in the sun on the
| shallows, requires little skill, providing the
! wind is fair. Neither is a steady pot shot
lat range of 25 yards at a well defined
| mark, such as the beast’s eye and ear, or a
l line between the two, as he lics perfectly
| still, half out of the water, and possibly
| asleep or floating motionless on top of the
| water, a great test of prowess in shooting.
| When onge scared, however, the conditions
iarc changed, as hippos then become cun
' ning and take a great ceal of circumyent
i ing and will test the sportsman’s patience
| as well as the accuracy and quickness of
f his aim to the utmost.’’
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'morning for a day’'s business, he prayed
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value of hospitality.
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' For the next sixty days we will sell
you anything in oxfords at cost.
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Mr. W. H. Barrett,} Augusta, Ga.
Dear Sir:—l have used your H. H. P.
i my family for indigestion, dyspepsia
and liver complaint, and legard it as the
finest preparation of the kind I have
ever used. MARsHALL HILL.
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Shoes and hats and cost at T. ¢’
Whitzhard & Co’s..
i RAILROAD “SPOTTERS.”
Their Calling Is Disagreeable at Best and
Sometimes Dangerous,
The killing of Special Agent George
Newcomb of the Chicago and Western In
diana railway and the arrest of Special
Agent Maxwell of the Chicago and Grand
Trunk as an accessory to the murder have
thrown some queer side lights on railroad
‘‘spotters,’’ says the Chicago Herald. If
a railroad wishes to protect its passengers
from the ravages of confldence men, it
may employ a ‘‘special agent’’ or, a ‘‘de
tective’’ or a ‘‘queer.’”” The terms are
synonymous, meaning a man who is sup
posed to have an cxtensive knowledge of
criminals, their names, faces, methods of
operation and loafing places.
He travelg up and down the portion of
the line to which he is assigned at all
hours of the day and night. He knows
most of the train service men, is always
looking also for a ‘‘sure’’ tip, and as a
rule is about as well known to the crooks
as if they carried his photograph with
them. His pay varics. He rarely receives
less than $750 a year, rarcly more than
$1,200 and on some roads is only paid for
the days he is actually in service. If he is
inclined to be dishonest and can avoid de
tection, he has ‘‘things'’ on the side that
add to his income. It pays to favor a
croolz of some fame, and a special agent
who is willing to scll out this trust can ex
pect rich plumage for his nest.
On the other hand, if hec is honest, he
has a hard, disagrecable life, attended
with many dangers, and may reasona
bly expect the fate of George Newcomb at
any hour. His life is not particularly in
danger from an open attack, for the class
of criminals operating on railroads are
known far and wide as arrant cowards or
“pikes.’’ Once in awhile one of them
will draw a gun; but not often. Their
method of revenge is a secrct one, planned
stealthily and executed upon the victim at
the moment when he is least prepared.
Special agents know this so well that not
one in a thousand would assert that
Newcomb was killed by any other method
than that of a well premeditated plan. The
hour, the place, the time had been, to
their notion, carefully calculated, and by
a rapidity of action so well prearranged
the shot had been fired, gun held low out
of sight, and the mouth of a most trouble
some man to them closed.
Newcomb was a good illustration of a
special agent. He looked like a farmer.
He could sit in a smoking ear, and the un
initiated would have sworn he was a cattle
raiser from southern Illinois. He knew
more of the crooks of Chicago and had
their pedigrees in finer shape than any
other detective on the city force today.
He had a peculiar habit, when mecting a
“bad’” man, of reminding him of his mis
deeds, something which won him cordizl
hatred.
He was not as bright a man as Captain
J. C. Ayer, another special agent of note,
nor soo secretive, but he had bulldog cour-
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SHE WAS DUBBED, ‘‘THE PELICAN.”
age and was counted square. It is told of
him that a few days before he was shot it
was arranged that when he visited a cer
tain resort on State street a quarrel was to
be picked with him by a couple of selected
toughs, Long Jimmy being accused of act
ing as the leader. During the proposed
row an officer was to be called in and New
comb locked up. This was to disgrace
him with the company. The plan worked
well to a certain point. Newcomb came,
the trouble began, the officer rushed in,
but Newcomb saw the trap set for him.
He drew his pistol, held off the officer, and
the men and got away. Whether the officer
was an innocent party to the transaction
or not has not been developed.
A woman bordering cnto spinsterhood
was employed in a down town office as a
stenographer. Her salary was not large
and her face hardly attractive enough to
bring in a husband. She boarded at a
private hotel not far from Sixty-third
strect and twice a day journeyved on one
of the suburban lines. At the same hotel
for a short time lived a railroad official
connected with the line she traveled over.
He showed her some attention, and learn
ing the amount of her income sent Ler
with a card vne day to the head special
agent of the company. Two days later she
was adding to her incomne $2O o month by
‘‘spotting’’ employecs of the road. Tryo
distinct lines of wcrk were given her:
First, as she traveled to and {ro, she was
to note if conductors and celleetors teor
off duplex slips when they colleeted enzh
fares and gave them to the passengoers.
Second, she was to report any conducror
or trainman cngaged in any conversation
with a woman other than his Lusiness re
quired. She was cute, clever and patient
and for a week did well. By the end of
that time, how and by what nicans ro cne
knows, she was discovered. The word went
around quictly among the men, and she
was dubbed ‘‘The Pelican.’”’ Her useful
ness was gone. She drew cne month’s
pay and resigned by request.
A horse kicked H. S. Shafer, of
the Freemyer House, Middleburg, N.
Y., on the knee, which laid him up in
bed and caused the knee joint to become
stiff. A friend recommended him to use
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which he did,
and in two days was able to be around.
Mr. Shafer has recommended it to many
others, and it is excellent for any kind
offa bruisz orsprain. This same remedy
is also famous for its cures of rhemua
tism., For sale by Farrar & Farrar,
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DAWSON, GA.
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Office Stationery,
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Games of all Kinds,
Fire Stationery,
Writing Pads,Ete,, at
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At Arthur & Whitehead’s,
Out of tox‘\'_n orders promptly ats
tended to. Cigars for sale.
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Augusta, Maine.
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Notice to the Public!
THE TAILOR,
Will make suits to order from $2O
up. Pants from $5 up. My fitting
and work can be compared with any
in the state.
CUTTING, CLEANING,
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Done on short notice, Please come
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I. MINDER, The Teilor.
Opp. J. W. Wooten ¢ Bank,
Dawson, Ga,
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Columbus Southern Hailway.
Time Table No. 18 Effecive Feb. 19, 1894
Daily | l
SOUTHBOUND.| except [Sunday
Sunday., only. ‘
Lv Columbus| 3 O()pm| 7 00 am
Lv Richland | 5 40 pm, 8 47 am
Lv Dawson 755 pm!10 00 am
Ar Albany 9 15 pm|ll 00 am
Ar Bruns'k 8 10pm| 830 pm
Ar Thos'ville | 8 40 an| 8 20pm
Ar Jack’ville | 5 35 am| 635 am
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NORTHBOUND | except | Sunday
Sunday | only.
Lv Jack’ville | 7 00 pm! 7 00 am
Lv Brunswi’k| 7 OOpml 630 am
Lv Thos’ville | 300 pmj 800 am
Lv Albany 5 OOam' 300 pm
Lv Dawson 6 40am| 400 pm
Lv Richland | 8 45 am[ 515 pm
Ar Columbusill 00aml 7 OC pm
All schledues shown hetween Albany
and Brunswick and Jacksonville are
daily. No train from Albany to Thom
asville on Saturdays after 3:55 p. m.
All trains arrive and depart from Union
Depot at Columbus and Albany.
H. (. HILL, Supt.
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For WNale.
~ One 12-horse Loiler, one 10-horse °
Skinner engine, one 60 saw Winship
gin, press and fixtures, Ou.e pair
Marlin platform scales. Al as good
as new. I will sell them them cheap,
either for eash or note with good sev
curity. They can be secn at my farm
21 miles sovuth of Bronwood.
G. F. SMITH,
Bronwood, Ga.
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$1 per bos, or € boses for §6.
Sold by Farrar & Farrar in Dawson.
A. R. McCOLLUM,
Dawson, Georgia.
WANTED
_All kinds of Fur Skins, for which the
highesi cash price will be paid.
J. L. BUNCH,
Leary, Ga,
