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By E. L. RAINEY.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
DAWSON, GA., Mar. 20th, 1895.
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An esteemed exehange prints a half
column about *‘giving dinners,” but neg
lects to tell us a word about how to get
them.
The Terrell county farmers should
keep itin their minds that with plenty
ot cornin their cribs, }some fat hogs in
the pen, and peas and potatoes and such
like in abundance, they can get -long
very nicely.
A few days ago an effort was made to
pass a Mexican silver dollar in Nawson,
but the attempt was uunsuccessful. Its
owner finally succeeded in getting rid of
it by allowing a heavy discount. The
demonetization of silver is getting in its
waork.
The American free thinkers who or
ganized a colony at Topolobampo, Mexi
co, in 1886, now number 267 persons. In
this community there are no bosses.
Everything is on the co-operative plan.
But there 1s no work, no money, and the |
people are too poor to get away.
Russia has abandoned the lash as an
instrument of punishment for criminals
The New York senate has voted tc re
vive the lash as an instrument of pun
ishment for criminals.]Jßussia is regarded
as the least civilized of all the so-called
civilized nations; New York is the fore
most state of one of the most advanced
countries of the earth.
The ring masters of the two rival po
litical circuses are arranging now for a
little rest and recuperation. Senator
Quay is in Florida,where he will fish and
figure on future political movements.
Senater Gorman is going to Germany
shortly to drink water and take the
famous baths of mud. The mud he h-s
been geiting into over here is not con
ducive to health,
Waether prophets—‘‘the oldest in
habitant” kind, not the professional gen
tlemen connected with the agiicultural
department—say that early morning
rains about this season of the year are a
sure sign that the backbone of wiater
has been broken. When it rains all day,
however, it doesn’t mean apything, ex
cept that it is a gocd time to keep your
eye open for the umbrella fiend.
The crippled girl at Kaneville, Tll.,
who has been collecting stamps now has
several tons of letters. A few weeks
ago she receivad 20,000 letters a day, but
they have dwindled to two or three bush
els daily. As to the cash value of this
avalanche of fstamps everything remains
to be seen. One or two New York deal
ers have offered %50 a million for the un
gorted stamps without inspection, and a
Chicago firm $lOO per million. The
craze has nearly run its course, and Miss
Garmany is glad of it. ;
The [news 'of the organization into a
republican club of a number of Geor
gians who bave heretofore been demo
erats is interesting and suggeétive. In
these days, when the demn~crats of the
south are divided on the financial lines
or other lines of policy, the real danger
of democratic loss of control of affairs
comes from the republican party. The
strong belief which exists in almost all
quarters that the republicans will be
successful in the next national election
has had a tendency to develop republi
can sympathizers here in the south as
elsewhere.
Mr. Collis P. Huntington, the presi
dent of the Southern Pacific railway sys
tem, is a far-seeing and successful busi
ness man, whose judgment is rarely at
fault, and his opinions always receive
the serious consideration of the commer
cial world. It is his conviction that
from now Jon the country will see five
years as bright and properous as any pe
riod within the past fifty years. Mr.
Huntingtoo jbriefly gives his reasons for
belieying there willbe a speedy improve
ment 1n business. He says that the
cHuntry is comparatively barren of goods
and it must be supplied. In his experi
ence of sixty years he says that he has
.mever known more than three
years ot prosperity in ten, and usually
there have been three pretty bad years
in ten. The past three years have been
unsteady, and the time has come for a
revival of prosperity. All this is is very
pleasant, but after all it 18 only one
man’s opinion.
The Vanishing Woodlands.
For 50 wise men have been detail
ing the dire evils that will result
from the deforesting of ounr American
lands. The barren southern shores of
the Mediterranean, which used to sup
port a great and wealthy population, are
r pointed out as the result of allowing a
“country to bestripped of its forests. Ex
perts hold conventions once a year, at
which forest destruction is denounced
and-forest. preservation advocated with
an eloquence that captivates all who
hear and read. The Century magazine
lately contained suggestions from a doz
en learned men on how to prevent
~America from becoming a desert waste
devastated alternately by floods and
droughts.
Meantime forest destruction among us
goes on if possible faster than ever.
With all the talk, the commissions and
the conventions, forest fires are worse
than they ever were before, forest thieves
and forest grazers are more abundant
and impudent. Several gentlemen war
a government commission appointed to
take testimmony and consider the matter
carefully. Heaven save the country from
any more commissions. We have too
many now, such as they are, and the
money they cost is something fearful.
What we want more than anything
else is for each particular state to take
the matter of forest preservation in its
own borders seriously and with determi
nation in hand. We have agricultural
colleges and stations. In each of these
there should be a thorough course in
forestry. There is already in some of
them. A school sending out year after
year classes of enthusiastic young forest
preserving graduates would soon create
a public sentiment on the right side.
The creation of such publicsentiment is
the great need today in the whole coun
try.
We do not need a school of govern
ment forestry at West Point, at least
not yet. We want every individual
farmer and schoolboy and schoolgirl
taught that instead of the cutting down
of trees in the older parts of the coun
try trees must be planted. We want
the pioneer settlers to learn that forest
fires are their worst enemies and that
every precaution must be taken to pre
vent them. The science of forest preser
vation should be taught to school chil
dren.
As to the general government, let it
protect its own public forest lands and
keep marauders off them by means of
the United States army, and let thers
be no humbug about it.
Increased Gold Output.
The year 1894 witnessed in the Unit
ed States a considerable increased gold
production. This is owing partly to the
more exact and careful system of min
ing, partly, also, to the fact that vari
ous mines have yielded more abundant
ly than they did last year. At the same
time the production of silver ore has
fallen off. If the present conditions con
tinue, it is likely that the increase of
gold and the decrease of silver at the
mines will last till the two metals be
come more nearly equalized in amount.
The amount of gold mined in the coun
try during 1894 was $43,000,000, an in
crease of $7,000,000 over 1893. The
chief increase was in Colorado, which
gained $3,000,000. Colorado’s total gold
product for 1894 was §10,500,000, al
most one-quarter of the whole quantity
produced in the country. California
gained $2,000,000 in gold during the
year, and her total output of the yellow
metal amounted to $14,000,000. Cali
fornia is still therefore the leading gold
state of the Union, and Colorado comes
next. These two states produced nearly
three-fifths of the total amount. Next in
production ranks Montana, with §4, 000, -
000. Montaha has also increased her
output about three-quarters of a mil
lion. These are the principal gold yield
ing states. Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington also report an increased gold
product.
Great is the American Institute of
Civics. It purports to teach Americans
the science of government and the du
ties of a citizen. But one of its learned
professors lately declared that he did
‘not believe in reading newspapers and
‘that he would prefer to educate young
people not to read newspapers rather
‘than educate them todo so. Pretty kind
i of a professor that! The people’s history
‘is the newspaper. A good journal con
‘tains more of the truescience of govern
} ment in its pages in a year than such a
~professor as that can teach young people
‘in five years or ten years. The best lit
erature, the best sermons, the best criti
cism, the records of all the great eco
nomic movements, scientific discoveries
and everything else come to the people’s
knowledge through their newspaper
Furthermore, a paper is not a newspa
per unless it gives the news, whatever
that may be.
Fort Wayne was named after General
Anthony Wayne.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made.
’ ' February Birthdays.
| It has been duly imipressed upon the
minds of aspiring young people that
George Peabody, whose hundredth birth
day was lately celebrated because he
was a philanthropist, began life as a
grocer’s clerk. It is hard to realize that
the man who became rich enough to
give away Inillions was in youth oblig
ed to stir out of bed at 4 o’clock in the
morning and bang down the shutters
and wake all the neighbors; that he
bad to wait up after 10 at night, and
with an achiag back and sleepy eyes
carry down sellar the sidewalk display
of prunes, patatoes and coffee. Yet
such is the fact. George Peabody saved
his money and invested it so shrewdly
that after a time he was able to make
other people get up at 4 o’clock in the
morning for him, while he staid com
fortable in bed. But it must be told
that Peabody never loved his native
country very much and that he remained
altogether in England during his later
years. He gave money for benevolent
purposes as freely in England as in
America, which, to be sure, he had a
perfect right to do.
But there is another American born
in the same month of February whose
birthday ought to be celebrated more
generally. He was not rich. All the
property put together that he ever own
ed in his whole life would not amount
to a million or the half of it. He ought to
be held up to bright American boys as
a model much more frequently than has
been the fashion of late years. He be
longed wholly to America. He is ours,
and ours only, and his name is George
Washington.
The Pacific Railroad Debt.
By the acts of 1862 and 1864 con
gress loaned to the companies under
taking the construction of the railroad
from the Missouri river to the Pacific
coast $64,000,000. Besides that it grant
ed to them outright 25,000,000 acres
of land. Interest was to be paid on the
loan at 6 per cent. In return the gov
ernment took a first lien on the proper
ty of the Pacific road. After the work
had been begun, however, it was found
that thére was not money enough to
complete it. Then by another act of
congress the company was permitted to
raise money on their own corporation
bonds. The government agreed to take
a back seat and give those who held the
company’s private bonds a first lien on
the road, itself taking a second lien.
That was more than 30 years ago.
Not one-quarter of the interest has ever
been paid by the Pacific railroad com
panies to the United States government.
The loan, which at first was $64, 000, -
000, is now swelled by interest to $l3B, -
000,000. The companies overreached
the government, causing their contract
with the United States to be drawn in
such a way that the government lien
only covers the main lines and not the
branches of the roads. The govern
ment’s second mortgage on the roads,
therefore, already amounts to twice as
much as the roads are worth, and there
is not the slightest prospect that it will
be paid. One proposition made is that
the government take possession of the
roads and operate them or lease them.
These are hard times in America. It
has been suggested that the patriotic
owners of great sngar and other planta
tions in Hawaii import Americans in
stead of Portuguese and Japs for agri
cultural work. Intelligent American
citizens can stand the climate and the
labor admirably. A quiet movement of
Americans to Hawaii would knit closer
that republic and this. It would in time
woed out the Japs and Portuguese that
pow constitute the element most threat
ening to the safety and permanency ol
the Hawailan government.
There is nobody in this world go im
portant that if he died his place could
not be filled in three days. Let this re
flection keep down our vanity. When
Czar Alexander passed out, great dis
turbance was predicted in his realm and
in Europe. Yet the peace of Europe is
maintained just the same, and the gov
ernment of Russia continues without a
jar, even though M. de Giers died too.
Ohio is going into the pheasant breed
ing business. The state game and fish
cominission has leased some ground
along the famous hunting region at St.
Mary’s reservoir and for five years will
devote efforts to the rearing of both the
New Jersey pheasant and the English
ring necked pheasant. From time to
time healthy young birds will be turned
loose in the Ohio forests and fields.
A severe rheumatic pain in the left
shoulder had troubled Mr. J. H. Loper,
a well known druggist of Des Moines,
lowa, for over six months. At times the
pain was so severe that he could not lift
anything. With all he could not get rid
of it until he applied Chamberiain’s Pain
Balm. *I only made three applications
of it,”” he says, ‘‘and have since been
free from all pain.’’ He now recom
mends it to persons similarly afflicted.
It is for sale by Farrar & Farrar.
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New License Ordinanee.
Adopted by the Town Council
of Sasser, Ga., on Februa
ry, sth, 1895.
Each retail whisky dealer per an-
BRI
Each gnano agent or dealer per an-
B o oy e
¢ (otton seed huyer ** 500
« Saw and grist mill ¢ * 500
¢ Person subject to street tax 200
or four days work on the streets.
All ordipances in conflict with the
ebove are hereby re jealed,
R. T. DOZIER, Mayor.
G. W. VARNER, Acting Clerk.
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Sheriff Sale.
Will be sold before the court house
door in Dawson, Terrell county, Ga., on
the first Tuesday in April, 1895, within
the legal hours of sale, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following described
property, to-wit* All of lots of land num
bers 106 and 107, contaiuing 2024 acres
each, in the Third district of Terrell
county, Ga., also 75 acres off of lot num
ber 119 in s=id district and county, this
being the 75 acres conveyed by B. F.
Melton to C. C. Prendergast; also lots
pumbers 269 and 270, and lot number 302
—lying south of Cogan’s mill creek ex
cept 10 acres—said lot 302 containing 100
acres, this tract being in the Fou th dis
trict of Terrell county, Ga.; also 25}
acres ¢f land in the city of Dawson, Ga.,
lying west of Main street and souht of
(‘'uhbert Alley, bounded on the sout™ by
Mrs. Sharpe and west by the creek and
Baldwin’s land, said tract being compos—
ed of 5 acres conveyed to C. C. Pender
gast by Mary E. Ross, 13 acres conveyed
to C. C. Pendergast by Patrick Ward, 23
acres conveyed (o C. C. Pendergast by J.
P. Allen, and 5 acres conveyed to C. C.
Pendergast by George Bunch; levied
upon as the property ot (. C. Pendergast
to satisfy a fi fa issued from the superior
court of Dougherty county, Ga., in tavor
of Alber L. Richards agains't the said C.
C. Pendergast Tenants in possession
notified. This March sth. 1895.
D. K. CHRISTIE, Sherift.
Sheriff Sale.
Will be sold befere the court house
door in Dawson, Terrell county, Ga.,
on the first Tuesday in April next,
within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
described property, to. wit : all of lots
of land Nos. 155 and 156 in the 12th
district of said county, levied upon as
property of S. M. Thompson to satis
tya fi‘a issued from the justice court
of the 1143rd district, G, M., of said
county, in tavor of the First State
Rank against said S. M Thompson,
leyy made by A. J. Kenney, L. C.
and returned to me: also to satisfy a
fifa issned trom the county court of
said courty in favor of the First State
Bank against the said S.M. Thomp~
som. Tenants in posseseion notified.
Chis Meb. sth, 1895.
D. K. CHRISTIE, Sheriff.
Sheriff Sale.
Will be sold betore the court house
door in Dawson, Terrell county, Ga.,
on the first Tuesday in April next,
within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
desciibed property, toswit: Two hun
dred and thirty-five acres of land,
the same being parts of lots numbers
190 avd 120, in the 909th cistrict,
G. M., ot said counrty; levied upon as
the property of Belle M. Lundy to
satisty afi fa issued from the county
court of Terrell county in tavor of A.
J. Baldwin & Co. against said Belle
M. Lundy. This March sth, 1895.
D. K. CHRISTIE, Sheriff.
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Skins Wanted-
I will pay for otter skins from $2.00 to
$5.00, beaver $2.00 to $4.00, Raccoon 10
to 30 cents, skunks 20 to 40 eents, grey
fox 20 to 50 cents, red fox 40 to 80 cents,
mink 20 to 50 cents, wild eat 10 t 0 25
cents, Bring or send to
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