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quE NPGROES WHO EMIGRATED TO
MEXICO ARE HAVING A
HARD TIME.,
No Cord 11eal or Bacon Down There--Span
jsh Cow Boys Armed and on Horse
pack Guard Them.
A San Antnio, Texzs, special s;ys:
wpee Leo” Williams, the negro colonizer
who is well known throughout the south
orn Stat€S, arrivel here today from the
ranch near Mapimi, Mexico, upon which
the 700 negro families from Alabama and
Georgia Ware recently colonized. He is
thorougbly disgusted with the scheme of
colonizing Degro families ‘in Mexico,
and the disclosures concerning the
condition of the negroes who have been
taken there by him and W, H. Ellis, of
§an Antonio. !
in o circular issued today, headed
ssatement of Facts, Regarding the
Movement of Negroes to Mexico,” ‘‘Peg
Leg’ Wilhiams says:
«This is to certify that the induce
ments offered by W. H. Ellis, who claims
to represent the Mexican -Colonization
Qompany, are far from being carried out,
although some of his statements regard
ing the land and raising of cotton and
corn are true. He was to have houses
ready sixty days from January 15th for
exch family, and they were to have house
wom ready for the entire colony on
amival of the people, which was not the
cse. After traveling for four days and
mghts, cramped up in cars, they were
driven in wagons from Mapimi station
twenty-four miles from the railroad.
They had nothing to eat all day, and it
was very cold for that country. On arri
val there they were forced to cam;; out
qround their wagons with the women
and children, thereby catching colds
during the night. Up to the time I left
they were still out with their wagous,
but they were cleaning up an adobe
house, which was connected with the
cotton gin shed, a place about twenty
feet wide and sixty feet deep, in which
to put thirty-four families and 196 souls
until the special adobe houses could
bebuilt. They were also compelled to
be under the management of a Spaniard
who has never had any experience in
handling colored people and can speak
very little English,
GUARDED BY ARMED MEN.
“They were also guarded by Mexicans
whoride Mexican horses and who are
regular guards, armed with six shooters
and Winchesters attached to their sad
dles and are paid $12.50 per month to
guard the premises and to look after the
labor on said place.
“These people know mnothing about
colored people’s ways or “habits, and it
will, therefore, be very hard to have any
mutual agreement or to harmonizse any
class of labor under such conditions,
tither to the success of the labor or to
the enterprise. Each man was to have
bis contract and kuo v what h s railroad
fare was to be and his traveling expen
8. This was not done, and you will
therefore see that they were left in the
dark, not knowing what they are getting
Orwhat their expenses will be in a dis
t.?nt land, 528 miles from the line of the‘
United States and through a desert
Country, where there are stations at dis
tances of only every fifty or sixty miles
fm Fagle Pass to Torreon. I think
they had arranged before I left there to
Suppress any letters that might be writ
ten back to their people here unless they
Were written to suit them, until they can
Wake a few more shipments.
,“Uf tourse you can work your letters
‘ough on the quiet by parties who
Wght be passing and get them to mail
them,
“There is no corn meal and no bacon
I€at, and the colored man will have to
V¢ on such slops as the Mexicans use in
hat tountry, They charge double price
?r the rations, I know the nature of
i€ colored people and what farming is,
“fl make this statement on account of
;,m‘-' implicated in making the first
n’é’i‘?*‘“i of colored people to Mexico,
on account of erroneous statements
fal“fjhf me'by W. H. Ellis and friends
118 who corrohorated what he said. I
z:’l‘ilflv::m they were all interested in
issio,: “‘f“_"if geft}ng the handsome com-
Bt i“ ¥or $6 per head on eyery one
4 :v,\“,df,lced to locate on this ranch.
hic isl 'Lflt:svponsxble for this statement,
atior; ter about fifteen days’ investi
ad I.ol'[‘"l_'l‘l’:‘s"‘() Ml'rlplm.i and to the ranch
E what | Spé’alil,?f seeing and knowing
ot .‘.(‘:::ll‘:“'f Cfflne High in Persia.
ribes cni? I;,{2[l] ;"{ some of the Persian
Fabout 3300 ‘S{;t hlu;band 100 tomans,
i€ the second %uoig the first husband
48 before he can 311‘ l'(nutsl: pa?:i2oo itl?-
U, and son = t_a e the widow his
the to . ime she marries up
becai{;l.ml tnme. This ascendirg scale
Tease ag ], éeéa‘i’zlue is supposed to in
carp_et Weavers gl ?iater experience as
00y is paid to I aa housewife. The
Uiving ¢, Nae n:; father, and if he is
rest male relative.
Rs 7 ST R e TB AT W
- WILL GORDON RETIRE?
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A Rumor That Hon, Pat Walsh Has an
Eye on His Flace.
A Washington special to the Savannah
News says:
“There is a rumor floating around in
the Georgia colony to the effect that
Gen. Gordon will not be a candidate for
re-election to the ferate, when his term
expires in 1897. It is said that he has
grow weary of political life, with its
accempanying excitement and responsi
‘bilities, and he proposes to devote his
energies to several *business enterprises
in which he is said to have an interest,
Those who are familiar with the situa
tion iu Georgia say that Gen. Gordon
will be his own successor, if he but says
the word. In the closing hours of the
recent congress there was nothing in
Gen. Gordon’s manner to indicate that
he was growing weary of senatorial life.
On the contrary, he appears to like it.
It is said that if Gen. Gordon concludes
to retire from the senate, Patrick Walsh
will again offer himself to the Georgia
legislature for senatorial honors. Some
ot Mr. Walsh’s friends say that he ill
probably enter the race for Gen. Gor
dn’s seat when the contest opens. It
is pretty well known here as in Georgia,
that Mr. Walsh found the life of a sena
tor exceedingly congenial and pleasant,
and he just had enough of it to want
more. He was not here long enough to
acquire a great amount of influence in
that body, but for a new comer he was
making rapid strides in that direction
when his senatorial career was snuffed
out by the election of Senator Bacon.”
PRACTICING DOUGLASS DOCTRINE.
A Negro Calls to See a Young Lady and
Gets a Whipping.
QUITMAN, GA., March 12.—Isaac
Crawford, a big, black negro, about 35
years old, went yesterday to Mr, James
Tison’s, a respectable citizen of this
county who lives about four miles from
town, and called Mr. Tison out. Craw
ford inqaired where Tison’s daughter
was. Tison did not understand him at
first, and asked him what he wanted.
Crawford said he came to court Tison’s
daughter and that he intended to see her.
Tison went for his gun and the negro
)
The negro met some other negroes not
far from Mr. Tison’s, and told what h:d
occurred. He said, with an oa‘h, that
he intended to see Tison’s daughter last
night, but a crowd called on him lasti
night, took him out and gave him a!
severe thrashing. |
Crawford was in town this morning
trying to employ an attorney to prose
cute those who whipped him, but the
attorney advised him to leave the county,
ald leave it while he was still alive,
An Oddity of the Income Tax.
Washington Letter in Chicago Times-
Herald.
The income tax is raising some odd
questions here, as elsewhere. Congress
man Fielder, of New Jersey, who was
elected to fill the unexpired term of E.
F. McDonald, deceased, has very gra
ciously made over the total salary re
ceiyed by him since he took the oath of
congressman, $9,000, to his predecessor’s
widow. The ‘“‘now d’ye do”’ part of it
arises from the construction of the in
come tax law by Commissioner Miller
‘and Speaker Crisp, both of whom hoid
‘that Congressman Fielder must pay 2
per cent. on the amount, the law holding
that all incomes, no matter whether
earned or bequeathed, are taxable. 3o
that 1t will be seen that the goyernment,
like the man with the double-ended eel
trap in the river, catches 'em a-coyiv’
and gwine.”
Wouldl Not Speak to Women.
A Derby, Connecticat, telegram says:
«James Fitzpatrick, the famous Derby
hermit, was found dead in his hut this
morning. A party found him lying dead
on the floor. Half a century ago he was
a yery prominent person, but he was dis
appointed in love and for forty years he
has not spoken to a woman. During
this time he had lived as a seclase in an
old hut in the suburbs. If a woman ap
proached hishut he would run away and
hide. He is wealthy, but his money has
i not yet been found.
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40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
T 0 CATCH THE FARMERS.
THE ADVANCE IN CcOTTON THOUGHT
TO BE A SCHEME,
Worked by the Sharks to Induce the Far
mers to Plant Another Big Crop
and thus Keep Prices
. ./Down.
~ For the past several days there has
been a boom in cotton futures, the mar
ket jumping nearly forty points or almost
a half a cent since Wednesday. Yester
day there was a decline} of about tea
points, which may, however, be recover
ed shortly, as it is yet too soon to draw
the net and land the suckers.
For, as is usually the case, the man at
the end of the poleisjin New York, while
the “‘fish” nibble the tempting bait at
this end of the line.
The rise in the market is said to be
the work of speculators, and cotton men
are well on to the game they are trying
to play. A prominent factor of Augusta
expresses the opinion that the present
boom in the market is only an effort to
encourage the farmer to keep on plant
ing the usual cotton acreage.
The buyers well know that the farm
ers are depressed and despondent over 5
cent cotton and n)w thatthey have near
iy all sold at that money losing
figure the speculators, to choke
them off from entering the
movement to reduce the acreage, which
has be.ome a serious matter for consid
eration with the farmers, and whick
they all have about agreed upon to enter,
nave started jumping the price at the
rail end of the season. The advancing
prices now will not benefit the farmers
at all, for it is a very small percentage
of them who have not marketed and sold
their crop.
The Augusta cotton man says the
hope of those who are booming the
market is to get the planters to grow
more cotton this year than ever before
s 0 as to flood tke counfry with another
excess've crop, which will make the
prices next season as low, if not lower,
‘han they have ever been. It is to be
hoped that the farmers will not get trap
ped by this trickery scheme, but will
adhere to their intentions of reducing the
acreage and make less cotton and more
hog and hominy and other home sup
plies.
All Free.
Those who have used Dr. King’s New
Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have now the opportunity to
try it Free. Call on the adyertised Drug
sists and get a Trial Bottle Free. Send
your name and address to H. E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of
Or. King’s New Life Piils, Free, as well
18 a copy of Guide to Health and House
hold Instructor, Free. All of which is
suaranteed to do you good and cost you
nothing. Sale-Davis Drug Co.
When the electrical water power
transmission scheme at Niagara falls is
finished, it will be the greatcst enter
prise established for such purpose on the
globe. But it is by no means the first,
nor was it when it was planned. Al
ready in the west, particularly on the
Pacific slope, water power transformed
into an electrical current has been sent
to places where power was needed miles
away. The San Antonio (Cal.) Light
and Power company has for several
years dispatched power toa plant 30
miles away. Scores of other establish
ments in California and other western
states transmit power from water falls
electrically over anywhere from 4 to 15
miles of wire. The great 5,000 horse
power dynamo made for’ the Niagara
plant is constructed or the latest idea
of Tesla. If power can be sent electric
ally 30 miles, there is no reason why it
cannot be sent 200 miles. That seems
plain.
If legislatures undertake to pass laws
that women shall not wear large and
high hats to the theater, they ought also,
while they are about it, to affix to the law
a clause declaring that all men who go
out for drinks between acts should take
seats next the aisle, so that a whole row
of people will not have to rise each time
they dodge out. It is a poor rule that
will not work both ways. Meantime,
however, the sympathies of the public
are entirely with the movement against
the high hats. They are an annoyance
and an exasperation that only those who
have sat behind one of them at a public
meeting can appreciate. One way to
abate the nuisance might be for a sec
tion of a theater to be set specially apart
for the big hatted ladies, where they
could have it all to themselves and an
noy nobody but themselves With their
towering Gainsboroughs.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy gives
the best satisfaction of any cough medi
cine I handie, and as a seller leads all
other preparations in this market. 1
recommend it becauce it is the best medl
icine I ever handled for coughs, cods and
croup. A. W. BALprinGE, Millersville,
111. For sale by Farrar & Farrar.
Senator Sherman
has offered his services to the President to
setue the currency question. He has openly
stated that he
the issue of bonds to national repudiation
Bnt shall the bonds be payable in gold or
coin? We are not so particular., We will
accept bonds, gold, silver, greenbacks or pen
nies in payment for
W
at our store or on accounts. Call aud try us.
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Dr. Miles’ Nervine
Cures.
Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold on a %ositive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All druggists sell it at $l, 6 bottles for 85, or
it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles' Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
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Farrar & Farrar
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Farm Liands
AND CITY PROPERTY
At lowestsrates of interest. Old loans
rene ved.
R. F. SIMMONS]
Attorney at Law and Agent for Georgia
Loan and Trust Ce.
E G BrEEn.
AT I'ORNEY AT LAW,
AMERICUS, GA.
Will practice in all the courts of
the state and in the United States
courts,
J. H. GUERRY,
ATTORNEY:« AT LAW,
DAWSON, <A,
(Office in Baldwin Block, Main St.)
Will practice inall the courts of the
Patauala circuit, and elsewhere by spe
cial contract.
M. C. ELWARDS, Jr,
LAWYER.
Room 4 Baldwin Block, Dawson,
Georgia
Businesy respectfully solicited.
James G. Parks,
Attorney atlzaw,
DAWSON, GA.
Prompt and careful attention given to
all business. Specialti ~ Commer~
cial Low and Collection 55
J. A. LAING,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DAWSON, GA.
Prompt atttention to all business
NOTICE.
I WANT every man and woman in the United
States interested in the Opium and Whisky
habits to have one of m&bookc on these dis
eases. Address B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga.
Box 382, and one will be sent you free.
SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION
—OF THE—
GEORGIA'
cH U
MBRCH 31ST-RPRIL 7TH.
CALENDAR FOR (895.
March 18 to April 6. ... .Special Schools
March 31............... Annual Sermon
Aprill........Opening Seventh Session
AP 2. ..o sk eRI B
AP G, . .. i, DIANE CADAEEE
April 4. ... ... o o Natinnal llny
Aprilb. ~ ........0 ... . Governor's Day
Apri1@................Rec0gniti0n Day
Monday, March 18,
Opening Special Schools
Sunday, March 31....... Annual Sermon
Monday, April 1,
Opening Seventh Annual Session
rfussday, Apnil 2, .. ........Rallying Day
Wednesdry April 3. ... Educational Day
Thursaay, April 4. .. ......National Day
Friday, April 5. .....Grand Concert Day
Saturday, April 6. ... ...Recognitior Day
Railroads will furnish transportation
for round trips at one fare.
For further information address
H. M. McINTOSH,
Superintendent,
R. H. WARREN,
Secretary.
school Books,
School Supplies.
Office Stationery,
Blank Books,
Bibies and Prayer Books,
(Games of all Kinds,
Fine Stationery,
Writing Pade, : al
C. L. MIZE, the Stationer.
At Arthur & Whitehead’s.
Out of town orders promptly at
tended to. Cigars for sale.
A As B
Nothin? Zucceeds
.
Like Buccess.
If this be true about anything, surely
it would be with the Alabama Practical
Business College. ‘
Nine diplomas have been issued within
the past six weeks, and seven out of nine
graduates have accepted and are holding
remunerative positions with different
leading firms of this and neighboring
cities.
Prof. C. A. Johnson, the principal, is
doinz good work, and we advise every
young man and woman desiring to ac
quire a thorough, practical business
education, to enter for a course in ‘his
high-standing institution.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed Proposals Wanted.
DAwsoN, GA., Feb. 20th, 1895.
Bids will be received at the office ef
the Commissiozers of Roads and Reve
nues of Terrell county, Ga., at the court
house at Dawson, until the 30th day of
April, 1893, for the erection and comple
tion of a fire proof jail building with
steel cells in accordance with the plans
and specifications now on file in said
office. The board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
By order of the Commissioners. g 3
J. W. ROBERTS,
Ordinary and ex-Officio Secretary. %
~ J. L. JANES
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
| UAWSON, GA.