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By €. L. RAINEY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
DAWSON, GA., Magr. 27th, 1895.
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The Atlanta city council ia getting de
cidedly goody- goody when 1t suppresses
basebali.
Louisiana is catching immigrants from
the west. Ten thousand are said to
have settied in the southwestern section
of thatstatein the past year.
It is time to hear from Spain, and
nothing but the nicest sort of reply to
our demands will be satisfactory. Un
cle Sam ought to spank her, anyhow.
"The Texas legislature has pledged it
self to have the price of cotton raised, but
the manner, means or instrument by
which such is to be accomplished was
not giveu to the public.
Everybody is gratified to learn that
M. Cleveland enjoyed nis rec2nt
onting. His impulse to hunt something
and shoot it on the spot is perfectly nat
ural under the circumstances.
The Albany Zhautauqua will be in
session next week. This is an institu
tion that is doing much good in this sec
tion, and it deserves the support of the
people. Dawson, as usual, will send
many visitors.
One of the last acts of congress was to
repeal the rule that deducted from
the salaries of conzressmen pay for the
days on which they did not attend the
sessions. For some reason Congressman
Russell did not vote when this raid for
unearned pay was made.
Thomas A. Jones, who died in Charles
county, Md., a few days ago, kept J.
Wilkes Bootuh, the assassin [of Lincoln,
in hiding for six days and got him
across the Potomac, although jhe knew
all the tima that a reward of $300,000
was offered for him by the governmen ,
The Augusta Chronicle has this perti
nent |paragraph: *‘The practice which
is becoming so common of judge
and jury which tried him, and the court
officer signing 3 petition for pardon,
leads the unprejudiced mind to inquire
why the Iconviction in the first place; if
all parties concerned think a pardon is
proper?”’
The Pittsburg Dispaitch publishes the
cheerful information that several coke
operators in the Cornellsville region
have posted notices at their works an
nouncing an advance in wages averag
ing gfifteen per cent. Such news has
been all too scarce during the past few
years, and may be taken asan index to
better times.
Governor Atkinson has offered a re
ward of $5OO for the arrest of those who
lyncbed Amos Gibson, the Monroe coun
ty rapist, a few days ago. This isall
very well for a grand stanl play, butas
long as lynching will prevent the ne
cessity of forcing our southern women
inty the crowded court room to tell
their horrible tale, these rewards will go
uncollected.
swapped off his plantation frr a grave
yard is what a south (Georgia farmer has
just done. J. G. Smith, who owned a
$5,000 farm, got tired of growing five
cent cotton and paying taxes, so he went
to Atlanta and traded his plantation for
cemetery lots. He returned home next
day as light-hearted as a joree on a fresh
burn. He says there is no tax on ceme- ‘
tery lots, and people are bound to die.
A rumor is going around that the re
publican national committee will appro
priate $30,000 to defray the expense of a
“reorganization” of th: party in Geor
gia, Itie notstated waether this fund
will be entrusted to Colonel A. E. Buck
or to the Hon., Jim. Collins, The last
fat contribution of this kind, we believe,
was bandled by Colonel Buck, and
there was some complaint in the repub
lican camp that it was not fairly dis
tributed.
A rather peculiar case is to be investi:
gated by the grand jury of the federal
court in Atlanta. A Louse owner wrote
a postal to one of his tenints, who hap
pened to bhe a policemn, asking for
paymeunt of rent due aud threatened to
rep rt the policemwn to the commission
ers if the debt was not promptly paid
The matter has been referredl to . the
United States grand jary, and as Uacle
Sam is very particular about what is
written on postal cards the develop
ments will be vers interesting. \
That National Labor Commission.
In an additional paper on the adjust
ment of labor difficulties Carroll
Wright says that he does not believe at
all in compulsory arbitration:— Purely
lecal strikes can be managed in the
places in which they originate. But
with transportation strikes and those
involving extensive paralysis of busi
ness the public is intimately concerned,
and for these he would have a national
board appointed in accordance with the
provisions of the McGann bill now be
fore congress. He says the bill provides:
First.—That a national board of arbitration
ghall be constituted for the purposes of concil
jation whenever its good offices can be utilized.
Second.—For the broad investigation of in
terstate strikes, that the public may be cor
rectly and promptly informed of the facts.
Third.—For the submission in writing by the
parties to a controversy of the difficuities and
gquestions between them to the board for final
and effective adiustment.
It does not provide inany sense for compul
sory arbitration. It aids, beyond these points,
the incorporation of labor organizations and
follows along the lines of the patriotic message
of the president in 1856, when he called the
attention of the congress specifically to the
necessity of a permanent board of arbitration,
a board that could act quicklyand without
waiting for the heat of a contest. The French
government, by the law of Dee. 27, 1892, has
crystallized these principles into its code relat
ing to industrial arbitration, and it is gratify
ing to the advocates of these measures to know
that the law is working with fairly satisfacto
ry results. The measure pending in the con
gress of the United States is one which should
receive the cordial indorsement of both em
ployers and eanployees, because it is thorough
ly fair to each and does: not in any way in
fringe upon the rights of contract, but its pro
visions tend to the establishment of the rights
of the public in matters relating to transpor
tation, while preserving the integrity and the
independence of employer and employee, SO
far as they should be preserved, in quasi pub
lic matters. The bill, should it become a law,
would inevitably result in changing the status
of railroad employees from purely corporate
employees to quasi public servants. This is
essential for the preservation of peace in trans
gottation. . =.=l o
Hapless Egypt.
England may find it necessary to an
pnex Egypt in the general interests of
civilization and the particular interests
of British trade. Thesolemn announce
ment of the London Times correspond
ent that the khedive is ‘‘givin® alarm
ing proofs of his unfitness to discharge
the duties of a ruler of Egypt’’ hints
that England may consider it incum
bent on her to depose him and put an
other in his place who will be the dog
to do Britai®’s barking. The ‘‘unfit
ness’’ the corsespondent complains of
cousists, as he explains, in the fact that
young Abbas is making it impossible
for any Egyptian ministry to work loy
ally with England. This is the crime
of Abbas, and it is an unpardonable
one in British eyes. Still worse is the
guspicion entertained that Abbas would
like to make friends with France. In
the interests of, civilization Great Brit
ain will not even let the khedive choose
his own friends. -+
Significant is- this from the corre
spondent’s letter: ‘‘The interests of
England require that the khedive’s des
perate course should be arrested with a
firm kand. This can only be done by a
sterner lesson than any yet received.”’
It is not at all unlikely that the pres
ent generation will sce Egypt, the cra
dle of civilization, a colonial possession
of England and in the condition in
which India now is. It is little better
now, in fact. And what India is Eng
land will also make of China if she is
let alone. She will do it with expres
sions of sanctimonious cant about the
interests ‘of Christianity and civiliza
tion.
The Lecture Age.
1t is quite gone by, Rev. E. P. Pow
ell tells us in The New England Maga
zine. The main reason of it now isthat
we have pecple in every neighborhood
who can speak as well as the distin
guished individuals who used to come
from a distanoe and talk for from §lOO
to $5OO a night. Mr. Powell himself
knew familiarly many of the old stars,
from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Sojourn
er Truth. Once when Emerson was to
lecture in Mr. Powell’s town he had
forgotten his notes and left them in a
place ten miles away. He could not
speak a word without them, and the
audience had towait an hour and a half
till a messenger went on horseback and
got them. When they did arrive, the
people thought that Mr. Emerson gave
from the notes the dryest lecture they
had ever listened to.
Mr. Powell’s gossipy experiences are
delightful reading:
The lyceum, what is left of it, is no longer
the New England conscience bound on a voyage
to convert the world *o political and social
righteousness. Efforts are invariably made to
book any one who has created a sensation ei
ther in political or criminal life. But while this
detracts still further from the character of
the platform erected by Theodore Parker,
William Lloyd Garrison, Richard 8. Storrs,
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner it
does not succeed in establishing even a baf
§mitation of the original idea. Mr. Wendling,
ex-Senator Ingalls, ex-Representative Wilsoy
and Senator Gordon, aii ¢loquent men, are noti
able to draw continuous crowds. The work i
done. The lyceum rose to great power and
tell away and practically died inside a single
quarter of a century. But it killed slavery,
it broke the power of superstitious theology,
it made women free, it created a universal de
mand for higher culture.
Fresh car loadof Alabama line just re
ceived at Dawson Varietv Works.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made
Examinations For Trainmen.
‘* Surgeon Granville P. Conn of Con
cord, N. H., is of opinion that before
men are employed on railroad trains
they should be subjected to a thorough
physical, mental and moral examina
tion. In a paper in The Medico-Legal
Journal he declares that the physical
test should be as severe as that for the
United States army. He is quite cor
rect in supposing that this examination
would weed out a large proportion of
the men who now apply for piaces.
After the applicant has passed the
physical tests he may be admitted to
the training classes for railroad em
ployees, which Surgeon Conn would
like to see established. The man should
have as a basis for this instruction a
good common school education to begin.
Ho should be trained in the brake and
signal systems and in the habit of in
specting tracks end every part of a car.
Ventilation, cleanliness and the man
agement of temperature Dr. Conn lays
great stress on. 1f hig suggesticns were
carried out, the comfort and safety of
the American railway passenger would
be largely augmented. The public will
thoroughly agree with the doctor that
a trainman who bribes or bullies a
newsboy into giving him peanuts and
bananas and then throws the shells and
skins npon the floor as freely as the dirt
jest of the passengers does is not a
fit subject for a place in the employ
ment of a good railway company.
A general movement in the larger
cities seems to be making to get rid of
tramps. Baltimore and Indianapolis
have largely accomplished the feat, al
though it has to be done over again at
the beginning of every winter. New
York is to make the attempt next. A
plan has been submitted to the mayor
for the abolishment of the public gentle
man of leisure. The first step will be to
hold for examination next day all who
apply to the police stations for lodging
at night. All who do not belong in the
city are to be sent out of it. An exami
nation will be made into each case, the
examination being so rigid that of itself
it will strike terror to the tramp soul.
Of the station lodgers belonging in New
York, those who are worthy objects of
charity will be turned over to the city
charities organization. Those who are
ablebodied will be sentenced to the
workhouse for from cne to six months.
A term of one month, however, will do
little good. Only the prospect of a bath
at least once a week for six months,
with work and the doing without
whisky for the same term, will scare a
tramp. That conrse of treatment would
reform him more thoroughly than hang
ing him up by the thumbs or applying
the rack to him.
A late census bulletin shows that an
estimate of five persons to the average
family is not far from correct. There
are in the United States 12,690,152
families. The investigation into their
number was mad=a partly with the view
of ascertaining how many people in the
United States own the homes they live
in. The report is not a particularly
cheerful one. Over half the families in
this republic, 52.20 per cent, live in
rented houses or on rented farms. Fur
thermore, only about 33 per cent of all
the people in tais.country own their
homes unencumbered by debt or mort
gage. If the present tendency continues,
it will in a generation or two more be
in this republic as it is in European
monarchies, the land all in the hands of
the few, while the majority of the in
babitants, like those of Ircland, will be
a peasant and a tenant class. If this
was what the pilgrim fathers landed on
Plymouth Rock for, they might better
have staid on the other side. It was not
worth the trouble of coming here. It
was not worth the trouble of fighting
the American Revolution and proclaim
ing that all men were born free.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy gives
the best satisfaction of anyv cough medi
cine I handie, and as a seller leads all
other preparations in this market. I
recommend it becance it is the best med]
icine I ever handled for eoughs, cods and
-roup. A. W. BALDRIDGE, Millersville,
[ll. For sale by Farrar & Farrar.
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DR. T. H. THURMOND,
Pawson, Ga.
Your patronage solicited, Office
upstairs in the building on court
house square.
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Sunday, 10 to 11 a. m, to Sp. m.
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ATIORNEY A 1 LAW,
DAWSON, <A,
(Office in Baldwin Block, Main St.)
Will practice in all the courts of the
Pataala circuit, and elsewhere by spe
cial contract.
James G- pal‘ks,
Attorney atlaw.
" DAWSON, GA.
Prompt and careful attention given to
all business. Specialti Coumer.
cial Law and Collection
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M. C. ELWARDS, Jr,
LAWYER.
Room' 4 Baldwin Block, Dawson,
Georgia
Rusinesy respectfullv solicited.
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J. A. LAING,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DAWSON, GA.
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ATTORNEY AT ILAW,
. AWSON, GA.
DR. ]. H. WILLIFORD,
Physician and Surgeon,
PARROTT, GA,
Offer their professional services to
the people of Parrott and surrvund
ing country
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I bereby tender my professional
services to the public Office at my
tather's residence seven miles n rth
ot Dawson. Calls promptly attende
ed day or night.
LUCIUS LAMAR, M. D.
A CARD.
Thanking the good people of Dawson
and vicinity for their past liberal patron
age, I again tender them my profession
al services. Ican be found in the day
time at my rooms in the Baldwin block
or at the Sale-Davis drug store, and at
n‘ght at my residence on Orangestreet.
Prompt attention given to all calls. Of
fice practice solicited. Charges reason
able. Respectfuliy
W. C KENDRICK, M.'D.
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1 take this method of tenaerinZ my ser
vices as a physician to the people of
Dawson and vicinity. My office 18 locat
ed in Baldwin’s Building, at Dr. Ken
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found at the Barues House. Your pat
ronage will be highly appreciated, and
all calls will receive prompt attention.
Respectfully,
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Sealed Pronosals Wanted
. Dawson, GA., Feb. 20th, 189.
Bids will be received at the office of
the Commissiozers of Roads and Rever
nues of Terrell enunty, Ga., at the court
house at Dawson, until the 30th day of
April, 1895, for the erestion and comple
tion of a fire proof jail bunilding with
steel cells in accordance with the plans
and specifications now on file in said
office. The board reserves the right (¢
reject any or all bids.
By order of the Commissioners.
J. W. ROBERTS,
Ordinary and ex-Officio Secretary
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If this be true about anything, !‘"r,elyl
it would be with the Alabama Practica
Business College. et
Nine diplomas have been jssued withid
the past six weeks, and seven out of niné
graduates have accepted and are I}O‘d"‘i
remunerative positions with differel
leading firms of this and neighboriog
cities. : >
Prof. €. A, Johnson, the principal, 18
doinz good work, and we advise every
voung man and woman desiring t,"”:;
quire 3 thorough, practical busine?
education, to enter for a course in ‘i%
high-standing institution.