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By E. L. RAINEY.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE (,7()fiNTY.
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DAWSON, GA., ApriL 3rd, 1835.
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Governor McKinley did not get down
into Florida, A cold wave came up
from that]state and gave his presidential
boom a chill.
The farmer is merrily speeding the
plow these balmy days. May he reap the
reward that his perseverance and pa
tieace deserve.
Wonders will never cease. The Atian
ta Journai quotes from David B. Hill
and refers to him as a statesman. An
ointment with administration oil works
miracles. .
Of the many woman’s editions that
have been gotten out recently that of
the Albany Herald was one of the very
best. ,Albany should be proud of its
women editors.
- Tae NEws hears from good authority
that Colonel Bill Harrison, of Quitman,
has secured a sz,ooo berth in the interi
or lepartment. The colonel deserves
the plum, and will receive ‘he congratu
lations of his friends.
An Atlanta official quted scripture in
in & meeling the other day, and the dig
nitaries adjourned in a row. If there is
anything that the Atlanta politician
draws the line at it is hearing the
scripture and following its teachings.
A well-known woman physician jof.
Chicago has declared that men cught to
wear skirts on the street and knee:
breeches at night. The opinion ex
pressed by the Chicago womau 183 only
an indication, perhaps, of what may be
expected 1f women ever get the power to
make laws.
Savannah is already making prepara
tions for her May festival. The indica
tions are that it will be held without
the usual attendance of naval vessels.
The warships at this juncture are too
busy rushing around to see that
nobody steps on the tail of Uncle Sam'’s
coat to take partin any merry-making.
Under South Carolina’s latest reform
low rooster fighting may be carried on
at any place in that state not within
three miles of a school house. This law
is calculated to kill the sport by forcing
the south Carolina youth to walk three
miles to fight his chickens or grow to
manhood without a knowledge of its
blood quickening merits.
At Anderson, Ind., the cash value of a
wife is $5 in hand on delivery and $2O to
be paid in four equal monthly pay
ments. At least those are the terms up
on which one man at that place pur
chased the wife of his neighbor, upon
the authority of a newspaper corres
pondent. Was this bargain and sale
more reprehensible than the matri
monial bargains and sales that are some
times made between society heiresses
and titled foreigners?
fere is a pointer for the south. We
spend annually ‘the sum of $100,000,-
000 for products, horses and mules,
which could be raised with greater prof
it in this section than elsewhere. The
bulk of this vast sum goes to the west to
pay for grain and meats. Before the
war the south raised its own corn and
provisions, and an agitation has been
started to return to that custom. If less
cotton were produced and more acreage
wera devoted to other erops. che finances
of southern jfarmers would be in better
condition at tke end of a season,
The Savannah News wants to know
what the people can expect when many
of their representatives have such a low
moral tone. The Washington dispatch
‘es call attention to a good many shady
transactions by certain congressmen.
Several days ago attention was called to
the charge §made by the secretary of ag
riculture that several congressmen sold
for cash the seed allottei to them for
their constituents by theagricultural de
partment. Now it is said that quite a
number of congressmen pocketed the
money allowed them for stationery, and
at'the same time used paper furnished by
congress for committee rooms. Another
chazge is that they have sold books giv
‘en to them for their constituents. Evi
‘dently there are congressmen who have
not as high an appreciaticn of what #s
right and wrong as they should,
‘Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made
Getting Rid of the Peers.
How to abolish the house of lords
without hurting its feelings too much
is a problem with which England must
grapple at the close of the nineteenth
century. A sentiment is, growing that
a hereditary legislative house is an an
achronism in this enlightened age.
Why, because a man is born with a ti
tle, he is endowed with any peculiar
'wisdom for making laws to govern his
fellow countrymen is a question the
British people are asking oftener and
oftener of the British constitution. The
answer is bound to come before many
years, and it is bound to be against the
lords.
Mr. G. Swift McNeill, M. P., gives
in the London Fortnightly Review a
way of his own for destroying the
bampering power of the pecrs. When
parliament meets, it does so by sum
mons of the queen. Mr. McNeill sug
gests that the queen simply omit to
summon certain of the lords. The min
istry will suggest the names of those
whom they wish to have summoned,
and only these will receive the royal
writ to attend. The rest will know that
they are not wanted because they stub
bornly oppose the will of the people as
expressed through the house of com
mons.
It is certainly the prerogative of the
crown to summon such lords as the
ministry choose. This prerogative was
exercised in the time of Edward I, and
it has never been abrogated by parlia
ment. It would certainly be an effect
ive way of downing the opposition of
the lords and making them subservient
to the dominant political party.
1t is an excellent plan, that which is
ta ring shape in some of the great cities
for public bathing and laundry estab
lishments. In all the poorer districts of
a city the public bath, conducted in the
cleanest, most inviting manner, will in
some measure equalize the lot of the
poor and the rich. In the few rooms in
to which the very poor are crowded
there is no space for a bathtub or laun
dry. The public washhouse, with all
modern appliances, ought to be avail
able at a very small cost to the women
of the tenement houses. The public
bath, supplied with the luxury of hot
and cold water, marble slabs, douches
and plunges, must come for humble
working people. A small charge should
be made for those whose self respect
will not permit them to accept charity.
Besides these there should be connected
and adjoining a department in which
the baths are entirely free. Into these
tramps and othérs who will not wash
should be thrust neck and heels at least
once a week. Many of the states have
compulsory education laws. We ought
to have compulsory bathing laws too.
An admirable suggestion has been made
for constructing baths in the basements
of public school buildings for the use of
the children. !
The governor has announced that
there will be a military encampment this
year. Our own handsome and p pular
Guards will be there,
BRONZES OF OLD BABYLON.
Casts of Figures Made Four Thoutand
Years Ago.
There have been placed on exhibiticn
fn the Bahylonian room of the British
museam some very fine specimens of
Babylonian bronze castings. These in
teresting specimens of early metal work
come from a place kmown to the an
cients as Sir-pur-ra, or Lagash, the
modern name of which is Tell-10, a
large mound or site in southern Chal
gea. One of the bronzes shows the king
of Rabylonia, who appears clean shav
en, in the dress of the high priest. Th.
garment reaches down to the feet and
is crossed over the left shoulder, leav
ing the right arm, which israised, bare.
The statuette is a full length one, stand
ing on its own double plinth, and is
gome 12 inches high. This bronze comes
from Abu Habbab and dates about B. 1
' C. 2200. A second statuette represents
a king in the attitude of adoration or
contemplation, having his hands raised
and clasped together in a similar man
ner as the god Nebo is represented. The
king wears a long, flowing beard, bwt
no costume can be traced. This figure is
not full length, being out off about the
calves, and represents probably the
Chaldean king, Gudea, B. C. 2500.
The third figure. which stands seven
inches high, ropresents Camil-Sin, king
of Babylonia, in the character of a basket
bearer, both arms being uplifted and
supporting a basket borne on the head.
The date of tbe fizure is about B. C.
8200. Itissupposed that these statuettes
may have been dedications tc Ningirsa,
the fire god, whose worship was a par
ticular cult at Tell-10.
The art of making bronze casts was
known to the Babylonians from very
early times, and many examples are to
be seen in the British museum as well
as in the Louvre. A plaster cast of a
Babylonian queen, taken from the orig
inal in the Louvre, stands by the side
of the »ew additions, casts of which
have been sent to the Fremch museum.
~London Graphic. |
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Fresh car loadof Alabama line just re
esivad at Dawson Variety Werks. |
~ THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
Great Sum of Foreign Securities Held In
England and France.
The reported valnation of all proper
ty in the United States by the census of
1890 was $65,087,¢91,197, or §1,036 per
capita for the entire population. Tnis
enumeration, however, dealt with prop
erty located in the United States and
did not go into the question where it is
owned. If the estimate of Mr. Robert
Giffen is correct, that $§5,000,000,000
in foreign capital was invested in this
country in 1880, probably an even lar
ger amount is so invested at the present
time. Deduction should also be made
for the high value put upon waste pub
lic lands in the census, with the net re
salt that the per capita valuation of the
United States would be reduced to
about $950 or $4,750 for a family of
five. - Estimates made by careful econ
omists, who come pretty near agree
ment among themselves, put the valu
ation of Great Britain about nine years
ago at $50,000,000,000 and that of
France at $40,000,000,000. This would
afford a per capita valuation of §1,338
for Great Britain and $l,OBl for France,
making the valuation for a family of
five $6,690 in Great Britain $5,405 in
France. The figures of France are
placed higher by some authors, and the
total in both countries includes careful
estimates of the large holdings of for
eign securities, some of them covering
property located in the United States.
The great holdings of foreign securi
ties, estimated to amount in Great Brit
ain to about £8,000,000,000, explain to
a large extent the adverse balance of
foreign trade constantly shown by the
British statistics. Great Britain would
long ago have been denuded of her gold
and become bankrupt if the excess of im
ports over exports shown by her trade
statistics were a true measure of her
financial condition. The fact that about
$400,000,000 is due her annually in
interest charges upon British capital
placed abroad explains how she can af
ford to import several hundred million
pounds sterling of foreign merchandise
in excess of the domestic merchandise
which she exports. France is estimated
to hold $4, 000, 000,000 of foreign securi
ties, largely Italian and Spanish, and
she also has been able to show a large
balance of imports of merchandise over
exports during the last two decades,
while piling up in the vaults of the Bank
of France and distributing through her
monetary circulation a larger mass of
coin than any other commercial coun
try. —United States Investor.
The Czar’s Daily News,
It is useless for a Russian editor to
put any jokes in his paper to please the
czar, because his majesty never reads
them. There is an official known as the
censor, who gets up very early in the
morning, so that he may read advance
sheets of the various journals and select
such matter as may be best calculated to
please the czar and give him an appe
tite for breakfast. These siftings are
then copied on sheets of fine paper and
are deposited on his majesty’s table for
his perusal. Nothing ahout bombs or
dynamite meets his eye, no comments
on his tyranny, no remarks about Siberia
—in fact, the czar is kept in total igno
rance of his real position and how he is
) regarded by the world at large.—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Not a Dowdy.
| Little Miss Magg (proudly)—My papa
.8 going to buy me a bicycle.
. Little Miss Freckles (loftily)—l’ve
had oxe for a year.
) Little Miss Mugg (disdainfully)—
Hub! I wouldn’t be seen riding a last
year's bicycle. —Good News.
Chamberain’s Cough Remedy gives
the best satisfaction of any cough med'-
cine I handle, and as a seller leads all
other preparations in this market. 1
recommend it becauce it is the best wed
icine I ever handled for coughs, codls and
croup. A. W. BALDRIDGE, Millersville,
111. For sale by Farrar & Farrar.
j I could get relief
from a most horri
ble blood disease, |
/======———— had spent hundreds
of dollars TRYING various remedies
and physicians, none of which did me
any good. My finger nails came off,
and my hair came out, leaving me
perfectly bald.. I then went to
‘Hoping to be cured by this celebrated
treatment, but very ‘soon became
disgusted, and decided to TRY
The effect was
‘ fruly wonderful, |
e I I commenced to re-
At cover after taking
the first bottle, and by the time 1 had
taken twelve bottles 1 was entirely cured—
cured 2{ S. S, 'S. when the world-renowned
tHot Springs had failed.
WM. 'S. LOOMIS, Shreveport, La.
‘Our Book on the Disease and its Treatment
mailed free to any address.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.
9 FOER EITHER SEX. This remedy
lE BB“N swu:g injac®d dirccily to tne seet of
those diseases of L Genite-Urinary Or.
E————————— SB, Fequirc O change of diet or
nauseous, mererrisl or poisonous .ned
-, icinesto be taken internaily. When
used
A A PREVENTIVE
by either sex it is impossible to sontract
N PR any venereal dicease; but in ¢ o case of
those already UsPosTUNATELY AFFLICTED
=__=—_ with Gonorrhea and Gleet, we guarase
U RE teo a care. Price by mail, postage paiu,
$1 per box, or 6 boxes for §5.
‘So!d in Dawson by Farrar & Farrar.
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; NOTICE,
] WANT ev! man and woman in the United
Btates inur::zod in the Opiam and Whisky
‘mabits to have one of m&boon on these dis
.emses. Address B. M. Woolley, £tlants, Ga.
_Borx 383, and one will be sent you free,
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- SOOI
%’g Is made a specialty at my store, 2.
e Style and Quality.
PRICES CAN’T BE BEAT!
Call and inspect my stock, and you
will become a purchaser. %%
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W' F. LW HEY
A. R. McCOLLUM,
Photooraphs!
Dawson, Georgia,
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DR. T. H. THURMOND,
Pawson, Ga.
Your patronage solicited, Office
upstairs in the building on court
house square,
R. M. STEWART
DIENTIST
pes. Office over McG 11%s store.
Office hours, 7 a. m, to 6 p. m.
Sunday, 10 to 11 a. m, to 3p. m.
Patronage solicite .
EI C' SPE‘ER’
ATIORNEY AT LAwW,
AMERICUS, GA.
Will practice in all the courts of
the stite 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
Pataala circuit, and elsewhere by spe
cial contract.
nges G. pal‘ks,
Attorneyatl.aw.
DAWSQN, GA.
Prompt and careful attention given to
all business. Specialti {on mer.
cial Lsw and Collection
M. C. ELWARDS, ]r,
LAWYER.
Room 4 Baldwin Block, Daw sob,
' Georgia
~ Busines? respectful]v solicited.
| J. A. LAING,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DAWSON, GA.
Prompr atttention to all business
J. L. JANES
ATTORNEY Al LAW,
. AWSON, GA.
DR. ]. H. WIL LIFORD,
Physician and Sargeon,
PARROTT, GA.
Offer their professional services to
the people of Parrott and surround
ing country
A Card.
I hereby tender my professional
services to the public Office at my
tather's residence seven miles nsrth
ot Dawson. Calls promptly attends
ed day or pight.
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. I can 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 seolicited. Charges reason
able. Respectfully
W. C KENDRICK, M.'D.
| a CARD.
I take this method of tendering my ser
vices as a physician to the people of
Dawson and vicinity. My office 18 locat
ed in Baldwin’s Bnilding, at Dr. Ken
drick’s old stand, and at night I may be
found at the Barves House. Your pat
ronage will be highly appreciated, and
all calls will reoel;:;)rompt attention.
| Respectfully,
. C, R. Bucaaxax M. D.
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Do You See Spois.
'\before. you in the air? That's
¥ your liver’s fault. Rheumatism,
, Dyspepsia, Neuralgia, Head. {
\ache and Billiousness are al
your liver’s fault. {
- Symptoms of a Disordered Liver:
\ Pain in back, side and shoulders, 3 J
. bad taste in the mouth, coated
tongue, %eneral drowsiness, diges. ‘
tion bad, fullnessin the stomach, loss
\ of appetite, sour and sick stomach, |
habitual costiveness, dots before the ‘
\ eyes, s:in sn_llow. eyes yellow, ner. ¥
, vousness, thples.on the face, dry ,
\ cough, confused mind,
At the first appearance of :
;these symptoms call on your 4
. merchant for a bottle of :
-no ((CROCS
'! fi Rheumalic
& nAN ‘
. &/ and eurolglo\,
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f it goes straight to work on the \
liver. It cleanses this organ— |
makes it active again—purifies
{ your blood and you’re cured. \
/ Ask Your Druggist or Merchant For It 1
CULLEN & NEWMAN, \
' Sole Proprietors,
g Knoxville, Tenn. 4
Liv |
ivery Stables
T T 2N ~; £Jfi
L amma Y Sl
‘”‘?@?’E*"irw 4
T R it B i
I have bought the Livery, ¥
and Feed business ot Dr. W, W.
Fsrnum, and solicit the putr nage
the public,
Good Teams and
Gareful Driver
furnished at apy time. ~Ample ®
commodations for stockmen.
H. H. SAVAGE
Sealed Proposals Wanted
DAwSON, GA., Feb. 20th, 15
Bids will be received at the Ofllc"w
the Commissiozers of Roads and R"u
nues of Terrell enunty, Ga., at the ¢0
house at Dawson, until the 30th day‘
April, 1895, for the erecticn and 00“’&
tion of a fire proof jail builditk &
steel Jcells in accordance with the Pni
and specifications now on file
office. The board reserves the g
reject any or all bids. E
By order of the Commissioners.
J. W. ROBERT
Ordinary and ex-Officio Secretd!’:
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Nothing Succeeds
Like uccts
1f this be true about anything ;cuti
it would be with the Alabama Ff
Business College. oo withl
Nine diplomas have been jssue ot
the past six weeks, and sevel OUtholdi
graduates have accepted and are ife
remunerative positions with pbor
leading firms of this and neig
cities. incipsh
Prof. C. A. Johnsou, the Pfl’i’:e ,
doing good work, and #e fi‘g’g »
young man and woman d;‘l b
quire a thorough, practi Srse 8
education, to enter for &co
hlgh-ctn&ln‘ institution. }