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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. Rainey.
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Farm Improvement Co.
Lol BLA DT, CGHA..
Now offers to the farmers of Terrell and adjoiring counties
Fertilizers unexcelled by any manufactured in this country,
and at reasonable prices. .
we guarantee from 14 to 16 per cent, available phosphorie ac‘id, which is
2 per cent. higher than goods offered by others. All who used our acid
phosphate the past season awiil certify to its value. Then we have learned
from observation, as well as by actual soil tests, that our light pine luads
need more potash, and to meet this demand and to furnish a high grade
complete fertilizer running 10-3 5, ve began last seasou to manufacture
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PUTNEY'S CHOICE,
and the results have been most satisfactory, All who used this goods are
well pleased with them. This goods we will continue to keep up to ius
presenf standard ot excellence, and beg to call especial attention to 1t by all
who wish to buy the best fertilizer on the market. No goods have been
offered or sold better suited to the needs of our light lands of Southwest
Georgia.
8-2-1, wkich bas been very papular, will be kept up to its reputation,
Also our .
BLOOD and BONE, ELEPHANT and JUMBO
Brands, We can supply Kanit, Muriate of Potash, P)tash Salts and in
vite all farmers to cousult us, get oar prices’and see the analysis of our
goods before placing orders,
HON. O 8.. STRVENS ‘
will contivue t 9 travel and sell tor us, aad will quote you prices, or write
us at Albany, (ia,
ALEANY FERTILIZER CO.,
B. F. BRIMBERRY, Sec’y. and Treas'r.
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105 MAIN ST., BRANCH STCRE 107 LEE ST.
Drugs, Medicines, Paints Oils
E Giass, Whiskeys, and Wines,
(for medicinal use.) Garden Seed, Perfumery, Etc., Quar Prescription
Department is in the hanas of
LICENSED PEXARMACISTS,
Men who have stood the EXAMINATION as required by law. We are
PERSISTENT IN_
TRYING TO PUSH OUR BUSINESS,
TRYING TO PLEASE OUR CUSTOMERS
. i TRYING TO COLLECT MONEY DUE US,
UNTIL WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR PURPOSE.
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Doctors’Say;
EBilious and Intermittent Feve:rs
Which prevail in miasmatic dis
tricts are invariably accompan
ied by derangements of the
Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great "driving
E“’heel” in the mechanism of
Man, and when itis out of order,
the whole system becomes de-
Tanged and disease is the result.
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Cure all Liver Troubles.
Dawson, Ga., Wednesdzty, December 2, -1896.
CHILDREN SEEK DIVORCE.,
Although “Man and Wife,” They Are Mi
nors and Sue Through Their Mothers.
A boy and a girl were married in
Brooklyn, N. Y., last May. Now the
boy is suing the g 4 wife for divorce
and the girl, who has returned to her
parents, is demanding of the courts that
her youthfuvl husband be compelled w 0
support her,
Neither of these litigants is old enough
to bring suit personaly, and their re
spectiye mothers have had to be ap
pointed guardians in due judicial form
in order to bring the suits for them,
Mrs, Gussie Williams is mother of the
bride, and she will vigorously fight the
cruel charge of unwifely conduct, brought
by young John Carroll against her child,
Mrs, Curry, mother of the groom, will
defend with equal tenacity the effort of
Mrs. Williams to compel her boy to sup
port the latter’s daughter.
Mrs. C. L. Mize does not do a great
deal of blowing, but you wili always
find her accommodating and reliable,
And she certainly has the prettiest hats
imbtowm, .~ DLI L S
“MOTHER, ' HOME T 0 DIE.”
EDITOR R. E. CHERRY OF ALBANY
COMMITS SUICIDE.
Greeting to His Parent as He Enter
ed the House. Drank the
Contents of a Vial After
a Tussel With His
Sister. -
Richard E. Cherry, associate editor of
the Penny Press, committed suicide at
his home in Albany the other nigng, |
‘The act was occasioned by drink and
‘despondency over the loss of his posi
tion, and its accomplishment was mark
ed by some of the most sensational
features that ever characterized se!f-mui
der, .
Cherry had for a long time been con
nected with the Penny- Press, but last
week was requested to tender his resig
nation; was made distressingly despond
ent and hopeless. The next day he left
town in search of work, and nothing
more was heard of him until his re
turn,
He walked up to his mother's home,
and as she came to the doorto meet
him, he put his arms around her and
said:
“Mother, I have come Lome to die.”
He produced a half-emptied morphine
bottle and exhibited it to her. The
half-crazed mother wrenched it from his
grasp, and after having concealed it, as
she thought, she excitedly summoned
all the physicians in the neighborhsod.
Cherry had seen where she had put
the drug, and as he attempted to get it
and swallow what remained his 16-year- |
old sister rushed up. She divined bis‘
intention, and grasped his arms and
struggled desperately for the possession
of the vial, He succeeded in overpower
ing her, and as she sank exhausted to
the floor he calmly swallowed the re
mainder of the deadly poison.
A number of physicians responded al
most immediately. Cherry wa: rapidly
going into a stupor. Trgy {vdght hero
-Ically, but to no avail, to save his life.
He lapsed into unconsciousness despite
their efforts to keep him awake, and in
a few hours was dead.
Cherry was about 30 years old and un
married. He was one of the most popu
lar men in southwest Georgia, and a
well known figurein Georgia journal
ism.
He worked for the Dawson Appeal
in 1885, and is rememboared in this city
by many of our people as a most excel
lent young man. :
FUGITIVE RATHER THAN GROOM.
Man Who Was Soonto ‘yed% Now. Being
Chased by Officers,
Cox & Livingston, of Albany have
wiref‘h}l over southwest Georgia offer
ing aww d for the arrest of S. Pre
vaust, ‘%& has ‘spent the last few
months in Sniithville and Leesburg en
larging pietures. $
Prevaust went #o. Albany last week
wearing crepe on his bat, and claimed
that his mother hud'just-diel in France,
leaving him a largefortune. _
He got a fine bay mare from Cox &
Livingston, giving an old’ horse and an
$BO check ona Griffin-bank, "Kg left
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Albany saying he woo&f*{gmnfixt day,
but he did not go b.ck.’ The Griffin
bauk wired that Prevaust had no ac
count with it,
He is engagel to marry a society girl
in Smithville December 16th, but is said
to have written that he has left for
France.
POPULISTS DIDY’T NOMINATE.
They Do;lde Not to Put Out a Ticket For
Judges.
The populists state executive commit
tee has met and decided to put out no
ticket for the supreme court. The dem
ocratic ticket will have a walk-over,
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Did You Ever
try Electric Fitters as a remedy for your
troubles? 1f not, get a bottle nel";,:"é.\d‘
get relief, This medicine has been found
to he peculiarly adapted to the rolief m
cure ot all Female Compmmi;‘fmfljfi ‘&g
a wonderful influence in giving strength
and tone to the organs. fl;flw%\
Loss of Appetite, Coustipation, Head
: Tew o e D e RSt
ache, Fainting Spells, or ae Nervous,
troubled with Dizzy Spelis, - Electriv
A HERO IN HUMBLER LIFE.
The Brief SBtory of the Life of an Unletter
ed Georgian.
There are heroes of war and peace
wliose names are never written in the.
temple of fame—heroes in the humble
walks of life whose opportunities, whose
environments hide them from the public
view.
One of these died a few days ag>. A
three-line dispatch to a Georgia paper
‘announced that Major J. M. Spence of
‘Ware county had gone to the great be
yond. A modest, retiring, unle t red man,
he evlisted for the war in Coffee county.
He cou’d not write his own name, yet‘
he was as brave as Caesar, and as patri
otic as Washington. These sterling
traits of character soon brought the pro
motion which mide him known to the
boys as “‘the fighting major”’ of the Fif
tieth Georgia Regiment. A lad in his
command made out his reports for !
him, but the major did his own fight- {
ing, and he did it like the hato that Le [
was.
Near the famous apple tree the major
and his boy companion parted. Thirty
years later they.met again~the older
veteran and the younger, The simple,
yet lion-hearted, nature responded to the
‘menories of those trying times, aad,
‘grasping the younger with both hands
he exclaimed: ‘God bless you, Billy; I
never expected to see you again here,
but [ have prayed to meet yon on the
other side”’ The tears that rolled down
the sun-brown cheeks did not, in that
presence, seem childish, After the war
the major made a small fortune, bat in
an evil hour it was swept away. He
called his creditors together, and offered
up every holding. His c¢induct was so
unusual, 80 courageous, they took a part
and left him unincumbered that suffi
ciency which kept the wolf from the
door until his death,
This, in brief, is the story of a hero
from the humbler walks of life. He was
brave in war and brave in peace. Simple
as a child and resolute as a lion,--Macon
Telegraph.
} ATE A HUMAN HEAD,
British Allies in Africa Show Their Brutal
Instinct.
One of the innumerable little wars
‘that England carries on with savages
. has just taken place on the River Niger
in west Africa, says the New York Jour
§nal. It concluded with the eating of a
human head by the native allies of the
‘British. A chief named Katshella had
‘ built bimself a stronghold on a tributa
ry of the Niger, from which he made
raide into the territory of the neighbor
ing king, who was under British pro
tecticn, Katshella was of immense size
and feagful appearance. He lived a hife
of uttév*emavity. A British expedi
tion of AHM ¥tn was sent after him, and
smashe"db :7- stronghold. Lieutenant
Ming,’i#hq commanded the expedi
tion, wriges: ‘“‘The robber prince, Kat
shella, an immense man, was killed just
oytside the town, and then the bratal
instinct-of the niggers came out. They
ent off «his head and sent it to the king
I was helping. He, if you please, had it
boiled, and his munishis (low pative fol-
I¢%ersy ate it. The king subsequently
sent ‘the skull back to me, and it was
fiaqded over to the dctor for disposal.”
OLD TIME THANKSGIVING,
The Day Was Observed ar Early as Two |
Centuries Ago.
In 1625 the magistrates at Plymouth,
desiring to show loyalty to England on
the close of the war in England by the
battle of Somerset, placed themselves on
record thus: ‘“The cour’ desires that
a public day of thanksgiving throughout
the colonies might be observed therein
to give thanks for the great victories
granted to the army in the behalf of the
‘parliament and the commonwealth of
Eungland,” ;
~ In the Plymouth colony thanksziving
‘days were appointed for 1831, 1648, and
1680, and in the Massachussetts Bay col
ony in 1633, 2634, 1637, 1638 and 1639.
In New York the Datch goveraors pro
claimed thanksgiving daysin 1634, 1645
1655 and 1064 and the English governors
followed this precedent m 1760 and 1775,
From the Moultrie Observer,
Vol. 13.—N0. 16.
SCALDED TO DEATH.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT TO &
CHILD NEAR DOVER.
A Four-Year.old Falls Into a Tub of
Boiling Water, Lived
Several Hours,
A distressing and fatal accident oc
carred on the farm of Mr, L. W, Lee,
near Dover, one day last week, resulting
in the desth of Ben Hill, a little child
of Mr. and Mrs. Lee aged three years
and ten months,
Mr. Lee vas in Dawson that day at
tending court, Before leaving home he
instructed a negro on the place to kill a
hog in the afternoon, and it was while
‘these instructions were being carried out
!that the accident occured. The child
‘was playing around whera the hog was
; being butchered, and while the mnegro
‘was intently engaged in the task the lit
‘tle one fell into a tub of boiling water in
'which the hog had neen scalded.
' The child was severely and fatally
burned, the skin peeling from the head,
face and body. The accident occurred
about three o’clock in the afternoon, and
the littie sufferer lingered until twelye
o'clock at night,
Mr. Lee knew nothing of the accident
untii he returned home at night, and
was prostrated when told the unexpect
ed and distressing news of his child’s
misfortune,
The parents have the sympathy of
many friends in their great sorrow.
A WILD, WOOLY LION
Strikes Terror to a Neighborhood Over in:
Sumter.
For the past three or four days there
has been great consternation among the
negroes of a certain neighborhood locat
ed not many miles from Awmericus, and
the sight of a number of negroes armed
with every kind of weapon, from a ba‘-
tling stick t) an army musket, is by no
‘means unusual,
‘\ During Monday and Tuesday all work
was entirely suspended and the woods
scoured in search of a ferozious lion or
other wild animal that had been heard
to roar at intervals during Surday night.
The organized hunting for the beast was
begun Monday, after a reliabie farmer
had stated that he had seen the varmint
with his own eyes during the previous
night. :
| It was not until the feeling of terror
‘had begun to spread among the women
‘and children of the neighborhood that
‘the nature of the beast and the cause of
‘its appearance was explained, and now it
is quite the thing dowa there to ask of
your neighbor, “‘Lid you hear it?"’
A prominent and prosperous farmer
has been missing some of his fattest
porkers and, being unable to spot the
thieves, decided to spread terror among
the colored p-pulation and secured a
dumb bull of ,the most approved orcer.
He succeed in his purpose and did mor e
but the eolored population has about
ceased its moonlight maraudings.
Americns Herald,
A New Dance,
Two tramps went into a saloon at Eist
Oakland, Cal., the other day, and, hand
ing a demijohn over the counter, asked
the proprietor to fill it with gord whis
key. The saloonkeeper obliged them,
and was tendered %1 in return. He at
once refused it, as it was debased, The
tramps had no ‘more money, and, there
being nov alternative, the saloon man
emptied the whiskey back into the cask,
and the tramps left with their demijobu,
A few minutes later the tramps went in
to a vacant ‘lot and carefully broke the
demijohn. From the pieces they deli
cately lifted out a bath sponge, which
was thoroughly soaked with whiskey.
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The length of life may be increased by
lessening Its Jangers. The majority of
people die from lung troubles. These
may be averted by promptly using One
| Minute Cough Cure,
| BaLe-Davis Drue Co.
Fresh citron, currants and seedless.
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