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LR NEWS.
By E. L. RAINEY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY.
DAWSON, GA., Sepr. 228 D., 1897.
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THF attempted assassination of the
negro postmaster, Loftin, at Hogans
ville, was an outrage that cannot be de
fended upon any legal or moral ground.
Yet, when all the facts and circam
stances are considered it must be ad
mitted that there waz cause for the
feeling of antdgonism which had been
aroused against the negro. The people
of Hogansville had suffered the indig
nity, over their unanimous protest, of
having a negro thrust upon them as
postmaster. This negro rendered ‘
himself very obnoxious to the people
of the town by hLis insolence, and while
the attempt upon his life is without
Jjustification it is not surprising. Goy
ernor Atkinson, in giving his opinion
of the affair to a New York paper, very
properly says that President McKin
ley is accessory®to the crime by having
made such an objectionable appoint
ment to the people of that community.
AN advertisement in The Constitu
tion states that Hon.J. C. Evans of
Ellijay is missing. Said b(nmrablel
gentieman was elected mayor of Elli-
Jjay on the 13th inst. and immediately
disappeared. 1t is thought that he is
hiding from his friends and supporters
who fiave been anxiously hunting him
#ince his election to ride him on a rail,
an interesting custom that 1s diligent-
Iy observed there.every year just after
the town election. The advertisement
is signed by ‘“The Boys,” and con
ciudes as follows: “Come home, Hon.
J. C.; you need not wait any longer, as
we are ready for you as soon as we find
you.” The gentleman’s constituents
seem determined to have their fun,
and the Hon. J. C. had as well come
from hiding and contribute his part to I
the celebration of his victory.
AMONG the reforms which it is said
Governor Atkinson will recommend to
the legislature at Its approaching ses
sion will be one which he expects wil
result in a saving of thousands annual-
Iy to the state. The plan in brief is to
constitute the keeper of public build
ings and grounds, who is also adjutant
general, a state purchasing agent, and
to have all purchases of bulk articles
at least made through his hands. The
idea is to purchase supplies of all the
departments of state, including the
state institutions of learning and the
lunatic asylum, through this purchas
ingagent in bulk, and thus get the ad
vantage of the lowest prices that com
petition for this large business will af
ford.
Tue Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprize |
seems to be inclined to be a little peev
ish because of Dawson’s reduced rail
ryad rates and large cotton receipts.,
Dawson is too busy weighing the cot
ton of the farmers of Randolph and
other iwighboringcountivs and selling
them goods to get in a disturbance with
4 town that'can’t possibly be a rival to
her. Dawson has perhaps received by
wagon from Randolph county alone
more cotton this year than Cuthbert’s
entire receipts. We are happy, hust
ling and busy up here, and would be
glad to see our neighbor the same way.
THE convention of county commis
sioners came off in Atlanta Thursday
as advertised. About fifty coun
ties ewere _represented, and after |
the usual social amenities were ex- i
changed the delegates organized and |
resoluted upon the poor conviet and
Kindly mapped outa plan of action for
the legislature. Probably the most
there was in this convention was a nice
trip for some clever gentlemen at the
expense of the taxpayers of their coun
tles,
JUDGE SHEFFIELD isn’t following in
the wake of the sentimentalists and the
politician, "The judge is imbued with
the old-fashioued idea that eriminals
should be punished, and he made some
interesting remarks on that line in his
charge to the Quitman county erand
jury. A synopsis of these remarks is
published elsewhere 1n 'ng News, and
makes interesting reading,
The standing of the editor is never
appreciated untii his spirit has winged
118 flight to the realms of endless space,.
This is clearly evidenced in the follow
ing letter of condolence sent by a law
yer to the widow of an editor: *“{ can
not tell how pained I was to hear of the
death of your husband. He is in hegy.
'en. We were bosom friends, but alas! '
‘we can never meet again.”
THE productive capacity of an acre
of land has never yet been discovered.
Paris, a city with two million inhabi
tants, gets her vegetables from little
more than two thousand acres of land,
the value of truck per acre being two
thousand dollars. Near Berlin the
same thing may be seen, where sandy
lands near the city, which one hundred |
| years ago were considered worthless,l
have by heavy fertilization been made I:
to produce annual crops worth one|
{ thousand dollars to the acre. |
! Dr. Howarp, who, with the aid of |
’ his Early County News, is always mak- |
' ing it interesting for somebody, is now (
interrogating Solicitor Irwin about|
' the disposal of convicts. The doctor |’
wants a whole lot of information, and|'
; as the solicitor is » very accomodating ]
'gentleman he will probably take sever- |
} al days ¢ff, get up the data and enlight- | |
en the yearner for knowledge,. :
A FEW days ago the story was print- |
ed that Miss Sarah Randall, who had |!
never been in love, had died in Balti-|?
more upon the eve of her one hundred x[
and third year. It transpires that|t
there was no reason why she should |i
not have lived another hundred years, :
or have died at all. The New York ;
World expresses the opinion that “she |t
never lived,”? / y
I'uE whiz-z-z of the headsman’s axe
in the fourth assistant postmaster-gen
eral’soffice in Washington makes mer
ry music for the republican spoilsmen
about the capitol. The heads of demo
crats aredropping by the hundreds ey
ery day.
Tar Macou Telegraph’s position on
the conviet question has been sensible
and conservative, The fact that socie
ty deserves greater consideration than
a lot of thieves seems to have been ov
erlooked by some officials and some pa
pers.
Tav city council of Macon has passed
an ordirance prohibiting loafing on
the streets av any hour of the day or
night. It is the opinion of this paper
that other towns could adopt a similar
ordinance with beneficial results.
TALBOT superior court was in session
last week, Judge Butt characterized
the lynching of Dr. Ryder as unmiti
gated murder and urged the grand jury
to do their duty. Nobody has yet heard
of any indictments,
Tue Valdosta Times thinks that if
boot-hcking, fawning and flattery
have any effect upon Governor Atkin
son the editor of the Griffin News may
'be expected to receive the appointment
l of state librarian.
GENERAL LoNGSTREET and bride have
written to the yellow journals telling
why they married and how young and
spry they feel.
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Jolhinson’s Chill and Fe
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ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. It cures the most
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stubborn case of Fever in
24 Hours.
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ATKINSON WAS ANGRY,
an Insulting Letter Comes to Him from
New York.
Covernor Atkinson received a letter
Saturday that angered him very much.
It was written on stationery of ths
Park Avenue Hotel, New York, and
signed **John C. King.”” The writer
denounced the governor as a liar, cur,
and many other epithets. He said that
the governor ought to be shot down
like a dog. King said that Perry, who
was hung at Decatur, had been the vic
tim of the governor’s malice, and that
while he made such a pretty picture of
the Longstreet-Dortch wedding he
never stopped to think of the poor wid
owed wife and fatherless children of
Perry.
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ODDS ALD ENDS,
During the last 12 yeuss tho British em
pire has added 2,600,000 squsre miles to
18 possessiones,
In the southern provinees of Rusiia a
drink resciabling beundy iz obtained by
distilling the juico of 10 waterir clon,
The emperor of Austrin lias never been
shot at ¢} v a would boeasensein, Fow 1t isl
g monarchs can maks the same boast,
The favorite drink in Nubia is mad
| from fermented dhnrra bread. 1t is called
".Y.':i ulbul, beeause it Imakes the drinker
sing like the uighiineule.
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Best Cough b‘;‘rup. 1 n}tié :F;'f}ku. Use i
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' HOW IS THIS, MR, BYRD ?
Convicts Voluntarilv Return to a Camp
Denounced by the Governor’s Agent.
The story which ¢ mes from Haw
kinsville is an eloquent commentary
upon the blood-curdling stories Special
Inspector Byrd told the governor in re
gard to the treatment of the rzisde
meanor convicts in this state.
Nothing conceivable, says the Macon
Telegraph, could more thoroughly vin.
dicate mr. J, R. Allison's management
; and treatment of the convicts. And yet
lthis is one of the camps which was pict
lured as being more horrible than the
Siberian prisons, disgracing Georgia and
appailing humanity, where *“‘traudulent
trafic in misery” is winked at by
‘‘complacent grand juries,” and where
‘‘active corruption’ has become a ‘“‘foul
blot,”” preducing “‘cruelties and brutaii
ties.””’
It seems that, following the direction
of the governor, Mr. Allison “dumped
back™ his convicts upon the county.
The county authorities at once orgnan
ized a county gang to work the public
I 'rldS. An overseer or boss was chosen
and the work started. At night the con
‘yicts were marched to the jail (there hap
‘pened in this case to be room for them)
and they were locked in until morning.
After a few days of this kind of hfe the
convicts broke out of the jail during the
night and every one of them reported
nexé morning at Allison’s camp, and
asked to be put to work uunder the origi
nal plan. Mr, Allison locked them up
in the stockade and reported the ma’-
ter to the county officials. After find
ing out what these convicts were due
the county in the way of fines (in lieu of
imprisonment) Mr. Allison paid it, and
struck the shackles off of every one of
them, and they are mnow voluntarily
working out their fines in the turpentine
woods, as free as air.
This is a most remarkable vindication
for Allison’s camp, and it must attract |
the attention of the people of Georgia.
It is also a powerful corroboration ofl
the numerous facts bearing upon the!
conyizt question which have from time |
t> yime been presented in the Tele
graph.
It will convince all sensible, thinking
people that there must be some method
in the midsummer madness which sought
to disgrace the state in the eyes of :he
civilized world by presenting horrid pic:-
ures of alleged ‘‘active corruption’ en '
gaged in by county ard cour’ officials
“in taking the foul pro¥ts of cruelty and |
brutality’® while trafficking in human
misery.”
It will convince all who ¢are to inves- |
tigate that our county sheriffs, commis- l
sioners, ordinaties, solicitors. judges
and grand juries are not worse than thel
thieves ‘‘who are serving out misde- |
meanors”’ —that they have not been act-z
uated in the management of the con
victs by “pet'y greed and avarice.” l
Why take Johnson’s
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Chill & Fever Tonic? '
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Because it cures the
most stubborn case
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of Fever in ONE DAY.
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WALKED 500 MILES,
Family With a History Passes Through
MontZomery.
From the Montgomery Journal,
This morning a strange looking trio
were seen loitering about the union de
pot. There was s~en a middie-aged man,
hardeped like a ‘‘pard,” a homely look
ing woman, his wife, and an “unfeather
ed two-legged thing,” th.ic sou.
The man was taciturn and smoked a
pipe; the woman l.oked care-worn and
cartied a bundle of clothing slung over
her shonlder, while the lad stared wild
eyed and held his fingers in his mouth.
They had a history, but their names
cou d not be learned, as they left be fore
the inquisitive reporter arrived.
These three were Louisianians from
the remote region lying way down below
New Orleans,
They had walked through the country
every step of the way from their home to
this city on their way to Hickory, Miss.,
where they Lave relatives.
There is no doubt about their having
walked, They looked it; they showed
eyery indicaticn ot fatigue, exposure to
hardships of all kinds and privations in
numerable. They were not begging;
they only wanted to get to Hickory.
“We lost three children,” said the wo
man sadly, ““down in Louisiana in the
overflow, and we wanted 1o get away
from that country.”
They said they had been several months
on their journey.
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THIS AND THAT,.
The teaching of temperance is now
compulsory in the public schools 0f he
Province of Ontario. Acrording to the
minister of education no fewer than one
bundred and fifty thousand pupils are
studying this question in the public
schools of the province, and thirteen
thousand in the scparate schosls: ana
the pablic school inspector for Teronto
states that more than tweaty thousand
pupiisin the public schools of the city
receive instruction in temperance,
An Oklahoma farmer wrote to a friend
in the east tyying to give him some idea
of the soil ot there, He said they haa
to mow the grass off the sod floor to find
the babv, One family near him had twin
babies, with only ovne ciadle, and the kid
who bad to sleep npon the floor grew
twice as fast as the other., Where the
svil is richest a man darce not stand on
one foot any length of time lest cne leg
becom~s longer than the vther and both
er him in walking.
Running sorves, indolent ulcers and
similar troubles, even though of many
years' standing, may be cured by using
DeWitt’s Witeh Hazel salve. It voothes,
streozthens and heals. Itis the great
pile ture, SALE-DAvls Drua Co,
FAMINE AT DAWSON CITY.
Foolhardy Miners Irrevocably Penned Up
in Their Arctic Prison:
Famine appears to have already made
its appearance among the hungry horde
in Dawson City,and the distressing feat
are of the situation is that apparently
aothing can be done to save the rash
victims from the result of their own
foliy. Superintendent Mcllree, of the
detachment of the Canadian mouuted
‘police which is now on the Skaguay
trail en route for the Klondike, has tele
graphel to the government at Ottowa
that the 3000 horses crowded along the
White Pass r ute are making but very
little progress, and that the mounted
police party itself could make only
eighteen miles of the journey in ten days.
At this rate it would take a pack train
all winter to reach Dawson. When the
rivers shall have been frozen solid bet
ter progress may be made with dog
teams, provided it shall be possiole to
carry sufficient supplies over the sum
mit before the closing up of the passes
by the snow, but all the d gs in Alaska
would not be able to draw the loads
which will be needed to keep the advent
urers in food. It will be equally im
possible to send provisions from the
stores at St, Michael by the up-river
route, The foolhardy gold-seekers seam
to have been irrevocably peuned up in
their Arctic prison, and unless they
shall find mears to feed themselves on
such fish and game as the country pro
vides —a forlorn hope hunver will
claim Its yiztims by the thousands. |
NOTES ABOUT OUR NEfGHBORS.
Americus has the vellow fever seare
and is talking of quaranting against New
Orleans and the gulf towns.
Caterpillars are reported to be rav
aging the cotton fields of Lee county.
Thousands of the worms are to be seen
in every field,
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" The Less the Better.
The discovery that no less than 2,000
liquor saloons in New York are located
nearer to churches and schoolhouses than
the law allows ought to make the weed
ing cut of the rumshops there an easier
task than was anticipated. There’s lots
of rcom for less of them,
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Small przcautions often prevent great
mischiefs. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are very small pills in size, but are most
effective in preventing the most serious
forms of liver and stomach troubles
They cure constipation and headache
and regulate the bowels,
SALE-Davis Drua Co.
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first way is from imperfect action of the
kidoeys. The second way is from care
less local treatment of other diseases.
CHIEF CAUSE.
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid
neys is the chief cause of bladder troub
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created or cne purpose, and if not doc
tored too much is not liable to weakness
or disease, except in rare cases. It is
situared back of and very close to the
bladder, therefore any pain, disease or
inconvenience manifested in the kidneys,
back, bladder or urinary passage 1s often,
by mistake, attributed to female weak
ness or womb trouble of some sort. The
error is easily made and may be as easi
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a sediment or settling indicates kidney
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MACON, G-EOEXELEIXA.
The Sixtieth Session Rezgins September 22nd. 1897.
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The Fail Term of
Dawson Public Schos!
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* Pl s g 7
Sepi Bth, 1897.
Tuition is free to rvesideut pupils of
school age., Each pupil must pay in ad
vance a Book Fee of $2.00 for the use of
books during the term.
Children nnder six years of age will
not be admitted. Pupiis over eizhtcen
years of age, and those that do not live
in Dawson, will, in addition t, ihe book
fee, be charged as follows:
Primary Schools, per term.. ... $4.00;
Grammar School, * ‘' ... ..., ¢00;
High Senool, e L. BB
All applicants that ar entitled to en
tor the school will be given by the Sup
erintendent a certificate. Upon the
presentation of this certificate to Treas
urer A, J. Baldwin, and the payment t {
him of all charges, he will issue an ad
mission ticket that will entitle pearer t
& seat in school.
No PUPIL WILL RE ADMITTED WITE
OUT AN ENTRANCE TICKET. All pew
pupils that desire admission into the
school, and all former pupils that failed
of vpromotion and that wish examination
for promotion, will, September 2,3, and
4, present themselves in the school build
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be present.
For additiona! information address,
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