The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, March 13, 1901, Image 1

The Dawson news., March 13, 1901, Image 1

About The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1901)

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Text PDF JP2 (4.9 MB) Clip/Print Image

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Return to Top

Newspaper Page TextEy E. L. Rainey. gASVT BATEN IN 4 » ~ yoRE THAN TEN YEARS. ] ARKABLE CASE OF POLICE COM MISSIONER MURPHY. s : Head of the New York Police Depart ent physiclal wonder. No Food gver Passes His Palate. olice (ommissioner Murphy is 2 sical wonder, in tha® for the last vears he has not tasted food. He kes with his friends, talks with his ads, and 18 @ pleasant companion erally, but when meal-time ' comes is compelled 1O retire to a priyate p and pump specially prepared j into his stomach through a silver einstl‘l"d helow his oesophagus. ol M urphy's case has attracted the ation and excited the wonder of medical world. In 1899, in the gt of an exciting political campaign was attacked with acute indiges ) which caused & stricture of the phagus. He was unable to swal goything. To prolong his life ent physicians decided upon what v informed him might be a fatal eriment. ‘ pey decided to cut into his throat afterward remove his stomach. s first decided that his stomach uld have a rest, and for fifty-nine vs he was fed unnaturally. | REFUSED AN ANAESTHETIC. p describing this operation Col. rphy has told. how the physicians uld gather about his cot each morn expecting to see him die. He re ed to take an anaesthetic, even en the operation becawme one of the ¢t painful under the knife, and atted with his doctors while it was ing On. ] ol Murphy has told how he was ced morning after morning to allow a yard of flexible rubber tub , until it reached his stomach. rough this tubing the doctors would rn;olution intended to cleanse the mach and heal the uleerated parts. e medicine was highly poisonous nadthe übe failed to reach the per place, or had it been displaced, patient would haye been dead in a minates, uring this operation one of the tor’s always held a watch, for it s dangerous to leave the solution too g, for fear it might be absorbed by e system. When the solution had en there the proper length of time was pumped out. At the end of sixty daysthe stomach spronounced healed, but meantime e colonel almost died from starva . He had been a man physically und, weighing 240 pounds. After g operation he was reduced to hty-six pounds. Col. Murphy ighs today about ninety pounds. After a consultation of the most fa us doctors of the country it was de led that the only thing that could ) Col. Murphy from starving to ath was to cut into the abdomen and erta silver tube. He was told that re was little chance for him to sur bo ahead,” he said. ‘“‘l've faced th before, and I'll do it again. If 1 I'll forgive you."”’ he wound from the inecision healed bina few weeks and the operation successful, Since that time no ! has passed his palate. 0 spite of physical disabillity, the tommissioner has attended to po- Cal duties with a caretulness which Won the admiration of all his fel leaders in Tammany. He has set pace, in fact, for his associates in IdFU!OC?aLiu organization. L his life the new head of the po d(fpur'tm.em hasdisplayed extraor ary ,Tﬁ‘.\‘.-;u:ul courage and indomit Wilii, Yr‘“’&s born on March 7, 1841, in alock, county Limerick, Ireland, Was brought to New York when years old.—New York Journal. augural Expense Extraordinary. " o] nauguration of Mr. Mec €V was ‘7“1".&1111‘;\' carried thl‘OUEh imperig| scaic_ As in ancient € the peop, are amused with gor -8 pageants while they are losing WOst precigyg possessioa—liber- Bt wa Atting, perhaps, that a man had jug; been given by a subser- U partisap majority in congress “dutocratic power than was ever ¥3ed by any American president, 10re than kings are allowed to ex + should be given an imperial in falion. 1t was alse in keeping the public extravagance which Brown to gych stupendous magni under hig fipgy, administration as “Beer and frighten the conserva (:i:“m',‘nt of the Country that‘ more lic floney should pe spent upon his "4 inauguration than was ever ' 2PO the inauguration of any I President, Just how much this THE DAWSON NEWS. WILL AVENGE POLHILL. Macon People Very Bitter in Their Hatred of His Persecutors. Macon special to Atlanta Journal. “‘Hope Polhill’s ghost is sure tostalk abroad when the next general election comes around,” said a public official this morning. ‘lt is simply alarming 10 note how many people have placed a dagger in their sleeves for the ene mies who are said to have persecuted and harassed Mr. Polhill until he was driven to hislgrave. I have talked with 2 number of working men and others who do not depend upon politics for their livelihood, and they actually break down and weep as if their own brother had been murdered by some one; they take it as a.crime against themselves, and they do not hesitate to call the names of those for whom they have conceived-an eternal hatred on this account. No matter what cause may be assignel for the solicitor-gen eral’s death, numbers of people here will not be persuaded otherwise than that he was persecuted while in his office for the the two short months.”’ BURGLARY AT SHELLMAN. Two Negroes in Jail for Robbing C. M. Cheney’s Store. Marshal Sale of Shellman brought over Monday afternoon two colored prisoners, who are now inmates of the Randolph county bastile. They answer to the names of Dunk Powell and Mose Grier, and are both young negroes. The store of C. M.Cheney at Shellman was burglarized the other night and robbed of a quantity of goods. Dunk and Mose are supposed to be the bold, bad burglars. They had a commitment trial before Justice Bridgman and were put under bond, which they were unable to make.—Cithbert Leader. DON'T WANT JONES. Baptist Minister the Only One Who Wants the Famous : Sam in Dublin. It is probable that Sam Jones will not hold a ten days’ meeting in Dublin, as was announced. Mr. J. M. Outler, a young business man of Dublin, was back of the scheme and made all the arrangements with the'noted evangel ist. Mr. Jones was to carry with him two of his daughters and Mr. Charles D. Tillman to assist in the singing. From the first nearly all ¢f the minis ters in the city opposed the meeting. Rev. R. E. Neichbour of the Baptist church was the only one that promised to co-operate with Mr. Outler in mak ing the Jones meeting a success. Be coming discouraged, Mr. Outler has written Mr. Jones, stating the case fully to him and advising that he can cel the Dublin engagement. TO EXAMINE ENGAGED COUPLES. Indiana People Who Would Marry Must Be Inspected. The Indiana state senate has passed a bill which is designated to limit di vorces in Indiana by preventing ill chosen marriages. The bill provides for the appoint ment of a commission by the governor which shall be composed of two wo men. who are mothers, two physicians of conceded ability and one attorney of high standing. who shall prepare rules for the government of officers in the issuance of marriage licenses and of ministers in performing ceremonies; and examinations shall be made of all applicants for licenses, and no mar riages shall be celebrated in the state unless the requirements are complied with. The idea back of the bill is to re quire physical examinations and an inquiry into the parentage of the ap plicants to the end that their union may be preyented in the event that conditions inimical to the welfare of society should be foreshadowed as a result of marriage. inauguration has cost the public treas ury will never be known, but that it is an enormous sum any one can see. Four companies of Porto Rican troops were brought all the way to Washington t 0 march inthe imperial paradefsamples of colonial subjects, as it were; like wise the cadets from West Point and Annapolis, who had not before partic ipated in an inaugural parade since Grant's second, and the regular troops from every military post in reach. In addition to this seven war ships were brought near enough tc have their en _ire crews in the parade. All of this cost a heap of money, 0 which must be added the $50,000 which the use of the pension office for the inaugural ball cost the goverprment. Like the legislation of the fifty-sixth congress, now happily dead, the second inaugu ~ation of Mr. McKinley was conducted regardless of expense, and the dear people must pay the bills for both. Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, March 13, 1901. THE GROWTH OF AGRICULTURE. Some Interesting Facts That Are Shown by the New Census. An Increase of $2,000,000,000 the Past Decade. In the March number of the Review of Reviews Mr. Le Grand Powers, chief statistician in charge of agricult ure at Washington, gives an interest ing forecast of the farm statistics of the twelfth census. Mr. Powers says in part : With the close of the work of the census enumerators and the practical completion of that by the special agents, it becomes possible to present an outline of some of the salient facts relating to American agriculture in 1900. The enumerators, exclusive of those in Alaska and Hawaii, have re turned to the office in Washington a total of 5,777,662 schedules, for which they have received pay. In addition the special agents collected 9,245 sched ules of ranches on the ranges of the west and southwest. These make a total of 5,786,907, exclusive of the 52,- 336 schedules for live stock in cities and towns, which do not in any way re late to farms, In 1850 the census reported 1,449,073 farms; in 1860, 2,044,077; in 1870, 2,659,- 985; in 1880, 4,008,907; in 1890, 4.564,641. The estimate for 1900 is 5,700,000. The increas: by decades was successively 595,004; 615,908, 1,348,922; 555,734; and, approximately, 1,140,000. A part of this apparent variation is doubtles due to the greater relative success which attends the enumeration of some de cades than others; but after making due allowance for this possible factor we note the following facts : The in crease in the last ten years was greater than in any other decade, with thesin gle exception of that between 1870 and 1880. In the nine states usually designated as the North Atlantic division, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu setts, Rhade Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, there were, in 1850, 489,754 farms; and in succeeding decades 564,935, 601,595, 696,139 and 658,269. The acres of farm land were substantially the same in 1860 as in 1890. In the eight states of Delaware, Ma ryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida and the district of Columbia included in the South Atlantic divis ion, the number of farm schedules for 1900 gives evidence of the existence of from 850,000 to 960,000 farms. 7This is an increase of from 110,000 to 220,000 in the last decade. The number of farms was increased by the sub-division of the older plantations intosmaller hold ings, some of them cultivated by cheir owners and the remainder by tenants. That sub-division, though associated since 1870 with a general uniformity of farm area, has since that year been ac companied by a continued increase in the acreas of improved land. The lat ter were 30,202,991 in 1870: 36,170,331 in 1880, and 41,677,371 in 1890. The value of farm property in the South Atlantic states suffered a great GOT MIXED ON THE DAY. The Crack of the Deacon’s Rifle Was Heard All Day Sunday. A good one is told on a Baptist broth er in the lower part of the county. Somehow or other he got badly mixed up on the calendar, and made a clear miss of the day of the week. So, when last Sunday morning came, he arose bright and early and, hitching up his team,he set forth to cut and haul wood. The morning was spent in this work. After dinner the good brother, recog nizing the truth that ‘‘variety is the spice of life,” took his gun and went forth to beguile and bag the nimble} squirrel. All through the lovely and peaceful afternoon the crack of his gun | was heard, and the teachers and pupils of the near-by Sunday school and the home-stayers of the Sunday-observing neighborhood wondered at the unusual 1 sound. When night came on and the worthy deacon was resting from his day of toil and frolic, he in some wavl received a reveiation that the day which he had thus misspent was Sun- l dav. and he was not happy. The Ish maelite will make no further comment than to say that the good man does noti take his county paper.—Sparta Ish-‘ maelite. S ‘ How He Would Spend It. ! One of the yellow journals detailed a corps of reporters the other day to ask every United States senator this question: ‘‘What would you do with $75,000,000 >’ Senator Mason’s reply was brief and to the point. “I would build asylums for fool editors,” he said. R eAR Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold, Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price 25 cents. ; depreciation as the result of the civil war, but since that time has been con stantly adyancing. It has increased in proportion to the amount of land in cultivation—the acres of so-called im proved land. The increas2 in the num- ‘ ber of farms in these states will un-l questionably be accompanied with a wonderful increase in the acres of im proved land. In the states and territories included in the South Central division, Ken tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, there were in 1850, 266,814 farms; in 1860, 370,373; in 1870, 510,998; in 1880, 886,648: and in 1890, 1,086,772. The increase for the several decades was successively 103,559, 140,625, 375,650 and 200,124, The old plantations in Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana and Georgia have been subdivided into smaller tracts, and a large amount of land which had gone out of cultivation has been brought under the plow, Further, in Oklahoma, in the Indian Territoryand in Texas, thousands of new farms have been carved out of the public domain, and the wilderness has been made to bloom like the rose, and farm wealth to increase to a marvellous degree. The schedules returned from the South Central division in 1900 number 1,672,- 317, and give assurance that the census reports, when completed, will record from 1,620,000 to 1,640,000 farms. This is an increase of from 535,000 to 555,000 farms in ten years, while the greatest similar increase, that between 1870 and 1880, was only 375,650. The aggregate farm wealth in the South Central division was $1,262,666,- 065 1n 1880, and in 1890 it was $1,849,- 395,198—an increase of $586,729,133. Judging from the increase in the num ‘ber of farm schedules, the states from ‘which they are reported, and the facts which they represent, it becomes prob ‘able that the census of 1900 will show ‘an increase of at least $1.000,000,000 in the value of farm resources. It will not ‘be surprising to find that such an in ‘crease amounts to even more than that vast aggregate. Ia the western division of the states and territories, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, r Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon | and California, the number of farms re ‘ported in 1850 was only 6,712. In suc !ceeding decades they numbered 34,664; 48,212; 83,723, and 145,878. This in crease has been progressively growing larger from 1860. From 1860 to 1870 the increase was 13,548, and in later decades 35,511 and 62,155. The census schedules show a continuation of this accelerated growth and indicate an in crease of about 100,0000 farms, making a grand total of 245,000 in 1900, with a corresponding growth of farm acres and a doubling of farm wealth; or an increase in ten years of nearly, if not quite, $1,000,000,000. SWALLOWED A MOUSE. Experience of a Darkey Who Slept With His Mouth Open. An Athens negro, Will More, ac cording to a special from that city, had a peculiar experience Thursday night. He is an industrious negro, and at night is usually ready for a sound sleep. On Thursday night he slept as usual, with his mouth open, and a mouse runninz over his bed went into William’s mouth, and the mouse was promptly swallowed. Of course Wil liam was Instantly awake, and 8> was the mouse, and between the two they made things lively around William’s home for a while. The larger victim velled and jumped and suffered agonies until an emetic brought up the mouse. He says it isn’t healthy to sleep wiih the mouth open. Warning ! Tenderness, aching in the small of the back is a serious symptom. The kidneys are suffering. Take Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure at once. It is a re liable kidney remedy and system regu lator, and will cure the trouble before it develops Into its dangerous stage. Price 50 cents. For sale by Farrar, Harris & Marshall. ~ Wherein They Are Alike. William McKinley’s name will be added to those of Washington Jeffer son, Madison, Monroe, Lincoln and Grant as presidents of the United States who immediately succeeded themselves, says an exchange. But this is as far as she comparison will go. ~ " Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment is no panacea, but is recommended for piles only. These it will cure. Price 50¢ in bottles; tubes, 75¢, at Dawson ‘Drug Co’s. GROWING 33 ACRES A MINUTE. !That Is the Rate at Which This - Country Has Beemr Growing. 1n the 117 yeacrs since the war of the revolution ended—l7B3—the United States have expanded at the rate of 33 acres a minute; at least that is what a certain man professes to have figured out. The original 12 colonies com prised 558,679,360 acres. The Louisiana purchase brought us 745,103,360 acres ; the Florida cession, 45,719,680 acres ; the annexation of Texas, 170,247,040 acres; the Mexican cession, 460,563,840 acres; tne purchase of Alaska, 383,646,- 720 acres; the acquisition of Porto Rico, Tutuila, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii 98,492,160 acres. Now, according to this ingenious fig urer, there have been in the 117 years 61.495,200,000 minutes, anddividing the number of acres acquired by the num ber of minutes we have a fraction more than 33 acres & minute. At the same time our population has grown from 3,000,000 to a little more than 84,000,- 000, which is an increase of one and one-third inhabitant a minute. CIGARETTES ON DEATH BED. Young Man Dies from the Effects of the Habit. A dispatch from Columbus says : Rcuben Maffitt, a resident of Girard,l died yesterday from the effects of smoking cigarettes. Maffitt was twen ty-five years of age, and leaves a wife, He was never known to be without a cigarette, and consumed from fifteen to twenty packages a day. On his. death-bed he would ask for them, and after losing his voice would make signs. His fingers were stained a deep yellow, and the attending physicians stated that his lungs were in the same condition. WAS FOUND GUILTY. The Drummer Who Has Been Us ~ ing Worthless Drafts in This ! Section Is Convicted. } Albert L. Kline, a former traveling representative of the Baltimore shoe !manufa.cwry of Clement & Ball, has been convicted of the charge ot cheat 'ing and swindling before Judge Chas. |R. Crisp in Americus, and sentenced to twelve months in the chaingang or E to pay a fine of $3OO, and likewise re ist,ore to the Americus bank the sum of 875, obtained upon a worthless draft drawn upon the Baltimore house after his discharge from its employ, as al leged in evidence. Kline was confront ed bv a representative of the Balti more house. It apnears he hze cashed worthless drafts in other towns and es caped conviction for the lack of suffi cient evidence, which the Americus bank produced by procuring a witness from Baltimore. Kline is wanted else where, as the sheriff of Sumter county holds other warrants against him. M’GOUGH 1S OUT ON BOND. Slayer of Columbus Policeman Is Not in Jail. John McGough, who was found guilty of manslaughter for killing Po liceman ‘Osborne in Columbus last week, has been admitted to bond in the sum of $4,000 to appear before Judge Butt on May 18th, when a motion for new trial will be heard. McGough spent the night in Columbus with friends and then went to his home at Glennville, Ala. Living Easy. Williim Carter, of Connecticut, has been in jail at New Haven for a year and a half because of his refusal to pay a military tax of $2. It has cost the town of Ansonia $5OO to keep him in prison. Because of Carter’s unwilling ness to accent offers to pay the tax he will remain in jail just as long as the city of Ansonia pays his expenses. Tobacco Smoking Was a Crime. Three hundred and fifty years ago, according to the allegations, Jean] Nicot introduced tobacco into Europe. i It was from his name that the word’ “picotine’ was derived. The French government has just made an appropri- 5 ation for the erection of a bronze statue | to Nicot. This French claim is some- ‘ what at variance wish the general sup- | position that Sir Walter Raleigh first, carried the fragrant weed across the water to the old country. Raleigh smoked his Virginia tobacco in the presence of Queen Elizabeth in or about the year 1585. Thirty-four years earlier, however, Jean Nicos, while French ambassador to Portugal, pur chased some tobacco seeds that had been brought over from Florida, and sent some of them to France. A year later he presented some of the plants Vol. 17 No. 27. 10NE GRAVE ON BANK IONE GRA OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE. THE STORY OF AN INDIAN MAIDEN AND HER YOUNG LOVER. A Littie Mound on the River's Edge Near Eufaula Recalls a Preity Romance of .the Early Days. There is nothing more interesting in the history of any of the beautiful lo calities iying upon the banks of some of the «rapid water ways of the great southern river system as the legends that connect us with the past of long gone years, when other feet besides the white man’s traversed the hills and dales of the lovely valley of the Chat tahooechece. There is a lonely little mound but a few miles below the city which has not been disturbed by the advanced civilization of the white man, lying along the banks of the river where rests one of the fairest daughters of the Seminole Indian tribe. She had been wooed and won by a young brave and brought by the husband and lover from her warm home in Florida to the land of the Creeks. Upon their reach ing the banks of the Chattahoochee fever and chills attacked her and noth ing that the husband could do could stay the grim monster, and she wasted away and in a few months died. No pen can picture the stolid distress and grief of the lover. He buried her life less body ir one of those lovely spots upon the river's bank where the rip pling watersand the songs of the birds at all times would chant the sad re quiems to his departed love. He held daily and nightly vigils over her grave until nearly exhausted by famine. He then would goaway but to return to the sad memento of his grief. The lone grave was never long forgotten by bim; no matter the distance, he would return to the lone spot and hold sad communion with the departed. ‘He joined the hostile Indians who ‘were fighting against the white man’s invasion and in one of the fierce bat ' tles near Talladega was stricken down ‘but it seemed that kis spirit still kept ‘vigil at the lone grave and often at night when the late passer upon the | water or land chanced that way there could be seen the silent sentinel stand ing *where the lovely Indian maiden rested. The grave is now overgrown with tangled wiliwood and has long since been forgotten, but the occasion al visit of thespectral watchbér brings ; back the stirring scenes of the by gone days. : 1 The white man has possessed the land ‘ where once the maiden and love roam ‘ed in quest of game and pleasure, but ‘the woodman's ax has not disturbed the the trees and twining vines They ‘are all there, only older and more :{ tangled ; the river runs the same, oniy steamboats float upon its surface and ‘the shrill whistle of the engine breaks in on the quietness t hat reigns in the primitive wood and burial ground of the Indian girl. The ghost of the Indian lover has ‘pot been seen for many years, nor has ‘his phanton canoe been seen upon the 3wat,ers; but the great pines stand as silent sentinels to guard the grave while the lover and loved one roam the happy hunting ground in ‘‘the land of the hereafter.”—Eufaula Times. A Sporty Evangelist, There is a ‘‘sporty’’ evangelist in the city of Chicago. He is the Rev. Duke M. Farson, who besides being a preacher is a banker. A few days ago he offered to ‘‘deposit’’ $l,OOO with a newspaper, to be forfeited to any pas tor who would turn over his church to him for ten days if he failed to make fifteen converts in that time. In other words, the Rev. Mr. Farson is willing to bet $1,0)0 that he can save fifteen souls in ten days in any congregation in Chicago. to Catherine de Medici, and together they smoked the dried leave; in pipea. It is interesting in this econnection to recall that when tobacco smoking was first introduced into Euarope it was ex tremely unpopular. It was called ‘‘the stinking habit,” »nd at least two popes, Urban Vllland Innocent Xl, issued de crees against it. A Sultan of Turkey. in which country smoking is now ai most universal, made it a crime pun ishable by the offenders having their pipes thrust through their noses. In Russia the noses of the smokers were cut off. King James lof England characterized smoking as ‘‘a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stink ing fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit | that is bottomless.”