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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. RAINEY.
B OVERNOR JAMES M. SMITH AND SUSAN EBERHART
ter
the Famo
in Vermont Recalls Crimes. Mrs.
. Rogers 3 e 7 b
ution ot Mrs Some Similarigr il orgia,
xec .S 0 ite Woman Nauge.
rt INo WAY in The Ma
Eberha MES CALLAWAY |
. By JAMES CAL
There is some similarity in the cases
¢ Mrs. Mary Rogers of VermOnt,!
ho was executed on the Bth of Decem
» for the murder of her husband,
nd Susan Eberhart, who was hanged
Webster county, Ga., for the mur
or of Mrs. E. . Spann. E. F.
pann, her assistant, was hanged in
ugust, 1872. But the woman’s case
a 5 ]-,ostponed a year after the su
reme court had refused to set aside
o verdict, as appeal for executive
emency wWas made in her behalf be
quse she was a woman. The Atlanta
ews a few days since, speaking of
¢ refusal of Governor James M.
pith to pardon her, said: “Gov
por Smith was severely censured
» permitting a white woman % die
n the gallows.”’
This is true, and that very censure
wused Governor Smith considerable
pnoyance.
It was probably the last court J udge
oiih held at Talbotton when he and
were indulging in a post-prandial
at, sitting out in front of the Thorn
n Hotel, and on his own motion he
|luded to the Susan Eberhart hang
¢. 1 remember SO well how he look
in the moonlight that evening and
ow feelingly he spoke of the easa,
Governor Smith said: I know 1
ave been censured for not pardoning
e woman. But the goyernor is not
e lawmalker; it is his duty to execute}
¢ law. The fact is, I studied the
se. I examined into it carefully. I
sired to not let her be executed. I
ught to find defects in the trial—ir
gularity—blunders of the court—
me hook upon which ‘I could hang
objection. But I could find no
ws. There was nothing to ' base a
rdon on—except arbitrarily say she
s a woman, and, though guilty,
ould not hang. In my diligence to
d excuse I wrote to Judge George
ark of Americus, a learned lawyer
d upright judge, who tried the case,
d appealed to him to help me out.
t Judge Clark wrote me that he
uld not aid me. That the trial was
ir, the verdiet just, and the woman
s the stronger will, the controiling
irit. and the old man Spann the
aker vessel, closing the letter with
refusal to ask for the woman any
mency, declaring there were no ex
uating circumstances and the ver
ct a proper one. After this what
s to do? Nothing left me but to
the law take its course. A gov
or does not make law. It is his
ty to interfere when law is pervert
)ld Governor James Milton Smith
s of rugged and iron mould, but
neath that stern exterior beat a warm
d tender heart. Whoever looked
o his face felt that he stood in the.
sence of an upright and honest man.
ith him, however, duty was duty.
came to the gubernatorial chair in
tormy time. He was our first gov- '
or after the horrors and destruc
n of reconstruction. Business, so
tv itself, lay in waste like a build
demolished. The scene was wreck
eresoever the eye rested. Amid
h conditions ‘‘Old Milt Smith,”’ as
was familiarly called, came to be
vernor. His was the task to bring
er out of chaos—to establish eivie
¢, and to establish again in Georgia
reign of law; in short, to breathe
0 the people once more the great
nciple of law and order. Well was
or the state that such a man was
led to the helm:. And with his
nd impressed with the duties of the
es, the task of bringing order out
disorder, ami@ such environments,
was called upon to let the law be
cuted or let sentiment set aside law.
lid the “‘piping times of peace and
sperity,’’ as exist in Georgia today
der Governor Terrell, this honest
d upright executive of the law
ght have yieided to sentiment. But
him be judged by his environ
nts.
t Polly Barclay.
he Atlanta News, however, is in
or about stating that' Susan Eber
rt was the first white woman to die
the gallows in Georgia.
Susan Eberhart was the first to die
the gallows. But Polly Barclay
s the first white woman hanged. She
s was hung in 1806, not the gailows,
ton a tree—an old oak, gnarled and
rm-beaten now, on the Lexington
ad in the Havward grove—and hung
t with rope, but a chain, and the be
vers in the supernatural, especially
¢roes, drive by the spot in haste to
is day, declaring they hear the rat
of the clanking chains. It was a
ted case, and created a sensation at
e time. The scene was in ‘‘Wash
gton, . Wilkes,”” the historic old
}i town—the grave still there and the his- |
} toric oak. Polly had her friends. She‘
possessed far greater attainments than
l Susan Eberhart. She was magnetic, a |
woman of personal charms. She was‘
regarded as a rather fast woman, and
of fascinating manners and possess
ing great beauty. l
She never thought she would be
hung, and expecting pardon on the
very day of execution she dressed her
self in her best costume, ready for
congratulation by her admirers, and
when it was the reverse instead of
pardon she bravely went to death in
her finest evening dress—the very
same she was to wear at her recep
tion. Nor can it be said she had a
rough and uneducated jury; for even
in those days Wilkes was already
peopled with sons from the best fami
lies of Virginia and North Carolina.
The best blood of Virginia and Caro-
Ilina poured into Wilkes even before
the revolution, and settlers came
| thick after the war.
Ip those days in Wilkes they be
lieved in the pillory and stocks, and
thirty-nine lashes were administered
for misdemeanors. And they believed
in the ‘‘scarlet letter,’’ for they brand
ed eriminals, On November 4, 1784,
Denipsey Woods was found guilty of
manslatghtér and was branded with
the letter ''M."” Polly Barclay was
tried by a coinpetent jury, the best
men of Georgia, and not by uncouth,
ignorant men.
Governor Bell of Vermont stood
RUSSIAN GENEROSITY TO JAPS
Veterans Whom Sunrise Government
Would Have Permitted to Starve
Can Now Live in Comfort.
Malcolm Clark, a press correspon
dent, in an article sent from Berlin
says:
Thousands of Japanese soldiers who
have been prisoners of war in Russia
are in this city at preseut enroute for
Bremen, where they are to board steam
ers which are to carry them back. All
these men, nearly all of whom are in
valids and hopelessly crippled, speak
in the highest terms of the treatment
they have received in Russia. |
Charitable Russian ladies have pro
vided them not only with clothes and
shoes and tobacco, but also with mon
ey, which will enable those nost severe
ly wounded to spend the rest of their
days in comfort.
From their own government they
have received nothing, and not even
those who have lost arms and legs will
receive any pension, so that but for
Russian generosity they would have to
starve to death after reaching Japan.
In spite of all sensational statements
to the contrary the situation in Russia
is rapidly improving, and according
to letters from the Czarina to her rel
atives at Rarmstadt neither she nor
the Czar have at any time had any
fear for their persoral safety.
Nicholas is now working on a mes
sage which will give to the people of
Russia the political freedom they have
been sigting for for years.
That a new era is dawning in Russia
is clearly shown by the fact that
Maxim Gorki, a few months ago in
danger of being banished, has now
been allowed to publish a daily paper,
“New Life.”’
This is the first socialistic paper
openly published in Russia, and Count
Witte although opposed to the princi
ples it advocates, was the first to sub
seribe for it.
NEARLY TWO BALES TO ACRE.
Mr. Lott Warren Raises Nineteen
Bales of Cotton on Ten Acres.
Mr. Lott Warren, of Inaha, was in
Tifton Saturday. He has made this
year, on ten acres, nineteen 500-pound
bales of cotton. He planted the ten
acres for twenty bales, and would have
got them easily but for a dry season
in August.
From one acre of land this year
Mr. Warren has made 700 gallons of
fine syrup, which he is now putting on
the market. :
On his potato crop he finds himself
in the position of Carter who raised
the celebrated oats. He planted six
acres and gathered until himself and
his hands were worn out, and then
turned in his hogs, which have so far
made little showing on them. He has
about fifty head of hogs to fatten this
fall.—Tifton Gazette.
10 pieces 36 to 40 inches wide all
wool dress goods, worth 60 cents, bar
gain price 35 cents at McLain Bros.
DAWSON, GA.,, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1905.
firm, and refused to yield to senti
ment. Governor James M. Smith,
called to bring order out of disorder,
refused to yield to sentiment; the old
Wilkes court, familiar to such men as
George Walton, John Dooly, Jacob
Early, John Talbot, Meriwether,
Micajah Williamson, Joshua and Job
Callaway, Lawrence Bankston, Jos.
Henderson, Governor Mathews refus
ed to yield to sentiment, and it seems
there are times and cases, even when
a woman is involved, for the law to
take its course.
Be that as it may. I have always
rejoiced that it so happened that Gov
ernor James M. Smith, our governor
of that heroic period which followed
the Bullock chaos, explained to me
his position and condition in the
Susan Eberhart case.
~ DOG RIDES ON FREE PASS,
An “Annual” Tls' Duly Issued to a
a Virginia Canine,
A 6-year-old English terrier, ‘‘Ja
bann,’’ which leads his blind master,
J. F. Cashion, through the populous
streets of Richmond, is probably the
only canine ¢njoying the luxury of
i‘free railroad transportation. An an
inual pass is made out to him over the
lines of the Chespeake and Ohio rail
!road, fully signed. No Jim Crow in
‘dignities ever perturb the soul of this
falthful little four-footed passenger.
‘He rides on the plumb red cushion of
‘a parlor Pullman. My, Cashion, who
‘never moves withigut Jabann, asserts
with the exception of one road, the
pass is good throughout the country. ]
i KISSES LEFT BY WILL. !
lDeceaaed Appointed a Friend to Ful
' fill This Service. e
Frances¢d di Blasion, an Italian ex
lquisibe, aged 31, shot hiniself through
the head in a notel in Naples; where
{he had been lunching. On the body
were found papers written in the hotel
ljust before death one of which ex
| pressed the suicide’s declaration that
he was not insane, but satisfied with
all the world’s pleasures. Another
gave instructions for a simple but
musical funeral service, at which no
priest should officiate, and at which
the ““Marseillaise’’ should be played’;
The deceased left several wills, be
queathing divers sums to women of his
acquaintance, as well as a thousand
lire for distribution among the pret
tiest damsels in a certain Milanese or
phanage. He appointed his father
"execut,or, authorizing him to sell su
‘burban property and pay the proceeds
to female favorites named in the testa
ment. He left a specified number of
kisses, appointing one of his friends
to fulfill this service on his behalf.
HAS FIFTY-THREE SUNDAYS.
A Peculiarity of the Year That Is Now
Drawing to a Close. -
Not peculiarly noted as a period for
the pious observance of the moral
code, the year 1905 has offered the
‘‘peoples of the earth’’ more oppor
tunities for public worship than any
of its predecessors in perhaps many
decades. Fifty-three Sundays were
marked on the calendar, a ecircum
stance that will never occur again
during the lives of persons now liv
ing, as it is estimated that 110 years
will pass before this remarkable ar
rangement of the calendar is again
observed.
The explanation of the phenomenon
is simple. The year began on Sunday
and will end on Sunday, thus throw
ing in an extra day of worship, giving
the people of the earth one Sabbath in
excess of the number of working
weeks.
FARMER WAS BURNED TO DEATH
Herbert Chason Awoke to Find His
Home in Flames.
Herbert Chason, a prosperous far
mer of Thomas county, was burned to
death in a fire that consumed his dwell
ing house and contents. He had been
to Cairo to spend the day.
Anticipating a late return, he sent
his wife and child to a neighbor’s to
spend the night, so he was alone at
the time of the fire. He built up a
big fire in his upstairs bed room, went
to sleep and awoke to find the bed in
fiames.
He made his escape from the house,
but his burns were so severe that he
died next morning at 9 o’clock.
FARMER WAS LOCKED IN CAR.
Went from lllinois to New York and
Was Unconscious When Found.
A Mt. Carmel, 111., dispatch says:
Clyde M. Showalter, a farmer of this
county, who disappeared October 19,
is reported to have been found in a car
of corn shipped from this point to New
York City. He had been in the car
two weeks when discovered, and it was
not until yesterday thas he was able
to tell who he was. Over $l.OOO has
been offered for his body dead or
al.;[:ei'l thought he was drugged and
thrown in the car. :
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And star-led sages from the east adore the Child divine
And place their pricelf f%é\hwvantfi: manger shrine.
And since that bright, gadspicious daifz;hifle is reign began
Ideals purer far\have ytwayed the destinies mat,
And faith, so long eclipsed by doubt, illumed <the hgman mind,
Which, lonig ilnmersed in gloom, had sought some ceftitude to find.
rHe taught us hote bo live aright, to suffer any be ytrong:
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M COPYRIGHT. 1905 BY NEIL MACDONALD %
A POSTMASTER’'S REPORT.
The President Was Informed of the
State of All Community Affairs,
When it was first arranged, nearly
fifty years ago, to have postmasters
send in quarterly reports many queer
documents were received. One, which
is still on file in the postoffice depart
ment, came from the little town of Wa
terford, 111., and is as follows:
“July the 9, 1826.---Mister jimes
buchanan, President of the United
States—Dear Sir: Bean required by
the instruction of the postoffice to re
port quarterly, I now foolfil that pleas
in’ duty by reportin’ as follfs: The
Harvestin’ has ben goin’ on retty well
and most of the naburs have got thur
cuttin’ about dun. wheet is Jardly an
average crop on rollin’ lans, corn is
yellowish and won’t cut more than 10
or 15 booshils to the akir, and the
health of the communitie is only toler
ably, meesils and colery hav broken
out in about 2 and a half miles of hear,
there are a powerful awaken on the
subject of religin in the potts nabur
hood and more soles are bean made {0
know thur sins is about all I know and
have to report this quarter ‘fi ve my re
spects to Mrs. buchanan and subscribe
myself yours Truly,
‘¢ ABAGAIL JENKINS.”’
HEE G BDR
Buck wheat and Graham flour ar
Wall Bros.
AN INDIAN MAY BE A SENATOR
A Probable Result of the Admission of a New State. The Red Man
Is Now a Dignified Citizen Instead of a Tribe Member.
One of the possible, if not probable,
results of the admission of a new state
composed of Oklahoma and Indian
Territory may be that a full-blooded
Indian may occupy a seat in one or
the other wings of the capitol, and
maybe in both. To have an Indian in
the senate will be an entirely new de
parture, but there need be no surprises
felt if such should be the case. The
new state will be entitled to two sena
tors, and such a large percentage of
the population is composed of Indians
or mixed bloods that common justice
would seem to demand that they be
represented. Many of the Indians are
intelligent and educated citizens, fully
gualified for legislatures, even in the
congress of the United States.
It will probably be news to a great
many readers to learn that after the‘
4th day of next March the tribal rela
tions will cease, so far as what is
known as the five civilized tribes are
concerned. By act of congress their
tribal governments will cease to exist
and the Indians will become citizens
VOL. 24---NO. 13.
of the United States instead of mem
bers of a tribe. They will become
voters and taxpayers, just as other
citizens are, and will have a voice in
the election of con%ressmen and of
members of the state legislature, which
will choose two senators.
2,000 CARS FOR BERRIES.
Last Season’s Disaster May Be Avoid
ed by a New Arrangement.
President and General Manager
Ellis of the Armour car lines has been
in Wilmington, N. C., in conference
with President Emerson of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad and several mems
bers of the executive committee of the
East Carolina Truck ar}d Fruit
Growers’ Association.
General Manager Ellis, who was
vested with full power, pleged his
company to furnish at least 2,000 re
frigerator cars for the shipment of
next season’s straw berry crop. This
wili prevent a repetition of last sea
son’s disastrous loss to the growers,
due to car shortage.
Smoke Dan Emmet cigars. They
are fine.
