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With Names of Heads of House
holds Has Been Published.
NATION HAD 540.000 FAMILIES,
o |
Tnique Work Which Was Compiled |
When the Union Consisted uf;
Only Twelve States. Tremendous |
Changes in the Map of the Coun
try Since Then.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Uncle
Sam, through the bureau of the cen
sus, has reprinted for sale the re
sults of the first census of the United
States, taken in 1790, when the Un
jon consisted of 12 states and when
the total population of the nation,
exclusive of slaves, was 3,231,533.
The first census was taken by
United States marshals, and its cost
was $44,277. Seventeen marshals
were engaged in the work, and they
had a force of enumerators estimated
at 650. The report was published
in what is now a very rare but very
small volume or 56 pages.
By way of contrast, it is pointed
out that the twelfth census, the last
taken, required ten large quarto
volumes, containing in all 10,400
pages.
Reports were made for the first
eentury by all of the original 13
states, except Rhode Isiand, which
was not admitted until May 29, 1790,
but the returns for the present states
of Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New
Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia were
unfortunately destroved when the
British burned the Capitol at Wash
ington in the war of 1812. The
records, however, have been repleted
from state archives as far as pos
sible. e il
. I
b Wation Had 510,000 Families,
Only the names of heads of fami
lies were taken, the total being ap
proximately 540,000, or slightly
more than half a million. The num
ber of names which is now lacking
because of the destruction of sched
ules is approximately 140,000, leav
sng about 400,000 names on the ex
isting returns.
When the first census was taken
Maine was a part of Massachusetts,
Kentucky a part of Virginia and the
present states of Alabama and Mis
sisgippi were parts of Georgia. The
states today known as Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin,
with part of Minnesota, were known
as the Northwest Territory, and the
present state of Tennessee, then a
part of North Carolina, was soon to
be organized as the Southwest Terri
tory.
The United States was bounded at
that time by the Mississippi river,
beyond which stretched that vast and
unexplored wilderness belonging to
the Spanish king, and which was
afterward ceded to the United States
by France as the Louisiana Purchase.
On the south was another great
Spanish colony known as the Flori
das. The greater part of Texas, then
a part of the colony of Mexico, be
longed to Spain, and California, Ne
vada, Utah, Arizona and a portion
of New Mexico were also the prop
erty of Spain.
New York Had 30,000 People,
The gross area of the United
Btates was then 827,844 square
miles, but the settled region was
only 239,935 square miles, or abont
29 per cent. of the total. The terri-
A SIMIPLE REMEDY ‘
FOR DYSPEPSIA‘I
Make it up for Yourself from al
Specialists Formula. I
We publish below the formula of|
an expert stomach specialist, whose‘
fee for diagnosig and prescription is
$25.00, 1‘
Anyone is free to use this formulai
and make the medicine up for him
self at home. It is said to be marvel
susly curtaive in severe cases of in
digestion and dyspepsia, especially
where there is an excess of gas on
the stomach. On the other hand, it is
free from harmful ingredients and
will not injure the most delicate \is
sues. While immediate relief is tr be
expected, it is recommended that the
treatment be continued for thraoe
weeks in order to guarantee a com
plete cure.
Get from your druggist 14 oz. so
fium Jhosphate, 1 ooz. essence seal
mmt. Take an 8§ ounce (1% pint)
%ottle with a good cork, fill »= nearly
full of hot water; then put the 1% oz
sodium phosphate in and add % tea
spoonful of good baking soda. Let
stand until cool, and add 1 o:. es
sence sealmint, and shake well, Take
Wo teaspoonfuls before each meal.
It is said that nearly 90 per cent.
ot all indigestion and dyspepsia is
due to fermentation of food in the
stomach. This prescription is de
signed to counteract that, to stimu
late the digestive secretions, and to
regulate the movements of the bow
els. Certainly, unless it possessed
remarkable virtue it would have been
fmpossible for the originator of it to
have won such a high reputation in
his Jrofession, for he uses it in nine
tenths of the cases that come before
him,
tory west of the Allegheny moun
tains, with the gexception of Ken
tucky, was unsettled and scarcely
penetrated. Philadelphia was the
capital of the Unitea States, Wash
ington, known as the Federal City,
being merely a project.
New York was then. as now, the
largest city in the Union, and its
population was 33,131. Philadel
phia was second with 28,522, and
Boston third with 18,320. Mails
were very irregular, and a journey
as long as that from New York to
Washington was a serious undertak
ing, requiring eight dayvs under the
most favorable conditions.
The reprint of the text of the cen
sus made by the government wiil ap
pear in pamphlets containing the
names of the heads of families in
the present states of Connecticut,
Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine,
Maryviand, Massachusetts, New Hamp
shire, New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and
Virginia. Each state will form a
separdte part, or volume, consisting
of from 100 to 300 pages. Copies
are obtainable only from the directori
of the census for $1 each. ‘
;aenmr PICKERS STOP mmi
IQuamm- of Pickaninnies Held Up
Belated Express Which Was Thun
dering Along at Extra Speed.
Four little pickaninnies stopped a
southbound passenger train runningl
]two hours late on tue Charleston and
i\\'estem Carolina road the other da}'.l
on the pretext of selling some black-l
Iherries to the engineer. The story
comes from the station agent at
Meriwether, a small flag station
about twenty-five miles from Augus
ta.
| Blackberries grow in abundance in
the swamps near Meriwether, and
‘because of the shade and coolness,
may be found there much later than
on the highlands. Two little negrol
girls and two little negro boys had
picked two buckets full of berries
and sat down on the track to rest.
While pondering over the manner in
which to dispose of their goods the
whistle of a locomotive was heard
from the direction of Spaxtanbm'g’
A hurried consultation was held and
when the shrieking locomotive, run
ning at great speed in order to make
up for lost time, approached t}’wi
children began velling in th" riping
voices, waved their aprons and n:u.:.i
and altoget.aer gave a good imitation
of a Fiji dance,
The engineer thinking that so-i«c
danger was ahead, with visions of =
washout on the road or a burning
trestle, immediately reversed the
throttle, the air brakes were applied,
and with many protests the train
came to a standstill.
| “}Nhat do you want?” yelled the}
engineer,
“Want to buy some blackberries?’
asked the spokesman for the kids.
“Only .0 cents a quart.”
l What the engineer said is not re
cordede, but it is said that as he
lopened hig throttle again he request-l
ed the little black pickaninnies in no
lmild language to step to where it
was even hotter than was the day.
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HAS QUIT HEARST'S PARTY.
Declares Organization Is Only Help
ing the Republicans and Resigns,
The Hon J. Conway Garlington
l'n" Greenville, 8. C.. has resigned his
j bosition as a member of South Caro
lina's Independence party executive
committee,
In his letter to Charles A. Walsh
of Chicago, announcing his resigna
tion, he says the action of the In
dependence party in putting out a
presidential ticket is calculated to“
weaken the democrats and help Taft.
He savs:
“The conviction is inevitable that
the Independence party is working
in the interest of Taft. If it is done
wittingly it has betrayed trust; if
unwitingly, it is too weak to be trust
ed. On fundamentals the Independ
ence and democratic parties are
agreed. The placing of electors in
the field can only have the effect
of strengthening Taft.
- "Thes vart 1 toak in organizing
South Carolina was not on the un
derstanding of any such purpose,
Having lost faith in your movement
and having no desire to aid in per
mitting a party that is not serving
the best interests of the people 1
beg ‘herewith to tender my resigna
tion from the executive committee.”’
SEND TO GEORGIA FOR ONE.
S
We Have Them Who Would Fight
Hell With a Bucket of Water,
A young preacher of LaCrosse,
Wis., received a call from a Baptist
church in Atlantie City the other
day. It was a neat job with a good
salary, and the young preacher was
pleased. He went to Atlantic City
to look the field over, While there
he spent some time on the board
walk and about the hotels, then he
went back home and in sorrow wrote
that he couldn't accept the call.
There were some things in Atlantic
City, he said, that pained him and
which would cause him constant
worry if he lived there. His gentle
soul was not equal to the task of
wielding a big stick upon the sea
shore devil. Atlantic City should
isend to Georgia for her preachers.
We have them here who would
“fight hell with a bucket of water,”
to use the picturesque language of
| President Roosevelt's friend, Seth
Bulloch.—Savannah News,
M ;
Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers rely on Dr. Thomas’ Eclec
tric Oil. Takes the sting out of cuts,
burns or bruises at once. Pain can
not stay where it is used.
lTore Out Sweetheart’s Tongue
Because She Married Another.
{ltalian Who Had Come to America
| to Make Money to Support His
% Sweetheari Found on His Return
I That She Was Already a Wife.
{ ROME, Aug. 15—For tearing out
e .
jls former sweetheart’'s tongue be
j cause she had broken her promise to
lromaiu faithful while he saved
t(:nough to support her a traveling
idemi;\t named Francesco Vergani has
zbeen dragged to death by a horse to
‘which he was tied by the bystanders
who witnessed his vengeance.
’ Vergani, when a youth of 19, fell
in love several vears ago with Eloise
Ferrari, a girl a vear his junior, and
'a daughter of a prosperous farmer of
Revigo province. The girl liked him,
but her parents objected that he was
'too young and poor to wed. Hoping
‘I[O make a fortune in America the
young man took passage for New
IYork. after making his sweetheart
Ipromise to accept no husband until
ihe returned to claim her.
The two took their vows of faith
fulness in the village church, repeat
ing together, as they concluded.
“"May 1 be stricken dumb if I violate
the oath I have taken.”
Fortune was slower in coming to
him in America than Vergani hoped,
and it was eight years before he con
sidered himself able to support the
woman of his choice in the fashion
in which he thought she was enti
tied.
He had found employvment in the
meantime with an itinerant dentist.
who, taking a fancy to the young
[talian, finally made him his partner,
equipped him with a smattering of
dentistry and enabled him to accu
mulate enough to make him, in Italy,
a comparatively rich man.
Corresponding through a mutual
friend Vergani had heard regularly
from his betrothed during the first
six years of his exile. Then the let
ters suddenly ceased. The young
man was worried and anxious, Imt;
still confident that the girl remained |
true to him. He was confident, too, |
that had anything befallen her his
friend would have informed him.
Just as he was preparing to return
home, however, he learned, a month
ago in Boston, that she had married
a well-to-do miller in her native vil
lage.
His love turned to hatred. Ver
gani hastened at once to Italy,
bought one of the stage coaches from
which itinerant dentistry is practiced
in this country, and drove to Mon
selico, a village near Padua, where
he arrived during fair time, gathered
a crowd and performed a number of
small operations, meanwhile ques
tioning his patrons regarding his
former fiancee.
As he expected, it was not long|
before she and her husband appeared
‘n the group about his coach. Him
self unrecognizable in the long beard
he wore, he beckoned to the woman,
who, encouraged by her husband, |
agreed to a trial of a powder with
which he had been polishing the
teeth of several of the villagers.
Catching up a pair of forcepts as
she opened her lips he seized and
tore out a large part of her tongue,
while the crowd looked on, frozen
with horror. Then, as the agonized
husband dashed forward and caught
‘his fainting wife in his arms a rush
'was made for the coach. The
crowd’s instinct was plainly to tear
him to pieces. As they tore him
from the coach, however, some one
shouted, ““Tie him to his horse and
let it drag him.”
The suggestion met with instant
approval. One of the horses was un
fastened from the coach, Vergani
was bound to its tail, and the ani
mal, already frightened and rearing,
was lashed to a gallop. The viectim
of the mob’s vengeance was dragged
nearly two miles before the runaway
animal was stopped. Vergani was
then almost beyond recognition. The
object of his vengeance probably
will not recover.
TO ELECT THE PENSION MAN.
The People Will Name This Official
at the Next State Election.
By a vote of 98 to 12 the lower
house of the general assembly passed
the senate bill, by Senator Hardman,
making the pension commissioner
elective by the people for a term of
two years, at a salary of $3,000 a
year. It has been reported that the
governor had tendered the appoint
ment of pension commissioner to
Thomas G. Cabaniss of Monroe coun
ty, as successor to Commissioner
John W. Lindsay, but the latter’s
successor will now be chosen at the
election in October.
Commissioner Lindsay is a ecandi
date to succeed himself, and Repre
sentative W. A. Buchanan of Early
county, a member of the present
jhouse, has announced that he will
|nlsu be in the race.
' S gaein sl
i HOW'S THIS?
l We offer one hundred dollurs reward for anv
{ case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's
| Catarrh Cure. F.J. CHENEY & Co . Toledo. O.
We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
lf‘:'!h-* last 15 years, and believe him perfeetly
honorable in all business transuactions and finan
teially able to earry out any obligations made by
his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
! Hall’'s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surface of
the system. Testimonials sent iree, Price 75
cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
‘ Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation,
THE DAWSON NEWS.
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Syl é} e It is 2 hygienic BREW fermented be
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\ il It has all the TONIC properties of hops,
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| V to medical science.
LA W / Added to this, Acme Maltale is a
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It is one of the standard products of the Acme Brewery.
Sold bottled or on draught everywhere under the guaruntee the
name ‘‘Acme” implies.
Brewed by ACME BREWING CO., Macon, Ga.
- L. H. Marks, Albany, Ga., Agent.
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HEARST’S LITTLE MEN. i
One lls Unknown, and the Other
Croons Sweet Words.
From the Charleston Post.
William Randolph Hearst's Inde
pendence party’s convention has put
out its ticket and presented a plat
form, and its following is saying
that it has launched a new national
‘party. Thomas Hisgen of Massa
chusetts \is the candidate for presi
‘dent, and John Temple Graves of the
lNew York American .s the candidate
for vice-president. We 4o not know
'anything about Mr. Hisgen, and we
ldon't know anybody who does know
anything of him. It was said in the
newspapers in advance of the con
vention that Hearst wanted him
nominated for president, so there is
nothing surprising in his nomination.
John Temple Graves is a different
i propostion. He is known wherever
sweet wordg are crooned. He was
born in South Carolina: he was
raised in Georgia and he lives now in
New York, but he belongs to human
ity. - He is at once the comfort and
despair of the poet, the singer and
the painter. He has been called a
‘“word weaver,”” and he has been
known to lull the mocking bhird to
rest and to make the lily blush with
!env_\'. In short, John Temple is the
goods. Why 'he should be thought
'of for vice-president we cannot
limagine, but he ought to be poet
|laureate to the American eagle by
lunanimous vote, and the idea of mak
;ing him the tail to a Hearst ticket
,is ridiculous. Mr. Hisgen will have
lto anchor himself, else some bright
'summer day John Tempie will soar
linto the empyrean and carry off the
presidential candidate into a rarified
ratmosphere in which he cannot live.
Why James Lee Got Well.
Everybody in Zanesville, 0., knows
Mrs. Mary Lee, of rural route 8. She
writes: “My husband, James Lee,
firmly believes he owes his life to
the use of Dr. King's New Discovery.
His lungs were so severely affected
that consumption seemed inevitable,
when a friend recommended New
Discovery. We tr'.4d it, and its use
has restored him to perfect health.”
Dr. King’'s New Discovery is the king
of throat and lung remedies. For
coughs and colds it has no equal.
The first dose gives relief. Iry i 1
Sold under guarantee at Dawson
Drug Co. 50c and $l.OO. Trial bot
tle free. '
Texas' blacksmith ecandidate fo%
governor polled 125,000 votes, and
spent $9. If he had not been so
tightwadish and had made it $l9 he
might have won.
V» ar eh()use
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hesssd ever to properly serve the farmers. All
cotton stored with us will receive our personal atten
tention, and our loug experience in our particular
line of business insures satistactory service.
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A full supply of Bagging and Ties always in stock,
and will be sold at prices that will meet all competi
tion. For our customers, we have in yard free ac
commodations for stock. including plenty of water.
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J. B i
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Will be with me this season, and will be glad to
see and serve their friends. Mr. Jennings, who has
been at the scales several vears and has become
known as the Old Reliable will do the weighing
again this season, which is sufficient guarantee that
every customer will get correct weights.
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