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CHURCHES,
Preaching at Baptist church Ist
und Brd Sabbath in each month.
Morning Services at 10:45 A &
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dubbath School at 9. A M
Prayer meeting every Wednes
lay night.
Rev. B W Davis, Pastor.
Preaching at Methodist church
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vight.
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(lass meeting every Tuesday
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pight.
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(olored Free Will Church—Preach
ing every 2, 3 and 4th Sunday.
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pight.
Elder D J Fields, Pastor.
CITY GOVERNMENT
Mayor - Wm. Kaigler,
Councilmen —W € Kendrick, W
] heatham, C Deubler, J A
Jorsler, T R Hannah.,
Ulerk—J 1. Janes.
+ Treasurer—F W Clark.
Marshall =L, A Hatcher.
D?uty Marshall—John B Roberts
treet Overseer—Nick Kenney.
Council meets first Monday night
1 each month,
COUN'Y OFFICERS.
Mrdinary—H S Bell -
Clerk Superior Court-J C F Clark
Bherif—l G Marshall
Tax Receiver ~C M Harris
Tax Collector—J H Crouch
Treasurer—J I Laing
Kurveyor-J £ Waller
(f‘)rnner—.lohn Daniel
tung Farm Supt.—W H Gams
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LEGION OF HONOR.
leel Council, No 795—C L
Mize, Commander; J G Dean, Sece
ttary: Mrs, G I, Mize, 'l'reasurer;
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0 each month.
YERRELL COUNCIL, NO 691,
Rval Archanum—Chas Deubler,
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Dawson Lodge, No 1258—J M
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DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 29, 1881,
DOAN LAUGH.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.]
Oh, de she b'srs come wen ole 'Lie
gy blow'd his ho'n,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o’ de Lawd,)
Go up, old baldy, "lowed the frec—
kle face chile,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o' de Lawd,)
An’ den er ba'r grabbed him wid
er mighty broad smile,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o' de Lawd,)
De po’ chile bollered an’ tried to
get loose,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o' de Lawd,)
But de bar drug him off like ey
varmint vid a goose.
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o' de Lawd.) :
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o’ de
Lawd, young mau,
Doan yer laugh at de prophet in
de lane,
Fur de b'ars mout come from the
woods young man,
An’ eat yer up 'gardless o’ de pain,
pain, pain.
And eat yer up 'gardless o' de
pain,
Den praise old Ligy and praise
Mars Saul,
An’ we'll dance wid David roun’
de ark in de hull. -
Oh, yer better be keertul wen yer
titters er man,
(Doan yer laugh at de servant
o' de Lawd,)
Fur yer mout strike de prophet o’
de Jorden river ban',
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o' de Lawd,)
An' it mout be de case dater pus
son widout h'ar
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
o' de Lawd,)
Hab got er awful fluence wid de
hallelujah blar,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent ‘o
de Lawd)
An' den yer eyes is open wen its
too late
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent ‘o
de Lawd,)
Dat yer hab crooked yer finger at
de wrong sorter pate,
(Doan yer laugh at de sarvent
| ‘o de Lawd.
"Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o
de Lawd, young man,
Doan yer laugh at de prophet in
| de lane,
For de b'ars mout cum frum de
woods, young mau,
Avn’ eat yer up ‘gardless o' de
pain, pain, pain,
An’ eat yer up ‘gardlesso' de pain.
Den praise old Ligy and praise
Mars Saul,
An’ we'll dance vid David roun'
de ark in de hall.
SHOT DEAD IN HIS SLEEP.
Edwin Thomas Slain by His Fifs
teen-Year Old Step-Son.
From the Savannah News, 20th.]
The little twosstory frame house
at the southeast corner of Houston
and President streets was the scene
of a murder yesterday that will
rival in horror any that has occur
ed for a long time. At 1:30 the
Sunday quiet that brooded over
the neighorhood was broken by
two pistol shots, Upen a bed.in
this house Edward E Thomas lay
dead. A hole in his right groin,
and alittle stream of blood trick
ling from the wound, told the sto
ry of how his life went out, but
no one knew theu that the one
who fired the fatal shot was Wil
liam Wingard, the dead man’s 15-
year old step-son. The shooting
was the culmination of a long story
—a tale of family disputes and ofa
wife's cruel treatment.
THE FAMILY HISTORY. |
About sixteen years ago Fannie
Taut married a man named Win
gard, by whom she had two chil
dren. Four years ago Wingard
died, and a year later his widow
married Edward E. Thomas, in
Beaufort, 8 . Soon after their
marriage they came to Savannah
and went to live with James A
Taut, the father of Mrs. Thomas,
They remained there until nine
weeks ago, but their lite was by no
means a happy one: Thomas was
given to drink and Mrs. Taut and
he were constantly quarrelling,
and these disputes taused trouble
between Thomas and his wife.
Finally Thomas told his wife that
he thought if they would go off
and live by themselves they would
not have so many disputes. They
took rooms in the house of Mr. Pe
ter Murnhy, where the tradgedy
oceurred. - There they lived until
yesterday. J
THE WIDOW'S STORY.
The story of the incidents that
led to the crime, as told by Mrs.
Thomas at the coroner’s inquest,
is as follows: ‘My husband worked
all day Saturday. He came home
last night, but left the house and
did not return until 12 o’clock.
He had been drinking, but retired
quietly, and did n.t uwake until
this morning. He took several |
drinks, one before he got out of
bed, and sat down to breakfast
quarreling about one thing
and another After breakfast he
went out several times, and each
time returned more under the in
fluence of liquor. The last timc‘
he came back he was very full,and
began cursing and abusing me, and i
finally picked me up in his arms
and told me that he was going to
throw me out of the window. I
struggled to free myself, and
screamed as loud as I could. and
he put me dowa.
STRUCK HER WITH A BROOM.
Istarted to run down stairs and
he struck me across the face with a
broom. I went down to the back
steps and sat there crying for a
while. When I went back into
the house I found him lying across
the bed. As I entered Le ordered
me to leave the room.
I had some berries in the house
ard ¥ fook them to my mother,
who lived on East Boundary street
near Boughton, and asked her to
make me some pies. My sister no
ticed the red mark on my face and
asked me the cause. 1 told her
Ed. had struck me with a broom.
No one was in the room but my
mother and sister; I did not see
my son. I returned home in a
few minutes and found my hus
band asleep across the foot of the
bed. Ilay down beside him and
dozed for about half an hour and
then started down stairs to cook
dinner. I met my son in the pas.
sage and took from him a basket
in which were the pie aud a pack
age of sugar. ; ‘
HE BROUGHT _THE PIE. |
I asked him, Q{m have you
brought the pie?” and he answered.
‘Yes.” I then asked what they
were all doing at home, and he re
plied ‘nothing.” 1 thought that
be followed me, but as 1 set the‘
basket down in the dining room 1
heard the report of a pistol, I
ran out ot the dining room and
met my son who was coming out
of the bedroom and tried to catch
hold ot him. I said, ‘My God,
Bossie, what did you do it for?"
He made no answer, but kept run
ning down stairs, putting ghe pis
tol in his pocket. I ran into the
room and my husband was sitting
on the side of the bed. I said.
‘Oh, my God, Ed!' He groaned
and laid back He did not utter
a word. Iran down stairs, and
when I returned, he was dead.®
Mrs. Thomas further said that
Thomas and her son William hail
no difficulties, but that the young
er son. Thomas Wingard, who is
only 12 years old, frequently quar
reled, and about fi%e months ago
the boy tried to stab her husband,
THE MURDER,
The older boy made sirer work,
He secured the . pistol from the
trousers of a butcher namsd Thom
as E Mitchell, who slept in his
father's house. He went to _Mitch-‘;
ell's room in the morning and
awakened him from his sleep to
borrow the pistol. Mitchel} refus
ed to lend it, and said he would
not lend it to anybody. Wingard
enteved the room after Mitchell
bad fallen to sleep again and took
the pistol, then got the basket from
his grandmother and sought hie
mother. Atter delivering the bas~
ket to her he went up stairs and
entered the bedroom, where he
foupd Thomas lying asleep, with
& newspaper resting on his stom
ach. Wingard was not more than
five feet away wheu he entered
the room. He fired atid the ball
entefed the iman's right groin, sevs
ered the femotal drtery and emergs
ed from the back. ‘
GAVE RIMSELF UP, |
Wingard ran down stairs, passed
his mother and ran to the home of
his grandfather, where he told of
hisact. He asked his granfatlier
to accompany him to the police
barracks, as he wanted to give him
selt up. On the way ovet he hand- |
ed Mr, Taut the pistol and told
him to keep it. At the burracksi
he was cool and sclf-possessed. |
He told Sergeant Reilly at flrst!
that he had a difficulty with st,ep-]
father and wanted to give himeelf
up, Afterward he said he had;
shot Thomas. Just before he was
taken to the cell he turned to hia!
grandfnthcg' and said with the ut—-i
most unconcern. ‘Here is a dime, ‘
grandps; go aud get me some Cis |
garetts.’ '
THE GRIEF STRICKEN WIDOW.
The grief of the widow while
fhe was giving her testimony was
something heart-rendering. She
paced the floor and wrung her }
bands. and between her sentences
moaned pitifully, uttering the
most touching prayers. Now and
then she turned toward the room
where the body lay and called to “
‘Ed." and begged him to wake up
and speak to her once more. The
witnesses of her agony were awed ‘
into silence by the greatness of her
grief, and the officers with hesitans
cv questioned her. What seemed
to pain her most was her having
to tell of his cruelty to her, yet she
told it all. She said that once he
knocked her down in the street,
once threw bottles at her, often
beat her, but she would willingly
bear all of thut if she could only
call him back to life. After she
had given her testimony she wone
dered around the house from room
to hallway, out on the piazza, from
one place to aunother, moaning
most pititully.
A TALK WITH THE SLAYER.
Her son was lyinz in the cell at
the barracks, where he was found
by a. Morniny News reporter, who
asked him if he had any statement
to make. |
‘No," he replied, ‘I don’t want
to say anything.’ 1
*You don't deny the shooting?
‘Oh, no! I ¢hot him." ;
‘Why did you do it?’ |
‘Because be treated my, motber}
cruelly and beat her. Only this
morning he lifted her up and Wusj
going to throw her out of the wins
dow.’
‘Did you ever see him treat her
cruelly? #
‘Yes; I have seen him slap her.’
¢Where did you get the pistol?’
‘Never mind where I got the
pistol,” he replied, and he then
evinced such a desire to be let alone
that he was not plied with ques
tions. Lieutenant Green told him |
to get ready to go to jail, and he
replied, ‘All right, sir,’ as if he
had been told to go home.
He is not at all concerned about
the affar, and takes it as cooly as if
he had shot a rat.
After the®roroner’s jury had
been out about fifteen minutes,
they came to a verdict that the
deceased came to his deathffrom the
effects of a gun shotwound from
2 pistol in the hands of William i
Edward Wingard,and they consid
ered it premeditated murder, The
verdict was cigned by five of the six
jurors, E C Wilson, a Negro, re
fusing to consent. He considered
it justifiable homicide. ‘
WHO THOMAS WAS. ‘
Edward Thomas was born in Au
gusta about 35 years ago and lived
there until he had grown up and
learned his trade, He then moved
to Beaufort and then to Savannah,
He was a mechanic, and an excells
ent one. He has worked at a num
ber of mechine shops in this city
‘and was always accounted an ex
cellent workman. He had been
l.ugsged at the Morning News of
fice adjusting some machinery for
the last three weeks, and had just
completed the work. He had an
| other job awsiting bim, and had
bought special tools that he requir
ed: His fondness for liquor was
well known to his frieuds ; still he
was liked and was generally consid:
ered a good fellow.
THROWING THE SLIPPER.
Origin ot a Wedding Custom Thiat
Has Invaded Many Lauds:
Throwitig an old slipper after &
bride and bridegroom when start
ing op their honeymoon is supposs
ed to have taken its origin from a
Jewish custom, amd signifies the
obedience of the wite as well as the
supremacy of the husband. A shoe
is thrown for luck on other ocea
sions hesides a marriage, DB
Johneon says:
*‘Hurl after me an old shoa |
T'll be merry, whatever I do.” |
It is related that many years ago,
when lotteries were permitted, the
custom of throwing a shoe taken
from the left foot after persons
were practiced for gdod luck. This
custom has existed iu Norfolk and |
other countries from time immemo
rial, not only at weddiugs, but on'
all occasions where good luck is
required A cattle dealer required
his wife to *‘trull her left shoe af.
ter him” when he started for Nor~
wich to purchase a lottery ticket.
As he drove off on his errand he
looked round to see if his wife bad
performed the charm, and received
the shoe in his face with such force ‘
as to black bis eyes He went and
bought his ticket, which turned up
a prize of six hundred pounds, and
he always attributed his luck to
the extra dose of shoe which he
got. The custom, as it originally
existed, is dying out, for, whereas
our forefathers threw old shocs af
ter the wedding equipage, we, in
this more luxurious age, purchase
new white satin slippers for the]
purpose. The origin of this cus
tom may be traced from the words
in Psalm cviii.; “Over Edom will
I cast out my ®hce,” meaning
thereby that success should atiend
the methods used to subdue the
Edomites. Tt iz not unlikely, |
therefore, that the superstitious
custom has arisen from this con«
struction of these words.—All the
Year Round, ]
Bound tv Have Him,
®
Detroit Free Press. ]
A tarmer in the western part of
the county built & dam across a
creek flowing through his land and
made quite a lake of a piece of low
ground. One day last fall, while
skirting thie poud, he came across
a man who was seated on a log,
with three fish lines out, and he
bailed him with
‘Hello, stranger, what fre you
doing |
‘Fishing," was the brusque re=
ply. |
‘What tor?' |
‘For fish.’ |
‘Get any bites ?*
‘Not aone.'
‘Do you know that this lake be
longs to fe?" |
“Yes.’ |
‘And did anybody tell you that
I went down to Detroit and bought}
twenty-four bulheads and all but
one died on the way up here
‘Yes." ‘
“Then you know that there is
only oue solitary fish 1n this
pond #
‘I do, mister, and I'm goiug to
have him before night if the pond
doesn't freeze over and cyclones
stay away.'
il
The Meznest Husband,
Detroit Pree Press.]
*I think I've got rather the nieans
est husband in Detroit,' exclaimed
a litile woman ot the car the other
day. Her friend asked her to ex
plain, and she continued: ‘I found
that he was smoking fifty cents'
worth of cigars a day, and I got
him to agree to give me as much
pin-money per week as the cigars
cost. He stuck to it one week.’—
‘And then what?' ‘He bought him
a clay pipe and a pound of ten cent
smoking tobacco, and my income is
cut down to two cents s week.”
YOL. Ill].—~No-9
MODEST DEMANDS.
N e :
' Why an Aged Cahnd'u ‘
Compelled to Rofuse Bunglfg -
’ ment; o
s AR
' A old riegro who %
guged to do work off & fam :
to the proprietor the day site -
was employed snd mide T
‘Boss, skuze me; suh, bt datfe
er few plints dat | furgot 06 ali g
yistday. All oberfdis heah gojs
try, sah, Tse sald terbe de ban
on er farm, sn’ [ wunu'tfi’"; &
little understandin’ wid yer.”
‘somie thiugs, vab dat yer W
’spect rue ter do.” Biniie
*What are they? 4l
~ ‘Wall, sah. yer mus'nt ‘spectani
ter pull fodger.’ et
o rig&t" W Gt
‘Nur #et out cab plants’
‘Well as you urob::;al‘i._t
moat trustworthy man a'l
neighborbood, T will relieve you
from such duties.' N
‘Thank yer, sah, but wait &
minit. Nor turn de grindston®,”
‘Well.! 7ok
‘Nur draw water'for de atasi’
‘Go ahead.’ vl uiey
‘Yes, sab, thankee. l"fi
befo’ day, nur chop atove |
‘nur he'p kill hogs, nur plow, sur
' hoe cottun, nur'— j
~ *Hold ou.’ B
‘Wall sah.’ sy m
‘What do you prpose to &0
‘'W'y, work on de farm, seli but
I wus'at clean out do well, mme
teed de stock, vur cur whest, see
! -
‘Hold on. I don't want yout
‘Why so, sah? ;
‘Because you don't waa't
work.’ s ‘
‘Dar yer go, jod like all diie-m
o’ de white folka. Say dat a.
‘ger doan wonter work jeit & x
he doan wanter kill hisse’f. Lom
ez he jis gits right down an’ Husk
hisse’f ter death da domu sy e
word, but soou ez he says he-witft
willin’ ter die, 'y den da oomds
‘roun’ makin' er big mouf er bout
it.” 257 iy
" Well, said the proprietos, silee
a moment’s reflecticn, ‘as I nesfl. 8
man to see that the other bandle
do their work well, you may go
ahead.’ 2y
‘Bleeged ter yer, sah, 'doed $BB
I'll make yer do bes' obersser g
eher seed, case I'se got ‘de intenst
o' de 'prietor at heart. Hole- oty
bo}:s: jes er nmuder word, pletss
sah. ;
‘Well, what is it?” ST
‘What sorter whisky ~does gyep
drink? ;
‘I don't drink any.’
‘But what kiue is yer goin' ter
turn me loose er mung? 2
‘Noue.! i
‘Ain't gwinter hab er bare®l wid
er tin cup on it?
‘Of course not.’ A
‘Den, sah, we kan't tHd&
White folks 'spects et nigges e
work his life ev way widout glotls®
any 'freshments, No us'n talkld’;
suhj dar ain’t no finitness twigh
us,”—[Arkansaw Traveler.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
The best Salve in the Md&
cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, 'Salt"
Cheum, Fever Soles, Tetter, Chapd
ped Hands, Chilblains Cornay, snd:
all Ski}x:' lEruptioua. and pom
cures riles, or no ~
Ttis guaranteed to glpv‘eype:%fl. Wt
isfaction, or money refunded
price 25 cents per box. kor: ady
at Crouch Bro's. e
el b it bt ,
““Erbout Ther Same Kinder Tun*,*
Jfl? & ;i
‘Did you ever dance to the #iy '
of that piece in the Mikado called
‘Willow-Tit-Willow-Tit-Willow L.
acked Dandyman of his cmu‘il'
cousin, : i
‘No, but dad ofien made me sug.,
and dance ter the willow<tap willow -
he keeps in ther woodshed. &g
rec'on it's erbout ther same kinder
tune, ain’t it? 4
‘ set L als
Carboy Jr. o 8
We are now owners of the thisss. .
oughbred J ene{ Bull, mw:
formerly owned by MrL:B W
We have his pedigree aud ganimme
tee that there isnot a lfim
;rsb(;'adf bull m:: found : .
y Or Servita. ol SRR
Can be found at Alesandes &
Marshall’s Stables. : :
| Honsuey & Cnocom,