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DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUSTS 1877.
A Trip to Baker.
3he foil-wing was wtitten srme
time "go, but a press of other matter
has crowded it out, until this issue,
and, even now we have to put it on
the out-side:
Having a little leisure recently, we
made a visit to a gentleman in Balter
county who, as Wilkins Macatiber
| woiiM say, was “the friend and com
panion of our veuth,” but is now en
gaged in planting in thatcounty. We
allude to Dr. 11. S. Jones,
i It we hud space to publish it, we
would like to speak, in “glowing
j terms of the pleasures of the tiip,
! —of the hospitality of our host anil his
many pleasant neighbors ; of the
many fish we caught, and the many
more that wo did not catch, in the
, beautiful, fast running, rocky oottum
ed, Itchawaynotehaway; and how we
have been itching away and scralching
aivay e7er since from the bites of, — not
fish,--but some little red acquaintances
that we made on those excursions.—
They but a sight better (or worse)
than the Osh. iWe leave space be
fore the word “sight,” in the last sen
tence, for the irisertion of a word sig
nifying mended hose, or something
stronger, for those who like that sort
of language ; \t e don’t.)
To our surprise, we found in that
past of the county which we visited,
some of toe best lands, and some of
the largest and best cultivated planta
tions we have ever seen. Large plan
tations were cleared up, before ttie
wtir, by wealthy people who lived else
where. Many ot these have been
somewhat neglected since the war,
while some of them are still splendid
ly cultivated by intelligent planters,
and produce highly remunerative
crops.
Though suffering from drouth the
crops of com, cotton, sugar caue, as
compared with any we tiave seen else
where, were magnifficeut. All the
planters that we saw had plenty of
old corn on hand and a line stock of
hogs. The countiy looked more like
prosperity than anything we have ever
seen since the war.
Among the acquaintances we mode
on the trip, was Cupt. Whitlock, well
known to many of our readers as a
former citizen ot Dawson. He has a
tins plantation, a good crop, an intelli
gent and refined wife, four pretty chil
dren, and dispenses hospitality with
>.n unspating hand. Also, the Rev.
Mr. Cuny and lamily. Mr. Curty,
notwithstanding his arduous duties as
i zealous minister of the Baptist
church, cu tivutes a large plantation,
and never fails to make a sutp.us of
corn and other things as well as cotton.
Tom Cum, brother of the parson, is
a clever fellow, a goo i farmer, hut a
'miserable sititioi, and wretched old
bachelor. We tiied to iefoim him in
the two latter particulars, but utterly
failed.
Mr. Albert Couch had just broufr.it
to his boms a beautiful btide, and
was as happy us a big uu-Hower.
Mr. Budiford, and old triend of the
writers, is s. id to be the best planter
in the c. untry, he bus never failed in
bis life to make at least ten bales of
cotton to the mule, but was getting
badly scared, when we were at bis
house, in consequence of the protrac
ted diouth.
Mr. J C. Lark, an Augusta mer
chant before the war, cultivates the
largest planta ion that we saw. He
cultivates 1100 acres and says hat lie
makes it pay. We had the plea uro
of spending a day with his elegant
family. On that day, fie gave to the
negroes on ins plat ta ion, about 100
in number, an old fashioned ante bel
liti) barber tie, which was a novel and
interesting thing t 1 us. Several of
his neighbors had been invited and
Ids family table was loaded with all
kinds of barbecued meats, as weli as
every other delecacy of tne season,
while the Degrees enjoyed an out hour
dinner. 110 had pulled 249 big water
melons, on the day before, and, for
one time, we had as much of thut lux
ury as wi could dispose of.
By the way, sheakingcf‘’barbecues”
tlto uegros, on the above men
tinned occasion, contracted the word
to the last syiable, and spoke of it at
i u “cue,” whereupon our friend, Dr
J ones, who is of a philosophical am
philological turn ot mind, began tt
speculate, and suirnise that the wort
might have been derived from tin
possible fact of a barbed cue having
formerly, been used to turn the meat
while cooking, —hence b.rbecuc. But
we can inform him since returning
home and refering to our “unabridged, ’
that Webster dinvasit from the Frenoh
barbe-a queue i. e., from suoimt to tail;
refering to the custom of cooking the
“whole h"g” and the hog whole, on
such occasions.
We hope some time to renew our
acquaintance with tho ploasnnt poeple
of Bak r.
We called, Seth going and return
ing, on our friends at Leary,—Capt.
Boyd, Dr. Pauli, Chat lie Simmons anti
others, and are indebted to them for
hospitalities ami kindnesses.
John Henry was with Julia the
other evening .vh**n she observed.
“John, dear, what is a' 1 this talk
about expanding and contracting the
currency, tthd which you believe in?
“Well, my sweet,” said John, i>u ling
up his collar, that depends upon it
cumstances. In some eases I should
advocate contreetiou of the currency, J
and in other cases an expansion of it-
It is according to the ciicumstancee
that is in the condition of things,”
“But what is ti e difference between
the two, and how dues circumstances :
affect them? ihat’s what 1 want to ,
know, John.”
“Oh, that’s easily explained,” said |
John, in a tone of cheerfulness. “For
instance-- when we are atone wo both
sit on one chair, don’t we?”
“Yes ”
“Well, that’s contiauction. But
when we heat your pa or mti coming
we get on two chairs, don’t we ?”
“I should say we did.”
Well, my loVe, thai is expansion.
So you see it is accoiding to circlin'.- j
stances.”
“John,” said sic, very softly, bur- j
rowing under his ecr, “we are con
tracting now, aiu’t we?”
“You bet,” said John, with increas
ed cheet fulness.
History of a Pair ol Pants.
A few days ago Mr. J T. Jay ex
hibited to us a pair of pants and neck
tie, the history of which, ns well as
that of the owner is efnite sftsgnlaf.-r
The pants and tie belong to Mr. Wil
liam W. West, of this county, who
made the pants himself, :n 1813 and
was married in them tjtiree times, —in
1824, in 1828 and in 1829, he loaned
litem to two of his friends each of
whom were also mnnred in them,
making five times tho same pants
weio upon the matrimonial carpi t.
The cloth is white cotton twill goods,
an 1 the | ants cut according to the
6‘yle of tights with flaps in ft out, and
in the so days w te considered some
thimg nice. Tho tie i- a three cor
nered white cambric tie, and forms a
part of this aged wardrobe.
The preservation of this telic geems
to tiave given the old man good lack
through life. He moved here from
Notth Curoltna, aud now lives near
Ward’s Station in cheerfulnvss, at tho
ripe age of 87 years, and can walk
RiiVwhcTa he wants ,u go. Ho raised
eight child red out of eleven, has 34
grand children and eight great grand
children- lie never owned a framed
house, glass windows, brick chic tiey,
nor q, shingle roof in his I'fe, but
always had p'efity of “hog and hotni
r.ey,” and lives! at ease. He has been a
member of the Methodist church 55
years, and never had a personal diffi
culty in his fife, but fought in the
Bri'ish war of 1812, ior which he now
draws a pent ion.— i uikbert Appeal i
•j n> Ac'i<i<'ii! on tin* Ucorsia
*4 ail road.
Atlanta, July 24.—Ti e ten o'clock
tiaiu has just arrived on the Georgia!
Railroad. Dr. Crawford, of Atlanta, ’
and ljieut. Benner, of the United
States Army, and the express messen- ‘
gor aro badly hurt. The engineer
was killed, and perhaps other parties
were btired in the sniotheiing car.—
The baggage car was smashed to
pieces on tho engine in a deep cut. —
Ti v smoking car and one passenger
car were wrecked and all burnt up,
including the baggage and express
matter. Dr. Crawford and Lieut.
Benner aro here and the express
messenger is at Union Point seriously
1 hurt. It is one of tho wort accidents
that ever occurred on tho road and
i was caused by a cow on the track in
a deep cut. Piesideut J. P. Kit g
and Superintendent S. K. Johnson
were on the train, bu-escaped unhurt.
Two companies of trooj s have just
left here by a special tiaiu for Louis
ville Ky
fin Rack.
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To the young man with bis hair
parted in the middle who is about to
put his college education and his sole
leather trunk on the Texas bound
train, wo say, stop! To the clever at
tisau and the honest mechanic who
thinks he will go from the hard times
where he ip, to imaginary well paid
employment in the Lone Star State,
we also say—Stop!
To tho adventurous who wishes to
leave hoeing the turnips of some New
York farm to find a soft thing in this
land of prairies, we emphatically re
peat, stay w hero you are ! We would
that we inhabited the earthly Ely-iutn ,
that some Texas papers say we do, but
we ate aftaid we don’t. From the
tottom of our hearts we should bo
glad to t hi• k that there was plenty
end prosperity for evety one who
seeks to settle among us—but nil the
same, there isn’t.
We do possess something of an ap
proach to the eternal sun nier and tho
marvelous growth which the East is
so tired of hearing us brag about, but
that is all. Sooth to say, there is no
chance here ior moa without money,
all the eager, new arrivals to the con
trary notwithstanding. lii plain En- !
glish, the paper that 8) ealts of the
magnificent opportunities this State
presents to the new comer, lies and
lies irr a very graluitousiy criminal way
indeed.
The unvnruishrd truth is that our
labor market is stocked to ovetfiowing,
and every fteslt artiving train but
adds to the miserable multitude in our
midst that waits, suffers, starves and
finally fights its despnrato way back
East again. 'Before tho door of near
ly every house in this city, tiiere daily
bogs a bollow-7e(t swarm that wou’d
sadden the heart of n satyr. Men of
brains and culture, good clerks, excel
led business men of un
deniable cneigy mechanics of ability,
walk the streets in dumb despair, and
finally take those that lead to the
chain gatig and work-houie.
The wiiter of this eanuot remember
cue evening lor very many tliai l.e
ITUs'not been n?ked for money to buy
a meal or a bed by men who would
have sooner died on the rrck than
asked alms in the light oi day. And
some of them do die on the rack—the
rack of bitter disappontment, contin
ued tnisety Yet sliil some Journals
calmly sing the samo old siren song!
aud still this over-crowded and finan
cially prostrated comm unity is h< Id
up with fata! persisience as the proper
Mecca of the American youth.
We Leg the journals in the East
and North to copy this aitiele. We
ask that the truth he told there as a
simple duty (f humanity. In tho
name of the distress we seo round us,
and ate pi wer’.esS to relieve, in the
name of tan tramps and vagrants that
fill our cities and towns, we solemnly
wain intending immigrants of all
classes, except funnels and men with
money to invest, that we are over
stocked with labor, and will be for
the next four or five years. Though
his ticket tuny be purchased and r.is
trunk packed, we say to the man look
ing hither for employment— Go buck !
Texes Intelligence.
A Colored Women \ss:u!t'd
bj a Cuoh, iitnl It'*<• Iv Millvii.
Aunt Sylvia, an old colored woman
living on tlio Lamar plantation in i
tins county, was Severely bitten by a
largo raccoon one morning last week-
The woman was fishing near the
mouth of Birr Indian Cre, k. The]
coon approached her unobserved un
til within four or five feet of whe.eshe
was seated, when, looking round, she
saw him and railed out: “What ye ;
doin’ here, coon ?” At and the rascally
varmint jumped at her and seized her
hand, which lie hit severely. He ev
en continued to “lit id hi# grip” until
the woman’# screams brought to her I
rescue a negro man not far away.—
The man took a piece < f wood and
beat of! the coon ar.d ki led him. The
bito made a severe wound, and rtnd
! ered the woman's arm useless for sev
oral days. Some body may think
this is a “fish story,” but it is an actu
al incident truthfully related, and we
refer to Liu is J. Iviveis, who is run
ning the Lim.it place and lias the
coioicd peopla in his employ, or to
1 Mr. J J. Jeiks, who saw tho woman
alter slip wae assaulted by the toon. —
• Hawk nstillo 1. ispeieh.
. The surplus if the California wheat
. crop for giport, iaPit.mated at
tons.
Tltc §il;iit —aptalii
General Jackson’s troops and his
! enemies believed he never slepit; the
fact is, lie slept a great deal. When
ever he had nothing else to do lie
went to sleep, especially in church. I
remembrr during tho invasion of
Maryland, on Saturday night, he tode
three miles in an Ambulance, to at
tend church in Frederick, and then
fell asleep ns soon as tho minister Ik
t_an to preach ; his head fell upon his
breast and he never awoke until
aroused by the organ and choir. He
could sleep anywhere and itt any po
sition, sitting in his chair, under fire
or on horseback.
On a night march towat and Richmond,
after tho battles with McOlellitt;, he v
was riding along with his drowsy staff
nodding and sleeping as he wont. We
passed by groups of men setting along
tho roadside, an 1 engaged it, roasting
now corn by tires made of fence-rails.
One group took us for cavalrymen,
with an inebriated capt!n, and one
of the party, delighted nr the sight of
a man who had found whiskey
enough to be drunk, sprung i:p from
the fire aud, brandishing a ronsting
ear in his hand, leaped down into the
road, und seizing the general’s horse,
cried out, “I say old fellow, where the
devil did you get your liquor? In an
instant, as the genera! awoke, tho fol
low saw his mistake; and then bound
ing Iron the road lie took the fot.ee at
a single leap, exclaiming, “Quod God,
it’s old Jack!” and disappeared in the
darkness. Yes, Gonetai Jackson
slept a great deal, but lie was never
caught napping.
lie gave to sleep tunny moments
which other men Would have given
to conversation, lie was essentially a
a ent man; not morose, but quiet. Ho
smiled often —rarely laughed, lie
never told a juke, but did nut discour
age them in otheis; and if <ne stiuck
his pceuliar fancy, ho would smile iu
mild approval. lie did nut live apart
from lire staff, but lined to have them
about him > aud they were nearly nil
very young men. Universe ly jolite
in manner, lie encouraged tho liveliest
conversation among them, although
he took little part iu it. lie was not
a man of words— they seemed to em
barrass hint. When he hud ideas lie
put them into action, aud nit into
language. Ilia mititaiy dispati lies
were as btief as if they had been
studied—like the one lie s nt after tin
defeat ol Juiln.y; “God blessed our
arms with victory at McLLweil yester
day.” lie never discussed his plans;
never told them. The next oilier uu
dor him never kuevv his iuloution or
object. He never volunteered Ha opin
ion to his superior, nor asked advice
of his subordinates. He was us se f
reliant as ho was silent, ho believed
he “walks with speed who walks
alone.” He was reticent to a fault.—
If my coat knew what 1 in ended to
do, I’d take it off and thiovv it away,
was one of Lis say ings. This redc
ence often led to embarrassed-nt and
eomp'aint from trio officer nest in
command, and might have led to dis
aster in case of his death: hut lie evi
dently thought it better to run that
risk than the risk of having fiis plans
discovered. —Philadelphia Weekly Tones .
A Sure indication.
A hide vest side Chicago boy came
home from school the other evening,
with the gieat leviathan, Jealousy,
occupying fully four-quarters of his
entiie soul, besides haudgiug over at
the edges
“Oh, iua,” cried be, “I can’t bear to
have Amy go with any other boy at .
school hilt ju*t me !”
“But does she?” asked the mother, j
“Yes, sho does,” gasped the little;
lover, “olie’s weo' with Tommy Catch i
two times, now.”
“Oh, I guess she d.isn’t mean
anything by if,” sad the tuother I
sent! ingly.
: “Oli, yes, she doe<*! declared the
youthful suit r. ‘T Know sho dees. I
saw her trado chews of gum with
him!”
The mother than saw that it was nil
over with her little son. — Ex.
\ The Hinsdale butcher drove past
last Monday. Moody ran out. “Beef
steak ?” ‘Yes.” “Wheu killed?” said
the evangalts', approaching the cart.
“Yesterday.” "I don’t want any meat
killed on Sunday.” Butcher dnvoj
oil Return? Thursday passing the
Mocdy residence. Moody hat s him
again. “Beefatake?” “Yts." “filing
in ten pounds. ’ “Wo don itakemoney
> earned on Sundays*. aud butchei
drives cu.
VOL. XII.--NO. 25.
fiStii! Kliitvuf 4lfitirii-Pplcof
Wilkinson jiiml l.;i iticna
Alui’Mmml.
An dread and appre
; beneion piotui’s in the counties of
Laurens, TSviggs and Wilkinson.—
Many of the citizens are afraid te be
| caught out of their houses in night
tim', and soino of them have guard*
I around their promises. A few night*
ago a man’s hoigo was turned in hi*
corn field and a noise made to awaken
the owner. The man arose and rent
out to put tip his horse, and was ter
ribly astonished at hearing a gun cp
burst, ile suspected dangjr, and
turned to run round his house. A*
he reared one corner of the building
a gun fired and his clothing was rid
dled with shot.
Every effort has been made to find
the body of John Justice, who so
mysteriously disappeared from ills
furnily. Air. James Wright, who was
arrosted for the crime of murdering"
Justice, had a preliminary trial, and
the negro upon whose evidence he
was committed to jail, swears that he
(the negro) was threatened with death,
and pulled up with a rope round his
neck, and that he made the statement
to save his life. There 13 another
rep. rt that the negro was visited
wlri'o ip jaiJ, and at tire muzzle of a
double-bdrrel gun was forced to swsar
to his last statement, and that a cer
tain doc'or had painted the negro’s
tick whir caustic t n give it the ep
pearasce of having been brushed
with a rope. .
Altogether a dreadful state of affair*
e> isfs in that section. It is said that
the Twigs county jail was burned in
the hope of destroying the evidence of
one of the nvjjro prisoners who stated
that he lad been paid to burn a
man’s gia house.
No recent development? have been
made regarding the statement that
Wright offered Watson a part of tvro
hundred dollars to aid him in killing
the tn?!' that killed Lera llurkett; but
we anticipate something further in a
short while. — Thu'imville Dispatch.
tjlmr Mad.
A tall womanwitb a sharp noso
was rakii g up a yard on Masonic
s’.iee 1 , one day last week, fc'he had
her these tucked up, a rediculous
handkerchief tied over her head, and
looked liko a fright generally. A
rest-eyed man dressed in & suit of
light clothes caine up the street, ana
noticing tho woman, leaned over tho
fence and remarked;
‘•flow swoct is tho rosy-pesy.”
“Kh! wat’a that?” exclaimed the
tall woman, looking up.
“How charming appears the lovely
oopsy-wopsy with its dross tucked up,”
replied the crnsE-eyed man.
“Who’er you talking to, any way,”
said tli tali Voman, in great surprise,
and turning red in the face.
“My own ducky-lucky is exquisi'ely
transcendental with the handkerchief,”
observed the cross eyed man, winking
mysteriously with his straight *ye.
“It’s my opinion you’erdrunk, ” ex
claimed the tail woman, in a rage;
“clear out, ar I’ll cail tho police.”
“And would my sweet cherry-blos
som set the wicked police otr her own
lonelv-povej ?” said the cross-eyed
man.
Clear out, von great over-grown
windmill,” “or I’ll claw you with this
rake.”
“Would my pin key-win key claw
her darling tootsy-pootsy with a kere*
wel rake?” continued tho cioss-eyed
man; “I never thought ’ —
Here the tall woman threw down
her rake in a great passion, and •
rushed into the liousp, slaiuing the
door so hold that it broke the knob.
And the cro.-s-eyed man moved off
softly mutteiing
“What dro-dlul tempers seme sweet
looking women have. —Broeklawd
Colour.
—•••:
• What is your name. atked ft
teacher ol a boy.
“My name is Jule,”
"You should have said Julius, sit,”
said the trader, end turning to tho
other boy he asked : (
“My son what is your name?”
“IJiliue, sir.”
A careless man in Springfield,
Mass , went tat lie cellar and stuck
the caudle in what he thought was i i
kt gof black saud. He sat near it
dunking wine uutil the candle burnei
low. Nearer and nearer it got to the
black sand neater and nearer it got -
■ to the black sand, and-as it \vu#
*and nothing happeu.d.