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New Barber Shop. I TAKE pleasure iii informing the public that I have openedTa first-class Barber ! Shop over Laing & Bro’s store, next door to telegraph office. Satisfaction guaranteed. Hair cut and smoothe ohave only 35 cents. Please give me at least a trial. JERRY MOORB. Dawson, Ga., August 3, 1883—tf. BARGAINS, BARGAINS! SOLOMON & MOUNT, The Leaders of Low Prices at DAWSON, - - GEORGIA. K'.re opened for the Pall and Winter one of the Largest and Best selected stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, HOSIERY, LADIES and GENTS’ UNDERWEAR, TRUNKS and NOTIONS. Also complete line of CLOAKS, SHAWLS, BLaNKETS, LINENS, AillTE GOODS, such asjhave never before beenjdisplayedjin Dawson. For the Ladies . Wa have the very latest styles and shades of Dress Goojls, Chaslimeres, Suitirlfcs, xveps, Fancy Plaids and Merinoes, that we fell we can suit one and all in price, style and quality, and an inspection will at onceconvince you. Cloaks, CLOAKS, Cloaks! In this article we cannot be beat, as we have bought them direct from the manufac turers in large quantities, and have now for inspection a full and complete line of Cloaks, Jackets, and Dolnmns from the cheapest to tiie very best. Bargains in Blankets! Bargains in Shawls! Bargains in Flannels! Bargains in Jeans! as we have the stock and mean business, and are prepared'to offer special inducement. W e have resolved to look to the interest of the Ladies trade and have brought on a choice selected stock of Fancy Hosiery, Gloves, Skirts, Laces, Rushing, Buttons by the thousands of boxes, in fact a line of fancy goods entirely too numerous to mention. GLOTHINTG. Here we mine to the front and mean what we say—we have bought one of the largest stocks ever brought to Dawson. The very best of Beaver Suits, Tricot Suits, tiie finest of worsted suits, cashmere suits, Pants of latest styles, and hun dreds of Overcoats, of imported and American cloths. We have taken special care to select Fine Dress Suits in broadcloth and worsted. Also a large stock of boys’ and childrens’ clothing, handsomely trimmed and gotten up in the latest styles. Examine our stock and prices before you buy land you will find it to YOUR INTEREST. SHOES. SHOES, SHOES. If you wish to see a fine stock of Shoes —large stock of Shoes—and Shoes from the best makers in the land, you must not fail to examine the mammoth stock of Boots and Shoes of SOLOMON & MOUN I. We are prepared to supply the Ladies, the Gents the Misses, the Youths and the Children. Shoes for the large and small and Shoes for every body at prices that wifi astonish the world. We only mention the prices of a few of our goods which will at once satisfy you that we only mean business and nothing else. DRESS GOODS. DOMESTICS. Fair Detains at 8 cents. Best standard Checks at 8 cents. Cashmeies at cents. Prints at 4 cents. Fair Suitings at i6 cents. Best Prints at 6 cents. Fair Brocades at iaO cents. Sheeting 4-4 at 6J cents. Fine Black Cashmeres at 30 cents. Shirting 7-8 cents. English Merinoes at 35 cents. Fruit of the Loom at 10 cents. Fench Merinoes at G 5 cents. CASSIMERES AND JEANS AT YOUR OWN PRICES. 5,000 yards of good Jeans at 10 cents. 200 yards of*all wool Cassimeres at 50 cts. 5,000 yards of heavy Jeans at 12$ cents. 200 yards “ “ “ 60 cts. 6,000 yardsof extra quality Jeans at 16c. 200 yards “ “ “ 75 cts. 6.000 yards of extra quality Jans at 20. 200 yards lineut quality “ SI.OO 10,000 yards of lies, a.‘l wooi Jeans at -10 c. Fine Tabie Linen unbleached at 20 cents per yard. A full line of colored Table Linen, Toweling and Towels within reach of all. CLOTHING. BOYS’ SUITS. 60 Good suits at S4OO 24 Good boy’s at 82.50 50 Good suits at $5.00 24 Boy’s eassiinere suits at $6.00 50 Good suits at $7.50 24 Finest cassimere suits at $9.00 50 all wool cassimere suits SIO.OO 24 Extra line suits at SIO.OO 50 fair worsted suits at $12.50 500 Overcoats from $3.00t0515.00 50 Extra dress suits at $15,00 BOOTS AND SHOES CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST. 500 pair best brogans at $1 25 ; 200 pair heavy bouts £1 75 000 women’s polkas at 90c 200 jw.ir extra quality boots at $2 50 500 pairladitii’. fine button shoes at $1 25 200 pair fine calf boots at $2 50 600 pair mens’ dress shoes at $1 50 200 pair extra quality boots at $3 00 600 pair of fide mens’ gaiters at $1 75 NOTIONS. 600 Dozen Good Ladies’ Hose at (Re 500 Dozen Hankerchiefs at 4c 600 dozen good ladies hose at 8c 500 dozen handkerchiefs at 5c 600 dozen good colored hose at 10c 500 dozen handkerchiefs at 8c 500 dozen liqe quality hose at 124 c 500 dozen mens’ half hose at 61c 5000 boxes of ladies’ dress buttons 5c 500 dozen mens’ half hose at 8c 6000 boxes of ladies’ dress buttons 8c 500 dozen mens’ Half bose at 10c. Good lfats at 50c; fine shawls, $1.50; fine cloaks at $3.00; fine quilts $1.25; fine bed spreads at $1 00: fine blankets at £2.00: gents’ undershirts at 25 cents; ladies undervests at tti) cents. Now last but not least, we call the attention of every citizen of Dawson and surrounding country to examine our stock and prices, and be convinced that we will aave you money in every article in our line without exception. One call will satisfy you that we have no leaded but have reduced everything to rock bottom prices. SOLOMON & MOUNT, Leaders of Low Prices, Dawson, Ga. A FALL THAT iPiiwcfUiP© i \Um* { 3j a From this date, I will sell at COST WOm ©ASH! Ladies’ Dress Goods of all varieties. White Mnrinoes, White and, Black Alpacas. Worsteds of all shades. Green, Crimson, Brown and Black Cashmeres. Common Flannels. Ladies’ Clonks and Dolmans. Trimming Silks and Satins. Silk Fringes, Passamenterie and Gimp Trimmings. Also a lot of Fine Gilbert Blankets. A line of Cheap Buggy Harness. am determined not to be undersold by any. Come and see for yourselves. COME ONE ! COME ALL ! J. W. F. LOWiiEY. Dawson, Ga., Nov. 29,1882. the mwson journal. BY U. L. WESTON & CO. Ed Cox Pardoned. THE GOVERNOR'S SIGNA TURE MAKES HIM FREE ONCE MORE, The Petition ati< the All-linpor tant Document A Talk With S. Gox—She Will go f to 1 lade Coiil Mines To-day to Rear the Par- Uou-what Gov Has Been Doing. Yesterday afternoon Governor Stephons attached his signature to the following document: [Copy] Executive Department, State of Geos/ma, - Atlanta, Ga., De cember 11, 1882—To the Princi pal Keeper of the Penitentiary: Whereas, At the March term, 18- 79, of the superior court of Fulton county, Edward Cox was convict ed of the offense of murder and sentenced for life in the peniten tiary, and Whereas, numerous petitions from various parts of the state, have been presented to me, num bering hundreds in all, embracing many eminent citizens, lawyers, jurist, merchants, bankers, mini; - ters of the Gospel, journalists, mechanics and farmers and includ ing a majority of tlib house of representative and two-thirds of the senate, of the present assem bly, asking executive clemency in his behalf, and Whereas, These exist in the minds of several distinguished lawyers, jurist and others, at the time of the conviction, doubts as to the grade of the crime, under the laws of the state, in view of evidence for which he was con victed, and Whereas, Many of the same class, as well as others, still enter a i and express doubts on that point, and Whereas, My own views of the case, after the m< >st mature consid eration given it, upon a review of the testimony, coincide in the main with the views expressed by the majority of the petitioners, I deem it clemency invoked, it is, therefore; ordered, That the said Edward Cox, be, and is hereby, pardoned, discharg ed, and relieved from all further penalty under said sentence. Given under my hand and seal of executive department, at the in Atlanta, the day and year first above written. Alexander H. Stephens, Governor. By the Governor: 1. W. Avery, Sec’y Executive Department. ed cox and his family. The pardon which is printed above will doubtless cause a more profound sensation than was ever caused by such a paper in Georgia before. It removes the shackles from a man who five years ago was prosperous and happy, with a little fortune of ten or twelve thousand dollars and a troop of bright and happy children, five in number. It places him again in the world free, but it finds him without a single dollar. He starts life indeed anew. His little for tune has long since been swallow ed up. Three thousand or so went to lawyers fees and most of the other wpnt to satisfy creditors. He steadfastly ( refusal to permit his wife to homstead, and soon after his incarceration she was found without a shelter of her own. Mrs. Cox began taking boarders and thrown on her own resources sup ported herself as best she could. In June of last year, she had quite a serious accident beiail her. She was drawing water at the well when the iron windlass flew out of her hand. The crank strut: her on the forehead and inflicted a nearly fatal wound. !he skui 1 was crushed, aud there is now a hole in the forehead nearly large enough to bury an almond in. Mrs. Cox wears bangs to hide the spot. Captiau Cox has one or his sons with him. Willie, a bright boy of ten, is the courier-general of the camp, aud does all the riding alxmt that is needed. He has thus been a help to the family. Victoria, a pretty girl of thirteen or fourteen is the oldest child W T illie is second. Then follows Lou Din, E<l and Stephen. They are remarkably bright and good looking children. With the ex cep’ion of Willie’ None of them I have seen their father since the Dawson, Ga., Thursday, December 21,1882. 7th of May, 1880, the day before he was taken to the coal mines. Mrs. Qox will go up to Dade coal i mines to-day and will probably ! return with Captain Cox to-mor row. There will bo great rejoic ing in that household when the father gets there to-m< rrow. . When Cox was taken to the coal mines he was. 37 years oM, five feet eight inches high, had long black hair and hazel eyes. He fattened at one time, but it is said that ho is now twenty pounds lighter tlin usual. He still wears whiskers. A TALK WITH MRS. COX. Mrs. Cox was not in Atlanta yesterday as gjho was not expect ing the governor to take action on the petition so soon. Last night a reporter went down to Decatur and talked with her on the all ab sorbing theme of the household. Mrs. Cox was found the oentre of a group of friends who had called in to congratulate her. The re porter asked her when she expect ed Captain Cox to arrive at home. She replied: “I shall go to Atlanta to-mor row and get the pardon and will leave on the half-past two o’clock tain for Coal City. Captain Cox will return with me on the first train that will bring us home.” “Will the children accompany you?” • “No. It was their father’s wish that they might never see him in a convict’s garb. So tiiat they will have to wait until he can come back to them as he left them —in citizens clothes.” ‘“Then the statement that Capt- Cox has never worn a convict's suit is not true?” “Certainly it is not true. I have visited him twice, once in October 1810, and once in Octo ber 1881, and at each visit I found him with the regular suit on. I could not have told him from any of the other convicts, he was so covered with dust.” “What has Capt. Cox been do ing at the mines?” “He had the management of the stock and feed, gave out the corn for the mill and had general man agement around the stables and barn. He also voluntarily milked far the superintendent. His work was harder and required more hours than working in the coal mine, but he said that he was wil ling to that because by being out of the mine he could meet any persons who might happen along and who seeing his condition might have their sympathies aroused in his behalf.” “Is it true that Capt. Cox re ceived a stipulated sum of money from the company every month?” “Not at all. He has never re ceived directly or indirectly any money except some that he work ed extra hours for last winter. Last winter he worked until late at night—l think until eleven o’clock —and received the usual pay of twenty-five cents per night.” “What will Capt. Cox do when he reaches home?” “I have no idea. Ido not know whether he has any plaits arrang ed or not.” Mrs. Cox was serenaded last night by the Decatur band. THE KILLING OF ALSTON. The details cf the homicide for which Ed Cox was sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment were fully published at the time of the trage dy and were given at great length in the shape of evidence when the case came up for trial. On Tues day, March 11, 1879, Ed Cox and Colonel Robert A. Alston became involved in a difficulty over a con vict lease which took a serious turn. The two men, subsequent ly met in the office of the then state treasurer, Mr. Ilenfroe. i’he difficulty was renewed. Colonel Alston said to Cox: “Mr. Cox, I don’t want to have any difficulty witn you about this matter, and there is no need for it Let mis drop it now. It will do you no good to kill me, aud do me no good to kill you —not a bit in th“ world.” Cox persisted, however, and in vited Alston out of doors to fight. Alston declined and said he want* ed no difficulty. Oox replied, it is said, that he should have one. Alston said that if he must he supposed ho would have to. Al ston asked Cox if he wanted to be- gin it right there. Cox replied that was as good a place as any. He went to the door and closed it. He then turned and walked back toward Alston, and simultaneous ly the two men drew and began firing. The firing was very rapid. Alston used a self-cocking revolv er and Cox used a powerful “swamp Angel.” One of Alston’s balls struck Cox in the mouth and tore away several of his teeth. Cox dodged with great dexterity and evadod Alston’s. Finnally Alston had exhausted his weapon, and when he paused Cox arose and fired his second shot The ball penetrated Alston’s right temple about an inch from a level with the eye. It ranged through the brain and lodged un der the scalp at the back of the head. Colonel Alston reeled fell and bled profusely. At forty minutes {last six Colonel Alston expired. Senator Brown’s Views. (Special to the Constitution.) Washington, December 5, 1882. The correspondent of the Constitu tion called on Senator Brown, at his lodgings, to-night, and asked him if ho had heard that the Legislature of Georgia had rejected liis donation to the Slate University. He said he had not. The reporter stated that lie had learned by a dispatch from the Constitution that, such was tko fact, and asked what wool l now be his course. He replied that he re gretted very much to hear it, as ho had matured the plan with great care, and felt that it would have resulted in a l immense benefit to Georgia The interest on the $50.- 000 being loaned each year to poor but worthy young men struggling to obtain an education, they to pay four per cent, on it would bo virtually compound'ng it after the first year, in each case at eleven per cent. At this rate it would double i self in about twelv'j years. But suppose a considerable part of it should not he paid back by the students who get the benefit, it would be eafo to say it would double in twenty years. Then the SIOO,OOO would double again at the end of forty years, the $200,- 000 would double at the end of sixty years, the s•' 00,000 at end of eighty yoars, the SBOO,OOO would be come $1,000,000 at the end of a hundred \ oars, and the tiret twenty years of the second century the sl,- 600,000 would amouut to $3,200,000. In the life-time of a university this would make a fund large enough to aid most of tha energetic poor young men of the State who might desire an education. I therefore regret that the Legislature should, from any considerations, deny this benefit, to the struggling youth of Georgia., Reporter—“l have not seen the debates, but heard the objection made before I left, that you gave to your four sons each the right daring his life-time to designate one of the voung men who should have the ben efits, and that you gave them the right of visitation to see that the trust is faithfully administered, and uot only to them but to their suc cessors.” Senator Brown —“As I was mak ing what seemed to me to be a liber al gift to the cause of education, and as there had to be some mode of selecting the beneficiaries, it seems to me to be net unreasonable that each one, of my four sous should, during his life-time, have the priv : - lege of selecting one young man who should have the benefits. The money comes out of my estate which, .recording to the ordinary course, would havefal en-to them by inheri tance, and i ti e ight that privilege a small thing. In a few years the fund would be iarge enough to edu cate a hundred young men constant ly at the University, and why should the public object to my sons securing four of them? As to the right of visitation it is common in almost all donations of this character. It simp ly requires a person who has the right to look to it that the fund is not squandered but faithfully admin istered. —My plan gave the right of visitation to my four sons and the survivors of them, with the right in his discretion to name a person by his will who would still have the right of visitation, hut, there is no provision made to extend it beyond th it. In other words, the right of venation : s provided for, for two generations only. After the fund lias been faithfully administered that long, the Supposition is that it would be faithfully administered YOL. 17—NO. 44. perpetually in future. The period for the visitation ns provided for is nothing when compared with the life of a university, which runs through centuries.” Reporter—“But I have heard it objected to by some persons that the State ought not to pay seven per cent, interest on the fund." Senator Browu—“There is a law of the State now ou the statute book which provides that whenever a bond of the Stuteowned by the University matures, it shall be the Governor to take it up and issue in lieu of it a seven per cent, bond of the State running for fifty years, interest paya ble semi annually. I followed the exact plan which I found on the statute book of my State. The only difference is that the statute applies to the renewal of the bonds of the State owned by the University, and I proposed to increase the fund of the University bv a donation of $50,000 ou precisely the same terms that ap plied to the matured State bonds now owned by it. The Constrtuu.ua of the State clearly makes it the duty of the Legislature to encourage tho University. It seems to rue not unreasonable when a citizen will do nate $50,000 to it, that the State should eueourage it so fa. as to take the fuudaud pry the ivt of interest which by hey statute, she has fixed as the legal rate between man aud man, and the very rate she has fixed iu the case of the bonds now owned by the University, as tire interest paid by her goes to aid her own ohildreu in their edutation, and does uot come to me.” Reporter—“ Have you auy objec Lion to saying at present what com e pou will now take iu the promises ? ’ Senator Browu—“Probably it is not tho best time to talk ou the sub ject. My intention is to appropriate $50,0(30 to aid in the education of iudigeut young men, who have t > struggle as Iliad to struggle at their age. I greatly perfer to give the benefits of this help to the youth of Georgia, but if my own State rejects the donation I shall most probably offer it to some other State upon pre cisely 7 the same terms proposed to the State of Georgia.” Reporter—“ What other State would you probably select Senator Brown —“I may reserve that for future reflection. My pres ent inclination is to tender it lo South Carolina, my native State. I have no fear about being able to find a State that will be glad to accept it and give her youth the benefit of it.J Reporter—“ What do you think will be the effect of the rejection up on those who vote against the accep tance 1” Senator Brown —“That is not a question for me to decide. I shall leave it with them and their con stituents to settle whether they have acted wisely in refusing to accept this donation for the benefit of the youth of our own State and thereby com pelling mo in order to carry out my plan and devote it to the cause of education, to give it to another S'ato- I shall not, however, be baffled in tnv purpose, I intend the money to aid the youth of my country, in ob taining an education. I should much have preferred that the youth of my own State could have had the bene fit.” Reporter—“l have heard some con stitutional objections raised. Is ihere any difficulty on tha> point?” Senator Brown —“Not the slight est. The Constitution of the State expressly permits the State to incur a debt to pay maturing bon is of 'he State, at any time wh- n they may fall due. Over three millions will soon fall due, the same year. No body supposes we shall bo taxo 1 to pay tuem ail. That year new bonds will be issuod and put ou the market to raise most of too money. Tu ' bill in tliis case provnl i.; for p tying the money into tuo Treasury to bo used iu the payment of the maturing bonds of the State It can bo done constitutionally and legally in that way* or it could be received in pay meat of any deficiency that might arise in the Treasury, and the lion I t issued for it a-, contemplated by the bill Tiie law already ou the statute applicable to the university st n .s upon precisely the sumo ground, an 1 no good lawyer has questions 1 its constitutionality. There is therefore, ao difficulty whatever ou the con stitutional question. The wnole tenor and spirit of the Constitution show that the object of the framers as that he Legislature should en courage primary e lueatio < aid the State Un’versity. A .i-1 issued for such a donation falls, therefore, in the scope and men bug *. i. and the bill as introduced in this ease >aiis wiluiu the very letter of it. f i lie Culture of Jute*. Several weeks ago, we printed in • these columns some interesting facts in regard to the invention of a machine for the more perfect and rapid produc tion of the jute fibre for market. Since then the attention of many influential men engaged either in the sale or the manufacture of juterope, bagging, etc. has been attached to this machine, and the general impression is that it is an invention as important in its way as the discovery of the principle of the cotton gin. The machine has been put to some very severe tent*, and through them all it worked admirably. It is regarded as successful, and if this is, the case, it will, at no distant day, work an important revolution in south ern agriculture, giving to our farmers another staple, which will oome to be almost as important in the commerce of the country and of the world as cot ton itself. A New York merchant, Mr. John Sloane. who has great experience in the jute trade, says there is no limit to the consumption of jute. No ipatter how large the crops are there seems never to be any large surplus. About sixty years ago, the firs* jute was car ried from. India to England. It was simply an experiment, and an experi ment that worked its way slowly. Fif teen years ago 850,000 t 0900,000 bn'es was a fair average crop. The crop of last your was iu the neighborhood of 2,500,000 bales, and it is thought that this year’s crop is still larger, Aough how much larger Mr . Sloan dees not pretend to estimate, owing to the dii fiimbv of <rettiog accurate information from India. But as prices are low, in iio ol • 1 >c good demand, ‘ thefe is no uoub ba>. (be present is the largest erop ~f jute ever produced. So far us the growth of jute in the soul.. acerned,Colonel Richard Pe ters ;... demonstrated that it will flourish in a latitude as high as that of Gordon county, and this latitude cov ets every change of temperature known to the southern climate. He has de monstrated also that ramie will grow in that latitude, and he has sent sam plos of this plant to be worked up in Mr. Sinitu’s machine The planting of jute seed may begin in the south as early as April and continue at periods of two weeks or a month until July. From three to three and a half months after planting the plaut begins to blos som, and this is the period for working up the crop—the first planting passing through the machine in July, the sec ond aud perhaps the third planting in August, and so on from July to No vember, the machine working all tho time. This would give a sure money crop to the farmers in the middle of the summer, a ti ne when money is very scarce with those who raise cnly cot ton. Like everything else, however, the planting aud marketing of juto is a business In which euccess will only fol low experience and economy. The water-rotting process applied to the fibre after it passes through the Smith machine merely dissolves the green gum which holds the threads or filaments together in pencils. The gum unites and passes off with the water, leaving each thread free, and the mass soft like fifc flax, and the ooior nearly white. This process <>f rotting, appli ed to the fibre, instead of the whole stalk as they do in India, gives the fi bre the same ooior and texture as the Indian jute, without the great trouble and expense of handling the whole stalks together to get the benefit of this separation of the gum from the fi bro. The jute of commerce is kn(*w by its coler, produced by waier-rtfftiog- The trade rejects any other color. Mr. Daniel Dennett, writiug to the New Orleans Picayune, furnishes some fig ures that are inter- -ting in connection with jute : Beforo the era of iron ties Kentucky and Missouri furnished the material tor tying cotton hales; n..*w England furnishes a large share of th* cotton tics for the southern cotton crop. India furnishes the material that cov ers about 6,000.000 bales of southern cotton; the i’hillipine Islands furnish the material that binds western grain crops; India also furni hes the mate rial that fur our grain sacks and wool; and Dundee, in Scot.and, manufactures nearly ad of them. Now that is fully deim n-tr>ted that jute can bo grown in almost imitless quan ities in the southern st:it*s, at a small expense, m successful competition with India* there is an opportunity to build up another American industry as impor tant as that of cotton, wool, iroD, or any oilier southern industry. And ih* jute orop, from the seed to the bale, is much better adapted to the present character of southern labor than cotton s-gar, rice or tobacco.—Atlanta Consti tution Chronic grumblers will please paste this in their hats : “When an editor makes a mistake in his paper all the world sees it and calls him a liar. When a private ctti.-.en makes a mis take noixxly knows it except a few simds, uid they come around and „si£ tho edimr to keep it out of the pa per.”