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THE TIMES,
Rising Fawn. On.
OUR CHOICE
FOSS COXtiKKSSS.
TIEECK. J. f. (IEMEATS,
Ob" WALKER.
■ [Our reason; First,* ho is the only man in
Ahc district that can annihilate the Inde
pendent party of the Seventh Congressiona
district.
Second, that he is entitled to it.
Third, that ho is now more able to do tho
work].
TOXESIIAV JUHIL 18, 1884.
BIRMINGHAM. ALA.
Womans Christian Temper -
ance Union - Exposition.
Notes, Etc-, Etc.
■Correspondence of the Wkkki.Y Timk ].
l>ii(Mi.' on am, Alabama, April 15.
Your paper «>l March 20th wan very
interesting, and 1 mu-t congratulate
You upon your signal success. I hope
the Times mav yet livv to he a bless
ing to tin. good people ot old Dade.
Nothing would make me Inure happy
than to see a newsparper prosper in
your County. We tried torn long time
to establish a paper in Rising Fawn
without avail, and as “Aunt I'oilie”
-say* “(lie third time is a chanr-we
trust it is, since you established the
Traits, we (eel much nenier Rising
Ji.awn, as all “prints” love a people
who will lav® and support a paper.
The lamented Progress which was
dearer to me than any othei pa| ei.it
started out under bright auspices and
tve looked forward to a nmie brighter
Inture than awaited it. W e hoped
that when it made its first visit to the
people of Dade that they would open i
their hearts and welcome it to their
fireside, but as the male portion o!
Dade county aie not as loyal to theii
interest as the female portion, it died.
We were glad to note >ot.r extended
notice of « temperance lect r-Delivered
at your place a few weeks ago. We
hope you may insist in the cause and
do valiant service in your town. Your
people seem to forget that twerps down
yimr valley bears on its wings the
moans of widowhood and orphanage.
1 will say more on this subject some
I future day, but before closing this sub
fc ject allow me to say, that tlie ladies ot
“ Jsiimisgh.ini have recently organized
a Woman’s Christian Temperance C -
sci mill are meeting with most excelli nt
success, “C<xl bless the ladies,” true
to (heir noble instinct,are always rea y
to “mine the fallen and cheer the faint”
may they organize all over the United
States and fond parents will stop
thinking “Where is their wandeiing
boy to-night.”
The mineral exposition opens in
ttiii place on the 22d inst., and bids
f »ir to he a success in every particis
lar.
What has heroine of all the corres
pondents ol the Gazette and Progress.
Where is Mrs. .Jennie F? A commu
nitation from her would be very inter
eating to the writer, also “Clio,” “C
1). M..” I’. .!. L ” and “A. M. T.”
Trv and get them to write.
Two of Birmingham's young ladies
will visit yoiir [dace in the near future.
We wish them a pleasant trip.
We are glad to welcome again “Aunt
l’ollie” us a correspondent of your pa
l*r. We love to read her lettCie and
lio)>e she may write often.
Long live the Timks.
T. .1. Watson.
m m
“The truth always pays in the end”
is an old saving,and that is the rea.on
probably why there is so little of it told
the he •inniu ofauy Lasiuess traiisac
tiou.
THE GRAM JUiii hw s>l v iMtu ■* I
Explanation of Small pox Cases
ai the Ftirnace.
Action of the Walker Iron and Coal
in the Matter in' tho Years
I&S2 and 1883.
To the*WEKKl.v TIMI:S],
liisiXu Fawm, Apiil 14.—1 see in
lltt* issue nf April 9th a report of tlie
General Presentments of the Grand
•Jury of Dale Sipmior Court found
?tt tiie Mari'h. term of said c lilt. A
particular paragraph*in second column
reads as follows:
“Aiter a tedious examination of the
action of tlie Orninaiy in the payment
of a certain account to the Walker
Iron and Coal Company for expenses
in small pox cases in the years 1882
and 1889 at Rising Fawn, we consider
and believe that he has acted entirely
contrary to law, in that said incorpor
ated company elected to take charge
of said small pox patients, and we
further believe has subjected himself
to severe censure, if nothing more.”
This model Grand Jury of Dade
county under oath begin inve tigation
of all Lets coming to their knowledge,
and find that a public official “has
acted entirely contrary to law,” then
instead of proceeding against him
therefore as they had sworn to do, they
say, “we further believe he has sub
jected himself to severe censure, if
nothing more.” This is a uery stiange
Presentment for an inquisitorial body,
such as the Giand Jury, to make in
their report.
Question, (which I hope the Grand
Jury will answer). What is tire ob
ject of courts and Grand Juries? Can
violated law go unsnstaiued, and a
transgressor escape with censure?
Who is the person to execute the find
ing <*f this High court of Inquisition?
This report has gone to 1 lie public
anil is lead and received as a tact, but
there is another side to this report.
“Baid incorporated company elected
ft) take charge of said small-pox pa
tients.” Incorporated company; in
corporated for what? To care for small
pox patients? No. To mine, imrnri
facture and sell iron, iron ore, ?, al or
e ike. Not one single sylnble in their
charter that jnv/*k thorn tho or
compels them to care for small-pox
patients. I Suppose you mean that
the same law docs apply to incorpor
ated companies as to individuals,
I believe that the Court of Ordinary
grants Initial expenses when paupers
if accounts are made out and presented
in open court. This was the case
:n four items mi the account of that in
corporated company. Burial kxit.n
BEB. 'Flic Ordinary allowed these “se
vere censure, if nothing m re.” In
June 1882 a case of small-pox devel
oped at Rising Fawn. Quarantine
was discussed, hut in tlie mean while
the pitient was lying in a densely
populated distiivt, and there was an
hourly fear of increasing exposure,
'something must be done at once. No
time to wait tiil a legal form could he
coinj lyed wi. h. The p tient and nurses
were started to a vacant house, hut
when they came in sight this house
was a smoking ruin; they were* ail re
lumed to fanner quaiters while new
preparations were being made for the
1 accomodation'of the case.
This experience showed the falacv
of trying the usual quarantine plan.
The VYalkei Iron ami Coal Coni) any
being engaged in work that required
some organization, steped in and took
the place of a Hoard of Health, not
from choice but form neecsitv. The
effort to stamp it out was successful.
Again on November 19th the dis
ease made its appearance in our midst
aud from-this lima on, until] February
Ist ISN3, it was with us all the tune
Oil that day a negro matt wav di*
Covered oil the railioid, tet ween
Rising Fawn and the Furnace, broken
out with small-pox. Going as he was
it here he would expose others to con
tagion; there was no time for legal
quarantine, and, in fact, quarantine
o--ti!d have done no good in tins case.
We had the disease and was no longer
afraid of its coining, but we did want
t« prevents its spread and to this end
as soon as * case was developed, it was
placed in the In-use where,it deveh ped
an * t ie inmates w re all vaccinated
and tlun kept, there until the rate
terminated.
This last ca--e died. Mark you, here
were two deaths of sinall-p<'X. and
neither was an employee « I the Walker
Iron and Coal Company. With re
gard for public well la re, as well as per
sona! and humane tesasous, no other
course whs priciicalih.
it w u>> UtiO Aii hS ii iiiCL t.iwv small-
» m toe ootiniy, ami its offi
cers had done nothing so lar, and the
Walker Iron and Coal Company
through its general manager, Mr. L. 8.
Colvar, acted as only he could act
in finalising such necessailes niuPcum
forts to patients, Hint vho<e' if -dated nit
account of exposure. Following this
last case were six others in rapid suc
cession with two othei deaths.
About October last Mr Colynv ap
peared in Court of Ordinary and pre
sented an itemized account for pay
ment foi supplies, nurses, guards and
burial expenses of small-pox; testimo
ny was taken under oath, and it was
proven that the expenses of the wo.rk,
if it had been done by tbe Ordinary,
would not have been less the one thous
and dollars, when my recolection is tho
bill paid Mr. Colyar was less than six
bundled.
Those were actual cash prices, and
when yon remember that items of this
soit are usually allowed to run until
the taxes of the year following the pre
sentation of the account, then yo.t
readily see that delay in j ayment
ttsally causes increased puces, so that
instead of being a tax on the county of
one thousand it would have been ueai J ,
er two thousand dollars.
I distinctly remember the part of
Novetubet, December and January of
that time, that one ore more members
of this same economical Grand Jury
would shun me as though 1 was a
walking embed vimm? of pestilence.
Then they weie desiiiotts of escuping
small-pox at any cost, hut now Hint
danger is past, courage has returned,
and now the Ordinary “has subjected
himself to severe censure, il nothing
more.”
Making tlire appeal to tax payers
let them compare two thousand dollars
quarantine against yellow in 1878
when there was not a single, casi; in
the county, with six hundred dollars
to stamp out small p,,x.
“Joe Blown is aide to loose that
much,” is frequently said, l'kirnw, but
I do not whether it is a Grand Jury’s
opinion or not, at any rale, it does not
appear in their Frisoptinents.
If it is the duty of the OrdiflWiy to
look after the public health and take
steps to prevent or stamp’out enidera
ies and assume tho cost thereof, then
what in the name of common sense can
prevent him repaying such an outlay
when tho duty is assumed 1 y another,
whether by contract or common con
sent, i; it is less thancouid be done by
any o;hei means.
J. \Y. Rus-ey.
We take the following tiom thuNoith
Georgia '1 inns published at Spring
Place, Murray county.
“In the selection of congi-essiona
and guheil rt'irial delegations. We
yet tell who aspires to the’
first named honor though it need not be
doi'ited that we have ample
and iv 1 ing miteiisl capu
h e of shod leriitug the burdens a»f leg
islative duties. Col. Clemments
will we think carry a minimi Uadelega-'
tion (rum the comity. if is deserve
dly popular has Ik en fait lit fill
voting light, iu out luimh'e optiion,
upon all measures coming before con
gress: and most C3itainly is he entiled
to another term when he look the field
against Dr. Felton when others feared
and trembled to even allow t heir aspei -
ations to be made known. Another
term ujjl only be an act of justice to
him and then he will have served the
lengt hof time as his formerly formi
dable opoient.
Joe. Darr never told the truth more
plainly than he did alien he said that
the man who can mn a news paper
“stands in the saloon with his back
to the stove and tells how he could
run a newspaper; how he could lie in
dependent like a hog on ie*; how he
could expose corruption in big places
how he would write sound common sense
and none of your frivolous, try-to-be
funny stuff. Then he other
people's method of conducting news
papers and just wishes somebody g've
him a cliane te show i is journalistic
ability. The way to cure one of these
chaps is to get him to agree to write
a seueible article every day for a week.
Before the w eek is out he is sure to be
putuped diy, and will gape worse for
an idea than a chicken does with the
pip.
Dr T. J. Lumpkin, we learn, will
■be a cauidate lor Representative.
; l he doctor would represent the people
i as well any one, ami we see no reason
why he should not he elected. He
would represent the people instead of
any clique or ling.
NEWS IN THE STATE OF FA EE.
Gathered Over the County by
Our Correspondents.
And Sent Through the Mails to The
Weekly Times-News form Other
Points of-tho- Com-pasa- -
Corrosponent of the Wkmci.y Tunis .
Trenton, <■ a., April 14. Miss
Nannie Mealsr, of Rising, Fawn is in
town.
Mrs Carnes was in Trenton Sunday.
Miss Fannie Boise, of Chattanooga
is visiting at this place.
Miss Loir Sells, who hasbeec spend
ing severed months near Cowan,Tenn.,
has retrirned home.
Mrs Zacliai iah O’Neal died Thursday
night at her home, near. She was
70 years of age.
Rev. J. W. Carnes preached here
His subject was: “If a man
dies shall he live again.” His discourse
was well delivered and his demonstra
tions clear aud pointed,
Fishing scents to tho order
day. Severel parties have come out
from Clfaitan toga to fish in Lookout
Cretk.
It is thought that'the fruit is nsa:ly
all killed in this vacinity by the last
cold spell.
Farmers have been preparing to
• pllut corn but are some what back
ward on account of the dry weather.
Very little corn has been planteu but
‘since the rain they will go to work
in good earnest.
. Ufy.
FROM COLE CITY.
Correspondent of the W kbklt Thus].
Coi.k City, Ga.. April 14, —Health
is very good at-this place, with the ex
ception of a few convicts who have bad
colds
'Ye can still see some men going
through ihe woods with long guns,
peeping for the wild turkeys,
Some of tho business young men of
this place is contending that the sum
•of six y dollars cannot be divide,!
among tour men. A BC. and Diu
the billowing mannei: 8o that A
shall have one third, B one-fourth
,C one-filth and D one-sixth. Oh
where is a good level headed Dado
County' school boy.
There is more than two hundred
dozjii eggs bruughljto this place (vtek-
Iv.
Dr Davis is sill on the nugid and we
are glad to know it.
Z. Z
ACROSTIC.
Days of sweet and balmy air
Awake the (lowers everywhere.
Driving from our hearts the gloom,
hispering “spiing lias come/’
Come out you weary sickly one.
Only view yon setting sun.
Upon each distant hill-top gleams,
Naught hut sunshines golden beams;
To you; it speaks ot light and hope,
“You may he strong again—lookup!)
W eary, often and footsore/
Each day has lot us in store,
Fuel*day In mgs some duty new
Keenly lelt, that we must do—
Let us freely give our lives
.Young or old—onr sacrifice.
:This thought conies' often to my mind,
1 w«»iider where in xt spring will find
Many of us—pel haps will sleep,
K’re then, the last sweet solcin sleep,
Some, left behind to toil and reap.
Aunt Pol lie, I send these rhymes
not poetry, wit limit the least hope of
getting ymir prize, hut then, you
seemed lunesomo. [ None of the writers
around Rising .Fawn will write].
Aud that heavy “pressure on the
brain,” yes you know.
The cyclone, oh! the ten ible cyclone;
tis sending terror to the bravest
hearts. The old eartli seems shaky
and trembling, as if in her latter days.
The elements are iu commotion riot and
,bloodshed are abroad in the land It does
seem we have enough to remind us of
t lie oft forgot ton admonition. “Set your
affections on things above not on
thingS'On the earth.
A. J. T.
A!(nt(ioii, Yumi£ Men.
e refer von to the advertisement
tit the reuown Commercial College of
Ken’ucky University, situated i.i the
beautiful, historical and s>ciety-re
tmwned city, Lexington, Ky. Write
(<>r circulars to its Piesident, VY. R.
Smith Lexington, Kv.
Kb Amos speaks of cultivating
peafowls.
E.T. ROGERS
At the Trade Palace.
Rising Fawn, - - • Georgia.
Invites everybody and his wife to come and
see him. The Mamoth Spring Stock
ot goods have arrived.
What we Can’t sell we giv#
Away. \V» have everything in the dry
goods line, from a bale of Domestic to
a Satin Ribbon.
Everything in dress goods, from a Ja
panees silk to Cotton plaids. Everything in
Clothing from French worsted to a white
necktie. Everything in groceries from a
cask of bacon to a pound of rice. Every
thing in hats from a genuine Stetson to a
palm leaf. Everything in crockery and glass
ware from a wash bowl to a China cup. All
the drugs known to Materia Medica. Every
thing in Hardware! from a log-chain to a
sewing needle. Everything in boots and
shoesf'rom a brogan boot toan infants slipper.
And an endless variety of tin; a volume
would not enumerate what wc have iu
hosiery, novelties and notions.
TAKE SCRIP AT PAR.
Want all the barter you bring from
an anil block to •whetstone. You will find
me or the Indomitable Tom Gray at the
store at any hour day or night. If you want
to save money come to see us. We mean
business.
. E. T. ROGERS.
DR. C. P. DUNCAJVS
Liver an\s Kidney
MEDICINE,
The great proventitive and cure of at! ma
larial diseases, nnd a sure cure fur ail forms
of dyspepsia find indigestion; it nets directly
upon the liver mid nil the secretory glands of
the stomach and bowles, it eu os the disease
by removing the cause from the system tha;
produces or brings on the diseases, hence it is j
unsurpassed for the cur ■ of Constipation,
stomach, heartburn, headneh, and all those
syinatoms indiealit.tr the want of a proper ac
tion of those glanba situated in tho‘stomach
and bowels. Two or three bottles of
Dr. Duncan's Liver unci
Kidn eij Medicine
is positively rooommended tv relievo and
cure any of the above disease* if taken as di
rected. Price 75 cents.
Cure for Croup!
iV. Duncan’s Cough Balsam is the best
remedy known to the medical profession for
the prompt and sure cure of Croup in child
ren; it is pleasant and hart. Ims * No rnothei
should he without a bottle in" their house
Price 50 cents.
DAI) COLDS AM) SOKE THROAT
promptly cured with Dr. Dun an’s Cougl
Balsam; is a sure cure for sore thrusts, coo gin
and colds, i is unsurpassed fnrWHOOPINf
DOUGH, and all bronchial diseases in chit
dron.
Chanped Hands. Lips,
Sore eyes, piles, and all ebrasions of the sk
cured promptly with Duncan’s Ointment
■III «I.\(A\S
BLOOD SYRUP,
tho gp-at alternative , ill remove any nnd
all impurities from the blood, and cure all
eruptions of the Skin. For Scrofula it never
fails to cure.
THE CHILDREN CRY FOR IT.
DUNCAN'S WORM SYRUP.
It is sure,BAKK. plensrnt aud Cheap. Try it.
For Sale Jiij
Blevins & Forester.
Shadow’s Son’s £ Co.
Proprietor of
Cedar .Grove Nusery
Winchester 1 - * * Tenn
Growers and Dealers
i all kind of first
-1 lass Late and Early
r nut trees, Ornamen
tal trees, Vines of all
kinds, etc.
All communications
an s w ere d. Every
thing guaranteed.
Agents Wanted.
•STATE OF DADK
COUNTY.
will be sold on tho first Tuesday Mayfnext,
at the court house in «aid county within the
legal hours .f'sal. te the highest bidd.r for
cash, the following property, to wit, a throe
year .id yellow bay uiaro>olt about thirteen
Banda high to bo sold as an astray taken np
by G. A. R. Bible on the 3d ‘of January last
«nd valuad by T J. Moraland and.r. r
Hartline, freeholders, te be worth $137 5*
'thirty seven dollars and fifty cents) and ad
vertised by G. M - Crabtree, Ordieary as the
'dircots.
W A Byrd, Sheriff
_ . . Th '» of April IM4.
Printer g fee $3.38-
lEORGIA, DADE COUNTY—
Will be sold before the court hols# deer in
own of Trenton, Dude cjuaty G». on the Ist
'uesday in May next, between the legal hears
r sale, the following property, to wit; Lot
t land No. 9 in the !2th district and 4th t«o.
ions of said eounty, to sntiefy a tax fifa , D
1 vor O W Hughes, tax oolleetor of said
■ "Unty, Levied on as the property of Chae.
Logan, lovy made by me. W A Brit
Sheriff,
GEORGIA, DADE COUNTY.
Will bo sold before the court house deer to
ho town of rrenton, Dade county, 0... « n
he first Tuesday in May aext, between the
legrl hours of sale, the following prnp„ tT
r’th d t' 1 ' / M * 42 6 i"the
1-th district and 4th sectioa in Dade Bounty
to satisfy a tax firm in favor ofG W Hughes
tax collector of said county. Legion on a, the
property of R S L.»vet> : - |,yy Inailß hj , ae
A IJvrd, Sheriff.