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THE DAWSON NEWS,
EDITORIAL Souiss,
Mr. J. M. Jardine, near Brunss
wick, has received five hundred
young raisin grape vives, and is go
g to attempt raisin culture.
Mr. Ingalls has heen elected
President pro tem, of the Senate.
In the absence +f the Vice-President
John J. will wield the gave!.
Ben Butler is about te bob up
again, It is said that the Presi
dent will appoiat him as one of the
Commissioners to the Samoan Cons
ference, which meets at Berlin in
the summer.
“Vote as you think,” is the ad
vice the New York Herald gives
to Southern men. That is exact
ly what we have been doing all
thetime. We think of what is
the best for the South, and then
we vote that way.
Preparations for the changing
of the gange of the Savanauh,
Americus and Montzomery rails
rosd ace going forward rapidly
and work on the same will begin
in a few days. The work will be
gin at Abbeville.
Business in our mercantile world
is unusually dull. The continued
raios and bad weather generaliy
have caused tarm work to get bad
ly in arrears, and our farmers teel
that they Lave no time for coming
to town. Our merchants are not
keen to run up time sales, and
they are therefore not disposed to
drum up customers, and prefer to
watch and wait on the seasons.
Sam Small, the tamouz Atlnta
preacher—politiciav, is buck from
an extensive lecturing tour in the
West. He will rest up for a few
weeks and then ;o tor the devil a 0
the North. He declares that in
his case the scriptural declaration,
“a prophet is vot without hounor
save in his own couuntry,” is true,
for in the South folks wou’t pay
him like the west. He will there
tore seek more tavorable localities,
but will return in time for the next
prohibition campaign.
Complaints are made that in
some of the counties of the State
the juries are *‘cheek by jovl”
with the blind tigers. That they
don’t pay any attention to the law
and the evidence, and though the
racts of guilt stare them in the
face, and the charge of the Judge
is dcad agaivst them, yet the ver
dict every time is not guilty.
Judge Boyuton msists that the
jury must do their duty in carrys=
ing out the mandates of the law,
but the verdict all the same is not
guilty.
| Nick Johnson, a farmer of Sum
| ter county, says that he picked up |
* a curious shaped rock a few days
'ago and struck it against some
' thing and a larze picec dropped
out of the centre, leaving a cup~
‘s!mlei rock. He gave it to his’
children to play with. Oune of
| them filled 1t with water, and as
' soon as the rock was emptied it
| went to ringing like a bell. It
Ikept it up for some five or ten
j minutes, and will do so whenever
| filled with anything and it 1s taken
ot peared out,
] The chiefs of the police of 150
! ot the leading cities ot the Union
: have been interviewed on the sub
| ject of ecrime in their respective
! cities,. A very large majority re
| port that crime is greatly on the
i increase. About tour-fifth report
a fearful increase of drunkenness
and prostituticn among females.
They all unite in saying that very
[ few criminals ever reform. Had
| we not better reeall some of our
!foreign missionaries and encours
} age them to take in the eituation
{at home before they go abroad?
| Our preachers tell us that the
1 world is daily growing better, and
that America is in the lead. The
| cities are heard from, the im-
Ip:ovements therefore must be in
I‘ the small tovns and villages.
I ~ COUNTRY DARKEYS
——
| As Found in the County of Baker, Where
Live the Alligator and the Owl.
A country darkey is a strange
mixture o’shrewdness, ignoranee,
superstition, religion and greedi
ness.
Buch is the opinion I have
formed of him a‘ter spending a
week on the plantation of Mr. B.
F. Mereer, in Baker county, where
there were fitteen of them, the goal
of their ambition swhile I was there
beiag to get all the old ¢lothes rrd
money I had before T took my de
parture, ’
Among the sizhing pinss and
sandy cotton fields of southwest
Georgia he is happicr than he is
anywhere else in the state,
His home is in the quarter, a
collection of generally ten or twelve
rude log cabbins, about two hun
dred yards from the *Cap’ns”
house as the planter is called by
them. i
From daylight until dark when
the weather is favorable he follows
the plow behind his boon compan
ion, the country mule. For ashort
while after dark he toasts his shins
and nods his head if the weather is
enol, before a blazing pineknot fire,
and then rolls hiwself in his quilts
to be awakened before daylight hy
the ringing of the plantation bell,
calling him to work.
The houses in which these couna
try darkies live are made ot logs,
the cracks stopped with mad.,
The chimneys are built like a
bird trap, from pine staves, and
the intervening spaces are filled
with mud,
The pine wood fires are so hot
that the mual soon dries, and bee
coming heated set fire to the wood.
A chimney on fire is almost an eve~
ry day occurrence.
The largest portion ot “these peo
ple prefer to make a contract on
the first ot January tor the years
work,
These contracts stipulate that
they shall receive eght dollars a
month, a house to live iu, and four
potnds of meat and a peck of meal
each week.
The meat is generally exhausted
before the week is out, and then
they must either go hungry or draw
on their next week's supply, and
thus it is that they are nearly al
ways ahead on rations.
On the plantation where I stop—
ped, Alligator Place, there were
fiiteen darkeys, men and women,
all but two professors ot religion.
Five of+the seven male Christians
were preachers. They explained
to me that they had never been or
dained, but had *‘ess bin called by
de Lawd ter preach,” and this they
did whenever they could find a
congregation.
Taken as a whole the negroes 1
encountered in Baker county are a
“happy go lucky,” “come day go
day God send Sunday,” race ot pev
p'e, their greatest delight being o
get a little more meat than the
four pounds allowed them each
week,
I hired one to go hunting with
me one day, and his only thought
all during the day seemed to he that
he'd get some fresh meat.
In passing a little pond, a long
legzed, long-necked, crane looking
berd, arose from the weeds on the
‘edge and sailed over to the other
side.
The negro, aithourh he had a
! guti, just squatted and watehed the
bird.
- “What is that?” T asked.
- “My God, boss, dasa wild gan -
der,” replied the maza, *“*kill him
and you will git meat,” and he em
phasized the word ‘meat’ as he
~grinned all over his fice at the
bare thought of getting & piece of
the bird.
, “That’s a crane,” [ said, “that's
' not a wild gander.”
f “Yasser he iz, but some duz call
Lim a Injan hen, butkiilhim, boss,
for de Lawd sake, coz den you will
- git meat.”
I The bird arse & second time, but
T missed Rim withe both barrels, I
’ regret to say, and Lewis, for that
was the man’s-name, did not gof hia
lmeot. He seeed
DAWSON, GA., WEDN ESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889,
when the bird flew off, and "ex
r claimed ;" : :
~ “Dar now, see wat you dene!”
~ Shortly afterward a rabbit
jumped up close to Lewis and ran
toward me. :
~ “Look a dat rabhit! look a dat
rabbit!” he eried, but then he stop
| ped as he saw me taking aim,
snd as I fired the rabbit tumbled
head over hecls, and Lewis velled
at the top o* his voice: “Den you
did git meat !”
Candy was the name of a little
pizger _boy § gave five_cents to
for going out with we one morn
ing.
Candy, I may as well state in
the begiuning, didn't come honest
ly by his sweet name, but I found
in a very short while that he
would go to the ‘jumping off place’
for a nickel.
I wanted to kill a diadaper that
woraing, and after spotting two in
a small pond T began erawling
through the broom sedge toward
them, instructing Caudy to go down
a peth on the other side so as to run
the birds toward me.
After T had erawled and wormed
myselt along the ground until my
breath was about gone I looked for
Candy, but he was nowhere to be
seen, The next minute I zaw him
down on bhis all fours crawling
through the grass imitating my
movements,
When these birds see any one
passing they will swim to t'ie other
side of the pond unless the passer
tries to get too near. If Candy bad
showed himself they would not
have noticed me, but as it was they
saw both of us and disappeared trom
the surface,
“How would you like to live in
town?” Tasked one of the men on
the place.
“I wouldn’t lak it sah, coz I'd
hattet buy my wood amd pay
house rent.” -~ . S ———
*Do you get enough to eat in the
country ?”
“Well, sur, dat 'pends ’pun de
wedder, Long in de fall wen de
craps in an’ we gits wats comin’ to
us we gets plenty, but hit doan lag’
long. Den we gits our fo’ pounds
er nieat an’ de peck er meal, but
dat doan las, Jong nulider. You
know how dat is, boss. Wen you
got it in de house hits powful hans
dy to eat aextry hoecake an a ex~
try slice er meat, an fore we knows
it we's drawed {oo far ahead, and
den de cap'n he tightens de lines
ou us, an buss, long atter Krismus
hits hard times, hit sholy is.”
“How long does it last ?”
“Well, I reckon ’bout six weeks
orsech a matter. Den de spring
time comes long an’ we gits a little
garden truck, an’ onst in a while
we goes strikin’ fer fish an’ gits nuff
ter eat & day .r two. Den comes
de watermillun, and fumn dat on
till nigh ’bout krismas we’s on de
top shelf, we sholy ix.”
The southwyest Georgia darkey
knows hig place, and is made to
keep it, as the only means of get
ting along with the man for whom
he works.—Alex W. Bealer, in
Atlanta Journal.
eo s e e @ B b s irtlh
A Good Dog Story. !
That a good dog is the best srt ’
of a watchman is shown by the fol- i
lowing story: James L, (,'allurt,l
whose house 18 some distance enst |
of the New Haven Railroad stx-i
tion, at Darien, Conn., retired ear- |
ly the other evenivg in confidence |
that a large shepherd dos of his,
shut in the kitchen would take cire |
of things as usual while he slept. |
Soom after midni_ht a man crawiel |
stealthy up to the kitchen window; |
and with a dismend eut a circle
five ivches in diameter on oné o
the panes. He then applied a eirs |
cular piece of muscilaged leather |
to the centre and with a string
mude fast 1o Its cemtre gave a sud
den jerk, removing that portion of |
the glaw, The noise awoke the |
dog, which waited till the mu'\,'
reached through the hole to ghove
“the door bolt,and then grabbed the |
dntruding arm, A terrible tussle |
TI foilowed, the man struggled to re- |
lease himself, the dos forcing his |
i teeth further into the arm, makin:g
him held more secure. The result
~was that the sash yielded and foll, :
the faithful animal leaped outside,
grabbed the visitor by the throat,
| tearing the flesh, and following the
carm down to the hand, liid the
lboneg bare in several places. The
yictim finally escapctl, but, with
less clothes om than he hal belore
the encoubitey, g
FOR NINETY-NINE YEARS.
Sonni¢ Milnec, the Calhoun County Assac»
sin, Carried to the Penitentiary.
Seeing Mr. W. H. Turner, the
universalfy known penitentigry
guard, on sur streets, yesterday,we
thought-4fan item for cur readers,
and sure enough we got it, for Mr.
Turver had ceme to carry Sonnie
Milner, the Cathoun county amas
sin, to the Chatiahoocliee Brick
Yard, where he will work for nines
ty-nive_years or the remainder of
S e 1 beoal
is interposed in his behalf.
The story of the assassination of
Mr, M. W. Watking, the coroner's
inquest, and the subsequent arrest,
‘rial and conviction ¢t Milner, his
being brought to this place for safe
keeping. and the one or two efforts
that he had made to break juil, are
well known to our readers,so there
is no need of repeating them fiere,
As soon a 8 we left Mr. Turner
we repaircd to the county jail, nad
were the first to break the news to
Milner that the guard had come for
him, and that he was to be carried
to the penitentiary,
The information took the prison
er completely unawares, for he had
anticipated: a new trial. At first
he was full of emotion, and speecha
less, but''in a few moments he so
far recovered himself as to make
the following statement:
“My God, wister! Is that so?
Why I thougkt I was going to get
a new trial, and if I had got it, T
would have come clear. Before
God, I gidu't kill Mr. Watkins.
They just wante | somebady to suf
fer for it, and saddled it on me.
Nothing but money put me where
[am. Old man Jack Ragan swore
to a lie; but he has got to die the
same a 8 I have, and he will sufl’crj
for it. 1 never made a threat
against Mr. Watkins in my life,
and didn’t have any more to do
with kiiling him than you di:l. Bes
fore G, T didu’t. Old man Ragan
knows he liel, and he came to moi
the next morning and told me he i
aas sorry of it.” |
By this time we had got to the !
train, and as the cars moved off we |
shook hands with Milner, while he |
said :
“If you can help my friends to
get me a pardon, do it, and God
will bless you for it, for lam an
innocent man.”
Truly, Milner takes his fate quite
badly, despite this he looks forward ]
to a pardon from the (}overnor.l
The question now is, *‘will he!
getit?"—Albany News And Adver- }
tiser.
T T .
Millions of Dollars, l
e |
Millions of dollars from the North
and from abroad are coming South ‘
for investment and the stream is
gruwin;; all the time broader and !
more rapid. The owners of this '
capital are not limited in choiee of |
locality., The South lan area of
vast extent. Wealth of resource
umlimiperinr advantages are not
coufined toany one State or sces |
tion. |
There iz, however, an wnfortu
nate disposition on the part nfi
many localities to lct the world findg
out its own way what advunt:wm;
and atfractions they possess, which,
it is imagined, are g eater than can
be found anywhere else, No St e
and no town that wants eapital or
immigration ean afford to pursue
thisg pulivy. The riches: natural
endowments, tne grandest inherent
possibiliti-s, are ot no avail if their
existence is not mad: known to the
world. -
People who want to come South
or to wake iavestments in e
Sonth are not going to hunt un
known places. They will investi.
zate the localitiesabout which they
have heard 2ud read and ¢l » Joenl
ities.that are are heerd and read ot
the'most will receive the most at
tention. Tt is true that the eyes
of ‘the world are turnet 1o the
South, but they wilsee ouly such
places as lift themselves iuto prom
inenee by the liberil expenditure
of money in advertising t:em
selves. '
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A larger area of sugar cane than
‘usual is being planted this season.
[ A QUEER FAMILY. .
| In aFitof Anger a Son Remains in a Room
for Fourteen Years.
Thereisno more peculiar family
than the Glenns, two sisters and a
brother, who live in Urbana, Obio,
All are unmarrted; and John, the
brother, is a study, There were
onee three boys. The father was
odd. He would veter go in debt.
Oucee hie Went 1o buy the Soys a coat,
ench, hut his money pave out, and
he anly got two. He toll John
the cirenmw stances,and said he would
mad, said he need never buy him
one, and that he would never wear
one as loug as his farther lived.
Going to his ryom,John remain
ed fourteen years without A coat,
and no ene ever saw him out of that
room. His meals were sent to him, ;
ani he sat there and read and
thought. ‘
When the father died John came
out, put on a coat and went to the
funeral. The Glenns are Scotchs
frish. The coat-oftarms ornament
the silver, china and front door.
The old man had money and bought
largely ot land,and his estate is one
of the most valuable in Champaign
county. After the father died,
the children, none of whom cver
married, althovgsh all hal
been carefully edncated, decided to
have the whole house frescoed.
For ten months an artist worked at
the house, and the walls and ceils
ings are covered with grotesque figs
ures, gerpents and animals,
Joha got mad once about these
decorations, and shut himself in
his room for four years, coming
out to attead the funeral of his
brother who had provoked him.
Mary,the youngest sister,has charge
ot the fivances now. John issixty
five years old and bleached white
by Lis confinement. - Van Wert
News, i
e Al PO N e
How a Dime Kas Increased.
Mrs. Lou Ellington has made a
practical demonstration of what can
be accomplished with a small begins
ning, by the exercise of proper in—
dustry and economy. About the
middle of last September she invests
ed oue dime in material sufficient
for a bonnet which, when made,
was immediately sold and the pro
ceeds expended for more material.
This again was all made into hon~
nets and sold, and the money thus
realized was again invested in mas
terial. Having repeated this buss
iness a number of times, she foun |
ou the Ist of March that she had
from this one source accumulated
£20.20, besides having several bon
vets on hand. Thus in less than
six_months that dime had gromn
until it exceeded twenty dnllars.
Fhat 5 a splendid record, wnd it
excellently illustrates an economic
busiaess principle, which,if univer~
sally adopted, would swiftly elimi
nate poverty and want from our
countrv. To others we commend
Mrs. Ellington’s achievemeut in
this matter, and hope that they
will not fail to profit by it. -~ Cutl.-
bert Futerprise.
4 Terrible Fats. ;
i,
We fearw thar Lawra Mitchell,
an old colore i wonen living on the
Pattersow plaes, met with a terri
ble feathr yesterday morninz, She
wa suvject b epiepsy, anl was
ot doors washing, She had a
large wash pot ful of boifing was
Cter, with a roaring fire uader ity
ao.d was soizat with a fit., She
x fell backward, sitting down in the
Cweething cauldron, and while she
L was buing boiled 1o death her ieet
[ and gkive were i the fire. The
| laster soon caught in u flame, which.
Lot ran up and canghit hor diass
; hody an | burat her t.) an unrreoy
| nizabde mass, Our mforr'mut 2Uys
tthat when found one portioa of her
[ bocy was boiléd to pieces and the
Lother burrt toew erisp,— Americus
| Republicau.
ey
l Sufferers from bload poison sernf
Luly, syphilisie syaptons hwerite 1
Lor resultiog frony comtaziony, rune
'ning wleors, I#mples, blemished
’ skin, aching joints, dyspepsia, kids
ney discases, rtheumatism ete , will
l find sure reliet il they will only
give Dotanie Blood By a trial,
Ash druggists for i, i
, THE SUN AND MOO.
, The Vernal Eqiinox Occurs this Year
On the 20t
- The movements of the sun féz
[ the months of March -and Septem
bet arealwavs watched with mare
than ordinary interest, and partie
‘ularly is this the ci% when the
sun eomiag north, passes the live
and brings the assurance ofa lang
‘winter bei.g at au end and spiing
shont commencine, ; |
~ The vernal equinox occurs this
year on March 20uh at 4:43 o'clock
TS mareivg Ee et et
tude risinz at 6:05 o'clock, and
settingat 6: 14 o'clock, Theoreti
cally the days and uights are of
equal length ail over the globe on
this day, but practically, owing to
the refraction of tha suv’s rays,
this equality takes pluce some three
days earlier in the month, the difi
erence in the length of days bes
tween the Ist and Jlst betug 1 hour
and 19 minutes.
The moon favors the earth with
five different phases in Maich, be~
ginnixgand ending the month with
a new moon, and giving us a full
moon on the 17th at 6:39 a. .
The moon is nearest the earth on
the 21st and was farthest away
Saturday. She is in close conjune
tion with Saturn on the 14th, On
the 24th, the day of her last quars
tering, she is in conjunction with
Jupiter, aod oo the 29th with Mer
cury.
Eates by Ante.
Auncther exceedingly horrible
execution was the burial of a man
near an ant hill. This was also at
Canton. The fellow’s erime was of
a political character. A hole was
dug near an ant hill, and he was
placed 1n it standing erect. The
earth was packed closely and firmly
around him, so that his chin was
just above the surfuce. His rmouth
was then forced open and fastened
g 0 with a piece ot iron. The next
step woas to eompletely paint his face
and eatire head with some sweet
stuff about the consisteucy of New
Orleans molasses in cold weather,
the inside of the mouth being filled
and a swat being run well down
his throat. Then a train of the
stuff was laid leading to the ant
hill. Almost before this was fin
ished the aunts found it, and in a
miuute there was thousands of big
red ants, some of the:n a fourth of
an inch in length and even larger
following the trail. They soon
swarmed «1l over his head and face
his eyes, ears and nose, and down
his throat. The sufferings of the
fellov. must have been horrible in
the extreie, but he vas alive three
days Leter when visited, and a week
afterwards the ants were still at
him,
Another method of testure wit- ‘
nessed in the same locality was thiss
lThe vietim was securely bound i‘n"‘
an upright attitule toa strong’
ipost, with his head fastened iu a
position that exposed his tace to the
full glare of the hlazing sun. Then
his evelids were cat off dexterously,
S 0 a 8 to leave the cyes intact. Lime
was then sweared over his face,
and he was left to die by inches.—
2. Loais Globe-Denocrat,
e < - visa: e
Family Prayers at thie White House.
There is one cnstoin which will
prabably be ohserved at the white
house for, perhaps the first and
only time, and that is family pray
ers in the mornins, Mr. Harrison
ever since his marriage, hus never
failed, except when confined ty his
bed, to holl family worship just
before breakfast, The hour for
the matutinal meal has usually
been 8 o'clock, and at 7:3) the
tamily has always colleeted in the
library, where the General read
alowl a chapter in the Bible, after
a few words i comment or exples
nation he and the whole tamily
have knelt anl joined in saying
the Lowd's prayer, ntter which he
made a special petition, either im -
promptuor from a book of prayers,
And it is said that neither the
President vor his wife has any in
tention of omiting this obsery
ance iv the executive mas- iy,
New York Sun,
VOI. V.—NO. 44.
« PETRIFIED, BUT STILL ALIVE.
4 Stranjé Tule of How a Negro's Lags
and Hands are Petrified.
We have a strangze,but trife 2 ory;
tor our readers this mornfug;
A petrified bone or stick efc¥s
but little interést with the aveffiye
person of the country, Wit #he ft
comes to a petrified man; €he mak
alive, at that, one brecomés almont
incredulous, but such is what we
write about this morning. =
- Guy Jones, colored, works with
Mr.V.A.Clegg,of Lee county, and
s not- uinlike ahy...ather man only
in that his legs and haide afe pets
rified. ! .
These members are as hard as srdi
nary wood, amd the pressure whick
one could impose with a finger nail;
failed to make any indention in the
flesh. The Negro says that k¢ has
no feeling in them whatever, by
that if they are cut the blood wilf
flotr, as from the persor of ar ordi¢
naryman. :
Guy is free to islk sbout his od<
dity, and says that it commenced
on him vine yearsago. “Fhe doc<
tor told we then that it would kill
nfe in four years,” said the man;
“but,” with a grin, “I am hers
yet.” ;
A grester wonder than than' thig
we have never seex, We are une<
qual to the task of explaning it, so
we call on physicians and those well
up.in physiology to explain this
freak of nature for us,.—~Alhany
News,
Queer Tastes,
Girls in Be ldeford and Saco,
Me., seem to have some queer
tastes. Onelady makesan excursiont
to the brickyard each summer and
lnys in a supply of nice blue clay
te eat through the winter, = Anoth
er favorite dainty isa seft brick,
avd long experience has
tanght her how to select
the choicest specimens at a glance:
Ench of these ladies has lived to a
goed old age to enjoy her favorite
dish, Ome youg lady may often
be seem picking from the sidewalk
soft, she'ly rocks, and, after a nibs
ble to see if they are just right,
travsfers the roek to hex pocks
ets for future consumrption, Soft,
clay pipes which oue girl buya hy
the dozen, ground-up slate pencils;
chalk, sea sand, white rags, brown
wrapping paper and starch are
among the favorite luxuries of oth
er. Perhaps the queerest tasteof all
is that for ashes, One {ou'ng' lady
is said to delight in coal ashes and
to be often seen raking over old
coal ashes fora lum onfy partial
ly burned, upon wflich there isa
vica white ash. Another has but
recently broken a hait which she
has followed since childhood of eats
ing bread sprinkled with wood ashes
instead of butter.
Our Bosdlers,
Gur boodlers sojourning in' Cans’
ads are in a state of mental pere
turbation, at the introductiza in'
the Kanuck Parlinnient of a bill
proviling for the deliverance of all
criminals to the United States
whose extradition is not provided
for ander existing treatjes ; the bill*
also proposes to amend the preseut
law # that the list of extraditable
offenses is made nuch Jonger, and
to iné¢lude larceny and kl(hnpylug.
The boollers have set to work in &
chiaracteristic way to cope with the
trying situation. They have raised
riready amonz themselves the sum
of 850.000, anl have secuwrnlths
serviees of a famous tactical lawyer
amember o the Dominion Parlia
memn, to thw re it not to kill the”
mensets witk all sovts of unend
ments, Ehey cwpect to mive af
loast three times the ambuns now
in hand, and they cherish the hops -
that the judiciens placiaget the
sinount will nog Be withowt effect
in influencing pustinmentary votes,
Knowing bomliess!
It must ke evmeeded by politieat
riend and foes vhat President
Cleveland and' his acesmpiwbed
wite have exccuted' their retrest
from public position with signal
success. The courteous consider«
ation they have shown fer theid:
successors will be refected back
upon them in the pevsonal gocd '
will of men and women of all pars -
ties, races and conditions,— Plilas
delphia Records A 8