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The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
WHITE WOMEN KISS NEGRO CHILL
DREN.
SchOOlmarms Bid Their Dusky Pupils
an Affeeti0nate Goodbye.

Hampton, s. O., Guardian.
Last Friday mornings Augusta
bound train rolled up to the depot
at McNeill on time, and the pas
sengers and those of the citizens
congregated there for business
Witnessed a sight that either froze
them with aston;shment or made
them very sick at their stomachs.
AS we are informed, the two Mus
sachusetts schoolmarms were at
the station to board the train, hav-
ing determined to 60 "Narth"
to spend their summer vacation.
The platform was black and redo
lent with negro men, women and
children, the latter composing
the scholars of the institution pre-
sided over by these schoolmarms.
The hour of parting having ar
rived, the good-byes to the adults
were most affectionately said as
the hearty hand-shaking went
round, and sorrowful adieus were
hidden. So far the scene was in
teresting, but when the teachers
reached the scholars the exhibi-
ton became nauseating to those
who witnessed it. The school
marms began to kiss the little ne
groes with a relish, and for short
time the business-l1ke smack!
smack! smack" of osculation went
on, until the ruby lips of the
white instructresses had slipped
the nectar from the capacious
mouths of every blessed little Af-
rican on the platform and bestow-
ed a number of ''busses" on the
shining black faces OF the negro
women. The "toot-toot" of the
steam whistle resounded above
the kissing throng, the females
stepped on board the cars, and the
train moved off.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
CRIME IN HARRIS COUNTY.
THREE DRUNKEN WHITE MEN
COMMIT DIABoLIcAL DEEDS.

n
Information reached Us yester-
day Of a most diabolical outrage
| which occurred In Harris. comfy
on Saturday night, the 30th OF
May. There has been no public
mention of the matter, because the
perpetrators have not been cap
tured and vigorous steps are now
being taken to bring them to JUS
tice.
We learn that ON the night men,
toned above three white men,
who were drunk and armed with
pistols, knives and guns, visited
the more unfrequented neighbor-
hoods in Harris county and made
that night hidsous to unarmed
men, women and children. They
|idfed Tecklessly wherever their
drunken fancy suggested. Into
doors, windows and at psssers on
the public roads did they fire
their guns. Our informant states
that no one was struok, but that
numerous narrow escapes were
made.
After midnight they were on
the mountain in the western part
of the county, near a widows
home. One of the fiends suggest
ed that they visit the widow and
her daughters. It was agreed to
by the others. With yells and re-
ports OF firearms they heralded
their arrival at the home of these
unprotected women. They called
upon them for admittance, and it
being refused, they commenced
to shoot at the door, and the
frightened women were forced to-
open it. They rushed in and clos
ed the doors. Our informant
states that they committed an out
rageous assault on the person Of
one of the daughters. They went
to the home of a seventy-fve-year
old negro woman, and after ac-.
complishing their design, made
the poor old woman hold up her
bonnet for a target, at which they
shot.
The scoundrels at once fed and
nothing is known of their where
ahouts, It is hoped that they
will soon be captured and punish
ed to the full extent of the law
Columbus Enquirer Sun.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
HELD FAST BY A SNAKE.
An Editor Releases Hog from a Per-
ilOus Position.

Coming from Cut OFF last Sat
urday we saw the strangest snake
sight of our lives. Beyond Mr..
Ray Camps there is a branch
that crosses the road. On the 9TH
or side of the branch the railroad
crosses the wagon road, and just
beyond this we beheld a scene
that beats anything of the kind
we ever saw. A large eoachwhip
had wrapped his tail several times
around the top of a stiff scrub
post-oak bush and had caught a
SOW and was holding her fast.
His head part had three wraps
around one of the sow's hind legs
and he was making the hold doub-
ly sure by holding with his mouth.
The SOW was moving first to the
right and then to the left Oh three
feet, and had already described
two segments Of a'circle on terra
frma. "Whoa, Morgan!" said the
senior editor, and jumping out of
the buggy he grabbed pole to
kill the snake. Strange to say
the snake turned loose as soon as
he saw the scribe approaching
with the pole, and as he stretched
out his full length to make his ex-
it he looked fully as long as a
fence rail. Our junior pard let
go a half dozen or more jawbreak-
ing words as long as the snake,
which we cannot remember. But
the snake and hog went in oppo-
site directions and it is hard to
tell which went the faster. AS we
rode off we could hear the old SOW
running through the woods,
"blickety, blickety, blickety, whoo,
boo, whooh." From appearance
the snake intended to suck the
SOW, as the latter had three teats
full, and appeared to have only
three pigs. But his snakeship
couldn't hold and suck too.-Wal-
ton News.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
TOBACCO CHEWERS.
Isy be Startled a Little by the Fol-
lowing Statement.

A writer in the Houston Home
Journal says: As the people of
Houston county are often COM
planning of taxation being so
heavy, I will say to the young
Rn that one Of the heaviest taxes
lnsn has t, pay is the tax he lev
Hon himself, and that is the use
tobacco. A boy thinks he will
yer become a man until he chews
Cco. Let me insist that you
Va calculatian of what it will
syou. l know one man that
tobacco for himself and the
nf for his family has cost
lily dollars per year ever since
avar, and what it cost him be-
hs | don't know. He has lived
annted land and paid that tax
10 tobacco. The principal and
interest OF that amount for twen-
F'Hve years will amount to g.
H.67, which amount would have
ought him good plantation and
well furnished. He is yet run
lAg q one horse farm and renting
be land worked.
have chewed tobacco myself
% thirty years, and 1 have a right
know what it costs.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18

An informal meeting of bust
ness men of Albany was held at
the office of Wright, Davis & Co.,
to discuss the practicability and
feasibility of establishing cotton
compress in Albany A PROPOSE
tion has been made by response
BILE parties to put up a compress
costing $4,000, if the city will
give them a bonus of $1,000 and
release the enterprise from taxa
tion for term of five years. The
meeting resulted in the appoint
ment Of Messrs. L. 4. Welch, L.
". Carter and r. Hobbs as COM
mittee to canvass the city for the
purpose Of raising the $1,000. -.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
HENS MADE FATTO ORDER.

A MACHINR FOR F.ATTENINa FOWLS
WHETHER THEY LIKE 1T OR NOT.
New York Journal.
There was intense excitement in
the poultry world yesterday. ALI
people who take a deep interest
in chickens, to whom the world is
huge egg, as it were, went to
see a poultry exhibition in large
warehouse ON the west side. The
most interesting feature of the
show was some French machines
for fattening fowls. The largest
machine could fatten 210 birds at
once.
Chickens arrive in New York
all skin and bone. Sometimes
their feathers merely serve to hide
their skeletons and to prevent
their bones from moulding. They
are placed in a cage in the fatten-
ing machine. Their legs are
strapped to the floor. If they are
noisy string is put around their
bills to prevent them losing flesh
by Growing. They cannot move
and they cannot crow.
Liquid food made Of barley,
corn meal, -four, milk and water
is made for them. A chicken is
caught by the throat. He is
chained and cannot escape. A
rubber pipe is run down his
throat. This nutritious food is
pumped into him. He has to
swallow it or die. Food is forced
into the chicken for eighteen or
twenty days. When the thing is
over he looks like a lager beer
brewer with coat of feathers.
He is fat
A duck needs only fourteen or
fifteen days of this sort of feeding
to become too fat to waddle. A
duck never gets as lean as a New
York chicken. But the duck is
fed four times a day and the
chicken only three times. The
machine will feed 500 chickens in
an hour. It is used in France,
Germany and England by profess
sional poultry raisers.
In twenty days of this process
a chicken which came to New
York weighing one-half tpound
weighs five pounds. The fat cov-
ers him in rolls. The boarding
house mistress would not know
him. She would take him for a
turkey.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
CURED BY TOBACCO.
A Child Three Months Old Begins It's
Use and is Cured of Fits.

Mr.. z. P. Claxton, who lives
mile from town, has the most re-
markable baby we ever saw. The
child now is little more than two
years old. Very early in its ba-
byhood it became a victim to fits,
and the most skillful medical aid
proved to be of no avail. But
what is SO remarkable is, when it
was not more than three months
old it showed an intense desire
for tobacco. When anyone would
take chew in its presence its lit
tie face would be lit with smiles
as its small, growthless hands
stretched out for it. This action
of the little invalid was noticed
for some time, and finally its ia
ther determined to give it tobacco,
Notwithstanding the strong pro-
testations of the family. 1t took
it eagerly and chewed it, swallow
ing everything. The child show
ed no symptoms of sickness from
it whatever, and from that it be-
gan the regular use of tobacco.
This produced a happy effect, and
the child soon began to fatten.
Medical treatment, of course, was
dispensed with, and it is now the
chubbiest and most healthy look
ing of all of Mr.. Claxton's family.
Its recovery is attributed wholly
to the use of tobacco, but since it
has been cured it seems not to
crave the weed and refuses to take
it when offered; and now Mr..
Claxton thinks it will never use
tobacco again. This is indeed a
wonderful case.-Franklin News.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
AN INTERESTING BOOK
Which viii Attract Both Old and
Young, and Which Contains In
structive Matter for all.

There are some books which
should be found in every house.
hold: The Bible, good diction-
ary, an almanac and reliable
book of reference in case Of sick
ness. These should form part
and parcel of the library Of every
family in the land. DR.. s. B.
Hartman's new and revised edi-
ton of "The Ills esof Life" which
is now ready, is the book of medi-
cal advice and information which
should always be within reach.
1t touches on all matters relating
to the ills which flesh is heir to,
which can be relieved by medical
treatment; gives their nature,
symptoms and effects, and shows
in plain, distinct language the
methods and medicines to be used
for the relief of the patient. Ev.
cry kind Of fever, every disease of
thd skin, all ailments which affect
particular organs of the body,
such as the liver or kidneys, all
functional disturbances, catarrh,
dyspepsia, neuralgia, and the host
of enemies which attack the body,
are treated of in "The Ills of
Life" and not only are both acute
and chronic form of disease dis
cussed, but this invaluable little
book contains an immense amount
Of hygienic advice In reference to
the care of the body, its preserva-
ton in the normal condition
known as health, the causes
which produce those disturbances
Of the system which we call sick
ness, and minute and careful di-
rections.f for restoring the various
disordered functions to their nat
ural working, and the body to its
natural state of health,
This is no catchpenny volume.
1t is no medium for advertising
patent medicines. The prescrip-
tions given in it are the result of
years of experience and medical
research, and can be filled at any
drug store. 1t tells, in language
which the child can understand
as we'll as the adult, not only the
conditions by which health may
be preserved, and the means by
which it is impaired, but shows
what to do to regain it. It is
book for the coun try as well as
for the city; is as useful to the
rich family as to the poor one,and
finds not only an appropriate but
q necessary place in the humblest
cabin and the stateliest mansion.
The first edition has been read by
hundreds of thousands of readers,
and many sufferer who, like the
woman in scripture, chad spent
all her living on physicians"
blesses the day when this book
fell into her hands. The present
edition is much enlarged and i'm
proved, containing new matter of
the highest Importance, and is al
ready in great demand. 1t is not
sold, neither is it indisoriminately
distributed, but will be cheerful
ly sent to any one desirous of
reading it, on reception of the
requisite address and two cents tc
cover postage.
S. B. HARTMAN & Co.,
Columbus, Ohio.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18

Now, that old fashioned Demo-
racy is at the head of the govern
ment, there is a call in many coun-
ties to have this year q good old
fashioned Fourth of July celebra-
ton.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
"anSe Death by Lightning.

lug a recent thunder storm,
IT. plow hand on the farm of
L. Aineslie. near this CITY,
us q alarmed, took his mule
nj T' plow, and mounting the
~ started to the lot. He
SOl l, summoned to a dead
M. = Hash of lightning that
as,s' Sa' both mule and rider to
In, kSSIad' The mule was in
n .'1 Aiiled but the negro jump
!, sad y ran home, crying, @oh
/. every jump. No mark
70 found on the mule, and
popular opinion that the
~ vas struck on the hend and
ajsos killed by the shock
''' Madisonian. '''''N
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18
How a Wife Should Be Treated.


New York Ledger.
Only let woman be sure that
she is precious to her husband
not useful, not valuable, nor con-
venient, simply, but lovely and
beloved; let her be the recipient
of his polite and hearty atten-
tions; let her feel that care and
love are noticed, appreciated, and
returned ;let her opinion be asked,
her approval sought, and her
Judgment respected in matters of
which she is cognizant; in short,
LET her only be beloved, honored
and cherished, in fulfllment of
the marriage VOW, and she will be
to her husband and her children
and society,a well-spring OF pleas
ure. She will bear toll and pain
and anxiety; for her husbands
love is to her a tower and a for
tress. Shielded and sheltered
therein, adversity will have lost
its sting. She may suffer, but
sympathy may dull the edge of
her sorrow. A house with love In
it-and by love we mean love ex,
pressed by words and looks and
deeds. for we have not one spark
Of faith in the love that never
crops out is to 3 house with
love. as q person to a machine,the
ne is life, the other mechanism.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18

For some time past young
Houston farmer claimed that he
owned the finest game chickens in
this section Of the country. His
best rooster couldn't be whipped.
Not long since this rooster was
sent down to Albany to engage in
main that was to be fought there.
The Houston bird was fitted with
a good pair of gaffs,and put in the
pit against choice Albany roos-
ter. The fight began, but upon
the first blood being drawn, the
Houston chicken leaped from the
pit. The entire crowd went in
pursuit. and it is on record that
some one was compelled to shoot
that fine chicken in order to get
hold of him to take the gaffs off.
He was a better runner than a
fighter. Perry Journal.
The Dawson journal., 1885-06-18

Pole White, of Cobb county, is
the possessor Of four-legged
guinea.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
RIEI FOUND GUILTY.
Sentenced to be Hanged Septem-
Der Is, at Regina, Manitoba.
A Sketch of his Life and the
Rebellion Which he Led.

The trial of Louis Riel, the Canadian
rebel, was concluded at Regina, Manitoba,
on the LIST. -Four hours were occupied by the
judge reading over the evidence and charg-
ing the jury. He pointed out the duty of the
jury to find the prisoner guilty unless they
were thoroughly convinced that the prisoner
was irresponsible and insane during the COM
mission of his acts.
The jury retired at a quarter past . o'clock.
During their absence the prisoner kneeled in
the box and prayed audibly and fervently.
He had scarcely eaten anything for the past
three days. He was in the jury room during
the recess, sat on every one of the jurors
chairs and prayed fervently on each. Then
he sprinkled them with holy water.
The jury wa absent an hour AMI returned
with a verdict of guilty with a recommends
ton to mercy. The foreman cried like n
child when he announced the verdict. Riel
remained on his knees praying until the vcr-
dict was announced, then jumped up, looking
pale but calm.
After the verdict of guilty was rendered
Riel was asked if he had anything to say why
the sentence should not be passed. He spoke
two hours, reviewing the half-breed griev-
auces since 1869. He asked that a commits
sion be appointed to try him; also n commits
sion of doctors to see whether he is insane or
not.
The judge said that none of the reasons he
offered had any weight, and he advised the
prisoner 10 prepare for the end, and sentenced
him to be hanged on the 18th of September
next, at Regina.
Riel's counsel declared their intention of
appealing the case at once.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
LATER NEWS

LARGE crowds have visited the site of Cen
eral Grants grave and monument in the upper
part of New York.
N1CE.ADMIRAL Rowan being compelled
by in-health to ask to be excused from serv-
ing as a pail bearer at General Grants fu.
neral, the President designated Rear Admit
raj John L. Worden to act in his place.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered a board
of three naval officers to examin the general
business system of the naval department, for
TIE purpose of suggesting methods of pre-
venting duplication of work, promoting the
efficiency of the clerks, and improving the
business methods of the dep lrtment where
ley need Improvement.
TORONTO, Canada, has been devastated by a
eat fire, the flames extending for half a
:aile along the river front, and consuming
four elevators full of grain and numerous
factories. \ number of vessels were also
burned. The wind changing, the fire was
carried uptown, and 1t was feared :..st half
the city would be destroyed.
y RIVER steamer was burned to the water
edge near Pembroke, Ontario. Four of the
rev lost their lives and two others were SCR
Susly burned.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07

mont restaurant, and the old fashioned horse
shed, with six divisions invitingly open to-
ward the road.
''The site is remote from lines of travel, and
is nearly eight miles. air line, from the City
Hal, and six miles at least by any practicable
route from the Grand Central depot. To
owners of carriages it is a twenty minute
drive from the north end of Central park.
The driver may choose between the River
side drive direct to Claremont and the
Boulevard to Manhattanville, doubling
back up the hill by way of the
old Bloomingdale road. This road, however,
will doubtless be regarded and made less pre-
c~ipitous. Access TO the site from cross streets
above 10th street is to be had only at 18TH
street. The streets between are either not
cut through, or are not graded for carriages.
From down town an hour is consumed
in riding to Claremont by the short
est route. This route is by the west
side elevated railroad to 125th street, thence
by the 125th street Cross-town cars to the
Bloomingdale road, and thence about two
city blocks up hill. Thu restaurant, Mayor
Grace said, is on the site where the tomb will
be placed, and the old building will be razed
TO the ground. The temporary tomb TO re-
ceive the body of General Grant is to be built
Of brick near the restaurant"
General John b. Clark, the clerk of the
national House of Representatives, on the
2Sth designated this committee TO represent
/ that body at the funeral of General Grant:
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, Samuel j.
Randall. of Pennsylvania, William Il. Nor
rison. of Illinois, J. Randolph Tucker, of
Virginia, O. r Singleton, OF Mississippi,
Frank Hiscock, of New York, Thomas B.
Reed. of Maine, Thomas NJ. Brown, of In
diana, Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio.
AT a meeting of the Paramount Park Art
association in Philadelphia on the 2Sth reso-
lutions We're adopted providing for the crea-
ton of a fund, to be called the Grant memo
rial fund for the erection in Paramount park
of a suitable memorial statue of General
Grant. Subscriptions of any amount will be
invited, with n view to make the Grant me
mortal a popular tribute of all the people of
Pennsylvania.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
Foreign.

SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE the well known
Hebrew philanthropist, who in October last
celebrated the one hundredth anniversary OF
his birthday, died the other day in London.
In consequence of the newspaper revela-
tions of vice in London, meetings are being
held all over England in favor of an amend
ment to the criminal law.
JOHN BRIGHT made n fierce attack on the
Parnellites in the British house of commons,
declaring the land league followers of Par
nell were utterly disloyal," and "a band of
traitors and assassins." The speech made a
great sensation.
A from Simla says that the
ameer of Afghanistan is making a tour of
the country, delivering speeches to show the
vast benefit to be derived from an alliance
with the British. His people are reported to
be very enthusiastic.
ROBERT FA~RQUHARsoN, manager of the
broken Munster bank, Ireland, has abscond-
ed, and investigation shows that he had
stolen $500 J0 of the Institutions funds.
SIR CHARLES dixie, member of Glad
stones cabinet, has paid 1921 600 in settle
ment OF the scandal SUIT brought against INN
by an aggrieved husband. who has also
brought suit for divorce against his wife.
CHOLERA has begun to develop alarmingly
in the south of France.
MANY persons have been kille I and numer-
Gus farmhouseS destroyed 10y furious thunder
storms in Southern France.
A RECENT fire at CardenaS. Cuba. spread
over six blocks, and destroyed merchandise
and other property valued at $1,000, 00J.
A SUAKIM dispatch says that FL Mahdi was
i'll only two days. There were no doctors
present at the time Of his death, which oc
Cured on June 20. The mahdi enjoined that
his successor continue to wage war with the
Christians.
THE provost of Glasgow asserts that a sys
TEN of c%orrupting young girls similar to that
exposed recently in London exists in the
Scottish city.
A NATIVE soldier who was reported al
Bombay for misconduct shot and killed hi.
wife and two sergeants, and then put an end
TO himself.
IT is reported that Osman Digna. second il
nina to the late False Prophet. wa.
killed in the kasSala battle. The late Mahdi.
followers are everywhere demoralized.
A EADING English paper-the Londor
Saturday HcrieW-contains a column attack
on the lear of Westminster Abbey because
of the lending it for commemOration service.
over General Grant-thereby "concedine
him the one mark of honor an Englishmal
holds the highest attainable and that is pecu
larry English"
THE Colombian rebels have suffered a sig
nal defeat at Barrauquilla, their stronghold
and Prestan, their leader, has been captured
RETURNS just received put lrelaui's papu
lation at 4,g!4,3f2, a great decrease, owing
chiefly to emigration to America.