The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-25

ed keenan, is making arran gementS, he
says, to ship a consignment Of 300 mar
riageable women to the Klondike gold
fields, and he expects to get $4,000 to
So 900 head for them. When he pays
for transportation and board, however,
and comes to find out that he
has to allow for escapes, Opponents
and breaches of contract generally
the aforesaid Presbyterian will prob
ably be sorry he did 1t. But he will
have no difficulty IN securing as many
women as he wants. Already scores of
disenchanted husbands are offering
him ready made wives at reduced
figures.
EDITOR MCINTOSH takes issue with
Hon. Allen d. Gamblers statement that
to win the office of governor of Georgia
a man must Wallow in the mire of pol
tics. Editor Mcintosh has been men
toned as good gubernatorial timber
himself, 50 and is probably not IN
cllned to be scared off by any such
talk. But Colonel Gambler is not
far from wrong. With such men as
he and Editor Mcintosh in the race.
however, our gubernatorial politics
would be lifted to a higher plane than
they have been for several years past.
Letus have good men and nice, gen
tIemanIy, decent campaign,
DR.. WILLIAMSON, Of Ohio, an expert
in cases Of insanity, has visited FIana-
gan, the Decatur murderer who is an
der sentence Of death, and subjected
him to a thorough examination and
most approved hypnotic tests. Flana-
gan remained stoIidIy impressive and
unaffected. DR.. Williamson says he
is certainly mental imbecile, and will
soon die Of softening OF the BRAN, even
if he is not hanged. The regret is that
Flanagan's brain did not conclude to
soften into imbecility before he MUIR
dered those helpless women.
Mr., PHIL BYRD, Who, as the special
agent Of Governor Atkinson, inspected
the misdemeanor convict camps of
Georgia, has filed his report. 1t is a
lengthy recital of changing hardships
and horrors. The governor and Mr..
Byrd knew what the report would be
before the latter started on his mission
and every Georgian has come to know
what the report will be whenever a
comittee or agent is appointed to look
into the convict system. The old story
of cruelty, torture and death always
comes to the front.
The brownsville Times insinuates
that Judge Allen Fort heard the buzz
ing of the gubernatorial bee when he
wrote that dissenting opinion in favor
of lowering rates on cotton. The in
situation is not at all creditabIe to the
Times. Judge Forts long and honor
able public career cannot be furnished
by attacks upon him for fearIessly
standing by the people. Judge Fort is
an honest man.
The price Of wheat is higher than it
has been for number of years, which
Is the necessary result of short crops
and famine in other countries and
! largely increased foreign demands.
But these facts do not deter pious re-
pubhcans from claiming that their
party has brought about the rise.
IT is the opinion Of the Macon News
that the efforts of some of the news
papers to make it appear that the
Dingley bill is responsible for the
good crops can only be accounted for
on the ground that the odor Of the bill
would warrant the belief that it is a
good fertilizer.
ALL the people Of Georgia Join with
/ his loved ones in shedding tear at the
grave Of Rev. John w. Burke, who
died at his home in Macon Saturday
morning Of paralysis. He was uni
versally loved and honored for his pure,
| honest, simple life.
In speaking Of the many and various
recommendations Of the several aspir-
ants for governor the McDufiie Journal
notes that Mr.. duBignon is the only
one Of them with front porch to his