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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
RUCKER TO Be REWARDED.
TO GET IMPORTANT PLACE
IN GEORGIA.
He Will Be Internal Revenue Collector
for the State. A $4,000
Year Job.

A press dispatch from Washington
announces that there is no longer doubt
about Henry Rucker, negro barber of
Atlonta, beng appointed internal rev.
enue collector Of Georgia. The dis
patch says
Although Henry A. Fuckers nomi-
nation as internal revenue collector
Of Georgia has not been sent to the SEN
ate the president has announced to
certain GeOrgians that the appoiut-
ment Mad been agreed upon. Is was
expected to be sent to the senate to-
day. Senators Bacon and Clay had an
appointment to 60 to the white house
this afternoon to protest against the
selection of Rucker, but they evidently
concluded that such a mission would
be fruitless and remained away. 1t is
understood the president is greatly
annoyed about the complaints against
the administration by the cOlored re-
publiCans all over the country, and has
concluded to give Rucker the appoint
ment with the hope Of quoting the
hungry COlOred brethren.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
A MONSTER SNAKE.
Measured Sixteen Feet and Ate Chickens
and Pigs

Measured Sixteen Feet and Ate Chickens
and Pigs,
Farmers in the vicinity of Lock Springs.
Mo-, have been greatly harrassed for sew
eral weeks by the depredations on their
chickens and pigs, and the mystery was
not solved till recently, when Newton
McCrary started on the trail of what an
peared to be a monster snake, SAYS the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat. He travelled
distance of two miles, when he came
TO the banks of the Grand river, where it
appeared the reptile entered the water.
A search of the vicinity later on reward
ed McCrary for his persistence. Appar-
entity asleep, after having despatched sew
eral full-grown chickens, lay a reptile of
such monstrous proportions that the
man was>transffxed with fear. His cour-
age returning, McCrary sent charge of
ouckshot into the head of the reptile and
precipitately fled. The cOntorUions of
the snake as it lashed its tail and BODY
against the ground and trees added to
the fears of the now thoroughly terrified
man. Summoning the assistance of
neighbors McCrary cautiously led back
an armed party, when, to his satisfac-
ton, the life of the reptile was found to
be extinct. 1t measured sixteen feet
and its body was as large as an ordinary
stovepipe. The species of the reptile is
not known, although it looks very much
like a python. Early in the spring it
was seen several miles further up the
Grand river, but the reports Of the terri
tied spectators were not generally credit
ed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
VETERANS ROAST ATKINSON.
RED HOT SPEECHES DENOUNCING
THE EXECUTIVE.
Politicians Were Touched Up, and
the UtteranceS of the Speakers
Were Loudly Cheered.

The confederate veterans have
shouldered their muskets and enlisted
against Governor Atkinson and his po-
litical followers, who, they claim, have
brought the old soldiers into public
contempt.
At rousing meeting of veterans,
held in Atlanta, they shelled the
woods wherein lay the forces of their
old enemy, the politicians.
In the excitement of the engagement
a sharpshooter took crack at Cover
nor Atkinson, and judging from the
yells that followed, the shot went
home.
1t seems that the occasion for the at
tack on the governor was the failure of
the committee appointed to work up
the proposed great reunion of the vet
Grams to make favorable report The
committee reported that they had
abandoned the idea of giving pic mic
in June because an unfavOrabe senti-
ment has been noted against any en-
tertainment the veterans proposed
1t had been decided to propose none IN
the future, no popular encoura cement
being given.
Judge r. i. Rogers, in an impassion-
ed speech, charged the politicians with
creating an unkind and unfriendly
feeling towards the veterans amongst
the people, 'There has grown up
here" he said. Gin the last few years
a feeling of contempt for the veterans
on account of certain political infu-
ences getting control of the people.
1t was such an unfriendly feeling that
defeated the soldiers home. 1t wa S
the same power that defeated General
Evans for governor. 1t is the sama
power that says the veterans are back
numbers, fossils, and must be relegat-
ed to the rear. The politicians have
caused it to be talked on our streets
that we have lost our influence and
moral courage, and that is thu reason
why we receive no encouragement in
our projects. 1t is time for the veter-
ans to arouse, as in time of war, and
drive away this inimical power"
DR.. Durham, the next speaker, said
that Judge Rogers alluded to Governor
Atkinson and his crowd. "They are
responsible" he continued, "tor some
of it, and if Atkinson were to run for
constable's place, [ would not vote for
him"
This was the shot that went home
says the Atlanta Journal, for the vet
Grams cheered the remark loud and
long.
The remainder of Dr. Durham's
speech was lost in the yells, and the
cheering continued some time after he
had taken his seat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
DISEASE AMONG CATTLE

They Attack Man and Beast, and Nothing
Short of killing Stops Them.
strange disease has attacked the
COWS in Joe Freeman's neighborhood
which causes the cattle to act as if crazy
or mad. When in this fix they will attack
man or beast, and nothing short of kill
ing them will stop them, as they other
wise pay no attention to TIE shooting
We are told that five of the animals have
been killed by parties who were attack
ed.-Blakely News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
A Valuable Presentation.

Editor Morrison, of Worthington, Ind,
Sun, writes: you have valuable pre-
scription in Electric Bitters, and l can
eheerfuly recommend it for Constipation
and Sick Headache, and as general
system tonic it has no equal" Mrs.
Annie Stehle, 1925 Cottage Grove Ave.
Chicag', was all run down, could not
eat nor digest food and had backache
which neveI~ left and felt tired and
weary, but SIX bottles of Els0tric Bitters
restored her health and renewed her
strength. Price SOC. and 81. Get bot.
Tie at Sale-Davis drug store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
TWISTING THE LIONS TAIL.
Secretary sherman Did 1t for the PrOtecr
ton of a Monopoly.


tIon of Monopoly.
Those London Journals which refer
to Secretary Sherman's letter of in
structions to Ambassador Hay with re-
gard to the Behring sea seal question
as another twisting of ,the lions tail
are not far from right. And not only
is the secretary giving the tail twist,
but ne is doing it without an apparent
good excuse.
1t may be true that this country has
good reasons for complaining that
Great Britain has not in good faith
lived up to her part of the sealing
agreement, but after all what do the
American people get out of this per-
petually yexing Behring sea seal bust
ness? Year after year we are quarrel
ing with somebody, and threatening to
fight, about the seals. Year after wear
commissioners, ambassadors and the,
like are appointed and paid high sal
aries and expenses to go across the,
water and attend courts or conduct ne
gotiations with regard to the seals,
Year after year a goodly number of
craft Of the feet, and often ships of
the navy, are sent to the sealing
grounds and kept there a whole sea-
son. What do the people get out Of
al! Nothing. A great monopolv
controls the seal catch, and the gov
ernment's unending entanglements
are all for the protection of the monon9
oil Savannah News. ''0"op y
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
GRAIN CnOP OF KANSAS.
Railroads Preparing to Move the 6O,OOO,-
900 Bushels.

900 Bushels.
Long trains of empty freight cars have
rolled out of Kansas City for two weeks
and have been dropped off in twos, threes
and ffves on side-tracks along the lines Of
the railroads in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and Oklat oma.
These empty freight cars, of which
there are thousands, will be filled with
new '97 wheat inside of four or Eye
weeks. A tremendous grain rush is eX-
pected, and the best of management by
the railr ad officials will be needed to
prevent large grain blockade, or grain
car famine. Conservative estimates of
crop statisticians place the yield of wheat
for this year in Kansas alone at 60,000,
600 bushels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28

"They don't make much fuss about
it." We are speaking of DeWitt's Little
Early Risers, the famous little pills for
constipation, biliousness and all stomach
and liver troubles. They never grippe.
SALE~DAyIs DRUG Co,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28

A. 2. Hatcher has few cheap horses
and two secondhand buggies for sale
cheap.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28

Johnson's Chill and Fee
yer Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of fever in
"a Hours.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28

just try lOc. box OF Cascarets. the
nnest liver and bowel regulator e ever
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-07-28
IAhhS, r. E. BELL
ESTABLISHED 1876.
Insurance Agency Of
C. Parks
DAWSON, GA,

now entering upon the
'nty-hrst year of It's success
operations in this commun-
During the past twenty
Fs this Agency has paid
y thousands of dollars in
Is, and has always dealt
Y with the insuring public.
nPanjes represented are all
y hrst-class and are thu
and strongest in
and, Policies issued at
IN ll rates, insu1ing
~ loss by fires, storms
! @claents; also for persons
8 TO give bond for any
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

A great many proofs now more or
less familiar 20 most people show
quite clearly that the decay OF animal
or vegetable matter is not a simple
chemical change, inevitable i'm the
nature of things, but a violent inter-
ference with the natural course on
the part of hostile organisms. The
bacteria which produce decomposi-
ton are very minute plants, which
grow, like mushrooms or molds, upon
organic matter, and which reproduce
their like with incredible rapidity.
Tyndall showed long ago that the
spores of these plants exist In myri-
ads in the air, floating everywhere
around us; that they occupy all cram
MES and empty places on the surface
of the earth, and that they swarm i'm
their millions in all ponds and pud-
dies. An easy way of proving that
these spores alone and the plant col
onies which spring from them are
the cause of putrefaction may be OBJ
tanned by boiling beef tea In test
tube, so as to kill the bacteria, and
then, while the liquid is still steam
ing, closing up the mouth OF the tube
with plug of cotton wool, which adj
mits the air but strains out the germs
of the putrefactive organisms. I'm
der these conditions the beef tea will
keep good for years, but If you re-
move the plug it will begin at once to
putrefy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
Stole While Under Arrest.

Many tales of merry thieves have
been told, but the court officials of this
city, who are familiar with the gentry,
are, almost to a man, willing to admit
that for unadulterated gall Benjamin
Crookhoff cannot be excelled. Crookhoff
was arrested for stealing 81 worth of
old rags from Pasquale Sparato, junk
dealer. While Crookhoff was behind the
railing in the Essex Market police court
waiting to be arraigned on a charge of
larceny he picked up two penholders
and placed them in his pocket. When
he was placed at the bar, Magistrate
Kudlich asked Court Officer Meyer to
see what was bullying out from beneath
Crookhoff's coat.
Meyer fished out cup and saucer.
This belonged to the janitor of the court
building. While waiting for the arrival
of the magistrate, Crookhoff ordered
cup Of coffee in the prison box. The
janitor served him. Crookhoff then
placed the dishes beneath his coat and
insisted that he had returned them.
Look ont for this man. said Mag
istrate Kudlich, ''or else he will steal
the courthouse. I believe the man is
out of his mind. He looks and acts that
way"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

From a statistical report of the
stone industry of the country for 1896,
just issued, it appears that the value
of the granite produced in 1896 was
81, 944, 1894, as against $500, 1913 in 1895.
While there was falling off in the
value of granite the marble product
shows a slight increase, the amount
being So, 859, 1876 in 1886 as against 49,
S25, 719 in 1865. From this report it
appears granite is quarried in TWEEN
ty-five states, Massachusetts being
the largest producer, Maine second
and Vermont third. Vermont leads
in the production of marble and only
two states in the Union, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, exceed in the value of
all their stone products those of Yer
mont. The value of the granite pro-
duced in Vermont in 1896 was 1866, 516
and the total value of all it's stone
products was $2,753,8O7. Pennsylva-
MIA, which leads all other states in the
value of it's stone products, produces
granite only to the value of S159, 317,
and Ohio, which comes next, no gran
tie at all.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

You remember the scene in Shakes
peare's Merchant of Venice" when
the suitors for Portals hand choose
between the caskets-the golden, the
silver, the leaden. The value is not
in the casket, it is in the portrait of
Portia that lies within, and he who
finds the portrait wins the living
bride. The value of our Bible is not
in its words and phrases-these are
the mere baskets; it is in the Christ
whose portrait is contained in the
whole Book, from the opening scene
in the Garden to the closing scene at
the Judgment. And he best uses the
Bible who knows how to open this
casket, to look beneath it's words and
phrases, to see the Christ whose
image is enshrined there, and then
to look up and see the living Christ
at his side and take him as a Friend
and a Bridegroom because he has
found this divine image in the Book.
Lyman Abbott, d. d.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

Mr.. Rockefeller has given about ~, :
100000 to one institution, besides sew
eral hundred thousand dollars each
year for the last twenty-five years to
various charities. We have had
many rich men i'm America, but not all
are great givers; not all remember
that we go through life but once,
with its opportunities TO brighten the
lives about us and to help to bear the
burdens of others. Mr.. Rockefeller's
private charaties have been almost
numberless. He has aided young men
and women through college, some-
times by gift and sometimes by loan.
He has provided the means for per
sons who were III TO go abroad or
elsewhere for rest. He does not for
get when his apples are gatherd at
Pocantico Hills to send hundreds OF
barrels TO the various institutions I'm
and near New York, or, when one OF
his workingmen dies, to continue the
support of his family while 10 is need
ed. Some OF us become too busy too
to think of the little ways of doing
good. 1t is said by those who know
him best that he gives more time TO
his benevolences and to their consid-
GRAFTON than TO his business affairs.
He employs secretaries, whose time
is given to the investigation of re-
quests for aid and attending to such
cases as are favorably decided upon.
Mr.. Rockefelles's usual plan of giving
is to pledge a certain sum on condi-
ton that others give, thus making
them share in the blessings OF be-
nevolence. He will be remembered,
not so much because he accumulated
millions, but because he gave away
millions, thereby doing great good
and setting a noble example.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
SOME INTERESTING FACTS RE-
GARDLNG ALASKA AND IT'S
GOLD FIELDS

Purchased in 1867 from Russia fol
| 81, 200, 900; purchase negotiated by
William Ell. Seward. then Secretary OF
State; Andrew Johnson, President.
Area in square miles, 531 ,409.
Population Census of 1900, &c, 1923
of whom but 4, 416 were whites, 3,4OC
Esuuimaux, and Is, 735 Indians.
Estimated present population, 40,
OOO
Governor of the territory, James D.
Brady; residence at Sitka.
Principal cities, Sitka (the capitaD
Juneau, Wrangel, Circle City.
Principal rivers, the Yukon (more
than 1000 miles long,, the Kuskowin,
the Colville, and the Copper.
Principal mountains, Mt. Logan,
altitude $500 feet; Mt. st. Elias, 49,
100; Mt. Wrangel, 1880 feet.
Principal products besides gold,
furs, fish, and lumber.
Principal occupations of the people,
hunting and fishing.
Gold first discovered in 1879.
Estimated product of gold to date,
$50, 900.
Product of gold in 1896, $780,
600.
Klondike in English is Deer River.
The river is SO designated on the
maps.
KIondike gold fields are partly in
American and partly in British terri
tory, and the product is disposed of
in the U. S.
Scene of the present excitement is
along the upper Yukon and it's tribu-
taries.
Distance from Chicago to the Klon-
dixie gold fields, via the Yukon, is
about $500 miles; via Chilkoot Pass,
about 1000 miles.
Time to make the trip by either
route, thirty to sixty days.
Travel possible only in June, July,
and August.
Climate in winter severe in the ex-
IRENE, winter beginning in Septem-
Der.
During June and July continuous
daylight; during December and Janu-
airy continuous night.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
River Farm for Sale.

The subscriber offers his Home Farm for
sale on Black River, 21S miles from Irasburgh.
GOOD buildings; hog and hen house 20X50;
COW barn 40x60 with base ent, si1o 12x22
Newly laid running water at house and barn.
one OF the best sugar orchards of its size in
town; all sugar tools new since 94. Nice
young fruit orchard set and fenced with wire
netting and bar5ed wire in '93; just bearing.
SAID farm will keep Is or Il COWS in summer,
p TO % in winter; wintered % last winter and
had III tons of ensilage left. A very easy farm
to carry on 1 bought the farm in '92; have
farm. It is one of the best farms to make
money on in Northern Vermont. Any good,
SOBER young man can do still better than I
have My price for farm with sugar tools is
SZ20O L don't care for one cent down, but
snail want good paper. Possession given any
time. Cause for selling, death of wife and
the farm no longer seems like home.
w. N. POTTER.
Irasburgh, Aug. %, 1897. IS
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

Our public school system has pass
ed beyond the stage in which it needs
to be either apologized for or defend
ed. It is no elemosynary institution
in which education is provided by
charitable community for the child
rem of the poor. 1t is no mere pre-
ventive of crime, prescribed on the
ground that it is cheaper to teach
children than to police adults. Our
public school system is based on the
broad principle that universal sut-
frage requires as condition prece-
dent universal education; that self
government is impossible without
self education; that State which
maintains a democracy of political
power must be founded on a democ-
racy of learning; that the peopleIcan-
not safely assume that they are wise
enough to govern themselves with
out making provision to acquire the
wisdom. On this basis, and on no
other. is our American system of
public education established-the
right and duty of the State to pro-
vide for the education Of it's rulers.
AS in democratic State all the peo-
pie are rulers, the State must pro-
vide for the education of all the peo-
pie. But all the people constitute
the State; the people must therefore
educate themselves.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

at is a remarkable fact" says a
contributor TO Knowledge, London,
'that the two countries which are
now competing most keenly with us
in the industrial race-especially i'm
those departments allied to engineer
ing-are Germany and the United
States; two which have for many
years been in the van in the matter
of providing facilities for education
in matters pertaining to the industrial
arts"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas Co. SIS:
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney &
Co., doing business in the city of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dol
lars for each and every case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by the of Halls Catarrh
Cure. Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this eth day of December, A. D. 1885.
A. w. Gleason, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sar-
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free. F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo o.
Sold by druggists, 75c. Halls Family Pills
are the best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13

According to celebrated anatomist there
are upwards of 5,oOOoGo little glands in the
human stomach. These glands pour out the
digestive juices which dissolve or digest the
food. Indigestion is want of juice, weakness
of glands, need of help to restore the health
of these organs. The best and most natural
help is that given by Shaker Digestive Cor
dial. Natural, because it supplies the mater
ials needed by the glands to prepare the di-
gcstive juices. Because it strengthens and
invigorates the glands and the stomach, until
they are able to do their work alone. Shaker
Digestive Cordial cures Indigestion certainly
and permanently. 1t does so by natural means
and therein lies the secret of it's wonderful
and UNMARRIED success.
At druggists, price 1oc to 500 per bottle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVA
TORY OF MUSIC.

The guest who spends a day, or
even part of day at the New Eng
land Conservatory of Music, is inn
pressed with the admirable facilities
for musical study that are offered by
the institution. Located in Americas
most musical city, possessing a fine
building facing large square, it fur
nishes cheerful, commodious home
for lady students. It's situation and
environment are most desirable,
while the busy happiness and enthu-
siasm of its student life prove that
the privileges offered are fully APP
preciated.
An investigation of the courses pro-
vided, reveals the real secret of the
Conservatory success, as every de-
partment is thoroughly equipped, sup
piled with the best instructors, thus
being admirably adapted to present
day needs. Into these departments
students may enter at any time, and
dition, they not only have every op-
portunity to hear, but also take part
in concerts and recitaIs, the latter be-
ing one Of the most important feat
ures of musical education.
The election of Mr.. George w.
Chadwick, musician OF international
reputation, as director, together with
the addition of noted names TO the
faculty, ensurse a most successful
future to the institution. Parents
who are looking for a progressive
school, thoroughly American in it's
spirit and conduct, in which to place
their daughters and sons, should
carefully investigate the merits of
the New England Conservatory.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
All Free.

Those who have used DR. Kings New Dis
covery know its value, and those who have
not, have now the opportunity to try Il free.
Call on the advertised druggist and get a trial
bottle, free. Send your name and address Go
H. E. Bucklen a. Co., Chicago, and get a sam
pie box of DIR. Kings New Life pins, Free as
wei as a copy of Guide 20 Health and House
hold Instructor, free An OF which is guar
anteed to do you good and cost you nothing
Sold at H. G. Pierce's drug store.