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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
AUTHOR OF "DIXIE."
Dan Emmett Quietly Living in Mount Yer.
non, Ohio

Dan Emmett Quietly Living in Mount Yer
/ non, Ohio.
Z Perhaps very few people know that
/ Dan Emmett, who wrote Dixie" is
still living.
/ His home is in Mount Vernon, Ohio,
where he was born and where he hopes
t. end his days. The old man is a pic
turesque figure on the streets of the
town. In his prime he was one of the
mid-century dandies of New York city,
but now, with calm indifference t. the
conventional, he usually carries a long
staff and wears his coat fastened in at
the waist with bit of rope
His home is a little cottage on the
edge of the town, where he lives entirely
alone. On almost any pleasant after
noon he can be found seated before his
door reading, but he is ready enough to
talk with a chance visitor, whose curl
Osity to meet the composer of one of the
national songs Of America has brought
him out from town.
Half a century ago Emmett was
famous "nigger" minstrel Those were
the bamy days of burnt cork art, when
BrYaut's theater On lower Broadway was
one Of the lhost popular resorts in New
York city. Emmett was born in 1915.
at Mount Vernon, coming OF a family =,
all of VIII Jse members had local repu-
tation-still traditional in the county
as musicians. In his own case this tai
ent was but little less than a crude and
undeveloped sort of genius.
He began life as printer, but soon
abandoned his trade to join the band OF
circus company. He was not long in
discovering that he could compose songs
of the kind in use by clio WINS.
Finally he took to negro impersona-
tons, singing his own songs in the ring,
while he accompanied himself on the
banjo. He became such a fayorite with
the patrons of the circus in the south
and west that at last, partly by chance
and partly through intention, he invaded
the stage himself,
Strangely enough, "Dixie, or ''Dixie-
land" referred MT to the south or to
any part of the south. 1t is the name
OF an estate on Manhattan island, the
property of man named Dizzy, who was
one of the largest shareholders of his
day, until the rapid growth of the anti
slavery movement in the north compel
ed him to sell his slaves nth. 1t was
from these blacks and their descendants
that the words "Dixie" land came, ex
pressing their love and longing for their
former home and master. Pennsylvania
Grit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
FACrs AND FIGURES.

The average marrying age of French
man is thirty years.
The number Of churches in Chicago
has grown from l57 in 1870 to 633.
Argentina owes its name to the sill
very reflections of it's rivers.
The Sultan possesses no crown. coro-
nation being unknown in Turkey.
Belgium is about the combined size of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
There are more public holidays in
Honolulu than in any other city in the
world.
A night-bloOming leguminous plant of
Trinidad is pollnated by the agency of
bats.
Within the last ten years the number
of railway stations in Germany has in
creased from 6,o75 TO 8,893.
Boston expects it's new seyen-mIle
line of elevated railway t. be built at a
cost of about IS 100000.
Britain must be clearly nation, f r
over 400, 000,0 900 pounds of soap are used
in that section annually.
The sound of bell which can be
heard $4,000 feet through water, can be
heard through the air only 456 feet.
According t. the registrar generals
latest blue book, Scotland still contains
many more women than men.
Dresden's new Central railroad sta
ton, which has been six years in bnil@-
ing, has been opened for general traffic
Every week a car load of eggs is ship
ped from st. Mary's Kan. and it takes
81, 200 eggs to make up such load.
A professional beggar of Hong Kong
has just built fine three-story teahouse
outside the south gate of the city.
An English advertising firm wants to
board in the banks of the Suez canal,
and decorate them with advertisements.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
beauty Is Hood Deem.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy, liver and driving all i'm.
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blacEheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion bytaking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
glsts, satisfaction guaranteed, Zoe, 25c, soc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
GIRLS SNUB STAY-AT-HOMES,
They Propose To BE Immune from the Ap.
prOaches of Washers.

They Propose To BE Immune from the Ap,
prOaches of Washers.
A special from Waycross says: The
young men who did not enlist in the vol-
unteer army in the hope that they would
be more popular with the young ladies
in the absence OF the volunteers are
meeting With disappointment, if the
following story is indicative of the
times:
A young man of south Georgia who
had in time of peace prided himself up
on his military knowledge and was some.
thing of dude, failed to volunteer, and
gave as his reason that he would bs ire
mendously popular with the fair sex
during the war. But he was snubbed on
every hand and his life was made miser-
able because the patriotic girls wanted
TO know why he was not in the army
Al last accounts the fellow had gone to
work and left off being dude.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
GeOrgia,s Wheat Cron.

There will probably be more wheat
garnered in Georgia this seas IN than has
been the case in very long time, if ever
before. Farmers in the northern part of
the state planted and increased acreage
of wheat and other cereals last season.
and were so well pleased with the result
that they will plant considerably more
this year. In Milton, Cobb, Cherokee
and adjoining counties there will be
large crops this season. If these coup-
ties will just keep planting wheat for a
few years, they will find that hundreds
f thousands of dollars which they send
away for -four wi II stay at home and re-
main in local circulation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
NEGRO TROOPS In The War.
asa q
COVER NMENT TO PUT 5000 IN
THE FIELD.

HE FIELD
All the omcers,of One of the Regiment to
be Negroes from the Colonel Down.
G., To be Merely an Experim cut.
A special toIthe New DIRK Times says:
when the mastering in of new organi-
cations under the second, call is completed
the volunteer army will include between
5000 and 10000 negro soldiers, and more
negro officers than ever before were in
the service of the United States.
"Under the first volunteer call few col
ored troops we're offered by the states, the
restriction of the call to the national
guard having tendency to shut out the
colOred men.
"When the second call was issued the
President let it be known that he would
like TO have an opportunity given to the
negro volunteers to enlist when new or
CARNATIONS were to be taken in.
in response to this suggestion, seven
companies of negro troops are to be mus
tered in n North Carolina, which added
to the three 2olored companies from that
state will make a ten-company regiment
of more than 200.
Gin ALABAMA battalion of negro troops
was taken in under the first call. Two
battaIions will be accepted under the sec
oDd call so as to make a full colored reg
iment from the state.
1.-TWO battalions of negro troops will
be accepted from Virginia under the sec
ond call.
There is now at Camp Alger a colored
battalion from Ohio, and one of the Mas
sachusetts regiments includes some negro
privates.
I'm addition to these volunteers, raised
under the regular levies, four of the So
called immune regiments-the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth-will be com
posed of negroes.
"ln furnishing officers for these col
ored companies the war department has
had serious problem to deal with. 1t
is the intention of the president to give
the negroes representation as officers.
In the las. war, when there were 81, 7S9
negro troops-three-ye men-in the
federal army, the officers were white
men. y hen the proposition was made
to place negro officers over some of the
colored commands now being raised,
the question arose how the offices
would be arranged when there were
white and colored officers in the same
regiment. That question remains to be
settled.
"The experiment of negro regiment
wholly Offered by negroes is to be tried
in the case of the North Carolina regi-
ment, whose colonel will be a colored
man, and the only ono of the rank in the
army.
"In the Alabama regiment the officers
will be white men.
''In the immune negro regiments there
will be a mixture, the colonies and other
field officers and the captains being
white men, and the lieutenants and
lesser officers cOlored. 1t is IN this COM
bination of white and colored officers
that the color line is expected to cause
trouble"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
ROMANCE IN LUMPKlN.
Two School Children Secretly Wed and
Keep the Secret six Months.

Lumpkin has been treated to a sur
prise marriage, or rather secret one,
which occurred five months ago, and
now all the gossipers in town are talk
ing about it, and some Of them are real
sick because the affair happened right
under their nose and they did not
know anything about it at the time.
Mr.. NImrod Burts and Miss Cora
Bush were school rates together, in
fact, they were members of the class
that graduated from the Lumpkin
school this month, and on January 20
they decided to marry. Securing a
minister of the gospel, they had HIM
tie the knot and continued at school
At the time Of the exhibition Of the
school, young Burts and Mish Bush
were assigned to take part in a play
in which an admirIng audience were
treated to some real love scenes by this
young couple, and 1t Is now believed
that in practicing for this play they
became enamored and nothing would
do but to tie the nuptial knot SO that
the play could be presented To the au-
dience with all the feryor and love this
young couple could inject into -Four
leafed Glover"
DO you want remedy Tor rlsruIa
or Foot Evils in stock? If so use DR..
Tichenor Antiseptic as directed: it
will cure it. For sale by druggists at
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
RETURNING FROM THE KLONDIKE.
PrOspec,ors who Went There Last Spring
Are Disheartened.

PrOspec'ors Who Went There Last Spring
Are Disheartened.
Fifty prospectors who went to the
Klondlke last spring to better their
fortunes, and who have returned to
Seattle out of heart and out of pocket,
are more fortunate than the eight hun
dred other argoHauts who are waiting
at Valdes fer means to get out of the
country, and the latter are better off
than they might have been, since they
have tons Of provisions which have
been abandoned by others.
The flow of gold-seekers to the Yu-
kon was bound to have an ebb; but the
ebb has set in earlier than was general
ly expected. 1t does not by any means
follow that the riches of the new El
Dorado have given out; but it is quite
certain that the caravan which was
headed that way has been halted by
the discovery that there is no royal
road to fortune by the Skaguay trail
and henceforth the migration to that
region will be governed not by golden
dreams, but by the same economic laws
which regulate the compensation of
labor i'll other sections of the country.
Chief Burgess of Milesburg, Pa,
says DeWitts Little Early Risers are the
best pills be ever used in his family dur
in forty years of housekeeping. They
cure constipation, sick headache and
stomach and liver troubles. Small in
size but great in results.
SALE-DAvIs DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06
May Lose His Seat in CONGRESS.

General Joseph Wheeler did not re-
sign his seat IN congress when he &C
cepted position in the army The at.
torneY general of the United States
ruled some time ago that there was
nothing in the law which prevented an
officer holding commission in the vol
unteer army from holding at the same
time civil office. The attorney general
of Alabama, however, has held just the
other way; that General Wheeler lost
his place in the house by accepting he
army appointment, and that therefore
his seat is vacant.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-06

We live in country of which the
principal sCourge is stomach trouble.
1t is more widespread than any other
disease, and, very nearly, more danger
Gus.
One thing that makes it so dangerous
is that it is so little understood.
If it were better understood, Il would
be more feared, more easily cured, less
universal than it is now. III
SO, those who wish TO be cured. take
Shaker Digestive Cordial, because it
goes to the root of the trouble as no 9TH
er medicine does. The pure, harmless,
curative herbs and plants, of which it is
composed, are what render it 50 certain
and, at the same time, so gentle cure,
1t helps and strengthens the stomach.
purities and tones up the system.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to
$l.00 per bottle. -
Evening star., 1898-02-07
Objects to the Regulation

Mr.. Thomas G. Hensey. a real estate man.
WAS today iotified over the telephone by
Prosecutor Mullowny to come 10 the Police
Court to explain why he had not had the
pavement in front of some property for
which he is agent cleaned of snow.
As reply, it is said, Mr. Mullowny was
informed ty Mr.. Hensey that he did not
intend to come, and that il the prosecuting
attorney sent an officer after him, he (Mr.
Hensey) would show Mr.. Mullowny what he
would do.
Thereupon an officer was sent to Mr.. Hen
sey with a duly attested notice for the lat
ter to be at the Police Court tomorrow
morning to answer q charge of violating the
police regulations. as above stated.
Just what Mr.. Hensey intends to do is not
as yet known to the court officials, but IT
Is understood he claims that the District
Commissioners had no right to make the
regulation complained of.
MI Muliowny says he will be very glad
TO have a ruling from the court on this
point. as, IL the regulation Is invalid, IL Is
proper for him to know It
Evening star., 1898-02-07

places. The New York plant has been In
successful operation for one year. The CITY
pays 10 the contractors $50 99O per annum
this being the actual cost CT TRANSPORTING
the garbage to Barren Island twenty miles
distant The expenses of reduction are paid
by the contractors, who are said to be
making fair profit on their investment
EXPERTS say that when the present five
year contrac expires New York city will
be In condition to require the contractors
to pay for the privilege of collecting gar
bage e"i
A separate collection is made of rubbish.
including prder this term all waste ma
terlals, except those arising from food
PRODUCTS Geo. E. Waring. jr. of the street
cleaning department states in recent mn
hcation that New York city has declined an
ofier OF s243.GOO per annum for the priv
ilege OF culling the rubbish of the civ for
saiabie products. The experience of New
York shows that the value of the paner
rags, bottles, cans, iron, brass. &c. in the
rubbish of a city would probably nav for
the work of collection.
The collection and partial cremation OF
garbage in Washington costs about $50, ,O,s
year Experience shows that crema-
tories are not only offensive and expen-
sive. but often they fail to do the work
properly. Col. Waring states that he knows
OF no crematory in the United States which
is always free from offense. Odors have
been noticed at the distance of one mile
He states that in every refuse heap exam.
ined after supposed incineration paper was
found not even charred
Reduction plants are said to be inoffeu.
sive; but people would not care to live nea,
enough to one to make experiments and il
the system should be adopted for Wash.
ington the plant ought to be located down
the river, or In some out-of-the-way place
which could not be injured physically
financially or sentimentally.
THOMAS w. GILMER.
February Z, 1895
Evening star., 1898-02-07
He Was Fined.

]. A. Chapman was today fined $40 by
Judge Scott for kicking Elizabeth Malone,
colored. who was employed In Chapman's $
family a domestic.
The evidence showed that the woman
became dissatisfied Monday last with g.
wash board with which she was expected
to do the weeks washing, and asked for
another. The request was denied, and the
girl then said she would have to quit work.
The girl said further that when she
asked for her money Chapman ordered
her out OF the house, and when she de-
layed going Chapman kicked her several
times. One of the kicks, she said. rem
dered her lame.
Chapman admitted kicking the woman
once, and Judge Scott then took the action
stated
May / ask you a question before leay-
ing the court?" said Chapman to Judge
Scott.
You may" was the judges reply.
Then 1 understand that a man cannot
put an objectionable person out of his
house"
You don't understand ANYTHING of the
kind from me-. answered Judge Scott
That was the inference from your rul-
ing, was Chapman's rejoinder
consider $40 a very moderate fine for
Kicking woman. and let this conclude the
matter, was Judge Scott's final answer.
Evening star., 1898-02-07
NATTER OF CoNDUIrs.
"epis 10 senate Resolution CaIlfnu
for Information

nepI5 to Senate Resolution CaIIinr
for Information.
Ihe Vice President today laid before the
senate the response of the Commissioners
VI the Dlstrlct to Senats resolution of jan
uary u directing the Commissioners to re-
port to the Senate whether teleeranb con-
duits were being used for electric lighting
Sapis purposes in the District, and whether
hsntins wires are being run through such
cohdults without authority of law Tha
commissioners have replied that the fol-
lowing Is the only instance known tn then,
OF connection between an electric light
city: - INC
AT the northeast corner of New yor,
avenue and 14th street the conduit of the
Potomac Electric Power Company crosse, !,
the conduit OF the Postal Telegraph Cable
company. man-hole has been construct:
ed where the two conduits intersect. ex-
posing the side wall OF the conduit Of the
,ou ro,oinac Eiectric Power Company. This
wall mas been broken through where so ex-
pessd. and two cables of the Potomac Elec-
tric Power Company have been run into the
conduit OF the Postal Telegraph Company
and drawn through said conduit to the Of
nee of the latter named company on Penn
sylVania avenue between 18th and I4th
streets.
This connection was made entirely within
the man-hole of the telegraph conduit and
without disturbing thu street pavement. A
permit was not obtained from the Commits
sioners to make the connection. No con-
nection has been made from the electric
light cable in the telegraph conduit to any
adjacent premises. The Engineer Com
missioner had no knowledge of any pro-
posed action to be taken by said company
which involved the drawing In of cables
belonging to the company"
Evening star., 1898-02-07
JAPANESE IN HAWAII.
Ipterpreta ton of Their Status by the
state Department..

The question having arisen as to the
status of Japanese resident in Hawaii in
the event of annexation 10 the United
States. the officers of the State Department
have stated that under the laws as they
exist today japanese in the United States
are entitled TO naturalization. They freely
admit that in some instances the United
States courts have taken the ground that
such applications cannot be entertained
notably in the Boston case. decided June
"a. 1894, known as In re Saito,'' but they
also assert that the practice of the courts
has not been by any means uniform in this
matter. and that there are many cases
where japanese have been admitted TO the
rights of naturalization without the slight
est objection on the part of the court.
AS for the conditions that will arise un-
der the new treaty with ia pan. that goes
Into effect In 1899. the department holds
that ii confers upon the japanese the
rights of favored natiors in all matters
" hIie there does not yet exist any nat
urAlizdlion treaty between Japan and the
United States. this canrot be regarded a.
a bar to naturalization, for there are nc
such treaties existing with a number OF
countries the citizens of which are admit
ted TO United States citizens hip upon com.
pltance with the laws.
Evening star., 1898-02-07
INFANTICIDE CHARGED.
Police Seeking the Pcrpetrator OF a
Murder.

The police of the third precinct and Cor
oner Carr are making an investigation of
murder committed in this city. presum-
ably last Friday. A coiored male infant,
not many days old, was the victim. The
child's body was found in the areaway in
front of the house Of Mrs. Elizabeth R.
Tally, No. 1911 + street northwest, Friday
night, between and . o'clock. A colored
domestic in the house discovered a neatly
wrapped bundle in the areaway near the
front basement door, and thinking it had
been left there by some storekeeper for
Mrs. Tally, she took 1t in the house. A few
minutes later Mr.. Tally returned home,
and the servant called the young mans at
tel ton to the bundle. He had not made
any purchases, nor had he any idea of the
nature of the contents of the bundle. The
only way to find out was to open il, and
this he proceeded to do. Much to his sur
prise, he found the body of the child. The
body had been wrapped in white towel,
and about this was newspaper A mes
sage sent to the police station brought Po-
liceman Hart to the house, and he removed
the bundle to the third precinct station.
When Coroner Carr visited the station
Saturday afternoon he discovered that vio-
lence had been used on the child. There
were marks on its throat which Indicated
that 1t had been choked to death. and for
this reason an autopsy was ordered. Dep
uty Coroner Glazebrook made the autopsy
late the same afternoon, and the result
showed that the coroners suspicious were
well founded for dsath had been caused by
strangulation.
When the result of the autopsy was made
known Precinct Detective McGlue was de-
tailed to make an investigation of the case.
He learned yesterday that a colored wo-
man had been seen to leave the ghastly
package in the areaway. A cabman saw
ner go there and deposit it and then leave.
Thers was a colored man standing across
the street. evidently watching for the po-
lice, ard when the woman had gotten rid
of the bundle she joined him, and they
went away together. Ths woman was seen
going along the street, looking at the diff
ereut houses. At some OF them lights In
the windows seemed to frighten her, or II
might have baen she feared her strange
movements would attract the attention of
pedestrians. When she got in front OF
Mrs Talty's house the coast seemed clear
and she yeutured to the areaway- good
description of the woman has been given
to the police and search for her is being
made The police are also anxious to find
the man with whom she afterward ieft the
neighborhood.
Today about noon the dead body of an
infant was found In the sewer at 18th and
streets by men in the employ of the Dis
trict. 1t is evident that the body had been
In thers for several days, and until exam
ined by the coroner the police cannot tell
whether or not the case is one of murder.