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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL
Yes and No.
I did not love him. Long ago
Instead of Yes I gavo him No.
I did not love him; but tc-day
I read his marriage notice. Pray,
Why was I sad, when never yet
Has my heart kDown the least regret.
*
Ever that whiepered No? and why
Reading the notice, did I sigh?
No analyst can guess the cause—
A woman’s reason laughs at laws,
Sure, I air glad to know the wound
I gave is healed; that he has fouud,
Love’s blessedness and peace; and yet
A woman never can forget,
The man who once has loved her; and
To-day I seem to see him stand,
Why every glance a mute caress,
Still pleading for the longed-for Yes.
His early love for me is dead—
Another lives in that love’s stead ;
And if he loves her well, as men
bhould love their chosen one, wbv
then
He must be glad that long ago,
Instead of Yes I gave him No.
Perhaps that is the reason why
I read the notice with a sigh.
The Quitman Reporter has the fol
lowing : “On Sunday morning last, be
fore daylight, a negro who gives his
name as Thomas Mitchel', and had
but recently been employed to do
farm work on Hr. John Thrasher’s
plantation, made amost dastaidly at
tempt to commit a rape on a white
woman living on the place. He en
tered the appartraent, whore she aud
two other white women were sleeping.
They at once gave the alarm by loud
screams, which brought to their aid a
white man who was also sleeping in
the house, by the name of Edward
Jones. The negro beat a hasty re
treat, and in his flight left his hat,—
The indefatigable Thrasher, who has
seldom been outwitted, went to the
telegraph office early on Monday
morning, and telegraphed iu every di
rection. Pretty soon the sheriff at
Valdosta answered that he had a ne
gro in charge suiting the description.
Thrasher went over on Monday even
ing’s train, aud he reports that a more
remarkably stiange coincidence never
perhaps happened. A negro had been
lodged in jail about the samo size, and
with hi tbirdfinger off his right hand,
and with a scar on his left choek, suit
ing exactly the description of the
black-hearted fiend, but he was not
the man.”
The Constitution, in a tone of evi
dent melancholy, remarks; “If a man
wants to know the “true inwardness” of
the vote in Atlanta yesterday, he will
discover that it consisted in “the nig
ger in the wood pile.”
This is the way the griffin Netcs
sums up the election in t' *at city: “We
have witnessed many elections, but
the one yesterday at the Griffin pre
cinct surpassed anything we have
ever seen. At an early hour, : u fact
before the white people had got up,
the negroes took charge of the polls
and held them up to about three
o’clock, and if a white man Voted be
fore that hour, he bad to go to the
back door of the court house to get
to the polls, or scrouge through a vast
pack of dirty negroes and be stunk
half to death by the filthy smell. At
this writing we are not advised as to
the exact result of the vote, but we
know enough to be satisfied that the
negroes aud Eactica s, with the assis
tance of a few Democrats, have de
feated the wishes of a majority of the
intelligent white voters of the county
by voting “No Convention.’
Sad iicatli.
It becoraesour painful duty to chron
icle the death of one of our best and
most highly esteemed citizens, Mr. J.
G. Visscher. Saturday night about
10 o’clock he went out into his gardeu
to drive out some animal which he
supposed was molesting his vegeta
bles, when returning to the house he
fell over a chicken coop which was in
thegaiden walk. One corner of ihecoop
struck the lower portion of his abdo
men producing internal injuries of
such a serious nature as to produce
death. He lingered until Monday
evening at half past eight o’clock,
when he died. Mr. Y. was conscious
up to the last moment, and stated to
hi wife that he was not afraid to die-
The deceased was about 60 years of
age and a native of the State of New
York.— Fort VuUey Mirror.
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 28 1877.
A Mmlent f Wisroiuin IJni
vesiiy .flurdera His Own
Child.
A dispatch from Madison, Wiscon
sin, says; “The arrest of A. W. Den
nett, one of the graduating class of
the State University, for somthering
anil throwing his seven-months-old
child in Milwaukee river, has caused
much excitement here, especially
among the students of the University.
Be was a bard student, and would
probably have graduated with honors
in a couple of weeks. It seems DeD
nett became acquainted with a young
lady at Lodi, Wisconsin, by the name
of Cain ; that they became criminal
ly intimate revealed itself in the fact
that Miss Cain, who was then visiting
friends in Stevens Point, in October
last gave birth to a male child. Den
nett went to Stevens Point, took the
child to Milwaukee, and placed it in
charge of a German woman. In De
cember last Dennett and Miss Cain
were married, Dennett continuing his
studies at the University and his wife
teaching school near Prairio do Sac,
the home of Dennett, where it is un
derstood she is now engaged. Near
the first of May Dennett went to Mil
waukee, secured a sack, and, at a con
venient moment, placed a brick iu it.
Placing the package under bis arm,
be went to the house of the uurse,
whom he informed that he had made
arrangements for keeping the babe
elsewhere. The child was nicely
diessed and given to its father. It
had become dark iu the meanwile.—
Taking ttie child in his arms he pro
ceeded towatd tile Milwaukee and St.
Paul depot somttierirg the child uu
der his arm as he walked, aud in
crossing the Menomonee river placed
it in the bag and threw it in the mur
ky waters. He then returned to his
studies at the University, which he
prosecuted with vigor, often joining in
the students’ festivities when not at
his studies. But the avenger was
aftei him. About a wfeek ago a pass
ing tug stirred up the murky waters
of the river, bringing to its surface
the bag with its ghastly contents.
The police were at once set at work to
find the author of the crime. Finally,
bj diligent search, they found ihe
man who indentified its clothes and
its father’s name. His arrest follow
ed last night. He at once confessed
himself the father of a child, but
claimed that he had taken it from its
German nurse and put it on the steps
of a palatial residence in Milwaukee.
The officers persisted in their knowl
edge of biß crime, to which he finally
confessed. He was taken to Milwau
kee by Chief Beck this morning, and
he will doubtless suffer the full penal
ty of his crime. Dennett is twenty
seven years old, of fair complexion,
medium height and was geneially be
loved by bis fellow students, his de
portment f r the past threa years hav
ing been above reproach. His father
is a wealthy farmer at PrairieduSac.”
The Way Fooled Him.
She was young, and frail,and a tear
glistened iu Her eye as she kid her
curly head on his shoulder and ex
claimed: “O George! I think if I
found you did not love mo f should
r’ie.” “My darling.” he answered,
passing his hand gently around her
dimpled chin, “I will alwaysjlove you.
Do you think I wouid ma-ry yuu if I
did not feel sute of it. In a few days
at the altar i shall vow to love you
all my life, and I will keep my vow.”
A lovely kind of beatific happiness
played for a momeut like sunshine on
her lips, and then she whispered :
“George! I liko to hear you talk like
that; you baffe been so good to
rue. You have given me a diamond
locket, and a gold watch and chain,
and tii gs tha' an angel might wear
ou'side her gloves and not be ashamed,
and if 1 thought that one day you’d
be sorty you’d given riie all those nice
things and want them back again I
should break my hoar* He held
er g ntly against bis maaly breast,
and answered with a quavering voica:
“O my own darling! there is nothing
on earth that could happen that would
make me repent giving you a few to
kens of my love, or make me want
them back again,” She sprang hom
his arms like a joyous deer, 6he ebook
back her sunny cutD, and, with a
whole poem in her hazal eyes, exclaim
ed; “O, George! you have taken a
load from my heart. I've come to say
that I can't marry you after all, be
cause I’ve seen somebody I like better,
and I thought you’d want your pres
ents back again.”
An Inquisitive Customer.
H eliped iu*o an ice-cream saloon
very softly, and when the girl asked
him what he wanted he replied
beef, fried potatoes, pickles, and mince
pie.”
“This is not a restaurant; this is an
ice-cream parlor,” she said.
“Then why did you ask me what I
wanted, for? Why didn’t you briug
on your ice-cream?”
She went after it, and as she return
ed le ooDtinutd: “You see, my dear
girl, you mustinfer —you must reason.
It isn’t likely that I wouid come into
an ice-cream parlor to buy a grind
stone, is it? You didn’t think I came
here to uk if you had any baled hay,
did you ? ’
She looked- at himTn great surprise,
and he went on;
“If l had a hardware store and you
came in, 1 would infer that you came
for something in my line, I wouldn’t
step up and ask you whether you
wanted to buy a mule, would I?”
She went away Hghly indignant.—
An old lady was devouring a dish of
ice-cream at the next table, and the
stranger, after watching her a moment,
called out:
“My dear woman, have you found
any hairs or buttons iD your dlsti?”
“Mercy! no!” she exclaimed, as she
wheeled around aud dropped hbr
spoon,
“Well, I’m glad of it! If you find
any, let me know, will yon?”
’ She looked at him a half a minuter
picked up the spoon, and laid it down
again, then rose up and left the room.
She must have said something to the
proprietor, for hecamerunning in and
exclaimed :
“Did you tell that woman that there
were hairs and buttons in my ice
cream ?”
“No, sir.”
“You didn’t?”
“No, sir, I did not; I mearoly re
quested her in case she found any
such ingredients to inform me!”
“My dear sir,” sail the stranger,
smiling softly, “did you expect me to
ask the woman if she tad found a
crow-bar or a sledge hammer in her
cream ? It is impossible, sir, for such
articles to be hidden in such a small
dish ?”
The proprietor went awaygrowling,
and as the stranger quietly supped
away at his cream, two young ladies
came in, sat down near him, and or
dered some cre<m and cakes. He
waited uutil they had eaten a little,
and then he remarked;
“Beg pardon, ladies, but do you ob
serve anything peculiar in the taste of
of this cream?”
They tasted, nnd smacked their lips,
but were not certain.
“Does it taste to you as if a plug of
tobacio had fallen into the freeze! ?”
“All! hah !” they exclaimed, drop
ping their spoons, aud trying to spit
cut what they had eaten. Both rush
ed out, and it wasn’t long before the
proprietor came,
“See here, what iu blaZos are you
talking about?” hedemanded. “What
do you mean by plug tobacco in the
freeze! V”
“My kind friend, I asked the ladies
if this cream tasted of plug tobacco.
I didn’t taste any such taste, and I
don’t believe you used a bit of tobac
co in it?”
“Well, wedon’t wantyou to talk lhat
way around here!” continued the pro
prietor. “My ice-cream is pure, and
the man who says it isn’t tells a bold
lie 1”
He went away again and a womau
with a long neck and a sad face sat
down and said to the girl that she
would take a small dish oflemmon ice
It was brought, and she had taken
about two mouthful*, when the stran
ger inquired ;
“Excuse me, madam; but did you
know how this cream was made?”
Have you any idea that they grated
turnip aud chalk with the cream?”
She didu’t reply. She slowly rose
up, wheeled around, and made for the
door. The stranger followed after,
and by great good luck, his coat-tail
cleared the door an instant too soon to
be struck by a five-pound box of figs,
hurled with great force by the indig
nant proprietor. As he reached the
curb-stone he baited, looked at the
door of the parlor, and soliloquized.
“There are times when people
should infer, aud there are times when
they shouldn’t. I suppose if I had
asked that woman if she thought they
hashed up a saw-mill iu the cream
she’d have fit a circular-saw going
dowp her throat.”
Tlic Dervish and the Caviler.
A man came one day to a dervish
and laid before him three questions:
1. Why is it that God is every
where present? I don’t see Him.—
Show me where he is.
2. Why is a man to be punished
for his sics ? He Isas no free will,
since he can do nothing against the
will of God.
3. How can God puuish Satan with
the fire of hell, since he is formed of
fire, a flaming spirit? Fire cannot do
harm to fire.
Here upon the dervish picked up a
large lump of earth and threw it with
all his might at the head of the ques
tioner. The poor man was startled at
the striking answer, and lodged a
complaint before the Cadi. The Cadi
summoned the dervish and asked htm:
“Why did you throw a lump of
earth at this man’s head, instead of
giving an answer to his question ?”
“It was my answer,” replied the
dervish, “and the best answer I could
give at once to all three questions.
1. He says he has a pain in hi*
head. I don’t see it. Let him make
me see the pain in his head, and
then I may try to make him see
God.
2. He then comes to yeu and lodges
a complaint of me. What right has
he to do so? I have no free will;
and be has no right to seek that I be
ptmishad, since God permitted me to
throw the earth at him.
3. Aud then how can eßrth do
harm to earth? The man is made of
earth—earth cannot do harm to earth,
if fire cannot do harm to fire.”
The Game of Life.
Man’s life is a game of cards. First
it is “cribbage.” Next he tries to “go
it alone,” at a sort of “cut shufff) and
deal” peace. Then he gambols “on
the green.” Then he “raises” the “duce„
when his mother “takes a handin’’
and, contrary to Hoyle, “heats the
little joker with her five.” Then with
his “diamonds” he wins the “queen
of hearts.” Tired of “playing a sin
gle hand” he expresses a desire to
“assist” his fair “partner,” “throws
out his cards,” and the clergyman
makes a ten dollar bill out of him “on
a pair.” Like a “knave” he joins the
“clubs,” where he often gets “high,”
which is “low too.” If he keeps
“straight” he is often times “flush.”
He grows old and “bluff” sees a “deal”
of when at last tie “shuffles”
off bis mortal coil and “passes in bis
checks,” and be is “raked in” by a
“spade.,” Life’s fitful “game” is en
ded, and he awaits the summons of
Gabriel’s “trump” which shall “order
him up.” —Sunday Democrat
That Kind of Hogs.
Down In the south-eastern part of
Virginia, flourishes a brood of semi
wild hogs, called in country vernacu
lar “wind splitter,” or “razor barks.”
—They greatly resemble a greyhound
in shape, and in speed would success
fully compete with one. At one ef
the country fairs, several years ago,
an enterprising Pennsylvanian placed
on exhibition a pen of sleek, fat Derk
shires, which presented a marked con
trast to the leaner native specimens,
by which they were surrounded. The
owner encountered one ofhis competi
tors in swino culture, and ventured a
comparison botween his own and the
silent occupants of the neighboring
pen?. —“Wa’al stranger,” replied the
ruralist, “they may be right smart for
you une, but down in this yar country
you couldn’t give em away.” “YVhy
not?” asked the astonished Pennsyl
vanian.—“ Why, you see, stranger,
down yar a hog that can’t outrun a
nigger ain’t worth a cent. ’ This an
ecdote wastold by Senator Withers, of
Viiginia, in a stump speech delivered
in Chesterfisld county. When he de
scended from the platform he was ac
costed by a venerable darkey who had
been an attentive lisener, with the
query: “I soy, Mars Withers, whar
can I git some dem hog? dey’s jess
the breed for dis yar kuntry.”
A country paper says that the other
day an Irishman was called up in a
case of assault and battery, and when
asked by the magistrate what he said,
remarked, “I said to him wid do toe
of boot, “Go home l” ”
A bold, bad man from Burlington
weßt up to Minmapolis the other day
and put his bead in at the door of
the cheese factory. “Has anything
remarkable a curd here?” hs asked.
And then the girls creamed and the
men came out aud drove him a whey.
Wedding Fees.
The giving of the wedding fee to
the clergyman ought nut to be embar
rassing, one would thii k, as it is not
a public performance. But the very
privacy of it, and the attempt to do it
slyly, and to soem entirely uncot cious
of what both clergyman and groom
are most intensely conscious of, makes
Xhis part of the ceremony often the
most awkward of the whole. The
ways of doing it ure most infinitely
various, and sumo of them almost in
finitely comical Sometimes theie is
a business-like frankness about the
affair which is refreshing. The bride"
groom himself, when he engages the
minister, wants to know “what the
charge is.” This is embarrassing
again for the minister, as there is no
standard charge, and the best he can
do is to give the legal fee which a
justice receives, aud feels he cught to
receive. Ofteu the bridegroom has an
eye to business even then, aud wants
to know if less will not do. Of course
it must do. We read of a Methodist
preacher who replied to one who ask
ed as to how much was the customary
fee, that “liberal people would give
twenty dollars ; some only gave ten,
aud once iu a while a stingy fellow
would come and offer five dollars.”—
Another Methodist preacher, who had
received a one-dollar bill, wroto on the
back of it, “This dollar is all I receiv
ed for marrying buch a couple,” giv
ing their names, and then sent the bill
circulating. One gentleman paid a
dollar, and blandly remarked, “I sup
pose you would like all you could do
of this work.” As the receding would
cost fifty cents, and the certificate
twety-five, th remark might have
been intended its a pieeo of gtim hu
mor, but it was not so intended. One
intensely practical youth stepped bold
ly forward at the conclusion of the
ceremony, and unfolding a roll of bills,
demanded, in a clear voice, “What’s
the damage, parson?” He was in
formed that he must find the damage
out for himself, tut that the legal fee
was so aud so. His new-made bride
blushed us if she s arcely knew
whether the question was complimen
tary or not. One day a man accosted
the minister in the street, and wanted
him to go at once and marry a couple.
They had been waiting ever since the
day before, and had not been ablo to
find a minister. The minister wished
to go home and adjust his toilet, hut
the stranger Said “it would make uo
difference, and the young people were
getting nervous.” The minister then
hinted at a carriage, but the man said
“it was not necessary; it was only a
few steps, just across the rivet.” So
they went together on foot, “just across
the river,” then “ju6t down the river
a few steps,” until they had walked
about three miles. *lt was as inten
sely hot day, still, ar.d sultry, and dus
ty. When they reached the house,
the parson was covered with perepi
ratioD aud dust, and almost as much
out of patience as the couple who had
waited so long for his clerical services.
He wasted no words in the ceremony,
and there was no superfluous senti
ment, “unuttered or expressed,” in his
manner. The services ended, and
“two waiting souls made oue;” the
business agent” ol the affair appeared
on the scene agair, and waoted to
know what the charge was. He was
told the amount of the legal fee, Lut
at once Slid that was two much, hut
he wanted to do the liberal thing. He
then proceeded to count out into the
minister’s hand one dollar and fifty-three
cente, handing it over as deliberately
as if he was paying for a sack of flour,
or a beef roast.
Ouce in a while one stiikes an
economical yjuth who wants “time”—
or wants to “pay in ttade.” One
asked, when he came to make the ar
rangements, if the minister could not
wait for his fee till “after corn husking,”
and ther “aftei corn husking" he for
got it. Another said hts future wife
was “a very fino butter maker, and he
would like to pay the fee in butter, if
it was ail the same.” The coolest thing
of the kind, however, was where the
bridegroom, who owned an ice-house
“wanted to pay the fee in ice.” It was
a good, liberal fee, bnt the eooluess of
the thing was quite refrestiing. But
perhaps the most embarrassing way is
where the bridegroom, or his friend,
holds the fee in the p irn of his hand,
and alily passes it into the parson’s
palm, as they bid each other gt od-bye.
The effort of the minister to do two
things at once, secure his fee, and at
the same time give a hearty shake of
tho band, is a test of his
VOL. 'III. —NO. 21.
steadiness of nerve.' A man who can
do these two things well, ana at the
same time appear as if utterly uncon
scious of doir.g anything, is a man fit
to command an army, or rule a State.
In concluson, let me add that be
who can devise an unobjectionable
method of transfering the wedding
foe, make that method known to
all expectant bridegrooms, will confer
a favor on his lace equal to the man
wlio makes “two spears of grass grow
where but one giew before.”
— ■ - -
Jeff White was one of the wealth
iest and drunkenest young men in
Los Angeles, Cal. Katy Harvey was
beautiful, but she belonged to a poor
and wicked family, who conceiv^l
Uiat fn a V their fojtUHS®
*““* *“*V 'O
by inducing Jeff to marry her. Katy
did her host to fascinate Jeff, and sue
ceeded; but Jeff was not inclined to
marry, and his sister influenced him
as much as she could the other way.
The Harveys got him into their house,
and gave him whisky and morphine
for two weeks. By that time ho was
at the point of death, and consented
to the marriage. A willing Justice
was found to perform the ceremony,
but with his arrival came Miso White,
determined to prevent it. Then there
was a scene of strife at the dying
man’s bedside. Katy took his hand,
and the Justice began the ceremony.
Then Miss White pu'ied her brother’s
hand uway. In the midst of the con
fusion ho died, unmarried.
A rthilrt Asleep in it Tall Tree
Top.
A veiy remarkable escape occurred
yesterday to a little nephew of Ed
ward E. Powers, boot and shoe dealer*
The child, who is fire years old, was
missing at 12 o’clock, when looked
for at dinner time, but, after calling
him, the family ate dinner, and, the
child not appearing, became alarmed
and instituted a search through the
neighborhood. His hat was found in
the yard under some large maple
trees. Nothing could be heard of
him until about 3 o’clock, when a girl
discovered him up in one of the limbs
of the maple trees, forty feet from the
ground, asleep. The girl called him,
hut he did hot awake, and the situa
tion being discovered, his aun: pre
vented any noise being made until
two boys climed the tree and awoke
him, and he was got down safely. It
cannot he ascertained how long the
child had been there, but a continuous
beach was made fiorn 1 o’clock to 3
r. m —Detroit Pod.
How lo Spell Cal.
“How do you think our captain
spells cat?” said a young Lieutenant
to the colonel of his regiment. “He
spells if,” answer the colonel, “catt.”
“No, sir.” “Well, then, kau”—
“Wrong again, colonel.” “Well kaght
thon.” “No, sit ” ‘ How then does
he spell it?” asked the colonel. “He
spells it cat.” The consequence was
the Lieutenant deemed it goqd policy
to make a hasty retreat, and await the
colonel’s restoration to his usual calm
ness.
■lake Your Beet*.
Don't bill any more beets. What
a pity to spoil so excellent a vegetable
by sodding it with water. Put them
in the oven or stove and bake as you
would sweet patatoes. Don’t cut or
bruise them so that they bleed, for
then you lose much of the excelence
of the beet. There is no comparison
between a baked and a boiled beet.—
The one is as far superior ti the other
as hyper ion to satyr. Try if, and you
will be convinced.
“Do you think youi father is going
to move out soon?” inquired the own
er of a rented house of the son of the
tenant. “Keekon so,” was the reply;
“we’ve begun using the window
frames for fire wood.”
“John, you seem to gain flesh every
day; the grocery business must agree
with you. What did you weigh
last ?”
“ Well, Simon, I really don’t know,
but it strikes mo it was a pound of
sugar.”
Josh Billirgs says he.knows people
who are so fond of argument thatthey
will stop and “dispute with a guid-i
beard about tlm distance to the next
town.”
When a young Atheuian on tte fence
E.sked;
“Shall I rr.ary, or remain single?’,
The old Greek answered:
“Do either, and you will repent!”
An mdiscnmina'e slaughter of dogs
ia threatening. All right, but remena
bar that every dog killed leaves sev
eral hundred fleas to be cared for and
amused.
The man who will borrow a led
pencil and return it to the owner un
asked, is the k nd ol a man we want
at the head of our government^