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THE DAWSON JOURNAL
BY J. D. HOYL & CO
VECiETINE
REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES;
1.8 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
H. R. Stkyenr, Esq. Nuv ’ 14 > 1874 -
Z)f fir —From personal benefit rflcivpri hv
th e 4M i,on “
t-ate Pastor Calvary Baptist Church,
Bucrmnento, CaL
VEGETINE.
SHE RESTS WELL.
Mb. H. R. STEvrsa® * >OL4KD - Ms • ■ >•-
bear Sir.— -I h.tvn been sick two years with the
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hIXSl Ur <lß! od - t IWMl WM and had no
iKS riliL'h ? 1 i ak lS e th * Vkoktine I rest well,
SSrJhll , 2 od - , C * n Wovnttiwnd the Vf.cjftisb
tor whrt it haß done for me. V respecttully,
v Witneas of the above, MRS *““***&
mb. ukokoe m. vauLhan,
Med lord, Mass.
VEOETiNE.
GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN.
Boston Home, 14 Tileu Stkeet,
H.R. Stevens. Boston, April, 1876.
Drar >Sir,—Vi e feel that the children in our home
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formerly Pastor of Bowdoin-square Church, Boston
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DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
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thing which ought to have been done.
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and although he is satisfied that exer
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he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. in fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
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after death, has shown the liver to
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full of imitations of the name McLane,
spelled differently but same pronunciation.
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1878
Aunt Hannah Discards the New
Hymn Book.
Unde Tony never once thought that
the new hymn books he was distribut
ing to his congregationpvould ever im
pair his usefulness as their pastor. —
About the closing of the morning serv
ice, he says: Bredren and sistern, dese
ar de new hime books, and I wants yer
all ter larn ter sing wid de spirit and
wid de understands and when yer gits
ter raslin wid some of dese new fashun
tunes, and is ’bout ter be obereum, jes
follow sister Banner, she'll tote him
through level. Her smoove vois is al
ways fieerd away down de home strech
wnen de other nags ar jes roundin de
bend wid tlier rackit. When I calls fer
de mourners, dese beer himes ’ill fotch
uni it yu ingineers dem correct on de
skedule. I takes de noon freshments
at sister Hanner’s and is to convarse
wid Miss Lizbeth on de lookout of her
reelins and I dissmiss dis meetin to de
evenin sarvice when de candle am lit.”
Aunt Hannah pushed ahead towards
home, to take up the chicken pie, and
to set her house in order for the “noon
I freshments.”
| On her way, with hymn book in hand,
, she came across some bad white boys
playing marbles in the road. One of
them said: “Why, Aunt Hannah!
What are you carrying that book for ?
You can’t read?”
Aunt Hannah replies: “Dis is de
new hime book;—jes read dis ritin on
the fust leaf, Mars Jo, pleas sail.”—
Joseph reads—“ Dis book am presented
to my lovin sister Banner by parson
Tony Skot de minister.”
“Dat souns purty, but you orter jes
bear some ob de himes in dat book.—
Dar’s /When lean read my titles clear,’
, and ‘Cross ober Jordan’ and away down
to ‘Hark from ye toom.’ Deres lots ob
■ new fashun himes in tliar, cause our
i culler is gettin edicated, but they sticks
Ito de good ole doe’r’n, jes anew way
wearin of de garment: like as Igo and
buy a bolt of callicer and make iny
dress de ole fashun way, deii my darter
Lizzabeth cuts off her share and makes
her’n wid de shoe fly and de dolly var
din and de snatch back, ain’t it all de
I same callicer? Mars. Jo, jes read, for
I iny edifyin, a few of those himes, pleas
sah.”
Jo winks at the other boys and
reads—
“l saw Esau kissing Kate,
And she saw I saw Esau,
And Esau saw she saw it
And I saw she saw Esau.”
“That’s a very queer hymn, Aunt
I Hannah,” said do.
“Dere’s a mighty heap of saws mixed
'up in dat tune and I is afeered de he-
I saws and de shesaws will sesaw dat tune
!to pieces. But it’s got de rite doctrin
l in thar: it ludes to Esau on de mount a
I viewin de promis lan wid de eyes of
| faith. Our preacher is a mighty pius
high larnt brudder; he looks through
jde specticles ob faith clean ober de
trubbles and trials ob dis life to de
utlier shore.”
“Try a nuther one, Mars Jo.”
Joseph reads—
“o is an aught,
5 is a figure,
Multiply the white man
Subtract the nigger.”
“How do you like that one, aunty?
“I uster think dat wasn’t a ’ligious
Lime, when I heerd it sung at de zam
mination ob de free school. I’d ruther
brudder Tony had a left dat one out.—
Got no use for multiplyin and sub
stractin in de pulpit. Let’s try a few
more ob ’em, dere’s boun to be some
real good ones in thar.”
Joseph turns over a few leaves and
reads—
“The Beggers did the niggers fool
Forty acres and a mule
Enough to make -”
“Stop Mars Jo, right tliar; I don’t
want to hub politics mixed up in my
Tigion dat way. Why folks will think
we aint no better’n yankees. I don’t
see what Tony let dat git in de hime
hook for, lie hadn’t orter done it. Move
oher toards de middle oh de hook, I
spec it gits better.”
Jo obeys and reads.—
“Nigger in the woods
Sitting on a log,
Finger on the trigger
And eye on a hog.”
“It ’pears to me dat’s gitting wus
and wus. What bizincss old Tony got
saying dat ? He’s nothin hut a nigger
hiuiself. What he means ’busing his
own culler dat way?” You recon lie
’ludes to my son Sjpn shootin at de
peckerwood and killin de hog?”
Jo thought it possible that the par
son alluded to Sam’s case.
“Sam’s case! Sam’s case ? like ther
wasn’t any Tony case; yes a half dozen
ob ’em. Dat ole Tony nigger is de
biggest rogue in dese parts. Didn’t he
bring back de yaller pullit I sold to dc
store yisterdy, afore day dis mornin,
and got me to cook her for his breck
fus, and now makin small ob my folks
afore dinner? Dere’s many a bog whose
light is gone out, cause old louzy Tony
was ’lowed to run in de same woods.—
Sam’s case! I’se a gettin tired of such
himes, and Mars Joe, if you will jes
read “Hark from ye toom” to repose
my feelins I’ll go and ’spostulate wad
did old sinner man Tony.”
Joe read—
“ Hark from ye toom ye doleful sound,
()ld Beeves is trailing round and round,
Lookout niggers! Shore as yer born
Ole Banner is in de new groun corn.”
“The lore preserve us! Sakes alive!
Hanner in the new ground corn, is she?
Mars Joseph I’ll tell you for a fac,
Hanner aint bin in dat new groun corn
but once dis year, and dat’s when old
Tony come to my house and called his
self eourtin me, and old missus gib me
permission to go dar and git some roas
in years for him. He tells lies right
dar in dat hime.”
Joseph now called Hannah’s atten
tion to the reported engagement be
tween Unele Tony and Miss Elizabeth
—-Hannah’s youngest daughter.
“Dat news onfits me to sarve de
lord wid all my heart jes at dis time
present.”
About this time Miss Elizabeth and
the parson with the major portion of his
flock arrives. Aunt Hannah proceeds
“My darter Lizzybety! jus a young
gal ’bout twenty; gwine to marry dat
old cripple up nigger? I spec I’ll hub
somethin to say bout dat. I’se a gwine
to take dat ole sinner nigger through
wust ’sperience meetin eber he wus in.
Well, I declar; he’s got to be a regler
old Beeeher. He’s got fo—five wives
in dis settlement now, excusln them he
left back in Georgy. Tony—ole slack
breeches Tony, I’se a talkin to you.
You’s been a preachin about John de
Raptis and John de Bunyun and Blow
Gabril and de Nigger Demus dat was
born agin, and a prayin for de lord to
take sister Hanner home to de glory,
and a shouting yer ole Tennessee jack
bass, and its gittin iny time to preach,
and I takes my tex “Hark from ye
toom, Tony,” and I tell you afore dis
tex is ended thar’ll be weepin and
smasliin ob teeth and rattlin of de bones
and groaning and scratchin when dat
ole buggy trace starts to poppin and the
skillits a turnin wrong sidoutards across
yer head and de earthquakes and fallin
stars ar a dausin afore yer vishun and
de wash tubs of consecrated ly are a
splashin ober yer soul and dearth is a
buckin under you like a young mule
and yer day of grace is gittin dark—
Tony den you’ll wish you saw what
Esau saw, den you’ll know dat ort is
ort widout de Agger ob speech and dat
when you substract de nigger from de
forty acres and de mule he's got no
time left to see who’s settin on de log
nor who's to thin out the new groun
corn, den you 11 want to ’scard yer new
doctrin hime book and be born again
before Blow Gabril gits de dirtdobber
nest out ob de horn. Tony, you hear
me? you ole scatterin talkin nigger:
thar’s a shoarnuff’ hell, and I se gwine
to see dat my darrer Lizzybeth don’t
trable dat downard direction wid you.
Here’s yer hime book, it aint to come
inside ob iny house. I 'scards it.’
Columbus Independent.
Two Germans met in San Francisco
recently. After affectionate greeting
the following dialogue ensued:
“Fen you said you haf arrived?”
“Yesterday.”
“You came dat horn round ?”
“No.”
“Oh! I see! You came dot Isthmus
across.”
“No.”
“Oh! Den you came dot land over ?”
“No.”
“Den you lief not arrived.”
“Oh, yes! I lief arrived. I come
dot Mexican through.”
Not woman’s spere—base ball.
A great moral show—The hypocrite.
A bed of down—lowering a matress.
’Tis meat for the butcher to stand
and deal liver.
A green age—foliage.
Woman tempted man to eat hut he
took to drink himself.
Never abuse a thermometer when it
is down.
“This parting gives me pain,” sighed
the man who was combing his hair for
the first time since a two weeks spree.
Seven-year-old: “Grandma, Mother
Shipton says the world will come to an
end in 1881. Is that true?” Grandma:
“No, dear, for in the Bible we are told,
Of that day and hour knoweth no man.”
etc. Seven-year-old: “Ah, hut Moth
er Shipton was a woman.”
THE LATEST SNAKE STORY,
A Veteran Snake Charmer on
Lake George—The Burning
of His Cabin with its Y'eno
mous Pets.
Tn the town of Hague, on the banks
of Lake George, opposite Hulett's Land
ing, has lived for a a long time a man
and his wife by the mnne of Mr. and
Mrs. Rauben Davis. This couple hav e
Occupied a log cabin which has been
situated near the water's edge. The
place has been known as the “Rattle
snake Mans House,” and many visitors
have excurstons to the spot to sec this
singular looking couple. They have
made a living from rattlesnakes, capt
uring many of the reptiles and obtain
ing the oil, which always commands a
high price.
At this cabin might always have
been seen large numbers of these rep
tiles. The old man, who is now about
sixty-five years of age, catches them
with a long pair of wooden tongs,
which he quickly and dexterously
grasps them with just below the bead.
He then either killed them outright or
else removed their fangs, and thus ren
dered them harmless. He possesses
power to charm them also, it is said.—-
In fact, he once informed the writer,
who visited his cabin, that “thar warn t
a varmint that crawled but wot I ken
make ’em lay down as quiet as a lamb.’’
The old man bad about bis premises
a large number of snakes, which lie ex
hibited to visitors, expecting and re
ceiving many a nickel or dime in return.
He never visited a village without car
rying several of his odious specimens
with him, which he will draw from his
pockets and place about his neck, or
fondle and handle them as if they were
kittins. By these exhibitions he picks
up a good many coppers.
Many wonderful stories are told
about “old Rube’’ and his wife, the lat
ter being as much of a curiosity as her
husband. We have been told that the
very shanty swarmed with rattlesnakes,
the occupants not having any fears
whatever of them.
The land on which the shanty stood
was lately purchased by Bishop Sey
mour, of Illinois. The owner has tried
repeatedly to get the Davis family to
move off, but the old couple have re
fused until lately, when the Bishop
threatened to eject them by legal pro
cess. He finally offered Davis ten dol
lars to leave peacabiy, and the old man,
his wife and aboatloadof snakes left one
day last week for Harbor Island, about
a mile south of where the cottage was
situated.
On Friday the torch was applied to
the premises. When the fire began to
spread a terrible sight met the eyes of
those present. It was a sight that
caused the beholders to flee up trees for
safety. Hissing rattlesnakes and
squealing rats poured out of the build
ing from all directions. As the hot
flames sprang toward the roof the crack
ling of the dry boards was mingled
with the rattle of scores of maddened
serpents and unearthly yells of rodents.
The very roof seemod to be alive with I
venomous reptiles, and the bright green
and white of their outside covering
shone with a glare as the flames lit Up
on them.
< )ne of the men, who was a close eye
witness of the scene, says that he wa s
horror-stricken at the disgusting specta
cle. One large snake, he says, about
seven feet long, opened its mouth and
out came at least two-score of little
reptiles, whose little tails shook in the
air as if they, too, were frenzied at the
destruction the flames made of their
home. Several snakes charged madly
upon the flames only to fall back
burned to deathwhile the rats that
could get away shouldered their tails
and took to the woods. In one place a
projecting log was made the object of
attack by three large reptiles. As the
trio charged madly upon it a great sheet
of fire, whose forked tongues were even
more poisonous than those of the snakes,
rolled around and seized the reptiles,
causing them to cease rattling, as each
| one dropped over dead.
'• Our informant, who has read Dante’s
Inferno, describes the scene as equal
ling anything in its terrible mingling of
weird and horrid forms that Dante ever
wrote. As the snakes fell dead, burned
to a crisp, it reminded our informant of
of St. Patrick, who drove the reptiles
from the Green Isle. But the flames
flew high, and soon the whole structure
tumbled in. About the ground lay
many dead serpents and roasted rats,
while some were writhing aud seemed
VOL. 14—NO. 32
to be in fearful agony. Terrible mus
have been the destruction of the be<
bugs also as the cabin was not a pinl
of neatness by any manner of means.
Soon the flames died away, and wha
once was the home of old llube Davis
his wife and the snakes was a mass o:
smouldering ruins. Visitors will miss
this place, as no one visited the neigh
borhood without calling on the Davis
family. The singular green eyes of the
woman looked as if she too was part
reptile, while tho old man and his
rough weather-beaten hands and face,
the latter, which resembled the scales
of a fish, was a sight to behold. On
his bands were scratches which he said
were given him by rattlesnakes. As
one looked upon him they could not
help feeling that every time a snake
ran its fangs into old Rube’s hand the
earth must have been relieved of at
least one live snake.
m • -<■***•—
Local Legislation-—lmportant
to all.
The Constitution provides, as fol
lows, for the introduction of all local
or special bills in the General Assem
bly. It is very important that all
concerned be made aware of the Con
stitutional provisions, and the law in
these cases.
Sec. 554, Part XV. — All special or
local bills shall originate in the House
of Representatives. The Speaker of
the House of Representatives shall,
within five days from organization of
the General Assembly, appoint a
committee, consisting of one from
each Congressional District, whoso
duty it shall he to consider, and con
solidate all special and local hills, on
the same subject, and report the same
to the House; and no speayial or lo
cal bill shall be read or considered by
the House until the same lias been
reported by said commttee, unless by
a two-thirds vote. And no bill shill
he considered or reported to the House
by said committee, unless the same
shall have been laid before it within
fifteen days after the organization of
the General Assembly, except by a
two-thirds vote.
Sec 5.55, Part XVI.—Xo local or
special hill shrill be passed, unless
notice of tho intention to apply there
for shall have been published in the
locality where the matter, or thing to
be effected, may be situated, which
notice shall be given at least t hirty
days prior to the introduction of such
bill into the General Assembly, and
in the manner to be prescribed by
law. The evidence of such notice
having been published, shall be ex
bibited in the General Assembly be
fore such Act shall be passed.
A ltaby and a Snake.
Mrs. McNeil, wife of our efiioient
Marshal, had her attention called one
morning this week to the baby, a little
boy eighteen months old, who seemed
to bo enjoying himself hugely in the
yard. His screams and laughter made
her curious to see what was the matter.
Upon going out she was horror-strick
en and astonished to find him playing
w;ith a snake about two feet long. He
had the snake in his hands, and while
it endeavored to get away the baby
persistently held on to his tail. The
mother’s distress may he imagined dur
ing the time. The snake, a white oak
runner and poisonous, was finally killed
and the child was found to he uninjur
ed, but Tobe and his wife have been
pretty badly frightened ever since.—
Quitman Free Press.
A Compi.ioatki) Fa war Discoan —-
Anderson Brooks, a small truck far
mer living Orange Court II mse, \ a.,
caught his wife stealing some of his
clothing and selling it last Monday,
lie immediately arrested and took her
to jail, and preferred charges against
her She was carried before ’Square
Houtware and ordered to receive ten
lashes and have six days’confinement
in jail. When the the sheriff began
to whip the woman, and had laid on
only one lash, the husband rttshed upon
the officer, and felling him with a
stick, took the whip from him, saying
as he did so: “No man shall whip
my wife but me.” lie is now in jail
for agsulting an officer.
Bishop Clarke once went to sec one
of his parishoners, a lady with a prodi
gious family, which had been recently
increased. As he rose to leave, the
lady stopped him with: “But you
havn’t seen my last baby.” “No,” he
quickly replied, “and 1 never expect
to!” Then he fled.
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“No dictionary has been made for
man that can describe the anguish of
the soul without hope.” Or of the boy
with gray trowers aud a black broad
cloth patch.
A Washington lady who scut one of
her husband's coats to the yellow fever
sufferers, pinned a note to the collar
requesting if it didn’t fit it should be
sent back.
A Dutchman being called upon for a
toast, said : “Here is to the heroes who
I fit, bled and died mit the battle of
Bunker llill—of whom 1 am one. 4 ’
Drink standing.
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A man, named Carriker, shot and
■ killed his uncle, a Mr. Barker, in
' pike county, a few days ago'
Heath of a Curio ns C'bnraetct
We see by the Jefferson eoutry pa
per-j that “Washboard ’ Hall died i:
the poor Louse reeentlj-. He was
character. For thirty years he ha
lived in that vicinity on a waihboaru
as may be said. He made a few wash
boards, and he would take one unde
his arm and go to a farmhouse and nl
low the wife to use it. If she hough
it, all right, and if not it was all tin
; same. He would have a dozen wash
boards scattered around, and he we
always the guest of the bouse, got hi.
meals, moved his washboard to anotbei
I locality and ate and drank on the board
Lie always managed to arrive at a hen
about meal time, and as he had all tin
news to tell he was welcome. If ;
! house-wife had wood to split, a cow t.
j milk, or the man had stec-rs to brea'-,
hogs to kill or a wagon to grease, old
Hall was ready to help. At times when
the good house-wife had not much in
the house for dinner the arrival > I
Washboard Hall would cause a clou-1
to rest upon her brow, but a cheerful
word from him would soon dispel i‘„
and we do not believe he ever went
hungry a day in his life. He was a
tramp, always on the move—-in summer
with his coat over his arm and in whi
ter bundled up and always on the
march. However, hard up btyaightbe,
he could manage to get zinc enough for
a washboard, and any friendly carpenter
would allow him to do the woodwork
in his shop, and bis Stock being com
plete, he was on the road. In all his
thirty years travel about Jefferson
county, no one ever heard him use an
unkind word, and he never injured a.
soul. Children would chaff him until
he got an opportunity to beofassistance
to them, after which they were his
friends. He would make a kite for
them or draw them miles on a sled for
the asking. He was a great character,
and will be missed.
The Old Capital . The new arriv
als at the Asylum for the Insane are
increasing alarmingly. Nearly every
day some unfortunate is brought and
th -ir names registered in the great
book in the clerk’s office. Full eight
hundred insane people, many of them
forlorn and wretched, are now quarter
ed on tho State, and the list swell.*, and
the institution continues to be enlarged
to meet the demand for room.
An old traveller tells a pretty toug’i
story about being lost in the wood*
with his dog, where he could find noth
ing to cat, and had to out oft’ his dog a
tail, which he broiled for himself, and
afterward gave the dog the bone ! W
would rather borrow one hundred dol
lars than believe that story.
A young couple of Le Roy, N. Y .
had their wedding day selected, and
then got into a squabble over “which
church the knot should be tied in. He
wanted to go to the Presbyterian edi
fice, because it was the fashionable one
of the village, and she wanted to go to
the llaptist one, for she used to sing m the
choir there. The quarrel snapped the
engagement.
A skeptic, who was badgering a
simple-minded old man about a mir
acle and Balaam’s ass, finally said:
“How is it possible for an ass to talk
like a man?” “Well,’' replied the
honest old believer, with meaning
emphasis, “I don’t see why it ain’t
a3 easy for an ass to talk like a ma t
as it is for a man to talk like an ass.
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There is a spiring on the farm of Dan
iel Cork, of Kittery, Me., discovered
five years ago. Whenever a drought
becomes so severe that all the other
springs in the vicinity fail to yield wa
ter, this one begins business, and kcep'--
it up until rain enough falls to start the
others, when it immediately knocl s oft.
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An old Irish soldier who prided
himself upon his bravery, said li
fought in the battle of Bull Run.—
When asked if he had retreated and
made good his escape, as others did
on that famous occasion, lie replied
“Be jabers those that didn’t run are
there yit!”
An editor with nine Unmarried
daughters was recently made jus-ly
indignant, by the misconstruction lus
contemporaries put upon his able
leader on “The demand for men.”—
Burlington Hawkeye.
The negro woman. Julia Johnson,
who murdeied Mrs. Farmer, in Clay
ton county, has been re-captured and
lodged in the Fulton county jail.
Mrs. General Gordon wa# in Alba
bmy Last week, on her way to visit
her son’s sheep ranche in Worth
coxitv.
Toe Congressional election in Gcy
gia takes place ontheoth day of N >-
vember. The Legislature meets on
the sixth.
It is thought that Judge liigby w:li
be nominated by the republicans 1 .
congress iu the fourth district.
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Being the first bachelor aud the fin-f
benedict, how stands Adam s claim to
being Srt-t in peace aud first iu war'
Gen. Joseph Wheeler \\ ill be at t . c
state fair in Macon.