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le the great Blood Purifier
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eases.
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Y ill eradicate Salt Rheum from the system.
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Restores the entire system to a healthy condition.
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Removes the cause of Dizziness.
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Relieves Faintness at the Stomach.
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Cures Pains in the Back.
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Effectually cures Kidney Complaint.
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la effective in its cure of Female Weakness.
VEGETINE •
Is the great remedy for General Debility.
VEGETINE
Is acknowledged by all clashes of people to be
the best and most reliable blood purilier in the
world.
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riiEPAKED BY
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VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DEMISTS
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45 Years Before the Public.
THE CENUINE
BE. C. MeLANE’S
CELEBRATED
LIVBE PILLS,
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
I JAIN in the right side, under the
"edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and L sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe
tite and sickness: the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy
sensation in the hack part. There is
generally a considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with a painful sen
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cmtgh is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
wearinc: • . id 0.. dity; he is easily
startled, h -t; ct arc cola or burning,
and he compl ins of a prickly sensa
tion of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is atisfied that exer
cise would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of tne above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few ot them ex
isted, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the liver to
have been extensively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. " e would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a i '.ir trial.
For all bilious derangements, and as
a simple purgative, they are unequaled.
beware of imitations.
The cenuine are never sugar coated.
Everr box has a red wax seal on the lid,
with the impression Dk- McLanes Liver
P The genuine McLane’s Liver Jills bear
the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming
Bros, on the wrappers.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.C.
McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared bv hlem
ing Bros., of Pittsburgh. Pa., the mnrke. being
foil of imitations of the name McLane 9
Spelled differently but same pronunciation.
DAWSON, GEORGIA. TJ-IURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1878
TH AT ATLANTA SENSATION.
Special Message From ilie Gov
ernor on the Subject
La -1 week we published an account
of u difficulty between Hon. 13. H. Hill
and Mr. Wes. Murphy, clerk in the
State Treasure’s office, and stated that
we should look for further develop
' ments in the matter. Hon. B. H. Hill,
i
j subsequently, in a private letter to one
of the editors of the Augusta Chronic le
\4' Constitutionalist, pronounced the
statement made by the Constitution un.
| fair and incorrect, aud furthar stated
that Morril told him that the S 000
was paid to Mnrphy only after a ong
negotiation, and, finally, on an assur
ance made by Murphy that otherwise
the bonds wouid nqt be signed, and that
ion the next day after the payment of
the money to Murphy, the Governor
| commenced to sign the bonds.
This statement caused suspicion in
| the minds of some against the Governor,
: and, on Wednesday last, he sent the
i folio wing message on the subject to the
: General Assembly. We shall watch
I the matter closely :
SPECIAL MESSAGE.
Executive Department,
Atlanta, G a., November 6, 1878.
To the General Assembly :
A grievious necessity has bee • im
posed on me to demand at your hands a
.thorough investigation of my motives
and conduct as the Executive of (loraria
j. °
in placing the State’s endorsement upon
the bonds of the Northeastern Railroad
This necessity has been created by
widely circulated slanders and inuen
does, vile and maligant, and so mend
acious and wicked as to make all com
; merit and paraphrase upon them uttorlv
j futile. Nothing but a thorough sifting
jof my every motive and act in regard
. to these bonds, as far as hum til in.-igilt
| and judgment can reach them can satis
fy aggrieved hon .r, or give such entire
assurance to the people of Georgia, i
they have a right to demand in e
premises. To a raaa who values hi •
good name far more than life, it w mid
ibe an act of supremest injii.-T to *euy
L ,ao. plenary vindication r? •’ red
jn the most august and auth ufi i e
form known to the laws, or to public
opinion. To the peopi * f s Ceu
monweylth it is of the last consequeuO ■
that they should know, beyond all i
adventure, that the man who fi.ls at
their call the chief seat of authority, is
al, roach or suspicion.
My denunciation of an awful and stu
pendous hinder, forged and uttered to
dHion , me, will not be enough The
The General Assembly of this State—a
eo-or dnato power—is appealed to for
that justice which, while it will, I know
full well, exonerate me as a man, will
also vindicate the fair frame of Georgia,
a sailed by cruel slanders on her Chief
Executive. Alfred 11. Coquitt.
Tae Indian’s Dram.
When the Indian went to see the
white man lie staid with him all night.
In the morning he says to the white
man:
‘Ale have dream last night.”
“Oh, what was it ?”
“Me dream you gave your gray mare,
and then you gave me ride; that you
gave me much powder, much ball, much
shot.”
“Did you, indeed? What a dream' >
“Yes, me dream it all.”
“Well, thats bad, for my "fife al
wavs rides the g. o mare, and she
thinks she can’t ride any other horse ;
but if you dreamed it, why, I suppose
you must have her. And my rifle too
—my favorite riflle—you dreamed I
gave you that, too ?”
“Yes, me dreamed rifle too.”
“Well, if you dreamed it, why, l
suppose you must take that, too, but
it’s very singular.”
So the white man gave them all into
the Indian’s possession, but persuaded
aim to tarry with him oue night more.
In the morning the white man says to
the Indian.
“I had a dream last night.”
“No, did you ?”
“Yes, but I <id though. I dreamed
that you gave me all the land between
Pojunket river and Cataquench moun
tains,” about three hundred acres of
-he most beautiful land imaginable.
••Ah ! bones of my father ! Well, if
ou dreamed it, why, I suppose you
•lust have the land—but me neve r
ir earn with you any more.”— Ladle's
Cibnrt.
Kir.CE!> UY V SERPENT.
Terrible Encounter with a I>ead
ly Blowing Viper in a i>ark
Room.
Altoona Pa. TYilmnc*
A terrible calamity befell Dr. Paul
hamus and bis accomplished daughter
Eleanor, Tuesday evening in Williams
burg, Pa. It seems that a couple of
weeks ago two tramps captured a pair
of enormous reptiles, which the doctor
pronounced to be of that deadly species
known as the “blowing viper.’’ The
doctor, having a desire to contribute
something that would commend itself
from this district, purchased the rep
tiles, intending to forward them to the
Zoological Gardens in Philadelphia.
13idi,.g their transportation the snakes
were placed in a large glass jar, the top
being carefully secured by a covering
of wire gauze.
The jar was then placed on an ele
vated bracket in a remote corner of
the doctor’s office. Last evening the
doctor and his daughter were returning
from a visit to the country, and the
doctor having occasion to make up a
prescription, they both entered the of
fice, the doctor lighting a lamp And
now comes the terrible denouement. A
large owl swept in through the transom
above the door and flew with the speed
of an arrow against the lamp, knocking
it over and scattering ic oil and bro
ken git' in every directi ai.
The bird seemed frantic, flying and
dashing in every direction while a gen
eral crash of bottles and glasses was
heard on every side. Meantime the
doctor had lit another match, but just !
in time to receive his daughter, who ;
sprang with a wild cry to his arms. In
the wild darkness he gathered his dar- I
ling in his arms, and in a moment real- 1
ized the situation. The owi had dis- ;
lodged the jar from the bracket and .
the vipers were at large. Speedily he ,
groped his way, calling 1 tudly for help, 1
w.uch, th ■ a ■ r being late, wis slow to
put in an appearance. They seemed 1
slaw, but scarcely five minutes elapsed
until fully a dozen ladies and brave
men were on the spot.
No living hand can indite the hor
rors of the next, few minutes. Miss
E’emor, who bad been insensible since
she spran' > her father’s arms, was
now being cared for by the ladies, when
one s'multa icons shriek almost froze
the blood and paralized each nerve—
yet not all It was Thomas Luiz’s hand
that seized the glittering reptile by the
neck and choked its fearful fangs apart.
Ii had bitten the lady mid-way between
the ankle and the knee. She was now
carried immediately to her home, where
every known antidote for poison was
administered by her frantic father, but
to no avail.
She died at 6:30 o’clock this morning.
After taking the i oor, unfortunate
young lady home one of the men, know
ing there had been two snakes, returned
to the office and soon dispatched the
other. An examination showed its (wo
large fangs missing. This led'to the
conjecture that possibly the doctor had
been bitten. A hasty return aud close
examination resulted in finding the
fangs iu the thick leathers of the doc
tor’s boots, who, being so alarmed for
his daughter, had not the slightest
know e Ige of being struck.
The corpse of the you ig lady was
swollen to enormous dimension, while
complexion is in harmony wi It the
spots and general eo oring of the snake.
The larger of the make’s measured Li
feet, the smaller t feet. They are
both pronounced by our old people the
largest of the species. It was the shor
ter one of the two that bit the young
lady.
Two Snake- Ki ling a Raccoon.
A fishing party on the banks of Shoal
creek, Jasper county, Mo., heard a
noise in the underbrush, and going in
the direction of the soun Is saw a
large coou and two larg
black snakes in deadly combat, the
former getting the w >rst of the fight.—
One of the reptiles was coiled around i
the coon’s body, and, whenever it at
tampted to use its teeth, the other
snake struck at its eyes. It attempt
ed to retreat, bnt the snake which en
circled it dropped a coil, aud, as quick
as thought, took a “half hitch” around
a small sapling. It tried hard to pull
loose, and, while its energies were bent
in that direction, the other snake took
a coil around the coon’s neck, an 1 in a
few moments chok and the life out of it.
The spectators, who had been dumb
witnesses of the struggle, advanced and
killed the victors One measured nine
feet, and the other seven feet six inch-
.— St. Louis Republican.
Waking- Up the Baby.
t _________
i Just at dusk, the other dismal day,
i three children, the eldest of whom did
I not seem over ten years old, were hud
\ died together on the rickety steps of an
old house on Beaubien street. A pedes
train passed over their heads to read
the number on the door, and thy chil
dren looked so frightened that lie
asked:
“Children, where are your father
and mother ?”
“Father’s been gone off for ever so
long; and mother goes out to wash and
hasn't got home yet,” answered the
eldest, a girl.
“And you are all alone
“Yes, sir, but baby is in ou the bed.
He’s been asleep an awful long time,
and we can’t wake him up. If we
could we’d play bide and seek and let
him find us.”
“Is the baby sick ?” inquired the
man.’’
“\Ye don’t know, sir, but we can’t
wake him up ; I touched him and touch
ed him, and Charlie he tickled his feet,
but little Sandy never moved once. 1
guess he is awful sleepy. Don’t you
think you could wake him up ?”
“I’ll try,” replied the man, as he
went in, and when the girl lighted the
lamp he followed her into a bedroom in
which there was neither carpet nor
furniture. Pushed back against die ■
wall was a poor old straw tick and a
single quilt.. He bent over to look at
the child, and the first glance showed
him that little Sandy was dead. On
the window sill were some pieces of
bread and milk, with which the children
intended to feed him. The deal child’s
hand clasped a rag doll made of an old
calico apron, and its thin little feet,
and pale face were evidences tliat it
had known sickness and hunger through
out its brief life. While the children
waited for him to op. n his eyes and
romp with them, aud drive the gloom
out of the house, the angels had whis
pered to him, and his had unclosed
to beuold the splendor of Heaven.
“Wont he wake up ?” asked one of
Lie children, standing bunk in the shad
ow.
“Children, you must not come in
here until your mother comes!” he said,
as he left the room.
“Won’t he be afraid to wake up in
the dir a ?’’ they asked.
“lie will sleep a long time yet!’’ he
whispered, not daring to tell them the
truth, and as he w "it out they put. the
light ju on the bed room floor, that lit
tle Aan 1/ might not Sml the darkness
around him w en his sleep had ended.
Poor things! They knew not and they
could not see the crown of glory on the
dea l child’s brow—a crown whoes light
all the shadows of earth can never dark
en in the least.
A Girl I-lown h, tjr ir'.ers of
it Mile.
A correspondent writing front Colum
bus, Nob., says : “A peculiar incident
occurred here a few months since, the
particulars of which I have just learned.
It was on tiio day the memorable cyc
lone passed over Lone Tree and Clark’s.
Tjie s y was stroa ed in ho northwest
with vivid flashes of light, aud a terri
ble rumbling sound made mown that a
dreadful storm was immiriet. A mas
sive black cloud was extending a whir
ling finger toward the earth and sweep
ing with great fury whatever came lie
fire it: Jennie—-a girl who was wor dug
at a certain hotel here—was busy at
the stove preparing for the next meal.
Hearing ralile at the side door, Jennie
went to the door and opened it. As
she did so she was caug't from the
doorway by the whirling wind and cur
ried over t e house, turning around
and round in the air as she went, and
after approae Jug the ground on the
O'her side she again arose, and was tak
en by the whirling wind over the stories
and dwellings a distance of three-fourths
of a mile, being lowered so that her
feet could touch the ground as many as
eight times during the trip. Exhaust
ed, but in an erect position, .-he was at
last lowered to the earth au lightly as
a feather would fall, having received no
material injury, though almost frantic
with right. The storm proceeded on
its way, leaving her in sight of the town,
and in half an hour she again put in an
appearance at the hotel, where anxious
friends were bewailing her sudden and
. ysterlous departure.
A Musical Notf. —“Can a man be
long to a brass band and bs a Chris
tian asks an exchange. We sec no
impediment in the way- But if lie is a
member of a brass hand and is given to
practicing on his cornet or trombone at
home, it is an utter impossibility for
the man living next door to boa Chris
tian —w Yorristown. Hera! I.
An observing politician says that the
difference between those going in and
these goiug out of office is mainly this :
; The former are sworn in, and the latter
go out swearing.
\ CL. R.-KO 37
A lIOIIItIBEE MI'EtBER.
Several Arrests Made.
On Wednesday night of last week
Mr. Thomas \vhitsett, a prominent
planter aud citizen of Lee county, about
nine miles north of Albany, was mur
dered by some party or parties unknown.
He was shot in the head just as he had
undressed for retiring to bed. Several
negro men employed by him wore in
the room at the time ; and they say
that he was sitting by a window and
was shot from the outside. One ball
entered the eye, the other through the
temple. No other white person was
present at (he time
As yet nothing definite concerning
the terrible assassination ; but detec
tives are on the track, and severa par
ties have been suspicioned and arrested.
We shall furnish our readers with par
ticulars as they are developed.
Jack Sellars, Col’d., Convicted op
the Murder.
Mr W Eason Sm'th, a policeman
of this city, who has been working on
the ease for the past week, returned
home yesterday evening, and reports as
follows;
On Saturday last lie arrested Robt.
Jones, a boy who was in the room at
the time of the killing. Jones was the
body-servant of Mr. Whitsett and slept
in his room every night. Ho was plac
ed in the Lee county jail. On Monday
he arrested eight others on that and ad
joining places. Among them Jack
Sellars and Simon Daniel. Daniel and
11 bt. Jones confess that they are par
ties in the crime They turned States
evidence and convicted Jack Sellars of
die murder. Daniels says he stood be
hind him a few feet and saw him shoot
at Whitsett. He says that Sellars at
tracted Whitsett’s attention towards the
window, and as he (Whitsett) turned
his face towards him fired, and that he
saw him fill. This ends the horrible
chapter for the present. —. -llbtiny .Vew\?.
The Curious History of a Nick
el Cent.—C. N. Fuller and Miss Lou
M. Wheeler wire married in Gowanda,
N. Y., on the 3") lof May, 1851. Hi
ram Wheeler, ti brother of the hriue,
presented the couple with one of the
uic.el cent pieces which iw-J just been
• issued, on which he had engraved the
names of the bride and groym and the
date of the marriage. When their
first child was born, a year afterward,
they attached this coin to a chain and
hung it about the babe's neck. Thirteen
years ago the boy was six years old.
The family then lived in Ithaca. One
and iv the boy detached the coin from the
chain, and spent it for candy. Since
then father, mother and son have died.
At the recent fair of the Indians in the
Cattarau _us reservation, W. N. Fuller,
a brother of the late C. N. Fuller,
made a purchase at a stand. Tu the
change tat was handed back to him was
the identical penny that Hiram Wheeler
had engraved twenty-one years ago,
and that his it lie nephew spoilt in Ith
aca thirteen years ago. From appear
ances the c in had been in circulation
ever since It will never again leave
the Fuller family.
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Driving Nal s by Machinery.
One of the mos 1 simple, and at the
same lime most ingenious, itnplemen's
on view a: he exliibi ion is an inven
tion of a young man in ibis ci y, a Mr.
F Fa'kner. I is called a “nail gun,’
and is used for nailing down flooring
boards. We have seen 'he impleincn
in use, and, as far as we are able to
judge, i is quic er i:i is work and in
sures grea-'er cleanliness than hand
nailing could do. The appura us is not
unlike a gun in shape, and is abou the
the same length. It is kep in posi in
with ho foot and knee, ail the nail to
bo placed (point down) in au aperiure
at tlir top of the concern. It slides
down to the bot pm, and 'lien then die
opera or draws up a rod, and by one
downward stroke of bis lie nail clean
ly driven in o the boards beneath. A
practical hand, by this simple contri
vance, could do lie work of half a doz
en men. We believe ilia' Mr. Falkncr
is new improving upon his invention,
and is making a “nail gun” which will
be solf-feeding We have no doubt
that when the implement comes to be
generally known it will be brought into
genera! use.—A w Zetland Times.
In a heated political discussion at
the Lester barbecue in (,'artersville last
Thursday, between Mr. Cornelius Wil
lingham and Mr. Ab. Wofford, Mayor
of the town, a blow passed, Mr. Wof
ford striking Mr. Willingham with a
pistol, stunning him severely. The re
sult was a challenge and an arrangement
for a duel. The pla e selected for the
meeting was Red Clay, just across the
Cicorgi i line in Tennessee. The par-
ir • arrived promptly at the time (10 a.
m. Saturday) and place appointed, when
mutual apologies wore exchanged, and
the affair ended honorably and happily
without blood-shed.
The man whose lame back prevents
hint from splitting a stick of wood or
building a fire is the one who leads an
attack on a pile of ten cords of wood to
help uncover and kill a frightened rab
bit.
Natural History—fido.
IV o Press Le.-ons lor Children.
The dig is called by some mot*
most faithful servant. One or twi in
stances have been known where a dig
frightened away a thief or bit an aye it.
They have also been known to bar’.
the in eon and thus prevent it fa' i;
and dashing the earth to pieces. If i f
wasn't for dogs we shouldn’t know \v’ t
to do with our old oyster cans. V< i
can now ask any questions you and.
“How large is a dog?”
“Well, that depends. If he’s rai
ning away from you he looks about th
size of a allon jug : but if he’s co:a ; >••
to you he looks as large as a year!in,.'
calf.”
“Do dogs guard the house?”
“Yes ; particularly the kitchen do
Nothing hurts a dog’s feelings so mu a
as to have his master think he’s waiv
ing for bones, instead of being there <’m
guard,” •
“(’an a dog take a hint ?”
“Yes. As soon as one sees a fa;*.ti
er coming across the fields with a gan
lie knows that killing sheep is over f w
tliat morning, aud away he goes.”
“Are dogs very strong?”
“You’d think they could pull a saw
log, to judge by the amount of howling
they will do between dusk and day
break, but the minute a boy wants a,
ride on his sled the family dog is troub
led with heart disease aud general weak
ness.”
“Can dogs find their way homo from
long distances
“It’s according to the dog. If it's
one you want to get rid of he can find
his way back home from California. If
it’s a good one lie’s apt to get lost if he
goes round the corner.”
“Can dogs see in the dark ?"
“Some appear to, but instances are
not rare where dogs, commanded to rush
out and devour the follow hooking
wood, have rushed under the bed in
mistake—and stayed there. That's
all abr ut dogs,”
A Pou Story. —A Panama paper
tells the following story of canine sa
gacity: “When the dog wishes to cross
the river where alligators abound, be
goes up the stream a great way and
barks with all his might. The alliga
tors go there and wait his getting in to
cm--. The dog knows what he is about.
When he sees from the number of snouts
above water that bis enemies have all
gathered to the feast, lie runs down the
hank as fast as he can and swims
across before the alligators are aware
of the trick that has been played upon
them ”
A popular doctor of Utica, while es
corting a young lady homo the other
evening, attempted to relieve her cough
and sore throat by giving her a troche,
lie told her to allow it to dissolve grad
ually in her mouth. No relief was ex
perienced, and the doctor felt quite
chagrined, the next day when the lady
sent him a pantaloon button, with a
note, saving be must have given her
the wrong kind of a troche, and might
need this one.
-
A Yankee auctioneer lately indulged
in the following bit of the pathatic!
“Gentlemen, if my father and mother
stood where you do, and didn’t buy
these boots —these elegant boots—
when they were going for §l, I should
feel it my duty as a son to tell Ixitli of
’em that they Were false to themselves
aud to their country.”
What They are Doing.— Those
fellows who are eternally asking, “What,
are our girls doing hail better get
one and find cut from experience.
Just at present must of them are try
ing to convince the old gentleman they
can’t go to elium'i without a now fall
hat —Elmira Gazette
The Constitution thinks that if “all
the predictions are correct, Dr. Felton
will be an independent candidate lor
Governor of Georgia at the next elec
tion. Tiiis will probably bring him in
conflict with General Toombs, who is
a!so supposed to be desirous of serving
ds people as their chief magistrate.”
♦m- - - ■ ■
Liood Sligestiou.
“Give us this day our daily bread’’
.nd good medicine to digest if, is boih
• eveteut amt human. The human
-torn idt and iiv-r are Iruitlul sources
of Lie's comforts; or, disordered and
iiseasel, they ilngle misery along
every nmve and through every artery.
Die mail or woman with good digestion
sHer Beauty as 'hey walk, and overtoil!-
obstacles they meet in the rotme of
life, where ihe dyspeptic sees only
gloom and stu nudes and growls u:
every imaginary object. The World
still needo two >.r three uew kinds lit
: mediei t before death can be netfect-
I ly nbo'ished ; but that many lives have
been prolonged, rnd many sufferers
in :n Liver disease, aud
H-sdu die, have been cured MsuuellV
Heiwiink, isjio longer a doubt. It
1 cures lieadatdte ia twenty minutes,
ami there is no questicu but what it i
the most wonderful discovery yet made
in med'Onl science. Those afflicted
with itilinusnces and Liver Complaint
shrnld use Meukell’s Urr\TiSK.
i It can be had at Dc. J. li J >es.