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LOMMENT AND NEWS. The Republican party lis very siotal The wages of sin is death, Now that the election is over, Jot's all turn in and “whooper up” for Christmas and old Santa (Claus. y The cherished traditions of the Republicans that their party alone eould predominnte has faded like the roses. A fleshy young ledy was caught pssing and hugging her lean Jover, and in explanation said she was taking anti-fat. . Belva Lockwood says that wo pen helped to l?opulate this coun try. And now just wait for the fends of the opposition to deny A seientist says it is. water and not food that makes people fat. Now we thoroughly understand ihe cause of our terribly emaciat ed condition. Joe Brown is a wonderful man. He carrys the democratic and re publican parties of the state, the one in his right and the other in his lift vest pocket. An Ohio girl, while out driving with a young man, got out of the puggy and killed berself with a pistol. He probably persisted in driving with both hands. Beecher thinks Cleveland should remember the South liberally in the selection of his Cabinet.— There is a wonderful improvement in that old man of late. Very few people know that (ieorgin consumes more commer cial fertilizers than any other State in the Union, but this is trucif the Nationa] Fertilizer Association is correct. The tallest tree in California is known as the “Father of the For it aud is 450 feet high. The largest is called the “Empire State,” and is 94 feet in ecircum ference. “How many parts of speech are there, Johnny?" “Well, in our bouse there ain't none,cause when manmy gets her speech started it never parts; it just reaches from oto sun 'thout even a crack in i Jerusha Jones, out in Connecti at, was jilted by her lover, but the didn't sue for a breach of pro mise; she just met him on the highway one gentle afternoon ud lammed him on the head with a club. Some of our exchanges are wild over Sam Randall of late. Sam is quite a clever fellow, of some thing above the average intelli gence, and make a very fair con gressman for such a State Penn #ylvania, John Powell, colored, was sen tenced to the chaingang for six years in Athens last week, for Mealing a mule. He stole the mule Tuesday, was caught Thurs dsy, tried Friday, and ate dinner it the conviet camp on Saturday. A Chicrgo man wented a di\'?rce becaune his wife persisted in sing ing Lyms. The Court laughed at him, and he would have lost his case had not the lawyers summon td the wife to the withess stand aud started her to singing. At the fifth verse the Court threw up the sponge and the divorce was granted. The S\m Indifl » '*céntly rendered a decision in a ivoree cage in these words: “You vhwtarily chose a drankard for for a drunkard's wife. His failure t keep o pledge or reformation irnde hefore warricge does not Jistify you in deserting him. | kuowingly married a drunkard you Must make yourself content with the saerad relutionship.” | e New York Tribune is still “euying itself about “the smnihi- Gy of the ReLublicnll party in “igia by Democratic bulldoz """ The Tribune forgets that Yoy, Pt ek ccidentally carried of the Georgis Republican party Whis pants 0 kot when he “abdi- Sated” his cffice, and that he lost % somawhe, ~ up North before he tome byek, The Mormons are now making Cunverty among the negroes. As " Breat many of the colored peo ble are rathor inclined towards 'Mm‘monism, it might be a good idea t evcourage that element {\h}(mg them to go to Utah and i gy S Ssing to $ ol e ‘{j:’*:tlnu inthe Wost.~ Savanush . ®, THE DAWSON JOURNAL. VOL. 19. OUR REPORTER RUMINATES, 1 It is surprising to think of the number of men in our country ‘ who do not think it is necessary | to pay their debts. The disposi- | tion to shirk and dodge and i “deadbeat” seems to be constantly ‘ increasing. The practice of taking | protection under some quibble of the law whereby property is vest ed in the wife—better known as the “petticoatlaw” —ig dally gain ing popularity. In serving out our apprenticeship at the trade we have had quite an amount of col lecting t 6 do, and were broght almost constantly in contract with that class of men who run on the credit system. We are pained and surprised to find so many men who seem to feel under 2o mor al obligation to pay their debts. Itisnot uncommon to meet with men who wear good clothes drive fine horses, smoke first-class cigars, play a good game of bhil liards, and drink the wery best whiskey, out of whom it is impos sible to colleet a debt. If you present a claim for payment they will receive you in a haughty, dig nifled way, and tell you, between the puffs of their Havanna, that it is impossible for themto pay just now, andif you talk about su ing, they tell you in a patronizing way that it would be a useless ex pense as their property all belongs to their wives. Yet when you hear them on the street corners with their chums, it is always “my house” or “my farm” or “my cot ton.” :We confess frankly that we am very much out of patience with such humbuggery. It is right and proper to protect the women and children, but when the ample folds of the petticoat are used to cover up rascallity and shield vagabonds, in the name of honesty as well as in behalf of the good women who are thas slandered, weery outagainst it! To say the least of it, it is provok ing. There is enongh money spent in this county every year for tobacco, cigars and whiskey to pay the people out of debt. For ; honesty’s sake let us turn over a ; new leaf and do better. The hab it of not paying debts is becom ing an epidemic, and this very habit is shaking the foundationof | public confidence and credit. 1 e Upon inquiring of several of our business men the conditon of our farmers, we gather the en couraging intelligence that it is constantly growing better. Real izing the ruinous policy of debt, our farmers are buying on time less every year and paying more promptly for that which is bought. As an indication of their gradual return to the ways of the times that were, we are told that there will be more home-raised bacon made this year than in any year since the war. 'We learn of one farmer who kill near 5,000 pounds, and a number of others will make plenty to sell. These are encour ‘aging facts that evince the dawn of a brighter day. If ourfarmers could now be convinced of the tyranny of King Cotton and per suaded of the better plan of diver sity of crops, Terrell would soon be the banner eounty of the State, e As Blaine fades from public view his old antagonist, Roscoe Conkling, is expected to come prominently to the froot again. There is talk about sending Couk ling back to the United States Senate from New York, by a com bination of the Democrats in the legislature with the stalwart Re publicans, Three years ago Blaine seems to have kicked Conk ling to the bottom of the ladder, this year Conkling’s friends knif od Biaine and defeated him for the ]n-esi«]em‘/y. Last year Blaine's friends defeated Folger for gov ornor of New York by supporting Cleveland; now Tolger's friends settle the score by electing Cleve land president over Blaine. Time brings much political revenge. e Butter is 25 and 3) cents per pound. *At this price our county dames can make some money. In New York and Boston butter sells at from 75 to 90 cents per pound. It our darnera woald keep ~for their wives COwS, and let them coll butter, they conhd hold cotton Dawson, Ga., Thursddy, December 11, 1884. in the fall until it “nz” But they still keep planting cotton and buying meat and corn, until it is a wonder to us taat they are not bankrupted. They will yet have to learn to produce every thing neccessary for the feeding of the family and stock at home, and that cotton must be for “read y money,” before they can make our country a success as a farm ing country. o*s The Presidentinl election is over, the result decided and the people assured of the promises it secures them, and now our “suff rage slingers” will turn their at tention to the selection of coun ty officers. The list of candidates is certainly ample to allowa care ful choice. As yet the race is quiet, but is expected to become more interesting as the campaign approaches a close. Somebody will be disappointed. All are clever citizens and we wish it was in our power to place every bless ed one of ’emin a fat office; but to do this, we would have to ap ply to Cleveland for help, and we don’t want to embarrass him, poor fellow, with any other applica tions. Notwithstanding short erops and the low price paid for cotton, the collections of our merchants, so far as we can learn, have been pretty fair this season. While they have been forced to earry over some accounts, the number of mortgages foreclosed is not so great as the aparent scarcity of money would indicate. The farm ers of Terrell are of the debt pay ing class, as the above statement proves, and we are proud to make this showing for them. e Conkling has got even with Blaine at last. The ex-senator reminds us of the boy who, on be ing stung by a bumblebee, chased the insect for a half a mile, knock ed it down with his hat, and while holding it down with a wisp of hay, took a large pin from his coat, and jobbing it through the bumblebee several times said: “I guess you'll bclieve there is a God in Iseral now.” e A teacher in one of the Sunday school was lecturing a elass of lit tle girls on the influence of pious instructions in the formation of youthful character, “Ah, Miss Caroline,” said he to one of the class, “what do you think you would have been without your good father and pious mother?” “I suppose, sir,” answered Miss Caroline, “I should have been an orphan.’’ Swift Judgement. Christian Witness. During the “crusade,” some earnest Christian woman in a place in northern Pennsylvania went to the chief saloon keeper of the place, and said: “We want you to look at the names on the head-stones in our grave-yard, and count the young men who have gone there from drink sold by you. Is it not about time that you should stop this business?” The Saloon keep er pointing to a lic nse hanging on the wall, answered. ‘There is the authority for my business, and whatever may be the resalt, I'll sell it if Tgo to hell with my whole family. Get out of this place” Sha went her way, leav ing the saloon-keeperin the hands of God. Two weeks from that time the eldest son went out of the world fighting demons in de lirinm tremens. F'wo months la tor another son was ran over bya railroad train and brought home dead. Three month later his wife diod in a lunatic asylum. A fow weeks afterwards the last one of his Loys wes brought home on a shutter, dead—killed ina row in a neighboring saloon. This man i 8 now & lunatic. Let no young man despair. The original Vanderbilt ran a ferry boat, and old man Astor bought and sold skios for a living. Now behold them, how high their heads are, and how they despise ferry boat 3 and pelts! There is noth ing in this history to discourage even a tontblack. A WOMAN PAYS HER BET. Selling Forty-Two Bushels of Pea nuts to the Crowd on Boston Com mon. Probably the last of Boston's novel election bets was paid on the Commongto-day, says a Boston special of Nov. 25. All other unique wagers have been upon the general result and, accordingly i have beenp aid by Blaine parti-| sans. To-day’s loser was a sym | pathizer with Cleveland, and a wo- | man at that. Shortly before 9 there appeared on the Tremont street mall of the common, near Park street, a small, stripped tent, with a table in front piled with peanuts. Upon a neighboring tree was hung a sign: “Paying an election bet.” Promptly on the stroke of 9 a well dressed la dy took her stand behind the pro vision counter, hung up a notice: | “Peanuts 10 cents a bag,” and be gan doing a lively business with the large crowd that collected. One of the first comers asked her, “What sort of peanuts are you selling?” 1 “Cleveland peanuts.” “How's that? Cleveland was elected.” | “Well,” laughingly replied the lady, “I wagered $3O against $3OO that Gov. Cleveland would have 1,000 plurality in New York State. The other condition was that I should make the 850 selling peanuts on the Common from 9 o’clock in the morning uatil 9 o'clock at mnight and should not eat or drink during that time. The Cleveland peanut vender is Mrs. John Mullibeen, who lis pretty well known in Boston. She is about 55 years old, decid edly stout and quite distinguish ed in general appearance. Her hair is snow white and she wears it in a peculiar heap on top of her head. She was dressed in a well fitting Newmarket. A large ca meo breastpin fastened a white lace collar about her neck and a pair of black bowed eye-glasses hung upon her breast. It was de cidedly chilly all day, but she wore no outer garment, neither did she at any time leave her post behind the counter. Trade was so brisk that she had to get the assistance of a gentleman and two other ladies most of the time to assist either in making change or in putting the pranuts in bags- Baked beans eould have not sold faster and her stock was soon ex-’ hausted. Several more bushels soon arrived, but the demand did not slack. Almost every one had somethning to say in the way of a joke at her expense. She took it all in good part, giving as good as was sent in many eases. About noon Lewis Hayden, a local Blaine man of some note, came along. He sympatized heartily with Mul libeen and bought three packages under the impression t.at she lost on Blaine. Finding out to the contrary, he threw the nuts to the ground and said he would be ashamed to eat Cleveland peanuts and would not take them home. When first accssting the lady Un cle Lewis commended her for her patriotism. The ¢rowd at times numbered several hundred people. They ‘were very quiet and indulged in nothing more serious than fre quent clapping. Two policemen ‘kept them from crowding up too close. This was the only thing \ that troubled her. ’ “They look at me as though I was a wild beast,” she said. Toward night the dimes came in in a perfect shower. The sup ply had to be replenish d two or| three times, and before the 12 ' hours were gone 423 bushels had | passed over the counter in 2,150 | paper bags. Mrs. Mullibeen bore the tiresome test remarkably well. The terms of the bet were fulfilled | in every particular. She not only went without food and drink, buat she did not once sit down at her work. Buat the moment the stint was done she hurried to a waiting carringe and was driving rapidly to her home. The crowd cheered her as she left. The gross receipts ‘were $215, and she will probably lent about $l5O bysthe operation. lAfthr the bet is paia the surplug will he nsed to supply Tharks. giving dinners to many poor fami lies. This is the second time she has sold peanuts. When she was & young lady she made a similar bet on Fermont's election. In those days she wes a resident of the South. As she lost her bet she paid it on a fair grornd. In three hours she sold twenty-two barrels. A Sight of Fun. A Fort Buford correspondent of the Chicago Times says: A gallant captain of the sth In fantry, on a notable occassion, at tempted to coereco a mule which had backed up against his tent on a wild and stormy night to secure whirling blasts. The mule was an old offender, and was cotinual ly wandering about the camp after night. Upon this occassion he backed up against the tent, and the light inside permited an accurate rear view of the animal as his shadow fell on the canvass. The Captain was entertaining a party of friends that is to say, they were “swap ping lies,” as the boys call it, and when he caught sight of the mule he picked up a pine board and, re marking to his visitors. “Now we will have some fun, boy,s” leveled a full and fair blow at the animal. The aim had evidently been true, the shadow was seen to move on the eanvass, and then an awful tearing sound, and a pair of mule heels made themselves dis tinctly visible to the assemble crowd. The mule cotinued the kicking process until he had torn, in shreds the objective side of the tent selected for his attack, and his heels reached far enough to enable him to encounter the stove. The boys adjourned for the eva ning and one of the officers, in quitting the tent with a reason able degree of celerity, remarked profanely: “Yes we've had a d—m sight o fun." The officer who assaulted the mule was given other quarters that night, and in the following day purchased a tarpaulin with which to repair his domicile. Strange Freaks of Nature. A writer in the Newnan Herald gays: As a matter of some public ifip{)l'ttlllce I will give a biief sketeh of some strange freaks of nature in a family not many miles away from out town. The father is confined to his room, from which all light is excluded. His sight is so sensitive that he can not endure the light for a mo ment, hence his rooth is kept con stantly closed, and he lever ven tures out under any circumstances. This has been his condition for a number of years. It is stated that he married his neice. One son and two of their daughters are deaf and dumb, and are living with him. He remains. mostly alone, and when he needs attention he has a stick with a piece of red cloth tied to one epd, and runs that stick through a hole in the side of the house, which the daughters seeing coms to his re lief. Are this afflicted offspring the result of inter-marriage be tween blood reiations? Observa tion of many years in regard to similar cases induce me to favor such a theory. Dooly County Not Safe. Dooly Vindicator. “See dar, see dar? I told you s 80,” said an old darkey when he came in town the other day and saw the photographer’s tent.” “Soldier's be campin’ all 'round here d'reetly. Niggers all gwine back in slav'ry. 1 know’d it soon as I heer'd de Democrats 'lected. Dese whiwes ain’t 'joicing 'bout | nothing. Make hastc, olé "oman; | git what you want an’ less git outl er here.” 1 | A bill bas been introdaced in ‘the Legislature to make the pub licschool year ten months. The passage of this bill will create the | necessity of levying a tax on pro . perty to meet the increased ex pense of the system. It will not likely pase. Now the election is over, let us return to the question, did Jonah gwallow the whale, or did the whale swallow Jen h? NO. 31. BILLNYE To a Giddy Young Thidg. Fair one, in whose eyes the light of hope and youth and joy I see, you ask what I think of female suffrage, and you desire to know how it works in the far west where it has been tried. I answer that it works all right enough, but it doesn’t tear up the political greensward and puryfy the bal lot as you might think it would. If you will come here, however, and sit near me, and look up into my deep, earnest violet eyes, while the other people are engag ed in discusing our young men and our boys, while the great world, too, has its eyes on every thing else except the guntle gas zelle with the tail pointed at who is to be the mother of futare con gressmen, it will be a good time for me to buzz in youar pinkest ear. Female suffrage isn’'t what we need to raise the price of wheat so much as some other things. In this land of the home of the brave and our free, own native land, if you please, each name represents the labors, the trials and ¥ictories of lifetime. Anterica parmits every child born under tha star spangled banner—long may it wave—to begin the work of making himself, as the case may be, something or nothing. Is not! that true, Ethel? Blood and high lineage don’t count much Ethel. I'd rather have good, vigorous plebian blood in Ameri ca, Ethel, than to have royal blood with trichinsea in it. With a pure heart and liver that will not shirk any responsibillity, we may accomplish much. So it is not, after all, the pedigree on the pre rogative which is to make Rome howl, fair maid There are men in this great land, Ethsl, who swing their hats and howl and get drunk, and vote, who do not know so much all their lives as you forget when you are asleep. Soit's not a ques tion of qualification, you see, but —llet us step into the coservatory amoment while I murmerinto your ear a thought which came to me several years ago. Which would you prefer, Ethel, to run the gev ernment, or to run the man who runs the government. 1 sas by tha tell tale eslor that come and goes in your cheeks, and by the manner in which you struggle to swallow your fan and twig. Mind you, I do not say that the objsct of a joyous beinglike your self should be to marry a man | and run him; but I say this with out fear of successful contra diction, that the overwhelming percentage of my own sex enters the marriage state during life. Continuing the argument from this premise, I am left to say, and | still without fear of successful contradiction, that in each case where I have looked up the data, I have found that these men have married one of your sex. This leads me to say that while marriage may not be an object to ward which we should struggle ‘ it is a condition of things which ' is certainly alarmingly prevalent. And that is why I say that female suffrage need not rack your gentle ainl. Lot the job oat. Bothe natural, noble unreason able, irris. tible, hilarious,tearful ,comfortable sunny package of strawberry and cream contradiction that you are now, only try to ba sensible and useful, and you will be solid with the masses, Ethel, you will be sol (id with the maswes. So live that when thy summons lcomes to join the matrimonial oa ravan that moves toward the con unbial goal, thou go not like the 1 half paid hired man, begging po tatoes, bat, sustained and soothed ‘ by common sense, approach thy doom like one who wraps the cel | lar door about him and lies down to pleasent dreams. ‘ This ought to be a season of re conociliation. Let the married man forget his wrongs and invite hiis mother-in- law to come and spend a month with his wife, - Thomasville Times; You're a ' nice old stag to talk about mother t in-laws;yoa had better go and ge | one before you csiay to advise others, I A WEDDING BERINDTHE BARY. A Pretty Quaker City (:irl Unites Her Fortanes with Those of a Convieted ; Bui‘gl:xr. | A welding bohind the bars of the county jail at Now Castle, saya a Wilmington, Dal,, special of Nov. 20, is the absor¥ing topic for gossipers in that vallage. The marriage is a peculisrly romantio oune, the brids being Miss Gussie Turner, a pretty and yivacious girl living on Broad street, Philadel phia, and the groom, Charles D. Bilake, a notorious burglar who lis serving out a thres years' term for robbing the house of Jacob Pusey, of this city. He hal previously served two terms in Penunsylvania prison for burglary. When arrainge ed for trial for his last crime, a sister to the prisonet sut near the dock, while in the rear of the court room sat Miss Turner, watching with intense interest the proceedings. Im addition to his sentence of three years, Blake wnee* sentenced to recaive thirty lashes, but at the earnest pleading of the conviet's sweetheart the Governoy remitted the lashing. Since that time the girl has been a frequent visitor to the jail, bring ing delicacies to her lover. Her lady-like appearance and gentle ‘manner won the geod-will of the ‘prison officials, and she was allow. - ed unusual privilagas. She availed herself of the oppor tunities to smuggle tools into the cell, which Blake made use of to escape, the second time being sue cessful, and gettingus far as Phil adelphia, where he went on a spree and was recaptured. Miss Turu er wus then rigidly prohibited from seeing Blake except in the presence of a guard. A few days ago she inquired whether, if she ] became the wife of the prisoner, she would be permitted to visi# him alone. She was told that she would, and at onee expressed her wish to be united with him. Blake was equally anxious, and Mayor | Black finally performed the cere lm(my that made them man and wife. The usual bridal tour was deferred, but Warden Hunee gens erously served a wedding supper in the cell, and, notwithstanding their gloomy surroundings, the couple appeared to be perfectly happy. Blake is 2 handscme fel low of 30 and the bride is teas years his junior. Miss. Blake re turned to Philadelphia after the ' ceremony, but every few day she | will visit her liusband until hi® l sentence expires —uhout a yone hence. Why does a bald head remind one of heaven? Becausa it iv @ bright and shining spot, and there is no dyeiug or parling thers, Y 1 N. L. RAGAN, Wholesalo and Retail Desler in ALBANY, GA; I{AS for snle 5,000 bushels cf RRD RUST PROOF TEXAS BEED OATS. Also the very celebrated MeCule lough Seed Oats —carly vatiety and guat.e teed to mature 90 duys from time of plant inz. If youintend powing grain be sure to call on N. L RMGAN, OetHmB. . Albany, Ge. n e 1 e LA ¥ I'errell Sherift's Sale, \"II.L be sold before the court house door in the city of Dawsor, Ga., on the first Tueseay in Junusary next, within the legal hours of sale, the following ‘)rops erty to-wit: Fractional lot of land lying and being in the sccond distriet of origls nally Lee county, now Terrell county, Ga.. and known and distinguished in the plan 6! said district us lot No. 82, and containin ¢ one hundred and forty acres more or less: also all that portion of fractional 1o of land lying and being 1 the same district of said county and aml adjoining the above d seribed lot anl known and distinguished in the plan o? !mid district as lot No. 1. ¢xcept, twenty. ’eigm acres taken off of said lot and at tached tothe dower of the widow of C. P, Huckaby, deceased, said remainder of fractional lot containing one hundred and andd tweive acres more or lesg, Also the east hall of lot No. 32 in the third distriet cof of originatly Lee, now Terrell county, it | being ali that portion of sard lot of jand lving east of the widow's dower and con« taining one hundred one and » fourih acree | more or less; said tracts or parcels of lands. | being all thnt portion of lands of the late | Chas. P. Huckaby, decensed, lying east of {the widow’s dower a 4 sutveyed by the 'l('nun!_v Surveyor of Terrell county, ssid | tracis or parcels of land containing three | hundred and filty-three and one-foutth | acres more or lesd, Levied upon a 8 th ’ property of H. A, Cozart o satialy afl e issued trom Terrell Superior court in favor of C. A. Cheatlimmn va. . A. Comars. »‘l.&lfi atthe same time swd place will be <A sold one lot of land number one bhun. dred (107) and seven fexeept twenty-eight | acres previously sold to Juhn Moreland) in the third district of Terrel county, Gu,. it being one hundred nad soventy five acred more or less. Levied upon as the propers tp of James D. Woolbright to satisfy afl fa issued from Terrell gnperiot Court in favor of Mrs. Luly Wisean, sdministras trix of [saac N. Wiseman, deceased, va, dames D. Wolbrighs, Tenant in possess sion notified. [ Dee, 24,1834, 1, N, Trorytox, Sherid,