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" PUYNGENT POINTS,
Jsc thie wake iof prohibition. is
springing P all over this fair
land the little brown jug factory.
LovE is a mass of intangible
emotions over which predominates
gn insane desire to squeeze some
thing- AR
Tae question is often asked,
wWhat are we todo with the mod
orate drinkers?’ Improve the
quality and reduce the guantity.
gy, Lours elaime a man who
‘killed 108 blackbirds at one shot.
An ordinary newspaper liar had
just 88 well go to chopping wood.
Ax Athéns correspondent says
‘there are eight aspirants for con
gressional honors in that district,
with nineteen months yet to her
srom. i
Ir men’s bodies were in propor
tion to the size of their souls,
gome of our first citizens conld
button their collars around their
boot tops.
A GEORGIA colored man has in
dulged in but twenty minutes’
sleep per night for the last five
years, and the poultry in that
neighborhood are in the same fix.
EvEry negro office holder in
Washington swears that he is a
democrat and was never anything
else. Cuffee proposes to remain
around the meal tub till the end
of the season.
A NorTH Georgia “electric girl”
has learned “to stand on the floor
snd defy four strong men to lift
her.” Of course the gentlemen
are too modest and gallant to lift
the young critter in publie,
AvtHouGH Mr. Cleveland has
been accused of sitting on the
white house steps in his shirt
sleeves, he is yet to be charged
with walking through a damp
back yard without his rubbers.
A GARDENER near Mobile, Ala.,
is said to have raised watermelons
out of doors from seeds planted
in December. Thisisquite a new
method of utilizing doors, but as
our curiosity is aroused we should
like to see a door seed.
Farra is that grand confidence
which seeks not to know whether
the stewed rabbit of the cheap
restaurant ever scuttled before a
vhite and upturned tail over the
mowclad fields or warbled spas
modically on a back fence.
A GEroralA inventor has invent
el a fire-proof cotton bagging, the
we of which will very
much reduce the insurance rates
on cotton. 1t is called “antiphlo
gin,” and is said to be cheaper
than the jute or gunny-bagging
now used.
Tae Italians believe that ma
ternity robs a woman of her voice.
The Italians should come to this
country and listen to a rural
mother c¢all home her children
who are playing in a wood a wmile
distant. They'll then know bet
ter.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND contin
wes his habit of retiring early.
He gets up regularly at 7 a. m.,
and after starting .the fire in the
kitchen range and calling the
took and the servants, he may be
S¢en any morning building chick
-0 coops or sawing wood in the
back yard.
Tar Valdesta News tells a big
sotyof a bear seen, in Lowndes
tounty which turned out to be a
barrel. We guess there are some
barrels in Lowndes ‘county the
tontents of whieh would make &
fellow see suakes. No refloction
Pon the parties who saw the bear
18 Intended, but ’the reader can
draw his own inferences.
ThE habit which ffontier post:
asters have of carrying the mail
ound in the pockets of their
trousers vexes the souls of the
“wboys. When one of the latter
*pecies has ridden 200 miles after
his mail and. is gold by the post
;:’“tef's wife that the post-office
"8 gone after a barrel of waier
o won't bo back for two days,
le‘ COW puneher feels” like com-
Plaining to the government.
ALxogr g]] the editors who did
16t go on the press excursion to
New Orleans excuse themselves
i this wige: “Circumstance over
¥hich we had no control prevent
™ our being present.” The truth
of the businagg is we had no mon
¥ and that is abous the condition
of fi’e bal&noe Of, the imwoug
% who staid at home, ; also
hany who went and cut 8 splurge
v rimenk.— Quitman
THE DAWSON JOURNAL,
» VOL. 19.
- LULU HURST EXPLAINED., ]
P § ” —— .
The Georgia Wonder once More
| Showed Up asa Fraud.
New York Analyst.
The American Marketman is a
weekly paper published in Chica
go, in the interest of the canning,
packing and grceery trade, and is
most ably- edited by Mr. J. W.
Lynch. One of the marked feat- 1
ures of the paper is what is best
known as “horse sense.” A fair
specimen of this is the following
practical expose of the Georgia
Wonder "humbug, which we con
dense:
: LULU HURST. _
Ever since the above young la
dy gave her first exhibition at
Central Music Hall, we have been
trying to get time to write her up,
or rather down. Why so many
have been puzzled at her wonder
less deception is to - us a mystery.
True, this is out of our line of
business, and ouly- take it up on
account of the miserable failure
made by the daily press and the
scientists. We shall address our
talk to those who have seen the
marvelous Georgia Wonder, her
innocent rural father, and the big
end of the show, Mr. +———, who
acts as ring master. Suppose we
ought to handle the subject in a
more scientific way, but it is too
absurd. We know that there are
thousands who believe, as the
‘Tribune says, that Miss Lulu
Hurst succeeded in proving to
her audience that the number of
things the world cannot under
stand is increasing quite as rapid
ly as the areaof its scientific
knowledge. 'We have had nocon
versation with any one who ever
tried Miss Lulu’s odic force, but
have proved the whole proceed
ings by reasoning and experiment,
just as we are going to prove if to
you.
~ If, as we asked before, you did
see Miss Hurst on the above date,
please step this way to this part
of the room where the green car
% pet is drawn tightly, as the foot
i hold is not so good for the man
from the audience; then he will
be somewhat nervous anyhow, as
the performance is anovel one
to even an old stager. Now let
&your assistant hold the chair just
‘as you saw it done; mind, he i 3 to
‘hold the echair and himself still.
Have you got on your lubbers so
you won't slip on the carpet?
Now put your left hand on the
seat of the chair and your right
‘hand on the flat middie round of
the back. Let the ball of your
thumb press hard on top of this
round. Don't take any stock in
the “laying on lightly business.”
Bosh! now push, don’t pull, as
you can't pull without grasping,but
push with both kands in a strong
spasmodic way as Lulu did, and
when you get your man started
you can defy a giant to hold the
chair still. He is wusing his
strength on the slippery carpet to
hold the chair firm; youn are using
yours with'the leverage and sure
footing. Hold your arm and hand
gtill in any way you can fix it so
a chil® cant move it—it is im
possible; it is the same princi
ple.
Now take your billiard cue,
grasp it in the middle, fingers up
‘and hands about eight inches
apart. Hold your elbows down
and press hard against your sides.
Stand on one foot, as Lulu did.
‘Let whoever is assisting you take
hold of the cue as he likes, but
see that he spreads his hands out
at least twelve inches from yours.
Do you remember what the young
‘man said to the audience? “If
you got Miss Hurst's hands above
‘her head she loses her power.”
Now if you have the cue just as we
have described, let your assistant
‘push with . all his might, and if%
you find he is too much for you i
let your hands go above your
head. But without heisa very
‘strong man it will be impossible
to push you off the one legged
centre of gravity. You may say
‘that Lulu did not appear to lean
forward, but she did, though.
‘Her dress being of heavy stuff it
swung as a pendulum rfnd gave
the appearance of standing ercct.
} Now gt the umbrella, open_it,
give it to your assistant, let him
grasp.the stick with his loft hand
close up to the stay ribs, bring
his right hand down to the lowest
point of the stick. Now he must
hold the umbrella and himself
still, nothing more. Lay your
right hand lightly, as it were, on
the centrs of the stick, just as Lu.
did, but be sure you lay your hand
on so that the flexor of the first
joint of the thumb can be put
where it will do the most good
when you begin to exert your
strength in the least expected di
rection. Again, as with the chair,
don't attempt to pull, always push
sideways. Do you remember the
man who was nearly run over the
footlights, how he was pushed
sideways and backward? Then,
if your assistani won't push as
you want him to, why, break the
stick or let your hand slip up
among the ribs and break them—
the odic force must escape some
where.
Now for the heavy act, lifting
man and chair clear of the floor
excepting his feet. Do you re
member the kind of chair that act
was done with—a cane bottom
with straight legs and back per
fectly plain? You must havethat
special shaped chair or you will
fail in this; let your assistant seat
himself, and, as the stage mana
ger directed, “set well back and
brace yourself to keep from fall
ing on your face; now place your
‘hands as Lu. did, but den’t at
tempt to raise him bodily, but
push the chair from you as tho’
you were trying to throw him on
his face; at the same time lift as
though you were going to throw
the chair over your head, but don’t
grasp the chair, as the audience
‘would see that and there is no
‘need of it; the flexor of the first
joint of the thumb is all you want
to use in pushing forward and
upward; your assistant’s feet act
as the fulerum of a lever. Now
let another assistant sit across his
legs face to face, and, strange as
it may seem, the chair may be
lifted with less trouble than when
the one man is in it. Do you re
member that on the Monday night
we are speaking of Lu. made a
complete failure in trying to lift
Mr. Arthur Catton, because he in
sisted in keeping his feet off the
floor, and would not brace back in
the chair? Miss Hurst can't, as
strong as she is, and sheis no kit
ten, lift a four year old child in a
chair the way she takes hold of it.
Should this article meet the eyes
of a skeptic in a ecity where Miss
Hurst is exhibiting, sit in the
chair and keep your feet off the
floor, no matter what the stage
manager says; if you are one of
the two whom she tries to lift at
once, be sure you are the bottom
man; keep your feet up and see
that the top man, if a stranger,
does not raise himself off your lap,
and, our word for it, she will nev
er lift you.
Now get your billiard cue again
for the “pressing to the floor act.”
Do you remember how she held
it? Small end up under the arm
pit, with the palm of the hand
‘turned out, and close down to the
butt end, so close that one gentle
man had to ask her to give him
robm to take hold, which she did
very reluctantly. Now, having
the cue under your arm pit, make
your assistant spread his hands
as far apart as he can, giving him
barely room to lay hold of the
lower end; then tell him to push
it to the ground; the harder he
pushes the more cohesion there is
to your hand, and by pressing the
arm hard to the body it will be
found almost impossible to get it
to the floor; yet, on this night,
one gentleman did so twice, and
then Lu. just laughed, te! he!
Did you hear the whistle of the
cue as it slipped over her open
band, showing the h:avy lever
age and pressure she was exert
ing?
Now for forcing the chair to the
floor act, and that will close the
performance, but we must have
more than the one man or two
you have been following our test
with, as this will have to have a
confederate, and the more we get
around the chair, and the more
confusion, the less chanceof your
audience getting away with yon.
Was there a citizen of Chicago at
the exhibition who knew the young
man that Lu. always got away
with, the one in whose hand she
broke the umbrella stick, and who
Dawson, Ga., Thursday, April 9, 1885.
sat in a chair on the extreme left
of the stage, and whoin this chair
act, at one time when the gchair
was being forced to the floor, got
almost under it? Don't you know
that the stage manager called for
more men to force the chair down?
Do yon suppose that the young
fellow who took that running
jump and landed on the backs of
the gentlemen who were at the
chair would have dared to do such
a thing had he not been in the
troupe? Again, as Miss Hurst's
feats are tricks, there were many
ways it could have been done.
Take any two gentlemen who are
known to each other, no more, and
see if Miss Lulu can prevent them
from forcing the chair down. In
conclusion, pay no attention to
that little ghost story the old
man tells about the Georgia expe
rience at home. Why don’t she
do so now? [f you buy that
crowd for a simple party of plain,
unassuming country people, you
put your money in a “stone blind
pool.” We have not written this
in a scientific or metaphysical
strain, because science, electricity,
metaphysics or an unknown force
has nothing to do with it; it is
trickery, fraud, practice, and
newspaper gush from beginning
to end. <
Relief from Ma'arial Poison. |
i For six months past I have been
affected with a very serious case
of typhoid malaria, which I con
tracted on my orange grove in
Northwestern Florida. I tried
several remedies, but everything
failed me. Two weeks ago I pur
chased a bottle of Swift's Specific,
which has proved a sure cure for
this dreadful malady. I had al
most given up hope of ever being
well again, for I had tried so many
remedies, all of which had failed
to do any good. Would to God
that all the afflicted people resid
ing in the malarious counties of
Georgia, Florida and Alabama
would read this and try the S. 8.
S. instead of dosing themselves
with quirine and mineral reme
dies. I feel it my duty to suffer
ing humanity to write this certifi
cate, for it may be the means of
many of my old friends trying
this great remedy as I have done.
So strong is my faith in it that
in every case where the directions
are followed I guarantee a sure
cure or forfeit one hundred dol
lars.
Cuas. D. BArger, Publisher,
Editorial Room Temperance
Advocate, Atlanta, Ga.
For many years my blood was
in a bad condition, manifésting
its character by a scrofulous
breaking out on both my ankles,
which caused me considerable suf
fering as well as great annoyance.
Seeing the name of Rev. Jesse
H. Campbell, of Columbus, Ga.,
attachced to a certificate concern
ing a cure by Swift's Specifie, I
wrote to him about this remedy.
His reply was that “it is a won
derful remedy.” I tried it and
found the action very much as de
scribed in the directions. T used
about one dozen bottles, observ
ing a steady and almost daily im
provement from the start. I was
entirely cured of this disagreea
ble and distressing disease. That
has been nearly a year ago, and I
find no signs of the disease return
ing, and am ready to testify with
Rev. Mr. Campbell that Swift's
Specific “is a wonderful remedy.”
R. M. R.
Charleston, 8. C., Feb. 5, 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin
Disease mailed free.
Tue Swirr Speciric Co., Draw
er 3, Atlanta, Ga.
A Great Discovery.
Mr. Wm. Thomas, of Newton,
la., says: “My wife has been se
riously affected with a eough for
twenty-five years, and this spring
more severely than ever before.
She had used many remedies with
out relief, and being urged to try
Dr. King's New Discovery,did so,
with most gratifying results. The
first bottle relieved her very fuch,
and the second bottle has abso
lutely cured her. She has not
had so good health for thirty
years.” Trial Bottles Free at
& Crouch Bro's. Drug Store. Large
size $l.OO.
“It is a Wonderful Remedy.” *
MURRELL’S DEN,
‘A Strange Story from Carroll County,
| Tennessee,
Correspondence Nashville World.
HunriNapoN, TENN., Mch. 15th 'B5.
--~On the 11th instant, we left
Huntingdon for the southwestern
portion of this county for a few
days’ bird and squirrel hunt, hav
ing for our companion A. M. Lee,
the acknowledged prince of post
masters; and let us say when
Huntingdon loses him she will
lose a post-master that has pleas
ed every one without a dissenting
voice. His duplicate cannot be
found. Being securely seated be
hind a two-forty(hours) thorough
bred, we were soon -on eur -hunt
ing ground, it being in the imme- }
diate vicinity where we were both
born and raised, as a matter of
course we were well acquainted
with the woods. While following
a rocky branch, known as the Gin ]
branch, we came to whera it skirt
ed the margin of a high hill, ‘our
sotter, Charlie, madea dash at a
rabbit and both rabbit and Char
lie disappeared in the hill The
entrance was what we supposed to
be a crevice in the rocks, as the
margin of the hill was covered
with large sand rocks; ina mo
ment the bats came pouring out
by the hundreds; the weather be
ing chilly they fell to the gound
ina stupor as soon as the air
struck them—their slumbers had
been disturbed by the dog. We
were enjoying the fun, when, fo
our astonishment, several large
horn owls came flopping ount, one
gave a dismal hoot as though he
had not seen daylight in years, or
wished to frighten us away. Be
coming uneasy for fear our dog
could not return, Mr. Lee went to |
the entrance of the cave, taking a
pole and probing some six foet, he
found it made an abrupt angle to
to the righé;e the opening was
barely sufficient for a common
sized man to enter; he groped his
‘way until it became so dark that
he returned and revealed the ter
rible news that it opened out into “
what he believed to be alarge hall i
and that he could hear Charlie
running arcund and whining, as
though he was lost and could not
find bis way out. We sent to a
neighboring house and procured
a lantern, determined to rescue
Charlie at all hazards. With lan
tern in hand we both entered,com
pelled to ecrawl on hands and
knees for some distance before we
could walk erect; the entrance
turned first to the right then to
the left, in a zigzag form; finally
we met Charlie and his bark, as it
echoed and re-echoed, astonished
us to such an extent that we rais
ed our lanterns over our heads,
which threw abright light around.
We stood dumb for a moment; we
were shocked and horrified; the
surroundings were revealed; we
were in a large room, ceiled on
sides and overheaded with rude
clapboards. Before us set a large
table with a mautilated pack of
cards in the centre; heavy wooden
chairs around the table; a couple
of Jarge rough shop-made knives
onone corner. As soon as we
could collect our senses and calm
our staggered brain we found we
were in a secret cave that. had
ouce been occupied by a band of
outlaws, but who or when,was the
question. In surveying the room,
which was 18x18, we found, in one
corner, a black something; hold
ing the light close, our blood was
chilled; it was a large, black man,
his skin and flesh dry as those
who, in ancient days, were given
‘passage over Sharon;’a large and
rough made chain was locked
Plround his ankle and fastenéd to
a staple in the floor. In the op
posite corner lay the dried frames
of two huge blood hounds, in an
old and heavy wooden box was
found two old-fashioned horse
pistols with flint locks; they had
undoubtly done service in the rev- ‘
olution; there were also several
pairs of handeuffs. We began to
think that we were in the regicns
of the damned. When we looked
on the rough wall there we saw
“the handwriting.” It was “John
A. Murrell, 1823.” We were in
the great outlaw’s den; wo could
then see that theman chained had
been stolen by the bold bandit—
brought thero and chained wuntil
NO. 47.
they could run him south and sell
him. The presumption is that
when the cave was deserted he
was alive; the doom was sure but
what agony he underwent—chain
ed and alone—his face like Mil
ton’s devil, “grinned horribly a
ghastly smile.” The_blood hounds
had been kept for the purpose of
re-capturing any slave that might
‘escape. As we were about mak
ing our exit our companion, Lee,
called our attention, in an excited
mapner, to another object. We
turned around and he was pale
‘and the lantern trembling in his
‘hand; he pointed under the table,
‘and there lay the dried frame of
'another human being. Examin
ing close it proved to be that of a
onco beautiful female. She tos
‘was chained. She had died a hor
rible death—starved to death.
Herlong yellow hair still clung
to the dry skin on her head,which
hung in golden tresses over her
bosom that once heaved with the
breath of life, though now ecold;
her once ruby lips were parted so
as to disclose a set of pearly teoth.
How came she in a robber’s den?
She could not have been a victim
to cupid’s dart, if so why chain
her? She undoubtedly was kid
napped and held for ransom. But
cur heart grows sick as we write;
several letters were found of a
suspicious character, but as they
contain the names of people in
middle Tennessee, we decline to
give their contents,
The discovery of the den has
®aused great excitement in the
neighborhood. Numbers have vis
ited the place, and a few have ven
tured in. Mr. W. C. Blair, on
whose land the cave is, refused to
have anything disturbed until the
people could see it. He permitted
A. M. Leé to remove the dragoon
pistols, which have John A. Mur
rell’s initials stamped on the bar
rels. Any person wishing to see
them can call on himat the post
office in Huntingdon, where he
will take pleasure in showing
them. |
NO APPLE-SASS FOR SAMVEL.
Farmer Tilden Loses Two Choice Bar
rels While Sleeping Heavily.
Mr. Samnuel J. Tilden, the sage
speculator of Gramercy Park, says
the Now York Journal, was spry
ly walking about his farm at Yon
kers yesterday morning with a
doubled-barrelled shotgun. The
night before some people crawled
through the window of his smoke
house, and stole two barrels of ap
ples for sance which Farmer Til
den had locked up thére for safe
ty. Mr. Tilden was sound asleep
at the time, having done a hard
day's plonghing, and did not hear
the marauders as they were mak
ing away with his apples./ Tt is
supposed that Farmer ‘Tilfin's
dog was chloroformed, as oné ‘of
Mzr. Tilden’s speeches, in which it
is believed a bottle of chloroform
was wrapped up, was found lying
under the nose of the animal.
There is no clew to the thieves.
The foot tracks, however, corres
pond to those of a Democratic
heeler who used to come to the
Yonkers farm last sammer to
urge Mr. Tilden to run for the
Presidency.
Some say that the outrage
serves Mr, Tilden right for having
apples when his neighbors had
none.
Mr. Tilden intends to sit up
nights with his remaining nine
barrels of apples and guard them
with his sh otgan.
Never Give Up.
If you are suffering with a low
and depressed spirit, loss of ap
petite, general debility, disordered
blood, weak constitution, head
ache, or any disease of a bilious
nature, by all means procure a
bottle of Eleectric Bitters. You
will be surprised to see the rapid
improvement that will follow; you
will be inspired with new life;
strength and activity will return;
pain and misery will cease, and
benceforth you will rejoice in the
praise of Electric Bitter. Sold at
fitty cents a bottle by Crouch
Bros,
SO
“What is laughter?” asks a sei
entist. “It is what you don’t hear
when you find yonr wife sitting
up for you alter the club,”
Wants Him to Decldé”
I vlviah helwou}d ‘%échfi , Tmma, o '{
wish he wou e o
I've been & bfldeamm times-=
When shall I bea bride? .
My cousin Anuie, my sister Fan,
The nuptial knot have sied;
Yet come what will, I'm single still—=
I wish he would decide:
He takes me to the play, mamma,
He brings mie pretty books,
He woes me with his eyegimmm‘, ;
Buch speechless things he looks!
Where’er 1 roam—abroad, at home—
He lingers by m sigé; ;
Yet come what wigi, m single still—=
I wish he would decide.
I throw out many hints, mamma,
I speak of other beaux,
1 talklabout do;nest(iic life g
And sing, ‘‘they don’t >
And ah! how vain each pfleom traid
His wavering heart to guide!
Do what I will I'm single still—
I wish he would decide. '
' AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
Dr. Mary Walker Thinks That Misd
Cleveland is ‘‘One of Us.”
Anamusing incident occurred
at the White House reception om
‘Saturday during the progress of
the reception, in which the Presi
dent was an innocent prineipal.
he had gone but for a drive, and
upon returning te the White
House he found admission cut off
by the dense crowd which filledk
the porch and all its approaches.’
To add to his perplexity some of
the ladies in the portico reeog
nized him and insisted upon shak
ing bhands with him. This was
the signal for a host of congratu
latory callers who had not count
ed upon seeing the President too,
and he was literally surrounded
by an enthusiastic audience of la
dies who were deaf to his appeals
to be let into the White House.
Ingress or egress was impossible,.
and fully fifteen minutes the Pres
ident was forced to remain in his
trying position.
Dr. Mary Walker created the
sensation of the afternoon. She
called early, and was dressed in a
new suit—Prince Albert coat but<
toned up high, dark trousers and
stout heavy boots of calfskin. A
high standing collar and black tie
gave a very masculine expressiom
to her thin face.
Dr. Mary entered the reeeption
room carrying a new silk tile in
one hand and a small umbrella
with a silver handle in the other.
She walked towards Miss Cleve
land with a long, sweeping stride.
Marshal MeMichael, who was
prepared for almost anything,
turned pale as Dr. Mary approach
ed.
“Heavens!” he ejaculated, “what.
am I to do?”
He didn’t have long to consider,
“Please present me to Misa
Cleveland,” said the Doetor sharp
ly, taking him by the arm.
Miss Cleveland knew nothing
about the Doctor’s strange pecul
ianty of dress, and when Mr. Mc
Michael presented “Dr. Walker'™
she said pleasantly:
“I am glad to meet you, sir.”
“Iwould have you know that I
am not a sir,” said she, drawing
herself up to her full height. “IL
am a woman, but I have advanced
ideas about dress.”
“So I perceive,” said Misa
Cleveland, trying hard not to
smile.
“I understand that you are one
of us, and belong .to the advanced
thinkers in our sex.”
Miss Cleveland made no direct
reply, but simply said that she
thought the cause of womanhood
was not suffering.
“You ounght to be on our side,”
continued Dr. Mary, to the great
annoyance of the people waiting
for her to pass on, “for I elected
your brother; but for me he would
not be in the White House to-day.
“Indeed!"”
~ “Yes; I know that I influence
}more than enough votes to have
‘turned the scale against him in
New York State.”
At this point the pressure in the
rear became so strong that she
was foreed into the next room, not
without assuring Miss Cleveland,
however, that she would eall again
and often.
Despite Dr. Mary's intrusion
the reception to-day was a success,
The White House was cvowded
during the reception hours with
beautiful and handsomely dressed
ladies.
A Clear Voice,
Mr. Charles T. Krobs, 737 Mad«
ison avenue, Baltimore,Maryland,
well known in banking eireles,
certifies to the excellence of the
Red Star Cough Cure. A few
doses speedily cured his niece of
severe hoarseness and sore throat,
It is pleasant to take. No one
can ba poisoned by this remedy,
which is freo from opium,mgw .
ond other dangerous drugs,