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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1885)
~ GEORGIA GRAPHICS. _@eneral Hancock deelined sy dentonistration er smpper at the hands of the Atlanta ‘public. _@overnor and Mrs. McDaniel have visited Albuny -since our Jast isBo€, and were royally enter wined. ; _The Sparta Ishmaelite is in formed that W. H. Carlton, of Athens, is 81 avowed candidate for Governor next year. __lvey Brothers, Macon, have a machine which saws the wood and Joads the wagon at the same time. It reduces the price of wood fifty cents per cord. _Sam Jones and the Devil are fighting for territory in Tennes 0. We hate to admit that really we are afraid Sam has crossed the grontier. Give the Devil his dues. _-A preacher aged sixty years, who lives in the up country, re cently rode twenty miles, preached | two sermons and married him a wife, all in one day. He was mix ing business with pleasure. —The practical joke of the sea gon is for the clerks of Sparta to pass around with their hands full of monthly bills trying to betray the public into the belief that they are collecting. _Some little excitemént has poen created by a young lady auundoning her school in Gaines ville to run away and marry with out. her parents consent. Why bless the girls, they'll every one do it. —George Washington, a Bruns wick negro, claims that a white man, Mr. Bounrel, owner of a ves sel plying between Brunswick and Wilmingtou, Del, stole his wife, Rosa, and carried her away in his vessel. —Rev. Sam Jones told his con- | gregation at Nashville the other night that he hoped to do some godd in that city, but that he was ot afraid of doing any harm, as the Neshville people are now as low down as they can get. —The Lumpkin Independent says: “President Hawkins, of the A. P. & I, returned from his Northern trip last week. He pur chased rails for the road while gone, and the first shipment is daily expected in Americus.” - —And now Senator Colquitt has tat up Jack and recommended a rank, died-in-the-wool republican for office when a good democrat wanted the place. Our two Sena tors are funny old coons; wonder if they wouldn't like to take a rost? —Mr. W. 8. Roberts,ex-President of the suspended Augusta bank, and under indictment for perjury and larceny after trust, attempted suicide in Augusta, on Tuesday, of last week, by cutting his throat with a razor. His recovery is doubtful. Poorold man! . —Atlanta is enlarging the field for the amusement of her popula- | tion. Baseball cannot meet every taste, so she has cock fighting now ‘ ad open betting on the fights. Wonder what will be brought for ward pext? Bull fights, dog fights, or rat killing? —The visit of General Hancock, for the purpose of *purchasing gounds for the location of United States barracks in Atlanta, 18 important. With the $15,000 Bppropriated for purchase of land, 8 tract of sixty to one hundred acres ought to be secured, well watered, well wooded, and conven-‘ l@lltly locgted_ . i-'l‘rain wreckers are pursuing their diabolical work on the Sa vaonah, Florida and Western rail- Toad. The trestle near Boulogne station was . burned Saturday Uight. On Sunday morning & Passing train found the bridge over the St. Mary’s on fire. Five ®lpty and ten loaded freight cars vent through the trestle, and were d%tmy:ed by fire. The loss to the E:Gd will be considerable.—Albany ews 14th inst. he:ln view of the fact that the Cut‘l'y m’achinery used in boring - ibert's artes.ian well had to be tberzzed for lighter, work has ore been temporarily sus lfilded. Th.e lighter machinery idlyn(;w urrl.ved nnd is being rap i T(KI; “fced 1n position. Th(? vlvell ol b*:t deep and the original ok L‘;& ribed has been exhaust o dg’c(;‘oidfl)onald has order- Vhether o 1 ay 18th to decide tomertoke issne bonds .in order bonds Diete the enterprise. The b io;m for no specified amount, undertins much to- complete tho tertaking in toto, THE DAWSON JOURNAL. VOL. 21. —Cuthbert Isa very dry town just now. No water, no whiskey and the artesian well suspended. —WE fully concur with the Fort Valley Mirror in the following: W. S. Brantley, in Albany News ‘and Advertiser, thinks cotton seed may be the cause of what is sup posed to be hog cholera. An ex amination of the hog after death, it seems, would show the cause, if from eating seed, as was done in the case of cattle in the lower part of the State. An ascertainment of the cause is well worth exami nation of the intestines, and if death is caused by cotton seed, further progress of the disease could be easily arrested. It be hooves our people to save the hog and save the bacon. —A negro tramp, calling him self Wm. Joues, attracted some attention at Valdosta Saturday. He claimed to have left Mobile fifteen years ago, when quite a boy, with a horse drover named Eason King. They got out on the Western frontier and were captured by the Indians. King was killed and he was kept and made a servant. He is covered with scars and {elis wonderful tales. Recently he made his es cape, and is trying to get back to his old home. In a railroad acci dent near Chicago he received a serious blow about the head, from which he became deaf, On this account he is hard to communi cate with. His story is plausible, and those who are acquainted with the frontier country and with Indian habits aud customs think he has been there. He got some assistance and went on. PUNGENT POINTS, ALL the members of a Chicago baseball club have had fever and ague. They call thewmselves the qui-9 clubs. MixNeEAroLls girls have red ribbon clubs with the motto, “The lips that touch wine shall never touch mine.” DBeer is now the popular beverage. A HANDSOME youth, being ques tioned by a rather stylish lady as to his occupation, replied that he was “an adjuster of movable al phabets.” He was simply a priuter. _ “No human being can ever look the barber who is shaving him steadily in the eye,” says the Bos ton Post. Perhaps not; but why do you let the barber shave you in the eye? As the weather grows warmer it is to be hoped that the scalawag and carpet-bag office holders in the South will loose their grip. If they onmly let go to spit on their hands, we've got 'em. Tae Covington Enterprise says: “A two dollar calf ruined a forty dollar garden for the editor’s wife recently, while our setter pup tore vp a four dollar cast net the day afterwards. “Those who hava must lose.” A GIrL with three arms is one of the attractions in New Orleans. The young lady should be very popular, as she can put one arm around a fellow’s neck, while she sews on buttons with the oth er two. Ax English medical authority says that the man who blows the big horn in a band rarely lives be yond a period of three years. This is about two years eleven months and twenty-nine days longer than his next door neighbor wants him to live. W don't believe this: The State of Matrimony is one of the United States. It is bounded by a ring on one side and a cradle on the other. The climate is sultry till you pass the tropies cf house keeping, when squally weather sots in with such power as to keep all hands as cool as cucumbers. For the principal road leading to ‘this interesting State consult the first pair of bright eyes you run i against. . | L A republican has been elected in the place of the dead democrx.xt of the Illinois legislature. This returns Logan to the Senate. Oconee county comes to the frount with an old negro 109 years old.~ Dawson, Ga., Thursday, May 21st, 1885. OUR DARLING'S GONE. How can we give you up? dear one, And see you go away From scenes of all your happy life, And irom us go to stay. In church, as well as Sunday-school With all the missson band, The old, the young, the little ones, Will miss your loving hand. ~ And when the music of your vnice Shall be no longer heard, "Twill sadder make the music of The merry mocking bird. The flowers will smile less sweetly, too, As they look up and sey: ‘From kinared and from loving friends Our Darling’s gone away,’ The rippling brook each passing hour, Will tell, in accents sweet, Of aeeply, earnest, Christian work, That throng about your feet. When come the evening's falling shade The cchoes on the breeze, Will thrill the hearts of loved ones dear You've fondly sought to please. And when the golden rays of morn, Shed joyous light around "Tis emblem fit of that sunshine Which in their heart is found. Thou’ almost proof against the power Of Cupid’s piercing dart, His silken cords of love now twine Around dear Sallie's heart. A manly soul, all brave and true, Hath found the wealth of love, So deep and pure in thine own heart, And gentle as the dove. To thee,sweet girl, he offers all That makes a manly heart, To strew thy path with sweetest flowers And nobly act his par.. To shield thy life from ¢very harm Will be his aim through life, To guard and cherish tenderly A fond, devoted wife. Th{ loving friends'and kindred dear, With joy assemble now, To place the bridal wreath so pure Upon the loved one's brow. And may the God of Heaven send From windows opened wide Rich blessings on this honored Groom, And on his lovely Bride. The above is a tribute of respect from the pen of the late Col. C.A. McDonald, of Dawson, Ga., on the occasion of the marriage of an esteemed lady friend at Ty Ty, Ga., and is taken from a copy of the Ty Ty Echo, which was pub lished at that place at the time. Mr. McDonald, it will be remem bered, was supposed to have been killed by a train, some two years ago near Dawson. A SUICIDE’S THOUGHTFUL ACT. Writing in Blood from His Wound That His Partner was Guiltless. A Wheeling W. V. special says: James M.*Gore,a prominent young merchant of Somers county, died yesterday from the effects of a wound inflicted last iull with a pistol. At that tic:c, Gore was associated in business with a man named Bolin. While they were making an inventory of their store, Gore suddenly drew a revolver, aimed it at his head and fired. It was thought at the time that the wound was a fatal one, but he has lingered until now. He has been sickly for several weeks, and it is thought he was suffering from temporary aberration. After the shooting, and while Mr. Bolin had gone for assistance, Gore recover ed consciousness, and fearing that his partner would be suspected, he wrote with his finger dipped in the blood that poured from his head on the floor that he had done the shooting himself. 2 A Needed Reform. The Albany News nnd Adver tiser says: “There can be no doubt of the fact thet Georgia’s credit is good. Likewise, there can be no doubt but that it might be better. It is a fine thing to be able to borrow money on good terms, but it is bad policy to so manage as to be compelled to bor row. It is vastly better to compel an honest return of property for the purpose of taxation, put such a tax upon it as will raise all the funds needed by the State, and be ready to meet every obligation as it falls due. The State of Geor gia has no need of a debt, and she should get rid of it.” Bound to Get Married. Henry Cole, aged seventeen, was bound to marry Lucy Spier, aged fourteen. She ran away with him, but when they applied for a license their united capital reached only fourteen cents. The clerk was inexorable, so the bride groom waited until nightfall,broke into a smoke house, stole some ba con, sold it the next morning and got the license with the proceeds. The honeymoon continued for two entire hours, when the twain were urrested for stealing.—Utica (N. Y.) Observer. 1 ~ WAR TIME SONGS.. A Few Stanzas from Some Old Dittles which Became Very Popular. M. M. Folsom in Valdosta Times. The fresh young lips that warb led the songs of twenty years ago have grown withered and sere, but in the heart of many a dignified matron still lingers the echo of those stirring strains. A few of the old “war songs” have survived. Such songs as “Dagie,” “Maryland, my Mary land,” and others belong to the immortals. While flows the bluod in a Southern heart their wild melody will cause the pulse to quicken; and whea the band strikes “Dixie” the response is generally the same old““rebel yell” that nerved the arm of Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry.” The first time I ever heard“ Di xie” it was played on an old time fiddle. T hada dear unele who lived on Mud Swamp, in Lowndes ecounty. He was home on a fur lough, and his time expired the nextday. So Uncle Ben. took out his well loved violin and treat ed us to music. He was a first rate performer, and I shall never forget the thrill that I experienced when he struck up “Dixie.” The old fiddle almost spoke the home ly lines: *ln Dixie's land whar 1 wus born Early one frosty mornin’ Look away, look away, Look away for Dixie’s land.” The plaintive rythms of the song as they rose and fell awoke the echoes, and a startled mocking bird attered a few short notes in reply. . : “Away down S»uth in Dixiel” The notes wentringing out through the dark pine woods and were re echoed from the gloomy swamp where a great owl uttered the sombre query, “Too Whoo? To Whoo?” Uncle Ben left mnext day and never came back. How often have I heard the brave boys sing, with a suspicious quiver that sounded almost iike a sob: “I'm lonely since I crossed the hills For the girl [ left behind me."” And how often was it the case that the brave laddie never came back, but left the dear one behind forever and for aye, to weep till her young heart broke for the sol dier boy whose form was left to moulder by Shenandoah’s bloody torrent. Aud how the girls used to sing: ’ My homespun dress is plain I know, | My hat's palmettogtoo, ~ But then it shows what Southern girls | For Southern rights will do. Huzza! Huzza! for the Bonny Blue Flag ~ That bears a single star.” - One ridiculous piece of dogger el was very popular among the ‘youngsters. It ran: | Ole Gin'ral Scott, he bej an to trot, | When he saw the seeds of secession a | sowin’ ~ He began to trot for his half a gallon | ot, ‘ Topcarry all the rebels o Jordan, ~ John Brown's dead and the last word he ‘ said Was don't keep me ‘cre a stannin’.” And so on. 1 remember another that we rel ished: { «Ole massa settin’ in de windah see de smoke ‘Whar de Linkum gunboats lay.” i Then it went on to a verse which ran: “De oberseer 'e steps about, an 'e cuts ©er mity swell; So we lock um up in de smoke house cellah, de key frowed in de well.” You see we kids cared very lit tle about sentiment; the song was what we were after. The detailed soldier had one like this: ““T'he Berrien hills thev air so steep, Ther "nough to make po’ details weep. An’ I wish I wusat home, An’ at homel arter be; An’' ef I wus at home The varmints wouldn’t bite me.” One of a more material charac ter was: ¢l'll take my knapsack onmy back, My rifle on my shoulder; Put on the gray, and march away, For I'm bound to be a soldier.” Ons of the favorites, of the la dies, began: | “‘om thebanksof tire Potomac there’s an army 8o grand, and thci"re trying to subjugate Dixie's fair land.” Did you ever sit on a crooked fence just as the sun bad sunk to rest and the whole west was a blaze of glory with the first faint stars just peeping out in the puar rle dome of heaven? llf you ever did, and was so fortuvate as to hear two or three negro boys about half a wile off “blowing quills” as they came from the fields, then you have not lived in vain. This quaint instrument was made of two or three reeds cut different lengths and held with the edge to the lips. The notes that were lacking were sup plied by hallooing. The music ‘has never been excelled in sweet ness. ~ Ah, me! so far as pure, unalloy ed happiness is concerned, I'd rather be a plantation darkey and plow a one-eyed mule, than to wear the purple and fine linen of an emperor and fare sumptuously every day. There never was, nor is, nor ev er will be anything as sweet as the old life on the Georgia planta tion home. No matter how hard the day's work, the darkey would stop at the lot gate, pat his feet and hands and rattle off: ‘ “Nigerona woodpile | Couldn’t count seven, Frew 'm in a fedder bed, 'E fought 'e gone te heaven.” DIVERGING PATHS. - The Scudberry Case—An Exeiting Ep isode in San Fraueciseo. From the Ban Francisco Post. It seems that Dr. Scudberry, of the United States navy, was mar ried about three years agy to a lovely young Oakland girl, to whom he had been engaged for a long time. Shortly after he was ordered to join the Asiatic squad ron and only returned to his bride a few days ago. During his ab sence his wife determined to em ploy her time in the study of med ieine,which she hoped would prove a delightful surprise to her hus band on his return. Unfortunate ly she entered a homoeopathic col lege, her worser half being of the allophatic persuasion. The doe tor was on his way home from the train upon its arrival when he saw a crowd around a draug store, and was informed that & man had just fallen down in an epileptic fit. Forgetting his eagerness in the call of humanity, the doctor rush ed into the store, where he was astonished to behold his wife en gaged in consulting the patient’s pulse. “What does this mean?” exclaimed the astonished surgeon. “Why, I have a surprise for you, darling,” said* Mrs. Scudberry. “You see I am a regularly quali fied homceopathic physician.” “Homceopathic!” sneered the as tonished husband. “Yes, pet,” said Mrs. Scudberry, sweetly, as she got out her “pilules;” “this dosing of people with bucketfuls of slop 1s getting out of date, pre cious.” “And so you have been actually roped in by that gang of pellet-peddling ignoramuses, have you?”’ “Don’t be rade, my dear,” said the female practioner. “You can’t expect to keep up with the march of science in Asia. Just stand back and let me save the patient.” “Save fiddlesticks!” snapped the allopath. “Woman, go home and cease trifling with human life—or, parhaps, you had better mix a mustard plaster while I resuscitate the subject.” “Why don’t you quit fighting and go to work?” asked the wvietim's wife, who had just decided that she wouldn't look well in black. “When this female person is re moved I shall proceed in the reg ular way, said Dr. Scudberry, stif fly. “I will not be answerable for the consequences unless the old fogy withdraws!” rejoined Doec tress Scudberry,haughtily.“You're a quaek!” roared the husabnd. “You're a butcher!” screamed his wife. And in this style they went on until somebody announced that the patient had picked himself up and walked off, he being the only person who escaped, as the police ercested the whole erowd for crea ‘in ; a disturbance. _The divorce case of Scudberry vs. Secudberry is set for the fall term. | Agreeable to Everybody. | Col. Robert G. King, for ten years Deputy Collector Internal Revenue, Baltimmore, Maryland, writes: I endorse the Red Star Cough Cure. I have used it in my family for a violent cough and found it excellent. Its use was entirely free from the depressing effects of othier cough remedies. It can readily be taken,and agrees with and benefits everybody suf fering from throat and lung troub les. The relief is permancnt, and ‘ there is no reactio, MILWAUKEE'S BOLD BURGLAR. Compelling & Woman to Give Him Het Money and Escort Him Over the House MinwAvker, May 9.—Another burglary, similar to that at the Ray residence on Thursday night, ‘was perpetrated at the residence of George H. Atwell, 231 Twenty fourth street last night. The bar glar effected an entrance by cut ting out a pane of glass in the rear door. The first intimation any of the household had of his presence was when Mrs. Atwell was awakened by a noise in her room. Opening her eyes she saw a masked man standing at the foot of her bed. He demanded bher money, which she gave him to the amount of $2O. Mrs. Atwell was then compelled to rise and escort the thief over the house. Pass ing the door of her daughter’s room, the man started to enter, when Mrs. Atwell said: “There 18 no one but a servant in there.” “Who is the other young lady?” was the sharp inquiry. “My daughter.” “I thought so,” replied the bur glar. “I was in there before.” Being informed that there were three men in the house, the visi tor coolly responded that he knew it In the children’s room he was on the point of taking a small sum of money, when Mrs. Atwell told him that it belonged to the children. “In that case, as I love little children, I will leave it,” was the polite reply, and he did. During the half hour in which the robber looked over the house he informed his trembling com panion that he was the person who eutered Mrs. Ray’s house a few evenings before. When about to depart he asked Mrs. Atwell to come down and close the door. she asked to be excused, where upon he turned and inquired if he had not treated her well. “I don’t know whether you have ornot. I have not had time to think,” was the reply. “When you do have time I think you will acknowledge that I have. Good night,” and he dis appeared. / Daring all this time three men were asleep on the floor on which Mra. Atwell's bedroom is situated. Fearful of the consequences, she did not awaken them, while the burglar necessarily was equally particular. He went away com paratively empty-handed, the re sult of his foray being the %20 :Mrs. Atwell gave him, a silver watch, and a pair of bracelets, the total value being but little over %100 . “What’s in & Kiss.” Maggie kissed me at the gate, I am married, she is single, Yet the soft touch of her %ips Made my bosom sweetly tingle. Maggie kissed me; nothing loath I at once leaned o'er nng kissed her. Was I faithless to my troth? Maggic is my baby sister. We never see a gray mous tache tickling the lips of a pretty girl withont thinking of mil dewed cherries.—Fall River Ad vance. A new York couple are keeping a journal of the number of kisses they have enjoyed since their wed ding. Of course there is nothing against the book-keeper.—New man Independent. One of the duties of the Viceroy of Ireland is to kiss all the young ladies presented at his “drawing rooms.” We don’'t know how much the Viceroy lis paid a year, but we should think he would be willing to give a bonus of a conple of thousand dollars more than his salary in order to rtotamn his posi tion.—Norristown Herald. l A kiss is said 1o be sweet, not becawuse it contains saccharine matter, but because a man doesn’t know what alse to eall it when he feels the effect traveling through his system on a lightning express with no stop-over check. It is safe to assume that a man who at ?tempts to deseribe a kiss never had onme. Mer who heve had kisses (not smacks) don’t want to talk; they just want to think ard die with their boots on. Suo we bave been lokl AXINFAMOUS CIBCULAR. The Seurrilous snd Wqfl ratilt on Hev. Sani Jones. ‘ Chuttancogs ThineSs . = The following is & -capy of the. sourrilous and disgraceful eireular which was printed and.cirealated in Nushville last week in refers ence to Rev. Sam Joned: - “SAM JONES' GREAT SHOW AND CIRCUS WILL TAKE.BLACE AT NASHVILLE MAY 15, 1885, AND coN< TINUE TWENTY DAYS: “The langhnble farce, Christidn. ity; will be expounded by the great clown, Sam Jones His great fanatical oratory will fur ~ nish lunatics for the new lunatis. asylum about to be erected ab Knoxville at the expense of the tax payers, where he has already been very successful in confusing th.tlalmliziys of hi:d he%wmrehm ; wi ocenpi ¥ us ‘cranks, hypoerites; unls&d men and women, fanatical default ers, snuff dippers, morphine and opium eaters, murderers, robbers and thieves. Besides sowme mis guided, though well meaning men and women, most of whom will g only to ses the show; it will be the grandest faree that ever took place in Nashville. Murderers always profess on the gallows to believe in a God and devil, sup posing that the clergy ecan send: them straight to heaven from the gallows, regardless of the heinous crimes they may commit. None will be considered eligible for the throne of grace who%lave minds of their own, or are strietly moral and honest, or don’t believe in possibilities. All persons whose minds are not clonded with su~ Eerstiti(m, bigotrf and sectarian atred, will be ruled incompetent. The side show will be very at« tractive for the matrimonial mar< ket and sight seers. Tickets free, but don’t forget the missionary box, for you know the action of the clell'_%y is no money, no preach. “HuMBuG AND IGNORANCE, Managers. NO. 3. 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