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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1886)
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS, . How can 5 tell her? « By her«celljr, . Clednly shelves and whitened walls, I can gucss her, By her dresser.” ' v By the buck staircase and hall, And with pleasure %, Lake her measure By the Way shé'keeps her brooms, Or the peeping y At the keeping |, Of her back #bd unseen rooms, By her kite nfl)lair ef neatness, And. its gencra npleteness; Where in cleanlfilega;ql and sweetness The rose of order”blooms. Oh, where is the thing We call “dentle Spring,” The seasdn of thaw and of zephyr? She’s singing a Psalm - In the land of the palm, ‘Where she kicks up her heels like a heifer. As we predicted, the winter has been open, and lots of cold got in. The woman who marries a man to reform him undertakes a job " that will ruin her complexion. - The civil service reformers, asa rule, are men Who are too proud to drive Dbilly-goats and too poor to own horses.—Macon Telegraph. The Kentucky Senate passed a bill recently establishing the whip ping-post for wife-beaters. This ouglit to be the law i Georgia, The meanest man in the Unived Btates lives in Pennsylvania. His wife hit him witlta rolling " pin, and he had her arrested for ateal. ing wood. A New Jersey girl horsewhip ped her best young man for ssnd ing her a vomic valentine, and the public verdict is “served him right.” ’ Henry Eure and his mother-in law, who eloped from Virginia re cently, have Heen released from arrest and have eloped again Henry, Eure a fool. How are you, Colonel >—Augus ta Chronicla, - Every Georgia editor, except one, rose and responded on the spot, “very well, thank you.” A Maine paper has an editorizl headed, “Why young men leave the farm.” We think it is be ciwse a farm is a cumbro s and inconven'ent thing for a young man to take along with him. The Sparta Ishmaelite says: “The destruetion of the cat crop will probably cause a great in crease in the cotton crop, and still lower priess next fall. A bad be ginning of this sort must have a bad end.” A tArnirF bill has been int-o duced in Congress by Mr. Morri son, and it is believed that this and the bill to suspend the coin age of silver will provoke more discassion than all the other measures combined, A Connecticat man, who was rescued from a watery grave the other * day, gave the man who saved his life a reward of 10 cents. He was able to give a larger re ward and he was not at all stingy, but, being shrewd, he knew just what his life was worth. Once and awhile a good idea comes from Philadelphia. The latest is the establishment by a few sensible women of a place whers, according to their adver tisomant, “bachelors and other unfortunates” ean have “darning, patehing and all kinds of mend ing done.” : A St. Louis paper says that with a physician whiskers are half the battle. The smooth face medieine man has a hard road to travel until he begins to shiow un mistakable eigns of age. We have no idea what whiskers have to do with a knowledge of medi ¢ine; but if whiskers are indis pensable, what a docior the billy goat would make. Nothing but superlative inlrin sic merit can acecount for the phe nomenal reputation achieved, in 80 short a time, by Salvation Oil. It kills pain. Frice, 25 cents a bottle. The Piess and Prohibition. _ Says the St. Louis Republican 1n a recent editorial: “The evils of prohibition are not alone con fined to the widespread sale aud Lonsumption of the vilest and most injurions species of aleohul ¢ stimulants, but embrace connt less others undreamed of by the promoters of this doubtful tem peranes cause.” In view of this undisputad faet, it is of impor tance to know wheve, in thes> de generatod days, a pura whiskey can ba obtained. L. W. Harper’s Nelson eouaty, Kentucky whiskey 13 a pure, sour mash liquor, anl fally sapplies this want. By compatant judges at the New Or leans Exposition it was awarded the GOLD MEDAL for purity aud excallence: Sold by : : M .C. Mrwms, ; Dawson, Ga THE DAWSON JOURNAL, YU, 21 - IN OUR STATE. The tailoring business in Ath ens is prospering. As this would naturally indicate, the dudes are increasing. Sam Jones says he would rath er be five hundred old maids shut up in a room by himself than to be the wife of oue drunkard. . The Waco Enterprise says Judge Simmons, of Greorgia, has held court for every Judge in the State, we believe, except Judge Liynch,- Hogne & Quinn, of Washing ton, have just shipped a bill of goods to China. A house in Washington once shipped a bill of goods to Colorada. The farmers of Paulding coun ty are trying a new grain, Brazil ian Tlour Corn, which produces from twenty-five to seventy-five bushels per acre, s On Sunday, the 14th inst., at Pateville, Dooly county, Mr. Eli jah Pate, a substantial and pros perous farmer, aged T 4 years, married Miss Bailey, a maid en of fifteen summers. : Mr. B. C. Turner, of Dallas, “having violated the pledge of the order of Independent Bachelors by committing matrimony,” has been expelled from tlfe order and a black mark set opposite his name on the books. The latest thing in Macon is an entertainment called La Chocola taire, consisting of all sorts of good things to eat. Ttis for the benefit of the Mulberry Street Methodist church. : Duaring the present winter no less than one hundred children have been buarned to death in Georgia. The majority of them were left alone in the house of their parents. Some towns in Gaorgia want a doz muzzling la%v. All this talk about hydrophobia is gotten up by uewspapers having nothing else to write about. When all loeal news gives out they fall back on poor Tray. Two- *drummers swooped in fourteen hundred dollars, the oth er day, in a game of poker in At lanta. Doys, it is the proper and wise thing not to play poker at all, but if you will play, beware of the average commerecial tourist. «Tue following from the Sparta Ishmaalite aptly designs one of the chief causes of poverty: “No southern farmer will ever find any great amount of prosperity while sitting "around on the loafing benches of ths commnnity in which he lives.” The MecDaflis Journal opens the snake story season thasly: “When Dr. Darham cume in from a bird hunt, one day last week, he found Henry Locker, a colored man from Burke county, ankiously awaiting him. Henry said he had a rattlesnake in his stomach, that he had baen there six years. He eould feel him.turn and twist about, and had often heard him spring his rattles; and, whenever Hoanry takes a drink of whisky, the rep tile immediately gets on a spree and kicks up all sorts of racket down among Henry’s inwards.” The Georgia gamea cock makes his way abroad. A Dallas, Texas, special says Charles Brown, of Columbus, Ga., the best known cocker in the couutry, has drop ped over, he says, only to witness the figit and meet his friends, though before the battle is over he will probably show up at least a coop of his shall-ueck games. This gentleman has probably shipped into this State during the last four years 2,000 of these birds. : There is a great deal of idleness to the square mile in-the State of (feorgia. How many men are in 1t that perform six days of unve mitting labor during every week? It is idle to deny the fact that thrittlessness belongs to thoa sands of our people. There is work for every man to do, and if he will only do it he will have less oceasion for grumbling at the hardness of the times.---Ish maolite. , 3 OUR NEIGHBORS. * THE MEAN THING. : The dairymaid pensively milked the goat, _And pouting, she paused to mutter: “I wish, you brute, you would turn to milk!” Bat he only turned to butt her. ~ Cuthbert’s new court house is rapidly nearing completion. Mr. W. 8. Tarver and Miss An nie Rawzon, of Albany, are mar ried. ALBaxY has passed an ordi nance prohibiting chicken fight ing. Good for Albany. At Albany Friday night fifteen dogs,some of them valuable point ers, bit the dust from poisoning. Mad dogs are numerous lin Sumter eounty. Omne on Judge Harper Black’s place bit three people in one day. The prohibition campaign has opened in Clay county. The three papers published in the county are in favor of local option. The prohibition move inSum ter seems to have split on an un seen Charybdis and to have gone to the bottom.—Republican. According to the area to be planted, the melon crop of South ern and Southwest Georgia will be fully as large this as last year. Americus has a duds that wears a corset. It would be a tight squeezs for any of the Dawson dudes to get ahead of their brother up the road. The Americus Republican says there are two brothers in Sumter county who are said to be twins, and yet they were born in differ ent years—the oldest in ’4B and the youngest in 49, and they are as much alike as two peas. J. R. Boud, of Stewart county, says that some of his neighbors heard the train coming in the oth er night for the first time, and mistaking tha rumbling nose made by the train for a zyclone, spent the night in their cyclone pits. The Americus, Preston and Lampkin railroad has been finish ed at last, and trains are now run ning to the depot in Lumpkin. This road was started in October, 1884, is thirty miles long, and was built and equipped at a cost of on ly 85,000 & mile. The road is all ready doing a thriving business. The indications for a big leligi ous revival in Albany are favora ble. The Rev. D. Burkhead’s ser mons seem to have awakened the church members, and the effect of this is now beginning to show it self outside the chureh. It kas been a long time since Albany has had much of a spiritual revival, and the place bears a hard name in ecclesiastical and-evaugical cir cles; but there is hope' for us yef after what has been done in At lanta, Birmingham and Cincinnati. —News. Mg. A. W. Tur~Er has just fin ished clearing some bottom land ov his turnpike place,the expenses of which was abort $25 per acre. He expeets to make one bale of cotton per acre on it. Soveral acres of the same bottom taken in several years ago by a negro liv ing on the place, has produced over a bale per acre for several years. This shows what manner of dirt wa have in Calhoun.— Leary Courier. Gubernatorial affairs are being generally discussed by the press, and it seems that thie newspapers, at least, are impatient for the zam paign to open. We are surprised that the people of Southwest Georgia stand hy so quietly and witness the attempt to again de prive our section of its rights. Middle and North Georgia know that we are entitled to the honor of naming the next Governor, but they like it too well themselves to concede the privilege when our people are so slow to. demund it. Evory other section of the State has had its day, and it is high time Southwest Georgia was put ting in her claim, especially when she has such excellent gubernate ral material as Major C.B. Woot en. We know of no man better suited, or wha would more nobly and creditably boar th: trust. —Blaffton Springs. - Dawson, Ga., Thursday, March 4th, 1886. Mrs. J. M. Keuda;i; of Albany, received an official ,éifidl;;)éemeut from London a few days ago of the death of her-son, Mr. Walter K. Tift, who was mate on the British vessel, “British Duke.” Mr. Tift died some: time in De cember last,and had been employ ed on the vessel for more than two years. Walter was at one time & resident of Albany. THE BEE HIYE. =, % B £ R T * & o Obsery =0 &.o * . these busy little * 4 * « bees a-laying ué their * , * o houey and try tobeas * * yise as these by saving all* your money. You smoke, say five cigars away and drink ¥ say six times daily; cards, pool, and billiards, too, you play and treat ‘the fellows gayly. In 20 years this fun will cost, accord ing to good scholars, with inter est and time that's lost just $20,- 000. But if you count your loss of health and self-iuflicted troub le, you'll find this foolish wealth will figure mere than doible. Then, when it's time no more to slave but pleasure tuke, so sick you will feel because you didn’t save you'll want some one to kick you. So imitate these busy bees and all your pennies wreasure, and then when older take your ease with forty years of pleasure. Where Matilda Drew the Line. Texas Siftings. Dauring the absence of Mrs. Yorger the cooking of Matilda Snowball has not been giving en tire satisfaction. Col. Yerger said to the cook: “Look here, Matilda, this kind of cooking just simply ain’t going to do.” “What's dat yer say?” “[ say your blankity blank cooking ain’t worth a continental I don’t propose to pay you $l5 a month to burn good victuals.” “And [ want to tell you sumfin. Yer musn’t talk ter dis cullud la dy in dat tone of voice. I want yer to onderstand dat yer musu’t talk ter me as if yer was talkin’ ter yer wife.” YVery, Very Little Things, Bat very important—your bloed corpuscles. They are bright red. They are so small that it takes over 3,000 of them in a line to make an inch. The bright red color comes from the iron in them. When there is not envugh iron the blood is thinand watery and im pare. Purity and vigor go togeth er. Brown's Iron Bittersis the only safe iron tonic ever made. It enriches tha blood, builds up the system, gives health, strength,and enjoyment of life. Hasty Muarriages. Macon T elegraph. “I had rather be in the hands of God then in my own hands,” wrote a young Western- girl after a few months of married Tlife. They found her dead with her throat cut. The girl was the daughter of wealthy parents. The man she married was not aceceptable to them and she ran away with him. The judgement of the older heads proved correct. The ro mance wore off in a few months. Her husband begarn to come home drunk, and finally he deserted her entirely, leaving her in want and misery. Her despairing ery adds one more to the many warnings that have come back from unduti ful daughters. Marriage without love is not to be advoeated, but marriage without other julgement than a school girl can exercise is uot to be thought of. . Consumption Cured, An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India missiomary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy fof the speedy and per manent care of Consumption, Dronchitis, Eatarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lur g affections, also a positive anel radical curc for Nervous Debility and atl Nervous Com plaints, afier having tested its wonderful curative powers in theusand: of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve humanity sulfering, I will send free of charge, to all who de gire it, this recipe, in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with gtamp, naning this paper, W. A. .\\' o\'\l:'l, 14) Powess Block, Rochester, N X THE BATTLES OF THE DEAD. Detroit Free Press. It is midnight in the brick farm house at Chancellorsville-—the few building on the site of the one partially destroyed when Hooker marched his troops into the wil derness to get in the rear of Leée at Fredericksburg. In the yard are the rotting wheels of gun-car riages; in the South wall are a dozen canunon balls firmly imbed ded; half a mile below is the stone ‘ marking the spot where Stonewall Jackson received his inortal wound; here is the same dark for est which sheltered«friend and’ foe. e ? “Are you.asleep?” . ~ “No.” : The last stroke of 12 had scarce ly died away when the farmcr opened my bed room door to ask the question. “Ihen maybe you'd like to see it?” “What?” : “The battle of Chancellorsville. The Federal troops are now in sight on the Ely’s Ford road.” I hastily dressed and passed out into the yard with him. I no ticed . that he had on a Confeder ate uniform, dusty and worn. I looked at my own garments; they were blue. He pointed his finger down the road, and I saw through the mist of the summer night a great army approaching. There was cavalry, infantry and artillery —there .were flags "and banners and ambulances. In two minutes moro the head of the column had reached the Chancellorsville plank road. Some turned to the right, some to the left, some plunged in to the gloomy pine thickets be yond. “But I hear no noise—not the footstep of a horse nor the clank of a saber,” I protested. “Hush! 'Tis a battle of the dead! The spivits of the thou sands who fell here have come to fight the battle once again!” ~ 1 looked at him more closely, and I saw the light of battle in his eyes. His form grew erec, his feet seemed impatient and he scented the air as if eager to join in the fray. Now the highways and byways —the cleared fields, the open woods—the lonely thickets were full of blue uniforms. Courins and aides galloped here and there —staff ofticers turned heads of colnmus to the right or left. It was so strange to witness those thoasands moving with such or der and yet giving out no sound. “Look—see!” whispered my companion as he pointed down the plank road. There was a cloud of smoke rolling up out of the pine woods and blotching the star-lit skv like a stain of blood. 1t spread and graw until half the stars of heav en were hidden. RJeanwhile, the face of every man in blue was turned that way. We saw bat tery after battery, regiment after regiment, brigale after brigade, move down to the scene of con flict. Tongues of flame flashed through the smoke-cioud and lighted, up thicket and field, but there was no sound. The still ness of night was almost painful. “Here are the results!” whis. pered the confederate; and I look ed to the right and left to behold the dead and wounded. I ecould see them in the fields, under the pines, on the highway. Some -faces show fear and horror—oth ers expmessed vindietiveness. There were horses lying dead— others hobbling about and seemn ing to appeal for merey. “Lt is horrible,” I whispered. “Ave! bat it is over.” I looked again and the vision had faded. [lie highways were barren of life—the fislds and for ests ab peace. The smoke-cloud had disappeared, and the dead! and wounded had been spivited away. “And so the ead of the armies fight their battles o’er?” I asked. “As youa have seen,” be solemn ly replied. “Until the hate and rancor of men is no niore—until all men are at peaca. the spirits of those who fell in battle cannot rest. T he{ must plan eampaigns and fight their battles as of old. The vision you have seen here is repeated at Antielam, Gettys barg, Vieksburg, Fravklin--on a a bundied battle-fields of Ameri ca. Let us go in,” - NO. 48, & NEVER HEARD OF DEATH™ From the Marietta, Ga., Journal. - ' We are told that in the moun tain fastnesses of North Georgia, where the locomotive whistle has never been heard, where the “worm of the still never dieth,” and the missionary has not preach ed, that there are men and chil dren who cannot read, never heard of Jesus Christ, his mission or death, know‘_liofihing of Sunday schools, or the proper observance of the Sabbath or what Christmas means. It isrelated that when a man’s thirteen-year-old daughter died up there not lonz ago, the father bent over the corpse, with weeping eyes and lneerated heart, and ecxclaimed. “She did" not’ know there was such a thing as death.” She had never seen any- 1 body dead; she had never been tavght that ehe had to die, knew nothing of the shadowy land or eternity, heaven or hell; yet thousands of dollars are annunally collected from the people and sent to Christianize the “heathen Chi nee,” while in the mountain se clusions the rough and illiterate inhabitants scratch the ground, shoot the deer, barb the trout, make and drink their whiskey, and are oblivious to the gospel of Jesus. “Ignorance is bliss,” but there is a misdirection of funds and lack of discernm2ut in this matter quite apparent. With the penetration of the Marietta and North Georgia railroad through tlrat section and influx of popala- Hion, contact and intelligence will dissipate this ignorance, as the rising sun scalters the mist of the morning. Progressive Cliristiani ty muct take Georgia whether China is reclaimed or not. The Donglass Family. F'rom a Wachington Special. Frederick Dounglass, the eolored Recorder of Deeds for the Dis trict, was one of the attendants at }the President’s rveception last night. He had with him a young anulatto girl, his white wife and her sister. As tho venerable Fred ;npproached the President with ‘the colored girl onn his arm, Col. Wilson, of the army, who was ‘making the presentalions, an ‘nounced in aloud voice: “Mr. Frederick Douglass anl wife.” i “No, tLisis my grand-daughter, Mr. President,” said Frederick, icurrecting Col. Wilson. “This is my wife,” said he, introlucing a }demure looking white woman at- Gired in a black silk gown orna mented with a broad white collar. The ladies of the receiving par ty, as well as all within hearing ‘of Col. Wilson’s wvoies, turned their attention to the remarkable ‘ couple, and it is safe to say that Ired. Douglass and his white wife attractel more general at tention and comment than. any other couple present. - Miss Anna ?'sgue, of Lumpkin connty, attemnted suicide a few days n%o by drinking five drachms of laudanum. The doetor arrived n time. She says she is tired of life. Not Symptous, but the Disease. 1t would seem to be a truth ap preciable by all, and especially by professors of the healing art, that to remove the diseaso, not to alle viate ils symptons, ghould be the chief aim of medication. Yet in how many instances do we see this trath admitted in theory, ig nored in practice. The reason that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters -is successfal in so many eases, -with = which remedies previonsly tried were inadegnate to cope, is attributable to the fact that 1t 1s a medicine which reach es and removes the” causes of the variods Iwmaladies to which it is adapted. Indigestion, fever and ague, liver complamt, gout rheu matism, disorder of the bowels, nrinary affections and other mala dies are not palliated merely, but rooted out by it. 1t goes to the fountain head. It is really, not nominally, a radical remedy, and it endows the systom with an amount of vigor which is Its best protection against disease, Bravoriznp’s FEMALE REaura- Tor will give ablooming eolor, an elastic step and a cheerful spirit to the woman of sallow complex ion, heavy deaggivg motion and melancholy disposition. Hend for our Treatise on“ Health and Happiness of Woman,” mail ed free. Bravriewe's Ruerratorn Ce, Atlanta, Ga, {.i° ) MAPPINGSS. .o 1 1 ‘fiapfilj.’n'aés?s’ fogfi within us, and not withont wus.’ (Happiness is a creation of our making It ‘Las to do with our sabjeetive nat are. Wégiveto oar own though!s Just, is contentment; wid we must Took . within for its blessings. Ouatward circumstandes do not al ‘ways bring it.- Nog,de-we findit ‘always in gorgeous palaces, ju much riehés, or in high positious. The Kingdom of Heaven, as far as it is attainable in this worll, lies within onr own heart. Apro pos to this line of thought we sab join the following frem the Ea faula Bulletin: “Ex-Governor Smith, of Geor gia, says the greatest mistake of ‘his life was when he quit the Dblacksmith's trade. We presume this_is generally regarded as a joke, but have no doubt the ex- Governor was sincere in his re mark. If hie had remainad at the anvil, he would not have H#equired fame and fortune; but he would perhaps have lived a happier life than he has lived. Not that we presume his life has been ah un nappy one, bat like the life of all politicians, it has had its disap pointments, He - reached the highest office in his Stats, but failed in the ultimate object of his ambition, the United States Senate. No doubt such a failure entailed more unhappiness than he would ever Lava suffered as a saccessful blacksmith. We be lieve that the preponderance of a human happiness is found in the Lhumbler walks of life. We be lieve there is more happiness among the illiterate negroes of our community than among the educated white people. We be lieve that many a man's happi ness is spoiled by educating him for a station inlife which he can not reach. Disappointed ambi tion, discoutent and unhappiness are the result. A moderately ed ucated, moral community is gen ' erally thrifty and happy.” e He Moved. The Florida Medical and Surgi cal Journal relates that when Dr. Bowling, a proneer medical man in the South, began practice ho settled in the wilds of Kentucky, where he sat in front of his cabin for six months without a call. At last he heard the eclatter of a horse’s hoofs, and a lank, bare footed Kentnckian appeard. “Are you a doctor?” he asked. “Yes, and a gool one,”said Dr. Bowling. “VWhat's the matter with that 'ar foot?” inquired the man, placing his heel on the fence. The doctor examined it eclosely and replied, “That is erysipelas, sir. “Ery hell,” said the man, “a bee stung me.” The doctor moved to Nash ville. What Can Re Done. By trying again and keeping up courage many things seeming ly impossible may be attained. Hundreds of hopeless cases of Kidney and Liver complaint have been cured by Electrie Bitters, after everything else had been tried in vain. So, don’t think there is mo cure for you, but try Electric Bitters. There is no medicine so sife, so pare, and so perfect a blood purifier. Electrio Bitters will cure Dyspepsia, Dia “etes and all diseases of the Kid neys. Invaluable in affections of stomach and Laver, and overcome all Urinary difficulties. Excitement in Texas, Great excitement has been caused ir. the vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remarkable recovery of Mr. J. B, Corley, who was so helpless he.could not turn in bed, or raise his head; everybody said ha was dying of Consuwption. A trinl bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery was sent him. Finding rolief, he bought a iarge bottle and a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills; by the time he had taken two boxes of Pills and two bottles of the Discovery, he was well and had gained in flesh thirty-six pounds. Trial bottles of this Great Diseovery for Consumption free abt Crouch Bros'. PUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE. 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