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© PIQUANT POINTS Texns has & paper called the Bedbug. g oo Congress has spoken and tLe Mormon must go—if he wants to. gince dudes commenced to wear corsets, the girls have a good poany strings to their beaux. Bmithville has organized a nrass band and is prepared to generate her wind music at home. Montana is eredited with 30,000 bachelors. We know some wo man who might maks a profitable trip there. The denizons of the frigid re gions now winter in California ijnstead of Florida, and the hotel keopers in the last named State ara complaining. The Middle Georgia Progress is the name of a new paper to be published at Sandersville. Mess. Stepben G. Jordan and C. H. Mitchell are to be the editers. | Before you go to bed at night 1 slways be sure that your front gate is open across the sidewalk. It may n»t break the ribs of some belated pedestrian, but it may gaoceed in Lurting him badly. By all means leave your gate open. The famous belled buzzard, so often reported as having been seon in QGeorgia, was shot and killed the ether day in Tunis, Texas. The bell was of brass, fastened around the neck by a copper wire and bore date of 1876. A bailding and business boom is said to be ahead for Americus soon. A company of Northern eapitalists is expected to build np machine shops for the manufact ure of all kinds of iron and wood enimpiements, utensils, furaituare, ste. A one-leggad proacher in a Goorgia town upbraided a young man for carrying a gold-headad cans. ‘“lhare ara no gold-headed cana3 in heaven,” said thae man of God. “No, and there are no woodeu-leggad preachers thare, either,” was the crusuing rejoind er. - The Newuszu advertiser is re sponsible for the subjoined para graph: “There is a revival going onin the northern part of the State and each convert gets A Wa terbury watch. The plan works all right until they come to wind them, and then they backslide.” The Bparta Ishmaelite trath fully remarks that the only yros perens farmers in this couantry are those who raise their own braad and meat. Those who con fina their labors to raising cotton to swap off for supplies that ought to have baen grown at home are badly in the lurch. Belva Lockwood was to bavel loctared in Missouri one night last wesk, but not a ticket was 80ld. Belva has been a failure all along if ghe eould only see it. When a woman attampts single banded to boyeott the great cra dle-paregoric industry, she has bitten off more than she can swal low, The Holcomb woman (whito), confized at Dalton as accessory‘ to the murder of Matilda Gudger, €ame near essaping from jail by } temoving brick from under the window of the room in which she VaB sonfined. The jailer discovered the plan, however, and the flight of the gay female bird wae frus trated. Oliver Byron, the actor, now in Goorgia, tel's a rather good story ofa former heavy villian in his ®ompany, whose father was a Mas. Sachusetts mimister, One Sun day while the father was deliver ing s sermon the youngster was Pelting the drowsy congregation vith beans. The preacher, with Violent gesture, bade the son de “ist, who replied: “You go right o 0 with your preaching, pa; I'll keep 'ery awakaj” There g near Toceoa a young ¥omap, ouly 18 years old, named Elizg Taylor, who is an uncon verable mooushiner, Officers have raided and destroyed her still twica racently, bnt sha at Oh¢B ‘patches it up and goes to York again. Henry Dover, a lad 17 yoars of age, who assisted Miss T&ylor, wus arrested and taken to Ganesyille, The young woman nformeq the officers in language Wore forcible than elegant, that the *ill was hers and sha should cmf‘“’l! coatinue to carry on the businggy, The officers did not ar- Yoot hey, THE DAWSON JOURNAL JORDAN & RAINEY. A WOMAN'S PORTRAIT. Blessing she is; God made her 80, And deeds of week-tay holiness Fall from her noiseless as the snow, For has she ever chanced to know That aught were easier than t 0 bless. She is most fair, and thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize; Feeling or thought that was not true Neter made less beautiful the blue, } Unclouded heaven of her eyes. ‘Rhe is & woman; one in whom The spring-time of her chiidish years Hasg never lost its fresh perfume, Though knowing well that life hath room For many blights and many tears. A Sad Sight. Washington Chronicle. : Oae of the saddest sights we ev. er witnessed was on the Georgia train the other day. A young married woman was being carried to the asylam. Her ravings were heart-reuding. Oae momont she imagined she was being starved to death, and would cry fer some thing to eat, and would give or ders for handsome dinners'to be served immediately. The next instant she would think she was queen of Spain, and the passen gers her subjects. Then without any cause she would commence to curse her husband, using the most terrible langnage towards him. We understand that before she became crazy she was a most de vout christain and that hLer hus band is a most upright man in most evory respect. The hns. band bore her reproaches with the most perfect patienca, yet any one could see that every word was a stab. Such scenes as this, one never forgets, anl demongtrates that every man’s lot in lifa is not as hard as that of 3oms of hia veighbors. If we knew esch oth ers troables, as well as oar own, thera wonld be more charity in the world. A Good Stery. They tell a story of a loeal news paper man that illustrates his presence of mind even undsr tho most trying circamstaness. Ho was awakened in a hotel one night by the cry of“fire,”and iu aspring and tvo movements was out of the bed and in the hall, which was filled with smoke. Just ahead of him was a flying figure, clad in white like bimself, and running at 2:10 clip. A tarn in the long hall and two steps leading to a higher level brought tha figare up, or rather down, and the same cause precipitated the newspeper man against her. “Lat's pray,” criel the afrighted woman, as she clasp.- ed him by thearm. “No, let’s run,” was his reply, and patting Lier once mors in the right direc tion, the lady was soon far ahead, though her rescuer got out in plenty of tima. The two never saw each other again, but their first and only meeting must heav idly impressed itself upon the wind of each.—¥rom the Buffalo Courier. Disabled Soldiers. We take pleasure in giving eir culation to the following, from the Atlanta Constitation, for the information of those concerned: The Executive Department has been flooded with letters of late in regard to the bill at the session of the last Legislature which pro vided fer the relief of disabled Confederate seldiers other than those who lost an arm or a leg in service. It is greatly desired that the ordinuries of the various counties should let it be under stood in their localities that there is at present absoluiely no law in existence to the above effect. The bill alluded to was strongly sup ported at the last session, but fail ed to go through. It passed the Heuse and reached the Senate,but was never actedon by that body, but, among & number of other bills, wss laid aside to be consid ered at the July session, when the chances are good that it may be come a law, bat there i 3 now none of the kind on the statute books, nor can there can be possinly till the Legislature meets again and cousiders the matter, which will not happen before July. It woold save much needless work aund the answering of a myriad of useless questions if these factsin relation to the matter could be weil nnder stood by the parties concerned. —Hood's Lureka Liver Medi eine, o perfect family medieine tor the commod ills of life. It laas no equel. Itisa speeifis for siak h‘muohe. For sale 1 Daw gon, Ga. by Crouch DBro's., Drug giets. yel. Dawson, Ga., Thurs@.; January 27th., 1887, ABDUT SELECTING WIVES. A FEW HINTS BY BILL OMI. Albany News. There are very few men who understand how to select a good cigar or good wife, and I must say that ther> are very few women who understand it either. I would advise all young men who wish to select a wife, to get one with & $57,000 bank account; if she hasn’t this bank account, you would do well not to select. I have seen men select wives who did not have the necessary here after, and invariably died poor and filled an untimely and six foot grave. : - Tt would*®, well for the young man who fisfim to rush headlong into the matrimonial hence to ex amine his intended’s teeth and see if she is old enough to know the difference between beer and ’polo maris. It is of great importance to notice the teeth. If you find teeth decayed she has Tolu Gum, then shun her as you would the deadly cucumber. When you wish to select 2 eow you look to see first how mild tempered she is. This tempera ment is always worn decdllette with cows with grey eyes, but do not monkey with the girl who wears grey eyes. I have seen large grey eyed girls who had a temper equal to that of a mess-back razor. I have also seen them bang the piaro whila thair devoted mothers would be wielding the washboard. Some select a wife by their big fuet and winning ways, but this plan will not do to tia to, and you need not lose any sleep about the gir]l with the big feet and win ning ways. They generally can not bake a cake of bread fit for a tramp to eat, and their shoe bills amonnt to $472.2) a year, and the first time you stayel up town with the boys at night, her wim ning ways would be a thing of the past and she would meet you at the door with a 16. yard mother hubbard and a piece of last year’s broom which would circle areund your devoted head like unto the festive mosquito, Do nct select your neighbor's wife. I have seen much wood shed, bloodshad and strife caused by selecting another man's wife. Men who move in the best society and borrow money at 10 per cent. never do this. Some men though take a delight in selecting anoth ar man's wife, while others who are braver take ten buckshot and a 6-foot hole in the ground. Don’t monkey with a widow. I have sean widows two weeks be fora their second marriage, that would be as sweet as a pair of black kittens or a box of home made axle grease, and before the syrup-moon would be over you could hear her three blocks away using snuff and other bad lan guage at her husband-in-law, and she takes a fiendish delight in telling you that her poor dead husband did not treet her half as bad as you; and some " how or other you will guess at the cause of his death and know that even in death he is at rest. Never marry a girl that thinks she can paint. Some few men do, and when they come home at mght fall of happiness and beer aud take a seat on the easel and have a landscape copied on the seat of their breechaloonities, a wail of despair will rise from the poor young wife that could be heard clean or unclean to Chica go on a still night in “Literary Lifa.” Some men marry without ever mceting their wives. They prob. ably think there wi.. be plenty of meetings after they mairy, and they are generally correct in their surmises, A friend of mine, npw learning the shoe trade in Sing-Sing, mar ried a sixteen-year-old girl, and she ran away and married ber coachman in six weeks, and never told her husband good-bye or be stowed upon him a parting kiss. He stole a mule and $37 and pur sved the villain, and eaught him and a bad cold, and he bas since been confined to his rosm at Sing- Sing, and all the inducements that I can offer will not indace him to take oatdoor exercise, It is, therefore, best not to marry a yonng and flighty gitl. I also think there should be some law to prevent coashmen from being im posed on. I have seen men live to regret marrying an old maid. Never do so only under protest. Some men marry on $3.00 per week, and expect their wives to be angels and flit around at so much per flit, milk three cows, saw stove-wood, draw water and hoe over the gardem; but when the real life comes they find their mistake. Never marry a fashionable girl. I have seen girls who were con sidered the % fashionable in their set, but when yon look in upon them at the back gate you will find that the fashion consists of a siraw hat that her grand mother wore and a merning wrap per with a brick on each corner to keep the wind from disarranging her toilet. The best kind of girl to marry is a regular old Georgia girl; one reared on the farm; one that can cook a meal so good that it would make a telephone hubngry; ome that can sew on a batton, darn socks and darn the husband for making the darned holes; one that will be of some use to' you, and one that has naver seen a piano or danced at a germaa, or sung at a public entertainment. When ; you find such a girl I think your i years will be as great as Methuse- ‘ lah's. | I have seen detestives hunting for just such girls, but they all 1 sesm to be lost in the far-offness of the hanga. Some will say, “Well, my mother was just such a woman;’ out, my son, you canno marry your mother, Loveis a very funny thing. When a fellow’s honey-maon is over, and he sits aronnd the fire with sixteen kids and a wife with ‘ 2 scab on her nose, and the butch er comes to collact Aig bill widh, dog and n double-barrelled gun, then he will think of the many single-barrelled days he has spent, and the moisture will gather in his eyes and he will rake down in the ashes and scrape up a potato, give his wife the peel and think what a sacrifice he made when he married. When all is still, he slips out in the gloaming and gloams up town to the “Clab.” Such is lifa, and still we are in the midst of amarchy and stom achache. Cowboy Romance. N. O. States. Two boys in St. Liouig,one four teen aud the other fifteen years of age, who had a wild desire to become cowboys and exterminate Indians in Texas,were collared by a policeman as they were in the act of boarding a train for San Antonia and rudely walked off to jail. The lads were equipped with rifles, pistols, bowie knives, bull whips and somobreros, and other things necessary to the slanghter of the wily savages that rove around the bar rooms in fron tier towns of Texas. There isfar more romance in the idea than in the following of a cowboy’s ca reer and the boys would have been taught a very good lesson, and perhaps it wounid have been better for them, in the long run, had they been allowed to go upon their journey, because after they had reached ‘l'exas and made their acquaintances with a bow-legged cow-pony and heen dragged through prickly pear thickets and slammed down on a hard, bald spet in the prairie, in a way pe culiar to the cow-pony, they would have sent some very earnest pe titions to their friends to bring them home. Texas cow-ponies have rendered valuable service in jolting the romance out of refrac tory youths who left their parents to bacome scouts and terrors of the border, and the hardy ‘ittle animals will always do the good work whenever they have an o - portanity., Nothing gives them more pleasure than to make an embryo desperado feel as if he had dropped out of & baloon, sud to them is due the eredit of turn. ing into the paths of reetitude and industry hundre's of youths who wers gring netray, MR. MITCHELL'S FREAK. HE WAS AN INTERRSTED LIRTENER ! AT HIS OWN FUNERAL. From the Hartford Times, In the Southbury cemetery stands a monument erected years ago t» a resident of this town named Mitchell. Not only gas it erected to him, but by him, for he had no intention of leaving this worla without making all arrange ‘ments in whick he folt he might ‘be interested. It was a handsome ‘monument for those days, for Mr. Mitchell had money enough to ‘match his eccentricities, but he wasn't contented with the plain marble. He went to work on it himzelf add < dorged it with an outstretched h(j,',d, grapevinues and other devices. *.aen he wanted to add a picture of himself, bat he had to get a sculptor to do that part of the work for obvious rea sons. About that time Lorenzo Dow, the famous and ecceatrie, paid a visit to Southburry, and what followed is cherished as a village tradition. Mr. Dow was engaged by Mr. Mitchell to preach his funeral sermon. Mitchell wanted to enjoy an unusual luxury, and to make the scene all the more realistic he had a grave dug beside his monu mént in White Oak Cametery. The sermon was preached at the vising of the day star, but ouve part of the programms was omit ted. The story goes that Mitch ell nad set his heart upon lyingz in his coffin at the bottom of the grave while Lorenzo Dow was gpeaking, but he gave that up be cause somebody told him that if he once got into his coflin the earth would be thrown in upon him. On the night before the premature fareral some mischief maker smeared with tar the lower part of AMitehell’s marbls face on the monument. Hog bristles stuck in it recklessly made a sort of beard, a hirsute adornment in i< quntes thaps tinvad, bk i, du.ged in by both Dow and Miteh ell. Bat the trick was discovered in time, tihe monument was clean ed, and tha services took place at the hour appointed. Crowds of people came to see ani hear, and the preacher’s address was waut ing in none of the energy he threw into everything he did. It was a big day for Mitchell and all the rest of Southbury. | One interestiug piece of orna. mentation has been removed from the monument, which no longer bears the head of the man it com memorates. It wonld be well worth seeing if it enly remained. Bat it doesn’t, and, like Lorenzo Dow, Mitchell will have to depend upon the fame of his deeds to keep himself from being forgot ten by the residents of the town he once mads lively. | Men Were Gay Deceivers Ever. “Ab, madame,”” he said, as he extended a hand to help her up, “I never saw a more graceful fall. You threw up your arms like a born actress, your little feet in dulged in a shaffle, and down you gettled with a swan-like move ment which was superb.” “Jeally, sir?” “Honest Injun, mad.me.” And he picked up a No. 7 rab ber which had been flang from her left foot, turned her back to a dent in the snow which looked as if a cottage had been upset there and raising his hat and making a profound bow, he took his leave, while she got aboard a street car and continued to blush and smile for sixtecn blocks.—Detroit Free Press. *Consmmption can he Cara. Dr. J. S. Comps, Owensville Oliio, says: “I have given Scott's Emulson of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophopintes to four patienis with better results than seemed possible wity any remedy. All were hareditary cases of Lung dis ease, and advanced to that stage when Coughs, pain in the chest, frequent breathing, frequent pulse, fover and Emaciation. All these cises have imereased in weight from 10 to 28 Ibs,, and are not now needing any medicine. 1 preseribed no other Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophohi tos, Lime, and Soda, but Seott's believiag is to ba the best." VYOL. 22.—N0 36. WARRANTS WITHDRAWN. Richmond Coats and Heary Cuyler Released. Albany Mews, Richmond Ceatsand Henry Cuyler, who, together with Jos 'Henry Watson, were recantly ar rasted upon warrants charging them with arson (in connection ‘with the Academy and Barnes ‘House stable fires), were reler.s-l ed, yesterday morning, the war rants against them being with drawn. < Richmond Coats did not get lib erated from jail,however,as he was out on bond on another case, and his boudsman care off his bond, wheu he was arrested upon this last charge. It remains to be seen whether he will be able to make his bond gond again. Joe Henry Watson, who had his commitment trial befors Jus tice Greer, and was bound over, is now the quly one who stands char ged with arson in connectin with the recent incendiary fires which had our city ina state of uneasiness and excitement a few weeks ago. His trial will not come off until the April term of the Superior Court. ELI PERKINSSNOWED UNDER. Columbus Equirer Sun. According to the Birmingham Age a reporter of that paper nam ed G. H. Richardson, while going to his boarding house en Wednes day night, was “knocked down, ckloroformed, and robbed of $55 and a revolver.” We sympathize with Mr. Richardson and trust that the robbers may e captured and the property rocovered. But did this really happan? the story :has an “Arabian Nights" | tinge about it, that staggera ecre dulity at the start. A reporter with 855 in his pocket, going non chalantly along the street at night, Great Jehosaphat! Was he treas urer of the paper, as well as a re porter? Was he on the staff at the time of the robbory, or bad he resigned after c.ming into pos session of the $55? Surely he didn’t intead to keep on slaving his life away as a reporter when he had 855. The probabilities are that Wednesday is pay day with the Birmingham papers; that the robber knew it and laid for the young man, and they got 55 cents, the dollar mark having been put in thoughtlessly by the composi tor. If Mr. Richardson really was a reporter and really had $55 he ought to be posing ina museum asa curiosity and selling his pho. tograph to the illustrated papers instead of working for a living. TFhere is somne things that even a credulous public connot beliave or conceive. One of these things is areporter with $55. Why, if this story about Reporter Rich son's having 8355 were to be believ ed throvgheut the country, in less than a week Birmiaghim would be full of journalists that it would be easier for a man to climb over a block of buildings than to elbow his way around it. A reporter with $55! Eli Perkins has beeu snowed under at last A Ghastly Fireplace. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Soathside physician nas eapped the climaz of suggestions. He is something of an artistin model iugclay, and aftar he got his of fice supplied with naturil gas he made a cast of a skall. The thing is horribly natural, even to the sutures across the skull, and one tooth knocked oant. This is set up in the grate in such a way that the blaish erimson flames of the burning gas steal throngl the eves and nostrils and flitter playfally around the ghastly jaws. Little jets of fluns fiash through between the suuken jaws and lighten up the bony csuntenanee, heated to a white-rel heatin a manner horribly suggostive of other fires, whieh are said to barn but not consnme, Care for Siek Headache. Far proof that Dr.Gunn’s Liv er Pills cures Siek Headacha, ask your Druggist for a free trial package. Ouly ona for a doss, Regular size boxes, 25 cents. Sold by W. C. Kendrick. Landrethis Garise Tarts, | Warraoted fresh and pure. Fall w 136 pa tive cents apices, at Janes' g':"- Drug Store. o STABBED WITH SHEARS A DESPERATE WOMAX XiLLs srdlj OF HER CHILDREN. - ! CLevELHND, O, January, ¥, Jumes Cabal+ke is a well-te-de carpenter. Ilis wifs ""“::‘“*‘: ,morgi‘:g u:?m’.a;w S ber husband. After he 'x ais oldest son went to the mother sent two sons, aged fouse teen and fifteen, on erraada When they returned they eould not get into the house. In the back yard they found a youngee brother hleeding from menyp wounds. They speedily called help and broke into the house and found their two little sisters, aged five and three, and a brother, aged three monthe, dead from many stabs. Angi.rl of eight wea seriously hurt, and she, with the ‘boy found in the back yard, will probably die. A blooly Iflr of shears told the story. hunt was fmud; .forththe mothe“u r. She und in the ce Mnm ::::nc: rafter dead. She had kil ed her three children, mortally injured two others and had then suicided. The two children whe were still alive were removed to & neighbor's Yonse. No cause for the terrible deed is given. The husband does not thinf that his wife was insane, The Next Crop. - Menroe Advertiser. Every man who proposes fo esls tivate a crop this year, knows now what means he has at command ta meet the actual expenses of oualti vating that erop; he knows how many head of plow stock he has or can pay for now; how much corn and other forage: he has to faed these stock; whether or not e sufficiency; he knows how mueb provisions or its equivalent he has to furnish to his employeesg ha also knows how much cash he has in hand te moet the actnal i cidental expenses which will ab tend the cultivating of that erop. Knowiang these facis, he knows his financial ability as a farmee, aund can therefore circumseribe his farming programme,and bring it within his means. If he haa the means to meet the demands ef a large farm and the capacity o manage it to a successful issae, let him plan accordingly. If he has only means sufficient to maine tain a one-horse crop, it is not in accord with perfect safety to reach beyoud this in his farming pro grammeé. For whenever a farmer reaches beycnd his power, and takes upon himself a crop, the ex~ pense of which exceeds hia ownm eapital, he is then forced to eall on another for aid, which ecall, if answerad, places himself under, and his crop virtually in the hande of him who aids, and therebp takes from the farmer that inde pendent managemont of his orop products which should ever be re. garded and held as sacred and an inalienable right. For in this way hundreds of farmers’ evtton have been placed wunder forced sales upon a depressed market, and lose has accrued. Far better is it fop any man to farm ou a small serle independent of outside help thap om a large scale, and thereby subs ject himself to the beck and ecald of others. Therefore, if any of our farmew readers have hitherto been carry. ing a farm burden too weighty fop their means, better to drop par# of the burden; if they have been farming on a scale not commen. surate with their capital, better reduce to a smaller territory, and in this way keep out of the hande of creditors. Indeed, commow sonse dictates that it is decidedly better for any farmer to come inte market with four bales of ootton unencumbered by debt, than te come in with fifty bsles ooversd with judgments, executions and mortgages. Henes, in planning now for your crop operations during the year, plan acecording to your means now in hand, and not a 0 cording to the means that yon emy . pact to realiza in the futare. A Captain’s Fertunate Dimn” Capt. Coleman, schooner Wey mouth, plying between Atlaao City and New York, had bean. troubled with = cough so that he was unable to sleep, and was ine duced to try Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption. It nof only gave him instant relief, ba nllayed the extreme soreness ia. his breast. His children were similerly affected and a single dose had the same happy effect. Dr. King's New Discovery ia now the standard romedy in the Cele. man housebuld anion board she Boh(unw;: B f‘h"M Free T tHaa of thi - ard Rowedy at Croach Beos. Drog Stare, :