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e oo PiQUANT POINT Cuffee has resumed his engdge_ ment with the festive Kentuecky mule. A new steamboat is now plying the Flint river between Montezu. pa and Albany. People who soft-soap a great deal are very apt to have some lie (Iye) mixed with it. Tha bluest man in the day time 18 always the man who is painting the town red at night. fen thousand dollars is the price of a license to sell liquor at Blackshear. (Guess we won't ap ply for one. We see from an exchange that there is & movement on foot to build & railrcad from Birming pam to Cuthbert. A poor unfortunate in Macon was fined twenty dollars the other day for whipping his mother-in jaw. Great Seot! What a trav esty upon justice! The Naws aund Advertiser says the melon growers around Lecs burg are praparing for planting a big crop this season. They were successful in marketing their mel ons last searon. Women who have a habit of tarning round in the street to in. spect other women’s dresses, will learn with envy that a fish has been found which has eyes in he back of its head. The new style of pantaloons for dudes are deseribed as being go big that they hang in a hun. dred folds lika a dish rag flung over a crooked branch of an apple trae. Now. if the dude would just crawl down in them and hide, how happy decent people would be. The girls in snme parts of Afri ¢ea have to be 't feet tall before they can marry. The Africans probably think that a small wo man cannot manage her hus band. A brief residence in this country would soon teach them better. . An apt answer by the Albany Nows: “The Atlanta Capitol asks ‘what 18 domestic wine? In Georgia, domestic wine is a liquor that allows a man to have mors fun in getting drank than foreign whiskey, a 3 it takes a little more todo the business, and, conse quently, allews & longer time to imbibe it.” N. H. White, the Sheriff of Bumter county, died with pneu monia last week. The Recorder says that the candidates to fill the vacancy are numerous and that one of them has promised the ne groes that in case he is elected he will neither arrest any one of their color or make any levy on their property daring his term of ofice. On the day of election the votera of Sumter should set down on his aspirations and do it hard. There are no old maids in town ~Aluapaha Star. Ihat's a lamentable state of af fairs. Nobody to tell stories to the little folks, to pick up the odd Ping, to arrange everything that is disarranged and to Jocate ev erything that is dislocated, to scold Bridget and lecture Katri- By ou the imprudence of lite hours and the impropriety of let ting her hand be squoze. Even hawks kuow the eternal vigilance of the old maid and postpone their pop calls at the poaltry yard till ghe 1s absent from the Premises.—Macon News. 2 Governor Ireland, of Texas, has Made au appeal to the public for ®d to the sufferers from the drouth in that State. And Yet, now and then you will soe a Georgia cracker hitch up bis team apng head for Texas, leaving 8 State and section where failure of crops is unknown. We will do the Georgia cracker the justion, hOWEwer, to state that, generally, 8 the end of the third year, be is footing it back to Georgia.— Thcmmville Times. George Frost, a rich citizen of Cario, has worn the same hat for twenty.gix years. The other day While he wag gotting shaved, some e stole it and put a new one in 14 place, and Mr. Frost got out "'a_"flnts for four or five persons, Pud & private detective 15 to ¥ork up the case, and will do his b".“t to teach his neighbors to ®ind their own business. . ‘M ' away Hartridge is the new ior of Yy Samapei s THE DAWSON JOURNAL. JORDAN & RAINEY. When Winter Winds Do Blow. Press me closer, all mine own, Warms my heart for thee alone, Every sense responsive thrills, Each caress my being fills; Rest and peate in vain [ crave, In cestacy I live, thy siave; Dowered with hope, with promise blest, Thou dost reiga upon my breast: Closer stii, for I am t*ine, Burng my heart, for thou art mine; Thou the message, I the wire, I the furnice, thou the fire: I the servant, thou the master Roaring, red hot, mustard plaster! ONLY A TRAMP. Detroit Free Press, A dark December night—the snow whirling fiercely round bleuk corners and drifting in long mounds into the streat. Ata corper, where the light from a lamp falls upon him, stands a ragged, motionless figare bearing the outlines of a man. His rags flatter in the icy blasts, the snowflakes eddy around him, drifting aboat his feet as he stands gazing into the uncurtain ed windows of a great hoase whence come sweet strains of musie, Within, a grate glowing with warmth and ligit, rich upholster ed furniture, soft lights, and the group around the piano. Whito fingers flit across the keys and glad voices attune themselves to fall, rich chords—not the classic harmonies of Handel or Bach, but the simple, touching “Rock of Ages,” The figare moves naarer, and ss a eharper blast sweeps around him, shivers and draws bis rags more closely about him. Oat in the night, homelass in the pitiless storm, bat he is heedless of it all as memory carries him backward. Childhood, purity and love, the strains of musie, and he forgats what he has been. “Rock of Azes, cleft far me, Let me hide myself in Thee.” And out from the warmth and Bplendor the words float to the lis tener in the wild storm. Hoe leans wearily agaiust the lamp post, the wind rises into a shriek and dies away in a hollow mcan, the snow-flakes whiring by, for a momeut flash diamond fires, but his senses seem sunk in oblivion. Su ldenly, from out the bronze throat of a great clock. jarring and discordant, comas the stroke of 10. Rousing from his reverie, he draws his worn hat over his eyes, and turns into the dark street— zoing—whera? A tramp! Only a wretched outeast, sick at heart with buffet ing the storms of life, weary of disappointments and heartaches, dvifting out toward the great shores of Eternity, unknown, till at the sound of the last tramp, he answers at the roll-call of the Rasurrection. How to Take Life. Take it like a man. Take it as it is--an earnest, vi tal essontial affair. lake it just as though you were born to the task of performing a werry part in it—as though the world had waited for your coming. Take it as though it was 1 grand opporta nity to achisve; ‘o carry forward grent and good sohemes, to hell and cheer a weary, it may be, heart-proken brother. The fact is, life is undervalued by a great majority of mankind. It is uot mads half as mach as should be the case. We can look back on opportunities lost; plans unachieved, thouzhts crnshed,and all caused from lack of necessary and possible effort. If wa kuew better how to taks and make tie most of life, it would be greater than it is. Now and then a man stands aside from the erowd, lavors earn estly, steadfastly confidetiy, and straightway becomes famoas for wisdom, mtallect, skill and groal pess of soma sort. The world wonders, admires, idolizes; and yeq it only illastrates what each may do if he takes hold of life with a purpose. If 4 man but says he will and follows it up, thers is nothing in reascn he may not expect to ac complish. —Hool's Eureka Liver Medi cine, a perfect family medicina for the common ills of life. It has no equal. Itisa specific for sick hezguohe. “For sale 1 Daw- Lml G, by Crouch Bro's, ;fixg Dawson, Ga., Thursday,” February 3rd.,, 188§7. A STRANGE ROMANCE. The Story of the Doctor Who Courted and Diud not Know it. Atlanta Constitution. - Dr. Harden, as his nama shall be for this oceasion (now dead), kad but lately arrived in Ameri cus, Ga., from Savannah. Baing agentleman of polishel address he soon found admission to bast circles of sociaty, and at onca be came indispensable at all social gatherings. With the ladies he was a prime favorite. With one in particulu» he” formed a close frisndship, for it daveloped that he had fought in ths trenches with l her hrother, and it was into his arms that the woundad man foll when ke was stagzared by the bul. let which caus>d his death. One day Miss Jalia, with her widowed mother, went outon that | most important daty in a woman’s lif2—the purchass of a trosseau. Society had pretty well guessed tha eourse ot affairs. Congratula- l tions poured in upon the yonung lady, all of which shs acesptad | with bacoming modesty The! groom expectant, hhrwover, acted i mysterionsly. Ha naver mads re ference to the happy affair with which his nams was linked. i When a friend congratulated him | ha looked pazzled, but ofsrad no | invitation to prosaal. I Tins woaks passai, natil the ! date popularly supnosel to hava g been set for the nuntials hal gone | by. Tha doctor moval abont tha | city in his usual anconeern. The young lady held her griof and dis- 5 appointmaat sierel, anl vanturad | no word of esnsara or eomplamnt. In fact, the mystery becamms so ' great that the question as to| whethar tha coupla had ever baasn ; engiged or nnt bacama one of vio- | lent local Iztltion, l The soldier friends of tha yonng | lady’s brother, feeling that she l was withnat male protection, da- | termined that she should not be imposol upon. They met, to the ' number of a dozan, late one even- | ing, by the cotton warehonse of| Harold & Johnson, and azreed to f call on tiae doctor anl gat an ex- | planation. They reached his room, and were told hLe had gone | out not five minutes before for a l walk, and wouald not ba back un til after midnight. In order wo | fill in the time nntil that hour, tho | party weni to Miss Julia’s houase to consult her about the matter. They wers surprised to find the doctor there, while near him sat the young lady in tears. One of the men, maldened at | the doctor’s icy indifference, rash ed over to him aud grasping him by the shoalder, shook him vio_ lently. The doctor yawned deep-i ly; he arose, and rubbad his eyes, and,looking around him in the ut most bewild rment, said: “How cawe I here? This is so very strange. I weant to bsd in my room at eight o'clock, and thoaght until this moment that I was still there.” He was a somnambulist! Ia the talk which followed the whole matter was male plain. Af- | ter having visited Miss Julia twice, he bagan coming at nine o'elock. when he was not expectel. His manner wus somowhat stiff and formeal, byf he pressed his sait with perseverance to aay other snbject. . He never thought of leaving antil a faw minatas before ona in the worning. His lats hour i in eoming, his late hour in leav- | ing, elways seemad stranga, buat | as his behavior was always most ; circamspect, it was not thonght of after the first few nights. Thus 1 he proposed, was accepled, had | the date appointad, and passed it aver, In his waking hours he had no recollection whatever of the avants of the night before. After the wmatter had thus been made plain, the doctor said: l “Now, Miss Julia, since all this has transpired in my sleep, I may as well tell you that your image has been impressed upon my heart all along. Will you consent again to my proposal!” It was two plain that no opposi tion existed there. Soon the li cense was procured, the minister l called in, and the happy pair were | made one But one chapter more remaing to.be told. When the ya%hw ver broke out in Savannah with sagh virulenee about two years ago, Dr. Harden was one of the most zaalous in waiting upon the sick in that city. He nzver rofas ed thecall of daty. *= At last he, too, succumbed to the dread de stroyer, and he now sleeps with his silent majority. 4 FLORID) STORY. Americus Republican. Monday we meatan old time friend whom we had known before the war, Jack Loannard by name, who toid us that for ten years or more he hal baea growing oran ges in the lower parf. of Brevard county. Ha told wsthe following story of a girl a-d her pet: A family named Belden lived a quatter of a mile from me. They hadonly ona daughter, a pretty girl of 13, that had as ugly a pet as wasevar known. [t was a great big rattlesnake that would come and go at her bidding and uestle for hours in her lap. Tho mon ster was fond of the girl and would suffer her to rtrike and roll it about as she pleasel. Oue day last fall the girl was playing in some bushes about a hundred yards from the house, with the snake in berla;. A huge,black ne gro man saw the child, and think ing she was unprotecte 1, his evil desires were kindled anl he slip ped upon aer, seized her in his arms and was bearing her oT in to thewoods, with his horny hand pressed over her mcuth to stifle her eries. TLe snake crawled from the folds of thedress, crept around the brate’s arm and struck him on the neck, hissing in rage at tho time, He stuck his fangs in deep, two or thres fimes, ere the ne gro was aware of what it was. He t! en dropped the grl and seizing the huge reptile in his hand, tore it off and killed it against the tree. The girlas soon as released, ran scream in toward her home. The snake was killad, but the negro went bat & few yaris before being over come by the poison, and fell to the ground, where he was soon found. The snake had avenged his irsalt to his playmata and the negro died in the greatest ago ny. M. Belden told me that the snake had beea playing with his little girl ten years, had never hurt her, and he was sorry that it was killed. The little girl was for a long time incousolable, but 13 now reconeiled to the loss of her pet, and believes it was only given to her to save her from the horrible fate. Jack left for his old home i. Tennessez, where he will stay for a few months and then retar: to his grove. Tue Rowme Bullstin vary correctly says: “A newspaper generally is a picture of the place in which it is published. It is received by the outside world as the photo graph of the place, Pesple that say that “it will do no guod,” should remember this: every bus iness, no matter if large or small, should be represented in the home paper. Itisa homs institution and should honestly receive all due it, for the road of the newspa per man i 3 a tough one at best.” ~-Thz Moateznma Record man was inspired by the eternal fitness of things whan he priuted the fol loving: “Occasionally some fel low will get nettlel because a nawaspaper man duns him for money. The way to avoid being dunned is to pay up. 1t is not an impeachment, but a elear unmis takeable sign that editors, like other people, have necessities,” Ix view of tha fact that Justic Wouods, of the United States Su preme Court, is lying critically ill, with but little hope of recovery, Hon. N. J. Hammond has been suggested as his successor. Mr. Himmond ranks among the fore most jarists in the Sontn, and is in every way qualified to adorn the country’s highest tribanal. A piLL has passed the Senate and been favorably recsived by thas Honsa to inangarats the noxt President of the Uaitad States on the 30th of April, inordaer to placs the date just ons hundad years nfter the inaugnration of Gaorge Washington. ; WATER OR WINE. Maurice Thompson, in The Independent, Running water has always pos sessed a charw: for the minds of men second to no other influence in out-door lifa. All through the old literatures, from the brooks of the Bible to the resplendent foun tains of Horace, we hear the bab bling of the transparent streams and feel the coolness and fresh ness of their currvents. Whether ‘we walk by the Jordan, or rest by the dreamy “sourca of some sacred ‘stream," we never miss the dis tinet and individual fascination— the melodious mystery of the rip plirg element, so abundant and yet so precious; the tinted, water worn pebbles, the white sand, the flashing minnows, the kingfisher! The poets, those glorious loun gers by the brooks, long azo sur prised the rhythmic secret of ran ning water; bat thsy have never been able to imprison in their lyr ics that ander throb, that lignid connterpoint which palpitates in every brook and rivulet from Texas to Turkestan. Anacreon caught the gurgle of wine, and set in exqguisite phrasing the sensu oas, laring delights of the mocker growing red in the glass, and Koats, the restless, longing boy, has eried out: : “04. for a breaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippo crene, ‘With beaded bubbles winking at the brim ~ And purplestained mouth.” ‘ Bat the artless, healthy soul ‘would have thouzht of the bub ib}iug spring, with the [ragrant mint growing around it. I re lmsmber one, where the pepper 'mint and cress and calamus form 'ed the frame of a pool, clearer and sweeter than that of Bandu sia; and a gourd was the beaker, at whose brim the beadal bubbles winked. Oae who drank there felt the cooluess slowly s'eal throughout his frame, and it was as if Nature had poured her fresh ness through his veins. If wine is & mocker, wataris “a ennsoler. If your nerves are tired, thore is no medicine so good a 3 the soand of a pare, swiftly-flowing brook. The restorative effect comes of the lalling, soothing ripple-music. Insominia is impossible where this stream-babbling ean b>» heard, The swesiest sleep tha' ¢ver ea ne to tired eyelids may be had by 'lmugiug your hammock (some sultry summer mnight) direcily tabove a noisy rapid of some pure 'bmok, or by the sea. I remem ‘ber many a night of delicious slember on the eool, dry san:d of a } Floridiancoast-island. The swash and boomof the Atlantic comes with the thought. The sweetest flowers and the most luxuriant plants grow where water is; they s am to revel in the moisture, the coolness, the music and the por vading freshness. All the foar footed animals and the birds con gregate at times near the springs and brooks, or slip shyly down to the still pools to bathe. The shade is more refreshing and the sanshine i 3 more antiseptic in the little dells where the influence of ‘rthe restless water carrents fi-l all the air. What flagon with its tmysterious philter can stay the ’very soul thirst like a jug of water from the hill-side spring! Com fort me with a draught from the i“mnsu-coverad bucket.” Even a picture of an old well-sweep is cooling and satisfying, almost. ~ Duta bath in runninz water! Have you watched a fish in a erys tal-clear current, his head up stream, working his fins just enough to keep him stationery? What comfort i 3 suggested! Every pore of one’s skin, every ultimate yarticle of one's nerve. it’.s:sue, every fiber of ony's frams, clamors for the laxury that the fish enjoys. See that wading- Fird, a heron or asand-piper; how the seunse of coolness mast steal ‘up those stilt-like legs and ripple ‘Ollt to the tip of every feather! Who dossn’t like to wade? 1 should almost doubt the honesty of him whose feet did not iteh to feel the touch of flowing water. Next to sunlight and heat, water is tiae greatest life-giving force in Natur>, Whenaver sanlight and water meot there .s luxnriant, gashiog life, Water is joy; drowuth is sorrow and death, Lifo i & Lyvis withoat the.cooliug sip, YOL. 22.—N0 37. Fthe soothing draught from the ‘well. What is the use of stimu lants, when, with most of us, the mere friction of life’s current in our veins is burning us up? Ab stinence from every artificial strain is commanded by Nature, aud the command is impliciily obeyed by all her subjects save man. A fountain of the rarest old wine would never tempt my thrush, my mockingbird or my} gay, green heron. Water, the soothor, the quencher of fire, thel controller of passion, 1s tbeir drink. There ia a prufound! meaning in this trite fact. The wild things dov not know as much as we do about the good of this, or the evil of that; but they never break old Nature’s laws. What is the meaning? It is equipoisel —sleadfastness—hereditury habit. Looking into the far future aml! remembering how this hereditary habit is created, we may well 1 draw the s>uclusion, and to-day begin laying the foundation for the steadfist character of tuture generations. Shall dumb natare, working blind'y, do mora than human natare, working in the fuall flood of intelligenes and Christian enlightenment? For countless ages the bird and the baast have kept faith with Natare. From my earliest boyhood I have been a persistent, tireless roamer in the wild waods, a studeat by fisld and flood, and I never yot have found a sick wild thing, save thosa sick from wounds, nor have 1 ever found a dead wild thing which appeared to have diad of disease or old aga. This is siguificant, in view of man’s terrible lot. No one nead rash to the extreme of the thought; bat why may we not sensibly and safely infer enovugh o arguo as follows: For years unnumbere 1 the wild things hava strictly followed the plain rules of Nature. As they have devel oped their habits hava daveloped, 80 that a bird, for instanca, and its life-hubit are the results of parallel and just natural forees, Man and his habits might have been as justly balanced for per fect physical and moral sanity, if he had never transgressed. But transgression is already becoming a hereditament—l moaan physical transgression—-anl who does nst soe lonyg dark lines running down into the far fatare marking the ways of weakness, disease, suffor ing and crime, through countless generations? Man has not been upon earth as long as the othsr animals have, Wa cannot say, and 1 think sci ence forbids us to say, that man has yet had time to develop any steadfast human life-habit. But in the great future habit will erys talize and becoms permaneutly hereditary. Mau, the last and noblest of God's ereation, will, perhaps, goms tima in the awfal future, reaach a fixed stature, when (in no dimly figurative sense) his drink will ba either water or wine. Natare, even human nature, i 3 in God’s hund, and we must trast that, as hs has 10l his older creatures to steadfastness in the simplest and safest habit of life, he will lead our younger and more precious race of baings safe ly into the highest state of moral and physical equilibrinm. The water of life is a phrase balancing well between the meanings of sci enca and the meanings of religion. Ihere is no substitute for water anywhere in the economy of Na ture, and its cleansing and sooth ing propertias might well pass over iuto literature along with the world and tipify the hishest and purest influence that affects hu man life. What a brook, bordered by grean willows, windinz a - ay throug i the great plain of the future, is u her editary happiness! Robust health and steadfast qualities, based on sanity, parity and simplicity! A clear stream of generations after generations, slowly bat surely as suming the typa form ef the race! Perhaps, after all, the universal dolight in ruaning water shown by mankind is but a manifestation of the great under-thought, the natnreal, spontaneons impulse to. ward the proper stendfust Lahit of lite, the lifmof purity, | &8 % . A S | AWHOLESALE qw% A Banks Comnty Man Steals h@ Males,a Wagon, and Wy From the Athens mm.wm - ble character nwfim ed on his m&flfir@& y stealing a mule in this coTßty CHENEs) ’ froms his uncle. He WW‘ ‘ed but got out soon onboh&?:ffi? ‘then skipped bail and went Elfl’l South Carolina, whera he assume ed the name of Robert Martin,and, by the sweetness of his tongue; he soon gained the confidenceof B Hopkins, at Seneca, 8. C., ‘and making arangements to work with him and representing him self as having a family in Geor gia, secured his wagon and four males to move; bt after getticg on this side he again determined to see what profit there was in, traveling on otkermat’s property, and three days after securiug the wagon anG mules, he mads his ap pearrnee at his mother's in this set+ tlement bringing one mule with him, which male he took the pre caation to keep hid out, and on the next night, having woa “the confilencs of a respoetable - youug ledy,but not of her father,in order to accomplish his plans it becama nozossary for him to scoot again. So on the next morning Armoun, male and girl were all gone. , The doctor having waited. pas tiently for savernl days after his time was up to retura becams un easy, and remembering to hava heard him say he lived near Arp post-office, he came diractly heres but found that there had baen no suc hman «s Robart Martin in thesa parts, but that the young man Ar« mour filled the digeription. =~ He now having a eclue, secured the help of a few enargatic men from there and startad in pursuit. The crowd went on to Belton,and from there the doctor sent W. 8. Mize to Adanta, and he, with the re wainder of his posse, kept toward the moun ains. They first heard of them at Cleveland, White coun ty, where they stopped and got married. They were t{hen sig dnys ahead of them, and now the race would have beenm hot if the weather had not been bitter cold. The groom and the bride, inlding fast to the mule, made their way as they could through the mountains, turning and shifting, and using every m3ans to eover up their tracks, erossing the boundary three times. But they finally, on tha third day, eoms upon him in tha Toeonnessee vally. He m.de a desperate fight before he could ba captured. It took six man their b st to hand-enf? him. Thus enls tha honeymoon of this unhappy couple. He gooes to jail and his wife is forced te seck tha protection of har injured parnts. Fertilizers. - Thers is likely to be some trouble abont fertillizers nexs sprinz. A bil is now pending be fore the Jegislature, to be acted on at the summer session, which pros viles that parchasers of guano notwithstanding auy waiver in the note, may plead [ailure of consid eration, when it proves to be worthless. Aundthat this defense may ba st up notwithstanding the transfar of the nota to an in nocent holder, bafore due. The guano maen say that this wili ruin the trade, and that they cannot soll except for cash under such law. It i 3 traa the bill has nos passad, znl probably will nog but the manuafacturars are appre; hansiva that it will pasa after the notas ara given, and they will have tronble nex! fall. This doubs makes the fertilizor trade rather kazardoas for the dsaler, and it will bz m e difficalt this spring to wmake purchases than ever bae fore, Whether the conutry will ba ine jured by this tarn in afairs re mains t> b sen, but we will sug gest that tha farm rs had bettde ‘commence preparing their coms post haape, anlarcaaging to make’ acolton crop without the usasl supply of f£o:tilizers, ; l With proper care, beginning" ‘now, nearly every far ner can man age to mike fertilizers at home sufficient tomse on all the eotton o onghit to plant. We have been ' urging this for tan years, to very little purpos2. If the peopls ean ‘ot gob gaans without the money, ‘they will ba forced to try the ex. periment of get ing along withoat A, and it may yei tira oat to be & bleasing ty these-foarths ufinfk peophy -3 ateiamn Reeopdes S