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The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
TIE BONES OF. GUITEAU
They Lose Their EdenIEty-Sur-
geon General Crane DispOses of
Them.
Washington Star. ]

Washington Star.
The bones Of Charles j. Guiteau,
the assassin Of President Garfield,
who was executed at the jan, in this
city, on June 30, 1882, after having
been in the Army Medical Museum
since July 3, last, hage at length, it
is stated, lost their identity as lis
bones The day foll9aeiug the exc
cution Guiieau's body was inferred
under the hopt Of east wing of the
Jail. Or the night of July 31st was
resurTected by the analomisU of the
museum, DR.. Il. r. Schafhert, and
taken INTO the museum. Here the
bones were prepared for articulation,
and being in ike order for such pur-
poses it was supposed that some
day or othtr Guiteau's skeleton
would be placed il = glass case in
the museum; properly labeled.
It was known by q plumber Of
clerks and other employees Of the
museum that the bones were there,
but only few persons have ever
been permitted to see them. 1t has
been deemed inadvisable, however,
to place the skeleton Oh exhibition as
that Of GTtcau, for ike the cervical
yertebrae Of the assassin of Lincoln
Wilkes BoQth-it would have at
tracted toe large p crowd Recently
Dr.. 9. II Crane, the surgeon geuer.
al, took the bones into his personal
possession, and he has made dispo-
sition Of them Of which every other
person is ignorant Gen Crane will
doubtless keep the secret to himself
1t is thought that the bones are vel
in the building as an entire skeleton
or that they with other bones form
exhibits there
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
NO DISCOUNT THERE.

A few weeks since railroad col
hsion on one of the roads leading
out of New York, killed, among
others, a passenger living in an iu-
terror town. His remains were sent
home in good shape, and a few DAYS
after the funeral the attorney of the
road called on his willow to effect a
settlement She placed the figures
at $4,000.
"Oh that sum IS unreasonable, -
replied the attorney "Your hus-
band was nearly fifty years old"
eyes, sir.
And lame p
Yes"
"And his general health was
poor?'
"Quite poor
sand ne probably would not have
lived five years?"
Probably net, sir"
'fThen it seems to me that $4,000
or $1,000 would be a very fair COM
pensaion
"Two or three thcus md dollars :"
she echoed. why, sir, I courted
that man for ten y aars, run after him
for ten more cal then had to chase
him down with & shot gun to get
him before preacherl Do von sup
pose [ am going to settle for the bare
cost of shoe-leather aud amnluni-
ton. Wall Street News.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
Boys viii BE Boys.

A boy will tramp two hundred and forty
miles in one day on a rabbit hunt and be
timber in the evening when, if you ask
him to cross the street and borrow Jones
two inch auger, he will he as stiff as a
meat block. And he will go swimming
all day and stay in the water three hours
at time, and splash and dive, and pad
die and puff, and next morning he will
feel that an unmeaswed insult has been
offered him when he is told by his mother
to wash his face. And he'll wander all
around dry creek bed all the evening
pilling up a pebble fort, and nearly die
when his big sister wants him to pick up a
basket of chips for the parlor stove. And
hen spend the bigger part of his time in
trying to corner stray mule or a bare
backed horse for ride and feel that all
life's charms have fled when it comes hi.
turn to drive the cows home. And he'll
turn a ten acre lot upside down for ter
inches of angle worms and wish for tn,
voiceless tomb when the garden demands
attention Augusta Ga News.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
ELI Perkins Hinglishman.

The typical Englishman who adds an III
to every word beginning with vowel
arrived in New York yesterday. He said
he was glad to visit Hamerica, the new
World, that he has read so much about in
the Hinglish newspapers.
When asked him what theatre he was
going to attend in the evening, he said:
1 really kant tel. you know. Perhaps
it viii be the Hacademy of Music, or
Habey's park theatre, or Averly's or
'Aragon and Arts
In the evening l saw him buying tickets
at Wallack's When | came up be was
looking at the box sheet. He was run
ming his finger down on the rows marked
j. X and L, and remarking;
Yes, / want warm place, 'aving just
got off the steamer with soment of a cold.
Do you mind telling me if you think it
would be warm enough in hell?
Hell? why yes, said Mr. Moss, the
treasurer. Hell is warm place, l pre-
sumo. I have never doubted it
We'll won't you be kind enough to give
me two warm seats in hell !? continued the
Englishman, still looking at the diagram.
Then he added to the startled treasurer,
Let them be low down in the middle
'Where?'
In hell, sir-two seats.
WhatY
TIVE seats-two,' and the Enelishman
held up two fingers and added, in warm
place in hollow down
Il don't understand you" said Mr. Moss
looking through the window in bewilder-
ment; do ! understand You to say
Yes, hexacty-two seats in hell, and
Pm in hurry.
But
Blast your eyes? Don't but me If
l don't ave seat in hell l don't want any
and
Look heren exclaimed Mr.. Moss in
dignantly; you lunatic, get away from
that window. I've wasted enough time on
8 COMPOUNDED crazy man. Come get Do
you think We keep the box-sheets of hell
here in New York =?
Blast your Yankee eyes! l didn't say
you did. I simply asked you for a seat in
hell rma Hinglishman and
%, ah ? exclaimed Mr.. Moss, as a new
light sant,,ed 70 down on hin, tT coo vot,
want seat in B-row II
TO be sure, sir, hell. That's what
said. Right in the middle of hell, where
its warm, you know
Confound you Englishmap ? muttered
Mr. Moss to himself as he marked off the
seat i'll the middle Of L. that's where
you ought to SIT and where you will sit in
the next world, and you won't have to
fight to get a seat there, either.--Eli Per-
ldns in Chicago Tribune.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
Inc Hand of Providence.

Yes, sir, I believe the hand of Proyi
uence IS sometimes shown in these matters
Of speculation, replied the old ex-broker,
as he tilted his chair back.
nave you any instances ?"
es, two of them. Seventeen wears
ago l put every dollar I could raise into a
1pVo oii cotton. 1t lost | was beggar.
!, won vowed would give the Metho-
uiSt people in my town $500 to build a
scope on their church Gentlemen. was
pedged in with difficulties and disasters.
~ w the IN hand of Providence. pulled me
through, and made $8s, 900.
And what was the other case ?n
wei, l put about $40, 900 in wheat
ana corn, and l vowed that if I won
would give $4,000 towards Baptist
church"
And then the hand OF Providence pulled
you through, eh?n
mo sir. She scooped me stone blind.
reckon she didn't favor the Baptist religion
Wall Street News
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
A Suggestion.

Another dear little boy, in pur-
suit of fun, has came to grief. He
s'ood his sister up at one end of the
room, aimed his fathers gun at her
aud put couple If slugs into her
shoulder OF course be YVES fright
ened-who wouldn't be?-and de-
clared on his honor that he diln't
mean to, but there will probably be
a funeral in that family all the same.
We cannot see any relief from this
kind of fun. Every few weeks some
jocose boy commits q deliberate
murder as the result of what boys
call real good time We should
like to make q suggestion here,
which may possibly influence the ac-
tons of these funny little creatures
il the future. Any boy should be
permitted TO aim his, fathers gun at
his sister on one condition, viz: He
must first look down the barrel and
at the same time spring the trigger.
If nothing happens lie may have as
much fun as he pleases. If anything
does happen we will have the conso.
lation Of knowing that the right per-
son rather than the wrong one has
his head blown OF. Make this a
rule with your boys point to the
lingling birch within easy reach to
emphasize your remarks withal, and
we shall have less funny accidents Of
this kind.-Exchange.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH.
What Northern Man Vow
Living There Has to Say
About His Condition


The following extract from re-
cent letter, written by a former cit
izen of Woburn, Mass who now re-
sides in Georgia, speaks for itself,
and is rebuke to the old campaign
cry of ''bloody shirt" so well known
in late political speeches., The wri-
ter says: 81 have wandered through
the Carolinas, ] have lived in the
wilds of Florida, and have visited
every section of the grand old State
Georgia.; that is now my home, and
have yet to witness single act of
oppression or willful mistreatment
on the part of the dominant race to,
ward those whom they once claimed
aud recognized only as property.
The negro to-day is free-free to
work, free to think, free to act for
himself in all matters relating to his
own individual comfort and we'll be-
ing. Further than this his freedom
does nothing for hin. Socially he
is no moro part of the southern
family than the mule he drives, and,
when he en- 'e,,yors to oyerstep the
line Of social distinction, he makes an
enemy OF those with whom he comes
in contact 1t IS there he starts the
cry OF prosecutions, which is echoed
by tbs brethren of the North, and
finally drops into the hearts Of the
Northern people, there TO be cata- :
luglad with thousand other mis-
presentations, as a new instance of
Southern oppression Politically he
is not to be trusted, as his ignorance
and greed makes him the tool of DO.
Gtical tricksters.
"Ihe black incubus on the white
civilization and enterprise in the
Southern Sta es is no more like him
than he is like the southern planter
whose cotton he picks And / am
finally convinced of the falsity of the
lessonsI received regarding him. All
mon are born free and equal, it is
true, but they don't stay SO !; and it
is only when oil and water mix, and
the ice clad mountains of New Eng
land are to be found in the orange
groves Of Florida that the freedman
will become tie social or political
equal of his white neighbor."
The gentleman who writes the
above has been resident of the
South for seven years, and states
that his impressions of the state of
society were drawn from reading
from a radical press, and from
hearing partisan representatives wave
the bloody shirt of sectional hate and
Ito nisrepresent people, noble in
their integrity, grand in their devo-
ton to all that is worthy of the ven
Grafton of true people and sublime
in their love of independence"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07

splendid crops Of cucumbers, but
hearing that the veteran growers of
FIorina could not make truck bring
freight charges, they dispaired Of
better success and let their crops
rot on the ground One day, how
ever, Mr.. McRee went to Savannah
and saw some of the Florida truck on
its way to the market. st was
slouchily packed, of i'll quality and
altogether not worth handling. A
great light broken upon hin and he
hurried home, selected several crates
of choice cucumbers, packed them
neatly and forwarded them. They
sold readily at high prices, an be
then discovered the secret of success
ful truck farming, viz; Offer only
your best truck for sale Destroy
or use at home ali that is poor Pack
neatly and value your reputation
with the commission merchants. :"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
a PHOTOGRAPH.


inns Is her shadow, nothing more;
The eyes that wear no smile for mine
The silent lips that laughed before,
The hair without its wave and shine,
This mask that shows no spark divine.
How calm colndd it looks at me!
Her eyes were full of 'shade and sun;
A look that rippled like the sea
Across whose breast the light winds run
A CLEAN, cloud, a tale begun.
This is the veil her soul put on
TO run the weary ways Of earth.
And when her brief, bright race was won
She laid it down beside her hearth,
A WORKOUT thing of little worth.
1t is not she that fronts me here
This speeches. aspect, still and cold;
| knew her fair and sweet and dear:
A ciinging girl, with heart of gold
And hands that clasped with tender hold.
was 1t gentle prophecy,
- This silent, transparent mould of clay,
e let the loving ound her see
How soon that soul must fit away.
That fiuttered, paused but made no stav E?
Not here, but risen," oh, angle song
Still falling soft on hearts that weep
This is the dead, whose ashes long
Her Masters messengers shall keep
Safe in earth's undermining sleep.
But she who wore this mortal guise
Has fled beyond our fearful sight;
Joyful and strong, serene and wise,
She lives upon the hills of light,
And waits us on that heavenly height.
ROSE TERRY Cooke.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
Early and Late Marriages.

If early marriages are often fail
ures, from a wide difference in men
tai growth, does maturity dispell all
the dangers! Certainly not here
are too many chances Of failure to be
removed by avoiding difficulty. Nav
igators on the sea OF matrimony have
laid down on their charts innumera-
bic shoals, quicksands and breakers,
and still new ones are found on ev-
cry fresh voyage. The varying for
tunes of those who embark are so
great that the enterprise has been
well called lottery, and SO it is, in
qualified sense As no skill or ex-
perience is sufficient for the sailor
ia real life as a guarantee of unvary-
ing success, so nothing positive can
be predicted of any couple who
launch out to test their skill as nav
igators on this sea whose shores are
lined with so many wrecks No
chart that wisdom ever devised, no
stately ship, no abundance of world
~ stores laid in for rainy days, nor
remedies for the sea sickness which
comes to SO many souls on that sea
of joys aud sorrows can be depended
upon as infal IDLE panacea for the
ills with which they are beset. Nc
interference of family doctors, nor
the prayers of the priest, nor ankle
ty of relatives can go far of them
selves as one to rebuild family al
tar once broken down through thosy
incompatibilities which develop be-
tween people incompatible. There is
no remedy in that reserve Of wisdom
and patience by which SOME minds
always make the best of a bad bar
6 ain, AMI no hope can be held out to
those who are about to embark not
founded in their ability to bear and
forbear. In other respects it may
indeed, be "all a lottery to the, ma
ture as well TO the immature for the
indolescent couple red-hot with love
and stiffness, many succeed almost
as often as those who fancy that a
study of each others character for
many years have solved the problem
of safety. When in recent years,
Charles Summer married at the age
of So, who would have predicted that
he IN year or two would have rea-
son to repent step which so many
take inconsiderately? And so of
thousands of others who might be
named, long hesitating and studying
laying up wisdom as they imagine,
from others failures-and then
reaching but for the fruit which
turns to ashes After all the wise
advice that can be given, it is not
easy to decide that the young who
fall into each others arms without a
why or wherefore except that ''they
want to" are any less safe than the
ploading reaSoners who coolly an
alyze and study each others traits
until the frosts of age warns them
that the time to choose is growing
short.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07

breaking down prenatureIy the con-
stiIulious of their children, for hui
manitys sake and the future Of the
country, Legislatures should inter-
fere and appoint school visiting
boards in the counties, charged with
the duties of investigation, and pro-
hibition of the evil. The board
should include a competent physi-
clan, with several of the most intel
hgent men IN the county Perhaps
the evil could be modified by pre-
scriblng general rules OF government
and instruction suitable to the sever
al ages and physical capacities.
This is a subject that peculiarly
comments itself to the State Teach
Ell Is Association.
Nearly all the men and women de,
velop disease OF some kind before
they are grown, and very few are
qualified fnr the duties of life in or
out of the family.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07

high. There is a strin of six inch
plank nailed up and down in the
middle of every panel, which is near
ly as good as if there was post in
'the middle. This strip keeps the
plank in line, and keeps them from
warping. The nails should not be
driven in straight bnt little slant
ing to make them hold better. I
built halt mile of this kind of fence
two years ago, aud can find no fault
with it. The wind can't blow it
down, and stock never try to lump
it. My lumber cost me five dollars
a thousand for saving -my wire cost
half cent foot and that makes the
fence cost me twenty-eight cert 4
rod besides my laI or, and rail fence
can be built much cheaper consid-
ering the value of timber. Fences
are generally made too high and top
too heavy, and The winds rock them
about, and the posts get loose; and
the rain drips Iii and rots them.
Gates are most always made too
heavy-a gate should be made wide,
say nine feet, and very light Use
BOLTS instead of nails at the corners
and middle Of the brace. Don't let the
gate swing when it is shut. Let the
bottom Of the latch-post rest on
piece of scantling, bevel the scant-
ling a little and let the gate slide up
on it as it shuts An iron roller put
in like one is put in bed post is
good thing, for then the gate will
roll up instead of slide up. A gate
is open very little compared with the
time it is shut, and if it rests on
something when shuts it will never
swag when open. A gate should be
no higher than the fence, but l make
my farm gates with the hinge post
three feet higher, and run brace
from the top Of it down the opposite
corner, and another brace across
that one from the other corners.
Pack post well at the bottom, especi-
ally on the front and back. The
plank will hold them the other way.
| think ] know right smart about
gates and about fencing, but L don't
know how to drive steers, and /
don't want to learn. Bill ARP.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
The Fence Question.
Savannah News.

Savannah News.
This is more serious question
than many farmers seem to regard it,
if we Judge by the action of many
counties in the state negativing the
question by vote on tests at the polls.
If voters could.be Induced to shut ont
the personal Of selfish view they take
Of it aud vote disinterestedly for he
public good, they would find by re-
suits that they had after all, voted
for their own interest How many
Of them can realize the fact chat the
annual cost Of fencing in any State
in the Union about equals the mar
ket value Of all The stock fenced
against in the State? And yet, the
figures show this to be true. The
Planter and Farmer shows it to be
tr1e in Virginia, and several years
ago it was shown to be true ST Penn
sylvania. That it is true of every
Southern State we have no reason
to doubt, The actual figures given
by the Planter for Virginia is $751;
539,600 as the cost Of fencing, and
S28, 1877, 500 as the value Of stock in
the State. The farms are averaged
at 100 acres and their nimber given
at 1886. willie is observed that
the smaller the farms the greater is
the relative cost Of fencing, as it re
quires just half as many rails to en-
close % acres as it does 100 acres.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
A GARD.

MY SERVICES l AGAIN TENDER
20 the good people of Dawson and vicinity,
NV office in the day is at the Drug Store of
DR.. W. B. Cheatham; at night at my res
idence on Orange Street.
Thankful for past liberal patronage, 1
hone to merit continuance Of the same.
Parties owing me for services rendered be-
fore the 1st of January, 1888, will please
settle the same soon. Remember my mot,
to: money makes the Doctor go"
w. q. KENDRICK, NJ. ID.
Dawson, Ga, May 49, 1883-tf.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
A Live Man.

A prominent citizen of Western Texas
was in Galveston, and was introduced to
Gilhooly. They got to talking about the
frontier telegraph. Gilooly said it was a
great blessing to the people of the frontier,
but the stranger shook his head, and said
it had caused the arrest and Imprisonment
of his uncle
what did be uo?'
Nothing only robbed a stage
well, you know that is an isolated
case
yes, that's so; he has been isolated ever
since
But, you know, observed Gilhooly,
that the Government allows private in
dividuas to use the wire, and that is a
great conveniencetop people on the frontier'
That's where you are fooling yourself.
used few hundred yards of the wire to
make wire fence of, and ] have been
subjected to all sorts of expense and in
convenience. You just go West, and try
it, and you Will change your mind about
that telegraph company being any comfort
to a live man. Galveston News.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
The Secret of Successful Truck
Farming
Savannah News.

Savannah News.
In giving the history of the origin
of truck farming in his section, Mr..
r.. McRee, Of Lowndes county, re-
lstes how he discovered the secret of
euccess IN the business. He and
MIR. Talley had planted and raised
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
Child Education.

Savannah News
Perhaps the greatest evil in mod
ern civilization is our "crammingp
system Of child education. Ii "a
rents are 50 blind as to aid ignorant
teachers IN oYertaxing the brain and
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07

"ov' Mcdaniel has refused to interfere
N tne case of Stevenson, of Gwennett
Soun'y' who murdered his wife, and the
criminal y, will hang on the 9Th Of June
Inc Governors sentiment is sLet the
sentence of the court be executed
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-07
The Year without a Summer
1915

January and February were mild;
March was cold April began warm,
but ended in snow and ice. lee
formed an inch thick in May, and
fields were planted over and over
again till it was 100 late to replant.
June was the coolest ever known in
this latitude frost and ice were COM
mon. Almost every green thing was
killed; fruit nearly all DESTROYED.
Snow fell to the depth Of ten inches
in Vermont, seven in Main, three in
the in erior of New York, aud also in
Massachusetts,. There were few
warm days But little rain fell.
The wind blew steadily from the
north cold and fierce. Mothers knit
extra socks ana mittens for their
children in the spring, and wood
piles that usually disappeared dur
ing the warm spellin front of the
houses were speedily built up again.
Planting and shivering were done
together and the farmers who work
ed out their taxes on the country
roads wore overcoats and mittens
In town in Vermont f1ocks of sheep
belonging to farmer had been sent
as usual to their pasture On the
18th OF June heavy snow fell in
New England. The cold was in
tense farmer who had large field
of corn in Tewkebury built fires
around it at night to wards off the
frost, many an evening he and his
neighbors took turns watching them.
He was rewarded with the only crop
of corn in the neighborhood. Con-
siderable damage was done in New
Orleans in consequence of the rap
pid rise of the Mississippi river.
Fears were entertained that the sun
was cooling off, and throughout New
England all picnics were strictly pro
hibited.
July was accompanied with frost
and ice. Indian corn was nearly all
destroyed; some favorably situated
fields escaped. August was More
cheerless if possible than the summer
months which preceded it. Ice was
formed half an inch in thickness,
Indian corn was so frozen that the
greater part Of it was cut down and
dried for fodder Almost every
green thing was destroyed in this
country and in Europe. On the Both
snow fell at Barnett, forty miles
from London. Very little corn ripen-
ed IN New England aud the middle
states Farmers supplied them
selves from corn produced in 1915
for seed in the spring Of 1917. 1t
sold at from 81 to IS Der bnshel.