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The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
The Cackiing Hen.
From the Talbotton, Ca, New Era.

From the Talbotton, Ga, New Era.
While the people of the south
are interesting themselves in i'm
proved COWS and hogs; Jerseys,
Ayrshires, Devons, Durhams,
Berkshires, Poland Chinas, Ches-
tiers, ETC., they should not loose
sight of the fact that there is as
much difference in improved and
common poultry as in any other
kind of stock. In all ages poultry
has been a boon and blessing to
man in producing flesh and eggs
and the man who does ought to
elevate this class of industry may
be looked on as somewhat of a
benefactor. The editor of this
paper, W. E. Mumford, has intro
duced into Talbot county aud west
Georgia the most popular pure
bred fowls in America:
The Plyuoth Rock. 1t is truly an
American production and as a gener-
al purpose chicken it excels all others.
1t is bird thoroughly domesticated in
every way, presenting happy medium
between the Asiatic and common fowl
in point OF flesh. 1t is hard /, a pro-
life layer, easily raised, forages we'll,
will make lbs living on ..tbe farm, and
no trouble to manage. The hens make
excellent mothers and areieasily man.
aged during period of incubation. THE
most rapid growing chicken in the
world first three months and with good
feeding can be made large enough to
fry in six weeks from the she'll. For
this reason the breed is greatly pre-
fered by all market poultryreu of she
north and west. The chicken came
from a cross on the black Java and the
old American Dominique fowls and
present large Dominique birds with
smooth yellow legs and bright yellow
beak, the latter little dark in young
pullets but comes all right as they get
older. No fowl has ever yet been
produced Il at equals the Plymoth
Rock in pop 'larlty wherever it is
known and we hope to see the time
when they will grace every farm yard
IN the land. They are chicken pecu-
liarly adapted for the southern farmer.
The editor Of she New Era has been
breeding this fowl since August, 1881,
and he can say it hts been with him
grand success in every way. He has
sold fowls and eggs to w. r. Harvey,
Geneva J. B. German, w. Fl Mar
tin, of Talbotton, and many others to
whom reference is given as to the mer-
it of the fowl He will shortly build
spleudid poultry house aud pigeon
lofts at his home in Talb )tton and will
next season breed three yards of fine
Plymoth Rocks of ten hens and one
cockerel to each yard and will be pre-
pared to supply eggs for set ting to all
who may desire them. He will also
put several varieties of fancy pigeons in
his pigeon lofts and will
present something interesting to all
lovers of tho beautiful in this line
The venture is not only pleasurable
fancy but springs from a desire to get
our people interested in the cultivation
of an industry in which there is both
profit and pleasure AMI which has been
much neglected in our region. We
hope for grand results in the near fu-
ture The pigeon fever is a new fancy
but one that is equally as pleasant and
profitable as raising pure bred poultry.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
awson, Ga, Jan. 4th, 1888.
Brother Sid Lewis.

s'We are waiting to see If Sid
Lewis copies in his Georgia News
column the short SERMON preached
by the editor of the Dawson Journal.
Union and Recorder" We didn't
see the issue of the Dawson Journal
containing the "short sermon in
question. We did see in the Atlanta
Constitution, of last week, and
credited to the Journal, an article in
Wholesome writer broke box of sup
posed precious ointment on the head
of the Constitution, and deluged
some nsmeless paper (supposed to be
the Telegraph and Messenger wish
a food of highly moral hilge water.
That is, perhaps, the ''shQrt sermon
to which our MilledgevilIe contem-
porary refers, and which we do not
believe was written by the editor of
the Journal We are responsible
for the paragraphs which have ex-
cirel the ire of the defender of the
Constitution They were. not written
to please sycophants. We are sorry
if that paper needs to have the pro-
tecting arms of the Journal writer
thrown around it: but if ii can stand
his sycophantic love, the Telegraph
and Messenger can afford to laugh at
his efforts to drown it out with his
little high moral squirt gun. We
are going to have a little fun as we
60 along, aud the Constitution is as
fair game as any other paper. We |
are sorry if it thinks it needs to have
the cry Of persecution" raised in its
defense by any fourth-rate Him OF
the bilge water bureau. Telegraph
and Messenger.
We would like to know upon what
our friendly Photographer of that
sheet, the Telegraph and
Messenger, bases his prognosis, when
he assumes to assert that the article
in question was not written by the
editor of the Journal? Does our
brother mean to insinuate that it is
our custom to sail under false colors.
Or does he mean that the article is
not worthy of us; or, that we are
not worthy Of the article Will he
not tell us in plain, unmistakable
language what we are to understand (
by his thrust in the dark for we
are certainly in the dark as to what
he did intend to mean. II he intend
ell to convey the idea that the article
to which the Union and Recorder re-
fered, was written by some one dis
C connected with the Journal, and yet
had the sanction Of the editorial
of the journal, then.
our brother was wrong, for, truly, I
su h was not the case. Bro. Lewis
is an old army conrAde of the editor
of the JocRNAL, and we know him
to be too magnanimous to do us
wrong, willingly, and, therefore, we
take the pains to say, that the article
which has caused him so much of
pain and trouble was written "
none other than the senior editor OF
this paper. In fact, Bro. Lewis, we
have no one else to do our writing
for us. The truth is we have never
been altogether pleased with our
success as an editorial writer hui,
still, we hope by diligent application
in the study of the columns of the
aud Messenger to be able
to pass muster, at least, in the course
Of few years more.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04

do fully and carefully, then 1 am
ready to compare my record with
any governor that has preceded
me. In the Afford case, Judge
Hillyer, who tried the case, signed
his application for pardon.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
81 said" continued Governor
Stephens, "that every convict had
history. There is one that has
no history now serving a life SEN
tence in the Georgia penitentia-
ry. 1t is woman, and / am 60
ing to pardon her. She has been
In the penitentiary since 1865.
She commenced her service when
the penitentiary was at Milledge-
vile. There is no record of where
she came from or what crime she
committed nothing but that she
is sentenced for life. The woman
says she came from Albany, Ga,
but does not know what crime she
is charged with. l had my secre-
tary to write to Albany and they
can give no account of her. For
eighteen years she has been a con-
Wet. The state has forgotten her
ofense. She has forgotten it.
Friendless and ignorant, she has
been working faithfully for eigh-
teen years, and unless I find out
something about her case to make
me change my mind, I shall par
don her, and show that the state Of
Georgia can forgive as we'll as
forget the misdeeds of even a
poor, ignorant negro woman.
THE PARDoNs REFUSED.
another fact" continued Mr..
Stephens, "the public never hear
of the pardons l refuse. I have
refused many because I knew it
would not be for the good of socie-
ty. Here are cases for Fperjury,
for burglary, for larceny, for muir
der, for manslaughter, and almost
every crime on the calender, that
[ have been over and refused to
pardon, but when [ find case
that does require executive elem
ency | shall not be deferred from
performing my duty as governor
of Georgia, on account of public
clamor. l think" said Governor
''that those who are so
ready to complain at me for my
acts would do we'll to wait until
they had heard all the facts con-
nectel with what l do. Very
few men who deserv, to be o
ernor Of Georgia could go over
the cases 1 have investigated and
find less than fifty cases that re-
quired a pardom I may have
committed an error in some, bat |
don't think SO, AMI I am not I'M
willing for the people Of Georgia
to- Pass On my conduct when they
know the facts in each case"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
Boys and Girls.

From the Canton, Ga, Advance
There are a great many boys in
this county. Many good boys
and many that are not good. The
good are among our best bless
ings. The future prosperity of
our country depends mainly, by
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
STRONG
EACTS/

A great many people are asking
what particular troubles Browns
IRON BlTTERs is good for.
1t viii cure Heart Disease, Paral..
ysis, Dropsy, Kidney Disease, Con-
sumption, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, and all similar diseases.
Its wonderful curative power is
simply because it purifes and en-.
riches the blood, thus beginning at
the foundation, and by building up
the system, drives out all disease.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
Heart Disease.

Hedrt Disease.
Vine ST., Harrisburg, Pa.
Dec. 2, 1881.
After trying different physicians
and many remedies for palpitation
Of the heart without receiving any
benefit. was advised try Browns
Iron Bitters. have used two bot
Ties and never found anything that
gave me SO much relief.
Mrs. JENNIE Hess.
For the peculiar troubles to which
ladies are subject, Browns IRON
BIrTERs is invaluable. Try it.
Be sure and get the Genuine.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04

Vick's Floral Guide

For 1888 is an Elegant book of 150 Pages,
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The FLORAL GUIDE will tell you how to
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JAMES WICK,
Rochester, N. Y
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
Are You Exposed.

To malarial influences then protect
your system by using Parker's Ginger
Toric. 1t strengthens the liver and
kidneys to throw off malarial poisons,
and is good for general debility and
nervous exhaustion.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04

A LADY Of our acquaintance has been
in quite fsst5e ,sesFtst for many years
with some t6fssp}ysfsx beeal to the sex.
became emacistetf--f0st ker sg5peei+e--
was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
fretful. Many years suffering Indicated
that all medicines were failure Some
one suggested the use of DrsangOolc's
English Female D;steys, as it was rot
pafent nO~ y secret remedy. II waa
used and seven bcs5ss.s 6ftesS~C7 s cure.
ToGgh on ChiI!s,''
Cures 5 cases fer % cts. In eash or s*fsaps,
Mailed by Jon4s ffarhasa, Atlanta, Ga.
BAILEY Sss8EExE APBAT&EF, is pleas
ant, cfGfing cathartie for the instant cure
of headache, fssssgessi1f, eonstipation
heartburn, bili0tEsness. etc.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-01-04
4 Lady Cured Of Rheumatism.

Baltimore, Md, May ?, 1880.
My healthw much shattered BY
Rheumatism when / commenced
taking Browns Iron Bitters, and /
scarcely had strength enough to az
tend to my daily household duties.
Aam now using the third bottle and
am regaining strength daily, and
cheerfully recommend it to all.
l cannot say too much in praise
GIFT. Mrs. MARY E. BRAsHRAR,
173 PTestmans1'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24
.JUDGE HOADLY'S BAD STLRE

The Democrats of Ohio cannot be numbered
among the truly happy. Their nomination OF
Judge Hoadly begins TO loom before them IN
the form of a blunder and the more they con-
template it, the less happy they feel. We pre-
sent in another column some OF the outward
manifestations of this internal agony, and the
array is both interesting and striking. Any
thing funnier, under the existing circum-
stances than the Judges speech of acceptance,
we have not seen in a long while lie knew
that bis nomination was bitter dose to the
Bourbons of the party, yet he coolly informed
them that he had hated slavery and had been
forced to part company with the Democracy
until the colored man had been given the full
measure of his rights. That was rubbing salt
into their wounds in most vigorous way. 1t is
not likely that a declaration of that sort will
arouse the amossbacks 10 enthusiasm during
the campaign, OF cause them to rally at tho
polls in great numbers on election day.
General Wards remarkable speech is suili-
Gent evidence of his state of mind. Hell no
word of commentator for the Judge, and in
stead of promising support for the ticket, an
nounced that he should devote the campaign
to his cwn candidacy for the Senate. 1t is evil
dent from this and from the joint lamentations
of the General and Senator Thurman that the
Judge oill start ON his race with the Bourbon
element hostile to him. In addition to this, he
will be hampered by his championship of free
rum and by his atheistic sentiments. what many
of the delegates thought OF the latter as an eie-
ment of danger is shown by our extracts.
They appear to put the Judge before the people
of the State as a defender of the extreme Demo-
cratic position of "Free rum and no Sunday
and that is scarcely likely to be a popular atti-
tude in State like Ohio.
These are sufficiently heavy drawbacks to be
placed upon candidate at the opening of the
campaign, but there is a more serious one yet.
Whils.the Judge was rejoicing over his vic
tory and was rubbing it in on the Bourbons,
lot of Young Democrats, headed by the bright
young Editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer, I'M
proved the shining hour by reorganizing the
State Committee. They ousted John g..
Thomson and all the other friends of Judge
Hoadly and put their own men III their places.
The Judge protested in vain, and finally left
Columbus threatening to withdraw from the
ticket. We trust he will think better of it and
not give the Republicans SO serious disap-
pointment as that. 1t is true that candidate
who, before he has been two days in the field,
succeeds in offending both the veterans and
the young men of his party, and who Is con-
fronted with the necessity of making his cam
paign with a hostile State Committee, cannot
be said TO have bright prospect; but copious
outpourings from the barrel may make thngd
look brighter. We hope he will remain in the
| field
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24
LULL IN IRISH AGITATION.

There are unmistakable evidences that the
great mass of Irish people in this country are
themselves weary of Irish agitation. Since the
Philadelphia convention there has been per-
ceptible falling of in enthusiasm for the cause.
The leaders in the recognized league have
been making earnest and persistent efforts to
collect money for the Parnell Fund, ana to
arouse the Irish to fresh exertions in other di-
rections, but the responses have been sluggish.
1t is evident that the new league does not
command the enthusiasm which sent money so
freely into the treasury of the old organiza-
ton. The leaders themselves are at variance
ON the subject. The Irish World, which did
such valuable service in collecting money for
the old league, refuses to make any efforts IN be-
half of the Parnell Fund and carefully refrains
from giving either sympathy or support to the
new organization.
But even The Irish World has lost in large
measure the hold it formerly had upon the Irish
masses. Il has been trying for month or
more to raise Martyrs Fund for the bene-
fit of the families of the executed Dublin assas-
sins, and has succeeded in collecting only
81, 800. In its latest issue the paper assumes a
violence of tone which betrays the desperateness
of the case. The Editor appeals for contribu-
tions, not only of sufficient amount to send
81 900 TO the families of each of the four men
who have been hanged, but also for the estab-
lishment Of a standing fund for the benefit Of
future caught and hanged assassins. In sup
port of his plan tho Editor uses this extraordi-
nary language: aThere are many brave and
sresolute men who would gladly lay down their
s. lives for Ireland hut cannot do so owing to
their family obligations, and who, If they con-
sidered that their families would be provided
for by grateful country, would.gadly sacri-
fee all for Ireland's independence. These are
facts which speak home to the feelings and con-
svictions Of every Irishman, and he who is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24

man was bold enough to keep watch at the
church door, he would see the spirits OF all such
as should die during the coming year pass 10 ID
n phostly procession to receive absolution'
How absurd all these superstitions seem to US
now These old people fell into them, we
think, because they were Ignorant ana iuie'
They were too leisurely-they took time rom
money-making to think of their Maker, his IN
fiuences upon them, their own DEATH ana 10
build up fantastic beliefs about them. We
have something else to do. We build railroads
speculate, not in the fate of the soul, but IN
beef. -four, stocks, land in Dakota, and houses
in the city. AS for the way and place OF our
death we never have tine to think OF them'
much less to desert our bodies to go in search
of them. .
Last night, the pious peasant believed, OF all
nights of the year, that a corner OF the ven was
lifted which hid that other country to which De
was going so he made his prayers and sang his
hymns. That coming land with its spectural
shapes, its eternal terrors and rewards, filed up
most of his life. The country is the same to
which we are all going; the veil still hangs
between it and us; it never has been lifted.
But we do not trouble ourselves at all about it.
We know when we are going to California OF
Paris. We are eager about the train or steamer
we shall take and have our time planned out.
Yet our going is uncertain. But for that dim
land to which we must inexorably depart some
day, which filled up the books and thoughts and
daily talk of our forefathers, we have no plans
or words. 1t is scarcely held civil to mention
it to each other. What has caused this great
change ia the current of human thoughtf Is 1t
that those who went before us had too little
actual knowledge and SO pried into the unseen,
or that we are crowded too closely by bricks
and railways and daily worthless gossip to look
through them to the stars
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24
PERSONAL.

General Sherman and Justice Gray, Of the Su-
preme Court. spent some hours in Bnfalo on Fri
day, and visited Fort Porter unoiicially.
The Rev. Edmund Dider of st. Ymcent's r. c.
Church. Baltimore, will celebrate the twenty-iifth
anniversary Of his ordination tomorrow.
Tn. late Nathaniel Montefore, of London, be-
nueathea about $50 900 20 charities, prin-
cpally to those connected with the Jewish Church
On July 4 the monument to the late Ex-Governor
Williams Of Indiana will be unveiled at Wheatland
Addresses will be made by Senators Voorhees, and
Harrison, OK Senators Mcdonald and Hendricks
OK Governor Baker. and others.
The Hon. Daniel Pearce, of Central Falls, r. L.
who celebrated his ninetieth birthday last week, Is
now serving his fifty second year justice of the
peace He has been married sixty-elght years and
has eighteen grandchildren and thirtv-two great
grandchildren. Ills son, Daniel Pearce, IT,. aged
sixty five, is said 70 BIO the Oldest man IN Now
England whose parents are both living.
Judge HOadly, who has captured the Democratic
nomination for Governor Of Ohio, is described as
bright little man with boyish face. and a COM
plexion which almost approaches the color of ripe
banana Upon the stump he is not brilliant, but he
speaks rapidly, and with nervous emphasis and SclI-
reliance.
Alexander Castellani, tho famous antiquary,
whose death at the age OF fifty-nine is announced
from Naples was active IN the revolutionary move
ment in Rome in 1913. Deeply implicated in the
conspiracy OF 1852, he imprisoned in the Castle
Of st. Angelo butt successfully feigning madness,
was liberated and sent out of the Pontlfcal States.
From that time no devoted himself TO antiquarian
pursuits and chiefly to making collections in which
he dealt largely. His knowledge OF these matters
was profound. and his opinions carried the weight
Of undoubted authority, In politics he was an ex-
treme Republican and was president OF the Soci-
ETY. of the Rights of Man."
WASHINGTON, June 23.-Montgomery Blair Is
lying seriously i'll at his summer residence near Sill
yer Spring, Md
NASHUA, n. H., juno 23.-It is reported that Chief
Justice Doe will soon resign on account of l-health
He has been almost continuously In service since
1859 Ex-Judge jeremiah Smith. of Dover. who is
a son of former Chief Justice, will probably be
his successor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24
NTDSUHHER DAY,

This Sunday happens to fall upon tho apniN err
sary of an important religious festival kept in
ancient days in England, and one which still
has a curious attraction for most thoughtful
people. The twenty fourth of June was then
called Midsummer Day. sacred to st. John the
Baptist and was full of half pagan, half
Christian fancies concerning the meeting of the
soul and God in the woods, due probably quite
as much to old Druidical teachings as to tho
great prophet who dwet in the wilderness.
Our English ancestors gathered boughs on st.
Johns Eve and dressed their doors with them
as sign that like tho Baptist they would draw
near to God through the forest and the pure,
strong influences of growing things. They
made solemn marches through the streets at
midnight, waving oak branches and chanting II
wild peculiar anthem, all with the same signiti-
canoe. The Yorkshire cOtter and the crofter OF
Surrey observed many such rites which would
seem to most Americans the sheerest supersti-
ton. month later, for instance, they began
the harvest by klndling twelve fires On the hill
tops to invoke the aid of the apostles, one
being beaten ont with contempt as containing
the soul of Judas. They could not, in short,
look at the green forest or the yellow wheat
without feeling that God and Christ we're i'm
mediately behind them. We are wiser in our
generation. We, too resort to the woods and
such wildernesses as we can find on st. Johns
Eve. But it is because we are driven out of
town by malaria or heat or fashion. What
has God to do with our goings or comings :
Or with our harvests7
Another strange belief of those ignorant, leis-
urely people, was that on St. Johns Eve
the soul of every sleeper actually left
the body for brief space and visited the place
where, some day, death would come to it. AS
every man had natural terror Of this separa-
ton between body and soul, the night was
usually spent In prayers and vlgils. If any