The Dawson journal., 1884-04-17
The Best April Fool of the
Season

Mr.. JEFF Stewart, who is living
with his father-in-law, Mr.. j. H
Cannon, a few miles from town
spent the morning Of the first day
of April, in an indeavor to fool
his newly welded bride, and an
other lady, relative, and sue
ceeded very well once or twice. In
the afternoon, however, he was
called off some distance on a mat
ter Of business, which detained
him until night-fall, and which
gave the ladies an opportunity to
play for even. Accordingly they
set their heads to invent some
measure to accomplish their pur-
pose. After some preliminary
thinking they hit upon the idea of
stufIng an old suit OF his clothes,
50 as to represent the much feared
tramp, and placed it in one of the
best rooms, ensconced in COM
Portable quarter in a position to
impersonate, as nearly as possible,
a wearied disciple Of this fraterni-
ty. Upon his arrival home, which
was rather late in the night, the
inmates of the house appeared to
be in very frightened condition
and hailed his appearance, appa-
rently with delight and great
trust, whereupon, he demanded
the cause of the excitement, with a
degree Of determination depicted
upon his countenance that fore
BODIED humiliation to this temer-
Gus intruder. The servant girl,
who had been we'll drilled, imme-
diately informed him that the best
room had been taken possession
of by some one, and could be
heard talking in there.
This benedict of April humor,
at once, rushed to his own apart
ment, secured a seven-shooter that
had never failed to go off, at the
bulls eye, and hastily started in
pursuit Of this intrepid monster,
with a desire to demolish him.
He, finding it very dark in the
room, and hearing no respose to
his repeated demand to come
forth, called for the servant to
bring a light, which was done, and
he then commenced a close search
which resulted in the discovery of
this fgure-head in the corner, and
which he took to be a sure enough
man. He ordered the stuffed
brooches to disgorge, to speak, not
to move, not to attempt to escape,
&c, and ever SO many more things,
threatening to shoot all the time,
which, OF course, ayailed naught.
He then called Justify for a couple
of stout negro boys on the place
to help him GUST the rascal, feel
ing that the blood Of this impu-
dent creature on his hands would
be too horrible. The help soon
appeared upon the scene, and Just
about that time, his wife, between
laughing and crying with mirth,
succeeded in convincing him that
it was only put up job" Of the
April-fool kind he had so much
relished in the morning Imagine
the scene that followed
Excelsior Family Medicines.
| wish to introduce my Excel
sior Family Medicines into gener-
al use everywhere, and hereby
| give notice that they can be bought
of Capt John A. Fulton, or any
other Of my agents anywhere, in
town or country, at precisely the
same price as if bought direct
from my store, unless it is to reg
ular dealers who buy by the doz-
en-. c. A. CHEAIHAM.
Mr.. Alma Hill is one of the
most progressive farmers in Ter
rell county. He made the great
est plenty of meat for his planta-
ton uses, the past year, and has
| sold several hundred pounds of
lard. He thinks he will make, the
present year, if everything is IA
vorable, enough pork to run his
| plantation two years, besides corn
and other produce. Mr.. Hill has
| been experimenting with sheep
several years, and, but FOR the big
array Of mongrel ours in his set
Element, thinks it would be very
profitable. He picked out of his
lot Of sheep, last fall, about 35 of
his finest ewes, placed them to
themselves, and obtained, at con-
siderable expense, a couple of fine
thorough bred Cotswold rams, and
expected, this spring, to have as
fine variety Of sheep as could be
seen in this section. A fine,
healthy lot of lambs was the con-
sequence, and he thought every
thing propitious, when these hun
cry ours began their destruction,
and now they have killed the last
one. Is not this the best argu-
ment in favor Of the dog law, and,
should not our next representative
do his utmost to relieve the farm
ers Of the county OF this pest?
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