The Dawson journal., 1885-04-09
COUNTY CURRENCY.
interesting Items Concerning Town
and County Gathered by journal
Reporters and Briefly Told.

Loaded down with post Office men,
dood-bye, my lover, goodbye.
Who sent that rabbit foot?
The new fire engine will be here
in few days.
1t is nearly time to take down
your duster and linen coat.
Twenty years ago to-day Gener-
al Lee surrendered.
The would-be-post-masters are
as polite as dancing masters.
We learn that cotton is cominr
up In some sections of the county.
The infant child of Mr.. Lanier,
OF near Bronwood, died Monday
last.
Capt. Fulton shocks our modes
ty We didn't know he was SO
naughty.
Don't forget to go to Christie &
Laing's if you want to buy goods
at bottom prices.
If our farmers would improve
their worn out lands let them be
sown down in peas.
The new scenery has been placed
in the opera house. 1t would do
credit to a larger town.
Webster Superior court is in
session this week at Preston.
Some of our citizens are attending
it.
Dawson has been we'll repre-
sented in Quitman the past week.
Hon. FL. G. Turner is the attrac-
ton.
Mr.. Jas. Horsley's fine COW is
now giving six gallons of milk
day. He confidently expects to
get seven.
Work been has commenced on the
park and the fence is being built.
Uncle Luke Roberts is superin-
tending it.
Brown & McGill bought thirty
three chickens from one man last
Saturday and sold them all in less
time than five minutes.
Dawson is giving as much for
country produce as any town in
this section. Chickens, butter
and eggs can find ready sale here.
The large cistern by the arte-
sian we'll has been dug and work
men willIsoon be,engaged in wall
ing it with brick and cementing it.
| We would venture to say that
spring had come, but for fear the
weather prophets would call an
Indignation meeting we hold our
peace.
1t seems as though the military
suits had lost their way to Daw-
son. We will have to send a del
egation to find and escort them
here.
A gentleman of our town says
the best remedy for toothache is
a little sugar in the bottom of the
shoe. He says it never fails to
give relief.
A prominent farmer of this
county was in the city last Tues
day looking for cotton choppers.
He has about two hundred acres
of cotton up.
DR.. r. G. Jones will plant some
of the Conch peas this year as an
experiment If they are what is
claimed, he will plant largely of
them hereafter.
The JOURNAL is conducted
strictly on business principles and
in accordance with newspaper reg
ulations. Don't let this elude
your reminiscent qualities.
Prof. Quillian had some very
interesting exercises at his school
last Friday afternoon. The pu-
pills gave ample evidence of the
Professors ability as teacher.
A deleoation Of citizens has
waited on Hon. I'll. G. Turner at
his home in Quitman since our
| last issue in the interest of one of
the Dawson post-otfice asplrants.
The Atlanta Constitution is mis-
taken when it says the fruit pros
poets in this section are very un-
| favorable. The truth of the mat
ter is, they were never more ia
vorable.
"Ours as a Reading People, (which
appeared in last weeks JOURNAL,
should have been in the Chicka-
sawhatchee department. BY over
sight 1t was placed in the wrong
position.
A school boy sucked one dozen
raw eggs at one sitting one day
last week at Mr. Speight Bald
wins store. If the egg sucking
animals knew this they would
blush with shame.
Albany is moving in the direc-
ton of a 100000 hotel and the
eighth artesian well. Albany is
fn1I of nlnck and energy, and Daw-