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National Republican., 1885-01-15
TAILORS.

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I'LL Pennsylvania Aventfe.
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WINTER sUIr1Nos ovERcoAr
tNGs, AND TRoUsERINGs RE-
CElVEp
gentlemen, pieaso call. inspect. aud
leave your orders at tho Leading Tallof'
A. Establishment OF Washington
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iii PENNA- AVENUE.
National Republican., 1885-01-15
PROPOSALS.
PRoP9s,AiILlis3. ToE FIooRrNe THE fN-

iNAuouRATIoS HEADouAnrEns,
Proposals for flooring tho hall and rooms in
thc New fensiOn building for the Inaugura q IA
bsll VIII be received a. these headquarters unit
10 o.clock y m. JAN. 10, 1895. For pnriituia
apply NJ 1917 street northwest
w. ~ GALT
Chairman Exccutlye committee.
DoRsEY CLAoHtT, secretary. iai5.I
I)RoPosAf5 FoR LAYING, FFLT AID
l. TIN ROOF.
National Republican., 1885-01-15

A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
FORTUNE
National Republican., 1885-01-15
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The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
A Peculiar Marriage Ceremony.
Floridian.

Floridian.
In the northwestern part of
Sumner county, Tenn, lives a GER
tain Irish magistrate, a man OF
liberal education and full share
of that mother wit for which his
nation is remarkable.
A year or two since a colored
pair, by name Jim and Bet, called
upon him to be united, "for better
or worse" probably the latter.
Having had some previous notice
of their coming, the Squire had
prepared and actually made use
of the following unique form of
ceremony:
Jim will you take Bet
Without any regret,
To love and to cherish,
Until one of of you perish
And are laid under the sod;
So help you god?"
Jim having given the usualsan-
swer, Squire R--turned to Bet:
''Bet will you take Jim
And cling to him
Both out and in,
Through thick and thin;
And hold him to your heart,
Till death do you part?"
Bet modestly acquiescol, and
the newly made couple were dis
missed with this stopper over
all"
Through lifes alternate joy and strife,
l now pronounce you man and wife,
Go up the hill till you get 10 the level
And salute your bride, you rusty, black
devil"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
The. Georgia Press.

A resolution was passed at the
last annual meeting of the Geor-
gia Press Association which gave
the President authority to call the
association together at whatever
time he thought advisable. Balm
bridge was selected as the place
for holding the next meeting.
President Estill has arranged to.
call the meeting on Wednesday.
March 18th. After the transac-
ton of the regular BUSINESS, the
association will adjourn for the
purpose of accepting the courte--
sizes extended to the members GIL
their ladies by the Louisville and
Nashville railroad for an excur.
sion to New Orleans. The route
back will be either by way Of
Chattahoochee, Florida, or Mont
gomery, Alabama, as may hereaf.
ter be determined. Its proposed
to spend two days in New Orle-
aus, visiting the Worlds Exposi.
ton. The programme has not
yet been fully arranged, but the
above outline will give On idea Of
what may be expected. The Gen.
trail railroad Of Georgia, the Sa-
yannah, Florida and Western
railway and other railroads III the
State have, as usual, extended the
courtesies of their respective roads
Ito tae Press. Associatloxs
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
Girls and COaStings.

A Washington Star reporter
gives the following grapic pen
sketch of how a girl coasts;
when called upon to describe o
young lady coasting the reporters
pencil falters, conscious Of the i'm
mensity of the task. Owing to
the size and shape of the sled,and
the objections that the young men
who manage the affair have to her
dragging her feet upon the ground,
the young lady has to seat herself
in the manner which might be vul-
carly called straddling. But she
does this with such grace, and
catches up her dress with such
pretty art, as 20 make it appear
one of the most natural and easy
attitudes. Then, when the sled is
showed off and begins to gather
momentum in its descent, she
clings trustingly to the coat of the
young gentleman in front of her.
When it begins to dash along and
strike fire out of the ground, she
utters a little scream and throws
her arm about his neck. Then,
when the sled reaches it's widest
speed, she screams louder and
frantically embraces the young
man, lightning the pressure into
regular hug, while he gallantly
resolves to be squeezed to death
sooner than permit a hair of her
fair young head to be injured.
Then the speed begins to slacken,
and the hug also slackens little
bit. Then, gradually, the sled
comes to standstlll, and the
young woman, as she takes her
arms away from the young man,
gives sigh and exclaims; oh,
amt it joliy?' Then they trudge
up hill again to repeat the same
Performance. 1t is noticeable that,
though the young lady's fright is
not diminished at all by familiar.
ity with the terrors Of the'slide, the
young gentleman continues tc
submit to the treatment to which
he is subjected without a murmur
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
HIGH Sporting Authority.

The London, Daily Sportsman,
remarks, editorially: A really in
valuable specific, for the cure OF
rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains,
bruises. st. Jacobs Oil, we'll
known in the English market, has
gained immense fame in America,
Australia and all parts of the
world, and the universal nature OF
its sale may be judged from the
fact, that the makers have to print
their instructions for its use in nc
fewer than eleven languages.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
LADIES DEPARTMENT.
Makes the Lips Red.

$50 tar as my own experience
goes" said physician yesterday,
painting the lips is not a wide
spread vice in America. 1t is sell
dom resorted to, for men of the
smallest observation know the
methods women pursue for max
ing their lips red"
what do you mean~
"They bite them. 1t is impossi-
BILE to see women in car
or anywhere where men are
around that they do not
continually press their lips
with their teeth, and bite them
with more or less ferceneas. This
brings the blood to them and
makes them red. Still, as it also
keeps them from chapping in the
winter, there is no reason why il
should be condemned. AS for
cosmetics, they have almost gone
out of date, and have not anything
like the run they used to have.
Women have at last learned that
good health brings color, and ex-
ercise has taken the place of pow
der and paint. IN. Y. Sun.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
WHO STRUCK billy PATTERsoNs
Another Answer TO the Oft Repeated
Question.

ATHENS, GA, February 13.-A
man named John Dyer, who diet
a short time ago, in Habershan
F, county, Ga, at the advanced age
of SO years and q few months
struck Billy patterson about sixty
years ago, in GAINESVILLE, Franklin
county, Ga, and this gave rise to
the oft repeated query, "Whc
struck Billy Patterson" which
many persons havs regarded as
merely a slang phase, but which
was founded on fact. On the oc-
casion above referred to this Pat
terson and another man were en-
gagged in a fight and some outsider
came to the rescue of Patterson s
antagonist and struck the former,
but SO great was the excitement
and SO large the crowd in attend
ance on the sanguinary battle
that no one saw the blow inflicted.
So great was the curiosity of
Patterson and the crowd to- now
who struck the lick that the 6Naer-
ry came into general use over all
parts of the United States. Pat
terson's desire to find out who bit
him was SO great that in his last
will and testament is clause re-
citing that his administrators on
his estate pay $500 to any pc son
that would give the information
and the proof to convince as to
who inflicted the clandestine blow.
Dyer would never divulge the fact
that he was the man that struck
BILLY Patterson" till short time
before his death, as short time
after the commission of the deed
he became an exemplary member
of the church and always regret :
ted that he, in passion, had com
mitted an act that had excited
such great curiosity in his victim
to know who struck "Billy Pat
terson."
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
After Thirteen Years.

Atlanta Journal.
Mr.. Earnest Clarke, head sales-
man at G. g.. P. 7. Doods, told q
journal man this morning the
following paralyzing story:
On the first day of January d
gentleman, we'll advanced in years,
came into the store and met Mr..
Phil Dodd with:
"Mr. Dodd, I owe your firm
seventy-two dollars"
"All right" said Mr.. Dodd, as
the two walked back into the Of
fee.
Il can't find your name," said
the book keeper, after long
while.
Look on your books of 1872"
replied the man.
Jehoval save US" put in q men,
Der of the firm.
1T has been thirteen years, con
tinued the mar, 'fbut I souldn's
pay it any sooner"
The books were found, the &C
count made out and paid.
"The interest is how mueh|
asked the man rs he drew out o
we'll filed wallet.
Nothing said Mr.. Phil Dodd
Lets take drink" said one
of the gentleman to the honest
man."
mo, sir" replied the old debt
payer; Il don't drink. That debt
would have been paid long ago
had it not been for whiskey. It
ruined me, but l have learned to-
to leave it alone"
The gentleman lives at Lithonia,
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
Kissing q C0rnetist.

"Clara Belle" in one of her
New York letters, says: 81 had
known her in childhood, when we
together hunted the same school
master with bean blowers, and at
the conclusion of her cornet solo, |
greeted her for the first time in
several years. Of course we kiss
ed each other impulsiVely. Good
heavens! That was my mental
exclamation. [ felt as though [
had been hit with brass knuckles
or smacked by q castiron image. /
instinctively pressed my handker-
chief to my benumed mouth and
looked for the weapon with which
| had been assaulted. 1t was the
girls kiss, however, that l had
felt. Good playing on the cornet
depends upon the amount Of in
hexibility which can be impaired
to the upper lip. Hers had be-
come fairly adamantine. It didn't
matter much, for kisses between
females are not supposed to be
delightful anyhow; but what I say
to man is this: The hinge of a
door is quite as kissable, from a
sentimental point of regard,as the
mouth of cornetist."
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
BURE 6I.D l8Tg LETTERS

| This Is q wxss and sensible prs
caution, and tlso younger the LEI
ters are when bnrned :be mcrs'
feasBa postarity will have to b
thankful. II Lord Lytton's poe
die love letters had been burned
they would never have brought
contumely upon bis memory. A
bright girl was listening to a lect-
IRE from her father upon the fol-
ly Of love and lovers, but especial
" love letters She smiled know
ingly and he taxed her with hav-
ing recsived some and insisted
that she get one aud read it aloud
as a method of cure. With much
diffidence and many bushes she
began:
any own sweet Ducky-Lovcy
-Pet-Tootsam," when the faith
er burst out:
"What an idiot! What an insui-
ferable ass! What a specimen to
go through life with Ducky-I'ov-
ey-har'
"Bdt, papa" interrupted his
dau ghter, "this is q lettey you
wrote mama before you were mar
riedr' The fathers considerations
may be imagined.
What must be the mental condi-
ton of youth who could thus
conclude letter to his beloved:
Bump 90, bite 90, kiss 90,
squeeze 90, pound 90 fot head on
the wall"
The only key to the mystery il
the old saying that wise man is
fool in love. A love letter to be b
genuine thing must oe full of the
extravagant utterances@ OF senti-
ment; the daffy-down dilly of love.
Written in the hot blood of youth
and read by the Colour de rose OF
life, they grow with the promises
of the future. Alas, how soe<
they become ashes of roses. L
burn, burn, burn them.
"And now nothing's left TO remind me
OF the days when our love was so true,
But still gaze through wet lashes,
At the fire where shoulder the a1he1S
sigh for the past and for you"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
An Answer Wanted.

Can any one bring us a case of
Kidney or Liver Complaint that
Electric Bitters will not speedily
cure? We say they cannot, a
thousands of cases already perma-
nently cured and who are daily
recommending Electric Bitters,
will prove. Bright's disease, Di-
abotes, Weak Back, or any uri-
nary complaint quickly cured
They purify the blood, regulate
the bowels and act directly on the
diseased parts. Every bottle
guaranteed. For sale at so cents
bottle by Crouch Bros
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

TIE Dadesville Star say the
blind couple who recently married
ia that vicinity have proven to be
successful housekeepers. The
bride, who can see but little, the
other day while pouring out hot
coffee for her husband, who pass
ed his cup back to have it reflled,
jiply saw his white collar, and
thinking it the cup, began to pour
the coffee down his back. A d.
vorce is now in order.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

Wa commend to the ladies'
whose husbands come home drunk
snd cbstreperous, the course pur-
sued by Mrs. Albion Pate, wife OK
prominent Chicago lawyer, I'M
der similar circumstances. Pate
was frailed over the pate with an
umbrella until thoroughly sub
dued, and then ice water was pour
ed over his pate until he was
thoroughly sobered. He says
that these things have had more
eject upon him than all the lect-
urss and pledges he remembers
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

In the recent contested election
case in Mitchell county it was de-
yeloped that 700 people voted who
had not paid their taxes. Moth
ing but a good registration law
will prevent this misconduct,
and every county ought to have
such law.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
TaE Gainesville Press Boosting

TaE Gainesville Press Boosting
ly says that there is a 15-year old
girl that lives in that settlement
who can shoulder two and a half
bushels of wheat. The Hawkins
Vile Dispatch meets the issue by
saying that there is living in one
Of the counties below Hawkins
vile girl under fifteen years OF
age who can shoulder two sacks OF
salt and "tote" them on her shout
ders 100 yards.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
Wanted.

A man. Handsome or ugly;
old or young; rich or poor; preach
err or layman; sparkling with jew
els or wrapped up in patches and
rags-only let him be q man who
can do one single act that is pure
ly unselfish. Wherei is hep Who
knows him2 Reader, can you fill
the blll2 Try yourself for 8 week
and let us know.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

Mr.. VIM. Hurst, father of the
famous electric Lula, has pur-
chased q Jersey bull and will'turn
his attention to fine stock. If the
bull gets unruly, one touch from
the hand of Miss Lula will knock
every particle of Jersey out of him
aud leave him as sheepish as a
piny woods steer.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

WHEN Stonewall Jackson's war
horse, "Old Sorrel," passed
through Knoxville the other day,
cid men who had seen the amin al
IN battle fell upon its neck and
Wept like children.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

A DELAWARE man wants TO mar
~ the Empress Eugene, and il
you've any objections you had
better rise mp and speak now.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

A YOUNG man at Jersey City
poisoned himself rather than TO
see his widowed mother marry a
member of the Legislature.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

ENGLAND is at last waking m
10 the fact that the Arabs mean
business. A little earlier waking
might have saved Gen. Gordon
and his army.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

A MARIETTA lady says that Lu :
lu Hursts power lies in her hair,
because she is constantly handling
her bangs when on the stage.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

Forty girls win run after a
Anob with gold-headed cane
where one will shy up to fellow
with sound horse sense.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

THOSE New York young women
continue to merry dukes. A.n or
rang-outang with a title wouldn't
be safe amongsthem.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

Macon claims the only living
Hsmale switchman. Her name is
Mary Carroll, and she is 65 years
old Her husband held that po-
alton until his death In 1869,
when she took his place at the
switch and has remained at the
post ever since.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

A negro in Savannah, named
Henry Whitfield, who set fire to a
residence In that city about a
month ago, has been tried and
convicted and will be hanged for
his crime.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

The widower's grief has been
pronounced by competent author
ity to be lovely while it lasts, but
it is not constructed to endure the
rude assaults of time. A Connec-
ticut man who only last spring
threw himself upon the cold trust
that wrapped his beloved's clay
and wept until his eyelashes fell
out, has since had three women
following him around for alimony.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

ANOTHER nobleman has come to
grief. The son-in-law of Belle
Boyd, the famous Confederate
spy, calling himself Charters
Roy Charters, earl of something
and duke of something else, turns
ont to be swindler from st.
Louis. Belle has chased him off
with walking stick and he is
now passing as a revivalist in
Paris, Ky.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

Bon JAoKsoR is 10 Jail at Albany
for arson He is said to be con-
rected with the recent fires there.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

EMORY SPEER is the rock that
split Senators Brown and Colquitt
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26

PoCAHoNTAs county, West Vir-
giuia, is up in arms because of
the marriage Of a girl of only
eleven years old to farmer of
ffty-fve. There is statute in
West Virginia which makes such
marriage null and void and sub
!eets the father to a term of i'm
trisonment and even death by
hanging if the jury SO adiudges.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-02-12

"Ah, a Merry Christmas TO you"
said the grocery man to the bad boy,
"and here's a Christmas present, a
cake Of soap for you. and another, q
beet for your father" and the grocery
man handed the boy cake of red
soap, and picked a large red beet out
OF basket for the boys pa.
"Well, / snum," said the boy as he
looked sad, II don t care for this insult
on my own account, for | am tuf, and
can stand it, but sending this emblem
to pa will break him up. You may
thing it is smart to thus call my pa q
dead.beat, but if you could go 10 his
bedside now, and see him, as he tears
what little hair he has got, and groans,
you would not do it. But will take
it to him." and the bay wiped his
eyes on his coat-sleeve, and started to
30.
Hold on, said the groceryman as
he snatched the beet away from the
boy, II was only joking. What ails
your pa? Is he sick Z
mo, he isn't exactly sick, but no is
mad" said the boy, as he put the soap
in his pocket and sat down on a keg
Of Malaga grapes, and began digging
them out Of the sawdust and eating
them. "You see pa has been buying
Christmas presents for three days, and
getting them together, and last night
he gave me list Of the places where
they were TO go, and | got my chum
to 90 with me to deliver them. Seems
as though something always happens
to me when 1 try to do anything
right. just as we were going by the
zIndy corner al the court house, and
my chum was wheeling the hand cart,
/ looked at the list to see which pack
age went to the minister, and the wind
took the list and blew it into the air
clear to the dome Of the court house,
and then it sailed away over the lake.
Well, didn't know what TO do. Pa
had gone out somewhere 10 spend the
evening, and / knew | couldn't find
him, 60 we concluded TO deliver the
presents promiscuously. l knew all
the places they were to 90, and ]
thought it wouldn't make so very
much difference if they did get mixed,
50 we went around with them, and
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-02-12
[For the Beacon.]
FAMILY WORSHIP.

Why is it that man such satisfaction feels,
Although he may be out himself at elbows
and at heels,
Unless he make an effort to restore his ruined
name, sa
And stands not living witness Of its down.
ward course to shame,
That some far back ancestor should State
have swayed,
Or through blood and slaughter his road to
fame have made,
Or that for generations his family had been
known
For unstinted hospitality which grew as
wealth had growa,
Whose honor never suffered the slightest
touch of shame, ~
Or if they ever stepped aside, another got
the blame, -%t
Whose self-estsem and arrogance were but
= matched by their renoEn,
Who reached the very topmost height be-
fore they tumbled down,
Then from generation to generation gradu-
ally dccayed
Till what they came to in the end were be-
ter left unsaid2
But these ''relicts Of the past" every day
you meet,
Either the Seely hummer or the weli-dreSseu
genteel "beat,'
Who fills unwilling ears with tales Of fami-
ly pride
Which shame alone should teach him 'twere
best that he should hide;
But in that light he cannot see it, and stand
ing there alone,
He still grasps at the shadow when the sub
stance all has flown.
He forgets, it seems, the origin of our COM
mon family stock
Extends back to mother Eve with fig leaf
for frock,
Or that "a man is but man" and he never
higher rose,
In the scale of Gods creation since Adam
put on clothes,
After taking the mighty tumble, which his
children still regret,
When hoisted out of Paradise into the cold
and wet,
But if the Gardener as a sire is unsuited to
his taste
To the Monkey, his progenitors might easily
be traced,
For if to Darwin's plan he turn, the former
to escape
He II find he is assembled or DESCENDED from
an Ape. M.