The Dawson journal., 1885-12-10
Leader and Controller of Low Prices In Dawson.

anu nonneIS ana Do ready to take
a drive. Bill McLain has pur-
chased a fine, thoroughbred, two
forty Texas pony, and will slight
none of them. Billie Nc. is doubt
less getting proud and extrava-
giant.
Mr.. George Mcdonald and
Miss Gertrude Gunn,of Cuthbert,
were married last Wednesday
evening. 1t was quite q swell af-
fair and the presents were
numerous and elegant. Mrs. Jas.
G.. Parks, Misses Bessie Allen and
Helen Parks attended from Daw-
son.
Last Friday night, in Albany,
the West House, kept by Mrs.
West, formerly Of this place, was
destroyed by fire. lifts mills,
valued at $4,000, were also de-
stroyed. Mrs. West lost about
$500 worth OF property, with
no insurance. Neither did Mr.
lift have any insurance on his
property.
If you do not make compost
through the winter,you lose many
of the Best materials for that pur-
pose and shorten your crop re-
sources for the next year. There
is no time or season when the
farmer may pause in this necessa-
ry work. A farm of poor land
without manure is an inheritance
of growing poverty.
Two foreigners with bag
pipe and monkey have been in the
city tins week, much to the delight
Of the small boy.
And now the bagpipe blower comes
A r'sty, ugly, funny thing,
With his pipe on his back,
And his monkey on string.
And as he blows the music out,
Which makes the strongest quail,
The monkey passes around the hat,
And thereby hangs a tail.
Solicitor jim Guerry and
Col. Jim Griggs left Monday to
attend the adjourned term of Clay
Superior Court. These gentlemen
will appear in the prosecution of
Elizabeth Roney, white, for the
murder of Mr.. Millirons some
time last summer. viii Hudson,
her accomplice, was convicted at
the last term of that court and
sentenced to be hanged.
Considering the number of pretty girls
there are in Dawson, it is wonder that
there are any bachelors here at all.-JoUR-
nal They are not smart if they can't get
up a boom in the market.-Augusta Chron
icle.
We hereby warn the Chronicle
editor that if he prizes his scalp
it will not be healthy for him to
visit Dawson soon. Our girls
will not submit to any such SIAN
der. They are as sweet, pretty,
intelligent and industrious as any
girls.
The time for the payment of
State and county taxes has expir-
ed, and the digest has been closed.
Mr.J. H. Crouch, our clever and eff
cient tax collector, informs us that
there are a great many defaulters.
The JOURNAL is now printing for
him 1000 executions, which shows
that some, at least, have neglected
to assist in replenishing the State
and county exchequers.
The Albany correspondent Of
the Macon Telegraph says not
quite ton thousand bales of cotton
have been received in Albany this
season. Albany claims to be the
cotton centre of this belt, yet
Dawson is but little over thou
sand bales behind her. Wonder
what has become of the cotton
the that 1arge number of Terrell
county farmers" have been carry
ing there this season.
What is the market value Of
kiss? Kisses sometimes sell, it
is said at church fairs, three for
dollar. An English Judge has
Just fined man $50 for kissing
a young lady on railroad car.
Some few smart fellows tell it that
sometimes, under peculiar condi-
tons of the atmosphere, when the
moonlight is not too bright, they
kget q kiss on a sly and don't pay
anything bat the promise of a
world Of love. What rascals these
Joys are, How they PLEAD and
beg and beescech,
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