The Dawson journal., 1885-05-28
GEORGIA GRAPHlCS.
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chin nearly O"O AHoAiO' AO5'
-Itis expectedto have the gar
running from Americus to Lump
hin within ninety days, which vii
he in plenty Of time. To- move tn
next cotton crop.
Troupe county went in favo.
Of Prohibition by a largelmajorit,
at the election held on'last Wed
nesday. Thus step by step thu
new idea makes its Irresistible
march. ~
There are 800 applications .or
file for admission of patients tc
theinsane asylum at Milledgeville
Patients are only admitted now
as vacancies occur by restoration
remoyal or death.
The Georgia editor knows an
internal machine when he sees
one, and is. never slain by a school
girls first pie, although he praises
her effort. He simply mounts the
pie on hoe-handle and uses it to
scour the forms.
"A subscription going begging:
One years subscription offered to
any gentleman of responsibility,
over the age Of thirty years, who
has never been addressed as cap
tain, major, colonel or judge
West Point Press.
The price Of wool is off this
season, and the buzzards are kill
ing the sheep and eating them in
Southwest Georgia. What will
become of the poor dogs? We
shudder to think of this encroach-
ment on their rights.
While other prominent men
in the State are feeling around
preparing to try for the next gu
bernatorial nomination, we are re-
naming quietly at home attend
ing to our business, Cincinnatus
like, and when the people call Wa
will lead them to victory.-Ac-
worth News.
The Gainesville Courant ask
ed Rev.Sam Jones if anybody ever
offered him violence at a public
service. His answer was: "Not
exactly, One fellow talked as il he
meant violence, and | asked him
how he thought his wife would
look in mourning, and he then
wanted to think over the matter
i We parted friendly
Mr.. John B. Russell, of Ran
iolph county, who killed his two
little boys and then shot himself,
on Sunday before last, particulars
Of which were published III these
columns on Thursday morning,
died on Tuesday of last week.
We learn that he refused to let
the doctors do anything for him,
and, when rational, prayed almost
incessantly.
An Albany darkey, named
Peter Hilliard, drank a gallon Of
lager beer in ten minutes on Sat
urday last. Another darkey made
a wager with him that he couldn't t
perform the feat in fifteen minutes.
They went into 4 bar-room and
The beer was measured off-a full
gallon-and Peter put himself on
'ae outside of every drop Of it in
SIDE OF ten minutes. Albany
News.
The North Georgia Citizenre
marks with pathos readily un-
oerstood q in every newspaper Of
nee; AN exchange says, Money
IS very close. 1t may be, but it
Aasnt been close to us in a long
While Wish its would get close
enough en to these headquarters to
M our lank exchequer to plethor-
ic proportions. Our delinquent
subscribers might give it boost
III That direction if they would
An exchange says early ris-
luS, nard work and perseverance
VIII DO more than fertilizers. We
iecommend the exercise Of COM
ron lI sense and a liberal use Of fer
"iizerS. A farmer should not
1, make a perpetual drudge of him
W. 1Tl any more than any other man
"1fH IN seasonable hours, plan
saolclouSly and take it easy. AL
man gets by way of recon-
t'H7e IN this world is what he en-