The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-08-20
STATE NEWS.
What the Georgia Editors Write
About.

-Tatnall county boasts of a
man who recently captured snake
that had fourteen rattles and a
gold collar button.
The editor of the Douglass
vile Star has been shown spider
the back of which is an exact
counterpart of the human face,
showing clearly the eyes, nose,
mouth and cheeks.
The caterpillars are on deck
with head up and tail over the
dashboard, and are DONG immense
damage to cotton in this section.
Some of the farmers around town
are seeing what virtue there is i'll
London purple. Georgetown Let
ter.
Married, few days ago, ct
Georgetown, by A. A. Lewis,
Esqr., at the court house, James
Grissett and Margaret Jackson;
both of Pike county. He was
about fourteen or fifteen years old,
and she well ell-she was old
enough to be his ma.-Thomson
journal.
The Albany News and Adver-
tiser says GA fellow can enter the
gubernatorial race, year from
now, and then get fearfully tired
before some other fellow wins the
race. But then it mustn't be for
gotten that it will take a long time
to kiss all the babies in Georgia.
This goes to show that there are
two sides to the question"
"A mulatto in Dublin, this
State, succeeded last week, by
telling pack of lies, in procuring
o license to marry white girl,
but how he managed to deceive
the girl is not stated. May be he
didn't deceive her at all. If so
our sympathies are with the mu-
latto.--Thomson journal.
Col. e. T. Hoge, the founder,
and, for long time, the principal
editor of the Atlanta Journal,
died Of consumption, at Mt. Airy,
on Monday afternoon. He was a
man of ability and of good repute;
and had he been spared would
have made his impress on the fu-
ture history of the State.-Albany
News.
A multitude Of blood-thirsty
heas, that had Matched out and
fourished under cclored church
in Brooks county, rendered the
brethren and sisters SO utterly
miserable during the services that
their destruction was determined
upon. Accordingly a quantity of
pine straw was placed on the
ground under the church and set
on fire. The feas went up-and
so did the church.
Squire Bryan, of Taylor coun-
ty, has been declared lunatic.
Squire was convicted a few years
since of an assault with intent to
murder, and sentenced to ten
years penal servitude. While in
Jail he procured a pocket knife
and deliberately cut out both his
eyes. He was taken to the coal
mines, however, where he served
two years, and was then pardoned
by Gov. Colquitt.
-Georgians have shown great
ingenuity in devising retreats
wherein the cyclone cometh not,
but man in Kingsborn county,
Dakota, has perfected plans that
will command the admiration of
the world. His continuance is so
arranged that in the event of a
storm at night all he need to do is
to pull cord and his bed wild
sink through a trap door into a
cyclone cellar. Macon Telegraph.
The Newman Herald's PAN
Their creek report mourns thus:
SIT looks like the lawmakers are
Just going to take The collie drops
clear out Of the State. / would
like to know what's a fellow gofpg
to do when he has tight spell
when liquor is the only remedy"
Don't be afraid. In all prohibi-
ton States people get as much as
they want, and the prohibitionists
have their demijohns and indulge
Is we'll as the rest MilledgeviIle
Recorder.