The Dawson journal., 1886-02-04
THE NEWS an GEORGIA.
PENCIL AND SCISSORS AMONG OUR
STATE EXCHANGES.

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the State Legislature; and demi-
| johns innumerable.
Moody and Sankey, the great
revivalists, will conduct a series
of religious services in Atlanta in
April.
The Atlanta Capital offers
three months subscription free to
all new married couples, or those
who contemplate committing mat
rimony.
d. b. Woodruff has turned
over the plans for the rebuilding
Of the First Baptist church, at
Macon, and it is thought that the
work viii begin about February
first.
A tramp struck Americas,
Tuesday, and casually remarked
that he had not worked in a year.
He was promptly taken before
Judge Pilsbury and sentenced to
twelve months in the changing
for vagrancy.
The Lumpkin Independent
tells of planter of Stewart coun-
ty by name of Thomas G. john
son, who made last year forty
bales Of cotton with one mule
without fertilizing. This was
done on the celebrated Hanna
hatchee bottom lands of that cou L
ty.
A young man from Thomson,
says the Washington Chronicl {,
who has been in Texas for several
years, made it lively Tor the pas
sengers on the down passenge 7
train last Wednesday, and it re-
.euired the conductor and all the
help he could get to put him off.
He knocked down the newsboy,
threatened the conductor, struck
the brakeman and tried to cut the
baggage master with a long knife.
-DeKalb Chronicle: "The ma
vel club met at Miss Jessie Grim
elle's Tuesday evening, and dis
cussed Julios Caesar" We were
aware that Caesar was colonel of
the Tenth Legion; that he crossed
the Rubicon and fell, shouting
his battle cry, "Et tn Brute" at
the foot of Gen. Pompey's statue,
but for the life of us we can't i'm
agine what he had to do with Miss
Jessie s"navel" club. w aynesbo-
TO True Citizen.
There is i'll Dolly county, says
the Vienna Academic, a Baptist
minister, who, for, nearly year
nj a half, served q church as
punctually as he possibly could =
often walking twelve miles to feed
his flock, AMI received as a com
pensation for his services only
four dollars. Two dollars of this
sum were paid by young lady
who works for hen living, one by
widowed lady not over-blessed
with the goods of the world, and
one by this widows daughter.
The councils OF several Geor-
gia towns are prohibiting billiards
by taxing the tables put of exist
enca. This is another step in the
right direction; but, while our
great moral roformnrs are at it,
they should not overlook base ball
and the skating Kinks, nor should
they fail to annihilate those citi-
zens of sheol known rs fiddlerS,
who entice the Maynard heels of
the young to the giddy dance
The great moral reformation
moves granlly onward.
1t is claimed that Alex Gum,
of Crawfordyille, can drink three
gallons of buttermilk at one time
without experiencing any incon-
vpnlence, and offers to drink a
half gallon Of any kind of whisky
that anybody will furnish, and
walk without wabbling This
Gunn is no doubt muzzle- loader
and made of the best material, but
howitzer with that kind of Il
load would be liable to explode
and hurt somebody.
Georgia made last years $685.
900 bales of cotton, at the average
price of cents per pound, or s35
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