The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-02-12
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
Interesting Items About Matters
Near Home.

congressman Cflsp, OF AWefl"
Gus, is the latest gubernatorial en-
try. If Southwest Georgia is ever
TO have state house officer this
year IS the time und Crisp is the
man.
| Quitman county, one of the
smallest in the state, is preparing
to build new court house and a
new Jail. This is an example for
Terrell, the most prosperous coun-
W in Southwest Georgia.
Judge z. j. 0dum. ordinary of
Dougherty county, has resigned
his position and there are several
candidates Tor that ssoffice. Mr..
Odum>s books were always a pict>
ure Of neatness aud his Office one
Of the handsomest in the state.
Thae was lady from Sycamore
here recently to have her trOsseau
made up. Who will get the kake,
-Dooly VindicatOr. The editor
is entitled to the "kake' on ac-
count of the spelling.
Shellman is complaining about
the short time passenger trains
stop at that station. Colonel Bar
ney Lester says it is a violation of
the law, and if, in the future pas
sengers are not given more time in
which to get on and of the trains
and the expressmGn more time to
carefully deliver jugs, the Colonel
will take the matter into the courts.
The Americas Recorder is COM
planning about skilled labor being
scarce. 1t is SO everywhere. Car
penters, SO called, in this section
know very little about their BUSH
ness and want first-class wages for
Indifferent work. Brickmasons
can't build straight chimney flue
to save their lives, and it is so all
through the list. What our coun-
try needs is somebody who krows
Low to do something and do it
right.
Sid Cook, ofthe L.eary Courier,
says that at a revival meeting in an
adjoining county an old lady ex>
pressed hope of heavens mercy
to her, ga poor, weak worm of the
dust" Then an old man of defec.
tive hearing tremblingly said:
"Brethren, l feel just like the SIS
ter, poor, weak, wormy old cuss. "
A COW in Albany gave birth to
a calf which is half human. It
was a most astonishing monstrOsi-
ty. 1t was very slightly covered
with hair. The back Of its head
was like child's, and it had a hu-
man nose. 1t had but two legs,
each about six inches long. It's
feet were shapeless A short tail
about three inches long came out
between the shoulder blades. 1t
WIS born dead.
Judge F. f Putney sent the
Albany News on Wednesday a
bunch of oats that had grown to
maturity and npened since Au-
gust. What was most singular
about the bunch was that the roots
had lived aud sprouted again after
the first heads had dried.
The melon men have begun TO
wrestle early with the trausporta.
ton problem. They actually be-
lieve that the railroads ought to be
satisfied with little less than all
the gross sales of the melon crop.
The railroads will think them very
simple in deed. They will proba-
bly, cease to develop the melon
industry" if the growers should
continue to be so unreasonable.
A good deacon Of Perry tells a
startling story regarding his curl
Gus experience while killing some
fowls. He was preparing for an
extensive dinner, and killed three
fowls. The last one instead of
Topping around like an ordinary
hen and dying when its head was
cut of, got up, walked about ten
feet, laid an egg aud gave up the
ghost. In the meantime the head
cackled for near a minute before
that, too, became quiet.
Among the incidents of child :
hood that stand out in bold relief
as cur memory reverts to the days
when we were young, none are
more prominent than severe sick
ness. The young mother vlvidly
remembers that it was Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy that cured