Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15

the rifle hred the alligator turned over on his
back. head under water, and paved the air for
naf an hour, and then sunk to the bottom OF
the pond"
sylvania Telephone ''Mr. Nicholas stregles,
the model farmer of the Fork IA using 4
mule, OLD Jack that is twenty-nine years of
age. de IS the same mule that Mr. Streeles
rode as overseer for the late R. d. Williamson
before the war, and is as coed an animal to day
as most or the younger mules Of our county
corn and hsy."
O9tethoTpe Echo: "On Thursday evening of
last week q bolt of electricity struck a large
oak near the lanyard and literally shivered it
20 pieces. We never saw tree so completely
demolished by lightning. Pieces the size of
raliS were thrown fifty yards, while the ground
LOT some distance around was Uttered with its
os9rls. M =. n Olve was sitting in his piazza
ana saw the bolt at the time 1t struck He saws
IL seemed ike solid ball Of fire. as large as a
man s mead, and for an instant lowered over
tae top OF the tree. Then it descended. and
with deafening crash, the monarch Of the
forest dropped to pieces. A negro woman was
standing short distance from the tree and ht
first appeared stunned, but soon recovered her
self and ran to the house,
:, Under the caption "a Model Farm" the
Monroe Advertiser says: 'Mr John p Lee
who owns a farm mostly within the corporate
limits or Forsyth, threshed his small grain
crop last week. His farm embraces only a
hundred acres, and on it he planted corn, cot
grain crop amounted to five hundred bushels
and only about fourteen acres were sown
One acre yielGed one hundred and ten bushels
OF oats. After cutting and feeding his stock
on eats for six weeks before threshing, he har-
vested two hundred and eighty-five bushels of
shelled oats. He saved one hundred and two
bushels of as pretty wheat as can be found.
he soWed one quart or Dallas wheat sent out
by the Agricultural Department. and. not
withstanding it was eaten some by
a horse, he saved twenty-five quarts.
He has also saved barley and rye for
sowing purposes sfter feeding bountifuIly
while green. Mr.. Lees success in farming we
think, teaches two things very cOnclusiveIy
First that this IS a grain as well cotton
country Seasons are not any more propitious
Tor him than Others yet he succeeds in making
bountiful supply, not only for his family and
stock, but he annually fattenS a number of
cattle, making the best beef we get in the
market Second He does not buy pound of
commercial fertilizers. and thus demonstrates
that the argument of the necessity OF guano is
to large extent imaginary. True he plants
less than twenty acres in cotton. but he makes
nearly bale per acre and nothing paid for
guano. His farm is made richer every year,
because the crops are rotated, good, strong
manure is applied stubble is turned under and
care taken to prevent washing. He uses the
best agricultural implements"
Canton. Cherokee county, correspondence
Atlanta Constitution: THE citizens of our
usually quiet town were thrown into great ex-
element by the sad news reaching here that
MIS- james u DODpSf WHO reSlu6S one mile
south Of this place, on The Marietta road, had
purpose cut her throat. Summoning an
escort your correspondent at once hurried to
the scene of this awful occurrence. Lying
upon the bed was Mrs Dobbs. and Dr. J. NJ.
Turk was bending over her, washing away the
blood which had clodded in her throat.
From what could learn she had made two
attempts to cut her throat-the gashes show
this with an old razor One cash was about
three inches long, the other extended from ear
to ear, and severed two leading arteries strik-
ing into the windpipe. The racer being
sharp. cut smoothly, which caused the sides
to have a tendency to come together, and
this kept back considerable blood, and yet the
wounds bled very prOfusely. In the cluster OF
bushes ju It back Of the house where she did
the awful work was a quantity of blood.
When left she was lying in quiet condition,
and from what DIR. Turk said life is very un-
certain. She is very badly cut. She is a lady
of about forty years of age and the mother of
some six or more young children. Her hus-
band, cur former Treasurer, has been out of
his proper mind since the last election. and at
times very wild and hard TO control. This
condition of his has craZed Mrs Dobbs. Mr..
Dobbs was this evening about the house. but
appeared to be unconcerned, unconscious of
what was going on, and sat staring every one
in the face >