The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-03
The Cow in Real Life.

A nice young woman of DoOly County,
Georgia, was milking q COW few days ago,
when q young man bounded over the cow
pen fence. The lad kissed the lass and of
they ran across q field to the Office OF JUS
tice, who married them.
One OF the Atlantic City papers makes it
known that Thomas Collins, of Bakersville,
is the possessor of a calf that when six
months old weighed 404 pounds and meas
ured five feet and six inches in the girth
and stands four feet six inches"
Sheriff Nickel, of Lincoln County, Mis-
sissippi. met a COW in the road the other
day. The Sheriff said 'Shool" but instead
of allowing him to pass the COW tossed him
at least twenty feet upward, so that he was
High Sheriff." indeed. He will pass his
Christmas in bed.
This is the kind of an item one finds in
agricultural papers: "a Hancock County
of this year $3.50 worth of butter from eight
common cows" Or an item such as this:
There are IL 443.593 milch cows in the
United States-one to every four persons"
A farmer at Gridley, Cal, hunts geese
with a COW. Ii is said that he has trained
the animal to walk out to where 5 flock of
geese have settled down on the grain, brOws-
ing all the way along, he walking alongside
on the off side from the geese, and when
shoots into the flock and captures thirty or
| forty.
A little boy named Artie Van Wrinkle.
who lives near Belleville, Kansas, while
leading q COW to a field by a rope, was
killed in the following manner: The morn
ing was cold, so he threw the rope about
his neck and put his hands in his pockets to
| keep them warm. The COW started to run
and before he could unwind the rope he
was choked to death.
Down in Georgia there is a cow one hun
dred years old. Says the HawkinsYille
| Dispatch: 1.-The most eyed COW in Georgia
perhaps in the United Ststes-is owned
by citizen of Hawkinsville. The owner
assurss us that the COW is one hundred years
old, and Is now giving milk. When we
mentioned the impTobability, In fact the
almost impossihility, of his COW being one
hundred years old, the gentleman assured
US that she belonged to his grandparents,
great grandparents aud other ancestors, and
that there is no doubt that the cow is one
hundred years OF age. We can say for the
owner of the cow-the gentleman who
makes the statement-thet he Is one of our
most esteemed citizens, one not accustomed
to exaggerate. and whose word has never
been doubted"
The COW In Colorado, as the Denver Re
publican reports: "a trial which he'd ex-
CllcQ great lnlcIcSb anu uuCn lCcllllR ude
been before the County Court of Jefferson
County for the past three days. The partie:
to the cause were John Ryan, plaintiff, vs.
G. H. Hsrick, defendant and grew out o.
the disputed ownership of a certain COW, thu
value of which probably does not exceed
$40. III. n. SOles appeared for plaintiff anC
A. II. DeFrance for defendant. The Wit
nesses of whom there are between forty anC
fifty, embraced most of the leading farmer
1 AotN. Of ho ooutharr, ~ If off
son County, including experts in brands
marks, etc. The case went to the Jury at l
o'clock. They returned verdict in half al
hour for the plaintiff. There is still mucl
feeling. and the case will probably be car
ried up"
Two COWS and detected calf stood tied IL
, front of the Court House in Oswego, n. Y,
all Monday morning. while within Justic
r Case was endeavoriDg to decide to which @
two claimants the calf belonged. Fac
" brought a crowd of witnesses to prove hi
. ownership and each had driven his COW
court, hoping that family likeness and ma
h ternal solicitude would furnish triumphan
testimony. But the evidence was so cor
a fiicting that II Solomon himself had bee
. on the bench justice might have miscarried
1t would not have paid him to introduce hi
d celebrated sword act, for both cows were S
indifferent TO the privileges and obligation
of motherhood that evidently neither woul
; have entered the slightest remonstrance
Z the calf had been cut in two before her eye
a The calf, moreover, was singularly Oblivion
TO her usual tactical facilities and failed I
!, indicate which of the rival diaries she We
y accustomed to patroniEe. AZ last accoun
n neither claimant had obtained the least al
"a vantage.
Here Is q COW story from the Richmon
e Wing: "Robert Jennings, of Louisa Count,
1T who was employed ON the Chesapeake an
Ohio Railway in 1858, says during that ye'
l. a passenger train while going at full spec
ran into a COW, cutting the animal in hal
rs the fore. quarters falling on one side OF Il
st railroad track and the headquarters on Il
II other side. The COW was with calf at Il
time, and, wonderful to say, the calf VI
v, left on the outside of the road bed in |
ID natural bag, alive and kicking. A NJ