Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-09
Curious Things CuIled,
GEORGIA.


William Wallis, an old citizen of For
syth county, dIed of apOpleXy on last
Friday night, He weighed 307 pounds.
There is quite curiosity in the yard of
W. e. Boyd, at Cumming, in the form OF
a locust tree with a good sized mulberry
limb growing out on one side of the
trunk.
In playing base ball at Cumming last
week, Maui Kelley started TO pick up the
ball which had been knocked into weeds.
When his hand was within two inches OF
what he supposed to be the ball he dis
covered it was rattlesnake in its coil.
A calf belonging TO Mrs. l.. c. Rossman.
of Greensboro, fell into a dry well % ieet
deep Thursday. A negro was In the well
at the time with a lantern, and strange to
say, neither negro nor calf was hurt
though the lantern was smashed. 1t is
supposed that the calf saw the light, and
looking over TO investigate the cause,
leaned too far over and tumbled in.
Jesse Brooks, negro. who was digging
a well the other day on Capt. Boyd Holt S
place, and got down about ten feet when
suddenly, as he was picking away with
his crOwbar, about ODe-fOurth of the bot
tom fell through, u distance of eleven feet
perpendicular. The well WAS being dug
as supply well to the artesian we'll
which is also being bored on the place,
and its falling through is a flattering in
dicatiOn of the existence of suDterranean
streams OF water. Brooks lost his crow
bar in the hole, besides being scared out
Of his wits.
The Clerk of the Superior Court of
Greene county has a curious relic of a
cOunterfeiting scheme that occurred in
the county nearly 100 years ago. The
relic is an iron die with its case OF the
same material, which tradition says was
used by negro in stamping silver dol
lars. One side of the die bears this in
scriDtiOn: "GIatia Del-CarOlus Ill.
1OSr'-evidently copied from an ancient
Spanish coin. The whole thing is an
ingenious continuance for negro to get
up. How long he carried on his counter
teitlng business or what disposition was
made OF the case has been forgotten by the
Oldest inhabitants.
At Greensboro, Friday, party Of ladies
and gentlemen set out TO visit the little
child Of Walter +. Armor, and were over
taken on the way by a thunder cloud.
The party took refuge in tenant house.
They were in the house but a short time
when II WAS struck by lightning, the
fund passing directly through the house
in vertical direction, and killing a dog
under it. Several in the party ex-
perienced a shock. but all escaped with
out injury except Miss Henrietta Kim
brOugh. This young lady received quite
severe shock, from the effects of which
she had not recovered Tuesday. Her
friends are apprehensive OF serious
results. 1t seems miraculous that every
one in the house was not instantly killed.
FLORIDA.
A young school teacher from the vi
ciuity Of Minneola rode mule up to
Sumterville Monday, and after having a
settlement with the school board made a
serious mistake by swapping his mule for
the morse Of a stranger. He rode the
horse of, but the Sheriff was sent after
him, and soon brought him back, when
the young man explained that he had
made "A mistake. The young man was
evidently innocent of any wrong motives.