The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-23
GEORGIA NEWS.
The Spice of the Weeks News From Owe,
the State.

lively as if they had never been ausputaed.
The heavy rains and consequent floods have
been very disastrous to the corn crops on Little
river. Mr.. Dave Moore in Taliaferro county, lost
all his crop-some 1000 bushels. Mr.. John Garrett
also lost all-ebout $50 bushels By great care and
energy Mr. j. O. Adams was moro fortunate. He
saved half his crop, some $50 bushels. When the
hoods commenced subsiding, his men waded knee
deep into the retreating waters and fshed out all
corn ears within reach. The rescued corn was I'M
medlately shelled and placed in the sun TO dry.
Mr.. Angus Bird has about seven or eight
acres OF Spanish groundpeas planted near Guyton
ana they are the most prolific pea and the best gen.
eral stock feed we have seen. Horses, CATTLE hogs
and even poultry, are said to prefer them to corn.
They are superior to chufa for hogs; are easier
grown and gathered. The bunch can be pulled up
and the dirt shaken out without the loss of scarcey
a pea. Only few acres are necessary to supply
arge farm.
1t will be news to many that wild dogs are
still to be found in Wilkes county. Whilst some
negroes were burning off brush the ether day, lit
ter of puppies, long haired and closely resembling
the Scotch collie breed, were fobnd in hollow log
They were exceedingly fierce and negro tradition
has it that their parents have been frequently
In the locality. The old dogs are said to be very
wild, and ugly looking customers to come in con-
tact with The probabilities. however, are that the
puppies In question are the offspring of some ca
mines driven wild by neglect or nlusage
Mr.. Micajah Owens, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Wilcox county was in Americas day or
two ago for the first time in over forty years. At
the time of his visit Mr.. Owens says the site of the
present beautiful and fourishing city was marked
by only few rude houses the homesof the pioneer
settlers OF the country. 1t is needless to say that
the old gentleman surprised at the wonderful
changes which time had wrought since his former
visit Mr. Owens is in his ninety fifth year, and is
as hale and hearty as many not half so old.
On last Wednesday afternoon, in Greene
county, Alice Thomas colored girl about thirteen
years old. was fatally burned She was on her way
to school exhibition in the country. She had in
satchel q number of chemicals to be used to make
red lights. The chemicals spontaneously ex-
ploded and in moment the girl was in flames. Be-
fore the man driving her could aid her she jumped
from the buggy and began to run. Another man
stopped her and extinguished the flames, but not
until she had been terribly burned. She was taken
to her home and DR.. j E. Walker was sent for, who
did all possible to alleviate her sufierings.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland, of Hart county, is
103 years of age Granny" Rowland, as she is ia
milarly called, was born in Abbeylle, s. c. in 1876
married to Martin Rowland in 1893, when IS; re-
moved to Ebert county, Georgia, on what is known
as the Horton place." near Fuckers quarter;
lived at that place number Of years, and then
moved to Shoal Creek, Hart county; remained there
until 1885, and then removed to- and settled in the
woods where w. ]. Partain now lives. AT this time
good mules and wagoned to Augusta, having a
chime of little bells attached to the harness of each
mule Misfortune and bad management began with
him, and soon he had squandered his good living
In 1874 he died. leaving his wife without means of
support She had to live with her children and
grand children. Her mind is greatly impaired but
her appetite is good. At the last term of the SUI
perior court, the grand jury recommended that she
be paid IS per month for her support. Her eldest
son soldier i'll the Indian war, and drew q
pension until his decease,
The LAGRANGE Reporter says that DR.. j. A.
Baugh's maternal grandfather and General Cor
don's paternal gTandsre were brothers, William
Gordon fought the British and Tories for seven
years. He was captured at Savannah, but escaped
by swimming the river At the battle of Kings
Mountain, he was the first man to scale the enemys
breastworks. He came to America from Scotland
Another General Gordon, killed in one of the Vir-
gina battles, was a cousin of DR.. Baugh's
The grandfather of the editor Of the Re-
porter, Captain Isaac Galloway, of Wilkes county,
commanded company of patriots i'll the battle
Kettle Greek, in that county, and helped to clean
up the British and Tories in that hot engagement
There were eight hundred of the latter half escap-
ing and finding refuge in fort near or in Augusta.
Mr.. Geo w. Truitt, of Troup county, is still
In the lead on cotton. A number of his neighbors
walked over his two-horse farm of so acres few
days ago and decided that he would gather least
so bales OF cotton weighing from $50 to 500 pounds
each. This is due to the mode of fertizing
and improvements in cultivation and the pains
taken in selecting his seed, causing the bolls to be
very large and having from four to eleven locks to
the boil. This is the work of six OF eight years.
The Greensboro Sun says of the recent colt
show:
everyone who sew the exhibit Of Greene county
raised mules and horses, on last Saturday were de-
lighted. The exhibit was not only large but
the stock was of fine quality. 1t was an exhibition
OF what can be done in Greene and what is being
500 saved to the farmers who oWped tba
Among the exhibit were three mule colts aud one
young horse, the property of Mr.: J. b. Dolvin,
which attracted the attention of all and which are
entitled to more than passing notice. These four
animals were the offspring Of one now nine
years old The horse was fine animal with SPLEEN
did carriage swift gait and good Qualities, He
would readily bring on the market $3.50. The mule
colts from the marc were welformed and worth
them, three-y earold, Mr.. Dolvin as been blowing
this year. Another viii be put to work next year
of colts raised from one mare in five years During
that time the mare herself has done the same work
SINE T bos nod n ge done In jS words
$50 or fifty per cent at least, and is still her
prime. This ose point is sufficient to show what
money there Is in raising horsefesh on the soil of
good old Greene.
A gentleman who lives a few miles from
Dawson reports quite amusing incident that hap
Tened on his plantation Friday afternoon of last
week. He was out in his cotton patch near the
house where an Old colored woman was picking
cotton, and while out there he heard the ringing of
a tiny bell. Being unable to locate the whereabouts
of the sound, he called the attention of the old
woman. By this time it had drawn nearer and as
the woman raised herself up from a stopping posi-
ton her eyes caught the sight Of the buzzard and
she heard the sound Of the bell She was badly
frightened. She threw up her hands, her eyes
looked heayenward as he mouth dropped open, and
she seemed TO be invoking divine assistance How
ever she was only heard to say "oh, LawdP and
bolt for her her house, where she found half an
bour later In praying position and muttering as TO
herself. AS the only thing she said that could be
understood was. "Lawd forgive me dis time an
neber do so any mo-" 1t was thought that the old
woman had been guilty Of come sin, and decided
that the belled buzzard that she saw flying above
her was a messenger from another world sent 10
warn her so that she might fee the wrath to come
The Griffin News tells an exciting bear story
ON Erin. A negro named Smith had some hogs
In pen not far from his house that he had been
fattening with the intention Of killing them this
winter. He beard terrible noise out near the pen
the other night that sounded as II some one was
tearing down a fence. He quickly jumped out OF
bed, lit lamp and hurried out TO the hog pen.
Just before he arrived there he heard the hogs set