The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
DIXIE DOINGs.
North Carolina Enjoying a Ghost
Sensation.
A DEAD MAN S HEAVENLY EXPERIENCE
GEORGIA.

{ Howell Cobb, a well hammered well dressed
lhh21year-oid boy, LETT his parental roof at Ath-
ISns, ABOUT SIX weeks ago, and started
yes % grow up with the country He had
flearti his folks and neighbors converse about
sAal'sss City and Dallas in such language rs
Isastefn people thirty years ago talked about
lat. LoJis and Chicago, the then twin cities of
IModeIn American growth, and he hied himself
IAwey TO the older city.
Is On arriving there he rustled in search of a
,sitNat on. as only q Georgia boy can, but it
gRsln& ne bleak December and he stranger,
IIAc eUtlooG proved anything but PROMISING
Is BE finally succumbed TO the blizzard and
AtArtsd for Dallas, where DE only arrived few
Molirs ahead of it. Almost perishing. with his
Vast dollar gone and his spirit broken, the poor
little fellow went to the calaboose whera he
Secited his brief history and adventures to Mr..
Dean Arnold, the police station sergeant, con-
,ciudhl% with the sage remark:
al Il ind myself too young to paddle my own
I9anoe against blizzard Please telegraph my
father for money"
] Mr. Arnold struck with the gentle appear
.ance OF the youth, entertained him at his resi-
Edsnce snd briefly telegranhod a few facts to
Fhis father, as the result of which n letter,
Ifnde, came yesterday. The little fellow
,Started home last night. As lie bid goodbye
no his friends. your reporter took occasion to
as ~ Jim few pertinent questions;
%So93py, have you q weakness for yellow
i}s ':No, sir; heard that Georgians do well in
E5he west, and started out in life, thinking
Shat could do WE'LL
4 =. 'Hoaest injun, sonny; did not you start in
life with pistol?'
TIL did not. I did not intend to come to
Texas when 1 left home"
:s4Hon. Reuben Jones was in Albany recently,
He says:
Baker county is better off financially than it
has been Tor many years Cur farmers have
| learned the benefit of diversified agriculture
and are nearer being all out of debt than ever
before
Recently mad-dogs have been making
9Hlngs iiyeiy IN jug Tavern, a little place about
Eighteen miles from Athens, and n few nights
ago Judge jackson, s. prominent citizen, who
lives near there, heard something out ON his
Front porch. On opening the door, . dog
caught him by the leg and bit him very badly.
lie strael the animal with stick OF wood
that he had in his hand, but it failed TO kill
him.
y xThe dog went on down the road, ard entered
pr Dalton's yard, and attacked goose. Mir.
llit was. lie accidentally dropped it, however,
Shd the dog made for him, biting him badly
On his leg. Mr.. Dalton caught the dog by the
throat aud held him until his wife brought
him his AK, and he cut his head Off.
Mr. Lawrence, another citizen, was clearing
new gralind, when he was attacked by another
Eaog. lie attempted to frighten it away, when
! II started for him with a fer0cious growl. Mr..
lawrence outran the dog for some distance,
| badly on the foot. The dog went on until he
Iea6hed a branch, and there lie had spasus.
r Madstcnes are in demand, and all dogs are
killed on sight.
Il, Mrs. story, of valdosta, was seri-
Eously burned late Thursday evening She
EWas holding a baby near the fire. when her
Nothe3 caught, and heroicaly stood the flames
tSill she crossed the room and laid the baby
gown. Her cries brought help, and the flames
We're e&tinguished before she was fatally
/ is HOiDp
III The Advance has information that on Tues
day last while Mr.. Lige Smallwood and
EAxo other men, with Miss Bearden and Miss
lGallimore, were crossing the Etowah river in
Il fiat at Moorc's ferry at the Franklin gold
Mine, sixteen miles east of Canton, the fat
got out OF their control and was carried down
1.-THE stream by the strong current, the river
being considerably higher than usual.
|! The boat was gliding down stream at a rapid
gate and, realizing the imminent danger they
Were in, twelve feet fall being only short
distance away, the men jumped out and swan
Lto the bank, leaving the young ladies to meet
such fate as was Before them. Fortunately the
Ifat shot over the dam without capsizing or
throwing the ladies out. About the time it
Went over the dam Mr.. Quinn, who was
standing on the bank, plunged in and rescued
the ladies before the fiat reached the shoals
Fpnly a short distance below the dam.
/. Mrs. Haynes, an aged lady OF Danicsyille,
with singular bravery, saved her son from
death at the hands OF Bud Strickland
Tom Haynes and Bud Strickland had been
trying The virtue of blind tiger whisky during
ftho day, and when they reached the point
where hilarity is greatest, they returned to
the home of Tom. A quarrel ensued between
the men, which resulted in Strickland knock
lsng Haynes down with fence rail. Strick-
Hand had just stuck his bowie knife into the
hack of the PROSTATE man, when Mrs. Haynes
E6iade her appearance. Strickland lett the
Eknife in TOMS body and ran
The mother at once took hold Of the knife
and drew it out, dripping with the blood of
Eher son. She tainted as she looked upon it.,
iapd WAS found by the neghbors unconscious
IWjth the knife in her hand. Tom is in pre-
EkrloGs condition.
H. TENNESSEE.
ga northern girl now living near Trenton,
takes Ter gun and goes afeld and kills more
game tiian any OF the young men.
h A desperate feat among the convicts III the
Estate prison at Nashville has been mearthed
kWarden Pearcy had observed suspicious con-
LIMITATIONS, and satisfied that something was
Hp, instituted search in tie cell OF Bob Nc
Minley. A lot of tools, including saws, brace
tand bits, chisels, dirks and butcher knives end
"a half dozen policemens clubs with loaded
lehds we're found, rs well as a plan OF tiat
lgf;1os nf tho ,1piSoD and ,,,np,nro,,1o al I,n