The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-14

man has many pecularities, and since the
death OF his wife, some seven years ago, he
made hermit of himself, preferring to live
alone, and away off from friends and relations.
During this period of seven years he has not
been out of sight of his dwelling place. At the
death of his wife, whose age was we'll nigh
equal to that of his own, he declared that he
would never again rest on q bed, and time has
worked no changes in his mind. On board
bench, Worn slick by use for more than half
century, he sleeps in the same house that for
so long a time sheltered him and his faithful
companion.
j. 3. Collins, of johnson station came to
Jesup Tuesday night ON the Jesup express.
About II o'clock he retired to his room at the
Jesup hotel. About o'clock Wednesday
morning his brother-in-law, j. II. Price, found
him lying on the street in pool of blood. The
supposition is that he came out of his room
and lay on the piazza, which is about twenty
feet high, and in rolling about fell, striking
the edge of the lower piazza. He was moved
to the hotel and physicians Immediately sum-
moned, who did all in their power to relieve
the sufferer. Mr.. Collins fingered for while
and died. He leaves wife and three chill
dren.
Rev. r. A. Giddins, who lives at Sumach,
Murray county the Dalton Citizen says, was
severely cut last Monday morning by one of
his tenants. Mr.. Giddins, who is an old gen.
tleman about seventy years of age, reproved
his tenant about some unimportant matter on
the farm. A quarrel ensued, and the tenant
became so enraged that he jerked out an ugly
looking pocket knife and made for Mr. Gid
dins. The latter picked up chair and held it
between himself and his assailant, which i'll
all probability saved his life. The man, how
ever, made murderous plunges with his weapon
around the chair and succeeded in stabbing
the old man in six different places, the most
dangerous being inflicted on the abdomen and
on one of his shoulders
-Eason Smith, of Albany, brings pretty
eli W ha
has been with party OF timber cutters. A
negro set steel trap for coons, as he thought,
and when he went to it he found huge bear
firmly held by the toes of one foot. Upon the
approach of the negro bruin showed fight.
Having an AK with him, the negro cut long
pole and thought he would dispatch Mr.. Bear
with it, but the bear seized it in his huge paws
and drew it from him. Nothing daunted the
man cut another pole and commenced to be-
labor the bear with it, and finally managed to
get in a good blow with his ak, sinking the
blade into bruins side This disabled the
bear, and then the negro had but little further
trouble in killing him. The bear weighed
over 400 pounds
The LincolIlton News tells how chickens
have been visited by more terrible enemies
than hawks. 1t had been evident that noe
turnal marauder was infesting the poultry
yards for some time, young fowls disappearing
every night; but he could not be caught up
with until one night last week, when he seized
an old hen, which gave the alarm. All hands,
with dogs and torches, Immediately responded,
and when we reached the foWlhouse there was
what resembled boa constructor, with the hen
completely wound up i'll his coil, having
swallowed the head and neck He had over
rated his capacity, and seemed to be waiting
for his morsel to shrink; but when old "Nig'
appeared lie was soon dispatched. He was not
quite as large as a Stove-pipe, but measured
nearly seven feet, and was not at all slender.
-Cuthbert has Hebrew farmer, an occupa-
ton rarely ever followed by that people. A.
w. Gillespie is the gentleman alluded to and
he has been i'll Cuthbert over twenty years.
He began business as a baker, arose to be one
of the largest merchants i'll the place, and in
this business came in possession of real estate.
His farms are celebrated producing lands on
Pumpkin creek, and are, at low estimate,
worth $4,000. This year Mr.. Gillespie has
abandoned his mercantile business, and, as a
result, he has one of the best crops, if not the
best, in the county, at least such is the express
sion of those who have seen it. Mr.. Gillespie,
too, is proud and happy over the result, and
disputes the idea that Jews can't make good
farmers. He is delighted with it and intends
following it closely.
Now and then, in making excavations, the
workmen find curious things. The Sumter
Republican states that Mr.. Joe Chambless,
several weeks ago, was boring we'll for a man
a few miles from Americas, and in pumping it
out, drew up with the sand about dozen links
of something that looked like rusty chain,
hanging on to bit of wood. The well was
over sixty feet deep, and he says down he sat
and puzzled his brains for an hour trying to
solve the mystery of how it got sixty feet be-
low the surface of the earth there. After q
few hours exposure it dried up and crumbled
away. He thinks that in the long past some
vessel may have been wrecked, and this piece
may have been swept under the earth by some
current or stream and deposited where he res
directed it.