The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
GEORGIA NEWS.
The Spice of the Weeks News From Over
the State.

Hon. James Bohannon, Of Dodge county,
lost his ginhouse and nearly all its contents by fire
on Friday last Four bales of cotton and quite large
quantity Of seed were burned. The fire was caused
by SOME OF the hands employed at the gin stepping
on match which had been dropped on the floor
.-Uncle Moke Arnold, Of Crawford, comes
forward as having made the biggest shot record
on Thursday OF last week. A gang of ducks had
settled on his fish pond, and taking his gun he crept
upto the waters edge and emptied both barrels at
chem. count showed that he had killed fourteen
Of the fowls and crippled several more.
The Greensboro Sun SAYS that Captain
etory's bermuda hay crop is turning out much bet
ter than he at first anticipated Before it was packed
he estimated the yield at CO. 000 pounds He has al
ready packed over 900 bales of more than 100 mounds
each, and thinks he viii have LOO bales or fully
AIS 900 pounds. Bermuda is undoubtedly a great
grass
LAST Friday morning, little cat squirrel
appeared on the public square of Reidsyile and in
few minutes there were twelve men, six boys one
preacher. one lawyer, one doctor one merchant,
three dogs. two negroes, one horse and one mule
after the little creature, and after siege of two
hours the squirrel wore out his pursuers.
The management of the Georgia State fair
have announced that the fair will take place
at Macon, from November 9TH to the 10th.
The citizens OF Macon and the management of
the fair are greatly enthsed over the prospect
fair grand success.
1T is now settled beyond doubt that the
Feast Tennessee road has been leased to the
Richmond and Danville, the papers to be
signed next dividend day.
The securities of the Marietta and North
georgia railroad have been negotiated to CAPT.
tallsts of London and the work will OF once
commence to convert tho road into broad
gauge from Marietta to Jasper.
On Saturday morning last while Mrs West,
lady living on Mr. Jim Lane Arnold's place, in the
lower part of Oglethorpe county, was out milking,
her little girl whom she had left at the house caught
on fire and was literally burned to q crisp before
help reached her. Medical aid was Immediately
summoned but proved unavailing, and she died in
horrible agony few hours afterward.
"A six-year-old sen of Oliver Blackshear,
horrible death on Friday last. The boy was
going to town with his father with load of cotton
comng down hill the wagon ran into hole in
the road throwing the boy to the ground Befor
the team could be stopped the wheels of the heavily
loaded wagon passed over his body, crushing his
skull and breaking his neck.
I'm Lawrenceville, Mr.. Fred Herring has
scuppernong vine only eight years old, from which
he has sold twenty-five dollars worth of grapes this
s;ason He has gwen away q large quantity to
visitors who call him. 1t has not missed bearing
coed crop single year since it two years old.
He planted 1t on Sunday, and that may be the
reason 1t has done SO we'll He has found no diff
Guilty in marketing the grapes. Most of them have
been sold in Lawrencevie, lat twenty cents gallon,
while he received four cents pound for grapes
shipped to Atlanta.
--LaGrange Graphic: Last Friday was cot
ton picking day at the farm of Mr.. George Truitt,
and the pickers very breaking the record,
John Gipson picked 559 pounds, John Porter SGT
pounds and Jake BIcFarlin gathered in SAG pounds.
Old Aunt Lou Shepherd seventy-two years old,
picked $40 pounds, besides milking the cows night
and morning. On being told what she had done,
the old darky said:
az dunno what is gittin' in ter de old niger. Now,
when ole moster used to stan ober me wild strop
xcouldnt do dat. I spec it I'm dem big bolls OBJ
cotton what am de matter wild my ole fingers"
And the old W oman toddled off as happy rs
darky ever gets to be. It was certainly remaralla
performance for one of her age
Major j. II. Black is an ardent admirer of
home manufactures He says:
you want prosperity at the south keep your re-
sources at home; patronize your home institutions.
Georgia should manufacture her own cotton, make
her own shoes and leather We have the hides and
bark-better bark than the hemlock. Hemlock is
the poorest tan known. What we want in Georgia
Is more manufactures; let us make our own wag-
ons buggies AMI harness, boots and shoes; have
our own foundries, make our own machinery, nails,
soap, crackers, candy, sash, DOORS blinds panels,
ETC.. raise our own mules and horses cattle, sheep
end hogs. You can raise mule colt as cheap as
bull yearling. have tested the mule business, but
have rather more experience in leather and shoes -
have fifty years experience In this business, and
think l know what leather and shoes are. Then
you keep the money at home, and you can get it
back for hides, tallow, chickens eggs, butter and
almost anything you have to sell. Ny hands have
to be fed. Ifyou want Georgia to prosper build up
home industries of every needful necessity.
Major Shelton, of Hart county, vouches for
f,lI1 farr dow 6a tonly foI1r
through portion of the county deposttng his tick
cts among { ie voters. In field near a cabin he
saw man picking cotton As the major approach
ed the man evinced signs ofunea tness and glanced
furtively toward the woods. As the major drew
nigh he "howdyed," and drawing the tickets from
his breast packet he said; 'I have some papers
here for you" The voter with shrill whoop.
broke for woods like frightened deer, his
wife in the yard yelling: Run! Blank, run or
he'll ketch YEP The major finally managed to
coax him out of the woods, when he explained that
he had difficulty with neghbor few days
previous and thought the major an officer with
o warrant for him He had already been lodging
warrant for two years and had only been home
few weeks.
Randolph county is also to have a colt show,
which causes the Cuthbert Appeallto say:
The colt show whichwes held last year a very
credltabe affair, notwithstanding the little time
and effort that were used in getting it up. It sur
prised our own people to see that much being
done in this way in our county, Ii the farmers gem
orally had bought out their young horses and
mules, the show would have been greatly increased
sn numbers. But as it was. it taught our people
most valuable leason, and inspired an int rest in
stock raising thGt they had never experienced be-
fore. It clearly demonstrated the probability of
raising within our own county every horse and
mule needed for all our wants. and we believe the
time is not far distant when il will be done. When
we think of the Thousands of dollars that are yearly
paid out for this item of expense, cannot but
be astonished that attention has not long before
now been turned to the business of raising our own
stock We are glad that farmers are taking
hold oft 1t is q favorable indication, and fore
shadows perion of independence and prosperity.
MIR. John 3, Broadwell has fish pond near
Alpharetla stocked with carp some Of which are
very large. One day last week Mr.. Ebb Broadwell,
MI John 3. Broadwells father and his wife we're
fishing in the pond and had caught several small
fish when Mrs. Brondwell hooked a fish she could
not pun out of the water Her husband came to
her asstlnce and succeeded in pulling the fish to
shore. After be had got the fish out on the hank
the hook broke and to keep the fish from founder
ing back into tho pond, Mr. Broadwell fell down on
It and clasped his around il. In the struggle
that followed they both rolled into the pond where
the water was about five feet deep and the fish
slipped from Mr.. BroGdwells grasp into his own ia
tive element Mr. Broadwell thinks the fish would
have weighed twenty pounds
The Leary Courier gives the full details Of a
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