Telegram-herald., 1889-07-11


August, lslz. party II hahters found IA
seeft&iE a0uut ut211oas regioa, ,n0ss Aa0~n q
- kz5un eo1aty. bslsg neArls ssghG
feet hlgh, covered with blush hair and
having nauasR-s ears. ike "a ass, store
deaf. 2n1 upon ghls ~coo2Rt unconscious
~ The approach Of car party" This
Iao-zster seems - have bee8 seea upon
several different occasions during the
next -four years.
In the spring Of 1916 number Of
young surveyors. hailing from Virginia.
secured the hills for the creature, but
without success In u letter indicted by
Joseph Earle, Of Culpepsr, Va. 70
Master John Bishop, living in Boston.
Lincolnshire, is written the following:
''Of the few people who Inhabit this
Will country not soul whom We have
approached doubts that the creature Is
alive Indeed. sir. one poor planter no
guided rs great distance from the falls
iN convinced that he saw him face 10
face no more than three weeks since. an
assertion which my adventurous COM
paniOns were only too ready a. believe"
The many tales tod OF this extraor-
dinary being seem 10 have created much
stir even in New England. A printed
circular Of that day. issued by tho owner
Of some lands in Georgia, assures those
who conteIn plate settlement in this
country that the climate is exceedingly
mild, the soil productive and the danger
OF attack from uncOuLl beasts, who are
represented in the public print as being
half human. absurd. There is no por-
ton of truth in these reports"
Sarah Jessop. of Augusta. was great
wonder" Sarah was a colored woman.
and had All iron cylinder, two inches in
diameter. passing through her breast,
which made her an object of almost ma
tionsI interest. A solution OF the phe-
nomenon was never definitely arrived at.
When an infant the passage appeared "a
simple dent or cicatrice: at q years it
was sufficiently large TO admit a thumb,
and at a later period "A metal tube was
inserted as protection 10 the internal
anatomy by a local physician. When
the size of the cavity increased the CYL
inder was loosened, dropped out and
larger one inserted. When Sarah died,
at the age OF %. the cylinder was above
two inches diameter inside, coming out
between her spine and shoulder blades.
In 1873 John Tyler Carroll came down
from his home among the mountains
which divide this state from North Caro-
lima, and engaged himself TO the man
ager Of Forepaugh's circus. Carroll will
be remembered as having made hit
throughout the country as the Georgia
giant wonder, and was a marvel, physic-
ally.
Miss Lulu Hurst emerged from local
obscurity four years ago. This prepos-
seSsing young lady was the proud mis-
tress of mysterious electric force Sc
creted in her slender finger tips. which
almost set at naught mortal bone and
sinew. Miss Hurst il so recent an acqui-
sition To the list of Georgia's wonders
that it will suffice to say that she could
lay her terrible palm upon the shoulders
of a strong athlete and bring him 10 the
ground as easily as a mother can chas-
tise sn unruly infant. She now lives
with her husband in Chattanooga and is
lOS'--SoSt VI tSiAttt5 iOi tbiAC- nhLSS A'AAic
Haygood was also an electric wonder,
her gift being similar to that of her III
VAL Miss Hurst
Every day the daily press teens with
descriptions of six legged mules. snakes
in various lengths. all the way from ten
TO fifty feet, and an abundance of min
eral and vegetable monstrosities. a
number Of these were actually on exhi-
bitlon at a recent county fair, and were
referred to by speaker in these eloquent
words:
Dakota may revel in her billiards;
Florida in her climate; the mosquito has
almost become a synonym for New Jer-
sey; Pennsylvania boasts OF her coal,
and Kaintuck of her water supply; but
Georgia, conscious Of no superior, points
proudly at her native wonders"