The morning news., 1892-03-13

/ Of Wheeling. ". Va, brought Edgar
I FunIngim from that place 10 be tried here
I bsfore Judge Thornton on e charge OF
I lunacy. Fullingim's relatives live IN Greene
and he was formerly a resident, but for some
/ time has been emDloyei as a "puddler" in
the rolling mills near Wheeling. He was
jailed there on some charge and his actions
while prisoner were so peculiar, and as
times violent, that the magistrate there de-
cided 20 send him TO his native state where
be could stand trial Judge Thornton heard
the case and tae statement OF the prisoner
was unusually lucid. lie gave a strict ac-
count of himself and everything seemed to
indicate that he was perfectly sane. he
was acquitted and is now with relatives in
this county.
The lumbernen Of Georgia met Ia conven-
ton at Macon a day or two ago. There
were present about seventy-fve OF the Lead
ing dealers and manufacturers of yellow
pine lumber. The total annual products Of
the mills represented is $50, 100000 feet Of
lumber. The object Of the meeting was to
devise means for benehting the business In
Georgia. After considerable discussion a
plan was presented by Martin Amorous Of
Atlanta and adopted by those present The
plan Is to form an immense stock company,
each mill man ia the state having stock in
the company according TO the amount Of
lumber produced by him. The details Of
the plan will be decided upon by a commit
tee, which will present It to every mill man
in the state not present al the meeting, and
then the whole will be ratified at another
meeting 70 be held in Macon on April 4.
Washington Gazette: The old state bank,
now Gen. Heard's house, is often called a
historic building. but one Of the best asso-
Citations connected with IL is that Samuel
Barnett was born there. He was the first
child born in the house. and that event took
place very soon after IL was completed, that
is March g. 1924 Mr.. Barnett was 6S years
old on last Sunday. DIR. Willis went into
the bank as boy years old when his
mother, then wife of the first cashier,
moved in, and his youth was spent in the
old bank, which is another valuable associa-
tion to us in Wilkes. The site was historic
before the bank was built. The old tavern
stood there. kept by old Col. Williamson,
two Of whose descendants, Justices Lamar
and Campbell, have been justices of the
United States supreme court, and in front
OF the tavern stood the old swinging sign
containing the picture Of Gen. Washington,
through which il is said Gov. John Clark,
riding drunk on the street, fired gun.
Greensboro Herald: A party Of young
men, who do not wish their names pub
lished, were out hunting few days ago and
ran across a large snake of the COW variety
which bad swallowed some smaller animal,
WHICH pTOf6u dICerWAru TO De mole. luis
made the snakes body much enlarged to-
ward he tail and impeded its movements
to such an extent that it could crawl only
with great difficulty. The young men
watched it until it began TO crawl through
the bottom rail Of fence and there it had
TO stop, as the part of the body which CON
tanned the mole was too large to
get through the crack. His snake
ship was in semi-torpid con.
dition and seemed content to stay
just as he was. One Of the party, however,
happened to drop a large bird near the rep
tiles mouth and it proceeded at once to
make another meal. But dire consequence,
the bird formed swelling similar 10 that
in the after portion of the snakes anatomy,
and there he was victim to his greediness,
for the two swelings made him resemble
an hour glass with the rails across the little
part. The circumstance was such remark
able one that the young men then killed the
snake, cut off the two rails aud brought the
whole thing, snake and all, to town and TO
our office, where il can now be seen by all
who may have any desire to see a snake
which allowed itself to be caught In the
above described manner.