The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-28
IT'S A BIG FISH STORY.
FARMS STREWN WITH BASS,
PERCH AND PICKEREL.

and EelS-Ad OROA LIZ " a. 1A 4l0l1u6
~owu Followed by a Rich Feast for
che inhabitants OF the Country, Who
Are wild With Delight.
From the NelO York Recorder.
pocHEsrER, IND, May A-Fulton
.,rrtv farmers are gathering fresh fish
Srom their meadow lands, picking up black
49,. In the garden paths and tossing perch
over the barn yard fence with 4-tinedpitch-
torks People walking home from preach
loo at the school house have taken short
1T through the woods to avoid the muddy
-,ocas IN the road and stumbled over buffalo
s.b and red-horse as long as shovel handle.
0ne Young woman sitting down on log to
81. ber shoe, was dangerously frightened by
:, s-pound pickerel. which suddenly Topped
-, into the air, alighting on the top of a
ed oak stump and lying there with painting
ill, and imploring fins 800 yards from
o.o,ar Things have come to q pass
wa's angular that bullheads dot the
%raan sod in the orchard and
ssS Of one kind or another can be
s,umbled over in almost any ones front
srn With this singular visitation has
come an unaccountably large supply of tur-
tles while every little pool is sure to yield
from one to half dozen eels of the longest
Zach and most toothsome flavor. There
are turtles big enough to make a barrel of
gannine soup and active enough to travel as
fsras circuit preacher goes in filling an
commitment And yet there has been no
shower of fish in Fulton county, no tidal
wave to make the sea to give up its living
and no general abandonment of any fish
preserves.
TOO MUCH WATER FOR THE LAKE.
The cause of this fish invasion is as fol-
lows: Many years ago some gentlemen
built dam across the creek which gives
outlet to Manitou lake and set a mill going
down on the race by the side of the Michi-
can road. The dam had the effect of rails
ing the general lake level about eleven feet
In many places the land overfowed was so
damaged that suits at law resulted, and the
Younger crop OF attorneys now at the Ro-
chester bar we'll remember hearing their
elders argue the fine points of law and
equity before old Judge Long, or Corbin.
or even Keith. Across most Of the margin
OF the enlarged lake, particularly on the
north side rises natural wall of earth,
some three feet above the level OF the lake
even at high water. But the continued
rains Of this present season have 30 filed up
the point across the dam with drittwood
and brush that the water could not escape
either down the race or along the creek, and
the lever OIL 11dho 4udu1LOu Las
risen until it has oyerfiowed the banks in all
directions.
Wednesday last the whole country for
miles around was one expause of water,
with hundreds of islands dotting the sur
face, on which islands stood farm houses,
barns and occasional churches. The low
lands were all inundated. Aud this must
not give you the impression that the sur
rounding country is low and marshy. 1t is
prime, level soil, high enough in all reasona-
Bile seasons, but liable to food when the
rain comes down for forty days and DIghts,
as it did here during more than half Of the
months Of April and May. Ordinarily
this farm land is free from food; but Just
now it is suffering from visitation that
could neither be foreseen nor prevented.
The highest water occurred last Saturday,
and men who had gone to town for the aft
ernoon had to swim their horses half way to
Akron going home, or else leave them and
depend on excuses. Indeed, travel by land
was iDpossi lie. Doc Sherwin our amiable
dentist, who owns little steam launch on
the lake, took out party Of friends, and
with them ran over the proposed route of
the new east and west railroad. They came
down to town for good start in the first
place, choosing the main channel Of tha race
as a general thing, but making occasional
detours at Jefferson street and the Wabash
depot
SAILING ACROSS LOTS.
Dr. Sherwin was accompanied by Deputy
Sheriff Butler, County Clerk Milt Reese,
and for portion OF the way by Lyman
Brackett and Lon Rannells. The steam
launch tied up at the Sentinel Office as it
passed through town and took on key of
New York printing ink, which makes an
excellent fuel, but is almost worthless on
the presses. The course then lay right up
the Warsaw road to point Just east of the
old Sol Wagner farm. where it was decided
90 locate a depot and after having accom>
pshed the mission intended the party
s!eered straight north past the farms Of
Isaac Good and George Perschbaugher,
thence down Yellow creek TO the Tippe-
canoe river and home by the Sam Kelley
gravel road. a good deal of amusement
was caused by the playfulness, of the pilot,
who refused 20 pay toll at the town gate,
contenting himself with sailing around the
cottage and coming in by the palatial depot
Of the Chicago and Erie railroad.
Sunday, of course, was day of devo-
ton, but the strong attachment confessed
by Paul Dorsch for religious instruo; ors
could not keep him at home after the hour
OF morning service, and by l O'clock he
might have been seen sitting on the back
1ence Of the old fair ground, fishing for
bass in Milo Smiths hay field. Sunday
evening everything in the shape of a boat
hou Ueen secured ana was being propelled
about under mild skies and silver stars by
the irrepressible young men of the town
with such young women as they could
md provided with umbrellas Foremost
among these assiduous courCiers of the fates
was Fitch Montgomery, a rising young
taWyer of ackno wledged ability, and not
lar from him, though In boat no way
connected with his own, was affable Joe
myers, the Indispensable factor Of the au-
oltor's Office. When asked about the routes
selected, the urbane Fitch declared he had
rounded the point below the poor house,
which was nearer that institution than he
ever again Intended going.
WHEN THE. WATERS SUBSIDIZED.
Next day was Monday and the waters
began to subside. By noon the whole of
Oud Fellows graveyard had emerged from
I Ii seething food, and by night Charley
rank, who had borro wad boat from q
TTelghbor, had to take it home In a wagon.
tuesday, morning for the first time people
began to find fish. There were thousands of
pools all over the country, Of course, and
IN these at the last could be seen the strug-
gLng, frightened members of the flnny
.Llne seeking In vain for escape into deeper
Albert Richter, in walking home from the
o,ore at noon, found the back gate blocked
up with lO-pound red-horse, a fish whose
tueaG, while coarse, is solid aud toothsome
anu ne could only enter his own premises
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