The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-21

Sam Allen has been committed to- to jail qra at
Wadesboro n; e, for stealing 10 Genus from
A. poodle in Elkton, KY, has just died from
! licking it's mistress's checks The girl painted
| and the poodle died of poison, OF course.
At Lancaster, Ky. Samuel Mickey stole
! horse sold it and with the money got mar
| ried lie was arrested shortly after the
| ceremony was performed.
The dogs of North Carolina tax the owners
| and sheep rniscrs somewhere near S2.00O,OO
| annually, or about double what 1,60O,0oO peo-
| pie pay for public education.
| Waterview Cumberland county, Ky, after
losing something like thousand dollars worth
| of good stock from the rayages OF hydrophoDih
| has about eXterminated all the dogs III the
| neighbOrhOOd.
| The Paris Kentuckian Citizen tells Of a
Bourbon county man who hogged prom
| of ST. 600 on an investment of $4,000 in pork
| He bought last spring and sold out a lew Gays
! ago
| who was arrested Sunday while singing IN
the choir on the charge OF having sy1tema III
cay robbed the collection boxes 1% rs sahes ms
| the lock up with his tenor notes
| Louisiana man is hard at work on fly
| ing machine. 1t is said that recently, in
experimenting with his machine, he succeeded
| in making it fly ten feet in the air for dis
| bring it to u climax by summer.
| Near Norfolk. Va a young girl was savagcly
attacked by a vicious dog. She had the pres
of mind to seize the dog by the throat a
| iifcless at her feet The same girl recently
| put bear to flight with Winchester rifle.
| Three children were playing on the banks
| Of - stream in Texas when two OF them Slip
| ped and fell into the water; The mother;
| who was near by, was frantic, but punsed
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| saved both of them.
| the benefit of a church in Alabama, and 1t was
10 cents a hug. man, while blindtolded
When he found out who she was lac got mad
| and demanded his 10 cents back.
| Convictions for selling vote are rare in
Kentucky as indictments for participating
in the work OF Il mob. Wolfe county, however,
has sentenced u vote-seller to dlsfranShl f
| Inent for life. 1t is certainly remarkable
case
A farmer living near Owensburg Ky, While
| walking in his held few nights since ran
against an obstruction which he supposed
to De tree on ciGS Sa he had Come IN
contact with bear. lie turned ana ned, ana
was pursued by the animal for a distance OF
| Il hundred yards.
Mr.. s. s. Dibrai of Sparta, Tenn, has the
rattes of a petrlhed rattlesnake' winch We're
found in a rock at Bon Air mines. There We're
eleven rattles and IL button all pclrlned ana
hard as a rock. The full shape and size of
the snake was in the rock, but the rattles
and button were all that could be gotten loose.
Commenting on the Paris, Tex, horror,
The Velasco World says that Mrs. Vance, the
mother of little Myrtle, had premoniton
of her death. She said the child was SO smart
and pretty that she feared it would not live
long. This was only a short time before the
commission of the crime which ended the
little girls life.
The Prison Trusty. edited by convicts in
the Kansas state penjtentiary, says editorial
ly: Neither Ta-Ka-Ra' nor Annie Rooney
has ever been heard by US. A fellow might
whistle either of them at us all day and
unless he did something to give himself away,
we would not know Whit he was DONG
| to us"
A remarkable revelation has been made in
| Grant county, Ky. in the suit by a street
| vendor of patent medicines. against County
| Attorney J., II. Wcstoycr for $1,000 damages
| to his reputation. inflicted by prosecution
| for selling without license. 1t was ncYg. sus
| pecied before that any street fakir of patent
medicines had that much reputation to lose
| Nebraska man advertised for a wife. He
| said he wanted ~ southern girl who would be
| willing to demonstrate her ability to cook by
| girl answered the advertisement; the advertiser
came on and watched her cooking diner
| When she had finished they dined together
| and were married two hours afterward
/ Alex Kennedy, of B0unt county, rem, Is
ninetv-two wears Of age. He is the father of
twenty-six children, all of whom grew up to
! be men and women, and eighteen are now
alive He lives in the house IN which 10 was
born lie furnished the cotton with which
| General Burnside made his breastWork at
Fort Saunders.
There lives at Evergreen, Ala, an old negro
! woman named Hannah Fox. She is or
the before the war; darkies, few of whom
| are left Old Aunt Hannah is the mother
| grandmother and great grandmother OF more
than POO children. She has been in the family
| of Or. Cunningham eighty years, and has
nursed four generations of children.
II has been suggested that the Polk place
! be purchased as home for tAe governors OF
| Tennessee. The state of Tennessee has made
| no adequate provision for its governors. The
| mcagcr salary without Il home for its chief
| magistrate Is Il reflection upon the libcrality
| and hospitality of the state. Tho stranger
visiting the capital in vain would seek the
| governors mansion.
About two miles from East Bend ~ c.,
| there is a nice farm which has been in cu-
| tiyation for upwards OF ninety years. Upon
| it is situated a good substantial farmhouse,
| surrounded by Il thrifty orchard This place
| has been owned and occupied by seven mar
ried people during the last seyenty-fye years.
| yet during that period no child has ever called
| any of the wives mother, nor has there ever
| been descendant TO inherit the property.
| Bears have been troublesome in the eastern
| Kentucky mountains during the recent severe
| cold weather The heavy SHOWS drove them
| To the valleys and the plS-pcnS of the farmers
| suffered from their raids. Chases after the
| foragers have been numerous but not often
! successful. Wildcats have been driven into
| the vicinity of the farmhouSeS also, and in
| many cases deer have fallen victims to their
| own boldneSS.
| A Louisiana man says that the rice crop or
| that state this year will be fully onehaf
| of the crop of the entire United States. The
| raising of rice" he says, has worked won
| ders for the interest OF the state. 1t has
| practically opened up q new Industry in the
| agricultural line, and hundreds of farmers who
| Thought their lands valueleSS when the cotton
! gave out now find themselves IN a position that
| will soon place them i'll one year where cot
| ton could not put them in five 1t is really the
| most lucrative of all the new industries in
| the south"
| negro preacher living near Raleigh, N. c.,
| saw for the first time in his life the skeleton
| or a whale i'll the state museum After learn
| ing what it was he walked grayely up and
| down and critically examined its huge proper
| lions. Inc enormous mouth seemed to impress
| him greatly and he fcryently exclaimed: 'Wcll
| wen, well, Eve bin preachin' de gospel for
| nigh on forty year an | sometimes breaches
! about de whale sWaicrin' of Jonah, but | de
| clar to gracious l never believed it afore now !;
| de Bible Sho is true"
! Three years ago, on the wharf of an Ala
| bama town, two men were stadug when one
of them slipped and fell into the river The
! current very swift, and the man was
/ lrir, ntAi,i hon