The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-24
STORIES BY GEORGIA EDITORS.

A cotton stalk that is curiosity is
growing in the garden Of Col. James b.
Conyers at Gainesville. 1t measures
eight feet and nine inches in hight The
stalk came from one of four black seed
known as the Egyptian variety that
Judge Miner gave Col Conyers last
April. Ii had originally 269 bolls, squares
and blooms, but the rains have beaten off
a hundred or more. The stalk has never
yielded up Its share Of cotton and possibly
never WILL as no fertilizer has been used
. Milledgevllle Recorder: Mr.. Pritchard.
who lives in Washington county. near
Tennille, passed through this city Sunday
night. He was carrying a hog which
weighed 1900 pounds to Macon to exhibit
during the carnival. This was the biggest
hog ever seen in this city, and was look
ed at with great curiosity by some Of our
people. The hog was being carried In a
two-horse wagon.
Carrollton Free Press: Mr.. VIII Entire
kin, one of the jurymen in the Pardon
case, was discovered to be paralyzed, just
after the verdict in that case was render
ed on last Wednesday night. It was no
ticed that throughout the trial that he
was listless and Indifferent. but 1t Is said
that he was conscious till the verdict was
rendered when the jury made up sealed
verdict about II O'Clock and filed out of
the jury room 1t was discovered that he
was stiff and could not walk. He was
carried down to his boarding house Mr..
Tom Jones, where he lies at this writing
Thursday morning in critical condition,
Gainesville Cracker. Mr.. Charles f.
Rognon, who left Lula for the Klondike
in March, has been heard from by his
relatives. He has abandoned the Klon-
dixie Idea, and when heard from was at
Spokane, Wash, from where he will start
to the Colville reservation backed by a
strong company to prospect. Mr.. Rognon
made his way through the Rockies at the
close OF the war in &C. cooked for Kit
Carson, and had many rough experiences
with the Indians in Colorado and New
Mexico He founded the town of Rosetta
In Colorado, camping i'm a dug-out, and
discovered the famous Humboldt mine,
which he sold for IS and a sack of flour,
carrying the -four from Pueblo, forty-two
miles, on his back. The mine in three
weeks sold for a small fortune.
Adairsville correspondence Atlanta Con-
stitution; The heavy gales which have
been sweeping along the Atlantic coast
has scattered some very peculiar birds
through our section. Mr.. Cary Dodd kill
ed a couple Of them last week. One of
them was a small gray bird, somewhat
larger than dove, web-footed and shay
gy3 feathers. The other was strange
looking bird for this section. 1t had a
long bill, turning down at the extremity,
short legs, and in front of it's body it car
ried sack which was featherless and
Of an orange color. This sack was a part
of the covering of its body, expansive and
Believed by all who have seen it to be a
depository for food collected to be used
when nourishment was necessary. It was
black with the exception of a few feath-
ers on its back which were tinged with
a beautiful purple. 1t measured seven
feet from tip to tip. DR. T. l.. Arnold
stuffed It's hide with bran for preservation,
but the weather has not been favorable,
for decay set in and it had to be thrown
| away.