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THE HEKR\ COUNTY W EEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1891.
VOL . XV.
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conimo«lnt< cl uithor l*y ’.’tilling on me in per- j
?on or addn spinjr me through 1 lie mails.
Terms canli, unless special arrangements
are otherwise in id*e.
i'iko W. Buy an j W.T. Diokkn.
IU£VA> A IVK kIDV
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MoDonoi'wj, ‘«A.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial*Circuit, the Supreme Court
i f Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
j Am. if. ti im:R,
'attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of!
Georgia, and the United States District
ourt. marlti-lr
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
>ther collections. Will attend all the Courts
rt Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
run Wksklt office.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing tha
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givrn to collections. octs-79
W A. UKOIV.I,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the count its compos,
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton,-Ga,
Will practice ill all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the. Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. | R. T. Danikl.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Geippin, Ga.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Nation! Batik Building,
. Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the State ami Federal Courts.
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THE TRAIL OF BLOOD.
The Story of the Search for a
Lost Sister.
A special from Athens says : “Peg
Wood,” of Turnerville, remembers
many interesting stories and traditions
of the Indians and early settlers of
Georgia. These stories would till a
good sized volume, and will doubtless
be published in book form some day.
&ie of the-e stories is full of thrilling
interest, and is as follows :
lust where the track of the B R.
atul A. railroad leaves Turnerville,
passing through a deep cut. there once
crossed a dim trail .known as Hinkle’s
trail.
This Indian path led from the head
waters of the Sotjue river aud crossed
the Tallulah river going nearly due
east to the waters of what is known as
Brasstowu creek in South Carolina,
and this trail yet to l>e dimly seen and
traced, has a bloody! history with few
parallels in the history of crime.
The facts, as gathered from au old
citizen now numbered with the dead,
wlio was born near tha mouth of I’an
th r creek, are as follows :
John Hinkle, who lived on the head-
waters of Brasstowu creek, and who
for years passed to and from the So
que Indian settlements, made and
blazed out the trail, and from that day
until this il has been known as Hin
kle’s trail, and there are few hunters
aud Miernyen who-.Tiave bunted and
fished Tallulah river who do r.ot know
that snot in Tallulah river known as
Hinkle’s Hole and Hinkle’s Grave.
This trail has a history, and a bloody
one. Old citizens told us that the In
dians stole Hinkle’s sister from her
home on the headwaters of Brasstowyi
creek, aud crossed the river at this fa
tal spot, that John lliukle, then a
mere bay, followed the Indians to the
river, and there he lost all traces of ei
ther the Indians or his sister. Out
crossing the river at this spot he fol
lowed 011 in the direction of the Soque
river, and the Indian town, hut failed
ever to find a trace of the lovely sis
ter, and, on his return, blazed out a
[lath and in his wrath swore that on
this path he would travel back and
forth, aud every person that he met
face to face 011 the path should die uu
less he found his lost sister, and, it is
said, that this path is strewn with the
dead victims of Hinkle’s vengeance
for forty miles.
Travel this trail to-day, which can
be seen dimly traced, and 011 either
side ol the path for miles, now aud
then, yon will find the grave of some
Indian or white man who met his fate
!at die mouth of John Hinkle’s deadly
rifle. • Years after all this country was
settled up by the white man. Johu
lliukle would follow this bloody trail
from end to end in search of the lost
sister, aud after years of ceaseless trial
and trouble he married a wife, and still
with her he made li is accustomed trauip
over his trail. Years passed on and to
him was born two lovely children —two
girls. .Still Hinkle would keep up his
tegular tramps back and forth on the
bloody trail
Being caught out one Jieary night
with his wife and children, having wa
iled the river and dragging his wife
ami children with him, night overtook
them, and on the south bank of the
terrible stream the wile and two chil
dreu were found the next morning cold
in the icy arms of death, with no one
to Ciose their eyes only a debased
drunken husband and father, who was
so beastly drunk he i l not know bis
wife and children were dead. The
1 tiood people of Brasstowu repaired to
the place, and there iu a rude coffin
laid to rest the mother aud babies.
Ever from that day, as long as John
lliukle lived, he said, two black dogs
were following him day and night. Six
years after the death of the mother
and children John Hinkle was found
iu the river near where the children
met their fate, dead and floating near
where his bones now rest. The citi
zens took him from bis watery g r a\e,
j dug a hole near a large oak and laid
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES.
McDonough,ga.. Friday, may 1, isoi.
him to rest, and on that oak tree near
his grave there is the outlines of dog's
head ab-rt-it were keeping watch over
his Jioues.
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Will the Infidel Change.
The following is from the pen of
Editor Williams, of the Greenville, S
C., News, touching the skepticism of
Col. Robt. Ingersoll, and we hope all
of the “infidehr" iu this comity will
1 ead it:
'Hie utterauces of Ingersoll iu his
tribute to Barrett is attracting atten
tion, because it indicates that after a
life spent in deriding God aud debasing
man as like unto the brutes which die,
the famous agnostic is beginning to
think otherwise.
“Will the curtain fall at last? Will
it rise again upon some other stage?
Reason says ‘perhaps,’ and hope still
whispers ‘yes,’ are the words with
which tlie tribute to a man who had re
ceived the last rites of a Christian
church, was closed.
“Hope still whispers ‘yes.’ ’’ When
the keepers of the house tremble in
their weakness and those who look out
lof the windows s» e only darkness;
when the silver cords that hind the
strong man’s heart to earth are loosen
j ing and all the golden bowls wherein
he lasted pleasure are being broken,
there must come to him a longing and
a hope for something beyond He has
tasted and it was good, but the taste
has died from his lips aud left only bit
terness 5f he has- l-wrld and hoped, but
I loves and hopes have vanished like
: dreams of the night and left only mem
ories. He has seen the strong and the
beautiful die and the magnificent de
cay, and nature continually w’arns him
that he, too, must follow, must go from
this life aud be presently forgotten as
if he had never lived There must
come to his soul then a whisper, a hope,
a thought, that the inevitable act of
death does not end all for him—that
beyond the impenetrable veil there is
an awakening to another life—that the
spirit of mau was not created to burn,
to long unutterably for higher and pur
er things to be glad and to suffer and
to become nothing—that there must he
a somewhere where innocent hearts
which ached sorely will he comforted,
where the lowly will be lilted up,
where the countless multitudes who
have cried out their helpless anguish
under wrong and oppression will know
that a pitying and loving Omnipotence
has 'heeded and waited to give peace
aud rest and happiness.
Ingersoll is becoming an old man.
A 8 he grows older he will listen yet
more eagerly for that heart whisper
“yis.”
A Strange Suicide.
A peculiar suicide was committed in
Scotland, on the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia road, Thursday
night, April 23rd. A young white
man named Charles Patterson got on
the train at Macon, and seemed in the
best of spirits. He knew several of
the trainmen, and laughed ami joked
with them until Helena was reached.
Here, while standing on the platform,
he caught sight of a beautiful woman
standing on the veranda of the Hotel
Cam. He saw her for only a moment,
when the train pulled out. From then
on to Scotland, six miles, lie raved
about her, and declared that, as he
could not marry her, and didn’t even
know her, he would die for her. At
Scotland he went to the hotel, and
went to a room. At 8 o'clock he cut
his throat from ear to ear with a pock
et knife. He died in a few minutes.
Ilis last words were : “I am dying for
her.”
A lady was so reduced in flesh last
summer by the chills that she actually
had to wear suspenders to hold her
corset up. Some friend advised her to
take Cheatham’s Tasteless Cill Tonic
—she did so. That pair of suspen
ders for sale cheap. She now tips the
beam at 140 lb?. •
A chronic kicker is bad enough,
hut a continual scratcher Is worse.
Better imitate- a mule than a hen.
Hunt's Cure wi I do up the worst case
qf itch known. Pi ice JO cents.
HUS PBOSPKKITY.
Hu Bought a liraml new pair of shoes,
He thought he'd got some spats;)
He then discovered that he lacked
The latest thing in hats
He bought one, The».j»is trousers bagged;
He ordered two new pair,
And then, strange laet! he noticed that
His coat was quetc threatibure
He bought another. Then he saw
Some waistcoats. Just tltc thing !
He had to get*komC ties to match;
He bought a diamond ring.
He J .fined three ctufew.- He bought a florae,
Then changed it for a team;
He bought a sailing yacht at first,
Aud then moved up to steam.
He bought these tilings, and many more.
This man so great and wise;
For during his career he had
The sense to advertise.
A CROW CAUCUS.
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The htraugr Sight Seen tn jt Prohitlon
State.
I never would have believed stories
told about crow justice had ' I not at
tended their ’court, writes a eorrespon.
dent of the Kansas City Star. One
beautiful day In December ' I was ri
ding on the public road two miles
north of Hamlin, Kan. I had noticod
a great flock of crows flying about me,
and when nearing an old cotton wood
grove, in making a turn to the right, I
saw hundres of them perched in the
trees in solid Hue? to the eud of the
rows. 1 had read somewhere that
crows were well governed birds, and
when I saw this tine looking body T
judged tlmt it sat there to giv’e trial to
an offender of some sort. I stopped
my horse, half fearing the crafty birds
would fly—adjourn court or continue
the case. To my delight no attention
was paid to me—it takes a man to dis
turb these mocking, impudent black
legs. I was just in time to hear and
see all that was done.
From a tree at the head df a row
where ten crows sat, tliere c|me such
loud and rapid cawing a? 1 never
heard before from so few threats, and
every now and then the Jlock,
joi#cdi. iuf th# ■ noise infa
the chorus thus furnished have
been asked, if noise was desired.
After two or three minutes of this
racket a silent rest was taken, which
was broken by a single crow, who
made a little talk in the crow dialect,
followed quickly by others.
Things became more dignified and
my interest in the proceedings was so
intense that when a line fat bluebird
submitted a few remarks and was ap
plauded by general cawing from every
bird present I could scarcely keep from
clapping iny bauds.
Suddenly twelve crows flew down
the Hues twice ami back, ami all was
still as they did so. i was amused
and startled. This might be a jury of
crows on parade. Aud 1 believe it was
After two or three crows had again
spoken the twelve flew down the line
once more; hut this time there were
tierce caws from every crow in answer
to caws from the twelve. My fancy
explained : The jury was seeking its
verdict in public opinion, and the ex
cited crows like revolutionary mobs,
demanded blood. Back to their perch
es for the last time flew the crows, and
again silence fell, not unlike the ab
rupt huse of courtroom whispers as the
prisoner steps forward to learn the
worst. But I could distinguish no
criminal. As I looked for the poor
fellow there was a great angry caw
from every crow, and all flew to the
centre of the line, where, as I live i
they tore three of their unsuspecting
kind in shreds, leaving only a few feath
ers to float upward and out of sight as
they and noiselessly flew
away, seemingly satisfied with what
they had done.
A Dangerous Period.
As the season moves swiftly toward
the lioumlary lines that lie between
winter aud spring, it frequently hap
pens that the human system, which has
borne the strain of winter, shows signs
of relaxation. I.i all ages this period
has been noted as a dangerous one,
especially to those who have weak
constitutions. A couise of the great
blood purifier and tonic, S S. S , will
enable the most delicate to face the
season’s changes with impunity. It is
a medicine that not only strengthens
the weak and the delicate, but is an
additional safeguard for those who
consider themselves strong.
A long felt want supplied at last—a
pleasant castor oil. It is known as
Cheatham's Tastele«g Castor Oil.
Children tqke it with delight, anytime
of day or night. Sweet as honey and just
as effective as the plain sickening cas
tor oil that we have been used to. Pi ice
2o cents.
Financiering in Georgia.
Four or five of us were waiting ou
a hotel veranda in a Georgia town for
the ’bus to drive up and take us to the
depot, says the New York Sun, when
a colored man came along, dragging
after him about the meancst-looking
dog you ever saw.
“What are you going trt do with
hire ?’ asked one of the group.
“Kill him, sah!”
“ But wh y ?’’
“No good, sah.”
“Then sell him.”
“Can’t do it.”
“Then give him away.”
“Nobody would dun take him.”
“I'll take him. Bring him right tip
here.”
‘You is foohu,’ sah.”
“No, I aiu’t. Here, give • him to
me, and hare’s a quarter, for you.”
He tied the dog to a chair and ran
over to a hardware store and bought a
collar. Then he went to a dry goods
store and bought a half yard of blue
ribbon, and in ten minutes the dog was
blanketed up and bowed up until he
did look faucy. He was taken to the
depot in a ’bus, and we had scarcely
arrived when a white man, who sat on
a box whittling, came forward and
said ;
“What ye got tliar stranger ?”
“Chinese fox hound,” replied our
friend.
“Shoo ! Never saiv oue before.”
“Tliit is the only one in this coun
try.”
“Cost a heap ?”
“Given to me by the Chinese consul
at Washington, hut I wish he had him
back lie’s so wild after game that
he bothers the life out of me.”
“Is he all right for this climate ?”
“(), yes.”
“ Good uatured ?”
“A perfect baby.”
“How much ’ll buy him?”
“Well—urn. I never set any val
ue on him. lie’s a present, and I
Hfpp'Me I nngbt to kijSsp him, ftut as
this is a fox country, some good man
around here ought to have him.”
“Will you take #20?”
“Uni! Make it twenty-five.”
“Can’t do it. Just got two tens
hero for the dog as he stands.”
“Well, 1 suppose you'll use him
well, and it will lie better for the
dog.”
We rolled away on the train as the
purchaser heaped for home with his
dog. None of us could say a word
for a long, long time. It was the sel
ler who finally spoke first, and said ;
“Gentlemen, think it over, and be
ready to name you drink when we
reacli Atlanta.
Not to be Kooleil.
“Now, jest you go right along ; you
needn’t stop here,” said farmer Hay
fork, authoritatively. “I don’t waiq
no lightiun’ rods.”
“I am not selling lightnin rods,” re
sponded the sleek-looking peddler,
whose sn.ldeu ap|« arauce at the gate
aroused the ire of Farmer Hayfork.
“I don’t keer what yer sellin’,” re
plied the farmer. “I don’t want it, an'
won’t take it, an’ that's all tber is
about it. 1 kuow the tricks of you city
sharpers. I read the papers, I do.
You can’t catch me on any double
back-action pumps, or any self-work
ing churns, or patent Egyptian corn
fresh from the Pyramids —not much;
and I don’t want to take any mowers
on triil, either and sign a receipt fer it
and have it come back as a ninety-day
note fer #IO,OOO. No, siree. And
you can’t buy my farm, either, and
t hen have me buy It back at a big ad
vance, because some confederate of
yours comes along and offers twice
what you gave fer it. Nixy! I’m no
chicken. Now clear out.”
“I only want—”
“Oh, yes Y you only want to get my
tnfme to anything at all, so you can
make a note of it. I’m up to all such
tricks. 1 read the papers, I do.”
“1 only want *0 show you our new
patent reversible liea’s nests.”
“What on airth is them ?'
“It's an ordinary hen’s nest, only it
reverses itself every time a hen lays an
egg, and drops the egg into a basket
below.”
“What good is that?”
Can't you see? The hen turns round
to look at the egg, but itaint there, and
she conclu les she did 11 t lay any, and
sits right down and lays another one,
aud so on. Only $30.”
“By gum ! Gimme a dozen.”—New
York Weekly.
Spring is the time when the swelling
buds and the building swells begin to
think about leaving for the summer.
l’ungent Puns.
Iu au account of the recent Baptist
convention at that place, the felicitous
punster of the llawkinrvillo Dispatch
and News gets off the following:
“The convention took Holiday when
it left Macon, and had Fitts all along
the way. They have a Brewer, but
will not need any beer. They claim to
be at peace, aud yet there is a constant
Battle among them, and there are re
peated calls to Kilpatrick. They are
well supplied with Coates and have a
worthy Knight and Champion for any
cause they may advocate. We trust
they are all satisfied with their Holmes
and with the Hall where they assem
bio. Slavery was abolished long ago,
and yet there is only one Freeman in
the whole lot- The trades are very
well represented in this hotly—there
are Carpenter*, Bakers, Butlers, Cart
ers, Coopers, Weavers and Musons;
there is also a Toole aud a IVowell.
If they have graiu they will Garner it
into their Binus, They are visited by
bo,h Dew and Halo, (July two [Kiints
of the compass are represented—Nor
then and West. When out of iumls
they draw on their Banks. They are
in Love and charity, and have what all
need—Grace. Some of the wealth
is silver and some is Golden. One of
them is all Wood ami another is Wood
all, and still auothur is Underwood.
There is a Hyman and a Lowe. They
draw music from Wells, aud have
many poets but only one Muse. If
you are not satisfied with this creed
you McCall for Moore. •
There were in this count.rj r during
February 19b railroad accidents, 93
of which were collisions and 93 de
railments. In all these nccidcnts <sl
persons were killed and ‘275 injured.
Of the killed seven were pasengers,
and of the injured 108 were passen
gers. The remainder were railroad
employes. Of the 197 accidents, 37
caused the death of one or more and
57 mused injury, 10*2 causing no In
jury sufficient to be recorded.
Chicago Tribune: “What office
are you a candidate for?” inquired
the reporter, who was making bis
hasty rounds of the polling [dace*. —
“Me?” exclaimed the man leaning
up against the door-frame. “Thun
der ! I ain’t running for anything. I
was born in this eoutry.”
Sugar is selling now at a lower
price than has ever been known. The
peoplo should remember that the
tariff was taken off of it by a recent
act. Oh, that such burden* could be
removed from more of the necessa
ries of life.
The Belgium farmer calculates
that every rod of land must maintain
a man, so thickly are they popula
ted. Every acre of their land is a
perfect garden.
The wi men of Kansas voted against
their husbands laU week anil thus
elec ed the Democratic candidates.
For good judgment com mend us to
tho Kansas women.
It has been s.iowr. that the three
Italian subjects recently lynched in
New Orleans were bandits from
home and that they were going un
der assumed names.
Senator Edmonds thinks that the
Farmers’ Alliance will figure very
much in the next presidential clec
! tion, and that the chances are strong
ly in favor of the Democrats.
A commercial congress has just
been held in Kansas City, Mo., to
discuss reciprocity, (free trade) with
other states and the subject of trade
generally.
There were 3,000 patents granted
to Southern men last year. This
shows that tho brain of this section
is at work as well as the muscle.
Two women have been elected
police judges in Kansas. The boys
will have to look not upon the cup
now.
The Geoigia state fair will be held
at Macon, it having been decided not
to make the talked of change.
In boring of the new city artesian
well at Albany, Ga., oyster shells
have been brought up from a depth
of 3‘25 feet.
English Spavin Liniment removes
all hard, soft or calloused lumps and
blemishes from horses, blood spavins,
curbs, spliuts, sweeney, ring bone, sti
fles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs
etc. Bave SSO by use of one bottle
Warranted the most wonderful Blem
ish Cure ever known. Sold -by C. 1).
McDonald.
f Henry County Weekly, Established 187 G,
( Henry County limes, Established 1881.
GKOItOIA IN HltlEF.
Short News Items Culled from Vari
ous Sections of Our State.
The progressive farmers of Cobh
county are reducing the cotton crop.
The Macon Volunteers celebrated
their sixtieth anniversary last week
with a picnic at Hcech Haven.
Albert lloroa, alias Kitchen, a ne
gro who is in the Chatham jail, has i
conf issed to having murdered two
wives.
A lot of cotton at thu (Granlvillo
depot was set on fire Wednesday by
a spark from an engine; The dam
age was not great.
A Savannah News advertised in
quires if there is any family that
wants to adopt a nice girl baby, two
months old, for SSOO in cash.
The Kincaid Manufacturing Com
pany, of Griffin, has declared a divi
dend of 0 per cent and decided to
put in $30,000 ot now machinery in
the mill besides.
A twenty pound cat fish was fouud
dead on a trot lino at Watson’s mill,
Oglethorpe county, the other day. It
had choked to doth on a three
pound trout that had got hooked
first.
It is reported that tho Covington
and Macon railroad has offered to
pay $17,590, as a compromise of the
damage suit of Harnum & Hailey’s
circus. The amount sued for is
$40,000.
Hoarding bouse keepors in Augus
ta should carefully scrutinize tTielr
toddies before drinking. One was
poisoned the other day by carelessly
swallowing three or fyur fingers of
toddy without stopping to examine
the mixture. A martyr boarder bad
evidently tried to get, bis revenge by
putting in a deadly drug.
President Chupp, of the alliance,
proposes to plant 35 aeies in corn
and eight acres in cotton. Most
farmers do just the opposite and
come out at the little end of the horn.
President Chupp has his farm in fine
condition, “lives at-home and boards
at the same place,” and livos well,
J,oo. —Eithoma New Era.
Early last Monday morning two
jurors were riding on horseback
through the low, wet piney woods
coming to court; they neared a pond
and one of their horses bogged “slap
tip to the bub.” Springing from his
back the irate rider exclaimed, “Well
damn the man who first invented
law.”—Early County News.
There is a man iii Litlionia who
made his brags that he knew several
widows who would need him as a wit
ness in the pension business and he
was going to charge five dollars
apiece, hut he was not all tlie man that
was in the war, so widows made out
without him, and he didn’t gut to see
the court house.—New Era.
There will be less dancing at tho
coming commeuoement of the Uni
versity of Georgia than is usually
the case. Tho boaid of trustees, at
their last meeting, resolved that it
was necessary to restrict the dancing
at commencement season, and ac
cordingly recommended to tire chan
cellor that some steps lie taken du
ring the session to accomplish the
desired end. So the resolution of
Chancellor Hoggs is made up, and
three of li e commencement german*
falls beneath the hatchet.
The Griffin Call says : Col. Frank
Ison, who has watched event* of
Spalding county for fifty years closer
than any living man, atid whose
memory is as correct as that of any
man, stated yesterday to a Call re
porter that just forty-two years yes
terday this section was visited by
the most damaging freeze ever be
fore or since known. Vegetation
was well advanced, far more so than
to-day, yet everything was killed
: He hail a field ef wheat in the “boot”
that was entirely killed, and a field
of corn fared the same fate. Large
; trees of the forest were killed by the
same freeze.
A Lee county young man in in
trouble. Hershel 11. Fudge, who
had been in Atlanta for some years,
went to Albany, where he was well .
known, and assumed to represent a
well known insurance company. He
wrote a policy for Mr. A. J. Lippitt
for #2,000, Lippilt giving his note
for #OO, which was to be returned if
the work was not accepted. Later,
Lippitt ascertained from the compa
ny that Fudge was not in their ser
vice. Fudge bad succeeded in hav
ing the note discounted, and return
ed to his home in Lee county. He
has been indicted by the Dougherty
grand jury and jailed in Albany.
A gentleman attending court at
I’erry told us one day last week that
Mr. Will Slappy killed a large bear
with a pistol on the first day of April,
at Westlake, in Twiggs county, just
aeioss the river from Houston. Mr.
Slappy was attending to bis duties
in the store, when he heard a hog
squeal. lie went out and in the edge
of a swamp, within 20 feet of the
public road he saw a large bear de
liberately eating a hog that was not
quite dead. He fired at the bear three
times with his pistol, the first shot
killing the animal.—l’erry Home
Journal.
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