Statewide County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE May 19, 1888
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Savannah Morning  News May 19, 1888
Brunswick will readopt sun time on Saturday.

The Louisville Gas Company has decided not to establish a gas plant in Dalton.

A mule bearing the brand of the Confederate army was driven into Athens, Wednesday.

Dick Dowdy severely carved Frank Rycraft, near Copeland, in Dodge County a few
nights ago. An old feud was the cause of the affray.

Stephen Ferrell, of Brunswick, who fired at his wife with a pistol a day or two
ago and then attempted suicide, was tried Thursday and convicted and sentenced
to the penitentiary for three years.

The Methodists of Thomaston will have a new church to worship in next winter.
The amount which the building committee started out to raise has been reached
and passed, and the committee is now considering  plans, locations, etc.

One day las week Mrs. R. T. Bivins, of Schley county, found a large turtle in
her backyard. She placed a stick at this mouth, and as he seized it, she chopped
his head off with an ax. He balanced the scales at twenty-eight pounds, was
twenty six inches across the back.

Mr. Barwick, superintendent of the Clark county pauper farm says that one of the
paupers, a Mrs. Nix, had a chicken hatched out the first of January last. This
chicken commenced laying May1, and is now setting on fourteen eggs. This is the
quickest time on record.

A gentleman living near the Oconee river, at Toomsboro, put a fish basket in the
river last fall, the river rising = until he was unable to get the basket until
a short time ago, when to his surprise, he found four catfish in the basket that
weighed 100 pounds. There were also several other smaller fish.

A religious revival is now going on in Thomaston. this is its fourth week, and
nearly the entire town has been brought under its influence. The meetings
alternate a week at a time, between the Baptist and Methodist churches, and the
members of all denominations attend and work and pray, and rejoice together.



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