Statewide-Wilcox-Dooly County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE May 5, 1890
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Savannah Morning  News May 5, 1890
                       NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                               5 MAY 1890
     A collision at Tennille Monday was caused by a switch being left open.
While the train was turning on the  "Y", train # 37 came dashing through to meet
a train at No.15 and ran into a dead train, service train No. 3. The engineer
and crew saved themselves by jumping from the engine. six cars, one engine and
two tenders were wrecked.
     Mrs. Winnie Mitchell, a widow lady living about a mile from Rochelle, ahs a
small leather-covered truck, which in all probability, is 250 years old. It has
been handed down through seven generations. It was brought across from Europe
long before the revolution, full of god, and was used by Mrs. Mitchell's
grandfather while in service under Gen. Washington. Mrs. Mitchell also has
abottle which she had kept camphor in for more than forty years. the bottle
still has the same stopper in it, which is made of paper that her husband put in
it about forty years ago.
     Vienna Vindicator: While out on a fishing excursion in Berrien county last
week, C. H. Everett cut three balls out of the heart of a pine log that must
have been there since the war of 1812. Mr. Everett was chipping some kindling
wood out of the heart of an old pine log that was at least two and a half feet
in diameter, and found these balls firmly embedded in the wood near the center
of this tree. They certainly had been there for a long while. This tree stood
very near the spot where the first church ever built in Berrien county was
place, some few of the remains of which mark the place still.
      

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