Statewide-Crisp County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE April 8, 1890
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Savannah Morning  News April 8, 1890
                         NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                                8 APRIL 1890
     E. Rogers of Burke county has a chicken born with four feet.
     Waynesboro will soon he supplied with artesian water from Maj. Wilkes
artesian well.
     It is intimated that a Hebrew professorship is to be added to the faculty
of Mercer University.
     John J. Ross of Americus  has filed suit in Lee Superior Court against the
Central railroad for damages to the amount of $10,000.00. About a month ago Mr.
Ross boarded the Central train at Smithville for Americus. Just as he stepped
upon the platform the train gave a jerk throwing Mr. Ross between cars, which
passed over his foot and crushed it so badly that amputation was necessary.
     William McCants, a colored employed at the saw mill near Cordele, was
brought to Americus Saturday night with a thirty-eight caliber pistol ball in
his cranium. Oliver Smith and a colored companion were playing with the pistol.
They had carefully examined it in order to assure themselves that it was not
loaded, and when McCant's walked up to where they were Smith snapped it in his
face. The pistol fired and a bullet plowed its way through McCant's nose.
     One day last fall, while picking cotton, Ellen powell, a colored woman,lost
a bag from her person containing $5.00 in silver. She was working for N. Hughes,
who superintendents the plantation of N. B. Baum, near Toomsboro. One day last
week, after a thunder cloud had passed, she was at work in the same field
knocking down cotton stalks. Seeing a beautiful rainbow across the field, and
thinking at the same time of the lost money Mr. Hughes told Ellen to to go to
the end of it and she would find her money. She took him at this word, and just
in front of her, about 00 yards or more, where the end of the rainbow appeared
to be, she looked on the ground and found her lost money.
     


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