Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — STORY OF TWO GEORGIA JUDGES. [ARTICLE]

STORY OF TWO GEORGIA JUDGES.

We are sorry to say that Judge Pate accepted a challenge from ex-Judge Hawkins to try their iuck in the stream after court adjourned. Court dored after supper ou Wednesday night and on Thursday morning at 3 o’clock, before it was good fight, they started to the creek. They had only moderate luck, but Judge Pate got beat When their fish bad been put on the strings and they were ready to start home. Judge Pate was thinking how he could make it a “draw bet” with Judge Hawkins and said: “Judge Hawkins, give me one of your fish and I will have as many as you have.” “No,” said Judge Hawkins, “you give me one of yours andTllhave twice as many as you have.” Now if you can tell how manv fish each Judge had, you can have one of Capt Mar, tin’s puzzlea —HawkinsviUe Dispatch. Exasperated in the night by cats, a Dubuque man went out on his back ’porch swung a heavy club to let fly at them, caught It in the long tail of Ms night shirt, knocked himself down the steps aud broke his arm. On the following day a mm in the same city while absent-mindedly trimming a tree sawed off the limb that be wai sitting on! and was half killed by the fall. A 6-ybar-old colored boy living on Bablne £y^V in ,T^''™‘ a P u * suin g a tarantula to kill it with a fishing-pole, when the venomous insect sprang several feet, fastening Its fangs In his right hand, from the effects of which It Is thought he will die.