Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — ODD STORIES. [ARTICLE]

ODD STORIES.

A deer was killed in Twigg county, Ga., by a railroad hand, who hit it with a shovel as it was running by him. Within eleven days after a dog gained access to a Kansas corral of 1,500 sheep, over 800 died of hydrophobia. The horse that J. Wilkes Booth rode after he assassinated President Lincoln is in the '■ possession of a Mrs. Furlong, of Westmoreland county, Va. The animal is 25 years of age. A Nebraska man drove 18,500 sheep 1,200 miles.