People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — In Georgia’s Backwoods. [ARTICLE]

In Georgia’s Backwoods.

Blackberry poems will be out of order this season. There won’t be any blackberries. You will have to put up with snake tales and fish stories.—Stewart County Hopper. The principal speaker at a Smith family reunion in an adjoining couty said they were all proud of the name because the Smiths have held the most offices and kissed the most girls. —Blakely Observer. There is another wild cat or something of that kind put in an appearance in Mount Zion settlement. It has been seen by many and is said to have killed and devoured several young calves.— Jonesboro Enterprise. A wandering acrobat struck our town Tuesday and performed some feats in lifting weights and turning back summersaults that proved highly entertaining to some ol our people. During the performance he paused long enough to pass around a gayly decorated cap.—Taccoa News.

A fellow told us that the mosquitoes got to chasing him one evening and ran him out of the blacksmith shop. Ho ran into the yard (having a hammer in his hand) and took refuge under a large kettle of cast iron used for making up ribbon-cane sirup, but the skeetership seemed bent on a meal, so he bored his bill through the kettle and the fellow, having his hammer, bradded his bill on the inside and the skeeter flew off with the kettle. —Lincolnton News.