Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — The Sunny South. [ARTICLE]

The Sunny South.

Atlanta is shipping 2,000 crates of peaches north every day. The Fourth of July will be generally celebrated in southern cities. One Arkansas “city” owns property valued at <l6B and owes $2,118 10. Four W ilmington, N. C., guzzlers recently drank six gallons of beer each in a match. The old “Rialto mill,” which for over 100 years has been standing in Petersburg, Va., is to be torn down. A ring lost by a little girl at Rome, Ga., tome time ago was found recently in a large turtle captured in a creek. A little colored girl living in Richmond county, N. C., found a tin box containing $2,420 in gold and a gold chain in the woods recently. ' A Lampasas, Tex., woman has filed, as her reason for wishing a divorce, that her husband “isn’t as much of an earthly angel -as when first married.” In the North Carolina state library is a walking-stick said to have been cut from a beech tree (SO feet high, on which an inscription can be read thus: D. Boon cilled a Bar, on trek in Year 1760. Just as a girl was about to drown herself at Athens, Ala., a man caught her. She struggled, but he held her fast “I’ll give you 10 minutes to think it over,” he said, “and if you then want to die I’ll let you do it.” When the time was up he released her, and she quietly went home. A house-painter of Morgan City, La., fell from a church-steeple, slid down the roof, bounced off the eaves, crashed through a scaffold, and fell kerthump on the ground. Despite a dislocated shoulder, two broken ribs, and a score of cuts and bruises, he rose to his feet, gazed heavenward, and exclaimed, “Well, I’ll bed d.” A New Garden, N. C., hen raised a brood of ducks which, after she had once seen them swimming, she took regularly to the pond for a daily bath. Afterward she brought out a brood of chickens, and, as she did with the ducks, led them to the poud to swim. When the chicks refused to enter the water she pushed them in, drowning them all. Hired Help —Michigan Farmer:—There are some farmers who always have trouble with hired men. They take no interest in them further than to get the most time and labor out of them. They are continually scheming to furnish odd jobs to fill up all the time, as though the laborer did not need an hour for rest as well as the teams. This maneuvering has a tendency to make machines out of the help. They work to order, right or wrong, and shift all responsibility on the master. With help managed in this manner, shirking Is praiseworthy. It is a constant strife to try and beat the “old man,” as they call him. There is no feeling of interest in the work, and continual breakages and mishaps are occuring, which the help delight in attributing to the “order.” or as a result of it. Keep the Hunters Away— Ben Perley Poore:—The most unmitigated nuisances which annoy those who live in the country are the self-styled “sportsmen.” There are various grades of them, but all ate equally detestable. From the city chap, in his velveteen hunting suit, with his double-barreled breechloader, down to the troop of small boys carrying an old musket which they fire by turns, each and all of these self-styled sportsmen of high and low degree appear to think that they possess a divine right to go where they please, knocking down stone walls when they wish to cross them, and banging away, right and left, at everything larger than a misquito which they may see flying about. I have no patience with there fellows, who are almost, if not quite, as bad as sheepstealing does, and I wish that the farmers of the country would unite and agree to prosecute for trespass any man coming on their land with a gun and a game-bag.