Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — Marching Through Georgia. [ARTICLE]

Marching Through Georgia.

Dawson Oouifty, Georgia, boasts a three-legged qat. Wherein it is better than a four-legged cat is hot reported. A- Wilkes County, Georgia, chicken, on being dissected, was found to have three brass buttons and a pistol cartridge in its gizzard. As none of the local militia are missing, the spurce of the chichen’s military supplies remains a mvstery. ' * There is a small stream in Irwin County, Geofgia, that rises and falls with the changes in the moon. When the moon is full, it is full, When the moon is in its last quarter the stream is perfectly dry. In this it differs from the average Georgian, who is hever perfectly dry while the last quarter lasts. A Clayton, Georgia, farmer lost a fine milch cow, and upon inquiry for the cause of her death, a sewing needle was found in her heart This is only the beginning of the story of the cow and the needle. When it gets as old as the woman and the needle story it will be painful to read about that cow. The reporter of the Athens, Georgia, Banner-Watchman was sitting out in front of a store on Broad street, having given up news as a thing of the past, when he was approached by a gentleman from an adjoining county, who inquired if he was anxious for an item. The reporter at once jumped to his feet and told the gentleman to' shoot ahead. As the gentleman began to expatiate upon his topic, the reporter began, to grow interested, and after obtaining all the facts he comes now to give them to the public. A certain lady who lives in an adjoining county, but who wishes her name withheld, has been so unfortunate as to have been unable to eat anything for the last twenty-two days. It first started with a gradual loss of appetite increasing day by day until finally she had no appetite at all. She had physicians to attend her. who gave her medicine of all kinds, but all to no purpose. She has grown very thin, looks poor and emaciated—in all, a living skeleton. She has tried repeatedly to eat, but of no avail. If she forces herself to eat she cannot retain it, and it seems to be only a Question of time as to the number of het days.