Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — A Negro Cariosity. [ARTICLE]

A Negro Cariosity.

In Eibert county, near Craft’s Ferry,. on the Savannah river, lives a negro who £oes by the name of “Sheep Jess,” who is a curiosity. His hair and whiskers are perfectly white and almost cover his head and face, leaving only small patches of dark skin around his eyes and nose, and a perfact imitation of sheep’s wool. His hair or wool grows rapidly and his wife shears him every two weeks, thereby realising enough wool to supply Jess, his wife, and five children with stockings the year round,and sells enough socks to supply them with sugar and coffee. His wife has nearly j enough of the finest part of the wool | saved to make cloth for a suit of I clothes for Jess next winter. Ho is about 35 years old.