Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — The Town of Nameless. [ARTICLE]

The Town of Nameless.

J. 11. Shepard, a prominent citizen of Nameless. Laurens County, Georgia, was in the city yesterday, aud while here told how his town got its queer name. “After the poxtofflee authorities at Washington decided to give us a postotiice,” said Mr. Shepard, “the question of naming it arose. I had interested myself in getting the postoffice, and, therefore, it-was by common consent left to me to suggest a name to the au* thorities. Accordingly I sent on a name that I thought was a beauty, and while awaiting a reply I pictured how some that same name would be known all over the country, and that the town would grow and blossom as a rose, for I believe that there is much in a name. Finally the answer came back that, while the name I had suggested was a good one, it was to another postoffice iu Georgia. Then I put my brain to work on another name. I ju'st knew they would accept it, but the same answer came back as before. Still another and another name was sen 4 and each time the authorities would write back that there was either another postoffice iu the Statff by that name, or that it was so much like some other name that If it was to be adopted there would be.confusion in the mails. At last I sat down and wrote out a list of .several hundred names, and told them if they could nor Add one in the list to suit them the office would remain nameless, for I had suggested every name I had ever heard of. In due time the answer came back, ‘Let it remain Nameless,’ and ever since then it has had that name, which, while a little odd, is not such a bad name after all.” - Macon.(Ga.) Telegraph. The City of Mexico is said to enjoy the unenviable distinction of possessing the highest dcatii rate of any town in the civUzed world. .The city is 7,WX) feet above sea level, but its defective drainage makes the mortality very great. When the water in Lake Texcoco is high it backs up into the sewers uijlil Jtlie soil below the houses and in the streets is,saturated with sewage. Z Quite a number of Scott's novels, among them "The Talisman,” “Ivanhoe,” “Count Robert," “Castle Dangerous,” aud “Queutin,” contain charming pictures of the best days of chivalry. In an old rat's nest found in the chlm uey of an house at Ligouier/I’a., were some papers bearing the date 1770. a Mexican dollar of 1774 and a Mexican quarter of 1772. Some people have more reputation than character.