April g, 1896.
2
HIE N EliKASKA .INDEPENDENT.
LIFE ON BIG SANDY.
QUEER BUT PROFITA1LE BOAT
INQ FOR A FEW MONTHS.
Flattest Drawn by T of 0n
Feople Starv Whan the Tiny Beau
Mitt Thalr Trip Klver bot Klght
Inche Daap. ' , C
HE Big Sandy Is
I the most ludicrous
river on earth.
Not even the Mis
souri in htgh-watcr
moods and tan
trums equals this
?fJaN ' stream, whose ut-
Cl 111081 heacl water8
' uU come from points
very near the North
Carolina line, says the Cincinnati Tri
bune. It Is a saucy, insolent little
stream down to Pineville, vociferous
when the rains fill its narrow way,
snarling and gnawing at its stony banks
and digging holes In its muddy bottom.
But at Pineville It changei.
The bed grows wider and is sand
plagued. The banks are low and cnw
ble easily. From Pineville to Catletts
burg the river twists ahcit and sports
with the sand that keeps continually
piling up In all sorts of undesirable
places In the channel or dropping out of
sight to puzzle the pilot at a critical
point The channel Is never In the
same place two days In succession and
sometimes Is changes morning, noon
and night But there has never been
a serious disaster to a steamboat on
that stream, which plays clown with its
sand and Is always mud-'y-faced, and
even In flood time proves a friend to
thousands.
The Big Sandy is the highway to all
the far-back counties In northeastern
Kentucky. It carries what little pro
duce the farmers up that way have and
returns very dearly every dollar's
worth of groceries, dry goods and all
other commodities that a population of
150,000 needs. Steamer navigation
covers about five months in the year.
Good rates are maintained and five
good months on Sandy means big
money fo boat-owners, who In the other
months rent their boats to Ohio river
companies when that stream gets too
low for Its craft.
A Big Sandy boat is differently built
from other steamboats, and, like the
river, Is a subject for Jokes In ot'.ier
waters. But in the stream for which It
is built it Just fits. It Is always flat
bottomed. A steamer to travel on the
Big Sandy must not draw over eight
Inches. The steamer must also be v-ry
squat. The berths are usually on imp
same deck as the boiler, but there aio
floating palaces on the Sandy that nave
two decks and a texas on top. 'I' he
most frequent steamer, however, ts me
little stern-wheeler, known as a "tly-up
the-creek." It Is a little, flat-botionieu
boat, sixteen feet long, the sides built
straight up from the wall of the uargf
on which It rests.
The width Is eight feet and a bit of a
wheel about two feet In diameter is the
pusher. The boiler Is a two or lour
horse power upright affair; the cab; a
contains no staterooms and no meals
are served. The smokestack reminds
one of the play tile hats clowns wear
and the pilot house Is about as big
as a $5 refrigerator. There la one win
dow about 8 by 12 Inches on each side of
the cabin and It carries only way pas
sengers, light packages and often fer
ries people from one side of the river to
the other.
But the king of all the boats on the
Sandy, the favorite of the plebeian, the
delight of those with means, is the
pushboat It came on the river when
the Indians were yet here and until last
fall had ruled the sand. A first-class
push-boat Is 120 feet long, eight feet
wide, and draws when loaded from
250 to 300 tons, about eight 'ncb.es. It
is flat-bottomed and both bows turn up
sometimes like a gondola, and along
each side, hanging above the water,
runs a plank seven inches wide the en
tire length of the boat
The crew of such a boat consists ot
the captain, an extra man and eight
stalwart pushers. When the boat is
ready to start the captain takes his
place ftt the rudder and the eight men.
four on each side, stand close together.
At the signal to go the pushers put
their metal-toed poles, fifteen feet long,
to the bottom of the stream and push.
As the boat moves the first two, still
pushing, lift their feet as if walking
until the rear end of the boat comes
along.
Then they hurry to the front and
again push, the other three couples
going through the same labor. Eight
een miles in twelve hours is what a good
crew will take a boat. There is very
little current in the Sandy, even when
the floods are on. The water runs in
circles not strong enough to act as
whirlpools, so that pushboats go up
stream very nearly as rapidly as down
At one time there were 100 pushboats
on the Sandy, of which nearly all were
the property of five companies, the
others being "independents." There
was much racing and rivalry. This
line of boats, the most costly of which
cost less than $750, earned over $100.
000 each season.
All summer drought scorched the
Sandy valley and the stream sank into
the earth, and was the victim of th"
sun until It became a mere rivulet, anil
the pushboat for weeks was almost
nothing but a memory. The absence of
the pushboat caused much suffering, for
unless there la rain both hunger and
lack of clothing afflict many hundreds
of families.
The principal export besides lumbei
is sorghum molasses. In 1894 the push
boats and steamboats carried 48.0ih
barrels of sorghum out f the valley
CT3
THE FIRST WATCH MADE.
When unci Hr Whom M II .tot leal Pae
It Karlr 11 111.
Watches are believed by historians
to have been used as eaily as U70.
The word watch is derived from tha
Saxon wa-ccan to wake; the .Swedish
vacht to watch, and the Danish vaght;
the Knglish watch has the same moan
ing; taken, probably, from the watch
of the night The actual name in its
earliest days was pocket-clocc. It
was the perfected invention of the
horological science of many centuries,
and included the sun-dial, the clepsydra
or water-clock, the houror sand-plass,
and wheel clock, by actual gradations
of experiments and skill.
The ancient German city of Nurem
burg claims tho invention of the
pocket-clock, says the Detroit Free
FreBB, and it is a fact that theso first
clumsy watches were from their oval
ehapa called Nuremberg eggs, and
that tho town was famous for their
production.
A noble Milanese poet alludes to
watches in a sonnet written by him in
1495,80 that watches had then reached
Italy. And that country has tried to
fasten the triumph of their invention
upon a Florentine astronomer, but
without success. The Emperor Charles
V., of Spain, possessed a watch or, as
it was then called, a small table-clock.
He amusod himself with several of
these in his retirement in the monas
tery of St Juste. It is said ho could
not make them record the time, and
one day he broke out in this impatient
moral reflection on his past conduct:
"What an egregious fool I must have
been to have squandered so much
blood and treasure in an absurd at
tempt to make all men think alike
when I cannot even make a few
watches keep time together." (
Upon another occasion a carolesa
monk entered his room and over
turned the timekeepera The emperor
only smiled at the accident and sud
pleasantly:
"I have been laboring for some time
to make these clocks go together, and
now you have accomplished it in an
instant"
patches were introduced into Eng
land during the reign of Henry VI IL,
who possessed a watch that went for
a week. A watch belonging to this
monarch was on exhibition in London
at the world's fair in 1851.
A large oval watch winch was
owned by Mary Queen of Scots is still
in good order in the museum of the
Andersonian university, it has a
mixed metal case like that of a hunt
ing watch, and is much larger than
our present watches. The dial plato
is elaborately engraved with the rep
resentation of some continental city.
Tho interior has a cord of cat-gut in
stead of a chain. The cat-gut is not
found in watches later than the six
teenth century.
John Knox,, the reformer, was
given a watch by Queen Mary at a
time when she wished to ca,,ole him
into an approval of her schemes. It
is of octagonal oblong shape, an inch
and a half in length and one and two
tenths in breadth. It has two cases
or lids, which are concave silver
plates, each opening by itself upon a
brass hinge. Under the uppor lid is
the brass front of tho watch with a
small silver dial-plate in the middle.
The dial plate is only nine-tenths of
an inch in diameter. Under the oth
er case, or back, of the watch are
car red on the brass plates these words:
"N. Forsaict a Paris." Tho interior
seems to be disposed nearly in the
same mode as later watches. It has
a crown escapement. Instead of the
chain of the fusee there is a fine therm
band. The balance-wheel has no
spring.
Tho manufacture of tiny watches,
so minute that they could be worn in
a ring, is mentioned as early as 1500.
A musical watch now exhibited in
the St Petersburg Academy of Science
performs a religious chant with scenio
accompaniments. It is about the size
of an egg. Within it is a representa
tion of Christ with Roman sentinels on
watch. On pressing a spring the
stone rolls from the tomb, the senti
nels fall down, the angels appear, the
holy women enter tue sepulcher, and
the same chant which i.i sung in the
Greek church on Laater Eve is actually
performed. This watch was invented
by an ingenious Russian peasant dur
ing the reign of Catharine of Russia.
The silver clock-watch of the un
fortunate king, Charles I., is still in
existence. It is most elaborately en
graved with pastoral scenes on the
dial and a border of flowers, and is a
Tery interesting relic of that unhappy
monarch.
One in a Thousand,
'Miss Smitherson is the girl for
me."
"Why? She's homely enough!"
May be. But she wears a small
bonnet to the- theatre, and a large
Gainsborough to church That shows
she is thoughtful." New York Life.
All the lliiTcrem-e.
Featherstone I wonder where those
trousers are that I ordered?
Ringway Why, I thought yen said
you couldn't afford any more clothes?
Featherstone I couldn't; but I got
new tailor. Cloth'er and Furnisher.
A Hound -Trip Ticket.
Uncle Ezra had been watching the
engine on the turntable, and after its
circuit had beeu made said to an em
ploye: Say. young man, would you mind
telling me one thing?"
Not if it is anything that I know."
"Wal does a round-trip ticket en
title you to one of them rides? Seems
like it orter, and if it does I hain't had
mine yet" Washington Star.
Idling and ICc posm.
Mistress Nora, how does it happen
I find you idling away your time in
that rockingchair?'
Domestic (with languid majesty)
I'm not idling, mera. I am reposing,
I'm a Delsarshean. mem. Chicago
Tribune.
A Postmaster's Wife.
A LEEDS WOMAN WHO ASTONISH EO
HER FRIENDS AM) NEIGHBORS.
Near to Death but Restored so Complete
ly That She has Been Accepted by a
Life Insurance Company as a
Good Risk.
from the Journal, Lewlston, Me,
A bright little woman, rosy and fresh
from her household duties, dropped into
a chair before the writer and talked with
enthusiasm shining in her snapping
black eyes. ,
The people in the pretty village of
Leeds Centre, Me., have watched, with
some interest the restoration to complete
health of Mrs. V . L. I1 rancis, wife of the
postmaster. So general were the com
ments on this interesting case that the
writer who visited Mrs. Francis aud
learned from her that the statements re
garding her troubles and her subsequent
extraction therefrom nre entirely true.
All of her neighbors know what has been
the agency that has performed this cure,
but that others may be benefited by her
experience, Airs, t rancis has consented
to allow her story to appear in print.
"If there s anything on earth 1 dread
more than another," she said, "it is to
see my name in the papers. But in this
ease I conquer my repugnance and give
publicly the same credit to the savior of
my life as I would to one who had dragged
me from a death beneath the waves. In
fact, I have extolled my preserver
so enthusiastically and unreservedly;
have sought out sufferers - and
recommended the remedy to , so
many friends and acquaintances that
already my neighbors jocularly call me,
Pink rills h rancis.' But really, my re
covery is something I consider wonder
ful. I know that there are so many testi
monials of medicine in the papers nowa
days that people do not pay as much
heed as formerly, but 1 do wish folks who
are suffering would remember that what
I say comes from the heart of a woman
who feels that she had a new lease of
happy life given to her.
"Eleven years ago 1 was afflicted with
nervous prostration. My existence un
til two years ago was one of dragging
misery. Anyone in the village will tell
you of my condidition. My blood seemed
exhausted from my veins and month
after month I grew weaker. I was able
to undertake only the lightest household
work, and even then I could perform it
only by slow and careful movements.
During all these sorry months and years
I was under the care of this doctor and
that, but their medicines helped me only
spasmodically, and then I fell into re
lapses more prostratiug than ever.
"In the night 1 used to be awakened by
the most excruciating pains in my heart
mid side, and was obliged to use pellets
of powerful medicine that the doctor
gave me for relief in snch attacks. At last
my condition became so grave that I
went out only infrequently. We live up
stairs, you notice over my husband's
store, and in descending the stairway I
frequently was obliged to sort of fall and
elide over the steps in order to descend,
such was the strain on my system result
ing from this slight exertion. Octasion-
ally I visited the neighbors, but I was
obliged to sit and rest to recover .breath
while ascending any elevation. In short,
t did not seem that I could live, such
was my complete physical prostration.
"One day I saw an advertisement 01
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People,
and although my faith in remedies was
weuk by that tune, I sent for a box and
tried them. That was two years auo.
Now I call myself a well woman. Isn't it
wonderful?
"I haven't had one ofthose excruciat
ing pains in my heart for a year and a
half. Why, even the first box of pills
helped me. I can walk miles now: can
do my work easily; have gained in weight
constantly, and you would scarcely be
lieve it, but a little while ago I was ex
amined for endowment insurance and
accepted unhesitatingly after a careful
examination by the physician.
"Do you wonder that 1 in shouting
'Pink Pills' all through our village? I
haven't taken any of the remedy for
some months for it has completely built
me up, but at the first sign of trouble I
know to what refuge to flee.
"Last year my aunt, Mrs. M. A. Blos
som, of Dixfield, P. O., was here visiting
me. She was suffering from lack of vitali
ty and heart trouble, but she was skepti
cal about my remedy that I was so en
thusiastically advocating. At last, how
ever, she tried it and carried some home
with her when she went. A little while
ago I received a letter from her and m it
she said, 'I am cured, thanks to God and
Pink Pills.' She also wrote that her
husband had been prostrated but had
been restored by the remedy.
"We feel up this way that such a sover
eign cure cannot be too widely known.
Ihat is the only reason why I allow my
name to be used in this connectiou. I
knowalso that by personally recommend
ing them I have helped many of my
friends back to health, for I, never let an
opportunity pass when a word of coun
sel may direct some oue."
One of the persons to whom Mrs.
Frauds recommended Pink Pills is sta
tion agent, C. II. Foster, of Leeds Centre,
and the reporter found him patrolling
the platform awaiting the arrival of the
morning train. Mr. Foster, who is one
of the most trustworthy, capable and
energetic men in the employ of the Maine
Central railroad, appeared in unusual
good health and spirits and we made
inquiry as to the cause.
"Do you know," replied he, "I think
I've made a discovery, or at least Mrs.
Francis has for me. 1 ha ve been in poor
health for a long time with a heart trou
ble variously complicated. We have
been so fully interested in Mrs. Francis'
wonderful recovery that I at once deter
mined to give the medicine recommended
a thorough test. So about two months
ago, I bought the first box of Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills. Only two months
please note, yet already I am so much
improved, so much better able to fulfil
my duties, so sanguine that I am on the
road to recovery, that I feel like a new
man.
"I can now walk without the fatigue
I once experienced, my heart affection
appears to be relieved, and I have joined
the Pink Pills' Band in our community.
Mr. Foster commenced taking the pills
at a tune when he was completely pros
trated, after he had suffered such a severe
attack of heart trouble that it was
necessary to carry him home from his
office. Since then he be has faithfully ad
hered to the remedy and is constantly
improving, so much so as to excite his
enthusiasm and his gratitude.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills nnnrnin. in a.
condensed form, all the elements neces-
SarV to civa now lifn unit rinrinoaa in tho
blood and restore shattered nerves. They
are an unfailing specific for such diseases
as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis,
St. Vitus' dftnno. arinr.ipn. nonrnliria
rheumatism, nervous headache, the after
effect of la grippe, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow complexions, all
forms of weakness either in male or fe
male. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers
or will be sent post paid on receipt of
price, (50 cents a box, or six boxes for
$2.50 they are never sold by the bulk
or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Wil
liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady,
The Idle Rich.
I contend that in the case of the idle
rich, as in all other cases, consumptive
power is limited and measured by pro
duction, and demand by supply. To
perceive this, we. have in truth, only to
dip just below the surface. Whence is
their purchasing power derived? It does
not descend from the skies; nor is it ob
tained by submarine telegraph direct
from California or Anstnalia; nor is its
existence exhaustively accounted for by
tue presence 01 certain figures on the
credit side of their accoun ts in the bank
er's books.
If the idle landlords, mortgagees and
fund holders were to vanish into space,
would the demand of the community
diminish? Certainly not. The only dif
ference would be that different persons
would now consume and determine the
direction of demand. It was formerly
certain idle landlords, mortgagees, and
fundholders: It would now be certain
producers and tax-payers, who finding
tnemseives in possession of an enlarged
purchasing power, would, I think we
may assume, know how to use it. Po
litical Economy, J. E. Caikneh, p 34.
The World Transformed.
Suppose that a tailor can make a coat
in one day, a hat only in six days, and
that a hatter can make a hat in one day,
a coat only in six. Withoutexchanging,
each must work seven days for a hat
and a coat. By exchanging, each can
obtain both articles for two days' work,
and wealth will gain five coats and five
hats. Such saving is the tendency of all
spontaneous exchange. This illustra
tion teaches that: there is no necessary
reason why, in any exchange both
parties should not gain. If the contract
is intelligently aud freely made, both do
gain. Institute of Economies Andrews,
p86.
With the process of exchange the en
tire face of the economic world becomes
transformed, while civilization attains a
loftier level and a richer diversity. Ibid,
p87.
Pool Their Issue and Win.
Daivd City, Nebr., 3, 26, 1896.
Special to the Independent: Your
traveler reached this beautiful little city
on the night of the 27th and found very
pleasant quarters at the Perkins, and
on awaking in the morning was greeted
with the very pleasant sound of the
down pouring of a refreshing rain, which
continued most of the forenoon.
In the forenoon I called on the very
affable district clerk who by the way is
the only populist who was strong enough
to break into tbe court house last fall.
We judge the reason of his success is the
fact that he paddled his little boat with
all his might from start to finish.
I find a very good and friendly feeling
in and around David City for the Ne
uiiASKA Independent, and a growing
feeling among populists and silver demo
crats to pool their issues, and go in, in
the cominur eamnniirn for a winninir nro-
, ,
irram.
The farmers' in this vicinity are in
good spirits and are a unit in the belief
that with one or two good crops and
another term in the governor's office of
the present incumbent, surrounded by
state officers, of the same political faith,
that Butler county and the state at large
would be fairly started on the high road
to prosperity. J. M. D.
Honoring Allen.
Washington, March 26: Senator and
Mrs. Allen were guests of the Mexican
Minister and Mrs. Romero at a dinner
tonight.
A Large Crop of Populists.
Valparaiso. Neb. .March 25, 1896.
Special tothe Independent: Your Re
presentative on the road visited this lit
tle city situated in the south-west corner
of tbe state of Saunders, and located on
the left bank of the historic Oak creek.
Upon inquiry and investigation, I found
that the atmosphere, climate and soil,
coupled with the conditions which exist
throughout the country, are producing
a large crop of populist voters for the
year 1896. All classes are enquiring, as
did the Phillipiau Jailor, "what must we
do to be saved," and the answer comes
up from the valleysand from the hill tops
"Vote the populist ticket. J. M. D.
Democratic H 1 Kaisers.
Democratic congressmen nre h 1 rais
ers when it comes to controlling the ap
pointment of fourth-class postmasters,
but are as cooing doves when it comes to
passing a financial or bankrupt bill for
the relief of an overburdened people.
Ex-Governor Gibbs.
Notice of Probate of Will.
Id the Connty Conrt of Lancaster County, Neb.
The State of Nebraska, to Klrtlaod I. Perky of
Albion, Idaho, son of Esther M, Perky and htr
heir at law and to any others interested tn said
matter:
Yon are hereby notified that an instrument
perportinn to be the last will and testament of
Esther M. Perky deceased, Is on file In said court,
and also a petition praying for the probate of
said instrument, and for the appointment of Le
nore Perky as execntrix. That on the Twenty
fourth day of April, 1MH5, at two o'clock p. m.,
said petition and the proof of the execution of
said instrument will be heard, and that if you do
not then appear and contest, said court may
probate and record the same, aud (rr..nt adminis
tration of the es'ate to Lenore Perky.
This notice shall be published for three weeks
successively In THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
prior to said hearing.
Witness my hand and official seal this 30th
day of March 18116, 8. T. COCHRAN,
Seal, 43-St County Judge.
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that by virtue of a chattel
mortgage, dated on the 25th day of February, 1895,
and duly filed and recorded in the office of the
county clerk of Lancaster county, Nebraska, on
the 26th day of February, 1895, and executed by
Patrick McManaman to J. A. Young or bearer, to
secure the payment of the sum of three hundred
and fifty dollars ($350), and upon which there is
bow due the sum of one hundred and seventy-five
dollars ($175.00). Default having been made in
the payment of said sum, no suit or other proceed
ing at law having been instituted for the recovery
of said debt or any part thereof, therefore I will
sell the property therein described, viz: One
black yearling heifer, one nearly white yearling
heifer, one red yearling heifer, one spotted cow,
one red roan cow, one brown horse seven years old
named Pete; one black horse seven years old
named Prince; one bey horse coming four years
old, with whitestripe lu face; one bey pony mare
coming four years old; one black mare named
Bally, one bald faced sorrel mare, one bey mare
colt, at public auction at the house of Ernest
Horning, in Little Salt precinct, Lancaster county
Nebraska, on the 18th day April, 1896, at 1 o'clock
p- m. of said day.
Dated March 26, 1896.
J. A. Young, Mortgagee,
By Jno. S. Kirkpatrick, his Attorney. 43-3t.
OWSLEY WILSON.
Attorney-at-uaw, Burr's Block.
CHA1 TEL MORTGAGE SALE.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a chattel
mortgnsc, dated on the 8th day of March. 1894 and
duly filed in the ofllce of the county clerk of Lan
caster county, Nebraska or: the 15th day of March,
1891 and executed by Fred P. Carlson to Leandcr
L. Larimer to secure the payment of a certain
promissory note for the sum of SlK.OO.and interest
from the first day of March, 1891, at the rate of 10
per cent, per annum, on which there is now due
and oweing the sum of $118.54. Default having
been made In the payment of said sum, and no
suit or other proceedings at law having been in
stituted to recover said debt, or any part thereof,
therefore I will sell the following property therein
described, viz; One grey gelding colt, named
Dougla?, six years old. weight about 11(10 pounds at
public auction, in front of the postoflice in the
village of Raymond, county of Lancaster and State
of Nebraska, on Saturday, the 25th day of April, at
11 o'clock a. m. of said day.
Leandkr L, Larimer, Mortgagee
By .,wsl Er Wilson his Attorney . 43-tt.
FUNNY DECOYS.
Pup Seals and Other Counterfeits Mad
Out of Wood in Alaska.
Shut up in a drawer at the National
museum, where nobody has the privi
lege of seeing them, is a curious col
lection of decoys. Perhaps the funni
est among them is a pup seal, about a
foot and a half long, quite artistically
carved out of wood. Its little paws
are folded across its chest, and it is in
tended to float on its baok upon the
water. Just as the animal it repre
sents does in real life. However, it is
not meant as a decoy for mother seals,
as may be imagined, but as a float for
tying a fishing line to. Fishes recog
nizing the innocence of pup seals in
general, are not likely to suspect that
one would dangle a hook and line to
catch them. This is an Alaskan decoy,
of course. The natives of that region
employ decoy ducks made of wood in
a similar fashion not to attract real
ducks within reach of arrows or bul
lets, but as floats merely. To the
floats, set a-swimmlng in the rivers,
lines are attached, with (hook and bait
for salmon. No ordinarily wise sal
mon would be afraid of a duck. So
these fishes bite eagerly at the lures
suspended from the counterfeit birds
in the water and are caught. Another
very queer decoy in the drawer is a
fish, cut out of wood and painted
white. No label states, unfortunately,
precisely how it is employed, although
it is certain that it is a counterfeit in
tended to attract some big fishes. Big
salmon could swallow prey of sicli a
size, and it may be designed as bait for
them. Think, however, of the disgust
which would be felt by any scaly ogra
at finding that he had taken in a
wooden fish one foot long!
A Grate Joke.
"I should think it would make
those bank cashiers nervous to stand
all day behind those wire nettings."
Why so?"
Well because it naturally would
make them think of the bars behind
which so many of them are liable to
be confined some day. "
Oh!" Philadelphia Press.
I f'Bi Cannot bn Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to euro deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube, When the tube is inflamed you have a rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
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Cow Killed l!y a Turtle.
One day last week Richard Mock, of
Miller county, Oa., after milking a fine
milch cow he owns, turned her out in
the woods and she wended her way
down to Aycock's creek to slake her
thirst some time during; the day, and
while engaged in dri-king was seized
by the nose by a loggerhead turtle and
her head pulled under the water and
held there until she drowned. Failing
to return home that night Mr. Mock
made search for her and found her ly
ing with her head under the water, hit
body on land, quite dead, the tuauo
still having his hold. Mr. Mock eCed
help, and dragging the cow out. ftiVw
the turtle out also, he refusing to let
go the cow's nose. The turtle wlfc
killed and weighed fifty pounds, hi?
Bhell being as large as a large bread'
tray.
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