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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1882
Page
3
Local notes report gardeners busy with guano orders and seed arrivals at Powell’s drug store. Plans for Presbyterian services, a wedding at R. J. Anthony’s, and a new music department class at Andrew Female College are announced along with town notices on merchants, stoves, and council humorists.
Three of five prisoners in Quitann county jail burned a floor hole and escaped with Lasseter leading the effort. Jno Guerry, who killed a man last Christmas, stayed. Prather avoided escape as his time neared. Watcher notes report Mr. J Smith killed two hogs weighing 512 pounds earning 75 pounds of lard. A new boat named Chattahoochees, built in Pittsburgh for 47000, joins the Tehooches river service with five electric lights.
An item lists guano brands for sale including Etiwan and Patapsco varieties and Bankers fertilizers. A brief town anecdote notes a Randolph County man buying whisky and a quick-beeline escape by a negro toward a grocer, with colorful dialect.
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