| Show t remarkable Disappearance of ta 1 georgia lakes jakes A aird lake laka jake in lowndes county has been emptied of its by subterranean passages d during duning the last sti six months what is the mattei the times has several times allu aliu allude deif d to the fact that lowndes county counts had tf athin its b border numbers of lakes from ten ton to five hundred drosand dro dand and several beyond a thousand acres in size and alid can it be that these lakes are connected with a grand underground water course it seems so in september last one dried up or ran off and left bushels upon bushels of nish fish in in holes ef of water about upon the bottom of the laka ake in january another i about nive five fi ve miles this did the something sam ething and now grassy pond a lake covering about nive five hundred acres just between the tw two 10 abne above mentioned has left lefo itel it rp millions illions of of the water aten nten ater about ago it was gwawr reported that the waters ot tills this lake were sinking balow low water mark and every everyday day or two we would hear bear that it was still going down last knast Fri eri friday daya a report spread all over the country lika ilka wild wildfire tire fire that grassy asafa enough to fish out wilh with net nets 3 and by sundown more mora one hundred yd i people had llad collected collect eL at tho the place some bad dip nets some cast nets neta and there was one seine party the first haul with the seine caught enough traut trout jaek jack bream and speckle perch to make a mess for every one present sent Dur lur during luring ing log that night H ithe water disappeared and there Wre were mil mii llona of elsh left dead landd landa saturday next day the planters hitched bv tip their thein wagons and hauled load lead after load and scattered them thern in their fields foi for manure and thousands were left at thu mercy of buzz buzzards ards hogs and ands other creatures of bf such quin quantities of fish and stich destruction h has as never uever been known in jrr the his tory of lowndes county no one ever dreamed that there vas was half hald that quantity of tish fish ash in grassy pond rond pondy though it wa celebrated for its in the spring of the thu year the other two lakes above mentioned did not net thu scoba drav dryland and the fish tha that were not caught word saved by the water returning in a few days from its hidde far fai retreat in the bosom of tho the earth we learn that grassy pond is fill ingup again but it is too late to save the ginny finny tribe se statements are not at all exaggerated ag and can be testified to b by y several hundred people living in ill this county though it is marvel IOU loua to all valdosia V baij unies times |
