The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-04
GEoAGTA GLEANIGGS.

turning out goods Of the first clasa.
The crop of winter apples in MOI th
Georgia will be large, uotwithstsnd-
ing the ls,e trosts, which nearly des-
troyed the peach crop.
The Cherokee Railroad - com
pleted within elk miles of Cedar
town.
A negro woman named Eliza
johnson, living on the plantation of
Mr +. NJ Herndou, four miles from
Social Circle, Walton County, gave
birth to an infant one day last week,
and thou deliberately drowned it in
sn old fish pond uear by. She was
placed under survo lance, but mau-
aged to slip the officer and escape.
jim Walker, coIorod convict, who
recently escaped FROM Col Ho~ard's
camp, Taylor county, was captured
by Dir. J. r. Duck worth 10 Pike
county last Saturday, jim had
hired himself to Mr.. b. Green, aud
when Mr. Duckworlh called on him
he made All attempt to escape by
running, but Was brought to halt
by two pistol balls imbeded in his
re ar, after which he was secured aud
returned to camp.
One Of Ebert eounty's best farm
ors this year planted twenty acres in
cotton and waterm elons- two rows in
Gotten and Que of melons. From his
melon yield he has realized as much
as he would have from three bales Of
the Asecy staple. He also expects
to make two thirds OF crop Of cot
ton on the land.
The Barnesvile Gazette face
tiouly): 1--WE have beep requested
to state as matter of information
that there has been adopted a sys
tenn of furloughing so many members
of the Legislature every week that
they may go home and have pew
seats added to their pants. Hon 5.
K. Cook came at the close of last
week and had his fixed up and re
turned yesterday"
Nearly every week we have to
chronicle fatal accidents the re-
suit Of careless use of kerosene
oil, and Jet The repeated warnings
seem to have 40 effect Last Tues.
day colored woman in Rome plac.
ed a can full of coal oil near fire
for the purpose Of filing a lamp
I be can was by some means turned |
over, and the flames communicating |
to the oil, sn explosion followed, -
The womau's clothing took fire, and |
she was seriously and probably fa'
tally burned.
A daughter Of Dir, Williamson,
living in the suburbs Of Augusta,
Was horribly, if not fatally, burned
on Wednesday morning. She was
attempting The popular experiment
Of kndling q fire in the stove with |
kerosene, when the oil took fire, ex
ploded the kerosene can, and set the
girl on fire. She run to her mother,
who was sick in bed, and set fire to
the bed clothing, aud the whole
household would have been burned |
up but for the opportune arrival Of a
lady, who extiuguished the flames
The little girl, from her waist down,
was burned ioa cIiep, and it is thought
that she will die.
We are 10 receipt of the pros
gramme and circular Of the second
annual exhibition Of the North Geor
gia (Atlanta) Fair. A remsrkAbl
feature we notice in these advertise
ments of all Institution intended to
encourage industry in North Georgia,
and especially in and around Atlanta,
is that the printing is done 10 Chi
cago, 10 the office of Radical news
paper. When we remember that
,here are between twenty-five aud
thirty Of The Largest printing houses
ia the United States" located in
Atlantis, We don't see Why some Of
them were not given the job.-Sa-
Ua,lHah NetoS