The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-08-14
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Eight hundred acres of mineral
land, near Lexington, we're sold last
week for SIG, 900.
Stewart & Fain, Of Atlanta, buy
S400 worth OF bcoom corn every
noah for their broom factory, nine
tenths of which is purchased in
Chicago. The Constitution, says
this is a sad commentary on our
shifllessness aud improvidence."
The Hart county Sun says, a COW,
with a good hell and leather collar
on, worth 81 10, altogether, only
brought one dollar. a large OK sold
tor one dollar, aud good young OK,
that plowed we'll aud worked well in
shafts, only brought the insignificant
sum of three dollars--all on long
credit. So much for county that
has no market.
According to the Ellijay Courier
they have an infant giantess at North
Perry. Ii is but thirteen months old
and weighs seventy five pounds.
The attempts of visitors to llts 1t are
laughable. 1t is three feet in height,
is well proportioned, eats hearty, as
may be expected, and is good nat"red
and bright. 1t great grandfather is
said to have been very tall aud
powerful man.
The body of negro woman was,
some months since, found 10 a well
at Woodstock, Oglethorpe county,
and for some time it was thought that
she had committed suicide. Cir~
cumstances now point to The husband
of the woman as her murderer, that
he first killed her, and then threw
her body into the well. One of the
most revolving features OF the whole
matter is that people in the neigh
borhood used the water for days after
the occurrence and before the body
was discovered.
Two negro prisoners in Hart coun
ty Jail made desperate effort to es-
cape on Sunday last. They happen
ed to be out of their cells, end hav-
ing secreted themselves behind the
door seized the silor nnawares.
Doe Of them then choked bin until
he was black, while the other search
ed his person for the keys OF the jail.
They failed to find them, however,
and at this jnnctufe some one heard
fhe noise and came 10 ascertain what
was the cause OF it AT this The ras
Gals took flight and ran into their
cells, where they were speedily lock-
ed up.
owe are informed" says the Au'
gusta Nes0s, "that a few days since
a young man living ia An adjoining
county, while out squirrel hunting in
com pauy with his father, was bitten
lust above the ankle by large rats
tlesnake He Immediately shot and
killed the snake and being some
distance from home, he appealed for
help to his father, VIII promptly APP
piled his mouth to the wound and
sucked it with great force, repeating
the operation several times. By
this means the deadly virus was so
eifectually extracted that no sickness
or swelling ensued."
Speaking of the Texas Burr Cot
ton, tbs Thomasville Enterprise
says: "Mr. A J. Williams brought
to our office yesterday a stalk of this
rem ark able cotton II fruits differ
ently from other cotton, the blooms
and fruit all coming out on short
stems from the main stalk and clus-
tering around il. 1t bears profnsely,
and from its manner of frultlog tho
cotton is not so liable to fall or be
shaken from the hollis. In several
clusters We found where two bolls
formed from one bloom The stalk
shown Us over five feet high, and
has fortysone boIIs on it, with a lot
of blooms and forms. Mr.. Williams
as twenty >eight acres 10 this cotton,
at his place four miles north OF town,
on the Moultrie road.
The cotton crop Of Florida is the
best for years.
THE murder Of Elder Standing, of
the Mormon Church, in Georgia re-
Gently, gave the Latter-Day Saints
an unusual opportunity to inveigh
against Gentle intolerance on the
occasion of the funeral of the muir.
dered man at Salt Lake City last
Sunday. George q. Cannon was
one Of the speakers. and made the
dead elder out hrst~class martyr.
President John 'Gayior also SPOKE,
scd during his remarks. said with
much vehemance "Bnt those men
who fight with Israeps Cod shall be
wasted prophesy this to you and
you may write il down as . tes'imo
az and lot ell Israel say Amen"
Thereupon the section of Israel rep
resented at the funeral loudly shout