The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-07-31
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Some of Elbert's farmers say their
crops are better than for years.
There are two Geo. Washingtons
in Jail at Washington, Wilkes county.
General Toombs and wife have
gone to Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia.
Macon uses 10000 lbs of ice per
day, but boiIs over occasionally in
spite of everything.
The Cedartown Advertiser say 8
that the Cherokee Railroad will be
running in 4 miles of Cedartown,
by August 10th.
A rich deposit of bituminous coal
has been discovered in half mile of
Greenwood station, four miles south
east of Ringgold.
The Covington Star is clamoring
for an ice factory, first class bakery
and a steam laundry, It's astonish-
ing how much some people co want.
Bids for contracts for grading the
first division of the Gainesville and
Dahlonega Narrow Gauge Railroad
are advertised for. That looks some
thing as if the road would be built.
The Lumpkin Independent says
"there was a moccasin killed down
at Mr.. Searles' pond that had head
as large as a gourd." Now the per
picking question is, GLOW large was
the gourd 7"
Columbus is greatly excited over
two yellow fever deaths which have
occurred at Opelika, Alabama, only
twenty eight miles distant. The
victims were mother and daughter
from Memphis, who had taken refuge
in that town,
Simon Daniel and Jack Sellers,
colored, confined in the Lee county
iail under sentence of death for the
murder of Mr.. Whitsett, made their
escape on Saturday night last, abou:
eight o'clock. With an augur they
bored around the lock, removed it,
and walked out.
The Walton County Vtdette says;
Lightning struck stable on Mr..
John Crews place last Friday, in
which there were about eighteen
head of hogs belonging to freedmen
living on the place, and killed fifteen
of the number. This is what we'd
call corner in pork"
A negro child recently born in
Bib county had no chin and no eyes.
Its ears we're very long, and tapped
over like the ears of dog. ForIu-
nately for itself, the monstr pslty lived
but short time after its birth.
Mr.. J. II. Alexander, of Augusta,
has cut since Tuesday last over four
hundred watermelons just for their
seed He buys the finest he can find
by wholesale, and has free water
melon feast every time he cuts, the
only stipulation made with his friends
being that they will save the seed.
The McDufliie journal tells won
derful story of an OK which had it's
neck broken on Thursday of last
week, and lived in that condition
until the following Tuesday. truly
remarks that this is one of the most
remarkable instances of the kind
ever recorded. Indeed, it might
have gone further and said it was
the only instance of the kind ever
recorded.
Mr.. Milligan Anderson died very
suddenly at his homo near Porter's
Springs, a few days since. He had
been for some time a sufferer with
dropsy. On the day of his death he
had walked out into the yard, when
a feeling of weakness came over him
and he was assisted to seat in the
house by members of his family. -
He had been seated only few
seconds when he fell to the floor
dead.
A man named Lusk came into Car
tersville on Saturday, says the Err
press leading fine OK, which he. of
fered for sale at SD The small~
ness Of the price led to the suspicion
that the animal was stolen, which
suspicion was proven correct. iLusk,
on finding himself discovered, fled,
and was pursued for two hours, with
dogs, but he made good bis escape.
The Augusta Chronicle says that
between fifty and sixty owners OF
dogs we're before the Mayor of that
city Tuesday morning, charged with
violating the ordinance in reference
to those animals, not having pur-
chased the requisite collars. In each
case the party was required to buy a
collar and pay the costs of court. =