The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-02-05
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

Some kind Of Ay is destroying
tho wheat crop 10 all parts Of Ebert
county.
Dave Heard, of Wilkes county,
four horses and mules stolen from
him one night last week,
Macon is going TO build a new
market house, with an extensive OPP
era house overhead
Joe Statns the gentleman accident
ally shot on the recent revenue raid
died recently.
The farmers of some sections oil
the State are forming clubs for the
purchase Of guaao at wholesale rates.
The editor of the Rene Daily has
been Teasing on beaver flesh, and he
says it is The richest and latest meat
he ever tasted.
Mr.. George Davis was sentenced
to the peientiafy 20 years, for the
murder Of William Holland, f ON
Bar tow Superior Court
Ben Dobbs alias Ben Miller was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
from Barrow Superior Court, for the
murder of Steve Cannon.
MIR. Thomas Fulton, of Greene
couoty, owns plantation of 800
acres, and has only one hand on it,
all the rest have LETT since Christmas
According to the Weekly, an aver
age of five children per month have
been bora 10 Conyers during the
past year.
The Hampton Weekly states that
it is pretty correct estimate to say
that one third of the pork killed this
winter in Henry county has been
lost on account Of the warm weather.
Mr.. Malcolm Stafford will remove
the type ard uaterial of the North
eastern Progress to Danielsvile,
Madison county, and will issue pa
per from that point iu short time.
The Craw fordville Democrat says:
THE signs indicate that there will
De a large amount of fertilizers
bought by our farmers this season,
which in turn indicates large cot
ton crop"
Pete Reagan, charged with pe'ja,
ry, broke out of jail il Brunswick
last Thursday night by saving
through the wall with case knife.
And now the Advertiser wants jail
that is "some account
Mr.. James T. Johnson, of Lexing,
ton, says he has eaten eighty part
ridges 10 forty days-can prove it
by Capt. i II. Barrett, who caught
them for him, and is ready at any
time to repeat the feat, if some skep-
tic can fornish the birds.
The Sumter coauty farmers say
that hey never knew 80 much small
grain sown before. If hat is so, the
high price Of Gotten during the past
season has not turned the heads of
the planters of Sumter.
There are nearly forty mule and
horse men at the Markham House,
and they report the sock pens there
as being full of horses and mules.-
There is a good demand, however,
for them and many purchasers are
there from all par Of The State. -
The sales this year are greatly in
excess of last season
John Johnson, negro, convicted
of the murder of Daniel McDormant
on the 17th of March 1878, after
two trials, two reviews of the case
By the Supreme Court, an two SEN
fences of death, was sentenced a
third time in Savannah last Wednes
day, and will be hanged Ga Friday,
9th of February,
There is a certain lady Of Greene
county, who superintendsd farm
last year, worked one hand, and
made ZEN bales Of cotton, two huns
dred bushels of corn, three thousand
FIVE hundred pounds of fodder, Que
hundred bushels of oats and forty
bushels of wheat. We echo tho
sentiments of the Greensboro
Herald ~hen it says: "A!l honor to
such women"
And his is what the Thomasville
Times has to say about it: "Geor
ga looks to 10 Bcown aud Wadley
for the creation of grand trunk liue
from the West to her great seaport
And we do not believe she will look
in vain. They are not the men to
lie down at the dictation of the
Louisville and Nashville road" The
Times also thinks that if here was
an outlet to Savannah the wheat
syndicate of New York would not be
able to lock up thirty million bushels
of wheat in Chicago.