The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-09-02
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Albany will receive nearly 1000
ales of cotton this month

Albany will receive nearly 1000
bales of cotton this month.
The con genlion to nominate a can
didate for Senator Both district, bal
iotted all day Tuesday and made no
nomination.
One negro in Meriwether county
will make this year 100 bales CT cot
ton and a supply of provisions for
himself and family.
Barlow county has shipped during
the pas. year six thousand tons OF
manganese, valued at $40 per ton.
From this one mineral, therefore,
100000 has been added to the
wealth Of that county.
Oglethorpe kcho: The remains
Of young lady were a few years
since disinterred in this county, at.
ter ten years's burial whose hair was
found to have gown two feet since
her death. The corpse of q man was
taken up in Athens, who had been
clearly shaved at The time of burial.
His beard had grown nine inches.
On Wednesday night, of last
week near Cochran, Ga, four
young white men disguised them
selves and went to a negro cabin,
broke down the door and commenced
firing into it. The occupant John
Brown seized his double barrel gun
which was loaded with buckshot and
fred both barrels killing two brothers
named Dykes. The tops of their
heads were blown off. The negro
made his escape. The coroner's jury
rendered verdict of JustiAsble hom-
icide.
The Albany News says that it is
rumored that Hon. II. g. Turner, the
Democratic nominee for Congress in
the District, will meet with oppOsl
ton because of a report that he is
not a Colquitt man; and the News
very properly protests against mix
ing up State and Rational politics.
We again warn both factions of the
Democracy of the folly of extending
the divisions and antagonisms grow
ing out of The Gubernatorial contest
to other eleptiopa. IF both psrtie,
will survey the whole held, they vii
see that both may have something tC
lose as we'll as gain by such course
and it can only tend to aggravate auC
perpetaste the division that EXISTS.
A communication from Athens tC
the Atlanta Constitution states thai
on Wednesday last remarkable
event TRANSFERRED. Three young far
ners from WatkinsvilIe went into 2
saloon TO eat watermelon. They
put the melon down oa the table
rather hard, whGn to their astnpish,
ment it exploded with loud noise
and sent fragments flying in every
direction. A large piece struck Que
of the party in the eye, and it is
thought be will lose it, as the organ
is very much injured. NO one san
account for the explosion. The mel
on must have been loaded with dyn.
amite, probably for the purpose Of
frightening off depredators on the
patch in which it was grown.
The truth of the maxim that
"honesty is the beat policy" was
strikingly exempli6ed in Decatur a
few days since. The DcKalb News
says: "a negro man brought in
from the country a fine looking lot
of watermelons and offered them for
gale on the streets. Johnny ScruggS
bought one, cut ii opsn and found it
green. He went back to the negro
and asked him to replace it. This
the melon man refused to do and the
fun began. Scruggs took his stand
beside the melons, with half of the
green melon in his hand and warned
all Corners against buy ing, exhibiting
his as a sample Of the lot. Saturday
was public day at the Mountain
and melons we're in demand, but so
successful was Scrugg's plan that
only two or three were sold during
the entire day. From early morn
till dewy eve Scruggs nursed his
wrsth and watermelon, aud turned
scores, il not hundreds, OF would be
buyers. A crowd gathered around
the spot and whenever new man
turned away, cheered the plucky
boy and laughed at the annoyed
darkey. The latter offered to re~
place the melcn that proved bad, or
return the money: but the silent
testimony of the green sample was
powerful and they wouldn't sell. -
When we left late in the afternoon,
all things remained in Statu qa0-the
melons unsold, the crowd HILARIOUS,
the negro mad and anxious, and
Scruggs serene and persistent"
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