The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-02-19
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Atlanta mas received over 20 OO'
bales of cotton this year,
The Stone Mountain Press ha'
suspended.
Green peas are selling at 80 cents
per peck in Savannah.
The Gainesville Argus has sus'
pended
A strange disease, similar some
what to meningitis, prevails in EEL
bert county. 1t is very fatal.
We see it going the rounds that
an s year-old white boy in Jasper
county. is legally married to white
woman Il years of age.
Now tina; Decatur county is to
have a free bridge over the Flint
river, cambridge is to abolish kero-
sene and burn gas,
According to the Perry Home
Journal, nearly every farmer 10
Houston county, is preparing large
supply of home made fertilizers.
A mao named Reuben Parrot be-
came Intoxicated the other day, in
Floyd county, and was found next
morning frozen to death on the
road side
Two darkias in Glascock county
Jail attempted to barn out by setting
fire to the jail in their cell, and mar
rowly escaped burning themselves
out of existence.
The Rome Tribune learns that on
Thursday, Ed Rembert, the sheriff
Of Murray county, fatally shot squire
Carter, on last lhurday, in Spring
Place The cause Of the difficulty
was woman.
A negro named John Thomas has
received a verdict in his favor for
$1,000 damages from The Central
Road for a hurt received while re j..
pairing a we'll, on the line of road
near Griffin.
The envelope which enclosed the
! 50, 900 express package stolen be-
tween Cochran and Hawkinsville has
been found 10 the woods ia a hollow
log. The money is still conspic,
pousIy ont of the way.
A Newton county man, says the
Covington Enterprise, hes establish
ed goose rauch," aud expects to
make living by selling the feathers
from three hundred geese. He picks
them every two months and averages
one pound for each goose.
Three prisoners in Glasseock
county Jail recently attempted to
make their escape BY setting fire to
their place Of confinement. If their
loud cries for help had not have
brought certain citizens to their as,
sistance, they would soon have been
cremated.
On last Thursday Mr.. Turner
Prater, of Vaucluse, S. c., while on
his way to Augusta, attempted to
get out of his wagon, and as he did
so pislol fell from his coat
pocket, struck the wagon and was
discharged, the ball entering his side
and coming out at the back. Fortu
nately it turned out not to be a Sc
rious wound.
A negro tramp assaulted and az
forwards killed negroes iu Bryan
county last week whilst her husband
was absent from home. After kill
Jog her he cut her body nearly in
twain aud threw it into the fire burn,
ing in the cabin, He also threw her
four year ola child into we'll, where
it was drowned.
A writer from Terrell couoty to
the Dawson Journal says that in that
county lives a MFR. Nathan Cook,
who is one hundred and two years
old, and has brought up ten children,
the youngest of whom is over forty
years of age. He has lived 10 the
same yard that now encloses his
home ever since the Indian war. -
Notwithstanding a severe spell of
sickness last summer, he now, as he
always has, earns his daily bread. -
lie is a right saucy old widower, and
not long ago said that he would mar
ny again if he could fad woman to
suit him
The Warrenton Clipper tells how,
on Monday afternoon last, Tom Viii
Iiams, a mulatto man of that town,
came TO a shocking and sudden
death. 1t seems that he, in compa-
nv with several other men, was en-.
gagged in unloading a wagon Of hea
Wy timber, when, by. some inexplic"
able means, the end of piece OF
the timber at which the deceased
was lifting slipped from the wheel of
the wagon, upon which it partly
rested, and in falling carried Will
liams down with it. His breast
struck log lying near by, and the
timber under which he had been
standing fell with its full weight up.
on his neck, INSTANTLY breaking it.
His breast aud face were terribly
maugled.