The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-06-17
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

The Augusta News thinks Senator
Bayard is the hope of the country.
Mr.. Buice's Touring mill in Desc.
to, near Rome, is burned.
The Atlanta Post is out for Hem
bricks for President.
Mr.. Sims, of Lowndes county, has
cleared $50 to the acre this season
10 Irish potatoes.
Mr.. Woodruff, on his fruit farm
near Griffin, will make 100, 900
pounds of grapes.
Friday night six prisoners escaped
from the jail at Albany, Ga, three
whites and three blacks.
A Greene county child has two
tongues. The Greensboro Herald
hopes to gracious it is not a girl.
A four year old child in Berrien
county was bitten in forty places by
a moccasin snake aud died the next
day.
Samuel Bailey, of Oglethorpe
county, has shipped fifteen hundred
quarts of strawberries to Atlanta
this season.
A man thrust his arm into hol-
low log to catch rabbit, at Ameri>
Gus Ga, aud was fatally bitten by a
rattlesnake.
Mr.. Charles j. K Ingram, of
Rome, Ca, is a brother,in law of
Hon. G. A Arthur, Republican Mons
inee for ice>President.
The DeKalb, News flies the ban
ner Of Hon. Hirain Warner for Gov
ernor, subject to Deliberate nomi>
nation.
The Albany Advertiser says that
caterpiiars have made their appear
ance in great numbers in the cotton
fields of Mr.. James L. pozier.
Judge Underwood has published
card declining to be candidate
70, Governor. He would not objec
to being Attorney General for the
State.
Mr.. Warren Bailey, son of Mr..
Daniel Bailey, respected citizen of
Worth county, committed suicide
last week by shooting himself in the
head.
Trinity Sunday School of Savan>
nah, have novel way to collect
missionary money. They put it in a
Jug, and we see they propose to have
''jug breaking" next Tuesday
evening,
The Dawson Journal reports the
death of Mr.. Nathan Cook, of Ter
rell County, on Friday last. He
was ninety-6ve years of age, and is
thought to have been the oldest man
i'll the county.
A man at GAINESVILLE got mad
with his wife and struck her with a
shovel, whereupon his wife threw a
small piece of plank at him and ran.
He pursued, but before he reached
the door he fell dead 10 the floor.
Certain of the humane citizens of
Albany, now use parasols attached
TO the head gear of their horses to
protect the animals from the heat of
the sun. IA merciful man is merci
ful to bis beast"
F. J. King, of Early county, says
be is making his sixtieth crop, and
never during the time did be have
so promising a crop nor one so we'll
advanced at the same date as his
present crop.
Albany Advertiser The peach
crop of Southwest Georgia might be
said to be a failure. Some trees
have no fruit on them at all, while
others have so few that the supply
will be very small. We have seen
a few ripe ones of very early
variety, but they we're very small
and insipid.
Dalton has been the scene of an
unusual sensation, and the acoustom-
ed quiet Of the town has been rudely
broken. Saturday two leading citi-
zens we're in a store, and pistol 10
the hands Of one of them sccidently
went off, wounding the other very
seriously. Soon after the accident
occurred, a young man we'll known
there, tried to shoot another young
mao, but was prevented by the
prompt interference of friends.