The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-07-14
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

1t is now clearly indicated that
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens is en-
gagged on a new book, which is to
be pushed through, if possible, DUR
ing the present summer.
An old negro man when be heard
that President Garfield was shot ex-
claimed: "Dar, now | knowed
dat comic was bound to hurt some>
body, and tole all my folks So
Treasurer Speer's books chow
1874, 967.09 in the State treasury.
The July interest will be about
1878, 900, but democratic Georgia
has the money ready to pay it,
This is the semi annual interest, the
other falling due in January.
Stephen Winn, one of the negroes
arrested a short time since charged
with being one Of the parties who
we're instrumental in the destruction
by fire of a large portion of Forsyth,
was tried recently in that city and
convicted and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
With the convict question, the
Railroad Commissioners, the Lunatic
Asylum, the temperance question,
the fence que-ti1n, the State capitol,
the peY circuit and host of local
measures, the Legislature is likely
to need all the tune allowed for the
session.
The new ice factory of the Arctic
Company which has capital Of fifty
thousand dollars will commence the
manufacture and sale Of ice il Au-
gusta about the lst of August. The
factory has capacity of from forty
to fifty tons day, and the article
will be retailei al one half a cent
per pound.
The comet grows more indistinct
from night to night, and before
many days, it will have altogether
disappeared from view 1t is an
that the neuclus of the
strange visitor has burst, and where
formerly there was one neuclus there
are now two, one twelve hundred
miles distant from the other, though
this fact is only apparent to those
who have a telescope at their
service.
Atlanta Post Appeal: "From a
private source we learn of the acci-
dental killing of Miss Saffold, at
Madison. Miss Saffold, and her
father, Colonel Reuben Saffold, bad
been out driving. While returning
home the horse pulling the buggy
became frightened and ran away =
Mr.. Ssffold was thrown out, and had
one of his shoulders severely injured
by the fall. Miss SaffoId, his daugh
ter, a young lady about fourteen
years of age, was also thrown out of
the buggy by a jolt. occasioned By
the buggy coming in contact with
stump. Miss Saffold's head struck
a tree, and it is thought her neck
was broken. She sustained other
injuries that would in all probability
have ended her life had death not
been caused by the breaking of the
neck of the unfortunate you 6 lady
OgIethorpe Echo: Last week we
met Mr.. Combs, very intelligent
tobacco wagner of the Tar.heel
State, and from him gained some
very interesting information about
the weed. Mr.. c., says that the
growers in North Carolina average
about $50 an acre from tobacco, but
he has known as much at 5000 to be
made from that area of land. The
cultivation is very tedious, particu-
larly in 'worming' it. For this pur
pose children and turkeys do good
service. He says that a large
amount of tobacco is not picked
clean, however, and that during the
year a habitual chewer will eat up
several hundred worms, that are
pressed in the tobacco. Some par
ties in North Carolina mould and sell
pipes at 40 cents a hundred that a
few months ago three wagons started
out loaded with them, and after be-
ing gone few weeks returned with
5000 clear profit in their packets"
Cd Walton Vidette There resides
at CentrevilIe 10 this county, very
old and decrepit man, by the name
of William Lenox, whose life has been
Swallowed by remarkable aud sad
ex perieuce. His sou, Joel, left his
home in this county to enter the
Confederate army at the beginning
of the war, survived all its har dships,
and returned to his former home, to
fud that all his family were dead
except his father, whose whereabouts
could not be ascertained Nor have
father and son ever met since their
sad parting so many years ago -
The son was last seen at Covington,
Ca, in 1866 or 1867. The father,
after residing in Cobb county for a
number years, has returned to Wal
ton, where he, weighed down with
the intirmities of bis three score and
ten years, makes a scanty living by
the sweat of his brow. Any infor-
nation as to the whereabouts of Joel