The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-09-29
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

The Atlanta Rolling Mill has been
destroyed by fire.
The price of admission to the At
lanta Exposition will be silver halt
dollar quarters will no be taxi
en-. No change Of bills.
| Major X. j. Moses has removed
from Atlanta to bis old home in CO.
luInbus. He has retired from the
practice of law.
The Sparta IshmAelito says Mfr.
David Ware, of that county, recently
had about two acres of corn stolen
and hauled from his field at night.
CaterpilIars Are destroying the
cotton in Baldwin county. They
will probably cut off the top crop
entirely.
The editors of Georgia will assem-
bic in convention at the exposition
grounds in Atlanta on the 9Th of
October.
The bill to authorize the publica-
ton Of new Code, which had some
difficulty in posing the House, sail.
ed smoothly through the Senate.
and is now law, having received
the approval Of Governor COlquitt.
General S. p. Myrick, of Milledge
vile, has fine specimen of the
Spanish cork oak growing ON his
premises, showing that the tree will
grow in Georgia and produce here
an article now wholly imported.
Lost Friday, in Baker County, a
negro named Dan Davis killed an
other da,key named Jack Lyas.-
They qurrreled about q puddle of
water near the well, from which both
as tenants, used water, when Davis
soon after got his gun and shot Ly>
as dead.
The Dahlonega Signal says q
much larger number Of mines have
been sold this season than ever be-
ore during the same period of time,
and the buyers, principally eastern
parties, are doing development work
on the properties they have Pur>
chased.
The Rome Division Of the +. I.
Va. and Ga. railroad 10 the name by
which the railroad from Rome to At
lanta will be known. The construc>
ton of the first ten miles from Rome
has been let to Mr.. II. o. Iioyt, of
Dalton. His force 10 now at work
erecting shanties, and viii commence
grading by October lst.
Gainesville Eagle: "a man by
the name of Sam Masters was run
over by both the fast mail trains,
about three miles above this place,
on Sunday night last. His body
was literally chopped to pieces, and
his entrails we're strewn on the road
bed for nearly one hundred yards.
Liquor.
Rome Courier: Mr.. w. A. Pail
mer, of ForestvilIe, has invented a
maohins lhat 10 operated by hand
power, by which hoop iron can be
fastened together at the ends, punch>
ing the holes, putting in the rivets
and bradding them on the opposite
side all at the same time. This is q
most valuable labOr.saving machine
to ell barrel makers, aud also yalua-
bic at all congresses where the cut
strips or hoop iron from cotton bales
are desired to be riveted together
| for future use. The operation ii
performed with great rapidity.
| HawkinsvilIe Dispatch A most
horrible accident occurred in this
county one day last week. The liz.
tie three or four year old boy Of Mr..
Ed, Pesrce was playing about under
the gin house while the gin was 10
motion. The little fellow climbed
I'D to ride around-as children FREE
quentIy do-and was caught between
the arms and band shaft of the ma
chinery, and his head was literally
crushed to pieces, scattering his
brains out upon the ground, 1t was
q sad and horrible spectacle.