The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-08-04
GEORGIA aLEANINGS.

81 600 ON his watermelon crop. "
The wife Of Rev. DR.. Wills died
in Washington City on 2Sth ult.
Frank V. Evans, late of the Al
bany News, will start q paper in
Birmingham, Ala.
| Perkins & Bros planning mills of
4 Augusta was burned last Friday
morning. Loss $4,000.
Savannah News: Among the
I freight by the steamer Katie from
up the river yesterday we're ~ bar
reIs of honey.
The average yield Of cotton per
acre in the counties of North Geor~
gia is much greater than 10 the
Southern counties.
The loss by burning recently of
A. P. Wright Il Co.'S warehouse, at
Thomasville, is estimated at $50,
900, with 500, 400 insurance.
The contract for the monument to
be placed over the grave of Judge
Hiram Warner has been Let to the
Rome marble works, and is to cost
four hundred dollars.
The editor Of the Monroe Adver-
tiser, who il an official Of the House
of Representatives, writes his paper
that the Legislature will be in ses
sion until the first week in Septem~
Der, and possibly longer.
Messrs. |. Y. Sswtell & ca. sold
gold mining property in Dawson
county, on the 9th, for $205, 1000.
The shares of this firm in the prop
erty sold for $50, 900 cash. A few
years ago no one suspected Dawson
of being a gold bearing couuty.-
Dr. Little, the state geOlogist, start
cd the boom, and now it 10 one of
the richest of fields.
A colored man OF MOntezuma was
sporting around five dollar gold
piece, and Willingly handed it to a
notorious negro woman named Sallie
Banks, for inspection. She deem>
iug herself a bank, and that the
money was intended for deposit,
placed it in her mouth and swallows
ed it, neglccting to give the man a
certificate of deposit. The fellow
tried to appeal to the law for his
money, but failing in that he was
forced to succumb.
Cochran Enterprise: "Mr.-
Green Wood, at Mobley's Crossing,
on the branch road to HAwkinsville,
planted in the spring four acres iu
watermelons and has sold up to now
$l87 so worth and has any quantity
on hand and feeding them to his
stock. He cuts off the old vines
when they cease bearing and they
take on fresh growth, and he will
have q fine crop of late melons it
the seasons are favorable"
Last Friday night Mr.. d. M. Cab
aniss stepped out of one Of the ar
cade windows on the third floor of
the Kimball House, Atlanta, under
the impression that the window
| opened on veranda. The window,
however, opened on an awning over
the veranda oh the second floor
The cloth gave way aud precipita
ted Mr.. Cabaniss to the porch below
about twenty feet, breaking his left
arm, dislocating his elbow and cut
ting his forehead Mr.. Cabaniss
came to Atlanta from Forsyth few
months ago.
Sumpter Republican We have
been reliable informed that a gem
tleman living near Bostsford, has
perfected a machine in which he
thinks he has discovered perpetual
motion. For long time he has re
fused to talk about it, but Of late he
has shown bis machine to only two
gentlemen. II has been ruuniug
now continuously for five years next
April, without a stop or breskage
He expects to apply for patent,
and, as we have no authority to give
bis name to the public, we withhold
it.
A curious case of poisoning bas
been developed at Macon, which
caused terrible results. Mr.. j. B.
Howard, youny farmer, nephew
of Mr.. Henry l.. Je~ett, one of
Macon's prominent merchants, went
to Atlanta q few days ago to have
bis eyes treated. A message was
was received yesterday that one eye
was completely gone. and there was
no chance for the sight of the other
to be restored. Mr.. Howard while
working 10 the field, used colored
haudkerchiefs to wipe away the
perspirstioa from his face, and the
poisonous dyes entered his eyes,
lcsusing him to loose his sight.