The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-05-26
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

IL Is staten lUbfe ~ uitSCh huopiDN
acres in melons along the Savannah.
Florida and Western railroad.
At Fort Valley a little coIored
child, the other day, while fooIiog
with kerosene oil, was burned to
death.
There are quite number Of in
sane persons 10 Washington county,
for whom no room is to be had At
the State Asylum.
A little negro was struck by an
engine and knocked fifteon feet ia
Americas It. must have struck him
on the head as he was unhurt.
A. NJ. Cohen is putting up fifty
horse power steam mill in cambridge.
He proposes to saw fifty thousand
feet Of lumber per day.
Rev. J. B Payne died on the 10th
at his home 10 Epson county. He
was eiehty.one years Of age and has
been a minister for fifty years.
1t is reported that horses are dy
ing 10 some Of the counties along the
Georgia railr Jad, from the effects of
aiing'damaged western corn.
A Georgia farmer found that his
lard would no longer bear good crops
of corn and cotton, and he planted
rs acres with pear trees. His profits
are $500 an acre.
The Augusta News says there are
now in that city 1875 ear loads of
damaged western corn, end that mil
lers refuse to grind, and merchants,
generally, to receive it
The Dalton Citizen reports that
town as bilious and also afflicted
with broken bone fever. Also that
King Cotton is going to be the
greatest tyrant that ever ruled Nor;b
Geog a farmers
That little learning is a danger
Gus thing has proven itself a truism
in Albany lately. Th ee negroes
have been jailed in that city for for
gerry since last Saturday.
Rome proposes to have an old
fashioned fourth of July celebration.
An elaborate programme will be ar
ranged, and the leading military or
CARNATIONS of The State will be in
vted to participate.
The Augusta News reports that
there never was time when the
mechanics of Augusta were buster
than they are at the preset. Men
out Of work are so from choice, not
necessity.
Major W s Greene, the Chief
Engineer of the Georgia Western
Railroad, who has his headquarters
10 Atlanta is overrWo with applicants
for places in his Surveying parties
He has sent out three, and now no.
10 need of any more assistants.
The third and last child of the
Perkins family, at Atlanta, died of
scarlet fever last Monday. We have
heretofore noted The death of Mrs.
Perkins and two other children from
the same disease Six out of seven
doctors pronounce all the cases to
have been genuine scarlet fever.
The Ogletharpe Lcho reports that
on last Saturday an old negro woman
named PhilIis, on Mr. Stephen Up
sons place, was cutting clover, when
highland moccasin struck at her
three times before she could get ont
of the way, the third time hanging
his tanes in her dress sleeve. The
reptile was finally killed
The work on the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition grounds and buildings is
being pushed ahead with great en-
ergy The lumber for the buildings
is nearly sill contracted for and will
soon be delivered on the g'ou, d.
The machinery for the work has
been o, dered, and track into the
grounds will be id next week.
A Macon jury has at last found one
man guilty of murder, but then they
recommended him to mercy, 1t is
Anderson. Spear, colored, who killed
Tom Booker, Before the Jury had
rendered the verdict, however, a
character known "a Mexican John
was shot 10 the head by a white
youth named Jimmie Elliot. This
will balance the verdict.
AT EIberton, DR.. d. A. Mathews
sowed one acre in clover and oats
mixed and gathered and saved from
it over eighty tons Of splendid hay,
which he could sell readily for two
hundred and fifty dollars, and the
whole cost of which did not exceed
twenty five dollars This certainly
demonstrates the fact that il will
pay to raise bay here.
Mr.. Newton Brinson, of Decatur
county, had his thigh bone crushed
last week by his horse falling upon
it. The animal became unruly, fell
back wards upon his riders leg,
crushing the thigh bone, DR.. J. A.
Butts being seLt for, found amputa>
ton necessary. The injured man is
doing well and hopes are entertsiued
of his tioal recovery.