The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-08-11
GEORGIA aLEANINGs.

The LaGrange Reporter learn'
that the sheets of the Alabama anc
Georgia mills, covering operation'
for the past fiscal year, chow a ne
| profit of about 20 per cent.
| The Thomasville Enterprise says
the peach crop of that county is the
| finest it ever knew; that peach es
have been selling there at five cents
per peck. All the jars have been
used up in canning.
Reliable farmers report the COZ
dtion of the crop now growing in
the counties of this section as almost
universally better than it was at the
same season last year. -Cotan'b"S
Times. t.-.@
Four shares of Georgia Railroad
stock were sold before the Court
House door, in Covington, last Tues
day for $l73 per share. John II.
James, of Atlanta, was the purcha-
ser.
John Colbert, of Etowsh. has lost
three wives, been married thirty six
years, has buried twenty-five chill
dren, has lost one arm and thirty
horses and is but fifty years old.
Ia answer to the howl by certain
interested parties, about the cruel
treatment of the State convicts, the
figures show that only twelve, out of
total of sixteen hundred, have died
10 the last year.
Cork trees are being successfully
raised in Georgia. The cork on
some of them is already thick
enough to use. 1t is supposed the
trees can be successfully raised in
most of the Southern States.
DR.. Curry spoke to the Legisla>
ture last Friday for over one hour
on the subject of education. 1t vas
one of the finest speeches ever
heard in the capitol. He urged the
Legislature to appropriate one mil~
lion dollars year for educational
purposes in Georgia. s ss na.
In view of the offer by Northern
capitalists to loan money in this
State, the Atlanta Constitution calls
the attention of the Legislature to
the fact that mortgages under the
ruling of the Supreme Court cannot
be secured against dover and a
years support Of the widow 10 case
of the death of the mortgsgor, and
that parties have been obliged to re-
sort to deed securities, which it re-
gards's as an awk ward arrangement.
Meriwe,her VindicatOr: There
are three brothers. living few miles
from Greenville between whose re
spective ages there is exactly two
years difference. The first was born
the 10th of February, 1858; the
second February the 10th, 1853 !;
the third February the 18th, 1857
A gentleman living in one of the
other districts of the county has four
sons, the birthday Of the first being
the 10Th of April, the second the
2lst of April, the third the 18th of
April, and the fourth the 18th of
April.
Work of grading the Macon and
Atlanta railroad is progressing rap
idly. The Telegraph and Messenger
saws: Mr.. j. w. RenfrOe has al
work within three and half miles
of the city force of two hundred
hands cutting out the right Of way
and grading. w. ID. Grant & co.
at seven miles from the city, have
also large force at work, aud bavC
already established camps aud stock
AIDES, and graded several hundred
yards of road. The work is progress
ing as rapidly as possible under the
circumstances.
Albany News: "From what we
can gather from the most reliable
sources we conclude that the cotton
crop of this section is, upon the
whole, very good. In some por.
tions of this county, and in Baker,
the crop has suffered more or less
for rain. but this complain, is by nc
means general as to cotton. Corn
however, has been materially injur-
ed by the drought throughout this
entire section OF the State. Cotton
is opening very rapidly, and somt
farmers are now picking as much a.
| 200 pouuds to the hand per day
Cotton pickers are now in demand
and 40 cents per hundred is readily
paid for picking-the labOrers furn'
;shing their Own rations." s1
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