The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-01-13
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.
Yours Truly,
A. Y. LEAKE q Co.

spree, iroze 10 deatn near 'jantOn.
Rev. Mr.. Quig, of Conyers, has
been called to the Madison PreSby-
terrain church to serve them next
year, and has accepted the call.
A suit has been brought. against
the city of Rone for damage done
10y COW running at large on the
streets.
The Echo says that five negroes
we're Fl oxen to death in Oglethorpe
county during the recent cold
weather.
A boiler explosion at the Allen
town, Pa, rolling mill Thursday
night, resulted ia the death of nine
persons, and three more are expect,
ed to die.
A young man in !rwinton found
bis face turning blue few days ago.
He was terribly frightened, for be
thought be was Notifying. He ran
to a doctor, and an investigation
showed that he had been using
silk handkerchief dyed blue.
E. X. Wilson, who was alleged to
ha been k Knocked on the head at
West Point, Ga, and robbed, CON-
fessed that he wounded himself with
knife and then beat his head with
piece of pine wood, and took the
money, He was agent for the
Southern Express Company at West
Point.
The Dawson Journal announces
that Elder Matthias +. Cowley and
Elder John w. Taylor, two Mormon
preachers from Salt Lake City,
Utah. have been for several weeks
past holding frequent services, and
proclaiming the tenets of their faith
in the eastern portion of Terrell
county.
Shem Lsssiter, Of HawkinsviIle,
has set out to eat forty birds in forty
days. He has eaten thirty one
and shows no signs of weakening.
To the contrary, according to the
Hawkinsville Dispatch, friend of
bis offers to bet that after the task is
completed Mr.. Lassiter will be able
to eat a roasted saddle girth, and
wash it down with six quarts Of but
termilk.
We made brief mention a few days
ago of the murder Of his mother in
law Mrs. Beecher, by William
Young, who lives ten miles from
Baxley, Appling county. 1t seems
that he WAS quarreling with his wife
and took down his gun to shoot her.
The mother,in law tried to make
peace, when he fired upon her,
twenty -one buckshot entering her
side, causing instant Death. The
Jessup Sentinel says Young is still
at large, and was seen 10 Valleys
store Saturday night.
Ella Higgins, the young daughter
of poor miner, at Dunmore, Pa,
desired to dress as we'll as her com
panions a. forthcoming party, sod
therefore purchased some fneries at
a store, saying they were for wife
of neighbor, who would pay for
them. The merchant, on ascertain
ing how be had been tricked, made
arrangements to have the girl arrest
ed When tho officer went to get
her, she was found hanging to a
beam 10 the garrett of her home.
Although sorghum has not shown
up very fAvorably 10 its contest with
the sugar cane of the South, it is
gradually gaining ground in the
Northwest. The sorghum product
in Minnesota last year was about
fifty thousand pounds of sugar and
fifty thousand gallons of syrup, the
former selling in market at 8 cents
a pound AMI the latter at 50 cents q
gallon. In addition to this it is as
serted by it's cultivators that more
whisky can be produced from an
J acre of sorghum than from an acre
of corn. The latter fact will prOba"
bly, give sorghum its boom.
The Macon Telegraph thinks that
the South would rapidly get rich it
our farmers would get back to focks
of sheep, pens of hogs, brood Mares
and larger corn felds. Thousands
of dollars would be left in our midst
with which to purchase land and
make home improvements, and it
our business men would patronizs
home manufacturers, and our people
get in the habit of purchasing home~
made material, their bank accounts
would be larger at home than 10
New York. The Telegraph well
says the reason for our poverty is
that "we work hard and make mon
ey, but alas we never save it. We
spend as fast rs we make: The la
boring man now frequently spends
more in self-indulgence than be did
when q slave owner 10 1861"