The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-12-21
GEORGIA oLEANINGs.

weighs 80 pounds.
The detectives of Atlanta are en-
ergeticslly searching for a $1,000
diamond cross, which was stolen
from lady in one of Aslsn!s's ho'
tells Tuesday night week. The
cross is a beautiful one, and was
stolen from a trunk 10 the lady's
room.
A little ten year old girl, dsugh'
ter of Mrs. Wallace, of Columbus,
was terribly burned on Tuesday
night. She was standing in front OF
the fire, whom Der clothing caught,
and before assistance could be rem
dered she was fearfully burned. -
Her life is despsired Of ard her suf~
fering intense.
The holidays are close at hand,
and people are beginning to ponder
upon the problem Of giving as little
as possible and and getting as much
as they can. The average man
and woman of the nineteeth century
believes that it is better to receive
than to give, and hence Christmas
has lost much of its simplicity and
nearly all of its pleasures.
The two sheep raising counties of
South west Georgia are the counties
of Early and Miller. The former
contains a total of 1869, and the
latter 4 d, 528 sheep. Neither of them
have half as many as they ought to
have, and what they would have,
could the Legislature be induced to
pass law to protect them against
the ravages of dogs.
Mr.. Wm. NJ. Sneed caught pick
pocket 10 his room at the Marshall
House, Ssvasnab, 90 Friday morn
ing. Snesd pretended to he asleep
The thief come in and rihed his
supposed sleeper's pockets. Snsed
then jumped from bed and, with the
aid of man named Tharin, secured
the rascal, aud turned him over to
the authorities
West Point Enterprise Mr.. A.
G. Lanier had his large barn, con-
tanning over two thousand bushels
of corn, large quantity of fodder,
and many farming utensils destroy
ed by fire last Friday evening. -
His loss is estimated at about 81,
500, over and above the insurance,
which was $3.50. 1t is not known
how the fire originated, as Mr.. La
nier was out sowing oats at the time.
A writer in the Elberton, (Ga.,)
New South says it can be proved
that Whitney was not the inventor
of the cotton gin, but that Mr.. 10
seph Watkins, a wealthy planter of
Ebert county, had invented, patent
ed and had running a cotton gin
that from this patent Whitney took
the idea, improved it, and took out
a patent, which involved him in
Ia wsuits to such an extent that be
never made any money by it.
The Sandersville Herald publishes
this item for farmers "Mr. James
p. Webster has twenty-five hogs
nearly twelve months old to kill that
he thinks will average $50 pounds.
He says they have been raised main
ly upon what would have been
wasted it not thus utilized. He has
only been feeding them for some
two weeks. Mr.. w. says the easi'
est money he makeO is from raising
hogs"
Peter Johnson, a colored msn, iu'
adverteu,ly sat on a pin, yesterday,
in the Superior Court, and yelled
like Comanche Indian. Judge
Adams sentenced him to twenty
four hours in Jail for creating dis
I turbance. $50 Sauannah Recorder. 1t
was an unrighteous sentence
| Adams, himself, would have yelled
under the circumstances. A man
has a natural, inalieuable right to
wake the echoes when he sits down
on a pin.-MacOn Telegraph.
Atlanta Constitution "There is
good authority for saying that sen
ator Brown will make tender in a
few days of $4,000 to the Univer
sity of South Csrolins, on the same
terms that he offered that sum to
our State University. Without con-
ing directly to me from the Senator,
this information is vaIid-so that we
may consider the endowment, of
which so much has been said, per
manently gone over the border
Newman Herald: DR.. G.. W. Ped
dy showed US yesterday sample
Of ensilage from his silo, which is
fresh and juicy. His pit was pre-
pare in July, which he finds was a
little too early in the season. DR.
Peddy says that twenty head of
stock can be wintered off of four
acres of ground under this system of
feeding. And the secret of it is
that this process loses eighty per