The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-08-17
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

Seventy gold mines are being
worked 10 Georgia, and still the
root of all evil is very scarce.
Gen. Gartrell opened the CAM
paign in Conyers on Saturday by q
big speech. He announces the
platform on which he stands. He
wants to serve the people one term
as Governor, after which it is his
desire to become a farmer.
A large catfish was captured in
Yellow River the other day, and
when dissected punched quarter
was found 10 its stomach. The fish
bad not been apprised of the fact
that punched coin was at discount
or be would not have taken it,
Columbus Enquirer little son
of Mr.. Ben Patterson, of Chattahoo-
chez swallowed So gold piece while
playing with it three or four days
ago and has been unable to digest it
so far. Little boys should not play
with IS gold pieces, for when they
swallow them they are 10 great dam
ger of being kidnapped.
They have an easy way of doing
things in Griffin. The young man
Lvtle. who shot and killed another
young man nsmed Hammond on
July 28th, has been before the
grand jury, and that body failed to
find true bill for anything except
q misdemeahor, hence was liberated
upon bond of $500, which was
readily given.
A negro named A. Brown, from
Campbell county, who was accused
of outraging a fifteen vear-old white
girl was taken out of Jail at Newman,
Ca, where he was carried for safe
keeping, and hung by a party of
seventy five moo. He was tried by
a crowd, and confessed that he and
another man had committed the
deed.
A Walton county lady has in the
last three years made $500 worth of
cotton on rented land. This year
she has twenty two acres in cotton,
which promises to make ten or
twelve bales. She does the work
with the house servant and her hus
bands buggy horse, and her hns-
band is at no expense whatever.
Such a wife is we'll worth having.
Georgia peaches, which were on
ly going North a few weeks ago,
are now also going South. The
Macon Telegraph of Saturday re-
ports: Last night nine hundred
crates of peaches were handled by
the Southern Express Company.
The fruit was destined for Florida
and Savannah. One man 10 jack
son Vile had six hundred crates con-
signed to him from Griffin.
Jessup Sentinel: "Mr. Salathiel
Bennett, while returning from pull
ing fodder on Tuesday afternoon
with his two boys, stepped over
rattlesnake, as did also his smallest
boy, but as the larger boy, Hops,
passed, the snake bit him. The fa-
Their turned and killed the snake,
which was about three and a half
feet in length and had three or four
rattes. Medical aid was summoned
but no avail, and the poor unfortu-
nate boy died.
Last Friday morning Divid Wal
ter Scott, a young son of Mr.. Jerre
Scott, who lives 10 the community
of Providence and Prospect Church.
es, Warren county, was gored to
death by bull. Turning out the
cattle for the day, this bull being in
the lead, the little fello y motioned
at him as if to quicken him up. The
animal turned upon the unsuspect>
ing child in fury, drove bis horns
into bis stomach, ran with him
hundred yards, threw him on the
ground with all bis force, and then
a second time gored him. A color
ed woman who attempted to aid him
was herself attacked by the furious
beast, and only escaped by climbing
over fence.
A correspondent of the Macon
Telegraph discusses in a sensible
and scientific manner the cause of
the burning of so many gin houses
in the South. He does not believe
that many of these fires are incendi,
airy thinks that some may be caus
ed by matches dropped into the
seed cotton and gnawed by the rats
but his theory is tina. most of them
are due to spontaneous combustion
caused by the heating of compact
masses of cotton and exudation of
portions of the oil in the seed /; this
(which may be noticed very often
when a hand is thrust into the mass
bursts out into a flame when a rat
or mouse, on cool night, tunnels
a way into the heated mass in order
to get to the warmth inside. /
A desperate man in Bloomington,
ILL.,, sdvertises for "a cook, good or
bad, with or without recommends
tious, to remain for life or only
few months.n He further comedies