The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-06-01
GEORGIA oLEANINGs.

in gold few days ago. The money
was found by an honest negro and
returned to the owner.
New Switzerland, on the Air
Line Railroad. is settled by Swiss
Golonists. Each family brought
with them to Georgia from 1000 to
IS, 900.
Dan jenkins. a Centerville dsr-
key, has gone to the chain gang for
nine months, for stealing corn. An.
other coalition vote gone. The par
ty is disappearing behind prison
bars.
On Monday, o. Clarke Superior
Court, Judge Pottle sent bailiff to
Jail for twenty>four hours, in defsuI.
Of paying fine Of $25. The offenSe
consisted in the bsiliffs allowing a
Juror to visit bis home while case
was in progress.
We learn from the Echo that Mr..
Joe Escoe, Of Oglethorpe, has in
vented an improved wagon wheel in
which the spokes can be put in or
taken out without removing the
tire.
Dick Bomar, a negro living on
Mr.. w. J. Wares farm, about five
miles west of Fairburn, broke out
with small pox recently. He has
been at work ON the Cole road near
Dallas, in Paulding county, where
be was exposed.
Silas Paine, FIVE miles southwest
of Canton, lest year raised 54O
bushels of sweetpotatoes. The cul'
tivation, gathering and preserving
this crop coat $33 80. He now has
on three and q half acres "a, 600
plants set. If sessonable, he ex-
poets nearly one thousand bushels Of
potatoes. He says this will beat
nearly twenty acres Of best cotton.
A rather curious incident happen
ed not far from Summerville recent
| ly. 1t was warm and sunshiny, and
a young lady sat in the parlor play
ing the piano, with all the windows
thrown open, when a swarm of bees
attracted by the music, entered and
settled on the instrument. 1t is no
torious that bees are alike fond O
sweet food and sweet sounds.
K. S. V. Bryant was arrested il
in Bolton Wednesday morning
charged with burning the stores
which we're consumed by FIRE in tina
town some time laat fall, and waiv
ing a commitment trial was placed il
Jail to await the next session of tht
superior court. His bond W.T.
placed at two thousand dollars by
Judge Welborn, who happened to b.
in the city, which he did not give.
jackson Herald Jim Randolph
made quite novel experiment will
bermuda grass last week. He dug
up the grass, roots and all, off o
about twenty square feet of surface
took it to the branch below BIZ
house, to where it runs over q shoaI
: started the grass 10 at the top ant
let the water wash it down stream
until ell the dirt was out of it. HI
then dried it, end found thai he hat
eight hundred pounds of hay tina
his mules would eat in preference
to fodder. 10 fact, they just long
for it. And it only cost him abou
one>fourth of what Western hay
does.
Sumpter Republican: On las
Tuesday a fisherman, whose name
we withhold, and who lives near
Danville, on the Flint. went to run
bis nets, and GU hauling up one OF
them discovered entangled in it q
human hand, in shape and form
similar to that of a womans, and con
thinning two gold rings. 1t scared
him so badly that be dropped the
net and would not venturej,O it again
until he secured another fisherman
to go with him. When the net wa'
again hauled up, there was not q
sign of hand to be seen.
George Moss went to the late civ
il war from the Chestnut Log die.
trict, in Campbell county, Go. He
left many relatives and friends, and
they heard end have believed that
be was killed in the army. News
of the death of soldiers during the
war came so thick AMI fast thai
mourning almost ceased, unless
among the immediate family. The
sister and brother in>law of George
Moss, as we'll as bis other relatives
and friends, ceased mourning for
him seventeen years ago. About
three weeks ago, however, having
| left a home be had found in "Old
Virginia." be knocked at the door
of bis sister near Douglasville, and
was welcomed back to life and home
again. He is now en- old bachelor,
and will remain in the midst of the
scenes of bis youth, having fought
out a hard time in the war and in
peace in Virginia. During all that
time he had never written home. -
He is about the same in circumstan-
ces as when he departed.