The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-05-18
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

DR.. VIM. Adams has accepted a
J call to the First Presbyterian
| Church in Augusta, and will soon
euter upon bis Iabors there.
| Mrs. Leila Dallas Shelman, Of
Marietta, is visiting friends and rela
tives in this city. She is stopping
| at the residence of General Stovall,
on upper broad. AUGUSTA Ncacs.
Augusta Evening News Yestero
day evening, during the storm, a
bolt Of lightning struck the stable of
Mr.. Jas. Scales, who lives about ten
miles south of the city, killing two
mules and horse.
Newman Herald Major G. G..
Davenport arrived Tuesday after
noon from Washington city, with
800, 900 young chad to be turned
loose in the Chattahoochee river at
Moore's Ferry.
Cartersville Free Press: Cap
tain Taylor, an old and respected
citizen of this county, who lived up
on Salacoa. committed suicide last
week by firing five times into his
abdomen. Financial troubles are
said to be the cause of his rash and
terrible deed.
Washington Gagette; Mr.. John
L. Anderson will gather ten OF
twelve thousand bushels of oats this
season. He has ten acres that he
says will produce one hundred bush
els to the acre, if such is possible
They are tall enough to hide mule
of ordinary height.
A new church is to be built in
New York, which will possess many
features. In the first place, it viii
be free from debt, for a gentleman
who declines to let bis name bt
known pays the entire cost-$lOO,'
900. Attached to the church there
will be a day school, a cooking
school and a kitchen garden.
The worms which have been des
troying the growing wheat in por'
tions of the county have been exam
ined by an entomologist and pro
nounced to be the army worm which
has done sues great damage out in
the Northwest Their appearance
this far South is very unusual. -
Rome Courier.
DouglasviIle Star: A rumor is ii
circulation at this place that Willis
Bsgwell has received letter from
his lost daughter, Mary, and that she
is now in Kansas City, Mo-, tt
which place be has gone for her
We cannot vouch for the truthful
ness of the rumor, but we know tha
Mr.. Bagwell passed this place last
week on bis way to Atlanta, but fol
what purpose we cannot say.
Perry Home Journal: A little
white boy ten years of age left Per-
ny alone last Saturday for Hearne,
Texas, where his uncle resides
His friends, thinking he would need
come assistance while on the long
journey, placed a placard on him,
giving his destination and the route
to be taken. He was provided with
through ticket, and left here in
good spirits. FIe will doubtless
make the trip in good style and safe>
ty.
Sandersville MAY l1th) corres>
pondence of the Augusta Chronicle !:
Our town was visited last evening,
at about 6 o'clock, by very heavy
rain and thunder storm. Judge S.
B. Jones was struck by lightning
and killed instantly. His little son,
Charley, about nine years old, who
was with him at the time, is severe
ly and dangerously shocked and
burned, but it is thought be will re-
cover.
A Monroe county negro is GER
taiuly an euterprising farmer. He
has only one mule and with it be
opens a furrow fer his cotton seed,
his little girl follows him and drops
the seed, whilst his wife covers the
seed with another plow drawn by
the man who opens the furrow, be
having xtetnporized harness for
himself to pull the pillow. That ne,
gro will make a living. Well bet
that he is not a political aspirant,
nor cares continental for the syn
dictate.
Brunswick AduertiSey: Fifty bar
rels of Irish potatoes on patch not
a quarter of an acre in size. That
fifty barrels of potatoes brought John
Currie, of St. Simon's Island, two
hundred and fifty dollars. AT that
rate an acre, with a little manages
ment and work, brings III one season
a yield of one thousand dollars
Don't "go West, young man" as
long as you can buy land on St. ST.
mon at five dollars per acre, already
cleared and broken for the plcw, in
a land full of all the advantages &C,
cruing to old settlements.
On Wednesday last at j. j. Gums
ming's sawmill, McNei's Station,
Port Royal and Augusta railroad,
the sawyer, Mr.. Neil Hewitt, reached
across The saw while running to ad>