The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-03-16

GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

saloons.
John A. McWhorter, Esq, lawyer
of Atlanta, died last Monday.
Mr.. Joseph Sledge, an Atlantis
drummer, was killed by the cars near
Cusseta, Ala; last Monday
Mr.. Yeatman, who was sentenced
to four years, in last Spauldiug Sup
erior Court, has secured new trial.
Congressman Black, of George,
j. critically i'll at Washington, aud
his life hangs by a slender thread.
The Rev, DR.. Brantly, a we'll
known and highly esteemed Bap
tist clergyman, died in Baltimore on
Monday morning Of last week. He
married the daughter ofCol. j. b.
Walker of Madison, Ga.
Walton County Yidette D.: The
darkey who lately had a pistol ball
fired against the side of his head,
which glanced off and went half way
through two inch scantling, atten>
ded court last week and laid his
trouble before the grand Jury.
A negro poisoned bis whole FAM
lily in Thomastown last week with
bread made of cotton seed oil. Tho
fool thinking a large quantity would
make better bread than smaller
one, used nearly gallon of the oil
to make up the bread tor the meal.
Washington Gazette Gen. Tombs
says if there was only one cotton
seed on the face of the earth, and il
would kill him to swallow it, he
would do it, so great bane does he
consider tho exclusive production o.
cotton.
Mr.. Thomas Day, the engineer OF
the steamer Ida, committed Suicide
by leaping from the boat into the
Ocmulgee river, a short distance
below Lumber City, on the 25th OF
last month. He was brother OF
Capt. John l.. Day, owner of the
Ida. Mental alteration superinduced
by excessive drinking is assigned IS
the cause of the rash sct.-HalChi2S-
uate Dispatch.
The Carroll county agricultural
club has passed the following resoIu>
ton, with but one dissenting vote !:
Resolved, that it is the sense of the
Carroll county agricultural club that
each member of the same, obligates
himself not to plant more than one
third of his crop cotton, the balance
of two thirds shall be planted in
grain. New members are required
to agree to this resolution.
Ouitman Free Press MIR. w. s.
Tucker has raised 5000 cabbages
this season on hin lot here in town.
These are worth, at lowest figures,
$500. The entire cost of the labor
and fertilizers is about $l50-leav.
ing a clear profit of $320-from
about half acre. Yet our farming
people generally cry out "hard
times" Now it can't be said, "Oh,
he's got a rich spot of ground. y
The lot in question is bed Of white
sand, too poor of itself to sprout COW
peas, that is, before Mr.. t., com
menced to enrich it.
Athens Chronicle; On last Satur'
day night a young lady operative o.
the Georgia Factory, attempted t.
commit suicide. 1t seems that the
cause was love affair. She free
three pistol shots, the muzzle OF the
weapon pointing in the direction Of
| her forehead each time. Every bal
passed under the skin but glanced
off and did not fracture the skull
The third one somewhat stunned
her, and che doubtless thought her
end was accomplished and ceased
firing. DR.. j. M. Carlton.was call
ed to her assistance, and he says
the third shot came near being fatal
Sumpser Republican: A prominent
physician of one of our adjoining
counties was in our city a few
days ago hunting for two Of bis lit
tie boys who had run away froG
home 10 search Of adventure. The
boys we're quite small, and, as the
father told the writer, they were the
victims of a morbid feeling, produc'
ed by reading sensational stories
The boys were found here and about
leaving for the county to hire them
selves out to some farmer, as one OIL
them said, ''to make fortune 10
little while" The curse of this sgt
is the light sensational literature