The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-07-26

Colonel kIlleDre, or tennessee,
has gone to Mexico to work the Polk
mines. He says they are worth
SO, 100000.
A man failed in trying to commit
suicide, at Mansfield, Mass, and
next day a railroad train ran over
him accidentally.
The Fort Gaines Tribune says
"Mr. j. w. West brought to our
Office yesterday some cotton which
was completely covered by cotton
worms. His cotton will all be des,
,royed within a week if they are nCt
killed.
A discouraging item from the
Dawson Journal: "The caterpillar
is making sad havoc with the cotton
10 the lower counties of this State,
and we hear of their appearance in
this section. The indications now
are that they eat up the crop unless
checked by the use of poisons.
Athens Banner: GA man lives a
few miles above Athens who eats in
one county, sleeps in another,
smokes. when sitting upon bis piaz'
"a, in third, and has built his barn
in a fourth. He lives where four
Counties corner, and is as independ'
eut Of legal officers as woOd,saw'
yer.
Georgia appropriates large sums
every J ear to make colleges, but oot
a dollar goes for the benefit of the
female. This is not right; educated
women are as much a necessity al
educated men. Will not the Legis
la,ure endow some one of the female
colleges and open wide its gates,
so that poor girls can have the adj
vantage of free tuitionY
Within four years $500 acres Of
land at and near Charlemont, Va,
on the James River, hava been sold
to farmers from the North and West.
The largest purchases have been
plots of 800 acres, and the smallest
20. The new settlers express them
selves as delighted with their new
possessions.
NJ. J. O'Brien, of Chattanooga,
Supreme Treasurer of the Catholic
Knights of America, states that the
shortage of his predecessor, Hech
mao, will not exceed $4,000. The
bank of Grafton is held good for
So, 600 of this sum, and Hechman's
bondsmen for the remainder. Mr..
O'Brien states that the financial con-
dition of the order is sound.
Ten thousand people, we are told,
attended the funeral of the late
Charles S Strattou, who became fa>
nous as Gen. Tom Thumb The
interests shown in the little man
after he was dead was certainly re-
mark able, and recalled the populsri>
ty of his early career. 1t demon
strated in a striking manner on what
curious qualities popularity is some>
times based.
The body of Hebrew, who died
in Chicago recently, was laid out in
front of window facing west. The
centre pane, which is now on exhibit
ton, between Z and s o'clock every
evening, presents a perfect likeness
of the dead man. At no other time
during The day is the strange APP
pearance visible Washing with
chemicals has failed to obIiterate the
mysterious image, which does not
fade.
A gentleman by the name of Eli
lott, now one of the proprietors, and
the editor of the Dallas (Texas) Her
aid, is the divorced husband of Mrs.
Commodore Vanderbilt. Lately, it
is said Mrs. Vanderbilt invited him
to visit Der in New York. He &C.
cepted her invitation, and discovered
that her early affection for him had
revived. Indeed, it is said, she in
dicated pretty clearly that she would
not object to marrying him again -
She is rich and could give MIR. FL
liott a splendid home The story is
that Mr.. Elliott declined to consider
the matter, because Mrs. Vanderbit's
mother is still alive. Was the mother
in law the cause of the divorce