The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Gideon Jennings, of Carroll county,
is the father of 90 children, 16 of
whom are living.
Work has been commenced on the
new college at Townsville. The
building is to cost $4,000.
Paul Russell, negro, charged with
murder in Mcintosh county, was
found guilty last week and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
The City Counsel of Gainesville vo-
ted on Friday night to issue beer Ii
censes. The temperance people do
not like this backward step.
Vincent Lockhart, of Hall county,
is 81 years old, remembers the death
of Washington well, was in the wal
of 1912 and has lived in his present
home for forty years.
Pope Cole, a miner in the Legal
Tender mine, in Murray county,
while working on the side of noun
tain in that county slipped on rock
which rolled under his foot, throw.
my him down the side of the noun
tain, killing him instantly.
Maj. John Longstreet, while play
ing base ball Wednesday afternoon
in Gainesville, broke his leg just
above the ankle. Sympathetic friends
carried him to the home of his father
Gen. Longstreet, where the leg was
set by DR.. Ham.
The members of Company A, Sew.
enth. Georgia Regiment, were request
ed to meet in the court house in New.
nan Saturday, June ID, for the pur.
pose of organizing for reunion o.
the old company. The original flag
presented to the company when leav
ing for Virginia, was on hand.
A little girl of Mr.. Wilson, il
Blairsville, Union county, was bitter
some times ago, and hydrophobia de
veloped in a few days. She died il
horrible agony on the seventeenth
day. Her commissions were so VIC.
lent at times that it required severa
strong men to hold her in bed.
George Mcdonald, of Lee county
while riding home Thursday nigh
from his plantation, was ambuscade,
by party of three or four persons
who shot him in the breast, the bal
not penetrating. The mule he wa
riding got frightened and threw him
and he drew his revolver and drov
the parties off.
A lady in Americas several week
ago lost silver quarter somewher
about the yard or garden. Bein
unable to find it, its loss passed GU
of mind until few days ago, he
daughter in cutting up some perfect
ly white and compactly headed cal
bage, found the quarter securely in
bedded in a cabbage head.
Alta meeting of the City Counci
of Rome Tuesday night $500 wa
appropriated for the maintenance c
the public schools during the ensu
ing year. In addition to this tn
schools will receive LOO from tn
State Commissioners and has Just 81
cured $1,000 from the Peabody fun
for the same purposes, so that ther
is total of $1,000 in the hands {
the Board of Trustees to run tn
schools the next scholastic year.
Leary Courier: William Billings
ly, negro living and farming on tn
Jackson place, in Baker county, wa
last week bitten by a rattlesnakC
He was blowing and was at the en-
of a row turning, when, without warn
ing, huge rattlesnake, which ha
until then been unperceived, bit hir
through a coarse brogan shoe, tn
fangs entering the flesh of the foo
at the instep. The snake crawled o
a short distance and began to rattle
Billingsly, without a moments hest
tation, pulled off his shoe, and, whet
ting his knife keenly, made Ion
incision in his foot to let out as h
said "the pisen blood" The woun,
| bled cOpiously, and after killing tn
snake, he went to Milford, where h
got under the influence of whisky
lie experienced very little troubl
from the bite, the leg only slight
swelling. Whether it was from tn
immediate and copious bleeding, tn
whisky, or that the snake was no
sufficiently aroused that the negro i
not dead, is not clear, but that h
made close shave is very certain
The snake was about four. feet loni
and had nine rattles and button.
| People with very large noses ma,
be interested to learn that an Englisl