The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
GEORGIA GLEANTNGS.

puDllC IOduS 10 De OU IeeL Wlue.
$1,000 have already been spent on
Atlanta's artesian we'll
Measles have made a boy living
near Harmony Grove crazy.
Josie Willoughby, aged IA years,
was drowned at GAINESVILLE Friday.
J. P. Cole, of Spring Place, fell
over precipice Friday, and sustained
injuries which resulted in death.
The old men OF Barlow have had a
boss game of town ball in Carriers
vile.
The colored Baptist church, a
school house and cabin were de-
stroyed by fire at Elberton Friday
morning.
The residence of p. G. Harris, at
CedartOwn, has been burned. The
loss Of $1,000 is not covered by insur-
ance.
Lumpkin boasts of hen that has
laid an egg shaped like dumb bell,
with the yolk in one end and the
white in the other.
Eta Simmons, an inmate of
house Of i'll repute in Savannah, com
mitted suicide last Thursday night by
shooting herself through the head.
Barnesyille's new hotel is being
built with commendable celebrity
Savannah News. If they would use
mortar and brick it would be more
lasting.
The citizens of Graysville, in Ca
toosa county, are greatly excited over
the discovery of silver ore in their
immediate vicinity. From the speci-
mems seen the ore is very valuable,
and the prospectors believe they have
struck upon a bonanza.
Frank Leverett, of Eatonton, has
recently come in possession of pho
tograph of himself, blown away in the
cyclone of February, 1884, and picked
up near Barnett, distance of 100
miles.
Bud Adams and Rufus Simkins,
two negroes, who had burned the
dwelling of Mr.. Ben Cato, near Akin,
s. c., after robbing it of S400 in cash.
and other articles, have just been cap
tured at Sylvania.
The St. Paul Methodist Church
Sunday School and about 500 Allan
ia citizens went on an excursion to
Tallulah Falls last Thursday and
about one hundred or more persons
were made sick by poisoned ice
cream.
There are 800 applications on file
for admission of patients to the in
sane asylum at Milledgeville. Pa
tients are only admitted now as va
cancies occur by restoration, remov-
al or death One of the new build
ings is completed, but not yet furn-
shed.
A young minister of Oglethorpe
county, in order to raise funds for his
school, requests each scholar in the
school to bring an egg every Sunday
morning, and the minister pays the
money for the eggs, and thereby very
easily enables the little folks in his
neighborhood to have money to pur
chase their Sunday school literature.
A young man formerly of Athens,
promised his wife before they were
married that if he ever got too poor
to have her washing done he would
do it himself. Since they were mar
rled he has not prospered like he
thought he would, and has got too
poor to have the clothes washed, and
his wife makes him scrub them out
for her.
Five weeks ago w. ]. Carlton, of
Good Hope, Walton county, was adj
Judged "a lunatic and sent to the asy-
lum at Milledgeville. He was taken
there and examined by the physicians,
and they could find nothing the mat
ter with him, and he was allowed to
go about the place and do as he
pleased. After staying there five
weeks he was discharged and sent
home. Mr.. Carlton thinks that there
has been huge job put up on him.
lie thinks of suing the county for
large amount of damages.
A dog, supposed to be mad dog,
ran through the streets of Cedartown
day or two ago. As he passed j |
K. Cooper's market, Mr.. Cooper got
his pistol, and fired at him. The ball
missed the dog, but hit horse be-
longing to Mr.. Sam Tate, which was
hitched on the opposite side of the
street, the ball entering the animals
head between the eye and ear. The
horse is badly injured, and may die.
MIR. Tate is much aggrieved and
threatens legal steps to recover dam
ages.
a young man, who is the nephew
OF the steward of the steamer Thorna-
teeska, on the last trip Of the boat