The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-07-02
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

JN%AANO VIZ NhhA III [AlldItLd
the recent revival there.
DIR. John w. Heidi, President of
LaGrange Female College, has ac-
cepted the position of Regent of the
Southwestern University of Texas.
J. N. Bell, of Atlanta, contem-
plates the establishment of match
factory at GAINESVILLE.
Col Richard Peters, of Atlanta,
has Jersey COW that furnishes over
twenty pounds of butter every week.
A baby farm has been uncovered
in Atlanta. Mr.. and Mrs. Errick
have cared for eight little waits, sew
en- of whom have died.
Newman capitalists have subscrib-
ed $4,000 toward the erection of
the proposed guano factory at that
place. The $4,000 needed will
doubtless be in hand this week.
Sam Jones says: "Sow billiards,
reap FOOLS" "Sow cards, reap gam
blers." "Sow whiskey, reap drunk
ards" Sow. germans, reap spider
legs"
Mr.. Levi Ellison, of Paulding
county, is 16 years old, seven feet
high and weighs 100 pounds, and
goes to see pretty girl 10 years old,
who weighs 90 pounds.
In Paulding county last Thursday
lightning struck tree in the yard,
and thence to the porch, killing Mr..
Mason and young Hcsterlie, and in
juring two ladies.
Capt. S. d. Fuller, in Pulaski
county, still owns the old horse he
rode through the Confederate army.
He is good old family horse yet.
His age is between 25 and 30 years
old.
Two brothers married two sisters.
under persimmon tree by the road
side, over in Banks county, last Sun
day evening, and all went on brid-
al tour to the cotton patch on Mon
day.
Mr.. Charles II. Lampley, of Dor
chester county, Md, shot himself be-
cause his wife went to ball in Mo
Their Hubbard. A fine of S. is i'm
posed in Dawson, Ca, on women who
wear that garment on the street.
The Rev. Sam Jones saying, have
become common property. They are
his own. They are gathered from all
sources, and they always have point.
Brother JONES'" said nervous
brother, what makes you chew to-
bacco?' '"TO get the juice out" said
Sam.
The congregation ola negro church
near LaGrange was disturbed on
Saturday night by the report of a
pistol in the building. Henry Tuck
er had shot his wife in the hip. In
vestigating proved that the shooting
was accidental, but Henry was ar
rested for carrying concealed wea-
pons.
A young man named r. B. Fort
man, from New Orleans, fell from
the top of Turner's Point, at Tallu-
lah Falls Friday afternoon and land
ed at the bottom, distance of $50
feet. A party searched for him all
night and his almost lifeless body
was found early Saturday morning.
He had only been at the falls few
days. He cannot recover.
All pilots and Captains of tugboats
ofthe port of Brunswick are notified
that from and after this date, until
further notice, all vessels arriving
from Mediterranean ports, or other
ports injected or suspected of chol-
era, must be anchored in St. Sim
mons sound until inspected by the
health officer.
| A rattlesnake bit mule, an OK, a
COW and a yearling belonging to Es-
quire Ellison, near Cherokee mills.
last week, from the effects of which
the mule has died, and perhaps the
others. The stock was in an old pas
ture or field that has been turned
out for years. His snakeship is sup
posed to be very very large, and 20
years or more old. Canton Adyance.
Messrs. Miles & Horne, contract
ors, have informed the Georgia Capt.
tol commission that it will cost 5000.
OOO to substitute Georgia granite or
marble for the oOlitic limestone agreed
upon. In addition to this, the esti-
mate must embrace the cost of chang
ing the machinery for working mate
rial, the cost of the limestone already
on the ground and the damages sus-
tanned by the contractors in institut-
ing the changes. The whole matter
will be submitted by the Governor
to the Legislature, in answer to the
Senate resolution on the subject.
At Newman, while thunder cloud
was passing, 7. A. Sewell was struck
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