The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-01-14
GEoRGIA GLEANINGs.

ca III ANOInO, I'd, rum 0dIlllS raw
meat.
Twenty tramps passed through AL
bany the other day in a body, on their
way to Florida.
Last month there was thirty-two
stills seized and destroyed by the
revenue men in the Atlanta division.
Mr.. J. R. VIM, of Wilcox county,
made two thousand pounds of seed
cotton on one acre of land.
Ex-Governor Benjamin Conley died
suddenly in Atlanta on last Sunday
morning.
At the sale of Giles circus in Mon
roe, the elephant brought $1,000,
lions $500, camels 1926 and monkeys
81 each.
Recently some scoundrel went into
the stable of Adam & Gaffney, at Al
bany, and cut the tongue of his horse
out close to the root.
Miss Minnie H. Rogers, formerly
of Marietta and Mr.. Stanly Owen,
OF Gadkin College, North Carolina,
We're united in marriage in the col
lege hall last week.
|. L. Stephens, of Pulaski county,
has a Agar old daughter who bears
the name of Carrie Ophelia Lethia
Dean Martha Ann Elizabeth Jane
Stephens.
Two families that left Sumter coun-
ty a few weeks ago for Texas, have
written to friends in Americas for
money to return with. They want to
get back to old Georgia.
David H. Day, was killed on the
Central railroad, between Whitehall
and Forsyth streets. He was crush
ed between the car and platform I'M
der the Broad street bridge and hv
ed fifteen minutes. He was seventy
years old and has a wife living.
The little son of Mr.. Jessie Braw-
ner, living near Gainesville, got one
Of his arms entangled in a gin last
week, mangling it up fearfully, so
much SO that amputation was neces-
sary.
Own or lease your land. Terrace
well; use peas and lime or a fertili-
ger rotate your crops; commence at
the other end of the year, i. e., make
before you spend-with industry and
economy and the last farmer in the
country will be independent in five
years.
G.. j. Wallace, of Worth county,
has killed 1000 pounds of pork this
winter, made 80 bales of cotton, about
300 bushels of corn, 700 bushels of
oats, plenty of potatoes, etc., to last
him until another crop, and all this
on a three-horse farm.
A Dade county man advertises his
place for sale through the Lafayette
Messenger. He says that his reason
for wishing to sell is the proximity
of the railroad, that he has nc use
for the railroad, that at yells and
bowls around until he is tired of its
Internal whistle
4 citizen of Perry, Ga, received
the other day photograph of Presi-
dent Cleveland in answer to a letter
from the citizen in which he announ-
ced that his last son had been named
Grover Cleveland. The letter ac-
companying the picture courteously
expressed the Presidents appreciation
of the compliment paid him.
| The Albany News makes a dis
tressing statement in regard to
property in that section of the State.
1t says that lands in that region have
been gradually decliniugin price ever
since the war, and have now reached
a point where they can be had at al
most any price. A few men who have
money are buying up lands at these
prices, and will be immensely rich in
the course of a few years.
A panther attacked Mr.. and Mrs.
| Georgia Greenleaf, in Rabun county
on Saturday night last, as they were
returning home from Clayton. Mr..
&. was knocked down by the spring
of the panther, but before the beast
could do him much hurt, Mrs. q.
plunged knife into its throat, kill
ing it in a few minutes. The pan
ther had committed depredations for
some time, and had been much hunt
ed by men in the neighborhood.
Dozier Brown found a mulatto ba-
by in the woods near his house, in
Hart county, Saturday. He had
walked out to his lot, and, hearing a
noise, went to see what itmeant, and
discovered the child in the leaves,
with chunk of wood across its
breast. 1t was hut few hours old
when found. Mr.. Brown called a
negro woman on the place who took
charge Of it. The child was alive at
last accounts.
A peculiar experience in well-dig-
ging is reported by Prof. L. G.
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