The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-12-09
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

rolItOn road will be extended to Chat
tanooga, Tenn, while the Rome and
Decatur road will be extended to
Gainesville, Ga.
A Coweta county man says twenty
laying hens will eat more corn than
horse. Yes, remarks an exchange,
and they'll lay more eggs than twen-
ty horses.
Three gentlemen, father and his
two sons, residing near Americas,
were recently married to three sis
tiers, each ceremony having been per-
formed by the same minister.
Elyira Jones (colored) gained
verdict for $500 against the Central
railroad at Augusta. A train cut off
one of her arms several month ago,
and she sued for $4,000.
A swine doggery" recently estab-
lished just outside the limits at Car
tersville was visited Monday night
by yigllantes and completely demol-
ished.
The Sparta Ishmaelite thinks that
it would have been cheaper this year
to have bought crop of cotton than
to have raised it. 1t suggests that
some of the farmers try that plan an
other year.
Jim Lowe, of Dooly county, up to
last week, was the head of an inter
esting family OF nine children. Now
the number is twelve, his wife hav-
ing presented him with three bounc-
ing boys, all at one time.
Mr.. Sam Rhodes, of Wilkes, runs
seven plows and will make an aver
age of 10 bales to the pillow, 112 in
all. Two of his plows will make for
ty-nine bales. In addition to this he
makes 800 bushels OF corn.
Eli Lovinggood, who lives at Chero-
kee Mills, in Cherokee county, has
lost about 200 hogs from cholera, and
would have lost many others had he
not adopted the plan ofstarving them.
He says he put some of his hogs up
and did not feed or water them for
II days, and they are now sound
and healthy and fattening every day.
The s months-baby of Seabe Hin
son (colored,) who lives at Cargo,
negro settlement two miles east of
Eastman, was literally roasted alive
on Thursday afternoon last. 1t seems
that the mother Of the infant left it
alone in the house while she went af-
ter a bucket of water, and, when she
returned, found it lying on the hearth
dead, with all its clothing burned off.
Berry Roberts (colored) was lodged
in Jail at Canton, Ga, Sunday for
burning the barn of n. J. Wheeler
a few weeks ago. The proof that he
burned the barn is not conclusive
yet, from his own admissions and
suspicious circumstances, it points
pretty directly to him as being one
of the guilty parties. He says anoth-
er negre by the name of Strickland
was concerned in the burning also.
Colonel Nelson Tiff, of Albany has
put an artesian well to novel use.
He has constructed over it tank
holding 5000 gallons, raised sixteen
feet from the ground, which receives
the full flow of the well. Under this
is fixed a small over-shot wheel,
which, with an expenditure of 200
gallons of water per minute, affords
sufficient power to saw tirewood, cut
forage and do other necessary work
of the farm.
Sam W. Kendall, a popular young
gentleman OF Albany, has been
troubled with somnambulism for sew
eral months. His nervous condition
is in such shape that he performs
many acts while asleep that are APP
propriate to his waking state. He
has walked at the dead hour of night
to find himself remote from home
walking lonely country road. Once
he narrowly escaped serious injury
from walking off the portico of his
fathers home. Last Saturday night
at o'clock a pistol shot startled the
family of his father, Mr.. John NJ.
Kendall, and a quick investigation
discovered that Sam had shot him
self through the little finger of the
left hand while asleep. The bone
proved to have been badly fractured
by the ball, but the attending physi-
clans entertain some hope of saving
his finger from amputation. He
dreamed that burglars were attempt
ing to force an entrance into the
house, and he arose, taking his pistol
to defend the premises. 1t is suppos-
ed that he cooked the weapon and
discharged it accidentally.