The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-10-21
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Atlanta pays $4,000 interest on
her public debt per annum.
Counterfeit silver dollars being
circulated in Rome.
t. o. Parker was shot and killed
in Habersham county by a man nam
ed Sisk, revenue informer.
Nature is frank, and will allow no
man to abuse himself without giving
him hint of it.
Henry Norris, the murderer OF
George Elliott, was hanged in Buch-
anan last Friday.
The town council of Ellijay have
placed the liquor license at $4,000 a
year.
I. G. Mayson of Atlanta it is said
will clear s15, 900 by his liquor sales
up to the time when his license will
expire on the 18th.
A man at Flovilla has a scrap book
containing the marriage notice of all
the women he has ever loved, and he
sits out in the moonlight and reads it
and cries.
William Pitcher, of Sumter county
gathered 208 bushels of corn from
five acres, an average 412 bushels to
the acre. Mark Perry, of Schley,
gathered ~ bushels OF corn from Il
acres.
The American Newspaper Annual
gives it that the Atlanta Constitution
has circulation of Il, 900 to the dali
ly and $4,000 to the weekly Consti-
tuition, and as the subscription to
paper is always paid in advance, it
collects alone for subscription about
1925 900 per annum.
J. ID. Geise, of Bornwood, made
this year 125 bushels of born on two
and half acres and so bushels of
oats on one acre. After harvesting
the oats MIR. Geise then planted the
land in potatoes, and gathered from
it 100 bushels.
Miles Galloway, OF Athens, says he
never entered the door of barroom
in his life, that his family never
smelt liquor of any kind on his
breath, and not a cross or unkind
word ever passed between himself
and wife during their long married
life.
A gentleman of Athens says that
before the war he purchased 1000
acres of land in Lee county for S13
per acre, and the same number in
Jackson and Hall for 50 per acre.
He cannot now get one-fourth what
he gave for the Lee lands, while his
property in the upper counties will
bring sl2 and s1j per acre.
A Fort Valley man went home a
few nights ago and not feeling well
took what he supposed to be tour pills
and then slept the sleep CT the Just
When his wife awoke in the morn.
ing she began search for four shoe
buttons which she intended to sew
on baby's shoes before the little one
awoke. She could not find them
and the husband joined in the search
Finally he remembered where founC
the pills and said: "GOod heavens
| swallowed them buttons"
Great excitement exists in Mill
edgeville over the faith cure of Mrs
Ward of Eatonton, who has been or
crutches seven years. One Of hel
feet has not touched the ground il
several years. After jealous pray
er she laid aside her crutches, anC
walked four blocks to the church
praising God. Great astonishmen
among the people resulted. Anoth
er lady has been similarly benefited
The holiness convention with repre-
sentatives from all over the country
is in session there, and great awak
ening and intense religious enthus
iasm prevails.
Americas Recorder: As all evi
dence of the prosperity of some o
the citizens of Sumter county, We
cite the following A certain farmer
living near Americas walked into
one of our business houses recently
and asked the proprietor if he did
not want to borrow $1,000, telling
him that this was the surplus cash
from the sale Of his crop, and which
he didn't need just now. The mer.
chant replied that he also had a
small cash surplus of $4,000, fol
which he was seeking an investment,
and refused the farmers proffered
| loan at 3 ner cent interest