The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-22
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

murderer, was hanged at Valdosta,
Ga, last Friday.
The Sinking Mountain near
Thllulah Falls, has lately and all at
once, sunk about 46 feet.
Hon. Thomas Norwood has been
renominated for Congress in the first
district.
One hundred and forty thousand
dollars is being invested in buildings
and other improvements in Rome and
her suberbs.
Atlanta had disastrous fire Sat
urday night, out on Marietta road.
Some ten or dozen small houses
were destroyed.
Gen. p. NJ. B. Young, ::of Carriers
vile, Consul General at st. Peters
burg, Russia, has obtained a furlough
for 80 days, and will return home
about Oct. l.
Col. w. II. Bonner, of Gordon
county, has curiosity in the form of
a colt with five feet, the fifth one
growing on the inside OF the right
front leg just above the ankle joint.
A shark twelve feet long was cap
tured on the banks off Brunswick
last week. Sam Brockinton dissect-
ed him, and says he found in his
stomach the brass wheels of Captain
Elias Persons clock that fell over
board two years ago and was swal-
lowed by shark.
At Homer Wednesday Bill Smith,
colored, aged Is years, was committed
to Jail for attempting to commit an
assault On the two-year-old child OF
Mr.. A. l.. Pruitt. Smith says he
came from Athens. He confessed
his crime when he was arrested and
waived trial.
In Webster county young man
found rabbit nest in the field the
other day and set steel trap there
to catch the rabbit. He went to it
Thursday and found rattlesnake
hard and fast. 1t was 4 feet and 4
inches iii length and s inches in cir
conference. 1t had eleven rattles.
1t was dead when found.
During the thunder storm Monday
afternoon, Blake, little son of Will
liam Gibson, of Dawson, aged FIVE
years, was struck and instantly killed
by lightning. The little fellow was
sitting by column on the plaza,
when the lightning struck the column
and passing down struck him on the
head with fatal results. Two other
children of Mr.. Gibson, who were
standing near by, were stunned but
not hurt.
Bob Rowan of ROckdale county
Ga, telt something bite his hand as
he was feeling in a hollow log for a
rabbit. He jerked his hand out in a
hurry, and with it came highland
moccasin snake whose fangs were i'm.
bedded in his hand. Before he kill.
ed the snake he was bitten in the
other hand. He drank gallon Of
whisky, suffered terribly, was just or
the point of death, but is now recov
ering.
There is man near Griffin who
has been married three different
times, and boasts Of having under his
roof six different families of children
His last two wives were widows with
children, which makes his home like
a young colony of many grades of re.
lationship. The old man keeps a
register of the names, date of birth
and the family to which they belong
senoia' Seminal: Col. John Meth,
vim hired II negro several days age
and was to feed him. When dinner
arrived the darkey devoured two
pones of corn bread II inches in
length, 6 inches wide, 4 inches thick,
twelve large biscuits, three quarts Of
milk, two pounds of meat, about two
gallons Of cabbage and beans, one
pint OF syrup, sluashes, corn, beets,
cucumbers and onions in proportion,
After finishing his dinner he had the
impudence to ask how long it was be-
tore supper.
At Monroe Wednesday a little
thirteen-year-old negro boy was hold
ing two mules hitched to wagon on
the streets. He walked out on the
tongue to fix the lines, which caused
the team to runaway. The mules ran
against a tree and broke the tongue,
one end of which struck the little fell
low in the stomach, completely dis
emboweling him. Many strong men
turned sick and almost tainted. The
boy is not yet dead, but is delirious,
with pulse at $50. No one. expects
his recovery,