The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-07-13
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
he HAS SAVED HIS SOUND TEETH.
A Murder and a Suicide Reported, a
FOrger Released, and Negro WO.
man Mother Of % Children

Geo. W. Bassett killed William
E. Bridwell in Macon with a stick.
Harry Hill, the Atlanta forger, is
at last freed from prison.
Harper Gilmore, who killed the
Pittman boys at Sandersville and
escaped, dressed as woman, is now
in England.
Ed McCandless, late cashier of
the Gate City Bank, after sixty
three ballots, was elected marshal
for Atlanta.
Mr.. George M. Houston shot and
killed himself in room %, at the
Pulaski House, Savannah, Thurs
day.
Justice Sam Lumpkin, Of the SUI
preme Court, and Mr.. w. W. Lump
kin, Of MilledgevilIe, have purchas>
ed the Milledgeville and Asylum
dummy railroad. the price PAID
was $4,000.
The will of the late E. R. Schei.
der, the we'll known Augusta liquor
dealer, bequeathed the bulk of his
large estate, nearly half a million,
to a nephew in Augusta, and to a
number of near relatives, who live
at Bremerhaven, Germany.
"Aunt" Aggie, negro woman
living at Palmetto, claims to be the
mother Of twenty eight children,
twenty-five Of whom are now living,
and her claim is substantiated by
others. She is now 81 years of age,
her baby being 4 years old.
According to the Monroe Adver>
tiser it is probable that as much as
100000 will, before long, be in
vested III the establishment of cot
ton factories in Monroe county.
There is an abundance of fine water
power in the county, especially at
High Falls, and it is reported that
the factories will be located there.
At recent marriage in Coffee
county the neighbors attempted to
give the happy couple the usual tin
pan serenade with COW bells and fog
horn accompaniment. But the
BRIDES mother was equal to the oc-
casion and had filled an old smusket
about half full of small shot, and az
the serenaders opened up their
grand musicale she opened up with
her musket battery, which put q
quietus on tul Their proceedings in
the musicale line. Two of the SER
enaders will have to devote the bal
ance of the week picking out small
shot.
NJ. w. Fouche, of Buena Vista,
Lad been bothered by the chickens
Of d neighbor, which had been
scratching up his peas. He plotted
fearful revenge, and catching the
chickens, picked all the feathers
from them, he posted his boys to
broacn the subject to the neighbor
so that he could work in his little
Joke. In the meantime his wife had
heard OF it and the subject was
preached at the dinner table. Some
thing was said that indicated that
Mr.. Foucbe did the picking himself,
and when che gave him a direct
question as to whether he did it or
not, he answered in the affirmative.
''Lord a mercy" exclaimed the
good woman, "they were your own
chickens
H. G. Fuller is one of the oldest
citizens of Rutledge, according to the
Madisonian, and queer story, in
which his teeth cut prominent
figure, is being told on him. Mr..
Fuller one day last week, pulled
from his mouth the last tooth from
his upper gum and dropped it into
little box where there were ifteen
others that had been pulled from the
same gum, making sixteen in all,
every one of them being perfectly