The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-04-20
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
A RAILROAD ENGINEERS PET EEL.
Several Bloody Murders Recorded.
Profitable Sweet Potato Raising
Near Cave Spring.

JAMES K. GARRETT, 50 years OF
age, of Monroe, one day last week
put up eighty-tour panels of fence,
w. T. NEWMAN, for long time
master mechanic of the Georgia
Pacific railroad, suicided by the use
of morphine Friday in Atlanta.
THE lawyers who have been en-
gagged in the Ryan case in Atlanta
claim $4,000 for their fees. The
creditors will get very small per
cent. of their claims.
NEAR Lumpkin, Ca, Will and
Price Wimberly, 10 and Z years of
age respectively, killed a small ne>
gro boy by punching his entrails
out wi th sticks. All colored
A man by the name of Ray at
Cave Spring, Ga: saved 400 bushels
of sweet potatoes through the winter
and sold them this Spring at Is
cents per bushel. That was $500
and the whole size of his potato
patch was twelve acres.
JEFF BURNETT, residing near Fort
Gaines, was murdered Wednesday
morning by negro tramp knocking
him in tie head with an axe. 1t is
supposed that robbery was the cause,
as Burnett was keeping country
store. He was killed in his bed, in
the back room Of his store. The
murderer escaped.
W. F. CUMMINGS of Hampton was
in Augusta Tuesday and reports
that the cotton mill talked of last
fall is an assured thing. Fifty
thousand dollars is the subscription.
and the balance for 5,000-spindle
capacity mill will be furnished as
needed. The idea is to start up
with $500 spindles and manufacture
high grade yarns. and later on add
the balance Of the spindles and put
in looms tor weaving.
JOHN F. WIsENBAKER, a we'll to
do planter, living about seven miles
south of Valdosta, was working on
his farm near the house late We'd
nesday afternoon. Hearing his wife
scream he hurried to the house and
met his wife coming out. She told
him man was inside who had
threatened her life if she made any
noise. Mr.. Wis6nbaker rushed into
the house with his hoe in his hand,
and was instantly fired upon by the
tramp. Wisenbaker struck at him
several times with the hoe, but the
tramp kept out of his way, and after
emptying his revolver without effect,
seized Wisenbaker's gun that was
lying in the corner of the room and
enptied the contents into Wisen~
bker's breast, killing him instantly.
TIE tramp burglarized the house,
obhining about 800, and made his
estpe.
RS. WIsENBAKER, the wife of old
m. John F. Wisenbaker, indentifi-
eCothran, the man in Jail, at Vail
dG, as the one who committed the
mder.
he little narrow guage road that
ri out to Sandersville can boast
ole mosS curious pet on record,
ait is as slick as it is curious.
Alt six months ago, while Engi-
d Thomas was taking on water at
aersville, he happened to look
lie tender, and to his surprise,
dvered an eel-a real live one
at foot. long. 1t at once struck
tind-hearted engineer to try and
b it and see what pet he could
> of it. The eel was as quick to
! friends as was the engineer,
On few days would not only
to the surface but would crawl
Ugh the engineers hand when
luld feed it. "He's the slickest
lever saw" said his new master.
7, / actually believe he knows
hter tank signal, for I never