The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-08-17
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
ATLANTA DORROWS A LARGE SUM,
A Man Breaks His Leg Clear Off and
Picks His Foot Up in His Hand
and Hoped Off.

Albany has received 159 new bales
Of cotton up to date.
The Georgia Prohibitionists will
hold State convention in Macon
on Wednesday, August %.
The Milledgeville Oil and Fertilizer
Company's property was sold last
.,Fweek to Malsby & Camp, of Atlanta,
for $4,000. 1t cost $4,000, and
afterwards $4,000, was sunk in the
enterprise. 1t earned money for
awhile, but gradually began to lose
heavily
Atlanta did not have the money
lasr week to pay her policemen.
She was cramped temporarily.
Money is hard to raise by cities as
we'll as individuals. The Georgia
Electric Light Company has come
to the city's aid and loaned it $685.
600.
Recently Mr.. Frank Wilder, a
young man living near Forsyth,
while crossing a branch, discovered
very large snake of the moccasin
variety. In dispatching the reptile
he discovered numerous other little
moccasins surrounded him, and with
a large stick he Immediately began
a wholesale slaughter of snakes.
When he. had:counted the slain after
the battle he found they numbered
thirty one, including the big snake.
The little ones were, no doubt, the
ofsprings Of the large snake, but
were of considerable size neverthe-
less.
Dawson News: Not bushel of
corn has beer shipped to Dawson
for sale this year, for the fsrt time
in a long while. This year the far
mers have sold corn, meal, lard and
meat to the merchants and other
town people. This places the bal
ance of trade on the right side, and
all parties interested will be better
satisfied in every particular. At
fairs are in correct shape when far
mers bring loaded wagons to town
and carry them home empty with
the exception OF the dry goods and
the luxuries they see fit to buy.
Mr.. A. s. Smith, while walking
through the field of Mr.. A. H. Sim
mons, at Chokee, stepped in a stump
hole and broke his left leg just above
the ankle, and in trying to extricate
his foot, tore everything loose except
small portion of skin. Mr.. Smith,
realizing his condition, stopped and
tore the foot from the leg, and then
took the shoe, with the foot still in
sit. and hoped to the road as best
he could, and there obtained help,
and was carried by Mr.. Smith, who
is attending business for S. P. Jones,
to the home Of Mr.. Jones, and was
placed in the hall, while his dis
memberedfoot was put away in the
fire place n an adjoining room.
The wounded man is doing very
well since, and is quite cheerful.
AT the coming meeting of the
State Alliance at Griffin next week
proposition to establish an organ
will be considered, and ir is said
1 there is p scheme behind it. Presi-
4 dent Ellington has sent circular
+ letter out to all Sub-Alliances sug-
costing that they discuss the subject
before the delegates come to the
convention. The idea is to unload
Twins paper, Living Issues, on the
Alliance and use il practically as a
Third Party organ. The leaders
4 remember how effectively Livingston
worked the old Southern Alliance
Farmer and the Third Party men
want journal to disseminate their
doctrines. The scheme will be OPP
posed by conservative element in
the Alliance. The organization has
now about 5000 members il the
State. 1t lost over 5000 net last