The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-03-09
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
GRAPE CULTURE MADE PROFITABLE.
A Man Accidentally ShOt..A IGeOrgia
Editor Describes the Meanest Man.
Other Items Of Interest.

The Hale-Berry Hardware Co., of
Rome, has failed.
George Lingo, of Americas, was
acquitted in Griffin on the charge
ofmurdering a man named Smith
W. N. Hornadey, son of the Rev.
Dr. Hornaday the well known Bap>
fist minister Of Atlanta, suicided
Friday night in Houston, Texas.
Financial trouble the cause.
Tom HILL, white man, convicted
of rape in Murray county and SEN
fenced to the chain gang for twenty
years, was liberated bya party of rs
men armed with guns. His neigh
bors believed him innocent.
The store ofSlemberg the jeweler,
at Savannah, Ca, has been closed
by the sheriff. His assets are esti-
mated to be $4,000, liabilities over
$4,000.
The Macon Telegraph was sold at
public sale, to T. J. CARING for $751;
900, ten thousand cash, and the re-
mainder in II months. Mr.. CARING
has large property interest in Macon
and is wealthy.
A Georgia editor gives the follow
ing interesting view of the "meanest
man" in his county: "Any man
who will keep dog that will jump
fence and break rail and scare
mule that would throw niger that
would break jug of liquor in dry
: county, is mighty mean man, and
his chances OF forgivness are slim.
The Lithonia New Era says: Mr..
NJ. II. Wesley, Democrat, of Dia>
monds district, is eighty years old
and has been a farmer all his life.
He is out of debt with money in his
pocket and years supply of every
thing he needs on hand and besides
this he has corn, fodder, meat, syrup,
COWS, tobacco, cotton and stove-
wood for sale.
CHIEF of Police Hood of Augusta
is in receipt of a letter from the
worlds fair people asking that two
of Augustus force be sent to Chica>
60 to report to the fairs detective
headquarters. A similar request
has been mailed every city in the
United States of over $4,000 inhab-
itants The fair proposes to pay the
men $50 apiece per month, and the
cities furnishing the men are asked
in view that the undertaking is ma
tional, to pay the railroad fares.
J. B. RICE of Rockdale county
was incidentally shot last Friday. A
negro named Seab Powell had bor-
rowed, or rented, his gun that after
noon and when he returned it, he
set it up in corner in such a way
that it kept slipping down until it
fell on the hammer and was dis
charged. The shot went through
an inch plank, and being in range
with Mr.. Rice as he sat at supper,
seven shot entered his back, several
the back of his head, and one went
! through his left ear.
At Moreland, near Newman, there
are %, 900 fruit trees and grape vines
the most of which are in bearing.
The truths shipped to New Orleans,
Chicago Cincinnati and other points,
and yields handsome profit. One
grower has four acres in grapes, and
last season he kept strict account
of expenditures and receipts and he
realized profit off of bis grapes Of
1854 per acre. Sixty thousand
peach trees were planted the last
winter, and the fruit men claim that
if they get crop once in five years
it will be more profitable than cot
ton.
Miss PEARL CRAWFORD met a
horrible death from fire at her home
near Dranesville, in Sumter county.
Monday afternoon. On Sunday