The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-12-13
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
ROBBERS BLACKED THEIR FACES,
The Old Man Of the House Though
Desperately Wounded Kills One
Of the Robbers.

DoUGHERTY county boasts an old
negro who claims that he never had
any teeth, and yet he is all right
when it comes to beef aud 'pessum.
A quilt which was carried in bat
tie by soldier of the revolutionary
war is in the possession of q lady OF
Early county, and is in a fair state
of preservation.
A negro won dollar at Adams
station Saturday night by eating a
whole ham at one sitting. He alter
ward left happy, notwithstanding
the ham was raw.
Lightning sometimes strikes more
than twice in the same place. A
house in Calhoun county has been
struck oy lightning thirteen times,
and still stands to make the even
number.
The trustees of Emory College
have bought a lot on Whitehall
street at Atlanta for $65, 900, and
will erect business block on it as
an investment.
1t is said that lady Of Americas,
unable TO pay the amount subscribed
to her pastors salary, surrendered
her gold watch Thursday to the
church committee rather than not
pay her dues.
A farmers horse created sensa-
ton near Blakely last week by walk
5 ing upstairs and taking view of
the country from the front window.
1t was only after continued effort
that the horse was induced to return
to the stable.
The attorneys for Will Myers,
Atlanta's boy murderer, have filed
an application for new trial in his
case. The principal ground for the
application is, that the evidence in
the case did not justify the verdict.
1t is probable that the application
will not be heard until January.
Dugan Blalock, of Sonoraville, is
one of Gordon county's remarkable
men. He is now seventy>seven
years old, weighs $50 pounds and
was never sick but twice in his life,
and then only for a short time.
When he was seventy years old be
cut timber and split 200 rails per
day. He has no brothers, sisters,
uncle or aunt alive, but has raised
fifteen children and is now blessed
with ftty.six grandchildren. He
has seen the rise and fall of twenty
two political parties during his life,
time, but has never voted any but a
straight Democratic ticket, while all
of his sons are Populists. Mr.. Bla~
lock is Baptist and a Mason, and
a solid and Substantial citizen.
Friday night about 7 o'clock three
young white men with their faces
and hands BACKED went to the house
Of "Uncle BUD Summerlin, about
FIVE miles from Buchanan in Haral-
son county with the intention of
making aim give up money he is re-
ported to have in his house. Sum-
merlin is IA years of age and lives
in a house with his maiden sister,
nearly as old as he is. When the
young men reached the door one,
Bud Thornton by name, shot Sum-
merlin mcrtally, but the plucky old
gentleman made for him with d
knife. His first thrust cut Thorn>
toms eye QUO. The next almost
reached his heart. Theu Summer
lin grabbed the gun and fired,
Thornton falling to the ground.
The other two men ran off. Thorn
ton died in half an hour, and Sum
merlin is dying. Jack Cole and
Sam Bishop, the other would-be
robbers, are at large with posse
chasing them. They fred FIVE times,
til said, at Summerlin before they
left and there is great excitement in
the county.