The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-11-15
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
PECAN CULTURE IN WARE COUNTY,
Cotton Gins Continue te MangIe HUI
man Limbs as Well as Separate
the Fleecy Staple.


Georgia's total Democratic MAORI
ty in the Congressional election was
$4,000.
The members of congress elected
Tuesday will not take their seats
until December 1895. Maybe some
of them will reform by that time.
At Crawford Tuesday William
Matthews was caught in gin, and
his arm was so badly injured that it
had to be smputated.
The farmers of Ware county who
have pecan groves are said to be
deriving a splendid income from
them, selling the pecans at Way
cross.
1t is said that man who won't
take paper because he can borrow
one, has invented a machine by
which be can cook his dinner by
smoke from his neighbours chimney.
Nat Arnold's gin and corn mill
in Oglethorpe county was totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday, together
with great deal of corn and cotton.
The loss was $4,000. There was no
insurance.
At Jackson, Monday, Judge D.
B. Knowles, OF the justice court,
issued ninety warrants for illegal
voters who voted at the October
election. The defendants will be
given a hearing Monday.
The remains of Rev. George King,
who died at Jefferson, were taken
to Jasper tor interment. Mr.. King
was a member OF the North Geor-
gia conference and was in charge of
the Jefferson work at the time of
his death.
The 5-year>old girl of A. l.. Com
er of Athens was caught in the
shatting of the gin house of her
father Friday, and before the ma
chinery could be stopped, her thigh
was broken and she was otherwise
badly bruised. She will, however,
recover with careful attention.
Ex-State Senator Pope Gholston
and Kinch Strickland, two promi>
nent citizens who fought at the
election at Conner Tuesday, both
died Wednesday. Strickland dis
emboweled Gholston and Gholston
then cut off both OF Strickland's
ears. The affair is most horrible
one.
M. Inman & Co.'s big cotton plat
form was burned at Taccoa Tuesday
afternoon. Seventeen hundred bales
of cotton were entirely consumed =;
loss, $4,000, fully covered by in
surance. The residence OF G. w.
Swilling was also burned. The
cotton compress and Southern rail
road cotton platform were saved by
hard work.
'Possums are fat, Eaters are ripe,
sugar 'bilins' are at hand. and the
good old times in Georgia are com>
gjust the same as when cotton
was 10 cents and money was plenti-
full. When fellow can occasional.
ly smack lis lips on 'possum and
Eaters and take his best girl to a
sugar 'bilin' and eat foam, drink
Juice and revel in skimmings beer,
what does he care fer hard times?
There is a ring in the possession
ola colored person at Madison which
is relic of no small magnitude. 1t
is a small gold ring seemingly much
worn and made to fiji lady's hand
The following inscription is engraved
on the inside 81. S. to F. B.,
April ~, I!IU. Inc ring was
picked up on the streets of Madison
and no trace OF its owner can be
found. 1t is certainly an heirloom
of some family.
Last Monday morning a negro
woman. living Oh the farm of Rev.
B. w. Rogers, in the western part
of Pike county, locked up her two
children in the house, AMI went off
to work. During the day the house
caught on fire, and was burned
down. The two children also per-