The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-11-07
No. A..
GEORGIA NEWS.

Inc worse case OF OISHonesly we
have heard of lately involves
scamp who dug up the corner. stone
of the new colored church at Opeli-
ka aud stole dollar bill therefrom.
Perry claims a baby only ten
weeks old that has full set of teeth.
As to that, .here is q lady in Macon,
not yet forty, who has two full sets
.-one for Sunday and one for week
days.
James Robinson's circus is billed
for Columbus.
A little son of tho late General
Clanton, of Alabama, was in Allan
ia the other day, and endeavored to
get permission to see Milton Malone,
whom he used to know ia Columbus.
Upon being told that Malone was to
be hung, the little fellow was con,
vulsed with grief.
Columbus clamors for the imme-
diate completion of the North and
South Railroad.
The wells at Conyers are running
dry.
A minister runs gin mill-cot-
ton gin.
Augusta has bale Of cotton to be
sold for FIVE dollars chance for the
benefit Of Memphis.
A colored woman in Columbus
shot a man in so serious q manner
that it is thought he may die.
A colored child in Atlanta was at
lanta was attacked by savage hog
and torn so badly that it died coon
after.
Madison was shaken to the foun-
dations by the report that the circus
would not visit there, but, fortunate
Iy, the rumor was incorrect.
Samuel Lawrence, p. G. NJ. of
the State of Georgia, has issued the
first number of the Signet and Jour>
nal, Masonic monthly.
A German in Cherokee, while
digging coal at the falls Of Little
river, was killed by a large rock
which rolled from some distance
above him. 1t is said that the rock
very nearly severed his head from
the body, and also horribly crushed
the latter.
The two Georgia ladies, Mrs.
Campbell and Mrs. Chambers, an
account of whose marvellous good
fortune in falling heirs to an estate of
twelve millions of dollars in France,
we published some time since, sailed
from Charleston Friday for Europe,
| in company with an old citizen and
prominent lawyer Of Augusta.
A brutal execution took place at
Greensboro last Wednesday. Geo.
Copeland, colored, was hung for the
murder Of Miss Richards in 1871
The condemned met death bravely,
but the rope broke and the bangling
executioner had to make second
attempt, which was successful, if the
butchering of human being may
be called success.
The Columbus Sun of Saturday
says: just after the Columbus train
reached the city and was standing
beside the platform at Opelika, last
night, Master Charles Terry, while
sitting in the passenger car with
friends, shot himself purposely
through the head with pistol and
was instantly killed. He was son
Of DIR. Carlisle Terry, one Of the
leading physicians Of Columbus, and
aged some fifteen years. He with
another boy, had started to Texas,
and he shot himself to prevent any
officer from bringing him back. A
later account says he was prompted
to run away by love affair, which
fully accords with tho progressive
spirit of modern Young America
His relations with his family were of
the most tender and affectionate
character, and no act of shame or
unwortbiness is attributed to him. -
He was q heightened, sensitive youth,
and one whom a personal disappoint-
ment was apt to affect acutely.-
After his interception he doubtless
brooded over the notoriety which his
elopement would give him, and the
possible jeers at his expense which
it would occasion, and while opPress-
al With fhis nonomauicaI. feeling he