The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-10-24
Georgia News.

Georgia News.
THE city tax contest in Forsyth is still gs-
ing on. Some of the citizens, who are resist
ing the tax levied by Council, have filed bill
of injunction.
SATURDAY was lively day i'll Forsyth.
Two hundred and twenty bales of cotton were
brought to market, and the sales and collections
of the merchants amounted to twenty-three
thousand dollars.
THE number of gin houses burned in the
State are about 10.
--MR. Buchanan, a printer, was killed by a
train in Atlanta last Saturday. A&!*
JAS. Dunning u postofice money clerk,
in Atlanta, is deiaulter to the sum of $4,000.
He has absconded. Gambling, fast women,
aud fast living, is how the money went. t
--BARNEsvu.LR, through her local press,
alludes TO Fort Valley as "a small supper
house" Bro. Blackburn is sharpening hoe
TO scalp any man that denies it,
"A WHITE baby was found dead in a ditch
in Columbus, evidently the result of abortion.
--H1rcMING post is the latest adornment for
Atlanta.
-MR w. S. Dodge. of Jacksonville, Fla
proposes to exhibit at the Savannah Fair liv-
ing head without body.
Don Levy. a Macon murderer has been
captured.
THE State Fair in Macon promises TO be
an exceedingly lively time for the central city
The annual session of the Grand Lodge of the
Masonic brotherhood comes off at that time |;
the Grand Lodge of the United Friends OF
Temperance holds forth that week, and the
Patrons of Husbandry will also have muster.
ing of the Oranges, while thousands will be IN
attendance upon the agricultural exhibition
IL there room for ALI
--EAToNToN, Georgia. claims a negro wo-
man one hundred and fifteen years old. Fiji,
teen or twenty years ago, when Georgia me-
groes sold for eight hundred or thousand dol
lars apiece, they died young; but now. when
they don't sell at all, they go right on aud live
always.
THE Columbus mills produce daily about
LOO bushels of meal.
MACON has at least $25O, 900 worth OF cot
ton in her warehouses, nearly all of which is
tor sale at present prices This is as bad as
having money on deposit in suspended bank.
THE taxable property of Georgia has in
creased this year fifteen million dollars. This
shows difference how under Democratic ad-
ministration,the State prospers.
--CovINGToN has two troublesome things
on her hands she don't know what TO do with
"A street railroad from that place to Oxford
and the Local Of the Enterprise. We would
advise them to sell the railroad at auction and
have Hawkins carried out of town on two
chips
"A SOLID nugget of gold as large as hens
egg, has been been found in Hall county by
j. d. Bagwel.
GRIFFIN presents tho best field for tenn
perance lecturers in the State. She claims ff-
teen bar-rooms.
--EPH. Twecdy's property to the amount Of
$4,000, has been levied on TO satisfy an exc
cution in favor Of the State VS.. Foster Blodgett
and Tweedy as security.
THE northern part of Hancock county
and the southern part of Greene, are nov
scourged with dptheria. In quite a number 0
families two, three and as many as four chill
dren have been swept off in one week. Several
fathers have deposited two of their Titles ones
one coffin.
ONE of the most readable, interesting and
ably edited papers we receive is the LAGRANGE
Reporter Waterman is trump and deserves
a liberal patronage, which we are glad TO see
he is getting.
| THE Athens fire department turned out
the other night to extinguish supposed burn
ing house. AS the light was in the distance,
| they went about a mile before they discovered
that it was the moon. They went back TO town
without putting it out and utterng words that
| people never use:in prayer
"A YOUNG lady was bitten by spider and
delirium followed. She recovered.
There is so much sickness in Franklin
county that the citizens are going to petition
for pestponenlent Of court. The same is re-
ported of Twig9s
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