The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-09-12
Georgia News.

7 ah0g3 Ge2{efR NEWS 3Ht g&a
-C.MP-MEETINGs are in vogue all over the
State. ass
THE new Masonic Temple in Macon will
cost $62, 900.
NEW cotton is being received in various
towns in Georgia &s1 - 20
THE grangers at Greenville threslied ont
tile pea erap Of a DELICATE member of the order
THE Dalton Female College opened with
seventy-nine pupils.
PSALM BARD's Atlanta paper made its APP
pearence ON the 4th.
Mn. r. X. Gnnp event off and was found
dead on the track of the Brunswick and Al
bany railroad last Monday.
TWENTY saw mills are now in active oper-
alton along the Brunswick and Albany rail-
road.
The Atlanta daily papers are now carried
over the Macon and Western Road by one
special train. $4,000 was too steep.
-THR Airline Railroad, which is now
completed, cost aboot $4,000, 00O-some of il
costing $4,000 mile.
ADERANGED lady giving her mamie as Jen
ME Jenkins, and who states that her parents
| reside in Atlanta, has been W nnderin9 AROUND
Stilesboro. III tglt8IHs
-FHE Talbot county negroes believe Il
witches and witchery and some of them have al
lowed their belief to get them into jail-the.
tried 10 kill negro man for being witch
The members ofthe Washington County
| Agricultural Society propose TO clothe them
selves in Washington county made goods when
they 90 to the State Fair.
JACKSON, a negro man under arrest in Al
bany, confesses the murder Of young johnson
at smithyille, and says one Of his accomplicea
was Savannah desperate named Monroe.
"A MASS meeting of the oranges of Greene
and adjoining counties on the 9th was address
ed by Gov Smith, General Colquitt, Butler and
others. They had a big dinner.
THERE will be premium of fifty dollars
offered for the be- st base ball club at the Macon
Fair next October. A private purse Of two
hundred and fifty dollars will also be offered in
addition Go in Kennesaws and win
-THE Hawlkinsyille Dispatch says. If the
Rev. J. B. Culpepper, of Waynesboro' Circuit,
does not apologize for certain language deroga-
tory Of that paper, it will denounce him as a
slanderer, etc.
THE gentle j. Clarke Swayze still lives,
moves and has his being. The Topeka (Kan-
sas) Blade comes to us edited by him. II he
would only iise this Blade in cutting off the
rotten branches Of the Radical party be might
redeem himself. u ass 4
--THE United States Treasurer has discov-
ored the existence of dangerous counterfeit of
the $500 legal tender note --Ea. We trust
this explains to the readers of the JOURNAL
why we have persistently refused to take the
$500 bills they have far the last few, weeks re-
apeasdly offered US. Gentlemen, we appre-
ciaie your kindness, but must refuse to take
$500 bills. f,@a
-1HEht 10 q uidu III oA"SOh " h'S H"%A-S -
BenneF, who keeps saioen, and in that saloon
he keeps a fiillserowrt bear, (like, Oasley used
4olio ii Marie tta9 and the other day q country !
man put aboard todtnuch whisky and attempt
ed to whip that bear. Well, that man come
out Of that bears cage aart bare himself He
came out bare-headed, bare-legged, and bear
ing on his person deep indented marks OF that
bears claws and teeth. He hates the bear
mention Of this subject aud went home that
night dressed in suit Of sticking plaster. He
will hereafter have nothing to do with bears
and beer.
Miss GiTTINGs, Of Maryland, is now tel
eoraph operator at Milledgeyille, and the boys
are "gittingg more kilograms and sending on
more dispatches than xs5 ever known in' the
history Of Aiillsgdevil!e Marietta has the rep.
utation Of being q eL'rordsY in the business,
but the receipts at slilledgevile are tremen-
dousIy bseyy Thyre i. oae yegne map in
MiiIsdgeville thai has telegraphed 70 all biz
aunts uncles end cousins, in the United States
and always goes for the answers. He seysit
is much better than writing, although be has
spent one months wages in advance at II.
"A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred in Banks
county the other day. Mr. Alfred Alexander
taught scbsos ehd5las niig was IN fbss babk q
visiting the sei.o..l aud while there she would
report any nlisslernesnor II the boys to her bus
band. she rsposfsd a young man BY tie name
Of Mos. He denied tlie trutlfshsess d, die nc;