The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-06-13
Georgia News.

= ~ Inhn nhIheu EtF&er WAS arrested IN At
lanta the other day for burning his own house.
/ Scarcity of labor in Washington county il
complained of.
Macon is dull-so dull that they are ever
willing to acknowledge it.
A franklin county woman, thirty three years
old and weighing ninety-four pounds, is the
mother of ten boys
| The Griffin Nesos Gays the marriage license
business in that section has played out. What
are we to infer from this fact9
A little son of Col. HI. d. Capers, Of Oxford,
accidentally shot himself the other day while
playing with pistol.
| The Sandersville Herald announces the or
ganizaton Of another Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry in Washington county, and states
that the Order is tlourishing.
Mr.. G. &, Pringle, of Washington county, is
prominently mentioned in connection with the
vacancy in the House of Representatives occa-
stoned bv the death of DR.. w. G. Mcbride
The average young blood, in Columbus,
makes nuisance of himself at picnics with
whisky and pistols.
A hail storm in Washington county destroy
ed the cotton on one hundred acres belonging
10 Bennett Hall.
The latest fashionable thing in Atlanta Is 70
be a bankrupt, If the varied assortment Of nt,-
tees which appear in the papers are any critic
rion.
The Worthy Master ofth State Grange has
appointed Messrs j. P. Stevens, Of Leesbuig,
Lee county, Deputy for the First, Second and
Third Districts; G. w. Adams, of Forsyth,
Monroe county, for the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Districts and C. w. Howard, Of Kingston,
Barlow county. Deputy for the Seventh, Eighth
and Ninth Districts.
A paper called the Advance is to be started
at Norcross.
Dalton is quite uneasy about her limited IA
ciities for extinguishing fires
Rev. Dr. jesse Boring has gained his suit
against the Western road, of Alabama, for $l0.-
900 damages. Tn 1871 the plaintiff was seri-
ousy injured at Opelika by falling or stepping
into an uncovered ditch, aad is crippled for life.
Business in cambridge is represented to be
totally dead
Columbus announces the usual brace Of mar
riages in high life.
An unknown italian cut his throat at Barnes
vile on the 5th inst.
Columbus has manufacturing population Of
fully three thousand souls.
Good land sold in Albany, on Tuesday, at
Sheriff's sale, at an average of forty cents on
acre.
Gus. Pugh. living in DeKalb county, at
tempted to violate a young lady, and is now in
the Atlanta Jail.
Dr. and ex Governor Sam Bard is on visit
to Atlanta His home is in Nashville.
Atlanta demands that she be cleaned and
purified to prevent the cholera from making its
appearance in her limits.
The farmers about Cateisville are complain
ing about labor.
Savannah papers complain that they have
many murders, but no hangings
There are twenty-one felonies to be tried by
the next Superior Court Of Savannah.
The City Council of Cartersville will enclose
the Cemetery. Commendable
George Sharpe, ofAtlanta has the contract
to make the medals for the Georgia State
Fair.
Two or three school girls in Athens swallow
ed heartsease, and is a failure.
The Talbotton business men, play marbles
and fight flies. Wonder what the mischief
they do that for.
A large number of persons residing in South
West Georgia, are moving northward to spend
the summer.
Two young lady teachers of the Gainesville
Female Seminary have declared their intention
to go to China as missionaries.
From the Atlanta Consultation we learn that
the Atlanta District Conference ofthe M. Z. G.
will commence on the 26th inst and that Bsh-
OPP Pierce will preside.