The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-11-07
GEORGIA NEWS.


cambridge refugees.
The Turin grange is said to be in
a fourishing condition.
Columbus has Methodist minis
ter who conducts three churches.
The citizens of Griffin desire re-
form in the municipal government.
Ice is reported at Columbus, Au-
gusta and other points. No skating
as yet.
The cambridge Democrat is pub
lisbed on half sheet, on account Of
the epidemic.
The CartersvilIe car company has
turned out one hundred cars during
the summer
Jas, Yarbrough Of Gwinnott coun-
ty, was badly injured last Friday by
the runaway Of his horse.
When man is seen 10 the streets
of Columbus with shot gun, people
instinctivcly know he is out collect
ing.
The free love sentiments of the
"heart hungry" Mrs. Wcstmoreland
are not endorsed by a single news
paper in Georgia.
The latest conundrum is propoun-
ded by the editor Of tho Cartcrsviile
Standard, who wants to know why
butter is scarce.
The gin house of Mr.. Benjamin
Names, of Talbot county, was burned
las, Monday night. 1t continued
eight on nine bales Of cotton
Bishop Marvin, Of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church South, will preach
10 Dalton On Saturday and Sunday,
the 9th aud l7th inst.
Bclcbor, tho colorcd postmaster in
Macon, has appointed negro as mail
agent between Macon and Columbus
to succeed Mr.. Miller who was killed
last week.
The Talbot;on Standard learns
that marriage took place in the
mountains Of Talbot, few days
since, between boy of fourteen
years of age, and a girl of eleven.
Sawyer, of tho Rome Weekly
Courier, encourages the nimblc tailor
by advising his readers to make out
on their last winter coats through |
the season, to see what an enormous
saving it will be.
Tho rico planters on the Altamaha
and The inland swamps arc very
much encouraged at the unusual
large crops mado i; the weather for
three weeks back having been ia
vorablc for harvesting, the rice is all
now housed.
The celebrated Dupree will case.
Which, for three years excited the
attention of the people of Oglethorpo
county, was settled the other dag by
an argument between the parties to
the effect that: CATER the payment
of the fees tho estate will be distibu
ted between the three children of the
lato Mr. Duprce.
A correspondent of the Chronicle
and Sentinel, in communication
relative to the frequent burning OF
gin houses, is of The opinion that i'll
many cases the true cause OF ignition
may be in the eleclricit; generated
by the continued friction of the rub
Der or gutta pefcha band. He sug-
gests that when the atmosphere is
dry these bands be we,ted three or
four times in the day.
A Certersvlle man put his hand |
in "a c,tton gin and Immediately took !
it out--or as much of it as was left.
In tho case of Alex. Johnson,
with mauslaughter, in Henry |
superior Coult, The jury brought in
\ verdict of acquittal, johnson, it
viii be remembered, is the engineer
who caused the Bear Creek collision.
There ia district in Paulding |
county in which a negro has never
voted.
The thirtieth clubhouse destroyed
n Georgia during the last thirty
laws, was burned in Elbcrt county |
IN Monday last 1t was the property |
II Mr.. K. r. Tate.
TINS is the season, according 20 /
he LaGgange Reporter, when boys
20 nutting. Ii is strange that chin
luepins and ohestnuts won't grow
without bars on them. Whenever
sou see n boy sit down under
,hestnut tree, and then, all of sud
len, rise up as if he saw "bright
,ugels bcekoning him over the
,trcam," and make use of ono OF
Horace Greeley favoritc remarks,
you may depend on it, there was a
chestnut burr somewhere in that
boys vicinity. At any rate he
thinks so, and his reflections there's
on are not of the kind in which he
usually INDUCES aloud in the pres
ance of his pious parents.
ColroN. Atlanta, Ga, Nov. o.