The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-01
GEORGIA NEWS.

n OoFAu6sVo ANseSHSH NcshosON
the other day.
A company of capitalists are pre-
pairing to open the gold mines
around Dahlonega.
A negro named George Simms
will be hung for rape in Covington
some time this year.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is still in
Augusta. Notwithstanding his ex-
treme physical feebleness, his mind
was never more vigorous and active
than now.
B. H. Hill, Jr., has sold ninth
interest 10 the Kimball House to his
father for $4,000.
Sixty sheep in one flock were
recently killed by dogs in Pierce
county, and yet the Legislature
refuses to impose. q tax on the
CANNES.
Mr.. VIM. w. Hale, a well>known
citizen of Pike county, committed
suicide recently, by shooting him
self with q small pistol.
Mrs. Myrick, Of Milledgeville, has
several cork trees in her garden.
Governor Brown, in behalf of the
State road, is going to contest the
act passed by the late Legislature
taxing railroads.
The Governor has seized the
North and South railroad running
from Columbus to Hamilton, and
DR.. Flewellen, of the Governors
staff, is running it until it can be
sold.
The Washington Gazette cackles
over a four-legged chicken.
The Governor has committed the
sentence of Ward, Of DeKalb county,
who was to be hanged May l3, to
imprisonment for life.
The lightning has been playing
some queer pranks in Twiggs county,
where it killed some cattle and de-
moralized some darkies.
Mr.. Coleman, Of Jefferson county,
is a gay deceiver He married q
Miss Fields, and shortly afterward
ran away with Miss Brown.
Mooney, the recently murdered
Rome policeman, put off paying for
his life insurance policy for few
days, and his family loose $1,000
than they would otherwise have
received.
The noble Lochrane is not
cremationist. Far 'front.'. With a
degree of candor unspeakaly pa.
thetic, he remarks: "Until my heart
becomes stone and its fountains are
dried up such sentiment would
give me shock Of agony, and stick
like o knife 10 my memory"
w. M. Hall, hard working far
mer of Pike countys shot himself
through the brain last week, while
suffering from mental alteration,
brought about by religious fervor
The amount of corn planted in
Jefferson this year, it 10 estimated
by some, will exceed that of any
year since the war closed, and the
grain crop generally is receiving
more attention than heretofore.
Judge Hansall has broken up
billiard playing in Townsville, hav-
ing charged the grand jury that to
play game, in which the agree.
ment is, thai the looser pays for the |
game, is an indictable offence.
Speaking Of the public school
exhibition, the Columbus Enquirer |
says: "The girls and boys, forty at
a time, went through the various
calisthenic exercises, marches. with
the wands, Indian clubs, dumb bells
and rings. All were dressed in uni
form, and . pretsier sight or more
graceful action Is rarely presented"
The Jessup Georgian says. A
colored woman in this place gave
birth to q girl child. about ten days |
ago that had five fingers and . thumb
on each hand. The extra fingers
were attached 10 the little fingers,
and were perfectly shaped. DR..
Harris amputated them on Thursday, |
as the mother did not wish the child
to become a curiosity for public
Merriwethsr county Is to have
another Enoch Arden case. The
"Vindieator" says: Several years
ago a lady in our county was abau-
doned by her husband and left to
take care Of her family as best she
could. Having heard q well au.
thenticated report Of the absconding |
death, the lady married
again last year. The latest intelli-
gence is that the former husband has
returned and is in an adjoining
county. As yet he has not made
bis appearance in this county. The
lady belongs to one Of our best fami
lies, while her last husband Is q mem.
Der Of an old and highly respectable
family of . sister county.
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