The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-10-09
GEORGIA NEWS.

Howell delivered speeches at Pow>
der Springs last Friday. Captain
Goodwin was chairman Of the meet
ling.
"A colored track raiser went to
slaep on the Georgia Road the other
day, and sIumbered SO soundly that
even passing train failed to arouse
him.
The report of the Etna Iron
company of Rome, made last week,
shows that it is making daily aver
age of twelve tons.
Newton Superior Court sends
two fellows to the chain gang. The
negro, George Simms, who commit
ted a rape on a white woman, will
be hung.
M. D. Bond of Newton county,
was thrown from horse and Killed.
At campmeeting in Baldwin
county, Joseph Fl. Tucker shot and
seriously wounded Mr.. Osborne.
The merchants Of Macon have
organized a protective association,
and yet the Changers have done the
same thing.
Atlanta Public Schools exclud-
ed the reading of the Bible to graft
fy the Jews and Catholics, and now
these same Jews and Catholics want
separate schools.
- Hon. Nelson Tiff reached his
home in Albany, last week, from
Europe, where he has been for sew.
eral months, working in the interest
of the direct trade movement.
The wood workers of Louisville
consider the pine timber Of Georgia
| worth from FIVE to ten dollars. thou
sand feet more than the Mississippi
pine. The latter is coarse, brittle
and ''brushy," while the former is
strong, durable and compact in tex>
ture.
Gainesville is astonished at her
own Improvement, and exults that,
with the exception of Atlanta, she is
putting up more buildings than any
other town in the State.
The Gainesville Eagle gets off
the following Radical motto: "A
little thieving is dangerous part,
but stealing largely is noble art \
It's mean to rob a henroost Of hen,
but stealing thousands make us gems
| tlemen."
lin voting for members of Con-
gress if any other name appears up
on the ticket than that of the cam
didate for this department, it can be
excepted to as illegal and thrown
out. Be careful in voting.
Maj G. E. McGregor, editor Of
the Warrenton Clipper, is announ-
ced as acandidate for secretary Of
the Georgia Senate.
A young man BY the name Of
G. III. Carter from BarAesvilie, Ga,
and student Of Moore's Business
College, in Atlanta, visited Julia
Thompson's house of i'll fame Tues
day night last in company with
some young men and while in the
room with female, he fell dead.
The genial, rosy Lochrane, was
nominated by the Radicals and ne
groes Of Atlanta for the Legislature.
He declined the gushing honor.
Tho Comptroller General, in
accordance with an act passed by the
last legislature, issued fl. fas. and
caused the sheriff Of Fulton county
to levy ON the property Of ten Of the
principal Railroads Of the State fo'
taxes, aggregating to Sl69,303,59.
If the State can collect tax on the
Western & A. Railroad, why can't
Cobb county do the same in regard
to the property of the road within
her limits
Columbus has twenty persons
in Jail and fourteen on the chain
gang, all negroes.
The tax collector Of Muscogee
county reports he has collected on
ly $500 Of the $4,000 due the State
and county.
"A Granger store, selling goods
at cost, caused great excitement
among Dawson merchants on Satur-1
day last,
Whitley has been having some
Valdnsta boys arrested as Ku Klux,
because they gave him a tin-pan
serenade on the occasion Of recent
visit.
The Atlanta Artillery company
will purchase their own guns.
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