The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-02-19
GEORGIA NEWS.

woman.
A young wolf by the name of
Lamb killed man named Gray IN
Clayton county last week.
Gen. Gordon's recent speech is
printed in full in the New York Ir'-
blMe.
"A disease fatal to swine is now
prevailing in Hall county.
"A hog thief was shot near Ma
con recently. He was cOlored OF
course.
Gainesville is so large that none
of her 2, 500 inhabitants live in speak
ing distance.
MIR. Cox, of Taylor county, has
stalk of cotton from which he
gathered five pounds Of the staple.
Mr.. J. T. Gibson, of the Cedar
town Express, was married the 9th
err day to Miss Sallie w. Smith, OF
Gainesville.
Seventeen deaths have occurred
from the smallpox in Oglethorpe
county. Few new cases are rcpor-
ted.
A colored girl named Henriet
ia Boyd killed her infant child and
threw the body in pond near Al
bany. Henrietta escaped, but her
mother is in jail as accessory.
"A little daughter of Mrs. Arnold,
of Coffee county, was burned to death
the other day. Mrs. Arnold herself
was seriously burned while endeav-
ing to relieve her child.
There is nothing SO lasting as an
oId-fashioned niger. A colored
woman, one hundred and three years
old, walked from Burke county to
Dooly recently, 10 order to call on
her grandmother.
The Dahlonega Signal says thai
VIM. Hunter and VIM. Smith, Of
Rabun county, who were accused o
giving information to the revenue
officers concerning Illicit distilleries
were taken out few nights after
wards by persons unknown, ant
shot to death.
Macon is worried by class 0
criminals now to this climate. The.
are called "Hugging Mollies" &C
cording to the Star, and are said t.
be men in women's apparel. Thei
plan is to halt persons in the stree
at late hour of the night, and whcr
the unsuspecting victim stops to SEE
what is wanted by the supposed wo
man, he is Immediately seized AM
whatever of value he may hav'
about his person is forthwith appro
priated.
The Gainesville SOuthyOn of tn
9th inst. hoists the name of Hon. Is
II. Hill as its candidate for Congress
1t says: "Did we not ofour own &C
cord hoist the name of Hill for Con
grcss, the earnest appeals to us from
the people from right-thinking far
mers and daily laborers Throughout
the would force us to it
There is deep and broad under-cur
rent--a regular ground swell '-foI
Hill almost incredible"
The Macon Telegraph says tina
it is estimated that Twiggs county
raised enough corn last season to dc
all her people this year and some Il
spare for their less provident neigh
boris The probability is that Tuigg'
will not want to buy bushel of Yves
tern corn this season. The best Of it is
that her people having succeeded sc
well in one experiment, will continue
to make their own corn, and if a fair
trial is given they will soon find that
half the throne of king cotton de
serves to be occupied by the equally
royal corn. We do not know that
other counties have succeeded as
well as Twiggs, but all have raised
better corn crops than they have
raised since the war. II was bles
sed necessity which forced them 20
it, and it will be still blessed if the
same necessity continues until the
farmers of Georgia deserve to be
ranked among the successful corn
growers of the country. They have
a generous soil which is ready to
muster sturdy ranks of corn if the
people viii only give it a chance
What Twiggs county did last season,
is but an example of what every
other county may do.
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