The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-17
GEORGIA NEWS

ia the river at Macon.
"A tax of 80 per cent is levied
on the State tax Of Putnam for coun
ty purposes.
-AdairsviIle has decided to vote
to restrict the sale of intoxicating
liquors.
There were fourteen prisoners
found guilty for CROOKED transac
tions in spirits on Friday last in At
lanta.
Columbus consumes about H.
900 corsets year, which is good
deal of squeezing among the women
OF one little town.
A gentleman living near Colum-
bus intends to bring out a halt dozen
heather Chinese this winter. Nell
can niger no pleasee him.
-Gwinnett Herald "A sewing
machine agent has been Beechsriz-
Ing and is now on the ragged edge,
and wishes that he were dead
Thirteen families will leave the
upper portion Of the county this fall,
for the West. They have sold to
parties from Tennessee and the
Carolinas.
Two colored men, Augustus and
Caesar, became involved in a quar-
rel, in Waynesboro, when the latter
was shot in the wrist. The wife OF
one of them was the cause.
Anderson VIM, the negro who
killed John Bruce, the colored bar
Der, at Dixie, near Sparta, was cap
tured on Sunday of last week, and
lodged in the all at Sparta on Nom
day following
General Gordon writes to the
Atlanta Herald that he is opposed to
allowing the currency question to
disturb the harmony of the Demo
cratic party next year. and that he
does not think it will be done.
-SummerviIle. Chattooga county,
is bound to stand by its right to
"licker' at all times and in any
quantity it likes. A vote on restrlc e
ton or 10 restriction showed a unani
nous verdict in favor of the latter
proposition.
Last week the remains, the
mere skeleton, of girl, about thlr-
teen or fourteen years old, were dis
covered in a branch, few miles
west of Dalt>n. The coronsr's jury
decided that her death was caused
by drowning.
A c0Iored woman named Violet
Turror, finding Margaret Chapman
alou. IN her milk pen, near Cuth'
bert, On n..arsday last, seized her
by the back of the neck with one
hand aud plunged a knife into her
lhrost, close up under the chin
Violet fed, but was afterwards caps
tu:ed and placed in jail.
Fun was scarce in Dalton the
other night. and some of the big
boys, in order to get up little ex-
element, got together lot of boxes,
barrels, etc, and setting them on
fire, rang the fire bells, scared some
of the citizens, brought out tho fire
company, and were quite happy
The fun however was taken out OF
the affair, when they were arrested
and made to disgorge ten or twelve
dollars each.
There is a sewing machine war
in Columbus. Whesler & Wilson
IS. Singer. Mr., Turpin, the Vince
Ter & Wilson agent, sent note to
Mr.. Ship demanding the withdraw
al of card published in the papers
relative to a public test of the merits
of the two machines. Ship returned
it by Mr.. Smith, the gentleman who
advertised the card, when Turpin
knocked him down and gave him q
terrible Hogging with a buggy whip.
Turpin was arrested, but subsequent
ly released upon bond. Smith 5 skull
is fractured from the blow which
felIed him to the pavement, though
he is not dangerously hurt.
A writer in the Herald wants
to know if the Legislature has the
right to appropriate the peoples
money to support public schools,
why not the right to establish a
public system of feeding and clothing
the children If man tolls hard to
bring up and educate his children.
and to accumulate something 10 start
them in this rugged life, and the
has the right to take a
part of it to educate the children of
among whom are those so
lazy and tritling that they will not
v ork to educate, feed or clothe their
own children, why not with as much
levy special tax to feed
and cloths these children.