The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-05-19
GEORGIA NEWS.

tor several Gays that tha1 AeI mao
been without corn.
-Kendrick has given bond for
81, 900, and has been released from
jail.
The Forsyth (Monroe Co J Ad-
vertiser says the grain crops of that
section were never more promising
"A delirious prisoner at Carriers
vile named John Mccoy jumped
from the second story Of the Jail re-
Gently and has since died
According to the published re-
turns of the census Of 1870, it app
pears that the population Of Georgia
! is largely over one million, but about
q bakers dozen men control the Po-
litical nominations.
On Friday last, two children of
Mr.. James Street, girl and boy,
the one thirteen and the other eight
years of age, while playing ia
spring branch near Kingston, were
drowned.
The two negro prisoners, Paul
Campbell and Prince Robertson, con
victed of the murder OF Mrs. Coch-
rane and her daughter, at Spring.
field, bingham county, Ga, were
hung at that place last Monday, the
| 9th inst. Three thousand persons
were present. The prisoners were
Indifferent to their fate and declared
their innocence. Robson died easy
from strangulation, but Campbell
died hard The other prisoners
who were sentenced at the same
time have been granted new trials.
- IIawkinsviIle Dispatch We
learn from NJ. A. Skipper, Esq, who
lives in the northern portion of Pa
laski, and near the line of Laurens
county, thst the crop prospects ia
his section of country are very prom~
ising, there being splendid stands OF
both corn and cotton. Mr.. Skipper
reports the area planted in corn as
greater than that of any year since
the war, and thinks that if the sea-
sops prove propitious the people III
his section, another year, will have
their corn cribs at home. He also
reports the prospect as being fine for
an abundant yield of oats.
Macon Telegraph remarks: A
few days ago a man was brought be
fore the County Court Of neighbor
ing county, charged with receiving
stolen goods The trial was before
jury. After the testimony was
heard and argument made, the Judge
charged the jury as follows: Gen
tlemen of the jury, the defendant
stands charged with receiving stolen
goods. 1t is your duty, under the
testimony, to find him guilty, if you
can; and if you can't find him guilty,
find him as guilty as you can" 1t
is needless, perhaps, to state that the
jury brought in verdict of guilty.
The Dahlonega Signal says that
recently DR.. B. +. Chapman remoN-
cd tumor from the occipital bone OF
the head of Mrs. Pinkney Howell, of
that place. From her birth-about
fifty years ago-she has been troub>
led with what is generally called a
wen, which, from the size of bullet,
had grown to be about the size of an
orange. Recently its growth had
become rapid and painful. Upon its
removal and examination, it was
found TO contain considerable guam
tity of matted hair, which had its
origin and growth in the cavity of
the tumor, some of which had be-
come gray, and resembled the natural
hair of the head. DR.. Chapman was
assisted in the operation by DIR.
Starr.
Pike County Courier: The Hard
Shell Baptists have been noted for
their honesty, and recently they have
shown the same spirit by turning out
/ Pleasant Davis and his wife from
their church. 1t will be remember
ed by our readers that this is the
gentleman who sold his farm to the
county Of Pike for a poor house, and
after being paid in money tor it,
sued for it back, because he had
taken a homestead on it, and the SUI
preme Court had decided that he
could not sell it. We say hurrah for
the church that turned him out. If
religion makes a man anything at
all, it should make him honest, and
if there is any claim of honesty in
the above suit we fail to see it. But
we can see a cool, calm, premedita-
ted intention to swindle Pike county
out of the value Of her farm.
-Waycross Headlight a few
nights ago, at Reppard & Bros mill
near No. l0{ Atlantic and Gulf rail
road, bunch of three negroes hay
ing spite against another negro,
concluded to take the law into their
own hands and visit punishment
on the offender, or the object Of their
hate. Accordingly they seized the
culprit, dragged him to the woods
and whipt him most numerically
giving him three hundred and thirty
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