The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-07-07
GEORGIA NEWS.
-Kendrick is going west.


w. j. Waddy is going to star
paper at Douglassville.
Liberty county sends Colquit
delegates to the State Convention.
The reason mules are not good
natured is because they original,
from a cross.
The post office at West Poin
was robbed of over seven hundred
dollars one night last week.
The Irwinton Southerner states
that a Wilkinson county man runs
his shirt through a cane crusher il
order to get rid of the heas.
One train on the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad killed seven
COWS the other day. Five were
killed at one time.
&C. A. Kendrick was fined five
hundred dollars and (ifty >three dol
lars), which he paid, and il now re-
leased.
The LaGrange Reporter learns
that the delegates to St. Louis were
appointed ColoneIs before they
reached the Tennessee line. This
is as 1t should be.
Hi Kimball is rapidly growing
in grace. He quit the Northern
Methodist Church recently, and the
other day he voted for Colquitt dele,
gates from Fulton county.
MIR. Yarkin Turner, of Merr-
wether county, is one hundred and
six years of age. Mrs. Robertson,
of the same county, is one hundred
and one.
Miss Anna Wells, aged IS
years, Of Dalton, committed suicide
last week by shooting herself with a
pistol. Her mother belo her end
ed her life by her own hand.
"A Jones county man, who had
been indulging in the jimson-weed
juice retailed in Macon, went home
aud shot mule and had his mother
in-law arrested for burglary.
The negroes had frolic near
Quitman the other night, and the
festivities wound up with the usual
row. The country darkeys were
arrayed "agin de town niggers,"
and pistols were freely used.
-"In Polk county recently four.
teen turkeys were struck and kills
ed BY lightning. Another fact in con
travention of the proposition that
feathers are reliable non-conductors.
An old Georgian in Texas
wants to exchange two farms in that
llourishing Southern cemetery for
Georgia lands. Now here is
chance for some enterprising all>
cotton, guano farmer.
1t is said that Ed. Galloway, of
the Mark ham House, is married.
We shall never believe it until we
ses the papers. The boy is too mod
est even to eat square meal in the
presence of potato, unless its eyes
are scooped out.
HAVE you heard anything about
Mr.. Stephens health, lately ?-Ne,c-
nan Blade.
Or about DIR. Pierce's age 7-La-
GraHge Reporter.
Or who will be the next Cover
nor9
Three gentlemen with each
lady, in buggies, stopped their
horses under railroad bridge near
Dalton, for their horses to drink
water. a train came laundering
along, when the ladies' leaped out of
the buggies into two feet water. As
the horses didn't runaway, the young
men pulled the young ladies into the
buggies, their clothes wet through
Leap year, you know.
Mr.. Edward J. Lane, of White
county, was recently married to Miss
Ella w. Terning. The groom is
only four feet six inches high, while
the bride is five feet eleven inches.
But this amaupts to nothing. As
short as he is, he doubtless thinks he
would be long Lane if he didn't
have Terning. ah
r. II. Harris in Thomasville
Times: Shades of the pioneers We
have been to Lickskillet and Pop
skull, and heard Of Turkeyscratch
and Froglevel; Sightsville was
suburb of our childhood's metropolis,
and Hackletrap and Coonbottom lie
within a days ride of our domicil:
but, ladies and gentlemen, until this
favored day has been reserved to us
the felicity of learning that Postum
scuffle calmnly reposes, in quiet
beauty, just beyond the limit of
morning stroll from Cairo. We have
positively refused to visit Cantenni-
deInhiaj we have forced ourself to
decline the Apalachicola excursion +;
and we reluctantly forego the pleas
ure of trip to St. Teresa; but we
shall, we must, we will make pious
pilgrimage to Possumscuffle.
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