The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-08-03
GEORGIA oLEANrNas.

Soilegei Oxiorui Oa.i on Asov.
w. F. Cook of Atlanta.
Newnas is making extensive
preparationg 10 entessains the State
Agricultural Convention on August
Id.
While the convention is econo-
miaing on eysrythipg they should
remember the people did not send
them to Atlanta to spend the summer.
zTHE Mason Telegraph, puts the
los pftima by the strikers, aestrue-
iidA DC property and cIose Of factories
at thirty million Dollars.
f-Some sceundrel poisoned two
mules and stabbed a very mare boz
longing to Mr.. John Wynn, Of Tel,
fnir county, last week. Last fall
Somebody burned his barn.
The Mitchell county Refoffner
reports caterpillafs in that county,
with The probability that thsys will
|do ilnmenso damage next montl, "a
The cotton crop is very backward.
-sSa.urday about 2 O'Clock, while
sitting IN her room 10 Columbus, Mrs.
Simmons, an old lady of Girard, sud-
denly and without any apparent
Gauss, dropped dead. aai, aa'ae III
The Association Of Note Cars
riers, Of Thomasville, have struck
and she young men are in despair.
The regular price has been ten cents,
but the gzmias want 'fifteeu and IRE
holding aont.l *. ~ saas..
The State Agricultural Society
meets in Newman on the 18th of'Au
gust and will have representatives
present from nearly every county in
the State. - i' seg -Aa asa =
"A Newton county man is cplti-
waiting one hundred and sixty acres.
He has forty acres in corn, forty
in cotton, forty in turnips aud forty
in collards. Himself, little boy
and a erippled. horse do the tending
of the land.
"A Cobb comfy man, who was
in Atlanta . day Or two since, says
he means u make fortune on bees
lie has already sold seven Hundred
pounds of honey at eighteen cents .
pound and ID not half dona with bis
hives. He plants hhckWhsas for bis
bees, and when that fails he feeds
them on wet brown sugar.
THE BainbfIdge Democrat says:
AThe neaness man 10 the State lives
in an adjoining county to Brooks
|. III, bad in his employ . poor little
orphan boy. The boys brother came
to see him, and the farmer made the
orphan in his employ pay for the
meals his brother ate." s.h sae
-Lucius j. Preston, a colored
Methodist preacher in Burke county,
,eIoped. some time since with the wife
Of another colofsd preacher. Il is
said that Preston carried with him
about three hundred dollars that had
been subscribed to the building Of
the negro college at Waynesboro.
Miss Ida Green, . young lady
Of Epson county, while witnessing
game of base ball Of AThe Rock, /" in
that county, was struck on the head
with q portion Of q bat, which broke
in the hands Of one Of the players.
The blow was o very serious one,
severing the temporal artery, and. as
q physician could not be obtained for
some time, hemorrhage was cOpious
end 'n alarming. yIT
The LaGrange Reporter says
"Tuesday night those who were pro-
perly situated, were favored with
beautiful and unusual sight-a lunar
rainbow. The rain had passed the
zenith, and was falling in the west,
when the sneon rose ii the east.
Those who saw II we're charmed with
tie novel beauty Of the scene, and
could but regret when it faded
away"
-A negro who stole twenty-cents
In Columbus seven month"; ago has
been ia pfison under commitment
to answer the charge since that time
until Wednesday, when he was res
leased By hsbeas corpus. Through
the Negligence Of the officers Of the
law 10 do their duty 10 The premises,
this twenty cent scrape has cost the
county ID the neighbofhOod Of one
hundred dollars.
The negro who stole DIR. Rudi>
silIs Umbrella as was afterwards
found out, went fapm town to Mr..
Charlie McCarlhy's about two miles
distant, and going into negro cab
in, stole the breakfast Of the negro
occupying the cabin, who was asleep
ON the bed. This negro, named An
thony Hollis, upon waking found bis
breakfast gone and Immediately
started in pursuit of tho thief. In
q short while he came up with, took
bis breakfast from him, the stolen um>
brella and a coat. He then tied him
TO tree and gave him sound
thrashing. Jim Cotton was his
name and Jim left for parts unknown
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