The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-05-25
GEORGIA oLEAnrnos.

Dick Dawson negro, of Upson
county, has been tried and convicted
Of murder and will DO hung.
Two brothers living with Dir.
Elisha Aycock, in Cuthbert, got in
to difficulty, 10 which one was stab
bed eleven times with q knife.
"A lady 10 Wilkes county, the
other day, fed her young chickens
on sailed dough, and one hundred
and sevepsy-6ve Of them died.
The Cahut,ah Cotton Factory,
some ten miles east of Dalton, was
burned on the night Of the 9th in-
slant. Loss, $4,000; insured for
sl0,500
-Forty-four houses near the. &C..
tory in Augusta are now paying rent
for the first time. The increase of
population, the result Of the building
Of manufactures, contributing to this
result.
Captain Jno. A. Grant, Super,
intendent Of the Macon and Bruins
wick Railroad, has rendered his res
| ignation in order to take a position
on the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road.
MIR. Pool, Of Oglethorpe county,
swallowed ten cents worth of lauda-
mum on Wednesday and came nigh
mounting the ladder. Fortunately .
doctor was near at hand, and Pool
now feels like 9 suck town pump.
The Buena Vista Argus is de-
Lighted to see the crops OF all kinds
| in the lower portion of Marion and
Schley counties looking SO well aud
showing so much evidence of good
culture.
The SandersyilIs Herald says q
widow residing in that county, with
the aid Of her Is year old daughter
made last year without assistance,
nine bales Of cotton, and did consid-
cradle picking for other parties.
They also made and cribbed two hun>
| bred bushels of corn.
Chisholm, who was killed in
Kemper county, Mississippi, in a
bloody affray, which resulted in the
subsequent death of his dather, was
la Georgian and Confederate.
He was q desperate man and turned
over to Radicalism soon after the
war.
| "A little boy named Cummings,
was badly mangled in the gearing Of
q mill in Harris county last week.
The little fellow, for the purpose Of
taking ride, had caught around the
mill shaft and was drawn into the
gearing and had both legs and one
arm broken, and the other arm bad
" crushed. At last accounts he was
still alive.
| "A Newton county man fell from
tho train while it was running at a
slow rate Of speed the other day on
the Augusta convention trip, and
came near being drowned. Happi>
lly, where he fell the water was not
deep enough to drown him. On
| finding himself overheard he called
Itohis comrades to ''pull the bell line, "
(which was done, and he was restored
to his friends wiser and wetter man.
The Sandersville Herald says :
"The wheat crop in this county is as
good as it has been any year since
the war. Oats are heading out rath>
or low, the result, we suppose, of dry
weather. The corn crop can claim
q larger acreage this year than usu-
al and never presented better pros
pect at this season of the year. Cot>
ton is generally up-the stand good.
The crop prospect is excellent.
| This is an exhibition OF home
industry which is worthy Of record,
and which we take from the Sanders
Vile Herald: "Wi,h real county
pride we learn that our worthy coun-
lyman and excellent farmer, w. Il.
Frances, Esq, has been selling hams
to parties a. Savannah, who are so
an ious to get them they pay him
eighteen cents per pound at the de-
pot about forty per cent. over the
price in Savannah. Mr.. Francis
raised enough meat to supply all the
corn used on his farm. This year he
has planted large portion of his
crop in corn, aud expects, besides
making an abundance for home use,
to have some for sale. II gives us
pleasure to chronicle such instances
Of profitable farming and genuine
progress"
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