The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-02-01
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

--Covington on Tuesday elected a
"dry" ticket for Mayor and Council.
Hon. C. d. Pace is the new Mayor.
- Deputy United States Marshal
Murphy and his party were fired up
on at East Point, ten miles from A.
lantA, by party Of illicit distillers
and their friends, and negro guide
and two horses we're wounded.
The hard money men held a
meeting at the Opera House, Atlanta,
at which speeches we're made and
letters read from Mr.. Gambler, Mr..
Hill and Chief Justice Warner.
! There was not much enthusiasm
manifested in the objects Of the
meeting.
On Saturday last negro fell,
head foremost, from the fifth to the
fourth Aoor of the new factory at
Columbus. His head struck ma
chine and damaged it (the machine)
considerably the only injury to the
head being slight scalp wound.
"A groceryman in Hoboken
failed the other day. GLOW much
can you pay 7" asked friend. "Do
you think you can give fifty cents on
the dollar 7" Fifty cepts Mein
Colt No, that's too much. In
New York they are only paying %
per cent.
"A negro boy was kicked to
death by Harris county calf which
he was attempting to ride on Sunday
afternoon Of last week. The boy
got astraddIe of the yearling, which
started off at full speed, and with a
violent plunge, threw the rider, at
the same time planting its hoof just
over the left eye. The boy died
from the effects of the blow the next
day.
Matilda Clark, negro woman
about sixty years of age, was found
dead in thick swamp about
ten miles above Columbus on Thurs
day morning last. When found she
was nearly Invested of clothing, and
it 10 supposed that she had been
lying in the swamp for about twenty
days.
The City Council of Atlanta
propose to tax personal as well as
real estate ia order to meet the
growing and heavy expenses of that
corporation. Elk Governor Joseph
Il, Brown has written a long letter
in favor of the ordinance. More
money must be had in some way,
and this method seems to be the most
practical.
Mrs. Melton, wife of Clay Mel,
ton, and daughter Of John May, of
the fifth district Of Randolph county,
was so severely burned Thursday
evening last that she died early Fri
day morning. Her husband was
burning some brush near his resi-
dence, when his wife went out to see
him about some matters, and in pass
ing near Burning brush heap her
clothing caught on fire and resulted
as above.
Reports from the Atlanta papers
show that gang Ct the vilest kind
of sbarpers and swindlers have made
that city their headquarters. Sever
al innocent parties have been made
victims Watches are snatched from
the owners hands, pocketbooks grab
bed and other tricks played upon
travellers. The last and worst case
occurred on Friday, when two conf
dence men swindled, in the usual
way, Mr.. Thomas Owens, of Ken
lucky, out of $40, all he had de-
rived from the sale of his drove of
mules.
The Old Capital says: "Gen.
Myrick informs us that two old men
of Baldwin county William and
Thomas Green, aged respectively
seventy,two and sixty niue years,
gathered last year as the result of
their own labor six bales of cation
averaging 496 pounds, 800 bushels
of corn, 5000 pounds of fodder, 100
bushels of potatoes, % bushels field
peas and 10 bushels rice. Besides
these varied products they raised
and killed meat enough for another
year. The extra work hired by
these aged farmers cost thirty nine
dollars all told, and the eldest, Mr..
William Green, did all the blowing
necessary to make the crop. We
think these old men deserve to be
commended.