The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-03-01
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

The Rev. o. P. Fitzsimmons
has received and accepted unani>
nous call to the pastorate OF the Pres.
byterian Church at Griffin.
1T requires eighteen months
TO obtain d divorce in Georgia. The
suit has to pass through three terms
Of the court.
- 10 Hall county near Gainesville,
another silver mine has been discov-
cred, which promises to be unusually
rich in its developments.
The City council Of Atlanta held
called meeting on Saturday evening
last and adopted strong resolutions
endorsing government aid to the Tex
as and Pacific railroad.
Twenty six passenger trains ar
rive and depart daily by the five rail
roads that centre at Atlanta, and the
passenger shed is a scene of much
activity.
"A prisoner in Carroll county Jail
bleeding at the nose on
Saturday night, and bled four gal
Ions before i. was stopped on Sunday
night.
Mr.. James Sigh, Of Carterville,
has the smallest mule in the State.
1t is Just three feet and four inches
tall, but it has an extraordinary reach
Of his hind legs.
Col O. l.. Reese, of Carroll;on,
has little daughter few days over
two years old that knows the English
alphabet by heart, and can distin-
suish the letters apart wherever she
sees them.
The mule market of Atlanta has
been remarkably active this season,
four hundred and seventy. one car
loads having been let loose, kicks
iGg and splurging from the Gate
City.
There is o man named Carroll
n Chattooga county who is the
'ather of twenty eight children, all
If whom are living. If any other
county in Georgia can beat this vital
statistic let it step to the front.
"A negro child was run over and
Iilled by a horse at the circus
grounds in Columbus on Saturday
asst. The child was in it's mothers
rms and both Of them were knocked
Town by the animal with fatal results
o the infant.
-LaGrange has sensation in tie
hape of the arrest of Melissa Lane
md her daughter on charge Of muir
lering the daughter of the latter.
Fhe child was found in the woods
With its skull fractured and the body
covered with leaves.
Newton county negro carried
hree two hundred pound sacks of
.uano distance of six hundred
ards. He. took a sack in each
land and the third sack between
lis teeth. The same negro can hold
my mule ia the county by the hind
egs.
- The Cherokee Railroad brought
nto Gainesville, Ga, fifty. tons Of
ron Thursday morning from Vests
-on furnace at Cedartown. This may
cen a small iten, but il means sure
nd lucrative development of an i'm
ortant industry Of Georgia.
Green Clayton killed John
'uckalew in Atlanta Saturday night.
went into a store where
everal parties were playing cards,
nd by his desperate conduct ran
hem all out. Clayton was one Of the
arties, and in q iracas on the street,
'layto stabbed Buckalew In the
lroat, causing death in about twenty
After Buckalew was stab>
ed, and thinking he was killed, ne
ttacked an old man who was sitting |
4 the store, and who had offered him
0 provocation, Clayton was tried |
Wednesday and acquitted.
We are glad TO see that Judge
lall endeavors to protect the rights
nd feelings Of witnesses by correct
ng a certain class of lawyers who
tempt to bulIdoze and intimidate
hem while they are on the witness
tand. If there is any place 10 this
porld where all the Inherent and
awful rights of q person should be
lilly and respectfully acknowledged,
is ia the court room, and the custom
! vogue with some lawyers whereby |
witness is assaulted by contemptu-
Us words and GESTURES is at variance
18th every principle of fair dealing
nd honor. - Griffin Sun.
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