The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-07-03
GEORGIA GLEANINas.

Col. Montgomery will be marshal
of the day at Rome, July fourth.
100 more looms will soon be in
operation at the check factory,
Athens.
A thirteen year>old married wo
man gave birth to child recently in
Banks county,
Governor Colquitt has commuted
the death sentence of James Afford,
of Atlanta, to Imprisonment for life.
The Ellijay Courier was leased
and abandoned by Mr.. Claud Cocb>
ran. aud MIR. Allen has just started
her up agais with TEN porary help.
Lieut.. Henry NJ. McCewley, of
Company I, Thirteenth Infantry,
committed suicide by shooting him
self in the mouth, on last Monday, in
Atlanta
An Augusta man has sued that
city for $4,000 damages, in that
COW horned his daughter. lie claims
that he city should not allow cows
on the streets.
There ara about seventy FIVE per-
sons in the Atlanta jail, ranging in
age from ten to sixty years. There
are some ten or a dozen little boys
10 jail, charged with stealing.
James Burton killed his brother
in law, s. 7. Kicks, 10 Meriwe,her
county, the other day, owing to hard
words by Ahe former about the lat
ter's wife, who refused to retract,
A colored man by the name Of
Bran Wilson fell dead while digging
grave in the colored cemetery Of
Savannah. The inquest pronounced
it heart disease.
Mr., j. G. Linck rushed between
some belligerent parties, near Co
lumbus, TO prevent a difficulty, when
pistol was fired, the ball taking
effect il Mr.. Linck's abdomen.
There are ,203 convicts 10 the
penitentiary camps of the State.
Since March Let % of them have
been sick of this number 80 have
returned to duty, 10 are still sick
and have died
The Atlanta CoIored University,
to which the State pays $4,000 an
uually, has had an attendance of 200
pupils for the session Just closed.
The closing exercises were interest
ing.
The boiler of the steam saw>miil
of Charley Jones, six miles east Of
West Point, Ga exploded Saturday,
killing the engineer, Hughes, in.
stantly, and wounding six others,
two of them fatally.
Atlanta, last Monday, started her
immense cotton factory, amid gem
eral rejoicing ard speeches. 1t will
take sixty bales of cotton per day,
turning out IS, 900 yards of cloth 10
that time, requiring 420 operatives
to run it
Quitman Reporter On last Satur>
day, Mr.. Whit Rountree visited Val
dosta, and getting under the inhu~
ence OF liquor, towards evening
started for his home in the southwest
portion Of Lowndes county. Spying
some nice watermelons on MIR. G. o,
Forces premises, who lives in the
edge of town, he concluded that he
would 'jubt get over" and help him.
self, which he did. While in the
watermelon patch he was ordered
out by negro woman, whose mans
dates he refused to obey, whereupon
she got gun and fired at him he
approached her with his knife
drawn, and when in striking distance
she let fly with the gun and broke
it over him. Ia the melee Roun-
tree gave the woman severe stab
in the back, the blade Of his knife
with great force was thrust into her
back bone, and being unable to pull
it out he broke it off, which our in
formant tells us, up to Tuesday (the
day he left had bafiied the skill Of
the physicians to extract il, her
whole body being raised with pair
of nippers hold of the broken end Of
the blade. Mr.. Rountree is regard
ed as a good and peaceable citizen,
and if he had not been drunk would
not have gone upon Mr.. Forces
premises. The affair is very much
regretted by him.