The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-02-06

B. F. JONAS was elected U. 5.
Senator by the Louisiana Legisla>
ture.
THE editor of the Gainesville Reg
isfey is confined to bis bed with meas
les
f. A WILD cat has just been killed IN
Berrien county which had destroyed
46 geese and many pigs and lambs
The Recorder declares that Nils
ledgeville is out of debt--owes
nothing and pays cash for al! she
gets.
IT is stated that Senator CHRIST
FANCY will accept the mission to Pc
ru and that L CHANDLER will take
his place in the Senate. The GRANT
movement is booming.
Mr.. w. A. Wbittle, a we'll known
and highly respected citizen of Ma
con, accidentally SHOT himself
through the head last Monday which
resulted il his death.
PACKARD has written letter IN
which he gives Wharton, United
States Marshal of louisiana, a cer>
tificate of good character, and says
he Pack ard) hopes he will not be
removed.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has
decided that subscrip ton made on
Sunday is not binding in law. The
effect of this will be to invalidate
subscriptions made on Sunday to
liquidate church debts.
The Louisiana Legislature has
called Constitutional Convention TO
meet April 2lst, sit sixty days and
cost forty thousand dollars. One
after another the rotten fabrics OF
Radicaliom are being swept away.
THE Augusta Sentinel says
"Girls, beware of distinguished look
ing strangers with side>whiskers and
eye glasses. Two counterfeit Eng
ligh Lords are prowling through the
South, expecting to be lion zed by
the women"
w. J. FRANK, young Cincinna~
Ii roisterer, was robbed of 81, 900 in
a bar~room. He Immediately had
the thief arrested, and the case was
reported in the newspapers Frank 8
father read about the robbery, and
wondered how his son had got SO
much money. The mystery was
dispelled by an examination of the
cash books of the old mans business,
for the son, who had been confiden
tiaI clerk, had stolen $4,000.
JOSEPH w. Brown, wealthy
farmer living near Indianapolis, was
murdered on Wednesday night by
two Williams who entered his house,
chloroformed the inmates and dealt
Brown a blow on the head with a
club or Ratchet. Mrs. Brown was
also severely cut across the head and
face and lies in q critical condition.
TIE old fractional currency is
coming to be almost curiosity, so
completely has it disappeared from
circulation There is, however,
about SlG,000,000 of it in existence,
or as the Treasury phrase goes "out>
standing" The remainder of the
large amount that was issued has
been destroyed. The amount re-
deemed during 1878 was 81, 552,-
915.04.
JUDGE II. B. ToMPKtNs,, of the
Savannah Circuit, has resigned his
position-the resignation to take eff
feet March goth. His term would
not have expired until 1880. He
will resume the practice of his pro
fession. The Governor will appoint
his successor, who will hold the Of
flee until the meeting of the Gener
al Assembly in July.
MEMPHIS is no longer a city. The
bill repeating the charter has passed
both branches of the Tennessee Leg
islalure. Another bill has passed,
remanding it to the territory of Ten
nessee and providing for a local
government. In the meantime, the
creditors of Memphis have filed a
bill in the Federal Court, asking for
the appointment of receiver and
to provide for the pay of the
debts of the city, and of its assets.
THE Los Angeles (Cal) Star says
that a lady in that vicinity has at
various times found gold 10 the crops
of her chickens. The lust nugget
contained about twenty-five cents
worth and there is no telling how
much had been worn off by friction
against gravel in the crop. 1t is
supposed that the grains of precious
metal were gathered by the fowls
from some gravel hauled upon the
premises from a neighboring hill.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION has tender
cd his resignation as President of the
French republic, on the grounds that
he is in disagreement with the Min
;strv. - homeless of forming another