The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-12-04
GEORGIA eLEANrNGs.

have no business with politics al all.
The Knights If Honor is the larg-
est organization ia Dtltoo, aud is
still increasing
Cariersyiie next year will buili a
cotton mill with Clement attach
mens.
+. G. Wood was accidentally shot
and killed in Macon on Thursday by
young man named Jerry Ally.
CLARKE county had another negro
on the jury last week. Independent
fruit.
THE population Of Rome has in
creased nearly one thousand dnring
the past twelve months.
OVER 1000 names have been
added to the temperance pledge ia
Atlanta within the last two weeks
THE marriago fees received by
cne Of the pastors Of LaGranga
amounted to fifty doilara within one
week
Echo: Col. Colburn has a nugget
of gold taken from a mine near Dab
lonega that will yield at the rate Of
$4,000 per ton,
NAT Anderson, who shot aod kill
ed Ed. Brown, colored, IN Atlanta
was tried last week ard found guilty
Of voluntary manslapghter and sen,
fenced two years in the pententiary.
IT is said that on his return trip !
FROM Mexico General Grant will land |
at either Galveston or New Orleans, |
about the middle Of February, and |
go to the North via Atlanta
Madison, in Morgan county, had |
received up to this time last year
about 5000 bales of cotton. This
year her receipts will not 60 much
over 5000.
A young Mr.. Wymer, of Atlanta,
attempted to commit suicide at the
Litchfeld House, in Acworth, on
Monday last of last week, by taking
morphine.
A large Wild goose. tbal had |
strayed off from its mates, lit among |
a flock of tame geese in tho lower
part of Oglethorpe county, the other
day. The entire flock Immediately |
turned loose on the intruder, and |
nearly killed him before he could es,
cape.
The Covington Enterprise Gays;
ave met Dr. Godfrey, Of Msdis-n,
on the cars last Monday. lie was
going to Atlanta with petition pray
Jog that the Governor remit the |
taxes of Morgan county for this year,
The doctor paints a gloomy picture
Of financial affairs in his county"
The Franklin Heard county |
News says that never before in the
history of that town has the general
business outlook been so promising |
New buildings are beins-erected, |
and new business firms . being
'ormed.
j. G Bridger and B. A. Mullios,
.wo citizens of Atlanta, had diff
guilty last "Wednesday, during which
Bridger probably fatally wounded
Mullins With hatchot, and Mullins
'everely injured Bridger with a
hammer.
Says the Atlanta Constitution:
When the Government sorveyors
we're improving the beds of the
Etowah and Coosa rivers, they used
dynamite 10 blasting rock. II was
discovered that the explosions were
very fatal to the fish all around them
The shock was SO terrible that hun
lreds Of dead or stunned fish would
Use 10 the surface aud be easily
aiken"
Hawkinsville Dispatch: "On
evening Iesf, en the planta-
ion of DR. John Ladder, Of Houston
county, a Mr.. McWiIIiams was kick
ID by mule and died in few min
ltes The deceased. 9Th another
person, we are inforlaed had hidden
themselves under bridge, and as
'ome freedmen, riding mules, passed
,ver the bridge, MoWilIiams jumped
tut aud struck ore Of the mules in
he flank with sack The freigh-
sned animal kicked violently with
is hind foot, striking the man, and
almost instant death"
Mr.. Bryant w. Brown, of Hous
on county, while on his way home
rom HawkinsviIlo last Thursday
week, lost his pock et>book, contain
ng about $500, andsvaluable papers
When he arrived hdne aud discov,
,red his loss be praured q lot IF
orches and made Borough search
dong the road without success. The
,ook was, lays the aawtinsviIle Dis
patch, found Oh the afternoon in
which it was lost by Johnnie Polhill,
. little son Of MrsJohn G, PolhiII, of