The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-08-21
SHORT NOTES.

Ohio.
j. Boiler grossly assaulted little
girl, aged | ! years, at Fort Fairfield,
Me-, and the popuiace pursued add
shot him.
Policeman Tom Clarke, Of New
Orleans, shot and killed Mira. Brown,
his paramour, Friday night, and es-
capped.
Samuel j. French, money order
clerk in the post office at Auburn,
N. T., has been arrested on charge
Of rihiDg letters.
Ewing's friends now claim for him
10000 greenback votes in Ohio,
which will elect him governor by a
large majority over Foster.
Vanderbilt has just given $780,.
600 for a gymnasium and civil en-
cheering and scientific hall at Van
derbuilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
Tammany has formally declared
that under no circumstances willlhe
Democracy of New York city sup
port Gov. Robinson for re election.
Theophilus Van De Mooftel, the
Jesuit priest who at Chicago re-
nounced Catholicism in favor OF
Episcopaliauism, has recanted and
again becomes Catholic.
VIM. Vance Harper, a PhiladeI.
phia lawyer, has disappeared after
defrauding clients, some of them
widows and orphans who had given
him money to invest, out of $l7,-
900.
At Poplar Plains, KY, Friday, 0.
w. Price was about to shoot Lew
Anderson, when Thos. Anderson
came no and blew Prices brains out
with double barreled gun.
A little boy picked up what he
thought was rather pretty pebble
while playing on the bank of the
Little Mama River at Waynesville,
Ohio. 1t turned out to be a pearl,
and he sold it for $685.
Two men entered Bushing & Co. 3
Bank, at Cincinnati, Wednesday
afternoon, and while one engaged the
person in charge ia conversation the
other quietly made off with pack
age OF $4,000.
Near Dallas, Texas, Friday, Eli
sha Conway, a colored farm hand,
killed his wife by cutting her throat
from ear to ear nearly severing the
head from the body. Cause, jeal-
ousy. He says he is glad he did it,
and expects to hang.
A man named Owen snapped his
pistol at a man named Dudly, at
Benton, Ala, because the latter re-
fused to give him an explanation
of trivial matter. Dudly, in res
turn, shot Owen four times, cut his
throat and stamped on his head until
he was dead.
The California Stale election takes
place September Sd, and that of
Maine September s. In California
there are four State tickets in the
field and in Maine three. So it is
difficult to base any calculations as
to the results on votes at prior cleo
tions.
At Huntonville, Ky, Wednesday
evening two prominent citizens,
brothers in-law, John Johuson and
J B. Lucas, quarreIed over tho set
clement of an estate Lucus follow,
ed Johnston to the !atter's home,
when Johnston took gun and shot
Locus three times, killing him in.
stantIy. Johnston was arrested.
Walter Paine, third treasurer of
the American Linen Company, at
Fall River, Mass, has been dealiag
in cotton futures. and it is alleged
the mill has lost over Sl00, 900.
Paines transactions were .similer to
those of his brother in law Geo. B
Dunfee), at the Mechanics MILL
TIE new constitution, the work of
the Louisiana Constitutional Conven
ton, will be Submitted to the" Voters
of that State for ratification Sios re-
lection on the ID Of December next
The New Orleans Democrat calcu>
lates that if adopted it will save ST.
004,GS0 to the State each year.
More than half of the sum is in the
way of interest on the State debt
THE Comiey>Jownal abiding to
the New York turkey gobbler's res
cent escapade, says; "Conkling is
a cowardIy brute oowardly in poll,
tics cowardiy on the stump cow
ardly on the floor of the Senate. Be-
hold your god, stalwarts, with blanch-
cd face, trembling lips, quivaring
legs, sneaking like a whipped dog
by night out of Providence, with a
shot gun pointed at his sleek carcass!
ToBE O'REAR, on Lookout Nouns
tain, has three rattlesnakes, which
he pets aud fondles mast affections
ately. Girls. if Tobe ever says
marry tell him the first thing is to
kill off those snakes -SunmerUilie
Castle.
Perhaps lobe thinks there is less
deceit in a pet rattlesnake, than in
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