The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-12-04
GEORGIA oLBANIN0s.

The Directors of thu Macon aud
Brunswick Road paid 100000 into
the State Treasury last seek.
The Griffin News is Informed that
in SpaIding that there are two color
ed women aged l03 and los years
respectively.
Hal Garrett made his escape from
The train AZ Harlem last week. He
was sentenced TO the penitentiary
Tor life from Columbia county. in
1875, for the murder If his wife
Larry Williams, a colored we'll
digger near Lumpkin, was being
drawn from an excavation, bat when
within about four feet of the top Of
he well, fell back and was instantly
killed,
According tn the Sparta lshmaeI,
lite. Mr.. James NJ Mitchell, of Han
cock county, made ibis year, on a
two mule farm, - bales Of Gotten,
500 bushels Of coro, 800 bushels OF
potatoes, IA gallons OF syrup, aud
wheat, oats, peas and other farm
products in proportion.
The State Commissioner Of Agri
culture has received for distribution
a few pecks Of Athoi Minorra wheat
which was grown on the islands of
the Mediterranean. 1t is large, white
and beautiful The experiment of
growing it in Georgia will be watch
ed with interest.
The Jonesboro News very sensi>
bly, says Cotton may run as high
as thirty cents, it has gone higher,
but then it may fall to five, it has
sold lower. Ten cents is above an
average, When the spectators
get all they can hold, lofty tum
bic will ensue.'
IT'S awful to be bitten by spider
A Dublin man was so bitten on the
hand, one day last week, and imme1
diately was forced to swallow pint
of whiskey before he felt that his
life was safe. He says he did not
stop to taste the whiskey until he
had swallowed the lest drop.
. The egotistic, uutimely and i'll
tempered letter Of DR.. Felton, will do
more to put down factions in the
Democratic ranks in Georgia, than
anything that has happened since
Hayes stole the Presidency. II we
are forced to choose between Jacob
inism aud Bourbonism, we Intend to
fly the flag of the latter. Louis be,
fore Robespierre Sparta lshmael-
lite.
HENRY Evans, youog man liv
ing near Fort Gaines, was going
home the other night through pine
thicket, when he saw what he sup
posed to be a dog 10 front Of him -
he struck the animal with his stick,
whereupon it rose upon its bind feet
aud advanced, on mischief bent
Henry laid aside his stick aud drew
his little weapon, fired five shoto in
rapid succession, and executed at
forwards flank movement that car
ried him out Of danger. The bear,
for such it proved to be, was next
morning, dead. SO says the Tribune.
DoUGLAsvlLLE had Jail delivery
on Friday night, all Of the prisoners
escaped except Fannie Williams --
Those who escaped we're, f, NJ
Fraud, charged with an assault with
intent to rape, Charles Baker charg
ed with hog stealing Primus Jen
king, colored, carrying concealed
weapons, John Holmes, colored as
sauIt with intent to murder and War
ren Mento, colored, Isrcency from
the house. They effected their es
cape by tearing up plank from the
floor and using saw and axe to
make hole in the logs which we're
the foundation of the jail. Those es
capped we're confined in one room on
the fret floor. Fannie Williams who
is confined in the upper story says
that about midnight, some men came
to the Jail and assisted the prisoners
to escape That the prisoners OBJ"
tanned the axe and saw from these
men. The saw was found in the Jail
next morning. The axe could not
be found, although there was
plenty evidence of It's having been
used. It is still mystery how the
axe and saw could possibly have got
ten in the jail Star.
Corar,iga;orar II ann of the II0i.