The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-12-18
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Macon claims population OF
twenty thousand.
Americas received $4,000 in
gold at one installmeut,
Forty>seven gin houses have been
burned in Georgia since August 3 /.
In Alabama %.
Seven prisoners augured out Il
Walton county jail, at Monroe, last
Sunday night.
1t is rumored that one firm in
Athens has made eighty thousand
dollars by the recent rise in cotton
Elk Gov. James NJ. Smith. Que Of
the railroad commissioners, has sold
bis property in Columbus, and will
make Atlanta his home in the future,
In a fight at the house of the latter
near Athens, DR.. Clark, a patent
medicine vender, inflicted mortal
wounds on Joe Bard Clark was first
attacked. Both were drunk.
The result is thai Judge Il. b
Trippe is mayor and j. G. Wofford
E. Payne, L. A, Chapman, j A,
Slower, NJ. Ii. Gilreatb, Il. w. Sat.
terrified and w. 10. Edwards consti
tute the city fathers of Gainesville
for the coming year.
Emory Speer has bill to prevent
the brass bands of the Union from
playing on Sundays, This will not
prevent the boys in the mountains
from taking a horn before going to
church.
A Wsrrenton party of gentlemen
iu hunt on the Ogeechee killed
693 ducks, turkeys and squirrels,
five deer and brought home The left
eye of blind coon. One hunter
killed three of the deer, and another
three gobblers on the wirg at one
shot and 81 ducks at ] fires
When The train from West Point
stopped in Atlanta last Friday morn
ing, destitute tramp, without mon,
ey 10 very shabby clothes, almost
frozen, crept out from beneath the
cars. lie said he had ridden all the
way from Montgomery, Ala to At
lanta on the trucks.
The Spartv IsbmaeIite says, the rise
in the price Of cotton has been worth
at least 100000 to the Hancock
farmers over the prices of last year
II will take more than that amount.
however, to buy their provisions,
unless they have raised them a.
home.
Judge Chislom vents 100000,
General A K. Llw.on, $4,000, and
Captain Robert Falligant, 10000 for
services in the adjustment of the At
Iantic and Gulf Railroad Difficult is.
Samuel STANCE is desiiious Of secur-
ing 81 $50, so are Eugene Kelly
and Morris X Jessup 10 the same
amount, making 800, 900 in all for
services as attorney aud trustees
The Coviugton Star says that a
large number of the farmers 10 the
southeastern part Of Newton county
have not made cotton enough this
year to pay their rents The corn
crop was also failure 10 that sec
tio,,, and, in consequence, many Of
the farmers are in very destitute cir
cumstances.
A compile Of sramps have been
"doing" the citizens near Brookvile,
Worth county, very successfully -
They represented themselves az
great land buye +, who possessed am
pie resources. and went around
from plantation to plantation on an
extensive inspecting tour. At every
house they stopped they received a
square meal. and i; was several days
before their little game was discov
cred,
Sheriff Huoter Of DeKslb county
has a cbapgeable chicken ben. She
is three years old, and during that
time has been of five different col,
ors. When first of age, she was
black she gradually turned white,
then yellow, the blue.spotted, and is
now undergoing another change Of
color as to her feathers. This is
vouched for by Mr.. J. d. King and
Mr.. J. S. Vaughn, both Of who n
have owned this remarkably tickle
colored heu.-DeKalb News.
A politician who was kicked dowr
a flight of stairs. the other day, sale
he felt as though his seat had beer
contested.