The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-05-29
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The Georgia legislature meets the
fist Wednesday 10 July.
Associate Justice Bleckley is fifty
one.
The Gainesville Railroad received
another narrow gauge engine Friday.
Ex-Gov. Bullock, is DOW q grocer
in Elmyra, New York.
Gainesville seems determined to
get up railroad to Dahlonega.
Work has been commenced on the
famous Griffin, Monticello, & Madi-
son Railroad in sober earnest.
Henry county has now over 81
900 in the treasury and doesn't owe
a cent.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, the pioneer
an ti-slsvery agitator, died 10 New
York last Saturday.
There are half dozen or more
lottery offices in Atlanta where ticks
cts are sold daily.
James Afford, young man is
waiting the execution OF the death
sentence in Fulton jail.
One cotton buyer III Rome cleared
$4,000 by the recent advance in
the price of cotton.
Several Georgia counties are build
ing new jails. Would it not do well
TO expend some surplus on the school
houses
Robert Skelly (white) was hung
Friday in Blackshear for the murder
of his wife in December last. lie
made a full confession, and died calm.
NEAR RutIedge, Ga Berry Watts,
shot and killed negro because he
wouldn't pay him debt of fifty
cents.
Joe Bailey, colored, shot to death
Joe Smith, colored, near Harmony
Grove, jackson county. The mur-
derer is still at large.
A farmer 10 Liberty county obs
tsined from a common piney woods
sheep this Spring nine pounds of
wool.
Governor Brown is going to put
telephones in all the depots on bis
railroad, 10 place of the telegraph
80 says the Covington Star.
The Madisoniau learns tina; there
were fifty nine accessions to the
Methodist Church and about fifteen
to other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the
late revival.
A little girl, aged about five years,
while fishing near Poullaine's mill,
in Morgan county, fell in the race
and drowned before assistance could
be summoned.
President jeff Davis is living
at Beauvoir bis home 20 miles from
New Orleans. He is 20 years old
and in good health, and has just been
offered S400 per night to so North
and lecture.
The LaGrsnge Reporter, says
"The other day, Mr.. Samuel Cherry
bought lot of cotton, some of which
was twelve years old. When the
cotton was first made, the owner had
been offered, and had refused, thirty
five cents for it; but he was now
willing to take eleven cents for it"
Tue jury 10 the Jack Jones case,
late State Treasurer, rendered ver-
diet that they find him due the State
S63, 1862 so principal, and SIS, $50.
90 interest. Total, 500, 1913 40
The defense will appeal to the Su-
preme Court if new trial is denied.
Postmaster Conley, of Atlanta, re
ceives five Thousand dollars worth of
refunding certificates every day, and
they are gobbled up as soon as they
reach the post office. The postmas>
ter is trying to get them in supplies
OF one hundred thousand dollars at q
time,
On Thursday evening last Messrs.
William Thompson, Jesse Thompson
and Henry Norris went out in boat
to Daniels mill pond, near Franklin,
to set some hooks. While rowing
along the boat suddenly struck
snag and dipped water. This created
some excitement, and the boat was
capsized. William Thompson man.
aged TO swim to shore, but the other
two were drowned.
The Summer Gazette knows
of a man living above Trion who
does not know letter or figure, but
kept his own books perfectly. He
once went to Trion to buy a drawing
knife, but finding it cost ten cents
more than the Rome price, he walk
ed to Rome, got the knife, and walk
ed back home. That man will, of
course, die rich, his children will
enjoy his wealth, and will always
speak with pride of the fact that he
was a remark able man.
Last week at Athens, most bru
tai murder was committed. A little
negro child, about four years Of age,
was first poisoned and then beaten