The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-05-08

John II Christian 10 going to start
a new paper in Americus.
Lightning struck Mr.. Thad Pen
n;ng.on's residence killing two Ger,
wants and ipjnring young uau.
The first lot OF new wool received
at Albany sold a, 23i cents per
pound.
A little boy of Mr.. A. A. Bell, III
Augusta, .ell from a platform and
broke his leg in three places.
Dick Whitley, ex-Congressma an
from Georgia, is practiciug law in
Colorado.
Mr.. Elan Christian, of the Spar
Ia Times, is now a lawyer, editor
and preacher.
A fifteen ear old son of Mr.. w.
b. Davis of Crawford county acct
dentalIy killed himself while hnnt-
ing.
The Savannah Recorder wants
Thurman. of Ohio, and Hersohel Y.
Johnson, of Georgia, for President
and Vice President.
A "hand" of straw thoroughly
vet and hung in peach trees will
prevent the fruit from being killed
by frost.
Two colored men we're run over
by the cars very near the same
place at Mt. Airy, last week, on Air
Line Road.
Harry Messed and Thomas Sat,
terwhite, the first killed his son, and
the latter his wife, are to be hung in
ApplIng county to morrow all ne
groes.
Mack Britain, colored, shot John
Msffit, his father 10 law, for trying
to make his newly married wife
leave him Wound not dangerous.
Happened in Merriwe,her county.
Another murder in Atlanta. On
Thursday las, WIN. Sparks rushed
on his son in law, Tye, with butch
er knife, when Tye shot and killed
Sparks. Tye gave himself mp.
VIM. Call and Charles Pritchard,
cut w. Woods, an Augusta saloon
keeper, in the abdomen, because he
insisted on payment for drinks. His
wife was cut also.
A frenzied negro woman in Sa-
vannah rushed down Berrien street
with an ak in her hand, cutting and
slashing at every child she met, but
avoiding grown persons. She sue
ceeded in injuring one child severe
ly, having struck on her head with
the axe.
The biggest tree known Of in
Georgia is a poplar in Washington,
Wilkes county, II is one hundred
and fifty FIVE feet high, nine feet 10
diameter, twenty eight feet 10 cir,
conference, and it's lowest branches
are fifty>fve feet from the ground.
On account of the recent advance
in the price Of cotton, says Tire New
nan Herald, our farmers seem de-
ter mined to deal largely in CONNER
ciai fertilizers this season 10 order to
raise big crop of the fleecy staple
with which to purchase their corn
and meat.
A striking evidence Of the fact
that the solid South is not solid for
sectional reasons, was given on me-
mortal day in Milledgeville. 1t is
stated 10 the Recorder Of that city
that the only grave Of a Federal
soldier in the cemetery there was
decorated with flowers. and NINA
ture United States flag, made for
the purpose, was placed upon it on
that occasion.
The cambridge Democrat tells Of
the folio wing DISASTROUS occurrence ::
Last Sunday six negroes, four men
and two women, attempted to cross
Dry creek in a bateau. Parties on
the bank tried TO dissuade them
from the undertaking, because the
boat was too heavily loaded, but to
no avail. The one guiding the boat
said that he was choking that cat,
as he showed out into the stream. -
The consequence was that the boat
cspsized, and two Of the men and
the two women found watery graves.