The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-11-13
GEORGIA GLEANINGs

Corn is selling in Catoooa county
at Al cents per bushels.
Emory Spcer is speaking in the
mountains Ct Hart county.
Over 81 900 bales of cotton have
been received in Rome thus far.
1t is estimated that over so new
firms have commenced business in
Atlanta the present season.
Major T H. Myers, in Stewart
county, was recully shot by spring
gun which he had fixed in his store
for burglars.
Gainesville has shipped 2,4S5
bales of cotton lhis season-an in
crease cf about 500 bales over the
receipts OF this time last year.
Mrs. Juo. II. Trainer, of South
Rome, committed suicide last Tues
day morning by drowning in a we'll
She left babe little over a week
old.
There is negro woman in Mont-
gomory county who has been the
mother Of seven children ia the last
sixteen months, Who said the COLI
orcd race was dying out 7
1t is reported that there are fully
loo applicants for the clerkship to
the Railroad Commission, That
shows how willing our people are to
work - for pay.
According to the Covington En-
terprise, Newton county anticipates
a lively time at tho next election for
county officers. Over fifty candi-
dates are already in the field.
According to the Macon Telegraph,
there were three hundred and eighty
eight bids made on the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad in the recent at,
tempt to lease it.
The Atlantic and Gulf railroad
was sold ia Savannah last week for
$500 600 above the mortgage. 1t
was bought by Mr.. II. B. Plant,
president of tho southern express
company.
Greenbcrry Hopkins, charged with
the murder Of Edmand Martin, was
tried in Augusta Friday. Saturday |
morning the jury brought in YER
dict OF not guilty Both parties are
colored.
According to the Sparta Islmae1-
tie, Mr.. James II Mitchell, Of Ham
cock, made this year, on two mule
farm, Is bales Of cotton, 800 boaheIs
of potatoes, IA gallons of Syrup, |
and wheat, oats, peas and other
farm products in proportion.
According to the Ne'os the eolored
fair at Griffin succeeded even better
than was expected. The entries in
the various departments were very
credifabIe, and the attendance was
large oil the week. The trotting
purses developed some good races,
which attracted grea1 interest.
Last Friday night one Henry |
Landrum shot in the head and fatal
ly wounded his brother-in-law,
James Barrett, about five miles from
Atlanta. The two had been to AT
lanta where they bad fight, and as
Barrett was going home he was over
taken by Landrum and shot
The prisoners in the Jail at Lees
burg, six in number, made success
full strike for freedom on Saturday,
the first instant They managed to
unlock the door from the inside, and |
afterwards made rope, by which
they lowered themselves to the
ground.
On Tuesday night, the 4th instant,
while Miss Mamie Chapman, Of |
Schey county, young lady sixteen
years of age, was standing before
a fire, her clothing caught and she |
vas terribly burned. She fingered |
in great agony all night, and died |
the next morning.
81 Dublin, notorious negro Of
the Oaky Woods district Of Dough /
erty county, against whom a true
bill for wife murder was found at the !
April term Of the court, and who has
been hiding out from ths officers,
was, says the Albany News, cap /
tured on Sunday last near Daw>
son, and is now ccnGued ia jail at
Albany.
4 fire at Winusborc, last Satur>
day, consumed Mr.. w. B. Creight's
saw mill, gin house, planning mill and
cotton press, the colored Methodist
Church, blacksmith shop and three
cottages. The fire originated 10 the
gin house, and is supposed to have
been caused by some one smoking.
Loss from four to six thousand dol