The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-08-12
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

"A postmaster In NampDelI County,
Va, sent a $40 Confederate bill to
the Republican committee at Wash
ington 10 answer to an assessment.
Oue hundred and twenty~fOur
shares of Georgia Railroad stock was
sold in Decatur on Tuesday. The
price ranged from 044 to 100.
Macon has received two bales of
the new cotton crop. They came
from Oglethorpe county, we're class
ed as middling, and brought lO3 cts.
per pound.
A gentleman near Houston, Texas,
made 5000 per acre this year from
the cultivation of domestic black ber>
ries. The yield was 5000 quarts
per acre, which sold at twenty cents
per quart.
The employees of the Macon post
office have been assessed 2 per cent.
of their annual salaries for Radical
campaign purposes. We thought
civil service reform would reach
Georgia after awhile.
The LaGrange Reporter reports
that there's pIucky old gentleman
in Coweta county named L. H. Ball,
a brother of the Postmaster in La,
Grange. He is past eighty years of
age, and when he wants to go to
Newman, ten miles distant, he walks.
He frequently goes there and back,
twenty miles, by noon. He says it
gives him the backache to ride.
A fearful crime in social life is re-
ported by telegraph as having been
committed at Americas, Ga, on the
4th inst, the wife of Mr.. Woodson
L. Gunnells, well.to>do farmer,
having, in the absence of the bus"
band literally drugged her nine chill
dren with morphis, mixed with lem
onade, and afterwards drinking of
the fatal mixture herself. The wo~
man and three of the children have
died, all efforts to resuscitate them
proving Intellectual. Six of the chill"
dren were restored to consciousness,
and will probably recover.
The colored voters of the Fourth
Senatorial district of Glynn county
held a conventian at Jefferson on
Wednesday 20th ult., and nomina-
ted Joe Green colored, for the State
Senate. The Brunswick Appeal
says be is said to be a sharp fellow
and popular with his race. The APP
peal also says: son the same day A.
Wilson, colored, was nominated by
the negroes Of Camden for the House
of Representative. The race issue
is proposed by these people, and the
white people may as we'll make up
their minds to meet it,"
"Thursday evening"" says the
Griffin News: "Sheriff Bridges re-
ceived notice that the young man
Waldroup, who few days ago run
away with his wife's sister from this
county, was in Atlanta. The Sheriff
took the night train for Atlanta, and
yesterday morning arrested both
parties and brought them here on
the afternoon train. An unusually
large crowd gathering at the depot,
curious and eager to see the couple.
The girl, though fourteen years old,
does not appear more than twelve,
seems quite child, aud is now real
izing the disgrace into which she
has been led. At sight of her, so
young, 80 greatly wronged, there
was a very deep indignation on the
part of the crowd which would have
taken great satisfaction in mobbing
the man. The girls mother is a very
respectable lady, and we'll esteemed
by her neighbors. This misfortune
is very trying one to her, and she
will have the sympathy of all. On
the train yesterday coming down the
affair leaked out, and there was a
very strong feeling against Wald>
roup by the passengers. and some
talk of organizing Judge Lynch's
court. The crime charged cannot
be condemned in too strong terms.
A man who will desert his wife and
children, and carry off his wife's sis
ter, an ignorant, simple, minded child
blighting her life, and breaking up
his own household, is brute for
whom the laws punishment is too
mild"
Good work at Lowest DriceS-ReVuOlds.