The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-03-25
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
The Rome nail works are idle.
Wheat Ia Sumter countY is badly

Wheat in Sumter countY is badly
rusted.
The Savannah irish relief fund
amounts to 81, 440. 46.
Fourteen freight trains pass over
the Georgia road daily.
A petition is being circulated for
the pardon of Sam Hill.
The Baptists of Rome intend erect
ing a new Sl5 900 church building.
George Jackson is to be hung at
Dallas, Paulding county, on the 10Th.
Inman & Co, will have a cotton
press with warehouse attachment in
Atlanta by the next season.
The ThomasvilIe times says jim
Lee, an old hunter, killed twenty
bears in the Okefeenokee swamp du-
ring the past winter.
A farmer killed several bushels of
crows By scattering corn soaked in
strychnine in the fields ffequented
by them.
DR.. Talmage, of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, is to lecture in Angus,
ia on the 3lst last, His subject will
be big Biunders."
the Gainesville Eagle. says cotton
stalks, in some instances, are sprout
ing from the old roots, the weather
during the whole winter rot having
been cold enough to kill them.
Mr.. Fraok Lindsay, of Berrien
county, convicted of Illicit diSti!Iiog,
has been pardoned by Mr.. Hayes,
through the influence ST Mr.. A, H.
Stephens.
Bowden College has III students
-43 of these being boarders. Under
the presidency of Col. Beck, this OLD
institution of learning is renewing its
youth.
The total number of tons of fertil-
izers sold in Georgia tins season will
not be far short of 100000, and the
state will received SEQ, ZOO as il.
spectorS' fees.
The Phonograph says Hon. Will
liam Maxi ham, Of Atlanta, sold his
oranges on the tree, in his Florida
groves at SIC per thousand, which
put over $4,000 into his poke,
this season.
The securities of Tax Collector
Hoyle, Of Atlanta, are w. II. Howell,
Samuel IIape, L. Calm, N. II.
Hunt, 7. A. Morris, and NJ. t. Sim,
mons.
Athens Chronicle Rev. W. w.
Oslin has been appointed to the
charge of the Fulton circuit in place
of Rev. w. r. Fooie, whose i'll
health has forced bin to give up his
work for the year.
A chicken roostiHg on coupling
pole of buggy rode three miles
from Dublin one night without being
disturbed, or the gentleman in the
vehicle knowing anything of its
presence.
In an Atlanta bar room, Monday
nigh, Steve Field, with razor, cut
off James Malhe VS. ear and cat his
throat from ear to ear. Both color
ed Mathews was MORALLY wound
ed, and Field is in Jail.
A muatto is suing Mr.. f. M
Cocker, president Of the Bank Of the
State of Georgia, in Atlanta, for se-
duction, laying the damages at Sl5,,
900. Seduction is alleged to have
been committed last summer while
Coker's family was absent. Doubts
less, blackmail attempt.
Rube johnson, 10 Brunswick,
struck his wife six times over the
head with an axe and grabbing hoe
laying her head bare, and cut her
throat with a razor. She may live.
The husband has fed. They have
been married only few weeks, and
he has attempted to murder her
twice. Jealousy.
Sunday Gazette: Besides sending
nearly 1000 children to the public
schools, Atlanta sustains a dozen ex-
celert private schools. One Of
these has nearly 100 pupils. And
in another paragraph says: A six
year old boy was picked up in the
s,-aats IF Atlanta the other daV dead