The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-03-04

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It ie stated that the trappers on
the Pataula, in Stewart county, are
making from forty to fifty dollars a
week catching beavers
ANOTHER suit lie pending in the
Macon and Brunswick lease. Mr.
H. |. Kimball claims the road es the
next highest bidder 10 the frs, sale,
and served his papers upon the
Governor.
The Sunday Gazette says: "Last
year Mrs. James Jackson, by her
personal efforts raised about 81 400
for the support of the Benevolent
Home. Atlanta needs a hundred
such women"
A Schley county farmer bought
safe for keeping his money and val
liable papers When it reached
home he was forced to ask some OF
his neighbors to aid him in getting
i, into the house, and when he got it
into the plaza it was SO heavy as to
90 crushing through the floor.
Over 80 freeholders have recently
filed a petition with the Ordinary of
Wilkes county to secure the beneht
of the fence law act, and unless %
other freehoIders presents a counter
petition within four weeks, the Or
binary will order an election on the
first Monday in July next.
Two little negro children of very
tender years Vas playing with ain
"unloaded pistol" in Griffin, Oh Sun
day last, when suddenly the weapon
was discharged, and the ball there's
from buried itself in the breast of
one Of them. The wounded child
is in a critical condition, and will
probably die.
On Wednesday night last there
prisoners, one white and two colorN
ed, escaped from the MilledgeviIle
Jail. The white man was under sen>
tencs of six years for forging a note
for six dollars year for each
dollar. 1t is not known how the es-
cape was effected.
On Saturday night last, as Mr..
w G. White was returning to his
home from EIberton, certain high
way robbers, to him unknown, way
laid him. jerked him from his horse
and robbed him. Fortunately, be had
very little money on his person.
The Sylvania Telephone learns
that an engine used in running Ma
Ione's saw mill, 10 Bulloch county,
exploded a few days since, blowing
the engineer almost to atoms One
of the legs of the unfortunate man
had DOT been found at last counts.
Neither the cause of the disaster nor
the extern. of the damage could be
ascertained.
The recent revenue raid into the
mountain counties of Georgia cost
the government $l,G5I30, and re,
suited in the capture of one still,
eighteen stands and six bushels of
meal, one wagon and fifteen gallons
of whiskey Does anybody doubt
that this is the best government the
world ever saw?
The prospect in this section, says
the Dalton Citizen, is very discour
aging The few days of cold wealth
er Just before Christmas, the coldest
we have had this winter, froze a
great deal of it out, and what was
left is being destroyed by some sort
of an insect. The same complaint
reaches US from many localities in
Tennessee and Kentucky.
The Athens Banner records very |
amusing incident. II says that three
darkies who were walking along the
railway track to Athens, for the pnr-
pose of selling their cotton crop
heard the train coming, and
concluded to ride to town. All three
arranged themselves across the track
and began vigorously waving their |
hats. The engineer, imagining that
there were a broken rail or some
thing ahead, blew down brakes
and as the train approached at re,
duced speed, the darkies Jumped |
aboard of the first car, which turned |
out to be the express car The ex
press messenger thought the three
passengers were robbers, so head
long was their invasion of his domain
and gave the alarm. The conductor
came to his recue. and the same con-
clusion, and likewise began TO raise
a row. The darkies, thoroughly
frightened, made a break for the
door and jumped off, although the
train had regained its speed and was
cOursing along at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The Banner says
they struck the ground on their heads
at an angle of forty>tive degrees,and
then got up aud scampered off to the
woods for dear life. The next day
one of the darkies, telling the story,
remarked, at pears dey got on de
wrong kear."