The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-09-16
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.
Albany has received 5000 bales
of new cotton.

Albany has received 5000 bales
of new cotton.
Savannah received 3,l74 bales
and shipped 8,00l bales of cotton
last Thursday.
Capt. George Wight, CT Decatur
couoty, made 25l bushels of corn
from four acres.
The vote in an election in Screv-
en- county last weak stood Whisky
223; no whisky sos.
Mr. Geo. IIeiudel, an aged citizen
of Augusta, had his leg broken by
being rue against by COW,
A colored fisherman near Ameri,
Gus caught a five pouod catfish out
of the Muckalee recently.
The temperance people of Ogle
thorpe county will make a strong eff
fort to abolish the sale of liquor in
hat county.
The fair of the Gate City Guards,
the North Georgia Fair, and the
military gathering in Atlanta all oc~
cur in the same week.
Mr. Kelly, a one>arned man, liv-
Jog near Talbottop, picked three
hundred pounds Of cot on one day
last week.
The Calhoun Times thinks it re,
markably strange that red haired
couple in Gordon county have black
haired children.
The Georgia wine company is in
full blast at Cuthbert, and is now
turning out on an average of four
hundred gallons of pure juice of the
grape daily.
The Telegraph and Messenger
says that hawk entered the room
Of lady in Vineville and made an
attack upon her. The hawk was so
large that his wing touched either
side Of the door in making its es-
cape.
Two young men of Americas call
ed on a young lady six miles in the
country, one night recently. While
they were in the house courting the
girI mischievous boys stole their
team, ard the young gentlemen had
to walk back to town at a late hour
in the night
The grand lodge of Good Tens
plars of the State at Savannah elect
ell the following officers: G. w. C.
T.; H. G. Everett; G. w. G, J. |
d. Ross; G. W V. r., Miss Jennie
Gay; G. G. Thrower; G. W. T.,
r. A. McMahnn; G w Represent
tative, G O. Lamotte
John T Waterman has sold the
Lagrange Reporter to Mr.. Winbush,
and has bought the Athens Banner
Mr.. Ingram has bought the Rome
Tribune. Mr.. Gates has bought
the Newman Herald, and the New
ran Leader has removed to Frank
lin. The Albany News and Adver>
tiser have consolidated These are
all recent charges
Wednesday morning in Macon a
negro boy about eighteen years of
age, was for ste aling fined $50 and
placed 10 room in the third story
of the court house until other cases
coald be tried. He jumped from a
window to the ground, distance of
forty feet, swapping the left leg in
several places, and the doctors think
the entire leg to the knee was shat
tered.
Monroe Advertiser says Clayton
Hilsman, the colored boy who so
brutally killed the three year old
boy of Mr.. G. G. Hilsman, in CuIlo-
den, was tried for the crime of mur~
der aud found guilty. Nothwith-
standing his youth, eleven years, the
crime was so fiendish in conception,
so brutal in execution and 50 utterly
unprovoked that the jurors found no
mercy in their hearts for the MUIR
derer. Judge Lawson passed sem
tence on last Saturday afternoon,
that Clayton Hillsman be hanged on
Friday, October 29th, next.
A sad result of a gambling game
is reported from Eufaula, Ala -
Two young men, named Robert
McGruder, and Mack D. Oliver had
been gambling, with others, in the
city, and McGruder lost about 500,
the proceeds of cotton which he had
sold that day. A little before dark
McGruder and Oliver left Eufaula,
in buggy, to go to their homes in
Quitman county, Ga. They were
both found dead in the road about
seven miles from Eufaula, and the
evidence elected went to show that
McGruder first shot Oliver and then
himself, Both were shot in the
boaI