The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-10-21
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

Gainesville has five candidates
for Mayor. Macon has three.
Mr.. R. w. Grubb, of the Darieu
Gazette, was beaten for the Legisls-
ture by negro.
One of the apes belonging TO
Sells menagerie died while in West
Point.
Quite number of Northern mills
tary companies are in Atlanta this
week attending the Fair.
In Cherokee county, Mr.. Bud
Burrows accidentally shot Mr.. Ja-
cob Collins, inh'cting serious
wound.
A little son of Rev. Daniel Under.
son, in Pickens county, had his arm
SO badly cut in gin that amputa>
ton was necessary.
The gin house of DR.. Cooper, of
PoweIton, and seven bales cotton
burned. No. 10.
The Pike County News, by j. d.
Alexander, Gainesville, is before US,
highly creditsble to the art 10 every
respect. Success attend it.
A man pretending to be deaf and
dumb was arrested in Atlanta for
begging money under false prelense
and put in the lock up.
While gu, hunting, Mr.. L. N,
Scales, of Augusta, killed colored
man by the accidental discharge of
his gun.
In recent article on fair 10
bis locality, an editor says brother
editor took valuable premium, bat
an unkind policeman made him put
it right back where he took it from.
Here is the right spirit. The
Savannah Recorder says so we
shake hands with our old comrades
very tenderly, surrender to the vic
tors and ask no quarter
Isam Wright, colored, of Calhoun
county, is unfortunate with his
wives. He has married three, and
every one of them ran away from
him. His third left him on Friday
and eloped with fiddler.
John Brown, a VIGOROUSLY bad
negro, outraged the person of tbir-
teen year old daughter of the keep
er of the Double Bridges in Epson
county. He was lodged in jail
The girl is not expected to live.
Deer are getting to be numerous
in the southwestern portion of
Dougherty county. Two were kill
ed and the third was jumped recent
ly. Marietta has plenty of dears,
and they jump, too, at proposals.
LaGrange don't sell any whisky,
but the editor of the Reporter went
to West Point where they do sell it,
and forthw with he saw a spotted me-
gro woman on the street. Her face
was part black and part white with
pink connections.
Under the heading ..kiisSd in
Fun" the Dublin Post says: "On
last Friday two colored men, Berry
Perry and Aruick Mills, were tus
sling, when Berry threw Arnick and
killed him. He fell against piece
of timber and it was thought broke
his neck.
G. P. McCalIs, of Atlanta, has
been arrested on charge of fraudu-
lently drawing money for manned
soldiers in Fannin, Pickens and
Lowndes counties. He drew the
amount of $4,000, and it is charged
that his power Of attorney is a for
gerry.
There is a hole in Penitentiary
Cove, in Fannin county, from which
there constantly issues volume OF
wind and smoke. Its depth has
never been fathomed. Large rocks
have been thrown into it, but no
sound of their striking the bottom
ever reached the ears of the listener.
About three months ago Mr.. Benz
iamin Maddox and Miss Mary Dali
ton, aged respectively l9 and 10,
we're married at their home in Lau-
rens county. Thursday the young
bride picked up an old pistol and
handing it to her husband asked him
to pull it down at her. The pistol
was discharged, the ball entering
her brain.
A romantic marriage took place in
GAINESVILLE the other day. The
contracting parties we're Mr.. Lee
Dallas, of Texas, and Miss Lula
Goodman, of Monroe county. The
counting was done by letters and
photographs. They had never seen
each other until Wednesday last. -
Ga Thursday they were on their
way to the Lone Star State as man
and wife.
The Columbus Enquirer reports
that on Wednesday there were re-
ceived in that city two bales of cot
tot from Harris county, which were
ginued and packed in 1857, twenty
three years ago, and three years be
fore the war. The bagging and rope
- -: oooJ ordar 1ha chiffon was