The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-02-26
GEo2GIA GLEANINGS.
Sheriff Kennedy, of Gainesville,
died Saturday night.

'il' PrNnts JuuunuIi. VI murray
c0unty, killed twelve hogs this sea.
son that weighed something near
500 pounds.
The Irish relief fund of Augusta
no amounts to S2,7S4 40 1t is ex>
pected that it will very soon be in
creased to $1,000.
4 man named Bevens, 10 Coweta
county. has outraged his own dsugh>
ter, and it is supposed has left the
country.
Prof Clark of Douglasville, prin-
cipal of IDouglasville High School,
was married recently to Miss Gusie
Mitchell of the same place.
The Middle Georgia Argus hoists
the names of Gen. Hancock for Pres,
jdent and Gen. Gordon for Vice
President in 1880.
The editor Of the Couyers Exsmi-
ner has brought suit for libel against
the editor of the Weekly. This is
rather a new departure in Georgia
journalism.
The Berrien county News tells of
Mrs Cinderella Lee, of Coffee coun'
ty. who is the mother. grand mother
and great, grandmother of 2l5 chill
dren.
Mr. j. X Bennett and wife, of In
diana. last Sunday night in Atlanta
had 81 $40 stolen from the wife's
dress, which she had placed under
her pillow. Thief unk nown.
The Cherokee Advance says that
neither business nor dwelliog houses
are being erected 10 Canton fast
enough to supply the demand for
them.
The Walton County Vidette re-
ports that some snug sums of money
have been made in that section re
Gently by the owners Of Georgia
Railroad stock.
Rev. Theodore E. Smith, of Car,
tersvIle, has received call from
church in Eastern Texas. He left
les: Monday for tina! State, and will
probably return about the first of
July for bis family.
Mrs. William 4. Wright, wife of
the Comptroller General Of the State,
died ia Atlanta Wednesday morning
of last week at 6 O'Clock, after an i'll
ness Of two weeks. She leaves five
young children.
The State Agricultural society de-
cided not to bold State Fair this
year 90 account of the political ex-
element aud elections which will oc-
cur about the usual time for holding
the Fair.
The Athens Banner learns that
one Of the Toccoa couples that were
the victims OF the mock marriages
in South Carolina, are living togeth
er as man and wife, apd that the
other pair are sueing for divorce.
Oa Friday Mr.. George w. Hssel
the, one of the oldest citizens of La
Grange, while mounting a ladder
that reached to the top of his stable,
fell, killing himself almost instantly.
He left fortune of about one hun
dred thousand dollars. His remains
viii! probably be sent to New York.
The Atlanta Constitution learns
that on Tuesday afternoon last, in
Toccoa City, a moonshiner struck a
revenue officer behind the ear with
large weight, crushing in the skull
and inaicting what is considered a
fatal wound. There had been an old
grudge between the parties.
A negro woman wrote q note to a
citizen of Gainesville the other day,
in which she significantly requested
him please to lend her two sticks of
wood until dark" 50 says the
Eagle. She evidently thought she
could supply her own wood after
dark.
The Thorn asvile Times has heard
from trustworthy source Of the in
dustry and Independence of woman
living beyond Big creek, in Thomas
county, which it thinks worthy Of
mention. The woman in question cut
the logs and erected her house,
covering it, and, in fact doing all
the work about i: usually performed
by men.
Mr., j. C. Courtney, Chairman Of
the Executive committee Of the
Georgia State Sunday School Asso-
citation, has-in accordance with
suggestion adopted at the last session
of the association, to the efec, that
a day be set apart to be specially
observed by the Sunday schools Of
the State, and to be known as "lhe
Chldren's Day"-issued a circular
appointing May lst next as such
day. All the various Sunday schools
in the Sla'e. are requested to coop
crate in working out this idea, as it
is believed that such movement
will tend greatly to promote Sunday
!