The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-07-08

ne iOunurY ana machine WORKS
of Pendleton Brothers, Augusta, Ga,
were destroyed by fire Saturday
morning, with a loss of twenty five
thousand dollars.
Hon w. T. Macarthur, near Sa-
vannah, has lost 200 head of sheep
in the last twelve months by dis
ease.
Since the nomination of Hancock,
for the first time in our political hiss
tory, many of the color ed people in
McIutosh county declare their inten-
ton of voting the democratic ticket.
The sheriff of Dade county offers
reward of 1915 for the arrest and
delivery of one Geo. Smith, who is
charged with the murder of G. G..
Steel, of Cole City.
Capt. W c. Bray, of Meriwether
county, died Monday of paralysis.
He was stricken Sunday, while re-
turning home on horseback, and fell
to the ground, where he was found.
Age, 5S years.
An unusual amount of typhoid fe-
YER is prevailing in ALBANIA, and
Captain j. S. Newman, of the state
department of agriculture, attributes
it to use of milk from cows which
have drank water polluted by draino
age.
An inquisitive Yankee asked Gen.
Robert ToOmbs, some time ago, if
the southern people were willing to
acknowledge that they were whipped
in the late unplessantness. The
general replied: ''No, we only wore
ourselves ont whipping you J"
1t is pretty we'll settled that the
corn crop is badly damaged through
out central Georgia. The rains of
the last week have been of incaIcul-
able value, but came too late to af
feet the body of the crop favorably.
Warrenton Clipper: Col. Barks>
dale says he met up with man in
our county who claims to have one
son hanged, has another now in the
peniteutiary, daughter in the asy-
lam, and wife who ran away with
soap maker. He had no family
worth speaking Of, he said, and rem
dered in only his own census.
The "Fourth" was celebrated on
the third by the people of Atlanta,
in au enthusiastic manner. A grand
military and civic procession,
speeches from Senator Joseph K.
Brown, r. j Moses and Sam Small,
and a grand display of fire works at
night. There were twenty thousand
visitors in the city.
The Berren County News thus
tells of the champion deer slayer Of
Georgia: "Mr G. w. Flower,
living in the southern part of this
county, has been from boy hood an
ardent lover of deer hunting. When
he fret began hunting he was too
small to shoot rifle off hand and
would have to take rest when he
was about to send leaden messen"
ger into the anatomy of the nimblo
deer. 1t seems that from the begin
ming be took pride in his ACHIEVES
ments with his rifle, and when he
brought down a deer the fact was re
corded on a piece of wood kept for
that purpose at home. Each notch
cut represented slain deer, and
now his notches number thirteen
hundred and fifty. If a man can
beat this it will afford US pleasure to
record the fact
In regard to that wonderful meteor
which was seen 10 Macon Tuesday
of last week, and of which mention
is made in our Geographic Dispatch
es this morning, the Telegraph Of yes
terday says: Last night at eleven
o'clock a wonderful meteor was OBJ
served in the heavens. 1t fell from
directly overhead down the north~
eastern sky, turning to greenish,
then reddish hue, and finally
bursting 10 pieces. The meteor ap
peared to be about the size of an or
binary hat, end shed a white light
all over the city, so strong that let
ter could have been read by it alone.
The night was very dark, and the
sudden appearance of moving shad-
ows on the ground, and the brilliant
moving light overhead, was start
ling. Following the fall of the me
teor came a deep-toped report and g
reverberatioD, as though from g
great gun fired at sea. 1t is thought
that the meteor struck somewhere in
Hancock county.
A lady Informs the TuskaloOsa
Clarion that a filbert sized piece Of
of rock candy will make a canary
sing if dropped in its drinking water
Simple aud easy way to tune EN-
up Try it.