The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-03-11
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

schools ana 40 against
/ Nj. Crimes store in Albany has
been robbed Of $50 in money.
The Atlanta Medical College turn
ed loose forty eight doctors.
Two of Daltou's pretty girl are 60
ing TO learn telegraphy.
Georgia towns are beginning to
make ready for Memorial Day.
Paul Boyn,on is preparing to
splash and founder around SavsDLah.
Gov. Brown will build road from
Cartersville to the manganese beds.
strawberries have been ripening
all winter in the lower part of the
state. t
We unde stand that less guano
! has been sold this year, in Macon,
than for a number of years.
Tho South Carolina supreme court
has decided the Bath Paper mill case
in favor Of the stockholders.
A number of our country ex-
changes have raised their prices of
subscription.
Over twenty thousand pounds Of
old iron have been sold III Newton |
county within the past two weeks.
The Air Line K ilroad is encour>
aging immigration aud building up
the counties along it's line.
A citizen of Oglethorpe vows he
never will shave aagain until DEM
ocratic President is seated.
Judge Lumpkin, when practicing
at the bar, wound up 500, 900 es>
tate, which took him twenty years,
and his charge was $50.
The Oglethorpe Echo is informed
that the Winter of 1904 was very
similar to this: but the first of May
there came heavy frost that Bit
down the wheat.
The recent revenue exploit 10
North Georgia was the arrest of q
boy by twenty two mounted men.
Verify, what we need is strong
Government.
Three boys 10 Cherokee county,
while out hunting a few day since,
came across an illicit distlIlery and
drank some Of the beer they found
there. One of them has since died,
and the other two are 10 critical
condition.
Athens Banner "Neat, meat
Western meat. Did you ever be-
fore see so much Western meat
brought to this market 7 Don't think
we ever did. There must have been
fearful scourge among the swine of
this part of the world" r-
On last Saturday night two prison
ers confined in the TaIbotton jail
made their escape. One of these
was George Walker, charged with
murder, and the other Henry Rucker
for lesser offeDse. They bored
their way through the floor Of the
cell, the wood of which was decayed
and easily removed.
The Athens Banner says that the
large increase this season in the sales
of grano, mules, horses and farming
materials genei ally, over and above
those Of last, and perhaps of any
previous season, indicate that the
farming operations in that part of the
State will be largely increased the
present year. s
The following fated accident is re-
lated by the Monroe advertiser: On
Friday last, as Mr.. Steve Swami, o
a citizen of this county, was return
iug from GAINESVILLE with load of
oats, sack on which he was sitting fell
off, carrying him with it. His neck
was broken By the fall and he ex-
pred almost instantly.
TIE Monroe advertiser says:
"Tom Pitman, neg;o who is in jail
awaiting trial for horse steainb, was
the victim of an accident laOt week.
He was assisting the jailer to close
the heavy iron door to bis cell, when
three of bis fingers were caught be-
tween the door and tho wall, and
were cut entirely off," .Ru
The Henry County Weekly says
that an enthusiastic young sportman
of Hampton while out hunting one
day leet week became greatly excit-
ed OF the sport, and rammed So
bill into bis gun for wadding. He
did not discover his mistake until it
was too late The gun had been dis
charged,t the bill was hopelessly ruins
ed, and what is worse the rabbit at
which the charge was fired escaped
scot free. x@ l.
The Meriwether indicator states
that a gentleman of that county has
had about forty sheep killed by dogs
since last shearing time, and remarks
''sarkasticalIy :" "If farmers would
kill all the sheep in the country dogs
could be raised without difficulty
LIE, the next Legislature see that
ample protection is thrown around
the poor, inofensive dogs. They
surely need a defense against the as