The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-08-25

A small boy named Ed Bonds WIZ

himself through the hand with &
pistol, the Other day, inaicting Q
very severe wound.
Mr.. Charles Mcdonald Brown, oil
Atlanta, SON of Senator jos. g
Brown, died last Friday night after
a lingering ilIuess of many months
On Wednesday night, in Eaton,
ton, a difficulty arose betwoeu
Messrs. j. N. Leonard and +. Il.
Pelot, resulting i'll the shooting OF
the latter by Mr.. Leonard.
The Culbert Appeal says Ran
doIph county has three farmers
who will make over $4,000 bushels
of corn off of less than 250 acres OF
land"
The Fort Grimes Tribune notes
the sudden death last sweek, of
Messrs. Fielding Rambo and j. k
NJ. Sanders, two highly esteemed
citizens OF that county.
M. Solomon Codacil, ss we learn
from the Americas Recorder, was
thrown by a mule on Wednesday,
had bis collar bone broken, and his
shoulder badly bruised.
The Pike County News says: We
have travelled sixteen hundred miles
in the last two weeks, and the best
-crops we have seen are in Pike
County
Fort Valley Mirror: "A fine horse
and mule belonging to Mr. J. f
Lowe, of Byron, were killed by
lightuing on Friday last. When
found they were quite dead, but
were both standing in an erect posi-
ton
There is only difference Of nine ;
teen in the population of Bib and
Burke counties. The former has
| 27,l46 and the latter 27,I27, but
in Bib the blacks are only fifteen to
eleven, while in Burke they are
twenty>one to six.
Mr.. l.. l.. Varnedoe, of Thcmas
vile, will probably ship lao bushels
of LeConte pears this season. He
expected to get only 100, but neac-
ly that quantity has already been
gathered and his trees are not yet
bare
The Merriwether indicator re-
ports that Judge Allen Il. Watson
of that county will make $500
bushels of corn aud 225 bales of
cotton. Its informant saw 100 acres
that he thought would make a bale
of cotton to the acre Numbers of
acres promised thirty bushels of
corn per acre The plantation is
we'll worth 100000
Atlanta Constitution "The Leg
islature has been in session forty
days. The penitert iary matter, the
capital question, the temperance
question, the usury question, the
educational question, the lunatic asy
lum appropriation, the fish Matching
establishment, the Cole charter, the
general railroad law, the railroad tax
law, the Railroad Commission law
these are yet uns ,ttled matters. The
fact is, no single measure OF impor
lance has yet been completed"
Albany News A negro woman
on the place of Mr. w H. Partridge
in this county, while cleaning cat
fish about three weeks ago accidents
ally ran one of the fins of the fish
through the hesby part Of the left
hand at the base of the thumb
The wound shortly afterwards began
to gangrene. About two weeks
since she was removed to the county
poor house for medical treatment,
nd last Saturday the condition of
hand and arm we're such that am
putation became necessary. The
operation was performed by DIR. W.
w, Bacon, city physician, the arm
being taken off just below the shout
der.
The Albany Nesos and ADVERTISER
learns of another tragedy 10 Terrell
county. On Thursday last a negro
named Bill Burns was shot ard kills
ed by j. g. Wells, 10 Terrell conn
ty, one and one half miles above
Browns Station, on the Southwest
ern Railroad. The particulars we
have Of the affair are meagre, but it
appears that the negro was an enc
ploye of Wells at his saw mill, aud
was reproyed by the latter for being
late in getting to work. This
brought on difficulty, during which
the parties came together. The Nc
gro broke loose from Wells and wen
off and got a musket, with which ht
advanced towards the latter, whc
shot and killed him on the spot.
Last Tuesday negro man name,
Frank Hudson called at the house 0
an old white gentleman, David Lee
near Dover, Terrell county, and in
formed him that bis fence was or
fire some distance from the house
Mr.. Lee went to scene of the dis
aster, aud the fiend killed +. the ole
man with fence rail. He then re
turned to the house, killed the old