The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-01
GEORGIA oLEANINas.
Col. NJ Il Thornton peid ST. 900
Ior The Atlanta Post~ Appeal.

/ the Exposition NUMBERED ~ '-u
/ persons the largest of any day YET.
A hen was shut ia closet at
Hawkinsville, where she remained
for seventeen days without food.
1t ia ssi there are about hun
bred thousand tax deiaulters in
Geor gia.
The Constitution says there will
not be called an extra session of
tho STATE legislature,
MesslS j. O Mathewson & Co,
of Augusta, have paid out $4,000
in cash for Confederate bonds, aud
are advertising for moro.
Judge +, G. Furman, OF Baldwin
county, has made fifty bales of cotton
from sixty acres of piney woods
land
Mr.. Thos IIat,on fell between the
cars at Lithonis, and both his legs
were cut off. His back and head
were badly hart ais,
Mr.. e. w. Hood, near Athens,
lost his gin house and l3 bales OF
cotton by fire last week. This is the
third he has lost this year. No. Al.
The Jones brothers, of Camilla,
have been arrested and arraigued for
burning the town last Christmas.
A negro broke into Smith u An,
drews' store at West Point, and rob
bed it of small amount of money
and $500 worth of goods. He was
detected.
Monroe enjoyed street row the
other night 10 which Marshall Phil
lips was shot in the wrist and Mr..
Oscar Carter was severely bruised
about the head.
The Rome Balictin is responsible
for saying that little negro girl,
nine years old, fell seventy feet in
to a well and was drawn out not
hurt in the least particular, bat scar
ed half to death
Seven families t om Franklin |
county left Toccoa on the Air Line
road last week bound for Mississippi
and Arkansas. They numbered
(orty,seven persons in all.
Some miscreant tried to wreck d
HawkinsvilIe train the other night |
by piling wood aud barrel of iron
across the track. Fortunately the
engine knocked them off without in
jury.
The Warrenton Clipper states that
Mr.. Jere Thompson's cotton house,
near Holders nill, with three bales
of cotton, caught on fire on Thurs
day morning before day-breab, and
the whole was consumed. 1t is sup~
posed to be the work of an incendi~
airy. No. 81.
Walton NeVS: "Never have the
Sheriff. and baIiifs of the county |
beer so busy making levies as they
have been this fell. We hear of enc
poor family with nine or ten small
children with every mouthful OF
provisions locked up by an officer
Debt is indeed hard MASTER"
Walton NeacS running away
seems to be a growing evil in Wal"
ton. Every night or two some
debtor steps cut, aud the merchant
starts in hot pursuit. a Monroe
merchant took an expensive trip of
some two hundred miles last week 10
search of a man who had just skip
ped the country. He failed to find
his man"
The Constitution reports the arri-
val at Atlanta of master William
Harrison Castleman, of Kentucky.
Master Cas,len an is just three years
of age, aud eighs one hundred aud
thirty pounds. lie measures tbirty-
SIX inches around his chest, and bis
limbs are as large as g full grown
mans. His parents, who accompa'
ny bin, are ordinary sized people.
SterIin Dickson, II negro man at
Newman, can take the premium as
he champion victim Of the gin saws
He was feeding gin when both
legs were caught by the saws and
badly lacersted. The doctor found
forty four gssbes in the mans leg
and had to take about fifty stitches
10 closing them. One OF the cuts
was deep and it laid open the leg
from hip to knee.
An oil we'll near the State Insane
Asylum, at Warren, Pa which had
run down to five barrels a day, after
being drilled sixty feet deeper, sud
denly resumed its flowing. and is now
creating much excitement through
out the whole Titusyille distric! by
pouring out 800 barrels a day. A
new 200 barrel we'll has been struck
10 the Sheffield district.
Dawson Journal: ave learn from
b. II Hood IT our city, that he has
ordered machine for the purpose Of
hulIiug cotton seed. 1t will be proc
PEELED by steam, and in few days
will be ia successful operation at the
PaschaI gin site. There will be a
mill alao attached 70 the machinery