The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-03
GEORGIA oLEANINos.

David Davis 10 said to be an infe~
rior presiding officer to either Presi-
dent Boynton or Speaker Bacon OF
tho Georgia Legislature.
Mr.. James Flinn mis,ook his bro>
Their for burglar, 10 Savannah, ami
fred upon him, iDtiieting a serious
wound.
Monday afternoon q negro stole a
pair of ear,rings from little white
girl in Augusta, tearing them from
her cara.
A specimen Of Pensy lvanis cotton
is on exhibition at the Atlanta Expo
sition. The yield is about one-
fourth Of bale 10 the acre.
A burglar entered The room Of Mr..
| w. II. Stocks, at the Rome hotel,
and stole bis gold watch, valued at
S135.
The residence of Mr.. A. b Yves
low in Albany was destroyed by fire
on the 9th, with household goods.
Insurance. on goods and dwelling
about 1000.
A negro man, Jordan Favor by
name, IL confined 10 Coweta Jail for
the attempted rape npon the person
of Miss Copeland, a beautiful and i'm
teres,ing young lady, daughter of
Mr.. Joseph H. Copeland, of Panther
Creek district
Last Saturday negro boy some
IL or Is years old, who is the mail
carrier between Jacksonville and
Cane Creek, Ala, cut the strap and
opened the pouch, and took out a
registered letter directed to J. b
Carver, Rome, Ga. The letter COM
tanned $33. The boy was arrested
and carried to Huntsville
Rome Bulletin: A fellow calling
himself "Hell Roaring Bill johnson"
was shot and KILLED recently by the
sheriff of Cherokee county, Ala. -
An accomplish of Johnson's was ar
rested for q crime committed in
Floyd, and Deputy Sheriff Moore
left few days ago to bring him
here.
We learn that three big suits will
be brought against the Central and
Southwestern Railroad Company, at
the coming session of the Superior
Court of Muscogee county, by par
ties who received injuries by the &C
cident Of last summer. Rev. j. O.
| A. Cook will sue for $4,000, Mr..
| T. J. Watt for $4,000, and Mrs.
Sem, Of Graniteville, for $50, 900.
Some time since Mr.. J. G. jim
merson mortgsged some stock to Mr..
Hudson of Griffin, and subsequently
Put them out of the way. Mr.. Hud
son had him arrested last week and
the court, finding him guilty of a
breach of the law, bound him in the
sum of $500. Not being able to
give bond he went to jail
It costs Georgia farmers the im>
mense sum of $500. 900 to have their
cotton weighed, at 0 cents per bale,
which the warehousemen charge -
A planter says: at is certainly TN
fair to compel southern farmers to
pay such heavy tax on cotton, and
allow the western grain dealer to sell
bis products without any such tax. y
A man from the country came in>
to town TO go to the circus, bot he
didn't have one cent of money. He
walked around town until he found
a store where he could buy one dol
lars worth of coffee or credit, He
bought it, and afterwards sold it to
a man for "a cents cash With the
cash be paid for CIRQUE ticket and
went in.--ROme Courier.
Little Mary, daughter Of Mr.. T.
f. Hamburg, editor of the Rome
Tribune, makes considerable money
by raising white, blue and variegat
ed colored rabbits, which she resdi
!, sells for 81 per pair. She now
has about fifty on hand, all of which
Coup's circus wanted the other day,
but she preferred to sell them TO
Georgians lest the stock might be
lost.
The drummer said be was an At
lanta man mo, you're not" said
the landlord. "How do you know
Tam no. 7" asked the drummer
tx now Why, when the man over
there said London was the biggest
city 10 the world you didn't rise up
and call him lying gutter snipe
who never went anywhere. You're
no Atlanta man"
After tho circus performance
Wednesday night at Gainesville,
Ga, difficulty occurred between
some of the circus men and the dep
| utv marshal and others. A negro
was shot in the head aud killed, and
others were badly beaten and bruis
ed. Two of the circus men we're
shot. Viii, key was at the bottom
of the trouble. A lioness and bear
escaped from the cages during the
melee The bear was shot and kill
ed. The lioness is still at large.
A Mrs. Parham, near Cedsrtown,
in a paroxysm Of insanity the other
dav, set her house on fire, delibers-