The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-02-03
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

The young ladies' OF classic La"
Grange smoke cigarettes.
Mr.. w. b. Willy was found dead
in ditch near Savannah.
Park Horton has been arrested for
forging notes in Hsukinsville.
Col b. F. Sawyer's little daughter,
in Rene, was badly gored by a COW.
Mr.. w. w. Wallace, of Forsyth.
fell down flight of stairs and broke
his arm
Mr.. Joe Frank and Miss Ona Cas-
tleberry, of Atlanta, eloped and were
married in Griffin on the 9th.
The fare for the round trip to Mars
di Grss in New Ooleaus from Allan.
ia, will be $40 So.
The wife of DR.. f. f. Tsber, of
Atlanta, died Wednesday night of
last week.
In Dalton the whooping cough is
wiping out what was left by the
mumps.
Mrs Ann BuIlen, the wife of a
carriage trimmer of Atlanta, was
found dead in her bed last week.
Mr.. Keaten, who attempted to
cross a swollen stream in Carroll
county. was washed down the stream
and drowned.
1t is estimated that the trains tax
ing meals at Dalton leave from $75
to 500 day.
Since the sale of liquor was pro
hibited 10 Carrolton, Ga, five years
ago, the annual trade of that place
has increased from 5000, 200 to
100000.
Mrs. Joseph Glover, of Dougherty
county, committed suicide on the
Goth by hanging herself in an out
house on the premises of her hus-
band.
1t is said that one OF the first young
men of Griffin is wanted in a neigh
boring State to answer to the charge
of seduction. The sheriff and posse
came to arrest him, but he escaped.
A negro, John Randolph, was
killed in Jackson county Tuesday
night with a knife in the hands of
Russ Hemphill, it is said, assisted by
his brothers, Edmund Hemphill and
Allen Duke.
John Hanie, of Cartersville, who
sked payment on a note which be
claimed was given by the late Amos
T. Alderman, and which was a most
palpabIe forgery, has been given
eight years in the penitentiary.
An election has been ordered for
the 18th of February for tax receiver
or Harris county, r. II. Bulloch and
G. Il Pritchard having received an
eonal number Of votes 10 the recent
election.
The sentence of death recently
passed upon Charles Powell, colored,
for the murder of Sam Ststham in
Telfair county, has been committed
by the Governor to imprisonment for
life, Powell recently having been
nronunced of unsouud mind.
The Warrenton Clipper mentions
the fact that a gentleman who some
time since emigrated from that coun
ty with the Texas fever, has recentr
" returned with Texas chill. Ii
cost him 5000 to find out that Geor>
gia was a better State to live in than
Texas.
A Washington correspondent o.
the Augusta Chronicle is unhappy
because the course of the Democrat
in opposing the bill to retire Gran
with big title and fat salary for life
and the urging the adoption of the
Joint rule prescribing the constitu
tional method of counting the electo'
raj vote, is calculated to give ofens'
} to the Radicals This is bad. Bu
il not uufrequently happens that in
maintaining sound Democratic Prin'
ciples and measures, the Democrats
are com PEELED to go counter to the
views and wishes of their Radical
opponents. This being the case,
until some better argument is ad
duced, we can ace no good reason
why the Democrats should surrender