The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

; Bishop McTyeire will preside al
at the approaching sessions OF the
North Georgia Conference in Athens
There are ninety two prisoners in
. Fulton county jail. Atlanta must be
festive city.
Tom Belts, oolored, was hung at
: Jonesboro last Friday for the muir
, der Of Judge Moore, lie confessed
his guilt.
The Rome Courier says "the run
by Coles lines from Chattanooga tc
Atlanta will be only about four miles
r longer than by tho State road"
Two more hangings in Georgia
this month DR.. Sam Sparks, at
Lumpkin on the 18th, and Sang
Armor at CrawfOrdville, on the 25th
Spaulding county voted on tho
fence question last week, and the
vote stood three to one ia favor of
"no fence"
Most of the telegraph operators
aling the line of the Georgia Rails
road are ladies', and the way they
caa manipulate the lightning is as,
tOnishiOg.
Mr.. Jim Mills, Of Griffin, was
visiting his brother in>law, DIR. Johns
ston, Of Atlanta, few nights ago,
when the house was burglari2ed and
among the missing articles is Jim's
fine gold watch.
Judge w. O. Fleming Of the Sa>
van nah circuit died in Bsinbridge
on Friday last. Gov. Colquitt i'm
mediately appointed Hon l.. 2. ID.
Warren of Albany his successor.
Atlanta has to blow her horn too
loud and too long sometimes AS che
did when che made nine Governors
out of four but the Exposition IS
"big thing" and worthy liberal
support
Senator b. II. Hills two hours
speech against the Malone candidate
for the Lynchburg post office, the
other day, settles the question about
his loss of speech. The doctors will
have to cut his tongue again before
they can stop him.
"The papers which came to our
office last Saturday contained &C"
counts of eleven persons in different
parts of the State who had just been
killed or badly mangled in gins
Cleaning of the mote board was the
cause of nearly all of the accidents"
John w. Msgill, a citizen of At
lanta, and at one time a represents
tive of the govern nent of the United
States at the Court Of Brill, COM
mitted snicide by poison at his resi-
dence 10 that city Friday night
Business troubles assig ned as the
cause.
Mr.. w. G. Carethers. of Walton
county, rode to Athens the other day
the same old horse that carried him
through the late war. The horse ia
| ~ years old, and photograph was
taken of the man and beast. Mr..
G.. wore his old Confederate suit.
| New York has a training school
for nurses, and last week it turned
out fifteen gay girl graduates. Each
Of the young ladies was at once. Of
fered a position at $40 per week for
their 8, rvices. McSweeny, OF the
Hampton Guardian, who is supe, :
> auuated bachelor, says this would
seem to be an important branch OF
| a young woman's education, as most
of them, sooner or later, drift into
that business.
Oae of the negro "trustees" a
j, the convict camp at Dade Goa
mines ran away recently and carried
a off mule belonging to the company
= At The time he left, the superinteDd-
ent and other officers were absent,
. and there was no one to go in pur-
suit, Capt. Ed Cox, who is also q
"trusty," decided to catch the fellow,
J and so be mounted q mule aud fol>
lowed him. Capt. Cox pursued the
, negro for two days into Alabama
when be caught him, and brought
! him back to camp.
\ Americas Republican ave learn
that Mr.. Hannibal Watson, of Tay-
= lor county, who is now confined to
bis bed with lever, and while bis
wife and children were out in the
field close by, one day recently,
.ome one entered the front door and
discharged two barrels of g shot gun
at him as be lay upon bis bed -
Forum ~tely none of the balls struck
Mr.. Watson, although the bed clothes
we're badly torn and the wall right
over him filled with buckshot. The
J would be assassin then run from the
: house into a thick sugar oane patch
T and made hiS escape, unseen by any
: of the family and unrecognized by
Mr. Watson"