The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-05-05
GEORGIA GLRANINGS.

Judge Pottle positively declines
to accept free PASSES on all railroads,
About three hundred mortgages
have been recorded in Lowudes
county.
At a meeting of the Sibley Manu-
featuring Company 10 Augusta the
capital stock was fixed at 81 600, 600
10000 spindIes will be run.
The State Press Association
which meets next week in Rome has
been invited to attend the exposition
at Nashville Tenn.
Judge James r. Brown will pri-
side in the next Floyd Superior
court. Judge Underwood being dis
qualified.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
the discision of the Jonesboro court
sentencing Tom Belts to death for
tpe murder of Judge Moore.
Monroe county is in debt for
guano, mules, corn by, Hour,
bacon and dry goods to about three
hundred thousand dollars.
Four thousand known species Of
grasses are distributed over the
world, yet how little grass is grown
in Georgia.
A switch engine is now stationed
at Gainesville, the business of the
road there having reached such
gigantic proportions that it became
quite necessary to do so.
The Swainesboro Herald reports
the existence of a wonderful freak
of nature in that neighborhood in
the shape of a pig without any eyes,
feet or tail 1t has a fine mouth,
however, and eats its full share.
One class of young ladies of the
Columbus Female College have de
cided to discard silks, satins aud
gewgaws at the approaching com.
mencment, aud wear Eagle and
Phoenix ginghams.
In the Floyd superior court one
hundred and forty~two true bills
were found during the term, and
there were from GOT 70 convic-
tons and pleas of guilty, and from
six to ten scquittals.
The Macon Telegraph reports
that on Sunday 10 Unionville, a col
ored woman; while preparing for
her baptism into the Baptist church,
fell to the floor helpless, and died a
few minutes later.
A young farmer came into Rome
last Tuesday with one hundred doz
en- eggs to sell. He said he had
gathered all that amount of ''fruit"
on bis place in only four or five
days.
At Covington. Dick Campbell and
two men named Allen aud Yancey
attacked young man named Hen
ny Hunter. Allen and Ysncy were
cut in the back and CampbelPs
throat wss cut from ear to ear, his
head being almost severed from his
body. Hunter surrendered TO the
Sheriff but was released on the pre-
liminary trial.
We learn from the VaIdosta Times
that Lunn Stirmans and Dooly
Sharp, negroes on Mr.. r 7. Pres
colts place, in Ecbols county, go
into an alteration while 10 the field
few daye ago, in which the latter
received a fatal stab 10 one of BIZ
iupgs. He died in fifteen minutes
1t is said that DoOly cut LUrn in the
arm before he received the fatal stab,
James Bruce, q youth Of some II
or | ) years old, at Jasper, carrying
pistol in his pocket, and trying to
get shot at some birds with shot-
gun, struck the pistol hammer with
the breech of the gun, the pistol fir
ing and the ball entering and lodging
10 his thigh.
Judge HilIyer. when the jury,
who tried the case of the State VS..
Chas. NJ. Elder in Fulton Superior
court, returned verdict Of not gull
ty remarked "you are responsible
not |. A few more such verdicts
will render homocides more fire.
queut" This same jury was sum
moned in another case, and Judge
Hilyer told them they we're excused
for the balance Of the term. This
jury felt Justly Indignant, first at the
remarks of the Judge, secondly by
his excusiog them from further SER
vices thus imputing dishonesty or
want Of intelligence to them.