The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-09-15
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

| L" 40 oAtA NuSt ONA' W. 80 w h''
of Oglethorpe, ha cleared $4,000
on dried peaches this season.
A surveying party has for two
weeks been at work on the prelimi'
nary survey of the Atlanta canal.
Hawkiusville received last week
nine hundred aud ninety one baleI
of cotton. Il was busy week will
business men.
A colored man in Cartersvill'
drank pint OF peach brandy th'
other day, and expired in shor
time in great agony.
Col. Jno NJ. Meek. of strawberry
Plains, Tenn, reports that the chol'
era has broken out among the hogs
in his vicinity, and is raging tC
something of an alarming extent.
Mr.. Dorse Elder, of Oglethorpe
county, is a Hercules in strength.
He can catch the heels of vicious
mule and raise the rear part of the
animal from the ground.
The Georgia LeConte pear has
beeu examined and Endorsed by the
Pennsylvania horticultural Society,
where lis twin brother, the kieier,
most hourishes.
The colored man employed by
the sheriff of Monroe county to wait
apon the court last week has the lets
ter IN" branded on one Of his
cheeks. This stands for murder
and was one Of the penalties attach
ed to our criminal law several years
back.
A man by the name of Braswell
living in Rock dale county wrote two
very abusive postal cards to A. A
Zachary and was tried for libel last
week, convicted and fined two huns
dred dollars by Judge Stewart
Pretty dear postal cards
DR.. McTyre, Of Thomas county,
raised this year fine crop of hay
from grass seeds brought by him
from Brazil. The doctor spent mauy
years in Brazil, and brought home
with him many seeds for trial in this
country. lie considers his Brazil
lao grass a success.
Col. Richard S Jeffries, a promi>
nent lawyer of Atlanta, committed
suicide at the Alabama White Sui
phur Springs, near Chattanooga, last
Friday. He was troubled with ner
vous dyspepsia. He cut his throat
with a razor.
A young man named Marrable,
clerkiug in an Atlanta house, came
to grief few days ago. He was
detected taking goods out Of the
store of bis employer and bestowing
them on a woman of i'll fame. He
had been in the ore but six weeks,
and bad company did it.
A sad tale comes from the en-
lightened city of Athens. The
Watchman relates that Mrs. Jane
Fitzpatrick died there on Saturday
last accor ding to the verdict of
Coroner's jury, "for the want of the
necessaries Of life, which were fail
ed to be furnished by her husband,
VIM. Fitzpatrick, and on account of
congestion produced by large
draughts of cold water while suffer
ing from intermittent fever" It is
stated also that her husband had
abused and greatly neglected her
during her illness.
Mr.. + j. Turner, a carpenter
left his work at noon last Thursday
10 the best of heath. On his way
home be stopped for talk with Mr.
McVeigh, car inspector of the w
& A. road After few moments
conversation with that gentleman be
resumed his walk, but had not pro-
ceeded a dozen feet ere he fell to
the ground, ami when examined
was found to DO dead. A coroner
Jury rendered a verdict of death by
strangulation from heart disease. -
He leaves a wife and children to
mourn his loss. Dalton Citizen.
The horrible news reached town
last Monday morning than Charlie
Phillips, guard at the convict camps
had whipped a convict SO brutalIy
that be lived but short while after
ward. From what we are told the
convict had escaped but after about
an hours search wes found and as a
punishment for the ofense was sub,
iected to the lash, warrant has
been sued out against Charlie Phil.
lips for the killing of this convict
and is in the hands of the Sheriff.
/ We are not familiar with the facts,
and so give it as hearsay. We
trust that the above is not the true
facts but if they are, such brutality
should be looked into by our courts
! of Justice Canton Ad0aace.