The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-20
GEORGIA QLRANINGS.

| DuilncH County .CniIpi"tuS VI '"e
prevailing drought as unPrecedent'
cd.
Frank Iludson, the triple murder
or, was hung in Dawson last FRI
day.
An old negro woman has just died
in DoOly county at the ripe old age
of one hundred aud eleven years.
Judge +. G. Furman, of MiIledge-
vile, has saved 10000 pounds Of
hay-2O,000 Of which was gathered
on three acres.
10 Pickens superior court, VIM.
C. Young was found guilty Of mur>
der, and sentenced to the penitenti-
airy for life.
James +. Harvey, who killed Ar
thur McMullen at Carrollton in July
has been found guilty of murder and
will doubtless hang.
The grand jury of Newton county
stands twenty to one in favor Of the
"no fence" law, and the NeaOS thinks
the county stands about the same
way.
Montezuma Weekly: Devie, a
sixteen year old son of Mr.. ID. G..
T. Collins, picked four hundred
pounds of cotton in a single day lat
week. Show us another young man
of like age that can do so we'll.
The Enquiyer thinks /. will be a
piece Of good fortune if the "piuk
eye" does not break out among the
New York politicians. Just at this
particular time the stalwsrts in that
State seem to be suffering more par
ticularly from the "black eye"
Covington Star Mr.. w. B. Lees
store was entered by thieves on last
Friday night and goods to the
amount of $500 stolen. The en-
trance was affected by boring
through the panels of back window
and removing the bolts.
Sidney Herbert in Savannah
News: The Western and Atlantic
railroad company has expended
about $50, 900 to prepare for and as
DIST the cotton exposition. This in
cludes $4,000 subscribed to the
stock, cost OF exhibit, of minerals,
etc, from the line Of the road and
depots and two trains for exposition
travel.
Some of the tickets voted at the
recent voting 10 Houston county, on
the liquor question, contained, it ID
said, "More whiskey," "Better
whiskey," and Cheaper whiskey,'
and were thrown out. An iOjunc-
ton case has grown out of it, and
the same will be argued before Judge
Simmons, in Macon, on the 2ls
inst.
Griffin Meas: "We learn tina
the gin house belonging to Messrs
Patrick 81 Mutt. at Head Shop
eight miles east of Griffin, was to
tally consumed by fire Tuesda.
evening, together with about tel
bales of cotton. The fire is soPPos
ed to have caught from an engine
spark. No insurance, AMI the losl
will reach about 81, 500"
ReidsvilIe Enterprise: "Mr.
Buck, out at IIancock's mill, has a
mule with hydrophooia. Last
spring tho mule was bitten BY a dog
but the bite soon healed. and moth +,
ing more was thought Of it until o
few days ago, when the mule began
to show peculiar symptoms, and in a
short time convinced all that it was
suffering with hydrophobia. The
mule tries to bite everything that
goes near it"
Eastman Times ave learn that
one A. j. Swain, living in the Pond
Town district of this county, has ell
oped with his wife's sisser-a Miss
Bette WambIe-and their wherea'
bouts are not known Swain leaves
his lawful wife and three children 10
destitute circumstances in fact, up
on the charity Of the community
Such conduct demands the severest
censure, and our Informant state:
that it is receiving such from the
good people OF that section"