The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-03-02
GEORGIA oLEANINGs.

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An Athens lady owns thirty cats
Of all colors.
W. r. Respess, merchant and
cotton buyer of Eatonton has failed.
Thursday Hon. Seab Wright, of
Rome, was married to Miss Annie
Moore of Atlanta.
1t is estimated tina. one Richmond
county farmer clears 81 900 year
on hay and grasses.
The Gazstte says the demand for
corn in Washington at this season is
unpreceden.edIy large.
Mr.. Cliff B. Grimes was married
to Miss Lacy Barnett in Columbus
last Tuesday week.
Hon, Arthur H Gray and Miss
Cora Linthicum, of Riuggold, we're
married on the 23d.
The contest over fence in Bib
county has been judicially decided
10 favor Of fence by nine majority.
Rev. w. A. Dodge was recently
married to Miss Laura Glenn, in Put
Jam county.
All the stores at Maxey's Station,
on the Georgia railroad, were burned
Friday night, with the exception of
one.
A company with $4,000 capital
has heen formed in Griffin for the
manufacture of the Books automatic
car coupler.
On Sunday oigh! last, four pris>
oners, Dan Latimer, Elijsh Lee, Ike
Adkins aud Rat Wilson. made their
escape from the Jail in Sparta.
A boiler explosion at New Castle
Ohio killed George S!utzmsn, N.
Immuol, Mr.. Hirschberger and two
meu named Bsrchy.
w. X. Waterman, charged with
breaking into the store of w. W.
Grubbs, at Orchard Hill, has been
found guilty, and sentenced to four
years in the pententiary.
The up through freight train on
the Georgia Railroad ran over an
unknown man near Berzeila, last
Wednesday, completely sovering
his head from his body. 1t is
thought that he was drunk aud foil
asleep on the track.
Nearly all the darkeys who left
Southwest Georgia several years ago
for Mississippi, are anxious to get
back. A gentleman in Americas
received dispatch that eighty five,
in one bunch, were anxiously wait
ing to recsive the means to return to
old Georgia.
Athens Banner 1t is evidently
the purpose of the Administration to
build up the Independent party in
Georgia, rather than the Republican.
How then can Democrat adhere to
the Independence The course of
the Administration makes the hide
pendent party virtually republican.
Cu,hbert Enterprise There is not
a merchant 10 town now selling pro
visions on credit. The only recourse
the farmers have is to the money
lenders, ct 124 per cent. High as
this is, it is much better than buy~
ing on a credit.
Fort Valley Mirror: ave are in
formed that Gen. John b. Gordon
has effected the purchase of several
thousand acres of land, comprising
the farms of DR.. John ID. Mitchell,
Mrs. Nicely, Mrs Thos. Jolly, Mr..
Cbarlos Marshall, Mr.. J p. Carson
and Mr.. Frazier, all lying on Flint
river, with view of establishing a
stock farm. He is negotiating for
three other places These lands ex
tend from the railroad bridge on the
Columbus road to Horse creek, a |
distance of about nine miles, and are
we'll adapted to tho purpose of stock
raising"
Last week a wagon loaded with
onions, grown 10 Clay county, N. c.
invaded the city and they were rea-
Oily battered at 81 80 per bushel.
In an interview with our reporter
the driver said be cultivated these
vegetables by irrigation and made
from 400 to 800 bushels per acre.
He plants the old button onions, and
besides getting a crop FROM the
ground makes a good profit, on seed
too, from the tops. Let our cotton
planters only think Of making from
81 900 to l,250 per acre, and with
less trouble, too, than it takes to
grow the staple !.fThe fault to our
Southern people is they have too
great contempt for small things,
wherein lie the biggest profit. -Ath-
rms Waterman.
HawkinsviIle Dispatch The ordi>
naries and county commissioners in
Georgia are giving "king alcohol" a
"black eye" A short time ago the
ordinary of Crawford county an
nounced that be would gran. no
more license for the sale of liquor in
that county, and few days since
the county commissioners CT Bib
decided to grant no more license for
the sale of liquor outside Of the city
of Macon. Now the Ordinary of
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