The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-10-26
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

A grove of eighty banana trees
eighteen months old, is bearing gOoC
| fruit at Waynesboro.
Fifty. one counties in Georgia
have no licensed saloons. Two
others closed out October |. Seven
have only one each, and in many
counties the sale is confined exclu-
sively to the county town.
A man named York, who killed
his stepson in Whitfield county a
ear or two ago, was tried and con-
victed of murder last week, and,
upon recommendation of the jury,
sentenced to the penitentiaryfor life.
Summerville Gazette says: E. S
Cobb the grape and wine man, was
in town last Friday. From q
acres he has made, this year, 10,
600 bottles of wine. AT his whole
sale price, these are worth over 81,
600
1t has been announced at Wash>
ington that Postmaster General
Howe will recommend the abolition
of postage on newspapers in his an-
nual report to Congress, but will not
recommend the reduction of letter
postage to twOacents.
LAST Saturday evening some
sharp thief secreted himself 10 the
store of Garrett & Walthsll, at Pal
metto, and while the proprietors
we're at supper the bold rascal lit .
candle, broke open the cash drawer
took all the change, which was be
tween thirty and forty dollars, and
decamped by way of the back door.
DR.. James Hamilton, of Athens,
who recently met with the serious
loss of twenty-five thousand dollars
10 bonds in the city of Baltimore,
has we are glad to be able to state,
recovered his missing treasures, and
doubtless feels good about it.
A gentleman named l. N. Smith,
who lived near RinggoId, Ga, CONS
mitted suicide last Friday evening
by shooting himself through the
head with pistol Mr.. Smith was
a comparative stranger from North
Carolina, and had been working as
a farm hand on Mr.. Sanford Bells
place only few weeks.
Dooly Vindicator: Mr.. Chas.
smith, of near Vienna, the cham
pion opossum hunter of South Geor~
gia, tells us that he captured in
1881, with his dog "Lee," 367
'opossums by actual count, and that
there were many caught and no &C
count taken of them. He sold $12
worth of the number, used some
himself and gave some away. The
famous Lice" was killed recently
by some unknown person.
Two or more years ago, lady OF
our acquaintance was afflicted with
case of malariaI fever that did not
yield, until recently, to any curative
process. She visited the mountain
top, the sea shore and pine wood,
but in vain. She took many kinds
of medicine without beneficial re-
suits During her sickness she ab
sorbed seven thousand grains of quiz
nine, but to no good purpose. A
few weeks ago, an aged relative in
Mary land asked and obtained her
consent to try a remedy he had
never failed with when planter
and slave owner He concocted
four pills containing opium, pecoc,
calomel. This was a nauseous dose,
but it work ed wonders Her recov-
cry was almost instantaneous. All
traces of the malady rapidly disap
peared, and she is now, for the first
time in two years, in perfect health.
augusta Chronicle.
DR.. James Hamilton, of Athens,
who is on business visit to Balti-
more, met with a serious and heavy
loss in that city. The doctor left
Barnum's Hotel, at about l o'clock
with abount $1,000 worth Of Dor DIS
end other securities, for the Office OF
John Merryman & Co, situated on
! No "a Second St. His papers be
had placed in large envelope and
wrapped in newspaper, which, prov
! ing two large a bundle for his Pock-
! ct, be placed it 10 bis breast, but~
toning bis coat over it. After pro-
ceeding along German street about
one hundred feet he discovered the
loss of the package, and went di-
rectIy to Merryman's & Cos. office
end reported the loss. The brokers
aud bankers were Immediately mott
fed, as also the police. Eighteen
thousand five hundred dollars Of the
bonds are negotiable anywhere.
The package lost contained five
Georgia State per cent. bonds OF
900 each, seven Georgia State
7 per cent. bonds of $1,000, each,
and one So, 900 bond, five Princeton
Factory Of Athens, Ga, bonds Of
81, 900 each, ten shares of Augusta
Factory Stock, and one hundred snd
ten shares of GrsniteviIle Factory
stock,
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