The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-04-20
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

A wholesale poisoning Of dogs has
occurred 10 the neiglborhood e
Americus,
Hass 6 Co, Brokers, Of Atlanta,
are paying about So 90 per thousand
for Confederate bonds.
A little boy named Morris, living
near Cross Keys, DeKaIb county,
was chokcd to death by grain of
pop corn few days ago.
There are four farmers in Wash
ington county who will make each
twelve thousand bushels Of oats At
the average price this will net them
$4,000 each.
The Pioneer Paper Mauufactu.
ring company of Athens has enlarg-
ed its capital to 100000. to man
ufacture writing paper 1t willalso
erect cotton aud Touring mill,
Work on the Gainesville, Teffer-
son and Southern railroad is progress
sing rapidly Eighteen miles of
track have been laid, and that divis~
ion is open to passenger traffic.
There is man now living in
Athens who found a bag containing
So 600 in gold in an old bake oven
while passing through Pennsylvania
with Lee, and brough. it safely
home with him.
Gov. CoIqaitt has been named as
trustee for the Slater fund of
81 10000 left by Connecticut
man for educating the colored race.
The fund is in the hands of a board
of trustees.
w. ID. Horton, white, shot and in.
stautIy killed Sandy Powell, colored,
at Poulan, Worth county, on the
9Th instant. Sunday an inquest
WAS held and the jury returned a
verdict Of murder. Horton fec
soon after the killing aud has not
been apprehended.
A Screven county farmer built a
fire under his corn crib to smoke
out the rats, and he succeeded. He
also smoked out the mules and other
live stock in his barn, and his wife
and children and mother>in law, and
three or four negroes from the houses,
and such things as couldn't be chased
out by smoke, were burned When
Screven county man does thing
he does it thoroughly.
J@nesboro News Some time ago,
while Mr.. Charlie Barksdsle was
catching his chickens, having sold
them, one OF them, hen, run into
wood pile where she was PEE mitted
to roman until one day last week,
when she was accidentally found
with her wings fas ened between
two pieces Of wood, was still living
aud had been in the wood pile for
thirty two days without food or wa
ter. At last accounts her respira>
ton was normal, pulse improving.
A negro man named Monroe Green,
of Fayette county, believing himself
about to die, has confessed that he
and other negroes murdered white
man whose body was found on the
railroad track at Hampton 10 1880.
He i'm plicates three other negroes,
with whom he divided the spoiIs of
the crime, some $50, of which he
retained one half, the other three
getting $40 each. Two of his ac>
completes have been arrested. He
did at Hampton on last Monday.
Walton Vdettc: On the planta-
ton of Mr., Jasper Thompson, on the
line of G winneit and Jackson eoun-
ties, there occurred, last Monday
morning, a murder that has created
much excitement in that section. -
An old negro and his five grown
sens had a fuss with another darkey
on Sunday, and decided to kill him
when he came to the field on Mon
day morning. Sure enough they
were in waiting, and when he came
in their presence they began the
fight, and never ceased until their
victim was dead. Four of the par
ties are in jail in LawrencevilIe, and