The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-06-29
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

MIR. Willis Biggers, OF Atlanta,
died last Sunday morning.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers /
prove ankind.
Atlanta has q steam rock crusher
at work on her streets that weighs
1900 pounds.
Both the Greenbsckers and the
Republicans are recognizing 10 Full
ton county.
Mr.. George Thompson shot Mr..
John Dinkins 10 Augusta and killed
him.
The President has refused to grant
a stay of execution of Guitean, and
on next Friday the poor fellow will
pay the penalty of bis crime.
Jody Camp, white boy, fell off
the train at Stone Mountain, Thurs
day. His right foot was badly
crushed and the doctors amputated
it Just above the ankle.
The stations along the Georgia
Pacific will be served with fast mail
BY rail on and after the lst Of July,
service having been ordered by the
Postmaster General.
Having raised FIVE hundred dol'
lars, Atlanta will celebrate the glo
rious "Fourth" with a new brass
band, a fascinating parade, fe"
balloons, five thousand country ne>
groes, and cheap watermelons.
1t is stated as fact that Column
bus pays her laboring class better
wages and works them fewer hours
than almos. any other city 10 the
Union consequently all her opera
tives are of the better class, and are
permanently established.
That Georgia mule "eighty years
DID," who is still alive and kicking,
will soon have his pedigee
published by his owner, Colonel
Bsgby, of Covington, Ca, in order
to satisfy doubling Thomases of the
press of the indisputableness Of the
fact.
The largest license ever paid in
Decatur, Dekalb county, for the
sale of liquor within the corporate
limits of the town was realized on
Saturday, when J. P. Crockett q
Co. paid to the Town Council the
sum of 1000 for the privilege.
Sumter Republican: A man en-
tered the post Office yesterday morn
ing and stepping up to the window
! ask ed Frank Bell for postal card.
Upon receiving it he tried to open
it. He probably expected to find a
sheet of paper, bottle of ink, and a
pen and holder inside.
Dalton rejoices in female dentist
| in the person of charming young
LADY,, whose fascinating manipula'
,ions makes even the tooth ache de-
licious. The first thing that will
happen at Dalton will be atoothache
epidemic among the male population
and the crashing of teeth among the
females.
A mad dog and mad goat caus :
ed considerable alarm at Cusseta,
Chattahoocbee county, few days
since 1t seems that the goat was
bitten by a fee dog which exhibit
ed symptoms of rabies, and became
violently mad, butting at everything
and finally tearing itself with it's
teeth. He was killed, but the dog
is still at large, and much alarm is
felt in the community.
An immense water nOccasin was
killed recently near Albany, Ca,
having in bis mouth catfish eight
inches Ing. The snake had seized
the fish by its head, unfortunately
for him. There are two big fns on
the head of a catfish, and this fish
stuck these fms into each jaw of the
serpent, which was thus rendered
DO werless to either swallow or re-
linquish its prey.
A large black bear passed through
the southern suburbs of the city OF
cambridge Wednesday evening
about dusk. He stopped and took
40 inventory of Mr.. j. F. Ipgram's
premises. No harm was done ex'
cept to scare all the folks pretty bad~
" and he passed on in the direc'
ton of the river with an cir of sheer
indifference. This is the second
time be has been seen 10 this vicini-
~.
Atlanta correspondence Augusta
Evening News Atlanta is to have
an oleomargariue factory. A stock
company with 100000 capital has
been organized. $4,000 of the
stock was taken by New Workers
and 100000 by prominent citizens
of Atlanta. The company has
purchased lot of land just beyond
the exposition grounds, and will
commence at once the erection OF
their factory:
A Georgia paper says that Sans
ders Hyatt of Covington, some years
ago, shot the head off OF a rattle
snake which was coiled ready to
spring. Noticing that the snake
IlJ roommontv large HYATT |