The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-10-12
GEORGIA GLEANINGs :.

week, a negro wa, tried for killing
his wife and sent to the penitentiary
for life.
GartrelI got two cold votes for
Governor in Oglethorpe county, and
yet the unthankfu! man wants to
co ntest the election.
General Gartrell received only
ono vote in Columbia county and on-
ly two votes in Oglethorpe, and on
ly four votes in Bulloch county.
Mr.. c. Touches dwelling house in
Texas valley, near Rome, was des-
troyed by fire. Loss $1,000. Mr..
Yancey White, of the same county,
lost his house by fire also.
The Griffin SIN says: Oh, the
disgusting filth that has been sIung
around in the seventh and ninth
congressional districts. The stencil
pervades tho entire state.
The Atlanta Herald says that
Gen. Gartrell threatens to conteet
the election of Mr. Stephens Gu the
grounds of fraud, bribery, BULLDOG"
ing and corruption generally.
Only four members of the last
state senate have been renominated,
namely: President Boynton, and
Senators j. g. Parks, w. p. Price
and p. w. Meldrim. This 10 an
unprecedented fact in the history OF
the senate.
A fire in the vicinity of Augusta
on Wednesday destroyed "a gin
house and barn of Mr.. Bascomb Ca"
pers, on the Fitzpatrick place, to-
gether with machinery, wagons,
few bales of cotton, etc.
Saturday morning, about 1890
o'clock, the gin house of Mr.. B. 7.
Ray, living about eight miles from
Macon, on the Jacksonville road
was totally destroyed by fire, togeth>
er with six bales of cotton, gin, etc.
The total loss is 81 900.
Putnam county takes front seat
10 the class of reforaA, morally and
materially. Her people have vol
unfairly relinquished the sale of
spirituous liquors and have adopted
the stock law. She boasts Of no
whisky and no fences, good crops,
and of egotiating with fOe pros
poets of success the building of
railroad from Eatonton TO Madison.
The Waynesboro jail was broken
on Thursday night last, and five of
the seven prisoners confined therein
made their escape. They bored
and cut through the building with
tools furnished by outside parties,
made ropes of their blankets, and
made good their exit before any
alarm bad been given.
We believe that an honest enforce
ment of the laws against illegal voi
ing in Georgia will give The State a
solid Democratic delegation in the
next House. Let Democrats zee to
it that no man who ia disqualified is
permitted to vote for Congressman
in November. II this DO done, the
result will not be doubtful -MacOn
Telegraph.
We generally keep up with Har.
ris county news, bat this, from the
Fort Valley Mirror, is the first we
have heard of the following: "Ful>
" one half Of the brain of a negro
boy who was kicked by a mule, and
had his skull crushed, at Hamilton,
has been removed, but strange to
say, the boy has recovered, and re
tains all his senses.
The large and well built two-sto~
ry RESIDENCES of Mrs. T. w. Strange
six miles from Oconee station,
Washington county, was consumed
by fire on the 18th ult. Mrs.
Strange though not residing there,
waa on a visit to her farm, and
thinks the fire may have resulted
from rats igniting matches 10 the
walls. The building was insured
for S., 1000.
Spaulding county went back on
Governor Stephens, as will be seen
by the vote cast on Wednesday, and
also on the prohibition nominee of
the Democratic convention of the
| Legislature. Mr.. Searcy'S oppo
nent -Drewry-beat him about
600 votes. How would it do to make
a new State out of Spauldine end
give her Gartrel for her fret Gov.
ernor
OF all the mirth provoking politi~
cal uanifestoes of the times, the re-
ported intention of Gen. GartreIl to
contest Mr.. Stephens election is the
funniest. The General must iolag-
ine that bis case is to go before a
| Republican Congress, which hest.
tates not to turn ont an organized
| Democrat who has majority of
two to one and give bis place to any
contesting Republican or Indepeo-
dent. No other tribunal in the
country, or in any other country for
that matter, could afford him any re-
lief after such an expression of the
peopIe.-RoDae Courier.