The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-05-11
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Ten cases of small pox developed
in Atlanta last Friday.


Ten cases of small pox developed
in Atlanta las. Friday.
The worms, black, one inch in
length, are destroying the wheat
near Rome.
Small pox is a winter disease, but
it often fingers into the heat of sum-
mer.
Rockmart, Polk county, has the
small pox. A negro from Atlanta
brough. it there.
The Fulton County Commission
ers have raised the whisky license
outside of Atlanta from $50 to $500.
Alfred B Doyal, who killed a
policeman 10 Griffin. has been tried,
found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged on the 10Th Of June.
The state appropriation Of $4,000
was paid to the Atlanta colored uni
versity, by Treasurer Speer, on
Wednesday last.
The Episcopal convention of the
diocese of Georgia will convene in
Emanuel church, Athens, ON We'd
nesday, the 10th instant.
Atlanta is to have a new Republi.
can paper with John L. Conley as
editor 1t will support the coalition
candidate.
The Atlanta Constitution is au>
thority for the statement that there
are now upwards of twenty-five
hundred fish ponds 10 Georgia, most
of which are stocked With carp.
A negro by the name Of John
Thomas, went to Cartersville last
Thursday morning with develope q
case of small pox, from Atlanta
The negro left Atlanta to keep from
being cent to the pest house.
DR.. Hape, of Hapeville, near At
lanta, says he will gather six thou
sand quarts of stra y berries from biz
patch this season, and that thsy will
not sell for less than fifteen cents per
quart.
Augusta Chronicle /: The oat crop
in Georgia and South Carolina is
the finest, perhaps, ever known in
this section, and will do much to
place the planters 10 a good position
for the next season.
There are l,239 convicts in the
penitentiary, an increase of ~ over
last month. They are divided up
as follows Company No |, 800 ;
company No 2, $50; company No.
3, 366 ; Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad, PIG,
Hydrophobia is raging among
the dogs in Wilkes county-not less
than half dozen having bsen kill-
ed within a radius of quarter of q
mile Other animals were bitten
by these rabid creatur es and had to
be killed.
Mr.. Matt Ryan, dealer in dry
goods, shoes, etc., SO Whitehall
street, has made an assignment
Liabilities, $4,000; assets about
the same, with $4,000 Of claims Sc
cured by mortgages.
Andrew M. Nash, who killed W
G. Yarbrough 10 Gwinnett county
10 1876, and who has been a refugees
ever since, surprised the people o
Lawreuceville by returning and vol
UNFAIRLY giving himself up to the
authorities. There was a reward Of
$500 for him.
The Worth county Star reports
that on last Friday, Mr.. George
Young, who lives near Little river,
was cutting down tree, when the
axe came off the helve and struck
Charley Alb,i!ten just below the
ankle, ;nAicting a wound from which
he bled to death before medical aid
could reach him.
Athens Waterman A negro
quack, calling himself "Dr." Turner,
and who has been for several years
swindling the negroes 10 lower OgIe
thorpe, was the other night waited
upon by a delegation Of bis race and
so severely whipped that he has
since died OF the injuries received
No arrests.
DIR. Bachman, of Knoxville, Tenn,
has been preaching Of nights in
Gainesville for fOnr weeks. About
20 persOos have united with the
different churches-seventeen to
the Presbyterian church. DIR. Bach
mans style is deliberate, simple and
forciblo, comforting to christians and
1 Al unon--awkod