The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-08-10
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Col. Ihomas t1aruemaD, Jr', Will
speak 10 the ninth and seventh dis
tricts during the campaign.
Banks county will pass upon the
fence question on the Sth of Septem>
bar.
Mr.. John +. Kiser, of Atlanta,
left no will, and his wife becomes
the legal heir of his handsome for
tune.
The Town Council of Decatur
has voted. the sum of $3.50 to assist
in defraying the expenses of putting
clock 10 the court house.
Lopgstreet & Co. profess to be
working for the responsibility of the
Republican party in Georgia. That
is all bosh. They are working to
keep the Government pap.
The following money order Offices
have been established in Georgia /:
Barlow, Boston, Catoosa Springs,
Elijah, Greensboro, Waycross and
Waynesboro.
Eighty four persons have been
received into the Methodist Episco-
pal Church at Dawson within the
past three weeks, the result of reN
ligious revival in that community.
In Brunswick, for the first six
months Of the present year, there
have been twenty-five deaths, OF
which fourteen were whites and
eight colored.
Andrew Clark, recently decapita
ted from the internal revenue bust
ness, is the depot agent in Atlanta
of the Cincinnati and Georgia Rail-
road.
Capt. w. w, Paine, who repre-
sented the First District of Georgia
in Congress shortly after the war,
died 10 Savannah on Saturday. He
was So years of age, and stood very
high in the community.
Mr.. James Powers, of the Third
District, Coweta county, has calf
from large COW, that weighs only
nine pounds and is not high enough
to reach the teat to suck. This is
perhaps the least living calf in the
state.
The first death on the new extern.
sion Of the E. T. Va. & Ga. Rail-
road occurred near Macon Friday
when negro brakeman lost both
legs and his life by smasbup on
that road. His wife has already
entered suit for damages.
Colonel Calhoun, ordinary of Full
ton county, has ordered elections on
the fence or no fence question,
to be held 10 the Collins and Adams
Vile Districts on the 23d instant.
The elections in the other three
Districts will probably be ordered
for the sixth of September.
Athens Waterman Near this
city is a good crop of corn, cotton,
potatoes, etc, that was worked by a
negro, and as soon as it was laid by
the owner disappeared and no one
knows where be is. So the crop ia
without an owner, as no one claimG
it.
The SUCCESS of the Jug Tavern
r .iIroad is assured. A gentleman
representing a wealthy Northern
company proposes to subscribe
half the money necessary to build it..
Farmers aIong the liae are enthused
on the subject, aud promise to sub
scribe heavily.
A farmer went into Athens We'd
nesday tor the purpose of hiring
some hands. Tackling a crowd of
loafug darkeys on the street, be
proposed to employ them at good
wages for a month. "Look here,
mister" exclaimed the spokesman
of the squad, "do you take us for
field hands. We'se edicated cullud
men and don't pose to work in the
sun !"
At colored camp meeting at
Eastman, forty miles below Macon,
the deputy marshal shot a fleeing
prisoner named Jake Tarapy and
killed him. This infatuated the
mob who ran the deputy marshal
into house where there was an in
nocent white man named James
Harvard, who was shot and beaten
horrible, causing his immediate
death. The negroes mistook him
l.