The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-05-25
GEORGIA oLnANINos.

throughout the State.
Wheat harvesting is going on at
lively rate throughout the State, aud
the outlook is encouraging.
1t takes the snug little sum of
$4,000 TO pay for a license to sell
liquor 10 Screven county
10 Elberton, the other day, during
rain, large turtle fell from the
clouds into the street.
Col Clarence Wilson, lawyer Of
Blakely, has been arrested on the
charge Of stealing horse 10 Wilcox
county, Ala.
Mr.. w. +. Clark, Of Americas, 10
said to have ninety acres of corn,
shoulder high, that promises a yield
Of thousand bushels.
Our exchanges bear uniform test.
mony to the burglsrious enterprise
Of the rank and file of the Radical
party in Georgia. They do their
most effective work between mid.
night and 4 o'clock ia the morning.
The Worth ,Sta,' very seusibly re-
marks: $40 selecting candidate for
the Legislature, remember that the
county, rather than the man, is to be
benefited or injured, according to
the wisdom Of your selection.
Athens Banner The Rountree
case will cost Clarke county, after
all expenses attached to same are
liquidated, not less than 81, 500.--
This doesn't include the cost attach
ed to new trial, if one is granted
Mr.. j. r. Robertson, of Neville,
attempted to extract the fangs of a
dead ratilesnake. Some of the poi,
son of the viper got into wound in
ne of his hands, aud he is in criti-
Gal condition. He will not do so any
more.
EchoIs and Johnson we're found
guilty at Athens of assault with in~
tent to murder 10 the Rountree case.
Judge Irwin sentenced the prison
era to ten years in the penitentiary.
The case will go to the Superior
Court.
The Newman Herald has been in.
formed that Mrs. Robinson, an aged
lady living at Mount, has reached
the remarkable sge of one hundred
and eighteen years. She has a
grand, daughter, Mrs. Plant, who is
aged seventy seven years.
Mr.. VIM. I.anders went to sleep y
night or two sgo with a lighted CT
gar in his mouth 10 the Globe Hotel
q; Columbus. When he awoke bis
bed was 10 flames and the Fire De
partment on hand ready to subdue
the incipient conhagatiou.
The Post Appeal speaks of the
SECURING Hon. A. II Stephens a.
the mex; governor" by the "ibaral
movement jus. as fellow would
talk of Iassoing q wild bull. 1t isn't
complimentary to Mr. Stephens, for
il smscks of consideration - Ma
con Telegraph
A tragedy occurred on the NJ. &
b. extension between Rock mart and
Rome. A man named Hight got
into a difficulty with the time keep
er Of the SECTION, a mRn named
Shaw, and the former struck the
latter with his fist with such force
as to diSjoin, his neck and produce
immediate death.
The Hawkinsvilie Dispatch is re
sponsible for the following: There
il a COW doctor in Greensboro, Ga
Every town has several horse doc
tors, but COW doctors are not SO nus
merOus. The Greens oro COW doc
tor is success. Recently to cure a
cow of the cole, he cut off both ears
smooth up with the head, then cat
the tail off. That was all be did,
and the cow-died.'
Sidney Lewis, Esq , has retired
from the editorial charge of the
Sparta Ishmaelite, and r.. II, Lewis,
Esq, succeeds him. Mr.. Lewis is
one of the brightest and most spark
ling writer's in the Georgia press,
and will be greatly missed by the
readers OF the I5lsmaelite. lie ac-
cepts a position on the editorial staff
of the Telegraph and Messenger.
A HawkinsviIle man as walking
along the street the other day when
be accidentally fred off his pistol
and section of his coat tell He
let the weapon slide to the ground
and walked calmly away, circle of
blue smoke about his flaps being the
only thing visible to throw suspicion
upon him. Il 10 astonishing how
nervy man can become when the
grand jury is in session.
Wrightsvile Recorder: On Satur
day evening last, the body of Loudon
Keilum, colored, was found in or
near a swamp in The upper part of
this county, He was shot in the
breast and arm with twenty~three