The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-04-13
GEORGIA GLEANINas.

out 500 axe handles per day
There is great complaint ia Al
bany about damaged Western corn.
Virgil Cox, while coupling cars at
Cartersville Saturday night, was run
over, aud lost leg.
w l. Moon ard Jas, L. Hanuey,
the Carroll county murderers, have
been sentenced 70 be hanged in
public on the I'd OF June.
A poor ~hite woman has been
convicted of vagrancy in Rome and
sent to the chain gang for twelve
months.
A man named Gaiamore charged
with the murder Of Lambert, in
HARRISON county, four years age,
has been captured in Alsbams.
Mr.. ID. A. Wheat, aged SO, end
Mrs. Betsy Crittenden, aged ~, Of
Murray county, we're married one
night Lass week.
Judge James Il. Brown, of the
Blue Ridge Circuit, recently sens
fenced negro to the penitentiary
for natural life and thirty months
over.
A negro boy about twelve years
of age killed negro girl about that
age on Mr.. j G. Perieet's place, in
Oglethorpe county, last week by
stabbing her with knife.
Thomas l.. johnson, committed
suicide in the De kslb county jail.
on the 5 h mat, by hanging him
self with strip of blanket. He
was partly lunatic
Arrangements have been made to
start cotton seed oil mill at Hawk
insville, The machinery is bought
and gentlemen of means and energy
are running the enterprise, who will
make a success OF it.
Dublin Post: Mr.. Edward Perry
killed two wild turkeys at Que shot
last week, bat the gun did almos! as
much damage behind as before. 1t
kicked wildly, knocking out one of
his teeth, gashiug bis lip and bruisng
his chest badly.
Bret Morel, an escaped prisoner
from Richmond county, was captur
cd in Savannah and was being
brought back to Augusta Sunday,
when he managed to jump from the
window of tho car while it was 10
motion and effected bis escape.
Athens Chronicle On Friday of
last week a little child of John Cy.e,
coIored, was bitten by a large spider.
No serious result was anticipated
when the child was first bitten; but
on last Tuesday morning, after three
days of much suffering, the child
died.
A Henry county farmer went to
Lovejoy several weeks ago and pur~
chased ton Of what he supposed to
be guano. He carried it home and
stored it 10 a field in which he was
pasturing his cattle. The gusuo re
NAMED there for several days when
ho went for it, and imagine his sur,
prise to find that the COWS had de-,
voured nearly the whole of it. Up.
on investigation it was found to be
nothing but ground cotton seed and
salt with an occasional dead dog
thrown in to give it the right odor.
Frank Johnson, allotted by Enos
Echols, both colored, shot aud kill
cd Mr.. Walter Roundtree, a student
of the university OF Georgia, at
Athens, 90 the 18th inst Great exc
citement prevailed and at one line
it was thought q colli1ion between
whites and blacks was inevitable
Over three hundred armed negroes
assembled around the Jail, as if it
was their purpose to liberate johnson
aud Echols. But Mayor Rucker
summoned fifty extra policemen and
preserved order and peace. The
negro Johnson had previously push.
ed Roundtree off of the sidewalk,
which resulted in ill feeling. On
the day of the killing Round!ree was
out walking with some students,
when Johnson and Echols followed
them from street to street and finally
attacked them, killing Roundtree,
whose home WAS in Quitman, Ga.
While it cannot be denied that
Mr. Kimball is a grea. protector, be
has never yet started an enterprise
that did not fail in bis hands. 9th
err men may have come to the reacue
and finally made the projects sue
cess, but tho original stockholders
never failed to lose their all. This
is true of his Brunswiok and ALI
bany Railroad, his II. l Kimbail
House, his Opera House, bis Ogle
thorpe Park, his cotton factory and
his great Cotton Exposition. Finan
| niallu he does not know the value