The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-05-31
NEW IRISH POTATOES,
PRUNES,
CANNED TOMATOES, CORN AND
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Mitch Lay, who lives on the Chat
tahoochee river, is the possessor OF
pig with six feet.
Governor Mcdaniel has refused
20 interfere and Stephenson, who
murdered his aunt in Gwinnets
county, will hang on the 9Th of June
Dick Harper, negro aged II
years died Monday on Dunbar's plan
tatiou, near Griffin. He was the fa-
Their of thirty~two childred, all living.
Mrs. Mitchell B. Jones residence
on the outskirts of Thomasville, was
burned Sunday night, involving a
loss of SIS 900, which is Offset by
only $4,000 in insurance.
Harris Brooks, a desperate white
man, has been arrested in South
Carolina, by the Sheriff of Cowets
county, Georgia, and taken to New
nan. II is said that the prisoner
confesscs two murders.
The establishment of barrel fac
tory in Albany is an assured fact
The capital stock of the company is
$4,000. aud the enterprise is to be
90 small affair.
DougIasville Star: Mr.. Il. R. Pay
ton, OF Carroll county, killed on the
14th inst, rattlesnake measuring
five and bali feet long and FIVE
inches across the back, 1t had thir.
teen rattles and a button, its fangs
were one and a quarter inches long.
Policeman Rapp, of Atlanta, bought
fifteen acres of land outside of Allan
ia on the Peschtree road, where the
belt railroad crosses it paying $l.75O
for the same. He is now offered
$4,000 cash for his land, and he
has refused to take it.
Legal circles in Atlanta are sgita
ted over the question oil finding room
in the Fulton court house for all the
Atlanta lawyers. Death and emf
grafton have somewhat reduced the
number, which now stands at only
1913
Bulloch Banner: Hon. A. D. Es
son bad dog to turn over a bee gum
Thursday, at the expense of bis life.
The bees, enraged by the shock,
waged war on the canine intruder
and stupg bin so severely that be
died with convulsions.
The Rome Courier wants the va
grant law enforced: 1.-The enforce,
ment of the vagrant law, we think,
would have a tendency to drive to
work a class of negroes who can be
made useful in the field. Our farm
ing friends are always 10 need of
field hands,"
Near Gsysville, sometime ago, Mr..
HoIcomb's son was bitten by mad
dog. Al defending bis son, some of
the saliva got on Mr.. Holcomb's
band. Through a sore the virus
was taken into the system, and last
Sunday he died of hydrophobia
His son who was bitten is tied to
prevent mischief
Mr.. Joe Nall, assistant postmaster
at Atlanta, has been deposed owing
to their being shortage OF IS, 1000
10 his postal accounts. He says be
will make the amount good. On
Monday it was reported that be had
taken morphine with view to com
NIT suicide. This has been since
denied, claiming that he only had
the vertigo.
Gainesville Southr0n; On last FRI
day morning Mrs. j. H. Pierce, liv>
ing one mile east of this city, gave
birth to q male child weighing 20
pounds 1t did not survive its birth,
but DR.. Long, who attended Mrs.
Pierce, says it was perfectly formed
and looked like it might be q year
old when laid out for burial. The
doctor weighed the child and will
vouch for the above statement. Mrs.
Pierce is doing well.