The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-06-21
GEORGIA 0LEANINGs.

See OhocEleyS Dig advertisement.
Another death. The Rome Weekly
Tribune has suspended.
The Georgia Major has suspended
publication.
A ten-year old girl, of DennisoD,
La, studied night and day to excel
10 her class. Suddenly her memory
left her and now she is an idiot.
Judge Stewart, in Atlanta 90 Sat-
urdsy, refused a new hearing in the
celebrated Shorter will case of Rome.
1t will now be carried to the Supreme
Court.
Three hundred and fifty convicts
are employed in the Dade county
coal mines and forty free laborers.
Very often the convicts, after having
served their time, remain at the
works and are paid as free laborers.
Mrs Thorpe, who lives across the
Florida line, near Quitman, Ca,
stole $500 in her husbands absence,
set fire to bis home, and it is supposed
eloped with a young man. She
surrendered herself after hiding out
10 swamp for three days.
Atlanta Constitution: The Cover
nor has been notified of the killing
of a negro convict at Loves camp.
The negro escaped, and during the
night a guard who was looking for
him came upon him and accosted
him. The negro refused to surren-
der, and was shot aud killed while
resisting arrest. A coroner's jury
made a verdict generating the
guard from all blame.
Athens Banner: San old negro
man named Tom Hood, living on the
Tom Moore place, near the Georgia
factory was yesterday hauling up
come oats from the field and was
tramping the bundles down into the
wagon when his feet slipped from
under him and be fell out back ward,
breaking his neck. He did not
breathe but once or twice after his
head struck the ground.
The lard question, as it appears to
our neighbor, the Cherokee Ad'
vance "The developments recent
ly made as to the sort of lard We are
buying and using, don't serve to in
crease our fondness for short bic,
cult We can stand a good many
things, and still have a pretty
healthy appetite. But when cow
boofs, old pieces of raw hide, and all
other rskings of butcher pen are
run through, and it comes out mark
ed Prime. steam lard we begin to
wish we had been born a Jew. We
say fix US up some cotton seed oil,
clean and nice"
Here is a real good item-indica
tive of progress and prosperity. from
the Washington Gazette Mr.. Z
M. Whitehead has twelve brood
mares on his place in this county,
and has gone into the stock raising
business with a determination that
will sure to bring successful results.
He will raise mule colts principally.
He has a full bIooded Mexican in
bis employ, who can throw the larias
with great dexterity. A man who
was raised up in the stock and cstt'e
business is quite an adjunct to a
stock farm"
Savannah Recorder: There is no
work being done at the Savannah
barrel mandatory at present, owing
to difficulty 10 obtaining slaves and
material. In the meantime parties
in the interior are cIsmoring for
barrels, boxes and crates which are
arriving here from New York in
large numbers. As general thing
those manufactured at the north are
in great demand on account of the
superior manner in which they are
made and their adsptsbility to the
uses of rosin and spirits of turpen>
tine.
Townsville Times: About two
weeks ago little boy of Solomon
Chastain's went out to q pasture to
catch horse In doing so the horse
threw up his head and hit the boy
under the chin. He complained of
the pain and hurt, but was able to
go fishing the mex. day. Late in
the afternoon, about "a hours after
the accident. be suddenly lost bis
voice and hearing. This occurred
two weeks since and he has not
spoken or beard any sound since
He wrote on a slate, Wednesday
morning, that be bad occasionally,
be thought, hesrd faint sounds. He
is a bright little fellow, being about
ten years old The case is a very
strange one. DR.. Mcintosh is treat
ing it.
Satisfaction for Ten.
In our family of ten for two years Parkers