The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-19
GEORGIA GLBANINGS.

| ga Inc AtneH6 lce Wofhe Whlcu are
owned by private parties will be al
work by the 10th of May.
Gillett Brothers, wholesale tobacco
and cigar dealers, Atlanta, have
failed,
The father Of ex Governor Bullock
died in Atlanta Wednesday night Of
last week.
George Hill, colored. who mur,
dered VIM Bryant, colored, with
ak in Cherokee county, has been
found guilty and will hang June LIST.
After an exciting trial before the
circuit court of Rome, the Shorter
will has been sustained by the vers
dict of the jury.
J. S Kirkland, Tax Collector of
Miller county, has gone wrong to the
amount of ST., 100. His boudsmen
are pronounced solvent, so the State
and county will not suffer.
For the benefit of fruit-growers a
freight train is to be put 90 between
Atlanta and Cincinnati, which will
make the run in SO hours, leaving
Atlanta at 6 o'clock at night.
Lon Fitz, clerk for Charles P.
Murray, shoe dealer, Atlanta, has
absconded with some money belong
ing to bis employer and leaving board
and tailors bills unpaid.
An aged gentleman of Griffin has
buried five wives, and by the side
of each wife is buried little child,
the offspring of the mother by which
it rests.
Washington Vaudiver, a negro
brak emau, was struck byethe bridge
at Forrestvil,e, near Rome while
standing Oh top of freight train,
Tuesday, and instantly killed. He
lived at CalerR.
A man who lives not many miles
from Gainesville has been carrying
on al illicit distillery in cave.
One day last week the cave tumbled
in, set fire to the contents and came
very near burning the proprietor to
death.
Union and Recorder The gener-
al opinion in this county, we believe,
is that there will be a fair crop of
peaches and this estimate is based
OF the opinions of a large number
of citizens of the county who pay
much attention to fruit raising.
G. B. Bostwick, of Spauidipg
county, has bad an offer of $50 per
acre for his farm near Griffin. The
proposition was made By Northern
gentleman who wants to come South
and engage in the fruit growing bust
ness.
Truck farmers of South Georgia
are said to be shipping cabbage and
realizing from five to seven cents a
pound. They make from seventy
FIVE to one hundred dollars per acre
on them. The seed were sown last
summer and the plants set out in the
fall.
Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock,
Mrs Denton, mother of the senior
member of the firm of Denton &
Lynn, of Dalton, while out walking
with two of her grandsOns in the
cemetery of that village, was struck
and instantly killed by lighting.
Cos Wells and Jack Belch>
er, of Brownville, went on a drunk
They bad quarrel and Jack got
he worst of it, Jack thirsted for
revenge, and when he found Gus
fast asleep in a chair he whipped
out a knife and cut his throat.
Gus" is dead and Jack" is a
fugitive with the blue coats on his
trail.
The Townsville Times says that
Rev. T. T. Christian has just sold
for $1,000 fifty acre tract of land
in two miles of Townsville court
house, for which he paid $500 a few
months ago. That is to say, land
was worth only $40 an acre around
Thomasville few months ago. We
have not known any around Marietta
to sell that cheap for the last ten
years. Lands around our town are
known to be valuable, and when you
buy them you have to pay for them.
Two weeks ago a child died in
the family of man named West
brook, at Graysville, Georgia.
Soon thereafter other members of
the family were stricken down with
a singular disease, Sunday the moth
err and four children died, and Mon>
day two more children, making
seven members of the same family,
ara lying dead at the same time
Only one member left, the father,
who is crazed with mingled fear and
grief 1t is not known of what dis
ease they died.
Telegraph: We were yesterday
reliably informed of noble act in
the life of Henry D. Mcdaniel, re
Gently nominated as a candidate for
Governor of Georgia, which is
worthy of public record. During the
late war he had charge of an estate,
the property of which vested 10 or
phan minor children A portion of
| the nronertv ha sold and invested