The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-15
GEORGIA oLEANINos

Atlanta physician.
There is a lawyer 10 Elberton who
took as bis fee in q case the other
day three fat pOssums.
A party numbering about twenty
four left Cartersville for Texas last
Monday week.
Two bales OF cotton have recently
been stolen from the depot at Spar
to.
A mule threw Hockenhull, of
Cumming, q few days ago, and
broke bis leg.
Five citizens 10 a single district
in Forsyth county ran away to keep
from paying their debts.
Twenty five new residences are
going up in different parts OF
gainesville, and still there are mona
to rent.
J. r. Barnes has bought the resi-
dencs of DR.. A. j. Schaffer, on
Green street, Gainesville, for 49,
500.
From 1000 to 5000 negroes visit
Americas every Saturday to spend
their money, drink whisky and kick
up generally.
A convict at the Dade coal mines
while trying to escape, one of the
guards was shot and killed last
week.
Washiugton's Postmaster says
that he will not pay the political as
easements in the coming campaign
of next year, and that be will give
up bis place first.
Robert CANDLES, of Cuthbert, has
rs hogs in one pasture, all in fine
order. He has pigs there that can
not be beaten any where, and hogs
weighing from one to 800 pounds.
Thomas Roberts, charged with
murder 10 the second degree, was
tried, convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment at the fall term OF
Lumpkin Superior Court, held at
Dahlonega.
Jeff Germany, the negro train
hand whose foot was caught in frog
at Cochran and held fast while a
train ran over him and cut off bis
leg, died Wednesday from his inju
ries. He was buried by the railroad
authorities.
Mr.. w. j. Written, train hand
on the w. & A. road, lost his life in
uncoupling az engine from a freight
train while it was running at the
rate of six miles an hour. He fell
on the track and was cut in halves
by FIVE cars passing over him. His
home was at Tunnel Hill
Bailey's new opera house will be
Gainesvile's next important acquisl
ton. The plans will be ready early
next week, when ground will be
broken aud the work pushed rapidly.
The front will De pressed brick,
stone, iron and plate glass, and it
will be the handsonest structure in
the city.
John w. Smith, of Floyd county,
has this year raised large tobacco
crop by the aid of artificial heat
He has already shipped a large
quantity of leaf to Danville, and says
it paws much better than cotton
Smith is a Virginian, who went to
that county a few years ago. His
experiments having proved so sue
cessful, many of his Deighbors ex-
press their determination to raise
tobacco next year.
Mrs. Reeves, of Lswrenceville,
loved a man bound for Texas, whose
name is Scales. The pair determin
ed to elope. She reached Atlanta
with her 5-year>oId son, but was ar
rested there at the instigation of her
husband, who wanted the child, but
did not care for the mother. She
became penitens, however, and went
home with him. He paid the AT
lanta police 5000 for their work.
The bonds which the Floyd Com
missioners propose to issue to the
amount of 100000 for the purchase
of Tits bridge are expected to ar
rive from Philadelphia in few days.
They are to be of the uniform de-
of 500 each, with inter
est coupons attached. The bonds
are not to be printed, but are to be
autographed, the work to cost $500
A picture of the court house will be
on each bond.
Fl. Fl. Glenn, brother of Col. Luz
Their J. Glenn, Grand Sire of the
Supreme Grand Lodge of Odd Fell
lows, died from being run over by
freight car Friday nigh! in the Wes'
tern end Atlantic Railroad yard,
where he was night watchmap.-
1t is supposed that be sat down on
the track at the end of the car and
fell asleep, and when the switch en-
CINE moved the car it ran over him,
crushing both his legs. He leaves
a wife and three children in humble
circumstances, who were formerly
we'll off.
Twenty~eight bales of cotton, with
the gin house and cotton press, Oh A.
~ Da1oh araaE vIopfo.