The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
GEORGIA aLEANINGS

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Rev. NJ. B. Hardin, of Lagrange,
10 dead.
New corn sells at so cents per
bushel in Walker county.
A double headed child was born
in Morgan county recently.
Pinkney Cornet, deaf and dumb
white man beat bis wife to death IN
Atlanta last week.
At Warrenton the jury in the
Felts murder trial returned verdict
of not guilty.
Mrs. Thomas Allen fell into we'll
seventy feet deep, near Monroe, but
escaped serious injuries.
There is a mercantile establish
lishment 10 Gwinnett county that sol !
within the last year $4,000 worth
of goods, and there was only $l.5O
on the books of debts.
George Kirk, the white man who
killed Dick Ratchford, colored, near
Cedartowu, was found guilty of MUIR
der in Polk Superior Court and sem
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
Col. Richard Peters, of Atlanta,
whose stock farm is in Gordon coun
ty, has sold to Texan breeder one
hundred Angora goats, less than one
year old, for S4,000-just $40 90
apiece.
The saloon of James lAskew, on
MariettaI street, Atlanta, was broken
open Sunday night, and his safe
was blown open and $500 carried
off.
Mrs. w. G. Rutherford was burned
to death at her residence at Bain>
bridge on Thursday. She was cook
ing beefsteak, when her dress caught
from the stove, and before the flames
could be extinguished, she was ia
tally burned. She survived but
few hours, medical aid being power
less to save.
The colored woman, Emma Har>
ris, tried and condemned to life i'm
prisonment last week in Troup
Superior court for drowning her
child in the Chattahoochee river at
West Point, tainted twice before the
grand jury. Although her crime
vas a horrible one, all we're touched
by the utter wretchedness of the
guilty mother.
A little negro was found burned
to death Friday, 10 one of the tene-
ment houses on the place of Capt.
Tom Ramsey, in Schley. The par
ents had left it alone for awhile, and
when they returned the child was
dead and cooked to a crisp in The
middle of the floor, with only burnt
collar band around its neck
The works of the Georgia Oil
Company, which manufactured pine
and several other products tom
Georgia pine, we're burned At Au
gusta, early Thursday evening The
works belonged to w. J. Winberg
& Co aud were valued at s., 600.
They had no insurance.
At Augusta Thursday morning
Rev. Cadesman Pope, pastor of st.
James Methodist Church, left two
children, girl of 8 and boy aged
4, in buggy while he was paying a
pastoral visit in Hamburg. The
horse became frightened and ran
away, dashing up on the South Caro-
lima Railroad bridge across the river,
and ran some distance on the cross
ties before he fell through, breaking
one leg. The little girl was thrown
under the horse and considerably
bruised The boy fell through the
trestle to the bank of the river, and
was seriously injured.
Wednesday last, near Whigham,
in Pierce county, white man named
Alfred Bird, made desperate at
tempt to kill his wife, attacking her
with a razor. He inflicted several
ugly, though not mortal, wounds in
her hand and back of her head. A
little daughter, II years of age, 60
ing to her mothers assistance, res
ceived a painful wound in her thigh.
The timely assistance of Mr.. Ben.
Bird, brother of the unfortunate hus,
band, saved the life of the wife. DR..
H. L. McEIvey dressed the wounds,
and both are doing well. Jealousy
is said to be the cause of bis attempt
to take his wife's life. He left i'm
mediately after bis brother interfer>
red, and his whereabouts at present