The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-03-08
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Prohibition was carried in Clay>
ton county last ThuTday.

committed eulclQe 10 OaVannAn.
Clumbus has organized her street
railroad company by capital of
100000.
It is getting common now for
farmers to make a bale Of cotton per
acre, on small fields, well titled.
A merchant in Washington ia sell,
ling gents furnishing goods-whis.
ky and tobacco.
The Savannah Grand Jury the
present week have indicted ll2 men
and boys for playing keno.
The majority for prohibition in
Clayton county at the recent election
on that question was 500.
Editor Finch, of the Constitution,
yesterday paid a dollar and a half
quart tor strawberries. None but
editors of the Constitution can afford
this luxury.
Canrad Bucher, q we'll known
character of Macon, committed sui
eide on Friday night last by eating
a bait Of through on rats 1t is said
that he was laboring under a fit OF
mental alteration when be commit
ted the act.
Farmers can fiud q market for
syrup, potaloes aud other products
of the farm by hunting for it. That
is the way in which merchants act
When the market won't go to man,
he must 60 to the market. Farm
ers must advertise.
IN Atlanta last week, thirty>nine
young doctors were turned loose up
on an unsuspecting public to skill or
cure" and yet Atlanta is full of half
starved old physicians, while a hum
dred more are getting living out OF
other employments. Two have just
gone into the real estate business.
Mr.. E Y. Hill, brother to Mr..
L, j. Hill, of Atlanta, who owns
large stock farm, has bought 200
acre farm near Washington, Wilkes
county, and has just completed one
of the largest carp ponds in the
State, and will turn his attention to
raising fine stock and Jersey cattle.
A letter dated the oath ult., from
Baker county to the Macon Tele>
graph says: p. w. Jones, Jr., has
one hundred acres of cotton up and
nearly ready for working. lie
planted on the 18th, and says he
never had a better stand, and with
fair season he intends to beat Texas
with the first bale this year.
About three o'clock Thursday
morning, at Atlanta, while officers
Stroud and Brooks were patroling
their beat on Decatur street, they
found the back door of Councilman
Zack Adamson's store standing
open They entered and found
the safe blown open and sledgo
hammer, some chisels and brace
lying on the floor.
The Advertiser says the biggest
thing in Southwest Georgia is the
arteaian we'll at Albany, with its
pure curative mineral water. DUR
ing the year that it has been in ex-
istence it has cured many people OF
dyspepsia and kidney complaints
that can be traced, or truly credited
to any of the celebrated springs of
the country, and it is destined yet to
make Albany great health resort.
Commissioner Henderson is busy
sending on; seed to different parties
in theiState agricultural clubs, mem
bers of Legislature, etc. Among
the varieties being sent are milo,
maize, Egyptian ivory wheat, broom
corn, Miunesato Amber cane, aud
the coffee pea. The coffee pea is s.
new variety that is very good. 1t
was raised in the country by man
who picked out several from q sack
of coffee and planted them.
Milledgeville Union There wa
an amusing scene at the depot OF the
Macon and Augusta Railroad on
lset Wednesday. An old negro man
was about leaving, and several of
his kinfolk were present bidding
him good bye and throwing the
Shoe after him, when the whistle
blew-the old man made for the
train, aud stumbling, his pint flask
of whisky fell out of his pocket and |
struck the iron rail, breaking it all
to pieces. The old man gave one
lingering look behind and exclaimed |
Lord a massey ou my soul !"
Judge Lawson imposed fine of
forty dollars on several jurors who
were too late to be sworn in wheo
court convened on Monday morning |
Dublin Gazette. That's all well
enough, perhaps But when judges
begin TO fine lawyers for not beirg
ready to go to trial with their cases,
and close their ears against pleas
for exasperating continuauces, the |
courts will cease to be institutions
ter the hustling Of jurors, the ham
pering of justice and the indefinite
prolongation of litigation Macon
Telegraph.