The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-11
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

'iS Uni "iiJ nave ucCldTcu ScIHl-
annual dividend of two per cent.
Miss Florence Dean, near Rome,
walking in her sleep, fell from a sec
ond story window and injured herself.
Judge Carswell has granted Miss
Elvira Ivey new trial in Jefferson
Supeior Court, for the murder of A.
S. McCaully.
Barnesville's revival, which had
beer in progress for four weeks,
closed with 80 accessions to the
church.
The appointment of J. w. Rem
froe, former State Treasurer, to sue
coed Postmaster Wilson at Atlanta,
is expected to occur soon. Both
Senators agree on Mr.. Renfroe.
A drummer from a Northern city
was elected from the dining-room of
the Rankin House yesterday for per-
slsting in eating dinner in his shirt
sleeves Columbus Enguirer-Snn.
Mr.. James D. Carton, a merchant
and constable of Dallas, Georgia,
was on Friday run over ond killed,
by train Of the Z. r., V. & G. rail
road near the Nelson street bridge in
Atlanta.
Ex-senator Robert Toombs is al
most totally blind. Other hands now
open his letters and he realizes that
for him there is but little left of life.
The inevitable he mcekly bows to ac-
cept
Our exchanges reports fine seasons
throughout the whole country, which
has encouraged the farmers very
much and revived business consider
ably. Crop prospects are as encour-
aging as could be desired at pres
ent.
Newly discovered records show in
disputable that George Washington
at Mount Vernon was also present.
ed by the grand jury of Fairfax coun-
ty for not keeping his roads in order.
1t may yet be shown that the hatch
ct story was an ingenious fabrica-
ton.
Rev. Sam Jones says: "God pity
the man who will ride in $500 car
riage and see his poor creditors walk.
My God if you have got any such
men in the church disgorge them.
We want men to pay their debts.
Next TO the meanest man in the
world is the man who won't pay his
debts"
The Albany News says Georgia
cannot reasonably expect to prosper,
so long as the balance of trade is
against her. Where is the grain in
raising thirty-million-dollar cotton
crop, if more than that sum goes out
OF the State, yearly, to pay for sup
plies of the various sorts? The State
that buys more than it sells swill be
poor and in debt, so long as that
state of affairs exists"
John TrammelI and Frank Will
liams, white men, have been arrested
in Pulaski county, Ga, for murder
ing an old, paralyzed man named
William Johnson, who lived alone.
| Johnson had tract of land that
Trammell wanted, and Trammell
made out deed to the land and got
Johnson to sign, under the pretense
that it was road commission. Then
he desired to get rid of Johnson and
got Williams to assist him inmurder-
ing him.
W. G. Shearer, ofChauncey, has in
vented an Improvement on locomo-
tives. Mr.. Shearer's invention places
the cylinder under the boiler of
when the front axle runs through,
with the piston head on the axle.
by this method, which dispenses of
all the other machinery, it is claimed
that locomotive will make any re-.
CURED speed to eighty miles an hour,
and possesses sufficient power to pull
a considerable freight train at less
speed. The inventor alike claims
that the cost of manufacturing will
be reduced by his improvement at
least $1,000.
Hon. l.. r. Ray has returned from
Milledgeville, where he has been with
a special joint committee from the
Senate and the House to investigate
the management of the Lunatic asy-
lum. He reports that the commit
tee was engaged four days in the
work, and made thorough exami-
nation into all the departments of
that institution. He says that our
asylum cannot be excelled by any
thing of the kind in the South. We
have in DIR. Powell the best Superin-
tendent in America, who is aided in
his work by an able corps ofassistant
physicians. The committee visited
all the wards of the institutions, even
the patients il their rooms and at
their meals. The rooms are clean
and comfortable the food is well