The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-28
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

22nd Of July.
There is imam in Cartecay, Gilmer
county, that claims to have hauled
rails that Abraham Lincoln split.
There are p young men in the
senior class Of the University at Ath
ems, and IS in the law department.
Col. J. J. Jones, of Waynesboro,
had an old turkey hen which was set
on IL eggs and Matched Is turkeys.
There is a gentleman in Athens
who has made about $4,000 clear out
of the building and loan associations.
Mr.. T. J. Dabney, of Atlanta, son
Of Col. W. II. Dabney, of Rome, has
been arrested by a United States
Marshal, accused of fraud.
Pecan trees on st. Simons Island
yield fifteen bushels of nuts each.
They are worth 50 per bushel, or S45
to the tree.
There is disease among the cat
tie of Paulding from which has re-
suited good many deaths. The
opinion is that it is dry murrain.
The Newman Herald states that
there is woman in Coweta county
who is the mother of sixteen chill
dren, twelve of whom are boys.
Cattle in the Panther creek settle
ment, Coweta county, are said to be
dying with some strange disease. 1t
is said to be very fatal.
Troupe county, in mass meeting
nominated Judge w. W. Turner as a
candidate for the Legislature to fill the
unexpired term Oft. C. Crenshaw.
Buck Bolling's store and contents,
at Bolling's Bridge, Hall county, were
burned on Monday night. The stock
and building was worth over $4,000,
and was total loss.
VIM. Orr, colored living on Mr.. E.
I. Kenney's place, three miles west
of Dawson, is the father of seventy
odd children. lie is now an active
energetic negro.
Two old negroes near Lawrence
vile, who were separated by their
masters and had not seen each Fother
for thirty years, renewed marriage
recently.
Sunday night the Tunnel Hill
post-ofiice was entered by burglars,
who robbed it Of all the stamps and
change. No clue has been obtained
as to who the thieves were.
The Stephens Monumental Asso-
citation has designed the 10th of June
as the day for the removal of the re-
mains of Mr.. Stephens Of their last
resting place at Liberty Hall"
r. w. Patterson, of Macon, has
been engaged to contest the will o.
the late David Dickson, of Hancock
county. lie left an estate of $780,.
600 to his colored mistress.
AN Albany darkey named Peter
billiard drank gallon of lager beer
in ten minutes on Saturday last
Another darkey made wager witt
him that he couldn't perform the feat
in fifteen minutes.
Palmetto, town on the West Point
Railroad, below Atlanta, had seri
Gus fire Friday night. Halt a dozer
stores were destroyed, and but for {
rain the whole town would have beer
consumed.
a petition has been forwarded from
GAINESVILLE to President Cleveland
asking the removal Of the republican
postmaster at that place and the APP.
pointment of a competent, worthy
democrat. The petition charges in.
competency, bad management, anC
that he was not citizen of the place
when he was appointed.
The intelligent compositor has been
at work again In recent issue OF
the Dahlonega Signal, the doings OF
the grand jury of Lumpkin county
appeared under the head of "The
Predlcaments of the Great Fury
1t should have been "Presentments
the Grand jury"
Mrs. w. II. Cobb, wife of sheriff
w. II. Cobb who died at Americas
last Saturday, died Monday night Of
pneumonia. She was taken sick a
short time before her husbands death.
and was buried Tuesday buy the fresh
grave Of her husband, who was buried
Sunday. She leaves five children,
the Oldest Of whom is only Is years OF
age.
We learn that Col. I. ]. Bowman,
of Elberton, was robbed of between
5000 and $500 dollars in Atlanta un-
der the car shed on the Goth inst.
He had stepped to the water stand to
get drink when two men stepped
up to him on either side and forcibly
distracted the money from his pocket.
Immediately afterwards he left the
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