The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-11-19
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.


been captured by the marshal Of Car
tersville during the last week.
Hancock county went for prohibi-
ton last Thursday by a majority Of
81, and Harris county went against
prohibition.
Mr.. Ed. Howell in the last two
months has killed and brought into
GAINESVILLE 300 squirrels, which he
sold at ten cents apiece.
viii r. Jackson, the defaulting
clerk Of the Americas post office, has
been captured at Los Angeles, Cal,
and will be brought back to Georgia.
Two hundred negroes passed
through Atlanta Wednesday night
week en- route from North Carolina
TO the west.
w. A. Hall was arrested in Car
tersville, charged with rifing regis
tered packages at Stamp Creek post
office, Barlow county.
Judge Stewart has announced that
he will resign the Superior Court
Judgeship about the LIST of January.
and then become a candidate for Con-
gress in the Atlanta or Fifth District.
There are now fifty Northern visi-
tors and capitalists in Greensboro,
looking around with view of buying
land, and locating in that county.
They are receiving a royal welcome
at the hands of the citizens.
Mr.. Sam W. Small publishes il
the Atlanta papers notice to hi.
creditors to send in their accounts
and says that he will pay them all
as speedily as possible. A religion
that makes man pay his debts is the
right kind.
Mr.. A. II. Montgomery, of Glass
cock county, shot at thief who stole
corn from his crib. The thief drop
ped his bag of corn and fed in the
darkness. Next day a negro named
Artaway Givans died from a wound
received the night before. His wife
confessed that he was the thief.
The battle ground of Missionary
Ridge has been converted into a
strawberry garden. Yankee colonist
have climbed with hoes and rakes
where Yankee soldiers tried to rush
with bayonets, Land that went beg
ging few years ago at 81 per acre,
now commands, it is said, $3.50, and
natives who starved on five hundred
acres are now crowded out by New
Englanders who grow rich on ten.
A little boy in Warrenton visited
his aunt in the country, not long
since. One day at the dinner table
the lady complained that jar of
fayOrite preserves had mysteriously
disappeared from the pantry. Each
one pres sent disclaimed any knowl-
edge of the fact, except the little boy,
who remained studiously silent. At
last he was asked if he knew what
had become ofthe missing fruit, when
he replied "My pa don't allow me
to talk at the table"
The sensation of the week has been
the farewell sermon of Bro. Bran
lette, pastor Of the NJ. +. chucrh, last
Sunday night. Taking the poetic Ii
cense of modern evangelism, he bis
tered the town with birthstone, and
oauterzed it with hell fire, and then
besmattered the local clergy with the
sparks. He is quoted as saying that
he didn't know where he would be
sent another year and didn't care,
but that he would rather be sent to
any other place this side of hell,
than back to Dalton. -Dalton Argus.
CIR UP CLUBs,-The Marietta journal
will be sent in clubs Of TEN for one dollar
each cash in advance As an inducemen'
we will give an extra copy of the paper to tn,
person getting up the club Single copie.
Of the paper positively not less than 81 80
This places your county paper within tn,
reach Of all, and there can be no excuse to
not taxing il,