The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-12-03
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

PlaCc' REPORTER.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Two of the county officials of
Newton died during the week Just
closed.
Ten or fifteen families from about
Adairsyille have recently immigrated
to Texas.
The prohibition law does not go
into effect in Atlanta until next Ju-
ly-the time at which the liquor law
expires.
John I. Davis, a white man, is in
the Jail at Columbus awaiting the ar
rival of the sheriff of Fayette county,
Texas. He has a mania for other peo-
pies horses.
Thomas Leslie, a one-armed man,
living on Lookout Mountain, in Chat
tooga county, left home last week to
collect some money. Sunday his
corpse was found about five miles
from Alpine.
A retail grocer of GAINESVILLE offers
to allow any OF his customers to eat
anything they want from his stock
for week Is cents day. One
young man who tried it has paid So
doctors bill, so far.
At Rome on the Doth inst, Sells
circus and a large crowd were on
hand. Julius Simms, of Cherokee
county, Ala, and his two sons, Mari
on and John, filled up on whisky,
and Marion cut his father and broth
er badly.
At Rockmart, on the 25th inst,
Sells circus brought large crowd,
and the York boys, full of whisky,
got into another fight with the town
authorities and resisted arrest. They
knocked down policeman Booz, dan
gerously cut Marshal Bullock's throat,
and policeman Hulsey was shot and
killed by Tom Campbell, a friend of
the York outlaws.
At High School in Tattnall coun-
ty, a few weeks ago, a boy named
Reddish made a remark rejecting
upon the parentage of another boy
named Joe Smiley. Smiley at once
plunged his knife in the breast of
Reddish, the blade passing through
the left lung. Reddish died a few
days ago. Smiley has not been ar
rested.
The Atlanta Brewery Company,
chartered in 1876, claims have to a
perpetual charter to make and sell
beer. This, they say, carries with it
the right to sell it even by the glass,
although those to whom they sell it
by the keg cannot sell it. When the
prohibition law goes into effect, and
the company is arraigned for violat-
ing it, the question will be settled ju-
dicially.
Hear what the grand Jury of Clark
county says eve refer with much
pride to the decrease of crime in our
county, decrease of at least sol
per cent-and we are happy to state
to the citizens of this county, that
not one case has come before us where
whisky was found to be the cause Of
the trouble We, as grand jurors,
desire to express our qualification at
the happy results already apparent Of |
our prohibition law, which went into |
force last July in our county.
The Rome Bulletin contains the |
following: 81 want a good wife. lam
a farmer or anything else she wants. |
Any sort of a complexion will do. !
No difference how high or low she is
so she will be true to my five little |
ones. | have just returned from Ar
kansas, where my wife died on the LIST |
day OF August, 1884. | prefer a
light Completed woman, and she
MUsT have straight hair. | have got |
my own corn and IS to 100 bushels
Of sweet potatoes. | have been want
ing to get a good woman, and | will
respect one when | find her. This
offer will be open for ten days. Adj
dress, S. w. Goddard, Rome, Ga"
And says The above notice was Civ
en- to US by Goddard in person yester-
day, and though it is somewhat uni
que in form and expressed in style |
peculiarly his own, he evidently
means business. His pedigree is on
file at this office.
There is a certain young lady in
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