The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-11-26
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

The Dickson vii, case in Sparta
has been sustained by the jury trying
the case. 1t will be carried to the
Supreme Court.
Drew Guyton, negro, was SEN
fenced at DeKalb court last week to
life Imprisonment for the murder of
John Bell.
Marshal de Grafenried and Capt.
}. +. Owen, of Camilla, while on
bird hunt last week, fred into a
flock of blackbirds, and bagged III
at one shot.
Pecan culture seems to be develop
ing into an important industry in
our state. 1t is claimed that pecan
tree will produce from S25 to $50
worth of nuts in one year
Rev G. Il. Stansbury, of the Perry
Baptist Church, has received call
to Tyler, Texas, at salary of 81, 200
"A year. He has not decided wheth-
er he will accept or not.
The grand jury of Lee county, Ca,
found three true bills against the
sheriff, james Salter, for permitting
prisoners to escape. He was tried on
one of them on Saturday, found gull
ty, and sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary.
Wednesday, James wilkins, of
Americas, bought COW from Dave
Hill, for which he is to pay 200 birds,
ten birds each week until the debt is
paid. Jaybirds, sparrows, or any
thing else will do, as the kind was
not stipulated.
The North Georgia agricultural
college at Dahlonega has been pre-
scented by u generous gentleman in
New York, with two very rich gold
mines near Dahlonega, together with
all the machinery and appurtenances,
The property is worth over S75, 600.
In Jefferson county Superior
Court this week, one fellow who had
stolen three bars of soap got five
years in the penitentiary, while two
were sent there for three years for
stealing a bale of cotton. But the
law means to protect articles in
houses, and hence burglary is made
one of the high ofenses.
Julius Marley, who lives four or
five miles from Ellijay, had his barn
burned Thursday night, with all It's
contents corn, fodder, wagons, and
some cattle and his little son, who
had gone there to sleep, was 50 badly
burned that he died soon after he
was taken from the flames. The orr
gion of the fire is not known.
The iron work is now being put in
the basement and first floor of the
new capitol building at Atlanta
There are So iron columns 20 inches
in diameter, which will support 800
O00 pounds of iron iloor-beams. Af-
ter setting the iron the brick work
will be begun at the first story, The
building will be ready for tie roof in
about one year.
Mr.. George Doster says that with
two mules this year he has made
twcnty-eight bales of cotton and six
hundred bushels Of corn. lie only
had twenty acres in corn, thus max
ing twenty bushels to the acre. Be
sides he has made potatoes, peas,
cane etc, enough to make him live
comfortably at home, which allows
him to smoke the pipe of content amid
the gloom of hard times. --Americus
Republican.
\ burglar entered the dwelling
house Of MIR. I. Cooper, near Stey-
ems Pottery one night last week
add took his keys from his pocket
went to his grocery store, unlocked
his safe and took all the money he
could find in it and the money draw
er, proceeded to the dry goods de
partment and took all the money he
could find there, and relieved him of
some shoes and possibly other goods.
The burglar then returned the keys
to the house after locking all the
doors as they were found, and depart
ed. h2ciRton 1ppeal,
Covington Enterprise: Our old
friend Robert Lane, who lost his
eyesight by premature explosion
several years ago, believed the COM
ing winter was going to be as cold as
'blue-blazes, and in consequence he
spoke to Mrs. Samantha Pickett
about the feasibility of punching
their lives, hearts and bedclothes to-
gether, in order to be better prepared
III case Ola "freeze-out.' The fair
widow said she thought it first rate
idea, and SO on the night of Noyem-
Der II together they rode to the gate
Of a justice Of the peace and had the
matter settled by becoming man and
wife.