The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-04-30
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

The Georgia State Sunday school
convention meets in Rome on 22d
of July.
Gov. Mcdaniel and Gov. Brown
are attending the Georgia Baptist
Convention at Newman.
Thirty-seven thousand dollars have
been subscribed to the Rome and
Carrollton railroad.
Mr.. J. L. Hight of Dallas, is the
largest land owner, propably, in Geor-
gia. He owns over two hundred and
seventy-fve thousand acres.
DIR. Mark Johnston, of Milledgeville,
has been appointed Deputy Revenue
Collector of this division, in the place
of Mr.. Richard Nelson, of Gordon.
The peach trees are full of small
fruit in south Georgia, and the pros
pect for heavy crop is indeed en-
cOuraging.
Farmers, you still have time to put
in some more corn. In sixty days
from this date you will regret not
having done so.
Jesup refuses to let any trains ex-
cept regular passenger trains go in
or out Of her corporate limits on the
Sabbath day.
Mr.. Ross Crane, of Athens has a
half Jersey heifer that has never had
calf, and yet she gives gallon and
half of milk every day.
While out hunting, in Gilmer
county, John Waters mistook the
yelp of Frank Smith for wild turk
ey and shot Smith in the leg.
Major VIM. d. Luckie, of Atlanta,
died Thursday night, after two years
of declining health. Major Luckie
was an eminent and accomplished gen.
tleman, and Atlanta loses one Of her
best citizens by his death.
A rumor was current in Gaines
vile that the proprietors of the
Markham House in Atlanta, were
making an effort to secure a lease
on New Holland Springs, to run
the two in connection the coming
season.
The Atlanta Constitution is unable
to account for the "perplexing social
problem of the reluctance of young
men to marry" Probably it is be-
cause they think it is fashionable to
initiate the exampleSet by President
Cleveland.
Rome had an enthusiastic meeting
which met to organize two railroad
companies. The proposed railroads
are the Rome, Chattanooga and the
Rome and Carrollton. Boards of d.
rectors were elected, and large
amount of local subscription was rails
ed.
Mr.. Tyler Mobley was firing a
Colts navy revolver at swarm OF
bees, near Rockmart, trying to hive
them the pistol chung fire, > and sup
posing the cap had failed to explode,
Mr.. Mobley, who is rather deaf, ham
died the weapon carehssly, when the
load was discharged, the ball enter
ing negro cabin about eighty yards
away, burying itselfin the cheek of
Rena Donkle, colored girl about
eleven years ofage.
The new 'Piney Woods" Hotel,
the yankee Paradise" in Thomas
vile, is three stories high and will
accommodate $50 guests. The price
is 81 per day. The house is leased
by Mrs. NJ. A. Bower, who has for a
! manager Mr.. f. A. Gillett, of Col
onade Hotel, Philadelphia, and at
present proprietor of the Grand Ho-
tel, Catskill. The house is full to
overlooking and for weeks they have
had to telegraph to inquiring friends
in Florida mo room"
A little white boy, Jimmey Garvey,
ID years old, while getting some wa
ter at a pump on Forsyth street in
Atlanta, was ordered away byanegro
man named William Perry. The boy
refused to go and the negro pushed
him to the ground. The little boy
got up and struck the negro man
with stick, who in turn stabbed the
little boy to the hollow with knife.
The negro was arrested, but the citi-
zens were so indignant that the po-
lice had to hurry him off to the Jail
to keep them from lynching him.