The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-07-09
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.

has resulted in forty con-
versions.
The old fourth Georgia regiment
will hold reunion in Milledgeville |
on the 18th of August.
A lady 80 years old recently joined |
the church at Union Point, on a pro-
fession of faith, during revival at
that place.
The Milton Democrat says Mr..
John Webb had his arm broken and
lacerated by being caught in machin-
cry of his separator.
G. L. Lindsay, colored who was adj
mitted to practice law at the La
Grange bar about three years ago,
now languishes in Jail for forgery at
LaGrange.
Patrolman George Wright was Sc
rio0stYknifed by negro man in At
lanta at night, and the negro was
shot five times. The negro was a
burglar and fleeing from pursuit.
Gen. Grants physicians do not
conceal from him that he is very
weak and that physical exhaustion
may be an early solution of his suffer
ings.
Fred Wolfe & Co., OF New York,
who bought the new issue of Georgia
bonds, have sold the first hundred
thousand dollars and cleared $4,000.
They claim that they will make $780,
600 on the entire issue.
To day the Atlanta police force is
reduced to fifty men. Formerly it
consisted of sixty men, but the Coun-
Gil only appropriated $4,000 for ex-
penses the coming year and this
amount only pays fifty men.
Miss Georgia Gordon Williams, a
handsome Texas belle, on a visit to
Augusta, Ga, was married to
Mr.. X. |. Beesmar, in Augusta, on
Thursday night last, and came on to
Atlanta and stopped at the Kimball
House.
A gentleman said on yesterday: 81
notice some one says that prohibition
does not prohibit in Georgia. |
know that the business of one whole
sale liquor house has fallen of nine
tenths in three counties in Georgia
since those counties went dry. In
Elberton this house sold 81 600 a
year, and now sells less than 800 a
month. "-AHanta Constitution.
Athens and the people along the
proposed line of the Georgia Midland
Railroad, seem to be in earnest about
the matter. Large and enthusiastic
meetings are being held at different
points and it would seem that the
proposed road is an assured fact.
The most popular route spoken of is
Athens via of Social Circle, or Madi-
son, to Griffin and from there to Col
umbus.
A sad case of betrayal and deser-
ton was disclosed in Atlanta Thurs
day night last. The Air Line train
brought to Atlant a young girl named
Alice LIE Grand. She had been 60
ing to school at Newberry, S. C.
Hamilton Franklin, of the Newber-
ry police, succeeded in betraying her
under promise of marriage and cruel
ly abandoned her to her fate. She
ran away to avoid exposure. Friend
less and moneyless she reached At
lenta and kind hearted man who
found her crying on the train pusuad-
ed her to go back to her parents, a
respectable family in South Coroli-
ma.
Ben Hills grave, in Oakland ceme-
terry, Atlanta, is marked by plain
white marble shaft on which appears
the inscription which, when too fee
bic to speak, he wrote: eff "a grain of
corn will die and then rise again in
so much beauty, why may not | die,
and then rise again in infinite beau
ty and life How is the last great
er mystery than the first? And by as
much as | exceed the grain of corn
in this life why may | not exceed it
in the new life ? How can we limit
the power Of Him who made the
grain OF corn and then made the same
arise in such wonderful newness of
life ?"
Judge George Lester appeared
FRIDAY before the Governor and At
torney-General in a case of considera-
Bile Importance. A gentleman in
North Georgia claims that a number
of years ago he owned and had in his
possession sixteen one thousand-dol-
lar Georgia bonds 10000, issued
under Gov. McDonald's administra-
ton. These bonds were either lost
or destroyed and they have never been
heard from since, 1t appears upon
the records of the treasury depart
ment that these bonds, of which the
gentleman has substantial copies,
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