The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-07-23
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

been arrested charged with the at
tempt to rob the Air Line pay train.
They say they are innocent.
Atlanta says the barberlshops must
be closed on Sunday. Sixty BARRIERS
petitioned for the passage of the or
dinance.
Judge W. w. Clayton, of Atlanta,
died Monday from blood poisoning,
caused by cutting toe in trimming
his toe nails.
Rev. 7. A. Seals has been made
the recipient of a good and beautiful
buggy, with harness, by the churches
of East Putnam circuit.
The Athens branch of the Georgia
road has separate passenger coaches
for white and colored, and no white
man is allowed to occupy seat in
the colOred mans coach.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, of New
York, will deliver the annual address
at the Georgia Bar Association
meeting at Atlanta, August 4th and
5th.
At Oxford, Thursday after the con-
gregation had assembled for prayer
meeting at the Methodist church,
Prot. Ii. Ii. Stone and Miss Susie
Bonnet were married by Prof. G. w.
Stone, much to the surprise of all
present.
An ex-liquor dealer of Atlanta who
has recently closed out his business,
expresses his belief that the sale
of liquor in that city is doomed, and
he believes if a fair election was now
held, prohibition would carry the
day in Atlanta.
Frank Mcdonald returned to Rome
Tuesday from Atlanta, and denied
the truth of the rumor relating to his
marriage. He says that the whole
affair is a hoax, and he regrets very
much on account of the young lady
that the matter had attained such
widespread circulation.
George w. Cheves, formerly of
the Dawson Journalf who shot and
killed Capt. 7. II. Pickett in Dawson
last November, and who Is now in
Atlanta Jail, has become insane. DR..
Boring says he is really insane. His
pulse is l4O. He will hardly live till
his trial comes off.
Charles Hogg, aged about % years,
registed in Augusta as from Rich
mond, Va, and attempted to. nego-
tate check which is believed to
have been forged. He became alarm
ed at the caution of Augusta Bank
officials and departed from town with
out taking his baggage from the ho-
tel.
&. G. Convey, proprietor of a stem
Gil establishment, and George G.
Soudley, his assistant, were arrested
in Atlanta, charged with counterfeit
ing tickets of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, and
they were placed in Jail to..await trial
in the morning.
Pickens county Georgia has post
office named "Talking Rock" The
origin of the name is thus stated
Some one discovered in this vicinity
large stone upon which was painted
the words Turn me over 1t re-
CURED considerable strength to ac-
complish this, and when it was done
the command, "Now turn me back
and let me fool some one else" was
painted on the other side of the
stone.
At Albany Thursday Oscar John
son and Charley Parham, negroes,
confined in Jail, formerly for forging
railroad wood tickets and laterly
for gambling, quarreled about
search that had been made for a file
said to have been in Johnson's pos
session, when the latter suddenly
drew 1T and plunged it in Parham's
breast about one inch above the
heart, penetrating the lung. Drs.
Mcmillan and Bacon think the
wound will result fatally.
The Hon. James Nj. Smith, of Ogle-
throphe has gotten rich out of the con
victs farming business. A few years
ago he had very old house, without
carpets, on his plantation; now he has
an elegant residence. Brussels car
pets and all the Injuries of life. He
runs $50 plows and has 5000 acres
of land in cultivation-3,000 in cot
ton, 1000 in small gain and the re-
mainder in corn. There is one cot
ton field of 80 acres. Mr.. Smiths
wealth is estimated at 100000, all
made from farming since the war.
At the present time Mr.. Smith has
over one hundred convicts on his
farm and about fifty working on the
railroad, for each ofwhom he receives
81 per diem. On each convict he
makes handsome profit. The men
and women are all chained together
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