The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-05-27
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.


Oconee county went for prohibi-
ton last Thursday by ~ majority.
Work on the new opera house in
Dalton will be begun on the first of
June.
Rev. DIR. J. Z. Evans, presiding
elder of the Augusta circuit, died at
Thomson, Ca, Tuesday night of last
week.
Several bee trees having been
found near Billiards. mill, Thomas
county, Hiram Ballard has cut two Of
the trees. There was 1 feet Of honey
in one and T. feet in the other.
Frank Shepard, a colored mer-
chant in Atlanta, was found dead
with bullet hole in his head one
morning last week. No clue as to
the murderer.
Judge Daniel Pittman, Of Atlanta,
last Sunday noon, while standing
talking to Capt. Albert Cox and J.
b. Goodwin, fell dead on the side
walk, caused by the rupture of a
blood vessel in his head.
The State Democratic Executive
Committee have called State Con-
yentlon to meet in Atlanta the 2Sth
OF July to nominate Il candidate for
Governor, and candidates for attor-
ney general, comptroller, treasurer,
and secretary Of State.
DR.. IL. II. Carlton, of Athens is
announced as candidate for Con
gress from the Eighth district, in op-
position to Seab Reese. lie will is
sue a letter in Sundays Athens Ban
ner.
When Gen. Gordon became the
attorney of railroad he quit politics.
Did not Major Bacon once draw a
very large attorneys fee, while a
member of the legislature, while the
same question which he was employ
ed to defend, came before that same
legislature for adjudication Ii 50,
no one could have blamed him for
reslgning then. Dalton Argus.
The Elberton Gazette says "Ten
years ago lands were worth from two
to three dollars per acre in the upper
part Of Ebert county, but since the
Railroad has been built through
that section none of it can be bought
for less than ten dollars, and on sale
day last tract of land in that sec
ton sold for $3.50 per acre. This
shows what railroads will do
In June last tramp named vii.
liam knight went to Columbus and
stopped at private boarding house
lie staid there a month, and left with
out paying his board bill, and the
surprise of the proprietor may be i'm.
aglned when he found at the express
office tor him day or two ago Sl8 il
full payment.of Knights board. The
money had been sent from Fall Riy
cr, Mass.
Lee Reedy, IA young man about q
years old, was drowned in the Etc
wah river at Rome. lie was in
boat near the pontoon bridge, and
becoming alarmed at the swiftness o
the current, he hoped from the boat
intending to jump on the pontoon
lie missed the bridge and plunged
into the river. There were mum
Der of people on either bank, bu
they were powerless to save him.
The Columbus Ga, enquirer say.
that upon 1900 looms in operation il
that city there is daily produced rs,
GOO yards of cloth. Columbus SPIN
daily upon her 10000 cotton spindleI
about $4,000 pounds of yarn. Nearl,
5000 people derive their supper
from this one industry. The month
ly pay rolls for labor alone will prob
ably reach $4,000, or about $500, 00C
a year. For the stock and other ex
penses to run these cotton mills Their,
Is an annual expenditure of nearl,
two million dollars additional. The
business prosperity the Enquirer re-
CARDS as frightening, This $4,000
pounds of yarn daily represents ;
consumption of some seventy-fve av
erage bales Of cotton per day, or in