The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-11-29

treasurer, according to his own
statement, is short s19,790, 56.
Mr.. E. 8. Wellons, Clerk Of
Houston Superior Court, says that
not single foreclosure OF mortgage
on personally passed through his
hands officially, this season.
+ The man who won't take his town
paper is no friend to his town. We
can do without him, but the time
will come when he will need us, and
We will turn deaf ear to his knock,
and be as deaf as he is stingy and
penurious. -Shellman Progress.
A little two-year-old daughter of
MIR. Thomas Ponder, Of Cedar Shoals
district, was burnt to death one day
last week. The mother was out of
the hs+A-s and the child's clothing
caught while standing near the fire,
and from the effects of the burns
she died in short while.
Hamilton Clark, an old negro liv-
ing near Milledgeville, claims to be
129 years old. He says he remem-
bers hearing his master talk about
Gen. Washington. He is we'll pre-
served and in good health, carrying
himself erectly.
Newman is one of the most pros
porous towns in Georgia. Within a
year, without help from the outside
world, she has built 100000 cot
ton factory, a $4,000 carriage fac
tory, $4,000 wagon factory, and
inaugurated magnificent system Of
public schools. This is splendid
showing for a town less than 1000
inhabitants.
A north Georgia man builds an adj
ditlon to his house every time a
daughter marries, in anticipation,
he says, ofsthe time when she will
bring her husband. and children 70
live with him. If all fathers who
have manageable daughters would
do likewise, old maids would be as
scarce as in6dels are in heaven.
Miss Owen, a young girl about fif-
teen years old, met with horrible
death near Concord, on the Georgia
Midland road Saturday. Miss Owen
was lying on the side of the track,
probably asleep. AS the train APP
preached she was aroused, and ium-
ped upon the track just in front of
the engine. All efforts to stop the
train failed, and the young girl was
run over and killed.
Eli Hatfield, a well-to-do farmer,
living near Borden Spring, fourteen
miles from Couartown, committed
suicide Saturday evening at his
home. Although in very comforta-
bic circumstances, he was frequent
ly sufferer from melancholla, and
during these attacks seemed to give
himself up to the belief that his fam
lily would come to want and It's mem
bers die of starvation. He killed
himself by strangulation.
A terrible crime occurred in Gov
ington early Wednesday morning OF
last week. Two men, who had been
playing cards all night with several
others, were found in their room at
the hotel beaten nearly to death
with wagon standard. One by
the name Of 7. III. Thomas, of
Gainesville, Ga, died shortly after,
and the other, Sampson Cohen, of
Madison, IS likely to die. A young
man named Echols, whose money
they had won, was arrested on sus-
picion.
Mr.. G. B. Bostwick of Griffin, on
Thursday night obtained horse
from one of the stables to ride a
short distance into the country. AT
a late hour that night he rode up to
the stable and dismounting informed
the liYeryman that he had been
shot, and for him to procure a doc
tor and bring to the Goddard House.
Mr.. Bostwick declines to say where
and by whom the shots we're fred.
but enough is known to warrant the
declaration that it will be several
days yyas before the doctor gets all
the shot picked out of Bostwick's
face. The wounds are painful and
may result in the loss Of an eye but
lnone are thought TO he sarioua