The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-01-16
BEFORE Henry Grady started to

Boston to make his great speech,
Charlie johnson, on the Atlanta
Constitution force, begged Grady
not to go. Grady asked him why
"Well, had a dream last night. l
dreamed while you were in Boston
speaking, somebody in the audience
shot you with noiseless pistol and
killed you" Mr.. Grady met Con.
gresham Kilgore, Of Texas, in Bos-
ton and told him of the dream, and
some how or other he said, that
dream kept occurring to him.
Oils Glass, son of Judge Jas.
Glass. who lives FIVE miles north of
McDonough, accidentally killed a
negro named joe Glenn one day
last week. Young Glass was exhi-
biting pistol to the darkey with the
view of making trade, when the
pistol went of, killing the darkey
almost instantly.
The Etowah Iron Company, COM
posed Of Philadelphia capitalists,
who, a short time since, bought the
celebrated Mark A. Cooper's iron
property, near Gainesville, Thurs
day closed trade for the Dobbins
property, by which all the available
manganese ores in that section pass
es under their control.
We do not remember ever to have
seen more propitious fall and win
ter for preparation for the crop of
the new year. May the auspicious
beginning continue through the
year. If it should, and the farmers
should pitch their crops with refer
ence to their necessities, and tend
them faithfully, they will be more
prosperous when the year ends.
Lucius, the 18-year-old son of
Rev. Robert Clifton, resident of
Brooks county, while intoxicated,
fell against log Saturday night
and fractured his skull. His condi-
ton becoming critical, DR.. S. S.
Gauden was called in and operated
on his Uranium, leaving him in a
fair way to recovery.
Mr.. J. B. Webb, proprietor of the
Monticello dairy farm, made last
year over 1900 pounds of butter
from a small herd of Jerseys ar
average of 81 COWS per day for
twelve months. The average yield
from these COWS for the year was
over $50 pounds, and over balf of
the time his herd was heifers with
first calves.
The Okefenokee swamp business
isgetting into a pretty middle. No
body seems to know what it is to be
sold, and there is grave doubt
whether the state has right to sell
any of this property, because an act
donating it to the Confederate or
phans fund has never been repeal
ed.
Saturday morning about l o'clock
Leonard Terry, car coupler on
the Richmond and Danville road,
attempted to make coupling at the
Belt junction at Atlanta. His foot
slipped and he fell, the wheels of
the car passing over his right leg at
the ankle, crushing it in horrible
manner.
W. H. Harris and MissP. S. Kellie
of Fort Valley, under fictitious
names, went before Rev. B. L. Ross,
at night, after attending mask ball,
and were married, having a forged
marriage certificate. 1t was intend
ed as a joke, but turns out that the
law will have to undo the marriage,
as it is considered legally binding.
JEFF Canamore, a boy, shot and
killed his step-father, Andy Cana
more, at Bremen, Ca, on the 18th,
because he was corrected by his
father for carrying a pistol. The
boy ran and shot at his pursuers,
but was captured and placed in Jail,
The widowed mother has several
children and is almost heart broken.