The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-03-02
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
A DAWSON WOMEN HEIRS $4,000.
Money in Sweet Potatoes. Milledge-
vile Oil Works in the Hands Of a
Receiver.
The Quitman Sun has suspended

The Quitman Sun has suspended
publication.
JOHN JOLLY, aged IS, of Charleston,
DeKalb county, Ca, after reading
about the Atlanta suicides, picked
up his gun, went out in the woods
and shot his head off.
Lewis Redwine, the defaulting
bank cashier of Atlanta, holds stock
in the Eagle and Phenix factory at
Columbus to the amount of about
$4,000.
Mary Brown, nagro woman, was
shot in the head and instantly killed
by Henry Simmons, another negro,
at dance beyond the exposition
grounds, at Atlanta Thursday night.
There ought to be money in sweet
potatoes. Mr.. Wiseman, of Airing.
ton, shipped 300 bushels to Cincin-
natl last week, for which he received
s1.25 per bushel.
J. M. MORT OF Sumter county
killed Il year-old calf few days
since which Melted him S21.91 be
sides the hide and tallow and fine
quarter weighing eighty-one pounds
reserved for family use.
Mrs. Mary Field, of Dawson, a
hard>working, respectable woman
has fallen heir of s12, 900 in cash and
LOO acres of fue prairie land in
Arkansas by the recent death of her
father, who moved to that State
years ago.
Harmon Rowly, the richest man
in Richmond county, died Thursday.
The bulk of his property goes to his
son, George R. Lombard, of Angus
ia. The property is estimated at
nearly, if not quite one million dol
lars. He was Sc years old.
The store of w. E. Ragland of
Talbotton has been closed up by the
sheriff with mortgage execution
for 1000 in favor of the Peoples
Bank of Talbotton. His entire stock
of groceries and furniture has been
levied upon.
John Gill, near Woodbury., who
was accidentally shot while walk
ing over his fields gun liz hand, died
on Sunday last. The shot entered
his side and ranged upward to the
right shoulder, making a CHASTITY
wound.
S JAMES c. WHITAKER has been
appointed by Judge Jenkins receiver
of the Milledgeville Oil and Fertili-
ger Company, on the petition of the
creditors. The plant cost about
$4,000, and only about $4,000 or
$4,000 of the stock subscribed was
paid.
The Monroe Journal, published at
Forsyth, went TO press for the last
time last week, leaving the field to
the old reliable Advertiser. The
editor of the late Journal stated in
his valedictory that he began the
publication under the impression
that the people of Forsyth and Mon
roe county wanted another paper,
but he discovered that they did not
want it bad enough to pay for it.
President Thomas, of the Nash
vile Chattanooga and st. Louis rail-
road, has notified the authorities in
Atlanta that after March l the
Western and Atlantic will cease to
afford room on its side track in the
city for the cars of their lines. The
Western and Atlantic has very SUI
perior advantage in this respect over
its competitors, nearly all such tacil-
/. tiles in the middle Of town where
the tracks run to the back doors CT
the merchants being in its hands.
The tracks are located ON the old
Mitchell property donated to the
State for the use of the States rails
road.