The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-12-21
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
A CONSTABLE FOR FIEIY-ONE YEARS.
A Negro Boy and Coon Fight. Re-
sulting in the Death Of the Negro.
Other State News.
DR.. A. nj. Patterson is the latest
death in Macon CT the grip.

Or. A. M. Patterson is the latest
death in Macon CT tie grip.
Henry Horne Wagnon, of Macon,
will be wheeled about in the $50
baby carriage offered by Mayor. elect
Horne tc the first boy born after his
election.
The municipal election at Dalton
Wednesday resulted in the election
Of Hon. P. Maddox for mayor by
majority OF 1876. W. III. Pruden,
]. G. Riley and W. F. Summerour
were elected aldermen.
On Sunday night the vestibule
No. so killed three fine standard
colts belonging to Mrs. M. A. Tug
gle, of LaGrange. The colts es-
capped from the pasture in some way
and wandered on the railroad.
Safe blowers were in Lawrence
vile last Friday night. They raid
ed M. E. Ewing's safe about three
o'clock Saturday morning, blew it
open and ran off with all the money
they could get their hands on, about
thirty dollars.
Dawson has an old negro wood
chopper who claims to be 100 years
old. He says that he remembers
George Washington and the revolu-
tionary war. He says that George
Washington was ga big strapping
young yaller Teller, and that he now
lives in Augusta.
A. N. Vandiver, of Nacoochee
district, White county, was elected
constable in January, 1843, and has
been constable every year, since he
was first elected. Next January
will complete tie ftty-frst year of
his service. The state should retire
Uncle Alex on a pension.-CIeve>
land Progress.
A colored man by the name OF
Cody Bryant, who lives in Jasper
county, was in Covington the other
day settling up his accounts. He is
perhaps the largest and most pros
porous colored farmer in the state.
He has made 125 bales of cotton
this year and large amount Of pro-
duce.
Rev. Sam P. Jones has been lo>
Gated by the North Georgia confer
ence at his own request. The
Methodist church has no law for the
appointment of evangelists and he
feels called to that special work. He
says the bishops decided to side>
track him but the switch was open
at the other end and he ran out on
the mainline and is still running at
the rate Of mile minute.
1t is now stated that the liabilities
of the Alliance warehouse company
may run to $4,000, and that little
will be saved to the farmers unless
their cotton was in the warehouse
when the affair came to culmina-
ton. The effect Of Is failure will
hit the Alliance AM Third party
hard. The gentleman in charge of
the warehouse company's affairs. are
still probing the Investigation of the
matter.-Athens Banner.
Flavius Wilder, a colored boy,
came to his death, near Iamania,
last Saturday in a rather peculiar
manner. He was out coon hunting,
and the dogs having freed one OF
the animals, Flavius went up into
the tree to get him. But MIR. Coon
objected to- the intrusion, and re-
sented it by Inserting his teeth into
the flesh of his would.be captor.
This brought about a tree-for-all
fight, as the result CT which Flavius
lost his hold and fell to the ground
some distance below, sustaining in.
juries from which he died soon af.
ter. The coon was still at large at