The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-03-16
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
Mr., BOAz'S FAILURE IN CALHOUN,
Several Failures in Atlanta Real Els.
tate Enhances In Value in Fulton
County. Other News Items.

A receiver has been asked for
James A. Anderson's clothing store
bin Atlanta.
4 SHERMAN ARP, colored, was hung
at Centre, Ala, last Friday. He
Esold his body for 8 cents per pound.
A movement is on fooeto hold
convention of the ordinaries of the
state at Atlanta on July II.
Mrs. EDGAR WOOD and three chill.
dren were drowned at the Glen Ford
IN Cedar Greek, near Cave Springs,
Thursday, by the wagon turning
over in the creek while crossing.
The county commissioners OF
Troup county appropriated $500, the
LaGrange city council $3.50 and
citizens of that place gave $500 to
the cyclone sufferers.
WILLIE LEvERETT had his foot
ground to pieces in the cog wheels
of Mcpherson & Young's brick ma.
c@ne, at LAGRANGE, on Tuesday.
The limb was amputated and the
young man died during the day.
j. K. Drummer, of Atlanta, whole
sale grocer, for several years doing
business on Alabama street has fail
ed. Mortgages to the amount of
S27 1853 were fled, in favor of various
creditors. receiver was appointed.
B. q. BoAz, mill man, of Calhoun,
Ga, has made an assignment for the
bepsft Of his creditors. Liabilities
$50, GOO. He owned the Oothcaloga
water mills and was Vice President
of the Calhoun bank. His failure
has demoralized Calhoun.
William Hawkins was arrested on
train near Gainesville, Wednesday
night charged with the assassination
OF Larkin Smith of Lula, on Feb %.
1891. The shot that killed Smith
was fired through a window while
he sat talking to friend. Hawkins
moved to the west after the shooting
and had been home on a visit when
arrested.
Twelve years ago the commission
ers of Fulton county bought 300
acres OH the Peachtree road, about
FIVE miles from the city, and paid
only Sc an acre. Chairman Hunni-
cult, of the board of commissioners,
says he thinks he can now sell the
tract Tor $500 an acre. Only twelve
years ago $4,000 was paid out for an
alms-house, and now the county can
sell the place for $3.50, 900.
Houston county's 10000 acres of
peach trees will bring her more
than twice that acreage of cotton.
With the yellows in the peach or
chards of New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland, it does not take prophet
to foresee the time when Georgia
will be the orchard of the whole
country east of the. Mississippi. Not
only this; the tremendous fruit
packing industry of those states will
as surely find their way here as will
the cotton factories and blast fur>
naces are doing. Georgia is a great
state.
The Atlanta correspondent o, the
Macon Telegraph has discovered the
true cause of the downfall of Lewis
Redwilie. A story published in
that paper says about year ago
Redwlne became madly infatuated
with Mrs. Eugehia Hammond, the
divorced wife of Pullman car man.
She owned house in the suburbs,
which Redwine furnished in very
extravagant manner, and where he
frequently visited her. The woman
is said to be very beautiful, 25 years
old, aud possessing very lavish tastes.
She spent very freely the money
Redwine gave her, The story says
thst the woman has been delirious
SINCE Reewine's arrest, and took d
big dose OF morphine to end her mis-