The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-02-14
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
MURDERER, JOE DEAN, TO HANG,
A Little Girl Killed in Cherokee COun.
,ty by an Accident. Other News
of General Interest.

The Argentine Republic has ap.
propriated s25, 900 for it's exhibit al
the Atlanta Exposition.
JACOB HAAS residence, 81 Wash
ington street, Atlanta, was burned
Thursday night. The house cost
10000, and with its contents was
valued at S45, 900.
JOE DEAN, the negro murderer Of
Mr.. A. B. Leigh, was taken to Fair
burn, Ga, where he plead guilty,
was sentenced to hang March 1st,
and was returned to Atlanta Tor
safe keeping.
S. &. Treadwell, DIR. Sam Brown,
Frank Kilgore, Syl :.Kilgore, J. F.
Order, Robert Weaver and Alfred
Whitner, all of Murray county,
have been acquitted of conspiracy
in the United States court in Allan.
ia.
The mica property in Clayton dis
trict, in Cherokee county, owned by
D. G. Palmer and others of Ohio,
is likely to be operated this spring
by the owners.
Z. l.. McCombe & Co., one of the
largest dry goods houses Of Milledge-
vile, was closed Saturday on mort
gage foreclosure, by the Milledge
Vile Banking Company for $4,000
Assets, SIS, 900; liabilities, 100000
Will A. Smith, young lawyer,
lately OF Rome, who moved to Fer,
Worth last fall, has become tired o.
law, and going to Fort Mcintosh or
the Rio Grande, has enlisted fol
three years in the United States
army. He was the son of Halstea(
smith, city attorney.
Several farmers Of Washington
county have moved to Bulloch, anC
other counties of the wlregrass sec
ton, where they will engage in tn,
cultivation of long staple cotton
1t brings a better price than tn,
short staple, but the yield per acr,
is not so great.
Last week the little 6-year-olc
child of Wash Elrod, who lives OF
James Lajn's farm near Cherokee,
Mills, in Cherokee county, was play
ing about a wagon loaded with Woo
and in some way started the Wagon
rolling down a slight incline when
the child was caught up between one
of the wheels and a tree and its
breast and'body badly mashed and
broken, producing death.
A queer looking covered wagon
drawn by pair of horses, and con.
tanning two men and camping out,
fit, passed through Dawson Wed
nesday. The occupants of the We
hicle were a Mr.. Quillian and son
of Fort Kearny ,Neb., and the err
tire trip of nearly 1000 miles had
thus been made. The two spent
the winter il Florida, and are now
going back to their bleak home in
the west. Mr.. Quil.ian says his sec,
ton of the state did not suffar from
drought as did other sections. They
expect to reacn Fort Kearney in
April or May.
Arlington Courier: Sometime
ago T. A. Mathis OF Calhoun county
discovered that pen OF his fatten.
ing hogs had become infested witt
lice, and hearing that kerosene wa;
a good thing to remove them, took q
bucket and mop and his son a torch
and went to the pen which contain,
Ell fifteen or twenty porkers. Abou
time he got them well saturated thu
torch was dropped and the hogs be-
came ignited. Mr.. Mathis fnall,
made his escape and the squealiny
porkers broke down the fence ant
soon there was a streak of squeal
ing Ere from the pen to branch, {
hundred yards away. The vermil
were exterminated and the mail
damage was the loss of pig tails.