People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-07-10
HAPPENINGS AS TOLD BY
DAILY PAPERS.
A VARIETY OF SHORT ITEMS
{. Georgia Incidents and Events Of
the Past Week-The News
From all Sections.

A@bAoaO SA0 hunlp Alh 40 SOtHS oA
steadily.
LeConte pears have been shipped
from Quitman in great quantities this
week.
The Georgia Baptist convention
meets at Gainesville on Tuesday be-
fore the 4th Sunday in July.
Dahlonega wants the state of
Georgia to build railroad to that
city by the work of the states con-
victs.
W. G. Campbell, while blowing
corn on his farm near Monticello,
was shot AMI killed by some one in
ambush.
The syndicate which has bought
the Marietta and North Georgia rail-
road contemplates extending it into
Atlanta.
Mr.. G. W. Hood, Jackson county,
has given $4,000 10 the endowment
fund of Mercer University, 81, 900 of
Which is spot cash.
The board of trustees of the Uni
versi'y Of Georgia have decided that
they have no authority to admit
women to that institution, and even
il they had, there is no room for them
at present.
The Waste Factory, under the
management of the Marietta Paper
Manufacturing Company, started
operations last Friday, turning out
batting.
There is some talk of an immense
saw mill plant being located soon at
Montezuma by northern capitalists
who are busy Buying up the timber
lands on the river.
At the consolidation of the prohi-
bition election Friday it was declared
that Dodge county went dry by eight
votes. There is soma talk of con.
test. Only 922 votes were cast in
the county.
The Tennessee, Georgia and At
lantic railroad, which has suoh a
strong financial backing as to assure
its being built, will run through
Wilkes county, as the line will ex-
tend from Athens to Augusta.
Chief of Police Connally. of At.
lanta, has decided to introduce the
bicycle in the police department., and
will ask for an appropriation for this
purpose at the next meeting Of the
police board.
A barn and stable belonging to
Colonel ]. o. Waddell, five miles
from Rockmart, was burned Monday
night together with six mules, 400
bushels Of corn and 1000 pounds of
fodder, The fire is believed to be of
incendiary origin.
The First Baptist church of this
oity has selected DIR. William Ian
drum Of Richmond to ELL the pulpit
made vacant by the resignation of
Dr. Hawthorne. The call was prof
fered him by the unanimous vote Of
the church, and his formal accept
ance was received by telegraph.
General Alexander R. Lawton, Of
Savannah, died at Clifton Springs,
N. Y, July 1st at the age of seventy
eight. He was one of the ten found
ers Of the American Bar Association
and had a leading part in the forma,
ton of the Georgia Bar Association
The last grand jury of Clarke
county appropriated several hundred
dollars to be used in erecting school
houses in the different country dis.
triets. The communities in which
the new school houses are erected are
to bear one.half of the expense.
Walter #. johnson, well-known
citizen of Macon, has invented a
plumbers wrench which will doubt
less bring him fortune. A large
Northern concern has taken the man
ufacture of the wrench and offers Mr..
johnson position at a good salary,
and pay him a royalty on the sales OF
the wrenches.
The Ohio Colonization association
has already commenced work on its
6,000-acre tract in Worth county.
This company will not only devote
some attention to fruit raising and
truck farming, but will establish