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■Qailg giujmMr.% JAHH H. IARTIX, • - • Editor. i'OLI MHIH. UA.iTHURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1875.THE LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION 1And more than twice tho largestAGGREGATE CIRCULATION IAdverlltlng Rate* a« Low m Any.OEOmGKA RRWI AMD VIEWS.—The United Staton District Court (or the Northern Dintrict of Georgia convenes In Atlanta next Monday.—The day train of the Georgia Railroad moves along at a rapid rate. Only eight home between Augunta and Atlanta.—The Milledgeville Union *t Recorder learns that John Hruce, colored barber, was killed in Sparta Ga., on Monday. We hare not learned the particulars.—Governor South han pardoned the young negro, Harris, oonvicted of homicide in Augunta tome time ago, and son-tenoed to a term in the penitentiary.—At an election held in Macon, Ga., on Mondny night, for officers of the Second Georgia Battalion, George H. Jonon was elected Liontenant Colonel, and Wm.H. Roes was elected Major.—Mr*. Henderson, residing four milcH west of Wares boro, last week, while suffering with en attack of flln, fell in tho fire and was burned almost to a crinp. At last accounts she wan still alive, but her case is considered extremely critical.—The Gainesville Houihron stnten that Col. Candler ban contracted to build a fine residence this season on Green street in that city for Gon. Longntreet. Thin settles the long agony, for the General has ooncluded to make Gainesville his permanent houic.—Putnam oounty returnn 552 white andI,194 oolored polls, 181,G60 aoren under fenoe, 24,244 original forest, 225,421 acres in all (including wild;, 517 children, 2,848 laborers-. The value of lands is $855,257; town p^perty, $188,820; total value of all property, $1,858,085.Id the Superior Court of Baldwin county, last week, Levin Smith and David Brown, white, and John Amos, colored, wero sentenced to terms in tho pcuitnn-U**7. for various offences. John Ji. Wall, late Sheriff, was tried ou a charge of permitting tho osospo of a prisoner, but was acquitted.—The Fort Valley Mirror tolls this rather improbable story : lu tbe Agricultural Convention at Dalton, Ga., “Mr. Johnson called upon all present who owned sheep and no Jogs to rise, and thirteou rose up; and called upon all who owned dogs and no sheep to rise, and sixty or seventy responded.”—John Campbell aud John Joues, of Rome, fell into jail on Mouday, for trying on Saturday to throw an old rnau named Thoa. Heeao into a dry well—they * ’ inatino thought itwas so rough a joke as to require a bond of $100 from Joues and $50 from Campbell, and not being able to givo bail, they went to jsil.—The negro preacher Youngblood, who was suspected of tho uiurdor of the oolored woman Clara, on Mr. Miller s plantation in Burke oounty, was arrested, but the proof against him being insufficient, he was discharged, llo then loft the oounty, and it was Raid that stronger proof against him lus since been discovered. It is reported that he has Hod to South Carolina.
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Columbus Daily Enquirer
Columbus, Georgia, US
Thu, Sep 02, 1875
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