The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-30
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

The Piedmont Chautauqua closed
Tuesday.
Mr.. Isaac May, of Atlanta, died
Monday evening.
Griffin is to be lighted by electrici-
ty.
IT is announced that the new
State capitol will be ready for oc-
cupancy in January, 1889.
Major j. J. Cumming, a railroad
contractor, died of delirium tremens
in Atlanta Sunday night.
WHAT do the Georgia cotton
planters who are now paying two
prices for bagging think of Mr..
Blaine's theory that trusts are "pri-
vate affairs" with which no one has
a right to interfere?
Savannah has quarantined against
Blackshear, Ca, as one case offever
has been discovered there-that of
w. j. Valentine, railway mail
agent, running between Wilmington
and Jacksonville, who went there
sick from jacksonville.
George Wallace, colored man of
Macon, is in receipt of vest made
of the skin OF a rattlesnake, sent to
him by some friend in Southwest
Georgia. Those who have seen the
vest say it makes novel and pretty
article of wearing apparel.
DIR. j. d. Herman, of brownsville
has a peculiar case under treatment.
1t is a little negro child whose skin
is peeling off from the waist down
and the disease is gradually extend
ing upward. DR.. Herman says i
resembles leprosy more closely thar
any other disease.
ONE day last week Mrs. A. G.
Mckinney, Of Washington, Ga.
beheld sight that chilled the blood
in her veins and almost sent hel
heart into her mouth. There were
her children playing in the yard
laughing and romping as only chill.
dren can, and right among them q
rattlesnake lay coiled, ready tc
strike the first little fellowthat should
touch it. Mrs. Mckinney, with a
Southern woman's bravery, got a
gun, and taking deliberate aim, fired
and put an end to the monster. 1t
had seven rattles and button.
A YOUNG white man named L
S. Black has escaped from the Ba-
ker county jail in very novel way.
On last Saturday afternoon his
mother asked permission of Sheriff
Galloway to visit her son, which
was readily granted. In about hall
an hour after admittance a person
the sheriff supposed to be the old
lady came out and went on her way
One can imagine Mr.. Galloway's as
constituent when he visited the jail
later in the day and discovered Mrs.
Black in there in the place of her
son. She had worn two suits Of
clothes to the Jail, and gave one Of
them to her boy, and in this dis
guise he made his escape. The
sheriff followed him with a pack Of
hounds, but did not succeed in re-
capturing him.
Last Friday afternoon Hector,
son of John Edmundson, who re-
sides in Murray county, received a
fatal wound by the accidental dis
charge Of a shotgun which resulted
! in his death. Young Edmundson,
! with his father, had gone out to an
old mill in the neighborhood. They
4 went in a buggy. On reaching their
destination they both got out.
Young Edmundson attempted to get
IA shot gun out of the buggy, and in
doing SO, the muzzle being pointed
toward him, the hammer hitched
against something, and in a moment
there was flash and report and
the fatal shot had entered the right
n shoulder Amputation was necessa-
: ry and the arm was taken off at the
/ shoulder. He never rallied, and on
Saturday morning breathed his
last.