The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-05-30
STATE NEWS.
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The Columbus (Ga.:) Enquirer
Sun was sold at auction last week
for $500. 1t was bid in by the
Merchants and Mechanics bank,
which held the mortgage.
A MOVEMENT has been started in
Hart county, Ga, to have farmers
decline to hire hands unless they
can show in writing that they have
fulfilled their previous contracts
or have been honorably released
from the same.
A GRIFFIN boy just II says he
has drank in the last three months
no less than 300 glasses of beer,
besides liquors two or three times a
day. He was led astray by some
older than himself. He has seen
the folly of his course and proposes
to change it.
AT Newman Sunday, a little
child, 4-years old, the son OF Palmer
Harris, a colored drayman, killed
itself by drinking a pint of whisky,
which its parents had on the mantle
piece in their room, 1t secured the
bottle unknown to its father and
swallowed the entire quantity be-
fore it was discovered. A physician
was called but too late to save the
life of the infant.
Col. l. f. Bryan, near Lithonia,
has noticed for several years the
track of a large snake crossing the
road near his home from an old
field. Mr.. Julius Foster and others
found the snake and called Mr..
Bryan and succeeded in killing it.
The snake was more than eleven
feet long, nine inches between the
eyes and eighteen inches in circum-
ference.
THE Georgia Road Congress fin
ished its session in Atlanta last
Thursday. A measure was adopted
looking to change in the road laws
Of Georgia, and the chairman is to
appoint a committee of twelve to
present a memorial to the legisla-
ture requesting such changes as
they think will give better roads.
The overwhelming sentiment was
that convicts should, as far as pos
sible, work the roads where the
labor does not compete with free
labor.
Mr.. Smith Treadwell, of Murray
county, was in Dalton one day last
week and had in his possession a
superb specimen of black marble,
fac smile of the black Italian, OBJ
tanned from a quarry recently dis
covered on lands owned by him in
the county of Floyd. The specimen
appears to be of the very finest
quality, and is susceptible of a
smooth and beautiful polish. Mr..
Treadwell says that the indications
point to vast deposit of this mar
bic, he having traced the vein a
mile in length and half mile in
width. We are not sure, but be-
lieve that this is the first specimen
. of genuine black marble that has
been discovered in America.
II. 7. Huff, a well-known coal
dealer of Atlanta, while cutting
down bee tree on his farm, FIVE
miles from Atlanta, on the Sand
town road, a few days ago, made
strange discovery. The bees were
ina hollow tree, and Felix Jackson
(colored) was put to work with an
I AK TO hew it down. "Lawd a mercy"
exclaimed the negro, as he dropped
y lis ak and peered into the opening
y he had made by the light of a torch.
The negro had discovered an arse
nal whose implements OF war were
like the gun Of Rip Van Wrinkle
latter his sleep Of twenty years. In
sthe hollow tree were eight old army
nuskets and two bayonets which
II had been stored away by soldiers
r twenty-five years ago. The stocks
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