The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-08
STATE NEWS.
CulIed and Condensed from our Ex.
changes.

AuACC O1OtuCIo mCI III DI uuSW1Ck
q day or two ago tor the first time
in FIVE years. From one of them the
other two gained information that
their parents had died eight years
ago. They had runaway from home
in boyhood.
Ike Watkins, (colored), was kill
ed by Lightning at Milledgevilfe
last Thursday afternoon. He was
farming on DIR. Halls Beckham
Mount place, and when the rain
came up he sought shelter under a
tree. His death was instantaneous.
A few days ago, while Gus Nc
Kenzie, living on the place of Miles
Bloodworth, in the southern part
Of Baldwin county, was going down
the steps of his house they gave
way, causing him to fall backward
and strike his head on the door sill,
after which he was unconscious.
Mr.. Mckenzie lived only twenty
four hours after the accident.
Elberton has a club of young
gentlemen who have entered into
an agreement never to allow an
cath to pass their lips. If this club
mad also entered into an agreement
that not drop Of liquor should ever
pass their lips and stick square to
the agreement they would not be
distanced in the life race. Cursing
is habit, and those who curse do
not mean it or think of it. This
club could better by swearing their
members to keep away from whisky
and not get in the habit of cursing.
One of Ellaville's gallant young
disciples Of Blackstone, finding
business in the legal profession
rather dull at this season, and hav-
ing wife and baby to provide for,
laid away his law books, closed his
Office, doffed his standing collar,
congress CATERS and court clothes,
hauled on his seediest garments,
sliced a trowel, and sailed forth to
earn his bread by the sweat of his
brow until the law business picked
up. He had gotten a job of brick
laying, and earned over 800 before
his friends missed him out of town.
AT Rome, Friday morning about
2 o'clock, fire broke out in the rear
Of G. l.. Barker's stable, and before
the FIRE department could respond,
the entire building was enveloped
in a sheet Of flames. There were
seventeen head Of fine horses in the
stable, and two only were saved.
The celebrated stallion OF Capt. Sam
Morgan was one of the number lost.
He was valued at $4,000. Other
= aJoining buildings were also con-
sumed. The total amount of losses
is estimated at from 10000 to S25,-
900.
The press in the fruit shipping
districts of this state have been Civ
ing returns of the car of fruit which
netted the largest amount in their
particular territory, the highest
which was about 5000. A number
of cars have been shipped from here
which have turned about that
amount back to the shipper, but the
best return OF the season is from a
car shipped by Judge J. D. Cunning
ham, from his orchard near here,
which netted S1,286. This beats
them all and puts Griffin way ahead.
The shipment was 10 Boston.-Grif-
fin Sun.
Mrs. MaGruder, who lives at
Sulphur Springs, in Meriwether
county, has four acre cotton patch
that has been most thoroughly
cultivated this year in a most pecul-
lar manner. She has three geese
that have had the run of the patch
all the year, and they have kept it
free from the grass. In the spring
she owned a goat, which also had
the run of the patch, and he ate
the cotton down to a "stand,"
about as we'll as hoe hand could
have done it, and as soon as he