The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed frem our Ex.
changes.

The Waycross postofGce was rob-
bed Thursday night of $1,700 and a
number of registered packages.
HARDY HAMILTON, colored, was
hung at Rome on Wednesday oflast
week for numbering a Chinaman.
He confessed.
IT is understood that DR.. A. G.
Haygood will receive $1,000 per
annum and the use of house and
lot as'his paw for the presidency Of
the university at Sheffield, Ala.
Milledgeville Recorder: A negro
will keep six dogs and divide his
rations with them; but he will cuss
the county out if he is called on to
pay dog tax.
At Eatonton Wednesday, during
a thunder storm, Gus Green, a
negro tenant on the plantation of E.
N. Allison, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed while return
ing from the field on horseback.
The horse, valuable animal, was
also killed.
A stabbing ARRAY occurred at
Dalton Sunday, which may prove
fatal. Ollie Atwood, a white man,
got into a difficulty with negro
named Keith, and stabbed him three
times-in the throat, breast and
back. The wounds are dangerous
and the negro may die. Atwood
was arrested, but gave bail in the
sum of 5000.
A NEGRO claiming to be Jesus
Christ has been going through
Liberty county, Ca, telling the ne
groes to "Give up everything and
follow me-" Hundreds Of negroes
have abandoned their crops and are
= following him. The impositor has
been arrested as vagrant, but as
he has money, it will be a hard
matter to make it hold good.
We concur with the following
which is credited to the Southern
CultivatOr ''Sending abroad for
supplies that could be raised at
home, and educating your children
abroad, is like taking water out of
the pot in which you are trying to
cook green's: You exhaust the water
and spoil the green's. You deplete
the volume OF currency at home to
swell the volume abroad.
Thursday night last the large barn
belonging to Robert W. Bagby, To-
Gated near the public square at
Covington, was destroyed by fire.
Three mules persisted in the flames.
Nothing was saved from the barn
and it required hard and laborious
work to save other buildings in the
vicinity. There was no insurance
and the loss amounts to more than
$1,000. Within the past few years,
Mr.. Bsgby has lost more than $780,
600 by fire.
A murder was committed Tues
day night about IL o'clock on the
plantation of w. P. Norman, who
lives six miles from McDonough.
Some negroes were returning from
church, and dispute arose over
some trivial matter between Henson
Upchurch and John Stewart. Up
church drew his knife and stabbed
Stewart in the thigh, severing an
artery, from which he bled to death
before a physician could be pro-
cured. Upchurch left Immediately
and has not since been seen.
One of the interesting features OF
the trial of A. D. REVERE for the
murder of the unknown man at
Stone Mountain, will be the attor-
neys in the case. Two brothers,
Col. Milton A. Gambler and John S.
Gambler, will be pitted against each
other in this legal battle. Col.
Gambler, who will do all he can to
prove REVERE innocent, is 81 years
old, and is the eldest of family Of
whom ten are boys. John Gambler.
who will put forth his best efforts
to convict REVERE, is q years old
and the youngest Of the same family
Mr.. Gambler is solicitor general foI
4 the Stone Mountain circuit, and