The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-07-11
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from eur Elk.
changes.

be turned on about September /.
The new directory makes the pop
ulation Of Athens 8,109.
FIVE prisoners escaped from the
Jail in Jasper, Pickens county, re-
Gently. Two were recaptured.
CHATHAM county ON Wednesday,
July Sd. it voted by majority of
608 for fence.
The Lee county melon growers
are making it hot for Rosenthal, the
alleged crooked melon buyer.
Hon. J. B. Penson, of Hartwell,
accidentally broke his hip Wednes-
day and is very i'll. He is nearly
seventy, and may not recover.
Mr.. JOHN COFFEE is being prose-
cuted in Dodge superior court by
Mrs. Murdoch Bryant, his daughter,
for killing her husband.
Mr.. J. E. Crook, a clerk for
Ryan, having been on a protracted
spree, suicided Thursday by taking
choloral.
The Piedmont exposition, which
will be held in Atlanta in October,
offers 81, 200 prize for the best
county display. Every part of the
state is invited to compete.
THE thriftiest man has been found
in Georgia. He keeps bees, and,
not satisfied with their proverbial
industry, attempted to cross them
with lightning bugs, in order to Sc
cure continuation OF honey max
ing throughout the night.
DURING a drunken carousal in
Lithonia, Ga, on the night of the
4th, Dan Aston, son of the late Col.
Robert Aston, struck Aleck Will
son with knife on the head and
killed him.
On the 9Th inst, a young man
aged %, in Floyd county, Ca, ran
away and married his STEP mother
in-law, aged A. We give him from
now until next Christmas to solve
the question, els marriage a fail
ure?'
A gentleman who has tried it
vouches for this story. Taking a
gallon jug of whisky he passed a
string through its cork, which cord
dropped to the bottom of the jug.
The Irvine was then introduced into
a watermelon vine by Sitting the
vine and the vine permitted to pro-
duce only two melons. When the
melons were matured they were
served at private barbecue to six
gentlemen. The effect was aston
ishing. The gallon Of whisky got
in its work. Not a drop of the
liquor remained in the jug when
the melons were ripe.
REV. ]. A. McMURRAY, the
preacher who recently gave rise to
a sensation in the Baptist circles,
has Joined the Baptist church at
Woodstock and has been rebaptised.
Mr.. McMurray, it will be remem-
bered, was converted to the doctrine
of Rev. NJ. 7. Martin, that a church
member should be rebaptised on
finding that he or she was not con-
verified before being baptised the
first time. At that time Mr.. Nc
Murray was an evangelist, preach
ing under appointment of the mis-
sion board of Southern Baptist con-
vention. When he declared his
adoption of the faith promulgated
by the Rev. Mr.. Martin he was
dropped from the service of the
mission board. He was at that
time a member of the Baptist church
at Kingston. Since then he went
before conference of his church
and had himself expelled. On the
heels of this movement he applied
for readmission to membership of
the same church, but three or four
members stubbornly refused to ad-
NIT him, and the gentleman went
before the church at Woodstock,
where he was received as a men,
Der and rebaptised. He was re.
garded as preacher OF great pow
er, and it is supposed that he will
be reordained and resume preach
ing.