The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-04-11
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

JOHN SMITH, who killed Henry
Henderson in Texas valley district,
in Floyd county, last November,
was found guilty of murder and SEN
fenced to hard labor in the peniten.
tiary during the remainder Of his
natural life. Both parties were
negroes.
Col. E. T. Shubrick, assistant
keeper of the penitentiary, and DIR
Westmoreland, principal physician
have just returned to Atlanta from
a several weeks inspecting tour o.
the convict camps. Col. Shubrick
has submitted to the governor his
report for March, in which he says
the camps and convicts are in first
rate condition.
The coroner's jury in the case OF
the murder of the crook at Stone
Mountain the other night, returned
a verdict against A. D. REVERE,
who was seen in company with
Thompson, the murdered man on
the previous day. REVERE was put
in Jail in Decatur to await trial.
They were both burglars and the
murder was committed for the pur-
pose of robbery.
AT Sparta, Sunday morning, when
Will Stewart, the jailer, went to the
Jail to feed the prisoners he unlock
ed the outer door and was about
to unlock the inner one, when he
noticed one or two of the cell doors
slightly ajar, and hesitated to pro-
coed. At this an old negro inmate
said: 'Boss, don't come in here"
Stewart at once brought assistance
and entered, finding that six of the
prisoners had burned the staple
which held the lock to their cell,
and had pulled up the bricks that
their stove stood on, and we're going
| to use them to kill or stun the jailel
and thus escape. They were al
' made secure, and will receive theil
dues at the approaching term o
court. But for the old negroe'
warning it is probable that youns
Mr.. Stewart would have lost his life
Americas Recorder: John Hol
lowell, who travels for a steam en-
CINE factory, says that last week ht
was in Henry county, Ala, where &
saw mill man told him of strange
burial place. He said they were
saving up very large log that had
been hollow, but had filled in with
a new growth, when the saw STRUCK
something hard; tie log was ripped
open, when the skeleton of a man
was found, with human figure, all
pressed in the wood. The right leg
had been broken by bullet, which
was in the bone, and by the skeleton
was an old rusty rife, the imprint of
the clothing, cap and all that men
wore, in the days that the Indians
kept the borderers in continual
alarm. He said the mill men sup
posed hunter had been wounded
by Indians, and evaded them by hid
ing in the hollow of tree, and died
there. The tree took second
growth, covered the corpse and held
it until it fell into his hands and
brought to light its secret of the
fight over half century ago, be-
tween the white and red men.
Mr.. BUD HARPER, of Carroll
county, tells US of very peculiar
circumstance which happened at
John Nicholson's tenant of Mr..
E. Creel's place, the other day. Mr..
Nicholson's children had put bot
tie of linseed oil on the bed and it
was turned over. The oil went
through the bed clothing and into
the feather bed. Mrs. Nicholson
washed the oil out the best she
could and the bed was used two
nights. On the third day she was
away from home, and on coming in
she found there was peculiar scent
in the house like feathers burning.
She went to the he'd, raised the
clothing and on the sheet she dis.
covered that it had been scorched
The bed tick was also scorched and
the lady cut it open and took out q