The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-07-25
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.


M. Boring, was shot and killed in
Atlanta on Tuesday night Of last
week, by A. J. Wiley. Pelot was
too intimate with Wiley's wife.
The lessees of the State road say
they have made 100000 worth of
improvements on the property, but
they are willing to accept the award
Of the commissioners appointed by
the State-s750,000.
Okeefnoke swamp is not such a
worthless place after all. 1t has an
island thirty miles long, very high
and shaped like a crescent, with
beautiful hummocks of live oak and
laurel trees, SO Gen. Floyd says.
He adds that it is possessed of
magnificent farming possibilities.
A farmer, while cutting oats, near
Greensboro, made mislick and the
sharp blade took of his right ear.
He coolly picked up the detached
member, wrapped it in his handker-
chief and carried i: home. His wife
sewed it back into position, and it
has knitted nicely and is doing basi-
ness at the old stand.
Banker J. R. Tolleson of Atlanta is
now enjoying short vacation out of
jail. The illness of Mrs. Tolleson
renderd the presence of her husband
necessary at her bedside, and Judge
Richard Clarke on Saturday signed
an order releasing the prisoner tenn
porarily. In the meantime Mr.. Toll
Lesson is under the supervision of a
guard.
Mr.. Floyd Cogburn was in AL
pharetta last week and told about a
remarkable bunch of wheat that he
found in his rye patch. One grain
of wheat produced twenty-nine
heads, and the twenty-nine heads
made 995 grains. MIR. Cogburn says
the Bible mentions an increase of
one hundred fold, and that he has
beaten the Bible record in raising
wheat.
FL. T. Hammock, of Crawfordville,
says one-half pound of fat meat cut
up into gallon of corn meal dough
and fed to fifteen hens will give the
owner more eggs than ever seen
from the same number of hens. He
says it will never fail, and he is
surprised at the people complaining
at the scarcity Of hen fruit when fat
meat in small quantities will make
hens lay rapidly.
Sunday afternoon two negro boys
got in boat and went out into
Lewis mill pond, at Montezuma,
for the purpose Of taking a wasp
nest nearly as large as mans hat,
which was fastened to tree. When
disturbed the wasps became furious,
and commenced singing so terribly
that the smaller one jumped out of
the boat to avoid them and was
drowned. Instead Of trying to save
his companion, the larger boy pad
died for the shore in search OF help.
Rev. William Harris, leading
colored minister Of Tuscaloosa, Ala,
preached in that town recently on
this subject: s.Are We sons of God,
or ..gorillas." He satisfied his con-
gregation that they were in no way
related to gorillas. He was led to
preach on the foregoing subject by
reading paper on evolution, that
DR.. Peter Price, superintendent OF
the state insane asylum, recently
read before the State Teachers As
ISOLATION.
j. H. McCollum of the firm of
McCollum, Carmichael & Co., mer-
chants, of Jackson, is "kicker."
He is six feet high and can kick
seven and halt feet high. Can
stand fat footed, with knees stiff,
and put the palms of his hands on
the ground. With sudden back
ward movement of the arms can
strike his elbows together behind
him. He was married in his 21st
year, and his first grandchild was
born before he wat 81. He is a
man in his 10Th year, has FIVE chill
dren and five grandchildren. He is