The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-11-14
STATE NEWS.


Hoke Smith Of Atlanta will bring
him in this year $4,000.
The Augusta Medical College
opened Tuesday with 100 students
enrolled. H
Carrie Davis, the girl who mas
queraded at Atlanta in male attire,
has been taken to her home at CO.
lumbus, o., by her mother.
Hon. F. G. DuBignon announces
that he will not be candidate for
Governor. This leaves Northen and
Livingston as the only candidates.
Mr.. Win II. Evans, of Macon, and
Miss Matte Smith, of Powder
Springs, we're married on the 7th,
Rev. Thomas Pierce officiating.
Rev. Mr.. Henderson pastor of the
Baptist church at Cedertown ana Mr..
Gsbe Jones we're out hunting last
Monday, when Mr.. Henderson gun
vas accidentally discharged. killing
Mr. Jones instantly.
A plan has been set on foot ct
Brunswick to organize q building
company, who will erect houses
made to order by machinery, and at
SO per cent. saving in cost.
At Hawkinsville q few days ago a
screech owl attaked canary bird
in cage hanging on the piazza Of
Mrs. Bats at Hawkinsville and
killed the little songster.
Price Broyles was shot and killed
in Chattanooga by Elmore johnson,
on Sunday morning. They were
both 6remen on the w. & A. r. R.,
and were formerly Of Atlanta.
johnson escaped. rt8kAbt#
The white walls of the new State
capitol are rspidly being turned in
to an autograph album for cranks
who think it absolutely necessary to
afix their signatures in some con-
spicuous place. yes sTI gov
An old man 70 years old and his
aged wife, named Hughes, in CIinch
county, Ca, were murdered by three
negroes. with. an ak last week, at
their home. The object robbery.
Detective James R. Odom, Of Pal
metto, Ca, left Birmingham last
month with $4,000 in a satchel for
Mexico. News comes that he was
waylaid by a Mexican robber, shot
dead and robbed.
A FEW nights ago physician of
Lithonia had call, and he picked
up water bucket instead of his
4 saddlebags and went hurriedly to
his destination. He did not discOv-
er his mistake until he went to
"dose" his patient.
PIG VANN was hanged in Chattoo-
ga county last Friday for the murder
of a man named White. Vann has
been respited several times, but the
sentence Of the law was finally exc
cuted. Willie Williams, nego, the
murderer Of conductor Whigham,
was hung at Abbeville, Ca, on the
same day.
Bob Moore (colored), one of the
oldest citizens in Butts county, is
dead, at the advanced age of los
years. Bob has been living oil his
life with the family Of Leroy Moore
and ancestors, and ct the time ofhis
death he had bale Of cotton ready
to market, the fruits of his own la
Dor this season.
A reporter Of the Constitution, E.
w. Barrett, interviewed Rube
Burrows, the notorious Alabama
outlaw last week in Mississippi in
which is related Burrows train rob-
berries and murders. The crowd
that recently followed Burrows and
jackson trying to capture them on
Sand Mountain, Ala, was joined by
Burrows, in disguise, and he was
one of his own pursuers.
SIX MEMBERS of the present
House and one of the senate have
died since the session began. Sena-
tor Field was killed by his adopted
son, Representative Hunt was stab
bed to death by room mate last