The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-07-04
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

worth OF Newfoundland pups In two
years from one dog.
Mrs. Bishop Pierce died Tuesday
of last week at Sunshine, Hancock
county.
Mr.. E. B. Withers, a moulder,
having family, committed sui
eide in Atlanta on Saturday.
DR.. 6. A. Nunnally, of Admission,
Ala, has accepted the presidency
of Mercer University, DR.. Battle
having resigned.
Mr.. A. J. SIMPSON, formerly of
Cobb, had his store house burned at
Tallapoosa, on the 9th ult. A
portion of his stock saved. Insur-
ance ON building, 500.
At Americas Wednesday Bob
Virgins, the negro who robbed and
killed his companion, John Williams
last winter, was found guilty and
sentenced to be hung.
On three acre strawberry patch
W. L. Gibson, of Forsyth, has re-
Gently cleared 5000 from the sale of
fruit. He has also made quite
neat some on small raspberry
patch.
At Vienna, last week, while some
negroes were digging well deeper
on DR. NJ. E. Vason's premises,
they unearthed an old pistol that
was firmly imbedded in the bowels
of mother earth, This we'll is not
an old one, but one thnt has:been
dug this year, and, having dried up,
the doctor was having it dug deep
er when the pistol was found. How
did it come there?
A negro woman, Floyd fuckers
wife, near Wallis mill, in Lowndes
county, died from fright several
days ago. She and her children
were out picking huckleberries,
when her dog commenced to bark at
rattlesnake. She heard the rattle,
and gathering up her children ran
to near fence, and tumbled over
it dead. 1t is supposed that the
fright superinduced heart disease.
DR.. w. HI. FELTON,, the represen-
tative from Barlow county, will in
troduce at the present session of the
legislature bill which proposes to
give half the State road rental,
about $50, 1000, to common schools,
and the remainder to higher educa-
tion, so distributed between the
University, the branch colleges and
in county scholarships, as TO make
real University system for all the
people. Only $4,000 is proposed
for the University proper, while
$4,000 is to be divided among
branches in ten districts, $21, 900
appropriated to the chronological
Institute, the same to the Expert
mental Station, the same for Girls
Industrial school, and $50, 900 to be
given in annual prize scholarships
in every county in the State.
The Cuthbert Enterprise de.
precates the tendency to mob vio-
lence which is prevalent in the
country. 1t very truthfully re-
marks: Formerly the assumption
of this right and this power, ex-
tending to certain class of cases
whose peculiar Nervousness, the
lynchers claimed, demanded prompt
and sure punishment, and could
not await the slow and sometimes
doubtful processes of the courts.
But now in cases of ordinary homi-
eide, as was shown at Dalton the
other night, and as has been
shown at other places recently, there
is tendency to mob violence. This
we say is dangerous tendency, and
unless it can be checked, will ulti-
mately disgrace our civilization,
and render strong military gov
ernmeRt necessary to the mainten-
ance Of law, and to the protection of
men charged with the commission of
crime. The surest way and the
only way to preserve our liberties is
4 to uphold the constitution and the
laws, and TO abide by the decisions
of those tribunals which have been
established to insure justice and