The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-11-27
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

AA0hly WA'idms Will Oe nangeQ
for wife murder in Charlton county
December 10.
D. P. Cline of Adairsville had his
ankle broken by horse falling with
him while he was in the saddle.
Charles Owens (colored) tell from
the steamer Pope Catlin near Bruins.
wick, Friday, and was drowned.
W. T. Trammell, son Of the railroad
commissioner, has been appointed
clerk in agricultural Office, in the
place Of Walter DeWolf, resigned.
A mad dog was killed at Ameri-
Gus, Thursday, after bitiug three
children. Two of the children are
colored. The other is the daughter
Of Mrs. Query.
The gin house of John Johnson
and r. G. Etheridge at S&ainsboro
was burned last Saturday. While
the gin was running match in the
cotton ignited. Sixteen bales we're
destroyed.
Watt Walker and a young man
had an orange eating match at Mon
tezuma day or two ago. The or
anges were to be paid for by the
man who ate the smallest number.
Walker got away with 20 and his
competitors 10.
Lawyer Hall, the Dodge county
lawyer who has been in trouble in
connection with forged land deeds,
was Friday in Macon found guilty
Of perjury. A true bill hangs over
him tor conspiracy to murder For
syth in Normandale last month.
Hall is evidently bad man.
Peter Hewett, Of Valdosta, a
youth of II, attempted suicide last
Tuesday night by taking laudanum;
but the doctor, the stomach-pump,
and an all nights walk thwarted the
effort. 1t is said that misunder-
standing between his father and
himself led to the act.
A sore leg, the flesh mass of disease,
yet ?. P. P. (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and
Potassium achieved wonderful results,
the flesh was purified and the bone got
sound, and my health was established, says
M James Masters, Of Savannah, Ga.
The dead body of white man
was found Monday on small island
of the Savannah river, about ten
miles from Lincolnton. The flesh
was in decomposed state, much of
it being gone, and the body is sup
posed to have washed ashore during
one of the recent treshets. Letters
were found in his pockets bearing
the name of Sol Garrett.
SHILOH'S CURE will Immediately re-
lieve Group, whooping cough and bronchiS
tbs, For sale by c. M. Crosby & Co.
MIR. Jonn Neal, Of Forsyth county,
was killed by gin last Tuesday.
He raised the breast and was cleans
ing the saws, when his coat sleeve
caught and pulled him in. He jerk
ed loose, but he was so badly cut
that he died that night. He was a
brother to Mr.. J. R. Neal, of near
Vickory's Creek, and leaves family
to mourn his death.-Alpharetta
Free Press.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and liver complaint
you have printed guarantee on every
bottle of Shiloh's Waller. 1t never fails
to cure For sale by G. M. Crosby & Co.
Last Sunday night W. P. Roun-
trees store at Swainsboro caught On
fire from some unknown cause and
burned down. He and family were
about to retire to bed when the fire
was discovered. The origin of the
fire is attributed to rats with
matches. Mr., Rountree estimates
his loss ct about $1,000.
Standing near the mill of J. M.
Veach & Company at Adairsville
is a large mulberry tree which
makes beautiful shade in the sum-
mer months, but it will probably
die, and from strange cause. Rats
have attacked it in the top,and have
skinned about fifteen or twenty of
its top branches.