The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-09-25
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex.
changes.

mas purCudScu OoV "Si0o "a A""
near Fort Valley and Will convert
the place into a fruit farm. The
price paid was $4,000
The Governor has pardoned Dave
Brown, negro. who was sent to
the penitentiary for life fourteen
years ago tor murder committed in
Laurens county.
A young man in Elberton, con-
nected with one of the best families
in the county, has been sent to the
chain gang for six months for run
ming ''blind tiger"
Among the applicants for posi-
tons on the Americas police force
are two brothers, one six feet seven
inches and one-half inches in height
and the other six feet four inches.
Macon has had another cold
blooded murder. Louis Lewis, a
negro, becoming tired of his sick
wife, shot her through the head
Tuesday with a pistol, killing her
instantly. Lewis has disappeared.
The electric light machinery in
Gainesville is SO badly deranged that
it has been sent to Ohio for repairs.
In the meantime the city is in dark
ness and it has been impossible to
start up the new cotton factory.
John Gibson, negro working at
the LaGrange Oil Mills, was run
over by West Point freight Turs-
day. Four cars passed over his
legs, cutting them off just below the
knees. He died in few minutes.
WHY WILL YOU cough whin Shiloh's
Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10
cts, 30 cts. and 81.
DR.. J. s. Wilson, of Atlanta, who
was run over by Western and At
lantic engine on the Whitehall
crossing about two years ago, having
both legs crushed of below the
knees, has obtained a settlement
with the road by which he gets S.
900.
SHILOHS CATARRH REMEDY-a
positive cure for catarrh, diphtheria and
canker>mouth. For sale by {. M. Crosby
s. Co.
There is curiosity in Carrolton,
Ala, in the way of an eyeless mule
colt. The colt is three or four
months old. It is very we'll devel-
oped in every other respect, but it
has no eyes and no place for them.
The face where it's eyes should be is
as smoth as its jaws, yet it has eye
muscles, for the hide contracts regu-
larly as if batting its eyes, but it has
no eyes and no eye shape.
ARE YOU MADE miserale by Indiges>
ton, constipation. dizziness, loss of appe-
tite, yellow skin? Shiloh's Vitafzer is a
positive cure. For sale by c. N. Crosby
& Co.
Tuesday afternoon, in Brunswick,
Mayor John L. Spears had a diff
Guilty with Mr.. Jacob L. Beach,
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Glynn county, and fred at hia three
times with a pistol. One shot took
effect in Mr.. Beach's left side, but
the wound is not considered dan
gerous. The Mayor was promptly
jailed. He is an independent can
didate for the legislature.
English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem>
ishes from horses, blood spawn, curbs,
splints, sweeny, ring.bone, stiles, sprains,
and swollen threats, coughs. etc. Save $50
by use of one bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold
by G. M. Crosby Il Co, druggists, Mariet-
Ia.
A Lee county man tells the fol-
lowing table: Last spring l plant.
ed lot Of English peas. One day
the chickens got IN the garden,
scratched them up and ate them.
didn't have time just then to send
to town after more pea seed to
plant, so | decided to cut the chick
ems craws open, take the seed out
and plant them. did that; then
/ sewed up the craws with a com
mon needle and thread. l never
saw finer crop Of English peas than
| raised last spring, and l think
those chickens we're the best l ever
tasted, for, be it known, the chick
ems lived and grew to be of good