The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-02-26
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes. 4@E

annex little West End to her boun-
daries. HaA 3f
Mrs. Bonnelb the wife OF . mission
airy to China, is visiting friends in
Tal5otton.
DR.. j. H. Devote, a we'll known
Baptist divine, died at Griffin last
week.
Athens is about to issue s25O,00O
in bonds, 100000 of the proceeds
to be spent on streets and $50, 900 on
sewerage.
A Southwest Georgia citizen, who
subscribed for several newspapers to
the exclusion of his home paper, has
finally landed in the penitentiary. i.
Capt. Tip Harrison, Of the Execu-
tive Department, is making it warm
for deserters from the Confederate
army, who have somehow got on the
Georgia Pension roll.
A patrolman of Macon police force
has in his possession one of the cod
Joe Brown pixies" which are priced
as such unique relics OF the war.
The officer was offered SO for it, but
refused it.
Hon: P. W. Meldrim has been
elected President Of the trustees of
the State college for colored chill
dren, and the board advertised for
sites. The bids for location are to
be in by the Goth of March.
The two negroes, Wesley Lewis
and Henry Jackson, who brutality
assaulted G. Jordon, near Bruins
wick, and were guilty of other as
saults and robberies, were lynched
by mob Saturday night.
A gentleman from the west has
been at Sandersville for several days
looking after titles to 5000 acres of
land, for which he paid s5aNe1 scre,,
or $4,000. He cannot lccatE the
land, and it is evident that he is the
victim of land sharks.
Eddie Chancey and Robert But
Ter, aged respectively II and IA
years, procSred pistols and went
out about a mile west of Blakely
Sunday. Eddie's pistol was acci.
deutally discharged. The ball passed
through his left hand and struck his
companion, Robert, killing him al
most instantly.
John n. Kelley, Jonesboro mer-
chant who recently claimed to have
been robbed Of $4,000, has disappear
ed. After the robbery he effected a
settlement with his creditors. Since
his departure large portion of the
money alleged to have been stolen
was found in an clubhouse on the
premises by some children at play.
Thomaston Times: DR.. Blalock
on last Saturday afternoon noticed
one of his COWS behaving strangely
and had her put in a house, where
she soon began trying to tear up
things. He went out about o'clock
that night TO- see how she Was get.
ting on, and she made lunge for
him and butted down the door, but
turned the other way and commence
ed butting at the back of the house,
when he stopped up the front and
got his gun and killed her. The
COW was undoubtedly mad. A
strange dog had been about the
premises a week or too before, and
some one said it was mad and must
have bit the cow.
Oconee Enterprise Mrs. Brad.
shaw died in the lower part of the
country this week at the advanced
age of 112 years. This aged lady
has grandchild 10 years of age.
She was hale and hearty, and gave
promise of living several years long
er, but a cancer made it's appear
ance, and in a short time claimed
her as a victim. Our undertaken,
W. B. Langford did not have a coffin
in stock large enough to bury her in
and was compelled to make one y
feet in length in which to bury the
dead body. She was giantess in