The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-06-18
F.. STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

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shoes going to church and then gone
to hell barefooted.
Frank Wilmouth was shot and
killed by Tom McCravy, at Peyton,
on Georgia Pacific Railroad last
Thursday. Both white.
At Covington a joint stock com
paIy, with capital of $4,000 has
been organized, to engage in the
manufacture Of cotton seed oil and
guano.
Warren Mckenzie, an industri-
Gus, thrifty colored man. of Dooly
county, owns and operates three
farms, mill, a steam gin and a
store.
A large cotton factory is almost
certainly to be erected in Americas.
A meeting of those interested is to
be called, and plans are now being
prepared, 1t is proposed to start
with p capital Of $4,000
The most extensive iron mine in
North Georgia is the new brown
hematite ore mine near Tunnel Hill.
The deposit is 60 feet across, with
solid boulders and crags of iron ore
such as miners have rarely witness
ed.
Major A. L. Hartridge, of Savan-
nah, has brought suit for S500,00
damages against certain New York
parties alleging that they detrauded
him in transaction connected with
Marietta and North Georgia rail
road bonds.
At Kathleen, in Bib county,
Thursday, Robert Glover a colored
lad on the plantation of @ B. Will
lingham, twisted himself up in
swing and was choked to death.
When found his knees were touch
ing the ground.
On Saturday morning last Mrs.
Wiley Harvey, of Gainesville, awoke
to find her three weeks old babe
dead by her side. Only a short
while before she had nursed it and
it appeared perfectly we'll. She
had then dropped asleep, and it is
supposed rolled over on it.
Mr.. Ashley N. Howell shot and
killed Captain W. J. NcGrath in
the post Office at Warrenton last
Thursday. Howell charged McGrath
Of writing an insulting anonymous
letter to his wife in Atlanta. The
friends of the dead man say that
they can prove that he did not write
it.
Out of the twenty-seven young
men who will graduate from the
State University this year, only one
will 60 to the farm for his living.
More than half of these graduates
will seek fame and fortune at the
bar, while not one will enter the
ministry.
The Middle Georgia Argus: A
COW on the farm of F. R. Burford
last week gave birth to calf that
had distinct earmarks on each ear,
swallow fork On the right and
smooth crop on the left. This is the
exact stock mark of J. W. Burford,
the son OF the owner OF the cow
mentioned.
Alpharetta Free Press: D. J.
Barnett of Crossyilie has the best
kind of tobacco that we ever heard
OF. He set out his plants two years
ago and raised a good crop of tobac-
co. Last spring the old stalks suck
cred out and made better tobacco
than they did the year before, and
this year they have suckered out
again, and bid fair to have another
good crop.
The Dalton Citizen says: "A
= great deal has been recently written
about the Georgia cracker What
the term means or to whom it ap-
Dlies we do not know but We must
have seen the great grandaddy Of
he cracker family the other day.
lie was little old man, very old,
with long, snow white halr.-a one
eallus chap, smoking cob pipe and
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