The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-11-19
STATE NEWS.
Jailed and Condensed from Onr Elk.
changes.

leads us to suppose that the animal
had butter short time to live.
The happiest man in existence is
he who is in good health, out of debt,
has clear conscience and loves his
wife and children.
The first failure in Fort Valley in
many years occurred Wednesday,
when Capt, 0. M. Houser's store
was clsoed by the sheriff on a mort
gage in favor of F. 0. Miller.
A NEW trial has been granted
Elisha A. Underwood who was SEN
fenced at Atlanta to hang Tor the
killing of Alex. Sayre. The supreme
court says the judge erred in not
charging the jury on the law of self
defense when the prisoner made that
plea.
The Mozelle correspondent of the
Jackson Herald says: Mr.. W. H.
Venable has horse that chews to
bacco. He says his horse will do
better On ten ears of corr twice
day and plenty of tobacco than his
other horse will with this. feeds
day.
JOSEPH r. LOGAN, who has been
engaged in the dry goods business
at Gainesville for about sixteen
years, has stepped out OF his store
and turned the whole thing, lock,
stock and barrel, over to his creds
itors. He gave three mortgages on
his stock on November 5, amount
ing to $500 and that night sur
rendered the keys. John A. Smith
has been appointed temporary re>
ceiver. Nominal assets about $12,-
600, liabilities about the same.
PROFESSOR Harris Chappell, Pres
ident of the Girls Industrial Instr
tute, Milledgeville, reports it in
prosperous and first>clas condition.
Said he: 'There are 172 girls in at
tendance, representing seventy-two
counties. There are thirty-fve
young ladies there attending the
normal school who have had some
experience in teaching school, and
from their earnings they are paying
their board. The institution is pro-
crossing lar beyond my expecta-
TONS"
TIE Albany Herald relates this:
Celie Nelson, negro woman on the
Fason place, went out to the cowpen
to milk and carried her baby. She
left the baby on the ground Just
outside the pen. Inside the pen
were some hogs, and it is supposed
that these attracted the attention of
the baby and it thrust one of its
hands through the fence at them.
Anyhow, while the mother was en-
gagged with her milking she heard
her child scream. An old SOW had
caught the baby's hand and was
proceeding to devCpr it in regular
hog fashion. The mother rescued
the child quickly as possible, but
not until it's hand and arm had been
badly crushed in the jaws of the
ravenous swine.
Mr.. JOE MCKINLEY called at our
office yesterday on his way home
from Fannin county. He related to
us a most horrible circumstance.
On last Saturday night Mr.. Joe B.
Merrill and his two sons were out
opossum hunting when the dogs
tceed 'possum in a hollow chest
nut tree, about J mile from Chest
nut Gap A dog was placed in the
hole and came out whining, another
was put in with the same result. A
light was then thrust into the aper-
ture and the party beheld sack
with blood on it, and :;pon being ex-
amined it proved to contain the re-
mains of a baby. The opossum had
partially eaten IFS flesh. Wild ex-
element prevailed next day and
numbers visited the spot. On Sun
day night the remains we're carried
away by unknown parties. A thor
ough search then revealed the skel-
eton of another infant in the same
place. E'lijay Courier
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