The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-06-11


Ezekiel Lemmox will be hanged
at cambridge June 26 for wife muir
der.
1t is rumored that the Primitive
Baptists at Ebenezer church, two
miles from Dunwody, are going to
test the tight Of their members 10
join the farmers alliance.
The proportion of deaths in Ath-
ems for the year 1890 was fourteen
to every one thousand inhabitants.
The proportion Of deaths by races
was two-thirds negroes and third
whites.
The Savannah News estimates
that the truck faru Of Chatham
could not be bought for 81, 100000.
and that the proceeds from them
this year alone will be worth $780,
900.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Mes
bitt, who has advices from between
80 and 100 counties, says that the
acreage Of the cotton crop Of 20, and
its condition Is per cent. below last
year, and that unless the summer
weather is favorable and the autumn
remarkably late; the yield must nee
essarily fall far below the average.
At Alpharetta fsE days ago
Mrs. A. W. Devore was passing
through the yard and found hen
egg almost as large as a goose egg.
When ready to cook it she broke
the shell, and inside was the white
and yellow usually found in an egg,
and also another egg of full size,
shell and all.
AS soon as the diplomas have been
delivered ten members Of the senior
class of the university at Athens
will leave tor the mountains of Ncrth
Georgia on camping and fishing
troIc. They will 60 we'll equipped
for the expedition, taking along a
two-horse wagon and all necessary
equipments.
Wednesday several wool growers
took their clips to Eastman and sold
them in a lump. There were about
$4,000 pounds in the lot. 1t was
purchased by S. Herman Bro. &
Co., after some lively bidding by
other local buyers and one or two
parties from Savannah. About
$500 was placed in the growers
pockets by this transaction.
A case in. a Justice Court at
DougJasville was settled in pecul-
lar but satisfactory manner the other
day. A merchant who had bought
a lot of tobacco from an Atlanta
house resisted payment on the
ground that the goods were damaged.
The Justice presiding chewed some
of the tobacco and decided that it
was damaged to the amount of 13
cents on the pound, and gave plain>
tiff judgement accordingly.
James E. Gillette, brass founder,
dropped dead after supper Saturday
night, in Atlanta. He was upward
of so years old J. L. Peers early
Sunday morning went to his fish
market, on Peters street, opened his
doors and sat down to read his pa
per, but before he could read line
tell forward to the ground. When
picked up a moment later he was
stone dead. Peers was very old
man. 70 at least. Heart disease ap-
pears to have been the trouble in
both cases.
The Georgia Hosiery Mills prop
erty at Macon was put up at auction
Tuesday. M. Lipman bought the
machinery at 81, $50, whereas it had
cost originally s14,154. The build
ing and lot sold for $4,000, whereas
they had originally cost $4,000.
Judge Miller did not care to have
the property sold at any such sacri!
fee, and he refused to affirm the
sale. 1t is probable that the prop
erty will not again be offered at
public cutlery until next fall, when
it is expected that money will be
easier and the property will bring