The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-11-12
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex-
changes.

THERE will be total eclipse of
the moon on the evening of Novem-
Der 10Th.
Tom WEBB, negro, was hanged in
Washington county last Friday for
rape.
REV. SAM SMALL, having finished
his speaking in Massachusetts, has
thanked God he is not Demo
crat," and startsd for these parts,
as he says, ''to reform the South"
AT cambridge the tobacco factory
appears to be interfering with do
mestic help in the city, many SER
wants quitting the kitchen tor the
better wages OF the factory.
REV. GEO. B. TAYLOR, of Balti-
more, has been chosen temporary
pastor Of the First Baptist church
Of Macon, vice DR.. E. W. Warren,
who resigned to become pastor of
the Vineville church.
A Dooly county man recently
procured license and married a
charming woman, but soon discover
ed that he had made a mistake in
his selection. He is now appealing
TO the ordinary to refund him his
money and take the license back.
A little negro boy near Hartwell
has found a novel but effectual way
to quiet children. His mother re-
Gently left her baby in his charge
while she went to town. The baby
becoming fretful and troublesome,
The boy pitched it to the bottom of
the well in the yard. He told his
mother this was the only thing he
could do to quiet it.
On last Saturday afternoon a
beastly murder was committed by a
negro in Charlton county. Joe
Sims disputed with Peter Halford,
another negro. Sims seized an axe,
knocked Halford down and crushed
his head into jelly. After kicking
and stamping on the PROSTATE form
of his victim, he struck the blade oil
the axe in Haltord's body and lett
the country.
BEN SOLOMON, a negro who lives
in Twiggs county, was tried before
Judge Roberts recently on the charge
Of burglary. The negro was sen
fenced to fifteen years in the peni.
Tertiary. He was very grateful tc
the court for the impartial trial he
had received, and to prove his graf.
ltude asked tor additional five years
to his sentence. He was accommo-
dated.
GAINESVILLE Courier; A gen.
tleman who has been raisinga small
flock of sheep for years past says
that sheep-raising would be mos
profitable business if it were not fol
the dogs. He gets Is cents pei
pound for wool, and sheep will yielc
on an average.ot five pounds of WOO
per head each year. You can see
without spectacles that this heats
cotton.
6. W. AUGHTMAN, a man about
35 years of age, and Walter Doug
lass. a 14-year>old boy, were struck
by train on the Georgia Pacific
road near Atlanta Wednesday al
most simultaneously. Aughtmar
had his right foot mashed to jelly
his elbows bruised, the back of the
head badly scratched and his back
seriously injured. Douglass hat
his face, forehead and his head badly
vcut and bruised. 1t was necessary
to amputate the foot of Aughtman
az it was terribly margled and torn
One of the best farms in Dodge
county is managed by Mrs. W. H
Garrett at Godwinville. Besides
conducting a merchantile business
dealing in almost anything kept IL
stock of general merchandise, she
has made with one pillow this season
ten good heavy bales of cotton, 20(
bushels of corn and plenty of peas
potatoes, etc., to last her through
the season.
A sore leg, the flesh mass of disease