The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-07-02
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex-
changes.

NCOlSO w dSLluS tOu, NOiOICU, VIII
be hanged for murder in Atlanta
next Friday.
A young farmer in Talbot. who
runs three-mule farm has sold this
year $500 worth Of farm produce,
and will Lave his cotton beside.
The Thomasyille city council pro-
pose putting tax of $500 on all
dealers in cigarettes and cigarette
paper.
Solicitor General R. B. Russell,
Of Athens, was married recently in
Oglethorpo county to Miss Ida Dill
lard, the daughter of a pominent
planter Of that section.
Al the July session OF the Legis-
lature bill will be introduced to
abolish the city court Of Rome, The
object Of the bill is to lessen the
burdens OF the taxpayers.
Abe Wayman, colored one Of the
escaped congicts from the Dade Coal
Mines, during the recent riot, was
captured in Chattanooga last
Thursday. 5000 reward.
Smith, Dobbins s. Co., of Gaines
vile, dealers in general merchandise,
have made an assignment with IL.
L. Richardson, assignee. Liabilities
about IS, 600. The assets are about
the same.
We heard gentleman Of the
court house bar make this remark
when asked, els it hot enough for
you?" "Hot enough. we'll, l should
say it was why, we have to feed
our hens on Clipped ice to keep
them from laying hard-boilcd eggs"
Hustler of Rome.
w. B. Woodward, son of Editor
Woodward of the Dahloncga Signal,
who is foreman Of the mechanical
department. of the Dahlonega Mug
get, and Miss Mary Satterfeld have
been married nearly two months,
but it was not publicly known until
Wednesday. No one knows any
reason for the secret marriage, as no
opposing parents stood in their way.
W. Grey, formerly Of Thomasville,
but now residing in Arkansas, is on
a visit to Thomasville. He was a
member of a company from Burke
county in Cobb's famous legion dur
ing the war. He says he knows pos
itively of twelve men that he killed,
not counting the wounded or those
he saw fall at distante. Mr.. Gray
was sharp-shooter, and most of his
fighting was done in Virginia around
Richmond. On one occasion he was
shot through the neck himself.
The family of J. NJ. Thompson,
living on the farm of W. B. Orr, FIVE
miles east of Newman, in the Sixth
distric1 of Coweta county, narrowly
escaped death on Sunday last. Light
ming struck a galvanized clothes
wire that was fastened to post, and
several shade trees within q few feet
of the house, the shock knocking
down and stunning the entire fami-
ly, eight in number, tearing shade
trees and posts in pieces, melting
twenty feet of the wire. setting fire
to clothing in the house and destroy
ing the flower garden.
Steve and Enoch Wetherington,
Of Valdoosta, were out several days
ago, Lear Naylor, chasing an otter
and coon, when they found a huge
alligator in hole. He was fam
Gus old resident, and Mr.. Wethel-
ington had been trying to capture
him tor five years. They had to dig
down several feet, where they got at
his tail, and with knife they split
his tail and put handspike through
the opening. A strong man at
either end OF the handspike forced
the gator out, and they killed him
with lightwood knot. The gator
was poor, but weighed $50 pounds.
1t was ten feet eight inches long.
Its mouth stretched open measured
eighteen inches from top to bottom
Of the jaw tip. Ii measured four
feet six inches from toe to toe across
the breast.