The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-11-05
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex.
changes.

Of the trees bare.
SAM and John Stanley, sentenc-
ed to IL months in the chain gang,
escaped from Morganton Jail Fri
day night.
Fulton county Jail is now we'll
stocked with United States prisoners.
During the day more than hun
bred of these robust mountainers can
be seen in the Jail yard. Some
spending their time in playing mar
bles, some playing cards, others in
jumping and still others pass the
day in laughing and joking.
THE State School Commissioner
is now busily engaged in sending
out to the tax collectors of each OF
the counties in the State, orders to
to deliver to the county branch of
education the school fund due them
out of the first taxes collected. and
is quite job, but Commissioner
Bradwell says he is pushing it
through so the teachers may get
their pay by Christmas.
Turner Robinson was safely lodg-
ed in Jail at Newton Sunday night.
Turner is the negro brute who whip
ped his 12-year-old daughter to
death with pair of pillow lines, and
then took her down near pond on
the Slappey place and buried her.
Several weeks alter his daughter
was missing one of the negroes who
was passing by the pond and found
the body OF the little girl where the
hogs had rooted it from its watery
grave.
There was corn shocking at a
certain farmers house IN Ebert
county ON Wednesday night, in
which several women participated,
carrying their babies. When it
was over, the mothers departed,
taking with them what they thought
to be their babies. But two of the
mothers discovered next morning
that they had made mistake, each
one taking the others baby. For a
while it seemed there would be
trouble in the two households, but
an: exchange was finally effected,
and the two mothers are now hap
Ply.
Robert Leonard lost a fine gold
watch in the woods about four miles
from Talbotton one day last week
while driving cattle. He missed it
about night and returned the next
morning with L. A. Baldwin and
Albert Baldwin to look for it. They
got on the track of the horse ridden
by Mr.. Leonard the day before and
followed it some distance through
the woods. When about to give up
the search Mr.. Leonard discovered
his watch hanging by the chain to a
small bush within few feet CT
where he was then standing just as
it had doubtless been dragged from
his pocket the day before 1t was
found to be not in the least injured.
A Savannah banker says the banks
get more counterfeit money than
people imagine. When asked what
becomes of this money he said !:
"Well, we keep it usually. A law
was recently passed by Congress
making it q crime for person to
have in his possession spurious
money, but none of us have been
arrested yet. A circular of some
length has just been issued which
fully explains the object of the law.
There is a provision in the law
which allows the the banks to keep
as much as $500 in spurious money,
as means of Identification of coun-
terteits, provided a certificate of au-
thority has been used from the
Treasury Department. The secret
service bureau is sending out agents
through the country inspecting the
banks and collecting all the spurious
money in their possession. The
Savannah banks have not yet been
relieved Of their surplus of counter
feits, but they probably will be be-
fore long"
Sweet Gum and Mullen is natures great
remedy for coughs, colds, Group, consump-