The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06

old man. lie was born in Washing
ton county, Georgia, is the youngest
of a family of sixteen children, and
his mother was fifty-one years old
when he was born. He is now 81
years old, is in perfect health, and
bids fair to live many years. He
has chewed and smoked tobacco all
his life, never eats vegetables, except
potatoes, drinks coffee three times a
day,and was never sick but one time
in lis 6fe, and that was last summer
when he made himself sick by eating
/ too much candy. Two hours sleep
night is sufficient for him. He has
kept the bridge tor the past fourteen
years, and has drank no whisky in
thirty year.
There is a law in the code of
Georgia which says: GAIL persons
engaged in selling by weights and
measures shall apply 20 the Ordina-
ries OF their respective counties, and
have their measures so marked; and
in default thereof shall not collect
any account note or other writing,
the consideration of which is any
commodity sold by their weights and
measures. Code, sec. 1889, page
342. The Ordinary of every county
has or ought to have set of United
States Standard weights and meas
ures, and as the State Supreme Court
has recently sustained this law it
would be well for all dealers to come
up to the requirements OF this law.
j. M..Roberts, one of Covington's
best citizens, was assaulted by Mar
tin Wyatt (colored) with a knife.
He had cut Mr.. Roberts about the
hands and was about to stab him
when Washington Roberts, son of
MIR. Roberts came up and drew his
revolver, aimed and fred. The ne
gro, seeing the pistol pointed at him
jerked MIR. Roberts in front of him
just in time to receive the ball,
which :entered Mr.. Roberts back
and was taxed out on the opposite
side, but he has since died.
Barlow Fluker, a desperate ne
gro, was killed by Marshal Good
bread, of Jesup, Saturday. The
negro is the same who few nights
ago killed a woman supposed to be
his wife, in Brunswick, and then es-
capped. The Marshal Of Jesup was
notified that Fluker was near town
and went out and arrested him.
On their way back to town Fluker
assaulted the Mashal with a knife,
and in the scuffle which followed
the marshal succeeded in getting
the negroes knife and cut his throat.
Two freight trains ran together
two miles south of Dalton, tat To-
clock Saturday morning on the East
Tennessee road, demolished engines
412 and 425 with. ten cars, princi-
pally loaded with lumber. Western
and Atlantic track was blocked for
six hours, the two roads running
alongside at this point.
Tom Watson made a speech in
Lincoln county Thursday in
which he claimed to be. as good a
Democrat as breathes the breath of
life. 1t is gratifying Ito lsarn that
Thomas still considers himself a
Democrat.--Columbu Enquirer
San.
John Stowe, of Shelton, swallows
frogs alive with much ease and rel
ish. He says people eat much worse
things every day.
A Decatur county man tells the
following snake story: One day
recently dog what was thought to
be a pole-cat under clay root, on
McLean's turpentine farm, near
Recovery. A negro, William Smell,
investigated and found den OF rat
tlesnakes containing three old
ones. He killed these and seventy
one other small ones, making sew
ty-tour rattlesnakes in one den.
The largest had twelve rattles
and a button. and the two next larg>
est ten rattles and a button each,
and it wasn't very good dav for