The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-18
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

W. 1ne StalkS average ABOUT SIX
feet high. He has already cut over
1000 pounds, which is now in his
barn.
On Friday at the plantation OF
Capt. j. 7. Boy kin at Antioch two
negro men named Henry and Walter
Boykin fell out about a mule, the
quarrel leading to blows. Henry
got hold o.. "a rock and threw it at
Walter, striking him on the head
and crushing the skull, causing al
most Instant death.
In Woodlawn there is cat that
almost any afternoon can, be seen
lelsurely vending his way over to
the basin. In about half an hour
he returns, invariably bringing with
him fresh fish for his 3upper. How
he succeeds in catching the fish is a
mystery not yet solved, but he evi>
IDENTIFY goes in swimming, for he is
dripping when he reaches home.
Young Cross, lad of Is
summers, son Of a widow lady on
Perry Davis place in Lowndes
county, accidentally shot and killed
himself with a pistol on Monday
last. He was trying to extract a
cartridge from the chamber in the
pistol, when it exploded and pene>
trated his abdomen, producing
death in fifteen minutes.
Catarrh originates in Scrotulas faint
P. P. P. purifes the blood, and thus per-
manently cures Catarrh.
john Henry Smith, living in the
upper part of Jasper county, was
recently arrested and placed in jail
for an assault upon his wife and
father. Wednesday they went to
see him. His father refused to help
him, and his wife refused to again
live with him. After they left he
hanged himself with small rope
used to tasten his bunk to the cell.
He first tried to knock out his
brains against his cell.
Ministers of the Cos pei are requested to
call at our drug store and we will give
them (tree of charge), one 81 90 box of
''Cacterine," or Extract of Mexican Cac-
tus, which cures Catarrh, Hay Fever and
all throat and nasal troubles.
E. J. SEIZE, Agt.
Thursday evening last J. S. Elrod
was accidentally shot by 7. A,
Brown over near Walesca. They
were out hunting, and in going
through the woods Mr. Brown slip
ped down, and, in falling, the gun
he was carrying was in some way
discharged, the rifle ball going in
2 Mr.. Elrods back and coming ont in
front. DR., Moore was called in at
once and Elrod was getting along
very nicely when last heard from
People with hair that is continually fills
ing out or those that are bald, can stop
the falling, and get good growth of hair
by using Halls Hair Remover
The miners at Tracy City, Tenn.
captured the stockade, after remov-
ing the company's stores, and then
set fire to and burned the stockade.
No one was disguised, and every
thing was done openly. The con-
vic:s were all loaded into cars and
sent to Nashville The miners were
well armed and organized. The
telegraph wires are cut, and full
particulars canot be had yet.
A fact worth knowing is that blood dis
eases which all other medicines fail to cure
Weld slowly but surely to the blood cleans
ing properties of P. p. P. Prickly Ash
Poke Root and Potassium.
A, few days ago, several people
who had gathered in the store of J.
". Diff & Co., at Statesboro, Ga,
began to discuss the strength of the
members of the party. 1t was fin
ally decided to settle the question
by practical test and they began
raising bags Of shot in their hands.
Allen Hagins, a prominent farmer,
living near there, was one OF the
party and he took part in the tests
with alscrity. He put up two or
three bags of shot over his head with
apparent ease, when all at once he
cried out, "OK, I've broken my back
Hagins was taken at once to the
home of physician near by and ev'
erything possible was done for him
but he died the next morning. He