The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-05-05
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

The Georgia weekly editors will
meet at Rome on the 18th of July.
A man was fined $3.50 in Atlanta
for failing to have his kerosene oil
inspected before selling it.
THERE are about fifty third party
sympathizers in Dade county, Geor.
gia, and three>fourths of them are
former republicans.-Dalton Argus.
William Johnson, the condemned
negro murderer, now behind the
bars of CLARKE county Jail, will be
hanged on Friday, June 8.
The Newman Cotton Mills have
just declared dividend Of 7 per
cent on capital stock of $4,000,
and added $4,000 to the surplus
fund.
SHERIFF MONTGOMERY, of Mil
Ter county, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years by
Judge Miller, for the embezzlement
of county funds.
THE large Alberta peach orchards
around Marshallville are loaded
down with fruit. It is expected the
shipping will begin about the mid
die of May and continue to the first
of August. During that period
Marshallville will ship over $500, 900
worth of peaches, and get the cash
for them.
THE Comptroller General has not
fled the railroads that they are re.
quired to pay the county tax for the
past two years within the next thirty
days, with Z per cent. interest from
the time the tax was due. That for
1890 was due the Goth of December
of that year, and that for 1891 was
due last December.
GAINESVILLE Eagle: Bill Wat
son, (colored), butcher by trade,
: brought to this Office yesterday a
large handful Of nails, screws, iron
nuts, small stones, Jumps of iron
ore, small pieces of sheet iron, cop
per and brass, and many other hard
substances, too tedious to mention,
all taken from the stomach of beef
he slaughtered few days ago.
JAMES O'NEAL, who lives about
: two miles from Mount Vernon, ate
a honeysuckle ball on Wednesday
afternoon. Soon after he complain
ed of dizziness and rapidly grew
worse until Thursday morning about
2 o'clock, when he died. 1t is sup
posed that he ate spider which was
concealed within the folds of the
honeysuckle ball.
Frank Middleton, very black
negro who struck Americas several
days ago, wearing a high rakish
looking stove pipe hat, is in Jail on
the charge of forgery. He claimed
to be representing a loan association
and was anxious to loan out $40, 900
on easy terms. He worked num-
Der of credulous negroes on the 81
installment plan. He was not sat-
is6ed with duping negroes, but forg-
ed two orders, one for SO and the
other Tor quart of whisky, which
landed him in Jail.
LAGRANGE GRAPHIC: Mr.. Sam
Borders, who is the manager of Mrs.
Baxter Swanson's plantation, came
into town last Tuesday to get some
tools with which to do some. ditch
ing. 1t was late in the evening
when he started home, and when
about one mile from town he was
stopped by negroes grabbing the
bride reins of his team. He never
had any money for them to rob him
of, but he did have good little
gun, and opened fire on them. He
is pretty sure he struck two of them,
as pools of blood were found there
next morning. Tie would-be rob-
bers ian off through the woods and
4 have not since been heard from.
kbbotts East Indian Corn Paint cures all
Corns, Warts and Bunions.