The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-10-27
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

y About $4,000 will be spent by the
Pre5byterians of Dalton in improve
ments on their church building.
RICHMOND county was shown to
have $4,000 voters by Tax Collector
Boilers last report.
The woman who marries man to
reform him undertakes a job that
will ruin her complexion.
The contract has been let for the
erection of new Masonic temple in
Griffin. 1t will be three story, with
marble and glass front.
AN Oconee county bird hunter
/ has killed over 500 birds this season
and sold them for 10 cents apiece.
He only missed eight shots in killing
tie 500.
MELTON FLOYD, colored switch
man at the Savannah, Florida and
Western shops, was run over by an
engine at Waycross Friday after
noon and killed.
Dr. J. P. McFERRIN, who has
been pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Macon for the last year
and nine months, has been trans
!. ferred by the conference to Chatta>
nooga.
G. G. Stovall has entered suit
against the Atlanta and West Point
railroad for $4,000 damages. He
was employed as conductor, and
says he was discharged without
cause.
: A FATAL accident occurred in
Greene county Thursday by which
the 7-year-old son OF 1r. ]. R. Rob
ms wos shot and killed by his 49,
year-old son. The boys were play
ing with a pistol which they did not
know was loaded.
THE gold mine three miles above
the Gainesville Air Line depot at
Gainesville was sold last week to
S William Willim and others of Still.
water, Mimi, and a 50-ton plant
Twill be erected at a very early date.
A FRUIT and peanut merchant of
Athens says that his house stands
a loss of 5000 year from men who
pass in and out and take a handful
Of peanuts, few grapes, an occa-
sional banana. and a pocketful of
appless.
DR.. o. Fl Cantrell of jackson
rode eleven miles in seventy
minutes Sunday, counting time
taken to rest. The road VAS rough
and quite hilly. He had his little
girl, Marguerite, with him, q years
old, who weighed twenty-five or
thirty pounds.
THE little girl of Mr.. and HRS.
W. |. Thompson, of Ellaballe, while
playing in the kitchen last Thurs
day, accidentally let her clothes
catch FIRE. Her screams attracted
J, te attention of her parents who
were off picking cotton, but before
they reached the house she vas
burned too badly to live. A ply.
stefan was called but to no. avail.
Death occurred in three days.
DR.. BELL, OF Elberton, who was
thrown from his buggy, regained
consciousness Thursday after being
unconscious for thirty-six hours.
DR.. Willis F, Westmoreland, of At
lants, was summoned to attend him.
He trephlned his head and removed
a olot of blood from the inside of
his skull. It was a difficult opera
ton successfully performed, and
DR.. Bell will recover.
Douglasville New South: Last
Thursday night F. w. Jenkins, one
OF the leading third partyites of
Chapel Hill district, left very sud-
denly for parts unknown, but sup
posed to be for Texas, and a large
number of creditors are bcmoaning
his sudden departure. Saturday
Upshaw Brothers had an attach
mept served for $40, r. D. Smith
one tor sos, A. P. Bonner one for
about 5000 on his crop and stock.
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