The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-06-02
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

Hon. r. ). POWELL, OF Barnes
vile, died in Macon last week.
R. w. JONES, of Macon, has been
arrested charged with setting fire to
his store in that city.
ALBERT CHILDERs an Atlanta
young man is in Jail Tor robbing his
employees. A desire to be sport
on the munifcent salary of $50
month caused the trouble
AN unsuspecting storekeeper
gave $50 in the coin of the realm as
change for $40 counterfeit bill at
Gainesville day or two ago. The
man who passed the bill escaped.
Ebert Hartley was heard to say
in Perry last Monday that he now
owns a SOW that has been the moth
er Of 172 pigs and now has litter
of eleven. That SOW is only 6 years
old and is fat enough to make pork
of.
AsBURY GENTRY, who murdered
peddler named Richard Brynes,
in HARRISON county, has been tried,
found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged July 18th. Gentry is
desperate and is charged with horse
stealing, arson and murder.
IT Is estimated that the peach or
chards from Macon to Marshallville
will bring 100000 to their owners
this season. The trees are weighted
down with the ripening fruit, and
the facilities for shipping are the
best. They will command ready
sale and good prices in New York
and other cities.
A pathetic chapter in the Stocks
murder case is written in Atlanta.
Mrs. John I. Stocks, mother of Per-
ter Stocks, now confined in Fulton
county Jail, convicted of the murder
of Alph Cassin, has advertised her
household furniture for GALE at auc-
ton to raise money Tor her erring
son. 1t is another instance of a
mothers love and devotion.
AT colored picnic at Camilla,
last Friday, Tom Singleton walked
up to the table just as thousand
hungry negroes began to eat and,
pulling his pistol, shot Aaron Jack
son three times. Jackson shot and
killed Singleton's brother last Feb
ruary, and the grand jury did not
indict him Tor it, so Tony took the
matter in his own hands and filled
Jackson full OF lead. The wounds
may not prove fatal, but they are
considered very serious.
A PITIFUL story of death by hy>
drophobia comes from Livingston, a
village ten miles from Rome. G. A.
Stephens told the tale. His little
daughter, Florida Stephens, only 3
years old, is the victim of the terri
BILE malady. About six weeks ago
she was playing in the yard with a
small dog of which the child was
very fond. Suddenly there was a
scream and it was found that the
dog had bitten the child. The dog
was afterward killed, the wound in
the child's faced healed and it was
thought all danger was over, but
last week she was taken suddenly
sick, began foaming at the mouth
and making feeble attempts to bite.
SheI soon died in terrible agony.
TOWNSVILLE Times Enterprise
Cats, black cats, white cats, yellow
cats, gray cats, in fact cats of all
sizes and colors, make their home in
the freight depot. They find snug
retreats among the unclaimed and
refused freight. There are eighty
six cats in all by actual count.
They tell good story ON one of the
returning May week celebrators.
He viewed the eighty-six felines for
the first time day or two ago. The
expression that came over his face
was a picture. Evidently he had
been sampling some artillery punch,
for when he could retain himself no
longer he cried out: "Boys, I've
got 'em again; telegraph my brother
in Monticeilo" Tust fhan somaS