The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-07-21
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

are'unlon at Gainesville nJnly III.
OVER $500, 600 has been brought
into Fort Valley this summer by
the peach crop. EH# q
The negroes in Stewart county
own and pay taxes on more than
10000 acres of land. gB&a ~
PETER DANIELS, the negro who
killed Sylvia Lyle was hanged at At
lanta Friday.
THE Carroll county commission
ers met Monday and agreed to build
new court house.
An Americas brick company has
just closed a contract to furnish
100000 brick for the new govern
nent building at Jacksonville, Fla.
A LADY of Cumming while look>
ing over her husbands old clothes
recently, discovered a letter which
she had given him to post FIVE years
ago. The letter was addressed to
lady friend. And yet girls continue
to get married.
RICH MITCHELL, negro gambler
and all round tough, is in Jail in
Greenville, Ca: for mutilating the
body OF prominent lady, whose
grave he opened, cutting of her in
dex finger for luck bone"
Mr.. w. g. COOPER, well known
newspaper man, who has been con.
nected with the Atlanta Constitu-
ton for the last i've years, in con-
necticn with J. P. Cooper and J. N.
King and other gentleman, has
bought the Rome Tribune.
JOSIE TODD, a negress, was ar
rested in Atlanta on a horrible
crime. She gave birth to a child,
aud, while still alive, she placed it
in the fireplace, in which glowing
fire had been built, and literally
burned it alive.
Mr.. BUCK WARREN, of Powers
vile, sold his peach crop on eight
acres for $500. This beats raising
cotton at . cents per pound. The
peach crop of Georgia will bring in
thousands of dollars this season,
and that, too, at time when it will
do the most good.
GREE" STEVENS, prominent
merchant. who lives at Livingston,
twelve miles from Rome, was shot
and killed by his clerk, Frank Wiki
erson. The shooting occurred at
Stephens house in the room. No
one was present but Stephens,
Wilkcrson and Stephens wife.
Both men were armed with pistols
and four shots were fired, two by
each. Wilkerson is dangerously
wounded, having one shot in his arm
and one in the chest. It was about
Stephens wife.
A young gentleman who lives
near Cordele, Ca, went to New
York few weeks since, and has
now returned a sadder and wiser
man. He went in accordance with
an invitation from a green goods
man, and paid $500 while there for
$4,000 OF genuine looking green>
backs, but when he returned home
and examined the packages he found
to his dismay that the greenbacks
ha6 been taken and brown paper
substituted therefor. The young
mai kept the matter secret for a
long time, but the facts have all
leaked out and he seems to receive
little sympathy from any one.
Greensboro Herald-J Journal: A
fine mare belonging to c. A. Smith
was killed ty a ratrlesnake the other
day on his farm near Liberty. A
negro was plowlng the mare in a
corn field, and as he got to the end
of the row the mare stepped in some
grass and underground. The negro
heard the rattle Of snake and in a
moment the mare staggered and fell
TO the ground. Before anything
could be done the mare was dead.
The snake escaped, but it must have
been a large one, as It was not five
minutes after she was struck before