The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-11-02
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THREE RATTLESNAEES UNEARTHED
A Sad Tragedy in Wilcox County.
What One Horse Farmer Did.
Other Items Of Interest.

DR.. 4. /. Peak, of Dalton, is arr
ranging to set out 10000 fine peach
trees on Dug Gap mountain.
Ike Williams, colored, was hang.
ed at Madison Friday for numbering
Harriet Williams, colored.
At Flowery Branch recently, as
William Waters was approaching his
home, his 4 year old daughter ran
out to meet him. AS she. reached
him she fell dead at his feet, having
broken a. blood vessel.
Mr.. Bertling, of Athens, has start
ed an industry that promises to
eclipse all others. 1t is canary
bird farm. He has now quite
large number on hand, and expects
to build a large place and raise them
for market.
The owners of cotton gins around
Carterville are determined tc gin
cotton, regardless of whitecap
threats. At mass meeting in Tay-
lorsyille resolutions were passed to
. that effect. ele
At Montezuma, last week, Harper
Il, Black, of Sumter county, aged
seventy-four, and Mrs. Emily Butler,
of Montezums, aged forty nine, were
married. Mr.. Black is a prosperous
farmer and prominent citizen of
Sumter. ~ e
In trying to light a lantern at the
sawmill and ginnery Of Hartsfeld &
Gregory, at Moultrie, Pleman Greg
DRY set fire to a pile of liht cotton b.
the flying off of the match head, and
the entire establishment, with nine
teen tales Of long cotton, was burns
ed. Loss about "a, 500.
Griffin Call: DR.. w. W. Black,
of Fort Valley, has demonstrated to
a certainty that the culture of the
fig is profitable business in this
section. He has one fig bush from
which he has realized SAT by pre-
serving ..and selling the fruit this
season. To have undertaken to
have shipped the fruit green perhaps
would have proved q failure, but
when they are preserved and put
up in nice Salable packages they De-
come both delicious and profitable.
The doctor sold these fig preserves
to New Orleans people, right where
they raise fue figs.
A sad tragedy occurred afew days
ago at a farm house in Wilcox coun-
ty, in which Mrs. Mary Golden was
killed. a Mr.. Davis, neighbo1
while hunting, called at the house
of Mr.. Golden, and laid his rife on
a bed in the room where Mrs. Sold
en- was sitting, surrounded by her
three little, children. Mr.. Golden
and his friend Davis left the house
to walk over the farm. During
their absence the little six-year-old
son of the unfortunate woman, while
toying with the rifle, exploded it,
the ball penetrating the body Of his
mother, entering the side just above
the hip. She sprarg from the chair
and staggered into the front yard,
when she fell dead.
Warrenton Clipper: Afew even
ings since Mr.. Martin Smith, a
prosperous farmer living near town,
had occasion to build fire in one
of the rooms OF his dwelling in which
no fire had been kindled since last
spring, and his horror may better be
imagined than described, when,
STOPPING over to light the kindling,
he beheld large rattlesnake coiled
up directly in the fireplace. Mr..
Smith was soshorrifod at the pres
.ence of the monster in his house
that before he could even attempt
to strike it it had disappeared
through an opening into the depth
Of the hearth. Acting upon the
idea that first suggested itself, that
hiusa1t ond 70 noilv oouId not dwnIl