The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-03-07
Culied and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
4 WOMAN 106 YEARS 0LO.
Roswell has a Clock 100 Years Old.
A Little Girl Dies Of Hydropho-
bia. Other News.

Inere are 9,OOO acres devoted to
peach culture in Houston county.
An election for county officers Of
Taylor county has been ordered.
The populist officers elected in Jan
uary failed to give bond.
Last Friday night the store of the
G. P. Marshall Company, at Perry,
was forcibly entered, the safe was
drilled into, and about S125 stolen.
Athens went through a regular
epidemic Of burglary Wednesday
night and early Thursday morning.
Seven burglaries and larcenies
were committed.
In the contest between Clements
and Carter, Tor sheriff of Polk coun-
ty, Jadge James has decided that
Sheriff E. W. Clements was duly
elected and is entitled to the place.
Robert Adair, out hunting with a
friend near Talbotton Saturday. ac-
cidentally shot himself in the knee,
from the effects of which he died
the same night.
The city council of Griffin has re-
lieved Cotton Manufacturing Co. of
taxation for the period Of fifteen
years, with proviso that company
put in 100000 more improvements
ON mile
Grandma" Stewart, who lives
near Tell, is perhaps the oldest per-
son in Campbell county, being LOG
years old. She is very feeble and
rarely ever tries to walk without as
sistsnce.
| +, E. Glover raised on his farm
in Panhandle district u Taylor last
year four bales of long staple cotton,
which he shipped to Savannah last
week. The first of that kind ever
raised in that county. He was Of
fered 10 cents per pound for the
cotton at Reynolds.
Mr.. j. J. Lee, we'll known citi-
zen of Augusta, was killed oy the
Georgia fsst train at Warrenton
Thursday evening. There is con-
siderable speculation about the oc-
currence and some believe that there
was foul play, that Mr.. Lee was
murdered and his body placed upon
the track.
A daughter of John Harvey of
Schley county died Saturday from
what is believed to have been gen
uine case OF hydrophobia. Four
months ago the child, while playing
in chicken coop in her fathers
yard, was terribly bitten by a
strange cur which, after biting the
child, was killed by Mr.. Harvey,
who dashed its brains out against 8
tree. The little girl seemed to re-
cover, but on Sunday was taken
violently i'll and died with every
symptom Of rabies.
Mr.. Nathan Ahgood, of Roswell,
has clock which has been running
and keeping correct time for peri
cd of 120 years, and has never been
out of fix but once. During the
war yankee soldier broke cog
out OF one Of its wheels, which gave
it years rest. Mr.. Allgocd had
it repaired and it is now doing full
duty. The running gear is ali Of
wood, and the face has an ancient
appearance. It has licked its mil.
lions. NJ
A few Of the younger men Of Ath-
ems have made up their minds to get
up knitting mill at Athens. They
will apply for charter. The cap.
ital stock is to be $4,000, and is to
be raised on the cooperative plan,
the shares being SIS each. These
young men started out Wednesday
taxing up subscriptions to the cap
ital stock. They worked only about
an hour, and in that time 485 shares
of stock were taken, representing