The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-12-20
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from eur Elk.
changes.

Judge J. c. Fain has resigned and
Hon. s. P. Mattox, of Dalton, was
elected to fill the anexpired term as
Judge of the Cherokee circuit. The
term expires January LIST.
There is man near Cumming
sixty-six years old, who, up to a few
years ago, had never written or re-
ceived letter, and on that day
bought his first postage stamps.
Mrs. Lila Crabb, nee Griffin,
wife of Charles Crabb, committed
suicide Sunday morning, in Cedar
town, at her boarding house, shoot
ing herself through the head. She
was bride Of two months. Cause
unknown.
Elder James A. Perdue declines
the position of State evangelist for
the Christian church of Georgia,
after being unanimously called to
that place by the State Board. Mr..
Perdue faithfully discharged the du-
ties Of the Office the past year with
distinction and to the satisfaction of
the whole church of Georgia.
SOME months ago friend sent
Mrs. Clara Homister, newspaper
from London, addressing it to PhilA-
delphia, not knowing Mrs. HomiA-
ter's address. There being no MrsA
Clara Homister in Philadelphia, the
paper was sent to New York post
office. And there, strange to say,
in that busy building, handling
millions of pieces of mail matter,
letters and papers, the paper was
mailed to Townsville, and duly re-
ceived by the lady.
l.. d. WEAVER, of Camden, N. j.,
after taking in the Augusta exposi-
ton, went to Sandersville last week
and called on the clerk of the su.
perior court for information about
large bodies of wild land, some 90.
900 acres, which he had recently
purchased in Washington county
Having become a large land owner
in Middle Georgia, he naturally tell
inclined to inspect his timbered es
tate with a view to development
He found that he had been made
the victim of huge fraud by wild
cat land agent. Clerk Mayo says
he has received hundreds of letters
of inquiry from parties in the north,
east and west who have invested in
mythical tracts of wild land in that
section.
AS the Marietta train rolled out of
Atlanta Saturday there was among
the passengers an old woman accom-
panied by three children. The
woman showed that she was in need.
and when the conductor cane
around she told him she had no
money, and begged him to pass her
to Marietta. The conductor told
her ne could not do this. The
woman's entreaties attracted the
attention of the other passengers,
and after the conductor left her. a
beautiful young lady arose from her
seat and proceeded to the old
woman's side The poor creature
was crying at the prospect of being
put of, but the young lady spoke
kindly to her and told her that she
would see that her fare was paid to
Marietta. The young lady then
sought the conductor and proffered
him the money at which a half
dozen men brought out their pocket
books and offered to pay the fare of
the woman, but the young lady re-
fused to let them do so, claiming it
as her privilege to pay the fare,
which she did. She then took her
seat as if nothing had happened out
of the usual run Of things, while
the old woman's face beamed with
!. thriagratitude that filled her heart.
a Sung lady was one of Mariet-
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