The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-01
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex.
changes.

WdTm WedLuer.
DR.. ARNOLD declines to accept
the appointment of collector of in
ternal revenue.
The canning factory at Dalton has
put up, SO far this season, about 49,
900 cans of fruit.
In Whitfield county several in
stances can be cited where growers
have realized a net profit of from
$500 to s600per acre from tomatoes.
The state alliance meet is in Ma
con August Goth. There are 5000
sub-alliances in the state, with a
membership of between $4,000 and
100000.
Troup factory at LaGrange will
add 1850 worth Of machinery dur
ing the summer to its already COM
plete outfit. The mills are doing
well.
FRANK BLoUNT, colored, was
hanged at Valdosta, Ca, on last
Friday. He confessed to three
murderers, one rape, and numerous
other crimes.
D. B.HIll of Amercius received on
Friday twenty watermelons from J.
II. Aliens place, near Smithville,
that aggregate $50 pounds. Mr..
Allen has spur track from the main
line, built out into his melon field,
where the cars are loaded for ship
ment. He has shipped to date H.
900 melons.
Gordon Kiser, drummer of At
lanta, while in his room at La Grange
hotel, dreamed that burglar was
in his room. On awakening he mis-
took his hat and vest hanging on
chair for the burglar and opened
fire. He put three bullets through
the garments before discovering his
mistake.
Col. ]. Y. Carmichael of Coweta
county has announced himself can
didate for congress, and says he pro-
poses to issue circular to the voters
OF the fourth congressional district
at an early date, setting forth his
platform. Col. Carmichael, it will be
remembered, ran as an independent
candidate against Congressman
Grimes in the last race.
The LaGrange Cotton Mills now
employ one hundred and forty hands,
and the weekly pay roll is $500.
Nearly all the machinery is in opera
ton, and the output is $500 yards
per day, or $4,000 per week. Some
of this product is very heavy
weighing two pounds to the yard.
The employees work II hours per day,
except Saturday, when they are
dismissed at o'clock p. m.
The Supreme Court of Geogia has
decided in a test case, Shook VS..
The Atlanta and Florida Railroad,
that the change Of name or route of
proposed railroad annual subscrip-
ton contracts, and subscribers cannot
be forced to pay. Shook subscribed
to the stock of Atlanta and Hawkins
vile railroad, and when the name
and route were changed, he refused
to pay and suit was brought, and de-
cided against him in the city court
Of Atlanta. Judge Simmons rem
dered the decision overruling the
judgement of that court.
DR.. s. P. Richardson, Of Athens,
comes 20 the front with another cat
story. He tells of an incident of
three or four kittens being found in
certain house one morning, and
there was little difference among
the children of the family as to how
the stock could be divided. While
I the discussion was going on the old
Maltese cat came in, and this ended
the discussion, for each member of
the family could now have a cat Of
their own. In the course of a few
hours a gentleman living seven or
eight miles distant came in, and in
little while the cat came in and
hoped on the strangers knee. The
old cat had become offended at the
mistress of the home and had re-
moved herself and her whole tami-