The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-09-05
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from our Ex-
changes.


sold to a foreign company-an En-
glish company.
Alb. Cody has been found guilty
at Monroe of killing his father, and
gone to the penitentiary for life.
Atlanta is in the race to secure
the Farmers Alliance exchange of
Georgia.
Dougherty farmers aver that they
will let their cotton rot in the fields
before they will wrap it in iute.
Cotton bagging or nothing.
There is growing, in the yard of
Mr.. Alex. Bishop, Athens, a banan-
ma tree with large bunch of the
fruit on it. Georgia soil is great.
The bill transferring Dooly coun.
ty TO the Southwestern circuit from
the Oconee circuit las been approx
ed by the governor and is now law
in full force and effect.
At Hawkinsville over 100 bales of
cotton were received Saturday, and
were eagerly taken at 103 cents for
jute covered, and 103 cent for cot
ton covered.
j. NJ. Tiff, of Albany, has dis
covered an antidote for drought-at
least he claims that blowing cotton
seed into the ground near the roots
of the cotton plant has the effect
claimed.
Taylor Davenport, formerly of
Chattooga county, now of Cherokee
county, Alabama, owns $50 acres of
land near Valley Head, for which
he has refused $3.50 per acre. There
is a valuable lead mine on it.
The county commissioners of De-
halb have had to borrow $500 to
pay the expenses of the present
court, and had to borrow $4,000 last
court, making total of $500 the
county has had to borrow within a
year.
There comes another story of the
Voolfolk killing. The Brunswick
Times publishes an interview with a
negro named John Richards, who
says he accompanied DuBose to the
Voolfolk residence, and that DuBose
and negro named Anderson did
the killing.
1t will be more than fourteen
months before the people will have
the pleasure of electing members of
congress, but candidates are already
beginning to make their appearance
even in Georgia, where politicians
are noted for their modesty. Hon.
Tom Watson, of McDufie, is already
in the field as a candidate against
Congressman George I. Barnes in
the tenth district.
1t is believed that the State ALI
ance will demand that Col. Living
ston shall withdraw from the field
as candidate for governor or be
deposed as president of the ALI
ance. The farmers say the Alliance
has no politics, and the manner of
Col. Livingston's announcement on
the heel of his election as president
puts that organization in an embar-
RAISING position. Will Livingston
resign or renounce his candidacy :?
At Brunswick Sarah Holland,
the negro woman evangelist who is
creating such an excitement among
the negroes, has adopted new way
of drawing congregation. Realiz-
ing Negroes fondness for water
melons, she purchased four wagon
loads of them, and Wednesday night
she had grand cutting for the
benefit of her hearers. The negroes
went tor the melons like wildfre,
then they listened to the Rev. Sarah
expounding the scriptures. All the
guests at the feast will probably
have chills; then Sarah will pass
her hands over them two or three
times, and collect 81 each for curing
them. Sarah seems to be fnancier
as well as preacher.
ONO Democrats have nominated
Hon. James E. Campbell for Cover
nor. Foraker is the Republican
candidate.