The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-05-16
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

building the South Brunswick and
Terminal railroad.
-. A. BARNETT, wealthy planter
of Morgan county, Ga, after being
on spree took 90 grains of NOR
phine and died.
MIR. J. NJ. Kimbrough, of Harris
county, has been elected Agricul-
turist Of the Experimental farm
Station. He is comparatively a
young man, but farmer by birth
and education.
THE American Match Company
of Gainesville, has been running
on full time for the whole winter
and spring with no dearths of or
ders.
Carrollton has raised between
$4,000 and $4,000 for 8 cotton
factory, and Whitesburg has sub
scribed about $4,000 for a paper
mill. Old Carroll seems to be catch
ing on.
j. 0. NELMs, the much married
man, was tried in Early county
superior court, convicted and sen
fenced to the penitentiary for tour
years. He was the proud possessor
of tour living wives.
A. L. Barry of Alpine, Walker
county, came to his death recently
from an unusual cause. He had
mashed the nail of the middle finger
of his right hand, it ending in blood
poison.
MRS G. L. O'GoRMoN, of Macon,
has hooking bird that has learned
to exactly initiate the whistle of the
postman. He has the note SO ex-
act that the neighbors are con-
stantly running to the door looking
for the letter that never comes. 1t
has been observed, too, that if the
postman changes his whistle the
bird changes to suit the new sound.
WILLIAM SPENCER, of Jackson
county, will sell this season, 10000
quarts of strawberries. He star ted
into the business on small scale,
and found such ready sale that he
has increased his plant to large pro-
portions. They will average him Is
cents per quart, and pay the ex-
penses of the balance of his large
farm.
]. R. GAINES exhibited in the
Hartwell Sun office on Friday a
chicken just Matched that had two
bodies, four legs, four wings, joined
to one neck and head. One pairssof
1eet were set for travelling forward,
and the other pair for travelling
backward. Being uncertain as to
which way it should go, it died.
THOMSON Journal During the
fall and winter many of our farmers
sold their cotton seed to the oil
mills for 129 cents bushels, and
are now buying seed at % cents a
bushel to replant their crops. This
is the kind of bow-legged economy
that causes a farm to stand around
on the streets and cuss the mer-
chants and guano agents.
The Hon. Primus Jones of Baker
county, was in Albany Saturday,
with broadgauge smile, and a
busy air. He dropped into the
News and Advertiser sanctum with
two stalks of cotton six inches in
height, having squares already de-
veloped. He says that he has 300
acres of this samo stand, and that
the squares on has cotton are two
weeks earlier than he ever had
them.
It is said that once in every TWEEN
ty years the common sv mp cane of
Georgia blooms. W. Il. Carpenter,
of Ebert county, says that in 1869
all the brakes were abloom in that
county, and that now, in 1889, they
are again in flower. The bloom is
as blue as indigo. de lso SAYS it
is a sure sign of gooo crop year,
for in 1869 it bloomed and it was
the best crop year ever known In
that section.
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