The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-02-20
STATE NEWS. $
Called and Condensed from cur Ex-
changes.

Chambers isproving very destruc-
tive to the stock in Schley county.
Athens is to have new bank.
The capital stock viii be s100, 900.
The Rome Brick Company shipped
100000 brick to Piedmont. Ala,
during the week just past.
THERE is some talk Of. erecting q
factory at Walthourville for the
manufacture Of paper from palmetto.
Twelve armed men on Thursday
night broke open the Jail at Jasper,
Ga, and liberated four prisoners. /
The young raen Of Americas have
raised $4,000 for furniture fac
tory. ' ~ M s- -7
Last Friday was the 18TH ami
versary of the settlement OF Georgia,
but a great many people overlooked
the fact.
At Warrenton, Wednesday, while
cleaning his rife, Ernest Lee, a lad
Of Is years, accidentally shot him
self through his hand,
D. Morrison, the real estate agent
and the proprietor Of the Gate City
kennels at Atlanta, sold $1,000
worth of dogs one year.
Lincoln Ridgway, (colored), who
lives with B. r. Deyore, near Al
pharetta, has caught this winter
ninety-fve opossums. d45AE1@ 2,
MORE than s125,00O was actually
invested in manufacturing enter
prises in Forsyth during the past
year. - e. Ds
The st. George Gold Mining Co.,
composed of English capitalists, has
struck it rich in White county. The
poorest Of the ore assays over 5000
per ton. #
People throwing orange and
banana. peels7 on the sidewalks of
Atlanta are liable to arrest. The
punishmentis a fine or imprison-
ment. 5b .At e E A
William P. Milan and Madison
Milan, brothers, died in Barlow
county day, or two ago within a
few hours Of each other, at a ripe
old age. O4
WILLIAM P. Talbot, of Quincy,
ILL.,, swore falsely as the age of his
intended In order to procure mar
riage license, and has been SEN
fenced to a year in the penitentiary.
Judge Gresham, of Macon, has
given the agSecond Presbyterian
church Of that city lot costing S.
500 and $4,000 in cash. A new
church will be erected on the lot.
THIEVES ran amuck in the streets
of Brunswick Tuesday night and
robbed Ed Hirsch's clothing estab-
lishment, the pottery works Of Hop
king & Ellis, and attempted to rob
an aged negro woman. att.
The book for the sale of shares in
the George W. Truitt Fertilizer
Company was opened at LAGRANGE
Tuesday and the entire stock will be
taken in the next few days. The
capital stock OF the company will be
$4,000. @.frs.W
Jim Butts and Ed johnson, ne
groes hanged at Perry, Ga, last
Friday for numbering old man Miller
and wife. The bodies of Butts and
johnson were turned over to the
Atlanta Medical College.
The fruits Of appointing negroes
to handle the mails, is shown in the
arrest Of w. A. Pledger, Jr.. pos
tai clerk on the Northeastern rail-
road, running from Athens. IRE
gularities in the mails caused De-
tectiye J. w. Wilde. Of Chattanooga
to go to Athens and make investi-
cations. Mr.. Wilde wrote a letter
addressed to the National Bank of
New Orleans, and put therein four
United States silver certificates,
taking the number and other marks
by which to identity them. He also
sent q box to d. G. Maynard,
Danielsville, Ga, in which he put
two United States silver certificates
and silk handkerchief, belonging
to Mr.. Hugh Rowe, clerk at Athens
postoffice. Pledger was arrested and
the money and handkerchief were
found on his person. He was bound