The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-01-30
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condemned from our Elk.
changes.

JAMES w. OOOk, ageu LIZ years, OF
Carroll county, is preaching at At
lanta.
A. L. nTassell is planting [, 600
peach trees on, forty acres Of land
near Forsyth.
PROBABLY SAC, 900 has been paid
by Houston farmers for Kentucky
mules and horses within the last
sixty days.
The alliance men of Emanuel
county have made arrangements
. with two guano companies to pur-
chase 500 tons Of guano at s22.5O
per ton. &Y 9EHB 86
The manager of the state expert
mental farm at Griffin is blowing up
the wheat and oats planted last fall
on the farm, the Hessian fly having
ruined the crops. 1I xTc2.T
The Chattahoochee Knitting Com
pany of Columbus is testing some
new automatic knitting machines,
with a view to equipping their mills
with them.
TWENTY-FIVE divorce, verdicts
were granted in two days of last
week in Fulton Superior Court. In
nearly every case habitual drunken
ness on the part Of the husband was
one of the grounds. IN
The whisky dealers Of Dawson
can no longer drum the dry burg Of
Cuthbert. The council of that place
has put a tax of $3.50 con drummers
engaged in soliciting orders fol-
whisky houses"
From the Attorney Generals re.
ports, recently published, it appears
that there were SIC persons convict.
ed in the federal courts of Georgis
last year and sentenced to various
terms Of Imprisonment. Of this
number 512 were revenue offenders
The amount of bonus the alliance
receives from the Americas I'm.
proyement Company to erect the
cotton bagging factory at Americas
is said to be $1,000. The company
also takes $4,000 stock in the fac.
tory, and exercises no voice in the
management of the business.
W. G. Smith, of ElJay, had 8
singular accident to befall him the
other day. He was going to Chat.
tanooga on W. & A. evening passen.
ger train, and when near Tunnel
Hill,l attempting to PASS from one
car to another, ran against man
coming from the other car with such
force as to throw him from the plat.
form into a ditch, where he was
found an hour after in an uncon.
scious condition, and carried to the
town. He was badly bruised, but
is improving. s 7 -
Col. R. ]. McCamy had wild
western Judicial experience in Car
tersville, while sitting as Judge in a
case in which Judge Miner was
barred. Warren Akin and Alb Ba-
ker were the contending attorneys,
and after q sharp by-plsy Of words
got into a free fight, in which Char
ley Jones took q hand against Baker,
After squelching the riot Judge Nc
Camy gave the boys fine of $50
each. II fyos ffs)
The grandjury Of Muscogee coun-
ty. in their general presentments,
respectfully recommend the re-
representatives. Of our county, in the
next session Of the legislature, to
secure the enactment of law for
our county (and if practicable for the
state) making it a cause Of dis
reimbursement (when tried and
proved in proper form), in all cases
where a vote is sold, and the same
to apply as well to the purchaser as
the seller of the VOTE"
ONE day early last week the watch
man at the Central railroad yards at
Macon caught several small negro
boys in one of the passenger cars
busily engaged in cutting open the
velvet cushions of the seats and re-
moving the hair filling. Several
sacks of hair which the boys had
taken from the cushions were re-
covered. tits estimated that the
damage to the cars will amount to