The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-04-30
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

"A cltl2en OF C0rueie caught q
rabbit the other day that had gold
watch chain around its neck. He
is now looking for the rabbit that
has the watch.
j. III. Watson, slick swindler,
who worked Savannah and number
of smaller towns on the Art Union
racket, has been caught up with in
Valdosta, and put to work on the
chain gang.
There is considerable stir in Sa-
vannah club circles over the sctnn
Of the City Council in passing an
ordinance requiring the clubs to
take out regular saloon licenses.
The license is 5000 year. The
Oglethorpe Club will fight it in the
courts.
Thirty-fve years ago james Co.
nine, of Jonesboro, bought a clock
from L. A. Kuglar. Tie clock ran
and keptgoo time until the night
ofMr. Kuglar's death, which hap.
pened about two months ago, when
the clock stopped and has. not run
SINCE,
Sparta Ishmaelite: Colonel VIM.
r. Snipes, we learn has just fallen
heir to fortune of $685. 900. A
bachelor uncle living in Raleigh, N.
c.. recently died and left this large
estate to his relatives in Georgia.
Colonel Snipes will soon leave for
the Old North State to receive part
of the estate.
Calhoun Times: Mcssrs. G. E.
Moran and Fulton Gardner, of Chi
cago, and D. A. Warlick, of Mariet-
ia, were in the city this week pre-
pairing materials for panorama of
historical scenes in the South. They
made several fine views of the
matchless scenery around Calhoun
and will have the same on ex-
: 2ritition at the Chicago Worlds
Fair.
We have it upon good authority
that two new cotton factories will
be built at Bulls sluice, three miles
below Roswell, on the Chattahoochee
river. An Atlanta company is be-
hind the project, and the surveyors
are now at work. A large dam will
/ be built, and the company will prob
I ably furnish Atlanta with water. A
dummy line will be run from Attain
Ia via Bolton, out to the new factor
! les, and little town will soon spring
up.--Alpharetta Free Press.
A Lee county young man is in
trouble. Herschel H. Fudge, who
had been in Atlanta for some years,
went to Albany, where he was we'll
known, and assumed to represent a
we'll known insurance company. He
wrote policy for Mr.. A. J. Lippitt
tor $4,000, Lippitt giving his note
for $50, which was to be returned if
the work was not to be accepted.
Later, Lippitt ascertained from the
company that Fudge was not in their
service. Fudge had succeeded in
having the note discounted, and re-
turned to his home in Lee county.
He has been indicted by the Dough-
erty grand jury and jailed in Alba
: ny.
A new danger threatens the melon
crop of Southwest Georgia. D. B.
Hill OF Americas has nearly 100
acres planted in tnelons in Lee coun-
ty, averaging 800 hills to the acre,
and so advanced are the small vines
that in week or two they will be
large enough to run. There will be
millions of melons. Strange as it
may seem, mice are said to be one
Of the greatest pests of the melon
raisers, and every night, Mr.. Hill
says, hundreds of these little pests
may be seen scampering over the
field end burrowing into the melon
hills for the seed, which they dcvour
with avidity. Lest season Mr.. Hill,
to rid his fields of mice, put out sew
eral buckets of poisoned dough one
night, and early next morning he
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