The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-07-16

Crops are very promising through
out Georgia.
The East Tennessee, V. and G.
Railroad now runs its passenger cars
into Atlanta to Whitehall street.
A gentleman had his bar fixtures
shipped to Athens ready to open, but
he carried them back when the pro-
hibition victory was announced.
The negro weekly paper published
in Atlanta refers to the hanging of
Washington as the "Sad End of a
Promising Young Man."
The people of Walker county
have subscribed 100000 for the
erection of a cotton factory, at La
fayette. The amount was raised in
two days time.
According to the census office, the
free school pupils who received in
struction in Georgia last year num-
bered 342,592, against 237,125 in
1880, gain of about A per cent.
Dalton probably has the lowest
water privileges Of any city in
North Georgia, the rate being "a
per annum. Rome pays Sc, while
Cartersville, whose works are owned
by aprivate corporation, pays as high
as So.
The somewhat famous old mica
mine near Gainesville has been sold.
The price paid was only $500.
tits probably worth nearer 1926, 900.
A Mr.. Aldrich of Detroit is the pur-
chaser. He is engaged in the elec>
trical supply business, in which mica
is used in considerable quantities to
make insulators. A plant will be
erected to work the mine.
You should hear the reaper hum
ming in the dewy breath Of morn,
when the bloom is on the cotton and
the tassel on the corn, and the soft
and gentle lowing of the far, con-
tented kline, when the luscious water
melon am a smilin' IN de vine; for
these sounds Of peace and plenty
strike with sweetness to the ear,
telling tales Of joy and gladness
which are drawing very near.
Somebody tells in the Southern
Cultivator story of an event which
took place some years ago in Wash
ington, this state. A stranger was
to preach in the Methodist church
there. 1t rained very hard and a
s1lall company of gentlemen attend
ed and only one lady. That lady
was Miss SAllie Spann, since MAR
ried. The preacher who did not
know Miss Spann,gave out the hymn.
One line CHANGED to be, "a span is all
we have" He was very much puz-
zled by the smiles OF the congrega>
ton.
The army list just published dis
closes that Georgia has nineteen Of
fcers in the regular army, all grad
yates since the war. Her redoubta-
BILE colored cadet, Flipper, is now an
engineer on the Nicarsguan canal
survey and he is said to be receiving
a salary Of $4,000 per annum. 1t
will be rscollected that Flipper was
dismissed from the army for pecula-
tons while acting as commissary
officer of his regiment, the Tenth
Cavalry. The register contains the
name of no colored officers in the
army at this time.
The absorption ct the Georgia
Central railroad by tie West Point
Terminal, and the immediate adj
vance of freight rates has aroused
the people to fever heat against rail-
road consultations, which found
expression in the governors mes
sage. When Jay Gould visited the
state on lis trip of railroad extern
sion some months ago, Governor
Northern was severely criticized for
refusing to meet him socially. The
Developments since have justified
the governor, people say, and it is
likely that there will be strict
overhauling of the charters under
which the Georgia branches of the
West Point Terminal came into ex-