The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-05-07
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from eur Ex.
changes.

ASO snVuc1u0 UVlio1c WoItu VI SIVCk
has already been taken.
Twenty white teachers and TWEEN
ty-fve eolored teachers are on the
Clarke county pay rolls. There are
enrolled in the schools 511 white
pupils and 1916 colored.
1t was not the tax on tobacco
which was taken off Friday, but the
licenses on merchants, which
amounted to about 20 per cent. for
the privilege of selling tobacco.
A very small affair.
The Atlanta Street Car Company,
which recently purchased the con-
solidated linss for s80O,OO have re-
turned the property for taxation ct
1851 900. Comptroller G eneral
Wright says he will see about it.
Nora Day, the. 17-year. old mulat-
ia girl who was recently found gull
ty Of arson, at Rome, and sentenc-
ed to ninety-nine years, escaped
from the female convict camp near
Atlanta on the LIST inst. She has
been recaptured.
A horrible discovery at Abbeville,
Ga. The largest catfish ever caught
in the Ocmulgee river tipped the
beam at the eighty six pound notch,
and contained the skull of an infant
child. The fish was large enough
to have swallowed the child whole.
Elberton Star: A successful farm
er in the lower portion of Ebert
says he fervently and ardently prays
every night that the price Of corn
will 60 to SIS busheI and meat to
$3.50 per pound. He believes that
this is the only way to bring the
people to their senses.
Andrew Nolan, the small white
boy who managed to open the post
Office drawer of the Atlanta Nation
al Bank, a week or two ago, and
stole several thousand dollars worth
Of checks from the banks CORES
pondence, has just been liberated.
The boy entered plea Of guilty,
but it, having been discovered that
he was under 10 years OF age, the
court consented that he might go
free, provided he returned to his
uncle's farm in Fayette county,
where there are no postofice draw.
ers to tempt hisingenuity.
The spring cut-down has come,
and there has been wholesale dis
charge of railroad employees of late.
Recently the Western & Atlan>
tic railway cut of about 100 men
of force of $50, and the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis division
cut off 600 of force of 1000. The
East Tennessee has been reducing
its force for some time, and on all
southern roads a reduction OF about
Is per cent. in the working force is
being made. Indeed, it is not con-
fined to any section of the country;
the roads everywhere are pursuing
the same policy, and every spring:
when business begins to get dull,
an army Of 5000 railroad men,
or forth of the whole 100000, is
suspended for ninety or one hun
bred days.
Hartwell Sun: Elder Nixon
administered an effective and rather
humorous rebuke to some parties
who we're misbehaving in the house
Of worship during the quarterly
meeting at Cokesbury Sunday. He
paused in the midst of his discourse
and reproved the young men after
this style. He said that such con-
duct in church reminded him of an
Indians account of the creation Of
man: The Lord made two pairs
out of mud and set them in the sun
to dry, and after they had dried he
split the heads Of one pair and pour
ed some brains in them, and they
arose and walked off. The other
pair did not wait for any brains, but
Immediately followed the first pair.
The preacher then said that when
ever you saw persons misbehaving
in church you might safely put it
down that they were lineal descend
ants Of the pair that did not wait