The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-20
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex.
changes. @

man can't turn the cold shoulder
even to his worst enemy
A negro messenger in the Georgia
legislature opened a blind tiger in
in the state house and did a thriving
trade until the police arrested him.
Fulton county is now hiring the
county convicts of Liberty county,
paying SO per month, each, for the
same. Chatham county has been
hiring them for the past ten years.
Almost prohibition will be the
result Of the bill prohibiting the sale
of liquors within a radius of three
miles from church or school house.
Gov. Northern has signed it and it
is now a law. OF course this does
not affect incorporated towns.
Mrs. L. M. Pace cowhided Mr..
Peyton Anderson in Macon Friday.
A young son Of Mrs. Pace works in
the same building with Mr.. Ander-
son, and it is stated that in fun Mr..
Anderson struck the boy with
rule. This angered the boys mother,
and she sought Mr.. Anderson at
his Office and applied cowhide lash.
A mule belonging 70 Mr.. A. J..
booster, near Abbeville, was bitten
on the tongue and on the ankle by
rattlesnake. Mr. booster drench-
ed the mule with a solution of alum
and water, and also applied it to the
wounds. In short time the mule
entirely recovered from the effects
of the poison.
The third party is curious crit
ter. It comes out in spots-difer-
ent kinds Of spots--in different parts
of the country. In Ohio it is just
now demanding an INCREASE OF PEN
s1oNs, PROTECTION AND THE FORCE
BILL!!! How does these features
strike the Georgia farmer ?-Cuth>
bert Alliance Liberal.
Rev. H. T. Mosely, of Taylor
county, earns his clerical stipend.
He rides over 900 miles to his APP
poinrments each month, besides cuI-
tivating fifteen acres in corn and
cotton. He also finds time to hold
protracted meeting, visit his neigh
bors and minister to the sick. He
is not without honor in his own
country, for his neighbors love and
respect him.
Mr.. VIM. Barnes, who lives in the
old house in the rear of the Augusta
Brewery on the canal banks, owns a
most peculiar chicken. He has a
hen that built her nest up in the top
of a tlee, many feet above the level
Of the ground. The hen set upon
her secluded nest and Matched a
family Of ten young chicks. 1t is
seldom that hen will seek so lofty
place to build home, but this one
has certainly built an air castle.
James McLain, of near Wood
stock, held about twenty bales of his
cotton until last Friday when he
hauled it to Woodstock, and shipped
it at loss, he says, Of about $780,
90. He now more firmly believes
in selling early. In fact he is of the
opinion the more cotton the farmer
raises at present prices the poorer
he gets, as no money can be made
by selling cotton at cents that
costs at least nine cents. His idea
is to diversity his crops more and
not raise all cotton, all corn or any
other enc crop, and he thinks tobac-
co would be one of the most profta-
bic crops to plant and raise now.
Mr.. Nolan is one of Cherokee's
best and most practical farmers and
his suggestions are worth listening to
and adoptiDg.-Canton Advance.
You will hear people say that
they 60 to summer resorts for rest,
but what with climbing mountains,
walking miles aud miles on excur-
sions, dancing and dressing several
times day, it is hard to discern
where the rest comes in. But it is
Northumberland of course that
makes it all right.
DR.. Biggers Huckeberry Cordial is
sure cure for all bowel troubles. For sale
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