The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-12-24
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from 0nr Elk.
changes.

LdE TWO papers dt TORT Vailey,
Leader and Enterprise, have con-
sol;dated.
A bitter fght.will be made against
building the new court house at
Rome, Col. j. G. Printup leading it.
OVER $50 men are now out OF en-
ployment at the Richmond and Dan
vile shops in Macon.
''BUD" SUMMERS, whose mystic
rious disappearance from Lithonia
few days ago caused such excite
ment, has returned home.
The Cumming Clarion has sus-
pended. The editor, Paul Clement,
and his parents, have moved to De-
catur, Ga.
THE handsome new hotel at Dal>
ton has closed It's doors, its proprie-
tor being unable to pay expenses
and meet his obligations.
Charles Allen of Americas has
been sentenced for five years in the
penitentiary for arson. He set fire
to T. G. Hudson's barn.
ATLANTA water bonds to the
amount of 100000 and redemption
bonds to the amount of 100000,
bearing A per cent interest, have
been sold in New York for IS cents.
AFTER long, loud and stertorian
braying, sixty Third Party men got
together in Thomson, last Saturday,
and Endorsed Tom Watson. My.
my, what crowd
THE widow of the late Rev. DR..
Potter of the Wesleyan Christian
Advocate of Atlanta, was paid $4,000
Saturday by DR.. Amos Fox for the
Royal Arcanum, in which company
DR.. Potter was insured.
Mrs. JOHN TIBBs was shot through
the heart accidentally, by her son,
Harry, at Dalton Sunday week. He
was fooling with new pistol. She
was the daughter of Butord Glaze.
Her husband is the son of Col. w. FL.
Tihbs.
A. Coleman's store at Athens bias
been closed dy the sheriff on account
OF mortgage held by O'Farrell &
Ash. The liabilities are $4,000 and
the stock is expected to inventory
$4,000
Andrew Jackson Williams has
resided in Sumpter county for fifty.
four years. He was Justice of the
inferior court during the war. For
fifty-two years he has lived within
four miles Of his present home, new
er having occasion or inclination to-
ever leave the halls Of his foreiath-
ers. Mr.. Williams has ten children
and forty-two grandchildren.
Col. Livingston says: s.The OBJ
ject Of the Alliance nowis to get the
government to establish . sub treas
ury bank lin each state where the
people can borrow money at low
rate of interest on lands or other
good securities. This is now our
something better = The warehouse
has been abandoned as impractical
Bile. Il
D. J. BEER of Macon has swooped
down on the alliance warehouse
18th petition which caused it to
be placed in the hands of temper,
airy receiver Saturday. he claims
debt OF 81, 643.81 for rent and in
dorsements of planters notes held
Syhim. Deputy Sheriff Wick Men
ard was made receiver.
j. 4. WILLIS, Of Franklinyile,
Forsyth county, displays a sample
pod from cotton that produces no
lint Mr.. Willis raised three stalks
Of the Gotten this year from which
he saved about half pound OF the
seed There is no lint in the pods
aAatever, but quite quantity Of
seed. This cotton has been planted
as an experiment in South Carolina,
and for the production of oil and
manurial purposes is said to be more
profitable than the cotton we now
raise. Mr.. Willis has demonstrated
that this cotton can be produced in