The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-09-24
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Ex.
changes.

in cotton gin, at Cedartown. the
other day.
The Crown Cotton Mill of Dalton
has declared another 25 per cent,
dividend.
Georgia now pays $500. 900 annu>
al pensions as tribute to Confeder-
ate valor.
The state university was opened
on Wednesday morning. The mum
Der of students was about It's.
Rev. w. G. WOODBRIDGE has &C.
cepted the call to the pastorate Of
the Presbyterian church at Griffin.
THE insurance companies have
made a voluntary reduction of about
Is per cent. in cotton rates at New
nan for the coming season.
JOSEPH S. WINGFIELD, a young
married man, committed suicide at
the Armstrong Hotel, Rome, on last
week.
THE legislature has increased the
pension appropriation, and all the
confederate widows who are entitled
to pension will get the 800 prom
ised them.
A NORTH GEORGIA man has a
Calcutta SOW about six years old,
solid black in color, that has given
birth to twenty>seven pigs, every
one of which were solid black.
The manager of the Athens liquor
dispensary has been appointed.
Macon G. johnson is the man.
His salary is $1,000 per annum, and
he will give bond of $500.
The success OF relative does not
raise us particularly in public es-
TEEN; but let him fall or sin, and
see how quick it will be intimated
that it runs in the family.
Two road congresses will meet at
Atlanta the latter part of next
month. The Georgia congress will
assemble October %, and the con-
gress of the Southern States the
day following.
THE robbers of the Southern Ex-
press Company Of few nights ago,
near Savannah, were captured near
Madison, Fla. They are J. E. De-
Laughter, j. A. Turner and J. M.
Perkins, all of Savannah, and in the
employ OF the Central Railroad.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. GOULD, who kill
ed her husband at Murphy, N. c.,
and was acquitted, has become in
sane through the use of opium and
has been sent to the insane asylum
at hnOXvllLe, Tenn.
In the trial of John w. Gilpin for
the murder of Kilgore, at Green's
boro, last Friday, at the close of the
speech Of Solicitor Lewis, the large
audience broke out into applause.
Judge Jenkins had the doors closed
and the sheriff to collect fine from
each man who participated in the
applause. The Judge then declared
a mistrial, dismissed the Jury and
sent Gilpin back to jail.
A SHORT while ago we happened
to see queer thing in the shape
Of a petriGed rabbit. He had run
into hole to escape, probably, from
pursuit, and becoming wedged in
had to remain. Some property in
the soil had changed him to solid
stone, but left every hair unruffled
and natural as to color. He seemed
so natural We could scarcely resist
the temptation to shy a stone at
him, or to whoop up the dogs and
have chase.-Crawfordville Demo-
crat.
In the Atlanta city court the case
of r. T. Allison against the Rich
mond and Danville railroad was con-
Guided. The plaintiff was given a
verdict of $4,000, tor injuries re-
reived in a wreck on the Richmond
and Danville railroad in November,
1888, while he was working as a
postal clerk. On previous trial
Allison gained a verdict OF 81, $50.
1t is one Of the biggest verdicts
granted tor railroad injuries in Full
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