The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-02-19
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

Athens has received over 10000
bales of cotton this season,
Judge l. s. Clement has sold the
Cumming Clarion to Panl A. Clem>
ent.
The gold miners around Dahlone-
ga only get 80 cents day for their
work.
The middle Georgia Bank, of
Miliedgeville, has organized and
commenced business.
There are more schools in Floyd
county than were ever known before
in its history.
The old lesses of the w estern and
Atlantic Railroad submitted their
claims for betterments 100000.
Sweet Gum and Mullen is sure cure
for coughs colds, Group, consun. ption and
all throat and lung troubles.
How many days belong to year
-365? No, only 1876. The other
40 are Lent. Chestnuts! Ring the
bell.
The Marlborough, Atlahta's swell
restaurant is closed. Too high rent
and tight money were the cause.
The assets are put at $4,000, and the
liabilities at $500.
MIR. H. A. Young, of Brooks
county, recently had pitch battle
with large rattlesnake and finally
killed it. The snake measured six
feet in length.
Jim Richardson, the negro who
killed young w. A Smith at Bolton
last December. was brought back to
Atlanta from Dallas county, Ala.
A. reward was offered by Smith
father. and only few days ago an
additional 500 offered by the Gov
ernor.
Solicitor George R. Brown is de-
cidedly the ablest advocate in North
Georgia. The future will bestow
upon him number of honorable IT,
ties, one among which will be Con-
gresham. Merit will win.-Alpha-
retta Free Press. Q
That must have been severe cys
clone which occurred recently near
Trenton. MIR. S. B. Austin was sick
in bed at the time. A correspond
emf says that his house was complete.
ly carried away-only the bed and
Mr.. Austin being left. He was not
hurt, however. His neigh5ors had
to erect shed over him.
Poland Jackson and Henry Lowe,
colored, are employed on the Will
liams place, near Everett station.
Sunday night they both agreed to
lock their three children up in one
OF their houses and 60 visiting.
When they returned they found
that the house had been burned
and the three children with it. One
OF them was II years old.
Mrs. Ora Mckee, the fair prisoner
of Rome, is still in Floyd county jail.
By the advice of her attorney,
Judge Branham, she now refuses to
see any one except her relatives and
a few of her intimate friends. Her
trial, on q charge of murder by
poisoning, has been set for the first
Monday in March.
The Dnblin People call the atten-
ton of Agricultural commissioner
Nesbltt to the tea plant growing in
the front yard of Richard A. Odom
at Condor, Laurens county. Mr..
Odom got the plants from the United
States department of agriculture,
and set them out in 1880. Though
they have had little care or protec-
ton, they yield an abundance of
leaves, supplying Mr.. Odom's family
with beverage of excellent quality.
The engine at the saw mill of
Mathis & Co., in Wilcox county, ex-
ploded Monday. The fireman was
drinking and let the water get out
of the boiler and the explosion fol-
lowed. No one was seriously hurt,
though the fireman was badly bruis-
ed, and the buildings close by we're
considerably battered aud torn nm