The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-03-12
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from. our Ex-
changes

Ex-senator Joshua Hill died at
Madison, Ga, last Friday.
Hon. Tom Hardeman, of Macon,
died last Saturday morning. This
will be sad news to all Georgians.
LAGRANGE will join the progress
i've procession with frst-class night
school.
The Adairsville Ledger has sus.
pended publication. There was not
sufficient enterprise in the town to
support newspaper.
Gen. Phil Cook had narrow
escape from being gored by vicious
bull on his plantation, in, Lee coun-
ty, Gay or two ago.
Mr.. Charles E. Hearn of Nash
vile, has been appointed train dis
patcher of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, vice G. E. Beardsley, re-
signed.
The next mandatory that is to
come to Rome is the Church Cart
Mandatory Company of st. Paul,
Mimi, the company having decided
to move.
A farmer in Washington county
made 200 bales of cotton with ten
plcws last year, besides enough
plantation supplies to last him until
another crop is gathered.
Cordele has secured the new Bap-
fist College which is to be located in
Southern Georgia. A donation of
$4,000 gave it to Cordele. The col
lege will be built at once, at a cost
OF $4,000.
Mr.. Bland, of Thomasville has the
skull Of a Georgia alligator which
measured fourteen feet and eight
inches. The row of teeth in the
upper jaw was thirty-two inches
long, with forty. one teeth. His
head was exactly two feet long. He
could easily have swallowed man.
The election in Paulding county,
to fill the vacancy, caused by the
death of E. W. Compton, late tax
collector, resulted in a tie between
W. H. Morgan and w. }. Baker,
they receiving 1902 votes each, there
being light vote polled. Anoth-
er election will be held April 9th.
Sweet Gum and Mullen is q sure cure
for coughs, colds, Group, consumption and
all throat and lung troubles.
A citizen of Sander sville, in max
ing out an order for flowers and
shrubbery. was attracted by the
catalogue description of a shrub
with the technical name cacanthus.
He ordered it and to his surprise
found that it was what is commonly
called sweet shrub. The woods
around Sandersville are full of them.
Sandersville Progress Ordinary
Newman has sent an order to the
superintendent of the census for a
transcript of the census of Washing
ton county. The population of the
county, according to the official rec
ords, is 25,237. 1t will cost $63.25
for the transcript, which gives the
age, color and sex of each individual
in each county, and is arranged by
districts so that it is an easy matter
to get desired information from the
transcript. Sometimes negroes
claim exemption from road duty, but
the census does not always concide
with their claims. The ordinary
sometimes amuses himself by telling
the astonlshed negroes the names
and ages of every member Of their
families. They don't know where
he gets his information.
A few days ago J. J. Warner, we
are informed, passed down the rail-
road rolling a wheel barrow, which
he had brought with him from his
home in Bird, Ohio. He was en-
route to Andersonville, Ca, where
he was prisoner during the late
war, and point in Florida. He left
his home the Goth of November, but
had stopped in Kentucky six weeks.
His change of clothing, ETC., are be-
ing pushed before him the wheel |
barrow, which he expects to carry
booL homo ,Cith HIM Mr. Warnar