The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-09-15

The stockholders of the Crown
cotton mills OF Dalton are consider
ing. the advisability ofincreasing the
capacity Of the plant.
AUGUSTUS new liquor ordinance
requires saloons to close at ii
O'Clock at night and permits no
screens or other Instructions to the
view.
ELLIJAY COURIER New cotton
is being sold at Z cents per pound.
The first cotton used to bring 121
cents Bacon is IL cents. A pound
Of cotton won't buy pound Of meat
for the cotton farmer.
DEMOCRATIC primaries have been
held in over fifty counties in Che
State, and in all of them except
three we have noticed that they
II polled from three-fourths to nine
tenths of the white vote in each
county.-Wayneshoro True Citizen.
1 QUlTMAN Sun: S. R. Swilley,
ST., has been over to Triton and in
/ speoted the tobacco barns. He
brought back samples of bright plug
tobacco, cured in $40 barn, which
sells for SO cents pound. The sam>
I pie is beautiful.
| The low price of cotton and the
high price of bacon are causing the
farmers around Whigham to put
their hogs in their pinder fields and
it is safe to say that there will be
| plenty of home raised bacon next
| year and surplus besides.
WILLIAM D. SMITH, car coupler
on the Atlanta and West Point, was
crushed to death in the Central rail-
road yards at Atlanta Thursday
night. His right leg was severed
from his body close to the thigh, and
his left one horribly torn. He was
married OILY three months ago.
There are in circulation in Bruins
wick several hundred silver plated
l cent pieces. They are being pass
ed for dimes, and at glance they
can scarcely be distinguished from
dimes. Some sharp is plating the
coppers. At the postoffice several
Of them have been taken in and
complaint is heard among the mer-
chants and at the banks.
While attempting 70 steal ride
on freight train at Upatoie, few
days ago, Will Davis, 13-year old
negro boy, met with an accident
which necessitated the amputation
of his left leg, below the knee. Da-
Wis was playing around the depot
when the trair arrived, and think
ling it would be fun to steal short
ride, attempted to board one OF the
cars as the train moved of.
The other afternoon g Hartwell
belle received note from young
man saying that he would be glad
to call that night for a joint debate
lii there should be no third party
present. The young lady responded
that both the. old parties had gone
bn visit and would not know
''where you am at" The joint de-
bate was held with closed doors and
lasted for four hours.-Hartwell
Sun.
II The prisoners at the Jail at Ath>
ems tried to have another wholesale
delivery Sunday night, and six OF
Them would have got out bad it not
been for the Yatchfulness Of Sheriff
Weir The Jail has lately been fin
ished up in what was thought to be
livery safe style, but it proved not to
be, as these six negroes got an old
tin spittoon, tore it into pieces and
commenced saving through the
wooden wall, and had got a hole
large enough for them to crawl
through, but daylight coming, they
stopped, leaving thin brick wall
that they could push through with
their feet. Sheriff Weir went to
the Jail to give them their breakfast,
and, suspecting that something was
wrong, made the prisoners go in
their cells and locked them in and
then commenced an examination
and found the hole with a box sit