The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-03-17
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

A Spalding county fruit grower
has just shipped q carload OF 10000
trees to Ohio.
Mr.. G. w. FooTE, JR., of Dallas,
Ca, was found dead in his bed Sun.
day morning. He had been CON-
planning several days of being sick.
Capt. John A. Cobb, of Sumter, is
prominently mentioned in connec-
ton with the next presidency of the
State Agricultural Society.
The Chatham Superior Court
granted twenty divorces last Tues
day in just three hours and twenty
ty minutes.
HARRISON BLACK, an inmate Of
the paupers home in Cherokee coun-
ty, shot himself three times with a
revolver recently with suicidal in,
tent. He will probably die.
AN Atlanta patrolman said, II
saw a white man offer to pawn a
gold ring to negro to- day for mon
ey enough to buy glass of liquor
a man who ten years ago was worth
$4,000. Whisky did it."
MIR. R. I'll. PLANT, the receiver
appointed by the Federal Court for
the Atlanta and Florida railroad,
has been recognized by Judge Clark
of the State court, and Mr.. Garrett,
the duplicate receiver appointed SUI
perintendent. es
IT is estimated that the Office of
city clerk Of Atlanta pays the in
c7mbeht between 81, 900 and $12,-
600 year. Alderman Woodward
proposes to pay the clerk $500
salary and allow 81 200 for an assis-
tant.
AN issue OF s207, 900 in bonds will
be made by the State soon, bids to
be received until the 26th of March,
to meet the bonds maturing in July.
They are thirty-year bonds, dated
May 1, 1892, to bear interest not
exceeding A per cent.
A deputy United States marshal
arrested Mr.. Ligan, the railroad
agent at Geneva, Ala, last week,
charging him with sending postal
card through the mails to the Lou
isana lottery. He was taken before
Judge Pond, of Columbus, and plac-
ed under bond of 800, which he
readily gave.
The Sparta Ishmaelite learns that
Miss Roberts, the 18-year-old daugh-
ter of David Roberts, living near
Bufolo, was fatally burned last
week. She was engaged, with her
little brother, in burning brush, and
her clothes took FIRE; with the dis
tressing result above stated.
AT Atlanta Thursday, in the case
of J. A. Carey VS.. the Richmond and
Danvilla railroad, the jury brought
ina verdict for $500. Carey is a
negro preacher, and he sued for
$4,000 damages because two men
made him sing OF the muzzle of a
pistol while he was riding on an
Air Line train. He alleged that he
was shamefully treated, and that the
conductor of the train made no eff
fort to protect him.
A YOUNG son Of Lee Hagen, liv>
ing near Lightfoot, in Wilkinson
county, was the victim of a painful
accident on Wednesday. While
cutting wood his ak hit small but
ton that ives on the log he was cut
ting, breaking it IN half, one piece
imbedding itself just over his right
eye. He was brought to Irwinton,
and DR.. Carswell rendered the
necessary surgical aid, removing the
ball of the eye, which was cut in
twain by the button.
AT Atlanta, Friday, Reuben
Jones, a negro who has been sweep.
ing out at the court house fo:' some
time, got it into his head that he
was master of ceremonies around
that establishment. Accordingly
he signed the name of Hon. John
I. Cooper, county clerk, to a S35
check and presented it for payment
at the Gate City National Bank
The teller did not like the looks Of