The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-25
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDENSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.

W. Fl. Collins, in charge of Gen.
eGordonss farm near Reynolds, has
the honor Of bringing to Reynolds
the first bale Of cotton this season.
1t weighed 3S4 pounds.
J. G. Shears, Of Bulloch county.
while in Augusta on a visit, was
robbed of $40 on the streets by an
unknown negro who noticed him
counting his money. The rascal
watched his opportunity, suddenly
snatched his money and decamped.
GREENSBORO RECORD: One of the
Georgia campaign orators is report
ed as saying that when the new party
gets into power the railroads won't
be in it. "The time is coming"
said he, "when a poor man can stick
postage stamp on a mule and ship
it from Georgia to Texas !"
Thursday large shark of the
eating variety was landed
high and dry on the Brunswick
dock at the Monk street bulkhead
by Capt. E. W. Roberts, one of the
new proprietors of the ocean hotel.
Three years ago DR.. j. I. Reese
of Newman planted out seven acres
OF ordinary $40 land ia grapes,
This year, after he had COTTON 1900
gallons of wine from his grape crop,
he was offered s1,4O0 in cash for
seven acres. The offer was prompt
ly and indignantly declined.
The Griffin Manufacturing Cons
pany is about to change its mill to
all colored goods. 1t is now operat-
ing 5000 spindles and 176 looms in
the manufacture Of stripes, plaids,
ticking, sheeting and shifting. A
recent addition to- the factory is a
1-story brick dye house, 40x1O0 feet,
filed with new and improved ma
chinery for adopting the long chain
system of dyeing.
j d. Hustled of Griffin thinks
that he has discovered the one
thing that the fruit world has been
in particular need of. and that is a
yellow peach, equal IN size and quail
ity of the Elberta, free stone, whic h
ripens at the beginning of the seas
son, at the same time as the worth
less Alexander. He proposes to
form stock company with capital
of $4,000 for the propagation of the
new variety.
In Jones county last week Miss
Georgia Bird was married to T. l..
Lamb of Macon. Miss Bird was
married to Tom Voolfolk on an
East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor.
gia railroad train while passing
through Rose Hill cemetery only a
few weeks before he murdered his
family. While Voolfolk was in Jail
she had her name changed to her
maiden name, aud has since that
time been known as Miss Georgia
Bird. Mr.. Lamb is superintendent
of the Palmer Manufacturing Com
pany.
WHILE DR.. Orr was making his
rounds through Athens on Wednes.
day of last week, he came to negro
house and thought he would inspect
the premises, and in doing SO came
to pei about 5 feet square, and in
the pen was Titus Williams without
a sign Of wearing apparel on, and
crawling about like hog. The ne.
groes living on the lot say they have
kept him in the pen for the past
sour weeks, and that as soon as
clothes are put on him he tears them
off. DR.. Orr went to the ordinary
and reported the case and Titus will
be sent to the asylum, where he can
be better cared for.
A case exciting great interest
among the medical fraternity in At
lanta is that of John Davis, a pross
porous farmer living near Atlanta.
In June Davis was bitten by q cat.
The wound amounted to nothing,
and no attention was paid to it. A
4 tew days ago when Davis went to
get drink of water, he was seized
with commissions. He suffered great
ly. and physicians could not conceive