The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-03-03
STATE NEWS.
Cuiled and Condensed from cur Ex.
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DR.. ]. w. RANKIN, of Atlanta,
died LAST week.
The reclining chair factory at
Tallapoosa has started operations.
Dalton has for the fourth time
voted itself o dry town. The major
ity in the election held last week
was51.
Mrs. THOMAS BENNETT, near Hol-
~ Springs, gave birth to triplets q
few days ago. All have since died.
She has given birth to fifteen chill
dren in nine years.
The Watson building, Is West
Mitchell street, at Atlanta, was sold
Thursday by G.. w. Adair to Mr..
Zachery of Atlanta. 1t was sold for
$500 per front foot.
Mas. J. w. Il. UNDERWOOD, of
Rome, died Thursday night in her
sixty>eighth year. of congestion of
the brain. She was the widow of
the late distinguished and lamented
Judge Underwood.
A car lood of Indians, men, wo-
men and children, from the Blue
Ridge reservation il North Carolina,
passed through here recently, on the
Western and Atlantic railroad, en-
route for the Indian Territory
A MERCHANT in Hartwell says he
has no trouble in finding out which
way the market is likely to go on
corn. That when when he orders a
car Of corn, if the market is adj
vancing, about 400 bushels Of corn
fill up car very nicely, but when
corn is declining the shippers have
no trouble in putting 800 bushels
in a car.
ONE day last week while Messrs.
Geo. ]. and Pat Wynne, of this
coonty, were out hunting the former
found couple Of cartridges on the
ground, aud, wishing to kill both,
fred at them. He was more than
surprised on going to pick them up
to find that he had killed not only
the two he saw, bat seventeen 9TH
ers besides, none of which he had
seen.-Oglethrope Echo.
The woman's medical college at
Atlanta turned out FIVE lady doctors
Thursday. Mrs. p s. Barrett, wife
of the rector of St. Luke's Episco>
pal church, was one of them. The
other graduates we're: Mrs. Ida H.
Bishop, Of Texas, Mrs. Ada Smith,
of Indiana, Miss Bertha Scheid, of
Illinois, Miss Jennie Brush, of Tex
as. The following ladies received
certificates as trained nurses: Miss
Mary Leonard Of Michigan, Mrs. H.
J. K. Thomas of Florida.
CARRoLLToN Free Press: In
August, 1888, A. A. Simonton of
this place bought the gray mare
Kate, which he drives, from l. N.
McLendon for $3.50. She had at
the time he bought her a colt two
monthe old Since that time MIR.
Simonton has sold $40 worth of
colts from this mare and has now one
on hand that he could get 500 for,
which, added to what he has sold,
makes 500 worth of colts he has
raised from her in little over s
wears. These colts were not sold at
fancy prices, either. Besides, dur.
ing all this time the mare has done
good service. She is Carroll rails
ed animal, and Mr.. Simonton says
that he would not take $3.50 for her
to-day.
Mr.. S. w. CHAPMAN, of Taliafer'
no county tells of his making cotton
in 1914 which he sold at 4! cents
per pound. He says he had just
married and bought the plantation
on which he now lives, and.that he
only made few bales of cotton per
year. He made his corn and meat,
and then they made most of the
cloth at home. He says in 1874 he
sold FIVE bales of cotton in Augusta
for sS1. Now this country is all
broke up because cotton is low. Mr..
Chapman then paid $1,000 within
few years for his land and cotton