The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-03-24
STATE NEWS.
CULLED AND CONDLNSED FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.


Banking Company to the courts and
the directors and stockholders.
FRIDAY last, Policeman J. W.
Norton Of Atlanta, arrested George
Daniels, colored, @ho resisted and
stabbed the policeman with dirk
to his lungs. Norton shot Daniels
in the head, killing him.
Col. R. J. REDD1NG, superintend.
ent of the State Experimental Sta
ton, is establishing a dairy DEPART
partnent for the purpose Of expert
menting in the manufacture of
cheese.
LAST year Georgia used $4,000
tons of guano which, at $40 a ton
would amount to s6,740,000. if the
total cost Of all commercial fertili-
zers which have been used in Geor-
gia since the war could be ascertain
ed, the result would show them
where good portion of their hard
earnings has gone.
A PROMINENT farmer has notified
Gov. Northen that he will contrib.
ute two car loads Of fire agricultural
products towards Georgia's exhibit
at the worlds Fair. Another gen.
tleman writes that he has about $500
worth of pure gold nuggets taken
from his land which may be included
in Georgia's exhibit.
The last Legislature made slight
change in the law regarding legal
advertisements. Instead OF twenty
eight days publication of sheriff
sales, citations, administrators sales,
etc., four insertions are sufficient to
legalize the same. Letters of dis
mission remain the same, requiring
three months insertion.
The state appropriation for old
soldiers pensions this year is 1885,
600, the same as for last year. Last
year this amount was not enough
to pay off all the claims approved,
and the shortage will be even great
er this year. New applications for
blanks are coming in right along.
ONE of the biggest real estate
transactions made in Atlanta in a
long time has just leaked out. This
deal is the purchase Of 600 acres of
land near Peachtree park by a syn
dicate composed of northern capital,
lists. The gentlemen who.are most
prominent in the syndicate are Sena-
tor John Sherman of Ohio and At
lanta's postmaster, Gen. James r.
Lewis. A number Of other promi~
nent gentlemen are in the deal. An
electric line is to be built from the
city to Peachtree park. A magnif-
cent hotel is down on the programme.
A lake, covering eighty-five acres of
land, is to be fixed near the hotel.
A PECULIAR case came up before
the mayor at Columbus Thursday.
A negro man living in the bottom
is afflicted with two daughters whose
conduct is not above reproach. Act
ing on the advice of friend he had
the girls arrested, and when they
were tried the father and mother
were the orly witnesses against
them. The testimony they gave
was quite conclusive, and his honor
fined the girls $40 or twenty days
each. Then the father reached
down in his pocket and paid both
fines. Later he was sitting ON the
steps Of the court house figuring out
who hso been punished, himself or
his daughters.
CHARLEY FURGERsoN, who has
been working in the rock quarry in
Oglethorpe county, came to his
home at Jug Tavern, Monday night,
with very high fever, and the next
day a physician vas summoned who
pronounced il case of smallpox.
Several physicians have been sum-
moned and there is some difference
of opinion, but the prevailing opin
ion among them seems to be that it
ia a genuine case of small pox. There
was negro sick at the rock quarry
covered with skin eruptions bearing
similarity to smallpox while Dir.
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