The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-02-18
STATE NEWS.
Called and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.


legs.
There are nealy 10000 bales of
cotton in the warehouse at Griffin
waiting for rise in prices, pnd 3d.
000in Savannah.
A hundred bales of cotton have
been picked on Col Jas. M. Smiths
farm in Oglethorpe county since
Christmas.
By agreement, the six barsrooms
in Darieu have consolidated and will
hereafter do business as one bar.
This is stated to be the result of
high license.
JOHN Bass, successful farmer of
Jackson's district, Laurens county,
has sow that is the mother of
pig which has eight legs and feet,
tour ears and two tails.
A LADY OF Cuthbert gives the fol-
lowing cure for grip which she has
tested with unvarying success: Four
grain asafetida pills taken four timeso
daily, say three hours apart.
A Putnam county farmer went
all the way to New York last week
to give green goods swindler $500
Of hard, farm money. He expected
to get in return $500 in counter.
felt, but he only cot the goose.
Two little boys living in Rome
ran away from home several weeks
ago. They tramped up into Ten
nessee and then through large
portion of Georgia. They returned
home Thursday, hungry and in rags,
looking like veteran tramps.
One of DoughertY' 5 leading farm
ers was offered 9 cents a pound for
223 bales Of cotton of fine grade
Tuesday. Gentlemen, you don't
get my cotton" was his reply. l
am independent of you, and !besides
l have corn to sell. | will hold my
cotton
The Dawson News gives report
that the farmers of Terrell county
can't get guano this year without
cash, only in the exceptional cases
of strong individual credit, and that
large numbers of wagons return
without the load they come for,
while many of the best farmers of
the county will not use any at all.
Henry County Weekly; By
little calculation it will be seen that
Henry county will come out con
siderably ahead in the matter of
taxation this year. We send to the
state treasury just little over &c.,
600. We receive from the state
$1,000 for widows pensions, $3.50
for soldiers, and $S,400 for public
school fond, making total of $751;
740, which, after deducting the
amount we send out, leaves a bal
ance of abogt 81, 500 coming into the
county. Truly, we are to be con-
graduated.
The Athens liquor dispensary is
not holding up to the big business
of the first month, but it is still
fourishing and will turn into the
city about $4,000 a year. The
Banner says: ''After the four
months during which the dispensary
has been established, it is found that
the business is falling off to a con-
siderable degree. The sales for
October, the opening month, ran
over $1,000, for December we're
$4,000, while tor January they only
vent 10 $4,000, decrease of 81, 800
between December and January.
The fact of the business is that the
four best months OF trade have gone,
and that the sales for the rest of the
year will not average as high as
they have during these four months.
One cause for the reduction of re-
ceipts during January probably was
the reduction Of the price of corn
whisky from 30 cents a pint to 25
cents, this one item making differ
ence of about S25 per day. At any
rate the business is falling off at
present, and will not be as it has
been, while the expenses remain
about the same.