The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-02-21
Culled and Condensed from
Our Exchanges.
A NEGRO CONFESSED TO STEALING
A Hog and the Hog Turned Up Alive.
WhOselHOg was 1t he Stole
Other Items.

MA La Ne AOuWSOhS WAO WIN AsbWbu
suicide in Sumter county on Sat
urday, left an estate valued at $685.
600.
The Hutchinson cotton factory at
Banning in Carroll county, was
burned down last week. It was the
work Of an incendiary.
One OF Elberton's prominent hard :.
ware firms offers SO in gold to the
Ebert county farmer who will raise
the largest hog by Dec. 20, 1895.
w. B. Bracewell, of Lithonia, lost
his barn by fire last Friday night.
In the barn was a considerable
amount of corn, fodder and other
forage, two mules and two COWS.
The city council OF Madison met
Thursday and declared the result of
the recent election on public schools
and bonds to be 189 votes for and 3
against. This insures public schools.
Caroline Edge6eld, colored, died
at Blakely Friday from two bullet
wounds inflicted by an unknown
negro with whom she q1arreled the
day before. The negro escaped.
Wilkes county will have to hold
another election for officers to fill
the places Of some third party men
who were elected and could not
give bond.-Hawkinsville Dispatch.
Hon. Davis e. Smith, ex-senator
from the Thirty>second district
whose home is at Jacksonville, has
been adjudged as a lunatic and will
be sent to the asylum in few days.
W. J. Julian, retail dry goods
merchant OF Macon, has assigned.
His bookkeeper, J. w. Alfriend,
has been appointed assignee. The
assets are about $4,000; liabilities,
about $4,000.
The directors of the Atlanta Ex-
position will be asked by the com~
mittee On agriculture to offer twelve
prizes, aggregating $1,000, for the
best twelve county displays in the
agricultural department. The FIRST
prize will be $500 and the twelfth
will be $3.50.
A farmer in Irwin county missed
a hog. A negro was arrested and
confessed to the theft. Afterwards
the hog thought to have been stolen
was found. The question now is
whether the negro can be convicted.
He has stolen somebody's hog, but
the ownership of the stolen property
cannot be proven.
The farmers of Walton county
met at Monroe Tuesday to decide
what should be done in regard to
the high price OF guano and the low
price of cotton. 1t was resolved to
reduce the cotton acreage one fourth
and not pay more than S1626 per
ton for fertilizers and not to use
much of it at that price.
Upon a plea o: guilty from. each
of them, Judge w. T. Newman, Of
the United States district court,
sentenced Anse Black, John Carnes,
Sam Peoples and Girls Mitchell, of
Murray county, to two years in the
Columbus penitentiary, and a fine
of $500 each, under an indictment
for conspiracy IN the we'll known
Henry Morley hanging case.
The payment of pensions to col
diers under the old law viii, begin
18th of March, SO says Capt. John
son clerk in the executive departs
ment, who has charge OF pension
matters. Captain Johnson further
saws that he has received q good
many enquiries about the new law
and therc seems to be gooG deal
Of misunderstanding about it. He
saws the intent of the law is clearly
to pension only such veterans as are
in extreme poverty.