The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30

PRIZE YOUR MOTHER.

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ct, IN letter to a. young friend1 a thing
very little known, which is, that in ones
life enc can never have more than one
mother. You may think this is obvious
and what you may cali tritc obscrva-
ton. You are green gosling! was
at the same age, very near as wise as
you, and yet never discovered this
with full evidence and conviction | mean
till it was too late. It is thirteen years
ago, and it seemed to me but as yesterday
and every day live it sinks deeper into
my hearth"
CONTENT WITH THE SITUATIoN.-The
Richmond Enquirer says: GIN our opin-
ion the constitution in question, after all
the clauses to be separately vo'ed on
shall have been stricken out, is still full
of enormities. But we are free to say
that we are pleased to accept the action
of the President as some evidence of
good will on his part towards us, and at
evincing a disposition to mitigate in
some degree at least this proposed con-
stitution."
A cotemporay records "melancholy
event." at time when his head was
rather heavy, after tho following man
ner: yesterday morning, at four
o'clock, P. NJ, man with heel in the
hole Of his stocking, committed arsenic,
by swallowing dose of suicide. The
inquest of tho verdict returned by the
Jury was that the deceased came to the
facts in accordance with his death. He
leaves child with six small wives to la
ment to the end his untimely loss. In
death we are in the midst of life"
SOMEBODY says the world is full of
people who can't imagine why they
don't prosper like their nOighbors, when
the real obstacle is not in bonds or ia
riffs, in bad public policy or hard times,
but in their own extravaganza and heed
less ostentation. Let man have &C.
MUS for spending, and whether his in
como be a dollar a day or dollar a
minute, it is equally certain to prov in
adequate. The bottomless pocket will
never ell, no matter how bounteous the
stream pouring into it.
WE were compelled, says an exchange
to refuse an offer Of job printing the
other day by backwoodsman, who inno-
Gently called to get some postage stamps
printed! He was quite disappointed
because we could not do the work. He
"wanted 'cm real bad to put on letters
when he writ to gal, and they cost too
darn much to buy 'em of them post Of
flee fellcrs."
Would to God that all the party
names and unscriptural phrases and forms
which have divided the Christian world
were forgotten and that we might sit
down together, as humble, loving dis
ciples, at the feet of our common Mas
ter, to hear his word. imbibe his spirit,
and transcribe his life into our OWL
John Wesley.
PENITENTIARY VS.. LEGISIATURE.-An
old farmer in Ohio, having read that the
State Penitentiary cleared seven thou
sand dollars during the last year by the
labor of convicts, sat some time in deep
thought and then exclaimed, 81 think
we'd better turn our legislator into a
penitcntiary, by jingo!"
A CRAZY man having got in the gal
lcry of the Senate of the United States
during rambling debate, was taken
out, the Sergeant-at-arms telling him
that he was out of place in that gallery.
"That's So" said the lunatic; 81
ought to be on the floor with the Sena-
tors
If you haven't business, advertise if
you have business, advertise. People
go to places that are advertised, and
they GO by those that are not. A place
that advertises is known to the world
that which does not is only known to the
few that may pass it, and pretty much
every body does the latter.
A RIDDLE.-'T will consent to all you
DESIRE" said facetiOus lady to her low
or, "on condition that you give me what
you have not, what you never can have,
and yet what you can give me-" What
did sho ask for A husband.
BEAUTIES are apt to die old maids
They set such high value on themselves,
that the market closes before they can
find a purchaser.
THE man who "burned with indigna-
tion'i has been put out. Damage very
slight.
THE speaker who drought down the
house, has been compelled to put it
UP again.
THE young lawyer who, "made his
mark has sinced learned to write his
name. $50