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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20
REPRESENTATION IN THE LOW
Err HOUSE.

A correspondent of the Macor
Telegraph furnishes to that paper {
copy Of a bill which will be intro
duced in the Legislature at the APP.
preaching session. The leading OBJ
Ijects are LIST. To make representa-
ton in the Lower House optional
with the counties, and require all
counties represented to pay the sal
aries of its members. The PROPOSE.
ton is not without merit We an
mex the more important sections OF
the bill
SECTION |. Be it enacted, ETC.,
That it shall be the duty of the Or
binary of each county in this State
to convene a public meeting of the
citizens thereof twenty days before
the election for members of the Gen
eraI Assembly in each county, to be
presided over by said Ordinary, at
which the citizens ofthe county shall
take q vote to decide whether they
will or not be represented in the
lower branch of the General Assem-
bly,, to convene next thereafter !;
said vote to be taken by ballot un-
der the same rules and regulations as
are now prescribed for holding cleo
tions for members Of the General
Assembly, and the ballots shall each
bear the words representation" or
ono representation"
Sec. 2. In case majority of the
ballots cast at said election shall bear
the words, ''No representation" the
election for Representatives in the
House of Representatives for said
county, at the next ensuing election,
shall not be held, aud the county
shall not be represented as hereto
fore in the House of Representatives
of the General Assembly converting
next thereafter. But should a ma
jority of the ballots bear the words
Representation" the election shall
proceed as if no such preliminary
election, if any or all the counties of
this State shall decide to send Rep
resentatives to the lower branch of
the General Assembly the per diem
and mileage of such Representative
or Representatives shall in no event
be paid out of the Treasury of this
State, but such per diem and mileage
shall be paid out of the Treasury of
the County so sending the Represen-
tative or Representatives, and the
Ordinary of every county so decid-
ing to be represented as aforesaid
shall levy, and he is hereby author
lied to levy, an extra tax for the
purpose of paying the Representa-
lives of the county for their services
there rendered to the county.
Sec. 4. That whenever any coun-
ty shall decide not to be represented,
the Ordinary shall forward the re-
turns of the vote taken at the pre-
liminary meeting aforesaid to the
Secretary of the State in the manner
and form as he is now required to
make returns of election.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20

The ether day General Albert
Pike, of Arkansas paid flying visit
to Newburyport, Mass, which is the
place of his nativity. He was TAX
en- charge on the evening of his ar
rival by party of friends, who or
dered bird supper at one Of the
hotels. The landlord, on learning
who his would be guest was, inform
ed the spokesman of the party that
there was not money enough IN the
city to pay for supper to a rebel
General, whereupOn they retired in
good order to another hotel, where
patriotism was not so intense.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20

No man asks another how much
money he possesses. Are there not
other matters in which reticence is
equally required from the would-be
que8tioner? Questions have given
more offense than perhaps any other
mode of speech. If silence is gold
en-, and speech is Isilvern, that pc
culiar form of speech called ques-
tioning is, for the most part, brazen.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20

SLEEP.-Every man or women
must sleep according to his temper
ament; but eight hours is the aver
age. If one requires little more
or little less he will find it out for
himself. Whoever, by work, pleas
ure, sorrow, or by any ether cause,
is regularly diminishing his sleep, IS
destroying his life. A man may
hold out for time, but nature keeps
close accounts, and no man can
dodge her settlements. We have
seen impoverished railroads that
could not keep the track in order
nor spare engines to be thoroughly
repaired. Every year track and
equipments deteriorated. By-and-
by comes a crash, and the road is a
heap of confusion and destruction.
So it is with men. They slowly run
behind. Symptoms of general waste
appear. Premature wrinkles, weak
eyes, depression of spirits, failure of
digestion, feebleness in the morning
and overwhelming melancholy these
and other signs show general dill
apidation. If now sudden calamity
causes an extraordinary pressure,
they GO down under it. They have
no resources to draw upon. They
have been living up to the verge of
their whsle vitality every day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20

lam now able to see that my
sorest disappointment at the time
they happened, and my heaviest
misfortunes, have always turned out
to be my greatest blessings, when
ever they have been taken as admo-
nitions and warnings, and turned
wisely to account.-JohN Neal.
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A Western dairyman says the best

II W O0IOI n N8ttIH ] 1H1s1HA " ] . VIZ y
remedy he has found for preventing
cows holding up their milk is to
"take log-chain, double it, then
lay it gently over the cows back or
the small of the back'-so that the
ends of the chain will clear the floor.
The COW loses the power of holding
up her milk, and after few trials
will forget thehabit."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20
Marietta, Georgia,
Western & Atlantic R. R.
Ia "a Ezssss1
80 SZ
CEANGE OF SCHEDULE.

September 18th 1871.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN Outward, Through
to New York, via Chattanooga.
Leave Atlanta. ....-...-..--.10 1890 p. NJ.
Arrive at Chattanooga GIG A. NJ.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN Inward from New
York. Connecting at Dalton.
Leaves Chattanooga 5:2O p. NJ.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Outward.
Arrive at Chattanooga. ----.-.1 :2l p M
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN,-Inward
Leave Chattanooga $50 A. NJ.
Arrives at Atlanta Northumberland. 1:32 Z. NJ.
FAST LINE, SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK, Out.
ward.
Leaves Atlanta ------.--- %:4o r. NJ.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN-Inward.
Leaves Dalton. ----.--- --| :23 A. M
Arrives at Atlanta. -l0:Oo A. M.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-10-20

1t is hard to acquire knowledge,
harder to retain it, still more diff
cult to put it into practice, and,
hardest of all, not to be proud oft.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
Extracting Il Lions Tooth.

The Glasgow Herdld reports q remark
able operation which has been per-
formed on the jaw of q vigorous, full
grown lion in Manders menagere, in
that city. a tooth had been injured by
blow inflicted by a man named Mac
como, when the animal threatened to
attack him. Gradually the lion became
very low spirited, eating his food with
great difficulty; and when at length a
gentleman who stands high in the medi-
cal profession in Glasgow volunteered to
subject the lion to a surgical operation,
provided the animal could be properly
secured, the offer was accepted. On
Wednesday the fore paws of the lion
were caught and bound to the bars of
the cage by strong ropes. Afterwards
the head was " lassoed," and ropes were
fastened round the animals neck in
such a manner as to prevent, as far as
possible, the movement of the head,
and to force the mouth close against
the bars. When the lion was somewhat
exhausted by struggles to free himself,
the doctor mounted on a tub in front
of the cage. A piece Of wood was placed
to the lions mouth, and at once the
Ocdot Hld'tc Sl)dil. IHcI d I)ItChlOlh
was held up and placed in the mouth,
kept it open, while the inside was thor
oughly washed. Afterward the doctor,
pushing his arm between the bars into
the lions mouth, and running his hand
over the teeth, found the loose grinder.
A terrible struggle ensued. The lion
plunged more vigorously and howled
more frightfully than before, tossing his
head from side to side, and at times
forcing his hinder as well as his front
paws against the bars. But ultimately
the doctor triumphed over all difficult
ties and dangers, and by means of
powerful forceps extracted the loose
tooth, which was broken and diseased
near the root. When the task had been
completed the lion sank down COM
pletely exhausted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
Midsummer Mnladies.

The hot solar rays that ripen the harvest generate
many distressing diseases. If the liver be all pre-
disposed to Irregularities his is the season in which
bilious attacks may be anticipated. weak stom-
ach too, is weakened in the summer months. and the
loss Of vitality through the pores by excessive persp
ration is great, that a wholesome tonic combining
also the properties of diffusve stimuant and gentle
eXhilarant, is in many necessary to health and
under circumstances should be dis pensed with by
the sckly and debilitated OF all the preparations in
tended thus to refresh sustain and fortify the human
frame, there is that will compare with Hostel
ter's Celebrated Stomach Bitters. They have been
weighed in the balance Of experience and not found
wanting: have been recommended from the first
great medicinal specific, not as beverage, and in
spite interested opposition from innumerabe quar-
ters stand. after twenty years trial, at the head Of
all proprietary medicines intended for the prevention
and of all ordinary complaints of the stomach
the liver, the bowels, and the nerves. In the un-
healthy districts bordering the great rivers of the
South West HostetteTs Bitters may be Classed
the standard one for every species of intermittent
remttent fever The people who inhabt those dis
trcts place the most implicit confidence in the prep
arationa confidence that is ncr leased every year by
the results of the operation.
As bitters called of the most perncious charac-
ter, are sprngng up like fungi every side, the pub
lie hereby forewarned against the dram-shop
frauds Ask for Hosettcrs Btters that the label
etc. correct and remember that the genuine ari-
Gle is never sold in bulk, but in bottles only.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21

room. A banquet dish OF Disilus
weighed five hundred pounds of silver.
The cups of Dresus were of gol i.
TUNES were embroidered with the
figures of various animals. Paulina
wore Jewels, when she paid visits, val
ued at $4,000. Drinking cups were
engraved with scenes from the poets.
Libraries were adorned with busts and
presses of rare wood. Sofas were inlaid
with tortoise shell and covered with
gorgeous purple.
The Roman grandees rode in gilded
chariots, bathed in marble baths, dined
from golden plate, drank from chry stall
cups, slept on beds OF down, reclined
on luxurious touches, wore embroid-
cred robes, and were adorned with pre-
cious stones they ransacked the earth
and the sea for rare dishes for their
banquets. and ornamented their houses
with carpets from Babylon, onyx cups
from Bythania, marble from Numidia,
bronzes from Corinth, statues from
Athens-whatever in short, was pre-
cious and curious in most countries.
The luxuries of the bath almost eX-
ceeded belief and on the walls were
magnificent frescoes and paintings, ex-
hibiting an almost ineXhaustible pro
ductiveness in landscape and mythology
cal scenes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
Luxury i'm Ancient Rome.
From the Scientific American.

If anything more 1ere wanted to
give us an idea of Roman magnificence,
we could turn our eyes from public
monuments, demoralizing games and
grand professions we would forget the
statues in brass and marble. which out
numbered the living inhabitants so
numerous that one hundred thousand
have been recovered and still embellish
Italy. and would descend into the lower
sphere of material life, to those things
which attest luxury and taste, to orna-
ments, dresses, sumptuous living, and
rich furniture. The art of using metals
and precious stones surpasses anything
known at the present time.
In the decoration of houses. in social
entertainments, in cookery, the Romans
were remarkable. The mosaics. signet
rings, canoes, bracelets, bronze, chains.
vases, mirrors, mattresses, cosmetics,
perfumes, hair dyes, silk robes, pot
teries-all attest great elegance and
beauty. The tables of thugaroot and
Italian bronze were as expensive a. the
side boards of Spanish walnut, so much
admired in the great exhibition at Lon
don. Wood and ivory were carved as
exquisitely as in Japan or China. Mir
rors were made of polished silver.
Glass-cutters could initiate the colors OF
| precious stones so well that the Port.
land vase, from the tomb of Alexander
Severns was long considered as a gen.
uine sardonyx; brass could be hardened
so as TO cut stone.
The palace of Nero glittered with
gold and jewels. Perfumes and flowers
were showered from ivory ceilings
The halls of Heliogabulus were huns
with cloth and gold, enriched with
| jewelry. His beds were silver. and hi,
table of gold. Tiberius gave million
| OF sesterces for a picture of his bed
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21

The Stockton Independent excellent
authority, says upon this subject:
The reported improvement in the
state of the crop may be correct; but
1t would be we'll for the farmers who
have wheat to sell, to carefully look at
the situation before believing these re-
ports. Notwithstanding the fact there
will be more grain produced in this
State than was anticipated few weeks
ago, it is very doubtful whether this
years crop will be over half of that of
last year. 1t is estimated that the crop
of 1870 amounted in round numbers to
100000 tons. OF this amount 235 200
tons were exported, and it is now esti.
mated that there remains in the State
10000 tons. The balance of the crop,
over the exports of what now remains
on hand, must show the amount neces.
sary for seed and home consumption,
and it therefore requires 100000 tons of
wheat to supply our home demand. If
the total production for this year is not
over one.half what it was last year, it
will show but $4,000 tons for our own
use, it will leave but 10000 tons for ex-
port, or less than one tenth as much as
was exported last year. If these figures
are correct, andwe believe they approx
mate correctness, it is evident that
California will have but little wheat for
shipment this year, and that nearly all
our crop will be needed to supply the
home market.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
Contents of n Gods Stomach.

From the Neither Lochabcr Correspondence of the
Inverness Courier.
The Dutch have an adage to the effect
that - he who looks for strange things
must. 10 be successful, look for them in
strange places" Guided by sort Of in
stinct very much akin to philosophy Of
the Batavian proverb, we have for many
years been in the habit of carefully and
infinitely examining the contents of the
stomach Of every fish of any size that
comes into our possession either by cap
ture or purchase, and taking a note of
such odds and ends as we may meet
with in what occasionally proved rather
unsavOry researches.
A few days ago we got hold Of large
cod in excellent condition, and Of some
ten or twelve pounds weight, and as it
was being dressed for dinner we pro-
ceeded to an examination of the stom-
ach. which was very much distended, as
full as it could hold in fact, giving every
promise of "find' that might album
dainty repay the trouble of a minute in
vestigation of its contents. On Sitting
the stomach longitudinally with a sharp
pocket knife, its bull<ier contents were
found to consist of no less than three
Writings of rather more than halfa-
pound each, which must have been re-
Gently gorged, nearly at the same
moment, and probably from the same
shoal, for they were at the same stage
of decomposition, the process of diges-
ton having as yet hardly macerated the
epidermis. The three lay in the stom-
ach with their heads towards the pso-
hagus, or mouth of the stomach, so that
as a rule it may be fairly concluded that
the cod swallows such fish as it can
catch tail foremost.
Putting all this aside, and searching
further. we found tobacco pipe, a
common clay of the ordinary form,
the bowl whole and complete, with
about an inch of shaft to it. Externally
the pipe was white, and clean, and
somewhat granulated and corroded from
the action of the gastric juice, but in
side the bowl bore evident marks of
having been smoked not long before the
cod took it into his head to have pull
at it, Having laid the pipe carefully
aside, with an internal resolve to have q
smoke out Of it some day on splicing a
new shaft to the stump, we continued
our investigation, and in the very bot
tom Of the stomach, among some mucus
and the half digested remains of crus
tacese. we found brass button of ele.
cant and curious workmanship. II
would require no great ingenuity to
frame plausible enough hypothesis as
to how the broken pipe might have
come in the Gods way. The brass but
ton puzzles one more its history, if one
could follow it, from first to last, might
perhaps like the Adventures of q
Guinea" be found fuller of interest and
even tragic in incident than one could
at first sight have considered possible
Both button and pipe we hold as curl
osities, and we hope that the hint re
rarding fish's NAV being a not unlike
" place for queer and curious " finds
may not be lost sight of by the reader
Some of the rarest crustaceans anc
molluscs of our seas are very frequently
70 be met with among the half-digestec
contents of such receptacles.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
Memorabilia.

ALE and ale houses were known in
England in 72S.
ToRIcELLI, Florentine, invented
barometers in 1913.
BREEcuEs, or pantaloons, were first
worn in Europe in 1862.
PAPER currency established in North
America, May Is, l775.
THE comfortable carriage called the
Berlin" was invented in 1909.
BREAD is said to have been first made
by the English, about 1850.
NORWOOD was an Ingredient used to
preserve malt liquors before the discov-
cry of hops in 1882.
1t RoL, of Paris, made the best watch
l7S6, it being an improvement on Har-
rison's timekeeper, invented three years
previous.
TIE Berlin Royal society was founded
by Frederick l., king of Prussia, 100.
A literary society was incorporated with
il in l744.
THE dissenters in England took the
name Of Methodist from Methodius, q
celebrated Greek prelate, who intro
duced Christianity into Bohemia in $50.
The first measurement of time is at
tributed TO Alfred the Great, about $50
In those days three inches of candle
consumed was counted an hour, and six
whole candles made "A hours.
The most remarkable battle the Ger.
mans ever fought was at Argentaria, in
Alsace, against the Romans under Ora
with the loss of $4,000 men out of
10000.
The Academy of Bologna, for physi-
clans and mathematics, was founded in
1000. The university Of the Sorbonno
for divinity, named after its founder,
dated 1851. Of st. Luke, for paintinA
1893 of Verona, for music, l542, and
of sciences at st. Petersburg, by Peter
l, 1924.
THE city of Alexandria, Egypt, has an
eventlul history. 1t is said to have been
built by Alexander in II days, and was
six miles outside its walls in 332, B. G.
it was taken by Caesar, A., B. c.; by
Octayius Caesar, 30, b. G. 10y Docletian,
2S6 by the Persians, els by the Sara
Gems, $40. Since by Napoleon and the
Turks, and lastly by Lesseps canal.
CARDINALS were originally the parish
preachers of Rome. Their title was
given in 30S; their college was founded
by Pope Pascal l.. 81 did not elect
popes until 100. Wore the red hat and
clothing as sign they were ready to
shed their blood in defence of their
faith, and were declared princes of the
church l222; title of eminence given
them by Pope Urban Will, about 1880.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
The Latest Dodge.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette, 3d.


A very ingenious trick by which q
gang of swindlers are making money by
mutilating national bank notes of the
denomination of five dollars, has re-
Gently come to our notice. The dodge
consists in making ten bills out of nine.
and is so managed that there is. but
one FASTING to each of the manufactured
notes. The nine whole bills are taken,
and from the right Of the first one-tenth
is sliced off; from the right Of the second
two-tenths from the third three.tenths,
and so on to number nine, from which
nine-tenths are taken from the right, or
what amounts to the same thing, one
tenth from the left. Number one is
passed as it is with tenth gone from
the right the one-tenth taken from
number one, is pasted to the residue OF
number two, from which two-tenths
had been taken; these two-tenths are
made to answer the place of the three
tenths taken from number three, and
so on through. Thus ten five dollar
notes are completed, leaving the origi.
nal number nine, with a tenth gone
from each bill, and is different place
on every one, and small ingenious
pasting makes the loss imperceptible to
ordinary observers. 1t is certain that
large numbers of these mutilated bills
have been put in circulation, and our
readers will do well to look out for
them
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21

DON'T DESPAIR BECAUSE you HAVE A
WEAK CONSTITUTION. The vitalzing
principle embodied in DR.. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs will assuredly strength
en- it. In every drop of that combina-
ton of vegetable curatives, there is a
stimulating, a regenerating, a regulat-
ing power unequaled in the whole range
of proprietary and officinal remedies.
1t is to the inert physique what steam
and oil are to the locomotive engine.
Yet it contains no fiery excitant, moth
ing but the juices of rare medicinal
herbs and roots, intended by the Great
Physician for "the healing of the Ma
TONS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
California Wheat CrOp.

Weather reports from the Pacific give
q desponding account of the harvest
prospect the present year. The drouth
I said 10 be the most serious of any sea-
SON since 1864, and far more disastrous
than that year, from the fact that a
much broader area has been planted
tbon then. Our exchanges indicate
that the wheat crop will fall far short
of the usual yield, and it is thought it
will barely supply home demand.