The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-06-06
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MARRIAGES are sui audihS revenue '" WIG
treasury of the county.
OUR Ordinary, Judge Hammett, has remov-
his Office to the new court house.
THE weather during latter part of last week
and the first of this was cloudy. windy and
cool.
THE Federal decoration was attended, last
Friday, by company Of United States soldiers
from Atlanta, some colored people and few
whites.
Col. Jas w. Robertson, has been appointed
Superintendent of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad.
THE Savannah Advertiser and Repnblica n
comes to us this week merged. presenting as
handsome a paper as can be found in the South
1t is ably edited, newsy and interesting
ABuNpANcE of rain has fallen uring the
preseut week. The crops of the farmers, it not
injured, must necessarily be in the grass to
considerable extent. as but precious little time
has been afforded suitable for wedding out
MRS. z. F. ANDERSON has just received a
splendid assortment of millinery goods con-
sisting of hats, bonnets, trimmings and fancy
notions generally. Her stock of goods cannot
fail to give satisfaction. We commend her to
the patronage of our readers
THE Northwestern Mutual Live Insurance
Company through their State Agent for Gear
gia, DR.. VIM. H. White, has paid five thousand
dollars. the amount insured on the life OF W.
L. Mansfield, to Mrs. L. E. Mansfield, wife OF
said deceased.
THE Confederate dead that are buried in
different portions of the county, are being dis-
Inferred and brought to the cemetery ut TINS
nlace for interment. Wouldn't it be more wise
to expend the money, used for this purpose, IN
identifying the last resting place OF the Confed-
crate dead whose mounds and headboards are
in wretched conditianf
THE Dalton Citizen is responsible faa the
following: eve We're greatly amused, few
days ago, at three lines we saw painted, In
large letters, Oil a fence above Ringgold-the
closing line particularly. The first line read
thus; "Use Simmons Liver Regulator" the
ssoond "Use also, Merchants Gargling OIL
and the third, in still larger letters, encircled by
a heavy, black line, And then prepare to meet
qour God !"
THE sports of boyhood are on the mis-
celaneous order, and vary AS often as he has
opportunity to practice them school boy,
The other day after stealing pound OF sugar
from his mother and turning the cradle over
thereby turning his baby sister out, went to
school that evening, missed nine words out OF
ten, was kept in, then jumped out OF window
and run off. caught dog and tied sardlne
hoy to his narrative" and then went home
that night and received the usual patting,
and vet his mother intends him for the minis
try.
A YOUNG man went to the entertainment
the other night and tell in love with very
beautiful lady and after going all around the
Hall and making several unsuccessful enqnlr-
les. he Mt last approached gentleman and said'
"Sir. can YOU tell me who that beautiful lady
is; have fallen in love with her and would
like to know her nameY' The gentleman re-
sponded, "Yes, sir; that is my wife WIN you
have an introduction The young man di.in't
take any in his'n, but took it straight" for the
door.
TIE folly OF leaving healthy, prosperous
State, like Georgia, and going West, is being
constantly verified by parties returning In
stead of money growing on trees, those who go
there find they have to earn their bread by the
sweat Of their brow Or starve, for the popula-
ton is SO mixed that there is but little brother
" love or charity practiced The rivers do not
flow with milk and honey, but the COW and bee
have to receive just the same attention to pro-
duce these luxuries as they do in Cobb county.
The crops meet with disasters and failures, and
money is made and lost Numerous cemeteries
show that health ia not confined to the borders
of the West but that disease and death are
there, waging an unrelenting crusade, carry
ing off scores of people to the dim Foreverland.
Daily comes back the cry, from those in Texas,
"Stay in Georgia p yet there are many who
will not listen to this voice OF warning, but must
needs 90 and see for themselves. And dearly
do they pay for the knowledge they receive
One family, numbering thirteen, that left Paud-
ing last year, in health with the promise OF long
life before them, are all dead and buried in
strange land, victims of fell disease. Others
from this county, sold out their farms and spent
the money and are now in Texas needing the
assistance Of friends. These facts are given
that those contemplating leaving this section
may do SO with their eyes open.