The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-06-27
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STRANGERS are coming in to the city and
will make this place their summer resort"
VACATION is one of the luxuries now antci-
pated by those little ones who eat slate pencils
WE send this number Of our paper to news
papers that we desire to continue on our ex-
change list.
THE Masonic order of this and other places
visited Gainesville last Tuesday and had a
grand celebration and big dinner. iss .g
SUMMER fights have opened. Gentlemen,
keep cool !-Heggie has ice.-Its too hot for
such foolishness.
WE would advise all Interested 10 call at j.
L. Haley g. Co.'S store and examine new and
improved cotton gin they have for sale.
MARRIED--on the evening of the 25,h inst,
at the residence of the brides mother, by Rev.
w. E. Eppes, Mr.. J.. E.. Holmes, of Darien,
Ga, to Miss Madgie Ggnilliat, OF this city.
A FEW chaps are peddling the "cbolera"
around town in the shape of green apples
Mother Eve would never have fallen by being
tempted with such fruit. l
A YOUNG man was very inquisitively pricing
furniture the other day at Cokane's. We trust
our Sheriff will look after him, for we think he
intends to commit matrimony. sa
H REID is putting up some excellent bug
gies that will compare favorably with any
work north or south. He is making this one
thing speciality
liz the editor of the Peoples Friend, at
Rome, deems our articles worth copying,
he should also be courteous enough to give the
proper credit, which he omitted to do in his
last issue.
To find out the heighth and intensity of the
holiness of this heating and heated weather,
climb Kennesaw Mountain about two o'clock
p. NJ, and our opinion is you will be fully I'M
tiated and able to edify others as to its warm
ness.
ONE by one they fall away. Merging and
supension Of influential newspapers are still go
ing on. The Atlanta Sun has been merged in
to the Constitution, In future, Mr., Stephens
will act only as.correspondent. Successful the
new combination.
THE occasional crack of the pop-gun re-
sounds out ON the air as one of the darling
sports of boyhood Year after year the boy
mixes pop gun shooting with his arithmetic
and grammar, and the young idea learns to
shoot in some respects at least.
THIS grumbling over fate, at what seems to
be dull times is wrong. Every season has it
disadvantages. While the present season
may not be so flush yet it is the preparatory
season with the farmer for the Inauguration
of flush times.
THE following is one of the new rulings Of
the postal department 'The clerks in the
post office shall not read the postal cards, and
they shall not allow any postal cards to pass
through the mails having anything improper
written on Them" We would like to know,
how Fox is going TO know whether there is
anything improper on them or not unless he
reads them3 50 Afa
AN old negro man, by the name of Charles,
a few evenings ago while purchasing some ar
ticles of provisions, said che had given a great
deal of consideration to de one ting why a
man can't lib wild out eating, but neber could
cum to de knowledge of it yet, and der fore he
didn't believe man could lib wild out eating"
Some by-standers jokingly differed with old
Charles when he closed the argument with the
following clncher: "Den you show me a
man dat can lib wild out eating, and will show
you thousand that lilo by eating"
r THE colored Odd Fellows of the Manchester
Unity, of this place, and Atlanta, with their
wives, friends and neighbors, had a picnic at
'Glover's Grove, near this city, last Tuesday
The.town was literally crowded with the col
ored population. The procession was headed
by brass band and the dusky descendants of
Ham marched around and around where the
green grass grows and were apparently happy
They conducted themselves very orderly and
decently, an evident improvement in deport-
ment that we are pleased to chronicle. The
colored people of Marietta as a class are more
polite and industrious than most Of their race.
Politeness pays.
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