The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-08-15


clothes she pleases, provided always
Of course, that she comes by them
honestly.
Quitman has imposed TAX OF
one dollar and fifty cents upon all
dogs withia her corporate limits
| Marietta ought to do the same thing.
A slate quarry has been discover
ed on Gov. Browns farm in Gordon
county, Ga.
A party Of hunters killed five deer
in Worth county, Ga, in one day
recently
A one.armed bsiliff of Columbus,
Ga, vino went out into the country
to serve judgment for debt against
man named Pike, was pushed into
the river The baillff was rescued
by man living lear. lie proposes,
in addition to his other accontre-
ments, to wear a life>preserver here
after.
Resaca, Ga, had a steamboat
meeting the other day for the pur.
pose Of devising ways and means Of
opening navigation to the Tennessee
line.
You can always find a sheet of
water on the bed of the ocean.
A circuit court---The longest way
home from the singing school.
A furniture man hung out card
inscribed Buggy For Sale !" and
placed it upon secondhand bed
stead.
II isa startling fact in natural his
tory that children who are ''perfect
little lambs" usually grow up to be
mutton heads"
A Detroit h0tel>keeper was so
| angry with man who sent him a
circular advertising u bed>bug ex-
terminater, that he knocked him
down and bit off portion of his ear
The editor of the Kankakee Ga
zette thinks fishing don't pay. ave
stood ii all day in the river last
week, . he says, 'but caught nothing
until we got home
Scientists are claiming that in
stead of being cold, the moon is in
reality red>hot so much 30 that nc
living thing known to our world
could exist there. This spoils the
"green cheese theory.
AN ExrlNaUlsHER. FORWARD and
loquacious youth-"By Jove, you
know, upon my word, now--if ]
were 10 see ghost, you know,
should be chattering idiot for the
rest Of my life" Ingenious maiden
| (dreamily) -Hayeyou seen a ghost
A sentimental editor says; at is
comforting 10 know that one eye
watches fondly for our coming, and
looks brighter when we come" A
contemporary is grieved to learn that
his "brother' of the quill has wife
with only one eye.
MADAM said husband to a
young wife, in one of those little
alterations which will spring up
sometimes, "when a man and his
wife have quarreled, and each con-
siders the other at fault, which Of
the two should advance toward re-
| cancellation r. "The best-natured
and wiser of the two" said the wife,
putting her mouth for kiss, which
was given.
Revenue officers in Scott county,
Va, were worsted in a fight with
illicit whisky distillers.
Cholera reappeared in Chattanoo-
ga last week and Stayed several me-
groes.
Columbus Sum says: Cotton mills
have taken this season 1881 bales
Of cotton against 6,72T last year,
showing an increase of 524. The
mills have made these 1881 bales
of cotton worth nearly two millions
of dollars, whereas its cost in produ-
GERS hands was not seven hundred
thousand.
THE Kansas farmers are evidently
very much in earnest. A resolution
passed by one of their recent conven-
tons reads in this curt style -
"Whereas, ID. p. Lowe, our Con-
gresham. supported the back salary
bill, Resolved, That we demand that
he resign his seat in Congress. that
his place may be filed by an honest
man instead of thief"
The Manchester IN. H. Onion
tells of a Newfoundland dog that fell
into canal there recently and was
unable to get out. At length he sue
ceeded In getting his pave upon the
bank. and Gov. Smyth's dog, appre-
ciating the situation, seized tbs
drowning dog by the neck and max
ing a vigorous rally backward, drew
| him on the bank. The two dogs
/ looked at each other with the great
en- cumpincsncy and went kOms.