The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-07-18
on.Hand Local Dots.


on that order.
THE Trustees have contracted for the COM
pletion of the Marietta Female College building
and work is now being vigorously prosecuted.
WE remind our friends that the "cholera"
never seeks printers for victims, So you neeo
not withhold the usual amount of juicy fruits
melons, &C.
THERE is dearth OF amusements IN TINS
city, nothing but Prot. Nichols "hops," and
those who don't indulge in the light fantastic
toe,p are put to their wits for pleasureaole
amusements
ROASTING ears is being stripped of the ver'
daut shuck, around town. by hands of the col
ored way of singing pots, preparatory to tick
ling the palates of dainty Epicures
Col. AVERY, of the Atlanta Constitution, Is
summering his family in eur city. The Colo
mel goes down to the Gate City every morning
and returns in the evenin, We wish him ana
family pleasant soiourn.
IAN irrevelent butcher in Griffin styles his
shop meating house'-Star. This accounts
for the dm1like pi-eat-y ofSpeer the local ed
itor. His most favorite religions songs are OF
long neot-er.
WHEN a young man bids his 'sweety' good
bye. goes out to the gate. gets on his horse ana
fivds things reversed, the horses head in his
rear. it is one Of those practical illustrations
how love can turn a young mans head.
THE Savannah Advertiser has seen year
of corn sixteen inches long and fourteen inches
| in circumference. '-Forsyth Adrerttser. Well,
there's nothing surprising in the growth of a
"year" of corn that dates its existence for
twelve calendar months.
WE were very much pleased with the SER
mon preached by Rev. Mr. Beck last Sunday.
Our Baptist friends need to congratulate them
selves in securing one SO worthy, efficient and
talented He is careful thinker, and handled
his subject in an unaffected manner.
THE Powders Springs Fair comes off on Thurs
day the oath inst. Some of the hoys anticipate
enjoying a few dollars worth. II it is fair
day, they will go with the fair to the fair and
enjoy themselves with as much fairness as pos
sible.
LAST Monday. at Smyrna, five miles from
this place, Mrs. Lou Mays, with her baby in
her arms, was accidentally precipitated from
the depot platform, distance of five feet, badly
bruising and sprainng one of her ankles. The
baby fortunately escaped unhurt.
LAST Friday night Mr.. Paul Bagby, pur-
porting to be from Memphis, preacheda Camp
bellite sermon at the Council Chambers. He
had an audience of fifteen or twenty curiousity-
prompted-gentlemen The preacher "passed
the hat" and realized seventy cents. The idea
of entrusting preacher with all that money
A FRIEND the other day, remarked that If
he had to be deprived of any organ, he had
rather be deaf than dumb. Whereupou an in
telligent Cobb county farmer replied, eyes, if
you were deaf, you never would be hung
Our young friend didn't see the point and asked
for an explanation The countryman said,
Because the law says every man shall have a
hearing before conviction"
To fasten bright nickle piece to the side
walk, by means of a concealed nail, and see
pedestrians stoop eagerly to pick it up while a
young man stands off and laughs because they
don't, has been the cause of more profanity in
Marietta recently than any one little thing ever
introduced. You might scatter five cent nickles
| all over the sidewalks in Marietta, but no one
has the daring courage to pick them up. A
burnt child breads t he fire.
COOP Lord deliver us from those narrow
minded individuals whose selfishness prevents
them for seeing anything worth commencing in
others. They are like the snail which sees
nothing but its own shell and thinks it the
grandest palace in the universe. They will de-
luge you with stream of CAB increasingly,
which if boiled down would not contain one
good common sense idea Marietta has always
been afflicted with this class. Their hides are
as full Of meanness as mule is full of tricks.
a COUPLE of young men went into the
woods Saturday. After picking few colored
berries and attending the burial Of a coored
individual, they become stupidity dull aud
drowsy. They held consultation and concluded
to rest under the shade of the trees, but alas,
there is 10 rest for the wicked. The hand of one
of them came in contact with a hornets nest
Well, reader, they were the liveliest men after
that you ever heard OF. They danced, pranced,
jumped, hoIlered, scratched and run. They
came back to town fully convinced that country
air, pure and breezy, had all the romance
knocked out. Their swollen limbs have near
ly assuaged.
A YOUNG man OF this place, who is always
working the wires of practical fun, went into
the reception room, at his home, the other day,
throwed himself on the sofa for an hours re-
freslling slumber. In the meantime his sister
received call from q lady friend and she was
ushered into the room where "big bud" repos-
ed. Efforts were made to arouse him from his
sleep, but he would only turn over, grunt and
apparently go to sleep again. Thinking his
ears were securely stopped by Morpheus, the
"blushinR beauties began to rattle away on
this topic and that, and secrets were confiding
ly told. That Young man says that he never
was Horeja,g oGsly entertained, but it was very
difficult to keep all those secrets in memory
He has, however, engaged first class novelist
and viii soon give the publican interesting vol
ume Now girls what was that one particular
thing 'you wouldn't have anything said
about for woflds?'
A MURDER, of local enactment, is seldom re-
corded in these columns, owing tothe fact that
our people are peaceabla and law-abiding and
have horror for shedding of blood But
there are times when the very best of commun-
tiles viii be startled from centre to eircumfer-
ence by commission Of murder. Last Sunday
juvenile intruder entered the Kennesaw
House, which so displeased colored-waiter.
by the name of Josh, that he commenced an