The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-05-15

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dentally shot himself in serious
manner with his own pistol.
A rural statistician reports that
more people are talked to death by
peddlers Of lightning rods than are
killed by lightning.
| The GAINESVILLE Patriot thinks
the wheat crop has been seriously
damaged by the late rains.
The lady who was outraged by an
escaped penitentiary convict, is
about to sue the lessees.
CAPT. Robert M. Stiles was
thrown from his buggy at or near
Gainesville, last Saturday evening,
and SO badly injured that he died at
IL o'clock that night.
A negro baby in Greene county,
Alabama, has its heart outside of
the breastsbone, and covered only
by thin membrane.
A Colorado paper says the women
out there will ride thirty miles to see
man hung. 1t is not often that
you find women SO fond of amuse-
ments.
An engineer on the Western
North Carolina Railroad shouted to
a crowd of rustics who had gathered
to see the first train of cars come in.
"Put down your umbrellas you'll
scare the engine off the track Pr
The umbrellas were lowered at once.
The LAGRANGE Reporter says that
cattle in the Dennis neighborhood,
in Troup county, are dying rapidly
with an unknown disease. The dis
ease first shows itself in swelling
of the throat.
Having heard that Gen. Butler is
going to Europe, ST. Louis paper
wants him to take passage in
steamer that has been heightened /;
just as if a heightened steamer, or
any other sort Of a steamer, could
drown a man who was born to be
hanged.
Wednesday last the parents of a
boy five years Of age, living in
Davenport, Iowa, celebrated his
birthday, and drank his health in
punch and other intoxicating drinks.
They left cup of whisky, and in
the morning the child arose before
the parents, drank the whisky and
died in a few hours in great agony.
Messrs. John T. &. W. d. Grant
have closed contract with Col. d.
A. Matthews, of Elberton, to grade
the new railroad from Elberton to
Toccoa City, distance ofabout for
ty-eight miles. The work will be
commenced at once.
What is economy Sound econ.
omy is sound understanding
brought into action; it is calculation
realized it is the doctrine of pro-
portion reduced to practice it is
foreseeing contingencies and being
prepared for them.
How to advertise. AT the last
annual meeting Of the National Pho
tographic Association, held in Cleve-
land, Ohio, consisting of upwards of
FIVE thousand persons, it was deeds
ed that the best means Of Rdvertis,
ing was by use Of newspapers.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
makes this comprehensive reply to
an anxious questioner whois desir-
GUS Of knowing whether a man can
love his second wife as we'll as the
first: ''That depends ON what sort
of wife the first was, and what
kind of life the second leads him.
| John German and Jim Simmons
are not the only newspaper men that
can walk. A late New York tele-
gram says: The walking match
this morning between James Gordon
Bennett and John Whipple, the
famous amateur pedestrian, for 49,
1 900 side, was won by Bennett, ed
itor Of the N. Y. Herald. The dis
lance was 8 1915 miles; time, |
hour 46 minutes So seconds. Whip
pie was nearly seven minutes be-
hind.
| A YOUNG man who was married
| in Detroit six months ago has Joined
in the discussion of the question Of
family economy, but his little contri,
button is far from satisfactory. ~
do not" he says, understand how
it is. | used to figure it out, as ]
sat with my arm around her waist
on Sunday nights, and all it would
then cost to live would be two dol
lars and seventy-6ve cents week,
and now l spend fifteen dollars, and
am hungry half the time" Brute
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