The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-07-03
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pairing 4th Of July orations.
Mrs. Westmoreland told what she
knows about "Kisses" to an Atlanta
audience Wednesday.
| "SHALL we have q cotton facto-
ry Z" is the startling conundrum
the editor of the Dalton Enterprise
| propounds to his fellow.citizens.
THE WHEAT crop of the counties
adjoining Cobb was never better, in
fact this can be said Of the entire
State, this season. The people are
much encouraged with the prospects
of their general crops, and it is pre-
dicted that the State will be more
prosperous this season than for sew
eral years, the farmers having oper
ated more closely within their means
than has been their usual custom.
A BEUATIFUL incident Of woman's
love has Just occurred in Liverpool.
A woman, to shield her husband,
who was charged with removing the
end other nose, swore that she bit it
off herself.
THE Cincinnati Gazette's inquiry
as to what the Cincinnati brewers
do with the tobacco stems which
they buy, meets with a contemptu-
Gus silence on the part Of the brew
ers. They evidently don't believe
that tobacco juice as beverage in
jures the teeth.
A CAVALRY officer is lecturing on
"Four years in the saddle with Gus
tar and Sheridan" The United
State Government was very short of
horses at one time, but we are unwill-
ing to believe that three cavalry of
ficers occupied the same horse for
four years.
THE Washington Star denies the
story that George Alfred rammed his
umbrella down the throat of his an
tagonist and then opened it,
"WHAT kind Of sassages is them 7"
queried an old lady of the young
man of literature and peanuts, as he
passed through the train selling
bananas.
A Milwaukee boy has swallowed
half dozen steel buttons, and his
mother doesn't have to scream for
him when he is out on the street
playing with those Cluckerson boys.
She just brings magnet to the door
and he flies to it like needle to the
pole.
A SCoTcHMAN went to a lawyer
once for advice and detailed the cir
cumstances Of the case. Have you
told me the facts precisely as they
occurred 2" asked the lawyer
"Oh aye, STRIP replied he; II
thought it best to tell ye the plain
truth. Ye can put the lies into it
yourself"
IF there is one time more than
another when a woman should be
entirely alone it iaswhen a line full'
of.clothes come down in the mud.
YELLOW fever has appeared At
Pensacola, Fla.
DURING the past month 843 per
cent Of the predictions Of "Old
Probabilities" were verified.
Mr.. PHINIzY, of Athens, has sold
over seventy dollars worth of oats
from q crop grown on an acre and
quarter Of ground.
A crowd witnessing row 10 De-
troit was dispersed by the announce
ment that q collection would now
be taken up for q poor widow"
THE coolest thing yet in the way
Of weather eccentricities 10 the re-
port that snow fell for some time in
Michigan last Friday.
THE Louisville Daily Commercial,
leading Republican journal Of Ken
lucky, opposes the civil rights bill as |
unconstitutional, unjust and impoli-
tic.
"ALL ye black guards that isn't
Iawy ers, lave the court" yelled a
HibHnian crier=s
y is said that the pretsiest girl 10 |
town is newspaper carrier She
carries 'em in her hustle.
; AN amorous swain declares be is
SO fond Of his girl that he has rubbed
the skin from his nose by kissing her
shadow on the wall. A hopeless
case.
The factory girls of Lowell, Mass,
turn out 739 miles Of paper collars
per month, and weep to think Of the
countless young men whose necks
they will embrace.
A BARBER, having very intem-
perate man to shave on the Sabbath,
begged him to keep bis mouth shut,
as it was q punishable offence to
open rum shop on the Sabbath.
A Virginlan is under arrest for
pawning his wife's corset for quart
of whisky. He believed that tight
lacing would kill her.
Recently, in Harrison county,
KY, a man named Brecket, who
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