The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-04-17
ALI SORTS.

Our young men have begun to
weatherboard themselves in their
new Spring suits.
THERE are 10000 Northern
people in Florida hunting health
and eating oranges.
"PRAYED out of town." are the
words nailed on the doors of several
saloons at Xenia, Ohio.
Brick Pomeroy's fortune has
dwindled from a million to less than
thirteen thousand dollars.
In the Confederate cemetery at
New Orleans are statutes of Lee,
Bishop Polk, and Stonewall Jack !
son.
ApARrY of men are digging for
gold at Bridgeport They've struck
a rich vein Of quarts--but it's quarts
of water.
One of Ethe gay Lotharios on
the Atlanta police is to. be tried for
seduction. As if he could help his
winning ways.
DR.. III. HI. Carlton, in an exceed
ingly graceful salutatory, takes
charge of the North East Georgian,
having purchased the interest of
Mr.. 7. L. CAN'T.
The Siamese twins were Bap-
lists. "But," say the Presbyterian,
"suppose one had been q disbeliev-
err, how could the other have besn
immersed" But another says they
were not Baptists, they were United
Brethren.
The young man who knows, says
it won't do to love two girls at one
time. Love is a good thing, but it
is like butter in warm weather, it
will "spile" if you have too much on
hand at once.
The Savannah Herald congratu-
lates one of its young friends, who
was married about year ago, on
the fact that he is now Occupying
the singularly blissful and RESPONSE
BILE position Of parent" The "sin-
gularitv" of the event is the only
thing that claims our attention.
The good people of Talbotton have
been terribly "sold out" by "Great
Moral Panorama" humbug show that
held forth for them. The indignant
editor of the Standard insists that
the young man would do more good
splitting rails than swindling the
people. He says "hand him
around"
The mutilated remains of a white
man were found on Thompson creek,
in Spaulding county, on the first in
slant. It is thought from the papers
found that the dead man is Edward
Clark, pedlar, but the body was
SO badly decayed thatit could not be
identified. An open knife was lay.
ing near and the opinion is that he
committed suicide.
Mr.. B. w. Wrenn, informs us that
those who wish to attend the South
ern Baptist Convention which con-
venes in Jefferson, Texas, the 9TH of
May, can go for 1855 the round
trip from Atlanta to Texarkana.--
Texas roads pass all delegates free
of charge. Tickets good from April
25th to June 10th. If any Of our
readers desire to visit the Lone Star
State, now is the suspicious time.
How A WICKED Liquor SELLER
WAS CAUGHT.-A Richmond lind
special relates:
As the ladies were about to com
mence their prayers before one sa-
loon, the proprietor asked one Of
them to settle bill OF four dollars
for forty drinks which her son got
there. She took the receipted bill,
for the same, and said "Now, my
son being a minor, have forty in
dictments againts you."
The estimated number of Mexican
soldiers now surviving is 39,570.--
There are also estimated tobe about
$4,000 widows Of the Mexican war
veterans now surviving. The
amount required per annum to pay
the pensions memorialized for will
be $5,140, 76O, and the aggregate
sum to pay them for their average
duration Of life would reach the
amount Of s97, 100, 1854.
DISPATCHES from Byran, Texas,
report the hanging Of seven negroes,
who had brutalIy assaulted a Mr..
Leak, leaving him dead, as they
thought, and then violated his wife.
The citizens took two of them from
the Jail at Byran and hung them,
and hung the others as soon as they
caught them. 1t is yet uncertain
whether Mr.. Leak will recover. II
is believed that the seven negroes
hung are all that were engaged in
the outrage.