The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-10-08
OF Hand Local Dots.

-AcwoRrH has drayman who
hauls with a yoke of oxen.
The Athens Daily Georgian
has made its appearance, bright and
newsy.
A HORSE attached to double
seated buggy runaway on the square
last Tuesday. No damage.
Ar the last meeting of thu
Knights of Jericho, there were sew
en- petitions for membership,
We trust that those who are
owing US, will make it convenient to
settle about this time.
ATLANTA has quite number OF
delinquent tax payers. Last Tues
days Constitution, had five and a
half columns of City Marshal's sales.
"A PAIR of mules runaway on
ehe square, Tuesday, creating some
excitement in the way of waving OF
hats and following "Whoa !" They
"whoaed ~
Our young friend, Richard
VIM, son of Maj W. 7. VIM,
left last Monday to attend the State
University at Athens. No student
will improve his opportunities bet~
ter.
THE Young Mems Literary AS
ISOLATION will celebrate their first an
nivcrsary next Monday night, at the
Court House. They announce a
very interesting programme in this
issue. The entertainment is free,
and we trust a large audience will be
present.
JUDGE David Irwin is not only
good lawyer, but he has demon
strated that he is a good farmer as
well. Last Tuesday, he left with us
a yam potato, weighing FIVE pounds
and measuring twenty inches in cir
oumfarence. 1t is q mammoth pOta-
to and quite creditabe to the soil Of
Cobb county.
CANTON is excited on the pros>
pect of getting Congress to appro-
pirate money to make the Etowah
river navigable to that place. We
hope she will succeed, but if she
does it will tighten freight on the
Marietta and North Georgia nail-
road, as we'll as divert some trade
from Marietta Gainesville and
Rome reaping the benefits.
We regret that Calhoun is to
isEAdne of its best citizens this week.
Nv, C. Holmes, who has held
the position of principal of the acad-
envy at this place since January last,
leaves us this week to take charge
Of a bich school in Marietta. We
recommend him to our Marietta
friends as a clever citizen and an eft
fcient instructor. Calhoun Times.
MIR. J. d. Delk, of this county,
has left with us a stalk of the "Chi-
nese Peas" of his own cultivation.
The stalk is about four feet high,
like the cotton stalk is bushy and
literally hanging with peas. lie
says they are easier cultivated and
more prolific than any pea of his
knowledge. He gathered a quart
from one stalk, and thinks they are
the very thing for the Southern
farmer to cultivate.
TO MORROW Howes' Great Lon
don Circus and Menagerie will ex-
h;bit in Marietta. The Minneapolis
Tribune says "the general tone OF
the arena is very noticeably and
materially improved" and "objec-
tionablc features are being displaced
for those worthy of commentator
from people disposed to regard eques-
TRAN exhibitions as deserving the
stocks or piIory." The Des Moines
Qowa) Journal says 1T is not often
the press can conscienliously, after a
show has come and gone, say they
performed what they set forth in
its bills. Howe's big show did all
and more than they promised. Its
street display was an elegant pa
geant and its tent show Splendid
Its collection of animals was fiae, its
stud of horses and ring performing
animals are superb"
THERE is quiet courtesy and mod
est unobtrusiveness about wise ad-
yertisement that creates a certain
responsive feeling of sympathy in
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