The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-07-30
For lhp Marietta journal.
A SPICY LETTER FROM AN OLD
CORRESPONDENT
SMoKEE SWAMP,

NMDkEE DIV AMI
Kobe Ko, JEwLY %, -. !
MlstuR EDmuR-You haven't
herd frum me in sum tyne from the
fact Use bin conducting a multitude
Of spellin matches all over the koun
ty, always cunning off the victorious
champion spellist, Staying them as
suckcessiully with mi jawbone as
Sampson with the saim kind NV
shillalah slowed the Fillistines.
Therefore, thinking you would
like to hav your non-paylng sub
scribers slowed in the same way and
knowing the hole kountry is stands
lug with straddled legs and gaping
mouths and clean ears to here frum
their esteamed felIer-cityizen, the
Honorable Private BILL L. KNo, |
send va these fu lines by the Mary
Gather & North Georgia Railroad,
hoapirg you are enjoying the salm
Gods blessing.
Notwithstanding mi time has bin
co, so med with mi speIlln schulz
matches, have bin reading the
paper you send to my naybor. The
internal improvement IN the JEkNAL
has advanced - the liycliest news
paper motor" in the Steit- and mi
inaybors say the best that was ever
prin.od in Kobb Kounty. We all
read it and when Bill L. kno says a
a aatterng word fur ennybody it
goes for good deal--especially if he
shuliles the kards himself
believe our secshun IS putty
well blessed with good crops, babies,
gossipy old maids, and debts. The
guano merchants will reap the big
gest crop OF greens according to
tue promises to pay. This is re-
markable year for guano agents,
sewing macheen agents, skyclones,
lightning strokes, earthquakes and
Other calamties. My ould woman
said she knowed that the fetched
guano would stir 'um up. But me
and my old woman allus kinder diff
fered on the ragged edge of human
Affections, providential dlsPenca
shuns. and electric feenomenas, witt
a "trde iuwardness' truly mortiie
ing. We had discussion Tor rath
? err got a cnssin) the other morning
| infested that the Transit of Venus
while "cuming through the rye go
on a dust and blew his nostrll
with such force as to send s cyclones
a kiting and shaking himself III sucl
a rage that he woke up sleepin' vol
: kanoes and staggered the earth, al
nv which proposed to prove b.
DR.. Harry son and Prof lice. NJ,
ouid woman got rlin' at this ant
! said she had studied gee hog raphy
and new thing or two, and tina
Miss Transit Venus was nasty
stinkin hussey. said | guessed
she was mistaken and not to DE s.
kerhunaxed Nader still, she clio
quendy picked up the thread OF he
argument in the shape OF billet o
wood aud Civ me bootiful skycIon'
across mi left eye; felt the torc'
of her astronomical arguments AM
fcli for the ground at the 8alm time
| am fully convinced that my ouI'
woman can get up first class sky
clone at short notis.
Skyclones and candidates fo
Guvner are numerousIy plenty, onI,
Id rather the crop Of both was Gu
short 10y drouih. hav bin think
: ing about ruruing for Gunner mysel
bat cant git any newspaper to an
nornce me as The "cumin' man -
the "people's candidate III coult
only see the editors Of the "Gourd
vine. might git them to Civ me
lift, as they seam to be lifting
everybody in particular around you
city Of Maryeather. What do yo'
',hiuk wou,4 be mi chances on tn
Fenonian platform of independents,
against the 81 term, the world the
flesh and the devil, being principally
moved, but periodically inclined 10
mi kountry -Spoiis ?
GoobernatoeriaIly,
BILL L. KNo.