The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-11-12

was not enough salt in the lahd 10
save it.
"SAw my leg of.
Saw my leg oli-short
That old popular song, sung so
often by our friend, DR.. Charles, be-
fore he left Marietta, had a horrible
illustration in Cleveland, Ohio, the
other day. A wife and husband got
on a big drunk and free fight. She
finally got the old whiskey cask of a
husband off to bed, gave him chloro-
form, and then proceeded to perform
a surgical operation. She got an old
saw and sawed one of his legs com
pletely off, without waking The UNI
conscious husband. This mark of
affection was not fully appreciated
by her liege legIess lord, when he
did awake.
81 NEVER cot my mind to writin'
poetry till two years ago" said a
young Cobb county ruralist, fitting
back in a grocery chair; "but the
minute l took to goin' with that
Johnson girl, by gosh | could
not help it."
IN Atlanta prayer meetings they
pray for the editors of the Herald
and Constitution. There's just
where people get too enthusiastic
and allow their zeal to get ahead Of
their judgement in religious grace.
They expect too much of it. lfthey
would pray for Sam Bard their
prayers might avail them something
FLORIDA papers report an almost
total failure of the sponge crop,
while around Marietta sponges are
more numerous than ever.
A New Haven boy stole some ap
pies and hid them under his shirt
then a horse kicked him and the APP
pies saved his life--which is story
not to be told in Sunday schools
Etchange
OF course, no such story ought
to be told in any well-regulated Sun
day school, not that we are afraid
that the apples the boys steal ever
will ba mashed by horses foot,
but the moral is not good.
REV. George f. Pentecost, a
celebrated Baptist divine of Boston,
has converted his entire church to
the doctrine of open communion
Exchange.
That must have been a "Pente-
cost revival"
The mammoth hotel to be built at
St. Louis by Boston capitalists will
be 1 , stories high, 800 feet square,
1000 rooms, accommodating $500
dodgers. PalasLi (Tcmn) citizen.
We would not care to lodge in
the twelfth story. The idea of
building it so high, doubtless is to
compete with the Washington mons
ument, to accommodate those of sur
cidal intent.
IT is said that the ghost of an old
settler roams around Kennesaw
mountain, looking for his scalp which
he lost 10 years ago by a Cherokee
Indian. lie had much better come
down to Marietta and buy new one
from our miIliners. He can get a
nice one for Sl.10.
From the ST. Joseph (Mo.) Ga
zette. There is one sheep in Mont
gomery county that hasn't been kill
cd by dogs. lie is a ram, ana uses
his head as a horizontal pile>driv-
er. A pack of fox hounds got after
him the other day and he killed all
but one and came out without a scar.
Good If we only had a few Of
those baitering>rams in Cobb county,
we think We could get along without
a dog law, but as we have nothing
but some "duham bulls we shall
still insist on having dog law.
TUE tea plan; is cultivated with
great success in Liberty county, Ga.
The plant endures the winters cold
without injury to their growth. We
trust some of our farmers will try
the experiment in Cobb.
ANOTHER ocean horror. The
steamship Pacific sunk and all on
board persisted, except one man.