The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-09-10
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pers in he Statc-in local news especially.
CAPT Wilson. had the contract for Timing
the Court House steeple aud il is a creditabe
job,
A fine assortment Of groceries, CONNECTION
aries. &c, at McClalchy's
ATLANTA Jail is SO full of Illicit distilers,
they have lodged number ofthem in our Mari
eta Jail
-AHoRsE attached to buggy runaway
| with Dr. A. Reynolds wife, of Powder Springs,
| and hurt her severely We did not learn the
| particulars.
THE reason Brewster, OF Canton, is so
susceptible to take cold the biggest part Of
him is next to the ground Those big feet are
regular ant killers and would have been the
very thing in destroying grasshopprrs ont
| West.
THERE are % old maids in Marietta above
forty years of age IS under that age; and
about lG0 pretty girls in their teens The
small fry" cannot be numbered for their mul
titude Our list of old bachelors widowels,
and widows, have not yet been prepared.
Mn Thomas Wilcocks Of this county,
showed us recently pair of scissors he bought
in London fifty ne years ago-they have been
in constant use ever since and are still perfectly
good. He impaired this information to us
while clipping with them some punches Of fine
grapes for our use.
Mr. George Kirk has kept working his
mine near Kennesaw Mountain until his abors
have been rewarded lie was in town Monday
with rocks full of gold. The precious metal
is pronounced 10y our jeweler, A. ID. Ruede, to
be the genuine a,tice Judge llammett has
an interest in this mine, and already golden
visions of wealth. rise up before him.
Call and examine our washing Soaps
Babbeits Soap l0cts. cake-Shutzs Star
Soap cakes for 25cts-Shultz's Irish Soap
something new in this market and the best
washing soap in the world-it is soap and blu
ing combined and challenges comparison
Lpake & Hunt.
WHATEVER some men own, like the touch
of Midas, II turns to gold. Read the discovery of
rich mines chroniced in this issue If we had
owned these lands, we would have had to pay
seven dollars per acre annually i'll puttiag
suano upon them and then not have made
enough to pay the taxes. Luck is fortune,
bait or no bait. Here waiter bring piece
of gold to plug this tooth with.
TIE poet editor, R-yiII ofthe Greenyillr
! Vlnlicator, has gone off 10 the mountains to re-
cuperate his health, aud announces that he has
left hi- wife in the editorial management OF the
| paper. The mental exhaustion occasioned by
writing half column of poetry in reply TO one
Of our sqqbS, was sufficient to send him to the
mountains or the "lnalum asy-tic." Iii,
paper, however. has wonderfully improved un
der Mrs Revils management.
A SINGING teacher, of great ability, by the
name If Mr.. Smith from Tenue see is reyou
/ onizing singing and singsters, near MONDAY
and EbYrnezer, in this county He teaches
twelve days for fifty dollars and allows the
| parties paving that sum to send fifty or tour
| hundred pupils, consequently he has school
of about three hundred in attendance. making
tuition very cheap for each one. We guess
! this people never heard US sing If they
haven't, they never will!
"A Roswell correspondent writes against
the practice Of chloroformiag horses for the
/ bolts. lie says Let me- As one who has had
/ 4ad experience caution all who Use chloroform
never to drench horse in the nose with it,
! The result is generally fatal. 1t will relieve tor
| the Im~, but the horse dies afterwards from the
Inflammation produced. killed a horse this
way that COST $500 and | have seen other
cases Of the same Kind. When used II should
be given largely diluted with mucilsge and
| better 10 have with it olive oil. No irritating
drench should ever be put in the nostrl."
-THE car of dalkes who came to Marietta
on the night of HE iiuVination last week didn't
have as good a time as they anticipated A
gentleman passing by he depot overheard the
! following literally true conversation between a
Marietta darllpy and one Of the Atlanta ex
cursicu;sts Said The Atlanta darkey in la
mentabe tone II neber is 10 cum to dis town
on 'scuasion agu. De white folks don't low
a negro one bit of privilege" Marietta darkey
answered thusly: Data so {; dem white folks
am mighty imrewdent set, and We has to take
heab off of um. isn't bin Twin here long
aud fore God is gwiue LEAH dis place after dis
year
THURSDAY evening Of last week we saw
quite crowd assembled On the square and up
on approaching. we observed a couniryman by
the name of Mr. John Kirk, pros,ra,ed on the
ground, with eyes closed, aud his motionless
stupid condition, evidenced that the man was
in far way 10 shuttle of this mortal coil
For the sake of adding 10 his already whisky
soaked stomach, he agreed TO drink a pint Of
brandy at once if given to him, and some par
ies furnished it aud he drank it. with the result
stated Soms of the physicians thought he
was bound to 90 10 TIE 'spiIit' land, bat DR..
MtCutcheon gave un'iring medical attention,
and Mr.. Kirk was up by day light next morn
! ing drinking his dram.
LAST week an Atlanta dalkey was arrest
ed and put in Jail in this place for carrying a
concealed pistol. On last Monday evening the
seven o'clock train brought a car load Of ATTAIN
( ia negroes Of both sexes to this place for the
purpose Of having dance, As one Of the ne
gro men got off ihe car he boastingIy yelled
! "Wel have oar man out Of jail tonight. or do
ONE d--n bad shooting Just as he finished
the sentence, Mr. W p Stephens, our 2l5
pounds Sheriff, grabbed hold of the negro, ex
claiming: You are my man let me see what
YOU have got to shoot with" The negro sub
dued his tone and replied II amt got moth
ing, sin" Upon searching him, it was found to
! be true and he departed ssdier and wiser
man. on to the dance.
L. s NoRrHoUrT Il Co, are now selling