The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-02-12
of-Hand Local Dots.

On-dano Local OoCs.
-DoN'T ask US for money-''it is
lent"
SUNDAY next is St. Valentines
day.
REV. John Jones preached two
able sermons at the Presbyterian
Church last Sunday.
VIZ learn Mr.. Standard was
stabbed in three places by some un-
known person.
--THE new brick store house of
Henderson & Dyson, is being push
ed to completion.
WE are told that the wheat in
this county and section is looking
very fine and the prospects for a
good crop encourages the farmer.
YESTERDAY the trees were bur-
dened and breaking with icy jewels,
while pendant icicles fringed houses
and fences, beautiful to behold, but
rather cold to hold.
-WHEAT in Cherokee county is
growing in a vigorous condition and
promises well. The percentage Of
grain sown in the county is largely
in excess Of last year.
-MR. Isaac N. Scott, has accept
ed lucrative clerkship at the At
kins House, of Knoxville, Tenn,
and he will take charge about the
first of next month. Success.
Our young friend, James R.
Barnes, intends leaving our city to
go in business at Gainesville. Thus
one by one our young men depart.
Our best wishes attend you, jim.
-DIED-On the 4th inst, at
Coalville, Dade county, Ca, with
typhoid fever, Mr.. John c. WEIGH,
aged about so years. Peace to his
ashes, and sympathy to the bereav-
ed ones.
Our friends in Marietta, in this
county, and the surrounding cOun-
ties, would place us under many OBJ
legations by keeping us Informed as
to the current events transporting in
their neighborhoods. Anything that
will do to publish, don't hesitate to
give US the particulars, and we will
put it in proper shape.
VIZ take pleasure in calling at
tention to the advertisement of our
friend, Henry c. White, who has
opened Family Grocery store on
Cherokee street, at the old stand of
Devices & Co. Henry is an enters
prising and clever gentleman and
deserves success and we trust our
people will give him liberal pat
ronage.
BURNED TO nEATH.-A colored
woman, living on the place of Mrs.
Mcleod, left her three year old
child near the fire and stepped out
doors, and when she returned she
found her chiId's clothing on fire
and the child enveloped in flames.
The mother did all she could for the
relief of the child, but the child died
last Saturday, the day after the ac>
cident. A colored woman also was
found burned to death, last week, at
a coIored woman's house, named
johnson, near the railroad on Dallas
street.
LENT this year began on the
10th of February, much earlier than
a,v year since 1869. This brings
the high festival of Easter this year
on the 28th of March, which is with
in six days of the earliest period
which it can possibly ever occur
This year there will be only
five Sundays intervening between
the jubilee of Epiphany and the SOL
emn feast OF Lent some years there
are as many as nine. All the week
days of Lent, from Ash Wednesday
till Easter Sunday, are fast days Of
precept, on one meal, with the al
lowance Of a moderate collation. in
the evening. General usage has
made it lawful to drink, in the morn
ing. some tea and coffee. The pre-,
cept of fasting implies also that Of
srfbstinence from the use of flesh
meat. Services are held at the St.
James Episcopal Church, Rev. Mr..
Barnwell officiating
"A Marietta firt had an offer Of
.rr;ooa tha other evening, and