The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-04-02
BoNHAM, to night

Tile young men again emerge
crowned with beaver hats.
-THE trees are fast DOMINIC a
suit of green.
-MARlErrA has more pretty
girls than any place in Georgia.
MAKE and sell hay, if you want
to make farming pay.
-THE girl babies in Marietta
number two to one over baby boys.
-TURNIp "greers" once more
tickles the palate of the lovers of
that kind of grazing.
TIE Prince of Versatility, Bon
ham, will give an entertainment at
Nichols Hall to night.
JOHN TRIPLErT, of the Thomas
Vile Times, is our kind of hair pin.
He is a bachelor from the fact that
the girls thinks mis- name too SUCCESS
tive for matrimony.
THE call of Mr.. E. H. Lindley,
President Of the Agricultural SOcie-
ty has some valuable Suggestions
which should interest every farmer.
We hope there will be large meet
ing in April. Read the article.
We are requested to state that
the young men of Marietta propose
to have spelling bee" at an early
day-and invite the old men, old
ladies and young ladies to partici-
pate. The proceeds to go to the
Confederate cemetery. Now get
out your spelling books.
You laugh, you weep, at Bon
hams delineations and readings
Go and see him.
RELIGION and everything else
failed to convert Grady, of the At
lanta Herald, but the Can-Can show
done the business cffectually. That
young man is now building fine ed
torials upon morality with all the
enthusiasm that marked the women
Temperance crusaders"
VIZ published an item that a
Carroll county quilt had 200 pieces
in it. One of Cobb county's fairest
daughters, Miss Noora Green, has a
quilt containing 1929 pieces, and
one star in the centre of the quilt
has 1860 pieces in it. Three cheers
for our Cobb county girl!
ON Monday night, about II
o'clock, the splendid flour mill of
Will C. Mansfield, in this city, was
discovered to be on fire, having
caught from the engine. The faith
full colored engineer came to the res
cue and extinguished the flames,
which were at the time gaining
rapid Roadway.
Col. Sparks in his address told
the young ladies to "turn their backs
upon the idle young man who
wouldn't work" Good advice, but
wasted. The soft-kid gentry of
leisure are generally the recipients
of the sweetest smiles, while the
working young man meets the cold
frown.
TIE '1ightning calculator man"
enlivcned the square enc day last
week, and the rapidity with which
he solved mathematical problems,
with his new method, was astonish-
ING to the natives. With his learn
ing in the science, ard the ''good
looks of our esteemed friend, who
is distinguished as having "genius
stamped on bis brow and ditto his
heel.D we would calculate ourselves
right into the affections of some rich
girl and then 90 into the banking
business.
You've man, take your sweet
heart to Bonbam's entertainment,
at Nichols Hall to night.
The lecture that was announc-
ed to be delivered by Capt. Wool
bridge, the blind Confederate soldier,
was so slimly attended that he re-
funded the money and dismissed the
noble few present. Yet we hear
good deal VI talk and gushy patriot
ism OF love Tor the Confederate dead,
but when it comes TO comforting real
practical benefits upon the hring
Ccpfederates, whose eyes are closed
forever in darkness AID manned for
life, then the test is found to develop
a wonderful amount of Indifference,
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