The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-06-11
CITY AND COUNTY,
Of-Hand Local Dots.

menced.
-TnE dullest season, the saddest
of the year, has come.
We call attention to the adver>
tisement of the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad.
TIE Young Mems Literary As
sociation have their hall over Leake
& Hunt store,
A NEW and attractive sign
bears the firm Lsme Of Abbott &
Gilbert in front of their store.
Buy fruit Jars at the only Glass
Store South. P. C. Wilson & Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t.
--WHAr do you think of a mans
honesty who contracts debts with
a solemn promise and never pays'
VIZ see no use of a State nomi~
mating convention. From present
indications, Willingham of the Rome
Cowie, is equal to the emergency.
Our devil has got it bad. He
is not only receiving bouquets, but
he has gone to writing poetry
He'll be- a second Bill Moore, yet !
--THE religious revival at the
Methodist Church deepens in fervent
interest. Large congregations at
tend, many mournerS, and several
conversions.
TIE Marietta Silver Cornet
Band will play in the park this (Fri,
day. evening at 81 o'clock, provided
odd Probabilities doesn't do the
blowing.
-ABoUr fifty College commence
lnSnt eAeIClSeS Ill I''0 hCAt tHiIty
days. And then what a huttering,
rustling, skirting, and flirting there
will be.
-THE discussion at the Court
House, Monday night, by Messrs.
BarnwelI, VIM, Camp and Allen,
of the Y. NJ. L. A., was quite inter-
terestng and largely attended,
Will G. Mansfield, presided,
--CHRIsroPHER, of the Fort Val
ley Looking>Glass, has robbed
Woods of the Hawkinsville Dis
patch, of his laurels, by telling
big story Of man batting a hook
and putting it in his mouth to catch
a "tapo worm"
Ma. WeIles B. Whitmore on
Wednesday exhibited to US an egg
extraordinary egg, laid by dark
Brahma chicken ben, measuring in
circumference 81 S 1-1G inches,
weighing - ounces.
-FoR SALE.-The beautiful and
elegantly finished cottage on Law
renee street, owned by Rev. W. +.
Cook, and occupied by Mayor W.
II. Tucker. Everything conven>
iently arranged and can be bought
at bargain. Read advertisement.
LOST between the Female Col
Iege and DR.. Branham's, topaz
stone. 1t is round. about Z of an
inch in diameter, of light yellow
color. The finder will be literally
rewarded by leaving it at the Jour
nal Office.
AN old gentleman up in the
north east corner of this county hav-
ing scurvy, inquired if spirits Of tur-
pentine wouldn't be good for his
gums. His son, not understanding
what he waA inquiring about said, if
be put spirits Of turpentine on his
gums it would kill the bees.
There are 1I2 newspapers in
Georgia. Every Town, village and
water tank has one or more, and We
constantly hear Of new ones. They
live as long as their credit holds
good, then the proprietors pocket
their type, and, like the grasshop>
per of the west, moves on to new
pastures of green
MARIETTA is decidedly musi-
cal town. Besides Silver Cornet
Band, brass band and several
string bands, there is owned by
nearly every youth in the place
some kind of a musical instrument,
from a jewsharp up to a banjo, and
consequently the nights are reso-
nant with sweet sounds.
The fashion god IS a hard mas
ter, but never did generation serve
him more slayishIy than the present
one. The way the gentlemen's