The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-06-18
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We need rain.
--TuE Sunday trains have been
taken off. Reason-don't pay.
Tie Baptist Church holds ser.
vices at s O'Clock every evening.
The posts of the country-loafers,
dogs and Aeas.
-THE Methodist and Baptist Sun
day schools picnicked at Glover's
Grove last Saturday.
--Tun re, ival at the Methodist
church has been in progress for three
weeks and continues with undated
interest
It's the first spring mosquito
Heard hamuing alone,
His thirsty companions
Will be here anon.
-THE Silver Cornet Band sere-
naded the young ladies from Staun-
ton College, when the train stopped
at the depot last Friday night.
-DED In Cobb County, Ga,
on the 10th June, 1878, Joseph
Power, aged % years, three months
aud four weeks.
North Georgia is not cotton
country, says the Dalton Citizen. If
the editor will come to Marietta next
fall and see the cotton roll in to pay
guano aad provision debts, he will
change his opinion.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens, has
accepted an invitation to deliver an
Grafton in Atlanta, on the Fourth Of
July, The day after his speech he
will visit Marietta and be the guest
Of Col j. d. Waddell.
IL our Atlanta friends see any
thing large floating over their town,
they needn't think it a balloon Or get
scared. Its only big brimmed hat
Of a Marietta girl carried Of by We'd
nesday's storm.
-TnH Cleveland (Tenn.,) Herald
is willing to bet that Mr.. Lewis of
the Keuno5aw House, fed Grady of
the Atlanta Herald on "sweet ta>
ters," which had the effect of making
him write SO sweet about that hotel.
Was it "sweet taters," Grady, or
something else.
-TnE "quiII drivers" of the
Georgia Press, are hunting up their
linen busters, paper collars and
tooth picks, preparatory to attend
the press convention in Atlanta on
the 9TH Of July, and, also, go on an
excursion, rendered by the Consti.
triton, to Toccoa Falls. We judge
from the editorial responses there
will be a large attendance.
AN old bachelor of Marietta the
other night thought he was going to
die and sent for a lawyer to write
out his last will and testament. He
wil!ed a toothbrush and bottle Of
hair We to brother bachelor, Our
Joe; a razor and piece Of soap to
our city BARRIERS; one bed6tead and
mattress to an aunt; Sl.5O to our
Ordinary for iceose he should have
bought; and a pair of slippers and
broom to the wife of the man who
cut him cut of his sweetheart in days
gone by. We don't know whether
this last bequeath was prompted by
revenge or gratitude.
--II0N. B. II. HILL has not on y
subscribed $1,000 to the Marietta &
North Georgia Railroad, but has ap-
pointments to speak at Canton on
the 30th Of June Jasper on the lst
of July; and at EIijay on TIE End
of July also Col.Spencer, John Ii.
James, Ii. P. Bell, Geo. N. Lester,
VIM. Phillips, Tom Hardeman and
David Irwin. The people will have
splendid opportunity of hearing
able speeches and help build this
important enterprise. Let the peo
pie along the line turn out and do
their duty. A large sum has been
subscribed in Atlanta and the pros
poets Of building the road is bright
or than ever.
-Ir's all very well for party Of
Marietta citizens to 60 out to the
Paper Mill seineing, but when they
come back by Chattahoochee river
and give youa big fish and you
have it nicely cooked, and then you