The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-11-05
MANY THINGS.

DEAR JoURNAL:-Politics ! poll
tics politics! on the highways and
hedges, on the housetoPs, every
where-men under street lamps -
they all talk-they harangue-more
men under lamp all suddenly con-
tinue to talk one man puts his fing>
err 10 another mans button hole
they go 10 & corner-they discuss
an egg falls upon them-they fade
in the distance -conversation con
tinues under lamps-interesting
they box policemen approaches
politicians abandon the lamp-and so
on, night after night and day after
day. The women gossip politics,
and are democrats, so it is not very
doubtful how this State will vote,
taking it for granted that the men
are imbued with the elem entary
principles of self preservation. AT
our mess table there are seven dem
ocrat8 and five republicans, and as
we have the majority of the females
on our side we fare very well, pollt-
caIy don't under stand me to signl
fy otherwise, for of all cold and care~
ful diets, ours is the most celebrated
cold mutton, cold patatoes, cold
bread and cold plates, but the flies
don't seem to mind it, aud are as ro>
bust and familiar now as in The South
in the summer The waiter passed
some cold cake around to night, up
on each individual slice of which |
calculated that there were one hun
dred and thirteen, all told; the
boarders respectfully declined par
ticiparing, whereupon the lady Of the
house inquired of the waiter why
she had not brushed those flies off,
and we were informed that it was no
use, they would stay there anyhow.
Send up two or three hundred thou
sand bushels for the winter to my
address.
But talking about numbers, you
never saw so many people as live in
this country from Washington to
New York city is one continuous
line of handsome buildings, and
property is that valuable in the large
towns, that men quarrel over al inch
of ground with about the same ener-
gy that would be exercised in the
matter of an acre or more in Mariet>
ia. In New York where two mel
owned adjoining lots one built a
house one inch over his line upon his
neighbours whereupon he was polite
ly invited to take the same oft, which
he finally concluded to do, not how
ever until he had been informed by
his wife that she would be obliged
to him if he did not repeat grace at
meals upside down, in the future,
and also that it would be just as
pleasant to her if he would omit
thereflom certain idioms or crude
expressions which were foreign to
the general intent and meaning, as
ordinarily understood.
The city market is the oldest of
all. You walk into the principal
street, in the morning, and are SUR
prised to discover wagons backed
against the pavement filled with
every imaginable variety of edibles,
but most of all mutton and pump
kins; in among these wagons, which
constitute themselves a market, or
rather stalls, aud the market being
as limitless as space, the buyers in
troducc themselves pursued by en-
terprisiDg urchns of mercantile in
cluings with fine tooth combs, too
cheap for anything in their hands,
together with an assortment of equal
ly valuable and interesting notions,
with which the poor men and women
are besought to regale themselves.
And so it continues for two or three
hours, with half mile of wagons on
each side of the street, giving the
town an air of neatness and cleauli-
ness very seldom to be observed in
a place of the same size.
There are other things, but my !
secret sewing society meets tonight /
for the admission Of one member, to
say nothingIabout an orchestra of cats
occupying an adjoining roof, who
have probably taken me fer some
political aspirant, and | desire to
correct the impression.
Yours truly, AMIGA.