The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-11-05
Of Hand Local Dots.


READ the medical card of DR..
J. A. Griffith in advertisement col
umn.
We learn that the Roswell Mans
ufacturing Company has purchased
the Empire Mills of Roswell.
-MEssRs. Gober and Holmes
have entered into copartnership in
conducting the Male High School.
AS the year draws to a close,
we trust each one indebted to this
office will make immediate settle
ment.
-Busrs of Clay and Webster
have been presented to the Young
Mems Literary Association, by Mr.,
J. A. Bisaner of this place.
-THE convicts on the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad, have
made over $4,000 bricks, for the
building of the machine shops.
THREE worthy young ladies Of
Marietta have each resolved to mar
ny the first young man that pro-
poses. Now young men come to
time.
The Atlanta Herald bemoans
the fact that only few cotton wag>
ous are seen in that market, and &C
counts for it by saying Marietta and
other towns pay quarter of cent
more per pound, aud consequently
get the trade. Jes so.
MARIETTA was visited by an
earthquake on last Monday night,
between the hours of nine and ten
o'clock. The shock lasted about
five seconds, shaking houses and
frightening the people. The writer
felt it very sensibly.
TIE mite boxes, of each class
of the Sabbath School of the EpiscO
pal Church, of this place, we're rob
bed of their contents some time dur>
ing last week by an unknown thief.
The amount the boxes were suppOs
ed to contain was between two and
FIVE dollars,
-LoST ! on Sunday morning last,
between the Kennesaw House and
the Presbyterian Church, a Floren-
tine Mosaic breastpin, picture of a
swan drinking, square in shape and
plainly set in gold. A suitable re
ward will be given to any one re-
turning it to Mr., Lewis at the Ken
nesaw House.
GEN. A. J. HANsELL will deliv
err lecture before the Young Mems
Literary Association, on his "Early
RecolIections of Marietta" next
Tuesday night, at the Court House,
at u o'clock. Admission free. We
trust our citizens will honor the
speaker with a large audience on
that evening. The happy delivery
and able intellect for which General
IIansell is distinguished, invests the
subject with additional interest.
-TuAT earthquake, last Monday
night, was felt all over the State
In lower Georgia it was accompa-
MED by rumbling noise. Augusta,
Sparta, ATHENS, Oxford, Madison,
Macon, Atlanta, and other places,
received a pretty good shaking up,
causing people to run out of their
houses for imaginary safety. Mari
eta was not sighted, but received
"passing notice." shaking houses,
rafting windows, and frightening
some of our "female women"
Ma. r. S. Edison, who lives
near Big Shanty, Cobb county, is a
man of remarkable energy and in
dustry, considering the fact that he
lost his right arm in the late war and
has only his left hand to work with.
In the cultivation of his farm this
year, he made off of five acres of
ground one hundred ana thirty bush
els of corn and fifty-three bushels of
wheat, besides large quantity of
potatoes, turnips, peas, etc. Two OF
the acres produced seventy five
bushels of corn. This is not only
creditable to the soil of Cobb, but
also to Mr.. EidSor, aud shows that
there is as much il the man as in the
land. There is n, telling how much
he would make ifhe had two hands
to work with.
Mn. J. G. Sullivan has just re-
ceived a new supply of Bagging and
Ties. Remember he is selling 10