The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-06-02
LOCAL ITEMS.

A Marietta girl said she would
rather be dozen widows than one
old maid.
The Elijay Courier is at per-
feet liberty to keep on appropriat-
ing our articles and palming them
off as original on its unsuspecting
readers. Any other help you need
in giving your readers a good paper,
please draw on us.
The ladies of the Methodist
Church will hold Centennial Tea
Party at Nichols Hall next Tuesday
night, when the costumes of ''ye
ancient folks" will be represented
The occasion promises many attrac-
tive features not mentioned, and al
together will be a feast Of good
things and a flow of fun. Let all
attend.
A newspaper makes town. A
place without d newspaper is no
town at all. 1t may boast Of a col
lection of houses and a number of
inhabitants, but until it has its news
paper it remains stagnant. A good
weekly newspaper is commercial
agent, drummer, architect, builder
aud he'd carrier all in one.-Sacan-
nah Ne,cS.
MARRIED-On the 18th ult., by
Rev. C. NJ. Mcclure, at the resi-
dence of the brides father, Mr.. John
NJ. Stone, of Smyrna, Cobb county,
to Miss Levenia +, Payne of Tricks
um, Cherokee county, Ga. We
wish them abundance Of happiness
and prosperity.
A CoBB county farmer having the
deed of his farm in his vest pocket,
hung the garment on the fence
while at work in his field. A cow
came along and ate part Of the vest,
and the deed. The question in that
vicinity now is: Ts that cow a
freebooter, as the title Of land was
duly vested in her 2"
-TILDEN, through New York
advertising agency, has sent US five
notices lauding him as the only suit
able man for the Democratic Pres
idential nomination. Shades of p
cahontas Is this the way the great
reform candidate proposes to elect
himself to the Presidency by subsl
dizing the Southern press in fore
stallipg public opinion in his favOrY
This is too transparent We love
money mighty well, but not suffic
lent to be bought by the New York
ring. We don't think Tilden ought
to tempt poor, lone, friendiess or
phan that way! We have nothing
but our virtue, and when that is
gone, the Lord knows we don't
know where we are going to get any
more
OUR Marietta people. should look
on the bright side, the right ONE
The times may be hard, but it will
make them no easier to wear a sad
and gloomy countenanee. 1t is the
sunshine and not the cloud that
makes the flower. The sky is blue
ten times where it is black once
You have your troubles so have
others. Troubles give sinew and
tone to life-fortitude and courage
to man. That would be a dull sea,
and the sailors never get skill, where
there is nothing to disturb its sur
face. What though things look a
little dark. the lane will turn, and
night will end in broad day. There
is more virtue in a sunbeam than in
a whole hemisphere of cloud and
gloom.
WHEN you see a man that shut
fes loosely along, with his knees
knocking together and his toes point
ing in, whose eyes roll furtively, and
whose hand is ever suddenly jerking
itself above his head as if warding
off a blow-you can rely upon it
that that man is haunted by a moth
err in law; but when you see par
ty who lifts his feet high, and holds
his nose in the air, and has one shut
in knowing manner, and whose
mouth is distended with self-com
placent grin, and who seems to feel
g9od all Ocey-you can bet your last
cent he has Just bought new "Do-
nestle" Sewing Machine for his
wife.-Adp.
EVEN a telegraph cable cannot be
laid without a great deal of wire pull
ipg.
Acworth.