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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-11-16

ADVICE TO G1RLs.-An exchange says
"Why will girls run away to get marriedr
eve give it up," answers the Louisville Cou'
rier.J Journal. "But we know lot here who
would be glad enough to stay at home, or
lump at the chance to walk of and get mar
ried. The boys amt around asking them
like they did. Ittakes more money to run
one of them nowadays than it does to run
steamboat, and they can see more fun with .
steamboat. '"Ahl girls, it's your own fault
Swap off your silks and satins for lawns and
calicoes shut up the piano and dive into .
wash-tub throw away your fancy needle.work
and tackle red hot stove in the kitchen. In
stead of receiving Brown, the bankers son. in
the parlor,' keep your eye skinned for Bill
Burns, the blacksnith's son, as he goes home
from work; kiss his dirty face through q bro
ken pane of glass in the kitchen window, and
after awhile, when he learns his trade and
you know your business, get married, &c. to
housekeeping by yourselves, help each other,
live happy, raise family that will be an hon
or to your names and credit to themselves, die
happy, and the angels will not turn their
backs upon you up there. ..s.-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-11-16

CHURCH PEws.-There is speck of histo-
ry connected with the origin of church pews
that cannot help proving interesting. In the
early days of of the" Anglo-Saxon and some
of the Mormon churches stone bench affor.
ded the only sitting accommodations for mem
bers or visitors. In the year 1919 they are
spoken of as sitting on the ground or in g
standing posture. At a later period the peo:
pie INTRODUCED low three-legged stools, and
they we're placed in no uniform order in the
church. Directly after the Mormon conquest
wooden seats came into fashion. In 1887 8
decree was issued that none should call any
seat in the church his own except noblemen
and patrons, each entering and holding the
one he first found. lia.i '.'5 ''.s+ .
From 1880 to 1540 more seats we're ap-
propriated, and a crowbar guarded the en-
trance, bearing the initials Of the owner. It
was ia 1908 that galleries we're thought of.
And as early as 1914 pews were arranged to
emitting sand and stones, some Of which
weighed twelve pounds, and afterwards sent
out white sand and smoke for about nine
hours.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-11-16
POPPING THE, QUESTION.

The subject is too interesting to be intro.
duced by any sage remarks. And yet it j,
important. Sometimes, many times, man 8
ha appiuess has depended Oh the manner Of
popping the question" Many time the
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
Tag ISSUE OF TODAY.

WHEN the annals of this republl
proclaim the disgrace and censur'
of Vice President; late Speake
of the House of Representative
marketing his ruling as a presiding
officer three Senator'S profiting Sc
cretly by their votes as law makers
five chairmen of the leading com
mittees of the late House of Repre-
sentatives exposed in jobbery; late
Secretary of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts {
late Attorney General miSappropria
ting public funds; a Secretary Of
the Navy enriched or enriching
friends by per centage levied off the
profits of conductors with his de-
partment; an Ambassador of Eng
land concerned in a dishonorable
speculation; the Presidents Private
Secretary barely escaping convic
ton, upon trial, for completely 10
frauds upon the revenue; Secre-
tary of War impeached for high
crimes and confessed misdemeanors !;
the demonstration is complete that
the issue of this campaign is Reform
to ddy and not secession sixteen gears
0QO.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
CADET MIDSHIPMAN.

The Secretary of the Navy has
authorized Hon. w. II. FELTON, to
appoint cadet midshpman for the
Naval School at Annapolis, from the
Seventh Congressional District.
The applicant must not be less
than fourteen nor more than eigh
teen years of age.
He must be q thorough Gcholor in
spelling, reading, writing, arithme-
tic, geography and English gram
mar.
He must promise to serve in the
United States Navy eight years
from his admission into the acade-
my.
He must be bona fide resident
Of this Congressional district.
His pay will be $500 per annum
from the time of his admis ion.
All the yoang men Of the District
who may wish to become competi
tors for the position are invited to
come before the following board of
examiners at Calhoun, Georgia, on
Thursday, September 18th, 1876,
when said board will make a selec~
ton:
Revs j G Ryals, 7 f Smith, A J
JarreI, J r Joyner, Gainesville :;
c w Howard, Dade county A NJ
Thigpep, Cedartown; A | Leet,
Ringgold G w Lewis, Paulding
Rev D l. ButtoIph, Marietta ; Rev
w A Rogers, Dalton; p II Brews>
ter, Canton d B Hamilton, Rome ;
J A Clements, Summerville; Mr..
Colbert, Dalton Thomas Philpot,
HARRISON county; John Puryear,
Walker county G w Wells, I G
Fulton, Hey Mr. Reynolds, Gordon
county.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
GEN. HANsELL.
He Declines the Race for Congress.

He Declines the Race for Congress.
ROSWELL, GA, Aug. oath, 1876.
MESsRS. EDIroRs-Please allow
me space in your valuable JOURNAL
for few words to the many esteem>
ed friends, who have expressed a
desire for my candidacy for Con-
gress. Whilst | do not affect indif,
| ference to the esteem Of my country
men, and shall especially appreciate
the suffrages and confidence of those
among whom | have spent upwards
of ~ years of active life, ] am re-
gretfully constrained to decline the
candidacy for two reasons.
LIST. My private business cotton
manufacturing is suffering more
perhaps throughout the whole coun~
try. than any other Industry in this
crisis, and imperatively demands a
degree of personal attention utterly
inconsistent with an attendance up
on Congress. 2nd. In 1874, my
eyes so failed me from excessive
use, as to oblige me, both in my own
judgment, and that of a skillful and
distinguished oculist (Dr. Calhoun,
of Atlauta,) to resign the manages
ment of the Roswell Mills, and they
are yet so impaired as to render
hazardous, such use of them, as
would be necessarily involved, in
the efficient and successful discharge
of the duties of faithful Represen
tative.
Constitutionally active, neither my
inclination, self-respect, or above all,
my sense of duty to those whom l
should serve, would allow me to play
the role of drone. There are not
few gentlemen in our District,
whose sterling integrity, patriotism,
talents and manly virtues, furnish us
on ample guarantee of their qualif~
cations for the distinguished and re-
sponsibIe office, and affords me the
pleasing assurance, that in declining
the candidacy am doing my coun-
try no wrong. Such an one earn
eStly trust our Convention will not
fail to select as our standard bearer,
and then let united democracy elect
him by an overwhelming vote.
regard this, as the crisis of our
country. The battle for Constitu-
tional Liberty, against Centralized
Despotism, and OF Honesty against
Corruption and PluLder, is nO0 to
be fought and iron, or we and our
posterity lose, perhaps forever, all
the bIood>bought rights and blessings
achieved by our Revolutionary fore,
fathers, and transmitted as glorious
heritage to US. May the Cod Of our
Fathers, inspire and bless their chill
dren. Truly Yours,
A. J. HANSELL.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

A Chicago dispatch states that
regular cavalry soldiers are being
rapidly recruited under the recent
act of Congress increasing the max
imum strength of Companies to l0C
men each, but they are not to go
West, but South. Every man en-
listed for service on the plains will
be concentrated at the St. Louis
barracks, and there deployed &C
cording to the caprice of Grant and
his cohorts.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
GEORGIA NEWS.

"A Gordon county man has been
in Dalton trying to sell his corn
crop at % cents per bushel.
Numbers of Georgia negroes
who emigrated West are on their
way back to their old homes.
William Markham Radical can
didate for Congress in the Fifth Dis
trict, pays taxes on $685. 900 worth
OF property.
AN accidental fl at the saw
mill of Judge Furman and Captain
Ennis, in Baldwin county the other
day, destroyed lumber to the amount
of $1,000.
-C5l. f. Y. Clarke, of the At
lanta Constitution, will be married
early in September to Miss Nora V.
Harrison, of Atlanta, a sister of Mr.
James P. Harrison, of the Franklin
Printing House.
An Augusta man mistook his
wife for a burglar the other night,
and raised a terrible racket. The
wife says she'll never mistake her
husband for a sensible man any
more.
In Hancock county John Ray,
Levi Veal and Matt Coleman, got in
to drunken affray, in which Ray
broke the skull of Veal with wagon
standard, and shot Coleman dead
with double barreled shotgun.
"A workman named William
Walsh, while engaged in preparing
blast in the foundation of the new
Eagle and Phoenix Factory, in Col
umbus, had his hand blown off by
the premature explosion of the pow~
der.
A correspondent writes to
know the easiest plan of putting a
shed to his house. We have con-
suited no architect 10 regard to the
matter, but it seems to us the easiest
as well as the quickest plan would
be to catch locust 10 season. They
shed four or five times a year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
SINGULAR WEDDING.

A SINGULAR wedding has just oc.
Cured at Cambridge, in England,
which has occasioned no little ex-
citement since it became known
The bridegroom is youth named
Robert George Jackson, aged nine>
teen years, a coprOlite digger, illit-
crate and lame, and the bride is the
accomplished daughter of the vicar
of country parish in the neighbor-
hood of Cambridge. She is twentys
two years of age, and is said to speak
seven or eight languages fuently. -
The bans were put up by the lady
herself at the Register office in Cam
bridge, but the pair were afterward
married by license before the Super
iatendent Register at his office. 1t
is said that the coprolite digger is so
illiterate as to be deficient in the
commonest rudiments of education,
and by no means makes up for this
lack by personal attractions.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
SOME GIANTS.


TOHI VHe I0OVTesItT LNpsFssi mug, :.
There is on exhibition in a store
on State street, in this city, perhaps
the most remarkable couple 10 the
world-a man and woman who are
giants in stature. They are Mr. aud
Mrs. NJ. V. Bates, whose home is now
III Seville, Medina county, Ohio.
They are each feet IL inches in
height, the husband weighing AIS
pounds, while the wife weighs Alb
pounds. The common sized visitor,
when placed between them, feels very
much as Gulliver must have felt when
he fell among the giants.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
DON'T HURRY. GIRLS.

One of the crying evils of these
times is the tendency and DISPOSE
ton of girls to get through girlhood
hurriedly and get into womanhood,
or rather into young-lady- hood,
without waiting to enjoy the
the sweet and beautiful season of
girIhood. Speaking on this point,
Bishop Morris says: wait pa
tiently, my children, through the
whole limit of your girlhood. Go
not after womanhood let it come to
you. Keep out of public view
Cultivate retirement and mOdesty.
The cares and responsibilities of
life will come soon enough. When
they come you will meet them, [
trust, as true women should. But
oh be not so unwise as throw away
your girihood. Rob not yourselves
of this beautiful season, which, wise-
ly spent, will brighten all your flu
ture life."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
A remarkable piece Of new

A remarkable piece Of news
comes from Washington in connec-
ton with Grants military order. 1t
is that the United States soldiers are
to be placed at the call of the Gov
errors in the Republican States, and
at the command of the United States
Marshal8 and internal revenue off
GERS in the Democratic Statos.-
Why not put them under the POST
masters and Custom House Collec
tors? Can there be any deeper
dilgrace than that into which the
administration is plunging this
country
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
KILLED BY A FIS q.
Montgomery Bulletin.

One of the strangest accidents we
were ever called upon to record &C.
Cured last Friday to Mr.. Daniel
Lord, a worthy young man about 81
or % years old, who lives at Rama,
twenty five miles from this city.
With a party of friends he went to
what is known as Weaver's Mill
Pond, for the purpose of SEEMING.
The party dragged the pond once and
he went out on the banks to secure
fish. The party proceeded to seine
back across the pond, leaving him
where he was with two fsh-a trout
and perch in his hand. When
the party arrived at the opposite
side he concluded to join them by
swimming across. So determining,
he placed the fish in his mouth and
started across The perch, being
the smallest of the two, he could not
get a grip On it with his teeth, and
before he reached half way the pond -,
it had worked around and founder
ed down his throat, producing death
by strangulation in less than three
minutes. His body was immediate
ly rescued by his friends and carried
to house near by and medical aid
-Drs. Sellers and Murrell-sum
moned. Of course life was extinct
and nothing could be done beyond
removing the fish. 1t was placed in
alcohol, and sometime during this
week will bs brought to the city and
placed on exhibition.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
THE Modoc who we're sentenced t

THE Modoc who were sentenced to
confinement for murder are entrust>
ed with guns, at St. Augustine,
Florida, and permitted to do guard
duty. "They have proved them~
selves trustworthy and susceptible
of drill and discipline" No doubt
they are familiar with the drill. -
They will raise fine crop Of hair
one of these days, and when they go
into the harvesting business some
fine morning and get up volcanic
eruption and convert the barracks
into lava bed it will occur to some
body that an Iodian is like a mule
" hat will be docile and tractable ten
years in order to kick the stuihng
out of somebody on the LIST Of JAM
uary of the eleventh year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
President of the City Council and
Acting Mayor.
HOW TO CURE A BAD MEMORY.

HOW TO CURE A BAD MEMORY.
Your memory is bad, perhaps;
but | can tell you two secrets that
will cure the worst memory. One
| mentioned above: to read a sub
iect when strongly Interested. The
other is, to not only read, but thiuk.
When you have read paragraph or
a page, stop, close the book, and try
to remember the ideas on that page,
and not only recall them vaguely in
your mind, but put them into words
and speak them out. aithfully fol-
low these two rules, and you have
the golden keys of knowledge. Be-
sides inattentive reading, there are
other things injurious to memory.
One is the habit of skimming over
newspapers, items Of news, smart
remarks, bits of information, politi
cal reflections, fashion notes, all in a
confused tumble, never to be thought
of again, thus diligently cultivating
habit of careless reading, hard to
break. Another is the reading of
trashy novels. Nothing is so fatal
to reading with profit as the habit.
of running through story after story,
and forgetting them as soon as read.
| know a gray Shared woman, life>
long lover of books, who sadly de-
clares that her mind has been ruin
ed by such reading.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

Ma. S. Y. Ludam of Oyster Bay,
Long Island. N. Y, has just receive
ed curiosity-an African ram
with four horns and a fleece eight
inches long. It is from the Atlas
mountains, and a few months ago, it
is said, was worshipped by the ma
tives of the regions as a sacred ram.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

THERE are in the South ninety
two companies of infantry, twenty
batteries of artillery, and twenty six
companies of cavalry; but Grant
thinks that more troops are needed
to successfully intimidate the South
and carry the election.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
POLITICAL DRUMMING.

The Athens Waterman says awe
do not think that any gentleman
should urge voters to support him
for a representative office. The
people should be left perfectly free
to select whom they please. There
should be no electioneering for a
nomination to such an office. Where
a gentleman seeks a copGty office, a
mere mattes OF dollars and cents,
the case is quite different. He may,
with propriety, court the favor Of
the suffragans-it is merely busi>
ness transaction, and he need not
feel any more hesitancy in pushing
his claims than a drummer" does
in soliciting orders for merchandise.
He is not representative Of any
man or set of men, but merely a
public servant"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

THE owner of a pair of bright
eyes says the prettiest compliment
she ever received came from a child
Of four years. The little fellow, af-
ter looking at her eyes a moment,
inquired naively: care your eyes
new ones?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
Kennesaw Mills,
MARIETTA, On,
Cheek, Whitlock 6 Go.

Successors to Cook II Cheek
TNHESE MILLS having recently been pnr-
u chased by ms, we are now prepared to
rgstQ the public all THOSE FAMILIAR
struck across to Spear fFffssfF'; Cook
thinking to get clear of the Sioux,
but ran right into them. But seen
'em first, because | seen the trail |
killed two before they seed me, and
then | ,run. They come after me
and | awaited for 'em, and killed two
more of 'em before they could draw
bead ON me. The lasssone give me
good deal of trouble. | didn't
know he was the last one, and was
afraid to come out or to fire But |
got him at last, and was SO mad |
just yauked his head off and put it
into my mail sack and took it into
Deadwood.
The staggering Cherokee then
went down into his buckskin shirt
and drew out the following certifi,
cate:
DEADwooD Cry, July p, 1876.
To whom it may concern; This
certifes that Joseph Semino is
friendly Indian and has been en-
pIoyed for the past three months as
mail carrier between this place
and Spotted Tail Agency. In COM
sideration of having brought in our
mail on the 9th day of July and al
so one head of horse thieving Sioux,
he is hereby presented with $3.50 in
dust, contributed by the provisional
city government.
ID. G. GARDNER,
President of the City Council and
Acting MayOr.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

THE Independents of New York,
as they call themselves, desired the
nomination of Mr.. Evarts by the New
York Republican Convention. The
nominee, Gov. Morgan, was, howev
er, probably their second choice.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

A girl was killed near Danville,
Virginia, the other morning, while
milking a COW. If girls would only
learn to play the piano and make
worsted dogs, such accidents would
never happen.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

WHAT time of the war is it f? Has
Anderson just surrendered, or has
Manassas been fought Reading the
Republican papers one gets feartully
confused as to the exact period of
this war we have arrived at.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

"IF you crook your finger at me |
will kill YOU" said Farr to Graham,
at KirkvilIe, Mo. Graham crook ed
his finger, and Farr kept his promise.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

FoRNEY is the most progressive of
the Republican Bourbons. He has
reached the surrender, while most of
them are still laundering away at the
gates of Fort Sumpter.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

"Would you take me for twenty ?
said young lady, who looked much
younger. "Bless you my child, said
an admiring bachelor, Il would take
Won for life.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

WIEN Canada girl loves, she
does EaXs,- In a breach of promise
suit he other day it was shown that
young lady wrote to her lover
eight times per day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

WE are always clever with those
who imagine we think as they do,
To be shallow you must differ with
people, to be profound you must
agree with them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
Jhr y}garietta gomruaI.
Marietta, Ga, Friday, Sept. 1, 1876.

BosroN is sending salt to Chicago.
1t is we'll. Chicago ought always to
be taken with a grain of salt
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
General Advertisements.
MALARIoUs FEVERs,

You are at liberty to use my name III
praise of yo.r Regulator as prepared by you,
and recommend it to every one as the best pre-
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more good on my plantation among my negroes
than any medicine ever used; it snpersedes
Quinine iftaken in time.
Yours &c, Hon. B. II. Hill Ga.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
Dissolution.

The firm Of Barrett & Reid has this dav dis
solved by mutual consent The business will
be continued in future by d. A. Barrett TO
whom all accounts due 10 the old firm must b.
paid. june 2Oih l-76
D. A. BARRETT,
T. W. REID.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

If falsehood was to paralyze the
tongue what a death like silence
would pervsdo society.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01

He who sows courtesy reaps
friendship, and he who plants kind
ness gathers a harvest of love.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
Rates OF Advertising.

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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-09-01
ID. TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,
Macon. Ga,

Having had during the last twenty years
of my life to attend to Racing Stock, and hav 'ng
had so much trouble with them with Collie,
Grubbs, &c, gave me a graet deal of trouble; ;
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