The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-11
ELECT delegates 10th inst.

--Grasshoppers doing but little
damage.
Miss Laura Snoddy opens her
school next Monday.
GEN. VIM. Phillips will be a
candidate for the Legislature.
See advertisement OF a lost one
hundred dollar Cobb county bond.
-PRoF. Geo. F. Gobsr opens his
school next Monday.
We learn that there will be a
barbecue in Lemons district to>mor-
row.
BESIDES the good crop of corn
and cettsa this year, they tell us the
sweet potato crop will be abundant.
We regret to learn Of the death
of the infant child of Prof. ChGEles
Lane, waish occurred Wednesday
morning.
-Camp>meeting at the Marietta
eamp-grOnnd commences tonight.
Q ute a number of persons will at
tend on Sunday.
SOME valuable property il sd-
vertised for sale by Mr.. W. P.
McClatchey, administrator of the es>
tate of j. T. Dyson, deceased.
ALI the members of Marietta
Lodge of knights of Jericho are
requested to attend the Lodge next
Monday night, as business of impof>
lance will be transacted.
The swapping of a pistol by one
man at another last Monday, fortu-
nately didn't fire, and consequently
we have no bloody homicide TO
chronicle.
-DlED-In Marietta, Wednes.
day morning, S o'clock, August 9th,
1876, Harriet w. Lane, infant
daughter of Charles and Emily Z.
Lane.
i AM selling bran and screening
at 7jcts per hundred, and mixed
cow food at 81 per hundred.
w. C. MANSFIELD.
Coy. J. NJ. Smith, Col. Robt.
Maddox, Col. Hubert, and Col.
Payne, wers announced to address
a railroad meeting at Jasper, Picks
ems county, yesterday.
THOSE who wish to take adj
vantage of the cheap summer rates
of freight in procuring their winters
supply of coal, would do we'll to give
their orders to Cheek, Whitlock &
Co. See advertisement.
AN article, suggesting General
A. j. Hansell, of Cobb, for Congress,
appears on our first page. 1t is
we'll written and comes from a prom
inent source. We don't know of
any man in the district that would be
more acceptable to the people.
--BIsHop BEcKwIrH will preach
next Sunday morning in the Episco>
pal Church. AS many persons have
expressed wish to hear him, ne
doubt there will be good attendance.
As usual on such occasions an effort
will be made to find seats for all who
attend.
THE State Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows assembled in Dalton last
Wednesday. Mr.. II. Reid is dele
gate from Waddell Encampment,
and Mr.. J. A. Massey, of the Jour
NAL, represents Cherokee Lodge,
|. y. @. f., of this place. Maj. W.
Il. VIM, also, attended.
We heard two sermons from
DR.. Spaldiug, of Atlanta, last Sun
day. They were model efforts of
ability, piety, purity and efficiency.
He is an earnest speaker, peculiarly
alaintiye and persuasively impress
I've. We we're we'll pleased with
him as a man and preacher.
-AIR. George NJ. Lacy, Of Big
sbanty, op piece Of ground, q BY
80 feet, gathered nine bushels Of
Irish potatoes last week, besides he
has been using daily from the patch
from May lst to August LIST. We
are indebted to him for basket full
of these potatoes, some of them
geigplng ops pound Zach. 4 re-
aarkabie yield.
III is suggested, and very prop
erIy too, that the Young Mems Dem
ocratic Club be resuscitated or a
new Democratic Club organized,
embracing all voters OF tBe' he~o
cratic way of thinking and voting