The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-25
OF Hand Local Dots.

the first open boil of cotton.
-Rkv. W. ID. Anderson, of Eat
onton, is on visit to Marietta.
In is said Mr. Trotti, on DR..
Butts old farm, has one of the tioest
crops ia the county.
WE present this week very
good engravings of TiIden and Hem
bricks.
-THE meeting of the Grand
Lodge, /. O. G. T., has been post
poned to the 24th of October.
Tile public ciSterns on the
square are being repaired. The
brick walls have been raised foot
or more above the ground.
In the selection of candidates
no questioned should enter save that
Of fitness, capacity and COOL judg-
ment.
REF. w. f. Glenn, the efficient
and jealous pastor OF the Methodist
Church, delivered an able and fer>
vent sermon last Sunday morning on
"Charity,"
-OUR farmers tell us that they
never had better crops of corn and
cotton, and as long as they make as
much as they will this year, they
will be content.
Our "Sharpe" friend of the
Carrolton Times thinks we are ex~
travagant in the use of Is in scala
wag. We have plenty IFS, friend
Sharpe, ar can afford to be liberal.
-MARRIED-On the l0uh inst,
by Rev. w. Manning, at the resi-
dence of the brides father, Mr.. Jas.
Gaddis to Miss Sarah Weems, all Of
Cobb county.
--Marcellus Thornton, the quail
eater, is a candidate for Congress
from the Atlanta district. He wants
to 60 to Washington SO he can eat
the American Eagle and marry the
Goddess of Liberty.
Hancock county has produced
a beet that weigh nineteen and a
quarter pounds. -Sacannah NeIcS.
That's nothing Cobb county has
produced one weighing one hundred
and forty five pounds --"dead beat. "
-MR. r.. J. Gaines, of Carroll,
ton, called to see us Tuesday. He
bought new buggy from Messrs
Reid & Granting, like sensible
fellow and is now all right for Wig
orous counting campaign,
Mas. T. B. Ford will reopen
her school for young ladies and chill
dren next Monday, 18th inst. Her
past success and eminent qnalitica~
tions as a teacher, entities her to the
patronage of our people. Read ad
vertiSement in this issue.
-"FELToN. perhaps, may be
able to hold out But if he does,
this gear Republican votes will hard
ly elect him."-Atlanta Republican.
What does this Radical sheet
mean? Does it mean that the Re-
pubIicans are going to support Har
groves "this year 2"
Denis Howard, the colored man
who drives Mr.. Joseph Clifton's
dray has five acre farm near town
which he has been cutivating during
his spare moments and much Of the
time at night. His corn is fully
matured, as an ear shown US verities
His estimate is seventy bushels
to the acre.
-LAsT Friday night man viii
bunch of keys attempted to unlock
the store house of Mr. l.. Bennett
and also the door Of the stairway
leading over Mr. HirSch's store
when Mrs. Hirsch observed him anG
told him he had better desist. The
fellow run like a scared deer.
-THEkE is no use for rings, indie
pendent candidates, or anything else
to produce di8cord or wrangling il
the party in the 7th District. The
will of the people, fully and fairly
expressed, should be gracefully sub
mitted to by all-every one who has
the good Of country at heart.-Ac
qroyth Adt0cate.
-MEssRs FDIToRS-Ont Of sis
hands ard one boss of the track
hands of the Big Shanty section
six of them are members Of the
Church. Can any other section 0
the ". & r. H. beat it,
JOSEPH PNION.