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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14
STORIES THAT You NEEDN'T BE
LIEVE,

Speaking of shooting ducks"
says DR.. f., "puts me 10 mind of the
great storm that occurred when |
lived on the island. AS yol are Ill
well aware, our island was near Cas-
CO bay ; an awful storm arose, and
was 50 fierce that it drove all the
ducks in the bay into pond, covers
ing about an acre, near my house.
In fact, SO many ducks crowded into
that pond that | could not see a drop
OF water"
"Sho," says Smith, didn't ye
shoot any Of EN- Y
That's what | was coming at.
went into the honse and got my
double barreled shot gun, and dis
charged both barrels right into the
midst OF them, but to my establishment
they all arose into the air, leaving
not a solitary duck on the pond"
Good gracious You don't say
SO, said Smith. Didn't you hev
any shot in yer gun, or what il thun-
der was the trouble 2"
"Well, was coming to that" said
Dr. F. at astonished me at first /;
but as soon as the ducks rose c few
hundred yards in the air, and CONS
menced to separate little, ducks
began to drop, and, whether you be-
Iieve it or not, | picked up twenty
nine barrels of ducks, and it was q
poor season for ducks, too. You see
the ducks were wedged in SO solid
on the pond that when they arose
they carried the dead ones in the air
with them, and, when theylseparated,
down came the twenty mine barrels
of dead ducks"
"Oh," says Smith, "I'm not sur
prised at that at all, or of the big lot
of ducks yer bagged, for it was an
awful storm. | remember it well,
doctor. | had at that time a corn
barn full of corn, on one side of ,the
barn was an open window, and on
the other side was knot hole /; and
during the storm the wind blew so
fierce that it blew every ear of that
corn right through the knot hole,
and the hole being just the size of a
cob only, the result was that it shelled
every ear, leaving the corn in the
barn, and the next morning | found
my corn barn half full Of sheIled corn
and not a single cob. had a curi>
osity TO know where the cobs had
gone to. / went to the rear of the
barn and followed the line of those
cobs over eleven miles, and at dis
lance of about five miles a large,
irst-growth pine tree stood in the
track, and darn me if the wind
hadn't driv cobs into that ere tree
from top to the bottom. Oh, doctor,
that was an awful storm"
yes signs the doctor, lawful"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14
No. Is,
GEORGIA NEWS.

B. j. Wilson of Atlanta has just
had verdict $4,000 rendered ia
his favor, in Washington Superior
Court, against w. c. Riddle, of
SardersvilIe. Wilson furnished Rid
die farm supplies, and cotton was
received in exchange. The running
account was disputed and settled by
law with the above result.
AS if to and to the gloomy fore
bodings of War in Augusta, it is an
nounced that there are nearly thirty>
seven thousand pounds of powder in
the city magazine in charge of man
named Thomasson.
While other papers are sus-
pending, others are reducing in size,
notably in Augusta, Albany and
Columbus. Aud even the Atlanta
papers are not as large as they were.
Mr.. Marcus Broom, a married
man Of Floyd county, swept up
everything he could lay his hands
on belonging to his wife and eIoped
with a gay widow.
-Marcellus Thornton says he was
offered $1,000 if he would fail to
eat the thirty quails. Bribery -
Appoint an investigating committee.
A band of twenty negroes has
recently rescued Gen" Joe Morris
from the chain gang in lower Geor-
gia.
The dwelling of NJ. P. Green,
and the corn crib Of Rev. Mr.. Kirk
patrick, of Burke county, were de-
stroyed by fire last week.
The Fort Valley Mirror says
that a Powersville man has used up
two hundred geese in batting one
alligator.
They arrested negro in Rome
the other day for stealing something
to eat. Where's Morton and Bout
well
The Columbus Times having
been tried daily now proposes to be
a tri weekly. 1t has made tough
fight.
A young man named Homer Ware,
living near Rome, while in a drunk
en- fit the other day, seriously stab
bed a Mr.. Matt Seary.
John joy, aged 60 years, and late
Postmaster of Lumpkin county, was
sent to the penitentiary the other day
for robbing the mails.
"A radical daily is to be started
in Atlanta on the joint stock princi-
pie.
Washington county goes in for
big grain crop this year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14
WANTS A CONVENTION.

EDS. JOURNAL I find that the
lawyers, the doctors, the learned and
the unlearned, are all in the dark in
respect of having justice done them
by The pres n, laws and constitution
Of Georgia Our present constitu-
ton compel the Legislature to sane
on and sustain measures that they
know to be unjust and demoralizing
to all people. The upright citizen
are robbed for the purposes Of en-
couragiug and sustaining base de-
ceivers in their dishonest desires. -
! We must have convention to
change the constitution before We
ran have laws that will guarantee to
every one his just rights. The pres
ent constitution and laws compel us
to pay at least one hundred and fifty
useless officers. We want a cheap
government, for all good governs
ments are cheap Now our purse is
left in the hands of the Legislature
with both ends open, and we are
compelled to pay what they say,
but they may take out what they
choose. All such loose conduct is
unwse and dangerous. Then let all
republicans say what they will pay
their public servants.
Let the convention be composed
of one man from each county, and
let the citizens of every county se~
lect the man that wishes to carry
out their views, and to do this we
must carefully examine them, for
we cannot know a man of our views
simply by his looks, wealth or pop~
ularity.
We want short sessions with only
one man from each county at five
dollars per day and only twenty
days to a session. The long sesS-
ions and extravagant salaries now
cost US from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
every year, and they have done US
more harm than good, for our laws
were much better forty years ago.
Then let us restore the honorable and
Just code of la IS that we had before
the war, leaving out the slavery
clause. The Governor cannot do it
and the legislature might do it if the
constitution would allow it, but the
people Can and must do it if it is
ever done. The constitution can be
revised N three days so that the leg
islatur9 might pass such laws as
would punish the guilty and protect
the innocent. When A. promises to
pay B ten dollars for his cow, and
then steps behind the homestead and
refuses to pay it, he has made that
cow by falsehood, and it is no better
than stealing. Now if the conven'
ton will limit the Legislature to five
dollars per day, then let us have our
own school system and abolish the
homestead forever, then we can en-
Joy prosperity and all the sweets of
good government.
JOHN DURHAM,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

Atlanta is enterprising. Allan
ia merchants not only advertise lib
orally through the columns of the
papers, but some Of its enterprisiug
firms are in addition distributing
posters all over the country, in the
towns, at everybody's door in the
towns, advertising their stocks in
trade, aud offering inducements to
purchasers. It's no use for Griffin
merchants to sit still and attempt to
run tilt against enterpriSing oppo-
pents. It's no use to swear it don't
pay! 1t does pay, and it will CON
tinue to pay those who come to your
very door sills and invite your trade
away from You. The best evidence
that it pays Atlanta, is that Atlanta
keeps it up Griffin Nc,cS.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14
OUTWARD DEMEANOR.

MUcH of the happiness of life de ,
ponds on our outward demsanor.
We have all experienced the charm
of gentle and courteous conduct, we
have been drawn irresistably to-
wards hose who are obliging, aftable
and sympathetic in their demeanor.
The friendly grasp, the warm well
come, the CHEEKY tone, the encourage
ing word, the respectful manner,
bear no small share in creating the
Joy of life while austero tone, the
stern rebuke, the sharp and acrid re-
mark, the cold and Indifferent man.
ner, the curt and disrespectful air,
the supercilious and scornful bear
ing, are responsible for more of hu
man distress despair and woe, than
their transient natures might seem
to warrant.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

Mr.. MErCALF, Of Pittsburg, a man
ufacturer of cutlery, said to the Ways
Means Committee, few days since,
that the ores of Northern Georgia
and Alabama had turned out equally
as valuable for the manufacture Of
fine cutlery as the Swedish ore, hith-
erio exclusively used. This is very
strong testimony, and means great
deal, so far as the manufacture of in
the South is concerned.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14
BETTER QUALITY.

EVERY mechanic knows that old
tools which have been laid aside or
lost for long time, seem to have re
Quirad additional excellence of quail
ty. Razors, which have lost their
keeness and their temper, recover
like mankind, when given time to re
cuperate. A spring regains its ten
ton when allowed to rest, Farmers
leave their scythes exposed to the
weather sometimes from one season
to another, and find their quality i'm
proved by it. Boiler makers fire.
quently search old boilers carefully,
when reopend for repairs after long
period of service, to find any tools
that may have been left in them
when last repaired, and if any are
found, they are invariably of unusu>
ally fine quality. The writer when
boy in the shop, frequently, if de-
MED the use of their tools by the
workmen, looked about The scrap
heap, and under the windows, for
tools purposely Or careIesly dropped
by the men ; and whenever one was
found badly rusted by long exposure,
it proved to be of the best of steel,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

SENATOR boutwell,, in his tilt
with Senator Bayard, yesterday, said
that if the Republican party were not
successful next fall, there would be
another civil war. Does Sen ator
Boutwell, mean to march against the
people of the United States in case
they elect a Democrat President
We hope not at least, until he has
explained those little unsettled Tres
ury accounts. After thai, if he has
any warllkesfeeling left, he can work
it off at his leisure. -Br0aI2gR AFyttS.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

THE river and harbor bill, as re-
ported from the committee on com.
merce, makes the following appro~
priations for this State: Savannah
harbor, $4,000 Darien habor,
$1,000; Chattahoocee river, $50,
600; OcmuIgee river, $4,000 ;
CooSa river, $40, 900; Etowah river
sl5, 200; Survey of St. Mary's ca
nal, $500; Survey of the Chatta>
hoochee river, 1000. Total amount
$4,000. We hope the bill will
become law.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

TIE Soldier Monument swindle
grows in intensity of mesness as it
progresses. While Belknap has
been shedding tears at the annual
radical decoration of graves of Union
soldiers, his amisbIe lady and other
intrigueing females have scooped in
100000 for $4,000 worth of Yam
kee tombst0nes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

EX-GovERNoR DIX, Of New York,
in a recent letter opposing the taxa
ton of churches says; i do not be-
lieve that any community which seeks
to throw Its secular expenses on the
worship of God by levying contribu-
tions on the edifices consecrated to
His service can long escape the chas
tisement it provokes '"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

WANTED, A FoUNDLING.-The
Boston Journal expresses the hope
that the next President of the United
States will have very few relatives.
In fact, it says if he should happen
to be a man who was picked up or a
door step it would be tremendous
point in his favor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

TnE Nashville american says that
G. S. Bell, the Presidents private
detective, while in the pay of the In
terror Department under Chandler,
is the latest addition to the notorious
"B's," and they are trying to prove
him as disrepGtable as the rest.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

A LETTER for Joseph Kzmigiet>
ski" is waiting its owner in the Dan
vile, Penn, post office. The post
master and his family are in the
meantime all going around with
their jaws done up in sings.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

TIE love of popularity seem little
else than the love Or Sseing beloved,
and is only blameabIe when person
aims at the affection Of a people by
means in appearance honest, but in
their end pernsious and destructive.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

TIE Hon. Jefferson Davis intends
taking his departure for Europe on
the first of next month. He will
spend some six or eight months in
London and on the continent to pro.
mote the establishment of direct trade
with the cities of the Mississippi val
Low
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

"CAN you see me, dearest 7" said
a Chicago man to his dying wife,
Tell me, can you see NET" mo,
she family whispered, "but | can
smell your breath"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

A St. Louis womaa says that a
good Walter never shows her ank-
les, and that it is no worse to encir-
Gle lady's waist with your arm
than to hug your friends sister on
the back stairs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

"WHY should We ceiebrate Wash
ington's birthday more than mine =
asked Professor G. d one of his
scholars. "Because he never told a
Iie," answered the little fellow.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

Amos J. Cummings, formerly
managing editor of the New York
Sun, is now news editor Of the n. Y.
Express. lie learned to set type in
the Savannah News Office.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

81 TAKE my tex dis morning"
said a colored preacher, from dat
portion OBJ d. scriptures whar de
Poste Paul pints his pistol to the
Eesions.0
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

IT is a good rule in fife to Judge
all youog mep with charity, for we
can never tell what they may be-
come.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

BkIsrow says the country is get
ting short Of currency, which is a
point ia which we resenble the coun.
try near enough to be twins,
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

DANDIEs and nGnnysgoats never
fail to pride themselves upon their
kids.
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OFFERINGS Of the season. Thirty
cents on the dollar.
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If Marietta mothers want to raise
their babies give them yeast.
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OuGnr to be allowed to sit down.
"A merchant of forty years stand
ing,
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Postuiice DRAWER No. ~, Marietta, ga.
, 1876-05-21

1AIkrEns; Ia,Ea cARrETs: GMAEPETsi!! AR cARsE1s1
pct4 In tha city New spring Htyles IRE BOW FriDG.
and We viii si at less prices rhan any house In the c
Great care will be taken show our customers good
a3n We VIII WARRANT ouF carpets to be the very beH u
ELL 4 CO., 7sa West Madison * w. - ~
C,RoCKERY: cRocKERT! i CFoCKEIsYi ! =
~ The best caa Of crockcry :ad glassware easy
A1disun-st
Groves! sTOvEs!l STOVES! 1--WE HAVE
= t4e LARGEST and best asseftlent OF wessoa
~ sasy Hlonthly pasneuta. W. A LOWELL & CO, ~
=: BUILDING maTEK1AL.
cash PAID FOR 80. .oUo BRICK. STATR-BEILf-'
~ m sacx. pointing and painting. Th1ty'fouftn
FOR sALE-t,ao DOZEN LOCKS KNOBS. AEp
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WHEELER. l4l Lake-st, up-s1atrz.
FOE sALE-A LOT OF LUMBER AND TIMBER,
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7 WAEr SOC, oo GOOD BR1CK; WILL Ply Pact
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A4ircs1 -, Tribune u1ea-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-08

advent to power means justice, fair deal.
ing and an open field to all citizens ana
all doctrines.
The Herald compliments Tilden on his
election, and wishes him with utmost
sincerity conspicuous success. While
regretting the defeat OF the great party
which carried the country through the
war which freed the slaves and
has paid large shares Of the debt,
it congratulates the country upon
the result of the election as
showing that the American people
are not slaves of any party. and that
they will not let past services condone
what they believe to be an injurious or
improper policy. 1t proves the exist
ence in our country Of mass
Of independent voters who
exist in sufficient numbers
to really control the elections, and thus
to shape the policy of the country, to
punish wrong doing by party leaders,
and to bring new men into power when
ever they choose, no matter what efforts
the machine politicians may make.
This Is the best guarantee we Americans
system Of government and the strongest
assurance we can show to European
observers that constitutional liberty
will be maintained here. The Demo-
Gratis come into power under peculiar
circumstances, though they have gained
the election, they are not generally trust
ed by the country, which will watch them
|jealously. 1t will scrutinlze very
sharply every act of theirs, and hold
them TO strict accountability, and it
will sweep them out of existence four
years hence If they are discovered
trifing with any public interest, whether
1t be the public credit, the security of the
blacks in the South or the National
debt. II they are statesmen they may
rule, II they are not they will be pushed
aside. The victorious party has some
notions which the people no longer be-
lieve In, and which it will be wise TO
drop.