The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-11-24
Prospects are Frightening.
-TiIden and the right will yet

OdHuluHteS LOT county clllceS
are bestirring themselves.
Read trustee sale of Cook &
Cheek, bankrupts.
-THE Marietta girls are the
prettiest in the State.
"A GOOD sprinklng of snow fell
Sunday evening.
-NEw brick pavemcnts have
been laid in front of several of the
stores.
John j. Hunt, Jr., has left our
city and is clerking in a drugstore
in Darien.
We learn that the District Con
vention, |. o. G. T., meets in this
place on the 30th inst.
SEVERAL wagons of Missouri
emigrants passed through Marietta
last Friday en- route to Florida.
jon PRINTING of every descrip-
ton, done neatly and chesply at this
office.
Cobb county has two candidates
for Clerk of the House Of Represen>
tatives-C. A. DunwoIy and Thos.
b. Irwin.
Hon. A. II, Stephens was in
Atlanta last Tuesday, on his way 20
Washington to attend the approacl-
ing session of Congress.
-Mrs. S. E, Mullins will open a
public school on 4th of December.
Read notice and give your children
the advantage of this opportunity.
Our friend, Joe S. Clifton, who
has been in Tennessee for a long
while, has returned home again,
bringing with him a fine drove of
horses.
We are indebted to the Ac-
worth Literary Society for an inVi-
tation to a public debate tonight
We appreciate the invitation and
regret that We cannot attend.
--"Despotism can no more exist
in a nation, until the liberty of the
press be destroyed, than the night
can happen before the tun. is set"
i HAVE twenty-five head Of
horses and mules at j. A. g. An
derSon's stable, cheaper than they
were ever bought.
j. S. CLIFTON.
Mr.. j. G. Harris, late of the
Savannah News, is now fixture On
the editorial staff of tho Allan a
Conslitu iou. The Constitution has
rapidly improved here of late and is
now showing more vim and enter
prise than any paper in the State.
Three droves of horses and
mules in town Wednesday, and try
ing the speed and quality of some of
the animals was one of the amuse~
ments of the day.
-DEsIKoUS of being more socia>
BILE, we have moved the JOURNAL
OFFICE up on the square, among the
business portion of the city. We
can be found upstairs, 10 Freyer's
bricknbuiIding, in the rooms former
Iy occupied by DIR. Greer, denti''.
Call and see US.
We regret to learn that we are
about to loco a good citizen, Capt
w. N. Moore, who moves to Mariet-
ia. Capt Moore is most estimable
gentleman, and his family leave
many warm friends behind to re
greet their removal, aud to wish
them we'll wherever they go.-Homc
Courier.
A CLEVER Cobb county farmer
observed some hogs on his premises
and cautiously remarked that he
knew not their owner, consequently
his honesty led him to advertise
them as "estrays." On the day OF
sale more earnest investigation dis
closed the fact that they were his
own hogs. Ienceforth he will
brand all of his his hogs with his
iai,ialf.
We copied from the Atlanta
Constitution Of last week the official
vote of the eth district. Taking it
for granted that the Constitution had
it correct, we did not run up the fig
ures until after its publication in our
paper, when We discovered some
very glering errors. The correct
vote for Tilden in tho district is
1916; Hayes 1873; Tildeu's ma
ioritv Fl3.j56. FeIton's received