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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
numerous progeny.

The Senate on the 10th gave its
attention to reading bills the second
time, and hearing reports of commit
tees. In the House, the reconsider
alton of bill to create commission OF
fisheries, we're lost.
TIL, Governor to appoint three
men to visit Gilmer and other coun-
ties, were referred to committee on
State Of Republic, with request to
report Immediately, SO that the rev.
enue troubles can be investigated.
To amend the act to loan the
credit of the State to the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad was in
definitely postponed, by yeas "a
nays 60.
To appropriate $500 to the Dab
lonegah agricultural college, passed.
Under the suspension of the rules
Mr.. Pickett of Gilmer introduced a
bill to appropriate the net earnings
of the convict labor of the peniten-
tiary to the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad between Canton
and North Carolina line. Referred
to finance committee.
In the Senate on the 18th. The
Senate passed the House bill author
izing the issue of bonds to the
amount of S2,296,000 for the pur'
pose of returning by exchange or
paying off the Macon and Bruins
wick railroad, and also the bonds of
the North and South railroad.
To amend the act prohibiting the
sale of liquors within four miles Of
Villa Rica, passed.
To incorporate the purchasers Of
the Georgia Western railroad, pass
ed.
TO appropriate the rental of one
year of the penitentiary convicts to
the Marietta and North Georgia rail,
road, was not considered german to
the appropriation act.
In the House, i7.h. To consoli,
date the office of tax receiver and
collector of Paulding county, lost.
To REPEAL the act regulating the
pay of jurors in Laurens county
den. Phillips offered an amendment
to repeal the alt regulating the pay
Of Jurors in Cobb county, which was
agreed to, and the bill passed.
In the House, 10Th. a bill to re
quire emigtant agents to pay 5000
license, passed.
To incorporate Laurel Mill Manu~
featuring company, passed. g
A bill to make it felony for any
one to carry away cotton and other
produce from the farm Of another,
passed.
In the House on the Goth. Mr..
Black moved to reconsider the bill
appropriating the net proceeds of
the convict labor to the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad. Lost by
yeas AZ, nays 81.
To consolidate the office of treas
erer and clerk of the superior court
of Paulding county, passed.
To fix the per diem of jurors land
constables in the counties of Pauld,
ing and HARRISON. Passed.
To repeal the. act consolidating
the office of tax receiver and collec>
Tor of Gilmer county. Passed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
STATE CONVENTION.

The Georgia Legislature has pass
ed the bill calling for a Convention
to remodel our State Constitution,
with an amendment attached, allows
ing each voter to place on his ballot,
"Convention," or "No Convention"
at the time he casts bis vote for dele
gates. From the clamor of the peo-
pie heretofore on this subject, it is
presumed the call for q Convention
will be sustained. And if such re-
suit is attained, it behooves cur peo-
pie to send to said convention none but
our safest, wisest and best men--not
place seekers and noisy politicians
but men who have the inherent ca
pacity of rising above prejudice and
time serving ambition and weak r
ness; men Of experience, brain and
thought, who are in sympathy with
our people and State men who will
assist in making a constitution that
will embody wholesome laws, that will
keep the strong from expressing the
weak /; that will protect all classes,
creditor aud debtor, labor and capi-
tai, doing equity between man and
man in all legal aspects and social
circumstances, working no grievan.
ces and burdens that will not be
equally shared by all, in spirit and
essence bestowing the greatest good
to the greatest number, tempered
with "Wisdom, Justice and Moder-
alton"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
GRAssHoPPERs.

The grasshoppers are Matching out
in Kansas 10 millions. The farmers
there fear the grasshoppers as they
might fear an earthquake, but they
look upon the present appearance of
the pest with unconcealed satistac-
ton. They know that, nipping frOsts
are yet to come before warm wealth
err, and tina. then the grassbopPers
already Matched will be exterminat>
sd.-Macoa Telegraph.
It may be possible for the frost to
to nip their existence in the bud, but
snow, ice and hard freezes failed to
exterminate them in Cobb county.
They still hold their fashionable
chops" daildhnergely attended by
Mr.. and Mrs asshopper and their
numerous progeny.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
THE CONVENTION RrLL.

The bill calling a Constitutional
Convention, just passed, orders an
election in each and every county in
the State on the second Tuesday in
June, 1877; the convention to as
semble in Atlanta on the second
Wednesday in July, 1877. At the
time of voting for delegates, each
ticket to have printed or written on
it, "Conven,ion" or "No Convention"
the majority vote deciding the result.
The ratio of representation is based
upon population, one delegate to
every six thousand. Our Senatorial
District, the 35th, will be entitled
to nine delegates. Twenty-Five
thousand dollars appropriated to pay
expenses of the Convention if the
people decides that one shall be held.
After framing the Constitution it will
be submitted to the people for ratifi-
cation or rejection.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
Marietta Market,
corrected Weekly BY our Merchants

Corrected Weekly by our Merchants
FINANCIAL.--Gold buying at$l.07, selling
at Sl10. Silver--5uying at par, selling at
par Exchange buying at I discount selling
at par Money commands II to 2 per cent.
COTTON.-9 TO III cts. R
GRAlN.--We quote new corn 55a60cts.
Wheat ST. 25. Oats 60 a 70.--Rye 81. 20a$1. 35
DRIED FRUIT-Apples to 5. Peaches
pealed let unpealed 81 to Ct; Pears l5cts.
SEED.-We quote clover at $1,000 per
bushel. Blue Grass at $50 per bushel.
FLOUR.-From IS so to 50 90.
MEAL, 60cts. ri a
BULKMEAT l0aa11 cts per pound.
LARD. We quote buckets, Isl cans and
tierces, Is
GROCERIES. We quote: Sugars-Crush
ed, G-anulai, d and Powdered Ia. For extra
C 1911 Brown 10. Tallow, 8. Liverpool
salt, $l75; Virginia salt $l.75 Candles
fullweights IS. Ginger 40 Spice40. Pepper
IS 10. Starch TO- Rice 10 for tierces
Java Coffee SO \ 40. Rio 25a27t New
Orleans syrup rs. Molasses-40. Cheese,
factory 20. Peas rs to 100
Mackerel, No. Ezra shore, per
bbls. $50. No. l, Extra shore per. half bbls
$500; No. l, per. bbs. $3.50; No 2. per
halfbbls. y so; No. 3, per bbls. 1900; No. 3,
per half bbls. zoo; No. 1, Extra shore per kits
$500; No. /, Bay per kits rs No. 2, Large
COUNTRY PRODUCE.-Buying prices from
wagons. Eggs la 12t eta, chickens l21 l5cts
country butter Is to 20; Tennessee butter
30 to IS.
FACTORY GoODS.-7-s shifting IT "A
sheeting 81 cents Factory yarn, 100 per
Bunch; Prints, 81 AT Bleach shrtings, s a;
IL Jeans. 20 ais; Concord Jeans, as.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

THoUGH the Commisson will have
refused by majority of one vote to
enquire whether Tilden carried the
States. of Florida and Louisiana, and
whether the Hayes electors were
counted in by fraud, there will be be-
fore the whole country such complete
and overwhelming proof of those
facts that noue but the most ignorant
or shameless partisans will even pre-
tend to dispute them. If Hayes
enters the White House, such will
be his title to occupy it. Time will
not cure its defects or change its
qualities. Holding under a title
tainted with fraud, he viii be known
in history as the Fraudulent Presi>
dent.-N. I. Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
SADLY TRUE.

IT is q sad lesson, says the Bal,i>
more Gazette, for law abiding PEG
pie to discover that the fountain head
of law is unsound and immoral. A
universal principle of law and equity
is that fraud vitiates everything that
it touches. When tribunal is chos-
en- upon whose high character the
public bases expectations of moral
purity and justice sets aside this uni
versal rule and says, "Here is adj
mitted fraud which we will not corr
rect" this is bad lesson to the peo-
pie. 1t shows divorce between
law and common honesty and cons
mon sense, and contempt for such a
decision passes naturally to contempt
for Law.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

GRANITE is bought from Maine to
build a post office in Atlanta, and
marble from Vermont for headstoues
in the government cemetery at Ma
rietta. 10000 pieces of the latter
have just been received. This is
the way that the government helps
the south. Within sight of the new
post office there is actually an un>
covered mountain Of granite, and not
twenty miles from Marietta there
are inexhsustible quarries of marble.
-Atldata Constitution.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
MEXICAN SOLDIERS.

George V. Hebb writing to the
American from Washington City,
January 9th, says the bill giving
pensions to those who were in the
Mexican war has passed the House
by a large majority and has also
passed the Senate and is now law.
The bill is uniform in its provisions,
giving all who served sixty days a
pension of eight dollars per month,
whether a general or a private.
The widows who were wives at the
time of the enlistment or appoints
meni, will also receive eight dollars
per month. This will be quite
boon to many who served in that war,
more especially to widows of de-
ceased soldiers.
Among those now living in Cobb.
who were Mexican soldiers and who
will get the benefits of this act, are
John r. Winters, Elisha N. knight,
and Thomas A. Burroughs. Frank
Mcdonald, another beneficiary, has
moved to Fannin county. Also
Sam Stein and Frank Coleman, of
Roswell, were Mexican soldiers.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
WESTERN HNocH ARDEN.

THIS is the Western style of man
aging the Enoch Arden business
Henry M. Stevens parted from his
wife to 60 to the Kansas State prison,
to serve out sentence Of five years
She vowed fidelity; but, on hearing
false report that he was dead, 81 Q
married John Steinman. Stevens
returned home from prison to find
his wife happy with another; but
he did not go SO quietly away and
leave them to their happiness. He
shot Stcinman, killing him instantly.
and brutally whipped the woman.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

A Michigan man now splits rails
by patent machine. His wife turns
the crank while he sits on log and
bosses the job. augusta ComStitu>
tionaliSt.
Such railing accusation as that
is calculated to put husband and
wife at log gerheads. Bill Moore,
you should not have done it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

The Cartersville, E1press says
that CartersvilIe is the healthiest town
in the State. The city sexton has
not buried a living person in the last
two weeks.
Elder J. Morgan, Mormon of
the Brigham Young Church, Utah,
is at Rome, Georgia, preaching and
has about forty convertsin Floyd and
Chattooga counties.
Mrs. Summerhour died last FRI
day at her residence near Cohuttah
Springs. We hope her life in more
than one sense was bright as sum-
mer hour.
City lots in Dalton, sold on the
first Tuesday at from FIVE, to thirty
dollars, under tho Sheriff's hammer.
Mayhaps they were small enough,
for the Sheriff's hammer to cover.
Greene county has the champion
baby, which is thus described ut
is Pentield baby, is seven months
old, can walk and talk, and has a
mouth full of teeth 1t weighs TWEEN
ty>eight pounds. j. S. Barnwell is
the happy father of the embryo man. 7"
-Oglethorpe Echo: Mr.. J. R.
Boggs, of Lexington, purchased an
acre of old field, from which he gath
cred forty bushels of corn, with the
use of but little manure. 1t lays up
ON a hillside, and for a number of
years had been covered with thick
coat of Bermuda grass.
On Saturday night, near Sum-
merville, on State line, two men en-
tered the house of old Mr.. 0glesby,
aud aemanded watch lsa had re-
ceived to work on. He replied that
he had returned it. They cursed
him, took his money, told him he did
have the watch, aud then shot him
dead. Suspicion rests on one, Joe
Allen; and also on - Weaver.
Col. w. G. johnson, of Lexing-
tor, has in his library work that
was printed in London 10 l643--two
hundred and thirty>four years ago.
1t is a volume twice as large as
Webster's Unabridged, printed in
Norman French, substantially bound
in leather, and we'll preserved. 1t
is entitled "Roll's Digest" and is
most valuable work of legal refer
ence.
1t is said that 10 one of the com>
mittee rooms of the Georgia Legis-
lature, three gas jets we're burning.
6 Retrenchment and Reform " cried
Mr.. Fry "bring in a lamp and turn
out the gas the State cant atand
this expense" "Reform and Re-
!" shrieked Mr.. Turner
''bring in a candle this lamp is too
expensive Hold" retorted Sem
ator Reese; '.just look at the moon
blow out the candle" Hence it
appears that in the final analysis re-
and reform simmer down
into cheap moonshine.
-Elbertoa Gazette During the
recent snow six hogs, belonging to a
farmer in this county, went under an
clubhouse on his premises, and the
hole by which they got under was
the next day nailed up. Of course,
in few days. he missed the swine,
and searched the neighborhood for
them, but without avail. Twenty
six days after the hogs were first
missed his attention was attracted to
the carriage-house by loud grunt-
ing, and upon examination he dis
covered his hogs, three of which
were alive, they baving lived twen>
ty.six days without food or water.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

"SEvEN dollars a minute" is what
the Legislature spends to pass local
bills and drink whisky punches -
according to the arithmetic of the
LAGRANGE Reporter, and the editor
is no whisky-man, but purely a
Waterman, therefore he has clear
brain and knows what he is talking
about.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
The U. S. Senate has passed a

THE U. S. Senate has passed q
bill appropriating $1,000 for the exs
penses of the Electoral Commission.
Why the Commission should cost
anything mere than clerk hire is not
apparent 10 us. All its members are
regularly under pay as Judges, Sen
ators or Representatives and 81, 900
for two or three weeks clerk hire
seems huge.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

JUSTICE Miller, one Of the High
Old Joint, who refuses to investigate
fraud, is quoted as having said be.
fore he went on the Commission that
"this Tildon party has no rights, and
ought not to expect anything" lie
is a worse parti,an than Morton or
Garfield.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

A sEMl-LUNATIc, by the name of
w. II. Weldon, of Philadelphia, at,
tempted to assassinate Packard the
Returning Board Governor of Louis,
lana. The would be assassin was
arrested.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

"BoYs and Girls of the South" is
new paper, lG pages, profusely IL
Illustrated, just started in Atlanta, by
John Fl. Seals, at one dollar per
year. 1t should be literally patron>
lied by the Juveniles of the South.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
JOB WORK.

THE MARIETTA JOURNAL isapre>
pared to do job work of ALL KINDS
at the very lowest figures with neat
ness and dispatch. We duplicate
Atlanta prices. If we do not give
satisfaction. no charge will be made.
Give us your work.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

GRANT says it will take the whole
United States army to hold Cham,
berlain's rotten, South Carolina gov
eminent together, as the people re.
fuse to pay their taxes to any one
but Hampton's officials.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23
Administrators Sale.
Georgia Cobb County:

BY virtue of an order of the Court of Ordi-
nary of said county will be sold before the court
house door in Dallas Pauding county on the
first Tuesday in March next, lot of land No 81
in the 10Th district and 2nd section of Padding
county containing forty ACRES more or less, sold
as the property Of J w Moon deceased, sold
for the beneft of the heirs and creditors of said
deceased Terms one-ha!f Cash and balance
Nov. 1st 1877. Bond given for titles. This
January Both 1877.
MOON &IN MOON, Admir-.
p Printers fee S.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

GRADY, the intelligent, Washing
ton correspondent. Of the Atlanta
Constitution, is furnishing some
very interesting letters to that cx-
ccllent paper.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

BRIDGES Smiths Paper says the
people refused TO take stock in the
proposed "Atlanta Daily Picayune'
and it is q consequential failure.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

ROME is to have hangir g.
the 3Olh of March is the day fixed,
aud the unhappy actor in the TRACE
dy will be Joseph Moncrief.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

TIE Presidency, when in possess
ion of Hayes, should be marked
"Stclen Goods"
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FITS EPILEPSY.
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

ONE week from next Monday, anc
Ulysses Simpson Grant steps down
and out Of the Presidential chair,
unhonored, unwept and unhupg.
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Georgia Cobb County :

To whom it may concern: Mrs Z. L. Cles
ter having applied TO me, for letters of Admin
istration upon The estate of Norman L. Chester
late of said county deceased These are there
fore to cite all and singular the next of kin and
creditors of said deceased 10 show cause il any
they can. at my Office on or before the first Mon
day in March next. or letters will be granted to
the applicant. This January 80, 1877.
H. NJ. HAMMETT, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

Over three thousand acres of
land were sold at sheriff sales recent
ly in the county of Burke for less
than 80 cents per acre.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

In The grand game Of politics there
is no such word as faii-eight always
wins before seven.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

Some time ago, in Emanuel
county, six girl babies were born in
one house during one night, and all
were the grand children of one man.
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CONSUMPTION
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Seed Potatoes
SIX DIFFERENT SORTS. For Sale by
WILLIAM ROOT.
PAULDING sHERIFFs SALES.

EW ILL be sold before Court House door in
w the town of Dallas, Paulding county,
Ga, during the legal hours of sale on the
FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH NEXT,
the following property towt: Lot of land
No 1886 in the ID district and Sd section of
Paulding county, Ga. Levied on as the prop
erty of A. Akin to satisfy Justice Court fila
in favor of }. S. James, VS. A. Akin. Proper
ty pointed out by J. S. James, Levy made
and returned to me by L. A. Drskell, l. G.
Also at the same time and place, Lots of land
Nos 273 and of SOB in the I'd district and Sd
section of Padding coanty. Ga. Levied on as
the property of Nancy Turner to satisfy a
State and county tax ffa, for her State and
county tax. Levy made and returned to me
by j Adair, L. c. This February 9TH, 1877.
G. NJ. LAWRENCE, Sheriff.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

Nor lost or strayed, bat stOlcn--
the Presidency for the next four
years.
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THERE is only ono "High Joint
Commission" and may the world
never see its like again.
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Notice Debtors and Creditors.

All pei sons having demands against the ss
tate of A, Baker, deceased. are hereby. notified
to present them to the undersigned, and thos
indebted 20 said estate are requested 10 come
forward aud make payment. This Jan ary 4.
1877.
CIV ". a WILSON, Admir-.
Printer fee $500
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-02-23

Tue receiver Of stolen goods is as
criminally guilty as The thief, Mr..
Hayes.
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ASH & ROBBINS,
Gergia Cobb County !:
$50 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, n. ;

To whom it NAV concern Whereas, Allen
b. Seay, administrator Of the estate James j.
Seay late of said county deceased having in
proper firm applied to me for letters of Dismiss
sion from said estate These are therefore to
cite all and singular the kindred and creditors
of said deceased to show cause, if any they can
at my Office on or before the first Monday in
March next, or letters will be granted to the
applicant. This January Both 1877.
H. M. Hammett, Ordinary.
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Georgia Cobb County

Georgia Cobb County:
To whom it may concern; Whereas, Allen
B. Seay administrator of the estate of Barnett
Seay late of said county deceased, having in
proper form applied to me for letters Of Dismis-
sion from said estate. These are therefore to
cite all and singular, the kindred and creditors
of said deceased 10 show cause if any they can
al my office on or before the first Monday in
March next, or letters will be granted to the
applicant. This January Both, 1S77.
HIM. HAMMETT, Ordinary.
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Georgia Cobb County:

UeoTgIa OUUU OUuHIy:
Thirty days after date application will be
made to the court of Ordinary of Cobb county
for leave to sell the interest Of Rachael Barber
in the mill property il Paulding county, known
as the Barber mill for the benefit of said minor.
This January 4th. 1871
~ S I. BARBER, Guardian.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors.

Notice is hereby given to all persons who are
indebted to the estate of f. NJ +. Knight, late OF
said county, deceased to come forward and set
tie up. and all those having claims against said
estate to present them in the time and as the
aw directs. This Nov. 18th, 1876.
EN- KNIGHT. Admir-.