The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15
LOCAL LEAFLETS.


The election Tuesday was very quiet ane
the vote very light. saH2 aHg
Now that the wheat crop is abundant
there will be no excuse for high prices.
--Rav. DR.. Branham has been confined td
his room By sickness for the past. week. az
REV. w. F. Cook was in our city Tues
day and Wednesday.
s-CRADLEs are in demand-we mean grain
cradles. ~
Several city improvements are In progress,
houses being enlarged. painted and refinished.
WORKMAN are now building a brick
kitchen to the Jail. -
-4Mas. DIR. JsIks, who has been on q visit TO
our city, left for her home in 81. Louis, Mo-,
last Tuesday evening.
THE Stockholders of .Sixes Mining Com
pany will find a notice in another column in
which they are interested.
WHEN boy has his hair cut at home, he
looks as if q horse had been grazing upon his
crauium. and bad bitten his hair out in spots.
Marietta can boast of greater number of
pretty ladies than any other city OF its size in
Georgia. kM
WE will do your job printing cheaper and
better than it can be done elsewhere. Try and
be convinced.
MIR. E. w. d. Cochran has shown us
some very fue oats raised by him on his farm
in this county. He has four acres of oats two
and half feet high on the average.
.-SoME one says old maids go by the name
of ''wited lilies" new. Probably because
Yeas agone, when certain Young men aaksd
them, '.Wilt thou!H and they wilted not.
A North Carolina paper speaks Of a baby
which was born black and subsequently, turned
to white. In this latitude baby is usually
born white and turns to lively yeller.
-DR. Tucker breaches at the presbyterian
C hurch next Sunday morning. There will be
no service at the Methodist and Baptist Church
es on that morning. M tN 9a &
-PRoF. ]. S. Nichols will open his dancing
school on Thursday the 2ist inst. His profile
iency in the Terpsichorean scence is we'll
known and we refer you to his advertisement
for particulars.
THE Marietta Silver Cefnst Baud, under
the instruction Of Prof. w. F. Clark and the
leadership Of J. Bella Campbell, is the bsst in
the State, and the sweet music they discourse
in our city park every week, is duly apprecia-
ted by'our citizens. Long live the Band 50!
REV. George g. Smith delivered Lis an
nounced lecture last Friday night st the Meth
odst church. 1t was decidedly interesting
and gave foresight of the contents Of the book
he intends soon to have published on the "His-
Tory OF Methodism in Georgia"
Judge Lester conducts business with prop
,r discipline and dispatch, and wears the err
nine with becoming grace and dignity. He is
giving general satisfaction throughout the cir
,uit, and we heard fewer objections to his course
IN the Bench than usual on the appearance of q
lew Judge. Gai~esriaIe Eagle.
Col. Tyson aud family of Baltimore are
,ummering it in Marietta. He is having cop
Der mine worked near town on preacher Aliens
arm. Col. Tyson is wsrth some two million
ialIars ana- s------
,uild fine hotel here, he would find it judic-
GUS investment.
-"MY Mothers Daughter" an intensely in
eresting story from the pen Of Mrs. Ophelia
Iisbet Reid, of Eatcnton, will be commenced
n the Savannah Weekly News Of June Goth,
1877. The price of the Weekly News is emily
II 90 for six months, or $500 per year, pos
age paid.
THE gold mines in the vicinity Of Acworth
ire attracting good deal of attention. A large
AMOUNT Of improved machinery is being put up
or crushing and separating the ores and pro-
iucing the beautiful metal. Ore company be-
rims work two miles below the town, with a
capital of a quarter Of million dollars.
Nix. John Barrett our efficient marshal,
informs us of an etficacous remedy to destroy
70 bbage worms. He had tried everything to
40 avail when he tried lye soap suds. He
,prinkled the cabbage copiously with the suds
and the worms and bugs dropped off dead
Mr.. Barrett gives this remedy from actual ex-
perience and knows it will prove satisfactory
in results.
Nix. Dana Richards, young man who
ives near the paper mill in this lcounty, arriv
ID in this place Tuesday night from Alabama
with pistol ball in his thigh, placed there
few days ago by man whom he met on . rail
road track near Bridgeport, Ala, and with
whom he had point of difference about some
matter relating to the revictualing the inner
man.
A HousEKEEPER THUS gives what is, in
her opinion, one practicable and delicious mode
If escape from the evils of All enormous peach
crop. Take the thoroughly ripe, mellow fruit,
aeald and remove the skins; place the halves
m an earthern or suitable mental surface;
spripkle over them little sugar, and dry rap
dly BY high heat, or they may be scslded
in svruo. SKINNED out and dried. Then pack
in close vessels, and they will keep for years in
any climate, provided you keep your fingers off
them, for they are less cloying than common
raisens.
THE people of Cobb calls for Convention
in unmistakable terms. If she does net get it,
abe will demand of her Representatives to give
her relief through those mueh-talksd-of amend
o,snts 10 the Constitution, Promises must be
Untitled. Loose laws, triAing local legislation,
and high salaries, have burdened the people
long enough. This should bs en- age Of reform
alton not ouly in spiritual and moral things,
but in political as well. Governments when
they Cypress. by grisvous taxation, win ever
cause discomfort, muFmuring and dissatisfac
ten among the people.
-THE anniversary Of the Cobb County Bible
society occurs on Sunday, .Juas 18th. a ser
mon appropriate 10 the occasion viii be- slssiv-s
ri II.