The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-04-13
LOCAL LEAFLETS,

II lie VeruAncy Vi tHe City Paih 10 w.
conspcuously displayed.
MEMORIAL Day is the 26th of April and
we trust it will be duty observed.
ATLANTA proposes 10 launch several pie
MICS in this vicinity about the first Of May.
ONE Dollar will pay for the JOURNAL
from now until the LIST dayof January, 1875.
a BAND Of gipsi+s have been plying their
vocation in our town during the week.
KEROSENE is selling in Griffin at fifteen
cents per gallon.
OUR young friend, James Dobbs, after a
pleasant trip 10 New York, is home again.
USE MANsFIED's Pearl Hominy. 1t is
much sweeter than Western kiln dried Ask
your grocer for it.
THE badish-boys who broke the window
glasses, Tuesday night, must have been taking
a "blue glass" bath.
THIS seems to be a hard time for news
papers. We learn that the Acworth Advocdte
has suspended with no hope Of revival.
THE city council bought new pumps from
Capt. Wilson and now we will have water in
abundance
COBB county has a new militia district to
be known as Smyrna District, No. 1892. The
official notification appears in another column.
-PRoF. George f. Gober writes FROM Savan-
nah that his daily luxuries are watermelons
and Strawberries.
-THE Union Sunday School service WAS
held at the Presby terrain Church last Sunday
night Rev. l. r. Branham delivered very
able and forcible sermon.
Col. Bill Moore, of newspaper fame-you
all know him-well, he's getting 5000 per
month as advance agent OF Howes London
Circus.
THE town "Modocs' were out Tuesday
night, disarranging signs and breaking window
glasses. We fail to see where the fun comes
in.
SAY advertising don't pay. A young law
yer is now receiving numerous postal cards, Of
fsrng to rent him dwelling for matrimonial
purposes.
-REv. S. P Richardson, presiding elder
preached a very able, impressive and pointed
sermon at the Methodist church last Sunday
morning.
WE trust "Our County Correspondent"
will not become weary in well doing, but will
come to time punctualy. It's an easy matter
to edit newspaper.
We are now doing job work at great re-
ducton. cheaper and in superior style than
it can be done elsewhere. Examine our speci
mems and get our prices.
"A GENTLEMAN was in town last Monday
evening, riding mule, and offering one hun
dred dollars per bushel for grasshoppsrs. The
supply was exhausted or his liberal offer might
have bankrupted his exchequer.
OUR people should not forget that the
election to ratify the amendment to the Consti-
tuition, declaring Bullock's bogus bonds, null
and void, will be held on the first Tuesday in
May next. Vote for ratification.
Mn. D. B. Medford, of Woodstock, who
has been taking the Journal every since it was
started, came in Wednesday and ordered his
paper continued during his life time. He is an
Intelligent, well to do farmer, and thinks we
will have good crop and fruit year.
THE heavy wind and rain storm Saturday
night done some damage to crops il this vicin
ity. On the day following several strange
birds, webb-footed, were picked up by our
citizens, supposed to have been waited on the
wings of the wind from their distant nativity
THE new mineral springs recently discov-
cred in this city, on the premises of Maj w. L.
VIM, is said, by experienced experts, to be as
fine in its mineral properties as any country ever
produced. Maj. Ninn is now having the nee
essary work done in fitting it up. This gives
Marietta every desirable requisite as first
class summer resort.
Mn. Simeon West, who left this county
several years ago and located in Texas, is now
ON brief visit to his old home. He called to
see us Tuesday and had his name entered upon
our subscription. book, knowing that the JOUR
NAL will be the same as letter every week
from his old county. He is doing well in Tex
az, has good farm and is satisfied. He lives
in Vanzandt county, near Canton, about forty
miles from Dallas. He says in that immediate
section they have plenty Of good water all
through the year, the lands productive, and sell
from $40 to SIS per acre cleared and from Sc to
81 timbered. He says he wouldn't advise pro-
fessional men to 60 to Texas, but if a man will
go there with the intention of farming and will
work, he can get employment and do well, but
otherwise not.
WE learn that recent decision of the Su-
preme Court requires twenty eight days as the
legal number OF days for advertising Sheriff's
sales Four insertions before the day of sale
has been the time accepted as sufficient hereto
fore. Every now and then the Supreme Court
rsvolutionizes law that has become tims-hon-
ored in its usage and construction. and substi-
tutes something else as supreme. Why not
when the Legislature passes batch OF laws,
at once refer them to the Supreme Court to get
their legal opinion as to what is law and what
is not. At the pres ,nt rate of decisions they
make and unmake laws faster than mans
memory can retain. 1t would be saving OF
time and money and useless litigation, to have
the Supreme Court sit in judgment upon Legis-
lative enactments as rapidly as they are passed
and render explicit decisions as to as to their
constitutionality and force, before the people
suffer from misguided construction.
THE storm Saturday night brought quite a
number of strange birds to our town. The
Macon Telegraph gives the following account
of them 'The proper common name Of the
bird is Pied-billed Dobchick, nearly allied to
the grebe family, to which the didapper, black
diver, etc, belong. 1t is a migratory bird,
tba Cautb tIantic an1 Gulf