The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1878-09-05
NEWS ITEMS.

county, died of dropsy, last Friday.
Lightning struck twelve telegraph
posts, all in row, on the Macon Gnd
Augusta Road the other day.
Full eight hundred insane people,
many of them forlorn and wretched,
are now quartered on the State at
Milledgeville, and the list swells.
The town of Misk oliez, capital of
Circles Borsod, in Hungary, was all
most entirely laid waste by storm
on Friday.
Rev. Dr.. H. H. Tucker, the form
err Chancellor of the State University,
has become Professor in the Short
er Baptist Female College at Rome.
The late fire at Put>in Bay, Ohio,
by which from Sl25,000 to $3.50,
900 of property was destroyed was,
it is believed, started by gang of
thieves for the purpose of robbery.
Josh Billings is supposed to have
referred to a prominent politician
when he said it was better not to
know so many things than it is to
know so many things that amt SO.
Pensacola has established quar-
antine against Mobile. The latter
city is perfectly healthy, there hav-
ing been but four deaths, of which
two were infants, in August, and she
evidently proposes to keep SO.
We understand that the grandjuries
have each bolloted for Lester and Fell
ton with the following result: in one
the vote was 10 for Lester and 2 for
FELTON,, in the other it was | for Les
ter and for Felton, Walker CQAfa-
ty Messenger.
Alex. Jones, colored, of Ogle>
thorpe, was drawn out of well in
which he was working, bat upon at
tempting to step from the bucket he
fell backward into the we'll, breaking
his neck.
The Macon Telegraph says: "Mrs.
Sothern's infant, whose front name
was Grady, died few days since at
the place of Col. T. j. Smith, where
the mother is stationed. The little
ones career was brief and checkered.
The New Orleans mail train runs
through Mississippi towns at the
rate so miles an hour. The other
day it jumped the track, and re-
NAMED 10 Canton for an hour. So
much haste BODIES right little speed.
J. MADISON WEELs has announc
ed himself as an Independent candi
date for Congress in the Fourth Dis
trict of Louisiana. fsuch stuff are
independent candidates manufacture
ed.
DISCUSSING GRANTS candidacy 10
1880, Mr.. DANNA grimly says:
"There would be historical proprie-
ty in the final overthrow of the Re-
publican party with the man. on
horseback in command of its thinued
and demoralized legions."
CoLoRED RIGHTs.-'Foh de Lord
said an old colored woman, yester-
day, Il nebber heard of desc yer
niggahs habbin' the yello' fevah be-
fo.' One of the new school explain
ed, Why mott Wese all de rights
and privilijums of citizens, and wese
jest goin' to had everything like
white folks That seemed to settle
the question: New Orleans Plea
yune.
1t is stated that Congress, soon. af-
ter meeting in December, will be
called upon to pass law making
uniform system of bankrupt exemp-
tons. The act repeating the pres
ent bankrupt law went into effect
September I, and now it is thought
business men will experience much
annoyance on account of the differ
eut usages of the several States in
the matter of exemption from attach
ment.
WHEN you want to pervert the
truth, why not put it as Loggins, in
the Lafayette Messenger does. He
shows us the humorous side of the
matter
'If was them i'd change kars for
Lester this time. Old FELTON, sails
hese a democrat and no be wuz a
seseasionists and fit to keep the kul-
lud troops in slavery while George
Lester wuz in the Union army and
was killed by FORESTS Kavalry at the
Fort pillar masakree, after he wuz
ded the rebels dug him up and sent
him hom to his friends and old FELTON,
kut his arm off in the hospital at
Martha"