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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11
MARK TWAIN,s HORSE.

"Gentlemen, this horse of mine
was tough bitted, and he went SO
fast that | had to guide him by cleo
tricity-had to have wire lines and
keep battery in the wagon all the
time in order to stop him"
"Why didn't you stop him by hol-
leriug whoa inquired.
"Stop him by holering whoa p
Why, couldn't holIer loud enough
to make that horse hear me. He
travelled so fast that no sound ever
reached him from behiod. He went
faster than the sound, sir. HolIer
whoa! and he'll be in the next
town before the sound of your voice
reached the dash board. Travel fast?
should say he could. Why, once
started from Virginia City for Mead
ow Creek right in front of one of the
most dreadful rain storms we ever
had on the Pacific Coast Wind and
rain p Why, the wind blew eighty
miles an hour, and the rain fell ia
sheets. | drove right before that
storm for three hours-just on the
edge Of that hurricane aud rain for
forty miles.
"Did you get drenched 7"
"Drenched 2 No, sir! What did |
keep fast horse for2 Why, tell
you, drove right in front Of that
rain storm. | could lean forward
and let the sun shine on me, or lean
backward and feel rain and catch
haiIstones. When the hurricane
Stacked up the horse Stacked up, too,
and when it blew faster just said
'Git upp to the horse and touched
the battery, and away he went -
| Now | dont't want to lie about my
horse, and DONE ask you to believe
what say, but when | got to Mead
ow Creek my linen duster was as
dry as powder. Not drop Of rain
on The wagon seat, either, while the
wagon box was level full of hail
stones and water"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

The difficulty in following crime
as a vocation lies in the fact though
the criminal may be sharper than
any other one man he is not sharper
than all other men combined. He
has society confronting him as vol
unteer detective police at every step.
In the most shrewdly devised
schemes of professional scoandrels
there is almost invariably some weak
point. The moral infidel takes no
account of Providence, which so fire.
quently disconcerts even the plan of
good men, nor Of contingencies -
His career therefore brings up with
u round turn when he least expects
it for when caught, az he very
likely will be sooner or later, he can
no longer pass for an honest man
and is thus Sborn of his main power
for harm.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11
DIsREsPBcr TO TIE DEPARTED.
fLaElyette. Ind, Courier


For some time past the shoes worn
by young medical student of Thu
city have been source of constan
curiosity, end little comment among
his friends. 1t was certainly soma
thing unusual that created this atten
ton, for they were neither parIicu-
Iarly large nor particularly small, MOI
were they 10 either SO good or bad
repair rs to excite more than pass
ing glance. They we're simply a
pair of ordinary low shoes, but ii was
their texture and the strange mates
rial of which they were constructed
that made them at once curious and
remarked. The leather is hghtbrown
in color and streaked with parallel
veiuings of darker shade, the whole
as soft as silk. Among his friends
the doctor in embryo makes no ee>
cret of the mystery of his foot-gear.
"They are made from the skin of a
belle of Cincinnati" he says, giving
the name OF one of the leading families
of that city, and while the hair of
his listeners begins TO assume a per-
pindicular position, he goes on to tell
how during his term a; college he
was one night sought out by a resur-
rectioniSt famous among the medical
men, offered to sell him subject
Just "snatched" from the city GENE
terry. How the corpse Chat of a
beautiful young girl, whose white
flesh and the costly ring on her
smooth, soft hand showed her to be
of no poor family was bought by
several of the students, aud how
when the body, slashed by the knife
of the dissector, lay upon the table,
he crept 10 and cut the skin from the
round limbs. The CHASTITY bundle
securely wrapped and tied, packed
in an old gripsack and sent, with an
explanatory letter, to a well known
shoemaker of this city. The skin
was then tanned and polished, and
finally placed in the hands of a skill
full workman, and under his manipu~
ations transformed into pair Of low
summer shoes. The remainder of
the tanned skin now lies in the shop,
and it is said may readily be pro-
duced to verify the story. The body
Of the poor dead girl, hacked and
mutilated, found nameless grave,
while the mound reared to her mem,
DRY in the cemetery of the city is
draped with flowers and vines plant'
ed by loving hands above the empty
coflin. The shoes fashioned from
her flesh tread our streets every day.
Their story in all its hideouS grotes>
queness, is vouchod for as strictly
and absolutely true, and certainly
furnishes no mean leaf in the history
of the dissecting room.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

A CENrIPEDE's DEADLY CLAWS.
Several Mexicans were 10 camp
at the mouth of Memphis creek,
Utah Territory, and were lying
about the fire, when one Of them,
Telestoro Crucas, saw large cen-
tipede, fully nine inches long, trav~
eliog slowly over bis leg. Knowing
ing that tho least motion would make
it sink its deadly claws into his skin,
without moving his leg he got out
his revolver and waited until the
beast had almost reached his knee,
when slowly putting the mouth of
the pistol to his head, he pulled, and
the centipede was gone. But ecu
tipede's claws are quicker than gum
powder, and Crucas began to cramp
in few minutes The track Of the
reptile along his leg turned brown
ish yellow and the place where it
was killed swelled up frightfully.-
Crucas rapidly grew worse, and in a
little over four hours afterward he
died in great agony. But the most
singular part of the story is that she
bullet from Crucas' pistol cut small
rick in the fore leg of mule that
was tethered near by, and at day
light next morning the mule was al,
so dead, with its leg so swollen that
the skin had burst in several places.
i Canon County Viglante.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11
AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY
[London Alhenaum

A correspondent has sent US a
startling letter from Miss III Betham-
Edwards, from which we give an ex~
tract: II send you the following
particulars of recent scientific in
VENT just patented, and destined,
without doubt, to play a very impor-
tant part in our economic history. [
think il must be regarded as solu,
tion for once and for ali of the great
coal question, not only among our
selves, but abroad. NJ Bourbonael,
Of Dion. the celebrated lion and
panther slayer. lighted upon the fol~
lowing discovery by hazard, and,
after six years persistent investiga-
ton, brought it to entire ." york able
perfection. He discovered, by means
of two natural substances, inexhaus~
tible in nature, the means of lighting
and maintaining fire without wood
or coal; fire instantan eously light>
ed aud extit guished; fire causing
no dust, smoke, or trouble fire
costing one-tenth at least of ordinary
fuel and, what is more won derful
still, fire, the portion of which an>
swering to our fuel is everlasting
that is to say, would last lifetime.
Mr.. Bourbonnefs invention compre~
bends both stove and fuel. Thu fires
could be on the minutes scale or on
the largest. They would be used
for heating a baby's foot, or for
roasting an OK. Being lighted in>
simultaneously they will be a great
economy of time. NJ. Bourbonnel
at once patented his invention, and
body of engineers and savants from
Paris visited him and pronounced his
discovery one of the most remarkable
of the age. lie has had several Of
fers for the purchase of the patent in
France, but wants to sell it in Eng
land. his own occupation being in
another line. Any English gentle~
man or firm wishing to see his fires
or stoves could do so by writing to
him day or two beforehand. His
His address is Nj. Bourbonnel, Dion.
| have seen these fires and
stoves. There is no mistake about
the matter. 1t is as clear as possi-
Bile that here we have a perpetual
aud economical source of fuel. Two
hundred years ago the discoverer
would surely have been burned as
wizard"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

Mr.. Holloway, the prince of En-
glish pill-nakers, has devoted ST.
100000 to the erection Of college
for the higher education of women,
near London, and proposes to en-
dow it with 100000 exclusive OF
some land, which will probably
bring a great sum on building lease
His advertising bill has been at the
rate of 100000 to $4,000 year
for the last thirty years.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

The life you lead will most ascur-
eddy shorten your days said a
grieved father to a diseipated son,
is that SO, governor p exclaimed
the young villain, with a joyful face.
Il am deuced glad to hear it. If il
shortens my days it must naturally
lengthen my nights, and hitherto |
have found the nights too confOund,
ed shor! for my pleasures" Pa sat
down.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

The government has at last hit
upon a practical expedient for civil
ling the Indians. /. is the intention
to take one hundred of the youths
from the moro savage tribes, the
Sioux and Arrapahoes, and educate
them in civilized arts at Carlisle
Barracks, Pa. When they are cuff
ciently educated to have become ia
miliar with ethics of civilization they
are to be returned TO their tribes and
their places are to be filed with one
hundred more of the younger red
generation. The theory upon which
the government pursues this course
is that those who are educated will
have a direct influence in civilizing
those to whom they will return and
learn them the arts, sciences and az
ricultural pursuits.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

Two boys in Westphalia, aged lG
and 10, lost their parents by death,
and we're so sorrowfu! that they con
cluded to die, too. They wrote a
will disposing of their money and
playthings. Then the elder killed
his brother with a hammer, after
which he swallowed poison, opened
a vein in bis wrist, aud shot himself
through the head.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11
FEMININE VOW OF VENGEANCE.


1t ia a we'll known fact that child
rem very often suffer for the indiscre~
tons of their parents. Here is a
case 10 point. The other day, at
great military gathering the lovely
wife of young and promising oifi-
Ger was either insulted, or imagined
herself to be insuted, by certain
fashionable female leader Of society,
who is spoken of as "capricious" by
her friends and snobbish by her
enc mics, ON account of the vast im>
portance which she is supposed to
attach to each particular rung Of the
social ladder. "She is only a very
vulgar woman" remarked the Off
GERS wife contemptuously, "and as
such she deserves ones pity. New,
ertheless, shall some day have my
revenge" "And what do you mean
to do to her ~ inquired an astonished
listener, alarmed at so much teemipg
concentration of purpose. ooh"
answered the lady, dreamingly, and
with the manner of one contemplate
ing the far future. Erred (meaning
her own husbaud) may very likely
some day command the regiment ;
and then, if one of them should be
boy, and should happen to go into
the army, he might possibly be ia
Freds regiment, and then won't We
bully him 7" "Swcet is revenge"
especially to women !"-[ London
World.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

A girl at Hopkinton, VT, was q
cripple from her birth until lately.
The story Of her cure as family tells
it, 10 that, while at dinner, deadly
pallor and an expression Of agony
were observed upon her face, and
she complained of a sudden and ter
rible pain 10 her diseased leg simal~
taneouSly with the appearance of q
strange, shadowy form by her side
From that hour she began to recov-
er, and she is now comparatively
we'll.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

AS Mr.. Dock McCay, an estima-
Bile citizen of Franklin county, was
driving his horse to a one-horse
wagon few days ago, the animal
become frightened and ran away
He was thrown out and received in
iuries from which he died in about
one hour and half His sudden
death is much regretted. He leaves
a wife and three children.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

Rambe said to Walserfer, in a
barron at Princeton, Ind: Lets
tip glasses, for this is your Last drink
on earth" Welserfer thought it
was joke, although they had once
been open enemies, and laughed as
the glasses cIinked together but
Rambe was in deadly earnest, and
instantly killed him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

An old gentleman of Wilkes coun-
ty says that be noticed heavy fog
on the 4th of August, and is satisfied
from his obsers atoms for the last
quarter of a century, that there will
be heavy frost two moths later,
which would bring it on the 18th of
October.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

Do you keep any Hamburg edg-
ing 7 asked timd miss, Not if we
can sell it, was the pert reply of the
clerk. He kept some that day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

"Bedad," said a patriotic Irishman
yesterday, shut it's rips water
melon that should be the emblem of
Ireland. it always has the green
above the red"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

A lady married Mr.. Newman,
and her female friends tease her by
saying she slept every night with a
new man.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

Waiter w Stewart, who has
neither arms nor legs, has married
the daughter Of the manager of a
Boston side show 10 which ne is on
exhibition.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11
TIE FoRGBrFULNEss OF PEOPLE.

The Oxford Professor who, to avoid the wind
when taking snuff, turned around, but forgot to
turn back, and walked six miles into the cOnn-
try, was no more forgetful than those who still
use the huge drastic, calhartic pills. forgetting
that DR.. Pierces Pleasant PuFgative Pellets
which ara sugar coated, and little larger Than
mustard seeds, are a positive and reliable ca
thartic, readily correcting all irregularities of
the stomach, liver, and bowels. Sold by drug
Qists
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11
NJ A II H TT A
Opposite the Kennessw House.)
j. a G. ANDERSON, Proprietor.

VNNHE BEST OF VEHICLES, THE
II safest of drivers and the fastest of horses
are always ready, night and day. for hire. No
man or woman or child ever has given me a
call in the past, who has been, nor shall any
ever in the future, be dissatisfied with my teams
or the men in my employ. Everything and
everybody about me are A NO. ONE
l have cheapened my chagres propartionate
to the stringency of the times. For references
as to he truth of what say, as TO the turn-Onts
and charges, go to my friends, which means
the public generally.
Parties hiring are strictly responsible for the
safety of themselves, vehicles and horses,
j. A. G. ANDERSON.
Dee. 18th. 1874.
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Jllr MarIetta Duuvaa'.

Marietta, Ga, Thursday, Sept IL 1879
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-09-11

A factory at Gainesville turns out
four hundred pair of shoes per week.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-19
SEDUCTION.
The Suit for Damages I'm the Case of
VOss VS.. O'Brien Drawing to
ClOse-The Learned Counsel
Talking TO the Jury.

Yesterday, at the Shelby county circuit
court, the investigation of the seduction
damage case of Emily Voss Us. John ].
O'Brien was resumed before Special Judge
Flippin. a number of witnesses were intro
duced for the purpose of impeaching Miss
Voss and attacking her character, but the
effort signally failed. Miss Voss was brought
back to testify. She appeared in court with
her infant In her arms. The child, pretty
one, has red hair and blue eyes, resembling
somewhat the red-headed defendant, at least
the audience thought so. Miss Voss, when
examined, said the father Of the infant was
John O'Brien. The defendant, during this
episode, looked iurtively at mother and
child, then cast bis eyes to the floor, and
kept them there for some time. Several wit
nesses equally contradcted O'Brien's testi-
mopy as to his ASSOCIATION with Miss Voss.
Notwithstanding the efforts made, Miss Voss' s
reputation for virtue remained unimpeached,
no testimony being presented to prove
that any man except O'Brien had illicit in
tercourse with her. O'Briens attorneys put
in their best work, but it was evidently an up.
hill business; they had the wrong end of the
case In the afternoon the arguments of
counsel were made to the jury, and the argu-
ments will be resumed to-day, when the case
will be given to the jury for verdict. Miss
Voss 8 brother Charlie came into the court
room yesterday during the trial, and stood
near his sister. A deputy-sherIff came up
and stood by his side, and the sheriff of the
court stood beside O'BrIen,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-19

blooms and a large number of squares. It
was received by Fulmer, Burton & Co.. from
the plantation of Mr.. L. B. Hooker, of Delta,
Mississippi, who has about FIVE hundred
acres of most promising cotton. 1t is quite
likely that Mr.. Hooker will be among the
''frst- bale" shippers this season.
Among the many important schools in
Tennessee, and especially the western dis
trict, there are none more deserving notice
than st. James's Hall, boarding school at
Bolivar for girls, under the care and man
agement of the Episcopal church. The last
session closed Thursday evening, the twelfth.
with much satisfaction TO patrons, the grad
uating class receiving their diplomas from
the bishop of the diocese. The school is I'M
der the charge of Rev. w. c. Gray, rector,
and full corps of assistants. No place in
Tennessee can boast Of a more refined peo-
pie nor better locality than Bolivar.
On Sunday last a negro named John
Jones shot at his wife in South Memphis near
the French garden. Yesterday Policeman
Dallas Lee visited Joness cabin and at
tempted to arrest him, but Jones, Selling his
trusty double barreled shotgun, drew it down
on Officer Lee, anu refused to be arrested.
When other police officers arrived Jones was
| pursued, and when last seen he was In skltf
| pulling for the Arkansas shore. He is known
| to the police as bad and dangerous man.
| Officer Lee asked the assistance of several
c0l0reQ ana Whlt6 persons TO arrest the CeS-
perado, but the leveled double-barreled shot
| gun kept everybody at bay.
| AT noon yesterday FIRE broke out IN a
one. story frame cottage on Elliott street. be-
| tween fernando and Desoto, the building,
valued at about one thousand dollars, being
nearly destroyed. 1t wa the property of Gen
| eral w. ]. Smith, and was occupied by his
son, M. Smith, who, with his family, has
been absent from the city for several days.
| The furniture was saved with small injury.
| 1t was covered by a policy in Gronauer' s
| agency. a defective hue in the kitchen
| is said to have caused the fire. The sparks
from the burning house set another house
on fire situated on South street, but the fire
was extinguished without much damage.
-Thel Knoxville Tribune, noticing the
equestrian statue of Andrew jackson al
| Washington, states that the sculptor, CLARK
| Mills, has one more copy which was made
for q gentleman in Tennessee before the wal
butt not finished in time for delivery, The
party who ordered it died before the close o.
the war, and it was never delivered. 1t wal
the purpose to place it on the capitol grounds
| at Nashville. Mr.. Mills, who is an old-timt
| Jackson Democrat, being anxious for IL tC
come to Tennessee, proposes to sell it for s
nominal priceless than cost to him-if it car
be purchased to come to this State. The I'ri
btIne suggests that the Tennessee historical
society take the necessary steps to buy thu
statue by private subscriptions throughou
the State, and place it at the capitol at Nash
vile.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-19
PERSONALS.

BELcHER & JORDAN, law Office at Masonic
Temple.
DIR. A. L. KIMBRo, office southeast corner
Main and Union streets.
COLONEL G. D. BENTON, of Louisiana, is
stopping at the Peabody.
D. B. DOLL, of Louisville, Kentucky, is
registered at the Peabody.
MAJOR JAMES F. STOKES, of M'Ghee's
Landing, Mississippi, Is stopping at the Pea
body.
MRS. EMMA A. WEIGH and Mrs. G. L..
M'Lefresh left last evening on the steamer
Andy Baum. for Cincinnati, to spend a few
months with relatives.
VISITORS registered at the cotton exchange
yesterday were: w. S. Jones, Vicksburg; E.
w. Hogan, New Orleans; J. L. Webster, st.
Louis; K. Hexter, Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Mr.. LOUIS L. PARHAAr. of Pamela county,
Mississippi, is In the city 10 the interest OF a
new paper, called the Pamela Gazette, which
will be published this week at SardIs, Missis-
sippi.
The following named gentlemen were
elected last night as honorary members of
the Memphis Light Guards: Judge j. E. 4.
Ray, Colonel b. A. Montgomery, Mr.. J. E.
Beasley, Mr.. S. Mansfield, Mr.. S. E. Ridge
ly, Judge I. ]. Latham, Mr.. E. 0. Melton,
Mr.. J. S. Wilkins, Mr.. ]. n. Oliver, MIR.
John L. Wllllns.
The State board of visitors to the Univer-
sity of Tennessee met at KuexviIle on Tues
day last, ard perfected the organization, as
follows: Ex-Governor James d. Porter,
president; DIR. E. Nj. Wight, vice president,
and Hon. ]. Harvey Mathes, secretary. TIE
board of visitors subsequently visited and in
spected the University buildings and farm,
and witnessed a dress parade and artillery
drill of the cadets in the afternoon upon the
the University campus.
REV. THOMAS A. HoYT. pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Nashville, delivered
the haccalaureate sermon to the students Of
the University Of Tennessee. at Knoxville
last Sunday. Ia honor of this occasion nc
services were held at any of the churches al
night, the various ministers aided in the GER
emUnies, and the congregations all hocked to
the operahouse, filling the hall In parquette
and galleries. The Tribune, from which We
! get these facts, says that Mr.. HoYt was intro
duced by DR.. Thomas w. Humes, and for an
hour held his hearers spell bound by one Of
the greatest efforts ever delivered in Knox.
vile. MIR. Hoyt is gentleman of fine pEes-
ence and captivating manners. His speech
is earnest and thrilling. and Is delivered with
zeal that carries conviction with it. Oul
students and our people were fortunate in
being listeners to this address, and they heard
many maxlms which should be printed upon
the memory and called up to aid and coun-
sci them in the struggles and trials of life.