The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-06-12
LOCAL LEAFLETS
...The oat crop slim.

mic ground
The town has many fair and lovely
visitors.
Two accessions to The Methodist Church
last Sunday.
June apples are in the market, and the
doctors will soon have plenty to do,
Cattle and hogs are dying rapidly in
this section with some unknown disease.
Mrs John II. Cooper left Sunday on a
visit to her relatives ia Tennessee.
Peaches not heretofore killed by the
frost, are now dropping from the trees.
Prof j. s. Nichols will open his dane
ing school on the 10Th inst. See card.
"A large crowd from Atlanta picnicked
here Tuesday.
jim the last month $50 sheep in this
county have been killed by dogs.
Heavy rains fell this week in some por-
tons of the county
Marietta has fine horses, cows and hogs
in abundance.
Miss Dunklin, of Alabama, is visiting
her sister. Mrs. DIR. A. Reynolds Jr, at
this place, @
Every room in Mr. Whitlock's elegant
hotel are occupied or engaged. This shows
how good accommodations attract visitors.
MIR. George Withers is now engineer
on the narrow gauge engine and Mr. Nc
Afee is conductor. 81
The Temperance orders of the county
will hold convention at this place on the
I'd OF July.
The Masonic lodge of this place will
have Il celebration and dinner the oath OF
this month. Several lodges will be present
The office of T. S Commissioner, filled
by Mr.. c. j. Shepard at this place, has
been discontinued.
The Cornet Band enlivened the Park
last Monday evening by discoursng several
beautiful pieces of music.
"A. S. Clay, ESQ., left Tuesday for La
Grange and will attend the College COM
mencement exercises.
The little narrow gauge engine skips
right along to Canton now, since she has
been repaired
Mr.. Norris Holland will address the
Temperance Union at the court house next
Monday night.
THE Darien Gazette comes to us again,
brighter by its contact with fire. Mr.. Dick
Grubb is full of energy and will succeed.
Don't forget it Reynolds fills teeth
from 25cts to $1.00.
Offensive odors emanate from several
premises on back streets. Cleaning and
lime are necessary.
Owing to the scarcity of rain for the
| past four or five weeks, the wells in the
town have not yielded their usual abundant
supply of water.
THE Temperance speeches at the court
house last Monday night, by Rev. S. F.
Richardson and Judge Lester, before the
Christian Temperance Union, were as able
as we have ever heard on that subject,
LIN these days of hurry and holiness the
good housewife has to cook about half the
time, owing TO the fact that the colored SER
want finds it more congenial to picnic than
to cook.
ALL PERSONS indebted to us for Guano
or Supplies, who have not given their notes
will please do SO at once and thus save
trouble. We must close all accounts by
note. WINTERS, ALEXANDER Il LEGG.
Mr. A c. Smith, travelling agent of the
( Atlanta Dispatch, was in to see US last
Thursday. He is an afiable, intelligent
gentleman and will give that paper good
service.
REV d. B. Clayton, of Columbia, 5.
c., who has been forty years in the Univer-
salst ministry, will preach in McCutch-
cons Hall on Friday night June 18th
He will also preach at Big Shanty on Sun
day, June 18th, at II O'Clock, a. M. The
public invited, '
/
How many men borrow and read their
county paper and never pay cent towards
its support? If all our generous patrons
were like these selfish, stingy borrowers,
Cobb county wouldn't have any paper
Be Independent enough to subscribe for the
! JOURNAL and pay for it, and then you
won't have to rely upon your neighbors.
The wheat crop in this section is sue
cess, and an abundant yield will reward the
industry of the farmer. The other crops
also give good tokens Of plenty. We be-
| lievc the productions Of this year, will be
as glorious in results as they are now aus
picious in their prospects. We have talked
to several farmers and they all feel encour-
aged. God grant that they may all be pros
pered
Gen. VIM. Philips has been employed
to prosecute Burrough, the slayer OF the
Morrises, and Col. Charlie Phillips went to
Gainesville last Friday to represent Gen.
Phillips in the commitment trial. Bur
rough waived trial and was remanded tt
Jail. He will be tried in July separately
for the killing of each brother. The opinion
is that he had not the shadow of excuse fol-
killing Joe Morris
The ATLANTA EVENING PosT.-Thi'
bright and newsy daily now reaches this
office promptly, and appears to be prosper
ing. 1t will give all the Legislative pIo
ceedings in full next montlrand will be sen
for three months for 81 or 40 cents for one
month, beginning on the first day of thu
session. Liberal deduction on clubs. L
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