The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-06-12
BREvITIES,


in telephone use.
A steam road engine was the .ex-
citement in Atlanta last Saturday.
The Missouri legislator gets only
a dollar a day. That's reirench~
ment with q vim.
Seven cases of small pox were re-
ported TO the Board of Health in
New York city last Friday.
Bologna sausage containing trich"
MIA has poisoned an Ottawa, ILL.,,
family and two hired men.
THE Legislature of Texas has
passed Moffett liquor law similar
to that of Virginia.
Congress is getting anxious to
adjourn, but Hayes keeps sticking
his vetoes in the way. The I'm
inst, is the day agreed upon
REPORTS in our exchanges through
out the State unite 10 saying that the
wheat crop of Georgia this year Is
unusually large and fine.
Ex-Judge Samuel f. Rice, OF
Montgomery, Ala, has made $780,
900 10 cotton speculations since De-
cember.
SECRETARY Sherman who is runs
ming Foster for Governor OF Ohlo,ls
brotber>in,Iaw to Gen. Tom Ewing,
the Democratic nominee.
The Republican programme APP
pears to be to raise sectional issues
and oppose all propositions coming
from the democrats.
A PATENT has just been issued to
Miss Harriet G.. Hosmer, by the
United States Patent Office, for her
process of making artificial marble.
A man in Desta county, Texas,
who has three hundred stands OF
bees, went to market last week with
eighty gallons of choice honey.
THE big organ in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle has been mortgaged for
50, 800 to pay the expenses OF Dr.
Talmage's trip to Europe.
DIR. Knott, of Marion county, KY,
removed fifteen gallons of water from
George Wiliams,a dropsical patient,
a few days ago.
THE construction of leeves along
the Mississippi will reclaim five mill
lion five hundred thousand acres of
the richest land 10 the world.
TEN million barrels of beer will be
manufactured in the United States
this year. Last year, South Carolina
supplied 5S7 and Georgia $500 bar
rels.
THERE is more money spent in
New York every day for tobacco
than there is for bread, but We are
not prepared to assert that this is
owing to the superior quality of the
tobacco.
THE daughter of Gen. Robert E.
Lee has been in Europe for two years
or more, and her future home is to
be in England. She is soon to marry
a prominent merchant 10 Birming
ham.
THE Boston Herald has been max.
ing canvass of New England senti
ment on the Presidential question,
and finds General Grant the strong
est man among all the names men>
toned 10 that connection.
IT is still positively maintained by
Taft's friends that Foster was fraud
ulently counted 10 by the Secretary
of the Ohio Republican Convention.
The charge is made openly and per-
sistently, and isn't likely to be drop
ped suddenly.
THE average Democratic majority
for Circuit Judges in Chicago and
Cook county is 1928, which makes
it plain to understand why the Iri-
bane and other Republican papers
protested SO warmly against carry
ing party politics into a judicial cleo
ton.
TIE Atlanta Constitution esti-
mates, from all the means of infor-
nation at its command, that the com
ing cotton crop will equal fully
5000, 200 bales. Georgia has in
creased her acreage of cotton one
per cent. over that of last year.
THE Illinois Legislature was dis
graceful mob. The last hours of the
Senate were given up to rioting -
Books, paper, inkstands and spit~
toons flew around the hall like shot.
The Clerk of the House, having en-
tered the Senate to make an official
announcement, was promptly knock
ed down.
A STRIKE among the workmen in
the timber trade, which began at
Sundswall, Sweden, at the end of
May, has extended to all the leading
ports of The Soderhamden district Oh
the Gulf of Bothnia, and at last &C
counts about ten thousand men were
idle.
GEN Thomas Ewing and General
Rice are both-ol& soldiers, fought for
the Union and good democrats. The
lottar Lost q la0 in his countries eause