The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-09-01
LOCAL LEAFLETS.


...Some dogs killed thirty little turkeys
for Col. p w. Alexander last week.
Railroad building making hands scarce
and farmers are in trouble,
We saw cur tailed dog on the square
the other day.
Mr. Jim Roots new house is nearly
completed.
...Jm Howell thinks of investing in
Christopher's matrimonial insurance plan
MIR l.. S. Northcutt and Mr.. r. II
I Northcutt have returned from market.
Poisoning dogs is going on Eight
dead oSes were found the other morning,
...Several bales OF new cotton have been
marketed at this place.
...Howell's Gin is ready for the new crop
with all the latest improvements.
Good work at lowest prices, Reynolds,
Finest Machine Oil for heavy and light
machinery at Earle Il Simpsons.
The Marietta race track is being used
for races every week.
Mr.. James Northcutt has returned from
Arkansas
Prof Howard has opened school in
Atlanta.
Pistol carriers are being caught up
with.
GOOD work at lowest prices, Reynolds
THE accident last week on the NJ. d n.
Ga. Railroad. is the first bad one since the
road has been in operation.
Mr.. Ellington w. Foster, a young
man formerly of Woodstock, died here last
Tuesday.
:. Some of our citizens are wanting the
law changed so the office of Marshal can
be filled by vote of the City Council
The Griffin News heads an article
Dynamite in Turkey" If that is the case
we never expect to cat any more turkey.
misses Rebecca STRIPPING and Mary
Gilbert have returned from a months visit
to friends in Gainesville.
...All persons indebted to A. c. Heggle q
Co. are requested to come forward and SET
tie at once. A. c. HEGGIE & Co.
Good work at lowest prices, Reynolds,
Mr.. w. NJ. Mckenzie has accepted Il
position in Atlanta and commences to-day.
He is a splendid fellow and we hate to lose
him. Success.
:. Sunday Marietta had gale. In Sa'
vannah and Charleston it was so severe that
great destruction to life and property occur
red.
Don't you forget that you can have
your Job Printing done cheaper at the
Journal Office than elsewhere in this
State. Try us and see.
Good work at 10 vest prices, Reynolds
Congress, Hunjadi Janos, Hawthorn
and Apollinars Mineral Waters at Earle d
Simpsons.
Judge David Irwin has left with US
some splendid specimens of the Bartlett
Pear, as large in size as the LeConte, and
very delicious in flavor The Bartlett grows
in North Georgia to perfection.
Now is the time to buy your Pianos
and Organs, and you can get better in
strument. for less money, from Prof F. l..
Freyer, Marietta, than you can from any
body. Call and examine
...WANTED- 800 laborers, 100 teamsters,
and 500 teams to work on Atlanta d Rome
Railroad Wages for teams $3.50 TO So per
day Apply to Hill & McKechney, con
tractors, or G. Sullivan, superintendent, at
Powder Springs, Ga.
According to the Tax Receivers Di-
gcst for 1881, the taxable property OF Cobb
county foots up So, 81, 54l.O0, an increase
over last year of $242, $4,000. Mr. Daniel
the Tax Receiver, has been highly compli-
mented for nicely made out Digest and for
the efficient manner in which he has dis
charged his duties.
Good work at lowest prices, Reynolds.
sacred Harps, Christian Harmony,
Temple Star, New Life Heavenly Carol,
ROYAL Diadem, Emerald, Amaranth and
Gospel Hymns, Song and Tune Books, at
Earle & Simpsons.
Harriet Nesbit, a colored girl, assault
ed two of Mrs. Kent's children on side
walk. last Thursday. and beat the blood out
of them with stick. She jerked one of the
children off of gate post to the ground and
has probably injured his spine. There was
no Just provocation for the malicious as
saut.
"A terrible noise in the Jail cells the 9th
er night caused Sheriff Coryell to lun up
stairs with pistol in hand, and to his aston
ishment, he found negro prisoner, Henry
Duncan, in a somnambulistic state, .butting
his head against the wall He had also
broken a plate ON the floor. Duncan was
awakened but said he didn't know any
thing about his noisy actions.
Good work at lowest prices Reynolds.
...All the proprietary preparations and
Patent Medicines at Earle q Simpson S.
Two years ago s. r. McClesky found a
grape vine sprout near his gin house. lie
transplanted it and this year it is loaded
with a grapes, thick skin and taste similar
to scuppernong. He wants to know what
kind Of grapes they are? We are indebted
to Miss Georgia McCleskey for liberal
supply of these grapes and pronounce them
| good.
"a WORTHY FARMER. Tuesday morn
ing. William Bennett, colored, living neal
Marietta, came into town with bale OF cot
! ton and after having sold it to Winters &
Legg he told them he wanted to pay his
guano note This we think is the first
Guano note ever paid here in the month oil
August, and speaks well for Bennett as the