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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Few boys in town have the cour-
age and energy necessary to resist
the temptation of running the streets
at night. The privilege is granted
them by their parents Of being out
at evenings, and under the pretext
of going to friend they scour the
streets in pursuit of pleasure. Night
ly the walks are crowded with them.
While boys are permitted to induce
themselves on the street, neglected
by those who should train them in
the way of wisdom and virtue, we
need look for nothing but wicked
ness and crime. The old quotation
tru,hfully applies:
Its education forms the common mind,
Just as the .wig is bent the trees inclined. "
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Gainsborough had a brother, an
inventive genius and eIso painter.
The landlord of village inn, the
Bull, wanted a sign, and Gainsbor>
ough said he would paint bull for
him for thirty ShiIlings, throwing in
a golden chain to The bull The
landlord would not give more than
twenty. The bull was painted.
chainIess, and all admired him unit
there came heavy rain storm,
ahen he disappeared. The land
lord sought explanation. well,
said the painter, you would not pay
for bis chain, and he's run away
lie had purposeIy painted him in
distemper.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
TIE RIAL SCARCITY.
lDesMoinea fIowal Register. J


a man went into bank to borrow
soae eaaney He asked If they
could let him have $1,000 for . short
time "Oh, yes was the reply,
ISL 900 or 81 900, if you want it,
Rate of interest vas satisfactorily FIX !
ed and the borrower was asked as to
The character Of his collaterals.
'Colaterals I haven't got any
colIaterals, Esid the borrower. No
collaterals said the banker then
il will be impossible for us to let you
have the money! The, man was ST.
lent for q moment, and then ex
claimed: Il have heard a good deal
of talk lately about the scarcity Of
greenbacks there wasn't money
enough is do the business of the
coantry. Bat it does not look 30.
| come here and fad you anxious to
lend me all the money want. No
scarcity Of greenbacks here But
before you lend it you require col
latersls. Now that's just what [
haven't got and cant obtain, and
have come to the conclusion that il
isn't scarcity Of greenbacks the
country is suffering from but scare
ity of ccllatorals
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
an ALLIGATOR STORY.
Lake City (Fla.) Reporter.

A young man named Nixon was
caught By 40 alligator a few days
since while bathing 10 the Suanee
river near Benton Tho alligator
carried the young man under the
water, but reappeared in two or
three minutes with Nixon in his
jaws Nixon cried TO bis compan-
ions TO ahoos, but before quo could
be discharged be sank again, taking
Nixon under with him. About two
minutes after he arose again and
struck for she opposite shore, still
having the i'll fated young man 10
bis enormous mouth. Again Nixon
called upon his companion to shoot,
but being afraid Of hitting Nixon,
no one discharged his gun The al
igator orep' some half dozen feet
upon the opposite bank, remaining
about three minutes, when, guided
by a sudden impulse, he plunged
with his precious burden into the
river again, and reaching the middle
sank to rise no more withia the view
of the party A thorough search
wan made, but nought could De seen
Of the body or parts of body of the
unfortunate young man. The pre-
sumption is that the alligator made
for his lair, which was probably near
at hand.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

TWINS NINETY THREE YEARS
OLD. -Proosbly the oldest twins in
existence in all this country are
George and Edmo nd Gravely, who
in good health are still living within
five miles OF each other, and within
three miles Of where they were bora,
ct Leatherwood postoffioe, in Henry
county, Va They will be ninety
three years cid the 1st of December,
1881. Their mother lived to be
over one hundred, and their father
died at the age of ninety, Leather
wood is the same place in Henry
county where, in 1861, pinety>six
Gravelys voted the Wing ticket
ReidSuHle Times
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

What a grand thing it is to have
money-mncb money -not to love
it, not to hoard it, not to quench the
spirit, not to narrow the intellect, not
to damn the so.l-but to dispense it,
like q veritabIe steward of the ALI
mighty, to comfort the afflicted, to
raise the humble, to succor the as
piring, and to win eternal salvation.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Many years ago Alderman Mus
grave, leading London auctioneer,
left word on leaving his store that a
parcel was to be sent up TO his house
by the porter But in The evening
one Of the senior clerks appeared
with it and explained that as the
porter was not forthcoming he
thought: be might as well bring it
himself. The Alderman was SO we'll
pleased with the young msu, for
whom he felt great esteem, that he
soon afterward took him into part
nership, and the other day the obi
giog clerk became Lord Mayor Of
London
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Mr.. Judah P Benjamin, who was
the rebel Secretary of State when
the Confederate bonds were issued,
says there is no money 90 deposit in
England or elsewhere to the credit
of the Confederate States, and the
bonds that are beiug extensively
bought up 10 this country can have
no possible value.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
A MONKEY WITNESS. "A monke

A MONKEY WITNESS "A monkey
witness is shortly 10 pear in
murder tria! 10 an Indian court at
Satjara A travelling Snowman,
whose living depended on five mon
keys and = goat, was recently muir
dered near a village, his troupe be-
ing killed with the exception of one
monkey, which ran up a tree ard
watched the aSsassins bury his mas
ter and mis- companions When all
was quiet the monkey ran off to the
"patel" Of the nearest village, and
made him understand by screeches
and signs that something was wrong.
The patel followed the monkey,
which led him to the place where
his master was buried, and the muir
der was duly discovered The nous
key lie now kept for indeptifcation
of the assassin, d plan which recalls
the time honored history of the dog
of Mortargis.- London Graphic.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

A little son Of au evangelical
clergy men wished that he could die
and go to heaven. why 2 asked
his grandmother, feeling that he is
getting too good to live, cause
want to get some of the pennies I've
been giving to Cod
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

1t now appears thai Mr.. Garfield
died mpara'ively rich. His estate
is worth about ,l25, 600. This, in
addition to the public subscription,
one years Presidential salary and
bills paid by Congress, will make the
widow worth about 100000.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

1t is said that the babitual exer.
else of the eye upon fac work, like
watch repairing, tends to the devel-
opemant and preservation of the
powers of vision, rather than to their
injury, At any rate, men engaged
upon this work seldom fnd their way
to an opthalmic hospital.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

A story comes from the Pacific
coast that a woman, when setting a
hen, broke one Of the eggs but men,
ded it with court plaster. At the
appropriate time little chicken
came from that Identical egg, but it
was cross eyed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

A lady writes that no man will
stare a; woman who does not stare
back. That sounds very well, but
if she does no; stare back how is she
to know whether the man has stop>
ped staring or not 2
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Grammarisns are puzzled over
the question whether 'mumps' and
.lneseles' are singular or plural -
They often look singular, but that is
40 criterion on question like this.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

No man can go into bad company
without suffering for it. The hOmeIy
old proverb has it very tersely; "A
man cant bite the bottom out of a
frying pan without shutting his
Lose.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Some time ago the ticket agent at
Chattanooga, Tenn of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad sold passenger
a emigrant ticket, aud be claims
that he was promised the privilege
Of riding ia the parlor cars. When
he presented bis ticket he was com
PEELED to 60 in the emigrsnt car
He there contracted cold, entered
suit against the road, and has been
awarded 81, 900 damages.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Conscientious conductor 4 am
afraid, sir, the young lady cant be
permitted to travel on half ticket !;
she's much over twelve years of age"
Irate papa DO you mean to in
form me. sir, that my daughter ADD
[ are endeavoring to swindle the
railway company 2 Let me tell
you. sir, shat we've never been so
grossly insulted on this line before,
although wa've beth travelled on it
for over fifteen years
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
One Experienoe for Many.

Il had been sick and miserable so
long and had caused my husband SO
much trouble and expense, no one
seemed to know what allied me, that
| was completely disheartened and
discouraged. 10 this frame Of mind
| got bottle Of Hop Bitters and
uaed them unknown to my family.
| soon began to improve aud gained
so fast that my husband aud family
thought it strange aud unnatural,
but when | told them what had
helped me, they said "Hurrab for
Hop Bitters long may they pros
per, for they have made mother well
and US happy."-The Mother
Home Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

LIZ you want any kind of Job Printing
done. such as Letter Heads, Note Heads,
Bill Heads. Cards, Circulars. IIandbills,
Pamphlets, Tax Receipts, &c, we will
guarantee to do the work as cheap as Allan
ia. Bring your work to the journal Office.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

If you think you have good
many friends, rest satisfied with
your perhaps we'll founded opinion,
but doo't put the matter to the test
by trying to borrow money of them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

An old regro says: Sass is pow
o full good in everything bat chill.
dren hey need some other kind
Of dressing
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
A BRAVE SONS BAD MOTHER.

A touching scene occurred 10 the
Cleveland, O., criminal court last
Thursday. Al old woman, nearly
sixty, was called up to receive sen
tence for keeping house of i'll fame
She was condemned to q heavy fne
and a long term of imprisonment,
when a we'll known merchant of that
city, bearing a mos: honorable repu
tation, stepped forward and begged
mercy fer the old woman. He thea
astonished the court by stating that
the poor, shameless, degraded being
was his own mother that her life of
shame had compelled him to disown
hel years ago, "but vile as she is"
cried he, "she is my mother after all,
and can not remain silent and see
her 20 to end her wretched life 10
prison" The court was deeply at
fected, and in granting the prayer OF
the son said the old woman ought to
thank God for giving her a son capa
bic of reaching an honorable mau-
hood in spite Of his mothers vicious
influences
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
Gar 5elslrletta 5onraal,
Marietta, Ga, Thursday, Deos 9, 1891,

No accusation should be ADVANCED
except upon proof sufficient to sus
tain it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Charles Lamb remarked of one OF
bis critics: The more think of
him the lie. | ,hink of him
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08
A FAITHFUL WIFE.

About eigh, years ago maa by
the name of Taylor Left bis wife and
five little children in Schley county,
from some frivolous reason, and 5000
after he left there was another son
born to them. All the property that
they possessed was one mule, which
Taylor carried off with him Mrs,
Taylor had worked hard was rails
ing her children in an admirable way,
and Was making some money. She
had not heard from her husband
from the day he left until recently.
While passing one of her neigbbors
she was called in to "see something"
when she discovered it was her long
missing husband She tainted and
fell. That afternoon he accompa>
MED her home, and the next day she
visited her Primitive Baptist breth
rem to know if it would be against
the church regulations for her to be
the wife of Taylor again. They did
not object, and all is we'll now.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

What's the use of a cashier J
Where they have one, tits frequent>
ly mo cash here.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Bring your job printing to the Journal
office. Good work and low prices.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

Subscribe forIand advertise in the
Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-12-08

& 17tE77I5g'3 III sl3831l2. Fl7fE'7'-
slus. T2:ckegls and Nit

JtEFSl 4 tGf5fTt8, tKltEt z
5ogey III North Georgia.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17
Slavery in the Transvaal.

Rather dark shadow is thrown up
on the Beers love of liberty by num-
Der of affidavits recently laid before the
British Royal commission in South AT
RIGA by natives and residents relative
to the existence of slavery in the Trans
vaal, and the outrages 10 which Eng
lish settlers and loyal Beers have been
subjected. Among the affidavits are
three from natives who have been
bought and sold as slaves by the Beers,
one of them having been in slavery for
ten years-from 1866 to 1876. Mr..
Thorne, a curate of Gutenberg, testi-
fes that when Pretorious was president
he saw in the streets of Pochefstroom
a number of young natives just brought
as slaves from Zoutspansberg. One of
them was owned by the state attorney,
and it was commonly stated that the
president himself was one of the most
extensive slave-traders. He also saw a
copy of register kept in the Land
drost's office of $50 men, women and
children who had been sold by one
Boer to anotber-one for a goat, an
other for blanket, etc. Many cases
of extreme cruelty came under his OBJ
servation just before the annexation.
A woman, for instance, was logged at
Krugger's Post so that she died during
the night, and about the same time a
native was chased and shot; but for
these things no one was ever punished.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17
Touching Evidence Of Instinct

One of the most touching incidents
on record illustrative of animal instinct
and affection occurred during a recent
bear hunt in this vicinity. The parties
who vouch for the truth of then arrative
are all well known at Santa Barbara.
One of them shot a small cub through the
head. killing it instantly, the ball enter
ing the skull just back of the eyes.
Something called the attention OF the
hunters away from the spot, and when
they returned half hour afterward,
they found the mother bear standing
over her lifeless cub. apparently en-
gagged in licking and caressing its head.
A couple of well-directed shots soon
stretched the she bear by the side of
her dead offspring, and the hunters ap-
preached to secure their game. To
their surprise they found the bullet
wound in the cubs head partly filed
with finely chewed grass and leaves.
The mother had evidently seen the
blood oozing from the wound and had
endeavored to do what she could to-
ward stanching the flow.-SaRtG Bar
Ig1.z ((trI Press
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17
The Nocturnal Cow.

Laramie has about seven COWS that
annoy me good deal. The prevailing
COW for this season seems to be
a seal-brown cow with stub tail,
which is arranged as night kew. She
wears it banged The other day l had
lust planted my celluloid radishes, and
irrigated my royal Bengal turnips. and
sown my hunting-case summer squash
es. That night the blow fell. The
queen of night was high in the blue
vault of heaven; so, too, the tWinklin9
stars. All nature was hushed to re-
pose. l heard a stealthy step near the
conservatory, and | arose. 1t was 8
lovely sight. At the head of the pro-
cession there was a seal brown creature
with tail like the handle OF q pump.
That was the COW. Following at 6
rapid gait was bewitching picture Of
alabaster limbs and Gothic joints anG
Wamsutta muslin night-robe. That
was me. By and by there was crash,
and the seal-brown COW went home
carrying the gar,len gate with her as 8
kind of keepsake. She had plenty O
garden gates at home in her collection
but she had none of that particular
pattern. The writer of these lines theT
carefully brushed the sand off his fee
with pillow-sham, and retired to rest
The next morning went out to fec
my royal self-acting hen, and [ foune
this same cow wedged into the hen
coop. / secured a large picket from
the fence, and took my coat off, and
breathed in good breath. did no
want to kill her; simply wanted t.
make her wish she had died of mem
branous Group when she was young.
brought down the picket with the con
densed strength. and eagerness, ant
wrath of two long, suffering years l
struck the corner of the hen-house
There was deafen;ng crash, and thel
all was still, save the low, ripplin:
laugh of the COW, as she stood in til
alley and encouraged me as nailed u
the hen-house again. Looking bac
over my whole life, it seems to me tia
it is strewn with nothing but the rug
ged ruins of my busted anticip ations.-
BIZ Nye'S boomerang.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17
Hygienic Value of A;rth.

But, aside from all this, mirth has All
hygienic value that can hardly be over
rated while our social life remains
what the slavery of vices and dogmas
has made il. Joy has been called the
sunshine of the heart, yet the same sun
that calls forth the flowers of plant
is also needed to expand its leaves and
ripen its fruits; and without the stimu-
lus of exhilarating pastimes perfect
bodily health is as impossible as moral
and mental vigor. And, as sure as a
succession of uniform crops will ex-
haust the best soil. the daily repetition
of a monotonous occupation will wear
out the best man. Body and mind re-
quire an occasional change of employ
ment, or else liberal supply of fertil-
izing reereations, and this requirement
is factor whose commission often foils
the arithmetic of our political econ
omists.
To the creatures of the wilderness af-
Fiction comes generally in the form of
impending danger famine or persist
ent persecution; and under such cir
cumstances the notifications of the
vital process seem TO operate against
its long continuance; well-wishing ma
ture sees her purpose defeated, and the
S1letA - tAS sep Va AAAS
to seed. On the same principle an ex-
istence of joyless drudgery seems to
drain the springs of health, even at an
age when they can draw upon the larg-
est inner resources; hope, too often
baffied, at last withdraws her aid; the
tongue may be attuned to canting
hymns of consolation. but the heart
cannot be deceived, and with its sink
ing pulse the strength of life GIBBS
away. Nine-tenths of our city children
are literally starving for lack OF reere-
alton: not the means of life, but its OBJ
iect. civilization has defrauded them
of; they feel want which bread can
only aggravate, for only hunger helps
them to forget the misery of ennui.
Their pallor is the sallow hue OF eel
lar-plant; they would be healthier u
they We're happier. Iwould undertake
to cure sickiy child with fun and rye
bread sooner than with tidbits and tie.
dium.-Dr. FetsI L. Osscotd
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17
Chinese Pirates.

The towns contain due amount of
tame cheats, but the bold hectoring
highwayman, the truculent sea-robber,
must be sought elsewhere. ALI along
the Blue and Yellow Rivers are found
retail buccaneers, who hawk at tri-
fling quarry and fatten on slender prof
its. These poor rogues do not aspire
to a ship of their own; they come pad
ding out of muddy creeks in the small
est of sampans, ill-armea, ilf-clad, but
plentifully smeared with fi.sh-oil. Ii
manfully confronted, they fly; If Crap
pied by the crews of the fo'urth-class
junks, which they select as prizes. they
slip ike SO many eels through the
hands that grasp them, and their
swimming makes amends for their lax
courage. Seldom do any ver,y sinister
results follow one of these attacks. If
the fresh-water pirates prove V 7ctori Gus
they are mild eonquerors. and only too
eager to be ashore again with their
booty OF rice and corn, stray garments,
odd fragments of chain. bits of copper
and brass hastily ripped from the poop
and cabins, and perhaps the glorious
trophy of few rafting strings of cash.
The dollars and silver bars are. gener-
ally too well hidden to be detected by
such hurried searchers; food, rather
than fortune. is the object of the foray;
and, except in rare cases ofrenaark able
temptation, no life is attempted and no
torture resorted 10, with these amphib-
ious petty larceny rogues the mag1s-
trates deal mildly, according to the
traditions of Chinese justice. Three
hundred strokes of the bamboo may
be endured by the human frame. -Four
sleepIess weeks in the s.cangue. On
bamboo pillory, may fail TO madden q
stolid, unimaginative ct.olie. a few
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17

At fancy ball the mistress of the
house stationed servant at the door
to announce the guests by their cos
tunes. At last arrived two ladies in
plain walking costume, who had only
come to glance at the gay and dazzling
scene. 'sWhat costume shall announce
ladies?' asked the servant, courteous
". "Oh, none-mercy, we haven't
anything on at air. is the response.
Two ladies without anything on at
alli'' beloved the faithful domestic.
Sensation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17

these two first-named infections, and
the culprit is thought TO be tenderly
dealt with. Pilferers in fair or the
streets of town are considered as still
more yenial offenders. A vigorous
bastina ado and week of the pillory is
the laws award in such trivial cases.
Petty assaults are as leniently disposed
Of. but fire-raising is a sin of deeper
dye; and the malicious piercing of a
neighbours dixie, to let in devastating
flood, is punished with extreme rigor.
Murder and reasonable practices.
wholesale piracy, and armed brigan-
dage, all cry aloud for death, moro or
less slow and painful, and parricide
eyokes the sternest chastisements of the
Chinese, as il once did of the Roman,
laval the Year Round.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-17

fiar didf be SO 70 ne. che beggar p
said the prisoner. IN a fine burst of ia-
dignation. Ibid you ever hear what
he called me, yer annerp He stopped
an stud still in the middle NV the street
an he niver opened his backyard head;
he took of his coat just, and he tTowed
it down ON the ground, like that, an
he took off his bloody hat an he throwed
it down on the top of it,, just. an he
spit on his hands and clapped them.
the wan in the other like that; an
that's all he said. the blatherin' son Of
a gun; an phwat more wud ye want
him to say before We take the top OF
him in wild a PAWN hammer?n That
gave him ten DAYS.