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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02
HIS MODESTY.

The other night policeman OBJ
served man hanging around the
entrance to a Michigan avenue hal
in a queer sort of way, and he ask
ed him if he belonged to the order
then in session up stairs. The man
eplied that he did, and the officer
inquired:
Then why don't you go up y
We'll, was thinking of it,
Haven't been expelled have youi
'Oh, no..
AREN'T afraid Of anybody =
NO.
'Aud you haven't lost your inter-
est =
Il might as we'll tell you,' said
the MAJ after beating around while
longer Il went down 10 Toledo q
few days ago, and somehow the
story came back here that | was
drowned. My lodge thereupop pass
ed resolutions to the effect that
was honest, upright and liberal anc
shining ornament, and that whst
was it's loss was my gain. | wasn't
drowned, IS you see, but | kind o
bate to walk 10 on 'em and bust
those resolutions. I've tried il
three times, and can't get higher
up than the fifth stair before
weaken"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02
THE CHILD AND A SNAKE.
[Cedartown (Ga.) Aavertiser.1

Mr.. K Z. Poole, well known as
one of Polk countys trustworthy
citizens, has little BOY near the
aga.sf three years, that has been un.
usually back ward shout learning to
talk, but has acquired the art of en-
deavoring to be understood by
means OF signs, such as pointing his
finger at such objects as happen to
gain his attention. About two weeks
ego. while a lady friend was calling
on Mrs. Poole. the child's peculiar
actions led his mother to believe
that something unusual bad been re-
ceiving bis attention, and as soon as
her company had disappeared, she
was led to make au investigation.
Following the child into the yard
and to the corner of the house, she
watched the little one stoop low and
crawl under the floor, where its at
tention was soon seemingly drawn to
some objec: we'll back in the corner
of the brick underpiuning. Led
now BY deep curiosity, the mother
herself crawIed beneath the floor
sufficiently to scquaiOt herself with
the situation, ard the sight that met
her gaze almost frcze her blood In
pe,tect coil, as though prepared to
combat some great foe, with head
erect, child rubbing it's hands gently
over lis body The serpent as though
apprized of the child; ignorance of
fear and intending it no harm, would
gently move it's head aside when the
hand Of the child passed near it,
Mrs. Poole as quick as possible af~
ter realizing the awful situation,
drew the child away, and directed
some negro women to drag the SER
pent out and kill it. With hoe
they 5000 brought it cut, but it
quickly begun to show fight, ouce
jumping its full length at those SEEK
ing to slay it. II was despatched,
however, and proved to be OF that
dangerous species known as the
highland moccaain. 1t was more
than half as large as mans wrist,
and measured pearIy three feet in
length. II is supposed the child had
been foudliug the snake for some
while, and who, possessing a knowl-
edge of the reptiles dangerous char
acter will attempt an answer to the
query Why waa he spared the
deadly effects of its poisonous fangsS
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02
Thursday Morning June 2. 1881. n.
BrLL Aap ON coNKL1Na.

There seems to ba considerable ot
rumpus now, Conkling is attrac,
ing attention - more attention than
he deserves, | don't believe 10
msgoifying sach men. He is smaet,
pretty smart reckon. but he is a
political knave-selfsh, vain, tyrau
meal, and, what is worse, has no re-,
spect for the virtue of woman, I've
no respect for him, and if Sprsgue
or some other victim was to kill him
| should go on with my work as us
ual. look upon such mer as | dc
upon robbers, and panthers, and
wild cate, and other reptiles If
was a law maker I'd hang a man
for tamperiug with female virtue or
fooling around another mans wife
as quick as for murder in the first
degree. It's worse than murder
its worse than anything | know Of /;
for neither time nor repentance can
heal up the wounds it makes. I'm
an old Mosaic about that sort of a
thing. A State that honors such a
man with office dishonors woman
| don't care what Sprague is or Mrs
Sprague, let all men Skinny on their
own side There's class of men
always on the lookout for some trou
BILE between a man and his wife so
as to take advantage of it. | knew
man once who found out that
big rough fellow, who had pretty
wife, and was boarding at the same
hotel, had had q little unpleasant
ness, and 80 he took the wife's side,
aud one day escorted her from the
parlor to the dinner table with con.
siderable pomposity The big, rough
fellow, come to dinner about the
time they got through, and as they
walked out of the door he hauled
away and knocked the young man
about rod, aud then kicked him
down stairs as he remarked, "Now.
go and get a wife of your own,
conding you That was good ad"
vice and forcibly given. and had
salutary effect upon him and her too
give Mr. Garfield the credit for
tn owing down the glove to Couk
ling, or picking it up, as the case
may be, and now if the New York
Legislature will throw him over
board it will be sign of progress
and reform. Let such a man once
get start down hill, end like Car
dinal Woolsey, he goes a whirling
to the bottom.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

A minister out West. who had
been troubled a good deal over mar
rage fees. Issued the following cir
cuIar and price list: One marriage,
plain. 2. Ditto, kissing the bride
81. Ditto, trimmed with one
groomsman and one bridesmaid, 81 ;
fifty cents extra for each additional
groomsman or bridesmaid. Bachei-
ors past forty will be charged extra
Maids of same age ten per cent off.
Mileage will be charged 10 long dis
tapce matches. Liberal reduction
to clubs. Payments 10 cash no
notes or securities accepted. No
money refunded or rebates made for
poor goods. Come early and come
often
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

"She insists that it is mnre impor~
lance, that her family shall be kept
10 full health, than that she should
have all the fashionable dresses and
STYLES of the times. She therefore
seea to it, that each member of her
family is supplied with Hop Bitters,
at the first appearance of any symp-
toms of any i'll health, 30 prevent a
fit of sickness with it's attendant ex-
pense, care and anxiety. All wo-
men should exercise their wisdom in
this way,"- New Havem Palladium.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

A New USE FOR CHESTNUT. - The
Covington (Va) Tribune learns that
W. D. Ri.chey, of Pennsylvania,
who bas spent several years in the
vicinity of Covington getting out
hoop poles for Caba, has succeeded
in inducing patty of Philadelphians
to bring machinery to Virginia suits
able for reducing chestnut timber
so that it can be used for tanning
hides. It is said that every part of
the tree is peculiarly adapted for
this purpose, and makes an excellent
grade of leather. The machinery in
question will b. erected at Millboro,
Virginia.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02
A FREE Pass. The Brunswick

A FREE Pass. The Brunswick
Appeal says: The Macon & Bruns-
wick Railroad rendered one j. L.
Taylor, Of Atlanta, as jourpsl clerk
Of the Senate, an annual pass over
road M. NJ. Benjamin. mer-
chant of Atlanta, bought this annual
pass Of Taylor and came to Bruns~
wick on it. Conductor Dick Harris
learning that the holder of the ticket
was nsmed Benjamin aud not Tay~
lor, demanded the fare for the trip,
and also the delivery of the ticket.
Benjamin refused to comply with
Harris request, and Harris after
consulting the railroad attorneys and
agents here, sued out warrant for
Benjamin, charging him with cheat
ing and swindling. The justice
bound him over end he went before
The county court on Wednesday,
was tried and fouud guilty, and sem
fenced TO pay foe of $4,000 and
COSTS, or work on the city chain~
gang for tbs space Of sixty days
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

A white girl, giving the name of
Carrie Martin. was detected at the
depot in Memphis by policeman
with h,r face BACKED and in Disguise
AZ 4 rte~ VII the black was
1s.>.. e ged her TO be
be ri, fair beaded,
blue eyed. o-y sheeked and about
6f'eeo yaara I'D Her back was COW
cred With deep gashes, Inflicted by a
rswhide. The young girl stated
that abe was en- orphan, and lived
With her uncle near Bartlett, Tenn.
She had been compelled to adopt the
disguise in order to escape his cruel
ty. She was sent to the Mission
Home.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

A school which breeds intellectual
vanity, and makes all the boys and
girls of town or city long to be
poets, or historians, .or lawyers, or
orators, or statesmen, or million aires,
is very narrow and false but broad
and just, and true 10 the public in
stitution which so sets forth the
ethics of labor that all industry at
the desk, or in the shop, or behind
the plow-will seem like the accep
lance of a call from God and hu-
manity. ''4'
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

A ten year old son of N. V De-
Witt, of Bedford county, Virginia,
was attacked some weeks since with
a pain in oIe Of bis eyes, which
was pronounced to be neuralgia. =
Soon the eye ball burst and came
out of its socket, and shortly after
ward the other eye protruded, leav-
ing the child blind and in great mis-
cry Death finally relieved him from
these sufferings.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

Persons who are of nervous tenn
permanent should make free use Of
celery, which acts at>once upon the
nerves. 1t is most paTatsbie 10 me
form of SALAD. but may be eaten with
salt only. Physicians have only
lately recognized this fact.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

The adjourned session of the
Georgia Legislature will begin on
the 18Th OF July. Although held 10
midsummer, the indications poiot
to a long session. Now is she time
to advertise local Legislation.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

Judge Robertson, as the Collector
of the Port of New York, will have
at his disposal 953 appointments. at
salaries aggregstiog Sl,4O0,OOU g
year. His salsry and fees amount to
about $4,000 annually, and his
term of office is four years.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

Macon now has six gas centers
ing there, Atlantis 6Ve,s - & s@js.sosa si- !
Columbus four, and Savsunah four.
Augusta proposes to get ahead OF
Macon while Atlanta hopes to go
either of them ''one better" when
Col. Coles combination is completed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

While two men were digging a
drain near Lissycasey, between
KiIrush and Ennis, in Ireland. on
May IL, they came upon an IRON
clasped chest of large dimensions,
lying on which was a large sword.
The box was found to be full of gold
coins of ancient date. On the sword
was engraved the word 'O'Neill.'
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

A resident of Anne Arundel coun-
ty, Md, while being shaved in a
Baltimore barber shop, suddenly
Jumped from the chair, thinking bis
team was running away, and had bic
nose nearly cut off by the razor in
the hand of The barber.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

The Rome Courier learns from
Capt. J. w. Turner that grasshop>
pers have destroyed thirty acres of
cotton for him, and about the same
amount for Col. Montgomery.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

LIZ you want any kind of Job Printing
DONE such as Letter Heads, Note Heads,
Bill Heads, Cards, Circulars. Handbills,
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, 1881-06-02

Pennsylvania has passed law
giving the Mexican soldiers in that
State a pension of So year. the
Governor has not yet .approved the
bill.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

DR.. Tom Gordon, of Atlanta, has
a patient, negro girl, IA years old,
who was stung in the temple by a
locust, al d will probably die.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

Do not ask if a man has been
through college but has college been
through him if he is a walking
university.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

DR.. M. F. Stephenson, one of the
finest Minerologists in the United
States, died at Gainesville, Ca, on
25th.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

About 100000 copies of the re-
vised new Testament have been sold
already in England and the United
States. wy~--s--ss------R-- ler-----------s-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

The Citizen's Bank suspension of
Atlanta, appears to have been big
ste al.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

Lawrence & Martin, the Tolu
Rock and Rye firm of Chicago, fail
ed the other day. Liabilities about
$500, 900. Assets $4,000.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

Rev S P, Jones, the plain speak
ing Methodist revivalist, is creating
some fame throughout Georgia.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02

The Mobile postmaster brought
libel sui, against the editor of the
Mobile News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-02
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Western 6 Atlantic R. R.
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-06
A Hint to stock Raisers.

The following letter to the New Or
leans Democrat we recognize to be from
the pen of the distinguished Gen. VIM.
l.. Brandon. 1t contains valuable in
formation for persons who may import
fine stock from States of more
northern climate:
FORT ADAMS, Miss, Dec. %, 1880.
To the Editor of the Democrat:
l noticed in your last issue some observa-
tions on the death of stock imported into
Texas from the North and West, and the
cause attributed to a so~called Texas fever,
There is no such thing as Texas fever.
peculiar to cattle. The secret Is, that the
arterial circulation of full grown cow, in
the North and West, is only forty pulsa-
tions to the minute, and in all the Southern
States it is eighty. This fact | learned
many years ago from the Sage and States
man, Of Ashland, KY. l imported many
North Devon cattle from both Baltimore
and New York, and never lost one; but |
was careful to keep them housed or under
shelter until this change, from forty to
eighty in the arterial circulation was grad
ually effected and the stock acclimated.
| Others who did not take this precaution
lost their stock / once ordered some fancy
Devons from Col. John S. Skinner, of Balti-
more, for friend, and when | sent him the
stock 1.-TWO beautiful heifers, from the stock
presented by the Earl of Leicester to the
Marchioness of Clarthon), I cautioned him
particularly on this subject. Some time in
August he told me they were both dead.
asked him if he had housed them during
the summer. He said no; that there was
plenty of shade in the pasture, and he
thOupht thew would have sense enough to
keep out of the sun. | told him some white
people had not sense enough to do that the
| first summer they came here, and died.
W. L. b.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-06
The Grant Pension Bill.
Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.ll

st. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.)l
The chief opposition Ito the above mea-
sure) will come from Northern Democrats.
Southern men, as a rule, will either give it
their active support, or at least not oppose
it with their votes. For instance, Mr..
Sparks, of the Military Committee, is op-
posed to anything looking to further
recognition of Grants service to the coun-
try, while Gen. Joe e. Johnston (ex-rebel, }
on the same committee, is favorably dis
posed to the McCook proposition. This
sufficiently illustrates the sentiment in
Congress in relation thereto. Alexander
Stephens, Wade Hampton, Senators Butler
and Maxey, of Texas, as well as other
prominent Southern leaders and ex-Confed-
crates who have been consulted, will support
the measure. In the Senate, besides those
mentioned there are Anthony, Blaine,
Burnside, Cameron, Conkling, David Davis,
Dawes, Edmunds, ingalls,, Jones, of Nevada,
Kellogg, Lamar, Logan and Others AVlo nave
already signified Their approval of the bill.
we advise our readers to take the
foregoing, cum grano. 1t surely cannot
be true that respectable number OF
Democrats will support measure as
Objectionable as the bill to create life
office for Gen. Grant, who has already
drawn nearly half a million of dollars
from the public treasury, and has well
feathered nest
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-06
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

The Kinds County Gazette saws Tom
Wyndam and Asa Moses, were lodged in
iail Sunday evening, both being charged
with the murder of Simon Hodge, at the
Fairchild place five miles below RAYMOND
Saturday night. The difficulty occurred al
frolic, and was about girl known as Ella
Cole, who is also in Jail charged with being
accessory to the deed. All the parties con.
cerned were colofed.
The Greenville Times mentions that a
stock company was formed there for the
purpose of manufacturing "churn," the
right to sell which in a certain territory wa.
also purchased. 1t says that to make the
churn will require certain machinery and
material, and this being secured will doubt
less suggest the manufacture of other usefu
and necessary articles; and that the "churn
factory" may be the initial step to a manu-
featuring enterprise of great Importance sto
the country.
The Ripley Sentinel states that Ellistowu
in Uuion county, has during the last TIVE
weeks, has been the scene OF one and per.
haps two homicides. Week before last Mr.
Pannell was waylaid and shot by a negro
and dangerously and perhaps MORALLY
wounded. The negro made his escape.
Last Friday night Mr.. Balm was shot
and instantly killed by one of two stranger,
who were going through on horse back.
WooDvILLE Miss, Jan. 1.-Two negro
women started home from Centreville about
dark, December 30 Both were drunk, and
IN walking lost their way They were found
next day in a, field frozen.
MERIDIAN, Dec 30.-The weather was
the coolest last night known to the oldest
lnhabitant now here for forty-fve years.
The thermometer was variOuslv stated IN
stand this morning from 1 to , degrees
below zero. Some cows froze to death in
the streets, and chickens fell from their
perches. The snow is five inches deep
business is almost suspended coal and wood
are scarce.
The Mississippi Mills at Wesson, employ
| ing capital of 5000, 900 and 500 hands and
running 400 looms and Is. 900 spindles. The
mills turn out both wool and cotton goods
using up eighteen and twenty bales Of cot,
ton and $500 poands of wool daily, but sc
| great is the demand for the goods in all the
| principal cities of the country that a Brush
electric light and two sets of hands are EN-.
ployed to keep the mills running day and
| night. There is not grog shop in Yves
son.
VICKsBURG, Dec. 31.-On the Yazoo and
Tallahatchie rivers business is SUSPENDED on
account of the cold snap
We learn from the Bay st. Louis Gazette
that at the special election held last Mon
day, Dec. 9th, for the purpose of electing Z
Sheriff and Tax-Collector of Hancock coun.
ty, David Moye, of Gainesville, was elected
by seventy-four majority.
The Tate County Record says that Capt
Tom Ben Carrot, our ex-Representatiye
will make Arkansas his future HON.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-06
Strange Coincidence.
Meridian Mercury.

Some four years ago, negro man died at
Lauderdale Station, as was supposed, of hy-
drophobia. The day of his death he was a
raying maniac. 1t was thought best to con-
fine him but there was trouble in getting
any one to undertake the dangerous and dif.
icult task. At last, DIR. Kennedy, DR.. Webb
and b. Z. Rush, volunteered to undertake
it. The mans wife assisted them, and with
great difficulty they succeeded in fastening
handouts upon his wrists He died that
evening The wife soon after went raving
mad and died. Within the last six months
the three white men engaged in the struggle
with the negro, to handcuff him, have gore
crazy, two of.,them sent to the Lunatic Asy-
lum and the third on his way there. There
is much remark upon the coincidence. And
now we hear, for the first time, that it was
rather suspicion that the negro had been
bitten by a mad dog known to have been
prowing a month previous, than a fact rest
ing upon certain proof The singular cir
cumstance makes food for reflection. 1t may
be mere happen-so, but would not happen
so again once in ten thousand millions Of
times.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-06
A Showing of Hands.

The Democracy would like to see a
showing of hands in Congress upon the
following propositions set forth in a
series of resolutions on the Tariff ques-
ton, Introduced by Mr.. Hurd, of Ohio,
at the beginning 1.-The present session
First. That tariff is a>t2x>o on imported
goods which is ultimately paid by1le con-
sumner.
Second. That tariff for protection ESQ
called) does not, in most cases, protect the in
terest it pretends to protect.
Third That protective tariff does mot
increase the wages of working men.
Fourth. That the protective tariff builds
up one citizen at the expense of another.
Fifth. That protective tariff disturbs the
primal law of trade which governs ex-
changes by supply and demand.
Sixth. That protective tariff has driven
American commerce from the high seas.
Seventh. That protective tariff increases
the probability of the crime of smuggling.