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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

The North is beginning to see
that her lion industries will be inca
pable OF competing with the iron
works Of Virginia, Tennessee and
Alabama, which have all the mate.
rails in their immediate vicinity
SIN like Manner" says the Bslti'
more SIN, "tbe seating of cotton
mills in the midst of the plantations
where that staple is grown is build
iog up one of the most profitable TO-
dustries in the South, and the time
is not far distant when the latter will
become a formidable competitor in
the manufacture of both iron and
cotton-of Pennsylvania on the one
hand and the New England StStes
on The Other"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

"DoN'r MENTION ma citizen
of Detroit entered a Michigan ave-
Due grocery the other day and said
he wanted a private word with the
proprietor. When they bad retired
to the desk he began:
Il want to make confession and
repair. ton. Do you remember o.
my buying sugar here two or tire
days sgOf'
i do
well, in paying for it | workec
off counterfeit quarter on the clerk
1t was a mean trick, and | came t.
tender you good money
'Oh, don't mention it, replied tb
grocer.
But want to make it right
Its all right-ell right. w
knew who passed the quarter on as
and that afternoon when your wife
sent down d dollar bill and wanted a
can of sardines gave her that bad
quarter with her change. Don't let
your conscience trouble you at all
it's all right -[Free Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
A REACTION.

One of our countrymen, good
planter and good hearted man, was
arraigned before magistrate on
warrant sued cut By negro man,
charging the planter with an assault
with gun The planter gave bond
for his appearance and then before
another magistrate he sued out a
warrant against the negro for an ass
seult with a kuife and brick bit
Officer Hancock executed both war.
rants and brought the defendants
into court. The magistrate before
whom the negro appeared exacted q
bond of 500 for his appearance, and
as he could not give it, Constable
Hancock started to Jail with him.
This aroused the sympathy of the
planter who the negro had had arres.
ted, and he stepped forward and
gave the required bond. This, in
turn, awakened the gratitude of the
negro, and the two made friends,
settled the costs in the respective
cases, and went home rejoicing. 1t
shows to the negro of all the people
on earth, his traest and best friend
is the Southern planter. Eufaula
Bulletin.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

CoMANCHE BILL IN THE Poor
HOUSE. Comapche Bill, the famous
frontiersmeu and government scout,
is 10 Independence, Mo. making ap
plicstiou for admission to the county
poor house. Ilo is suffering from
severe illness brought on by excess
i've drink and il a perfect wreck of
his former self, Admission to the
poor house was granted him. A
physician visited bin and pronounce
cd his case hopeless His history is
very sad and touching His parents
and all living relatives we're muir
dered by Iudisus when he was but a
child and he has since devoted his
life to vepgence. He carries a
notcbed stick which bears record OF
almost one hundred redskins who
have met death at his hands.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
A PHENOMENAL CHILD.
Only Three Years of Age and Weighs On'
Hundred and Thirty Pounds.

Only Three Years of Age and Weighs One
Hundred and Thirty Pounds.
There arrived in Evansville, Ind ,
man named Adam Castleman, of
Casey county, Ky. His family is
with him, one of which Is a striking
curiosity. This is a young boy only
three years old, who stands three
feet four inches in his stockings, aud
measures rs inches around the calf
Of the leg, 30 inches around the
thigh, forty,two inches around the
waist, 81 inches around the chest,
and weighs one hundred and thirty
pounds. The child weighed but
nine pounds at his birth, but at six
months had increased to forsy nine
pounds, and then jumped by rapid
stages to his present enormous pro
portions. The child is bright bat
physicians have counseled his par
ents not to tax him closely with
mental effort Physically, although
so huge for his age, he is sound and
healthy, and makes what might be
called a waddling effort at romping
around, Castleman and his wife,
though both OF good size, are neither
of them large, and cannot remember
any ancestor from whom this pro-
digious boy could have inherited his
extraordinary proportions. They
have another child, an infant girl
three months old, but giving no evi.
dences of following in her brothers
footsteps. The father proposes ex~
hibiting the boy through the country
as a curiosity.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

1t is related of George Clark, the
celebrated negro minstrel, that, be-
ing examined as witness. he was
severely Intercepted by the attor-
ney, who wished to break down his
evidence. "You are in the negro
minstrel business, | believe 7" in
CURED the lawyer. yes sir was
the promptly reply. "Isn't that
rather low callingf' demanded the
lawyer. 81 don't know but what it
is, SIR" replied the minstrel; shut
it is SO much better than my fathers
that an proud of it," "What was
your fathers calling" He was a
lawyer" replied Clark, in tone Of
regret that put the audience in a
roar. The lawyer let him alone.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Mr.. William York, who lives near
Red Clay, in Whitfield county, fell
out with his son about the division of
the crop, and the difficulty ripened
into fight on Sunday, in which the
father killed bis son. The old man
fed but was arrested and lodged in
the Dalton jail yesterday.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

A widow went to a lawyer for ad
vice about her deceased husbands
will. 'Yes, YES, see,' said the law
yer, looking over the document
Madam, your late husband ooh,
don't = cried the widow, putting her
handkerchief to her eyes. i know
he was always out late, but he's left
me, most everything; so don't let
Us up braid his memory. =
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Il knew be- wac no saint, aaid the
parsons wife, referring to a.party
who occasionally attended church,
but whose piety her husband had
been in the babit of extolling. No
saint, my dear? ! don't understand
YOU Don't eli ? Well, sat in the
next pew to him this morning, and
when he made believe he got down
co pray, his knee joints creaked like
rusty hinges OF ga old barn door
[ Brooklyn Eagle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Aspecial dispatch from Columbus,
Ga says; Policeman Smith attemp-
ted to arrest a negro cotton thief at
Union Springs, Saturday night
The thief cut Smiths throat and fled.
Parties arc pursuing the murderer
with blood hounds.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
"A WORSE SYSTEM IN GEORGIA

The charge recently made by
Judge Snead to the grand jury at
Augusta, on the subject of gambling
10 grain, has been widely circulated
and favorabIy commented upon by
the press of the South. The New
Orleans States. in speaking of it,
presents the following as a sort of
''set off There is a worse system
which is carried on in Georgia, and
in other States, which not only res
solves tho sanction of the law, but
which ia enforced by the Courts, and
that is the system of allowing the
commission merchant, who furnishes
supplies to small farmers, 10 charge
90, ~ and 100 per cent. advance on
tho price OF necessities which are
paid when the crop is gathered and
brought to market. Not only that,
but the commission merchant is al-
lowed such an ir0n-clad lien upon the
poor mans crop hat if that 'unboly
gain" 10 not promptly paid TO the
commission merchant the law aids
him in seiziog everything possessed
by the man who has been ruined by
scorching sun or by tempestuous
winds or drenching rains. The one
is no excuse for the other, nor 10 It
used to paliiate the system OF future
speculation, but before Judges refer
to it as unhoIy and criminal they
should look 20 the modification of
lien laws which have brought power
ty and misery to thousands.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Griffin Sun: We saw a negro
drey man Friday afternoon carry a
bale of cotton on his back from the
planters warehouse to near the CEN
ire of Hill street, and deposit it on
bis dray. A pretty good load for
one man to carry.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

The Darien Gazette says that
"perry Davis, the Massachusetts
pain killer man, now deceased, was
once a resident of Darien. We have
been told that he kept q shoe shop in
this city many years ago"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
ROBBED IN A RAILWAY CAR.

A daring outrage was perpetrated
on train between Utica and Erie.
w. N. Brown, of Masseville, Ross
county, Ohio, WAS returning home,
having $1,000 sewn in a belt on his
body. Brown noticed two young
men sitting near him They were
very communicative, aud treated
him to vine from flask, While
lying in a drowsy condition on a
seat, and 10 car full o passengers,
Brown felt cloth pressed over his
mouth and nostriis. One man sat
on him while the other held the
handkerchief. He lost conscious
ness, and the men, pretending their
friend was overcome by the heat,
carried him out on the platform for
fresh air. There they removed his
belt, and, bringing him back got off
At the next station, under pretense OF
getting medical aid. The hapdkerr
chief found saturated with chloro-
form caused an investigation aud
the development of the foregoing
fact.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

"What the blazes do you want the
nomination forY You're sure to be
defeated at the polls.' So said Rag
bag to young Symonds. Yes said
Symonds. Il know it but | must
have the nomination. You see | am
engaged to be married, and | want
to get out Of it, and if | run for office
the opposition papers will give me
such a horrid bad character that the
girl won't have me any way. Catch
the idea.0
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Baldwin, the cashier of the New
ark, N. j., Mechanics bank, after
embezzling two.miIlion dollars burst
into tears when The deficit was dis
covered. The mishap was enough
to make any body howl.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

A Florida struck individu i, flee
ing from The wintry blasts of the
North, passed through Mscon the
other day. He had chartered car,
which contained, besides his furni
ture, a horse, and they had Travelled
fem Cairo. Ill.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Nine tenths of the murderers hung
on the galows are colored meu, says
the Cincinnati Times Star. Hang
ing is among the civil rights secured
by the negro since bis emancipation,
and it is natural greediness that
leads him to get more than his share
of VIVA. is going.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
A FALSE RULD.

That must be false rule reqnir.
ing virtue, cleanliness and good tenn
per and conduct in women, while
men go on to any length almost, and
society one and all wink, if not blink
ut our faults. Whatever degrades q
woman also degrades man. Take
some of the vices aud hpbits of the
day. A man smokes filthy cigar,
or carries about half an ounce of to-
bacoo 10 his cheek, and yet expects
bis wife to preserve a clean mouth
and sweet breath. Again young
man starts out to spend an evening
with his adored Evelua. Should he
find her not at home, but 10 the
neighboring saloon, however genteel
it nigh. DO, that would be his last
visit. In his estimation .she would
have sunk below his level, and yet
that young man himself is daily
visitor to that same saloon, and en-
gagged in all it's exercises.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

i dote upon that girl, said Smith.
That makes the twentieth girl you
have dotted 90 within month"; re-
mark ed Henderson. 1t is about time
you had sown all your wild dotes,
Smith
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Mr.. Rufus Mcpherson, a young
man who formerly lived in Marietta,
committed suicide in Atlanta on 3rd
inst, by shooting himself with pts
tol.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Little L1ttie to her friend: Il
have msny cares. Yesterday little
baby sister arrived and papa is on
journey. II wsa but piece of luck
mamma uas at home to take care Of
IT.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Little Alice was talking to her
doll, and said to her, looking loving
ly into her face You is bootilul,
dolly, very bootiful, bul you is dot
no brains
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

The editor of the Dahlouega Sig-
nal last week saw a silver thalf doI>
lar which Mr.. $. H. Leonard said he
took out of trout caught by him
few days before.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

...IF you want any kind of job Printing
done, such as Letter Heads Note Heads,
Bill Heads, Cards, Circulars. LIaDdbills,
Pamphlets, Tax Receipts, &c, we will
guarantee TO do the work as cheap as ATTAIN
Ia. Bring your work 10 the Journal Office.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Capt William Kidd, 40 old baehe
Tor, died in Atlanta, on the 3rd lost.
He leaves an estate worth $290, 600.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

Mr. George Kreis, Superintendent
of the Fnlton county chain gang,
died one day last week.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10
Chr ss|arletta 9ournal.
Marietta Ca, Thursday. Nov. 10, 1891.

SpaIding county adopted no fence
Wednesday of last week by hand
some majority.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

A man of 80 is suing at Des
Mones for a divorce from wife of
So.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-10

It is asserted that there are NOR
provisions made in the county
than was at first supposed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-28
viii the Reconstructed Cabinet Con
tain a Southern Republican,

A Washington special says: "Genersl
Longstreet is here on official business in
connection with his Office of United States
Marshal OF Georgia. He says he knows no
more about the prospect Of his going into
the Cabinet beyond what he has seen In the
papers, and he does not indicate what he
viii do in case s positiap in the Cabinet
should be rendered TO him. At one us4e L
was generally supposed that Presidents
Arthur would select a Southern man for his
Cabinet, but of late the contrary view has
been held. wien General Grant was
here last he said he had ad-
vised the President not TO put = So3th-
ern man into his Cabinet Generaf
Grant said that he had been induced
to believe in the expediency of put
ting a Southern Republican in his Cabinet,
that be had tried IL and found there was
nothing in it, because the proper material
was pot there. He said to President Arthur,
hcweyer. that II he thought it wise TO have
a southern Republican, Judge Settle, OF
Nor b EarOilas, vas the man. Il Is stated
On Good authority that sitter this advice OF
General 6rsnt the President aid oHsr
Cabinet position to Judge Settle. and the
latter declined It With thanks, and now. as
above intimated, particular friends OF the
President are inclined to the belief tnat the
reconstructed Cabinet will have no Southern
plank.9
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-28
Report Of the United States Treas
nFQF

The annual report of the operations of
the Treasury OF the United States for the
fscal year ended June 80, 1851. has been
published The reeeip's were $3.50. 7S2,-
29257, and the expenditures $3.50, ,7I2. .SS7 50,
leaving an excess of S10O,O6 .404 9S, Of
which S5l, ,401, sol O5 was used in the re-
demptiOn of the debt. The receipts show
| an increase over those of the previous year
| from nearly every source, amounting o
| S27, ,255 6SI SO. The expenditures are So, $50, =
| 07O 10 less than last yesr, showing a net
ineres,e in the surplus revenue of S34, S5,-
i 75l 7S The amount paid for premium
| nd interest on the debt was $S3 500 800 a
raid in 1880 During the year fifty four
national banks were organized and twenty
went into liquidation, leaving 2 1876 doing
business at the close. No national bank
failed n the year. The amount of United
States bonds retired was SS5 3O4, ,050 There
Is M law IN regard to the reserve to be held
for the redemption Of the legal tender notes,
but the custom of the deparl ment is to hrli
about 40 per cent. OF the amount outstaJ d.
ing, which is about 1862, 600 600 The re-
serve usu lily ranges from $l45, ,000, 900 TO
$50 600 OO0 The tOtal demsLd for coin iu
exemption OF United States notes since r. -
sumption has been but $l2 029, ,066, and
since February, 1881, no notes have been
presented for redemption.
A feature of the legal tender circulation
in the last two years has been the steady in
crease in the number of notes of $50 and
under, and propOrtiOnate decrease in the
notes Oflarger denominations. At the close
Of the fiscal year 1879, there were outsta7d-
ing As. .497 2S3 notes, at the close of 1880,
s., ,573 301, and on the 30ih of June, 1881,
59, S39, ,O69, an increase OF nearly % per cent.
in TWO years In the last year there was an
ir crease OF S2,313. .429 IN one dollar notes,
81 S91 $40 In two dollars, 81, l36. $50 10 five,
50 O73, ,636 in ten dollar notes The amount
of the ones and tWos has increased IS $751;
$50 In the last two years. The chief cause
of this increase IS the revival OF business
and the greater demand for small notes for
the payment of operative and for use in
small Transactions
The amount OF coinage Of silver dollars
under the act OF February 2Sth, 1873, to
3Oth of September, 1880, is SOS 322, 705, of
which So, ,37S, 426, or nearly 80 per cent, is
in circulation, and $65 949, ,279 remain In
the Treasury. The amount put IN circula-
tion last year was &, ,367, ,26O less than In the
yesr previous, showing a considerable fall
ing of in the demand. Agsiust the amount
held In the Treasury there are silver certid
Gates outstanding amounting to S5l, 1861
$50. OF sod certificates there are only
IS. 7S2 920 outs standing.
or the fractional currency originally
issued 500 034 2Q3 l3 has been redeemed,
leaving SIS 474, ,4i4 IS outstanding. or this
amount l. is estimated that atleast $l4, ,OOO,-
600 has beea lost or destroyed, and will con-
stitute a profit to the Treasury. In the past
year the amount redeemed was only $S3,-
434 IS
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-28
The New York stock Market.

New YORK, November 26 The stock
market opened firm and generally at frsc.
tional advance on the closing quotations of
yesterday, but in the early dealings pres
sure to sell was developed, which resulted
in sharp decline, prices ranging from Il
to Is per cent. the shares most prominent
therein being the Wabash, Missouri Pacific,
Denver and Rio Grande, Texas Pacific and
Union Pacific.
at the first board the temper OF the specu-
lation underwent a change, and an advance
of d to ~ per cent. was recorded, which
was most marked in Metropolitan Elevated,
Texas Pacific, Nashville and Chattanooga,
Louisville and Nashville, Kansas and Texas,
Denver and Rio Grande, Michigan Central
aud Wabash. After midday the market
again became weak, and continued heavy
during the rest of the day, closing at a decline
of Il TO 1% per cent from the best figures
touched. Denver and RIO Grande, Oregon
Navigation, Memphis and Charleston, Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy led the down
war movement. Nashville and Chattanooga
rose 4 per cent. Transactions aggregated
1863 sou shares
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-28
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Et Liberal at Madrid states that the
prelates who belong to the Senate intend to
submit protest against the civil marriage
bill aud Will afterward quit the Senate in a
body.
The Aberdeen Journal states that the
Duke of Richmond has decided to introduce
on his large Scotch estate changes, compri-
sing compensation for tenant improvements.
with the understanding that two years no
tice OF removal be given by either side.
The elevator in Mafee Bros & Co. Is whole
sale drug house, Kansas City, broke recent
ly, falling from the fourth story. VIM. G.
Penkhard, the porter, was In the elevator
with load OF sulphur. The conclusion
caused an explosion and fire, the loss from
which will reach about $4,000.
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
London Daily Nea0S says: CDR. O'Shaugh-
messy has been appointed by the Merv chiefs
as their Envoy to all European princes On
his departure from Merv he endeavored to
obtain the release of NJ Gidieff, Russian
prisoner captured In Kiva some yeSEs ago,
but the chiefs refused to grant his request. :"
William Hargrave was arrested at Hunt
ington, Tenn, Friday night and committed
to jail for the murder Of his brother in-law,
whose name Is Register, nesr Camden yes
terday. The two were travelling together,
Wnen Other DArblee nearQ enOt6 nre0, and
coming up found Register dying and Har-
grave standing over him. Hargrave said
Register had shot himself accidentally.
Geo. W. Wentworth. a well known resi-
dent OF Salmon Falls, N. H., was shot few
days ago in the neck aud thigh h.vE
Novel;, telegraph OPERATOR at the Roston
ana Mslne eepot, in that town. Went
worth's condition is stated to be critical
Immediately after the shooting NOVEL;
gave himself up. The alleged cause of the
stfraY is stated to ho family feuds of long
standing.
The steamer Albion foundered off Point
Barbacoas while plying between the mouth
OF the Sim river and Carthagena, Central
America, on the 5sh instant, and thirty two
out OF forty persons on board were lost
She had cargo valued at $50 900 The
Albion was small vessel, built for river
traffic, but pressed into sea service, though
care was usually taken not to send her out
in bad weather. On this occasion gale
sprang up just as she had got out to sea,
and she was almost Immediately disabled
by the heavy waves, and sank in a few
minutes. She had but few boats, and
they were too fraiI to be of much use.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-28
PeriIs of the Deep.

LONDON, November 26.-The bark
Eenora, from Amsterdam for Galveston,
put into Plymouth to-day with the loss of
her main yard, sails, etc. The bark Hedvig,
from Liverpool for Charleston, put bacK to
Milford to-day greatly damaged, having
encountered a succession. of severe storms.
The bark Aockman, from London in bal
last for Pensacola, has been towed into
Rsmsgate, having been fouled by the Rus
sian bark Birger, before reported with her
bulwarks damaged.
The bark Mary Ann, from Wilmington, N.
g., for London, has put into Fowey with
loss of bulwsrk, sails and stanchions She
iettisoned part OF her cargo. Her decks
were swept, and the mate was injured.
The brig Morgan, from Charleston, which
has arrived at Glasgow, is leaking badly,
and her cargo is much damaged.
DARIEN, GA, N lvember 26 The bark
Termagant, from Coosaw, with phosphate
for Dublin, put into Doboy to-day, water
logged, and was towed ashore to prevent
sinking. The Captain called q survey.