The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-01-27
NEWS ITEMS.
Macon is to have thread factory

past year.
1t is truly said that there is only
one way not to get cheated in horse
trade, and that is not to buy the
horse.
An Ohio girl sued man for
breach Of promise, and proved him
such mean scoundrel that the jury
decided that she ought to pay him
something for not marrying her.
This is a nation of fifty million
people, and yet one little darby with
sore ears has kicked up fuss which
has made his name more familiar
than that Of any vice president we
ever saw.
William F. Dalrymple, of the ia
nous grain farm in Dakota says that
the clean profit for 1880 was over
S250,000. He raised more than
half a million bushels of wheat on
"a 900 acres, and disposed of it in
Buffalo at profit of fifty cents q
bushel.
A lecturer once prefaced his dis
course upon the rbinoceros with, II
must beg you to give me your indi-
vidual attention Indeed, it is ab
solnteIy impossible that you can form
a true idea of the hideous animal of
which we are about to speak unless
you keep your eyes fixed on me !"
A iuggIar who had attained popu-
larity in Berlin by his feat of sword
swallowing, recently broke a blade
while it was sheathed in bis throat.
The throat was opened at the side
to permit of the extraction of the
part of the sword that was broken
off, and the operation was perform
ed successfully but inflammation en-,
sued and the man died.
A Bath, Me-, dispatch says an
earthquake, lasting about ten sec>
onds, was felt throughout that re
gion on the Goth. At first there was
loud report followed by rumbling
sound as of heavy team going over
the frozen ground. The windows
ratified aud distinct oscillations we're
felt.
A gentleman walking on the street
at Cedartown, smoking cigarette
was the vicrim- gust of wind blew
a spark into bis whiskers, which oy
some unknown cause, supposed to
be dangerous hair dye, we're ignio
ted, the fame communicated to his
hair and burned it all off, leaving
him bald as au eagle and badly
blistered.
The grand jury of Essex county,
New Jersey, recommends the re-
establishment of the whipping post
for the special benefit of wife beat
ers. They argue with reason that
the fues and imprisonment of the
offenders are virtually infictions
Upon the suffering families of the
brutes, while if the latter were let
off with a few stripes they would go
to work to earn bread for those who
are dependent upon them for sup
port.
The Rev. Marcus Ormond, of
Nashville, Ind, recovered from
brain fever with his memory entire~
ly gone. He recoIlects nothing that
he knew before his illness, but learns
readily, and seems to possess his
other mental faculties unimpaired.
His wife is teaching him to speak
and read, treating him as child
He learns very fast, however, and
hopes in a few years to know about
as much as ever.
Says the Rome Tribune owe
learn that an effort is OF foot among
the merchants of Rome to establish
a cooperative store. The society
having this object in view is born of
the fact that while all the necessa
riea of life have greatly advanced
during the past year the wages of
mechanics and Iaboring men have
remained the same, They will adj
NIT into the society and sell shares
to any one of good character who
may wish to join. Stores of this
kind in the North, it is said, pros
per-"
There are many persons IN the
West who believe in the curative
powers of the mad stone. A man
who was bitten by a mad pig near
Tecumseh, Neb, travelled all the
way to Savannah, Mo, to try the
famous maidstone owned by old Uncle
John Nelson. The stone Immediately
adhered to the wound, which is said
to be proof positive that the patients
blood was poisoned, and remained
cioging to the sore from early
morning until shutdown, when it drop
ped off. The patient departed feel
that he had been cured. Upcle
John Nelson has owned bis mad
stone since 1913, and has used it in
over a hundred cases where men
have been bitten. He AYERS that it
never fail to work cure
The Summerville Gazette says that
two weeks ago Frank Strickland, a
fourteen year old son of Lille Strick
and. of ChattoOga county, went !