The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1882-06-01

Snake stories are 8 carce.

GOOD work at lowest prices, Reynolds
"A good looking lass loves good look
ing glass.
The straighter the whisky the more
crooked the walk This is real fact.
big prices paid for peaches by McCres
& Leake.
| Mr.. Ed. Glover's arm looks as if he
had been thoroughly vaccinsted.
Dew berries are ripe and are being
gathered
Good work at lowest prices, Reynolds
considerable hail fell Sunday between
Marietta and Powder Springs.
...Our Tax Receiver Daniel is a we'll
balanced business man.
...On June LIST. Powder Springs sells of
her newly laid off town lots.
...Tramps, both white and black, will dc
well to steer clear OF Marietta.
Candidates for county officers are be-
ginning to feel around as to their prospects.
There was no excursion train from At.
lanta Tuesday 1t was abandoned
Harvesting wheat has commenced and
our farmers tell US that they are well salts
fed with the abundant yield.
MRS. Earle will build three story,
mansard roof, residence. similar in style,
but not SO extensive, as Mr.. Whitlocks.
I'VE regret to learn that Rev. T. A.
Seals little boy fell recently and fractured
his collar bone.
1T is Mr.. HUMPHREYS who is having q
dwelling built, and not his wife. so we are
informed.
Mr.. Thos, A. Burroughs and wife have
gone to Columbus to live. Mr.. B. goes to
accept a situation offered him.
GOOD work at lowest prices. Reynolds.
Mr.. L. Black is building two room
dwelling for Prince Kimball near 1.-THE old
Joyce place.
MIR. G. E. Adams, of Boston, has been
appointed Superintendent of the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad.
THE showers are mixed with equal
quantity of sunshine, and May is coming
out from the cold wave.
Good work at lowest prices, Reynolds.
...Let the Democratic party act we'll its
part in electing delegates to the State Con
vention that the popular choice may not be
defeated in any instance.
..WANTED-To rent small house in
town at once, or would take part of a
house if arrangements could be satisfactory
ly made. Apply at this Office.
&C. G. Basford has been pardoned out
of the chain gang and will remain with the
M. & N. Ga. Railroad convict camp as
bookkeeper.
Fishing parties go out to the neighbor-
ing creeks frequently. 1t is no trouble to
fish--in fact you can fish in tub catching
fish is different thing.
1T was reported last Friday that q ne
gro with the small pox was at cabin two
miles from Marietta on the Dallas road.
Our county authorities made prompt inves.
tigation and it proved false.
Mr. A. G. Heggie of this place, on
last Friday. bought Of DIR. W. H. Harden,
of Smyrna, Jersey cow and calf paying
one hundred dollars for them.
always speak a good word for your
town. Never run it down to strangers A
towns business and prosperity depends a
good deal upon the confidence you inspire
in others.
Mrs. E. r. Ogden returned to her for
mer home, Paris, Kentucky, on Wednes-
day. She is most estimable and accom-
plished lady, and carries with her the best
wishes of our people
Col. c. Fl. G. Willingham, the editor
of the Gainesville Free Press, was in to see
US last Thursday. He has been in journal
ism for thirty years and is one of the best
editors in the State.
The Macon Telegraph is opposed to
Mr.. Stephens for Governor on account of
his old age and not having family. There
lives in Macon, you know, Bacon, Blount,
Simmons and Hardemen, all of when have
an eye on the Executive chair.
REV. T. A. Seals, of the Methodist
Church has been presented with hand
some suit Of clothes by Emembers and
friends of his church, and he has requested
us 10 return his sincere thanks for this ap-
preciated token Of their esteem and conf
dence. The young ladies who got 1t up
especially has his gratitude.
"A prominent Louisville merchant took
q drummer off the road and tried advertis-
ing The traveller cost him "a, 600 q year.
while 81, 900 worth of advertising brought
in one-fourth more trade. And yet some
merchants contend that advertising don't
pay.
...DIED.-At Concord Mills, Cobb COun-
ty, Ca, on Friday 26th day of May, 1882.
John s. Prather, Esq. formerly of Neck
lenburg county, N. c., he was kind and
intelligent husband and father. consistent
christian gentleman and good citizen
Peace to his ashes.
...Mr.W. N. Legg, in renewing his sub
scription to the Journal, writes from Water
Valley Miss. as follows "Our farmers are
hard at work, and crops are very promising.
I am not identified with the farming inter-
est, but was raised to follow the plow in
the old red gravel hills of Georgia, the
graudest country perhaps between the At
lsntic and Pacific Here in Mississippi we
can beat you making cotton, but there you
can make your corn. wheat, rice, sugar,
cotton, tobacco and all kinds of fruits you
have your gold, copper, iron. coal. and in
fact every thing to sustain and preserve