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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
THE SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM IN
THE SOUTH.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.

Said noted housewife and house
keeper: ooh, dear, what shall we
do about servantsH Bad servants
are the bane of keeping house. The
colored servants grow steadily worse.
She is uncleanly, wasteful, pilfering,
careless and storytelling. She robs
me unsparingly to feed her children
or her sisters or her friends or to give
away. If give her the keys she
helps herself. If | give her out tho
food she is too sharp for me. She
makes her dough too soft and comes
for the keys to get more flour to
thicken it. Her tricks are endless.
Talk about sharpness. One stupid
cook will outwit dozen ladies. Ny
bairpins aud pins all go every morn
ing. My best napkins are used to
dust and wipe dishes with. My
finest dishes are broken or disappear
my seriously. They broke them
selves or walked OFT upon their own
feet. The old,time, we'll tried ser
want of slavery days are disappear
ing and soon will be entirely gone.
The present generation of servants
is almost worthless and getting
worse. Think of changing servant
monthly or oftener There is no
system of recommendation for pro-
lection. Why, the best cook have
had in years had to turn off be-
cause | found out she had been in
the chain gang for theft" And the
perpIexed and gentle lady wrung
her hands in despair over the colos>
sal and unsolved and unsolvable
problem.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

CARRYING THE FRUIT RoP.-The
transportation of the fruit crop is
every year becoming of greater i'm
portauce to the railroads. A lively
competition is already beginning for
the immense peach and watermelon
crop that is expected in Georgia and
other Southern States this year. The
West is becoming very important
market for Southern fruit and is
diverting much that would have gone
to New York three or four years ago
Cincinnati and Chicago pay excel
lent prices for Southern peaches and
melons. Their merchants are
making great efforts this year to
control the shipment from Georgia,
while the railroads seem disposed to
give every facility for quick aud
cheap transportation. Five general
freight agents are trying with
prospect of saccess, to obtain enough
freight cars with adjustable trucks
to carry fruit across the Ohio river
without the delay that is necessary
with the ordinary cars. Freight
schedules are being quickened
throughout the South and West, and,
in short, all things are being put 10
readiness for the quickest and most
satisfactory handling the fruit crop
has every had.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
TANNING OF THE sHREW.
How a New Hampshire Petruchio
Disciplined His Wife.

How a New Hampshire PetruchiC
Disciplined His Wife.
Boston Herald
Opposite a Herald man, at a table
in Cornhill restaurant, at dinner
recently sat man from Cambridge,
who was native of New Hampshire,
Meeting an old acquaintance, the
conversation soon turned on family
topics and the pair began to talk
about their former neighbors in a
familiar way. yes, remarked the
Cambridge gentleman, Sam was, in
many respects, different from the
rest of the boys. You remember
who he married ? Well, when the
old man, his father, found that he
was shinin' round with her, he call
ed him one day in the barn and said:
Sam, dye intend to marry Beckie y
Sam never said word, 80 the old
man said Me boy ,ye know all about
them. | can't tell ye nothing. Ye
know how the sisters has turned out
and not one of them is now living
with their husbands Sam was as
mum as pantomime, and just as
soon as be was ready, him and Beck>
lie got tied.
They lived on farm, and every
thing went on smooth for about a
year, and it came to hog butcberin G
time. Sam got all ready to have
the usual party for the occasion, and
just as he was sharpening up the
knives Beckie came out and said /:
Sam, Pm going bome.' Sam pro.
tested in his quiet way, bat it was
no use, SO be said he'd get man to
row her across the pond. 1t was
about half mile over. She said !:
No ye won't; yell row me over
yersef.' Sam told her be couldn't
and Beckie fred up and said Then
III drown myself Sam said he'd
go with her if she wanted to do that.
So the boat was got ready, she got
in, and they rowed out till the water
was twenty feet deep. Then Sam
stopped md said well, Beckie,
this is good place to drown yours
SELF She didn't open her mouth.
He waited awhile and then said
Come, Beckie, I'm in hurry to get
back. She never looked up Sam
put down the oars, caught hold of
her and pitched her in. She grab
bed for the boat, but be would not
let her get near it. When she was
almost done out she said: Sam, let
me 10 that boat aud yell not hear
anything from me out O. the way
So he pulled her in and they went
back home. She changed her clothes
and entertained her guests. They
are now nearly eighty and you news
er saw a happier old couple--did
youi ! don't think they ever spoke
of that ducking since the day she
was going to drown herself
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Elder John H. Morgan, the High
Priest of the Mormon evangelists in
the South, says that eighty>fve ell
ders are employed in the work under
his charge. They are all volunteers,
and pay their own expenses. They
preach to the people nywhere that
a congregation can be collected.
There have been $50 bsptisms of
converts within a year. Tennessee,
Virginia and North Carolina yield
the largest number. They are most
ly farmers and mechanics, who sell
their property and migrate to Utah.
The missionaries not only have en-
couutered much opposition from
newspapers and clergy men, but
have been maltreated by mobs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
A DINNER POT JOKE.

In certain village in a county
not far off a small boy kicked up a
breeze 10 the nearest church on Sun
day. 1t seems that a certain good
but Ipoor woman bought a small
calls head and put it on to boil,
leaving her little boy to mind it
while she went to the church close
by.
The minister had reached bis
"fifthly, my BRETHREN" when small
boy stuck bis head 10 the door and
whispered:
"Mama!"
The good woman recognized her
son instantly and began to make
signs for him to leave the door.
"Mama !" again came the whisper
this time a little louder than be-
fore.
The mother shook her finger at
the boy warningly and INDUCED in
other familiar pantomime with which
she was accustomed to awe her son.
But it didn't work worth a cent.
The boy was excited and in dead
earnest, as the denouement will
show. Raising his voice he shouts
ed:
"Mama, you needn't wink and
blink at me, but had better come
home right way, for the calls head
is buttin' all the dumplins out of the
pot ="
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
HYDRoPHoBIA CURED.
Country Gentleman.

The following remedy has been
successfully used in Pennsylvania /:
Hydrophobia can be prevented and
| will give what is we'll known to be
an infallible remedy, if properly
administered, for man or beast. A
dose for a horse or COW should be
about four times as great as for a
person. 1t is not too late to give
the medicine at any time before the
spasm comes on. The first dose is
II ounces of alecampane root,
bruised, put III pint of new milk,
reduced to one half by boiling, then
take oil at one dose in the morning,
fasting until afternoon, or at least a
very light diet after several hours
have elapsed. The second dose
same as first, except take two ounces
of the root; third dose the same as
second the doses to be taken every
other morning. Three doses are all
that are needed and there need be no
fear. This know from my own
experience, and know of a number
of other cases where it has been sue
cessful. This is no guess work.
Those persons allude to were bitten
by their own dogs, that had been
bitten by rabid dogs, aud were
penned up to see if they would go
mad. They did go mad and did bite
the persons. This remedy has been
used in and about Philadelphia for
forty years and longer, with great
success, and known as the Goodman
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

SUCH Is LIFE.-"Are you much
hurt, dear mother7' said Miss Hunt
to an old lady who had been run
down and badly injured 90 State
street Saturday. The old lady was
for the moment unconscious, and did
not answer, and the deeply distressed
and fearful Miss Hunt took up the
old lady's bag and disappeared.
When the sufferer came too, she in
CURED for her bag, and being told
that her daughter had taken it made
known the fact that she had no
daughter and that the bag contained
$500 in cash and jewelry. For a
poor, hard working girl, laboring for
her bread in laundry, Miss Hunt,
who was discovered by the police to
be this sort Of an industrious female,
played the part of an accomplished
thief toIerably well. This is life in
greet city.-LChicago News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Phil Davis killed his enemy by
shooting through window in the
night at Gonzalez, Texas. Then be
mounted his horse, aud rode off
through the brush at a gallOp for
sixteen miles. He reached home By
circuitous route, meeting nobody
on the way, and went to bed in the
belief that he was safe from detec
ton. He had scarcely fallen asleep
before a party of borsemen arrived
to hang him. They had discovered
the footprints of bis horse at the
scene of the murder, and followed
! the trail without difficulty to its end.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

HERE is a letter that was picked
up yesterday on back street by
our reporter "Dear Bill-DosD.
Kun to see me emmy more for a
while enuyway. Father has got
awfully skeerd about the hyena, and
he sets up every mite till lait with a
ble>barrel shot gun watehin the
back yard He put moren pound
ov led into Smiths big newfoundland
dog which was kummin over the
Tense after a boan last mite.
The rose is red, the violets blue,
| wouldn't KUN no more if | was you.
Yours as ever,
NANCY.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

ROBBED. DR.. f. N. Pitts, of
Covington, Ga, who reached Bir-
minghsm, Ala, Tuesday night of
last week, going there for the pur-
pose of going into business, has been
the victim of a mysterious robbery.
He left home few days ago With a
trunk containing $4,000 10 gold,
$500 in silver, three gold watches
and six gold chains, all the property
he owned. Everything went right
until he arrived at Birmingham, and
went to the Nixon house to bis room.
Not until then did he discover that
the lock of the trunk bad been pried
open and all the contents of VAL
ne taken from it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

without joking, will you tell US
what kind of thing dude is y
asks lady correspondent. Ger
tainly. A ''dude" is no thing. 1t
is merely an apology for human
being, and is too weak to be bad
and too tame to be Wild New
York Advertiser.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

There are five thousand dead laws
on the statute books of Georgia, but
the only way for stranger to find
out the live ones is to swing his bat
on some street corner ADD yell out
that he is from Wild Cat, Cherok ee
county, and that he is a regular
Kennessw mountain hyena.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, at her
masked ball, in New York, repre-
sented a Venetian princess, in q
dress that cost $4,000, and was
decorated with scenes of Venice, etc.
That is, it represented 10000 gone
dollars; a rather neat idea, too.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
COULDN'T DO 1T.

There was a suit before one of the
'Honors' iu Justice alley the other
day in which it became necessary
| for the defense to have the sosti-
| mony of woman She bad seen
the first blow struck aud witnessed
the beginning and end of fight.
When she was asked to take the
stand she hung back and said:
Judge, l can't do is-can't posi-
bly, do it
'Why can't you
SWELL, one is neighbor on one
side of me, and the other is neigh
Dor on the other side.
But they can't blame you for tell
ing the truth.
We'll, dunno. You see, am
always borrowing a wash tub of the
one and sugar and butter of the
other.
which do you borrow the wash
tub of?
The one I've got to swear against.
She'll never, never lend it again, and
can't blame her.
well, you'll have to go ahead and
swear and depend upon the counsel
for the defense to buy you tub of
your own. Take the stand.
Il want bis PROMISE she protest.
ed.
The counsel gave it, and she ex-
planned as she took the stand:
Il suppose l could wash in bar
rel or a kettle, but it's expecting too
much to ask me to lose neighbOr
and tab, too. | am ready, Judge.
-Demi0t Free Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Little Johnny, who was writing
composition about hens, said be
knew where hens come from, but
didn't know where they got eggs.
People say that hens lay eggs, but |
know better. Ny father keeps lots
of hens, aud when we wants any
eggs he always sends me to the
store for them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

1; is prOposed,in England, to build
steam fire engines with separate
and disconnected boilers. 1t is said
that two horses cannot haul more
machinery upon four weels than is
massed in the present steam fire en-
gines, and this puts limit to the in"
crease of power. But by the change
suggested the power can be trebled
with only double the number OF
horses. This lie worth thinking OF
in New York, where 80 many enor-
monsly high buildings are construct
ed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

A grave robber arrested in Iowa
a few days ago had business cards
reading: j. S. Smith, dealer id
mining stocks His mines had
PANIED out seven bodiessin less
than a month.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

A lecturer discoursing on the
subject of Health inquired What
use can a man make of his time
while waiting for doctor 2 Before
be could begin his answer to his own
inquiry, some one in the audience
cried out He can make his will.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

A New Yorker has been fined
$500 for giving tobacco to giraffe
inCentral Park. That's right; give
tobacco to boys as much as you like,
but don't try to poison our giraffes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Several pages in the New Jersey
Legislature have been arrssted for
theft. This is warning Got to let
boys associate with old, depraved
politicians.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

"Just for fun" scoundrel at
Richmond, Va, gave small boy a
pint of whisky to drink. The boy
died, and his murderer has been
sentenced to twelve years imprison>
ment.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

A New York paper says: "Death
has been busy in high places this
year" This is an elegant way of
referring to the many executions
which have recently taken place.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

While the gypsies were at Coz
yers, the other day, one of the wo
men bought some lace from a mer
chant for 10 cents per yard, and
then went direct to the merchants
house and sold it 70 his wife for
$1.25 per yard.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

The President has appointed
Judge w. T. Gresham, of Indiana,
to be POstm aster General, vice T..
A. Howe, deceased. Gresham is a
stalwart Republican.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

We often hear the expression that
"the fire had gone out" And it is
said that in some of our large places
you can actually see The FIRE escape.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Monday night of last week the
store of Mr.. Pace, at Middleton, was
burglarized of 500 worth of goods.
The thief was tracked to Atlanta.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

There were $50 divorces in Phil
adelphia last year. Thatis a fact,
girls. 1t is next to impossible to
live with Philadelphia man.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Hon. Peter Cooper, of New York,
died on the 4ih inst.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

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
as. Bring your work to the Journal Office
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

Spicer says the man for a church
sexton is the man who has no music
in his sole.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
Jle selarietta SonruaI.

Marietta, Ga, Thursday, Apr. IL, 1898,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12

A sixty year old lady 10 Dalton
has a set of false teeth for sale, hav
ing just cut her third set of natural
teeth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-04-12
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Schedule N. & n. Ga. Rail Road
IN EFFECT MAY l, 1882.

w. K. POWER, Genl Pas. Agt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-29
MAS INC NOTICE.
Administrative Notice.

'VHIS Is to give notice that I have dulv
i qualified as administering Of the estats
Of W. A. Goodman. deceased
Is 80 C0RINER A. GOoDNAN, Administrotr;v
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-29

The Appeal refers this morning to
Judge Horrigan's ideas in regard to
gambling. He gave his reasons for
not breaking up the business entirely.
The main one seemed to be that the
destruction of the regularly conducted
houses would cause far worse class
to crop out in all sorts of out of the
way places. Gambling is great evil,
as everybody admits, yet it has never
been successfully repressed. any more
than some other evils that need not be
named. Men who have a mania for
gambling will find a way to crafty
their taste. If no other way, they
will get together in a private room
and play poker all night. This has
been done in wicked cities like Nash>
vile, when the Legislature is in ses
sion, in Chicago and elsewhere; but
never in Memphis. Gambling houses
do not hurt people who keep away
from them. 1t is the moth, attracted
to burning candle or gas light, that
gets its wings scOrched' We could lay
our hand upon man who has knocked
about the world considerably and seen
much of life in nearly all its phases,
and yet was never in but one gambling
house in his life, and that merely
Olt of curiosity. There are many
things which can be regulated, kept in
the background and in certain well
defined channels which cannot be ex~
terminated. Gambling seems to be
one Of them, and it is bad business at
best.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-29
The Weather.

W4sHWagoN, March 20 For
South Atlantic States; Fair weather,
followed by increasing cloudiness and
local rains; WINDS gesterly or scuthcr-
ly, and stationary or higher tempera-
ture and generally lower pressure.
For West Gulf States: Cloudy
yestheF With local rains winds most
ly soHtheTly and stationary or highev
temperature,
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley,
Cloudy weather with light rain or
snow; variable winds, with stationary
or lower temperature and pressure.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-29
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Explosions and Internal Machines
Cause the Arrest Of a Man
In Liverpool.
a Prominent Official Foully Murs
dered at His Residence in Ofen.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
EnthrOned With Appropriate
Ceremonies.

LIVERPOOL, March ga man
who arrived with a box containing
explosives and internal machines has
been arrested here. He had Just
arrived from Cork.
LONDON, March 29.-Antonio LUIS
Schultz & Co., general merchants and
liquor importers, have failed. Liabil>
ties, $4,000.
A weekly statement of the Bank of
England shows the decrease of bullion
OF f3O2, 900 in proportion to the bank
revenue to liability to be 38t per cent.
The Daily News correspondent at
Varna says a secret report has been
presented to the Sultan in which it is
charged that several of the Turkish
Ministers and high officials of the
government had entered into an ar
rangement by which they were to re-
ceive bribes in connection with the
collection of tobacco tax. The Minis
ters accused rendered their resigna,
tioDs, but the Sultan refused to accept
them, Much uneasiuess exists in re-.
gard to the matter.
CANTERBURY, March 29.-The en-
thronement of the Right Rev. Edward
Benson, as Archbishop of Canterbury, c
took place to-day with appropriate
ceremonies.
PEsTH, March 29.-Count Won
Mailath Won Szekhely, President
of the Court of Cessation, has been
found murdered at his residence at
Olen. He had been strangled and his
tongue had been cut out. His hands
were bound tightly together with
ropes. His body was lying on the bed
in his room when discovered, but the
bed was not disturbed and the Count
was not uudresSed. The rope was
hanging from the window of the apart
ment below. The Counts house has
been robbed by the murderers.
PARIS, March 29.-The weekly
statement of the Bank of France
shows an increase in gold of l,65OOOO
francs, and a decrease in silver of
9,525. 600 francs.
LONDON, March 29.-It is stated
that Minister Lowell will not inter
cede in the case Of Michael Boyton,
who was arrested at Kildare Tuesday,
and the inference is drawn from the
fact thatit has been previously proved
that BoynOt is not an American citi-
zen.
LIVERPOOL, March 29.-Lieut.
Voy, United States navy, and other
members of the expedition sent out
by the American government to Pata-
gOnia to take observations of the
transit Of Venus, arrived here on
their way home.
MADRID, March 29.--The date of
the marriage Of Prince Louis Ferdi-
uand, of Bavaria, to Inlanta Maria
Della Paz has been officially an
nounced in Cortez. The marriage
will take place April I'd.
ST. JOHNS, n. T., March 29.-The
harbor is Still blockaded with ice.
The steamer Ocean King and bark
Racer are sailing up and down outside
unable to effect an entrance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-29
Saturday, April 2I, 1883,

within legal hours, the remainder interest in
the homestead Of the following describsd
property situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
Being part OF lot al on the plan or map of
Memphis, beginning at the point of intersec-
ton Of the east line of ChickasaW street with
the south line of Concord street and running
THENCE south "a feet; thence east on a line
parsllel with the south line Of Concord street
alley eat of Chickasaw street; thence north
with the west line of said alley % feet to the
south line of Concord street; thence west
with the south line of Concord street llS foet
more or less to the point of beginning, being
"a feet OF the north side Of SAID lot No. 4I'
Terms Of Sale-0n n credit of seven montbs
purchaser executing note with security; lien
retained, etc
This March 20, 1888,
K J BLACK, Clerk and Master.
BY George Mallory. d. @. and NJ.
u 2 Marriner. sol. 25 d 50 70 40