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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
HOW HE CURED HIS PRIDE.
Arkansaw Traveller.


An old man who had for years
been a strict church member, end
had done much effective work for
the cause of temperance, was found
lying by the roadside the other day
10 state of intoxication. He was
drawn up before a committee of the
church and asked to show the cause
why be should not be excommuni
Gated.
Il acknowledge that | was drunk,
brethren, snd I've got mighty good
reason for it,
Family trouble 7 ask ed the chair
man of the committee.
mo, sir, I've bad no trouble. 1t
was pride.
Pride = exclaimed the chairman.
yer, pride. As I went along to
town / met a drunken fellow and |
began to think we'll of myself because
| had never been drunk. Pretty
soon l began to feel proud of it. A
little further on | met an ordinary
looking Teller and wouldn't speak to
him. My neck was so stiff with my
pride that | wouldn't even nod to
people. I reflected that my pride
was wicked, and | tried and tried
and tried but couldn't throw il off.
| tried to pray, but was a good deal
too proud to pray with fervor -
This won't do | unused, Il am GET
ting to be regular Phasisee.' After
walking round awhile | met an old
negro and asked:
Uncle, can you tell me how to
throw off my pride =
Dat | ken, dat KEN
well, dar's one thing that never
fails ter knock down a mans price,
boss, and dat is whisky. Get drunk
and when yer gets sober yer'll feel
nightly Initiated
Z acted on this suggestion and got
as drunk as a-well, as an owl,
though | never saw an owl drunk.
When l got sober | was the most
Inundated man in the world, and |
prayed with an earnestuess | never
felt before. l am now willing to
leave my case 10 your hands
Brethren, said the chairman,
what do you think
Well, said the old fellow, | feel
sorter proud. How is it with your
Aslff
'Sorter Pharisee. How do you feel,
Brother jerks 7
Proud as q peacock Brother
Lsrkins. how do you feel I
Mighty proud. Let us 60 down
to the stiIlhouse aud humiliate our
selves
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
PURIFYING A READJUsTBR.
Lynchburg Virginian.

Lynchburg Virginian.
From gentleman of Rocky Mount
Franklin county, who was 10 the city
on Saturday, we learn the following
particulars of how Judge Tom Clai
borne, penitent Mahoneite, was
forgiven, purified and taken back
into the Democratic fold. The Judge
was with crowd of enthusiastic old
Democrats of Franklin, who were
rejoicing that their county had re-
deemed itself, and the State was safe
from further piratical ruin. He felt
sad and lonely; felt that it was in
deed a God,forssken party with
which be had cast his fortunes, felt
that be had sinned; felt sorrowful
that be had ever strayed from the
path of right. His lost manhood
came back to him while the hilarity
of his Democratic friends was at its
height, and raising his voice be de-
clared his purpose to kick out of tho
traces of Mahoneism, and go back
into the Democratic ranks-if the
boys would accept him as repent>
ant sinner.
The Democrats conferred together
and finally decided to take the Judge
back if he would 90 through the
course of publication they had de-
termined to be necessary. He must
first be bathed, A large barrel or
tub of water was near at hand. Into
this the Judge was plunged. He
came out looking like drowned rat,
and asked it that bath ives not
enough. No; he must go again
And raising him up in their strong
democratic arms, the boys gave him
another dip; pulled him out gave
him breathing spell, and showed
him 10 again. The first act was con-
cIuded
The Democrats then told him it
would never do for Democrat to
wear Malone clothing, and provided
hin with a new outfit from the skin
out, burning his old clothing that
could not be otherwise disinfected
In his new Democratic toggery the
Judge was proceeding homewsrd
when the last injunction was given
him that "to be true, blue>blood
Bourbon Democrat, he must sleep in
bed with two Bourbon Democrats
that night"
The Judge took it ell in good
spirits; is now Democrat, and says
he will never have occasion to suffer
another publication.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.

The late Peter Cooper once said ::
10 all the towns where a newspaper
is published, every man should adj
vertise 10 it, even if nothing more
than a card stating his name and the
business he is engaged 10. 1t does
not only pay the advertiser, but it
let's people at distsnce know that
the town you reside in has a pros
porous community of business men
AS the seed is sown so the fruit re
compenses. Never pull down your
sign while you expect to do bust
ness, for it often indicates that bust
ness is poor and you are losing your
grip, commercially speaking. The
judicious advertiser will receive in
return ten dollars for every one in
vested in the.column of good news.
paper.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

The popular Science News says
tina. after mature deliberation, it has
come to the conclusion that people
would be far better off should the
art of producing alcohol, in any form
whatever, be lost to the world en-
tirely; neither the physician, the
chemist, nor the artisan absolutely
needs it any department of bis call
ing; and it cannot be used without
doing violence, in some degree, to a
mans best physical welfare.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
TIE DEFooR MURDERERs.

The jury in the case Of Tom Saw
age and John Brown, charged with
the murder of the aged DeFoor
couple, went out q: noon yesterday
and returned two hours thereafter
with a verdict of "guilty." At FIVE
o'clock yesterday afternoon the pris-
oners we're sentenced to be hanged
on the 18th day of January, 1884.
Mr.. Frank HARRISON, their attorney,
will move for a new trial, and failing
to get it, will carry the case to the
Supreme Court. Atlanta Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
The Cincinnati Comm ercial keep

The CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL Keeps
vigorously kicking against the aboli
ton of local for standard time. 1t
says: Twelve o'clock noon will be
twelve o'clock noon in Cincinnati,
no matter what railroad clocks may
say Nobody propose to go to bed
or get up by railroad time. Even
the birds have more sense than to do
anything of the kind. Perhaps the
railroad people will undertake to
show that the earth doesn't revolve,
or that the sun is not the centre of
our system.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

Diseases Of az exhaustive nature
that have tendency to create an
unnatural feeling such as fatigue,
lassitude and great weakness through
out the system owe their origin to q
lack of iron in the blood. Browns
Irown Bitters will restore the blood
to it's natural healthful condition.
Get the blood pure by using this
remedy and disease will be quickly
banished.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
When Engineer Gabs GabelI came

When Engineer Gsbe Gabell came
booming round the curve at Whites
boro, Texas, and saw that collision
was inevitable, be closed the throttle,
put on the breakes, and said to the
fireman "Jump-one of Us is enough
on this train" The fireman Jumped,
and the engineer stood at his post
until the crash came.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

40 opinion on the advantage of
"rolling' wheat land after the grain
has been plowed in, taken from the
Gainesville Free Press: "After
sowing your wheat don't fail to roll
it. 1t mahes a difference of three
bushels to the acre. Try oue>half
of field and see.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

Jones asked his wife, why is a
husband like Dough- He expected
che would give it up, and he was
going te tell her that it was because
a woman needs him but she said it
was because he was hard to get off
her hands.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

Johnny said the teacher, "a lie
can be acted as we'll as told. Now,
if father were to put sand in bis su
gar and sell it, be would be acting a
lie and doing very wrong That's
what mother told him. said Johnny
impetuously, and he said he didn't
care
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

A man who recently got drunk 10
an Eastern town where saloons are
licensed, appealed the case to the
circuit court on the ground that a
town has no right to fine a man for
getting drunk after licensing saloons
to sell liquor. He won the case.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
Schedule NJ. & n. Ga. Rail Road
IN EFFECT JULY 70, 1888.
Legal Blanks on Hand.

Criminal Warrants, Land and Mort
gage Deeds. Justice Fifas and Summonses,
Waiver Notes, Summons Of Garnishment
3arnshment Affidavit and Bond, Affidavit
Bond and Attachment, Writ Declaration Of
Notes and Accounts and other Legal Blanks
for sale at the Journal office
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

IT is grand thing when a man
gives up his course of dissipation
aud seriously settles down, but it is
as equally a grand thing when a
man has a stroke of conscientious
ness and honestly settles up.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

He that will not permit bis wealth
to do any good to others while he is
alive, prevents it from doing any
good to himself when he is dead. A
man bad better be his own executor
while living.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

A horse ran away with a compile
in New York Monday and knocked
down an electric light post. The
wire broke, and touching the animal
gave him q succession of shocks.
which brought him to the ground
and kept him there for several min
utes. Another horse coming by in
a coupe was also thrown by the cleo
tic current, and the obstructions
could not be removed until the wire
had been cut with an axe.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
For Sale

A farm containing 40 acres, with dwelling
Of three rooms. at foot OF Kennesaw mountain I;
we'll adapted tor dairy farm. being well wa
tered aud only ~ miles trom Court House,
Will take either Marietta or Atlantis property.
Apply al this Office,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

ever, that when he came North be
became a free man and her equal,
and that as the Philadelphia proper
ty was in his nsme it should be divi>
ded among them.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

Miss J r. King, Hartwell, Ga.
says: i used Browns Iron Ritters
for dyspepsia aud sick headache
with great benefit
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

The little ones are the most high
ly gifted people about Christmas
time.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

NJ. P. P. Profit, Hsrtwell. G1-,
says: Il used Browns Iron Bitters
for indigestion, poor appetite and
weakness with beat Eesults,'
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

I could never think we'll of mans
intellectual or moral character, if he
was hsbituslly unfaitbful to his sp>
pointments.-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

DOB PRINTING, plain and fancy, or in
colors, by experienced and skilled printers
at the JOURNAL Office. Win duplicate At
lanta prices, or anybody else's prices, and
guarantee satisfaction or no charge. This
e fair Give us trial and see
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

There is no policy like politeneps;
and good manner is the best thing
10 the world, either to get a good
name or supply the want of it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06
Jhe Aaristta sumrnaI.

Marietta. Ga, Thursday, Dec. 6, 1893.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-12-06

When old Mrs. Daniels died host
of her and her husbands distant rela-
tives came forward and claimed the
estate The property vas soId by
order of the court Mr. Mas erson
will as auditor, ARA g - distribu
ton of the fuods. The lawyers Of
the collateral heirs of Mrs. Daniels
hold that her husbands relatives
have no just claim upon he eststr
be having heeu her slave by pur'
chase. The legal advisers of the
relatives Of Mr. Daniels argue, how
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04

cannot inspire public confidence by wasting
time in the enactment OF laws which dis
trust the popular intelligence, nor can they
change the current OF public thought by
loud and frequent assertions of reform.
when the very act which embraces the If
views, is a direct thrust at the intellectual
and moral capacities of the constituent
body. The American people are practical
and not transcendental, and they cannot be
deluded by that refining sentimentalism,
which while protesting to purify the meth
DDS of government would constitute CEN
trail Bossism, invested with power more
comprehensive and exacting than is consis--
tent with government of the people, by
the people and for the people. having its
parallel only in hereditary governments,
where the divine right to rule is recognized
in classes and the people are content with
being hewers Of wood and drawers OF
water. yss5s 900, t.s.sgifS <
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04
INCONSISTENCIES OFFICE,
y sTAUNToN, VA, Jan. 3, 1898.

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ STAUNToN VA, Jan. 3, 1893.
All persons plaintiffs and defendants in the
Of Geiger ps. Geigers Adm,r: Getgsr's Adn'r Us.
Geiger, &C., and r. q. Bickie rs. u. s. fo,ua,
Comm'r., now pending jointly, in ohancery, in the
Circuit Court of Augusta and all cretorS Of c0rge
Geiger, decd and Of George II. GeiGeT, decd, and
Of Vincent II. Geiger, decd and of Frnnktn r. Ge,-
GER decd, hereby notified that In pursuance Of
decree in said causes rendered Nov. ., 1882 l
shall, at my office in Staunton, on
SATURDAY, THE Sd DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1888
proceed to take, state and settle the following ac
counts LIST. An account of the state and condition
Of the tract Of several thousand of land stu
ated In Bath county; whether or not the same has
been sold for taxes and IL whether it is redeem
able or not 3 An account of any other real estate
that may yet remain undisposed Of belonging the
estate of George Geiger, decd, and the situation
and location OF the same. 3. An account of The in
terests of George H. Getger, Vincent E. Geiger and
Franklin T. Geiger, deceased, children of George
Ge1ger, decd, In their said fathers estate, and the
parties now entitled to such interests 4. An ac-
count Of claims against each of said children
George H., Vincent E. and Franklin T. Geiger) in
their order Of priority 5. When, if ever, VIM. B:
Kayser and Doctor Francis T Stribling or either of
them, paid the purchase money the property
purchased by them, respectively, of commissioners
in the cause of Getger'S Admir- VS.. Geger, &c. 6.
What kind of money was used in making such pay
ments, and by what authority. Z. Whether or not
such payments were valid discharge of their
Indebtedness, and If not what still remains due
upon said purchases. 8. An account OF the unpaid
debts, II any, against the estate of George Geiger
decd, to whom payable and in what amounts, and
9th settlement of the transactions OF Nicholas O.
Kinney, Decd late General Receiver of this Court,
in account with the fund in these causes, showing
how much of said fund, If any, is now chargeable
against the estate of said Kinney and his surees,
together with any other matters specially stated,
deemed pertinent by Commr, required by any
party in interest,-at which time and place you
required to attend especially all creditors
George Geiger, decd, hereby notified that in
of their failure SO to do, they thereby forfeit all
right participate In the distribution of the fund.-
by express provision In said decree of November
81, 1882. J. ". GREEN SMITH,
jana Commissioner.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04
The Lesson of the Murder Case.

Fortunately for the good name of this COM
munty, our ety's history furnishes few if any
parallels to the shocking tragedy which oc-
CURED on Tuesday night. From all the facts
now before the public, the murder was des-
perate in the extreme, demanding the stfictest
investigation and calling for the severest pen
altles of the law should the testimony adduced
on the trial corroberate the statements made
Just after the ARRAY.
1t seems strange that miserable prostitute,
ready to sell herself to any one willing to buy,
should havees6 infatuated two sensible men,
that the one should have lightly hello the
sanctity Of the marriage VOWS, whist the
other was ready to shed the blood of his fell
low man, for the poor privilege of basking in
a smile far worse than the stare of a basilisk.
II is the attractiveness Of vice, no less than
the weakness of human nature that demands
on the one hand and yields on the other,
these sacrifices And until the tinsel and
show, the glitter and gaud is stripped from
those hot beds of crime which infest this and
other cities s until there is virtue enough in
buC W ucuItuu efdts fiCC SildIi
be made hideous; until legal bubbles shall
not avail in fastening upon a people con-
spicuous and unblushing cause Of insult day
after day; in short, until these cesspoos of
crime in its most repulsiye shape are abol-
ished, we have no security against the recur-
renee of just such tragedies as that of Tuesday
night, to say nothing of the moral deaths
which occur almost daily. If George Amiss's
crime and Burners blood shall serve TO awaken
our people to sense of duty to themselves and
their children, the terrible lesson will be OF
some profit. 1t will not brighten the gloom
that shrouds the home of the widow and the
orphans it will send no ray of softened light
through the prison bars; 1t will give no quick
ening to the stilled pulse, or new impulse to a
young life now standing face to face with a
living death, but it will prove TO the world,
aud most of all to our own people, that crime is
detestable, and that its theatre shall be cur
tailed.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04

On the 2lst, the Supreme Court of the
ginia cases affecting the payment Of the
debt OF that State, and involving the con-
stitutinnality of the Riddleberger act seal
ing down the principal and interest as for
argument in the case is set for January 8.
The matter involved is of so much interest
that the action of the court, in taking steps
to determine the question involved, is ia
vorably commented on. The decision of
the Supreme Court Of the State, politically
hostile to the Readjusters, as it stood when
its action was taken, on three cases-that
to instruct the authorities of the State to
make out the assessors books so as to levy a
tax OF two per cent. as provided in the Fund
ing bill of 1871, for the sinking fund, to pay
the principal of the bonds issued un der
that act that relating to the 100000 de-
rived from the States interest in the Alan
tic and Mississippi railroad, which, after it
had been appropriated by the Legislature to
public school purposes, was sought to be. d.
verified to the boEdholders and the Peters
burg municipal election cases-all in favor
OF the Readjusters-point to a favorable
conclusion on the issue now be fore the
Supreme Court of the United States. Should
that be the case, the State will have rest
from debt agitation, and the creditors re-
ceive promptly the amount ascertained to
be due them under the Riddleberger BILL
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04
An Extensive Enterprise.
From the Kentucky Register.l

WHAT OUR VIRGINIA CONTRACTORS ARE DOING IN
KENTUCKY
From the Kentucky Regfster.l
the gentlemen who are engaged in building the
Kentucky Central Railroad extension through this
county, besides having work In Virginia and Geor
gia, have leased the Kentucky Penitentiary, and
adopted the firm style Of the
&C B. MASON MFG CO..
The members Of the company are G. R. Mason, H.
p Mason, Charles E. Hoge, and W. F. cambridge,
located in kentucky, S. B. Mason in Virginia, C. D.
Gooch in Georgia. The combined executive ability
of these gentlemen is great and their capital
is equal to their proficiency in management. This
institution is one of exceedingly broad proportions
employing more than three thousand men,and pay
ing out thousands of dollars every day. Besides
the railroad work, they are conducting large man.
ufactory in the Penitentiary Among other things
they make wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, gear, fur
niture, chairs, mattresses, boots, shoes, wooden
ware, &C. All kinds of blacksmithing are done to
order and many horses from all the country around
are shod every day. steam laundry run by the
female convicts does washing for numerous fam
lilies and around the capital city, Atailoring de-
partment makes clothing for the convics nearly
twelve hundred in number, and the goods for this
purpose are purchased in Kentucky andthe South.
lot of this peculiar striped cloth Just received,
cost the company $4,700 The quantity OF provisions
consumed daily by the company's employees Is
enormous. For the wagon department, So, 500 worth
of timber to make the running gear was purchased
last week, and 1t had been seasoning indoors for
eight years. Capt. Hoge, the Superintendent, esti-
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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04
Middlebrook Items

Died at his residence on the Cross KEYS
Road on The 18th of December, Mr. VIM. Sjlor.
He had been sufferer for n considerable time
and was inferred at st. Johns Church. Atthe
residence of Mr.. John Kenneday, Mrs Peggy
Armstrong. an aged lady
The farmers are very mu h behind time
with their corn, great deal of it being yet in
the field, and the weather unfavorable.
W.H.W.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04

The Washington Republican of the 9th
says: "ln conversation with Colonel C. W.
Moulton, of Cincinnati, last night, about poll
les and the future, and all that. he spoke sew
eral times of the middle classes. "What 90
you mean by the middle classes ?" was asked.
u mean" said the Colonel, "those who are
not too rich and grand to be above human
sympathies and those who are not SO mean and
low as to be beneath human sympathles ali
between these two classes; that is what i
mean by the middle classes" And it was
noted as good definition"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-04

At recent conference OF prominent Re,,ub-
llcans in Washington, it is stated that Sen ator
geo. u. Edmunds was centred upon as the
probable leader ofthe Republican party in 1884
Edmunds, of Vermont, and Harrison. of ndi-
ana, would make strong team and sween. the
country.