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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
A WORD ON THE STOCK LAW.

|, fellow>citizens, would like to
know why it is that we are eternally
taxed with this thing called the
stock law question. 1t seems that
the minority cannot be satisfied af~
ter the third election in which they
were defeated by the majority, but
must have the fourth, which is to
come off the 10th Of December, |
thought some time back | would
have nothing to say either way, but
would now say to the voters of Cobb
county, let US arise out of oar ieth"
argv and be prepared to hiUg them
to the wall on the 10Th of December.
Be not deceived !! Come one and
all, great and small, and let US
show them that the maj ority are de~
termined to rule If | thought |
was not speaking consistently and
With the voice of the majority, l
would close my lips aud say no
more. 1t is said by some, Il will
give SO and so in dollars and cents
to have the law passed" | would
like to know what they mean z DO
they mean to buy and sell votes 7
If so stop and consider, is it right ?
No; man who will so do, is not
worthy to be called freeman. I'm
derstand me don't blame opposing
parties to do all they can for their side
honorably, bat on the 10th let US
carry outthe thing fairly and square,
Iy, and if you beat us all well and
good, and if we beat you, minority,
do pray let us rest short spell, at
least few days. The stock law is
close by, 10 Fulton county. l have
friends and relatives there who votN
ed in favor of it, and they advise US
to fight it to the last. l could say
many things but will desist for the
present.
a word on prohibition, or toe do"
ing away with the sale of intoxicat-
iog drinks. say let US kick it
back into the Eastern or New EngN
land States, where it sprung from,
and let it die the death due it. L
mean no offence to no man.
H. W. HOOPER.
endorse the above in regard to
the stock law.
las w. KEHELEY.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
a HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.

JACKSON, MICH, November Il -
This morning four persons, named
Jacob Crouch, aged IA, widower
Henry White, aged 80, a son-in law
of Crouch, Mrs. Emmie White, aged
80, a daughter of crouch, (all of
Summit), and Moses Policy, aged
26, of Transfer, Pa, was found MUIR
dered in their beds, all having been
shot through the head just behind
the ear. 1t is supposed that they
had been chloroformed first, as no
signs of a struggle appeared, each
victim lying as if asleep, and the
odor of chIoroform was noticeable
when the bodies were discovered
Mrs. White was also shot through
the left arm. No clue to the per-
petrators of the butchery has as yet
been discovered, although tracks
around the house indicate that a
guard was placed on watch while
the tragedy was being enacted with
in.
Crouch was wealthy farmer
living seven miles southwest of
of Jackson, and the owner of an ex-
tensivo sheep rauch in Texas. 1t
is rumored that he I'D just receiv-
ed about $4,000 from Texas, 10
payment for sales made on the
ranch. Bankers here state that no
money was deposited with them by
Crouch, and it is presumed the mons
ey referred TO was on Crouch's per-
son. Polly was stopping at CIRQUE his
place, having just come from Texas
with large amount Of money for
the purpose of buying blOOded stock.
The prevailing theory is that Policy
was followed from Texas by the
murderer or murderers, for the pnr>
pose of robbery. The house was
thoroughly ransacked and every
thing of value carried away. A
young girl, an adopted daughter of
the Whites and an eighteen year
old negro who were sleeping in
apartments up stairs, say they heard
no firing, although the negro says
he heard a humping noise about
the middle of the night, and thought
it was caused by the ferceswind
which was Blowing at the time
Mrs. White was expected to become
a mother shortly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
UNCLE ABE AND THE POSTUM.

Uncle Abe was Virginia negro.
He was fond of pOssum. Having
caught one in persimmon tree he
got his wife, Dinah, to cook it for
him. Abe, having no appetite for it
when it was "done brown" reques'
ted that it should be placed in the
cupboard until morning The favor
was granted, and Uncle Abe laid
down before log fire and went to
sleep. His son, Nose, coming in
late, got the possum and ate it, laid
the bones down at Uncle Abe's head,
smeared the old mans face and
hands with the grease, and went to
bed. The following morning Uncle
Abe awoke and asked Dinah, "whar's
dat 'posSum 2"
"In de cupboard" which she ex-
plored and found it missing.
Returning, Dinah inquired: "Abe
when did you eat dat 'possum p
Oars de bones at your head, yer
face smells of 'poSsum, and yer hans
are greasy"
"Maybe | did eat dat 'possum, but
if | did it did me loss good dan any
'possum [ ever et."-Nsshville Sum
day Journal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
SUICIDE.

The insurance papers of the coun'
try publish the records of suicide
10 June, July and August of this
year, 475 persons residing in the
United States took their own lives
Every now and then since, the COM
munity is startled by Self-slaughters,
10 about the same ratio, and in nu~
merous instances the suicide is such
one as nobody expected to occur.
We once heard a curious story of a
physician who claimed remarakb BILE
expertness on this subject, and fire.
quently amazed his friends by TAX
ing them to crowded assemblies and
selecting the persons from the throng
who would most likely perish by
their own act 10 nearly every in
stance the party singled out was that
one whom no ordinary individual
would have ever suspected of such a
tragic termination. Some of the
most powerful arguments against sui
eide were made by Jean Jacques
Rousseau, and yet he died by his
own hand. But this may not seem
so strange, when it is recoilected
that that extraordinary, but proba-
bly, insane philosopher, preached
many sublime doctrines that be never
illustrated in bis own person,
The statistics of last summer are
evidence that the males who shuttle
off the mortal coil are considerably
in excess of the females, the exact
figures being 1874 of the one to 12l
of the other. Those of American
aud German birth enormously pre-
ponderated, while the fatal age ap>
peared to be about so A child st
six years is reported in this meIan'
choly exhibit.
Insanity is ahead of causes for this
rash deed then come, in regular or
der, sickness, domestic misery, dissi~
patton, love trouble, business embar
rassmeut, restitution and grief One
man killed himself because he
thought somebody else wanted to
murder him. The large percentage
of "love troubles" would seem to dis
prove Shakespeare ipSe dat that
men have died and worms have ca
ten them, but not for love"
We regret to see from these stats
tics that husbands head the list. Dat
of the grand total of 475, last sum-
mer, no less than 1919 men preferred
death and possible eternal damnation
to matrimony and what friend calls
"terrestial hell" 1t may be that
the majority of these unhappy NOR
tails were most to blame and that
their removal was a relief to the
wretched but mere resigned women
who had been bound to them. Next
to the husbands come bachelors, fol-
lowed closely by wives. Widowers
come next. Widows are few on the
list, manifestly proving that women
are not only better than men but
that they can stand the loss of part
ners great deal more patiently
Only one divorced man is recorded
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

White ants in the old State House
in Boston are causing considerable
alarm, the little pests have attacked
the wooden girders and eaten their
way so far into them that it is be
iieved that the house is in danger of
tumbling over Exchange.
That is the way of little sins ;
they enter noiselessIy aud eat into
the very core of mans life, and
soon the noble structure crumbles
into ruins, Keep out the little sins
if you would keep out the large
once.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

An exchange truthfully remarks
that two drinka of whisky means a
pound and half of beefsteak ; two
Of beer q breakfast of mutton chops !;
one cocktail an egg plant or cauli-
flower. What will you take, Toni
stands for a nice oyster stew for a
whole family on Sunday morning
Set 'em up again means sugar
enough in the house for a
month. Sobriety puts wood on
the fire, meal 10 the tub, money 10
the parse, credi, in the country,
conteutment in the house, clothes on
the children, vigor in the body, To-
telIigeooe 10 the brain, and spirit in
the whole constitution.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

10 Hartford, N. G, on Friday,
Claud Saunders and friend were
playing ball, They were standing
about twenty feet apart. Saunders
threw the ball with considerable
force, and the other lad struck it
with a cypress pale about four feet
long. This pale broke near the cen
tire, and the broken end struck Saun-
ders in the eye, penetratedsthe fore-
head, and entered the brain. SaunN
ders pulled the stick out and then
fell back, and died in about two
hours.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

The following from the Star ap-
plies to more places than Douglas
Vile: Whenever you hear One of
the former citizens speak dispsrage
ingly of the town, you may know he
has made complete failure at the
place, and his mediocre talents were
not sufficient to induce the citizens
to support him iu idle luxury
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

BANK NOTE DETECTOR DETECT~
ED.-Wm. c. Phe!an, known in the
West during the war as a bounty
Jumper, and in Philadelphia and
Washington as forger and black
mailer, has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment for passing
counterfeit money In Boston Phe
len established 'bsnk note detec
tor and thus obtained from banks
numbers Of counterfeit notes for de-
scription. PheIsu is believed to
have collected aud passed $4,000
IN counterfeit money. He fed to
Montreal when detected.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

w. 2. Williams went to Marion
county, Florida, twelve years ago a
poor man. lie bought the place he
now lives on when lands we're cheap
and now has one of the finest orange
groves 10 bis section of the country,
consisting of LOO trees, most of
them bearing, which is estimated to
be worth $50, 200.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

We could eat the Thanksgiving
turkey with more gnSto if the meeting
of Congress did not follow 50 soon
after Fiorida Times.
And we could eat him with more
gusto if the meeting with grocer's
bill did not follow so soon after -
Macon Telegraph.
And we could eat it with more
gusto if we had the turkey.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Curtis McGregor, of CaddO Peak,
had bis arm mutilated by gun. 1t
vas amputated near the shoulder
He WAS able to sit up and walk about
the room, but complained from the
first of pain 10 the amputated hand,
and declared there were bugs in 1t.
This continued until the eighth day
after amputstiou, when friends ex-
humod and examined the amputated
arm. which had been buried in box
with a cloth wrapped around it. a
large bug was found in the hand as
stated by McGregor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Courage is a noble trait. With
some it requires greater courage to
live than it does to die. When dis
ease racks the frame, when sores
cover the person, when aches are in
every joint, when the muscles are
soft and fabby, when the least ex-
ertion gives fatigue, when the mind
is filed with gloom and dependency
what is there 10 life worth living,
and yet many exc out just such
miserable existence, living only for
those who love them. When it is
generally known that Browns Iron
Bitters will cure the above disorders
how many hearts will be made glad !
How many homes made happy!
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

The Athens lawyers seem to have
struck a bonanza this year. The
fees Of one of the attorneys since
Christmas amounted to- 6ver S10,-
900, while several have gone up
above s. 600. The Northeastern
Railroad ard insurance cases bel ped
to swell their income,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

While some men were digging a
well in Ohio the other gday they
struck vein OF gas. Scientists ac~
count for it by stating that polite
ian or auctioDeer must have been
buried at the spot several years ago
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

The Athens Banner reports this
curiosity: Mitchell Stroud, colored,
of this county, has q pig FIVE months
old that has eight legs, The pig has
use of and walks with all the legs,
and seems healthy, with the prospect
Of living to be hog
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

A woman in Chicago has been ar.
rested for having four living bus
bands Just see how we'll a woman
succeeds who isn't foolish enough to
wait for leap year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

A vessel W hich arrived at New
Bedford day or two ago, brought
an eagle which aIighted on the
masthead when the vessel was 800
miles from laud.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

A news vendor on an Alabama
railroad recently received tidings
that he had fallen heir to $4,000.
His name is Charles Lee, and be is
seventeen years of age. The young
man Immediately left for New York
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.

A few nights ago an outrage was
com United in Jasper county which
has but few equals for hard hearted
cruelty. The large barn of DR.. f.
Walker was burned. ln the barn
were five horses and mules and nine
cows, besides 800 bushels of wheat
and other grain; the barn had two
entrances. The incendisries poured
kerosene around both doors and set
fire to prevent any of the animala
from being rescued The grosns OF
these poor brutes as the fire was
scorching them are said to have
been heart rending. Two men,
Waiter Roby and John Floyd, have
been arrested for the crime, and pub
lie indignation was so strong against
them that they were carried to At
lanta to prevent them from being
Iynched.- Athens Banner.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

There are about 1870 600 whites
and 10000 negroes in Washington.
The death rate among the coiored
people is almost twice as great as it
is among the whites.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
legal Blanks on Hand.

Criminal Warrants, Land and Mort.
gage Deeds, Justice Flias and Summonses,
Waiver Notes, Summons OF Garnishment
5auishmenr Aihdavit and Bond, Aildavll
Bond and Attachment Writ Declaration OF
Notes ana Accounts and Other Legal Blanks
tor sale ~ the Journal office
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

German Professor: "What a
couple of bonnie little children, dear
Baroness Twins, l suppose ~
Baroness; "You have guessed
rightly" Professor "Are they both
yOutsf
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Mrs. NJ L. Sat,erheldl- Hartwsjl,
Ga, says: i used Browns Iron
Biters fo- dyspepsia and can now
eat nything without hartiDg me-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Little things console us, because
ittle things aflict us.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Kansasit is understood, has the
largest average yield per acre OF
wheat and oats Of any State 10 the
Union.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

A mans ruling passion is the key
to his character.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Where there is will there is a
lawyer.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

He who lives to no purpose lives
to a bad purpose.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

Mr.. S. R. Irly, Louisville, Ga,
saws: Il used Browns Iron Bitters
for erysipelas and am now sound as
a dollar
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29
Chr ~ arietta 9OurnaI.

Marietta. Ga, Thursday, Nov 90, 1898.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-11-29

IF you would create something,
you must be something,
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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
A Horrible Tragedy

DENVER, Oct. 6.-rhe details of
a horrible tragedy at Lampasas,
Mexico, on the Mexican National
Railway, have just teen received
On a ranch near Lampasas lived d
well-tc-do Mexican named Antonio
Valdlz, whose family c01sis'ed of a
wife and seven children, the eldest
10 and the youngest two years OF age.
The wife had been subject to spells
of melanch ,ly, often exhibiting
marks of tenn .,ortry insanity, and at
such times invariably sought to do
violence to the little ones. Last
Wednesday during the absence OF the
husband the woman was seized with
a fiji of unusual severity. during
which she grabbed huge butcher
knife and a. once began the work Of
destruction. The Oldest ch,ld, a
sweet girl of ten, was the first to fall
beneath the wild mothers furious
blows, The victims head was al
most severed from the body. With
methouical madness. SO peculiar to
the insane, in quick succession she
slew the other children, hacking and
stabbing them in the most barbarous
and sickening manner, when suu-
denly taking parting look at the
dead she plunged the knit. into her
own breast. Next morning the par
ish priest arrived, and smid the sob
bing aud wailing OF those p, resent the
sad funeral rites were performed.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
Madrid News Budget.

MADRID, Oct. 81 a cabinet
council to-day, the Marquis De la Ve-
90 gave al account Of the recent roy
al Journey. He said ''ermany and
Austria were prepared to admit the
right of Spain to voice in the Euro
pean concert with relation to her
Mediterranean and African posses
sions and to recognize her right to a
vote in the decision of the SueZ canal
matters.
The council has obtained the re-
luctant consent of General DeCampos
to postpone his resignation as minis
ter of public works.
The excitement over the demon
stration in Paris against the King
is abating. The guard at the French
Embassy is withdrawn. and the press
is less bitter. The latent feeling OF
hostility to France is reviving.
The editors of certain literary jour
nails have written to the editor OF a
French military paper pointing out
that tue French army ran before the
Uhlans.
BELFAST, Oct. 5.-After a torch:
light procession tonight in honor OF
sir Stafford Northcote, the Orange
men smashed the windows of a con.
vent and two newspaper Offices.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
Wife Murder.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 6. Albert Eli
ster. of MAgdeDArg. Germ .nv, 81
wears old, killed his wife wi b an
IRON rod in Clinton street lodging
mouse last night, and left the scene
of the tragedy at eignt this morning,
leaving n note in which ne explained
that the money being gone tney did
not care to live longer, and they had
agreed that he should kill her. The
n',te clio ,ed witt, tie phrase: II have
gone out to hang myself.". lie has
not been found. Tney came to Mil
waukee last Tuesday.
The police have learned that man
ans1 ering to Elstermann's descrlp.
ton took the North western train AT
II a. m. FIR Chicago. Communlca-
tion with the Chief Of Police bas re-
suited in the Information that man
Of similar description took the Michi-
gan Central train about 10 O'Clock
for the east, buying a ticket for Utica,
n. Y. Elstermann Was known al
his boarding house as Hun,
man though he admuleu
that was not his real NAME
The couple came from st. Paui on
Tuesday. but the wife told a lady
thev had lived in Bismarck, Dakota.
The boarders had To come to the con-
ciusi; that they We're eloplng,
though they had no particular reason
for thinking 50. The dead woman
was about twenty-five years ola ap.
parently higher in the social scale
than her husband. Baggage con-
tanned nothing to identify them.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
Washlng5On Notes.

WASHING ON, Oct. 1.-The findings
in the case Of Fir-t Lieut.. James F.
Simpson, Sd cavalry, who was tried
by court martial on the charge Of
conduct unbecoming an officer and 4
gentleman, In having married Wo-
man who had been his mistress, are
now before the Secretary of War for
transmission to the President for
final &C. ion. The court found Lieut..
Simpson guilty and sentenced h m tc
dismissal 1t Is understood that
Judge Advocate General Swain III
review of the case takes exception to
the action of the court and recon-
mends that the sentence be set aside.
Secretary Folger to-day decided 1t
incompatible with the interests OF the
public service and with the public
convenience to provide distin tive
issue OF gold certificates for Chicago.
The comptroller of the currency ac-
cepts an invitation to attend the con-
vention of the American Bankers
Association at Louisville on Tuesday
next.
jeremiah Mexican has been ap-
pointed postmaster OF Boise City,
Idaho, vice John H. Post, resigned.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
A West Virginia Murder Trial.

.
WHEELING. ". Va. Oct. 5. .-In the
ircuit Court to-day, Guenther Schell
was found guilty Of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to impris-
onment for life, Guenther Schnell
killed his uncle, or, as he alleges, his
father, DR.. Guenther SchurclIardt, a
medical specialist, in the latter's drug
store in this city. SchurchardI was
v.ry wealthy and bad provided for
Guenther's brother but not for him.
He alleges this Wa motive for
his crime and the evidence shows de-
liberate generalization. The defense
set up plea Of ms unity. Y esterday
Schnell created nsation by going
on the stand himself and giving a
dramatic recital Of his crime and mo-
tives. He said Schurchardt had
ruined his mother and then refused
to own witness as his son. lie went
to the drug store to get Schurchatdt
to sign an acknowledgment of his
paternity. and failing in this was re-
solved to commit suicide. He had
promised his mother to avenge her
wrong by killing the Doctor. but did
not intend to fulfill bis promise until
| a confession was made bySchurchardt
when his mothers form appeared tt
him and urged HIM to kill the Doctor
He fred and then shot himself in tht
head, producing slight wound. The
case went to the jury at 10 o'clocl
| last night and at 3 y. m. to-day th'
verdict came in. An appeal will b.
J taken to tie Supreme Court.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-10
Discomfort in Army Circles.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.-It is
stated that in the army circles here
and in the department. of Columbia
considerable feeling exists over the
refusal of the War Department to
comply with the recommendation of
Gen. Sherman to transfer the Twen-
ty-first infantry in exchange with
the Tenth infantry. The former
has been stationed in the department
of the Columbia since 1872, gone
through Indian campaigns. built
frontier posts and done its full! share
of hard work, whereas the Tenth in-
Lake region, with headquarters at
Detroit, in enjoyment of easy times;
Some officers of the Twenty-flrst had
been granted leave of absence from
time to time, but Notwithstanding
this, several nave diet without see.
ing their families since leaving home
ten or twelve years ago.