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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
COUNTING THE CASH.

One Of the Washington Officials who
is engaged in counting the cash in
the Treasury vault furnishes some in
teresting information in regard to
the amount of weight thereof. There
are 100000 of silver on hand in
bags, each containing 81, 900, weigh
ing fifty-nine pounds three ounces;
50 100000 in silver would pull
down the balance at almost three
tons, and s1,000,000 would be nearly
10000 pounds. The entire amount
of coined silver now in the Treasury
vaults, they estimate, will weigh 243,-
700 pounds.
A pound of gold coin is worth
$40, and s280,0O0 of it weighs a ton,
and there are nearly twelve ton of
gold fives, ten and twenties In the
country's strong box at the Treas
ury.
vi paper money, too, there Is an
enormous amount. One hundred
and fifty millions of dollars are in
So, 81 and 81 bills. About seven of
these bills measure a yard in length,
so greenback belt that would reach
around the world almost twenty
times could be made of the United
States notes now in the vaults and in
circulation.
The money, of course, is not count
ed coin by coin. The gold and sill
yer is weighed very carefully on the
finest and most accurately fitted
scales that were ever made. Though
1000 pounds can be weighed at a
time, pin placed on the balance
will tip it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
MORMON PROSELYTEISM.

The Mormon emissaries have their
headquarters at Chattanooga, and
from there they make raids into Geor-
gia and the counties in close prox-
unity thereto, and their boast is that
they are meeting with more success
now in getting recruits for their gross
travesty upon religion than at any
period Of their PROSECUTING work. In
Europe too, the Mormons have their
men at work, and a steady stream of
men and women from foreign nation
alities are coming to the United
States, to go to Utah and Arizona to
swell the ranks of the devotees of
polygamy. Thus this immigration of
the dissolute class is not only danger
Gus, but is the means Of injecting into
our body polite an alien power
that is constantly hostile to the vir-
tue, intelligence and peace of the
country. That these people who are
hocking to Utah and Arizona are do
ing so Of their own volition and there
fore cannot be restrained of their
liberty of action, shows that liberty
in this country is running into a
license that foments a state of affairs
that practically undermines our sys-
TEN of government. Ignorance and
sensuality should be kept in proper
bounds when they in fact by their
customs infract law. Congress has a
duty in this matter that demands ur-
gent action. Our Georgia Legisla-
ture, too, when its meets in July will
fail of its duty if doesn't enact some
measure to suppress the law-defying
intruders from carrying on their ne
farious work on Georgia soil.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
DUE WEST.

Some of our farmers have poor stands Of
cotton and others have repIanted.
W. l. Goodwin is preparing to run a
travelling gin and will visit farms making
two bales of cotton.
Miss Emma Goodwin has returned from
Atlanta.
Mrs B. W. Griggs has returned from
Tennessee.
-Whoopee at the increase of population.
One each at Asa Darby's, T. w Eubanks'
Henry Eubanks' and G. W. Coxs and five
more in the Big Shanty district.
Mrs. Nancy Griggs is visiting her son,
0. |. Griggs, of Atlanta
Some ofour boys are looking for site
at Austell to run brick machine
Some of the Big Shanty boys while
fishing had to skedadle off of Mr.. j. A.
Green's posted farm.
The stock law went into operation last
Monday, but everything moved on just the
same
Rev McElwreath will preach Sunday
l a. m, and Rev. Smith at 81 D. m. Let
all attend VERITAs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
these are Solid Facts.

The best blood purifier and system regu-
!ator ever placed within the reach of suffer
ing humanity, truly is Electric Bitters.
Inactivity. of the Liver, Biliousness. Jaun-
dice Constipation, Weak Kidneys, or any
disease Of the urinary organs, or whoever
requires an appetizer, tonic or mild stimu-
LIANT, will always find Electric Bitters the
best and only certain cure known They
act surely and quickly, every bottle guaran-
teed to give entire satisfaction or money re-
funded. Sold at fifty cents bottle by Il. II.
Northcutt
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

About year ago Dalton lady
mysteriously lost her set of false teeth.
She had placed them on a table one
night before retiring, but the next
morning the teeth were nowhere to
be found. The search was finally
given up and no more was thought
about it, until one day recently, in
taking several planks from the ceiling
of a room in order to remove the car
casses of some dead rats, which had
become quite offensive to the inmates,
what should be found between the
ceiling and Notwithstanding but the
lost false teeth, where some malicious
rodent had carried them over year
ago.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
WHERE TO GET JOB PRINTING.

Attention is directed to the jobbing de-
partment ofthe MARIETTA Journal which is
provided with the most approved and ex-
tenslye facilities for the execution of lob
printing of all kinds, from the smallest label
to the largest poster, in black or colored
INKS, at prices as low as can be had else
where for an equal grade of work. We are
prepared to print at short notice, pamphlets
posters programmes, circulars letter heads
checks envelopes, bill heads, blanks of ali
kinds, catalogues, business cards, and every
thing IN the line of printing used in the con-
duet Of every day business.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
A JUST VERDICT.

way bCOI &c l. JdChSOl, Il TeSluenL
of the Enterprise Manufacturing
Company, Augusta, Ga, who embez-
zled $1,000 of the Company's mon
ey, and concealed the same by false
entries, was tried last week, convict
ed and sentenced to the penitentiary
for six years.
Maj. Jackson has lived in Augusta
81 years, is highly esteemed and oc-
cupied positions of honor and public
trust. He is a man of family, and
when his sentence was passed his
sons stood around him in deep morti-
fication and wept. 1t was a touch
ing scene, but nevertheless the JUS
tice of the sentence is regarded as
deserved. Led astray by the mania
Of speculation, he used money for
private purposes that did not belong
to him, and he had been carried out
so far into the stream of speculation,
he was suddenly drawn into the vor-
tex of financial destruction from
which he could not extricate himself.
He invited ruin by dallying with dis
honesty. The big rascals who occu-
Ply exhalted social positions and Off
cial trusts, should be made to feel
the severity Of the law, more so than
the humble poor who steals a loaf of
bread to appease hunger The rotten
ness that turks among the methods
Of big spectators is frightful to con
template, and we are glad to see the
vindication of the law in Augusta.
1t will do. a vast deal in clearing the
commercial sky OF dishonesty.
1t is said the book keeper, Arm
strong, was aware of the fraudulent
use of the company's money but re-
Trained from disclosing the matter
for fear he would be discharged by
President Jackson. We think his
part, in quietly seeing the stockhold-
ers robbed for fear he would lose his
bread, is a most unenviable and cul-
pable one. Rather than hold lu-
crative position that exacted so de-
basing and cringing submission, we
would have given up the place and
begged for bread until situation
could have been secured under an
honorable man. He would then
have preserved his honor and self
respect, the good opinion of his fell
low men and received the plaudits Of
angels. AS it is he is now looked up
on as degraded and untrustworthy
God never forsakes or allows an hon
est man to starve; although many
unrighteOus men live for "a time in
splendor upon ill-gotten gains, yet
their downfall, like that of jackson,
Tweed, Fisk and Ward, will inevita-
bly, come, then shame, ignominy and
Imprisonment overtakes them with a
despair as dismal as the blackness Of
the Internal regions.
The youth of the country may learn
the moral of this lesson to profitable
advantage, that honor, character and
social position can only be maintain.
ed by strict observance of honesty
and truth in all things. Any depar-
ture from this, is only the beginning
Of a dishonorable career that will end
in bankruptcy, disgrace and wretch
edness.
BE humbly poor rather than be
thievlshly rich. Keep ever in mind
that character is destiny.
Honor and shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part there all the honor lies =
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Prof. Ridgway, of the Smithsonian
Institution has taken pains to write
to a London publication his predic-
ton that ''the English sparrow in
the United States is national mis-
fortune which is likely, in the near
future, to assume calamitious proper
tons. But more than twenty-five
years ago, and more to the point, DR..
Elliott Couse warned the people Of
this country that the then, just pro-
posed importation of these pests, as
he predicted they would prove to be.
was altogether ill-advised and that
they would become an intolerable
nuisance. In England these birds
are kept down in numbers by, their
wholesale slaugter for edible pur-
poses. The sparrows make a very
good pie, and it is better that they
should make or be made into pies
than to be making dirt and mischief
as they do.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
Frank LesIie's Sunday MAGAZINE

For June completes the Seventeen Volume
with number of exceptional interest. The
opening article is by the eminent traveller.
Avian $. Southworth, and entitled Catholic
Missions in the Far East" principally Far
ther India China and Japan; the la6ors of
St Francis Navier and his successors are
graphically described The article on "Bi-
bic History tells Of the conquest of Canaan
under Joshua, and the history of the Israel
ties under the rule of the Judges. This ar
ticle has twelve illustrations. Portraits and
short biographical sketches are given of the
three new English Bishops. The Sacred
Musicians described are Madame Sainton-
Dolby, who recently died, and Anton Ru-
binstein and the Parallels of Christ have
reached their thirteenth number with THE
Barren Fig-tree.' Farieons story. Loves
Harvest reaches an interesting point. and
Mrs. Farmers serial What She Made of
Her Life, progresses fayorably. There are
several very beautiful poems. and varied
and attractive miscellany, at % cents a
number or 500 year, postpaid. Publish
ed BY Mrs Frank Leslie, 50, 50, 81 Park
Place, New York.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
DRY GOODS.
II A II s,
NOTIONS, &c.
MARIETTA, GA.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
Georgia-Cobb County:

Georgia-Cobb County:
By virtue of an order of the court of Ordi>
nary of Cobb County, will be sold, at the
Court house door in said county, between
the legal sale hours, on the FIRST Tues
day in June, 1885, the house and lot
wherein H. G. Dodd resided at his death.
situated in the town Of Smyrna and being
one and quarter acres more or less, of land
lot No 52l in 17th District and 2nd section
said county also store house and lot north
Of Depot in smyrna south of property of
W n. Pace and east of Marietta street also
an undivided one third interest in lot of one
and one fourth acres in town of Austel.
bounded on south by d X Love east by
n. a Morse, north by Ga. PET r. r. To-.
gether with an undivided one third interest
in Chair factory, all machinery and i'm
provements thereon, sold as property of II.
9. Dodd, late of said county, deceased, for
benefit of heirs and creditors. Terms cash
This April 2Sth, 1885
THOS. NJ. HOOPER, Admir-
of II. c. Dodd
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
His Loss was Her Gain

We'll madam, said a fashionable plysi-
S cian 70 wealthy lady patient if you don't
Ike my prescriptions, perhaps you had better
try farher Ionlc, or some other quack
Stuil, Ton don't mean it Doctor She
answered, but your advice may be good for
all that. Sometimes what you catl ,qaack
stun Is the best and most scientific medicine
after ALL She rot Il bottle Of Parker Tonic
and it cured her OF neuralgia arising from
disordered stomachand nerve She fDtl lnr
friends, and now they all keep doctor AT
homein the form Of Pmhers Tonic
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

a young man living near Sweet
water church, named Robbins, about
seventeen years old, went down into
the creek bottoms last Saturday, to
get some herbs of some kind, and
pulled up a weed and put small
piece Of the root in his mouth to
taste it. 1t made him sick. and he
went to the house and died within
half an hour. No one knows what
it was that poisoned him Douglas-
rifle Star.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Secretary Whitney, it is stated,
has already discovered that it is
cheaper to give away old vessels than
to pay tor breaking them up, and he
is astonished that Secretary Chan
dler had six vessels broken up last
year at cost of S107, 900 when the
materials in them were worth only
S73,41765. Secretary Whitney should
take into consideration that last
year was an important one from
political point of view, and that
s1O7 900 no doubt went long way
towards encouraging weak kneed
Blaine voters about the navy yards.
Probably the work would not have
cost so much any other year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

The Gainesville, Ga, match facto-
ry turns out five millions of matches
per day. Our merchants should pat
ronize this Georgia enterprise in
preference to the Northern syndi-
cate which is trying to break it down
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
Fence or No Fence.
COURT CT ORDINARY. COBB Co.,

MARIETTA, GA, May 12th, 1885. I
This is to give notice that there has been
filed in this Court as provided ty Section
1455 of the Code of Georgia, petition of
Freeholders OF said County, asking that an
election be held in said County as provided
in said Section on the question of Fence"
or mo Fence " and that said election will
be ordered after the expiration oftwenty
days from date unless a counter petition is
filed as provided by law.
H. NJ. HAMMETT, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

DoGs.-A. has , dogs and COM
plains Of times being so hard that he
cannot see how he can live. Did he
ever make calculation of what it
takes to feed his dogs a year: Say
one costs you ) cents a day; he will
cost you in year SlS.25, and you
have spent that amount to feed a
worthless cur when it would buy over
300 pounds of meat at 6 cents a
pound. Add each additional DOC
you keep and see how you are throw
ing away your money, and thus let
ting your children and wife 20 with
out food and raiment to support your
worthless dogs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
A NEW PROPOSITION

GET UP .CLUBs.-The Marietta Journal
will be sent in clubs of TEN for one dollar
each cash in advance As an indncement
we will give an extra copy of the paper to the
person getting up the club Single copies
of the paper positively not less than 81 so
This places your county paper within the
reach of all and there can be no excuse TOR
not taking if
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
SORRELI SPRINGS

Cotton chopping in .progresss. ~ III boy at
Charley Moons. -Stocklaw went into effect last
Monday. The recent rains were greatly needed.
Wheat and oats considerably injured by dry wealth
err. Hogs dying with cholera. Ballard Martin
bagget have moved their saw mill to Red Rock.
whore they have contracts 10 build two bridges
). T. Billiard has closed his school near SMYRNA iii
summer and is home again. [ kNo 'WHos
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

The old man of the Macon Tele-
graph is hungry. Hear him, eve
want to see the Georgia Republicans
hustled out of Office in one act. Such
sight in the language of the lemon
ade vender would be pleasing to the
eye, soothing to the nerves and cool
ing to the system"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

More than three million Germans
have emigrated to this country dur
ing the last sixty years. OF this
number one million have emigrated
during the last decade. 1t is conced-
ed by all intelligent men that no ele-
ment contributes more to the prosper
ity and solid achievements of our age
than the one represented by the fore
going figures. The Germans have
made the West in particular a tower
of strength in all the features of ma
terial prosperity.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

R. G. Matthews, of GAINESVILLE,
owns horse which is so full of cleo
tricity that every hair in his tail
stands out to itself, and upon holding
a guttapercha comb close to it the
hair Immediately flies to it as if
drawn by some irresistible force.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

The dwelling of J. I. Brogdon, near
Fairburn, was burned Monday night.
Mr.. Brogdon had S62.5O in money in
the house, which was burned. In
his efforts to reach this he was pain
fully burned about the face and
shoulders.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
GEORGIA-COBB COUNTY.

Mrs. Mary J. Parks has in due form an.
piled to the undersigned for permanent let.
tiers OF administration on the estate of Elan
NJ. Parks late of said county. deceased, and
| will pass upon said application on the
first Monday in June next. This April
29th, 1885
II. NJ. HAMMETT, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

THE Nashville American has in it's
editorial room the only telegraph
operator John Payne, in the world
who ever succeeded in taking the en-
tire night report of the western asso-
ciated press on the type writer from
the sounder. He handles an average
of $4,000 words nightly with the ut
most ease.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
Tax Receivers Notice.
"A. MI. DoBB9.

| will be at the following places on the
dates mentioned. for the purpose of receiv-
ing tax returns for the year, 1885,
Lemons, April 6 morning May morn
ing June morning.
Smyrna, April Eve, May eve, June
eve.
Marietta, April l. May 5, June 2.
}. Y. Alexanders, April morn, May 6
morn, June 3 morning.
Merritt's, April eve, May 6 eve, June
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

A committee of the Georgia Legis-
lature will make inspection trips over
all the railroads in the State, leaving
Macon on May 10. They will arrive
at Waycross on the 2lst, at Brunswick
on the ODD, and Savannah on the oath,
where they will remain for several
days. Besides these places they will
visit all the principal towns in the
State.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

The telegraph recently gave an ac-
count of the importation here of Rus
sian -four, equal to the best Ameri-
can, which sold for So per barrel.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

never saw a man who disbelieved
in a hell who, if there is one, is not
making bee line for it. A man
never had doubt which, if he pulled
it up by the roots, had not a seed at
the bottom, and that seed is sin.
Your infdelity is as deep as your
meanness, and no deeper.-ReO. Sam
Jones.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Members of the Georgia Legisla-
ture are getting ready for the com
ing campaign.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Secretary Whitney appears to be
doing his work we'll. He willnot pay
John Roach for the Dolphin until the
Dolphin works up to contract, The
Dolphin has just failed for the third
time. John Roach says it was too
much grit on the oil. 1t looks like
Secretary Whitney possesses the grit,
which causes the trouble.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21
GEoRGIA-CoBB COUNTY /;

Four weeks after date application will be
made to the court of Ordinary of said coun-
ty for leave to sell the real estate of Ann s.
Fraser deceased This April Goth, 1885.
REBECCA L. NJ FRASER, Admr'x
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

John A. Logan has been rejected
United States Senator from Illinois.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Chesley Chambers, a young man
Of good reputation, has been arrested
as the "lone robber" who boarded
the train near Bloomington, Indiana,
some weeks ago, shot Weber and
Davis and robbed the Express safe
Weber identified Chambers as the
party who shot him. On searching
Chambers trunk $40 of the money
was found and the bills bore the
marks made by the passage of the
Express needle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Ellis Speakman, of Coatesville, died
in Iowa several days ago but when
his friends opened the coffin that ar
rived with what was supposed to be
his remains the body within was
found to be that Of another man.
Speakman's body had been sent to
Canada by mistake in the handling
of the collins at Chicago and the Can
adam corpse was sent to Gainesville.
The mistake was recti6ed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

A Kansas man who married a wild
ow with one daughter got divorce
and married the daughter. His step
daughter is now his wife, and his
former wife is now his mother-in-law.
and all live together.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-05-21

Il. ~ T U"IUI 3 UUUt IT.
Akers' Depot, June Is.
The books will close July the Ist Make
your return promptly and you will have no
trouble. The law is so arranged that YOU
must make it before the books are closed or
you will appear as defaulter
G. l.. DANIEL,
Tax Receiver, Cobb County.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-17
The Grave Comes Next

CHICAGO, November ia Baltimore
special says that Alice Oates. who few
years ago was reigning favorite in
opera bouffe, and who played to crowded
houses in the best theatres all over the
country, last night closed an engage
ment of week at the Odeon, one of the
low variety theatres, where female min
strel shows are given, beer sold in the
audience, and the demi-monde resort.
Only one member OF her old troupe Is
with her still, and that is her nephew
Robert Van Orten; robin Hood was
the attraction last week. The dialogue
of the play was changed to suit the
place of amusement; Alice still wore her
Robin Hood costume, and some traces
OF her pert ways remain, but aside from
this, naught is left to remind one of the
little Drima donna. Her voice, once so
fresh and charming, is failing, and after
the slightest exertion, she gasps for
breath. In the upper register, she is
decidedly fiat, and not one whit superior
to the average Serio-comic vocalist. Her
husband travels with her. and at times
assisted at the Odeon by collecting
checks for seats in front