The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-03-05
TOWN TALK.
came in like a lamb.

Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn R. Harris of Allan
ta spent Sunday in the city.
A hack-line on Sunday afternoon to the
Marble Works would pay good dividend.
Mrs. N. P. T. Finch, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday as the guest of Miss Kate Howell.
Mrs. A W, Force, of Atlanta, spent last
week with Mrs. G. H. Camp.
Mr. W. L. Butler took in the town one
night last week.
Miss Mary Cheek left last Thursday on a
visit to friends in Townsville.
Mr. Woods White, of Atlanta, spent
Thursday in the city.
1t seems that the hog law is still in force
notwithstanding the weight it was intended
to carry in the last municipal election
Mr. g. G. Burnap and DR.. T. S. Stewart,
after a severe illness, are out again on the
streets to the delight of their many friends
Parties leaving Macon for Atlanta can
have the transportations for themselves and
baggage to the depot, paid for by going via
the E. I. Va. and Ga R. R.
-LosT-On Kennesaw Avenue Saturday
night, Feb. I'd, long, green satin bow lined
with red. The finder will oblige by return
ing to Miss Sallie Camp.
The smoke stack at the marble works is
to be one hundred and twenty feet high and
two hundred Thousand brick are required to
build it and the engine room
The old Kennesaw Route has been dis
solved by taking the New Orleans sleepers
via Cincinnati. 1t seems ridiculous that
the East Tennessee Road should try to
| claim the name of Kennesaw for their line
Mr.. Chuck Anderson sold his beautiful
sorrel horse to Mr. Geo. R. Eager for $4OO
and also shipped car load of twenty-five
head to Augusta last Thursday. His equip
ment as left is the best in the South.
Mr.. A, A. Fletcher has ordered new
supply Of pass keys for Kennesaw House as
the demand has increased lately to such an
extent that the boys are more numerous
than the keys and night is made hideous by
the midnight poundings on the front door.
IT'S said that thirteen of our young la
dies are engaged to be married. If they
should all see fit to plight their troth
during this year. 1886 would see Marietta
devoid of a large share of its genuine at
tractiveness.
Last Saturday night it was our pleasure
in company with several couples to visit the
home of Miss Mamie Simpson, to test the
her powers of electricity, magnetism &c
Unfortunately she had sprained her wrist
and was not prepared to give a full exhibit
of the unknown force with which she is i'm
bued. Her feat of raising two men sitting
in a chair, weighing $50 lbs, squarely off Of the
floor and standing on one foot resisting the
pressure of a strong man was something more
than remarkable. An effort is being made
to induce her to give public exhibition at
an early day.
"A gentleman who travels from neigh
boring city remarked a few days since
The boom that Marietta is enjoying is the
talk every where, it is considered an evil
dence of permanent prosperity and as little
as you may think of it, is attracting the
| eagle eye of capitalists, both from the north
and south" He continued by giving an
elaborate opinion of the many advantages
and beauties of our section and climate and
of the fortunate location in our city of the
marble works, and ended by saying, IL con-
slider the outlook for your beautiful city
more promising than any town in Georgia"
The boiler of the engine, Little Mary.
of the NJ & N. Ga. R. R. being deemed I'M
safe, the machinery was stripped off, and
with little ceremony she was rolled from the
| shops down the embankment and consigned
to a resting place in the scrap pile A new
! one has been ordered and the machinery
being overhauled an engine as good as new
will soon be added to their rolling stock
This little engine becomes historic, the pic.
neer, as it were, of the narrow gauge being
| compelled for want of shelter to stand the
storms of many wintry night on the end of
a track that is now fast reaching to the Dor
| ders of a neighboring State She it was whose
hOarse breathings and shrilI whistle were
first echoed in the recesses.. of the mountains
Of North Georgia, the sighful responses rev
erberating as they died away on the still at
mosphere of the mountain solemnity.
ONCE WEEK.