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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
WHAT CAN BE DONE.

In Bordentown, n. J. one firm
clears 100000 year canning nothing
but tomatoes; the work only lasts
few months and the profits are about
twelve and half per cent on the
capital invested. The Beck fruit can
ming company, of California, with a
specially of peaches and pears, pays
dividend of sixteen per cent year on
capital of 100000 invested. Sew
eral factories in Baltimore earn ten
per cent, and none in the country fall
under eight and a half. If four or
, 1--WE men with So, 900 each to invest
would get together and erect can
ming factory in every large city where
there is good, constant supply. OF
fruit and vegetables, the industry
would pay handsomely, since labor
here is SO cheap. Asparagus can be
canned first; then come peas and
beans, cherries and plums, tomatoes,
corn, peaches and other fruits and
vegetables, so that from May first to
October first the machinery could be
kept going constantly. Farmers
would be induced to give more atten-
ton to fruit growing and to struck
gardening" and the south would be-
gin to become more self-sustain-
ing.
And still another point-the cult
walton of horse radish. This will at
first blush seem absurd, but there
are used in this country nearly l, 000,-
900 bottles Of horse radish every year,
and no less than six firms in New
York city are buying the root, which
they grind and put into bottles for ia
bic use. One barren hillside plant
ed in horse radish, which needs nc
cultivation, pays the Connecticut
farmer about $500 per acre every
year. The cultivation of horse rad.
ish is most extensive in Connection
and Pennsylvania.
These ''little things" are mention.
ed just to show the secret of yankee
success. A great many people here
speculate upon how the yankees
manage to get rich it is because they
"save at the spiggot" and do no
waste anything.
1t has been demonstrated very
cOnclusively in the last few year.
that people in this country canno
get rich from cotton planting. 1t il
a hard and improbable business ex
cept in certain favored communities
where the yield of cotton is large
A little travel, considerable observa
ton and the exercise of moderat,
amount of common sense will soor
show the farmers that there are hun
dreds of methods for winning breat
outside the old rut of cotton planting
where all the profits are gobbled VI
by the factors and fertilizer dealers
and the farmer grubs and grubs from
years end to years end while thos,
who ''handle" his cotton succeed
in laying by comfortable competen
cies.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

In Cuba, two hours before paper
is distributed on the street, copy
must be sent with the editors name.
to the government and one to the
censor. When the paper is return
ed with the censor's Endorsement the
paper may 90 out to the public. One
Of the newspapers of Havana disre-
CARDS the law, publishes what it
pleases, and when it gets ready.
Every few weeks the government
finds the editor and SURPRISES the pa
per. The next day the paper appears
under new name. Its frequent
brushes with the government adver-
tise it, and people buy it to see what
new indiscretion it has committed.
The subscription price is S24 a year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

Eleven people have been lynched
in Iowa within the past two years, and
is now the champion mob law State.
The next State to her in that matter
of lynching is said to be Kansas,
while Texas and Kentucky are quot
ed as being the third and fourth in
the list, Maryland is making its way
towards the head of the column.
The rule Of the mob speaks badly for
any State or community. 1t shows
that the laws are not administered
faithfully or that the people have no
respect for either law or justice.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
What Parents Fear.

Many persons-especially parents-ob-
Ject to many quack nostrums as likely to en-
gender or encourage love for strong drink.
They are right. Better die of disease than
of drunkenness The use ofParkers Tonic
does not involve this danger 1t not only
builds up the system, curing all ailments OF
thes tomach liver and kidneys, but it stimu-
lates without intoxicating and absolutely
cures the appetite for liquor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

A spring chicken escaped from a
coop that was being hauled through
Main street in Chattanooga the other
day, and few into a china store, where
1t lit on some expensive glassware
and vases, and broke goods to the
value Of $3.50. The owner of the
store sued the owner the chicken,
and recovered the amount of DANA
ges, plus costs. The defendant has
appealed to a higher court, but it ap-
pears as if the chances are against
him, and the whole amount the Is
cent fowl will cost him, will probably
be, including lawyers fees, about
s225. 1t was a pretty tough spring
chicken.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

Very serious accounts of the raw
ages Of cholera in Spain are filtering
through to London by mercantile and
private correspondence and other
channels beyond the control of the
Spanish censors. There is much
alarm in the southern and seaboard
departments of France, and it is fear
ed that Toulon, Marseilles and ever
Paris, will not escape the plague.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
RULLOCK RONnS.

Henry Clews, Bullock and his gang
are trying to keep up fuss and hur-
rah about the repudiated Georgia
bonds, with a view, no doubt, of get
ting some day public sentiment work
ed up to pay them off. But it will not
be in this day and generation, for
the people know too well how they
were robbed by the Bullock gang tc
ever consent to be robbed the second
time. Clews went in with that crowd
as Bullock said, ''On the make" and
there was no means left unemployed
to make" when the least semblancc
would give coloring to the act. But
the days of thieves and plunderers
over, and it would be more becoming
their self-respect if they would cease
to call up matters that reflected so
damagingly on their honor and hon
eStV
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

The Markham House, of Atlanta,
is in the hands of the Receiver, and
it is said the Kimball House is in a
financial strait, the great developer,
Kimball, built the hotel but embar-
raised it with big debt. We learn
that there is an unpaid Indebtedness
OF S220,000 on the Kimball House
Mr.. Inman has guaranteed, this
amount and loaned $4,000 of ..the
money, and taken a mortgage on
building and furniture.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

There is not much being said about
General Grants sickness at this time.
The cancer is still doing its dreadful
work and he will probably not live
longer than this coming winter.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

General Grant in recent talk
said he had read and seen a good
deal but he never knew a grander
man than General Robert L. Lee.
Good for Grant.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
City Tax Notice.

The books of the Tax Receiver for the
city of Marietta will be closed on the 2Sth of
June next. Make your returns and save
double tax r. BABER. Il. r.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

The seventeen year locusts have be-
gun work on fruits in Illinois and
farmers are beginning to view them
with alarm.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

A cyclone struck a passenger
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul road, near McCook station
in Dakota seven miles from Sioux
City, Iowa, and every car was blown
from the track and the engine par
TALLY so. L. NJ. Scott, express mes
senger was badly hurt and some six
ty passengers scratched and bruised.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

There are $3.50 applications for 216
places in the Land Department.
What an excitement will prevail when
that ''cussing train" departs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

Will somebody tell US why there is
such haste to trot out candidate for
Governor
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

New Orleans has had one case OF
suspicious yellow fever, child
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

The public debt of the United
State is being paid off at the rate of
one hundred dollars per minute.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

The Republicans of Ohio have
nominated Judge James B. Foraker
for Governor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
Street Tax all Due.

If not paid promptly, executions will is
sue at once K. BABER, L. C.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18
Tax Receivers Notice.
a. MI. DoBBs.

l will be at the following places on the
uates mentioned; for the purpose of receiv-
ing tax returns for the year. 1885;
Lemons, April morning Nav morn
ing June morning.
Smyrna, April Eve, May eve, june l
Marietta, April I, May 5, June 2.
). !. Alexanders April morn, May 6
morn, June 3 morning.
Merrltts, April eve, May eve, June 3
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-18

Il: n fOWIer S, June IT,
Akers' Depot June l8
The books will close July the lst Make
your return promptly and you will have M
trouble. The law is so arranged that rn nU
must make it before the books are closed or
you will appear as a defaulter.
G. /. DANIEL,
Tax Receiver, Cobb County.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Etiquette Of Cards.

If the etiquette of cards were known
anywhere in this country it ought to
be IN Washington, where official dis
tinctions abound. It is etiquette
among Senators to leave off the usual
prefix Mr." ON their cards. Mr.. Ed
munds' card is simply George f.
Edmunds, Vermont;" Senator Vance's
81. B. Vance. n. c." and SO on. Sen.
Ingalls,. has on his cards, with grand
simplicity, 'Mr, Ingalls," There is
is but one Mr.. Ingalls,, and he makes
the world acquainted with the fact
that he dwells on this planet in soil
tary magniicence. All foreign Min
listers, even the English, have their
titles engraved in French on their
cards. This custom arises from the
fact that the French language is the
diplomatic language of Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

serpent's. From the first he had been
enamored Of her beauty, and he was
not in the habit of locking behiud the
mask of what are called perfect fea-
lures, nor did he understand that a
face, to be truly beautiful, must in
some measure reflect pure soul. One
part of the conversation which she
overheard (not that Reggy ever sus-
pected her OF llstening) referred to his
will. about which [ had made an in
curry, since he had only lately told
me | was one of his trustees. It is
possible she had misinterpreted some<
thing he had said about altering it.
think Of these and othe1 things now.
which, under other circumstances. I
rsight have forgottea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

MarshaI Mcmahon of Versailles we
were about to viset. but Marshal Nc
Mahon, president of the republic.
Instead of being shown In by sous
officer of the line, we were passed
from one resplendest officer to anoth-
er. We appeared to be surrounded by
the formalities of court. At last we
were shown into the presence of
Vicomte Emmanuel d'Harcourt, the
private secretary to the president.
explained the object of my visit and
was told to wait. In a little time [
was granted an audience, and my
business being finished the marshal
reminded US of the promise made bv
the marchioness about our sod of
shamrock. He rang a bell. A SER
want, dressed in gray and silver, with
scarlet plush lacings, appeared. Our
cards were sent up stairs, and after 3
short delay we assembled the stairs and
We're shown into q suit of rooms fur
nlsAed with regal magnifcence
Everything around us appeared to be
OF a semi-royal character. But the
marchloness was as charming and
frank as before. She had not for
gotten us and to prove it she led the
way to the conservatory, We passed
through rooms all Of which indicated
pomp and circumstance. At lest the
conservatory was reached. The mar
chloness led the way, and passing be-
fore plot of swad which covered
some square yards of surface, she
drew our attention to large wooden
tub which was painted green. The
sward was healthy looking and green
and L recognized it at once. Facing
us there was a label, and the mar
chioness smiled as she saw me reading
the words which were written on its
face: "A sod of shamrock from the
tomb of O'Connell."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Words Of Wisdom.

The rays of happiness, like those
of light, are colorless when unbroken.
[ know no such thing as genious
genius is nothing but labor and dill
igence.
Men should not think too much of
themselves. and yet man should be
careful not to forget himself.
Maids want nothing but husbands,
and when they have them they want
everything.
When q man has ne desire but to
speak the plain truth he may say q
great deal in a narrow space.
Some peoples hearts are shrunk in
them like dried nuts. You can hear
them rattle as they walk.
Methods and details of manages
ment are of slight importance in
comparison with the central purpose
of the Nation.
Many people take no care of their
money till they have come nearly to
the end of it, and others do the same
with their time.
Do not say, ''It does not pay to be
gin what we will probably never fin
ISL" The beginning may be the part
assigned to you,
Money is rot mammon. Give it
plenty of air and it is sweet as the
hawthorne; shut it up and it ca mixers
and breeds worms.
The coaamon man is the victim of
events Whatever happens IS too
much for him; he is drawn this way
and that way, and his whole life is a
hurry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Presents TO the President.
Washington Capital

The PRESIDENT is still bothered with
presents. Last week a big salmon
was sent from Oregon to be served for
his Sunday dinner. A Connecticut
woman gave him the photograph of
her son, who is perhaps ten years
younger, but bears so striking re-
semblance to Mr.. Cleveland as to be
taken for him even by persons who
know the president well. The lady
said she wanted the president to have
the photograph of her son because of
this remarkable resem blance. / am
told the president hasn'ta brother who
looks so much like him as this Con-
nee ticut man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
THE FEMALE MIND.

At noon, she really does not know,
At evening, she is doubling still,
At night, she feels quite positive,
And sleeps upon, L surely will.
The morning dawns upon the plan;
She rubs her eyes; she hardly knows
If, after all, it's wise and BEST,
Her troubled hesitancy grows.
BY noon her doubts have multiplied,
She's where she was the day before;
She hardly knows, at twelve O'Clock,
And finds it is not best at four.
At dinner she's quite sure she won't
Absurd to ever think she would,
BY candle light she can not tell,
Il wouldn't wonder il l should
It's won't and will, and cannot tell,
Il hardly know may-I mayn't,"
Until some firm and sturdy will
Decides it for tie pretty saint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
They Belonged to Different Churches.
ArkanSaw Travele

"Why do you desire a divorce9"
asked the Judge.
''Well," replied the man from the
mountains, because me an the old
woman can't get along together. She
belongs to one church and belong to
another"
GA religious incompatibility, sup
pose. !"
Yes, I reckon that's it."
'You don't agree in your religious
ideas?"
mo, sab"
Give me an example,
"Well, luther day 7 shot Ham
Bales. I shot him with a rife. Ny
wife she lowed that if [ had belonged
to her church [ would have shot him
with a pistol. I know that am right,
for don't want to take no chances.
The case has been taken under ad-
visement
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Why He DidA't Send 1t.
Merchant Traveller.

Mrs. Allforshow gave a party and
she was flying around among her
guests and servants in a wild, uncer-
tain way. About II o'clock she few
into the hall and sung out so every
body could hear her:
Jane, Jane, did the man say he'd
send that ice cream on time?"
He said he couldn't do it, men,"
Chow long have we got to wait, I'd
like to know?'
I'D ont know, mem"
''Wen, why didn't he send it,"
''Wy, mem, he said you'd have to
pay cash, because he was tired of
sendin' things here on time an never
gettin' no pay"
Tableau
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Keeping Up the Old Country Plan.
st. Paul Globe.

There is a very large colony of
Russian Mennonites in Bon Homme,
Dakota, and other counties in that
section, and these retain most of their
old country practices. One of these
Is their weekly fair. Every Thursday
thousand or more of them gather
atScotland, bringing whatever they
may wish 10 sell or trade-horses,
cattle, hogs, sheep, corn, and dairy
products, and everything in fact. 1t
seems to be useful and popular
arrangement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Mistake Of Mistress of Cookery.
Hartford Post.

IldIIIUIu IUSJ
''That looks very nice indeed" re-
marked Mr.. Fitzjoy to his better half.
as he uncovered the breakfast dish
"W hat is it?"
''That is the new cooks specially
tripe smothered in crumbs of bread. u
well, should say SO" as he made
an unsuccessful attempt, to cut it.
cts mighty tough"
Il don't see. The cook has a diplo-
ma. She ought to be good one."
ION, that accounts for it. She fri
ed the diploma"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

tain character in fiction had uttered a
warning concerning widows, which
had passed into proverb. He simply
said, with the blood rushing into his
face, Dickens is a vulgar snobr' and
then, as quickly, 81 beg Dickens
pardon, old boy, and yours" and we
drove off to Mayfair. Reggy was hard
hit. I did not attempt to chaf him
about his passion, SO out of keeping
with the present tone of society which
never goes into raptures over any
thing.
I'VE met her at Hamburg, and
afterward at Como" said Reggy's
aristocratic yet amiable and pleasant
mother; ''sbe was travelling with her
uncle, Count de fourier"
''It is a rather short engagement, "
7 replied, ''but we live in a rapid
age"
II hope he will be happy" rejcined
his mother, but I thought there was
something of doubt in the way she
gave expression to her hopes.
Our conversation, necessarily brief,
was interrupted by he arrival of
Reggy's betrnthed-Mrs. Trentham.
There was a movement of curiosity
among the people. Mrs. Gardner rose
from the tea table to receive the latest
caller with especial honor. Reggy
looked at me triumphantiy as he said,
"Come and be introduced"
[ advanced as one in a dream; I was
under a spell. I pulled myself togeth-
err as we'll as T cOuld
''This is my oldest and best friend,
Marie" said Reggy; che hopes
though your newest, to be also your
best friend"
She Looked me straight in the face
and held out her hand. It seemed TO
me as If her manner was a challenge
as if she said: 1--WE are deadly en-
emies, but you must pay homage to
me-" What she really did say was
81 hope SO, Reggy."
Mrs. Trentham was Adrastial The
knot of golden hair which fell liz
cluster from her bonnet and rested
upon her neck was to my mind a
tanglement of snakes. The eloquence
of the serpent was on, her tongue, and
she held my friend in her destinations
as completely as the serpent holds the
bird that eventually drops from the
tree into the expectant jaws. Reggy
Gardner was to marry the woman of
the snake house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
White Man Rebuked.
Texas Sitting.

A stranger in Austin met Uncle
Nose and asked him:
Where does Col. Yerger now re-
side?"
He Lbs out dar on Austin avenue
somewhars.
What is the number Of the house2''
Huh! You finds the number on de
dore. Don't yer know how ter read
yit2"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
~

! I had left Berkshire for London and
my servant was packing my traps for
Norway, Reggy and his wife having,
as [ understood, started for the Med
iterranean, wnen 1 received a tele-
gram from Reggys mother; please
come at once; fear my poor boy is
dying" It was from Berkshire: so
she was there, I had only been in
London three days. I hurried down
by the next train. Mrs. Gardner had
been sent for only that morning.
She thought was there. The Count
had come, and a local physician was
in attendance. A London doctor of
great eminence arrived with me.
We were both to olate. Reggy
Gardner was dead.
He had been taken i'll the day I
came and had gradually grown worse.
The end had been intensely painful.
His wife was with him to the last.
She had attended him night and
day. He had died in her arms. Now
she was inconsolable, they said, and
would not see any one. The doctors
called the fatal malady which had
carried him off inflammation of the
heart" They did not dream what
grim satire there was in the verdict.
At my request they examined the
remains of the medicine which had
been administered to Reggy, and made
other inquiries, but everything, he
told me confdentiallY, tended to con-
firm the correctness of the certificate
of death which the other medical
attendant had signed. He diagnosed
the case for me, making the story of
Reggy's death appear perfectly reg,
ular and natural, and week after
ward they carried the boy who had
accosted me that Friday outside the
Zoo to the family vault in the little
Berkshire church. a codJcil had been
made to the will on the second day of
the poor lads illness, excluding my
trusteeship, and appointing the widow
sole executrix.
"And now good-by," said Adrastia,
when all was over and we were alone,
face to face; "we never liked each
other, and there is now no further
cause to Ensemble our hatred"
Mrs. Gardner" I answered, IT
thank you for this frankness. Let me
follow your example. [ charge you
with the murder of the boy we have
just buriedn
She stepped a pace backward; but
her face neither changed ia color nor
expression.
''The day may come when [ shall
reiterate that declaration before an
earthly judge"
She swept across the room in long
train of rustling Grape. She was
dressed in deep mourning. Looking
defant1y as she laid her hand upon
the bell-pull, she rang a quick, firm
peal. 1t was answered by sleek
Italian servant. She pointed toward
me as she addressed him.
''This gentleman is leaving us;
order the carriage aroand for the rail
way station at once"
The door being closed again, she
said: your malice outruns your
discretion, and your enmity overndes
your manners. despise and defy
your
All the same, she killed that unhap-
Ply boy, and watched over his last
agonies with the same cruel satisfac-
ton that chilled the blood in the SER
penthouse. [ am sure Of it. Have l
proved it. No not yet. A present
Reggy Gardeners death is one of the
MYSTERIES of ,ondon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
IL.

Pail Mall thronged with cabs and
carriages. 1t was the height of the
London season. We luncaed cozily
at the club. I forgot Adrastia under
the influence of the Reforms dry
champagne and Reggy's gush about
Mrs. Trentham for the lady who had
won the young fellows heart was a
widow. I warned Reggy that GER