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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
MAJOR BACON,S POSITION

He writes letter concerning his
attitude toward the Railroad Com
mission and says:
was a member of the legislature
when the law was enacted which Gre
ated the present commission, and
favored and assisted in the enact
ment of the same. l have been ever
since in favor of the continuance of
the commission.
The commission should not be the
partisan either of the public or the
railroad interest. 1t should be as
nearly as possible thoroughly i'm
partial tribunal to judge between
them, to do exact justice to each, and
to do injustice to neither. 1t should
guard the public against any oppres-
sion by the railroads. 1t should also
be careful to avoid anything which
will unnecessary infict injury on the
railroads. 1t is the high duty of
government to protect and conserve
all interests, public, personal and
corporate.
The railroad companies shall not
be allowed to charge excessive rates
of freight or passenger tariff. 1t is
proper, however, that they should be
allowed such rates as will, with care
iul and economical management, en-
able them to keep their road bed and
equipment in condition safe and
comfortable to the public, and at the
same time make it practicable to give
reasonable dividends to their stock
holders, and to pay liberal wages to
their employees commensurate with
the danger and difficulty of the SER
vices they render. In the content
ment, efficiency and fidelity of these
employees, every citizen of the state
has personal interest.
| regard the continuance of the
railroad commission as the settled
policy Of the state, founded in the
deep convictions of our people as to
its propriety and necessity. Perma-
nent as it promises to be, it is of the
highest Importance that it should be
utilized as the promoter and conserv-
ator of harmonious relations between
the public and the railroads. 1t
should not be perverted into means
by which to foment discord and to
create division among our people.
Believing this, / have invariably
yielded promptly to the decisions of
the party speaking through its con-
ventions. l shall pursue the same
course in the future, and the princi-
Piles and the policy announced by the
convention soon to assemble, relative
to the railroad commission as well as
to other matters of state concern will
be accepted by me as binding upon
my individual judgment and action.
Yours very truly. A. 0. BACON,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
A REMARKABLE GIFT,

One of the most remarkable cases
of intelligent blindness on record ex-
lists in Steubenville, Ohio, in the per-
son of man named Jacob Twaddle.
He is sixty years old and notwith-
standing the fact he has been blind
from his birth he is able to distin-
guish readily by the sense of touch
the color of horse, make rails, build
fences, grub, rake and bind as well
as the best of his hands after a era
die and to attend and manage with
out assistance everything necessary
to be done on his farm, and he goes
to Salienville, eight miles from his
residence, to market often unattend-
ed by anyone; knows the location Of
every farm for miles from his house
and is able to readily point out the
same while passing by; recognizes
everybody he is acquainted with, by
the senses of touch and hearing has
been known to recognize stranger
whom he had not met in ten years by
the sense of touch alone. In 1912
he drove four horse team from here
to Twaddle's horse mill in Ross town
ship, distance of twenty-five miles
and can now point the location Of
every grave in the old stone church
cemetery in Fox township, Carroll
county, and tell whose dust it con-
! tains. He is one of family of sew
en-, all born blind.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Rev. DR.. Armstrong, of Atlanta,
threatens to bring suit against his
"slanderers," and he says he has
gone before magistrate and made
oath that he was not guilty of drunk
enness or any immoral practices in
Cincinnati. He demands that all
the evidence against him be printed
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

The heavy rains of last week were
general all over the South, and great
damage was done to railroad bridges,
culverts, mines and towns. Railroad
running was temporarily suspended.
Rome was flooded and communica-
ton cut off. The rivers generally
were out of their banks. 1t was all
unusually heavy and disastrous rain.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Young Mackenzie, of .Waverly, Ind,
was firing at mark with a rifle on
Tuesday. He did not know that his
mother had entered a cow shed
against which he was firing, and
when he went up to see how well he
had shot he found her lying dead
with bullet hole through her head.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

George Cornwall, of Ohio Creek,
Col, kept SO choice fowls in a very
stout henhouse, but a wild cat climb
ed to the top of the chimney, and
scrambled down into the house kill.
ed every one of the chickens. II
gorged to such an extent that il
couldn't climb back up the chimney,
and Mr.. Cornwall killed it with a
shotgun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
STOOD BY THEIR HUSBANDS.

So, when it came to separating the
passengers of the Oregon, with the
hope of saving at least portion of
them by using the boats, the women
allowed their children to 60 but re-
fused to go themselves without their
husbands, prefering to remain with
them and with them go TO the bottom,
if such fate was at hand. No doubt
a great many people of a pessimistic
turn OF mind, such as prevails in this
unchivalric, unromantic and unsenti-
mental time, read this news with some
surprise not surprise, perhaps, so
much as peculiar sort of interest
that comes from the discovery of an
incident supposed to be out OF har-
mony with the situation. The socie-
ty gossips, as well as the playwrights
and the novel-makers, have built up
an imaginary, artificial worldin which
all domestic life is pictured to be at
SKIES and sevens. This being a ma
terialistic age, an age in which every
thing is made traffic of and reduced
to the money level, the pessimists are
everywhere, and at all times take
advantage of the state of affairs and
go about preaching the doctrine that
the social fabric is rotten and that
we are on the high road to universal
and hopeless disaster.
There are people who have work.
ed themselves up into the belief that
in an average shipload of husbands
and wives nine-tenths of them would
be glad of chance of separation, es-
pecially if there was possibility of
somebody being killed off and got out
of the way. They say, "See the
number of divorces" Yes, there
are great many. But you forget,
dear complainant, that the divorces
belong to the category of lurid hap
penings which bear but a trihing
proportion to the average. On the
average, husbands and wives are
very we'll pleased with each other.
Did you ever think of the difference
between the number of applications
for divorce? There are 100000 of
people in the State of New York, and
| should say 100000 of them are
husbands and wives. The number
of these who are so tired of each 9TH
err they would be glad to be rid of
each other is about as mole-hill is
to the mountain. Yet, the alarmists
who read the columns in the news
papers about divorces, fly off into the
conclusion that MISERY is the rule of
married life, and that the domestic
fabric is ready to crumble. Suppose
you take small section of the popu-
lation as you come to it. Count eve
ry husband and wife of your acquain-
lance. Do you not think nine-tenths
of them would stand by each other
like the husbands and wives did on
the Oregon? Yes, indeed, hun
dred times, yes The quiet, happily
married people do not get into the
newspapers, nor the dramas, nor the
novels. They are not dramatic. They
would not be interesting, because
they are commonplace, but when we
come to make up an estimate of hui
man society, we must not leave them
out of the count. They are the sub
stratum, and on them the purity and
the goodness and the safety of socie-
ty must rely.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

An apparatus has been invented
which, when placed in electric COM
munication with pianofore or other
keyboard instrument, prints the mus
ic as it is being played. The machine
is driven by clockwork. When in
motion band of paper is drawn
through the machine, ard during its
passage is ruled with the staff lines
and passes under a number of small
marking wheels, which correspond
to the keys of the pianofore, and it is
here that the music is recorded.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Gainesville has one female colored
pensioner. Her husband ran away
during the war, joined the other side
and died in the army. After long de-
lays she was placed upon the persion
roll and drew about $4,000 the first
time for back pay. She is quiet and
unassuming old colored woman. She
bought a house and lot with part Of
the money.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Jefferson Davis has fixed April
18th as the date of his lecture in
Montgomery, Ala, in behalf of the
monument to the Confederate dead.
Next day after the lecture he will
lay the corner stone of the monu.
ment.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Once a shepherd, caught out upon
the hills by night, built fire under
the lee Of a pile of stones that he had
tossed together. The heat, splitsome
of the stones, and in the morning the
man saw within one of the cracks a
piece OF shining silver ore. That hap
pened in Peru, and thus was discov.
cred the mines of the Cerro de Pasco
which have yielded s400,00O,0 00.--
Boston Budget.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Under a late law all tales jurors
are entitled to one dollar per diem,
whether they are sworn in or not.
If they are sworn in they are then
entitled to the same pay as other jul
rors.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

L. j, Dabney, a lawyer of Atlanta,
has been found guilty of the charge
of using the mails fraudulently, and
Judge McCay has sentenced him to
six months in Jail.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
We are now prepared to furnish all kind o.
Marble Monuments,

HEAD AND FOOT STONES,
In any Design, of Italian, Vermont or
Georgia Marble, at our shop on Powder
Spring street We defy competition in
q ity of work OF prices
McCLATCHY s. BAILEY.
AS tn the skillful and artistic workman>
ship of Mr.. Bailey, specimens of his work
can be seen in the Marietta and Episcopal
Cemeteries The monument over the grave
of Governor Mcdonald is the work OF
Mr. Bailey done before the war. He has
just left the employ OF prominent marble
works in Tennessee to come to Marietta on
open marble yard, and your patronage is
solicited ID. T. McCLATCHY
Marietta. Co.. Nov. I0tA. leeA
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Justice ought to be cheap as the
dew, but halt the time it costs more
to get it, than its worth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
DIR. p. r. CORTELYOU.

PRACIICING PHYSICIAN,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. OFFICE
WI North-side Public Square next door
to j. j. Northcutt's store Consultation
Hours, 81 a. IN. to l2-3 to p. m, unless
otherwise engaged. Telephone No l5 Can
be called from residence at any hour wht
not in town
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
JOE b. ALEXANDER,

ATTORNEY AT Law,
And United Suites Circuit Court Commissioner
for The Northern District Of Gcorgia
A LII LEGAL BUSINESS ENTRUST-
~ ed to me will receive prompt attention,
Office, next door to Court House, over SEES
sions, Handy Il Co store, Marietta, Ga
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

The most crossed grained are by no
means the worst of mankind !; nor the
humblest in station the most polished
in feeling.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
ii. P. GATCHELL, NJ. d..

GENERAL VISITING IND OFFICE
PRACTICE.
ATARIETTA,GA OFFICE IN THE
-1NLroom formerly occupied by Dr. j. T.
Brown in Masonic Building. Residence
Whitlock House. Special attention paid to
the treatment of the Throat and Lungs.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
Gbe Marietta yuurnaI.

MARIETTA, GA,
THURSDAY MORNING, Apatts, 1859.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
DIR. G. TENNENT.

Office in Nichols Hall, first room on left.
NTEST-SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE, MA
w rietta, Ga. Has removed residence to
the Ogden place on Roswell street. All
calls promptly attended July 4th 1888.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

The Macon and Covington Railroad
has been graded 25 miles. Eight
hundred hands are at work.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
J. z. FOSTER.

ATTORNEY d COUNSELOR ATLAW,
MARIETTA GEORGIA. PROMPT
-1Nl attention given to all legal business.
Office in McClatchys Building.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Who are going to represent us in
the next legislature? This is a ques-
ton that is beginning to exercise the
minds of some of our people.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08

Those who mould and move most the
minds and actions OF men, are seldom
seen. They never head the process
sion.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-08
A. s. CLAY.
.. OLA1. ID. W
CLAY & BLAIR,
ATTORNEYS At Law,

ATTORNEYS AT Law,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. ROOMS |
WI and 2 on the left over Wade White s
store. We give our entire attention to the
practice of law. Promptness is our motto.
Collection specially
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w. p. McCLATCHY,

ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. PRACTICE
-lN1 in all the Courts Legal business so-
licited and promptly attended to. Office in
McClatehy Building.
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Business Cards.
w. S. CHENEY,
At LAW.

ATTORNEY At Law,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA OFFICE
M with ]. E. Motley, South-side of Public
Square. All legal business promptly at.
tended to Collections specially solicited
Real estate bought and sold for parties and
money loaned to and for parties on good
security.
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DIR. III. V. REYNOLDS.

PRdCTTCLNG PHYSICIAN,
NTHEN NOT ENGAGED ELSE.
w where may be found during the day
at his Office, up stairs, in McClatchy Build
ing, Southwest corner of Public Square,
and at night at his residence on Powder
Springs street, one door above the Metho-
dist parsonage, Marietta, Ga.
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Subscribe for the Marietta Journal
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ATTORNEYS ATLAW,
OFFICE IN CORNER BUILDING,
~ next TO Mrs c. c. Brumbys, opposite
Winters Leggs Warehouse, Church Street.
Marietta, Ga.
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Sam Jones has joined Sam Small
and says he too has quit the use of
tobacco.
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GEORGE f. GOBER,
TTORNEY ATLAH-

ATTORNEY AT Law,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. OFFICE,
NI Upstairs in Building next to the
Court House Practice in all the Courts
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PRACTICLNG PHYSICIAN,
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-05-08

Most terrible aud bloody riots
have resulted from the labor
troubles in Chicago and Milwaukee,.
in which men have been killed ana
wounded to the number of about
100. 1t will be noticed that this
blooished has been occa>ioHra by
mobs headed and composed princi
pally of Scandinavians, Poles and
French Socialists.
Now would be il good time for
the discussion of promoting immi
grafton Of European rabble to this
country, on which subject some of
our cOnfreres have been eloquent
1t will also be a suitable time to
organize another raid on the State
treasury for ii few thousand dollars
to promote immigration, whilst the
Legislature is in session.
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The strike, so called, appears to
have been settled, but a great pres
sure is brought to bear TO introduce
the system of working s hours for
one days work. This demand is
being accorded in many places.
Wages have been increased in al
most all the manufacturing estab
lishments and Oil the Railroads.
This indicates a return to prosper
ity, and will be followed, no doubt,
by an improvement in the finances
of the agricultural interests.
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Mistakes of Life.

Somebody has condensed the mis-
takes of life, and arrived a. the con
cluslon that are fourteen of them.
Most people would say, if they told
the truth, that there was no limit
to the mistakes f.; that they were
like the drops in the ocean or the
sands Of the shOre in number, but
it is we'll to be accurate. Here.
then, are fourteen great mistakes :
1T Is a great mistake to set I'D our
own standard OF right and wrong,
ana Judge people accordingly ; to
measure The enjoyment of others by
our own, to expect uniformity of
opinion in this world ; to look for
Judgment and experience in youth;
to endcavOr to mould all disppsi
tons alike, to yield to imnfaterial
trlf1es to look for perfection in
our own actions ; to worry our
selves and others with what can
not be rrmedled ; not to all that
needs alienation as far as lies in
our power !; not tomake allOwa, ces
TOR the lnfiI mites of others /; to con
slde1 everything Impossible that
we cannot perform; to believe only
what our finite minds can grasp:
to expect to be aple to understand
everything.
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In 1874, the Wing party ran the
| great and eloquent statesman, Hen
ry Clay, one of the grandest men
this country ever produced, for
President.
The Democrats, unable to decide
upon any of their great leaders for
"a candidate, finally ended their COZ
tentions by inausuiating the dark
horse system and nominated James
X. Polk OF Tennessee, and, aided
10y dissatisfaction and disOrganiza
ton of the Wing party, caused by
the treachery Of John Tyler, and
also by the unknown history of
their candidate, succeeded in land
ing the dark horse in the White
House. Polk made II very good
President, and recognized the fact
hat be was elected by the Demo
cratic party, in his official career.
Ii 1913 the Wing party nomina
ted Gen. Zachary Taylor, covered
all over with Iaurels won in the
Mexican war and defeated Gen
Cass, Il great statesman, whom the
Democrats had nominated for
President. With Taylor the Wings
associated Willard Fillmore Of New
York for Vice President.
Gen. Taylor was inaugurated
President on March 4, 1S49 and in
1851, worried with the everlasting
turmoils and contentious of politics,
sought rest and tranquility in the
grave. Fillmore became President
by virtue of his office. What has
ever dazzled men who have sudden
ly became President, through the
Vice Presidents chair, has been
the idea OF being elected as their
own successors.
Fillmore forgot that the Wing
party had made him what he was,
and instead of using his power to
perpetuate that party he began to
map out schemes 10 maintain him
self III position. After 1Oundering
about Tor a time, he finally landed
into the camp of the American or
Know Nothing party, that then
seemed to lie the rising one, and
vas badly beaten in il contest with
Gen. Winfield Scott whom the
Wings had nominated ia the hopes
of electlng by the great military
fame that he had justly won, and
Franklin Pierce, il dark horse. way
up in the mountains OF New Hamp-
shire, was elected, on the fame tha.
he had earned in the Mexican wal
by digging a ditch on the wrong
side Of tue breast works.
A. Rig.s& Bro, CiStern Makers
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The delegates of American Il. &
l.. Co., Nc. ., that went to Houma
and Thibodaux last week, wish to
return thanks to the Associations
of both these enterprising towns,
for the many kindnesses extended
to them during their visit; also to
the ladies tor beautiful bouquets of
flowers and other courtesies.-Nor
gan City Free Press. .
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Our amiable confrere of the Abb,

Our amiable confrere of the Able
vile Meridional, lets it be known
that if any body says anything
rough about him, that he will give
the speaker privilege to knock him
out in four rounds.
Brother Addison, if we have ever
said anything bad about you we
prefer short swords, you to 2emain
at Abbeville and we will stay at
home.
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Two days before the late munich
pal election in Donaldsonville that
came off May l, the people of Don
aldsonville concluded to make Il
change in their municipal govern
menr. They assembled in mass
meeting on Thursday night, nolni
mated a ticket and elected their
nominees on Saturday by a vote of
So to 1o4. This sho ws that the
people have the power in their|own
hands to change political reigns
whenever they SC desire. The way.
and the only way, to make a
change, is to mate q change. Sit
ting down on the store boxes on
street corners and growing never
brought any changes in government
that did any good to anybody. 1t
never will.
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W. z. Green, formerly a resident
of this parish is reported to have
been fatally wounded, on last Wed
nesday morning, Oh his plantation,
by a shot from a colored NAH in
his employ. He has since died, and
the nan who shot him hung.