The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-01-19
MARIETTA MATTERS.

Miss Nell R. Moore, of Toledo Ohio, is
visiting Mrs. Moultrie NJ. Sessions.
Mrs Adams, of Toledo, Ohio, visited
the family of Mr.. Joseph Paige for few
days lase week.
Last Sunday was a wet, muddy and
disagreeable day and but few pedestrians
yentured out.
Bill Arp says Marietta is the prettiest
town in Georgia, and Arp is man of good
taste and sound judgment.
The internal revenue tax ON whisky
and tobacco is not hurting us, because we
don't use either
We will save you from 10 to rs cents on
Shoes, Hats, Cothing, &c. Gem City Shoe
Store.
Bedsteads, Mattresses, Chairs, &c, at
Hirsch's
Miss Lizzie Pilgrim, after two months
sojourn in North Carolina, returned home
last Thursday.
1t affords some persons infinitely more
pleasure to pick flaw in individual charac-
ter than to observe hundred virtues.
Prot. w. W. Legare's pointer dogs were
awarded first prizes at the recent bench
show in Atlanta.
Go to Stephens Brothers for tender
steak. Telephone "a.
-FoR REST-One two-room cottage and
one four-room cottage on Powder Springs
street, three quarters of O mile from square,
about Is acres OF land attached. Apply TO
w. b. BRADLEY.
The moon will be totally eclipsed on
January 28th. The phenomenon will be
generally visably throughout North and
South America.
We will be obliged to our friends for
any items of local news. A little thought
fulness OF this kind will aid US very much in
getting out readable LOCAL paper
1t is said that every ten bushels of corn
taken from the farm is loss to the land of
ten pounds of nitrogen four pounds Of phos-
phoric acid and two pounds of potash.
Honest industry is always rewarded.
No young man need complain of being
kept poor if be rolls up his sleeves and goes
cheerfully to work
Shoes of all sizes and qualities al
HIRsCHs.
Mrs. Will S. Cox and child left
Monday morning for Rome where they will
make their future home, Mr.. Cox being in
business there
Encourage people to locate in Marietta
1t takes people to make a town, and people
spend money and make prosperous all
classes of business.
Three large FIVE cent baFs Of soap for a
dime at McCutcheon's.
Place your orders for meats of all kinds
with Stephens Brothers.
If any one will pull their goose wing
feathers, tie each pair of %ings together and
have them at Mr.. J. j. Northcutts store,
they will get cents pair. Only white
wanted.
On the first page of this issue, we pub
fish an article headed man asleep for
seven years" This is good illustration
of the merchant who never advertises.
Never judge by appearances A shah
by old coat Inay contain an editor, while the
man wearing heightened plug hat and
supporting cane may be delinquent sub
scriber, says an exchange.
"A full line Ladies, Misses, Childrens
and Infants fine Shoes at Gem City Shoe
Store"
The man who starts out to beat every
body by getting all he can and paying as
little as he can, in the end finds that he has
been stranded high and dry on the shoals of
life, without money or friends.
-Supt. Glover says his has received in
structions to commence at once making the
NJ. & N. Ga. Railroad standard gauge 1t
is big job and will take thousands of new
crossties.
e. P. Dobbs has his TiE Shop in the
rear of his burnt bnildng where Mr W H
Ronche is ready to do your plumbing tin
work, DC.
"A good lot of shoes bought cheap
(Messrs. A. A. Fletcher & Cos. stock.
Will sell the same way at McCutcheons.
The three burnt store buildings are be-
ing rapidly rebuilt by Messrs. Henderson
& Son. When completed, they will be oc-
cupied by the Springer Bros, T. W. Glover
& Co, and E. P. Dobbs.
This year will be one when candidates
will swarm. All the offices are to be elect
ed, President, Congressman and Legislators,
and in January all the county officers are to
be elected.
Some eolored women we're greatly agi-
tated Monday on account of their cows be-
ing put up by the city authorities They
are opposed to the city stocklaw and were
not slow in expressing themselves.
Choice n 0. Syrup at Coo. Extra
Choice at 65c per gal. Four or five barrels
of Sorghum to sell by the barrel at McCutch-
cons.
E. P Dobbs can be found at the old
stand of W A McCrea, where full line of
Hardware, Stoves, &c, will be sold at and
below cost.
= The best beef in the city at Stephens
Brothers market.
One of our merchants says he hasn't
sold only about ten chickens since he has
had to move his coop to the back of his
store He used to sell that many every
day. He says he will have to quit the
chicken business.
The Georgia Cracker a weekly humor-
Gus and illustrated paper, has been revived
in Atlanta. 1t is a splendid publication,
and its illustrations and caricatures will
interest and anuse. tits on the style of
Puck" and will prove a popular success if
kept up to its present standard.
We regret to learn of the death of Mr.,
John w Sewell which occurred at Genoa
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