The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-10-11
ANTIQUITIES on MAR1ETTA.


Marietta, was one who was destined
to become conspicuous figure in
the Offices of Cobb county for a
long series of years. His entrance
into the place was by no means a
harbinger of the part he was to play,
for it was of the humblest and most
primitive character even for from
tier town. We cannot now vouch
as to the "genus" of the lean animal
that did duty between the shafts of
the rickety cart that contained the
goods and chattles-including wife
and one or ''heirs apparent" Of the
young adventurer. At this late day
it cannot be positively determined
whether it was heroine, equine or
"muline," but we are inclined to
think 1t was the former, the more
so, because, in.his phenomenal Ca
reer, Joe Brown has settled once
for all, the important questioned
chow to start in life" to all ambi-
tious aspirants for highest "civic,"
and Lucrative" honors which is to
begin at the beginning, build on
bed rock, commence by blowing a
bull, (for luck) which being done
successfully, the neophyte, (by per-
severence and several other things
too tedious to mention) may arrive
at such 'vantage ground" that he
can ''bull the Market" bull the par
ty and bulldoze things generally,
nay he may even venture, with or
without impunity to illuminate a
bull, if gentle reader, you Cor y are
SO deep in the mystery Of our verna-
cular as to know what that means. !
So we take it on trust, as there was
a good deal of luck of one sort or
another in store for him, that our
hero drove bovine" Madame
rumor asserted shat the haul was
very light anyway, and that all his
household and Kitchen furniture
could have been transported in an
1rishman's dray-the vehicle of one
wheel. He came from one of the
older counties of this State, name
now forgotten, Con purpose, like
Sancho Panza did the contents of
the famous Doris tender missive to
the fair Dalcenia) lest that pioneer
outfit might be taken as conclusive
evidence that there is one good
county in Georgia to move ''from."
He was clad in a suit of substan-
tial homespun, of color known in
those days as ''copperas" but in this
aesthetic age, digni6ed Cor mysti-
fed by the title of ..''buff," tho
when applied to a dog 1T is plain
'yaller.' His head-gear was non
important wool hat made for service
rather than shaw, and an ample pair
Of brogans also of domestic manu-
ture protected his feet. His britch-
es (pants were not much in vogue
them seemed to have been "pulled
too soon"-before they had reached
the full length of "britcheshood,"
their lower extremities were too re-
mote from the tops of his buff bro
gans to be neighborly, in fact they
had no more dealings with each 9TH
e. than the Jews and Samaritans.
Any one may readily imagine that
such picturesque. habiliments were
calculated to display our subjects
stalwart figure to the very climax of
disadvantage, but no disguise of
costume, or caricature of fashion,
could conceal the fact, even to the
casual observer, that Enoch r.
Mills was one of the handsomest
men in Georgia. His avoirdupois
not less than fourteen stone, his
statute full six feet in his socks,
broad of shoulder and symmetrical
of limbs, his features smooth and
regular, complexion dark and clear,
forehead broad and high, eyes of
kindly dark brown, hair jetty in its
blackness, and face of the style
as we recollect it-of that of Robt.
Toombs.
lie was commissioned Brigadier
General of Militia of the Dist. (per-
haps by Gov. Crawford as COM
pliment to his fine physique and