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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
EVENING READING.

1t is delightful way to pass the
evenings, when the children are old
enough for it, tor the family to take
up the plays OF Shakespeare, assign
ing the various parts to different
members of the family. If your own
circle be not sufficiently large, call
in your neighbors. Let the young
people be made to read correctly,
inteliigently and well. Thus You
are able to accomplish several
things. An ease Of manner is ac-
quired, correct ear, a knowledge
of words, and, as naturally follows,
a love of the highest literature.
Set your Intellectual standard high,
and try to keep yourself in sympa-
thy with the children in every way,
and they will have no desire to
conceal anything--the book, the
amusement, the friend, will all be
the more enjoyable because OF the
presence OF the father and mother
in their inner lif".
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.

The scientific world is just now
very much interested in series OF
experiments which are being made
by DR.. Brown-Sequard with vitaliz-
ing fluids as means of prolonging
and invigorating human life. The
details as recited in a paper read in
Paris before the Societie de Pro-
logic, where, says the New York
Tribune, received by the learned
audience with a thrill of astonish-
ment and an air of scientific in
credulity. AS DR.. Brown-Sequard
was in his I'D year, he was promis-
ing subject for hypodermic injec-
tons of his new elixir of life and
the emphasis with which he de-
scribed the freshness of youth pull
sating through his veins and the
recovery of impaired vital functions
produced profound impression
upon the Psychologists and surgeons
there assembled. Subsequently one
of his assistants, DR.. Variot, Sc
lected three debilitated men, rang
ing in age from "a to 6S, and turn
ed the syringe upon them with the
result of Immediately improving
their digestion, increasing their
muscular action, and also Of causing
general nervous excitement. SUI
ticient time has not elapsed to en-
able Brown-Sequard to Judge of the
permanent effects Of the treatment
of these three patients; but he mas
prepared for the Lancet synopsis
of his papers on the subject, and of
his own experience, with the reser-
walton that DIR. Variot's expert
ments, so far as the result have been
observed, strengthen his own con-
illusions respecting the potency of
the elixir. DIR. Brown-Sequard's
preliminary experiments we're tried
on animals to prove the innocuity
of the elixir, which was derived
from the blood and certain glands
of guinea pigs and dogs"
Faith in the efficacy of the new
elixir Of life will depend, as the
Tribune shrewdly observes, upon
his own success in keeping himself
alive and vigorous by..means of his
monthly doses of dog and guinea
pig. That he will live long and
thrive on his dark-red liquid will be
the desire of all men who are in
their prime or in their dotage.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
Executors Sale.

By virtue of an order of the court OF
Ordinary OF Cobb County, Georgia, will
be sold before the court house door, in
Marietta, Ca, during the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in October next
the following lots aad parts of lots of
land, to>wit: Numbers 944, 945, 999,
1000, 1901 and 1000, all lying and being
in tn 10th District and 2nd Section Of
Cobb county, Ga, and containing in the
aggregate, one hundred and seventy>cight
and quarter acres, agreeable to the plat
and survey made by John R. Ward,
County Surveyor, to be sold as the prop
erty of Timothy Stephens, late of said
county, deceased, for the purpose of a
division among the heirs Of said deceased.
Terms cash.
The above lands lie one and halt
miles northeast Of Marietta, east of the
Canton road, and the n. & N. Ga.
railway, and being that part of the
Stephens farm lying east of said railway
and Canton road. l will take pleasure in
showing the said land to any one who de-
sires to examine it. as l HAYES plat of the
same.
WV. z, STEPHENS,
August 14th, 1889. Executor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

There were a number of burgla-
ries at Tulare City, CAL, and Tom
Egan was arrested and imprisoned,
charged with HOUSEKEEPING. The
next night the door of the Jail was
opened and he was told to come out.
He did so and was confronted BY
twelve masked men, who took him
to a grove, put rope around his
neck and told him to pray before he
died if he wanted to. Eagen fell on
his knees and prayed so fervently
that the would-be lynchers relented,
took him back to the jail and lock-
ed him in again.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
An Offensive Breath

is most distressing, not only to the
person afflicted if he have any pride,
bnt to those with whom he comes in
contact. 1t is delicate matter to
speak Of, but it has parted not only
friends but lovers. Bad breath and
catarrh are inseparable. DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures the worst
cases as thousands can testify.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
THE INCREASE OF BLACKS.

DR.. Billings, the well known
physician Of Washington, D. c.,
who is to have charge of the NOR.
tally statistics of the next census,
declares that the impression that
the blacks are relatively increasing
faster than the whites is mistake.
He does not believe they are in
creasing so fast, and he basis his
opinion upon the birth and death
statistics of those cities in which
such statistics are kept.
He says that in Washington the
death rate of the blacks is double
that of the whites, although that
city is called the paradise of the
blacks. The blacks certainly live
there under much more favorable
conditions than elsewhere in this
country, They have, as a rule,
good homes and all the comforts of
life. Very few of them are extreme
ly poor, or have to endure great
hardships. In all the southern
cities the death rate of the blacks is
double that of the whites, and in
some cities more than double.
The birth rate Of the blacks is
difficult to obtain because physicians
are not generally employed by them.
In Washington it is little larger
than that of the whites, and perhaps
the same is true in other cities Of
the country. Their greater birth
rate, however, does not compensate
for their extraordinarily large death
rate. Their increase, therefore, il
not as great as that of the whites
DIR. B. says that the next census viii
show that in the whole country
the Importance of the negro as q
factor in our population is on the
decrease. This showing will moi
be at all pleasing tie those writer;
who, basing their conclusions upon
comparisons drawn from the censu;
of 1870 and that of 1880, have beer
picturing black population thai
would soon be overwhelmingly in
the majority in the south.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

The Cumberland Gap tunnel
one of the longest straight tunnels
in the country-is completed. 1t is
$3.50 feet wide, and twenty-three
fee. from top of rsil to faces of arch.
Much timber was required in con-
struction. During its building three
very large and fine minor veins Of
coal were pierced. The tunnel is
owned by the Knoxville, Cumber-
land Gap and Louisville railroad
which road will connect at Knox
vile with the Marietta and North
Georgia, thus giving a thorough,
direct and short line to points north
of the Ohio river and northwest.
The Marietta and North Georgia is
being rapidly pushed to completion.
Grading is completed forty miles
south of Knoxville and track is laid
north of Blue Ridge to the Hiawas.
see river.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

You can't judge the moral status
Of the world by the daily press. The
worst side only is shown there. The
daily papers want something sensa-
tional for their columns and they
therefore have little to say of the
good in the world because it is so
common, and give special attention
to crime. The world is as good and
even better than it ever was.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

The propensity of human nature
to run after the latest novelties is
never more clearly exhibited than
in the race to hear new and strange
doctrines. Let man of ordinary
ability come into almost any COM
munity, and teach what he calls re-
ligious truths with boldness and en-
phasis, and his grossest errors will
be accepted without question by
many who profess to serve the Lord.
1t is severe infection upon the
community, and often it takes years
to recover from these sudden up
risings. But let the people OF the
living God remain steadfast, and in
due season they will be relieved, for
such men never remain very long
in any locality. In the very nature
of things they wear out when their
doctrines are no longer new.-Bap.
fist Courier.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

A well-defned belt, beginning
with Ohio and extending westward
SO as TO include Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and
Northern Kansas, contains the sur
plus corn which will furnish the
bulk of shipment the coming season.
The seven States named had a
combined yield in 1887 Of 100000
600 bushels, and their estimated
yield for 1888 is 1900, 000,0 00-an
increase OF $4,000, 900 bushels.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

Near Johnston, Ga, negro boy
was bitten by a rattlesnake while
cutting wood in the woods. The
boy screamed for help, and his
brother, who was also cutting wood
near by, ran to him. He sucked
the poison out of his brothers leg,
splitting it out and continued the
sucking and splitting until their
father arrived with some whisky.
At this hour the leg which was bit
ten is scarcely swollen, and the boy
is likely to recover without any
great inconvenience. The rattle
snake was killed, and was quite a
large one. The boy who sucked the
poison out said he heard some old
man, long time ago, say that there
was no danger in sucking out rat
tlesnake poison, and that in every
case it would afford immediate re-
lief to the person bitten, and that if
this process was tried in time it
would always effect a certain and
quick cure. He rinsed his mouth
out thoroughly with whisky, but
swallowed none. The boy says he
feels no bad effects from the method
he used to save his brothers life.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
GEORGIA-COBB COUNTY

GEORG1A-COBB COUNTY
To whom it may concern: George s.
Owen, Executor Of Hiram Owen, deceas>
ed, has in due form applied to the under
signed for leave to sell the lands belonging
to the estate OF said deceased, and said sp-
plication will be heard on the first Aoa>
day in September next. July 31st, 1889.
j. N. STONE, Ord'y.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

Quirine, which before the repeal
OF the tariff on it cost $3.50 an ounce,
can now be bought for less than
forty cents. Then there was one
mandatory in this country, now
there are six. Protection fostered
the monopoly, and free trade built
up the competition.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

Life is like harp. Childhood
has its silver string tuned to joy
and torgettulness; youth adds hope,
love and courage; middle life, sym
pathy, devotion, friendship; but old
age, experience, that attunes each
to its full measure of tone, and it is
the wrinkled hand sweeping the
strings that makes. life's true har.
mony.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

Judge DavidJ. Terry, of Lathrop,
California, slapped the face of
United States Judge Stephen J.
Fields, when Deputy United States
Marshal Nagle, his body guard, shot
Terry dead. Owing to Fields ruling
in court, Terry had threatened
Fields life. United States Attor,
ney General Miller telegraphed from
Washington to the Marshal of the
district to see that the person OF the
Justice was protected at all hazard.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

The Montgomery Advertiser has
at last absorbed the Montgomery
Dispatch, after four years existence.
Il is thought the Dispatch lost over
$4,000. The Advertiser has alb
sorbed over dozen papers. 1t was
established 1923, and is one of the
Oldest daily papers i'll the south.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
CITY TAX NOTICE.

The Books are now open for the pay
ment Of your city tax for the year 1889.
Be prompt and save cost.
a. J. SCHOENTHAL,
7. c. and T. r.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

The State Agricultural Society
held its semi-annual session at &C.
dartown last week. They endorsed
the Olive bill, and then the next
day reconsidered it and threw it
overheard. The next meeting will
be at Hawkinsville. Hon. w. J.
Northern was elected president.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

There is in Ozark, Mo-, remark
able relic of the tornado that devas-
tated Marshfeld in 1880. The day
after the disaster E. S. Wilson, a
blacksmith of Ozark, found black
quart bottle which had been bent so
that the neck of the bottle touched
the edge of the bottom, and yet the
glass was not cracked. Prot. lice,
who visited the scene of the tornado,
attributed the bending OF the bottle
to electricity. 1t was found in the
wreck of one of the Marshfeld drug
stores.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
Marietta Male Academy.

HARRIS 4 STEWART, Principals,
j. G.. HARRIs, Principal in charge.
H. l.. SEwRIL, A. B. Assistant.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT:
Miss H. l.. CULBRRATH.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
hdARIETTA GA
THURSDAY MORNING AUG. %. 1885

Kilrain has been arrested and
carried to Mississippi.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

The smartest horse in Rome IS
the sorrel horse owned by NJ. G,
Mcdonald. For quite awhile Mr..
Mcdonald has been going into the
stable and finding the water turned
on ard frequently reprimanded his
servant for leaving the water turned
on when he would 60 to water the
animal. The other day Mr.. Nc.
Donald CHANGED to peep in and saw
the horse turning the crank and
presently the water was flowing
freely. When the trough gets dry
he just turns the water on himself
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
HARDWOOD E: SEMINARY.
J. C. HARRIS AND J. S. STEWART,
Presidents

]. S. STEWART, Principal in charge
and Instructor of Mental Moral and
Physical Science and History.
V. +. Observation-Disclosures, Latin
and French.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT:
Miss SorHIy DRYsDALE, assisted by MSS
ANNIE HAIR.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
Sheriffs Sales for Sept.

Will be sold before the court house door
in the city ofMarietta, Cobb county, Ga,
on the first Tuesday in September, 1889,
during the legal hours of sale. the follow
ing property to>wit:
One half lot of land No. ESQ, in the goth
District and End Section of Cobb county,
Ga, containing 36 acres, more or less.
Levied on as the property of Will ].
VIM, to satisfy fifas issued from Justice
Court of the 1913 District G. NJ, of said
county, in favor of j. NJ. Dobbs VS.. viii
]. VIM. Levy made and returned to NE
by R. W. Noon, L. G.
p. o. MCLAIN, Sheriff.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22

Miss SELMA HAHR-Music.
Miss SUsIK BUTToLPH-Drawing and
Painting.
Mrs. J. C. HARRIs-Matron and Vocal
Music.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
Address the sun, New York.

rSrAll kinds Of legal blanks and
lronclad waiver notes for sale at the
Journal Office.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-08-22
LOW PRICES!

Our MIR. B. R. Legg will leave for the
Eastern markets about the 18th to buy an
immense stock of Fall and Winter Goods
We are determined if possible to sell our
entire stock of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
ExCITED VENEZUELA.
For the First Time in Thirty Years tin
Press is Free.

For the First Time in Thirty Years the
Press is Free.
New York, June 2Ist.-A Caracas Ven
ezuela) letter says: Sensational events
have been recurring here in constant sue
csssion for the last thirty days, and the re-
public has been trembling with apprehen-
sion and excitement, bat the first peaceful
revolution it has ever known has been ac
complished. The reign of Guzman Blanco
has ended. The military despodsm that
has existed in Venezuela for a quarter of a
century is abolished, and there are constant
demonstrations of qualification, in which
all classes Join with equal ardor.
Men who have submitted quietly TO the
tyranny of GuZman, for fear of injury to
their business, are now marching and
shouting in the streets.
For the first time in thirty years the
press is free.
That Guzman will make an effort to re-
cover control of the Government and re-
sumo the Dictatorship is not doubted for a
moment by those who know him. but no.
body believes he can succeed and that
opinion adds to the enthusiasm.
That the situation may be understood
and the significance OF recent events ap.
prsciated il must be known that General
GuZman Blanco, since he first came into
control of the Government in 1870, mas
seemed to regard Venezuela as his own
property, to do with as ne desired
He has treated the republic, " hich en-
braces an area as large as the Middle States
and New England, as if it were his own
| inherited estate and three millions of peo-
pie as tenants at will He has been an un.
| crowned Gar, and his Government an alb.
sOlute GespotiSm.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
CONGRESS HAS FULL POWER.
An Important Decision Affecting Terri
toriaI Rights.

An Important Decision Affecting Terri
toriaI Rights.
WAsHINGToS, June 21st.-Attorney-Gen-
eral Miller, at the request of the Governor
of Arizona, submitted through Secretary
Noble, has considered at great length the
question whether in the absence of the en-
abling Act BY Congress the Act passed by
the Arizona Legislature, and approved by
the Governor, To provide for the holding
of Convention for the purpose of framing
a State Constitution, to be submitted 10 the
people for their approval or rejection, is
valid.
The Attorney-General holds that it is
valid, and cites numerous presidents where
Territories were admitted into the Union
without the enabling Acts. The power to
accept, modify or reject the Constitution
adopted by a Territory when it seeks
admission as a State he holds is vested in
Congress. Congress" he continues, quot
ing from the Supreme Court decision in the
case of the national bank VS.. Yankton
may not only abrogate the laws of the
Territorial Legislature directly for local
government, but it may make void Act
of a Territorial Legislature valid and valid
Act void
He holds, in other words, that Congress
has complete control over the matter when
the Territory seeks admission as a State
and may then cure any defects that may
exist in its Constitution, which is, in 9
sense, petition, the right of which is guar.
anteed in the Constitution of the United
States
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
THE KERNEL OF THE NUT.
Experience of the Flying Dutchman il
Texas Church.

Experience of the Flying Dutchman in a
Texas Church.
A number Of years ago | stopped at
Hemsted, Texas, writes the FLYING Dutch
man, in the Trinidad Daag Citizen, and
called on a merchant and sold him two
carloads of good merchandise He asked
ne to remain over Sunday at the place.
and invited me to attend divine services
at the church in which he was deacon at
3 o'clock in the afternoon in the school
house which served as the church.
At o'clock we had dinner and then
sauntered out with lighted cigars to the
place of worship. 1t was in January, the
grass was green, the birds warbled their
musical cadences, and the dav was lovely
with the spring sunshine. Our cigars be-
ing smoked, we wandered across the pub
lie square and saw the people congregated
in the old-fashiored Southern school house.
We entered and walked up the broad aisle,
on either side lined with desks with their
ink-stained marks of childish fingers, took
our seats near the platform raised about
one foot from the floor. Mr.. woodward,
my merchant friend, took q hymn book
and called out the number Of the hymn,
read one verse, and pitched the tune. At
ter it had been sung We were seated
About this time tall man in butternut
clothes and blue flannel shirt, with his
hair "squigetty," came up the aisle and
made for the platform. Mr.. woodward
tapped me on the shin saying, That's our
minister" The good man tossed his SOM
brero hat on the floor, stood to one side OF
the desk, and opened his sermon.
Uprat apI cictarc IN aooo,1t "a
sickness in the parish the past week, |
have not prepared a sermon, but on my
way here, through brother Lanes field, !
picked up this rock, and also this nut,
both of which he produced from the side
pocket of his coat, ''and now | will give
you'uns parable from these | take the
rock and break the rind of the nut which
represents the Methodist Church, and the
rind is unfit for use; next i break the
shell, and this represents the hard-shell
Baptists; this also is no good, and only fit
to put under the heels of men. Next
subtract the vitality and life, the kernel Of
the nut which represents our church, the
old Presbyterian, and break the SHELF
here he stopped and the kernel fell out as
rotten as sin.
The congregation whooped and yelled
like Kansas cowboys. An old woman in
the corner of the church fred hymn book
at the head of the Flying Dutchman,
and gave him black eye. The congrega.
ton were boisterous and were dismissed
The deacon took the writer by the arm
walked up and down the street saying
'fWhy didn't he get gimlet and bore that
nut before he gave that parable Say
brother, lets take drink" and if the
writer had minded him, he would have
been slightly ailing by s o'clock.