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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

The Republican party having fail
ed to break the solid South, and an
ticipating the loss of power at the
next election, are now bent on
passing a coeroive measure, Fed
eral election law. They are deter
mined to ruin if they cannot rule.
We trust the sober sense of the
conservative people ofthe Northern
states will repudiate such interfer-
ence with the franchise in the
states. 1t tends to an upheaval OF
business and peaceful relations that
will prove destructive to the hest
interests of all classes.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

THE Alliance of Georgia compose
the bulk Of the Democratic party.
They are not at all antagonistic to
Democratic principles, because
they are part and parcel of that
party. The white people Of Geor-
gia are mostly democrats, and the
Farmers are as much interested in
the supremacy and success of the
Democratic party as they are in the
Alliance because it is the Democrat.
ic party that antagonizes the Repub-
lican party and keeps it from rul~
ing the white people of Georgia.
Therefore, he who expects the Farm
ers Alliance to bolt and fight the
Democratic party in Georgia, will
be disappointed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

In 1892 pensions will take S14
from the head of every family in the
United States, if the estimates made
of the probable effects OF recently
passed laws are correct. If this
money we've collected by direct
taxation, so that each man could
know exactly what is taken from
him. the pension system would not
stand six months. But as it is, the
taxpayer not only gives his $14 to
the government, but much larger
amount to the protected" persons
whose interests have demanded the
prevailing pension extravaganza
Macon Telegraph.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22
In his speech against McKinley's

In his speech against Mckinley
tariff bill, the other day, Congress
man Ben Butterworth said: "The
time has come when some little con.
corn should be thrown to American
homes and American fresides
The great body of employees in this
country are foreign, and in some
great factories in the East they are
known on the rosters by numbers
because of the untamiliarity Of their
Names" What stronger illustration
could be offered of the way the tar.
i'll does not protect the American
workmen?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Mr.. JOHN III. INMAN can unload
the S1,0OO,OOO of Georgia 81 per
cents. which he purchased at par
last week at profit of s45, 900, but
he has no idea of letting them go
at a premium OF q. He is conf
dent that these bonds before long
will be worth ITO. On this point
MIR. Inman's judgment may be con-
sidered sound.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22
GEORGIA-COBB COUNTY :

To the Superior Court OF said County: The
petition of R. w. Boone, w. N. Sessions, Eoultrie
NJ Sessions showeth that they and their associates
and successors desire to be Incorporated under the
name of "The Cobb County Abstract Company"
The principal Office Of said company shall be In the
city of Marietta, said state and county and the
capital stock OF said company to be one thousand
dollars, divided into shares Of twenty I'VE dollars
each, and petitioners desire the privilege Of in
business Of said company shall be managed by .
board Of directors, the number OF the Same to be
fixed by the bylaws Of said company, by whom
all other Ulcers under the bylaws are 10 be elect-
ed and no person, not stakeholder can be q de
rector or officer in saideorporation. The business
of said company shall De to make and keep abb
stract books and papers of all deeds, mortgages,
homesteads, and other papers in Cobb county, or
in any county of said state; and TO furnish any
having the right to charge therefor. Petitioners
desire the right to own, buy and sell all kinds of
property.
Petitioners further showeh that the sum of Ave
hundred dollars has been paid into said corpora
ton Petitioners ask to be be incorpora ted for the
full term OF twenty years with the privilege of
newal lat the expiration of said term, with the
power to sue or TO be sued plead and be implead-
ed, to have and use a common seal, to make con-
corporate existence Of petitioners for the
aforesaid with all the usual powers.
And petitioners will ever pray etc.
SESSIONS & SESSIONS.
Atty's for Petitioners.
Filed in Office this the goth day OF May, 1890.
W. X. MONTGOMERY Clerk.
true and correct copy as appears on Record
at this Office This may Dist 1890.
w. r. MONTGOMERY, Clerk.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Hon. Judson G. Clements made
an able speech on the tariff in Con-
gress on last Friday. He scored the
iniquities of the present robber sys-
EN-, as well as held up to light the
hypocricy Of the Republican party
IN dealing with the negro and his
vote.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

We try to please our readers.-Da.
rien Gazette. Then you have un-
dertaken the most difficult job any
newspaper man ever tackled. What
will please one reader, will displease
another, and how you are going to
accomplish your task, is puzzline
us. Let us know if you succeed
and give particulars.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Eugene Beck, white, who was
sent to the penitentiary for life from
Rabun county, for killing his wife
and wife's sister,: daughters of DR..
Bailey, died Monday at Cole City.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

In Twiggs county a day or two
ago beardless boy of q was mar
ried to lady 81 years old, having
seven children. This young man
is the lady's third husband. She is
said 10 be still quite hanasome.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Maj. Nesbitt, Of Marietta, candi-
date for commissioner of agricul-
ture, addressed the farmers of Ogle-
thrope Tuesday. He is solid in
this county.-Montezuma Record.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Farmer Livingston, of Georgia,
appeared before the congressional
committee and made a speech in
favor of the sub treasury bill.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Dalton has waterworks, but no
sewerage, and the Argus is urging
sewerage even if it requires the
issuing of bonds. Some times a
town bites Of more than it can chew.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Colonel R. B. Kyle sold to an At
lanta syndicate on Friday evening
100000 of Gadsden property and
delivered the deeds.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Rev. Sam Small has announced
himself a candidate tor the Legisla-
ture in Atlanta. Sam is hustler.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22
MARIETTA GA,
THURSDAY MORNING MAY Fl, 1880.

Does your business pay? Could
you rot make it pay better by doing
some advertising in judicious way?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22

Hon. John &. Carlisle has been
nominated to succeed Senator Beck
in the United States Senate.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-05-22
GREAT REDUCTION

that buyer has from where he
realized the truth of the old adage that here luck leisure because
the he found perfect
able buy far below their real value very large house
selling their entire stock regardless of cost because they going
OF We the
eft OF these purchases here mention all the good
have but content ourselves with calling attention line
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
Cutting and Selling Turf in Ireland.

In the county of Kerry in Ireland an
1rishman pays twenty-five cents to the
landlord for the privilege of cutting a
strip of turf nine feet long, three foet
wide, and from six to nine feet in depth.
He cuts the turf In the summer months,
so that it will dry out during the hot
weather. It is cut with a narrow spade,
called in Gaelic "slan." When cut the
turf is piled in little heaps, so that the
moisture will evaporate. These heaps OF
turf have to be turned usually three
times before the fuel is dry enough to be
carted away and piled into ricks. As a
rule, after drying, the turf must be carted
from four to six miles to the home of the
peasant. This is done with the aid of
donkeys and horses. If the peasant hap
pens to be a speculator, he carts the
turf into Tralee, or some other market
town, and sells it. Turf is measured by
what is usually called trails" This
word indicates a donkey or horse load.
The load is held in place on the cart by
means of wooden frames, set into NOR
tises on the sides and ends of the cart.
The turf is piled to cone on top of the
cart, and is held in place by ''sug-
eanns." A suggann is a rope made OF
straw. These ropes are also used in some
narts of Ireland to hold the thatch ip
rlace
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

g.; there is a small kettle at command
and "sugar off, is then in order and
an hours sport that king, prince, or po-
entate might envy, but not covet. To
The assuming daughter of papa, to say
aothing Of the complacent manipulation
If the typewriter, the idea of a girl
ramping mile or two in the woods,
carrying dinner for men dressed in coarse
Hoolens, may not be pleasant, but could
they see that girl with her dinner-pail or
;'waxing sugar" with honest, hardy men,
they would realize that there is such
thing in life as enjoyment. Ofttimes it
is found necessary to boil sap all night In
order to catch up with the flow of sap,
md during "big run" this sometimes
lasts for a week. Then nearly the en-
lire family moves to the bush. The
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

boiled eggs broke the monotony ana LAT
tea" most anything that was lett was
eaten. There is no place in the worlu
where YOU can cook beans which equals
tie woods and this is how they used tc
be cooked in the sugar-bush: An old
earthen not we'll filled with beans, a
good chunk Of pork" and some ma
tive molasscs furnished the foundation.
Almost beneath the kettle of boiling sap
a pit was dug and the pot and contents
were buried in it and in the morning out
came a dish that no hotel or restaurant
in all Chicago can duplicate. Atthe end
of SIX weeks, when the party took account
of stock, they usually had, all told, 2OC
pounds of sugar as black as Ethiopla
and favored with snow, rain, every
thing that could come of the trees,
with now and then the bo;sy OF for
lorn mouse or daring chipmunk who ven
turcd too near the trough. This was pure
Vermont maple sugar something like 1oo
years ago. -,
Another generation realized that the
world moved, and we find shanty in
some fine grove of NAPLES filled with 300
or 400 buckets and sometimes more.
Outside is an arch for a kettle. moi
built of cut stone, but of material cas-
lest at command. This is not an iso.
lated spot; people here come and go;
the "sugar place" is nearby home; the
wife or daughter at noontime brings
dp the dinner, and good dinner it
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

WHAT is known as Leghorn straw is
raised on the hills which rise on each
side of the rivers Pisa and Elsa, south
of Florence, Italy. It's adaptability tc
the uses to which it is destined de
pends principally on the soil on which
it is sown, which soil, to all appear
ances, exists only in this small dis
trict, out of the bounds of which the
industry is unknown. Any variety Of
wheat which has q hollow, flexible
stem can be used for seed. The soil
must be titled and prepared very much
as it is for corn, but the seed is sown
five times as thick as is usual for other
purposes; this is done in the months OF
December or February. When the
straw is full grown, and before the
grain begins to form itself in the ear:
it is uprooted and firmly tied in
sheaves the size of o handful. Each
sheaf or menata, as it is called, If
spread out in the shape Of fan tc
dry in the sun for three days, after
which it is slowed away in the barns
The harvest being over and the fields
empty, it is again spread out to catch
the heavy summer dews and to bleach
in the sun, during which process it is
carefully turned until all sides are
equally white.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
THE eLD-TIME sUGAR-HoUsE.

To-day the maple sugar-bush is in
every way truly home-like. Near the
center Of fifty or more acres Of hardwood
timber land-mostly maple, few beech
and birch-you find commodious sugar
house, one room of which IS much
larger than the entire house of seventy
years ago. In this well-foored room are
stored the buckets during the summer,
and in the springtime it. is used for
kitchen, reception room, parlor, OF
dance hall. In it you will see fine
brick arch, an evaporator, and ample
storage.room for the sap, while outside
is thrifty pair of oxen yoked to a gath
ering sled, on which is tub holding
from twenty-five to forty pals. Like the
rest, the oxen take their dinner in the
woods, and five or six Grounds" are con-
sidered a good days work. Three hun
dred pals day IS called good work.
This sap is drawn to the sugar-house,
and from long spout is conveyed to
large storage-tubs, and thence to the
evaporator, or pan, kettles having long
since been discarded. The evaporator is
of malleable iron partitioned of. The
sap, entering at the head of the arch,
meanders across the pan dozen times or
so, and on reaching the foot heavy,
clear, pure syrup is produced. This is
carefully set aside until "sugaring-off
day" comes, when it is cooked still more
and is ready for the tub or caking.
About twice each week the owner of a
sugar bush has a sugaring-off party.
First all the old folks for miles around
come in on ox-sleds and on foot, and n
good old-fashioned time is enjoyed. No
one seems to realize that they are growing
old. Later on the coming generation
are on hand and buxom girls, hopeful
Young men, maidens, and boys gather at
the sugar-house. They dre in for good
time. First there may be tug-of-war,
with balls, in which the girls take
an active part, and Vermont girl eau
throw SNOWFALL with hitting effect.
She uses more precision firing at young
man for whom she has no admiration
than when she tries to "shoo hen" oil
the garden patch When the war is over
the manufacture of paddles is in order.
To cat sugar with 4 spoon in the woods
would be regarded as violation OF all
the rules of etiquet. So the young man
takes his best girl one side, and Sc
lecting sofa-usually Il large log, or II
lighter furniture is required two buckets
arc invertcd-they sit down and
commence work on their paddles. I &c
paddles being made, down to the sugar
house they go, secure pint or more OF
the syrup, and start for snowbank, upon
which they pour it. This at once hardens
and furnishes sugar repast that can not
be excelled. For quarter of mile
about the sugar-house you will see these
pairs cooling and eating maple sugar IN
its primitive state.
The pure Vermont maple syrup is an
entirely different article from that vended
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
Made Him Listen.

Representative Mason, of Illinois,
knows of lawyer, friend of his, who
often addresses himself to individual
members of the juries he confronts. He
ionce appeared for the plaintiff in a suit
for damages brought against street rail-
iroad company. He made most eloquent
appeal, but was unable to hold the atten-
|tion of one of the Jurors, who appeared
ito be an old sailor. At last he stopped
directly in front of the sailor, and, ad-
dressing him alone, said:
"Now, mate, I will tell you how the
accident happened. The plaintiff was in
command of an outward bound car, and
stood in her starboard channels. An in
ward bound car came along, and just as
their bows met she jumped the track,
'keeled, sheered to port, knocked my eli
ent overheard, and ran over him."
!! The sailor listened attentively, and
'promply joined in verdict of $4,000 for
the plaintiff.-New York 1ribnne.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
GETS DHERE sHUsT DER sAMK
BY JAwcoB STRAUSS.

Old Esop wrote fable, vonce,
Aboudt boastful hare,
Who say, when dhere vas racing,
You can always find me dhere;"
Und how tortoise raced init him
Und shtopped hees leedle game:
Und say: -Eef don'ed been SO shbry
gets dhere shust der samel'
The girl dot makes goot beeskits,
Und can vas und iron dings,
Maybe dond been so lofely
AS dot girl NIT dimondt rings;
Budt when wife vas wanted,
Who vas i'd dots to blame,
Eef pot girl naidoudt der shewels
Should get dhere shust der sames
Dot vas der cases Everywhere,
In boidics und rrade;
By bers sbiration of der brow
Vas how soockscss vas made
A man, somedime, m y shtrike id rich,
Und get renown und fame;
Budt dot bersbiration fcller, too,
He gets dhere shust der same!
Der man dot leafes hees beesnis
Und hangs roundt bucket Shops
To make den tollars oudt off Won,
Ven grain and oil stock drops,
May 60 ay from dhere, somedime,
Mooch boorer as he came;
der mills of God grind shlowly"-
Budt dhey gets dhere shust der samei
Dhen nefer mindt dhose mushroom schaPs
Dot shpripg CUP in O day,
Dhose repudn,ions dhey vas MADE
BY work, und not by blay;
Shust poot your shoulder to der Wheel
Eef You would vim a name
Und eef der White House wants you
You'll get dhere shust der samel
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
MAKING SAP TROUGHs.

head of the house gets little sleep while
the wife or some of the children keep
the kettle full! and the fire "a-humping."
A "humping fire" is what the sugar
maker always enjoys. Outlines these
sugar orchards are near each other, and
family visits are in order and some love-
making is INDUCED in. Lads and lasses
play "high-low-jack, and watch the
fire, kettle, and each other.
In the old days a very respectable
quality of sugar was made, but only a
little more than necessary for home use,
although 100 pounds or so sometimes
was exchanged for store pay. The
farmer who then controlled a sugar
orchard of 800 or 400 trees was then
recognized as one of the biggest men in
town. At the present time the farmer is
not content with less than 1000 trees,
and he holds them as precious as the
owner of an orange orchard does his
fruit trees. Every young maple is care
fully looked after. If there is scrub
oak, beech or birch to impede its growth
it is cut into frewood. Many an orchard
to. day is so cleared of fallen timbers and
under brush that in the summer months
one can drive over nearly every portion
of it with horse and buggy. The
small streams are bridged and good roads
are found on all sides. If there be a
cheerful spot on earth during the summer
months it's the farmers sugar-place.
Here are the finest songsters in the world
and the squirrel is the prince of the
field. Many farmers will not allow gun
to be taken into sugar-bush, and Oft
times in the spring they place within
easy reach of the squirrels near the sugar
house q few ears of corn, because they
enjoy the company of the lively creatures,
which often are quite domestic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

About the middle of March the old
"fve-pail kittle" was unearthed; the
hand-sled which had been doing service
all winter was ordered up; pork, beans, a
few potatoes, and several loaves of home
made bread, with few dozen of eggs,
were gathered together, placed on the
sled, and the kettle turned over them !;
and two young men, with snow-shoes,
an ak, two or three pals, the family flint
lock, some powder and shot, and a good
supply of "punk"-an article found in de-
cayed wood, which is about as combusti-
bic as tissue-paper or young oratory-
and two blankets, started out for nearly
two months of ''sugaring." Upon reach
ing the rock the first thing in order was
a fire, but there we're no matches then,
so the old musket was brought into SER
vice. One man held the "punk" near the
flint hammer and caught spark. This
he nursed, and soon had shavings from a
shingle ablaze, and later big fire, which
was never allowed to 60 out until of no
further use. At once the old troughs
were looked up, an ugly cash was made
in fine maple, then "gouged," }" and a
spout was driven in to carry the sap to
the trough, and when the sun shone suf-
ficieutly the tree gave forth its sweetness.
Then the manufacturers Of sugar saddled
their neck yokes and gathered in the sap,
ofttimes walking one-half mile to Sc
cure two pailfuls, which made about one
half of pound of sugar, such as it was.
An early breakfast, dinner as near merid-
ian as the eye and stomach could judge,
and "tca" when work was done COM
forted the inner man. For Java OF Mocha
syrup was substitute, for sirloin Of beef
a fine slice of pork or the best of ham
broilcd on Goals, and an ample supply OF
brown bread and roasted potatoes made
up a repast that would do the stomach
of royalty good. For dinner a few
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

about the streets Of large cities, which is
mostly made of glucose and foreign
sugars. Pure maple syrup to-day readily
brings 81 a gallon the woods, and when
it reaches Chicago it is sold for seventy
five cents and often less. The first make
of maple sugar sells for fifteen cents a
pound, and here you get it for seven or
eight-a reconstructed article but not
improved. Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
A GENTLEMAN at Poona Qndia) re

A GENTLEMAN at Poona Qndia) re.
cently received a letter that had been
posted at station twenty miles away
two years and four months before, -acI
companied by the explanation froms =
postal authorities that the delay
owing to the fact that it had bee1
posted by the wrong train" Instea|
of being grateful for the explanation y
is mean enough to insinuate that tn
train the letter got on must have ha|
IN uncommonly long run.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

The police rules of London forbid
an officer to arrest a drunken person
unless the latter is trying to do some
one an injury, and it is not an uncom-
mon thing for an officer to have six OK
eight "drunks" asleep at intervals
along his beat. They may all sing,
whistle or shout, but he cannot ar
rest them. ....
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

and HE to some hard-wooded locality we'll
stocked with NAPLES and lay out for a
spring campaign. Headquarters would
be established near some mammoth rock;
oft times this was SO located that it fur
nished shelter in time of storm and gave
bed for the night. A plan of opera
tions was then decided upon. Young
trees about one and onc-half feet in dl-
ameter we're cut down, cut up about two
feet in length, and then dug out, making
troughs holding not far from four four OF
five gallons. When 2OO or 3oo OF
these had been manufactured large ma
pies were selected, and by the side OF
each was placed one of these troughs.
Then cord or two of wood was gathered
and piled up against rock, two big logs
called back .logs-were placed in posi-
tion to support the kettle, and some large
tree near by was cut down and that dug
out into one immense trough for storage.
This work would use up the best part of
a week, one of the number going home
at night to look after the stock and bring
back in the morning the brown bread,
pork and beans. In those days these
articles constituted the staff of life and an
age ago there was no dyspepsia, chronic
complaints, or loss of appetite among the
average Vermonter. To be sure they
sometimes died, but died healthy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

Miss MARTHA CoYLE, OF Sharon:
Pa, stopped the runaway horse O.:
David Sankey, father of the evangelist,
and now comes into court at New Castle
with judgment note for $40, 900, whick
she says Mr.. Sankey gave her as re
ward for risking her life to save his
own. David Sanley has been dead TO,
five years, and his family say this is the
first they ever knew of the existence
of such note.