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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
UneXnlained.

In Captain Kings Trial of a staff
Officer" an amusing story is told Of Gen
eral Upton, who was at one time COM
mandant of cadets at West Point The
commandments tent was a great place for
lighting battles over again
One day six or eight OF us were gath
cred there, and the floor was held by one
OF those blatant gentlemen who, having
graduated before the civil war, and hav-
ing had just as good chance as the gal
liant band of ambitious young lieuten-
ants who rose to be generals, had pre-
terred the safety, ease and slow promo
ton OF mastering and disbursing duty,
and whose only brevet was for the ser
vice of the Recruitment of the armies of
the United States"
For some reason or other such men
have often been prone to disparage the
services of successful men, and to at
tribute the promotion over their heads
of such soldiers as Upton and Custer to
political influence. So Major - was
on this day holding forth about luck in
the line, ending with this startling state
ment: a
"Well, now, Upton's another instance.
OF course, don't mean to say but what
you fought all right, old fellow, when
you got chance, but you won't deny
that there were fellows who went
through the whole war with the regu-
lars, stuck to their regiments or bat
terles, got wounded time and again, and
only got brevet; but here YOU are a
lieutenant colonel, and never got a
scratch!''
Considering the fact that Upton had
been wounded in three different engage
ments, he might have been excused for
making pointed reply. but he only
smiled quietly, as he sat writing at his
desk, and said:
well, there are lots of men who think
just as you do, I've no doubt"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
Sick Room Vagaries.

1T is curious to notice the moral effect
of illness upon people," said prominent
physician the other day. For instance
among my patients are preacher who
swears when he is sick end a gambler
who prays. A successful and we'll
known business man will not go to his
bed when illness attacks him because of
a morbid fear that he will never rise
from it again. A lady of not the prettiest
character has all her jewelry and fine
dresses laid on the foot of her bed, l sup
pose to keep her mind from terrifying
thoughts. A hundred other PECULIAR
ties are developed, but the most remark
able one to me is that of a professional
man who reads up in current literature
when he is really seriously illtbecause he
hasn't time to do it when he's. we'll. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
The Way 1t Blew on the Lake.

A party of yachtsmen were becalmed
out on Lake Ontario Sunday afternoon,
and while waiting for breeze the time
was occupied in spinning yarns. There
were two or three old salts on board,
and they did all the spinning, while the
younger and less experienced tars sat
and smoked and listened. Finally one
OF the old salts took his pipe from be-
tween his teeth long enough to draw
breath. and said:
You fellows give me pain talking
about big storms. Why, was out in a
storm in the summer of 80 that was so
much bigger than any that you have
ever seen that they are like cats paws
compared to it.
Then he stopped and began industri-
ously to draw upon his pipe again.
Tell us about it." said the young fell
lows in chorus.
1T was in the month of July in the
year 1869. and was out on the lake in a
yacht of mine," he said, after pausing
long enough to fill his pipe afresh and
light it, land the wind began to get
pretty fresh paid but little attention
to it, but it kept blowing fresher and
fresher, and one of my crew asked if we
had not better shorten sail. thought
that there was no danger and said that
there was time enough. All of sudden
the wind began to blow harder than l
ever saw it in this latitude. and we all
began to get badly scared.
II gave orders to take in sail, but be-
fore the men could lay hands on a rope
a big puff came and away went the sails
into ribbons. There we were out in the
middle of the lake with no sails, and the
situation began to look desperate. How
we were going to get in did not know,
but the very storm itself furnished us a
way and we rode safely to shore"
Here he stopped and began to smoke
How did you get in?" asked the
youngest sailor of the lot
Why" said the old salt, 1.-THE wind
blew so hard that it blew the ropes out
fiat and they served for sails. dorchester
Democrat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
Arc We Physically Advancing

Edward Atkinson has examined the
records of hundreds of ready made cloth
ing establishments to discover whether
the white man of the United States is
deteriorating in size and weight AS the
general result it was found that the av-
erage height of the New Highlander is
feet 81 inches and of the southerner s
feet 10 inches. The average weight OF
the American of today is between l5J
and 100 pounds Mr.. Atkinson discov-
cred that the average height and weight
of men in this country has perceptibly
increased since the war of 1878, and
that we are slowly increasing rather than
decreasing in size and strength.
Louis Republic.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
WHERE TO GET JOB PRINTING.

Attention is directed to the jobbing de-
partment of the MARIETTA JOURNAL which
is provided with Steam Power, New Job
Presses, New and Latest Styles of Job
Type ana most approved and extern
sive facilities for the execution of job
printing of all kinds from the smallest label
to the largest poster, in black or colored
inks, at prices as low as can be had else
where for an equal grade of work. We are
prepared to printat short notice pamphlets
posters, programmes, circulars, letter heads
checks, envelopes, bill heads, blanks of all
kinds, catalogues, business cards, and every
hing in the line OF printing used in the con-
duet of every day business. We will du-
plicate Atlasta prices. Give us a trial
and see.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
The Wheel Is Thousands of Years OLD

The earliest mention of wheels in the
Bible is in Exodus xiv, 25, when the
chariot wheels of the Egyptians were
taken off by the Lord; but chariots are
mentioned in Genesis xii, 40. But there
were older nations than the Egyptians.
The Chaldeans used chariots; the Greeks
-Homers poems date from about 300
B. Chad chariots at the siege Of
Troy, 1900 B. G. Probably in reality
the wheel is about as early piece OF
machinery as any now existing. Of
course it has been developed, but the
bicycle wheel of today is a lineal de-
scendant of the section of log of wood
used by the agricultural peoples thou
sands of years ago.-New York Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
He Won't Do It Again.

An amateur beekeeper in Penobscot
county learns thing or two almost
every day. Amsng other valuable les
sons was this: While working among his
hot footed charges he clumsily upset a
hive, He was shielded by netting and
loose overalls and could watch with
amusement the frantic jabbing of the
10000 bees that covered his anatomy.
After moment, however, he thought.
fully stopped to pick up the hive Then
it was that the bees were amused. The
loose overalls were drawn tight by the
STOPPING process, and the beekeepel
didn't sit down and enjoy himself fol
two weeks.-Lewiston Journal
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
MIR. CIews' Costly Bathroom.

Henry Clews, of New York. devotes
great deal of time and money to beau
tifying his house. He is particularly
well pleased with any one who expresses
desire to go through it, and one of the
first rooms he will take a visitor into
is his bathroom. He Is said to have ex-
pended $40, 900 on this room. The walls,
floor, bath, in fact, every part of the
room, is Of onyx.-Upholsterer
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
Cost of Americas Rig Rr,dee.

The cost of the Brooklyn bridge was
$l5, 0O0, 900, which was 100000 in ex-
cess of the final estimate of the engineer,
Roebling, who was appointed in charge
Of the work on May %, 1867. Two years
later he was injured by an accident,
from the effects of which he died, and
the engineering was carried through by
his son.-New York Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
DIR. f. J. SEIZE.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
TENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
i services in the practice of Medicine in
all its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at DR.
E. j. Setze's Drugstore. All calls prom pit
ly attended to-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
DIR. I'll. V. REYNOLDS.
PRACTyCING PHYSICIAN


WHEN 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, two doors above the Metho.
dist parsonage, Marietta, Ga. Telephone
No. II.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
Nj A RI EFT A
Opposite the Kennesaw House.,

(OppOslle Tue henneSAW house..
CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprietor.
VHHE BEST OF VEHICLES, TIE
safest of drivers and the fastest
horses are always ready, night and da
for hire. No man or Woman or child eve
has given me call in the past, who ha
been, nor shall any ever in the future be
dissatisfied with my teams or the men
my employ. Everything and every body
about me are No. /.
have cheaped my charges proposition
ate to the stringency of the times. Fo
references as to the truth of what say
as the turnouts and charges, 60 to my
friends, which means the people general
ly.
Parties hiring are strictly responsible
for the safely of themselves, vehicles and
horses. J, A. G. ANDERSON
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
Apropos of Chappie,

You broke that poor boy all up"
mo harm done. he is so simple it
won't be hard 10 put him together
again. New York Epoch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
DIR. j. ID. MALONE.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
OFFICE south side of Public Square,
~ az Malone'0 Drug Store. Residence
on the corner Of Atlanta and Anderson
streets. Callsln city or country answered
promptly day and night.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
DIR. P. r. CORTELYOU.
PRACTICINO PHYSTCTAN

PRACTTCING PHYSICIAN,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA. OFFICE
1A North-side Public Square over r. 81.
n orthcutt's Millinery store. Consultation
Hours, 81 a. m. TO l2-3 to 5 p. M, unless
otherwise engaged. Telephone No. Is.
Residence nearly opposite Pres oyterian
Church, or Church street,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
DIR. N. N. GOBER.
PRACTICING PHYS

TENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
i services to the citizens of Marietta and
urrounding country. Office, West-side OF
Square, Upstairs in Nichols Hall. Res
idence at the Laneau house, one block
from Cherokee street, Marietta, Ga
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-08-06
Business Cares &c.
w. s. CHENEY,
ATTORNEY 1T LAW.

MARIETTA, GEORGIA OFFICE
1XI South-side OF Public Square, oppo-
site JOURNAL Office. All legal business
promptly attended to. Collections spe
cially solicited. Money loaned and notes
discounted.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
GAS IN A STEEL FURNACE.
An Explosion nat Kills Three Men and
WOunIs Five Others.


BALTIMORE, Dec. S-An explosion of
gas o, CURED at the works of the Maryland
Steel company, Sparrows Point, yesterday,
and several men were nju ed. Three of
the victims have since died Another is
not expected to live. Four others were
badly injured, but they are not believed
to be fatally hurt. The dead are: Arthur
M. Austin and George Braidwood, of Bal
timore, and John Lynch, of Sparrows
Point The wounded-Arthur Pugh,
very badly burned and internally injured;
Washington Sapp, struck by flying debris;
Thomas Miller, of Linwood. N c., and
August Bell, of Montpelier. Va, faces and
hands burned; William Tubman, colored,
right hip broken and burned
Hot Bricks and Fierce Flames
Forty men were at work in the imme-
dlate vicinity when the explosion took
place. The furnace was being blown out
for repairs. Hot bricks were thrown in
every direction with great force The
flames spread rapidly and enveloped some
OF the injured men whom the flying
bricks had knocked senseless The uniu-
Jured workmen at once went to the rescue
OF their fellow-laborers and dragged them
out of further danger Austin was al
most instantly killed Braidwood lin
gered in great agony for three hours, and
Lynch lived slX hours after the accident.
The cause of the explosion is not known,
but 1t probably occurred from a water
pipe springing a leak. The noise of the
explosion was distinctly heard three miles
aWaV
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
ABBREVIATED TEIEGRAMs.

Seventy five miners were killed at 0t.
Etienne, France, by an explosion.
The 4-year-old son of Daniel Hand is
lost in the woods near Mays Landing,
N j.
Senator a. j. Bell, of Peoria. Ills, a
prominent Democratic politician and
leader, is dead, aged So.
One man was killed and six injured by
an explosion at the Maryland Steel Com
pany's works in Baltimore.
The Pacific Mail company's new steam
ship Nicaragua has been wrecked Of San
Salvador. She cost $500, 600
w. H. Peck, of Platteville, Wis, died
in Madison. He had been prominent in
Wisconsin educational circles for many
years.
A rumor is current at Constantinople
that fresh plot has been discovered
among the officers of the army to depose
the sultan.
The United States supreme court has
postponed the hearing in the Fielden and
Schwab anarchist cases until the second
Monday in January
Baron Arthur Rothschild, nephew of
the head Of the great financial house, is
serving his twelve mouths in the French
army as a private soldier.
Daring the recent blizzard in North
Dakota farmers were caught 50 short of
fuel that they had to burn their furniture
10 keep from freezing to death
DR., w. +. Staudiford, who was dis
charged from the Dwight institution as
cured in Nav last, died from acute alco-
holism at Chicago Saturday night
The eldest son of the Crown Prince of
Denmark is seriously i'll with influenza.
Il is estimated that 1900 persons were
affected with the disease in Hamburg
last week
sperm whale forty feet long was
washed ashore at Ocean City, Md. and
upon being cut open a five gallon demi-
john of good rye whisky was found in its
stomach.
Francis Machinski a defeated candi-
date for the directorshp of Polish school
in Kansas City, was seriously injured and
others hurt in fight between him and
his adherents and the successful candidate
and his friends.
Lady Balgarine. who has been doing
the slums of Boston, says they are not so
bad as those of London, and that there is
an entire absence of that expression of
utter hopelessness which characterizes the
London outcast
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
sherman Speaks Of the Rrice Case.

WASHINGTON, Dec. s. The only thing
OF interest that transpjred in the senate
yesterday WAS Sherman's remarks on
Brice's credentials. Sherman said the
credentials gave Brice prima facie right
to the seat, and he did not object to Brice
being sworn, but wanted his course not to
be taken as a waiver cf the right of the
Ohio legislature TO contest the seat on the
ground that Brice was not an "inhab-
itant" of Ohio. The president'smessag
will be sent to con rreSS tomorrOU
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
WAS A FRIEND IN NEED.
\ Farmers Life Saved by a Bun He
Had Raised

\ Farmers Life Saved by Buu He
Had Raised.
SHELBY, \. Y, Dec. S-John Neal, a
farmer of this town, went into his barn
yard to feed his stock. Among his cattle
was bull which he had purchased few
days ago, and another that he had raised.
While scattering hay he was attacked by
the new bull. which caught him on its
horns and hurled him several feet away.
The bull followed up its attack, and Neal
grasped the animal by the horns aud held
firmly until he had been raised in the air
three times and forced against the barn.
Rescue in the Nick of Time.
He would have been crushed to death if
the bull he had raised from a calf had not
rushed to his rescne by striking the new
conner in the side with such force that he
was knocked away. The farmer fell to
the ground. The old bull, now terribly
enraged, rushed at the other bull again
and drove him into far corner of the
yard where he kept him until the farmer
had dragged himself out of the yard.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
collars and CUFFS" Is Engaged.

LONDON, Dec. S-There was a great
gathering Of royalty yesterday at Marl-
borough House, the London residence of
the Prince of Wales The occasion of
this gathering together of princes and
princesses, presided over by the queen her
self, was family celebration of the be-
trothat of his royal highuesS Prince AL
bert Victor, duke of Clarence aud Avon
dale, and heir presumptive 10 the throne
of England. to his third cousin, the Prin-
ceSse Victoria of Teck The match is a
popular one. the princess being thor
ough Euglishwoman.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
HILL BE A GREAT EXPOSITION.
The Eloquent Chauncey Dilatcs on What
He saw at Chicago.

The Eloquent Chauncey Dilatcs on What
He saw at Chicago.
Proceeding Depew said: There will be
three or four times as many buildings as
at either of those expositions and several
OF the structures will be nearly twice as
large as the largest was at Paris. The
series of buildings when completed will
form an architectural university on the
grandest scale. Four or five of the largest
buildings are already approaching COM
petion, being foorcd over sided up and
the timhers of the roof in. They are us
ing material called staff which is COM
posed of plaster of paris, cement and
hempen fiber, which binds il together
They pour this in the melted state into
mOlis of any size, and when it comes out
it i an elaborate frieza, or a statue, or a
bas relief, or an Ionic or Corinthian cap
tai, according to the mold.
a Very Durable Material.
"This staff, the fair people told me, was
more durable than wood, was not affected
by the weather, by heat or cold, or rain or
sun 1t is not expensive and takes fin
ish which makes il look like carved white
marble The buildings. composed mainly
v
upon the fashioning of which has been ex-
hausted the best decorative and architec-
tural talent of the country, will produce
wonderful effects.
Discounts the Parthenon.
"If the architect of the Parthenon could
appear there be would see a parthenon
about twenty-five times larger than the
one Which he thought would be the Won
der of the world, and apparently con-
strucied of the same material. And the
astonishment of that Greek would be as
large as the Worlds fair when he found
that this gigantic reproduction of his chef
d'nuvre had been slapped up in six
months, as against the several genera
tions which it took TO build his structure
Uncle Sans Plain Duty.
with unequaled audacity and conf
dence the managers have laid it ont on
the broadest scale. They are spending
s., 600 600 month on the grounds. Chi
cago is plucky. and the people say that
if they are compelled to meet the whole
expense they will do it. But it seems the
proper thing. as this is a national affair.
that no city should be called upon to bear
the whole burden. Congress ought to ap-
propriate the balance necessary to COM
plete this most superb foundation
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
Arrival of MIS-. FInrence.

New YORK, Dec. s.-The steamship Um-
bria, which arrived Sunday morning, had
on board Mrs w. J. Florence Mrs.
Floreuce's brother, Joseph H. Tooker,
and her brother-in-law. Police Inspector
Conlin, went down the bay to meet the
incoming vessel At the pier were Mr..
and Mrs. Georga Mitchell and Mrs. Maria
X. Williams Mrs. Florence went direct
ly to Mrs. Williams house at 142 West
Seventy-second street. She is unable to
see any one but her relatives
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
FIRST WINDOW" CERTIFICATE.
Secretary Fosters Letter Presenting 1t
To Mrs. Nindom.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Secretary Foster
has addressed the following letter to Mrs.
Window, dated Dec. 1:
My DEAR MADAM: 1t affords me sincere pleas
urc 10 present to you the first silver certificate
bearing the likeness of your illustrous hus-
band, the late William Window, secretary of
the treasury.
Few of our pubic men who have been SINH
larry honored have done more to deserve this
particular mark Of recognition from the gov
ornmcnt. and as his successor in Office, | feel
that II Is fitting to testify in this manner my
official acknowledgement of the obligations due
to his distinguished services. Very sincerely
yours. CHARLES FOSTER.
To Mrs. William Window.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
A CbiId Born with Horns

MARLToN, Y. J., Dec s--The young
and pretty wife of Mr.. Schaeffner gave
birth Monday week to child who is one of
the strangest freaks of nature. The child
is without eyes and just where they should
be are two horns. Otherwise the child is
perfectly formed and healthy. 1t is likely
to live. The horns are an osseous pro-
truberation.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
Republican Senators Caucu..

WASHINGTON, Dec. s-The Republican
Iauators met in caucus Immediately after
the adjournment of the senate Sherman
was elected chairman of the caucus in
place of Edmunds. A committee of COM
mittees was authorized to be appointed
by the chair to rearrauge the Republican
representation on the senate committees,
and the caucus then adjourned subject to
the call of the chair
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-08
sawmiIl Boiler Explosion.

MEMPHIS, Dec s-The boiler in j. w.
Houston's sawmill at CollinsvilIe, this
state, exploded Monday morning, Instant
ly killing John Smith, the engineer. and
Ed Downs, and DESTROYING the entire
plant The mill was valued at $4,000.