The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-10-19

" Ao"eIli anu wine Mace, negro
boy, went 'opossum hunting and when three
miles from town the dogs tree1, and Mace
vas selected to climb and secure his game
He spied Mr.. 'Opossum sitting far out or
limb, round, fat and happy and grinnine
as only &c 'opossum knows how to grin.
de made several efforts to shake him ont
but the clamp Of his claws and tenacity
! of his tail far excelled all the power that
the boy could use at the other end. After
trying this for awhile in vain, he made one
last extraordinary effort to loosen the hold
of'opcssum, but it resulted in him losing
his own hold. He, not the opossum, came
tumbling a great distance to the ground
resulting in his left thigh being badly frac>
tured. Upon young Howell devolved the
task of taking care of the helpless boy
which he did by taking Mace on his should.
ers and carrying him two miles on the
way, when he broke down, but luckily se~
cured conveyance for the balance of the
way to town. DR.. Nolan was then sum-
moned and gave the necessary medical
attention.
We have large assortment of winter
| Underwear which we are selling cheap.
Read q Virgins.
ONE day last week, we'll dressed young
white man, stranger in the city, went in
the store of Mr.. Cook G. Grist and pur,
chased twenty-five cents worth of goods
and gave him as payment check for sc. 90
on the First National Bank of this city
with Rev. FL. J. Ellis name signed to it.
and made payable to Geo. M. Davis. Mr..
Grlst did not suspect anything at the time,
and gave the man 1915 in money. A few
minutes later he examined the check more
closely, and the similarity of the hands
writing aroused his suspicion. Mr.. Grist
at once investigated the matter and found
that the check was forgery. A search
was made for the slick .torger but he could
not be found.
The largest and cheapest line of Over.
coats ever brought to Marietta at Read &
Virgins.
WANTED-A few L,ore Music Scholars.
H.r MRS K. L. MANNING.
In Furniture and House-furnishing
Goods we are headquarters. W. E. Gill
bert.
Hirsch will save you money on Shoes.
Call to see him when in want
Judge Newman, of the United States
District Court has modified his order relat-
ing to the sale of the Marietta & North
Georgia Railroad, which is to occur on the
10th day of November. Instead of fixing
the price of the Tennessee division at
1880 and the Georgia division at $780,
600, as stipulated in his first order, the
minimum bid of the former is fixed at
$75O,OOO, and the lowest bid of the latter
is 100000. 1t is further decreed that
neither sale shall be consummated until the
sum of $75, 900 has been paid cash in hand,
or by check properly certified.
Remember we make speciality of cloth
ing, Shoes, Hats aud Furnishing goods.
READ b W1GGINs.
There are heap of ways for an illicit
whisky dealer to beat revenue officers, but
one of the shrewdest the JOURNAL ever
heard of occurred about FIVE years ago in a
North Georgia county. The whisky VEN
der, when he wanted to furnish man
some whisky. would ask him out to see his
fish pond. In the center of the pond he
had sunk barrel OF whisky. He had ap.
planes to draw the whisky from the bar
rel, and thus he kept concealed his whisky
and dealt in it undecided.
The law requires me to close the city
tax books on the Goth inst. Call and pay
| your tax at once and save cost
K. +. LAwHoN, Clerk & Tax Col.
Buy your winter Underwear and Over,
coat from Read & Virgins and save money
Deputy collector J. E. Harrington and
deputy marshal W. E Crockett arrested
Geo. W. Dobbs and w. E. Adams of
Cherokee county last Friday night in an
illicit distillery near Canton. The off,
GERS seized and destroyed a sixty>five
gallon still, twelve gallons of corn whisky
and sixteen tubs of mash. The parties
were given hearing before United States
commissioner, David P. Lester at Marietta
on Saturday, and gave bond for their ap.
pearance at the United States Court.
OF your life is spent in clothes. Read
& Virgins sells clothes and sieh.
No hunting on my land under penalty of
law Mrs. E. Z. SIBLEY.
Smoke Cuesta cigars at W. j. NJ. Hames'.
Havana Pure Cigars are for sale by
Palace Drug Store Co., VIM. Aston & Son,
W. 7. Mosher and II. 81. Clay.
THE following citizens have left for the
World Fair since our last issue: Col. R.
n. Holland, Geo. D. Anderson, Butler
Homes, Ed Reed, Morgan McNeel, Prof.
F. L. Freyer, Mrs Dr. John Greer, Miss
M;pn;a RoStoc Me- D Coboon.LaI Ar