The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-07-26
LOCAL LEAFLETS.
Picked Up and ChrOnicIed
for Our Readers.
TRIAL OF TIP, ALsT0D IN PROGRESS.
A Coed Deal Of Interest Manifested in
the Case Names of the Jurors
Given. Other Court News.

Mr.. r. Hirsch has returned from New
York where he bought fall and winter
stock of goods.
Hon. John f. Motley will address the
voters of Acworth district at Acworth on
next Saturday afternoon at o clock. All
invited.
Mr. Brown Forester on switch engine
got one finger mashed. Monday, coupling
cars. Dr.. Seize is trying 10 save it
LosT.--A Silver Match Blk, marked Jas.
NJ. Lloyd, Chattanooga, 1893. Any one
returning it to Mr.. Chuck Anderson will
receive n suitable reward.
Mrs. Maxwell, OF Americas, mother of
Mrs. Mark Irwin. is visiting relatives and
friends in Marietta and vicinity.
Drs Nolan and Tennen. amputated an
arm for negro man last Thursday The
hand was useless from effects of cancer
which was rapidly spreading, The patient
is doing well.
Ice CREAM FEsTlvAL-The Marietta
Rifles will give an Ice Cream Festival
Friday night of next week, August Bid,
for the benefit Of the newly organized
Rifles Baud. The place will he given in
next weeks Journal.
Mrs. 81, J. Bradley and Mrs. John Brad
ley both of Marietta, and two children
each will spend the summer in Canton.
They are stopping at the Ellis House.
/ They have many friends in Canton who
welcome them to our beautiful and health
full little city.-Canton Advance.
|, One of Mariettas brightest and mos
charming young ladies is taking painting
lessons uhder an accomplished art teacher
She entered the studio few minutes be-
fore time to take her lesson Monday
morning, So her teacher told her, while she
was waiting, to paint mule Having lin
ished it she handed it TO the teacher TO
criticise. She said, Very good but YOU
forgot to paint his tail, to which her
scholar replied, That mule don't need any
tail; there amt no flies on him"
Last week there was a negro boy going
about town soliciting aims. BE sent ia a
circular which made him out deaf and
dumb, and slowly dying with consumption.
After the sympathetic reader had hunted
up dime and gone to the gate there was
the most robust, greasiest looking, con-
sumptive imaginable, weighing about two
hundred pounds. AT one house very
ferocious dog took possession OF him, and
the faculty of speech, lacking at his birth,
suddenly leaped iuto fanciiul expression.
After the dog had taken several bites, the
poor beggar found that he could curse as
fuently as if he had been born and bred
amid-ship.
Cobb Superior Court is IN session this
week, Judge Gober presiding, and Solicl>
tor Brown in the active discharge OF his
duties The following is the Grand Jury:
Jas. f. P. Lindley, Foreman, Z. j. Shelv-
erton, clerk, W H Winters, Hugh Harris.
j A Gunter G Burtz, II Randall, P
Broadwell, J H Murray, 7 K Handy, Q
Allen, Alex Gam, R A McCollum, Jno u
Benson, Jet L Lewis, Tay Tor Terrell, ) u
Delk, N M Mayes, A Fambro, Wiley
Wills, j l. Butner, VIM Kelpin, anc
Hughes. A number OF criminal cases
have been tried Will Jones, colored,
stealing pair of pants, sentenced twelve
months in chain gang Daniel Quarles'
white, misdemeanor, $50 or months In
chain gang; Mrs Mary Morgan, white.
misdemeanor, $50 or two months in jail,
The case OF I P Aston, charged with ar
son, is now being tried. The following
Jurors were selected and sworn to try the
case: W J Pace A Y Moss, L 6 Megarl>
ty, Pickens Tate, W P Dawson, Scott
5 Durham, Z A Cochran, Geo ID Collins,
H Cash, H.B Cowan and = Gault;
The lawyers for the defendant are j.. q.
Foster, c u Phillips. E Faw, and w Il
Muslin. w. Il. Power is assisting Sollcl-
tor Brown in the prosecution.
Mr.. George Phillips has. several trees
full of apples, which are among the very
few to seen in Cobbcounty this season.
Two young ladies OF Marietta, very .in~
innate friends, are busily engaged con-
structing a telephone reaching from their
respective residences. They are putting
great deal of science and industry into the
undertaking, and it is to be hoped they
will succeed.
The Young Peoples Society OF Christian
Endeayor of the Presbyterian church will
meet Friday evening at DR.. p R. Cortel-
you in place of Mrs. Gibbes' rs announc.
ed The seml.annual election Of officers
takes place at this meeting and all the
members are expected 10 be present.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety will meet at the residence OF Mrs.
W. E. Gilbert Thursday July g. 1894.
Mrs. D. +. MCCLATcHEY, Sec.
They never nardnn who commit