The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-03-31


Whites, $50; colored, 533; total lib.
Whites, females, 284; males. 296. Coll
cred, females, 282; males, Isl. Children
over ten years old who cannot read nor
write, whites, II; colored, 70. Number
of children never attended any public
school, whites, 2S colored 49, Number
o. children never been to any school,
whites, g.; colored. Is. There are two
blind children, and two deaf and dun b,
all whites.
On Tuesday night, burglars with a
| chlsel priced open the rear door of Carnes
Il Gil5ert's store and carried off nineteen
packages Of cigarettes and one dozen and
half pocket knives. They also broke
open front window OF Barber Bros store
and carried off some coffee, The rear
door OF Faw & Rogers store was also
broken open, but nothing so far is missing
The thieves tried their chisel on the store
doors of A, B. Gilbert, W. E. Gilbert and
| 81, Fl, Clay but failed to make entrance,
The new postmaster, Mr.. Dewitt Cole
takes charge of the Marietta postoffice
April lst, Tomorrow Mrs. Dora Hughes
Merryman will have charge of the general
delivery and Mrs. Augustus Chamberlain
will bave charge Of the money order de-
partment. Mr.. Sterling Phillips, the pres
ent very efficient, courteous and clever as.
slstant postmaster, will remain another
| month.
A negro man was TOLD here Saturday
that their Republican President, McKin-
ley, was going to bring on war with Spain,
and that he would frs call out all the
Republican negroes to fight for the Free
dom OF the negroes in Cuba The negro
with n alarmed state of mind exclaimed :
Look here, boss; l amt no Republican
Is Democrat, l is; I voted for Mr..
Cleveland That settled it.
Judge Stone has not yet adopted any
plan for the reinodeling of our court
house, but will visit some other counties
where new court houses have been built
and satisfy his mind as to the best plan to
adopt. Judge Stone is very careful
man in all county matters and seeks to dc
his duty and make no mistakes.
The State Baptist Convention meets in
Augusta on the ,alst inst. Rev, W. A.
Lindsey, Messrs. A. M. Dobbs, R. r.
Northcutt, John II. Lewis, j. z. Foster. j
M. York and S. V. Sanford will represent
the Marietta Baptist church. Mrs. Lind
sey, Mrs. A. M. Dobbs and Mrs. Joseph
! NJ. Brown will also attend the convention
We desire to express our sincere thanks
to our good neighbors AMI kind friends
who showed US such great kindness and
rendered US so much assistance during our
mothers last sickness and funeral.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM B. METCALFE.
| CHARLES A. METCAlFE.
So far there has been no new cases OF
smallpox. and the probability is the dis.
ease will be confined to the two cases now
confined at the pesthouse about one mile
and a halt from town. The Smiths, where
Csntrell boarded, have all been carried
out to near the pest house and placed in
tents, as precautionary measure.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So.
ciety of the Methodist church will meet al
the residence OF Mrs D. F. McClatchey,
Thursday afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. W. R. Power, Cor. Sec.
Ice Cream, Sherbert, Soda Water, Coco
| Cola, DC, can be had at Moshers Candy
Kitchen. Parties and picnics supplied in
any quantity. Give Mosher your orders.
Our Clipping Machine is in first class
order. Bring your horse around and lei
US clip it for you. Prices right.
q. MEINERT.
Col. r. T. Nesbitt was in Rome Satur.
day. where Hon. Allen Gambler spoke to q
large crowd. Col. Nesbitt is meeting
with encouragement all over the state, and
the people are going to re-elect him Agri-
cultural commissioner, which place he SO
ably and successfully fills.
EGGS FOR HArCHrNc, from standard
bred LighG and Dark Brahmas, Partridge
and Buff Cochins. White and Silver W.
andottes, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Black
Minorcas Brown Leghorns. Langshans md
Indian Games. Get our price list before
buying. Satisfaction guaranteed
Kennesaw Poultry Club.
Marietta, Ga.
A farmer was in our Office one day last
week and said he was waiting to see il
there was going to be any war, before he
bought any guano, and il war should come
he didn't intend tie buy pound of guano
or raise stalk of cotton-that be would
plant all grain.
The two sermons preached by Rev. W.
G. Woodbridge, of Griffin. at the Presby-
terrain Church in this place last Sunday,
elected comments of praise for their ex-
cellence.