The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-06-09
MARIETTA GA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 9, 1898

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rietta on trains on Thursday evening
| were fine looking body of men. They
were greeted by large number of our
citizens, number of whom were la
| dies. The soldiers said that this was
the first place they had struck enroute
| that showed any cordiality of greeting
or kindly enthusiasm. They had not
| been paid off, and were without money,
and consequently without tobacco, and
| asked for the weed quite readily. They
said they had been all day without
something to eat, except hard tack,
land were hungry. They were realizing
some of the hardships of war They
had the sympathy of our people in a
very demonstrative way.
There is government distillery run
ming in this county near Winnings sta
ton, 10y Mr.. Cohen, of Atlanta. In
place of having hogs to eat the slops,
he has three hundred geese. He gets
enough feathers from these geese to
pay for them and then sells the geese
at certain season of the year for nine
dollars per dozen. Forty bushels of
meal are converted into whisky at that
distillery every day, the ''staff of life"
so necessary to appease hunger, turned
into elements of destruction, all under
the sanction of the government. The
government has colored guager at
the distillery.
Mr.. Smith Grogan acknowledges that
Mr.. John Beavers got the best of him
in repartee the other morning. Mr.
Grogan asked him: "What do you know
about the new testament, anyhow?"
Mr.. Beavers very promptly answered:
Il don't pretend to know much about
the new testament, but if you had
asked me about the old testament, I
probably could have told you some
thing. l read in Proverbs the other
day where it said Zone fool could ask
more questions than seven wise men
could answer" Smith wilted
On Friday night a southbound freight
was passing Howell's crossing at
Brumby's Chair Factory, in this
city, one of three boys, standing at
the crossing, threw rock and struck
the brakeman, j. o. Kemp, who was
standing on top Of the train, on the nose
and between the eyes, making cash to
the bone. 1t was dangerous lick.
When the train reached here the brake
man had DIR. Nolan to dress the wound
after which he went on to Atlanta on
another train. Kemp's home is in
Acworth.
After the regular performance in the
city court on last Friday morning and
the mayor had left the room, Pauline
Reynolds, Mary Fears, Bud Fears and
Savannah Denman, all colored, gave a
matinee for the delectation of the mar
shals. The aforesaid colored people
had regular fisticuff and wool pulling.
They mayor was recalled and proceed
ed to collect the license for matinees
of that kind.
The convention to nominate q senator
for the 35th district, meets In Atlanta
Saturday. Hon. John b, Medley, with
out opposition, was Nominated in the
county primary here, and. he needs but
the ratification of the convention, 1t
being Cobb's time.
The engagement of Miss Elsie S.
Campbell of New York to Mr.. Tholnas
Erwin, of Atlanta, is announced the
wedding to occur in the early fall.
Miss Campbell is niece of Mrs. DIR.
Stanley of Marietta, and has recently
left our city for her home in New York.
The hall in rear of the two rooms 0c-
cupied by Marietta Rifles as an armo-
ry, is being fixed up, new floor put
down and otherwise improved, and we
learn will be used by Mr.. R. L. North
cutt as dancing hall.
n SpCClul lCdtuIc vi lIlc HcAG SuIluHN
morning service at the Methodist
church will be music by the well
known Marietta orchestra, in addition
to the regular church choir.
The man who meets and greets you
with ''Is this hot enough for you?"
evidently thinks you would enjoy sum-
mer in hades.
Mr.. Elmer Anderson and Mr.. CLAIR
ence Galloway attended the funeral of
Miss Lucy Edwards in Gainesville,
Sunday, returning Monday.
Mr.. J. l.. Clark, of the new telephone
exchange, left for his home in Mary
vile, Tenn, this week, to be gone two
or three weeks.
Mr.. George Carnes, we regret to
learn, is quite sick, threatened with
fever.
Mrs. Il. n. Holland and children are