The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-08-22
There may be some Marietta fellows

through the mails. DR.. j. G. Franklin,
of Nashville, Tenn: well-known drug
gist and president of the City Savings
Bank, is defendant in case where a
serious charge is made, that of sending
obscene matter through the mails. The
particular section of the United States
statutes he is charged with violating is
1898, as amended, which prohibits the
mailing of any letter containing lewd.
obscene or indecent language and the
penalty of such violation is fixed at not
not greater than five years imprison-
ment or $1,000 fine.
A novel proposition has been sprung
in Atlanta for the city to tax cows one
dollar each, owned by dairymen, claim
ing that would give the city $500 ad-
dItional revenue. Why not tax each
horse one dollar also, and make the
revenue as large as possible AS the
COWS are given in as so much property
and taxes paid thereon, it seems it
would be illegal to levy an additional
tax upon dairymen's COWS. 1t GER
tainly would not be uniform taxation.
Inc Atlanta News speaks of the cor
respondents picnic of the Griffin News
as An Innovation in Southern News
paperdom." As the Griffin News has
held only four such picnics, the credit
OF this innovation" is due the Mariet-
ia Journal, as the correspondents of
this paper have held eleven of these
innovations, " and next Saturday they
will hold the twelfth at Fair Oaks.
where there will be an immense crowd
plenty to eat, good speeches and reci-
tations.
During the trial of the negro Ross, at
Canton, last week, Judge Gober cleared
the courtroom of everybody save the
oflcials OF the court. This was wise
and sensible course, and Judge Gober
deserves for it the commentator of all
the pure-minded citizens of the state.
we have, thanks to Judge Gober, been
saved from the demoralizing sight and
record of horrible crime. WESLEYAN
Christian Advocate.
Charley Ford. brakeman on the A,
K. & N. railroad, was knocked off of an
incoming freight train last Saturday
night by the spout to the water tank
just south of town. He was picked up
by the train crew and brought on to the
Central Hotel in an unconscious con-
dition, where he still lies with the
chances for his recovery very doubtful.
Blue Ridge Post.
A white man tramping through the
country, was arrested here on Sunday
by deputy sheriff Northcutt and Mar
shall Hawkins on the charge of entering
Mr.. McRea's house, near Kennesaw and
frightening his wife and breaking open
a trunk.
For SALE.-Two horse power kero-
sene engine, recently overhauled and in
good condition. A bargain. Apply at
JOURNAL office.
Miss Birdie Mason, of this place, and
Mrs. w. W. Waters and Mrs. Battle
Shropshire, of Rome, left Monday on
a trip to Toronto, Canada and Pan
American Exposition. Buffalo, New
York.
DO not patronize Sunday excursions.
How can you and still maintain your
Christian integrity? Discountenanoe
it with all the emphasis in your power.
How embarrassing it would be for your
pastor to preach your funeral sermon
in case you should loose your life in
railroad disaster on Sunday excursion
train Evangelical Messenger.
Will Judge Gober decline to run be-
cause he has all orchard of 2OOOOO peach
trees. Can he yield to that soft i'm
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
Judge Gober is not candidate for
governor and will not be. The rumor,
evidently, was started by sensational
newspaper reporter, who wanted some
thing to write about.
If the negroes continue to prove to
be tax defaulters, and fl fas are issued
against them, it will need no grand
fathers clause" to disfranchise them
in this state. They are DISTINGUISHING
themselves
Sickness is often the result of an out
ing. The people so off to spend the
summer, they override, over-eat or over
exercise, and create an unhealthy con-
dition of the system. They come back
home worn out and proceed to rest"
The very thing they went off to get,
they come back home and find. We
know of several Marietta people who
have had such an experience.