The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-11-14
NEwsY NOTES.

knowledge is ignorant.
No one who is in debt can boast
of being independent.
Boss Croker declares he is in
New York and in Tammany to
stay, that he has no thought of
resigning the leadership, and is
not gutter
A woman has been arrested il.
st. Louis with a valise containing
between 10000 and $4,000 bank
notes. She was certainly a sus-
picious character.
Schley had to wipe the tears
from his eyes as he listened to the
splendid peroration In his praise
by Lawyer Rayner "The bravest
are the tenderest.
This is not the first time that
Tammany has been defeated, and
as defeat was not permanent in
the past, Croker thinks there is no
reason to believe that it will be
now
President Roosevelt has decided
to change the official name from
executive mansion" to white
house. " The Columbia State sug-
gests that he call it "the white
and black house"
The Rev. J b Dunwoody, who
married President Roosevelt's par.
ents, is still living in little t
in Colleton county, South Ca
ma, He is IS years old and y
formed the ceremony in Roswell
Ga, December Is, 1854,
Attorney General Bell, of Texas,
has begun series of suits against
a brewers trust, plumbers trust,
an oil trust, cotton-seed trust,
railroad trust and several others
for penalties aggregating $85, 0O0,-
900.
Under new law in Minnesota
man convicted of failing to provide
for his wife has been punished as
feloE, receiving a sentence of
ninety days III the workhouse. The
extreme penalty for the offense IS
three years and the leniency shown
III the case cited is supposed to be
due to the fact that it is the first
conviction.
Iowa and Colrado have restored
the death penalty for murder.
1t was demonstrated that the
adjustment of capital punish
ment resulted in the increase of
homicides. Wisconsin, Michigan
Maine and Rhode Island are the
only-states in which the death
penalty is not inflicted.
District Attorney-elect VIM.
Travers Jerome, of New York, de-
clares that he shall see to it that
every man in his office is a lawyer
and gentleman; that he will
break up police blackmail, and he
believes the result of the election
means the end of Richard Croker
as political leader in New York.
Summer began in Marietta last
February and it has held high car
nlval ever since-just warm enough
to be delightful and cool enough
to be pleasant, as it were. When
Old Probs comes to make up his
final report he will do Marietta
full justice by according her the
most delightful resort in the world.
We have here both q winter and
summer resort and the most de-
lightful spot on earth so far as
living is concerned.
Fred Funston is coming home.
His many friends tremble because
Of the fact. He is about the only
hero of the Spanish war there is
left, but Is not to be expected that
he will remain a hero long after
landing. Somebody will accuse
him of cowardice in that he cap
tured Aguinaldo instead of per-
hitting the Filipinos to capture
him, orr because he did not wade
that river instead of swimming it.
With the fate of Dewey, Schley,
Hobson, Shafter and others in
mind, Funston would be easily ex-
cusable if he masqueraded at San
Francisco and sneaked unobserve6
back TO Kansas.
According to Berlin dispatch,
William Lacey, a Virginia negro,
through the good offices of the
American consul at the German
capital, is to be sent home a sadder
and wiser man. His trip to Eu-
rope, which began in a tramp
steamer last March, was far from
pleasant. While stranded in Ham
burO he or@apta1 on offer frO,,o a