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The Marietta Journal.
Butered at the Post Office, Marietta, Ga., as Second
Class Matter.
MARIETTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1885.
There is a widow in Birmingham
thirteen years old, and she attends
the public school. ‘
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Col. Tom Buford, the slayer of
Judge Elliott in Frankfort,Ky.. some |
years ago, died last Thursday.
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The Georgia railroad furnishes pas
senger coaches with separate apart
ment for white and colored people,
both of equal comfort and acemmoda
tion.
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The son of Senator Mahone has
been on a big drunk. He shot a por
ter in a Washington hotel, whizzed a
bullet through the hair of the pro
prietor, and is under a bond of $l,OOO
for assault with intent to kill.
The Philadelphia Press is responsi
ble for the statement that there are
in Philadelphia 1,000 anarchists, in
New York 7,000 in Chicago 4,000.
These belong to what is called the
“International Association.”
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In a dry goods fight at Cham
bershurg, Pa., one firm put the price
of calico down to one-quarter of a
cent per yard, whereupon the rival
concern offered calico at one-eighth
of a cent, or eight yards for a cent.
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The largest sale of canned corn
ever made in this country was effect
ed by a Maryland factory association
last week. It agreed to put 100,000
cases on the cars atabout 73 cents per
dozen.
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No one is ever killed by Tightning
when asleep in bed, according to the
assertion of an English electrician,
Whenever you hear a clap of thunder
always go to bed and fall asleep im
mediately. This is a sure precau
tion.
A New York lawyer has had an
other New York lawyer before a po
lice court to have him punished for
sending dunson postal cards. The law
ought to be changed. Sometimes a
postal card is the only thing that can
find a delinquent debtor in.
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Just the same as in any other field
of labor, there is a chance in journal
ism for a young man to wm:he o name
for himself. Edmund Yates com
menced as a reporter at 8> a weck.
This was an humble beginning ; but
he had talent and energy. Now he
is in jail—[New Orleans Picayune.
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A Hog was recently killed at
Blooming Grove, Sullivan County, N.
Y., and when dressed a thick wire
fourteen inches long was found in the
lights and pressed against the heart.
Though twisted aund coiled in differ
ent shapes and forced into the vitals,
the hog was apparently as healthy as
ever.
“F. H. R.” telegraphs to the Con
stitution that Senator Brown went
before the Judiciary Committee and
advoeated the confirmation of Emory
Speer’snomination. Senator Colguitt
briefly replied to him. He also states
that the cornmittee agreed, by a striet
party vote, to report favorably upon
the nomination.
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There are over 100,000 office hold
ers in the United States in the ser
vice of the general government.
Now, let us figure a little If Cleve
land should commence immediately
after his inaugu ation to make new
appointments to take the place of
Republicans, and work ten hours
cach day for one year of 306 days, he
would have to make an appointment
every two minutes in order to get
through thelist by the end of the year.
What foolishness it is to talk about
making a clean sweep as the first
thing for Mr. Cleveland to do.
Good news comes from iron mills
in various parts of the country. They
are resuming work, and that means a
distribution of wages and the healthy
circulation of money. The amount
of a nation’s currency is not of half so
much importance as the freedom with
which it circulates through the im
pulse of active business. A dollar
that is hoarded in times of panic and
distrust is useless for the time being,
but a dollar paid out in the murning‘
may before night closes represent the
purchase of a score of dollars’ \wrth‘
of thin;:s necessary to the sustenance
of working men. ‘
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Private detectives, say a story from
Cleveland, shadowed a socialist who
was at last seen to 0 into a lll‘ll',: store
and write out a prescription, which
wasfilled. The detvetives secured it.
and had it again made up, the result
being a colorless mixture. This was
applied to a door panel and also to pa
per. It left no stain, but in half an
hour began to blaze. This suggested
the methods of the man, who could
casily sprinkle his liquid over a heap
of rubbish or on a pile of lumber, and
be two miles away before the fire
would break out. The man was close- ‘
ly watched with the expeetation of
seeing him in the act, but he took
alarm and left the city. |
SKATING RINK CRAZE.
IN the East the skating craze has
had a long run, and its evil results
are seen on every hand in the broken
down physiques of young girls who
were frequenters of rinks. The press
and the medical profession of the me
tropolis are waging hot war on the
institutions. Acting upon the ‘ad
vice the better class of people have
withdrawn their patronage, and the
others are fast following suit. It has
been demonstrated that the dangers
to the female sex from all day use of
the sewing-machine are insignificant
in comparison with the hazards of
roller skating. There is eminent
medical testimony to the effect that
roller-skating is especially dangerous
‘to women and girls—especially to
girls approaching womanhood ; that
women are not anatomically or phys
iologically fortified for the exercise,
and that the danger to them is very
grave. Roller-skaters seldom indulge
in moderation. The stimulation of
the crowds to excessive labor, turns
what was intended to be an amuse
ment into a menace to health, limb
and life.
RICH GOLD MINE, {
Gray & Lane, of Elizabethtown Ky.,
are at Villa Rica superintending the
erection of their stamp mill, and have
the mill almost ready for the engine.
The vein of ore they propose working
is said to be the richest in gold of
any vein struck for a long time. M.
Willoughby, an old English miner of
many years’ experience, thinks it is
the main vein leading from Pine
mountain. This company will be
known asThe Eden Gold Mining Com
pany.” The Farmston Gold Mining
Company are sinking another shaft
and taking out ore for their mill.
They have the finest mill and the
most approved machinery of any in
the State, costingaboutslo,ooo. An
other mill is being built on the
“Jones” vein by a wealthy company,
and will be running by spring. Mr.
Clarke Wadkins is the superintend
ent. By May 1 the mines will have
four mills running.
S e ecam s
SINGULAR SCENERY.
One of the most sincular features
iu the scenery of the territory of Ida
ho is the occurrence of dark, rocky
chasms, into which cvecks and large
streams suddenly disappear and are
never more seen. The fissures are
old lava channels, produced by the
outside of the mass cooling and form
ing a tube, which, when the fiery
stream was exhausted, has been left
empty, while the roof of the lava duct,
having at some point fallen in,) pres
ents there the opening into which the
river plunges and is lost. At one
place along the Suake one of these
rivers appear gushing from a cleft
high up in basaltic walls, where it
leaps a cataract into the torrent be
low. Where this stream has its orig
in, or at what point itis swallowed
up, is absolutely unknown, although
it is believed that its sources are a
long way up in the North countries. ‘
EARN BREAK OFF.
A correspondent from Manitoha
writes that with the thermometer
58 degrees below zero the air is so
wonderfully clear anddry that it does
not seem half so cold as it really is,
but the effects are reliable proofs of
the temperature. Itisa very common
sight to see people partly frozen, but
unless they see themselves in a glass,
or are told of the fact, they are not
conscious of being frozen. Oceasion
ally the part frozen will snap off, and
kittens’ and ponies’ cars often break
oft. Mustard two feetabove the stove
will freeze. Water poured from a
boiler into a pail and taken at once to
the stable will frequently be thickly
coated with ice, which must be brok
en before the cattle can drink.
SHALL POX CURE.
The following cure for small-pox
has been sent to the Postmaster at
Thomson for the benefit of the afflict
ed, with the assurance that it will ac
complish all that is claimed for it :
“The small-pox is found to consist of
a few ounces of foreign matter in the
blood, which can never escape hut
through the glands of the skin. Let
the patient place his feet in hot water
and wrap himselt in blankets, and
commence drinking two or three
quarts of water in the form of light
black tea, as hot as he ean bear.
The oxygen of the water soon restores
the full power of his nerves, the wa
ter dilutes the blood and the great
heat expands the smaller blood ves
sels,so that the restored nervous pow
er can drive the blood to the surface
where the glands seerete the foreign
matter which forms the pox and ex
pels it in two or three hours, and can
never fail to do so. It is hard to soc
our neighbors carried to their graves
while one cent’s worth of these cards
printed would have kept them from
spending one day in bed. *‘With
what measure you meet it shall be
measured to you again.’ Rev. Dr.
D. Rbinson, Ts§Paterson street, Pa
terson, N. J.”
The English war in Egypt over
shadows the French war in China for
the present. But the French are
making progress ail the same. On
Fridry Gen. Brive's forces destroyed
five forts belonging t» the Chinese,
the enemy having evacuated them
without fighting.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS. |
Rev. Josiah Lewis died at Sparta
on the 13th inst.
A negro in Monroe became angry
with his wife and cut her throat. He
is in jail.
A negro named Henry Whitfield has
been sentenced to be hung on the 27th |
of March for arson in Savannat..
Several hundred LeConte pear trees ‘
have been added to the orchards in
the neighborhood of Dalton this year.
A negro child in Elbret county be
came enraged because its mother in
sisted on washing its face and held
its breath until it died.
Gen Pierce M. B. Young, of Car
tersville, will, it is said, be an appli
cant for the position of Minister to
Mexico.
Hon James S Hook, of Augusta,
and Miss Lula C. Mays, formerly of
Lexington, Ky, were married in Au
gusta Thursday, at the Christian
chupch.
A negro woman near Thomson on
last Saturday gave birth to three well
developed babies. The first from the
difficulty of birth died; the other two
are doing well.
On Friday, whileat work in hisstore
as usual, in Rome, Mr W L McCul
lough was seized with acute pain and
died in a few minutes. Supposed to
he heart disease.
Butts county has decided to have
whisky a while longer. "The eleetion
resulted in giving whisky 150 majori
ty. They beat prohibition year before
lagt only 20 votes.
J M Rees, of Marietta, was on the
steamer “Alaska,” so long overdue,
and was mourned for as lost by his
family. Hearrived Thursday in good
health and spirits.
A burglar entered the hotel at Pow
der Springs the other night and took
from the pants of Mr. Jack Rake
straw $llB. Two negroes have been
arrested on suspicion.
Dudley Thomas, Spalding county’s
colored bailiff-clect, has not succeed
ed in making a bond yet, and in a
spirit of chagrin declares he “don’t
care nuflin fur de office nohow.’
The Gainesville Press boastingly
says that there is a 15-year old girl
that lives in that settlement who can
shoulder two and a half bushels of
wheat. The Hawkinsville Dispatch
meets the issue by saying that there
is living in one of the counties below
Hawkinsville a girl under 15-years of
of age who can shoulder 2 sacks of salt
and “‘tote” them upon her shoulders
100 yards.
A Tovau Hex Story.—About the
15th of January, Mr. John William
son, who has recently moved near
our town, missed fone of his hens.
Thinking it had been stolen, he had
about dismissed the matter from his
mind, when on yesterday he heard a
noise in the well. Procuring help he
let a boy down in the well. When
he was drawn out, to the surprise of
all, he brought the long missed hen,
which, after her fast of twenty days,
walked off singing. There wasa cave
in the side of the well near the water,
into which she manaced to get,
which saved her from drowning and
hid 'her from view.— Forsyth Adver
fiser.
Too Mvceu Movey 1y His Pockers,
—Last Sunday evening when Sheriff
Ward went to the jail to feed the
prisoners, one James Evans colored,
who was in jail for some trivial of
fense, was told to take out the buck
ets of slop from the jail, and when
he got down the steps, although the
sheriff was almost in arm’s length of
him, he dropped the buckets and
sped to the woods like a deer. M.
Ward made immediate pursuit, and
ran the fugitive until darkness pre
cluded any further attempt at his
capture, and in the dense woods and
black darkness he made good his es
cape. Mr. Ward had collected, on
Saturday, a large amount of money,
and had in his pants something over
two hundred dollars in silver, which
he had brought to town deposit in a
safe. Had it not been for being thus
weighted down, he says he knows he
could have caught him.~l'ulq/la.w'il/v1
Sar.
A LAw appears to be needed in
New York fixing the limit of a la
borer’s savings. A policeman ar
rested a servant woman the other
day because she had on her person
8150 cash and two bank books show
ing deposits to her eredit in savings
banks to the amount of some $6OO,
She was arrested on “‘suspicion,” be
cause the officer thought she had too
much wealth for a person in her walk
of life. The police justice, however,
was enlightened enough to dismiss
her when her mistress appeared and
swore that the woman was honest
and had saved the money from the
wages of several vears.
A man in Lewiston, Me., recent
ly bought a cow of alocal cattle deal
er. Nomeonejokingly asked him if he
knew that the cow was so old as not
to have any teeth in her upper jaw.
The man went home, and upon ex
amining the cow, found that she had
no teeth in that region, and promptly
returned the cow. It was with some
difficulty that he was made to under
stand that cattle never have any teeth
in their upper jaws.
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Winters & Legg.
WE DESIRE TO THANK OUR FRIENDS FOR THE LIBERAL |
patronage they have given us in the past and beg to remind them that we |
are now prepared to turnish them with
| For the present season at prices as \
- Low as the Lowest
* And on reasonable terms. We are selling
Merryman’s, Sterns, Pendleton, Gossypium,
and Winters & Legg Ammoniated Guanos.
ORCHILLA (a Pure Bird Guano).
Also Acid Phosphate, Kainit and, last but
not least, STERNS RAW BONE.
We GUARANTEE each and every one of these BRANDS to be as good as
they have ever been, which ig as much as we need say.
We can furnish you anything you need to
EAT or WORK WITH.
We keep always on hand
Buggies and Harness.
- Remember we are always ready to
AT HIGHEST MARKET PRICES.
Notwithstanding the short crop we have bought 6,498 bales since Sept. Ist.
WINTERS & LEGG.
MARIETTA, February 4th, 1885.
Hears Turoven Her Nosg—
Harrison Hahn, of Wind Gap, Pa, has
a two-year old daughter whose ears
are bent forward and grown fast to
the face. The girl was deformed
when born. When she became two
months old two doctors separated the
cars from the face and tied them back
to their proper place, but they re
turned to their former position and
are there so remain undisturbed.
Both ears are without the orifice, but
deafness is prevented by the girl hear
ing every sound, no matterhow light,
through her nose and mouth. Sheis
a very bright girl, is very fond of mu
sic, weighs only twenty pounds, is
healthy, and is Mr Hahn’s first and
only child, although he has been mar
ried fifteen years.—[ Philadelphia
News.
Cocoanut planting in Florida is now
in progress under direction of K. A.
Osborn, of Middletown, N. J. who
senta vessel to South Ameriea for
135,000 plants to be set out on Bis
cayne Island, Fla., and who also sent
via Key West all the necessary men,
houses, provisions, hoats, mules, etc.
This planting will occupy 1.500 acres
of land. The 100,000 cocoanut trees
Mr. Osborn planted last winter are
growing finely, and are from three to
fivefeet high. The treesshould bear,
at five years of age 150 to 200 nuts
annually, realizing fromZs3 to, $5 per
tree, if all goes well.
For seratches in horses a good rem
edy is found in common coach var
nish, if the affected partsare first well
bathed and cleansed with warm,
strong soap suds. Where the var
nish is not to he had, another reme
dy is recommended, of equal parts of
pine tar, sulphur and lard, mixed and
rubbed into a strong ointment.
~ The Baltimore Manufactures Re
cord publishes a long list of the lead
ing enterprises that have resumed
work within the last four weeks. The
number of hands employed by these
companies, ascertained by special re
port, is about ninety thousand. The
estimated number employed by small
er works lately started up and not
given in the list, is fully ten thous
and. This makes a total of one hun
dred thousand men that have gone to
work in manufacturing enterprises
since January Ist. In addition a
large number of miners, ten thousand
in one Pennsylvania county alone,
have commenced work within the
last few weeks.
It is not believed that of the men
hung in acecordance with the law in
this country one in a thousand is in
nocent. It is not improbable howey
er, that innocent men are hung. A
strange case has just come to light
in Philadelphai. Dr. A. G. F. Goer
son has been sentenced to be hung on
March 5. He was convicted of hay
ing poisoned his wife. The witness
on whose testimony he was convieted
was Sadie Sandor. On Friday she
confessed that her testimony was
false, and that she had been induced
to testify as she did by an enemy of
the convicted man. If her confesssion
proves to be genuine, an innocent
man will have had a narrow eseape
from the gallows.
Nix women were sworn on the grand
jury at Whatcom, Idaho, last week.
It is not stated whether that part of
the oath relating to the seeresy of the
proceedings was omitted or not. If
it was not, it was doubtless taken with
about a half-dozen mental reserva
tions,
A FEW THOUGHTS. :
’ Enirors - JourNat—+Please allow me a
~smali space in your paper to say a few words
on the stock law. My understanding is that
six months after a district adopts it, every
one living within the bounds of that distriet
who has stock is compelled by law to keep
their stock fenced up or enclosed upon their
own premises ; whether the distriet is fenced
or not, and in case the district is not fenced,
stock coming in from an adjoining district
and doing damage to crops, ete., the owner
of such crops so damaged cannot recover
damages out of the owner of said stock.
Some forty, fifty or more farmers around
Powder Springs made up a club and order
ed 100 tons of guano, and now some of the
cotton buyers of Powder Springs are dis
pleased about it and say they have these
farmers “spotted” and will not buy their
cotton next fall. What folly! Have not
the farmers the same rights and liberties
they were horn with? Have the farmers
usurped any right or privilege that did not
Justly belong to them ? Will some of these
cotton buyers give the Journal a statement
of the amount of cotton bought by them last
season outside (yes, inside, too,) of their
guano and provision bills and the price paid
forit? T venture the assertion that either
one of the firms of cotton buyers in Marietta
bought more cotton (and paid move for it)
than all the cotton buyers combined at Pow
der Springs. Let them furnish their neigh
hors the number of cotton bales that passed
directly through their town en route to Ma
rietta. Gentlemen, this kind of bragadocia
is all wrong. It hurts the trade of Powder
Springs and is out of order, and to make it
plain, so plain that a wayfareing man though
a fool cannot err therein, these farmers are
only exercising a right that these very cot
ton buyers claim and exercise every day of
their lives and consider a legitimate Dbusi
ness. Somebody else is ‘“spotted,” too.
What about that 2 Consistency thou art a
Jewel.
One word about our public roads. They
are genereally in bad order. I see T am
drawn as & member of the grand jury for the
ifirst-\\‘vck and it is our imperative duty to
see after these roads and have them put in
'good order, and unless they are found to be
| inmach better condition than they have been,
for some time back, instead of reporting
them in the usual way, (to-wit: “we find the
public roads genevally in good ordor with
few excepiions and we recomuend the
roper authorities to have them put in good
order at once,”) we should recommend a
’fin(' be placed on all delinquents. Commis
sioners of ronds should at onee procecd to
have these roads put in good order and then
}inqwct them after a washing rain, and if
found in good order, all riche, but if not, or
{l"‘l' them reworked and fiil not to have the
last one in proper fix. I'know one or more
roads in Powder ffi‘»]‘)rings district that have
inur been worked in two years and one of
them did not even have any hanls on it |
This is unjust —some people patting their
portions of public roads in proper fix and
others doing but little or nothing to their
roads. We all like good roads and 1 for
one say let us have them.
Respectfully, A, G. McKesyey,
Powder Sprines, Ga.
The Beauty of Youth,
No matter how handsome or stalwart a
Young man may be otherwise, nothinge can
make up for a partially bald head, Shining
talents are attractive, but & shining poll 1s
not. The cause may be sickness or any
thing else, yet Parker's Hair Balsam will
stop the loss of the hair and start a new
growth of glossy and soft hair so quickly as
to surprise yon—restoring the original color
at the same time. Not a dye, not oily, deli
cately perfumed. Only standard 50c. dress
ing.
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About 30 years ago a family, con
sisting of a father and two daughters,
moved from South Carolina and set
y q
tled in Cherokee county, Ga." The
girls grew up and married and now
have 30 children, one of them being
38 years old, has 19 children.
Thousands Say So.
Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan., writes:
“I never hesitate to recommend your Elee
tric Bitters to my customers, they give en
tire satisfuction and are rapid sellers.” Elec
tric Bitters are the purest ana Lest medicine
known and will positively cure Kidney and
Liver complaints. Purify the blood and
regulate the bowels, No family ean afford
to be without them. They will save hun
dreds of dollars in doetor's hills every 'vear,
Sold at fifty cents a hottle by R. H. North-
Sessions, Hamby & Co.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
DIRY GEEIbs
GROCERIES, &c,
Next Door to Court House,
MARIETTA, - - GEORGIA.
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE
Newr Year, 1885,
WE TENDER OUR THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE SHOWN US
the kindness and confidence in giving us their patronage during the past
year, and again solicit a continuance of the same.,
'] “]\'\)’\3 'in\'\i\tv(; fll(n)u public to give their careful consideration to the facts given
NACLE AR i RIIQINE ©
CASH AND TIME BUSINESS.
WILL SUPPLY YOU WITH
, DRY GOODS,
Boots, Shoes and Hats, and following brands
of Guano:
Atlanta Ammoniated Superphosphate
Homestead Guano,
Eutaw Guano and Eutaw Acid.
T MR ENZIE & WARREN.
Farmer’s Hardware Store !
A M. DOBBS,
PROPRIETOR,
West-Side Public Square, Marietta, Georgia.
I)E;;LER IN
Nt 10| Hardware,
And General Farm Hardware.
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Located on the South-West Corner of the Public Square, Marietta,
KEEP A FULL LINE OF
PURE DRUGS, CHEWICALS,
Dye Stuffs, Paints, Oils and Varnishes,
Particular attention paid to PRESCRIPTIONS which are pnt up by
W. K. ROOT an able and experienced Pharmacist.
DMaher & Flower,
Druggists.,
———AND——. y
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Wi aohme “T()l'l
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Are now completed and prepared to manufu('ture:
Stationary and Steam Engines and Boilers
From Four to One Hundred Horse Power. Also Patent |
Iron F Two Roller Cane Mills,
ron Frame Two er Cane Mills,
BEST MILL,IN THE MARKET. ALL KINDS OF
Grist Mill Machinery, Running Gears for
WATER WHEELS or STEAM POWER. CIRCULAR SAW MILLS & PORTABLE
CANE MILLS made to order as cheap and as good as Northern make. MINING MA.
CHINERY, Shafting and Pulleys, Hangers, and Boxes finished in the best possible styles.
Irou and Brass Castings made to order on short notice. Special attention given to repairs
on Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, and in fact all kinds of Machinery en
trusted to our care.
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THOS. H. WITHERS & BRO.,
PROPRIETORS, MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
DEALER IN
CROCERIES.
Pure Spices, Bacon, Flour, Meal, Lard, Hams, Kerosene,
Canned Goods, &c.
I respectfully solicit a share of the trade of my old customers, as well as
new ones, in my new business, I have moved into the store between R.
Hirsch and Wade White.
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WILLIAM ROOT.
Marietta, Ga., January, 1885,