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TERMS : 92 A YEAR, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. THE GAZETTE. ADVERTISING RATES. One square, (ten lines, or less,) for ttrrt insertion One Dollar, each subsequent insertion Fifty rents. A libera discount from the above rate -will un made to yearly advertiser. Obituaries of over ten linen will be charged as advertisement. All bills due upon first insertion of advertise, metit, Unless otherwise conducted for. ") All annottuefinents of candidates must' be pred for in advance. Job "Work must be paid for on delivery. I Tlffi GAZETTE is a permanently established newspaper with a payimjand constantly Increasing mi! IMof MtjBcriborfi. Mi circulation in the cumtiej ttt Hamblen, Hawkins, Cocke, Jefferson. Grainger ami Claiborne is more general tuau any other pa- Volume 7 No. 46. n,.rmakiii!i it the Mat arrrtifntf medium i By JOHN E. HELMS. I MORRISTOWN, TENN., JANUARY 21, 1874. ar , ; i H'pper Eat Tennessee. MORRISTOWN T F"! ! '. ' ! .... . ... . . , . r. . . IS I Kn o x v i 1 1 e Advertisements CARPENTER, BOSS $ EOCKET WHOLESALE GROCER COMMISSION MERCHANTS, CAT STREET, KNOXVILtE, TENNESSEE, DEALEUS IX ALL KINDS O" 117 ' ' Tl i STAT L E A N D F A N C Y G 11 O C E R I E S , " BEST BRANDS OF CHEWING & SMOKING TOBACCOS, The Best and Favorite American brands of Cigars, Canned Goods of all kinds, Candies, Plain and Fancy. Raisins, Figs, &c. We keep constantly on band a large stock of . Hi MiiHffs of dirttin S neks, and guarantee prices as low as the lowest. Pickles, Oysters Sardines, Candles, Soap, Starch, Brooms, Wrapping Paper, Twine, Sole Leather, Cheese. Crackers, ICop', bofli Ju(( ami Manilla, all sizes, ALSO, AGENTS FOB HOtSTON SUT AND PUSTES COMPANY, AND iJJ Sugar, ail Brands, We Invite Merchants to Call and Examine Our Stock, As we are sure we can make it to their interest to purchase from us. GABPENTJil ROSS & LOCKETT. G. SCOTT, SCOTT $c BROTHER, Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Cabinet Furniture, Mai ii'es&es TIio Liaig:et Stock 1 Parlor and Bed Ioom Furniture IN EAST TENNESSEE. 148 GAY STREET - - v7-iiT-ti49. I. V 1 X Slum1 or 1 rni & lii'Liiison A" I J . I HAS Jl'ST N E W G v n A FALL A Full line nar aj.l pbin- of 01nck Alp.'ie.is, S, BLEACHED AND JlIiOWN KID CLOVES, FrbcIi Cassimeres. Merinos, Series, I Hate Jvst Iticaifn I Nf.w Stock of C.KNT'S DBESS SHI L I S, LINEN DRAWF.BS, DBILL 1 DRAWM1S, SOCKS, COLLARS AND CUFFS. On hand, as usuaf, a full stock ,f CARPETS, 01! CIOTlS, AND CURTAIN GOODS. A N K E It U O b T I N G C I. U Orders ly mail v. ill lie aftentleil to promj'tly. tomerl ran alwaK rtl) im the truth of my m aprl 1 ILLIAMS, COMMISSION Ann ueaiers m an m as w ml ! No. Gl Guy Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.j AU Orade. Chcwiuc h Smokiuj' Tobacco and Clears, Wholesale Agents Rockford Cotton Yams, Carpet drain. II I II II A 91 S :l O K I N O CEO. H. Corner G-iy and Church Streets, - Has just returned from New York Watches, Jewelry Vvpr hrou-dit in the State. l)ourht for will be sold at panic prices. Xauctteis iincl Grents Gold Watches Chains, Solid 18 Ka. Rings, Fine Amethyst and other Stone Rings. Sleeve Buttons and Studs in endless variety, Solid Silver Spoons and Forks, Fine Plated Goods. SKTU THOMAS CLOCKS AT LESS THAX EVER REEORE. FINE MARBLE AND BH0NZE CLOCKS, ROGERS & BROTHERS SPOONS AND FORKS. We mean business, and will convince any one that Goods are Cheaper than ever before. PLEASE CALL AND SEE US. Watch and Jewelry repairing in the best manner and at Low prices., GEORGE H. SMITH. Pee. 3d 0 T s CO .j""j"'033 J. F. SCOTT. - KNOXVILLE, TENN. BARTON, ami 1. Krluva i Co. , E . RECEIVED () O D S ! THE i -5 T i a k the celobr.-iloil "Queen's Own i SJIEETISO AND SHI KT1NOS, IRISH LINENS, TIES, ic, kc.. Main and ether Dress 6oos.j T H S . N O S 3 TO 11 All Ifooda will be found exactly as represented, and cus itto: "The Bct Coocts at the Lowest Prices. A I. V 1 N IS A It TOM, IH tiay Street, Knoxrlltr, Trn general MERCHANT o uon rroance. Whea ru and Oat Bags, Wrapping Paper, c. for the Sal of Virginia Salt and Genniue TOBACCO. ag-3 SMITH, KNOXVILLE, TENN., with the most complete Stock of and Silver Ware cash since tho decline in gold, and New Advertisements. Stieff's l3ianlos. UPWARDS OF FIFTY FIRST PREMIUMS GOLD A XI) SfLVER MEBALS KA BEEN Awarded to CHAm.ES M. STTF.FF. for the 1 Bent ii ?iurao, in ( "io j. iiti.'ii with all thai Hag ' factories ' lil the country. h-atEr OFFICES and WABF0:?IS, .o. 9 H, Liberty Street, Baltimore, Ma. The superiority of the Unrivalled Stieff Piano Forte, i conceded by all who have compared it with other. In theft New Grand Square Scale, 7f Octavcn, the. manufacturer ha auoci-eded in making the most perfect Piano Forte possible. : " Brirea will fco found a miaouulile am consistent with thorough workmanship. A large aaH(rtiueiit of Second Hand Hani al ways on hand, from $75 to jSOU. We ar.-azi'iits for the celebrated Burdptt Cabinet, i'arku-:iid Clwm .i Organs. aH stylniyanrl prices, to suif.every lino, guaranteed to be fully eijual to any made. ' ' t Sentl fe.r Tllustrate.l Catalojnie, containing Barnes of over ISM Southerners, (() of which are Virgin ians, "JiH) North Carolinians, ISD East Tennesseeans and others throughout the South,) who have bought' the Stieff 1'iano since the close of the war. For catalogues and prices apply to THOS. H. EVANS, .'ent, Morrittown, Turn. Reagan High School. rpili: FIKST TERM OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION of this Institution will close FRIDAY, January lfl, 1U7-1. The Second Toria Will cdihiuettee MONDAY, January 19. 1874. Special attention is called to terms in Catalogue. Tuition is due at the beginning of each term. TboM fcatmns who liav- been indulged on ccount of the motley stringency will, pleads remember that we are ueednitf uiouev. A. W. WILSON, J. A. CAllllIOl l:, doc 2t 4:1 it Principals. APPSOYED SCHOOL BOOKS wtiusBjiA by J. H. 80TUR & C0t 723 Chesnut st l'hiladelphia. Mitchell's Nt w li "graphies nnd Outline Maps. Ooislrich's (Pefcer l'arley) Historits. New American lic;;dcrs. and Sielcrs. Bingtyun'a Latin Scries. Tennev's Geol.gv ftn. BaQey'a Sch)lar's C'ompaniou. Oxford's Junior Sj ealier. Hope's Ladies Headers. Oxford's Senior Speaker. Snrgi-ut's School litj-niology. Just Beady. Speeaal terms fur Introduction. Address JOHN W PACLETT, dec2i 4:1 Km.xvilic, Tcuu. L. C. 8HEPARD, UNDER I AKKR, I v noxville, Tenn E V E R Y I) ESCK I PT ION OF Metnlio Onsfcct-i and tSjSfc. Wood Caaketa and Coftins ol 'every Grade and price ready for ue. Orders by Telegraph will receive personal and pioiupf attention. Imiui satisfactory. n40. ii. M. DOLL, OKXEilAL GOMMiSEiOf. MERCHANT ami Jlamifatrturer's Aceut, P. O. Box 21-.,) 4ti Oay Stre. t. f KNOXVILLE. TENN. H S IN STOBH AND roll SALE STRICTLY AT HMMMiV Foretell and Domestic CIGARS, iucludius l.r,0H) DOLL'S celebrated " Antk-15f.lLUM" braiul. 100 pks. Fresh a ll toil fakes and Crackers from the Baltimore St. am Bakery, t, 000 dozen Brooms of F. E. Champion & Co'n tnak-'. ( trders for ami consignments of ail kinds of Pro duce receive prompt attention. Send for circulars aodpUfif e liU. t r . y MV f ). W. G LASSIE, Attorney at Law & Solicitor of Claims and Patents. ini; i sTBKfT. .iMU.hT0, i),c .ir: OROMPT AND PAR'UCULAR attention glvea to the collection of Catcahar fore all the Depai llIM II". of the Government, to ac tions in the (T.)iirt of Qalaw, and manat;iii eaaei before Cllimni . and undertake the collection of reutM. JttU. vituc'i WW v.n chebs, &c. Will oqh h-ei lUti'XTV wbere w.l.lier- were marked DK.NKKT KK and returned to duty without a court martial. Bcfera, hj permission, to : W G Brownlow, 1' S Ban Henry Gooper, IT S Sen H II Harrison, -M C UW('r. M W W Vaughn, V C J M Bright, x C W C Whitthornr, M C D ivid A Xuiin, M O Bar ho or Lewis, M C H S Foote. o-ImoI.- Wm B Beed, at 0 T r! BnTulett,L".uTfTTlle B B Cowan, As-istmit Secretary of Interior '2nd Nat Paul:. Nashville G II Dobyns, Danvill, Ky Hwk Sav Bank, " Br D B Cliffe, I-'rankliu .Uw Nf! Ei . " C I S K Hchweuk. U S A (V J E SanndCT, " B K Gold, Clarksvillc, Col T C Linn, McMiimviPe, Tenn Gen -Tames P Bro.vnlow, 1'rankliii, Tenn Co! Bobert W Haywood, Brownsville, Tenn A L Blackmail, V.i, Oram I'lains. Teim W II Waldoii, Brownville, .lisissipi c 4eo., &c., - :c. liov2t 39 .. i i j I TO Ki: id WJMRJfl C0MK AND SEE US! UK HAV'K TUST RKCKIVEB OCB TAIX AND Winter Goods consisting of Freurh, Knglish, and 0ernfan Peic Goods for Gent Vjr. We guar antee them to be equal w any la the city. Give us a call when yoi yiwt our citr.' : ipTH of gHl clotnes. Z "cumng and cleaning done in the best style. BCHWEIKKBD & SAMMONS. octR- .. Opposite' E..T Book House, Knoxville. KNOXVILLE TOBBACO HOUSE " ! r-Msw - I.I ; p;'l No. IU (..VV STREET, KNOXVILLE, - TENNER Duclons & Esperandieu Mannfacturcrs of all Oradee of Cigars from $14 to $100 per Uloaaaod, They elso kMB a laM ;b! well H4eie4 JSt :V of sSfOKINO iV.l CHEWING TOBACCoB; Oi-ders proinptlv and carcftdly filled u33. En-coiti-age Home Pea-pie. . fV3 . P . FLYNN MAXUFACTUKEIIS OF, f. ! tftA ifi i i . 1 4 ' fi '1 ' Jl I ' ! Jj ! I I ' MORRISTOWN, TENN, ALL of our work i m.idc of me bert matqrtHl, by cfted workftieii, Blftckstnithlnu ofeVery description prcinutJy.cxMuted.- All work war ranted . Keev yournirtnej' at hotnc oy patrohisitng ronr own ucciufacturer... Our work will outlast that mHtle at tlreNrth, nnd is, therefiere, niueh cheaper, hraln and rroflure taken in a7Bent. tar hops on fc. 1 . & Vs. Rail'Inttd. Welt end of town. New Advertisements. 8. D. J. LEWIS. A. G. JACKSON. Lewis & Jackson, No, 52, Gay St., KnoxvlIIe, Tenn. DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHGfiS, HATS, CAPS, Trtmks, Umbrellas, and Furs, GrEISXTS' .FURNISHING GOODS, 38 13tii. I,A1IK!i' IIATf. &e., Arc. I. II. OOITI.TEB. J. W. BKOWDEU COULTER & BROW. DIB,- MAIN STBEET, MOBBIrOWN, TENN. jKAi:ns ix Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Viirnishes, DyestulTs, atom lloei'ii's, Fancy Sools AND, IN FA,Cir!, ' Everything usually kept in a Retail Drug Store. Physicians septl. Prescriptions Carefully ComiHumded. Bearfleo, McNntt & Bearflen, SUOCESSOIW TO SAINK.S JJltOS., A CO., Wholesale and Iietail Dealers in clot 1 1 1 rs - -GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, AND MEBCIIANT TAILORS. Knoxville, Tennessee. V7-33. Mrs. A. P. Fljrnn, M;iin Street, West end of Town, MORRISTOWN, TENN. KEEPS Constantly on hand the Latest and int Fashionable Styles of Millinery and Straw Goods, BO.WRT, TKIMMIXt; am; vklvkt kirko.vs. Bonnet 88k, Safins and Velvets, Blonds, Netts, Crapes, Ruches, Flowers, Feathers, Ornaments, Slraiv Bonnets Ladies'1 Hats TKIMMED ANII I'NTIUMMKIl Professional Cards. DOTISTKY. 0EXTI8TKY. THOS, J. SPECK, D, D. S. OFFICES: Kogersvillr, Tenn.. from 1st to lh of each month. Mori istown, from lot It to last of each month. TlllC.ias Casli or is equivalent DOCTOR ITi'JXiilc -V. I? amsey, oO LAMA.U HOUSE, Knowlllc, - - - Tennessee. WU.T.. M'KISXEY BABTOS. DICKSON & BARTOW, Attorneys sxt; MORRISTOWN. TENN. TU.T. Practice in all the Conrts of upper East " leunessee. Prompt and petal attention given to collections. Bk:-ki vks tv Fekmihsiojj Bo!'t McFarland, It. af. Barton, sr., I). Morris, Wm. Fulton, It. J. Kidwell, Er;ie8t It) Briscoe, Frc ti- Lyle. Dr O. T. M:i(fee. Morristowii, Teuu' ; J.' A." Karl', Kuoi HBe, Tenn. ; Wm. H, Moffett, New Market. Tenn. ; H. B;iker. GreeneviHe, Tena. ; Davis & McFarland, Bristol, Tenn. feb!9-ly. r T- CARSON, TTA'lNft Permnnently located UOIorrisfown, ren- peeiiuiiy nnrra nj service, to :he public ftetisictiju Kuarantced. Terms liberal. Office over 1 nomas s lkM)k Store. decll Sugcon and Physician, M 0 R R I S T O W W , TEN N . Will give special attention to the TREATMENT OK DISK ASKS OF WOMEN. JAMES P. EVANS, Attorney at Law, MORRISTOWN, TENN. Will practice in all the courts of East Tennessee, where the FEE will justify. Prompt attention will be given to collections. A. H. PETTIBONE, Attorney at Law, 0 R E E N E V I h tl E , T E N N . Will practice in the courts of the First Judicial Circuit and the Supreme Court at Knoxville. Will Ci also give prompt attentiou to the collection of all kinds of claims and debts. Hotel Cards. Turley House, (OPPOSITE THE DEPOT,) ill or rist oic h, Tenn T. & Cain. Proprietor. THE TCBLEY HOITRE IS " FTBST CLASS A In all departments, with large, comfortable and well-furnished rooms, while the Table with the best fare of the country. is iupplied : f A well-stocked LI VKliy. SIABLE is kept in connection with the Turley House. jans. Franklin House, OPPOSITE COUBT HOtTSE, Main Street, Knoxville, Tenn. WX. SMITH, PBOPI1IETOB. WASHINGTON HOUSE, Corner of 8th and ehurch Streets, LlTlSTaiiBURQ, -V.- Omnibus to sod from Depots, Free ENI S T The Morristown Gazette. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21, 1874. One of the largest land owners in California is a lady, Mrs. M. E. Peale. She owns 173,065 acres. Thadeus Fairbanks, of St. Jons bury, Vermont, the scale manufac turer has, been created aKrughtof the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph, by the Emperor of Austria. Henry Ward Iieecher delivered a lecture in Troy, recently, for which he was paid $2;"0. He was eNactlj' 75 minuets speaking so that his pay was at the rate of $3.33 per minute. A curious mode of flsh-hatehing is said to le followed Having collected the spawn from the water's in China, necessary edge. the fishermen place a certain quantity in an empty hen's egg. which is seal ed up with wax and put under a sit ting hen. After somo da3's they break the egg and empt3" the fry into the water well wanned by the sun and there nurse them until thejT are snlliciently strong to be turned into a lake or river. LETTER FROM OREGON. Tin; AVEATIIEJl THE CLIMATE THE AV1IKAT CLOP THE AVILLIMETTI". VAI.I-KY SOI ICTY REFORMED GAMESTERS GAME, ETC., ETC EITOENE CITY, Lane Co., Orkkon, Dec. 13, .i. Morristows Gazette: As I proinisetl in my previous letters to the Gazette that I wouM keep yon posted as to Oregon : and, as the weather is and has been such as to make old "web-footers'' (those born in the Willimette Valley), shiver, grumble and use very forcible lan ofiiage, I have took some trouble to look up the "weather report." I find from the reports of the IT. S Sigiutl Station of observation at Portland, Oregon, thai the lowest point indicated by the thermometer since November, 1K70, was 14 de grees above zero; compare this with your weather, and that by private records, to be the coldest since 1860. The rain lms not been the drawback that. I expected. There has not been as much rain here since I came (April last), up to this time, as usu ally falls in H:ist Tennessee. I am told b .d weather will soon be with a this has been the ciy since Sep tember. Now, about the olhiiate and coun-tr-. The weather for the last fifteen daj'S has been all that ar-y reason ab e farmor could want. It has been winter i e. the weather has been JSt below freezing point tliaw but . i .1 i ; fi 1 little during tlie day, and freezing just a little at nights ; such uniform weather I never saw, hut Oregonians think it a very severe winter. We hare no winds as you do in Tennes see. The smallest estimate of the say. pffta of wheat of this county (Lane), for 1873, is the enormous tonage of (600,000) six hundred thoiifand bush els. This is shipped direct, via Portland, to foreign ports by vessels. The crops are always (jorxl, some years biJV r, and oftentimes a good western yjeetive is the only way to describe them. No failures have ever been known in the cerial crops, in Oregon, lint in California, they have. Lot me sav in justice to Cali fornia, the farmer is better payed for his labor, than in any of ti e States or Territories east of the Sierras. Some seasons, the Sacramento Amer ican. San Joaquin, St. C lara '.allies produce enormously. Other years the, dxouth makes a failure only wherein it is irrigated. The Willi mette Valley evet'fails. The hop, wheat, oats and tiax, are profitable crops. Sheep and cattle are paying investments here. Labor is paid here. The society here is very good, and people have a peculiar and rare qualification of minding their own business this is a great blessing. These are not so anxious to force their sectarian views on others as in the older States. While traveling over the country last Spring, I fell in with two ren tleuien, who asked me to look over the calculations made for the build ing of a church. One of the party was a minister, the other an elder. After ratifying the calculation, I said it was made on a card. I spoke of the occurrence. The elder says, "deuce of spades?'' Yes : (says the minister) '-little cassino." It was evident to 1113' mind that these gen tleman were reformers. In conclusion, let me say, I like Oregon better than when I last wrote. A man wliocan borrow the money, come out here, work as they do in Tennessee, can pay his fare, and debt and get back in one year with more money than he can save from a year's hard labor there. They tell me that there are weeks that very little work can be done. An ordi nary shootist can kill and pick from $2 to $0 worth of feathered game. G. A. If. Upholstered v illi Rose Colored S,7.. From the Springfield Beiubltcan. The 1,000 carriage turns out to be one never used by the department, but wholly by the family of Will iams. It is upltolstered with rose colorexl siik, and has the family monogram on the door, and not that of" Vic Department of Justice. Furthermore the driver and footman are ou public pay rolls. Tl'HNED TO STOiF. A SOLIDIFIED BIUDE. Dr. Jorsck, of Marksville, La., in a letter to the New York Sun of Saturday, says: '-Mr. Frederick Llaller is by profession a lawyer. He early acquired, however, quite a fondness for the natural sciences, especially geolog'. He has, per haps, the largest and most complete geological cabinet in Louisiana. Something over a month ago he married, taking as his nride a chang ing young girl of sixtden. As physician to her father's family and an intimate friend I was an honored guest at the marriage ceremony. I am sure I never sav a more beauti ful and happy bride. Next afternoon she and some three or four of her most intimate friends went intoIr. llaller's "Rock Study," to look over the cabinet of curiosities. Among the curiosities which Mr. Haller had gathered were several round boulders brought from Arkansas. These boulders qu being broken present in the central space a crvstaline formation, and are usually not larger than the double fists. One of these, however, was unusually large, measuring twenty one inches in circumference. Fre quently the internal surface, always hollow, contains water, or rather a concentrated solution of silica in water. This fact was known to one of the young ladies, who mentioned it. At once it was proposed to break the large one, and several ineffectual attempts were made by them with a geological hammer They called to their aid a colored man, a servant on the place, who was requested to break open the rock. A pitcher be ing placed underneath the boulder as the man held it, one sturdy blow of his stalwart aim cracked it, and the fluid within ran out and was col lected in the pitcher, scarcely losing a drop, there being a half pint of it. The bride, without ever giving it a thought, conceived the notion of drinking the water from the boulder. She poured most of it into a glnss tumbler, nearly tilling it, and. lifting it to her lips, she drank first to the health of her husband, then to that of the unmarried friends in the room, wishing them shortly to be happy brides like herself, and drained the irlass. But in a few minutes the youthful bride complained of execs sive pain in the stomach, and began to realize the rashness of her action. A messenger was sent in haste for her husband and myself. Mr. Hal lers office being near my own, we re ceived the message almost simul taneously, and we rapidly drove to gether in my buggy to his house. When we arrived she was dead, a period of fifteen minutes having A " ' elapsed from the time of taking the fatal draught to the time of extinc tion of life. They were just laying her out on my arrival. To my sur prise I toumi that she nau grown 111 that short period so rigid as to ren der it difficult to straighten her limbs. In the course of three-quar ter of an hour her entire body be came as hard and inflexible as bone. On more minute examination and inouirv I found that the dissolved silica she had taken into her stom ach had been absorbed and trans mitted by the chylopoletic appara tus and blood vessels t hroughout the system and that her whole body was a petrification. Hie case being so singular and so sudden, the husband and the bride's family consented to a partial post-mortem examination,, other medical men coming t my as sistance. We found it impossible to cut through any portion with our scal pels. Dr. Ferguson broke his scal pel in the first attempt. We were able onlj- to break through the chest with a hatchet, finding extreme dif ficulty in entering the thoracic cav it3 the contents being all solidified. The heart was found as firm and as solid as stone, resembling a piece of cornelian as to both color and con sistencv. Hogs in Vine States. Jacksonville III . Dec. 28. The National Crup Reporter pub lishes to-day corrected returns from the the States of Illinois, Minesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee. Kansas, Missouri ami Indiana, in relation to the supply of hogs for the current season, showing that the total number fattened in the States named is eight and one-tenth per cent, less than for the season of 172, and the comparative falling off In each State is as follows ; Illinois?, 5 per cent.,- Wisconsin, 6 9-10 per cent.; Ohio 9 2-10 per cent.; Kan sas, 7 0-10 per cent. ; Indiana, 7 8-10 per cent.; Minesota. 10 3-10 per cent. ; Iowa. 6 5-10 per cent. ; Tenessee, 12 per cent.; Missouri, 7 3-10 per cent. Correspondents in most localities report that feeders generally have disposed of all the marketable hogs, and although there will probably be some sent forward late in the sea son, the number will be limited, as the farmers have sold as closeLy as possible with a view to saving feed. The average falling off in weight per head istimated at 18 pounds in Indiana. 10 in Iowa, 6 in Illinois. 14 in Ohio, 8 in Kentucky, 16 in Missouri, and 23 in Kansas. The average of winter wheat sown the present season, as compared with that of the previous year, shows an increase In Illinois, Missouri, Kan sas, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, averaging 11 percent. 9 . A Stud'oiut Messenger. Wafihiuetoii Oorr:npond"ace of abe Cincinnati Commercial. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House is entitled by law to a mes senger at an annual salary of$l, 650. For some years Ordway lias had his son's name carried on the rolls as holding the position, and has drawn the salary for him with cheerful and healthy regularity. During all the time, however, the bo' has b:en attending college in New England. Address to the County Courts. The Hon. J. M. Fleming, State, Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, addresses a circular letter to the-County Courts of this State, from which we extract the following facts : 1. Their attention is called to the pressing demands of the Com mon Schools interests and to the 39th and 41st section of the School Law, the intent of said law leing that the public schools should be kept open at least five months each year. 2. Reference is made to the fact that the scholastic year begins Sep tember 1st; hence the tax levied in 1873 is not available until 1871, that of 1874 not until 1875, &c. Hence the necessity of the County Court making early provision for schools. 3. In regard to the County Su- preintendent, he says : "The im portance of having a competent, active County Superintendent, can hardly be overestimated. Without such an officer, all the other officers will fail to secure a good system of schools in the county, and a man fitted for the satisfactory discharge of the duties of the office cannot be expected to make uncompensated sacrifices of his time talents and labor for the public good." 4. Every county in the State is organized under the present free school system. In addition to the letter of the State Superintendent, a ciicular has also been issued by the State Teach ers' Association, composed of teach ers aud friends of education through out the entire State. This circular calls upon the various County Courts for prompt and energetic action in behalf of public schools. The National Crop Reporter pub lishes a final summary of the reports of the corn and potato crops of 1873 in the States of Illinois. Indiana Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, and Tennessee, compared with the crops of 1872. The loss in bush els in these States in round numbers is as follows : liushel?. Illinois 142,000,000 Indiana 12,800,000 Iowa 36,800.000 Kansas 14,.r00.000 Minesota 4.G00.000 Missouri ..19,000.000 Ohio 20,000.000 Wisconsin 1,600,000 Tennessee 9.500,000 Total 241,300.000 The aggregate yield for 1873 in the States named is 514,000,000 bushels, against 756,000,000 in 1872. The potato crop in the States named shows a loss in round numbers in bushels as follows : Bushels. Illinois Iowa Kansas. ...... Minnesota Missouri Ohio Wisconsin 6 000,000 4.000.000 2.300.000 90). 000 , 1,400,000 1,400,000 1.000,000 Indiana 1,300,000 Total 17,400,000 The aggregate crop in the States named was fwt "72 47.000.000 bush el i, and for '73, 29,000,000 bushel. How it is Done. SOME FIGURES FOR TAX PAYERS TO . CQX.SIDEJt.,: t From the Cincinnati Coninierial. The Attorney General of the United States, the immortal Wil Hams, has been serving his country on a salary of 8,000 a year. He had some perquisites, however among them a landaulet used ex clusively by his family and the ex penses of t he Department of Just ice, so far as ascertained, for the landau let, etc., etc., were as follows : United Statew Department of JuxUee. . Dr. Ja-i. 19, 1871 To one new Judauiut $1,(100 July 1H72. To one pair bay hoi-Hen 750 To new slip liuiiig lu landuiUet aud painting and varnfeihing . 7X Tt December, 1H7'2. Fainting and varnishing landaulet 60 November, 1872. New lining), curtains. Beaming and faateuing lace., curtains and rugs, rebuilding cunliious, new slip covers, etc i:m To care of horses one year 600 Driver, aa messenger . 840 i i Total, as far as ascertained ,K7 This compares well, but not fa vorably, with the President's per quisites last year, as reported by Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts : For gteenhnuBo of Executive Mansion $10,000 For fuel of Executive Mansion.,. 5,000 For repairs of Executive Mansion 15,000 For .refurnishing Executive Mansion 10.000 For improvement of grounds aouth of Ex- eoative Mansion , 10,000 For Private Secretary aud Clerks 10,000 For contingent expenses i 6,009 For two iolicemcn 2,640 For two doorkeepers 2,400 For steward 2,000- For messenger 1,200 For usher 1,200 For night watchman 900 For fumace-keeper 720 Total for one year $77,600 In addition, there are several ser vants about the White House whose names are on the army rolls. If it Were not for the. possible displeasure of Lord Dundreary, we should say "Birds of d feather " The New York Sun makes this point: "In these days of distress and want among the poor, it is in teresting to know that the increas ed pay of President Grant would support fifty families in all the or dinary comforts of life, and that his total yearly salary and perquisites, as figured up last summer by Con gressmen Willard, of Vermont, are equal to the income of two hundred and fifty working-men's families, supposing that the heads of these families work steadily in snow, froM, rain and heat the ear round, with out any chance for relaxation at Long Branch or elsewhere." How do the?e poor men who vovted for Grant like it? LOCKING UP OKE ARD COAL LANDS UNDER BOGUS LEASES. There is a large and dangerous class of swindling speculators against whom the owners of ore and coal lands in the newly deveh pei, sec tions need to be warned, unv we in vite our exchanges in the Southern and Southwestern States to aid in giving publicity to what we hall have to say concerning them. The speculators to whom we refer, having neither capita! nor credit, have de vised a means of speculating In de sirable mineral land, by seerfring control of tUeni under bogna leases. When a new country is oponefl wjiich promises rapid development, they rush in and prospect for the best veins. Finding such as are likely to increase in value within a reasonable time, they present themselves either as capitalists or as agents of capital ists, and induce the owners of tho lands they want to control to jrive them long leases of the mineral de posits thereon. They agree to assume nil the -expense of opening the mines,: and providing facilities for the transpor tation of the products, and promise to pay royalty of ten cents per ton, or more, on all mineral mined. The offer seems a fair one, and the swindler is usually able to so im press his victim that the latter read ily falls into the trap. Should ho have any suspicions, however, hi accomodating "capitalists" will cheerfully obligate himself to begin work within six months or a year, and to take out a certain amount annually when the mines shall have been fairly opened, and a given amount raised. The bargain conclu ded, the swindler puts the lease in his pocket and goes off. If he is not under obligations to open the mines in a certain time, he does nothing to them; if he is. a dajf's work with one man and a shovel fulfills the term of the lease, lie has no intention of opening the mines at any time. The lease Iras cost him nothing, and he holds it. until the value of the land shall have so increased that he can sell it for a good price to some one who w IVUtS to open the veins and work them. In the mean time thfl minerals ae locked up. The owner of the lrnid cannot dispose of them, and beds often kept waiting for years in pov erty and disappointment, while Ivis neighbors are growing rich upon ores and coals not as good, perhaps, as his own. He is powerless in the hands of the rascal who has swind led him, and who has obtained for nothing a valuable leae which he holds until some one will buy him off and release the mineral wealth he has locked up. Hundieds of thousands, pe haps millions, of acres of valuable mining lands of the South are thus leased to irresponsible adventurers, and capi talists who seek legitimate and profit able investments in laods, mining operations or iron manufacture, must take the second choice or pay these shrewd rascals tribute. We know of no remedy for this evil ex cept to put the owners of such lands on their guard. Designing knaves will always find fools to swindle, doubtless, but if their rascality is ex posed, some will be warned who mignt otherwise become easy victims through over-confidence in spicious misrepresentations. Iron Age. j I TRIBUTE OF Monr.iHTowN Losr.e RESPECT. No. 158, d O. o. P., January C, 1874. Wiiehe.vs, It hath pleased an AB Wise God, "who docth all things well," to remove from our Lodge our Brother Newton A. Williams, wh. after a lingering illness of seTcral weeks, died on the 3rd int., in the 22nd j'ear of his aire. Resolved, 1st, That in his death our Lodce has lest an earnest awl faithful member, the community ft rrrtrwl MticAn nnrl Iiia ffimilv n kind sen and affectionate brother. Resolved, 2nd, That we tender to is bereaved relations our most sin cere condolence in their sad bereave ment. Resolced, 3rd, That the niembers of this Lodge wear the usual badge of mournincr for 30 davs. TtemAved, 4th. That these resolu tions be spread upon our minutes. and a copy furnished by the Secre tary to the Morristown papers for publication. John MrnniEY, J no. T. Lyle, li. M. Jones. Committee. Gov. Davis Dr!ares the Late Election in Texas Void. ' ' T Ai'stin, Texas, Jan. !3. Where as, the Supreme Court of this State has, in a recent decision declared elections held on the second day of December, 1873, in substance, to be invalid by reason of the nncort stitiv ionality .of the law under which said election was held; and. whereat great public injury and further da gerous complications of public .af fairs are likely to result from any attempt on the part of those claim ing to have been chosen as members of the legislature and other ofHcohs at said election, to assume their positions, they claim, therefore, for these and other reasons which it is not necessary to incorporate herefn; it is deemed advisable, and it is't ordered, that those who have bees chosen legislators and for other offi ces should not attempt to assume the positions unless by further ac tion of adequate authority, srrch election may hereafter be valid. -l All good citizens arc advised t abide by the decision of a competont tribunal, and aid in maintaiWng public order and moderate counsels. Signed, E. J. Davis, Governor. Rkiimomd, Jan. IS. T ie ballof for Senator resulted in the election tit Withers bv 128 votes; Wickham 6, Lewis 8, Evans 16 and Cable Cushing 1.