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THE
MORRISTOWN
GAZETTE.
TERMS &2 OO FE IVjVTJjMC. BY JQHN E. HELMS. UNVARIABLY IIST ADVANCE.
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VOLUME MORRISTOWN, TENN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1875. NUMBER 52.
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New Advertisements.
jiMEi p, eVais
Attorney at Law,
MORRISTOWN
TENN
WU1 practice in all ib courts of East Tenese,
where the FEE will jnsUfy. Prompt attention will
be glwn to collections.
A. H. PETT IBONE,
Attorney at Law,
6REENEVILLE, T B N N .
Will practice in the courts of the First Judicial
Circuit and the Supremo Court at Kuoxville. Wffl
ftlao gire prompt attention to the collection of all
binds of claim and debts.
WM. G. TAYLOR,
ATTORNEY AT 1AW,
Iflorristown, Tern.,
"rrTttt.r,,w!iitlie Courts of Hamblen, and
aa . . . . . ..-
the sdjoining counties.
aprlS n6 ly.
B D. J. LEWIS
A
RHEA.
G JACK.SON
JOHN A
Lewis, Jackson & Rhea,
Manufacturers of and Dealers In
BOOTS, SHOES,
Hats, Caps, Trunks, Umbrellas,
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
Ladies Hats, Etc., Etc.
No.
Nov
52 Gay
19 n38 ly.
St., Knoxville, Tenn.
W i Mi
W I LM ETH
MAIN STREET, MORRISTOWN, TENN.
Has now on hand a complete stock of
Family Gr oceries,
To which he has recently added a full lino of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Which he offers cheep for Cash.
He will pay the highest market price for ail kinds of
country produce.
Provisions and Eatables of every description kept
on hand at all times. Jel9-ly.
HO! EVERYBODY?,
OEND 35 CENTS AND GET BY
Cj return mail the exquisite Steel Eiitiraviuq en
titled "THE WASHINGTON FAMILY;" i 14
bv lsWbes. Agents Wanted for it and other t
iug Pictures. Sample by mail Post-paid to Agents
scents. Cata,ogues FEUSON,
Feb ,nt8-4w Carter , Tenn.
W. W. LANGHORNE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITOR IN
Newport,
CHANCERY,
Tenn.,
I PRACTICES in the various Courts of East Ten
nessee, and in the Supreme Court at Knoiv.lle
Ten-
Deo 3'), 18 1
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WILL. S. DICKSON,
Attorney
at I -av,
MORKISTOWN, TENN.
-TTIli Practice. ma the Courts of upper East
" Tennessee. Prompt and pecial attention given
by rxBVissioi.-Rob't McFarland,
R M Barton, sr.. D. Morris, Wm. F.-iton, 1 B. J.
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Bristol, Tenn.
mar5-ly.
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UNDERTAKER,
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Metalic Caskets and Cases, Wood Caskets and
Coffin- of every Grade and price ready for use
Orders bv Telegraph will receive personal a nd
prompt attention. Terms satisfactory. n"-
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agent fob
F HOCKENJOS,
TOBACCO, CIGARS, SNUFF,
Kinds of Pipes and
it Smokers Articles,
It w alley's old stand.
. Gay Street. All the forrnw patrons of the
rld AT-.d favorite stand are invited to can, ana iir-w
eastoiners will find it to
trial.
their interest to give Us a
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WHOLESALE
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0 South Howard Street, corner of Lombard,
BALTIMORE.
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K Keep constantly on nana a large ana wen jb
...rtml stock of Groceries, suitable for the
...v,- t Westrrn trade. We solicit consign
ments of Country Produce, such as Cotton, Feath
ers Ginseng, Beeswax, Wool, Dried Fruit, Fur
Skins eto Our facilities for doing business aro
ueh as to warrant quick sales and prompt returns.
t orders will have our prompt attention. mar37.
M. L. BL.VCKLEY, WALTER H. ROBERTSON,
Bristol, Tenn. Goodsou, V.
G I BLACK-LEY, Bristol, Tenn.
Hartley, Robertson & Blackley,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AND
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
BRISTOL, TENN.,
HAVE EST A 13 LIS U E D AN
1 Ajjeney for the sale of all Real Estate en
trasted to them and for the introduction of Immi
gration and Capitalists. Mineral, Farming, Graz
ing and Unimproved Lands in E. Tenn and S.
W Va ajod Ky will be negotiated tnrougn i.nis
Agency. t3T Strict attention given to all business
that may be placed In their hands ly sept33 n29
D. V.
CONFECTIONER
AND
TOBACCONIST
MORRISTOWN, TENN.,
KEEPS ON HAND CONSTANT,
ly. Plain and French CANDIES. Cakes,
irate, &7trs, Hardiness, Grackers, Cfceeae, Tohao
tt. ftf. etc. " Cath salsa tad until rrcftte.'
Jan S, JS75 Jy
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Ths Uomstow.
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list of subscribers. Its circulation m the courties
of Hamblen, Hawkins, Cocke, Jefferson. Grainger
and Claiborne is more general than any other pa
per making it the best advertising medium in
Upper East Tennessee.
Laws
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Subscriptions, &c.
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the contrary, are considered wishing to continue
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periodicals, the publishers may cr ntinue to send
them untill all arrearages are paid.
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the former direction, they are held responsible.
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intentional fraud."
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otherwise the publisher, is authorised to send it
on, and the subscribers will be responsible un
till an express notice, with payment of all ar-
earss s sent to the publisher.
A Literary Curiosity.
The following evinces an ingenuity
peculiarly its own. The initial capital
letters spell "My boast is in the glorious
cross of Christ." The words in small
capital letters, when read on the left
side from top to bottom, and on the
right side from bottom to top, form the
Lord's Prayer complete.
Make known the gospe! truth ot.n Father King,
Yield us thy graz e, dear Father, from above;
Bless us with hearts which feelingly caj sing,
"Our life thou art for-EVEn, (iod of Love !"
Assuage our grit! In love fob Christ, we pray,
Since the Prince of Heaven and qlobt died,
Took all our sins and hallowed the display,
Infant BE-ing. first a man and then was crucified.
Stup'nd'us God! thy truth and poweb made known
In Jesus' name let all the world rejoice,
Now labor in thy heavenly kingdom own,
I hat blessed kingdom, for tby saints the choice.
How vile to come to thee, is all our cry,
Fiiemie to THY-seLf, and all that's thine ;
Graceless our will, wo live foe vanity,
I.oat'iin the very BE-ing, evil in design.
O God ! thy - ill be done from earth to heaven
Reclining or the gospel, let cs I've
In earth rono sin dfli vER-sd and forgiven.
Oh, as thy.-elf, r teach us to forgive.
Unless it's power tmptition doth destroy,
Sure is our fall into the depths of woe;
Carnal m mind, we've not a glimpse of joy
Raised against heaves ; in us no hope we know.
Oh, give us grace and lead us on thy way,
Shine on us with thy love, and give u peace;
Self and this sin that rise against us slay.
Oh, grant each day our trespasses may cease ;
Forgive our evil deeds that oft we do ;
Convince us daily of them to our shame:
Help us with heavenly bread ; forgive us, too,
Recurrent lust, and weII adore thy name.
In thy FonoivE-cesB we as saints can die,
Since for us and cur trespasses so high,
Thy Son, our Saviour, died on Calvary.
"Xo Excuse For Being Sick.'
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette :
Those five little words stare me
i ni tlie lace irorn nearly every news
paper I pick op, roars not excepted.
NO EXCUSE FOR BEING SICK !
As good as to say, you have no
occasion to die (for, but few ever
die a natural death without first be
ing sick) if you will but take the
medicine we recommend, which only
costs the small sum of 75 cents per
bottle.
Now, Mr. Editor, it is ray opinion
that you are doing very wrong in
publishing these things to the world :
not but what I believe every word
contained in the different articles
recommending the medicine ; but I
look at the effects it will have on
society. See what it has already
done, all who have read and tested
the virtues of the medicine are satis
fied, and therefore fear death no
longer. You ma' know this from
the actions and transactions of men.
Take up the Comptroller's report,
and yon will at once make the sad
discover' that at least two-thirds of
the Tax Collectors and other officials
have been using this valuable medi
cine, and no longer tear tlie monster
"death." Office holders generally
have long since learned the virtues
of this wonderful medicine, and arc
governing themselves accordingly.
The wisest men of our nation, it
seems, learned the virtues of this
medicine first, and their faith was so
strong, that in the Congress of the
United States, they laid aside all
fear of a punishment after death,
voted themselves millions of back
pay, and exclaimed in all their glory,
'Oh grave where is thy Victory, Oh
death where is thy Sting." It is
believed by some that our noble
President has learned the great
value of this medicine, and that he
uses it daily ; at least it is said he
uses something from a bottle, and
that after using it, his actions denote
that he hath not the fear of God be
fore his eyes. Grant being the
Government and taking this medi
cine, lenders it uncertain what pait
of the body it will operate upon,
lie took an over -dose not long since,
and it worked out the Legislature of
Louisiana, and auother, and he threw
up the Governor and Constitution of
Arkansas. This is a dangerous ex
periment, and my advice to all news
paper men is to stop advertising the
medicine. Enough have already
learned its virtues, and if things
have to remain in this condition, I
fear I shall regret the day I partook
of it. Our country is ruined. My
advice, to j'ou is. stop, cry aloud,
spare not, against the further use of
this medicine. Thos. Bakcum.
Maryvillo, Feb. 20, 1875.
WHICH WAS THE GENTLEMAN?
A Story in Three Parts.
BY HERBERT RIDLEY MOONEY.
From Wood'B Household Magazine for February.
Part I.
Dawson Fcmber, Esquire, was a
gentleman. Moreover, if low lati
tude contributes ought toward high
breeding, Dawson Pember could lay
claim to extra refinement. He was
a Southern gentleman, Maryland hav
ing had the lienor of being his birth
place. His father, having entertain
ed like a gentleman, found his estate
suddenly bankrupt. Utterly unused
to dealing with any but gentlemen
his proletarian creditors broke his
heart, and so he was gathered to his
ancestors, buried in the old family
vault, a gentleman to the last.
His son returned from college, call
ed out one of the creditors ; for a mo
ment soiled his hands with plebian
blood as the only means whereby a
son might avenge an insult to the
memory of his father and, wound
up his estate. The negroes were
sold : the estate, heavily mortgaged,
was rented to farmers, who paid but
enough to maintain our hero respect
ably, and prevent the old homestead
from falline; into the hands of strati-
Dawson Pember pondered over
manj a scheme to restore the faded
glories of his race. They were all
more or less tinged with romance ;
rosy fringed, some, others somber
hned ; yet, with all his cogitations,
the only means whereby he might
hope to accomplish a competency,
never dawned upon him. lie could
dream of chopping up any number
of Mexicans, and thereby win to him
self a moiety of fame and filthy lu
cre, but the more prosiac counting
house as a means to that end never
occurred to him. Indeed, it is bare
ly possible that he would have "call
ed out" the man who dared insinuate
the profitable results of twice two
and two.
The effect of his dismal dreamings
was his appearance in New York, ac
companied by a black satellite, re
joicing in the name of Lightning.
Dawson Pember. Esq , had at last
hit upon a scheme to redeem the es
tates, tlie brilliancy of which, out
weighed its originality. He had
come to look for an heiress. This,
with his introductions and name, he
had no doubt of speedily obtaining.
Unfortunately, the condition of his
pocket-book did not permit him to
live in the style due his birth : and
so, though he shone as a butterfly in
society, in private he was fain tocon-
tent himself with a board nig-uimse
on the confines of fashion, then near
the Battery whereof the democrat
ic lymph consisted of ex-colonels and
peripatetic drummers. All these in
dulged in sly sneeis and covert en
mity at the expense of the solitary
young aristocrat who was fortunate
enough to own "a nigger." The
landlady, however, sympathised with
the tall, refined looking young man,
who paid his bills "regular;'' but, as
she was obese, and moreover sur
rounded by a dish-watery atmos
phere, her sympathy speedily be
came a bore.
It was to avoid an outbreak of
mutton-chop tenderness on the part
of this good creature, that Dawson
I'ember strolled to the Battery one
fine morning. Here he might.nurse
in solit ude his growing misanthropy ,
his aesthetic commerce having so far
proved a failure.
It is impossible to say how long he
might have remained gazing unmind
ful of the beautiful water-scape, had
not something shoreward attracted
his attention. He heard steps be
hind him, and turning, beheld a man
staggering toward a seat. He gain
ed it, and fell heavily, his head on
the bench, his body on the ground.
"Psh ! drunk before the sun is up,
murmured our aristocrat in disgust,
lie was about to leave, when a faint
groan caused him to examine the
man more closely. His hat had fall
en off, revealing a high dead-white
forehead; clustering chestnut, cnrls
but served to make more distinct
the sickly pallor of his clear cut fea
tures. He was neatly though shab
bily dressed ; his paper collar had
been turned ; his tightly buttoned
coat concealed the absence of shirt
and vest. His cheeks were wan,
pinched, gaunt; his half-closed eye
lids revealed dilated pupils.
A moment before Mr. I 'ember had
muttered "drunk," now, not having
studied medicine, he murmured "ap
oplexy," and unbuttoned his coat,
exposing almost a living skeleton.
"Great Heaven !" he exclaimed,
"the man must be dying of starva
tion." To run across the square, ob
tain some milk, return, and force a
portion down the young fellow's
throat, was the work of a moment.
It seemed to do him good ; he gasped
a little, and Pember felt his heart
beat faintly.
Our Southern gentleman thereup
on fled toward his boardirrc-house,
dragged his astonished satellite out,
and. not deigning to atford him any
explanation, returned with him to
the side of the dying man.
"Quick ; lift him up and carry him
to my room Light ; say I told you to
do so if any one objects; give him
i some brandy, he is dying of starva
j tion, I am going for a doctor. Hur
ry ! hurry !
When Dawson Pember reached the
i house accompanied by a physician,
he found his Nubian, with his back
against the bedroom door, talking
valorously to the "low white trash"
who wished the ejectment of the
"drunken intruder."
A little brandy restored the dying
man to feeble life, and homoeopathic
doses of soup presently gave him
sufficient strength to murmur inco
herently, and fall asleep almost imme
diately, a fact which the doctor al
luded to as proof positive that he
was worth a dozen dead men.
In the meanwhile Mrs, Asher, hay
ing dread visions of a coroner's jury,
and subsequent gossip to the injury
of her "family," hastened to inform
her lodger that "she would not be
set upon. There was hospitals for
them as wanted 'em, and she paid
her taxes regular."
Onr Southern gentleman hastened
to inform her that he had not the
slightest intention of using her as a
piece of furniture, "her tongue," he
added soto voice rendering her unde
sirable for a tete-a-tete.
This being overheard, produced a
flow of adjectives. When they had
ceased Dawson Pember announced
his intention of removing self, "con
traband," and sick man to more Sa
maritan quarters. At this, Mrs.
Asher suddenly became sorry, expa
tiated on the horrors of Simmons'
place "As kept rancid butter" (this
Simmons, by the way, being the op
position house across the way), and
volunteered to do all in her power
to help the sick gentleman.
Dawson Pember's reply was char
acteristic. "Take him to another
room," he said, "change my bed
clothes and fumigate the place thor
oughly." He took an extravagant
liking to his new found acquaintance,
possibly because he was delighted at
finding one more miserable than him
self. Lightning was up half the night
giving the sick man food, and in the
morning my lord paid him a visit.
"Well, sir," he asked, "how do
you feel? Yon seem to be getting
along tolerably" he proferred his
hand. The other seized, pressed it,
and bending over kissed it. A tear
glistened on its back as Dawson Pem
ber gently withdrew it. Poor fellow !
his gratitude, his utter weakness,had
made him womanish; lie was crying.
"There, there, don't give way like
that; it's all over now, you know,"
said our Southern gentleman, tears
suffusing his own eyes. Lightning.
also partly over come was playing
an imaginary banjo to conceal his
snuffling accompany ment.
"By the by." resumed Mr. Pember,
"I have not asked you your name?"
"Thomas Hazel. I I owe my
life to you; I cannot tell you my
gratitude, most terms are hackneyed
I can only say since you rescued
me from death my life belongs to
yon."
"Nonsense, that's sentimental and
slip-slop ; you must cheer up, you
know. How did you come to be so
'hard up?' "
"I came to New York to get some
thing to do ; 1 am a laborer' a son, but
I worked my way t hrough V col
lege ; and studied law with
Senator
Thomas. He didn't use me very
well, so I came on here, thinking I
could get something to do. I want
ed to be a gentleman ; and ihis is
what it has come to."
"Tush ; you'll be all right in a
couple of days. How long were you
were you without food?"
"It must be a fortnight since I got
anything regularly, I have had noth
ing but water for a week."
"Great Heavens ! man; why did
yen not ask for something to cat
from somebody ?'
The sick man raised himself par
tially, and looked his questioner full
in the face, "They forgot to teach
us how to beg at college." he said.
The other remained silent, his gen
tle blood rebuked by this clod-hopper
; in his heart he felt that he too,
would have done the same thing.
Thus it happened that these two
became sworn friends. One wor
shipped ; the other pat ronized. Gen
tle blood and genius hand in hand.
Paut II.
Although Dawson Pember had
failed for the time being iu his own
money-making scheme, he yet had
sufficient interest to procure his new
found friend a situation. Pythias
devoted his leisure hours to Damon's
Southern affairs with such success
that, in less than a year, better
terms were obtained from the credi
tors, and matters began to brighten
a little in the Southern horizon. It
was even hinted that if Dawson
Pember choose to live quietly for a
dozen years or so, he might regain
what his father had lost. Pythias
had also found time to write for the
papers, and his articles attracted no
small amount of attention. Damon
patronized him, told the story of his
rescuing a diamond from the mud,
"lending" it to society.
A year afterwards it happened
that Aiiss Julia Wealthwait, whose
father had made all his money in
hides, and whom our Southern gen
tleman had resolved to make Mrs.
Pember, tooked it into her head to
fall in love with the Bear. She con
trived in an awfully mysterious way.
known only to women, that he should
oe present at every party to which
she was invited. The natural se
quence of this was that the Bear fell
in love with her, and began writing
sonnets forthwith,
Previously to this, Dawson Pem
ber had found his suit prosper ; now,
however, things were progressing in
anything but a satisfactory manner.
Not for a moment did he dream of a
rival in the person of his friend, al
though he had heard that he was
paving a vast amount of attention
to the lady in question. He knew
that the young Miss would not be
fool enough to th:ow herself away
on hia low-born friend ; still less did
he think that Pythias was hopeless
ly smitten. But a year had passed
since he had picked him out of the
gutter, given him his life, and intro
duced him to a society he had not
seen before even in hu dreams.
oo ne might nave gone on won
dering who had thrown cold water
on his hopes, had he not stumbled
across a MS. poem to "darling Ju
lia," in which "heart" rhymed with
"a art," and "fate" with "gate;"
the whole setting forth that not only
was the writer abjectly in love, but
j that he had. become engaged to said
"Darhng Jolia."
"So you love her ?" said our Damon,
having waited the arrival of the
Bear. The other nodded his head.
"And yet yon knew that I loved
her, my, that leaving love aside. I
had set my hopes on obtaining her
band ; you knew that withont this
match I most remain a beggar, and
so you sneaked away her heart,
stabbed the man who saved your
life behind his back. Oh ! I did well
to think you an unpolished gem ; I
did well to save you, when all the
world left you to die ingrate !''
"Listen to me Dawson," implored
Tom, "I swear that if I had thought
"Of what use are your oaths?
have you not already perjured your
self by professing friendship' and
acting the traitor yes; don't inter
rupt me, it is a year ago to day since
your life belonged to me. Oh, right
well you have kept your oath."
"But I love her so," wailed Tom.
"Of course, and love covers a mul
titude of sins; I know the caut
phrase well ; it cloaks a deal of
villiany. Listen a moment more,
and I have done. Had I dared to
love one, who was almost my bene
factor, s wife, I would have plucked
the dishonorable passion from my
heart, ere it should cause me to per
jure myself. With you, however, it
is otherwise. I took you for a na
ture's gentleman ; I was mistaken ;
you are but a clod-hopper. Take
back the friendship you proferred
with loud-mouthed gratitude ; it is
worthlejs."
So say in-, Mr. Dawson Pember
strode from the room, leaving Pythi
as with his head buried in his hands.
Mr. Pember, having gained the
door, went down the street very well
contented with himself. "Rather
exaggerated," he soliloquised, "but
for those sort of people it must be
highly spiced. 1 think I have con
quered."
Poor Tom sat for
a long
while in
the position in which his friend had
left him. Occasionally he looked
up with pale face and blood-shot
eyes. Evidently the strongly spiced
discourse of Damon had produced
an impression.
"Yes, I am a villian," he exclaim
ed, jumping up and putting on his
hat, "but, I'll crush it." The latter
remark might have been applied
with unction either to his passion or
his hat, which useful appendage was
thenceforth mined, presenting a rug
ged appearance, a3 he marched
away.
There was a wild time at the man
sion of Miss Julia Wealthwait that
evening. Pythias, with a smile on
his face, and misery in his young
heart, begged to be released from
bondage, the result of a boyish flirta
tion ; he would not chain one to him
i for life whom he found he could not
love. He obtained his love letters,
and strode from the house leaving
the father in a rage, his mistress
senseless.
He reached his friend's quarters,
pale and haggard. "I am a man
again there is my heart Dawson
Pember," he said melodramatically,
flinging the letters down upon the
table. Then his fortitude gave way ;
he sat down and cried like a child,
My Southern gentleman pitied
him, and accepted the sacrifice. He
also pitied the young lady, and con
soled her with such effect that within
t wo mont hs she became Mrs. Pember.
The Southern estates were rescued
from bankruptcy. Some said Mrs.
Pember had married her husband for
spite, because she had been "jilted
by the handsome Hear. He that as
it may, Tom Hazel was not present
at the wedding, and was in a meas
ure ostracised from polite society.
Taut III.
Dawson Pember Enquire found,
before three years had elapsed, that,
in disencumbering his estates, he
had encumbered himself with a wife
whom ho could not love. Everyday
widened the breach between them.
Mutual recrimination frequently took
place, and this but served to add
fuel to the growing flame of their
dislike.
A matrimoial dispute had gone al
most to its utmost limits when we
again drop in upon the scene.
"I ought to have known yeni were
a fortune-hunter," said Mrs. Pember
with tawny eye. stung by a remark
of her husband relative to hides;
"what a .pity I had no well used in
stinct to warn me against one, who
made a commerce of his birth."
Goaded to madness by the last
retort, Mr. Pember seized his wife's
arm.
"It was a pity you broke a heart
to throw vonrself away on me," he
hissed ; "you had instinct, enough to
prefer a gentleman to a clown."
"Broke his heart," she echoed
faintly.
"Yes coquette broke his heart ; I
knew you loved him, but you loved
yourself more, and his- "
Dawson Pember did not finish his
sentence. His look of rage changed
to one of alarm, as his wife, turning
deadly pale, fainted away.
"I went too far that time," he so
liloquised ; "hang the woman, what
can I do to break her cursed spirit."
He Bantered to the sideboard, took
therefrom a goblet of water and
dashed it in Mrs. Pember's face.
Having deposited her upon the sofa,
he thrust his hands in his breeches
pocitets, and suiked out of the house.
Mrs. Pember returned to conscious
ness, but her face still retained its
fearful pallor, her eye3 still gleamed
luridly. She rang the bell for Light
ning, and that worthy made his ap.
pearance.
"Do you know anything about
your masters friend Mr. Hazel?
Was he very fond of your master?"
"Yah !" responded the ebony, and
lorlhwith gave a graphic description
of the friendship betwen Damon and
Pythias.
"Um heah um say as how um did
gib um life for marsa ; goily how dat
man did cry," concluded the satellite.
"He was in a pitiable condition ;
shabby, poor, was he not? '
"Pooh ! bress your heart, he hant
nnflfin but low white trash." respond
ed the Nubian, who fancied he per
ceived the drift of his mistress. The
negro grinned, as she dismissed him
with a dollar, cautioning him to say
nothing to his master relative to
their conference. The result of this
dialogue was a letter addressed to
Thomas Hazel, Esq., 17 Chambers
Street, New; York, the contents of
which were as follows :
"Deae Sir : The delicacy I might
have felt in addressing you is remov
ed by the knowledge that you have
always been my husband's sincerest
friend. I, therefore, have no hesita
tion iu consulting wHh.j'oa relative
to a difficulty into which we have
fallen. Come as soon as possible
after the receipt of this, and oblige
an unhappy wife, who subscribes her
self your sincere friend,
Jtjxi a Pember."
The letter reaching Pythias, pro
duced on him pretty much the same
effect the connubial quarrel had on
Mrs. Pember. He too moved about
pale and restless for a day ; lost two
suits which the defendants had offer
ed to compromise ; and suddenly an
nounced to his partner his intention
of going down south departing that
aame, evening.
HrJ had tried hard to forget his
love, or had conquered it, he thought,
yet, three years afterwards, the re
ceipt of an ordinary epistle from the
woman he had jilted brought it back
with redoubled force.
Mrs. Pember was endeavoring to
read when he entered the parlor of
the Southern mansion.
He tried to assume an appearance
of unconcern, tried hard to say "how
do you do, Mrs. Pember," but the
words stuck in his throat, he broke
into a piteous wail :
"You wanted me?"
She had intended to receive him
calmly, coldly, but now the blood
rushed from recesses where it had
long lain dormant, and flowed and
ebbed in tides of carnation on her
cheek.
"Yes, I have sent for you, Tom
Hazel, to learn the truth ; there are
times when outraged womanhood
forgets its modesty and becomes
manhood in spirit ; I want to know
the truth ; I know you will not lie to
me : did did you jilt me because
i oh! God, this is bitter humiliation
man, can you not guess what I
mean?" She sank exhausted to the
sofa.
Tom's heart beat wildly, he fell
sick and fnint ; the situation was a
terrible one for him. That great
nerve force, which a man may use
but once in his life time, came to his
assistance and enabled him in a
measure to compose himself for his
terrible ordeal. He took her hand.
"God help you, poor wife, you have
found oat that I had hoped you would
never learn. I did love you, O, so
madly ; but I had a duty to perform.
You were loved by auother, that oth
er one, to whom, next my creator, I
owe my very existence. Who was I
that I should dare to love his chosen
one? a thing he had picked up from
the gutter, u clown on whom he had
lavished favors ; and so, God help us
both, I tore my passion from my
heart I hoped you would forget me.
'Tis said a husband can make his
wife love him ; I trusted to this and
bore my sorrow, believing you both
happy. You should love him yet.
O, why did you call me here, to
wring my heart afresh?"
"Love him? I, who went to the
altar with falsehood on my lips, be
cause I thought your nobleness infa
my, your sacrifice a villain's plea.
Love him? When he has blasted my
happiness, and insulted my misery.
Oh heaven, my punishment is great
er than I can bear. We might have
been might have been, lint mau,
the Rubicon is passed ; nothing is
left save the misery of remembrance
nothing but This "
Tom, unconscious perhaps of what
lie was doing, had retained hold of
her hand, lie was seized from be
hind, and hurled to the ground.
"Yes. wanton, there is one thing
left : a husband may avenge his dis
honor. I am no eavesdropper, nor
never has a Pember played the spy ;
but when you play so bold a game,
blame your own recklessness, my un
willing ears "be not fllfeifwith wax."
Tom had risen to his feet with
quivering lip. "Be careful, Dawson,"
he said, "you have heard nothing
your wife might not have spoken,
had you been present."
"I have heard enough to know that
you contemplated my dishonor. Man
do you take me for a fool ? Oh, you
played your role admirably, Tom
Hazel. That dramatic sacrifice of
yours was cunningly made you kept
your friend and retained your mis
tress" "This from you you dare say
this?" burst fourth Mrs. Pember.
"I dare that, and more to protect
my honor. You cannot refuse me
the satisfaction of a gentleman, sir ?"
"Dawson you must be mad or drunk.
Have you not had sacrifices ' enough
from me? Do yon want my life? Take
it ; you gave it to me. But, oh, be
ware how you blacken her fair fame."
"Hound ! is your cant ion proof
against insult? there f
As he spoke he seized a goblet
full of water and hurled it at his friend
It struck iiim on the cheek, covering
him with blood and water.
"1 will meet you where you like,"
he said with dead white nervous
twitching face ; " good-bye Mrs Pem
ber, may. God protect you "
His farewell was unheeded. For
the second time in her married life
Mrs. Pember had fain ted.
The two men strode out of the
house towards the cotton swamps.
Some neighbors happening to ride
up were pressed in as seconds. No
talk was there of compromise; both
combatants were at a white heat.
One jaunty, refined, even in his pas
sion ; the other pale, with twitching
nervous face, and a deep red badge
of insult running down his cheek.
Tom Hazel slouched forward as
though he were going to his execu
tion, scarce replying to bis second's
questions. The cheerful conersa-
tion of the accompanying gentleman
seeming to him as hideously gro
tesque as a butterfly on adead man's
shroud. r
At last the place of meeting was
reached, the ground measured off,
the pistols given into the hands of
the duelists. They were stationed
twenty pacea apart, to tarn and fire
wheo they pleaded. "Are you ready
gentlemen?" asked the second.
Both replied iu the ofriimative.
"Turn!"
The combatants walked towards
each other ; Pember with steady nerve
holding his pistol directly in a line
with his eye ; Haeel with his drag
ging by his hip.
Suddenly Pember stopped, and
fired. Hazel staggered and pressed
his hand to his side, then walked
steadily forward toward his antag
onist, as he slood with folded arms
waiting his fate. When within ten
feet of him he dropped his pistol.
"Pick up your pistJ," shouted
the second. Paying no heed to him
he held out his hand, ashe drew near
his former friend.
" You have killed me Dawson," he
said ; "it was but right, my life be
longed to you ; take care of her ; I
for give you "
His head fell back ; he sank to the
ground. Overcome with an awful
revulsion of feeling, Daffson Peuibcr
raised him.
"For God's sake Tom," he said
hoarsely, ou must not die. Oh,
what a villain I am ; here some of
you tear open his vest and try and
staunch the wound over his heart?
Oh, God ! I have murdered him."
The dying man opened his fast
glazing eyes.
"Don't think bad about it Dawson
I was only a clown you know ;
I had no right God bless you you,
I"
With the blessing, his brave spirit
fled.
When reason and partial strength
returned to Dawson Pember, Esquire,
he found that his wife had fled
beyond the breath of dishonor. Two
coffins in the stately mausoleum of
the Pembers symbolized a union
"where there is neither marrying nor
giving in marriage, but all arc as the
angels of God."
Little Children.
When the Saviour was upon earth
and anxious mothers pressed around
him that he might bless their babes
he rebuked the desciples who had
forbade their approach, and com
manded them to permit the children
to come unto him ; and to this com
mand he added : For of such is the
kingdom of heaven." Indeed there
is more of heaven than of earth in
the sweet prattle and guileless ac
tions of little children. There is a
spotless purity an angel sweetness
about them that speaks of heaven,
and is not of earth. Of all things
pure and beautiful that God has
placed in this world, there is noth
ing so sweet, so holy, so beautiful,
so pure, as a lovely little girl with
her bright smiles, her winning, in
nocent, childish prattles, her danc
ing golden curls, and her swieet
wondering eyes looking out upon
this green earth of ours, that to her,
is all brightness and beauty. She
knows not of earth's cares and trials.
Sin has not bound her pure gentle
spirit with the shackles of death.
Sorrow and pain have not left their
mark upon her young brow, Passion
and guilt have never throbbed with
in her bosom, and her heart is as
pure as the dew-drop glistening up
on the flower she plweke to wreathe
among her curls. Ilor life is love
and happiness, and she brings more
of brightness and joy to those who
love her here than if she were indeed
an angH from heaven. Nothing can
be found more joyous and beautiful
than the life of an innocent child ;
and no right on earth can be half so
sweet, half so full of interest, nstlnit,
of a little girl robed in her white
night dress, and kneeling at tier
mother's knee to lisp her evening
prayer, and then rising to "kis ma
nia goodnight." ; i
And who can read the thoughtapf
childhood? How many strange
bright fancies pace through the
minds of children. As they listen
to the tales that are told of the bright
liome beyond the stars and far away
above the blue heavens, bow tbeit
young hearts swell. To them, the
stars and the flowers have a language
and they can understand
the
of the birds and tbe music of the
rustling leaves and babbling brooks,
for they are as pure and innocent as
the birds or tho sparkling water.
Little children are the sweetest,
purest beings of earth, and no one
will be a fit companion of the angels
who loves them not, "for of such
is
the kingdom of heaven."
A Real Romance.
On the 28th ult., Sylvester Gni
berson, a son of N. Wr. Guiberson,
of this county, was married to Miss
Minnie Waters, of Excelsior, Minn.,
and this is-the way it happened : A
young gentleman and Miss Waters
were on tbe lake skating, when sud
denly the ice gave way and they
were treated to a remarkably deep
and cold bath. Three big cowards
stood near them but would lend no
assistance. Mr. Guiberson was al
most a quarter of a miic distant, but
heard their cries of distress, rushed
to the scene, at once comprehended
the situation, and in a moment pro
ceeded to rescue the young lady,
who was almost drowned and frozen,
and on arriving at the shore inform
ed the three cowardly whelps that
iftheydid not go and get her
young companion he would ' threw
each one fn after him alvorder they
at once obeyed. Mr. iu iberson oar
ried his young pme to .the nearest
house, where she was properly cared
for, and as soon as she was able he
escorted her to her home. Thiswas
enough for the old aunt of they oting
lass, and straightway the courtship
began, which culminated in their mar
riage. Winterset (Iowa) Xetvs.
Quitting advertisements in dull times
ia like teri2 out a dam because the
water iaJow. Either plan will prevent
gped cirac, from eycr coming.
STE NEWS.
Sweetwater has three large and flour
ishing schools. All in the hands of able
and competent teachers.
Mr. W. W. Walker, of Clinton, Tenn.,
disappeared in a mysterious raauner
trora the boarding house of M. J. Chil
dress, Esq., in Knoxvilh', about ten
o'clock-Friday evenfng, ltfth inat, and
has not been heard of since. It ia
thought by his friends that he has aui
cidtid by jumping iuto the river.
Mr. GavuVnhire, of the House, on tlie
23d introduced a bill makiug the hue
band liable for the debts contracted by
the wife only to the extent of the prop
erty rccaie-l by her.
Mr. Hodges, Senator elect from Ham
blen, and on the Committee on Tippling
and Tippling-houses, reported a "Local
Option" bill, on the 23d instant.
The same day, by Mr. Boyd, of the
S-nate, a bill appropriating $66,000 for
tue am oi.scuoois ior me uimu.
A resolution was offered in the House
recently by Mr. Brooks, fixing the 24th
of March as the day of adjournment of
the Legislature.
The Bristol Keits announce s that Rev.
B. O. Manaid, President of the Bristol
Female College, has gone to Nashville
in the interest of that school.
The recent heavy ralm are reported as
doing much damage in many localities
in the State houses, barns, fences and
timber being levelled to the ground.
Also Tailroad bridges were washed away
and damaged. The railroad bridge at
Charleston, over the Hiwassee river was
severely damaged, making it impassable
for trains for several days.
"Old Boreas" got his "back up" tre
mendously Thursday night, from the
manner in which he whistled his shrill
and doleful dirges. Perhaps "old Prob"
made him mad by deluging the earth
with his Watery substance, and causing
a temporary suspension of the farmers
ploughing their lands.
Hon. John M. Bright, of Tennessee,
delivered an eloquent and highly inter
efetiug speech in the House of Represen
tatives, Washington, D. C, on the 25th
ultimo., on the "Senate Finance Bill."
He tells, in an able manner, bis reasons
why he cannot vote for the Senate Fi
nance Bill, and says that "it seems to be
a pUsh cooked to suit the faste of tho
President, as it is but the embodiment
of tlie views expressed In his financial
veto message of last session." We thank
ldm for rt copy of the speech.
j -cnoral IN'ewi.
The Beecher-Tiltoq literature baa in
jured the sale of comic almanacs thia
year.
Brigham Young has sufficiently re
covered to sit np anil get married occa
sioually.
William Knnbe, of Iowa, recently
died of fright, when told that hie houan
was on fire.
A Nevada editor gravely announces
that he never can write fluidly until hu'a
had a glass or two of whisky.
A Nevada man who had seven homely
daughters, got a paper to hint that ho
had seven kegs filled with gold in his
cellar, and every girl was married in five
iiiontlia.
Tom. Norriel killed Levi Moore a few
days ago. Both of Laurel county. Nor
riel is Deputy Sheriff and attempted to
arrest Moore for some cause when Mooro
resisted. Norriel surrendered himself.
The MaimOiin ( Kentucky) Echo,
They tried to t-nro a man in Missouri
by threatening to tar and feather him;
but he replied. "Come on with your old
tar; Ve been there six times, and I'vo
got a receipt for washing it off."
A Boston man has died and left two
hundred dollars to a Fniversalisl church.
It wftuld do an old-fashioned Methodist
preacher good to tell a revival congrega
tion just what has become of this man.
A letter passed throueh the Detroit
pot-offlce the other day, ocaging the fol
lowing superscription: "To the Fat
Kuss what eddits the Pontyac weekly
QtizeMe, and send me a dunnin letter In a
envelope he stole; Pontyac, Michigan."
It's truly astonishing how the papers,
while they persist in charging a man a
dollar an inch for advertising when liv.
ing, cheerfully give up a whole column
of space for nothing when hia obituary
comes along Sunday Tima.
An Iowa newspaper proclaims itself
an "honest newspaper," and in another
paragraph says: "When a man professes
honesty nowadays, keep your, eyse peeled
f or a thief . "
A Clarksville man has written a life
of the devil . The last three chapter
comprises a ton years' biography of hia
m ther-m-law.
And now they say William Penn would
sit down under a tree with Indians
about h'lm, and, telling them of the bet
ter world beyond the sea, deal himself
fouracee and win the game.
A eodored gentleman went to consult
one of the moBt "high-toned" lawyers In
Boston, and after stating his case said:
"Now I knows you's a Lawyer, boss; but
I wish you wouldf please, sar, jlas tell
me the truff 'bout dat matter."
"Now then," said a physician, cheer
ily, to a patient, "you have got along
far enough to indulge in a Little animal
food, and " "No you don't, Doctor,"
interrupted the patient; "I've suffered
enough on your gruel and slops, and I'd
starve sooner than begin on hay and
oats."
' Stranger, will you try a hand with
us at poker?" "Thank you, gentlemen,
but (here are seventeen reasons why I
cannot accommodate you now." "Sev
enteen reasons for not playing carda?"
Pri y what are they?" ' Why, the first
is I haVen't any money." "Stop! that'll
encugh: never aalnd the other sixteen."
A near sighted man was riding In a
Wt odward avenue car the other day,
wh?h a lady opposite bowed to him. He
returned tbe bow, raised his hat, smiled
swretly, and was' just wondering who
she was, when she came over and whisp
ereJlnu3 ear. "Oh! Til fix you for
thuir qld man! Then he knew u wa
' his mtc.-J)itrm Frest,