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THE MORRJSTOWN GAZETTE, MARCH, 17, 1875.
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Ihe-Hmistomi 3&zetta.
WEDNESDAY, MAR . 17, .175.
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fThe-bm to increase the iuris-
dlctton of magistrates to S1.000 has
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passed both houses.
3P The Governor of Arkansas
has appointed Miwci 26 as a day of
thanksgiving. Tie seems to be very
thankful to Poland.
The bill scaling salaries of
Judges has passed the Senate on
third reading. It fixes the pay of the
Supreme Judges at $3,000, all-others
at $2,000.
tap1 John Mitchell the Irish pa
triot has been re-elected to the Brit
ish Parliament from the county of
Tipperary. His majority over Mooie,
his competitor, is 2,368.
tW All efforts to repeal the in
terest law have failed it seems rea
eonable to u&that money, like any
other commodity, should be allowed
to bring what it is worth.
A bill has passed the first
reading in the Senate to regulate the
distribution of the school money.
One of the provisions is that the col
ored schools shall be maintained
only by the taxes of colored people.
We suppose the bill will not beoome
a law.
HORACE MAYNARD.
President Grant sends this gentle
men to Constantinople as minister.
If any one in Tennessee deserves
well of Grant, it is Maynard. His
defence of the Administration was
the most plausible ever made in
this State.
XW The Local Option bill has
passed the House. We have strong
hones that it will pass the Senate. No
other measure effects our vital inter
est so much as this. The effects of
the drinking saloons are blighting up
on society more than all other evils
combine!.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The election ia this State resulted
in electing two Democratic and one
.Republican Congressman. As there
was a Prohibitionist candiate for Gov
ernor, there was no election before
the people. The legislature, it is
claimed, is Republican by a small
majority.
KNOX I 1L L A S C EXE.
Not much Fan for .Toe.
Joe Click is a clever fellow. One
of the most accomodating fellows we
ever knew, and is a great favorite
among the boys generally, especially
so with the Cadets. Our friend Joe
has one bad habit, that of smoking.
He is used to smoking a very mild
quality of Cigarettes. Lat evening
one of the Cadets, without, knowing
his calibre, presented Joe with a
very strong Havana cigar.
He sat down in his room with a
friend and' puffed away at his cigar
for some time ; finally he arose,
turned up the gas and asked his
friend if he looked pale ; before his
friend could an s wed. however, Joe
cailed for the slop bucket, and get
ting down on his all fours, began to
examine its capacity.
His friend asked htm in a gentle
tone if he felt sick ? but Joe had only
time to warble " darn fool, reckon
I'm pukin' tor fun."
BrowuloAv's Advice to the Color
ed People.
Knoxville Whig and Chronicle.
One fact is worthy of consideration,
- and that is thi: the Civil Rights hill
confers no additional rights. Laws have
already Been enacted by Congress, which
upon examination will be found to con
fer all the rights that this hill proposes
to give. The best tiling the colored
population can do, is to accept the situa
tion in which these laws place them, and
to reverence and obey all the laws of the
land carefully avoiding everything cal
culated fcj array the prejudice of the
white agafpgt them, or to Brins afiont
Oil'
unpleasant relations between the races.
We hope no colored man will adopt
the course hinted at and foreshadowed
by the recent self-constituted committee
. at Washington, threatening Congress
and the whole country with blood-shed
and ruin, unless their peculiar views are
immediately conformed to in every re
spect. The threats alluded to are found
in a recent publication over the signa
ture of Frederick Douglass and John M.
Langeton. Such allusions as this do no
good, and may do much harm to the
colored people, and to the country. Jn-Boh-nce
never accomplishes anything.
The destinies of the Colored people are,
' to a great extent, in their own hands.
By pucsuiug a proper course, they will
have the sympathies of the better class
of people; bujt if they attempt to force
their way against public sentiment, they
; thetnclves will prove the sufferers,
ii i i ,
CIVIL RIGHTS.
A Couple of Kentucky Negroes
Oet Their Dose.
- Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.
Lexington, March 10. The rumor
reaches Lexington from Mercer county,
by way of Nicholasville, that an attempt
to enforce the Civil Right Rill in that
county terminated fatally to two negro
juen, They went to the house of a
farmer and asked to sec the colored cook
in the parlor. The owner of the resi
dence answering their knock in person,
lie asked them to remain a moment
while he informed the lady. lie pres
ently returned with a douMe-harelled
Knot gun, loaded, and ordered his color
ed friend i to leave at once. Tiiey refus
ed, and the farmer fired at them, killing
them both.
hmperae, crime and
-PHE LIQUOR TAX.
There is a sufficiently plain con-
nection between these three subjects
to warrant our running them togeth-
, . . . !
er msing mem into on, awr
fashion, and so making them the ba-
sis ot our leaning articieto-ciay. jnol
that the latter question has-anything
to do with the production of the oth
er two in the way of cause and ef
fect, as in these ; but rather to check
intemperance to some extent, per
haps, and so prevent crime. Still,
we link them together as claiming a
btnd of joint consideration upon the
part of all good citizens, we think.
The history of jurisprudence in t his
and every other civil iaed land attests
the fact that more than half the
crime, andvattendant misery and want
that afflicts us as a nation, is direct
ly and undoubtedly tracable to the
maddening cup. Intemperance is
the fell mother of crime ! Every
where its serpent track is marked by
wrecked fortunes, blasted hope?,
broken vows, penury and want ! The
widow and the fatherless the living
skeletons that were once the home
idols of manly hearts bestrew the
path of this serpent. This civilized
car of Juggernaut that Is never gorg
ed with victims, nor ever stops in
its triampbial career, though they
cast themselves before its reeking
wheels by the million ! Intemper
ance f ah, what a monster it is ! The
fabled Dragon that St. George is
said to have vanquished, would ap
pear less than a liliputian by its huge
side ! Alas, it would take many St,
George's to grapple with this levia
than, this cruel monster, Intemper
ance. Organization after organiza
tion, State after State has measured
arms with it, only to find that like
Sampson of old, these efforts to con
quer it were only as green withes,
binding a strong man's arms, and
the dread evil is not stayed in its
devastating progress through the
world.
But must in go on so? Is there
no hope ? No vulnerable point in the
carcass of the great monster ? Must
the ekeletons of once happy home
circles continue to walk our high
ways and bemoan themselves before
us unredressed? Are the orphans,
and worse than orphans the wid
ows, and worse than widows, to ap
peal to us for help in vain and for
ever? Is there no remedy?
The jails and prisons of the differ
ent States are crowded with victims
of strong drink. Must this state of
things go on? The people are ev
erywhere taxed to pay the heavy ex
penses of these prisons. The pro
ceedings of the courts are clogged
with prosecutions which are directly
or indirectly to be traced to intem
perance. Prisons, poor-houses, and
self-entailed poverty and improvi
dence necessitates the greater por
tion of the taxation that we groan
under as a people, and it all lies at
the door of the monster social evil,
intemperance ! Would to God we
could devise an engine of destruc
tion powerful enough to cope with
and destroy it ! States fear the mon
ster even whole governments fear
to-measure arms with it! But States
a id governments, alas, are too much
under th influence of those who make
politics and place these States, and
these not seperately, but together
consequently as all tie army of
drunkards usually espouse the cause
of intemperance, politicians, as a
class, could hardly be expected to
liaad a great moral reformation that
looits to the dethronement of King
Alcohol as its distinctive organic
feature and battle cry. And yet
these politicians are needed to help
on any movement of the kind, for
they make the laws in the main, and
since moral suasion, and other simi
lar detached efforts to cure the great
social evil has failed, it most be evi
dent that the way of ultimate, na
tional reformation leads through le
gal enactments, either by the States
individually, or else by the country
as a whole. We believe the latter
plan offers a very hopeful mode of
attack of this monster of intemper
ance. The liquor tax already affords
a large revenue to the government.
It was devised, we suppose, without
special reference to its reformatory
cluiracter, perhaps without any refer
ence to such use and benefit. The
design doubtless was to raise reve
nue to pay national expenses and
liquor makers,, liquor sellers, and
consumers submitted to it. as they
did to other taxation and so they
will continue to do on any increase
of the tax. And here ire helieve is
the sen to th- tightening of nhi'h will
strcngle this dread tnunster, intemper
ance ! Let temperance men all over
the land lay vigorous hold of this
rope, the national liquor tux, and pull
heavier and heavier upon it. and our
firm persuasion is, that their long
struggle with the enemy will end in
triumphant victory. Let the manu
facture of the deadly beverage be
come unprofitable, and the sale and
use of it must diminish correspond
ingly. Take any temptation to sin
to commit crime to do violence to
your bt-tter self, and you lessen the
probability of the commission of the
wrong. There is no absolute neces
sity why the making or vending of
alcoholic drinks should be such a
money-making business in this coun
try, any more than there is that the
opium trade should be. Let Legi
lators, and the whole country,
but awake to this simple truth here
stated, apd they will find both the
way and means of slaying Intemper
ance at their hand ! But. use it, and
the world will have made a great
b'.ep forward. W. T. H.
TAXATION.
SPEECH OF H. T. PATTON,
OF CLAIBORNE,
In the House of Representatives,
February 26th, 187o;.
Be it re$olved. That in the opiniws
of this Assembly, the rate of State'
taxation for the ensuing two years,
should not exceed the sum of twenty-five
cents on the hundred dollars
worth of property.
Resolved farther, That the rate of
County taxation in the various coun
ties of this State should not exceed
that fixed in these resolutions for the
State.
The resolution being under conside
eration of the House, Mr. PATTON
said :
Mb. Speaker: After listening to
the arguments of the gentlemen who
have preceded me; and especially
the distinguished Judge from the
county of Davidson, I hope the House
will indulge me a few moments, that
I may speak a word in behalf of my
people. All will admit that the Res
olutions under consideration are
fraught with import to the citizens
of this State, and feeling a deep in
terest in their welfare, I must, as a
representative of the people, urge
this body to relieve, as far as possi
ble, those who sent us here, from the
burdens that rest upon them. I do
not propose to discuss at this late
hour the cause of this taxation, that
hangs over us like a " mighty incu
bus." It is enough to know that we
are under the cloud and now seek a
way of escape, that we may once
more, as in years gone by, prosper
and make bright with smiles the many
saddened homes throughout the
State.
When the last shot, in 1865, had
told to the moving millions of this
continent that the bloody drama be
ing enacted had closed, with sorrow
and sadness we gazed at wreck and
ruin. Our finances were crippled
hopes blighted fields laid waste
and from Carter to Shelby the Staflfe
that we were ever proud to point to
as our home, presented to the eye of
the beholder one scene of desolation.
Since that memorable period that
must live engraven upon the hearts
of all who participated, though
changes have been wrought, we are
still upon the verge of ruin. Think
of it, gentlemen, and go to work
with a will. Build up the shattered
fragments of a State made glorious
in other years, by her chivalrous sons,
upon plains of blood and gore. Ce
ment the schisms and animosities
engendered by the late scenes of
carnage. Go forth in one common
brotherhood urging a reduction of
tax, that our people may once again
throw off the galling yoke of oppres
sion, and stand out in the sunlight
of prosperity, redeemed and happy.
Taxes have become oppressive, dis
satisfaction wrankles in the bosom
of the inhabitants of this State. They
demand a reduction, and we should
make an effort to gratify their de
sires. We are, Mr. Speaker, bound by
the same common interest, and for
the sake of those we love revereing
the memory of our illustrious dead
let us remove the burdens that are
pressing our constituents to destitu
tion and want Ah ! think of it : and
does 3"our cheeks not burn with
shame, as you see that we are rap
idly approaching an epoch in our his
tory that will end in repudiation and
disgrace.
I am a low tax man. Those I have
the honor to represent demand a
hearing. The voice of an outraged
people, borne upon every breeze,
should be heard and attention given
to their pleadings. Will you listen
to their prayers, or sink them deep
er in ruin and despair? Will you
prove recreant to those who placed
in you the most implicit confidence,
as men of integrity, honor and ve
racity, and impose a heavier tax, or
come fearlessly and lighten the load
that is bearing them to the wall?
When I look over this intelligent
body, and see the sparkle of fealty
to the people's best interest gleam
from your e3'es, then I know that the
result will be satisfactory to the
tax ridden you come to serve.
Go to the mountains of my own
loved East Tennessee. Behold them
in their grandeur, as thrown from
the hand of Deity. Gaze for a mo
ment at their towering peaks, glis
tening in the mid day's sun, once
beckoning those from other shores
to homes amid their shades. But
now, all is dark. The bright stars
that gleamed in other years as a bea
con light to emigrants, is obscured.
The cry of taxes t taxes ! reverberates
from her mountains in the East, to
the murky waters of the Mississippi
m the West ! Those seeking homes
do not wish to become enthralled.
This mournful sound grates upon
their ears, and they decline to invest.
For this reason, if none other, we
should reduce the tax If we would
have developed the hidden resources
of our State, if we worM have un
earthed her inexhaustsble beds of
iron ore, we must present induce
ments, invite capital, and herald to
the world that the taxes which are
bringing us to penury and need, are
reduced. Men of energy and enter
prise will hasten to our borders, and
the future will unfold to our sadden
ed hearts the truth of my assertion,
and as we gaze adown its avenues,
prosperity, wealth all that is calcu
lated to make us happy will gleam
athwart our sky, and fill our souls
with pride.
Take the report of the Secretary
of the Treasury. He informs us
that forty cents, the present tax, will
not suffice. The question, then,
arises will we suspend the payment
of the interest until a compromise
with the M bond-holders" can be ar
ranged? or burden down the people,
crush their hopes for time to come,
and bring disgrace upon our poster
ity? Take Dr. Morrow's report. He
says that it will require more than
$600,000 to pay annually the cur
rent expenses of the Stale govern
ment. At twenty-five cents on the
hundred dollars, we have $850,000
more than will pay the expenses of
the State government, but not enough
to pay the interest. What must be
done? I know not what course oth
ers may take, but as for myself,
rather than see my people sutler more,
aud their children wrapped in raga.
I shall favor suspension, and a lower
rate of tax.
Will you, Mr. Speaker, and gentle
men of the House of Representatives,
take the responsibility upon your
shoulders, and add " fuel to the
flame," or will you lighten the " tax
that is evidently crushing the spirits
of a people, whose valor is historic?
In justice to those who sweat od
toil the laboring-olass -T must ins
sist-that-the tax be reduced. To
increase it now will blight our future,
desolate thousands of once happy
homes, and forever darken the pros
pects, financially, of a once free peo
ple. To increase it now, will bring
upon us the collector, bearing to our
households ruin, woe and misery.
To increase It now, will fasten upon
us the stigma of unfaithfnllness and
infidelity, because, Mr. Speaker, the
people must sink under the load, and
two years hence will send their
representatives pledged to cancel all
outstanding bonds, by repudiating
the debt, about which there is so
much said and that the people will
adjust, if they only have an oppor
tunity to recover from the pressure
that rests upon them. Reduce the
tax, give the honest laborer time to
lift his drooping head. Do not for
the respect you have for Tennessee's
distinguished sons, who sleep in
honored gra-ves, force upon us re
pudiation T Let us suspend for a
time only, the payment of the inter
est ; levy a tax sumcient to pay
necessary expenses, lay off the burd
en, that is pressing apon our people,
and once again we will take up our
line of march to prosperity and hap
piness. There is not one upon this
floor, who does no feel a glow of
pride arising in contemplating the
joys that await us. if we are only
true to the principles enunciated in
the platform. Shall we fill the land
with mourning, and send throughout
our borders clouds ladened with
gloom, or throw around the toiling
poor man a protecting arm, to shield
him from the 'many tax gatherers'
that infest the country. Methinks
I see your bosoms heave with the
pride of j'our ancestors, as the query
is put, and I feel that relief will
come to the many whose eyes are
turned imploringly toward this
mightj- building. Pause, reflect and
for the love you bear j'our buried
kindred for the love you bear the
tender babe nestled upon the moth-
er's breast show yourselves willing,
as friends of the oppressed, to meet
the issue, that your names, when you
have crossed the stream and gone
to your Creator, may be lisped by
infants yet unborn, as men who dar
ed to do your duty, and "upon the
result, meet a now-distressed con
stituency'. Though our sky is be
clouded, and darkness hoovers
around, we are bonnd by every hon
est sentiment by every sacred im
pulse to face the monster, and, by
a herculean effort, rid those we repre
sent of this ponderous load, that Is
pressing them to the dust. Ah !
yes, our future meal is at stake, and
we should reduce the tax, make a
people happj', and they will ere long
reach the goal they long to claim.
The farmers have the burdens to
bear. They who go forth cultivating
the soil, and by their honest labor
hold together this proud Republic
they who go forth battling with the
commotions of life and by their
energy and industry save from ruin
and overthrow the liberties that we
enjoy. Their burdens, Mr. Speaker,
are almost intolerably, and unless
there is some change, human endur
ence must yield, and they fall. Talk
to me of European oppression !
Why, sir, to-day the tax-payer3 of
this State are in a more deplorable
condition than those who live beyond
the '-surging billows of the rolling
deep I" All that is calculated to
depress hangs around in darkening
folds, and aside from suspension, the
brightest intellects of the age fail to
present a correct solution. We are
tending to bankruptcy. The honest
yeomanry of the land are discourag
ed, Taxes are onerous ; and now,
sir, the "bone and sinew" of the
country are tottering beneath the
weight. There must be a reduction
or the star that once glittered bright
among the galaxy of States, must
wane and sink forever. This proud
old State that sent forth her ,ons in
former years to die upon fields of
gore in the vindication of rights
trampled upon, and more recently
lost mid fire and smoke. Some of
her bravest men is passing through
an ordeal, more depressing than
ever called upon to undergo before
What is to be the result? We must
come forth united the eastern, mid
dle and western divisions struggle
for the common weal, or pain an
guish and poverty will certainly at
tend our paths through life. Think
of the suffering already incurred ! Go
gaze at the homeless ! bo
gaze at those who once lived in af
fluence and at ease ! Behold their
altered conditions, and ask, how
come you to this? In many instances
the reply will be, "oppression taxa
tion," and as a tear bestuds to
wrinkled cheek where once rested
hope and smiles, your will think of
other days, before the land we love
was drenched in blood, and what we
"might have been." By all that is
sacred, looking to the happiness of
those who are to live after us I make
the appeal, and ask that you care
fully consider this matter, and let
us leave to our children the heritage
that we wonld proudly claim.
There is Mr. Speaker, about seven
hundred thousand dollars due by
tax-payers Why is this? The
country is impoverished. Real es
tate is decreasing in value. There
is no money here, and it is impossi
ble to collect. Let us be true to
ourselves, true to our ancestors, aud
true to the interests of the people of
this great State. Though vultures
and vampires would bleed us at
every -pore, I trust that the faith of
the State may be preserved.
I am no repudiator. No, sir ! I
want present relief for an oppressed
people, and think the reduction of
taxes will accomplish the desired
end. Upon my knees I pray, that
the State that gave mo birth, and
the home of my kindred, may never
have a stain of dishonor imprinted
upon her fair escutcheon, but that
we may rise triumphant when the
pressure has passed pay every dol
lar that we owe liguidate every
bond and take our stand disen
thralled and redeemed.
For thirteen long years ours, with
other States south of the line, has
retd beneath a cloud. War, in all
its horrid forms swept over the land,
aud many of the frmuls of our youth
fell to rise no more, and sleep In un
known graves. Now peace is re
stored, a judicious course will insure
everlasting. joy . Don't, I entreat
you, by af single" stroke, forever
blight' tife expectations of the thous
ands who gaze toward this hall for
assistance and aid, in this, the dark
est hour of our lives. In the name
of my oppressed constituents, and
the people of common wealth, I
plead with you as men destined to
live in the "great beyond," to come
to the point, and make the reduction.
It is just, it is right, and Jto fulfill
the most solemn pledges, we mast
favor the resolutions proposing a
reduction of the bresent tax. Tben
those we represent will be recon
ciled, and we can return, proud in
the conciotrsness of having done our
duty, and brought to a tax ridden
people the glorious boon of happi
ness, on their pilgrimage to that far
off city, beyond the cold, dark stream
of death.
STATE 3VE"WS.
NASHVILLE.
From the Union and Americas, TSth.
Lieutenant-Governor Antoine, of Lou
isiana, and the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction of that State, passed
through here from New Orleans yester
day. They occupied the drawing-room
of a sleeping coach. Both are colored.
Several South Nashville youths be
coming infatuated with theever varying
phases of a wild Western life, have de
termined to $o West. Gallatin Gild,
Jared the Terrible, and Lawrenccburg
Bill, are prominent members. Somerset
Tom, Wipe 'em Out John, Trap Door
Dave ami Flop Eared Frank will join at
an early day.
The Odd-Fellows are debating as to
how they shall celebrate the 56th anni
versary of Odd-Fellowship in America
on the 22nd of next month. Many of
them seem to be averse to a street pa
rade, and elegant suppers will doubtless
be decided upon instead.
Representative Gates, of Blount coun
ty, informed a representative of this pa
per yesterday that there is a man in his
county named Michael Hinkle, who is
116 years old, and that at the election
last fall he walked two miles to vote the
Democratic ticket. Mr. Hinkle Is prob
ably the oldest man iu the State.
BRISTOL.
From the Bristol Courier .
It seems that Martin Castevens, P. M.
at Independence, Grayson county, Va. ,
has been robbing the U. S. mai' for some
time, and last week special agent Lewis
set a trap for him, which Mr. O. walked
into, and was immediately picked up.
Castevens is a son-in-law of Dr. Thomas,
of Grayson.
Dr. It. A, Hooke, formerly of Chatta
nooga, died at Poor Hill, in this county,
last Saturday, of pleurisy and neuralgia.
He was about thirty -three years of age,
and had only been in this county for
some two months. His remains were
taken to Chattanooga for interment.
FAYETTEVILI.E.
From the Express, 11th.
The passage of the Civil Rights llHl
has had a bad effect on Robert Tig, col
ored. The obstreperous son of Ham
hastened to celebrate the adoption of
Sumner's legacy by a carouse, and the
frequency of his potations demoralized
him to such an extent that it was found
necessary to suppress him as a public
nuisance. When arrested lie was ex
hausting a choice vocabulary of "cuss
word" in the neighborhood of the pub
lic square, a very reprehensible proceed
ing which eventually cost him $13 in
the way of tr fie.
JACKSOIf.
Courier-HeralVl
We learn from citizens of different
parts of Madison countv that the wheat
crop is improving rapidly. The cold
weather injured it considerably, but the
recent snow and rains have given it a
green and nourishing appearance. The
stand is good and the crop is unusually
promising.
HARTSVILLE .
From the Hartsville Sentinel.
On Saturday last a fatal difficulty oc
curred at Chestnut Mound, in which Dr.
David McCall killed a voung man named
Andrew McKinley. ft seems from what
we can learn of the difficulty that they
had both been drinking for some time
past and they had fallen out about some
thing on Friday and that McKinley had
gone to McCaii's house with a large stick
and tried to break in, but didn't suc
ceed. He afterwards made several simi
lar atttempts to make an assault on Mc
Call, and kept following him round. On
Saturday McKinley again commenced
the tactics of the previous day and Mc
Call loaded his gun and went out on the
street with it. There they raet and M
Call called out to an acquaintance to
come out and make him behave himself,
as he was trying to take his gun away
from him. The man went and tried to
make peace between them. Before he
left them they both stated they had no
thing against each other, and he turned
hway and left them. Shortly after he
heard a shot and then saw McKinley
running away from McCall. He had not
run far before he fell dead, having been
shot through the heart. McCall got
away immediately after, but has not left
the neighborhood.
OALLATIX.
From the Tonnesseean.
The farmers have been turning over
the ground preparatory to planting, with
a rush, this week.
Information comes to us from almost
every part of the county that the wheat
prospect is fine.
Tobacco raisers in this county propose
putting in a heavy crop of the weed this
year.
We are sorry to learn that the seareity
of corn in the 8th and 9th civil districts
of this county will likely prove a great
draw-back in farming operations this
season. Some of the best informed men
in those districts express themselves at a
loss to know how many of the citizens
can possibly weather the storm until
they can make a crop. Farmers are us
ing all the economy possible.
Here we Are!
White Guest ' You don't mean to say
you intend to occupy this bed with me? '
Colored ditto "Yes, boss but don't 'pol
ogize. I can stand it if you can."
Jess so Josiah !
How tliey do it ia Atlanta.
'Owing to circumstances, which I
rreerf not recount, I shall adopt
fn the future the following rates: Beer,
by the ghats, $40; whisky toddy, $15;
brandy straight,$12 aud so on in pro
portion. To regular customeas I will
make a liberal discount- C. J. Wein
meister. "
The Darkles to Jubflate-
Locisvillf, Ky., March 11. The col
ored people held a meeting to-night and
Sassed resolnsions approving the Civil
lights enactment, and also the follow
ing resolution for the celebration of the
event:
Resolved, that in consideration of the
legal and practical progress of Civil
Rights, wc hereby set apart Thursday, the
a&th of March, 1875, as a day of jubilee
in Louisville, and that in after years the
4th day of July be a national holiday,
in commemoration of freedom as well as
the national birth-day of the United
States.
8aid a Missouri preacher: "There's a
powerful sight of giggling back thar in
the corner, and it's got to be stopped,
or the Lord will delegate me to open j
the door and throw some one out: it
was .topped.
New Advertisements.
3X -CX -3C. ' LYIiE
MANUFACTURER OF EVERY
Give him a call
and he will in
sure entire satis
faction, as he
uses none but the
most popular
Brands of first H
cftoie Ft n o k
Calf-Skin.
IIP- -"pP
CUSTOM
BOOTS, SHOES
MORBISTOW1T, TEHSTTST.
jc 27, nstj.
We are now rereivhig and will have
open by the 1st of March, our immense
stock of
DRY COODS.
500
400
300
o3o
CASES PRINTS.
CASES PIECE GOODS.
CASES BLEACHED DO
MESTICS. HALES BROWN DOMES
TICS. Ginghams, Lincna, Alpacas, Delaina, White
Good. Tn-kiURK, Oaiiaburga, Drills, SUirttugf,
Stripes and CotUm Plaids.
Also a complete lin? of
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Men's and Boys' Kip Boots, Brogans and Tias,
Women's and Children's Pebble Uraiav Kip, Calf
and Lasting Balmorals.
20(H) Cases Kip Boots.
1000 Cases W Roots.
1000 Cases Kip Brogans,
500 Cases Calf Brogans.
2000 Cases Women's Shoes.
500 Cases Children's Shoes.
500 Rolls Leather.
A ;ludij assortment, and every Line complete
in this ui-pAi'tineut.
1000 Casfs IfKK'a Hats.
1000 Cases Boys Hats
1000 Cases Ladies & Missks Hats.
500 Cases Children's Hats.
IVotions.
.,..,,... 4. .
All .he i Novelties in Notions anu every line com-
plete in this department
Cowan,
THE Shop
far" Call
wi mm n. m
m i
value received.
July 1, '74
A. O . SCOTT,
SCOTT BROTHER,
Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Cabinet Furniture,
Tlie Largest Stock ol
Parlor and Bed Room Furniture
IN EAST TENNESSEE.
148 GAY STREET, - -
v7-dl7-a.
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OF THE
BRITISH PERIODICALS
The political ferment among the European na
Hiai,in of Sr-ienre In Its relation to Theoioirv. !
and the constant publication of new works on these
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the leading foreign Beviews during 1875, Nowhere
else cau the inquiring reader find in a condensed
form, the facts and argumenta neceasary to guide
him to a correct conclusion .
The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.
41 BARCLAY ST., NEW YORK,
continue the reprint of the four leading Beviews,
viz :
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Westminster Review, (Literal.)
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Ladies' But
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Congress Gai
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Pebble Goat
and Calf Kid
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AND GAITERS.
CLOTHING.
Trunks, Valises,
Satchels Baskets,
Umbrellas & Parasols.
A complete assortment of staple Hardware .
Pocket Ctitler
Table Cutlery,
.'2O0O Kegs Nails.
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500 Booses- Axes.
.5000 Reams Wrap. Paper.
CLOCKS.
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McGlung & Go
M.rristown Boot & Shoe Shop !
J. A, TOWHSEND, Proprietor.
MANUFACTURES
Mi and Sta of all Grades anfl Ends.
HE uses none but the best material, and warants every pair
of Boots or Shoes he makes to be a perfect fit and to give
satisfaction. Repairing neatly done on short notice.
is .411 kinds of Country Produce tuken in
exchange for work.
is on Main street, opposite the old Conrt House,
in and leave your orders, and you will get full
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tf.
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- KNOXVILLE, TENN.
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THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO.,
140 Eulton St.. New York.
SEEDS AND PLANTS.
C.C. Th True Vvp Cod Cran'
C. "&ry, best sort for Upland, Loio- J
lend', or Garden, by mail prepaid. $1
per hundred, $5 per 1.000. All the
New, Choke Strawberries and Peach-
mt. A priced CUalogrue of tiiese and i
aM Fruits, Ornamental frees. Ever
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WHOLESALE CATALOGUE TO
THE TRADE. Agents Wanted.
B. M. WATSON. Old Col-
ony Nurseries and Seed Warehouse,
Plymouth, to. Es'ubtishctl 1842.
New Advertisements.
NOTICE!
CHANCERY SALE OF
Yaluable la ids!
In the Chancery Conrt at Dan
dridge, Tenn..
P. Taylor adnm, etc., v JSr. Ana Taylor er. al .
LRStTANT TO M PECKftE
nronounced by said Court at its Januarf term.
1875, in 4be above entitled ohm, I- wtU, oa
Monday, 3d day of May, 1875,
at the door of the Court House in Dandridfja, offer
for sale, on a credit of ono, two and thro yean,
accept $300 which will be required in hand, the
Lands mentioned and described in the pleadings
in this cause, lying and being in the 13th Civil Dis
trict of Jefferson coanry, coMsteMng cf tfcree tract
on the North side of the French Broad river, Sue
hundred attd afty acres good bottom land wall
watered'. The ftrot known aa the Willis Taylor
home place, adjoining the lands of P. Taylor, Mrs.
H A- Trylor and others, oontaining 319' aows
more or less. The second known aa the Graham
tract adjoining the lands of P. Taylor, H. C . Jack
son and others, containing 100 acres more or laer.
Th third known as the ltogers farm, adjoining the
lands of P. Taylor, Win. A. Moore and others, con
taining 130 acres more or less .
Also, on-
Saturday, Hfh da of May, 1875.
at the Depot in Clifton, I will offpr a piece of wood1
land, lying in tuo 7tli Oivil Distrust of Oueka coan
ty, adjoining the lands of John 8tokety, Pf V.
Hampton and others, containing 96 acres more or
less. Notes with approved personal security will
be required of te purchaser and a Han retained
on ahe lands until tho purchas money is fully
paid S. U. MEEK, Clerk and-Master.
' 'A Complete Pictorial Hutitr of the Time "
' ' The best, cheapest, and mott tueeetf
fid Family Paper in the 1'nion."
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TLLUSTSATFD.
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designers. With a circulation of taOJOOft; the
Weekly is read by at least half a million perssns,
and its influence as an wrgan of opinion is simply
tremendous. The Weekly maintains a positive
position, and expresses decided views on political
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Its articles are models of hig-toned diuswu,
and its piotcrtal' illustrations are often corrobora
tive arguments of no small force. S. T. Examin
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N0N-KEST1ENT NOTICE.
In Chancery Court at Tazewell.
James B. Oillcerxon admr Harriel L. Buchanan
guardian and John Buchanan guardian vs. Wn.
K. Buchanan, James A. Btirhanan, Lilias M
Buchanan, Suan K- Buchauan, Engnia Buch
anan, Lizzie Buchanan, Harriel Buchanan.
IN THIS CAUSE IT APPEAR
ing from the allegations in the bill filed, which
is sworn to, that Win K. Buclutnan, Jamsa A.
Buchanan, Liiias M. Buchannn, Susan E. Buch
anan. Eugenia Buchanan, Ijzzie Buchanan, and
Harriel Buchanan are non-residents of the state
of Tennessee, residing in the Stati- of Kentucky, an
tlu.t the ordinary process of law cannot be aerved
upon them ; it is therefore ordered by me thst
publicati u be made for four successive weeks, in
the Mobkistowk Gazette, a weekly paper publish
ed Morristown, Tennessee, notifying said non
residents to sppcsr before the Chancer)" Conrt at
Tazewell on or before the second Monday of
April next, aud mate defense to complainants
bill, or the same will 1h t.ikeu as confessed snd the
cause set for hearlur ex-parte as to them
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