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gg TJKIM s OO IJEIfc ANNUM:. BY JOHN E. HELMS. ! IN Al I 1 ML.Y IN ADYAXCE. Uitl'J't "letI f.I I'lV .".IfMH JjOtWtlnO JUUW ft It 1 o NUMBER 4. ME 9. MORRISTOWN, TENN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81, 1873. "THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE. , - . - - VOLl r New Advertisements. Bearten , McNntt & Bearten, SCCCrXSOKB TO OAIHES BBOtL, A CO., jFAolesele and Betail Driers in O JL. O T H I N (i , 6NTS' FURNISHING 600DS, AND MERCHANT TAILORS. Knoxvilie, - - - - Tennessee. 7-33. Franklin House, -a! OPPOSITK COURT HOUSE, Main Street, Knoxvilie, Term. FRANK A. BUTLER, Pwortsietob. PR IV A TE BOA R DING IIYtHe DAY OR WEEK AT THE 0BIGSBY HOUSE, RUTLEDGE, TEXX. JOSEPH GRIGSBY, - - - Proprietor. TERMS REASONABLE. O. T. MAG EE, President. JOHN Ml-RPHEY, Caftliier. LOOKOUT BANK OF- orritown, - - Tenn. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. JOHN. MURPUF.Y, JOSEPH BBOWy, O. T. MAUKE, K. C, ATKINS. JAMES P. EVANS. Will transact a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. RECEIVE Deposits, Buy nd Sell Exchange, Gold arid Silver, and make collections upon the- most favorabU- term.. may IS tf. L S. FLESHMAN, Fashionable Tailor, Morris town, Tenn., Respectfully informs the public that his Shop le In the same place, and that he is ilways prepared to do any kind of work, in bii Tine, in tbo mot workniaulike wauner, expeditiously and at the lowest possible, prices. Cutting and Repairing done Promptly. He 1 in receipt of the New York fnahiciut quarter ly, and can insure. cUKtoim-r u faHli'onabie Htyle, a well as a good at, in any kind of garment they may want. IhF He solicits the patronage of the public. feb 25 lv C. S. FLESH MAN. H. H. CROWDER, Silversmith and Jeweler, WOK MS TO W N, TEN N . W Shop In the Store of L. P. A ft. t. Spocfc.jjfj II A V I N G PERMANENTLY Jm H. Located in Morristow u to conduct a general KilversmithiiiK and vtch-r.-pairing busiiie-s, I would respectfully solicit a tuial ironi the public. Watches, Clocks aud all kinds of Jewelry repaired promptly, at reaonabie prices, and satisfaction guaranteed in every respect. u5. A. A. BAUXES, W. II. SIMMON DS BARNES & SIMMONDS, HEAL ESTATE AND GEVEKAL AGCMT. ALL BUSINESS Entrusted to lis promptly at tended to. Spocial atteution given to renting Office 105 Ony Street. HI tf Knoxvilie Tenn. a - r . m: A i 1: E , Su-ioon and Physician, Oi 1 -Tiff1 MORRISTOWN, TENN. Will give special attention to the mATMKT OK DISK ASKS OR WOMKN NEW FIRM! THOMPSON L FOLSOM, MORRISTOWN, TENN., E4T fTT SBsti. O ' Are now receiving a I-arge and new Stock of Tall and Winter Goods ! ,X Consisting in part of STAPLE AND FANCY Jx Groods, Inpludlag efi. ..iock of Boots, Shoes and Hats LADIKS DI?SS GOODS, Hardware & Qneensware. " LL of which tbey propose to sell as low as can J be bad at retail elsewhere. They invite a full examination of thatjr Goods, promising a choice aport incut, and that tbey will not hs undersold in the market. They will give goods in exchange for (be usual barter of the country, hut will not refuse greenbacks, gold or silver when offered. Fanner's Tools, Grain and Grass Blades. tar- AH cutlery warranted to (rive sarfsfactlra. Jn fai t, we propose to warrant all goods sold to be as rpr-ertfed. jrl Msy l, 1874. THOMPSON EOLSOM. BEN. F. MtTCHEU, CARPENTER. A BUILDER, S& HI Morrislown, Tenn. FROP06ES to ths eWiaen. of this community to eontrsct for the work of every description of Buildings, upon tits most favorable terms. Parties wlio contemplate the erection of houses would do well to call on him. He is prepared to furnish all ths. noosMsry material for buildings, upon such Wins that cannot fail to bs to ths advantage of the Wenoo building. Those who doubt this, can he sat fcsftad of its truth by now Wing ths undersigned. . r . m 1 1 v ;rl r.1.1.. CASE FOR TOUR EGGS! irili pay the high marks jirict in etmh for EGGS, detorrrmt at my Plig in MorvUUrmn, Maim St , nac dour to D. Man-it's old fi'f. JEHl MORRIS. New Advertisement. JAMES P. EVAIS, Attorney at Law, MORRISTOWN TENN Will practice in all t- courts of East Tennessee, where the FEE will justify . Prompt attention will U- g.M'-.U to collecti-'If. A . H, PETTIBONE, Attorney at Law, G It E E NEVILLE, T E N N . Will pra-tice in the courts of the First Judicial Circuit and the Supreme Court at K uoxvi lie. Will also give prompt attention to the collection of all kinds of claims and debts. WM. G. TAYLOR, ATTORNEY AT tAW, MorrUlown, Tenn., TTTILI. practice in ths Courts of Hamblen, and T V the adjoining counnes. aprlS 116 ly. 8 D.J LEWIS A G JACKSON. JOHN A BHEA Lewis, Jackson & Rhea, Manufacturers of and Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Umbrellas, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Ladies' Hats, Etc., Etc. No. 52 Gay St., Knoxvilie, Tenn. Not. 1 n38 ly. W. M. WILMETH, MAIS STREET, MOKItlSTOWN, TKSN. Has now on hand a comilete stock of Family Groceries, To which he has recently added a f nil line of BOOTS AND SHOES, Which he offers cheap for Cash. He will pay the highest market price for all kinds of country produce. Pro r lsious and Eatables of every description kept on baud at all times. Jel'J-ly. DENTISTRY. DENTISTRY. THOS. J. SPECK, D. D. S. OFF ICES: Kojrersvill, Tenn.. from 1st to 15tli of each month. Morristowu, from 15th to last of each month. VERMS Casta or Its equivalent W. W. LANGHORNE, ATTORSEV AT LAW -AND- SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, Newport, Tenn., 1"n VCTICES In the various Courts of East Ten nessee, su'i in the Supreme C .urt at Knoxvdle Dec 3, 1874 ly WILL. S. DICKSON, Attorney at Law, MOKItlSTOWN, TENN. -VILT. Practice. a the Courts of upper East ''Tennessee. Prompt and pecial attention given to collections. ..... a Bkpkrbnckh UT PERMISSION Hob t McEarlaud, K. M. Barton, sr., 1). Morris, Wni. Fulton, K. J. Kidwell, Earnest A Hriscoe, IVnce i Lyle, Dr. t. T Macee, Morristowu, Tenn. ; J. A. Bayl, Knox vilie Tenn. ; Wm. II. Moffett, New Market, Tenn .; H. Baker. Oroeueviue, ieuu. ; lavis s mix !.. , ' Bristol, Tenn. mar25-ly. SHEPARD UNDERTAKER, Knoxvilie, Tenn WVKRY DESCHIPTlOy OF -'.Metalic Caskets a id Oases, Wood Caskets and Cofflus of everv Grade and price ready for use. Orders by Telegraph will receive personal and prompt attention. Terms satisfactory. n40. J. II. W ALLEY, AGENT FOB r. hockenjos, TOBACCO, CIGARS, SNUFF, All Kinds of Pipes and Smokers Articles, AT WALLKY'S OLD STAND, Oay Street. All the former patrons of the old and favorite stand are invited to call, and new customers will find it to their, interest to give us a trial. mar 11 nl tf . Wilson, Burns & Go., WHOLESALE Bracers and Commission Merchants, 30 South Howard Street, corner of Lombard, B A L T I M 0 li E . WE Keep constautly on hand a large and well as sorted stock of Groceries, suitable for the Routhern and Western trade. Ws solicit consign ments of Country Produce, such as Cotton, Feath ers, Ginseng, Beeswax, Wool, Dried Fruit, Fnr Skins, etc. Our facilities for doing business sre such as to warrant quick salss and prompt returns. All orders will have our prompt attention. mar J7. M. L. BLACKLKY, WALTER H. BOBEHTSOM, Bristol, Tenn. Goodson, Vs. G I. BLACKLEY, Bristol, Tsns. BMlej, Robertson & Blaciley, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, BRISTOL, T12NN., H AVE EST AB L I S 11 K D AN Assoc? for the sale of all Real Estate en trusted to them and for the introduction of Immi gration and Capitalist, mineral. Farming, craz ing and Tfuimnroved Lands in E. Tenn aud K. Vf Va and Ky will be negotiated through this Agency. tW Strict attention given to all business that may be placed in their bauds ly sep23 nZ D. V. CONFECTIONER TOBACCONIST, MORRISTOWN, TENN., L. C. KEEPS ON UANDCONSTANT ly, PUin and French CANDIES. Cakes, Nuts, Oysters Sardines, Crackers, Cheese, Tobac co, ftgBraftitc. Cash daks aad uusli profits." Ja 6. 18T5 ly The Morristown G&zstte. ADVERTISING RATES. One square, (ten lines, or less,) for fire t insertion One Doito, fetch subsequent insertion Fifty cents. A liberal discount from the above rate will be made to yearly advertisers. Obituaries-of over ten lines will be charged as advertisements. All bill due upon first iirwertio of advertise ment, unless otherwise contracted tot. All announcements of eandidatdea must b paid for in advance. Job Work mast be paid for on delivery. THE OAZETTB is a -perTnauently established newspaper with a paying aud constantly increasing list of subscribers. Its circulation in the counties of Hamblen, Hawkins, Cocke, Jefferson. Graincer ' and Claiborne is more general than any other pa per making it the best advertising medium in Upper East Tennessee. Laws Relating' to Newspaper Subscriptions, Ac. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the cuntrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may cc ntiuu to send them until! all arrearages are paid. 8. If subscribers neglect or refuse their periodi cals from the office to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled their bills, aud ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without in forming the publishers, and the papers sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that "refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leav ing them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud." 6. Any person wr-o receivs a newspaper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. 1. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it otherwise the publisher, is authorized to send it on, aud the subscribers will be responsible un til! an express notice, with payment of all ar earss s sent to the publisher. "wawa THE NEW ASSESSMENT LAW. The following is the Assessment Law passed 03' the Legislature which has just adjourned: SecTIOB 1. Bt- it amuirted by the General Assembly of the State of 1'ennessee, That the Quarterly County Courts of each county, shall, at the April Term, '875, and at said term every four years thereafter, elect a discreef and prudent person, be ing a free holder and a citizen thereof, whose duty it shall be to assess, list and return cs herein provided, for taxation, all the real estate in his county, not ex empt from taxation, and said assessor before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute and deliver to the Court, a bond with two sufficient sure ties in the penal sum of five thousand dollais, conditioned, to faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties im posed, or to be imposed, by law upon him, payable to the State, and he shall also take and subscribe, before the Clerk of said Court, an oath, honestly, faith fully, impartially and fearlessly to assess value and list all real estate in hiseounty, not exempt by law from taxation. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, Said asses sor shall proceed to assess the real estate in his county in manner following, viz. i He shall riistt prepave a eompUt list of all taxable real estate in each civil dis trict or ward of his county, and then select in each district or ward, with tax able realty worth less than 2(10,000 by the last assessment, one, and in all other districts or wards, two reputable, dis creet and prudent men, free-holders and residents therein, as assistants, mid he shall administer to each an oath, that he will honestly, faithfully and impartially assess and value, each and every tract or lot of land in hi s district or ward, and these two assistants, together with the assessor, shall proceed, at some desig nated place in each district or ''ward, to assess and value, in writing, all the real estate in-said district or Ward, givingthe name of each owner, in alphabetical or der, and setting out the number of acres of each tract, and if the same be in a town, the present number of the lot, and the number of front feet, and the depth thereof, and the assessed value of each tract or lot, and the list shall be sub scribed by each, and returned to the Clerk of the County Court by the asses sor; and in all cases of disagreement in valuation by the assistants, the assessor shall determine the value, and he shall determine the value of the real estate owned by his assistants, and the Judge or Chairman of the County Court shall determine the assessed value of the real estate of the assessor, and certify the same to him; and in districts and wards where the assessor has only one assistant the Judge or Chairman, in cases of dis agreement in valuation between the as sessor aud his assistants shall determine the valuation; Prorided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict the power of the Quarterly Court to hear and determine applications as now pro vided by law in regard to alleged erro neous assessments nfter tnenssessor shall have made his returns to the County Court Clerk: Prorvled, That such appli cation shall be made at the tirst terms of such Quarterlj' Court, occurring more than thirty days after the return by the assessor, and never thereafter, except ing, however, as to non-residents, who shall have until the second term of said Court, but no longer. Sec. 8. Be it further enarted. All the real estate shall be estimated on the prin- 1 ciples laid down in Sections 565 and 566 of the code of Tennessee, and shall be assessed to the person who is the owner or reputed owner of the same, on the first day of April of the year of the as sessment. Sac 4. Be it farther enacted, That the assessor shall retnrn the assessment roll of each district or ward, to the clerk of the County Court, so soon as the same is completed; and the same shall be pre served by said clerk, and the whole shall be in the hands of the clerk of the Coun ty Court by the first day of July suc ceeding, in all counties, with taxable re alty, worth 2,000,000 or under, and the a.-sessor shall have one month additional foi each additional 2,000,000 in every comity wherein to make said returns: Provtted, That said return shall, in any event, be made by the first day of Octo ber. 8ec. 5. Bt it further enacted, That the clerk of the County Court shall enter the assessments aforesaid, in a fair band writing in one book, suitably ruled and substantially bound, showing the name in alphabetical order, oi each owner of the property assessed, in each civil dis trict or ward, as reported by the assessor, the contents in acres or feet and ths as sessed value of the same, giving such de scription of each tract or lot as is shows in the aseaer's return, and the book thus prepared shall be styled the " main assessment roll,' and shall contain suffi cient margin on the right side thereof, in which to enter any changesof owner ship of the whole or any part of a tract or lot, and the lines thereof shall be rul ed with sufficient space between them to allow several interlineations, and this " main assessment roll " shall be kept by the clerk in some safe place of deposit, in or near the conrt house. And said roll shari have sufficient margin for not ing the tax assesssed against each person for each succeeding year that said as sessment is made for. Skc. 6. Be it further enacted, That the assessment as shown in the " main assess ment roll," and the changes made there in, shall be the only assessment of real estate made for any purpose of taxation, in any county or part thereof whether for State, county, railroad or municipal purposes . Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the clerk of the County Court of each county, shall from the " muin assessment roll," and from the returns of the assess ors of personal property and of polls, an nually prepare a collector's book, as pro vided in sections 588 and 589 of the Code of Tennessee, showing the amount of tax due from each tax-payer to the State, county, municipality orrailroad, in sep arate columns, except the same shall be delivered by him to the collector within three months after the same shall have been delivered to him by the assessor, and the same shall show in addition to the State and county revenue, the amount due to any railroad from each tax-payer, and said clerk shall then make out and certify to the Comptroller, the aggregate statement of the assessed valuation of the real and personal property of each dis trict or ward separately, and of the whole, together with the taxes due the State, and also the poll tax due. and he shall forward the same to the Comptroller by mail, on or before the first Monday in January in each year. And said 6bunty Court Clerk shall likewise certify to the Judge or Chairman of the County Court, the amount of taxes due the county, and also to the Mayor of any municipality the amount due the municipality, and to each the amount of taxablcs separate. Sec. 8. Beit further enacted, That the clerk of the County Court shall enter upon the main assessment roll all. trans fers of real estate in his county, and note the same in the margin opposite the name of the conveyor, and also in terline it at the proper lace, alphabet ically, the name of the eonveyee, with a description of the land and its value as herein provided, if the whole of any tract or parcel has been conveyed, he shall erase the name of the conveyor, ami at the proper place insert the name of the eonveyee, with the assessed de seription and value; if a part of any tract has been conveyed, he shall enter upon the margin opposite the name of the conveyor, in alphabetical and abbre viated words sufficient to indicate the part conveyed in quantity, general de scription thereof being sufficient. Pro rided, it identities t lie land, the date of the transfer, and the name of the eon veyee, and he shall enter the name f the eonveyee at its proper place in the roll, with a like description of the land and its value; and if the whole of amr tract or lot is convej'cd, it shall le put down to the eonveyee at the same value as is shown by the assessor; if a part is conveyed, he shall value each part r agreed upon by the parties. Prorided it is not less upon the whole than was put upon it by the assessors, and if the par ties fail to agree upon the valuation, then he shall proportion each to the" whole valuation, as the value of each is to the assessed value of the whole, and so charge each on the main roll, and these entries hshall make at the time he takes the probate of any conveyance and mark it upon the back as "entered on roll book." And, Pi added further, Any person bu3-ing any land subject to redemption, shall take of the officer sell ing the same, a certificate of the pur chase, and shall cause a note of the same to be entered upon the main as sessment roll. Aud the property, dur ing the time of redemption, shall be as sessed to such purchaser: Prorided, the clerk of the County Court shall be en titled to ten cents for noting each change of ownership of real estate in main as sessment roll, to be paid by the party selling land. Sec. 9. Be U further enarted, That the Register shall register no conveyance of real estate of any character, until it shall have been presented to the County Court clerk and so marked, and if any such conveyance is presented to him for reg istration, he $hall neither note or regis ter the same until it is so marked, and it shall be the duty of the Register to have any conveyance sent unto his office for registration acknowledged before any other person than the County Court clerk of his county, so marked, and it shall be the duty of all clerks of courts, where the title of any real estate is di vested out of one person and vested in another, to see that a copy of the decree describing the property is sent to the County Court clerk, in all cases where the parties do not take of him a deed or demand a copy of the decree for regis tration; and where the title of any real estate in the county is vested in another by a will or devise, admitted to probate, it shall be the duty of the clerk of tne County Court to so enter it upon the main assessment roll; and any person conveying any real estate, who does not see thai the same is charged upon the main assessment roll to the eonveyee, the same should thereafter be charged to him, and he shall be liable, upon a distringa, for the taxes" thereon, unless : ue 8UOW collector that the taxes have oeen patu dui no assessment, levy oi taxes, or sale, shall be void because the name of the true owner is not given, or the lot or tract not fully described; and until all the taxes upon any real estate are. paid, there shall be a lien for tbo same first to the State; second to the county; third to theeity; fourth to the railroad enforceable as other liens. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted. That at the April Term annually of each County Court, the rate oi taxation for county or railroad purposes, shall be declared by the court, and catered upon the minutes. thereof , as now declared by law. And the city or municipality shallcertify the rate of taxation levied by it, to the clerk of the County Court before the 1st of October of each year. Sec. If. Be it further enacted, If any improvements on any real estate should be destroyed by fire, flood or other cas ualty, then may the owner thereof, on his application to the County Court Clerk, have said realty so damaged, re assessed by the assessor of the district or ward wherein the real estate is situated, and such re-assessed valuation snail be substituted on the "main assessment roll" in place of the original assessment: Prorided, however, that such owner shall pay the costs not to exceed three dollars. Sec 12. Be it further enacted, That the County Court clerk shall certify to the mayor of any municipality, once per month, all changes that are made in the ownership of any real estate within the bounds of the town subject to taxes, to the end that the same shall be entered upon the certified roll of the same, to gether with the valuation thereof; and this certified roll in the hands of the mayor, shall list and constitute the basis of all municipal taxation of real estate. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, that the assessor shall receive for his services such a sum as may be allowed him by the County Court not exceeding fifteen cents for each person having taxable property listed; and five cents for each listed for a poll tax only; and in no county shall the assessor's salary exceed one thousand dollars; and the same shall be paid by the county and municipality in the proportion that the value of the property assessed for each bears to the value of the whole assessment in the county; and each assistant shall receive for compensation the sum of one and one-half dollars perday for his services; the number of days for each district to be fixed by the County Court, to be paid as follows: If the municipality has no interest in the assessment, these assist ants shall be paid by the county alone; but if both the county and municipality were interested in the assessment, then each shall pay its proportionable part as before stated, and the assessor shall give each assistant a certificate of the amount due him from each, and the said certifi cates shall be receivable for county and municipal taxes as it shows upon its face, or payable in money, as the holder may demand. The Clerk of the County Court shall have and receive of the county liesides the cost of the books, any sum allow ed by the Quarterly Court of his county, not exceeding five cents per one hundred words, and in no event to exceed one thousand dollars, besides the actual cost of the book; but the county shall pay no more than another compe tent person could have been engaged at to have done the same work. Sec. 14. Be it further en.ieted, That should the office of assessor become va cant, the Quarterly Court, upon tne call of the Judge or Chairman, shall fill the same by the election of another person; and any assessor or clerk of the County Court, who shall fail or refuse to do or perform the duties hereby- put upon him, in the time and in the manner specified, shall forfeit to the State, county, or mu nicipality, as the case may be, five hun dred dollars, to be recovered upon bis bond, and may be indicted or presented for any corruption in office, and fined or imprisoned, or b.th, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 15. Be tt further enacted, That the person eleeted by the County Court to assess real estate, shall filso while engag ed thereon assess an 1 list tli- personal property and polls of each distrit -t and ward in the county liable by law to be taxed, and having completed said lists of real estate and personal property and polls, and made due return thereof to the County Court Clerk, his office shall ex pire, and the Quarterly County Courts, at the April term thereof for each year thereafter and until another assessor is elected, shall elect an assessor of person al property and polls for each civil dis trict or ward in the county. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That so much of chap. 4 of the Code of Tennes see entitled " Of the Tax-assessor and As sessment," and of arts. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, thereunder; and so much of the Act of March 22, 1873, approved March 25, 1873, entitled "An Act to provide more just and equitable laws for the As sessment and Collection of Revenue for State and County purjioses, and torepeaj all laws now in force whereby revenue is collected from the assessment of Real Estate, Personal Property, Privileges and Polls;" and so much of the charter, acts of incorporation, of any city, town! or municipal corporation in the State, as are in conllict with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed, it being the intent of this Act that there shall be but one assessor of real estate in any county. And this Act shall take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare re quiring it. An Inquisitive Yankee. A peering New Englauder over took agentlornan who was traveling on horseback, notwithstanding the disadvantage of having iost bis leg. His curiosity was awakened, as he rode alongside of him, to know how he chanced to meet with such a mis fortune. "Been in the army, I gness?" "Never was in the army iu life," was the reply. my J? it a duel f "Never fought a duel, sir." "Horse throwed vou otf. I nuess. or something of that sort?" Jo, sir ; nothing of that kind." Jonathan tried various dodges, but to no effect; and at last, almost out of patience with himself, as Well as with the gentleman, whose patience was very commendable, he deter mined on a direct inouirv as to the nature of the aoeident by which the gentleman had come to lose his teg MI will tell yon," replied the trav eler, "on condition that you will promise not to ask me another ques tion." "Agreed !" exclaimed the eager listener. "Well, sir." remarked the gentle man : "R was bit off !" 1 littotr '."erfed Jonathan. "Wa'al, I declare ; I should jest like to know wuat on airtu bit it off?' Puftlug an Undertaker. From the Detroit Free Press "I've taken your paper for twenty-six years," he commenced as he readied the head of tUc stairs, "aud now I want a puff." lie was a vary tall, slender man, had a lace which hadn't smiled since 1842, and his neck was embraced by a white cravat and his hands were thrust into black gloves. "I've got a ew hearse, a new stock of coffins, and I want a local notice," he continued as he sat down and sighed, as if ready to screw a coffin lid down. "My dear sir," replied the man in the corner, "I've met you at a great many funerals, and your general bearing has created a favorable im pression. You sigh with the sign ers, grieve with the grievers, and on extra occasions you can shed tears of sorrow, even though you know that you can't get ten per cent, of your bill under six months." "Yes," sighed the undertaker, in stinctively measuring the length of the table with ids eye, and wonder ing to himself why editors' tables weren't covered with crape, with rows of coffin-nails around the edges. " Death is a very solemn thing," coutinued the man in the corner ; " but still, it is an occasion when one can appreciate a neat thing. I've seen you rub your knuckles against door-posts and never change coun tenance ; I've seen you listen to eu logies ou men who owed you for twenty j ears before their death, and yon looked even more solemn than the bereaved widow; I've seen you back your hearse up to the door in such an easy, quiet way that it rob bed death of half its terrors. All this have I seen and appreciated, but I couldn't write a puff for you." " Why not?" he demanded. " For many reasons. Now you have a new hearse. Could I go on and say : 'Mr. Sackcloth, the genial undertaker, has just received a fine new hearse, and we hope that our citizens will endeavor to bestow up on it the patronage such enterprise deserves. It rides easy, is hand somely finished, aud those who try it once will want no other.' Could I say that?" " No, not very well." " Of course I couldn't. You can call a grocer or a ilrv goods man a 'genial friend' and it's all right, but you aren't genial you can't be. It's your busit.ess to be solemn. If you could be even more solemn than you are it would be money in your pock et." "That's so," he said, sighing heavily. If it was an omnibus, or a coal cart, or a wheel bai row, 1 could go on and write a chapter on every sep arate spoke, but it isn't you see. ' Ue leaned back and sighed again. And as to your eorfhis, they are doubtless nice coffins, and your prices are probably reasonable, but could I go on and say : ' Mr. Sackcloth, the undertaker, has just received his new styles in spring coffins, all sizes, and is now prepared to see as many of his old customers as want some thing handsome and durable at a moderate price' Could I say that? ' Another sigh. " I couldn't say that yon were hold ing a cleaa ing out sale, in order to get ready for the spring trade, or that, for the sake of increasing your patronage, 3-011 had decided to pre sent each customer with a chromo. I couldn't say that you were repair ing and re painting, and had the most attractive coffin-shop in Detroit. It wouldn't do to hope that people would patronize yon, or to say that all orders sent by mail would be promptly filled, and that your motto was : 'Quick sales and small profits.' " lie put on the look of a tombstone, and made no reply. " You see, if you had stoves to sell, or dealt in mackerel, or sold fishing-tackle, everything would be lovely. You are an undertaker solemn, sedate, mournful. You revel in crape, and y(m never pass a black walnut door without thinking how muce good coffin lumber wa- reck lessly wasted. The tolling bell is music 103 011, ami the CR3' Hall flag at half-mast is fat 011 3'our ribs. We'd like to oblige 3ou, but 3ou see bow it is." " Yes, I see," he sighed, and he foimed in procession and moved down stairs, looking around now and then to see if the hearse was just thirty-four feet behind the officiating elergj'mau's carriage. TEKIUBLK TOKXADO. ttig-ht Counties Visited With Heavy .Disaster. Augusta, Ga., March 23. The path of the tornado was 300 to GOO yards wide. The cyclone was of a cylindrical shape ami fearful velocity-, from north to south. The front cloud was. BX.ACK AS NIGHT, and half a mile high. The rear was illuminated by a bright light. It traveled nearly due east, veering little to north. After devastating Caraak, the tornado seems to have divided, one portion going east by north, and crossing Savannah River about below Augusta, both proving equally destructive, laying waste everything in its course. Huge trees were BROKEN LIKE REEDS, and In some cases, the tornado was preceded by a dull, heavy roaring, as heavy artillery in the distance. It spent its greatest fury in about three minutes An e3-e-witness says his senses were utter- deadened and appalled. There was a crash, a roar and the mingling of a hundred terrific and unearthly sounds. Hous es were demolished, aud oaks that bad withstood the storms of a cg. tury were snapped in twain. There is great distress in the devastated district, embracing, eight counties in Georgia and two or three in South Carolina. The destruction of prop ert) is immense, and the list of kill ed aud wounded is appalling. A Ghost in a Calaboose. New York Times, lltU. Hackensack, in Bergen count-, has a sensation in the shape of a genuine ghost which haunts the county jail and creates the utmost consternation aud alarm among tire prisoners and other inmates. The spirit has been recognized as that of John W. Avery, the young man who was hanged in the jail on June 28. 1872, for murder. The mysterious phenomena which accompany the appearance of the spirit were at first attributed to some plan of escape concocted by the prisoners, but re cent developments prove that such is not the case. A prisoner, named Wallace, who was confined in the jail in October last, and who was fa miliar with Avery, solemnly affirms that his spirit appeared one night, and was distinctly seen to walk around one or the tiers and pull the bed clothing off a German prisoner who was confined iu the cell former ly occupied by Avery. The Gcr man. who is still a prisoner, con firms the story, and many persons who visited Avery now remember that he made a solemn promise be fore his death to revisit the jail af ter his execution. The story of bis latest appearance seems to be well authenticated, several of the prison ers thoroughly agreeing in their statement of all the alleged facts. The phenomenon occurred about midnight on SWraday, and there is no doubt that the utmost consternation and a 'arm prevailed among the pris oners. As is customary in all well regulated ghost stories, the clock had just ceased striking 12 when a soft, unnatural light filled the whole interior of the jail and awakened all the prisoners. Some of them were terror-stricken and buried their heads beneat h the bed -clothing, while others seemed to be paralyzed so that they could not move, and were thus compelled to be unwilling witnesses of the supernatural scenes aud sounds that followed. They solemnly aver that they heard one of the windows raised and felt the cold s.ir rush in. Then the shadowy form of a man, all plainly visible ex cept the legs, seemed to glide be tween the bars ami up tne stairs to the top tier of cells. The figure stopped in front or the cell which had been occupied by Avery, and, opening the door, entered. The opening and closing of the door were distinctly heard. After the lapse of a few minutes the figure reappeared, and its footfalls on the steps as it descended again were distinctly heard. The figure passed around all the tiers of cells, and then float ed down on the washroom, and was heard to turn on the water. Final ly the ghost returned to the window and disappeared as it had entered, and the bluish light gradually faded away. This is substantially the story as told by several of the pris oners, who claim to have been eye witnesses, and express their firm belief that thej- saw Avery's ghost. MURDERED IN THE DARK. A Wilson County Man Called Away From His Fireside ami Shot Down. From the Uiuou and American. Lkbanox, Tenn., March 22, '75. Last Friday night two men on horse back rode up to the residence of Robert Hamilton, who lives on Sugg's creek, in the southwest part of this county, and called Hamilton. Receiving t.o answer, they immedi ately rode otf. Soon alter, Hamil ton heard a noise in his orchard and went out. About twenty minutes afterward his wife heard the report of a gun. lie did not return, and his wife, of course, passed a night of terrible anxiety. The next morning Hamilton's dead body was found in a ditch about three hundred j-ards from his house, his face and breast filled with shot and slugs. Mens' tracks were discovered in the 01 chard and the tracks of a mule aud horse leading awa3. There were evidences of a struggle, as if some one had been dragged along. Hamilton's shirt collar and suspeuders were torn. It is supposed that the men were trj'ing to rob Haini'ton's smoke house, and being discovered by Hamilton dragged him off and mur dered him. 11 is hat was found near. The body was identified. I'arttes are under suspicion and efforts are being male to arrest them. Hamilton was a quiet and peace able man, having no enemies. An inquest was held and a verdict ren dered in accordance with the facts as stated. II. L. C. W. Woman's Companionship. What the true man wants with a wife is her companionship, sympathy, and love. The wa3' of life has many dreary places in it, and man needs a companion to go with him. A man is sometimes overtaken by msfor tunes; he meets with failure or de feat; trials aud temptations beset hi in, and he needs one to stand by and 83'mpathize. He has some hard battles to fight with poverty, enemies, and with sin ; and he needs a woman that wlren he puts bis arm9 around ber. be feels that Ue has something to light for; she will belp him to fight ; that will put her lips to his ear and whisper words of counsel, and ber band to hie heart and im part inspiration. All though life, though storm and through sunshine, conflict and vietorj-, through adverse and favoring winds, man needs a woman's love. The heart yearns for it. A sister's or a Brother's love will hardly supply the need. . "v2" Only 7021 persons, out of a popu lation of eleven millions, are licensed to carry aims in Ohio. Our liatform. This Is a government of white men. made by white men, and for thrir pos terity forever. Dunt'ilte. NEWS VN1 OTHER ITEMS. A female American tooth-carpenter is making Rome howl. ,fV 'The moro swnllowa you take." said Guzzlcm, "the more it's liko spring." , i( Many of the Ohio banks are bro ken, but all hive liquidated since the thaw. . "Ark ! It is predicted that the spring floods will be the greatest since Noah's. A sailor was sent to jail for ten days in Glasgow, for refusing to work before breakfast. The Milwaukee News suggests "He givetb his beloved sleep" as a text for pros3- ministers. A j-oung man has sued hia barber for cutting off his moustache. The barber says he didn't sec it. Miss Laviuia Goodell, of Janes ville, is celebrated as "the ouly Ho taryess Fubliccss in Wisconsin. The third volume of the Count do Paris' " llistorj- of civil war in Amer ica" is printed in Paris, and the au thor has nearly completed"the fourth volume. The scheme for building a railroad from Russia to Asia is considered impracticaule by the Czar. A Aliss Owen died at Liverpool from injuries received through being knocked down on the street by a large dog. The latest in umbrellas is an oval pane of glass inserted in the front breadth to "sight" anything ap proaching. The medical profession is vindi cated. A maiden lady in Leith Walk. Edinburg, died recently and left .'1000 to her pln-sicians. Mr. Darwin will doubtles be pain ed to learn that the Sheriff at Ker saw, South Carolina, has levied oua monkey to satisfy a debt. A London man, who was shaving one Sunday morning tecently. com mitted suicide l3' cutting his throat because the razor was dull. Crocuses, double daisies, aconite, snow-drops, and other harbingers of spring, are iu flower at Markincb, Fifcshire, Scotland. It is estimated that a Rhode Is land highway commissioner feels as pompous as the (V.ar of Russia, al though his salarj' isn't as large. An Illinois girl got so mad at be ing rebuked for reading the New York Ledger that she went out and sawed a cord of hard wood twice in two. Japanese law req uires that when a person cuts down a tree he shall at once plant another in its place In this way the supply of wood is kept up. Fashionable clergyman : " Let us continue our worship this morning by listening to a piece of sheet music which the hire.! quartette will please execute." The cheapest rhinoceroses are $5000 apiece. Small capitalists will do well to invest at once, as the price is likely to go up as soon as the circus season opens. A Cairo man warns people not to trust his wife, and she retorts by saying that he'll go without clothes all summer before she'll take in washing to rig him out agaiu. The Governor of Iowa has ap pointed Miss E. C. Stcbbius, of New Hampton, Chickasaw county, a nota ry public. She is the only woman holding that olllcc in the State. It is said that Miss Lillie Eldridge, who was called on her own posters "the American Juliet," whatever that is, is to marry Charley Backus, the rich colored minstrel. I may be ever so rich, ever so Gne. ly educated, ever so handsome, ever so much admired, and yet the day is coming when I shall die. What then will these profit ine? Dr. Cuyler wants all young ladles to band together and say : No lips shall touch my lips that have touch ed a bottle. Rather rough, this, on the fellows that were brought up by hand. The bill annually introduced and as frequently rejected in the British Parliament to allow a man to marry his deceased wife's sister is face tiously named "the bill to abolish sisters-in-law." Pause, young man. You want to get married, and it is about time you did, but recollect that unmarried men don't have to set up all night once a week with a shot-gun watch ing a clothes-line. According to the Honolulu Ga zette, a monument to Captain Cook has been erected at bleala-Kekua Ray, where he fell nearly a century ago. It is a concrete obelisk, twenty-seven feet in height. A plumber bad an Irish lad in hie employ, and one day having occasion to use a piece of zinc, ordered him to got one twelve inches square. "Yes, air," said Pat, twelve inches square, but how long?" A citizen of Chattanooga has just invested in the stock of a Tennessee rail way, purchasing shares which rep resent a par value of $367,000 He paid the enormous sum of twenty-6 five cents for the lot. According tojrfPBmogtie Gazette, . e Spanish navy is in a deplorable condition. The ships and armament are of oid fashioued design, while both officers and men are badly dis ciplined and few iu number. Stealing tombstones need no long er be relegated to the realms of fic tion. A local item In the Corpus Christi (Texas) Gazette relates that a tombtoue " four feet nigh, one foot wide and four inchos thick" has been stolen from a graveyard la that vieiidry. ....