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SWEETWATER, TEM., TtfUKSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1870.
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SWEETWA
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Kissinger - Gerstle
0 ' " WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
". No.98 Corncr;Gay and Clinch Sts.,
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. .
PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO ORDERS.
W. B. STAt.KT, t. K. II. m'cbopkky,
. Kingston, Tenn. Miidisonvillc, Tcnn.
STALEY & M'CROSKEY,
Attorney's and Solicitor's,
' j Madisonville, Tenn.
ILL PRACTICE IN ROANE, MONROE, and
the adjoining counties. Prompt attention
given to the collection of all claims, and the
prosecution of suits cither in Circuit or Chancery
Court, Dec. 2 ly. " .
AVSXXt-'-H oirs.-,
' , KNOXVILLE, TENN., "
p. ii. toomey, iiioi?:k.
SlTUATKD WITHIN A FKW STKPS OP TUB Dlil'OT
A new and elegant First Class Hotel, well fur
nished, and having cvory comfort and convene
ence.
. SUFFICIENT TIME FOR ; ,
Passengers on the Trains East & West to get
Dinner. - - oct7tf
. Planters' Hotel,
TWENTT steps prom the railroad,
CLEVELAND, TENN.,
: -.j;a mmi dmss eids2.
Tables furnished with the best the Markets Afford
?', ; - ' J ' R.K. Marsh, Prop'r.
H. c. sawtell, Late with O. L. Anderson & Co
i. a. pkrkerson, Late with Boyd, Vaughn & Co
, SAWTELL & PERKERSON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERS AND COMMISSION MER
. CHANTS,
;: Opposite Dodd's Corner,
Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GA
JOHN W. HOPE. MILLER.
HOPE & MILLER,
Successors to Smith Lyons,)
Watchmakers and Jcwc lers
DEALERS IN
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silrer Plated Ware,
Manufacturers of Sterling Silver Spoons.
GAY STREET, next door to 1st National Bank.
o KnoxviLle, Tennessee.
C3 All work done by Experienced Workmen
and Warranted . ; junc24 ly .
11. M. B earden,
-V- WHOLESALE ''"
LIQUOR. DEALER,
Commissi on Merchant,
'MJAY STREET :
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.
gy Country Produce Bought and Sold on Com
! mission. 3 '-' oot21 ly ' -, .
';,' LAMAR HOUSE. ' ...
Knoxyille, ' Tennessee.
J. C. FLANDERS, Lessee.
THIS House has been repainted 'and papered
The Beds are Good. .Business men will
fconiiilt their, own interests by bearing in mind
- that this house is located ' .
r,- ; ' " ., : IN THE BUSINESS CENTRE, ' "
which gives them advantages that no other house
' afforAs. i OninHrasses at the Depot. - :, . .
Terms for TenneeBoe guests as liberal as any
other house, oetll tf.
' - - NEJEDjll AM
CHURCH, School and Parlor Organs and Melo
deons of every description, at, reduoed . pri
n ,ces.'. . Send for a copy of the last edition of the
"Silver Tongue," which will be mailed free to
any address upon application to the oldest man
ufacturers of, Rood Organs and Melodeons in
'"America. E. Nkeoham & Son, 143, 146 &
147 East 23d St., New York. ... . - r ."
T. C. BROWN, Formerly of Mill Springs, Ky.
LAMB, BE0AVN & CO.,
Com mission Merchants,
Ooluinbus.Goorgln.
HEAVY ' ADVANCES MADE ON LARGE
Quantities of Produce. Consignments so
licited. doc9 3m
SWEETWATER HOTEL.
Known as the J. C. Vaughn House.
CHARLES U. BEAN, Prop'r.
SITUATED IN A FEW STEPS OP THE DEPOT.
NO PAINS WILL BE SPARED TO RENDER
Guests comfortable in every rennect.
Baggage conveyed to and from the Depot, frco
of charge. Persons from this and surrounding
counties can have their horses well cared for.
Prices moderate. . jlcc2tf
NIGHblsT"PlKSM
ARK BELLING
Groceries and Provisions,
QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE,
STATIONERY AND CONFECTIONERIES,
DycstufTs, Factory Thread,
Heavy Domestic, Salt and Nails.
We design keeping a first-class Grocery and
l'rovieion Store, and will pay cash or goods for
whatover we buy in the Produce line. You will
find us at tho Post Office, "East Broad street,
Sweetwater, Tenn. NICHOLS &PARSLEY.
apr. 29 tf. .
EL. FRY
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KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND
ALL LIXD8 OF
Family Groceries,
CONFECTIO NERIES, &c
ALSO,
Seth Thomas' Clocks.
He IS ALSO prepared to repair Watches.
Clocks and Jewelry, on the most rensonable
terms. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED,
march 11. 18C9tf.
ALVIN M'CORKLE. JUDGE GEO. BROWN.
EAST TENNESSEE
AGEICDTUEAL IMPLEMENT
".'.' AND
Mill Furnishing Depot.
McCORKLE & BROWN,
Manufacturers' Agents and Dealers in
AGBICULTUEAL
AND
LABOR-SAVING IMPLEMENT
FERTILIZERS, &c
IKCLVDINO
Mowers, Reupers,
. Threshers, Separators,
Horse-Porers,
STEEL TOOTH WIIEEL HORSE RAKE,
Cider and Wine Mills,
GRAIN DRILLS, STRAW CUTTERS,
Corn Sliellers, WhcatFans
. SMUT AND COCKLE MACHINES.
Improved Steel and Cast Plows.
.; .' - 0ASTIN6.S
DOUBLE SHOVELS, SULKY PLOWS.
WASHING MACHINES.
ZERO REFRIGERATORS,
- . , ALSOi
Garden and Farming Hardware,
, . . We arc Agents for the State for
. WHANN'S CELEBRATED
Raw - Bone : Super - Phosphate,
The Great Fertilizer for all Crops. '
' (standard guaranteed.) ,
To all of which we invite the Farmers of East
Tennessee to come and Examine at our
Sample YV a re house,
' GAY STREET,
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Near East Tenneeee and Virginia, and East
' Tennessee and -Georgia Railroads.
We respectfully eolicit orders for all articles
in our lino which we will endeavor to fill the
satisfaction of those patronizing us.
Itj"Lietterg ot inquiry promptly answeredrDJ
aprill ly.
Barrett & Caswell,
SV,'.'-. . .. GENERAL ;v ' , ; . . v--Commission
Merchants,
248 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
Special attention glren to the Bale of Produce
Bonds, Stock, Ice.
Merchandise & Cotton Purchased.
Tho,. G. Barret, Late of Barrett, Carter fc Co. '
The. D. Cuwell, Late Baker fc CaiweU.
jum 3 ly. ' r ' ' ' :
KISS AND MAKE FRIENDS.
Kips and make friends with me old year,
Kiss and make friends with me ;
We hare been foes too long old year,
1UE8 ana make iricmu with me.
Hero aro my lips, they are fresh and red,
iinu yours aro as pnlo as can be
Withered and old, ami almost dead ,
1
But kiss and make frionds with me.
Cold is your band, and your pulso la not
co t-ironx as it usca to be :
Let all our quarrelling be forgot
Kiss and make friends with me.
t
You haTe been wrong, and I have been wroaty'"
My bark that yuu tent to sea, '
Builded so worthy and bo strong,
Has never come home to mo.
Prayer was her anchor, and Hope her float,
And Joy was her pennon free ;
You wrecked my love with that littlo boat
But kiss and m.iko friends with me.
You havo been wrong, and I hajo been wrong ;
I promised, on bended knee,
To sing to the world a sweet, true song,
That would livo after you and me.
I said I would glorify God, old year,
And you, with my minstrelsy ;
My voice, like my heart, has been faint, old
year
But kiss and miiko friends with me.
This is the niglit that Christ was bom,
'Neath bcathlelicms star, and we
Should all bo friends on tho Christmas morn
But kiss and make friends with me.
MY WIPE.
li es, my sweet uttio witc, this is love in a
col
tage I
And scanty enough, save in love, Is our store;
But we'll heed not the oroakings of cuvy or do
tage That "Love flics the lattico when Want opes
the door 1"
For I look in your face and of Fato I'm defiant;
Bravo, brave is tho heart that for loved ones
mi "t caro,
For tho battle of lifo I've the nerve of a giant,
And you ! O, your bright eyes are honest and
- fair I -
i .
So little we'll care for such adage as that is ;
I'll work whilo you watch till our struggles
are o'ro.
And if you, with your bright eyes look well to
the lattice,
I, love, with my Btrong arms will safo keep
the door.
The Depths of the Sea Singular
Discoveries.
The general belief that the led of the
deep ocean is as far beneath tho reach of
direct examination by scicntiSo men as
the substaneo of tho solid earth at tho
same depths, has been dissipated by the
success of some bold English investigators
in directly exploring the depths of the sea.
It appears that Professor Thompson
and Dr. Carpenter, with the aid of a new
contrivance for dredging, have succeeded
in bringing up at different times loads of
nearly halt a ton of deposits from a depth
offonrtcen thousand feet or two miles
and two thirds) below the surface There
are but three or four peaks in "Europe
which are higher above the sea level than
the sea level is above the depths thus ex
amined. Tho result of this examination
havo not yet been finally embodied in tho
sciences on which they bear, but enough
has been published of them to show that
some of the common doctrinos of geologist
and physiologist at least need revision. It
is stated that the depths where the press
ure of the water is more than four hun
dred tons to each square foot, where the
cold is always below the freezing point of
water at the surface, and where not one
particle of light from the sun or air can
penetrate, thore are beings, animals of
much complexity of organization, and with
eyes as perfect in every respect as those of
the fishes and reptiles best known to us.
Another striking discovery is that these
creatures, found in the limestone mud of
to-day, are in all important respects like
those found by geologists in the limestone
beds of Europe, referred by them to an
epoch of the earth's remote formativo his
tory, millions of ages ago. But removing
their degrees a fow miles, the explorers
find the sea deposing sandstone fossils
which geologists have always referred to
another epoch, remote from us, indeed,
but also divided by unmeasured years
from the former. Here they are, "building
side by side these two widely different
classes of fossiliferous strata ; "and the
discovery that they may actually coexist
upon adjaoont surfaces," says Dr. Carpen
ter, "has done no less than strike at the
very root of the oustomary assumptions
with regard to goological time." Tho
New York Evening Post, commenting up
on the testimony thus brought up from
the depths of the soa, expresses the opin
ion that this discovery affords tho stron
gest support to Sir Charles Ly ell's theory,
that the past changes of the earth are to
be studied as the result of forces now in ac
tion upon it ; that the .whole science of
geology is one vast expression of the uni
formity of law; that in final lesson, in
short, is that which was long ago an
nounced in Holy Writ : "The thing which
has been, that is that which shall bo, and
there is nothing new under the sun." '
Oblivion An indulgenoe which we ex
tend to the injuries we have done to others,
and the benefit? which others have done to
us. . . ' " '' ' " :"-'::-"";:"
"Where the Laugh Comes in.
When may a smith be said to commit
felony 1 When ho forges. '
A horse's teeth tell ho w old tho creaturo
is Lut a woman's tongue doesu't.
Why is a butchers cart like his boots?
Becauso ho carries his calves there.
"I don't say as how Missus driuks, but
I dp know that tho bottle in the dark clgsct
don't keep full all tho timo."
When may a man be strictly said to bo
in the habit of always "keeping his word?"
When nobody will ever tako it.
A oclcbratod wit was asked if he know
hii,.i.. ir i. ..r i ,
f "Hook and eye are old associates."
An editor out West says ho is so short
sighted that ho frequently rubs out with
his noso what he writes with his pencil.
An amateur astronomer says: "Tho
light supposed to bo a comet's tail, is no
thing uioro than a streak of lightning friz
up.
Tho brutal sport of bull baiting has long
been abolished, but how many aro there
oven in the present day who bait their
horses!
'Tooh, pooh I" said a wifo to her expiring
husband, as ho strove to utter a few parting
words, "don't stop to talk but go on with
your dying!"
A lap-dog biting a picco out of a malo
visitor's leg, his mistress thus expressed
her compassion : "Poor littlo creaturo ! ' I
hopo it will not make him sick."
"My sou," said an old lady, "how must
Jonah havo felt whon the whale swallowed
him 1" "A littlo down in the mouth, I
supposo," was young hopeful's reply.
"Off she goes !" said Mrs. Smith to hor
spouse, as they started by the railway train
from Nino Elms. "Thoro you are wrong,"
said BIr. Smith, "for this is the mail train!"
A moral debating society out West is
engaged in a discussion on tho following
question ; "If a man deserts his wife,
which is the most abandoned, the man or
the woman 1"
Charles ILhaving asked at a leveo how
ono of his envoys, lately sent to a half-civ-ilizcd
country, had fared, was informed
that ho had been well roasted. "I'll take
.... T ...
care isaia nis majosty i now 1 send tnem a
raw ambassador again."
A young lady from a boarding school
filling made somo progress in acquiring
Italian, addressed a lew words to an organ-
grinder in her purest accont, but was aston
ished at rocoivtng tho following responso
"I no spoak Iuglis."
The following advertisement appeared
in tho London Tunes: "Wanted, in a
house of business in the city a young man
to wait at table, &c. He should be pious,
but must be moral. Address stating
qualincations and wages, to A.B." ,
"Pa," said an interesting juvenile to an
indulgent sire, "Pa, haven't I got a veto as
well as the President V "No, my child,"
"Yes, I have, pa my fifth too is a V toe,
1 reckon.-' "luomastake that boy to his
mother he's ruined."
An aged Forfarshire lady, knowing tho
. habits of her old and spoilt servants, when
she wished a noto to be taken without loss
of time, held it open, and read it over to
him, saying, I hero noo, Andrew, be ken
a' that's in't; noo dinna stop to open it but
jest send it off."
General Smith, in Congress, whilo de
livering one of the long prosy speeches for
which he was noted, said Henry Clay.
"You speak, sir, for the present generation,
but I speak of posterity." "Yes," replied
the great Kontuckian, "and it seems you
are resolved to speak till your audiance
arrives.''
"Gentlemen (said a pedler), tho razors
I hold in my hand were made in a cave,
by the light of a diamond, in the province
of Andalusia, in Spain. They can cut as
quick as thought, and are as bright as tho
morning star. Lay them under your pil
low at night, and you will find yourself
clcan-shavod in the morning."
"Tissigor's jokes aro rather far-fetohod,"
obsorved ono o f the would-be wits of West
minster Hall. "If they aro," replied the
facetious barrister, who happenod to bo in
hearing, "it cannot be said of them as it
is of yours that they are not only far
fetched, but when thoy corao they are not
worth tho carriago." .
Pat, tho favorito hostler of Gen. B., of
Shefman's Georgia army, got on ono occa
sion unmistakably drunk. The General
gave him a lecture on disoiplino the du
ties of a soldier towards his superiors, and
temperance-rathor mixed but very strong,
and concluded as follows :'-;
"Why, you were very drunk yesterday,
tOO." . . .
. "Yes, sir," Pat promptly replied.
"And you're drunk again."
"Very drunk," said pat, "I know it to
my sorrow, Gonoral."
"I wont allow this any more ; if, it oc
curs again, I'll send you to your regiment
for extra duty. .I'm willing that you may
get drunk half as often as I do won't
that do you ?" - v
"Well," said Pat, grinning, "I dunno,
General, you'll keep me mighty busy."
The roars of laughter which greeted
this renly caused tho General to "striko
his colors," and Pat retired with an extra
ration, auppliod by the General himself.
The Now School Law.
The following is tho new common school
law, recently passed by the Legislature of
Tennessee : . .
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Section 1. Be it enacted bv the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Tennes
see, That an uct passed ou the 5th day of
inarch, lou7, entitled, An act to provide
for tho ro-organization, supervision and
maintenance of freo common schools, and
an uct passed March the 14th, 18G8, enti-,
tied, An act to amend an act to provide
tor tho ro-orgnnization, supervision and
maintenance of freo common schools, passed
March 5, 1867, be and the same are here
by repealed. : . .
-Sf.o.2. Be it ' further ' enacted, That
the State Superintendent and County Su
perintendent, or any other person having
under his control any monoy appropriated
for common school purposes unexpended,
shall pay the same over to tho Comptrol
ler of the Treasury, to be received into
the Treasury as other monoys belonging to
the Stato aro paid in.
Sec 3. Be it further enacted, That
each county court of every county in tho
State, may lay a direct tax on tho proper
ty and taxablcs of their respective coun
ties, not to exceed the State and county
tax fof the support and maintenance of a
system of common Bchools in thoir respec
tive counties, to be collected in tho samo
manner that other taxes are assessed, and
collected and paid over into the possession
and control of tho respective county Trus
tees, and to be by them distributed and
paid out, as provided by law, according to
tho ratio of children between the ages of
six, and twenty-one, in the several school
districts, as compared with tho children
within thoso ages of the whole county, ac
cording to report of tho respective Com
missioners of common sohools in each dis
trict in tho county mado according to law.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That
the schools for white 'children and for col
ored children shall be kept sepcrate and
apart from each other, and the School Com
missioners from each district will observe
strictly this requirement, v
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That
the State Superintendent of Common
Schools shall have ninety days from the
passage of this act to settle and wind up
his olHoo, and he shall approve all accounts
for money due any county from the school
tax of 1867, where the same has not been
drawn and hand over tho warrants to the
county Trustees of such county, and take
his receipt for tho same.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That
tho taxes levied and collected by tho re
spective counties under the provisions of
this act, shall not be - used tor any other
purposes than that of education, and shall
bo denominated the Common School Fund
for said county; provided the school fund
raised by each eounty shall be equally
distributed pro rata among tho white and
colored scholastic population of the coun-
ty.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That
the counties which have not received thoir
quota of the school fund already collected,
and to be collected under existing assess
ments, shall be furnished their quota out
of the first money realized," and after all
tho counties are equalized, pro rata, the
balance, if any, shall be divided amongst
all the counties acoording to scholastio
population, and paid over to the Treasuror
of such county for school purposes.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That in
all cases where it shall, upon settlomont,
appear that a County Superintendent has
paid out, for common school purposes,
more money than ho has received, the
Comptroller of the Treasury shall issue
his warrant to such Superintendent for tho
amount so ovorpaid; provided there he
any school money due his county.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That
teachers of common schools who have al
ready been employed as teaohere shall be
paid according to contract, out' of any
moneys due their counties.
Sec. 10. Be il jurther enacted, That all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
act, bo, and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 11. Beit furter enacted, That this
act shall tako effect from and aftor its
passage. .
The editor of the goorgctown (Ky.)
Times claims to have in his possession the
tomahawk which Tecumsch threw at Col.
Eiohard M. Johnson, just boforo the latter
killed him, and afterward presented by
Col Johnston to a nephew.
, Georgo Francis Train swears in his suit
against Peter Cooper for refusing him the
use of Cooper's Institute to lecture in,
that his income from lecturing is $50,000
ayoar and upward. , .,
A darkey's account of a sermon:
"Well, sab, de sermon was upon do mira
cle of de loaves and de fishes. Do minis
ter said how de seven thousand loaves and
de five thousand fishes divided between
de twelve apostlos, and de miraclo was
dat dey. didn't bust!',' . .
During the month of December the
Post Offioe Department established 101
post officos, disonntinued, 38, re-established
41, and changed the names and sites of
25. In that time 494 postmasters wore
appointed. " , .", ' ' . ? - :.
A True Picture of a Battlefield.
Steadily tho brave follows ascended the
rango of the hills, two ranks deep, under
a furious firo of artilery, flashing death
terrors under the most fearful form, tod .
gaily ' they climbed the numerous fence
in their way. Men dropped, the gap
were mado in tho ranks, but the lines were
immediately closod all were compact as'
before. The wounded silently fell. All ;
bosh about the screams of the wounded
that we read of in books. On they went;
uutil a blazing fire of muskotry stormed,
upon thorn from the rifle pit hitherto in-'
visible, end induced a halt. Firmly they
stood and returned the fire. Up woo t the'
swords of the field officers, wildly cheer;
ing them on. Again they advanced.
Again they halted. Lino officers ran be
hind the men picking up cartridge box
es of the dead, and replenishing those of
tho living. . , , ...
Back and forth and they. went, in tho
rear of their companions asking men if
their ammunition hold out, indicating lo
calities whore shots might be effective, and '
encouraging them with hopeful words t . i
"Steady, boys, steady ; give 'out thun
der ! Smith are you hnrt?'' - ,'. ,
"Yes sir, my arm's broke." . .
"Go to tho rear, my boy.'' ' " "'
Another boy fell. ' '
"Where are you struck, . Kobert 1". )'.. i
"In the thigh, sir; I can't move." ,,
"Lie still and keep cool, they'll tako
you awayjoon." '
"Dennis, what's the matter with you !
Why the devil don't you fire 1" ,: .
"The ball's banged to the top o' me,
musket together, sir, and broke the bago-
net."
"Pitch it away ; here's another. , Firo
fastcr Jones. That's right, Robihson.
Givo it to 'em ! Splendid, boys, splendid!
Down with you, a new battery opening."
"So it goes on, encouragement and re
proof by turns, in quantities varied bj
the individual vitality of the officer, in
terspersed with constant orders to lie down
and avoid the firo of tho batteries. :"
"D n this knapsack. I oan't stand it!"
says one, and it is jerked off. .:, '
"This coat is as hot as h 1" says an
other, and off it goes.
Terriblo it is the work of death.' Tho
enemy in the rifle pits have the advantage
of tbrco to one. They put their heads
up, fire, and down they go to load. , ,
"Oh, blast it, Captain, we aint go" no
chance against them fellers ; we ought' to
havo reinforcements." :
This cry extends along the lines. Colo
nels, in their visits to their rcgiments,hear
it from their line officers ; soon it comes
to the knowledge of the generals, and af
ter an hour's fighting an order to fall back
is given, which is obeyed with a steady
pace, and but little straggling towards the
city.
Wedded Woe A Srlde of a Few
Weeks Attempts Suicide. ' ;
Not a month ago a young girl was mar
ried to Charles Norton under peculiar cir
cumstances. 1 It was his only way of es
caping a . lengthened incarceration in a
felon's coll. "On his part," says the
Omaha Republican, "he entered the new
estate with no feeling of affection for the
woman he was obliged to call wife. She,
poor thing, an unsophisticated Danish girl,
was all love for the man who had won her
virgin heart. She lavished on him the
endearments which he had first sought and
then spurned. A marriage under such
circumstances could not be other than un
happy. He fretted in the yoke ;. she pin
ed under his neglect.
"Not two weeks ago ho attempted to
take his own life, but be was snatched
from the jaws of death by timely intorfor
enoe. When his young wifo learnod that
she was the actual cause of his laying vi
olent hands upon - himself, she felt that
her cup of sorrow was full. When she
found that she was not only unloved but
spurned by the man to whom she had
pledged her young heart's love, she, could
bear no more. Thinking, perhaps thore
was rest if not love, on tho other side of
tho cold, dark , river, she rosolved to
plunge into death, hoping by this rash act -to
drown her misery. To accomplish this
she procurod a large dose of. morphine,
and retired to bed. But she was discov
ered by some persons in the house whore
she was boarding. Medical aid was sum
moned, and by the administration of pow
erful antidotes she was restored to con-
ciousness. Anus two wno were as unnap
pily mated have each sought an eternal
divorce from each other, but failed..
Whether they will now apply to tho courts
for a divorce, or live together as loving
husbands and wives should, 'till t death
doth them part, or no remains to bescen. ,
A farmer who wished lo invest the ac
cumulation of his industry in the United
States securities, went to a broker's office
to odtain treasury notes. The clerk in
quired:' "What .denomination will you
have them in, sir t" " Haviug never heard
that word used excepting to distinguish
religious sects, the farmer, after a littlo
hesitation replied, "well, you may giv
ma part in the Old School Presbyterians
to please tho old lady , but give methj
hcftWt ia Free-Will Baptists." '.;-