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What it Means.

Although Grant has been elected, says
the Knoxville Press and Herald, we be-
lieye that his election is not to be constru-
ed as an endorsement of the radical policy.
We are confirmed in this belief by the
Democratic gains every where upon Con-
gressmen, while the vote for Grant genor-
ally is ahead of the Republican State
ticket.
The fight was made by the Democratic
party upon two iSsueS-the nullity of re-
construction and the greenback policy.
Upon both Of these issues we were divided
among ourselves and that defeat which we
have experienced was the natural conse-
quence of our own divisions.
Among the results of the election
which we must face, the most important
and the most disagreeablc are these-that
reconstruction is fixed fact and that ne
gro suffrage is to be fastened on the coun-
try. The people OF the North have 50 de-
creed by their votes and nothing can be
done to reverse that decision for the next
four years, and by that time, if ace have
another Presidential election, it will be
too late to reverse it.
The people of the North do not like
reconstruction, but they prefer to let it
stand rather than adopt Frank Blair's pol
icy, which was the only logical and prac-
teal way of settling the question as We
desired to see it settled.
As to negro suffrage, the Democratic
Executive Committees of most of the
Southern States have accepted it, and have
courted negro votes with some success,
especially in Georgia, and have thus stop
ped themselves from DISTINGUISHING the
negroes hereafter. i'
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Obj fmuumtr.
sweetwator, Thursdsy, Nov. 5. 1898 \
The Result.

The following seems TO be the result
from all the returns received up to this
time. Victory still perchOs on the ban
ners of Grant;
For Grant, Maine, $4,000 majority !;
New Hampshire, 5000 Vermont, $4,000;
Massachusetts,, 10000; Connecticut, g.
600; Rhode Island, $500; Pennsylvania,
$4,000; Ohio, 10000; Indiana, 10000;
Iowa, 5000; Illinois, 10000; Michigan,
$4,000; Wisconsin, $4,000; Minnesota,
10000; Kansas, 10000; West Virginia,
5000; Tennessee, 5000; California, s..
600; Nebraska, 5000; Missouri, 5000,
The following States have gone for Sey-
mour and Blair; New York, 5000; Mary
land, $500; Delaware, $500; Kentucky,
100000; Alabama, 5000; Georgia, 10000;
Louisiana, SO,OOOi New Jersey, 5000
Oregon, 5000.
But few returns from Southern States
generally.
New Jersey, Hoight and Byrd, Demo-
Gratis, elected to Congress.
The indications are that Leftwich, Dem
Ocart, from Memphis, is elected to Con-
gress by small majority.
Hofmann's majority in New York city
is seventy thousand,
The New Jersey Legislature will have
II Democrats and 8 Republicans in the
Senate, and 30 Democrats and % Repub-
licans in the Assembly, thus securing Il
Democratic Senator in place of Freezing
huysen.
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ThG ILnO

Some Frenchman once declared the hui
man leg to be the most philosophical of
all studies. "Show me the leg" says
Gautier, Sand I will judge the mind :"
and it does seem quite as natural that the
leg should indicate the disposition as the
shades of the hair should indicate the
temperament.
What sloth, for instance, does the obese
limb betray? What shrew is the pos
SCISSOR of limb like walking stick But
what a gentle woman is she of the arched
instep, the round ankle and the graceful
pedestal, swelling to perfection and mod
ulating to lightness! What logged OBJ
stinacy the rumpy leg with the knotted
calf exhibits What an irresolute soul
does the lanky limb betray! How we'll
the strong ankle intimates the firm pur-
pose-how the fiat ankle reveals the va
cant mind
Young men about to marry-observe.
The dark girl with large leg will become
fat at thirty, and lie abed until midday.
The brunette with slender, very slender
limbs, will worry your soul out with jeal-
ousy. The olive skinned maid with a
pretty round limb will make you happy.
The blonde with large limbs will degen-
crate at thirty-fve into the possession of
a pair of ankles double the natural size
and afflicted with rheumatism. The fair
haired damsel with thin limbs will get up
at half-past FIVE in the morning to scold
the servants, and will spend her nights
talking scandal over tea. The little rosy
girl, with a sturdy, muscular, well-turncd
leg, will be just the girl you want.
If you can find red-haired girl with a
large limb, pop the question at once. Y
The short lady should always possess a
slender limb; the tall lady should possess
large and ample one.
No doubt these hints are reliable, and
the prevailing fashions make them quite
practical and available. " Hi }1sAaai o,E
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SWEETWATER MILLS.
WE HAVEHAD THESE MILLS THOROUGH

INE HAVE HAD THESE MILLS THOROUGH
w ly repaired, at considerable expense, and
we have no hesitation in saying that we are now
prepared to make as good flour as can be made
by any mill in the State, provided you furnish
su with good and clean wheat.
Mr.. Fisher, who is an experienced miller, will
spare no pains in trying to make good flour for
you, and as much as can possibly be made out
of your wheat.
Mr.. II. l.. Fry is hanging around the mill Ia
king the eighth of every grist that comes in.
you all know him, and you can watch him if
you want to. HIGHT g. SCRUGGS.
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On Monday last we were shown phial
containing a living lizard, which it is sup
posed had been in woman's stomach for
nearly two years. DR.. Middleton, of Elo-
ra, had been attending married woman
for about eighteen months. She was trou-
bled with gnawing sensation in the stom-
acb, and sometimes jumping orpalpitat-
ing there; her appetite was irregular; at
times totally gone. TONES and other
medicines were given, but they afforded
norelief. On Sunday last live lizard
passed away. 1t is needless to say that
the woman got immediate relief, and is
now rapidly improving in health, The
lizard is about four inches long, and ex-
actly like those seen in Canadian swamps,
beautifully spotted with black on an or
ange ground, and was active and lively
Ndsbtills Union and american. 8'
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THE CAMPAIGN.
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Louisiana.

General ROsseau telegraphed General
Schofeld that all was quiet in New Or
leans on the day of election.
Reports from Agents of the Frcedmen's
Bureau have been received, including one
from General Hatch, from Louisiana, who
says, cit is mainly owing to the incompe-
tency, insuffciency and misconduct of the
civilian employees of the Bureau, that it
has become so unpopular, and the freed
men suffered SO much in many of the Par
ishes. The failure of the crops the past
two years has prevented many of the plan
ters from paying their hands, but even
the negroes seem not much discouraged.
Working for shares has proved failure,
and wages are being generally paid The
crops this year have been excellent.
The failure of cotton the two previous
years has caused planters to turn their al
tention to grain growing. This year the
cotton crop has not been failure. The
health of the negroes has been good.
There are $4,000 of the blacks in the
State"
General Hatch sums up his criminal cal
endar, and shows l66 murders have been
committed, and 225 other outrages, dur
ing the past year. In connection with
the rest, he urges the continuance of the
Bureau on the grounds that it is necessary
to the welfare Of the negroes.
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MALE and FEMALE SCHOOL,
SWeetwater ...................-.T Tenn,
MR. R.. n u A. &C GRAHAM RGGAI PRINCIPALS.

4 The exercises of this School will be resumed on
l. the LIST Monday in September. The course
of instruction will be substantially the same as
heretofore, embracing the Languages, Mathema-
tics and Music. The Primary Department will
also receive most careful attention. Mrs. Cook
will devote her entire attention this session to
the Female Department.
The terms will be the same as those of other
institutions of the same class. Board can be OBJ
tanned in pleasant private families and on reas-
enable terms.
For further particulars address either of the
Principals Or the Secretary of the Board of
Trustees, Sweetwater, Tenn.
Sept. 4, 1868. If
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-05

SAVANNAH, Nov. 9.-The negroes APP
peared in great numbers when the polls
were opened and took entire possession.
This continued till about 8 o'clock Ev-
cry white man who came to vote was
dubbed away. Finally fight commen-
ced, when the negroes were driven back.
The whites then commenced to vote. In
few minutes the negroes rallied and
attacked the whites. A negro drew a
pistol and shot policeman in the stom-
ach, mortally wounding him. The firing
then became general in the crowd. The
police came to preserve order, when the
negroes fought them desperately. Final
ly the police used their pistols, when the
negroes broke and run. Five negroes we're
killed and several wounded. Four DO
licemen were wounded, one mortally.
A young lady residing in a house oppo-
site the Court House, was hit by ball
which came through a window, but not
dangerously. Trouble is anticipated to-
night.
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Summers Programme.

From the Press and Herald
1t has been the burden of the Radical outcry
during the canvass that in the event of the cleo
ton of Seymour and Blair, it is the purpose of
the Democratic party to interfere at once with
the execution of the so-called reconstruction acts
of the Thirty-ninth and Forteth Congress. That
it is the purpose of the Democratic party when it
obtains power, to undo and set aside much of
that radical villainy, is and has been avowed on
all occasions. But what is the Radical pro-
gramme, and how do the Jacobins themselves
propose to proceed in the event of Grants cleo
ton? Let us see. The Boston Commonwealth,
Mr.. Summers home organ, gives us the contem-
plated mode of securing peace in such contin-
gency. 1t says:
"Let Congress repeal its reconstruction acts
and put the South once more in the condition it
was at the time of Lees surrender This it can
do, as reconstruction, thus far, has been wholly
a Legislative proceeding. Then it will have the
ground tallow for its proper planting. And if
our husbandry has not been enriched by exper-
fence, we miss our calculation. What will be
needed will be to begin anew, with confiscation
Of lands, and the total disability of every rebel
no representation in Congress- military govern
ment and the strong hand for twenty years up
on the South. We can do without the South.
Let us see if she can get along without the
North p ,s.
This is Summers programme, and being his,
may be expected to become Grants--a plan
which will depopulate ten Ststes and render
them totally unproductive. Whether the people
Of the North will endorse this plan by electing
Grant will soon be known.
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-05

G. H. Camper, Great Western Emil
grant Agent, reports the arrival of $50
emigrants at Columbus, Ohio, at that point
during the week ending Saturday night,
who win locate as follows In Ohio, 100;
Missouri, 1898; Illinois, l42; Indiana, 2S;
Kentucky, SO; Wisconsin, 81 Tennessee,
80; Minnesota, Is; Iowa, 2I; Michigan,
80; louisiana, ~. = ~ @1S7s' t4SaS W
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BosToN, Mass, October 29.-Wormald and o.
Baldwin arrived here yesterday, and this morn
ing went to Lynnfeld, fifteen miles from Bos-
ton, and attempted to fight for the championship
oftne world One round had been fought when
the Lynn police appeared and arrested the prin-
cipals Five hundred spectators were present
and scattered in all directions. An unsuccessful
attempt was made to rescue Wormald. The po-
lice prevented it by drawing revolvers, and Wor-
maid and O'Baldwin were taken to the Lynn DO
lice court and held in 5000 bail each for their
appearance from day to day for trial They
could not furnish the bail and were committed.
NEW YORK, October 29.-ABrick lPomeroy is
announced to be seriously and even dangerously
i'll. Mr.. G. W. Woolsey was robbed by sneak
thief to-day, in 'atrcal estate Office in. Cedar
street. Of q box containing one hundred thousand
dollars worth Of fve-twenties, railroad stocks
and currency, which he had just drawn from
the Safe Deposit Company The thief escaped
with his booty, but the police expect to secure
him. N5gtA & WI 'tAG frts
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FAIRCHILD'S
CELEBRATED GOLD PENS,
Nj. CARTIER.
DEALER IN STOVES,
TIN and COPPER WARE,

Sweetwater Tenn,
II EEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND full stock
IN OF the Best Quality of Cooking Stoves, with
all the latest improvements, which he offers for
sale at Knoxville prices, or as cheap as the same
article can be bought in any market. He keeps
constantly on hand, and makes to order, all
kinds Of Tin, Sheet Iron and Brass Ware, which
he offers to the public at Wholesale and Retail
as cheap as it can be bought anywhere. Mer-
chants will find it to their interest to call and
examine his stock of Tinware before purchasing
elsewhere. A good supply of Fruit Cans always
on hand
Sweetwater, August 20, 1868. ly.
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Out Of one hundred and twenty-one ca
ses on; the docket Of the Supreme Judicial
Court Of Maine,1 twenty-eight are eases of
divorce. ~
The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-11-05

DR.. Dryden, who has been for some
years engaged on the military and medi-
cal statistics of India, concludes, from the
data already collected, that it is as posi-
bic to predict the outbreak and march of
a visitation of cholera as of an eclipse or
an occultation. A book on this subject
may shortly be expected from the Doc
tors pen.
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Samuel A. Townsend, of Kent, CoDpec. /

NNHU6I n IUWHSeHuI OF NtuJ, UOnnec-
tieut ,'raised on his farm, the past season,
a mammoth pumpkin which measured in
circumference seven feet, and weighed
one huudre and thirty-tSo and half
pounds. From the time it budded until
it ripencd and was picked, by actual cal
culation, it must have grown two and
half pounds per day, or one aOnnce and
three quarters per hour.
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BOLIVAR FEMALE ACADEMY,

THE EXERCISES OF THIS INSTITUTION
l. will be resumed on the 3lst day of August,
under the charge of Professor Il. H. Ramsay.
Tuition, $40, sl2 so and SIS per session of 20
weeks, according to the grade Of advancement.
Communications addressed to the Principal,
President, or Secretary of the Board Of Trustees,
will receive prompt attention.
JOS. UPTON, NJ D., President
WILLIAM Dixon, Secretary.
July 23d, 1868. 1y.
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The san Francisco Bulletin relates the
following incident Illustrative Of the rate
of progress on the Central Pacific Rail-
road: "a few days since, merchant
came down to the city from the eastern
side of the Sierra Nevada. Having bought
an extensive assortment of goods, he gave
directions that they should be shipped to
the end of the Central Pacific Railroad,
wherever that should be, expecting to
have considerable job OF teamiDg to fill
the gap between the working end of the
road and his place of business. His di-
rcctions were obeyed to the letter. But
to his establishment on returning, lie
found that the goods ordered had been
carried fifteen miles beyond his residence.
The ex-Queen of Spain left behind her
10 carriages, several splendid Arab and
English horses, as we'll as the finest collec-
ton of mules extant, in the coach-houses
and stables of her royal palace at Madrid.
One vehicle, that which annually convey
ed her Most Catholic Majesty to the open
ing Of the Cortcs, is a marvellous specimen
of gliding and carving, and gorgeous are
the trappings belonging thereto. More
curious as Il historic relic is the quantity
sculpturcd vehicle in which Jane, Charles
VS. insane daughter, travelled with the
body of her dead husband, Phillip the
Handsome.
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Below will be found what is deemed a
proper text from which to preach the flu
neral sermon of Ben Butler: From Jere-
miah ill.,, 10: "And the basins, and the
frepans, and the bowls, and the cauldrons,
and the candlesticks, and the spoons and
the cups; that which was of gold, in gold,
and that which was of silver, in silver, the
Captain of the guard took away"
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Mrs. Mary Sharkey was accidentally
killed in Augusta, Georgia, last Wednes-
day. A negro was in her store making
some purchases and was negotiating for a
pistol with daughter of the deceased, a
girl about thirteen years of age. While
the daughter was exhibiting the pistol it
was discharged, the contents passing
through Mrs. Sharkey's heart.
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MORTVaLE SPRIHGS--l868

THIS FAvORTTE SUMNER RESORT, SIT
L uated in Bleunt county, East Tennessee,
VIII be opened for the reception Of visitors On
o. E lst Of June.
The marE5d beneficial results attending the
use Of these waters, In functional derange-
ments Of the Liver, Bowels, Kidneys and skin,
aud the cure OF ChroEic Diseases, attest their
Medi inal Properties
An the accessories for enjoyment and recrea-
ton At the best Va atsrlng places viii be found
here.
The facilities for reaching Aontyale this sea-
ssin Will be increased by the extension Of the
Knoxville and Charles On Railroad. now in
rapid course OF construction, and regular rains
are expected to be running, by the time Of
opening, to Maryv1ile, whence passengers are
conveyed in coaches 70 the springs, uins miles
distant.
Board reduced, per day, to g per week, SI2 ;
per month, SO. Address rOr pam phlets con-
tanning analysis and desert ptiOu Of waters, etc,
mae Inn JOS. J. kLN9-. kuoNviL-e. Tenn.
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CASH CAPITAL OF ss5OO,OaO.

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The stockholders of this company cannot De
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