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The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
A Little Story on Grant.

The Roanoke tVa.) Times publishes
the following:
A good story is told by one Of the
Methodist ministers now in this place
attending conference. We donot recol-
lcct OF ever seeing it in print, and We
think it too good to be lost. 1t is as
follows:
During the war "Confed" was cap
tured by the Yankees, and happened to
be taken to Gen. Grants headquarters.
After being questioned by the General,
the old "Confed" asked him where he
was going.
IL am going" says Grant, "to Rich
mOnd, to Petersburg, to Heaven, and it
may be L will go to hell"
After cycling the General for several
moments, the old "Confed" said:
General Grant, you can't 60 to Rich
mond, for General Lee is there; you
can't so to Petersburg, for General
Beauregard is there you can't go to
Heaven, for Stonewall Jackson is there {;
but, as to going to hell, you may get
there, for know Of no Confederate in
that region"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Anti-IncOme Tax Association

An Anti-Income Tax Association has
recently been organized in New York
city, under the Presidency of Judge
Henry Il Davies. and it is stated is daily
receiving large acoesaions of members.
The Association has issnSa On address,
containing forcible argument against
the constitutionality of the income tax.
and the members propose 10 make theit
respective income returns but to do so
under protest, printed forms of which
are supplied to all applicants, The AS
sociation has employed counsel to com-
menee proceedings in the proper courts
to enjoin the assessors and collectors.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Temperance and Tobacco.

At the late meeting of the Kentucky
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Louisville, the committee on
temperance and tobacco submitted the
following resolutions
Resolved, That every member of the
Kentucky Annual Conference be reques.
ted to identify himself with the organ.
lied temperance movement of the State
and avail himself Of every opportunity tc
inculcate and maintain true and heal.
thy public sentiment upon this vitally
momentous subject.
Resolved, That we, as o conference
take the advance ground of the temper.
ance reform, demanding political action
in order to secure our ultimate aim, and
unqualified legal prohibition.
Resolved, That We urge all our minis
ters and people to abstain from the very
needless, expensive, and pertinaoious use
OF tobacce-chewing, smoking, shutting
and dipping.
Mr.. Cole wanted the dipping" por-
ton of the resolution stricken out. He
pleaded, "Now don't put that in. Give
our old sisters that liberty if they want
it."
The appeal created discussion, in
which several of the members participa-
ted. The resolution to strike out "dip-
ping" was not carried.
Several members argued that when o
member voted for this resolution against
tobacco he should discontinue the use OF
it. Several of the members had done so
on the passage of q similar resolution al
last Conference, believing it was incum-
bent upon them SO to do.
The report was finally adopted.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
The LAWYER and the Irishman,

The Lawyer and the Irishman.
While a number Of lawyers and gen.
tlemen were dining at Wiscasset, few
days since, jolly soul from the Emerald
Isle appeared and called for dinner.
The landlord told him he should dine
when the gentlemen were done.
"Let him crowd among us, whispered
limb of the law, "and we will have
some fun with him."
The Lishman took his seat at the to-
BILE.
"You were born in this country, were
you, my friend ?"
"No, sir, was born in Ireland"
"Is your fAther living?"
mo, sir, he is dead"
"What is your occupation?"
ga horse Jockey, sir"
"What was your father occupationY
Trading horses, sir"
"Did your father cheat any person
while he was here%
81 suppose he did cheat many, SIR
"Where do you suppose he went to. ,
eTo heaven, sir"
Sand what do you s'pose he's doing
theFePp
Trading horses, sir"
"Has he cheated any one thereS"
"He cheated one, ! believe, sir."
"Why did they not prosecute himr ?"
because, they searched the whole
kingdom Of heaven, and couldn't find Q
lawyer"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
DIR, VIM. K, Rowling.

The Archaeological Journal, has the
following characteristic paragraph about
DIR. VIM. K. Bowling "He drinks moth
ing stimulating; neither smokes nor
chews knows nothing of any game of
chance ; in all the years he has lived
here has not been on the race course
never struck billiard ball or saw o game
played never shot bird or squirrel or
caught ASh. He never argued that
exhilarating games or sports like those
mentioned were wrong, but lie never has
had time for them"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Sharn Boy.

There was deacon in New Hamp-
shire by the name Of Day, by trade a
cooper One Sunday he heard num-
Der of boys playing in front of his shouse,
and went to stop their Sabbath-breaking.
Assuming a grave countenance, he said
to them "Boys, do you know what day
this is?" Eyes, sir" Immediately re-
Piled one OF the boys, deacon Day, the
cooper.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Bridge Across the Atlantic Ocean.

An Illinois mechanic named j. W
Crocker has written letter to the Chi
cago Tribune explanatory of the manner
in which he will construct bridge over
the Atlantic Ocean, and as the bridge
when constructed viii permit Of the run
ming Of four trains Of cars per day, two
from America and two from Great Brit
tain, one cannot but hope that, as the
gentleman's means are limited, the gov
ernments to be benefited will see that
money for the enterprise shall soon be
forthcoming. Compassionate by nature
and believing that there is o point be-
yond which the human intellect cannot
be strained without danger, we spare
the reader the details of the plan. The
engineer should think Of what the strict
ly virtuous and vivacious Henry D. Thor
ough once said: young men collect
timber to build bridges ~ the moon
the middle aged man uses it to make
woodsheds of"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
l Shtay Nit De Temperance.

A Dutchman gives his reasons asfollows
for joining the temperance 81 sail tell
you how it vas. l drink mine lager, deu
l put mine hand on mine head, and dere
vas Won pain. Den | put mine hand on
my body, and dere vas anoder pain. Den
| put mine hand in mine pocket, and dere
vas noting. So l jine nit de temper
ance. Now dere is no pain more in miDc
head, and de pain in mine body vas all
gone away. l put mine hand in mine
pockets, and dere vas dwenty dollar. So
l Ishtay NIT de temperance"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Printers Errors.

When Mr.. Greeley wrote something
about "Anna Dicknson's lecture on
Joan of Are" the printer made it read
"Any Dutchman can play the Jewsharp," /"
1t is no wonder the veteran agricultu-
rist's views on farming look so absurd
imprint, when malignant type-setters per-
sist in manging his manuscript so hor-
ribly.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Dogs.

A Western editor advertised that he
would take 90 good dog in payment for a
years subscription" The next day
twenty-three dogs were taken to his of
fee, and two days afterward, o score or
more Of farmers, living at distances of
from eight to twenty miles, appeared to
subscribe for the paper, rendering dogs
in payment. And to cap the climax the
Mayor of the city has notified him that q
tax of 81 must be paid on every dog
owned in the place.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Coming to the Point.

A gentleman once wrote to q lady
whom he had offended by his dilatori-
ness, and who for long time, had re-
fused to speak to him. His letter was
earnest in supplications and forgiveness.
1t concluded thus:
" "One word from your lips will make
me happy, When and where will you
speak it?
Her laconic answer was
"Next Wednesday, at the altar"
To which he sent The following equally
laconic reply:
81 will be there"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Another Defaulter,

Another of Grants Collectors Of In
ternal Revenue has turned out to be a
defaulter to a large amount. 1t is Major
Gould, of the Savannah, Georgia Dis
trict. Persons engaged in the investi-
cation of his affairs, who have hitherto
maintained that he was not defaulter,
have changed their opinion. The Sa-
vannah News says "What he did with
the money is a mystery, but it is said
that it was very easy for him to send it
North and invest it, instead of sending
it to the officials at Washington.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

A Chicago paper speaks of q youth in
that city that ordered his father to get
up in the morning and make . fire, and
who on the old gentleman's rehnsng at-
tempted to fog him, bat came of second
best. The energetic youth then threat
ened to call upon the Legislature 10 do
something for sons, as fathers are get
ting so darned impRdent nowadays,
there's no living with them
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

Bad company is like nail driven in
to post, which, after the first or second
blow, may be drawn ont with little diff
Guilty /; but being once driven up to the
head, the pinchers, cannot take hold to
draw it out but which can only be dona
by the destruction OF the wood. f
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

Lately, at dinner table in AIassachu-
sets, q gentleman remarked that A.
who used to be given to sharp practice.
was getting moro circlimspect, Yes
replied Judge Hoar, he has reached tho
saperlatire oflfe. He began by seek
ing TO get on, then he sought TO get hon
or, and now he is trying to get honest
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
70 Driven ont OfTOwn.

Colonel Henry R. Forbes, an ex-army
officer, went 10 Cheyenne to lecture on
the evils of intemperance, but the inhab-
itants, regarding the subject as a per-
sonal ahfont, rushed into the hall extin-
guished the lights, and drove the Colo
mel out of town.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
"Baggage.n

"That seat is engaged" said a pretty young
maid, Ah
As entered carriage one day;
ITO whom p "a young gentleman" pout;ng
she said.
"Then where Is his baggage, prayi"
Her ruby lips opened like rosebuds in spring
Her face in deep blushes was dyed,
As muttering Grossly, "lOu hateful old thing
Why, am his baggage" she cried
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

There was an old family fuel between
them was what the principal in o Chi
cago murder case said to the jury, The
Judge asked her ifshe didn't mean feud.'
and she asked him who was telling the
story.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

In our daily visits to the printing Of
tce of Mr.. Toon, at which office the
Plantation is printed, we have been
struck with, to us, an unusual sight. 1t is
thatof young lady, standing at a prin-
ter's desk, and diligently engaged in
setting type. Modest, retiring and in-
dustrious, she commands the respect Of
all in the establishment, from the pro-
prietor downwards.
This is Georgia girl, who learned her
trade in Rome, and who has been at
tracted by higher wages to Atlanta. Mr.
Toon informs us that her work quite
equals that of of a man, and that her
wages are the same rs that which is paid
to a man. In this way, this deserving
young lady is enabled to support indi-
gent relatives who are dependent upon
her.
This is an example fit to be initiated.
1t is O confirmation of views expressed
by us some time since, in an article in the
Plantation, entitled, "What shall our
young women do?" Why shall this ex-
ample not be followed in other cities in
the South? There are many bright
girls, whose parents are struggling with
hopeless poverty, who might in this way
obtain q competency. But they will not
think of this resource. 1t must be sug-
gested by the informed and the thought
full.
If the establishment be judiciously
selected, an apprenticeship may be pass
ed through without hazard to purity or
character, and steady and creditable
source of support be attained. Wenone
of us live for ourselves. 1t is noble
charity which suggests, if it cannot give
remunerative occupation to the needy
plantation.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

One Of the banners carried by the
Frisco Germans in celebrating the fall
of Paris was inscribed New dish
Frogs smothered with sour krout.'
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
COUNTY OFFICERS: :

COUNTY oFFCERs:
Sherif-Jos. Z. Houston.
Deputles-J. NJ. Browder, A. Hawkins and D.
s. Smith.
Tax Cullector=Ez, c. Harris.
Trustee-Robt. Russell.
Regster-E. d. Malone,
Notary Public-M. 7. Johnson.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
kEbERAL otfcEAs,
C0UiTS:

Chancery Court-Begins,. s,.....................
Circuit COnrt-Begins I'd Monday in January,
May and September. Z. r. Hall Judge, Z. Z.
Griffith, Clerk.
County Court-Meets lst Monday in each month.
M 7. johnson, Chairman. A. 7. Hicks, Cl'k.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

A LADY barber in Chicago is SO over
run with business that she has taken
in her younger sister to attend exclu-
sively to the lathering.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

At lecture given in Frankfort Ind,
not long since, the ticket read-'B Blessed
are the pure in heart for they shall see
God-admit one.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
NATURES
Hair Restorative.

Contains No LAC SULPHUR--No SUGAR OF
LEADING LITHARGE-No NITRATE OF
SILVER, and is entirely free from the Poisonous
and misunderstanding Drugs used in other Hair
Preparations.
Transparent and clear as crystal II will not
sol. the finest fabric-perfectly SAFE, CLEAN
and EFFlCIENT-desideratu LONG SOUGHT
FOR AND FOUND AT LAST
1t restores and prevents the hair from becOm.
ing Gray, imparts a soft, glossy appearance, re-
moves Dandruif, is cool and refreshing to the
head, checks the Hair from falling off, and re.
stores it to great extent when prematurely
lost, prevents Headaches, cures all llumors, Gu
taneous eruptions, and unnatural Heat. As a
DRESSING FOR THE HAIR it is the BEST
ARTICLE IN THE MARKET.
DR.. G. SMITH, Patcntee, Groton Junction
Mass. Prepared only by PR0CTER BROTH
ERS, Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Genuine
is put up in panel bottle, made expressly for
it, with the name of the article blown in the
glass. Ask your Druggist for Natures Hair
Restorative and take no other.
For sale by DIR. r. F. SCRUGGS
nov3-ly Sweeetwater, Tenn,
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20

Two youRg AtlantaBs ran foot race on
Sunday for the honor Of eseorting belle
to church. The winner found she had
just gone with another fellow.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-20
Injunction Against the City OfNash-
Vile.

The Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road has enioined the city of Nashville
from paying over to the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad any back taxes
which may be collected for its benefit.
We understand that the former road
holds claim against the latter road for
$4,000. The back taxes alleged to be
due to the Nashville and Northwestern
Railroad are estimated at $4,000, and
it was to secure this amount, if collected,
that the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad obtained the injunction.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
lunar Influence on Vegetation,

According to a North Carolina cor
respondent, the influence of the moon
on vegetation may be determined by
trying the following experiment:
Take any given quantity of common
peas, and divide the same into four
parts, keeping them separate. Then.
on any ground at all fit for vegetation,
when the season approaches, SOW the
contents of the first parcel on the first
or second day of the new moon; the
second parcel SOW near the same spot
on the first or second day of the second
quarter; the third parcel SOW on the
second or third day before the full
moon; and lastly, SOW the fourth par
eel on the second or third day before
the moon Is out. Now the first parcel,
sown under the new moon, will grow
very fast, blossom most beautifully,
but will not bear much fruit; the sec
ond will blossom and bear very little;
the third parcel will not only blossom
beautifully, but will bear fruit in
abundance; and the fourth and last
parcel will scarcely rise from the
ground. Likewise all fruit trees set at
the new moon blossom, but three days
before the full moon, bear abundantly.
La pruning trees, the same effect takes
place, for tree pruned at the new
moon viii shoot forth branches, but
will prove unproductive, but if pruned
at the full, it will bear abundantlv.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
Proceedings in Congress.

The past week has been mainly de-
voted by both Houses to speech-mak-
ing upon the condition of the Southern
States and the measures for suppress
ing the outrages there.
In the Senate the resolution instruct
ing the Judiciary Committee to report
a bill for the punishment of the Ku-
Klux in the South vas adopted by a
vote of ayes SO, noes II.
The Presidents message transmit
ting the report of the San Domingo
Commission was sent to both Houses
on Wednesday, and ordered printed
The bill introduced N the House last
week, for the suppression of the Ku-
Klux, passed by yeas 118, nays 81.
Several amendments were adopted, the
most important of which was one strik-
ing out the clause empowering the
President to direct enlistments into
United States militia.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
Feeding Poultry.

The habit of giving much food in q
short space of time is avery bad one
If you will notice their habits you will
perceive that the process of picking up
their food under ordinary or what may
be called the natural condition, is a
very slow one. Grain by grain does
the meal get taken, and with the aggre-
gate no small amount of sand, small
pebbles and the hke-all of which,
passing into the crop, assist digestion
greatly.
But, in the henwife's mode of feed
ing poultry, a great heap is thrown
down, and the birds are allowed to peg
away at such a rate that their crop is
filed too rapidly, and the process of
assimilation is slow, painful and incom-
plete. No wonder that so many cases
of choked crops are met with under
this treatment.
Many other diseases which affect
chickens might be obviated by amateur
breeders, were little precaution taken
In SO simple thing as feeding. Reg
ularity IN feeding is also essential.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
Summer Sports.

With the coming summer we are to
have a revival of Yachting as well as of
the national game. Not satisfied with
the laurels won in beating the "Daunt-
less across the Atlantic, the amiable
and persevering Mr.. Asbury is building
a new vessel, with which he expects to
recover the Queens cup, and the less
important trophies gained by Ameri-
can craft in the sailing contests of last
year Our own yachtmen are not idle,
and new vessels are now being built
with an eye single to speed, so that the
coming British candidate for national
honors will be met with all the latest
improvements in fast sailing that can
be devised by practical American sea
men and shipbuilders. These interna-
tional aquatic trials of speed are not
only manly and ealthy pastime, but
tend to the improvement of marine
architecture and skillfu seamanship.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
OUTGROwN.
BY JULIA c. r DoRR.

Nay, you wrong her, my friend. she's not fcke her
One read the whole matter transating her heart
by the light of ones
much that my heart would say.
And You know We we're children together. have quar-
relied and " made up - IN play.
And 50 for the sake of old friendship, venture to
As plainly, perhaps. and as bluntly. might in our
earlier youth
Five summers when you wooed her, you stood on
Face to s ss hear e heart dreaming
could be parted again
ife's early May,
Aad it is not her fault repeat ii, tina. she does not
love you to-day.
Nature stands STILL souls either They ever
And hers has been steadily soaring-but how has it
oeen with your own
he has struggled, and yearned, and aspred-grown
The ann not aBone in Won luminous
atmosphere
For she whom you crowned with fresh roses, down
der five summers ago,
Has learned that the first of duties to God and
ourselves is to grow.
Her eyes they are sweeter and calmer but their
Her voice has tender cadence but pure as silver
bell
Her face has the look worn by those who with God
and his angels have talked. !.
The white robes she wears are less white than the
spirits with whom she has walked.
And your Have you aimed at the hi ghest7 Have YOU
too, aspired and pray edl
Have you looked upon evil upsullied? have you con
gusred II undsmay ed?
Have you, too, purer and wiser, the months
and the years have rolled on?
Did you meet her this morning rejoicing in the tri
umph of victory won?
to-day in her presence you stood.
Was the hand tn you her white and clear
that of her womanhood?
Go measure yorself by her standard. Look back on
the years that have fled:
Then ask you need, why she tells that the love
of her girlhood is dead
She cannot look down to her lover. her love- like her
soui aspires,
He must stand by her side, or above her, who would
kindle its holy fires.
Now, farewell! For the sake of old friendship have
ventured to tell you the TRUTH
As plainly, perhaps, and as bluntly, might in
ear lier youth.
-4ppleton's Journal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
How Spool of Thread Saved a Lady's
Life.
From the Utica IN. " Observer,

tToiH tHe ttiCd w. III opseTNeT
A few days ago quite little sensa-
tion occurred at Stittville. Inform alton
was forwarded to us at the time, but
by some accident we failed to receive
it. During the afternoon, while very
respectable married lady was sitting in
her house sewing, strengthening
man came into the house unannounced.
Of course the lady was startled, but
asked the intruder what his business
was. After staring wildly at her for
some tine, the fellow shrleked out,
Gamma, you promised to marry me
and did not do so. 1 am going to kill
you! !" The lunatic, for such he prov
de to, then sprang at the lady, with
a large knife in his hands, and struck
at her breast several times
The lady escaped injury for a few
minutes by severe struggle, but the
fellow finally succeeded in inficting a
severe flesh wound in the center of the
lady's breast. The knife fortunately
came in contact with spool of thread,
which the lady was using and had
the thread to the wood. After deal
ing bllS DO" Tie 1ellOW ran ITOIu Tile
house and was not seen again. He is
supposed to be an escaped lunatic
from the Asylum in this city OF the
Poor-house in Rome. The lady never
saw the fellow before, and as she is
not the Gamma y that apparently went
back on him, she certainly does not
desire to see him again. Her escape
from fatal injuries is possibly due to
the knife coming in contact with the
spool of cotton in her BOSOM
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-29
PROF. HILGARD, State GeoIogist of

PROF. HmGARD, State Geologist of
Louisiana, explains the origin of the
mud islands found in the upper delta
of the Mississippi, as miniature volca-
noes, upheavals from the river bottom,
with central crater. 1t is predicted
that this phenomenon, which is pecu-
liar to this river, will cease as soon as
the bar advances past the blue clay"
shelf into the deep water of the Gulf,
now nine miles out For, be it remem-
bered, neither the Mississippi river
nor the state of Louisiana are vet fin
ished.