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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-02-14

PAPER POLlsltER OR STEER
conveniently attached, which prepares the paper
after erasures for rewriting want long felt
and sought for, but never before accomplished
moved and the paper reszed, enabling one to
write over the identical place without spreading.
Il has the most complete blade protector ever
attached TO an eraser, keeping il from dampness
and rust, thereby retaining ita fine edge. II iR
enclosed in a neat gutta percha case convenient
for the pocket. The usefulness Of this invention
10 at once apparent. II is one OF the most com
plete things Of kind ever before introduced and
cheap.
1t sells 10 ladies as well as gentlemen as 1t
save rewriting many letters during year.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

land Gap, and on TO the railroad at Rock
castle river, Kentucky. This road is
through the widest mountain scenery.
At RogersvilIe Junction, a branch road
runs out twelve miles to the pleasant town
q Rogersyille, the county site of Hawkins
connfy, from which place one may travel
over Cllnch mountain to Hancock county.
or up the rich valley of the Holston river
TO the Virginia line. From Greeneville to
Jonesboro', the railroad passes through a
fertile valley, abounding i'm fine orchards
of fruit and rich fields Of grain. while to
the North and to the South, frequent high
iy picturesque views of the mountain
ranges are visible. This is one of the most
delightful regions to be found anywhere.
A few miles from Greeneville are the
Green county Iron Works, operated by
companies which are doing much to build
up the country. Roads diverge from this
place into North Carolina, passing through
the mountains about Paint Rock. Greene
vile is celebrated as being the home of Ex-
President johnson and as being the centre
of a fine agricultural region.
Jonesboro' is in n highly picturesque To-
cality, and is celebrated as being the Oldest
town in the State. Many of our best and
most talented men We're either born or
have resided there. The road from Jones'
boro' to Bristol is through highly pictu-
rescue country, and a very attractive one.
Any men in search of fine natural scenery,
cannot fail to find it, together with many
other interesting and attractive features,
If he will pass over the routs we have
above mapped out.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
4 Brutal Murder and a Dream.

we learn, through a source regarded al
together reliable, that a horrible murder
was committed in Wilkes county. North
Carolina, a week or tWo since 1t appears
that a gentleman residing in that county,
few days previous TO the murder, sold To
neighbor tract of land for which he re-
ceived $1,000 in cash. Business calling
him away from home soon after he left
the money with his wife, and on return
ing he stopped over night with friend
living some ten or twelve miles distant
from his home. In the night he dreamed
that some men had entered his house.
murdered his wife and two children stolen
his money and destroyed his property.
Knowing that he had left the money with
his wife, he became uneasy and restless
after this dream, and requested peddler
who was stopping at the house with him,
to accompany him at once to his home, for
he feared there was reality in the dream.
On arriving at his home, to his horror
he found his wife and two children lying
upon the floor murdered and two men
sitting at table counting out the money
he had left with his wife. He and the
peddler being armed, Immediately fired
upon the men and killed them who turned
out to be the man to whom he had sold
the land, and from whom he had received
the 81 900, and his son. .u
This is one of the most atrocious mur-
ders upon record, and shows what foul
deeds money will lead men to commit.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
THE MAD WOLF,
Death OF One Of the Victims from HYDRO.
phObla.


A letter received yesterday by Mr.. NJ. X.
sherwood, of this city, from Col. c. II
Cawker, of Cawker City, Kansas, gives
the unexpected intelligence that the boy.
Nebraska Stevens, who was bitten by n
mad wolf about the Goth of May died n
few days ago of hydrophobia. The wolf
attacked the dogs on Mr.. Stevens farm.
about sunrise, vi hen the boy ran to the as
sistance OF tile dogs, intending to shoot
the WOLF The animal, as soon as he laid
eyes ON young Stevens, attacked him; the
poy, becoming confused, only brought his
pistol to a half cock, and the weapon
JAILED TO go off when the trigger
was pulled. The wolf GOT fha
boy down and tore his face very severely.
till Mr. Stevens, attracted bv the screams
OF his son, went to his aid, and, with the
assistance of the dogs succeeded I'm driving
the wolf off. The animal attacked n
man named Carter about an hour after
wards, and was shot and killed by Mr..
King Belk, who went to Carters assist
ance, This wolf attacked the camp of
some herders near Cawker, the night be-
fore he bit young Stevens, where, in en-
deavoring to drive him from among the
cattle, two of the herdsmen, named SeIbir
and Slaybacl1, were injured by the wolf
Slayback on the cheek and Selbip on the
nose bat II was thought that these
wounds were the result of scratches and
not bites. The whole party came to this
city fer medical advice, and Slayback is
now at his home in the neighborhood of
Easton. The wolf was Judged to be mad
from the strangeness of its behavior. and
the death of young Stevens proves that it
was raid
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

The question of civil service reform is
destined, at no distant day. to be one of
the leading questions in the politics Of our
country. Already the people are talking
about it and writing about il, and the time
is evidently near at hand when they will
make themselves heard. We will never
know how much the prosperity of this
country has been retarded within the past
quarter of a century, by having bad or in
competent men in Office. The world does
not have the same, respect for our system
OF government that it would have had, had
we always been free from dishonest and
incompetent officials People cannot ven
crate and respect as they otherwise would
laws that are enforced by a dishonest exc
cutive, or construed from the bench by q
drunken debauehee. -u .lr
Every one admits the Importance of the
reform sought. No one thinks of employ
ing an ignorant, incapable or dishonest
man TO transact important private busi-
ness. Why should the Government be ex-
pected to put up with the services of men
who know but little or nothing of the
duties theyareto perform ? Noact of Pres
ident Grants administration meets with
more universal approval from the honest
masses, than the appointment of the Civil
Service Commission under the act of
Congress. He has appointed men in whose
capacity and honest intentions every one
has confidence. The appointment of such
commissioner is an earnest that he has
the cause at heart and will do all in his
power to render it successful. We are glad
that Republican Congress and Repub-
lican Administration have inaugurated this
movement, and we have every reason to
believe that it will receive the fullest sane
ton of the party, and that great good will
be accomplished.
tbs said that one of the difficulties feared
by the Commission is, that public senti-
ment will not sustain any radical reforms
that may be attempted. We trust their
fears in this respect are groundless. We
trust that if they present reasonable
plan, which we have every reason to be-
lieve they will be able to do, that it may
be adopted and at least given u fair trial.
Then let us know that we have none but
capable public servants, and let them know
that their tenure of office does not depend
upon the whims or pleasure of cross-road
politicians, but that merit is the true test
of confidence.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

SENATOR BRowNLow's card in reference
to Forests testimony before the Southern
Outrage Committee seems to hurt, Judging
from the readiness with which the Nash
vile papers jump into the ring. They
must feel that their champion is "going
to grass" as they are trying to retrieve his
waning fortunes. Gen Forrest might have
been skillful General, but he has not dis
played the strategy he evidently intended
before the Kuklux Committee.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

How WOMAN KEEPS A SECRET.-It is
an old quib upon women that a woman
cannot keep secrets; but the fact is they
are the only part of humanity that can.
wife Keeps Il husbands secret incompar-
ably better than he does hers. We calcu-
late that there is one drunken wife to about
four hundred and ninety-nine drunken
husbands. In gambling, licentiousness,
lying. cheating, hypocrisy, covetousness,
there is pretty near the same proportion,
Yet of the four hundred and ninety-nine
wives, four hundred conceal, cover up, ST.
lently endure the terrible secret; while the
one husband mourns over his wife's frailty
in the study of his pastor, and to the ear
of his friend, and probably complains of it
to court of law 1t is the same between
brother and sister. The secrets woman
talks about are of the kind that are unim-
pOrtant and mostly agreeable to hear. But
of serious secrets she is as reticent as the
grave. That is our observation and in
our various relations of physician lawyer
and uuordGined minister, we have had op-
portuniucs for a great deal of observation.
(NuycH 13rOc0fe
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

John Morrissey cOntradicts the reports
going the rounds of the newspapers that
his "den at Saratoga is open TO ladies to
gamble in. He says: II have lived in
Saratoga nine years, and no lady has ever
gambled nor will ever gamble in my
house. BY request, ladies have been per-
mitteG 10 look at the house and furniture,
but the comment it has occasioned far and
near prompts me to decline any further
visits from them. Furthermore, my house
is intended for visitors not residents Of
Saratoga
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

Mr.. Emerson, i'm the uncultured wilds of
California, struck an observant journalist
after this fashion: "This Yankee Plato is
tall, thin, sloping-shouldered, narrow
faced, narrow-brOwed, long-nosed un-
bearded man, rathea gaunt and ungainly
in body and motion, yet with certain
expression about the epe, mouth and nos
tril denoting superiority
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
Thc Indians After Sherman.

ST. Louis Mo, June 2S.-The Houston
(TeXas) Union saws the Indian raid on
Warmers wagon train near Fort Richard
son, some time since, i'm which seven men
We're killed and forty mules captured. was
designed for the capture of General Sher-
man, of whose coming the Indians had
knowledge, When the attack was made
one Of the chiefs was heard to give am or
der 70 ''toke C0ptain Sherman aliYe.U
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

The Democratic leaders of Ohio find if
hard to convince their old-time followers
that their new departure is peod Den5o-
cratic doctrine. The Columbus Statesman
admits that this portion of the platform is
not acceptable to a portion of the party.
and it tries TO allure them forward, telling
them that this is no time for the Democracy
least of all for the old guard of the party
to hang back
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

THE civil service commission will meet
and organize on Wednesday next. More
than majority Of the members have in
dicated their acceptance The law restricts
the duties of the commission 10 the prepa-
ration of rules and regulations for the adj
mission of persons into the civil service,
and apprOpriates ten thousand dollars 10
defray all eXpense~,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

II weeded my friends, said an eccentric
old man, "by hanging piece of stair-car-
pet out of my first-floor window, with a
constabIe's announcement affixed 1t had
the desired effect. | soon saw who We're
nv friends. 1t was like firing gun at a
pigeon house. They forsook the building
at the first report, and ! have not had oc-
cason to use the extra flaps Of my dining
table since.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

IN the Columbus Sun, of the 2lst inst =,
Hon. a. IL. Stephens controverts the New
York World and the New Departure.
Says Mr., stephens: of any Democrat
has changed his opinion and come to the
conclusion that the Radical policy was
right, then it is not dishonorable for him
to say so; but when he does it, the only
honorable course for him TO pursue after
wards is to go and join that party.n
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

In reply toayoung friend leaving a town
because some things i'm it were not exactly
to her taste or content, an old lady of eX-
perience said, "My dear, when you have
found place where every body and every
thing are always pleasant and nothing
whatever is disagreeable let me know, and
I'll move there too
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
WRITTEN FOR THE KNOXVILLE CHRONICLE
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
ny HENRY r GIBSON.


Ge ca'utoHS thunder o. er the plain
He cannons shake the hills
e cannons rouse the sleeping main;
@ cannons wake the rills
Till ev' ry freeman in the West
Shall hear your mighty voice,
Till every loyal freeman's breast
Shall swell with patriot joys.
Run up the starry Rag on high, IN.
The red, the white, the blue
Till everywhere beneath the sky
lt.nseets the freeman's view. q.
Aye, let the nations banner float -
On evry breeze that blows
That patriot eyes may on it gloat
Till loyal love o'erhows ~ -
Let music float upon the air
The tunes we love SO well
Sing ye the nations songs, ye fair,
Loud peal the lively bell!
Let fife and trumpet sound their notes,
And roll the doubling drum, o. .g
Till DER the world the chorus floats
July the Fourth has comel"
The Declaration, be it read
That all its truths may know;
Let history tell us Of the dead
Who struck the conqring blow, g-"
Who fought that we might frcemen be,
And have country dear,
Who with their blood fed freedoms tree,
That we its fruit might share.
Come forth, ye sons of freedom, come
Come forth ye daughters fair
Upturn your eyes to Heavens dome
An breath the patriot prayer
3 Thank God that He this land hath made,
Thank God for freedoms boon,
And pray that treasons baleful shade
May ne'er obscure our noon.
Now to your country's affairs go;
Invoke the hallowed dead
And swear by all that's dear below
To lead the life they led HH
Swear to uphold your country's laws, t.f- -.
Unstaiued to keep her sod
And this forever be your eauso--
My Country and my Godr
For this is Independence Day,
Our Country natal mornl ---
just five and ninety years ago Cd.
Fair freedom here was born
Lie stars and stripes first glitlered then
Bright in the golden sky,
And Manhood Rights were claimed by mca
Who. d sworn to win ordie.
And God hath made our country great,
And broad and high her path;
And all the blows Of ehastning fate
In love have bcen-not wrath
And onward upward still we go
giant in our might
Fearing no evil and no foe,
But mailed with Truth and Right.
Then blessed be July the Fourth,
Columbia's natal day
In South and East, in West and North
Let freedoms bright array
Unto the sky, unto the earth,
ForeVer.and for aye,
Proclaim in thunder-tones the birth
OF Independence day
JACRsBORo' TENNESSEE.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

An Oracle at New Orleans, discours-
mentioned the iron coffin of De Sodo, con-
tanning the golden trumpet given him by
Qeen Victoria. "WhatW exclaimed one
mot Queen Victoria ?' eyes sir, Queen
Victoria "Why, she WASN'T born then
by two hundred years or more.u ''I dou't
care If She wasn't" was the bold reply !;
"I reckon She could leave it in her will ~
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

The principal amusement of the citizens
of Calhoun, Georgia, is that of tying tim
ware to the tails of the village dogs. The
dogs are so well trained that wherever one
of them sees an oyster can in the street he
backs up and waits for some one TO tie it
on.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

The sentence of death imposed upon
CrimeuX by the court martial at Versailles
will probably be cOmmuted.
The correspondents of the London pa
pers all agree that the review at Long
Champs and the French loan We're both
successful. One writer says the thought
of revenge upon Germeny is uppermost in
the minds Of the Parisians, who still hope
for am opportunity to readjust the frontier.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

The information is confined to the west.
ern part of the State. Cotton has decreased
in acreage from 8 to 12l per cent, with
prospects for an average yield per acre.
There is considerable increase in the acre
age of grain, ,,With'good prospects.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
ALA1iAStAa e

The reduction of the cotton acreage is
ten to twenty per cent. The crop is three
weeks backward. The average production
per acreage will be less than last year.
The increased acreage of grain is from
twenty to thirty per cent, with fair pros
pect.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
The Cotton and Grain Crops

New ORLEANS, July 1.-The Commi
tee on Statistics and Information mao
n report upon the growing cotton an
grain crop with dates from the 18th to II
18th of June. The following is a sun
mary:
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
RoeheTort Pronounced Insane,

PARIS, Sunday, July >, Midnight.-The
elections were uneXciting. The city is
calm. Gambetta is elected.
RochetOrt is pronounced insane.
ROME, ITALY, July 3.-Nictor Emanuel
had an enthusiastic reception yesterday.
ROME, July 3.-'rhe ministers from Ger
many, Sweden, Turkey, Holland, Russia.
Spain and the United States to the court
of King Victor Emanuel, have arrived,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05

The information received is mostly from
the northeast portion of the State. The
reduction of cotton acreage is from % to
80 per cent, with corresponding increase
though with favorable season, an aver
aye crop is expected t..-r
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
GEORGIA.

The cotton accounts are meagre, en-
bracing the west center and center of the
State, and thence northeast. The de-
crease in acreage is from twenty to thirty
three and a third per cent. in the North
east and twelve and a half to fifteen in
other sections heard from. ..
The condition is unpromising one-half
to three-quarters per acre of last years
yield is expected from corresponding in
crease of acreage.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-29
&be 4ittle 8oI|:s.
THE SMACK IN SCHOOL.

A District school no. far away,
mid Berkshire hills, one wintry day,
Was humming with it's wonted noise
or thrcc-scOre mingled girls and boys.
Some few upon their task intent,
But more on furtive mischief bent;
Tho while tho master's downward look
Was fastened on Il copy-boolS
Whom suddenly, behind his back.
Rose sharp and clear rousing smack!
AS 'twere a battery of bliss
Let OFF in one tremendous kiss!
whats tha:?'' the startled mas: cries;
''That, thir,'' n little imp replies,
''Wath William Within, if you pleathc--
I thaw him III "A 'rhushEnnas Pea4he!"
With frown to make a statue thrill,
The master thunde-ed. 'Hither WIZ"
Like wretch o'ertal<en in MS track,
With stolen c:latte!s on his back,
Will hung his head il. ieGsr and shame,
And to the awful presence ca:sle-
A grea:, green, bashf:ll simpleton.
The butt of all good-na:ured fan.
With smiles suppressed, and birch appraised
The treatener faltered-"l' m amazed
Thai you, my biggest pupil, should
Be guilty of an acG rude!
Before the whole school 700. 20 boot
What evil genius put yon .1'i?"
"'Txas she, herself" soboed the lad,
II didn't mean 20 be SO bad
But VIXEN SuSannah shook her cErlS,
And whispered was 'frsid Of girls.
And dursn't kiss a baby's doll,
1 could mt stand it, sir, at all,
But up and kissed her on the spot!
I know-boo hoo-1 Ouri,t 20 not.
But, somehow. from her looI<s--boo 90
1 thought she kind o'wished me toy
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-29
The Credit System.

From l.. J. Donnell's Cotton Circular. u! .
April
AS to the next crop, the rains have
made the planting about two weeks !
late. l find that in some sections,
where manuring was profitable, the de-
mand for fertilizers has increased over
last year, and there is also u great in
crease in the use of homemade ma
nures but, in other sections, where the
benefit from lnanuring was not so great
Or certain, the demand is reduced one
half. A good deal has been said and
written of the difficulties planters cX-
perience in obtaining advances. The
best thing that could possibly happen
to the planters and TO the cotton culture
| in this country, would be the utter i'm
| possibility of obtaining credit for dol
! lar or dollars worth. The credit syS-
| tenn has always been the canker-worm,
the dry rot, tOr whatever is most de-
structive and fatal in nature,> to the
[ cotton planting interest. 1t would add
immensely to the dignity, prosperity
and happiness of the planters if they
| would work strictly within their means,
and owe no man anything. Debt is
; slavery; all the more sad and pitiabie
; because it is voluntary. 1t was the in
stinctive perception Of this truth that
made some modern refOrInerS advocate
the abolition of all laws for collecting
personal debts. The essence Of the obli-
cation, however, is moral, and cannot
be abolished by legislation. This is the
root of the evil, now look at its branches
lat its economical aspects. Suppose
five million dollars, which is about the
value of 75,0 900 bales of cotton, invested
at 80 per cent. per annum. This, be it
! remembered, is the price planters are
paying for advances. Not openly, as
interest, but in one form or another, as
commissions, storage, or by paying the
advance in cotton at half its value,
which would be 100 per cent, and this
not for Il year, but for four to six months.
But, suppose the five millions invested
at 80 per cent. per annum compound
interest. In twenty-one years it would
increase from five millions to over
ltwenty-fOur thousand millions, which
is greater than the assessed value Of all
the real and personal property in the
United States. This would bankrupt
any other agricultural industry in the
world in one year. That cotton culture
lives under it at all is the strongest cvi-
dence that could be offered of the great
development of which it is capable, and
the mine of wealth it is if managed i'll
telligently. The fact of men engaged
in a pursuit that enables them to pay
such mOnstrous usury ever beng Dor
rowers and not lenders, if it were not
mournfully sad, would b" ludicrously
absurd.