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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-22
DESERVING TIIESINKING SHIP
Democrats Coming TO the True
Libcrall'arty.

|, We give below a few of the Democrats
marching to the winning side, whose lead.
er, Horace Greeley said, .'never had been
beaten and never would be :"
General John Bedel, formerly Demo
cratic nominee for Governor of New
Hampshire, openly repudiates Greeley.
Judge Huntington, chief clerk, of the
Washington court of claims. who has al
ways supported the regular Democratic
ticket, now declares hat he cannot vote
for Greeley consistently with his self-re-
spect.
The editor of the Alliance (O.) IeLe-
graph, a prominent Democrat for twenty
five years, ~nounc Greeley, and says in
a letter AS [ have for these long wears
been welded and bound to the Democrat
ic party through pri ncirle, l feel that 1
have nothing to bind me to that organiza-
ton any longer, and shall cast my vote for
G:2cr.I Grant.
Mere than three hundred Democrats of
Livingston county, Illinois, have signed a
pledge that they will, under no circunr-
stances, support or vote for Greeley.
Fhc list will be increased to over FIVE
hundred. The Bloomington P~antngruph
says Mclean county will beat that and
not half try. Gallatin has some of that
sort of Democrats, who want no Greeley
in theirs.
Twenty-Five s~traight-out Democrats of
Fenzie, Maine, have formed a club and
are determined to stick to old Democratic
principles. They take no stock in new
departures, and will either vote for DEM
ocrats or Republicans straight. The
Greeley mixture doesn't agree with them.
liz Cleveland, Ohio. the campaign was
commenced with all three of the German
papers for Greeley. Now the Anzieger,
has become a Grant and Wilson advocate;
the Gernaania proclaims hostility to Gree
ley and Brown, and only the Weachter
processes adhesion to the C~happaquas party.
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STAB BED TO DEATH.
Bloody ARRAY at Franknn.

A sanguinary fight occurred at Franklin
between 8 and 8 o'clock Sunday night.
Frank Kittridge and Ben Gocey, two
negro boys, aged about seventeen years
each, were bitter rivals, both laying claim
to the hand of a dark visaged female, who
among her race, was considered something
of a coquctte. Kittridge and Gocey,
being quite susceptible to her witcheries,
fell desperate. in love with her. As a
natural Consequence, a feeling of unrelent-
ing jealousy and hate sprang up between
them, which resulted Sunday night. in
Gccey stabbing Kittr;dge in the groin
with a shoe knife. Kittridge survived his
wound only ten minutes. Gocey was ar
rested and committed to jail. The affray
caused much excitement and talk among
the colored people of Franklin.
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The Indians Agaim-Never-End-
ing Trouble.

No-sooner Is one serious trouble with
the Indians over than another begins
The news from Salt Lake City represents
a critical state of affairs as regard the
sarages in the southern part of Utah Ter.
ritory. All the Indians there exhibit
hostility and are committing depreda-
tions. On Friday night last Eve of them
entered a settlement at Mount Pleasant
and ~tomahawked-a telegraph operator.
At the outlying settlements and mining
camps there were grave apprehensions of
a general war. The citizens generally in
the Territory are greatly alarmed. Hap
PLY Governor Woods, General Ord and
General Morrow have confidence that they
have force enough to quell disturbance,
they are taking active measures to
that end. Still, the prospect is a fearful
one. 1t is evident from the conduct of
tho Indians in Utah and the recent out
RACES of the savages in other parts that
the government will have to deal with
these people in a more severe n
than our Quaker peace philanthropists re-
commend. Mercy is a noble quality, but
If overstrained towards these savages It
may become cruelty to the white set
tlers.-N. Y. Herald. -5oe5 80
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.THE COMING CONTEST.

The GROWING event of the present yea
viii be the election of a President anC
Vice-President. One of the great politi
sal parties that now exist in this coun,
try must control the destiny of the
patton for the next four years; and the
important question that row agitate:
the popular mind is: which shall it be
Shall the Republican party, which, for
the past twelve years, has by the weight
of its grand achievements and the in
fuence Of a constantly increasing desire
on the part of the people to see rigLt
and justice prevail ovcf tyranny and in
justice, still maintain its hold upon the
Government and complete the work so
we'll begun or will an ovcrweaning
desire for a change so common to all
Governments wrest the country from
the hands of those who saved it from
destruction and placed it in possession
of those who once tried to destroy it,
and who have Fever yet exhibited any
signs of returning love for the old flag?
Shall ignorance prevail over enlighten-
ment, and slavery over freedom? Shall
the spirit of progress be checked
and the victory over slavery, vice and
ignorance once gained be changed into
IN igncminious defeat. These are the
important questions that are to be set
tied at the Presidential election. In
view of this it behooyes us as Republi-
cans to see that 10 petty local questions
are allowed to creep into the canvass
and reduce the vote on the national
ticket. anfss---
At this writing it is impossible to
9 predict what the Convention at Rogers
vile Junction will do, or who they
will select as our standard-bearer in
the Congressional campaign. But one
thing is certain, if the Convention is
fairly and honestly conducted it is the
duty of every Republican to support its
nominee. However distasteful the can
didatc may be to some, personally, VIC
can not afford on that account to allow
this District to be represented by a
Democrat, and thus withdraw from the
Administration the support it needs and
deserves at the hands Of Republicans
in Congress.
Besides, every demonstration against
the Republican nominee for Congress
will have its effect upon the Pr2si1en-
tial ticket. The man who can swallow
the Democratic candidate for Congress
will find it but little trouble to take
Greeley along with Kim. We trust that
harmony will prevail in the Convention,
and that such a man viii be put forward
as will insure the unanimous support of
the party for the whole ticket.
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A MONSTER SNAKE.-As Mr.. George
Knadle was crossing the mountain Slocum
about one and a-half miles from the Three
Cornered Pond and a little to the left of
the road, he discovered a large snake coil
ed around a young hickory tree, tail up.
He gradually approached his snakeship.
and discovered that a COW was lying at the
foot of the tree. To his surprise he was
merely milking the cow as a babe would
suckle the breast of its mother. Mr.. Kna-
ole. after satisfying himself that it was a
mutual understanding between the COW and
the snake procured a large club and de-
stroyed the snake. The COW beloved as
though she had lost a calf. 1t was a
monster black snake of the blue-racer
species, measuring seventeen feet four
inches in length apd.twenty-three and one
quarter inches in circumference-W ates-
barre, (Pa.) DAILY.
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DRoUGHT IN VIReINIA.-The Free
ericksburg H.r1H says: The drought is
so great and prevalent over so large a
section of country that we hear of large
numbers coming for thirty or more miles
down he Rappabannock, up in Faquier
county, and for twenty-five miles up the
plank road, with their grists of corn to
Myers & Bruiile's mill, in Fredericksburg.
1t is quite a sight to take your stand at
this mill and note the sections of country
that are represented in a single day.
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A CARD.

We publish the following card at the
request Of the parties whose names arc
signed to the same. We have no
knowledge of the facts, and no interest
In the matter whatever; bat as the
Attorneys for the Defendant claim to
have been agrieved by a recent publ
cation in the G~rceneville Sentinel, and
feeling-it OR duty as public journalists
to furnish the only medium through
which the agrieved parties can bring
the matter before the public, wo admit
the game to our columns without com
ment:
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NATIONAL CAMP NEE TING.
A Beautiful Location Secured.

The National Camp meeting of the
NJ. e. Church viii be held near Knox,
vile, commencing on the 2ist of Septem.
Der. and to accommodate the large crowd
expected o n the occasion, ample prepare
ton will be made. On Monday a num-
Der of members Of the Methodist Church
went out on the Knoxville and Ohio rail-
road, in a special car kindly furnished by
President G. NJ. McGhee. and made an
examination, but could find no suitable To-
cation.
Y esterday afternoon a large party,
among was DR.. N. E. Cobleigh, editor of
the Methodist Adcocdte, took a special
car on the Knoxville and Charleston rail-
road, and made an examination Of grounds
for the purpose and were successful in
their search, discovered a beautiful loca-
ton about twelve miles from this city. on
the land of Mr.. Ambrister, on which is a
magnificent spring of clear, cold water.
sufficient for the supply Of thousands.
We understand that the Church will buy
ten acres of land includingth b spring. and
and have it fenced and otherwise improve
it for a permanent camp ground. It is on
the line of railroad. is easy Of access and
low fares will be largely attended
the progress Of the meeting
Ckronice. of 1lsh inst.
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sad Suicide of-a-wsrthy man


Yesterday morning Henry Davis saw
floating on the surface of the Appomattoz
river, opposite Blandford. a dead body
which proved to be that of Mr.. John 9
Stortz, late employed as miller at the dis.
%tillery Of e. Myers & Go. The body was
secured to the shore and a jury of inquest
summoned which sat on the body of the
deceased at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Their verdict, after a careful consideration
of the facts Of the case and the evidence
adduced, was to the effect that the deceased
came to his death by his own act, by
throwing himself into the river. The
body was then taken charge of and buried
by the Masonic order, of which be was a
worthy and respected member.
The circumstances of this sad suicide
are peculiarly painful. Mr.. Stortz was
of German origin, and was a man of ex-
ceIlent character and of very fair ~intelli-
gence and cultivation. Several years ago
(since the war; he married a young wo-
man of Southampton Couaty, by whom
he has had three children who survive
him. A short time since he became con-
WINGED by proofs which satisfied him, that
his wife had been unfaithful, and he i'm
mediately took the requisite steps prelimi-
nary to q enforcement between them a
mensa ct MOr0. His wife meantime re>
turned to her fathers home, and Mr..
Stortz became very moody, unhappy and
restless. Saturday he had a conversation
with a friend in which he said his honor
and happiness had been destroyed forever,
and preached the subject of self-destruc-
ton. His friend endeavored to dissuade
him, and was encouraged to believe that
his efforts to encourage him were not with
effect. Sunday afternoon, however,
Stortz was seen IN one of the mud ma
chimes below the city, having changed his
clothes, leaving his money in his other
vest pocket, removed his shoes and carry
ing, it is stated. a pistol in his hand. Ex-
how he met his death is not and
probably never will be known. 1t was
yesterday that be shot him
self first, then falling or throwing himself
into the water. But the head was so
swollen, dis6gured and blackened that it
was impossible to say whether there was
any wound in the skull or not.-There
was none. There was no doubt,
that the broken-hearted man,
deliberately sought death and release from
shame and despair beneath the peaceful
BOSOM Of the river. s..5y-r
As We have said, he was a worthy and
man, highly respected and i'm
trusted by those who knew him.
He left a small farm of some value. and a
policy of insurance for 81 900 on his
life. which will be paid.-Psters5ury, In
lee of 18th inst.
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~GKEENEvILLE, Tenn, }
Aug. -. 1872. {

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SENTINEL:
As counsel for Mr., Harm. in the late
case of the State against him, for libel
touching a matter of scandal, VIC deem it
due our client, ourselves, and the cause Of
truth, to correct certain Inaccurate state
ments and unjust insinuations in your ar
ticle of last week, entitled Tie State rs.
Harm. The first error VIC observe is the
statement that 'the unanimous conclusion
''of the Justices was, that the proof under
1.-THE plea of justification, by Which the
defendant undertook to show that crimi-
NAL relations had existed between Mr..
johnson and the deceased Mrs. Harold,
was bad In this you voluntarily
veuchsafe to concar. What force and eff
fcaeystho supposed judgment derives from
your concurrence, or how incomplete it
would have been without it, may be es-
teemed matter of conjecture. But the
Justices concluded no such thing. These
are the exact and literal words endorsed
OK tho warrant, as tue judgment of the
three Justices: "In this case We give
Judgment in favor OF defendant, and tax
1.-THE County Of Greene with the costs of
''the suit. This judgment is rendered on
TIC SiOuhN5 tLSS NtS uiicSSu llDcl was
mot written By the defendant, and not on
tho grounds Of any Justification of the
Statements contained in said alleged libel
''or SANDER, This the 3fst day of July,
"1S72." Signed BY each of the three
Justices. Hence, it will be seen that the
Justices expressed no opinion whatever. as
to the guilt or innocence Of the parties
unfortunately implicated. And it was
proper and judicious that they should not,
iHssmuch as they were satisfied the libel
was not written By the defendant. If it
wore not sufficient, under the plea of mot
guilty" for the issue to have been deter
mined upon that single point. an Inference
might be drawn from theif consIi uous 81
lence on the other branch Of the case that
the friends Of the parties involved might
not care to invoke. Albeit, we are con-
tent that the most charitable construction
be placed upon the judgment SO that Che
facts may not be perverted.
You state that one of the principal wit
nesses for the defendant was arrested for
perjury and has since been tried and conf
united. This is also Inaccurate. The
witness roy name was arrested on a charge
of'pefjury, aud being advised to make no
preliminary defense, he was bound ove7.
and he at once gave bail for his appear
ance at the next term of the Circuit Court
and prns not s.ccamifted." Now as his
will necessarily inyeige a reopen
ing and ADMINISTRATION of the whole !
49,
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BURIED IN GRAVE CLOTHES MADE
THIRTY-sIX YEARS AGo-NovEL
CEREMoNIEs.-The funeral of Mrs. May
er, wife of DIR. Isaac Mayer, took place in
Hartford. recently; and was very largely
attended. The body lay in an upper
room, in a coffin of black walnut, plain
and unvarnished, clothed in a shroud of
white linen. which was made by the de-
ceased thirty>six years ago. it being a GUS
tom with the Israelites to make and keep
their grave clothes in the house from the
time they are married.-Boston NeUs.
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HOME NEWS.

LEEsBURG, Va, August 12.-Mrs
Lloyd was indicted to-day for the murder
by poison, of Maud, one of the littl,
children,who died last. Professor Torney'.
report stated that one and a half grain
Of arsenic was found in the liver anc
kidneys together. A great many we're il
attendance, who seemed to take great in
teres. in the trial.
BosToN, Aug. 16.-In reply to a note
from a number of colorcd citizens to
Wendell Philips, inviting him to address.
them on the political issues of the day,
Philips declines to speak, but gives his
views in a long letter, in which he favors
Grant for President in preference to
Greeley, although he agrees with Summer
in regard to the San Domingo affair.
CHICAGO, August ia rhinoceros
belonging to a circus escaped at Monroe,
Illinois. killing two men. knocking down
ten poles and seats, and causing several
dislocations of the arms of spectators, and
capsizing cages of other animals. He was
finally captured, after doing three thous-
and dollars worth of damage.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 1S.-On the night
of the 10th inst, Henry Wade (colored)
went into the bedroom of John Shelby,
living near Rose Hill, Stewart county,
Tenn. and cut his throat while asleep,
Mrs, Shelby awoke. screamed and swoon-
ed. Her scream aroused a brother of
Shelby, who was sleeping on the porch,
and who, seeing Wade coming from the
room, grappled with him, and a struggle
ensued. Wade finally got away, obtain
ed a fence rail, and felled his antagonist
with a blow on the head He then at
tempted to escape. but was captured. The
following night Wade was taken by a
party of men from the guard, carried into
the woods, hung up to a tree and his body
riddled with bullets. Wade had been
discharged by John Shelby from employ
ment. and had threatened revenge. John
Shelby may recover, but there is no
chance for his brother, whose ekull is
MEMPHIS, August 1S.-Later advices
Brad]ey's Landing are that soon after
the tug Helen Brooke arrived there With
the trading boat James Trumbull went on
board, and being drunk, commenced tri-
mug VIII tue mdcnlnSTy. captain HOtt 1
him to desist, to which order
rrumbull replied with opprobrious cpl
.hets and threatened to throw Pott over
Pott took up a shotgun and
ORDERED HIN OFF THE BOAT.
Trumbull went before Esquire Walt I
md swore out a warrant, accusing Pott of
'e%tailing Liquor without a license. upon
which the latter was arrested by a colored |
unstable and taken before a magistrate. :
His wife, leaving her infant with two NO.
nen on the boat. accompanied him. After
until nearly dark Potts brother,
caring trouble. took the boat over to
sland No. 40. and made fast t o the shore. !
hat night Downing, the colored c~onsta- !
lie, Trumbull and a man called Hans, 9
box . skiE, pressed two negroes into their =
srvice, and ordered them to row across 9
nd land above the steamer, which was !,
one. .sChes." one of the negroes. says u
nat on landing Downing and party ordered :
lem to remain quiet under penalty :
{ death. Downing and party then orept '
towards the boat, which they
= - 80 r. r 1919 e a4a -a.f4L L.
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TIE SUICIDAL MANIA--In New
York, recently John Albums, a German
sa keeper quarreled with his wife for
failing to collect ten cents for two glasses
OF beer, and in tho midst of his rage shot
himself with a pistol, placing the muzzle
in his mouth. On the same day Joseph
NJ. Reyes. a young Cuban, in distressed
circumstances. shot himself through the
head at his boarding house. Also on the
same dsy, Margaret GatchAll, a young
woman from Newark, New Jersey, jump
ed into East River from a ferry-boat
while evidently insane, but was rescued
before life was extinct. 5. ~
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~JoNEsBoRo,' Tenn,
August goth. 1872.

JONESBORO, 1ENN.
August goth, 1872.
Mcssrs. A. r. MoULToN,J. III. CROUCH
z. G. MoRRIsoN, j. X. p. HALL
Tnos. b. KEEPER, r. NJ. HoPPEI
and others:
GENTLEMEN Your letter of July,
LIST, 1872, expressing your confidence in
my integrity, ability and capacity for
the position /: and soliciting me to consent
to the use of my name as a candidate for
the Senate in the General Assembly of
the State of Tennessee, to be elected in
November next, from the First Senafo>
rial District, composed of the counties of
johnson, Carter, Washington, and
Greene, and piedging me not only your
own, but the support of a majority of the
voters of the District irrespective Of party
or politics, was received in due time.
Such expressions ~emenatipg from those
who have known me from childhood, who
have known me in adversely and poverty,
as we'll as in prosperity, who have known
me in all the relations of life, and who
have at times differed with me in politics
and other public questions, are calculated
to inspire the hope that reconciliation"
the essential forerunner of genuine peace
and prosperity in any land or country
where internal discussions may have pre-
dominated for a time is now spreading
her gentle influence abroad in the land, to
such an extent, 1, sincerely trust. as will
unite all our people North and South,
East and West, in one fraternal brother
hood of friendship, and goodwill to each
1I.fF
To me your expressions of confidence
are peculiarly gratifying in these days of
corruption and fraud and 1 desire to
cherish no richer boon; and hope that l
may be able to transmit the character you
give me, untarnisbed. as an inheritance to
my children.-Having maturely sconsid-
cred the matter, with many similar as
,urances Of support, in all the counties in
he District, l have consented to become
| candidate for the Senate upon the ex-
press condition that the people of the
District at the ballot boz, are permitted
o hold the convention to nominate and
tlect q Senator without the hope OF
ee or reward" or without the party lash.
Yours truly, |
II IL REEVES. l
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BUFFALO. N. Y, Dec. IS, 1870,

DIR. r. V. PIERCE: For the past six
months l have used your Golden Medical
Discovery in my practice, and in that
time | have tested its merits in severe
coughs. both acute and chronic, in chronic
diseases of the throat, severe cases of
bronchitis, general arrangement of the
system, constipated condition of the
bowels, and wherever a thorough Altera-
tive, or blood purifier. has been indicated.
In all cases | have found it to act gently,
yet thoroughly and effectuaIly in removing
the various diseased conditions, and bring
ing about a healthy action throughout
the system. Yours fraternally.
HI. P. HALL, NJ. d.
This medicine is sold BY all respectable
druggists in all parts of America. 2
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LONDON, August a19.-The riots il
Belfast are not yet suppressed. The
Mayor and magistrates have issued pro-
clamation warning the rioters to disperse,
under pain of the severest penalties for .
continuance of the disorders. The fight
ing continued lost night. the stones falling
like hail. .H55r .8ageI Q
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FAcroRrv1nLE, Tenn. Aug. Iith;i872

CLEVELAND, ONO, Aug. 19.-About
five O'Clock this morning the train employ
ed in transporting Dan Rice's circus over
the ~Sandusky, Dayton and Cleveland
railroad. ran over a horse near Tifin,
Ohio, throwing the train from the track
and greatly damaging the circus property.
Four circus employees were seriously and
n fatally injured. ~aslls8 ? h1A .a0i
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Humans sharc with Horsex-

Humans Share with Horses
the benefits derivable from the world-re-
moved MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT.
The most irrefragable testimony establish
es the fact that this wondrous balm exerts
the same soothing and healing influence
when applied to the human %cuticle, that it
does in cases ofspavin, founders, ring-bone
poll evil scratches, wind gall and other
ailments of the horse which requires out
ward treatment. 1t is, in fact, the most
effectual of all externa, remedies for rheu-
matism, govt, stiffness of the neck, neural
gia, sore throat, swellings cut and bruises
of all kinds.
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CHIcAeo,Aug. 19.-Saturday night the
freight train on the Naples and Hannibal
railroad ran into a drove of cattle, throw
ing the engine and four cars from the
track. wrecking them badly. and serious
ly. if not fatally, scalding IL engineer and
fireman. n t.fs eH