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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Legislative Proceedings.

Thursdays Assembly proceedings were
as follows:
Senators Earnest, Gibson and Greene
were appointed committee to examine
into the boundary dispute between Vir-
ginia and Tennessee.
Mr.. Gibson explained that in surveying
the line between Virginia and North Caro-
lima, before Kentucky and Tennessee were
erected into independent States, there was
difference of seventeen miles between
the surveyors representing the two States.
In 1920, after Tennessee and Kentucky
became States, this boundary dispute was
revived and was settled by joint COM
mission appointed by the two States. The
northern line was adopted from CuEnber-
land Gap to the Tennessee river, where
the southern line was followed to the Mis-
sissippi river, thus cutting strip of seven
teen miles off this State from the Tennes-
see river to the Mississippi. This settled
the question between Tennessee and Ken
lucky. Virginia now claimed that the
southern line was the correct one, and
that strip of Tennessee territory seven
| teen miles wide extending from Cumber-
| land Gap to the North Carolina boundary
| belonged to Virginia.
The Banner gives the following summa
ry of proceedings
| The economical mood of the House was
further evinced by abolishing two clerk.
ships, and refusing to make a small ap-
preparation for postage stamps.
A resolution offered by Mr., Enloe looks
to saving large amount of State warrants
which were put cup the spout" on State
| prison account. 1t will take $50, 900 in
cash to redeem them.
Mr.. McGhee introduced bill which
provides for canceling instead of burning
Bank of Tennessee notes. Any way vii
suit us, so the stuff is gotten rid of a:
| quickly as possible.
House bill with regard to the issue o
| bonds by small towns" of not less thar
800 nor more than 10000 inhabitants
and that amending the act of last ses
sion, for the admission of patients to th'
| Insane Asylum, were passed on third read
ing, and considerable new business was in
| trOduced
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Mark Twain on Editors.

In his new book, /" Roughing IT," Gle
mems says:
Nobody, except he has tried it, knows
what it is to be an editor. 1t is easy
to scribble local rubbish, with the facts all
before you; it is easy to clip selections
from other papers; it is easy to string out
correspondence from any locality but it
is an unspeakable hardship to write editor
ials. Subjects are the troubles-the dreary
lack of them, mean. Every day it is
drag, drag, drag-think and worry and
suffer-all the world is dull blank, and
yet the editorial columns must be filled.
Only give the editor a subject, and his
work is done-it is no trouble to write it
up but fancy how you would feel if you
had to pump your brains dry every day
in the week, fifty-two weeks in the year.
1t makes one lOw-spirited simply to think
of it. The matter that each editor of
daily paper in America writes in the course
of year would fill from four to eight bulky
volumes like this book. Fancy what a
library an EDITORS work would make after
twenty or thirty years service. Yet peO-
pie often wonder that Dickens, Scott, Bull
wer' Dumas, ETC., have been able to pro-
duce so many books. If these authors had
wrought as voluminously rs newspaper
editors do, the result would be something
to marvel at indeed. t..t
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
PRAYER by telegraph.
"Vidi,n the distinguished New Yorl
aavc

"Vidi," the distinguished New York
correspondent, says:
The prayer meeting in Fulton street is g
| sensitive Barometer Of the religious world
of the United States. The attendance has
| increased quite fifty per cent. since the Isl
| of February, and the exercises are marked
! by uncommon zest. Daily instances OF
] awakening conversion occur among per-
sons present Reports of new revivals and
conversions are sent in daily from churches
in different parts of the country which
had previously come requests for prayer.
A number of new daily union prayer meet
ings send greetings, and desire prayer Tor
their permanence. / looked in the other
day at 1855 o'clock (the hour for closing
as gentleman rose, saying: /, too, am
from the West and want to tell you OF
something lately witnessed there that has
thrilled my heart. During the late Con-
ventiOn of Young Mems Christian AssO-
citation in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, daily dis
patches were passing by telegraph between
associations in different parts of the coun-
try and the convention.
An operator at GAINESVILLE, who received
and transmitted the messages, vas invited
to the devotional meeting, and carelessly
consented to go in. 1t was but few min
utes before he was seized with the convic-
ton that he was a perishing sinner, and rose
to ask prayer TOR himself. Before the
meeting closed he rose again, and with
great Joy declared his faith in the Sa-
vior, saying that he felt as certain that
God had forgiven his sins as that he
stood thare. Shortly after a delegate, who
had been to GAINESVILLE, returned to Cincin-
natl and told the story. An operator in the
Cincinnati Office heard of it. He said to
himself, "That's rather sensational story,
and I don't believe it." During an idle
hour in the office it occurred to him to test
the story. So he called GAINESVILLE. Zanes-
vile answered, and he asked the question:
"Was an operator convertedin theChristian
Association Convention in your place the
other day ?' "Yes,p was the answer,
and am the man" care you a Chris
tian 81 "No." "Then come with me to
Christ / want to pray with you. Will
you kneel down now and pray for yourself
while pray for you ?n "All right" Then
Continued the speaker) they closed that
telegraphic circuit, and opened one with
heaven! God answered. The soul of that
operator was converted, and the very next
evening he went into the meeting of the
Young Mems Christian Association, told
his story and confessed his faith. Names,
dates and references were given to vouch
for this strange story, and as the speaker
concluded another jumped up i'll remote
corner by the door and said, 1" | want to
say one WOrd.n The leader said no, and
was giving out the closing verse, but the
stranger persisted, and said: I" / can con-
firm every word of the story just told, for
| was present myself at that telegraphlc
prayer meeting" FsFE f1 ssF-H FIr -E
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Women i'm Society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has an article in
the atlantic for April on women, from
which we extract this paragraph:
A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business, and
it is a woman's business to please. / don't
say that it is not her business to vote, but
/ do say that the woman who does not
DIease, is a false note in the harmontes of
nature. She may not have youth or beau
ty. or even manner; but she must have
something in her voice or expression, or
both. which makes you feel better dis
posed toward your race 70 look ator to lis
ten to. She knows that as well as we do;
and her first question after you have been
talking your soul into her consciousness is,
"did / please?n A woman never 1oTgets
her sex. She would rather talk Win
man than an angel, any day."
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Anfhnrs Who arc Loved.

The company before that famous q Back
Log f" of Warmers, discourse as follows IN
the forthcoming number Of Scribf1eT'S:
THE FIRE-TENDER-Doubt to go
back to what we were talking of, the world
has a fonduess for some authOrsand thinks
of them with an affectiOnate and half-pIty-
ing familiarity; and it may be that this
grows out Of something in their lives quite
as much as anything in their writings.
There seems to be more disposition OF per-
sonal liking to Thackary than to Dickens,
now both are dead-a result that would
hardly have been predicted when the world
was crying over Little Nell, or agreeing to
hate Becky Sharpe.
THE YOUNG LADY-What was that you
were telling about Charles Lamb, the 9TH
er day, Vaudeville? Is not the popular
liking for him somewhat independent of
his writings?
MANDEVILLE-He is a striking example
of an author who is loved. Very likely
the remembrance of his tribulatiOns has
still something to do with the tenderness
felt for him. He supported no dignity,
and permitted familiarity which indica-
ted no self appreciation of his real rank in
the world of letters. l have heard that
his acuuaintances Familiarity called him
Charley"
OUR NExT-DooR-It' relief to know
that! Do you happen to know what Soc
rates was called?
MANDEvILLE-I have seen people who
knew Lamb very well. One of them told
me, as an illustration of his want of digni-
ty, that as he was going home late one
night through the nearly empty streets he
was met by a registering party who were
making a night of it from tavern to tav-
ern, They fell upon Lamb, attracted by
his odd figure and hesitating manner, and
hosting him OH their shoulders, carried
him off, singing as they went. Lamb en-
loved the lark, and did not tell them who
he was. When they were tired of Juggling
him they lifted him, with much effort and
difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and
left him there amid the broken bottles, ut
terly unable to get down. Lamb remained
there philosophically in the enjoyment of
his novel adventure, until passing
watchman rescued him from his ridicu-
lous situation.
THE EFIRE-TENDER-HOw did the story
get out?
MANDEvILLE-Oh Lamb told all about
it next morning; and when asked after
wards why he did So he replied that ther e
was no fun in it unless he told it,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17

Happy-Go- Lucky has cheeks rosy red,
Ten times a day he will stand on his head.
Happy Go-Lucky is brimful of fun,
Up in the morning as soon as the sun,
Sliding on banisters, all the way down,
Playing at circus and humping his crown.
When he has shocked all the house with alright
Off he goes, screaming with rOguish delight.
Happy-Go-L Lucky once climed up tree.
Just to look round and see what he could see.
Crack went the bought Such terrible fall
Didn't hurt Happy -Go-Lucky at all
Maybe the fairies, with some potent charm,
Because he's so cheerful, have kept him from
harm. r-..
Mother so wishes that he would be still,
Only for once but the rogue never will!
runs out in the streets,
Asks in to dinner each beggar he meets;
Happy Go Lucky-now, just think of that
Tied granny's spectaeleS on the poor cat
When he knows mother is going to scold,
Up he trots gravely, in tears, l am told;
Then he will kiss her and hug her with joy,
Any one got such an out-and-Out boy e?
George Cooper.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
New Hanpshire ElectIou in Washipgtou.

p
Crounse, of the New York Times, tele-
graphs from Washington of the election
news as follows:
The effect of the New Hampshire cleo
tions here upon the Democrats has been
decidedly interesting, as well as very GU
rious. You cannot find Democrat who
ever expected, or even wanted, to carry
New Hampshire. Such danger was to
have been avoided at any cost success in
that State would have given their party an
overwhelming confidence that they would
have died from political apopleXy next
November they would have had no in
centive to work they would have WaXed
fat and gross with the certain prospect of
the spoils and in q state of supreme DEM
cratic over-cOnfidence; the Republicans
would have stolen the victory out of their
grasp. But there is another phase of the
question, in the fact that some of the old
Democratic warehouses, hitherto silent, are
muttering curses this morning on the un-
holy alliance at Cincinnati. a prominent
Ohio Democratic member of Congress,
contemplating with disgust the Labor Re-
form vote in New Hampshire, denounced
with much fervor the idea of tying the
great Democratic Party, with its millions
of voters, upon the tail of party that, in
the entire poll of the State vote, could not
get enough 10 MAKE d aIespecCdoIe Sno" VI
"scattering.D As to the sorehead Repub-
licans, their feelings are gravely set forth
in this mornings Democratic organ, the
Patriot, which, not meaning to be sarcas-
tic, says: ,-
dit must be confessed that the impress
sion produced by the speeches of Mr..
Trumbnll, Mr.. Sumner and their associ-
ates upon the New England community is
far less than their friends anticipated. This
may perhaps be attributed in part to the
course pursued by Senator Patterson and
his followers, who out-Heroded Herod in
their support of Grant after having con-
certed with the Liberals here in the origi-
nal opposition. That desertion will not
prefit Mr.. Patterson much, for he has long
since been registered for execution at the
first opportunity. Having sacrificed the
respect of those whom he deserted, he will
not even gain the reward which treachery
sought to acquire"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Pats Piety.

Pat was an idle boy. One day he was
suddenly called up and the question pro-
pounded by the pedagogue:
How many Gods are there ?'
Pat was not distinguished theolOgian,
but quickly answered,
"Three, sir"
"Take your seat" thundered the mas
ter, and if you don't answer in five min
utes, will welt you.n --a "a e
The probationary passed, and Pat taking
the floor hesitatingly stated the number to
be five, sir"
He received the promised welting and
returned to his seat with ten minutes for
consideration.
Ten minutes up, Pat was up too, and sat-
isfied that he hadn't fixed the number suf-
ficiently high before, shouted out:
There's ten, sir.n
He saw the ferule descending, and break
ing out of the door, he cleared a five-rail
fence and ran like quarter horse across
the meadow. Painting with exhaustion,
he met lad with book in his hand, and,
with the look of one in pursuit of knOwl-
edge under difficulties, he asked:
Where areyou going"
"T To school, yonder," was the reply.
How many Gods are thereon
"One," answered the boy. E
Well, you'd better not go down there.
You'll have good time with your one
God. 1 just left there with ten, and that
wasn't enough to save me the darndest
licking you ever heard Of"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
To Shave Scientifically.

As men continue to shave and to be
shaved "a practice which some regard as
unnatural and undesirable we transfer 20
our columns the following brief essay upon
shaving, which is from the pen of SO cele-
brated an authority as Mr.. Mechl.
Never fail to wash your beard with
soap and water, and to rub it dry, imme-
diately before you apply the lather, of
which the more you use, and the thicker
it is, the easier you will shave.
Never use warm water, which makes q
tender face. In cold weather place your
closed razor in your pocket or under your
arm to warm it. The moment you leave
your bed (or BATH is the best time to
shave. always wipe your razor clean
and strop it before putting it away; and al
ways put your shaving-brush away with
the lather on it.
"The razor (being only very fine saw
should be moved in sloping or saving
direction, and held nearly fiat to your face,
care being taken to draw the skin as tight
as possible with the left hand, so as to pre-
sent an even surface, and to throw out the
beard. 1.-THE practice of pressing on the
edge of razor in stropping it soon rounds
it; the pressure should be directed to the
back, which should never be raised from
the strop. If you shave from heel to point
of the razor, strop it from point to heel, but
if you begin with the point in shaving,
then strop it heel to point. g-a
"If you only once put away your razor
without stropping it, or otherwise perfect
ly cleaning the edge, you must no longer
expect to shave well and easy, the soap
and damp so soon rust the fine teeth and
edge. "a piece of soft plate-leather should
always be kept with razors to wipe them
| with.O r.TRA
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
The Brewing of Soma.

Whittier has poem in the April AtIare
tic under the above title. The New York
Post says: at is intended to discourage
faith in the divine quality of any intoxica
ton of the soul, this maddening Soma
being the type of all the self-eXalting
spells by which men have striven to in
tensify their spiritual emotions :"
"And yet the past comes round again,
And new doth old fulfil;
In sensual transports wild as vain
We brew in many Christian fain
The heathen Soma still
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways
Reclothe us in our rightful mind
Inquirer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence praise.
6 Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy Peace"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Local Miscellany.

There was pretty full market yesterday. .
Awnings are being put up the full length OF
Temple Block on Market Place
ThOs Campbell, who was shot the other even
ing, was still alive yesterday. DR.. Campbell IS
attending him.
Singleton was fined in two cases Yesterday by
the Recorder, but managed to get off without
disbursing any cash.
The sidewalk question is being brought to an
issue. A fine was imposed yesterday by the
Recorder for refusing or neglecting to comply
with the law.
The Knoxville Weekly Chronicle is the bes
Advertising Medium in East Tennessee.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
FOREIGN.
Important Military Appropriations I'm
France.

France.
PARIS, March 16.-The trial of Marshal Ba-
zane for tho captulation of Metz is expected
and just now occupies the public attention, as
he can only be tried by his peers. There is
some difficulty in the Assembly in ordering
court martial which is competent, as nearly all
the marshal officials of whom the court must
be composed, were themselves concerned in
some capitulation or surrender during the late
war.
The Assembly to-day discussed the budget
President Thiers made speech defending the
estimates of the War Department He insisted
that they could not be reduced. 1t was neces-
sary to replace material of the war fortify the
frontier; repair Notifications and create real
army.
It's rumored that General Cissey, Minister
ofWar, will ask for credit for 200, 600 francs
for building new forts around Paris and fortlti-
cations on the frontier, particularly at Longuy
and Belfort.
The PrussiaRs are actively extending forth
1cstiOns at Metz aad Strasburg.
The commission of pardons having rejected
the appeals of Feeble, Quertel and Girard, the
three Communists convicted for the murder OF
hostages they were shot this morning at Sa-
tory.
President Thiers, at his reception yesterday,
spoke upon the Roman question, and in his re-
marks he maintained that Catholicism is tra-
Ultlon and an element of strength to France.
Dispatches from Cannes announces the death,
II mat town, of George Eustis, formerly q
member Of the United States House of Repre-
''A'atives from Louisiana, and later, private
ss',e'sFy to John Slidell, when he was Confed-
-SYe commissioner to France He was SON.
law to Nh. COrcoran, of Washington.
.-SSDCE, March l6-It is reported that Eng
= tT-ao-S "-S Uruguay have come to an open rup-
two na.; .uSt all friendly relations between the
'"O I'D nS'ions have ceased.
vrr. 4Is sISd lpn-clad man-of war, Lord Clyde, %
guns, IS ashore in the Meditersnian
ha' hnADs!D' March l7-MOntpepsier declines
a' candidssuFe for the C0rtes '1'
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
BIackmaiIing Fashionable,

We gave some days ago an account of an
attempt of Miss Couch to blackmail
Rev. DR.. Carter, of New York. He pros
ecuted her at once, and now her friends
admit her prostitute and beg for mercy.
The report says:
Mr.. Elbridge t. Gerry, counsel for the
prosecution, refused to consent to dis
missal of the case. 1t was not brought
through a spirit of revenge; not brought
by a dissolute man to rid himself of his
mistress, but by all aged minister of the
Gospel, man fifty-two years of age, who
stands as he has ever stood, prominent III
the highest ecclesiastical and social circles
his honor and purity have never been
questioned Whatever of mercy or pity
there may be urging him to dismiss the
complaint, law was inexOrable; and must
hold sway.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
Harper's Bazar.

NOtICeS Of LItt 4 ooo',
It Is really the snly illustrated chronlcler OF Isni0n
:; tha oo1nfrv IT'S Supplements alone are worth the
bscTintion price of the paper While fully maintain
ing its position as mirror Of fashion, II also contains
stoIieo ss Boston Saturday Evening Gazette
TSsre never was any paper published that so de-
& 80, new bonnet; it viii save you ten times the
TgS r in the household economy it teaehes.-Provi-
T5e yoang lady who buys single number Of Har-
nerjs Bazar is made subscriber for hfe.-tNew York
Evening Post. :, . :,
bieh the Harpers publish it is almost ideally well
dted and the class of readers for whom il is intended
the mothers and daughters in average familes-can
not but profit by its good and good taste, which,
we have doubt, are to-day making very many homes
taking lessons in personal and household and social
management from this gOod-natured mentOr.-lIhe
Nation, N Y.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17
WASHINGTON.
Sumner May Preside over the Cincinnati
Conventions.

-"
WASHINGTON, March 16.--A Tribune Wash
ingtOn correspondent has information from an
unquestioned source that Sumner has consented
to preside over the Cincinnati Convention.
There was no session in the Senate to-day.
Mr. Blaine is feeding the press tonight
Mr.. Sherman in a speech yesterday said the
tariff could safely be reduced $200Oo,OOO, but
he warned the Senators if tea and coffee were
admitted free, the reduction must stop there.
Sherman favors the reduction on textile fab
RIGS.
Mr.. Tom Murphy, formerly Collector OF Gus
toms, testified before the Retrenchment Com
mttee tn at he was not influenced by Grant,
Porter or Babcock in the Leet and Stocking
order business affair. Grant wants Leet to leave
New York on account Of scandal. e-
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-17

At marriage lately in Maine, the
brides voice faltered, and she paused in
the midst of the impressive ceremony.
Her niece, bright little three-year-old,
thinking the naughty minister was eom-
pelling poor aunty to say something disa-
greeable, stamped her little foot and ex-
claimed in tone of authority, "Auntie,
don't 90 thaV it.u