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WOODSTOCK,

but fortunately, / can command the
means to silence. your miserable tongue.
What i. is your price. 2"
"Wel, / amt going to be hard on
you, Nell A thousand dollars will do
at present, and then
"And them" Interrupted Nell, "you
will dog me for more Wheh that Is
gohe?" a
Eyes" tts.s gt,f
Had John Berger iseeh the angry
CLEAN which shot from her eyes at that
instant the compression of the lips, as
if sudden and desperate resolve had
been made-he would have suspected
the sincerity of her subsequent words.
You shall have the money, She said
quietly. ssa ISL
"When, and howl" . So
son this very spot, and tonight: Ny
husband is away, and the business must
be done with before he returns. You
remain here and l will return within
two hours with the MONEY!.
fail me"
With that, he handed her the reins,
and stood aside as she drove away to-
ward the village. She drove fast, and,
upon reaching the hotel, told servant
to hold the pony until she returned.
Going to her room, she opened large
trunk, in a compartment ofwhich were
pair Of silver mounted pistols, belong
ing to her husband Her manner was
strangely, unnaturally calm, as she ex-
amined one of the weapons, saw that
it was loaded, and placed it in her DO
som.
"He drives me to it, she muttered to
herself; che compels me to choose be-
tween his destruction and my own, and
/ choose his!"
Her mind seemed dazed, and only ca
pable Of realizing a resolve to free her
self of the barrier that had so suddenly
arisen between her and happiness. That
one idea seemed to be hRlrying her re-
sistlessly on. Descending, she re-enter-
ed the phnton, and drove toward the
point where she had left John Berger.
Upon being left alone, Berger sat
down to wait patiently her return.
''She can't be back within two hours, +"
he thought, 'I'm mighty sleepy"
With that his head dropped, and he
was soon fast asleep. He" had been
drinking considerably during the day,
and the effect Of the liquor was to add
to his sleepiness.
Unconscious Of the lapse of time he
slept on until the sound of wheels arous-
ed him. Staggering to his feet, he saw
a wagon approaching. 1t had grown
darker, and, half asleep and half drunk,
he did not see that the OCCUPANT was a
man.
"She's come at last" he muttered, as
he placed himself in front of the vehicle,
and grabbed for the reins. ''Stop!' he
shouted, as the man attempted to drive
on. THE money"
A flash and an explosion finished
the sentence, and John Berger fell, shot
Through the head.
Naturally supposing that robbery was
intended, the man had drawn a pistol
and fred '
The sound had scarcely died away
before Nell drove upon the scene; but
she had been saved from becoming
mmderess. Another bullet than hers
had saved the happiness Of her new life
from jeopardy-had saved her from the
committal Of crime the thought of
which even she, in cooler and happier
hours, shrank from with horror
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07
OUR OWN.


II had known in the morning
How YEARLY all the day IL
The words unkind would trouble my mind
That said when you went away,
I had been more careful darling;
:. Nor given you needless pain;
But we vex our own with.lookLaod tone
We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
You may give me the kiss Of peace,
Yet it well might be that never for me
g. The pain of the heart should cease!
How many go forth at morning
Who never come home at night!
And hearts have broken for harsh " ,rds spoken,
That sorrow can ne'er set right.
We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometimes guest; -
Bnt oft for our own the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best,
All lips with the curl impatient, s-
All! brow with the shade of scorn,
'Twere cruel fate were the night too late
To u, do the work of the morn
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07
The Aiassacl usatts Pzouahman is re.

The Massacl usetts Ploughmam is re-
sponsible for the following, ''Nottis, y
said to have been found pasted on a
fence in New Hampshire. "Know kow
is allowed in these medders, any men
'or women letten thar kows run the
rode, wot gifts inter my medders afore-
Sod shell have his tail cut orr by me,
Obadiah Rogers"
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2'nftifaI.
~ ~ - 4
CHRIST IS ALL.

L entered once home of care
For ACE and penurv ware there.
v.terooo. aud low. ysth.,. 90
-it asted The lonely. mother whanoe
nv ,.,,,,oss r,5ouhood,s aofonoa
c..,,a 49,. cr,,-;,. ,,,,s ~,
1.s,. ,e.;aa a d,,;no nod
w,e.--ei sweet infant drooned h,s head
Il. iJ.m,,,,. ..ui aff
y,.rhod h,a ];.r,;,o, +,1,.s s,,.so. .. Nov.
Ava 90 his .,;,;t n.asea .,av
-. ..c,.,,. 4. N y
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07

Potatoes are sailing in some parts of
the State Of Pennsylvania at thirty
cents per bushcl.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07

Pere HyacintLe and his new wife are
going to start newspaper. T.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07
DARWlNIANlsM.

1t is of the elder Dumas the follow
ing story is told:
A stranger having heard with sur
prise that Dumas was quadroon, call
ed upon Dumas to verify that fact.
q am. told" began. the visitor, ''that
you are a quadfoon, Monsieur Dumas
Sand your father g 5..s INK, a.
''Was a mulatto! the distinguished
Gen, 2 Dumas, Of the army Of Italy-and
a nrilattoi" Eoared the aitthor, in tones
that left 10 dotibt Of the diiality of his
lungs. avs .s... ....-.
i'And his miother?" Continued the in
trr,der interrogatively.
'Was i Negro" shouted Dumas,
rising to his feet.
'sAnd who, may ask, was h er moth
err" continued the enterprising and in
defatigable bore:
An ape, sir, all ape!' Numbered the
Indignant author. MY family begins
exactly were yours ends-waiter, show
this monkey the door, ?
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l gave her rose. and gave her a
ring, and asked her to marry me then;
but she sent them all back-the insen-
sible thing-and said she'd no notion of
men. told her had creams of mon
ey and goods-tried to trighten her
with grown!; but she answered she
wasn't brought up in the woods, to be
scared by the sereach of an owl l
called her cabbage and every thing
bad; sighted her features and form
till at length succeeded in getting her
mad, and she ragged like sea in a
storm. And then in moment | turn
ed and smiled, called her my angel and
all she fell into my arms like weari-,
some child and exclaimedi eve will
marry this fall,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07

Ten years later. At Saratoga the
season. was well advanced, and the gaity
at its highest. The hotels were full, the
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07

q REEN'S MANSION HOUSE,
VI ALEXANDRIA, VA.
JAMES GREEN, PROPRIETOR,
Is frst-cass hotel, in every respect. The citizens
OF the valley having bushes in Alexandria Washing
n, and travellers going North South will find this
agreeable resting place the route, as does not
require the early start by hours from Wash
lngton or Baltimore. Cars and Steamboats, leave Al
exandria for Washington and return every hour from
4 A. NJ to ~ P. NJ. JAN TT
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Shenandoah Herald.
ADVERTISING RATES:

Advertisements viii be inherited at One Corar psr
sd uae ften lines or less for the first issrton and
20 oents for each subsequent insertion.
Unless the number of insertions be marked upon the
manuscript, II will be published xntn forbid and
charged accordingly.
Notices IN the local column VIII be inserted at double
the advertising rates. 49,.
Advertisements for tires months longer VIII be Ia
sorted OF lower rates s--7. = So
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tTTM. BEN. PRICE,
w SUCCESSOR TO PRICE 4 CO.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
FOR THE SAFE Of
FLOUR, GRAIN, AND ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE,
No. 93S LoufstxNA; AVE.
WASHINGTON:
~ consignments solicited, and prompt returns
made. apr lift.
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CHINN CO.,
= Successor to Samuel Hartley,l
GEHIRAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS;
No. Is UNION srRErr;
ALEXAN ORA, VA

u fifticular attention paid to the selling of Flour
Grain, and all other kinds Of Country Produce, and
filing orders for Groceries, Gusuo Seed, Plaster Fish
Salt, &C., St the lowest market rates. ~
r. Agents for Tho "Rodnd Top" ~ gulic Ce
hseut: 9uXy Il
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J. T. BEcKHAM. WIN. H. FowLE. D. s. DELAPLANE
DECKHAM, DELAPLANE & co.
ID GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Agents for Sprague Mower. And dealers in
FISH, SALT, PLASTER, sFED FERTILIZER, &c
No. Is KING STREET,
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
Particular attention paid to the selling Of Flour,
Grain &c. Liberal advances made on Flour &C., in
Store. feb 15-tf
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
Coming Back.

EDITORS CHRONICLE: There has been great
deal of talk about the negros' ballot at the ap-
preaching election. l don't believe there will
be three negro votes cast for Greeley and Brown
in this city at the approaching election. learL-
cd this morning that Alexander the Great, and
his friend Bowles, has fled from the Democratic
camps to the Republican party, praying for re-
demption for the sin they committed in joining
the Democratic party. Now they say, ''To vote
for Messrs. Greeley and Brown would justly in
vite on our heads the contempt and scorn of
honest men. We should not only brand our
selves as political knaves, but as political fools
merely marching to occupy a position to which
we are invited by the Democratic party, which
party during the past forty years has existed al
most exclusively to make sure our slavery and
degradation as race"
It is good thing that they have taken hint
and come praying for redemption before the
election, else they would have been lost for
ever. We hope to see goodly number of our
full brethren rel that s they n may sin no more and 60
their way in peace. A NEGRO.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
Hog Law Wanted.

Owing to the want Of proper ordinances the
Edgefeld hogs instigated by q ravenous appe--
tite perambulate with impunity that city and
have no respect for gardens and yards. Yester-
day morning ere the stars began to pale, before
aroused from his slumbers by noise which he
thought was made by burglars. Seizing gun
he commenced an investigation and found six
hogs feasting on his sweet potato patch. The
ravenous porkers actually rooted up the gar
den fence and thereby gained access. One of
the brutes, an old dumpling shaped SOW, weighs
three hundred and fifty pounds. She mounts a
fence, and holding by her teeth, swings off and
her weight is sufficient to break the fence down.
A hog law is needed Union and American.
vile, where their depredations equal thoss of
Edgefeld, which calls for hog law. Here the
owners of hogs would advise persons to have
fences hog proof and not want the liberty of the
quadrupedal board of health disturbed.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
AN ORGAN As Is AN ORGAN.
Thunderiug their Batteries at Andy.


The Memphis appeal is an organ. In
this "exigency" it is not on the fence. 1t
speaks out and we may say speaks as an
organ should. In its issue Of the Mth it
thunders ct Andy in this style:
What stormy career is this of Andrew
johnson! If he could win in the terrible
struggle upon which he is just entering,
result wholly impossible, he has only be-
gun new life of ceaseless intellectual COM
bats, and he becames immortal as the po-
litical prize-fghter of theage. He aohors
Ben. Butler, and the willy Massachusetts
Congressman will have for the first time
an antagonist as solid as the everlasting
rock-ribbed mountains whose rugged maj
esty first lent inspiration to Johnson's ge-
MUS But of what avail is all this? What
good can come of it? Would Tennessee
or the South gain aught by sending up to
Washington a keg of nitrO-glycerine?
Would the "bloody chasm " close its re-
voting jaws more rapidly if JOhnson's
fearful diatribes upon the government of
Grant and Grants hideous morals and
practices be opened up in the House of
Representative? What can the South or
the country gain of tranquility or peace
Will he secure the enactment of measures
of practical benificence? An adherent of
Grant would not vote Grant money or pups
if the proposition came from Andrew
Johnson. Cheatham will soon win the
same place and potency in Congress that
he holds among the people. He will be as
popular in Washington as he was in the
army, and is to-day among the people of
his own country. OF the two men, Cheat
ham is infinitely more capable of serving,
practically, his constituents. Andrew
Johnson exhausts his usefulness when he
imparts to the people philosophical views
Of American theories of government as
wise and statesmanlike as those of the
fathers of constitutional law, and, while
an audience, as Congressman he can
serve us in nothiug.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
Public Men as Gift Takers.

Judge Johnston, of Cincinnati, delivered
lengthy speech few days ago at
Columbia in which he referred to the
charges of gift taking as follows:
But gifts to public men in actual politi-
cal life are not always complimentary
merely, but often substantially aids in sus-
tanning the otherwise ruinous burdens
of public life. In the midst of his parlia-
mentary career Edmund Burk received
from the Marquis of Rockingham gift in
money sufficient to have purchased hand
some estate in this country; and the Ouch
ess of Marlborough gave old Pitt G1O, 1000
equal to 900 of our money-as she ex-
pressed it, " For having defended the lars
Of his country, and endeoVored to Save it
from ruin"
Henry Clay once became involved by en-
dorsing for his friends to the extent, if my
memory serves me Alright, of $4,000. To
relieve him from this weight of care, a par
ty of gentlemen redeemed his paper and
sent it to him as present. The same
thing was done more than once for Daniel
Webster.
Now, 1 say, that substantial gifts, in
money or other property, to faithful public
servants, to save them from embarrassment
or ruin, are quite as harmless, and far more
useful, than gifts merely complimentary.
Anu L SuppOSc I1dGj III COuSlucIdliOu VI
the inadequacy of the Presidents salary to
meet the exigencies of life, the custom
grew up to present the incoming President
with a coach and pair of horses. Presi-
dent Johnson and President Grant both
declined this customary gift, and probably
put an end to the custom.
It is melancholy chapter in our history
that Mr.. Jefferson, who entered public life
with splendid estate, should have been
so reduced in old age as to have a lottery
chartered for his relief; and that General
Jackson, who went into the Presidency
with q rich domain six miles square, when
his second term expired had to sell his es-
tate piecemeal to pay his debts.
1t is worthy of remark here that since
Grants first nomination to the Presidency
he has not received one dollar or dollars
worth by way of gift from anybody.
But if Grant had received gifts since his
election to the Presidency, what then ?
Washington received gifts before he was
President, while he was President, and af-
ter he was President-received them not
only from his own countryman, but from
foreign princes. You cannot look upon
his equestrian portrait without recOgniz-
ing the white charger presented to him by
the King of Spain, nor visit Mount Vernon
without being shown the offerings of hon.
or and gratitude which he received from
great and good men at home and abroad.
Even the mosaic hearthstOne and richly
sculptured mantle in his dining-hall are
complimentary gifts.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
ANOTHER ISLANDER NAILED.
The Coming Vice President TO Rev. G. w.
DenisOn.

BOSTON, Aug. %, 1872.
The Boston Journal of to-day publishes
the following letter from Senator Wilson
in responce to the recent charges of drunk
enness, &c, by Rev. &. w. DenisOn, of
Washington, against President Grant:
NATICK, Aug. q, 1872
Rec. c. W. DcniSOn:
SIR have just read in the Springfield
Republican of this date, your letter Oh the
drinking habits of General Grant. l am as
tonished at seeing myself quoted as saying
to you in a conversation last winter: Pres
ident Grant drinks too much. have told
him So" Senator Wilsol,n you say, twill
not deny this" / do deny, in the most
emphatic language, that 1 have ever said
anything of the kind to you, or anything
that resembled it. Hour statement is false.
During the last nine years l have seen Gen.
Grant hundreds of times. have seen him
in his camp, in his family, at his own Ia
BILE, at the table of Others, at home and
abroad, and have yer seen him under the
influence of Intoxicating liquors. remem-
ber distinctly in our conversation you re-
ferred to the ISLANDERS concerning the Pres
ident's drinking habits. L said to you
what have said to others-that regretted
that the President used intoxicating liquors
at all THAT [ wished he would take the
pledge, and that had mind to ask him
to join the Congressional Temperance So
ciety. What I said of the President have
said of all public men who use intoXica-
ting drinks or furnish them to others. l
have for many years felt that if our public
men would wholly abstain from their use
as beverage they would confer lasting
benefit upon their country and upon their
race, nor have any doubt, sir, that if the
truth could be known in regard to the cases
referred to in your singularly reckless state
ments, it would appear that each one of
them was a cruel and malignant slander.
III, WILSON
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
Total 900 Gifts, all CASH.

The Hon. Thos. E. Bramlette. late Governor OF Ken
tucky has consented represent the Trustees in the
MANAGEMENT of this second Grand Gift Concert, and
he will personally see that the money from the
the drawing is fairly conducted, and the gifts Justly
awarded and promptly paid,
the audience, and under the immediate supervision
and direction of the officers and trustees Oh the Public
Library of Kentucky and the following named eminent
and eTen NJ r TGS davs da consented to De
| Hon. NJ Hardin, Judge Court Appeals, ny.
Hon. Proctor Knott, late {, Lebanon, Dis.
Hon. H: " Bruce. Judgs Ninth IGdlcal Si Dis, Ny.
Hon T B Cochran, Chancellor Lou Chan Court
Hon, D StandifOrd; President Farmers ana Dro-
vers' Bank.
Hon. John Barbee, Manager Royal Insurance Co.
Col Phil. Lee, Com. Atty, Ninth Judicial Dist.
DR.: C. Graham; founder Graham Cabinet.
DIR, T. S. Bell, Prof. Medical University Louisville
Hon. J u. Baxter, Mayor, Louisville.
Hon L. i. Burnett, City Attorney.
Henry W0lford Treasurer Louisville
A. U. BramniD, Pres. Manufac;urers' Bank
James idgeford, Pres. I'd National Bank
w. Q. ID: Whips. Proprietor Willard Hotel
=, z; johnston. Pres. Traders Bank.
= d. victor Neweomb. firm of Neweomb. Buchanan
Henry Deepen, Pres German Bank.
Andrew Graham, Tobacco and Cotton Merchant
Dr: NOrvIn Green. Pres. i. IL e. Short Line R.H.
Vol. Rose. Agent Adams Express Company.
TH0S. E. BRAMLETTE,
Agt Public Library of KY, Public Library Building,
LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY,
s Circulars giving full particulars sent on appi-
cation.
R.T. DURRETT. President.
w. N HALDEMAN, yiee-President,
JNo. s. CAIN, Secretary.
FARMERS DRoVERS' BANK, Treasur
jy6-d2taw2m- COW er.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
Republican Meeting at Maryrille.

All a meeting of the Republicans held in
Maryville, at the court house, in Blount
county on the 26th inst, II. r. Lee was
called to the chair and r. J. Allen elected
Secretary, when the following proceedings
were had and done, viz:
Jno F Garner, Lanta Armstrong, Jas F
Beals, John P Rhea, Charles Ish, Dallas
Miser, o P McCammon, J III Edmondson,
Elisha Carpenter, S G Hinton, T f Wal
lace, w L McGinly, r Allen, w S Nc
Teer, S F Cowan, John Connor, Jas A
Jackson, jeff. Read, Samuel Badgett, Sam.
Kinnaman, Clab. Henry, Will Murrin,
Jno Boiling ,Jno Gamble Michael Crouson,
Jos Walker, Merry Webb, Cal. Post, Jr.,
Noah Burchfield, Jno Ridge, and Jas Har-
rison were appointed an Executive Com
mite for the ensuing year.
Ben Cunningham, j G Hale, III l. .
Hackney, s. H Gault and w + Dowell were
appointed delegates to attend the Republi-
can State Convention, to be held at Nash
vile September 4.
Jas Farmer, David Goddard, w T Par
nam, Ben Cunningham, A M Gamble, J
M Oreer, Il Num- w A McTeer and A Gar
m, ner, JF, were appointed delegates to the
| nepuplcan Congressional Convention to
Oe neId IN Chattanooga September II.
~, WI =, 1r Murrln Jno M Lowery, Jas F Beals,
Nv w 3 ? yII, Hlcieef, h M Anderson, E Goddard,
/ v e"AlN y ~ alexander were
pointed delegates to the Senatorial Cop-
vention, to be held at Seyieryille Senfem.
! Der IL.
The following resolution of instruction
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That our delegates to the sew.
eral conventions herein before designated
are left free to vote in the respective con,
ventions to which they are accredited as in
their judgment will best subserve the pub
lie interests, except i'll the event that M. l..
Mcconnell should consent to the use of his
name before either the Congressional Con-
vention, to be held at Chattanooga, or the
Senatorial Convention, to be held at Sewer
vile, in which case the delegates to the
convention before which, if either, he may
agree to submit his name are hereby in
structed to support him as our first choice.
ReSoLved, That the Secretary be, and is
hereby directed to furnish the Knoxville
CHRONICLE with copy of these proceed
| ings with the request that the same be
published. T. r. LEE, President.
r. j. ALLEN, Secretary.
Maryville, August 26, lS72.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
LOuisvilIe industrial Exposition.

The opening Of the Grand National Industrial
tember Sd, and during the exhibition, which
will continue thirty-fYe days, Louisville will
be thronged with visitors from every section of
the country. The reduced fares on railroads
and steamboats, and the grand and varied at
fractions presented by the Exposition will war
rant all who are in quest of pleasure or bent on
business to embrace this opportunity to see in
her bloom one of the most beautiful cities in the
South, and the most superb and comprehensive
exposition of art industry and home products
ever offered to the people of the West and
Southwest. We presume that nearly every one
IN this section will spend few days at the Ex
position this month
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-28
"wbar Bav the Deer Ones Gone -,

The following charming unfinished morcheau
has been picked up in the streets of Thomaston,
Ga. How tender and impassioned are the
strains:
Oh whar hav the deer ones gorn?
And why hav the luved ones fone?
Return, Sweet Sperrits, oh, home return
To the harts that burn for thee-that burn.
Thar's Adlne, the brite gloing mayden,
And Vangeline hoos little hart's an ayden
OF goodness, of kindness, of sweetness, of luv,
And Rhody Ann, ah ! Rhody, Rhody-