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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-08

Pinchbeck threatens TO ,ljsnersa tho 3.
sion Legislature, which causes ex eiten,ont
Business, 1t was thought, would he sns.
pended yesterday. The Committee of rru1o
Hundred have issued an address, giving
the result OF their visit to Washington
stokes was found guilty of murder In the
nrst degree, on Saturday night. -
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-08

rsEE State Teachers Association will
hold q meeting in Nashville in a few days,
and we trust it may be largely attended
There has never been a time when the
teachers and friends of education in Ten
nesee have had so much to encourage
them. Public opinion has reached that
point which forces decisive action on the
subject of education. We have hopes that
the Legislature assembling on Monday
will take liberal and advanced views on
the question, and that the members will
listen gladly to suggestions from those who
have given many years to studying the
question of free school education in all its
bearings. Every friend of education in
the State, whose observation and ex-
perience has led him to pat the ques-
Jion in prNctical shape, should
br.ng his or Der la duencg 20 sear on the
Legislature just aNsemnling. The free
school question has -tocard \ crisis, and
While every indication - an eafiy
and favorable solution ~" friend. of the
cause should bestir the Jnsalyes, and leave
nothing undone that will contribute to
success. .r..
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-08

WE heard gentleman say yesterday,
whose attention had been directed to the
purchase of lot in that favored portion
OF our northeastern suburbs, where the
Mayor and his associates rejoice in the
possession of unimproyed property, that
one of the reasons used to induce him to
puschase, was, that a street Uo,,1d be opened
there right dOay-he knew what he was
talking about, &c. The sequel shows that
he did know what he was talking about,
and only one moro o'eeor 10 required 10 open
streets all the way through the property in
question. Just one more year, tax payers,
and the ring will be in town." at least,
so far as streets are concerned. "Just one
more year." and what soft thing for the
ring No salary required.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-08

WITHOUT intending disparagement to-
wards any one of the gentlemen who are
aspiring to the comptrollership at Nash
vile. we trust that the Legislature will be
very careful in the selection of this very
important officer. He should be chosen
with sole reference to his honesty, expert
ence and capacity, laying aside every other
consideration. He should be man in
whom the people have confidence and
who will indnstriouly labor with az eye
single to The welfare of the State. The
Improvement of our public credit, and the
early payment of the interest on our pub
lie debt, should be the polar star of his
ambition, and before this purpose all other
considerations should sink. A feeling
prevails, at home as we'll as abroad, that
Tennessee may at some time repudate her
obligations. Nothing would do more to
dispel this disgraceful suspicion which
very naturally attaches to us, than the Sc
lection of an honest, upright, capable man
to take charge of our financial interests.
Let the Legislature promptly adopt pro
visions looking to the. payment of our
debts, and then select a competent officer
to execute these provisions, and our credit
will improve amazingly in short time.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-08
PUBLIC ROADS.

a correspondent of the Nashville Ban
ncr suggests that the present plan of
working public roads is sufficient, if pro-
visions are made whereby the hands sum-
moned may be compelled to labor while on
the road. We do not agree with this cor
respondent at all. One of the evils of the
present lame system is that men, when
summoned, merely put in an appearance
to avoid the fine. 1t will be found very
difficult to force them to labor. Besides,
it is unjust to the class of men who are
expected to keep up our roads now, that
they should bear the whole burden
while there are others ~ deeply in
crested as they are, who do not share
such burden. In our opinion, a prop
er road tax, levied for the improve
ment of our thoroughfares, will be found
much more effective, and it will certainly
be nearer justice than the present method.
We trust the Legislature now in session
will give this important question a careful
and thorough investigation.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Physiology in tile Common
Schools.

The following in relation to Ply
siology in Common Schools, by the
Superintendent of Public instruction,
in Iowa, demands the attention of
teachers and school officers:
physiology has been added to the
common school branches in Iowa.
This is timely and excellent provis-
ion. 1t has been fully demonstrated
that the natural sciences may be sue
cessfullytaughti in the common schools
and some knowledge of them is now
justly regarded as necessary part of
common school education. Ply
siology should occupy prominent
position among the sciences. The
laws of health are of the first impor-
tance. No pupil should be allowed
to pass through the public schools
ignorant of the structure of the human
body, its organs and their most i'm
portant functions.
Teachers especially should under
stand the physical wants of their
pupils, in matters pertaining to
warmth, pure air, sunlight and ex-
ercise; also the relations existing
between study and exercise, mental
and physical development, etc.
"After September 1st, 1873, all
applicants for teachers certificates
must pass an examination in ply
siology. No one need fail to receive
certificate on account of this ad-
ditiOn. The sooner teachers com
mence the preparation, the better it
will be made. The examination for
the present. year will not be rigid.
A general knowledge of the science,
such as may be obtained from any Of
the recently published popular works
onphysiology, will entitle theapplicant
to a certificate. No teacher, however,
should be satisfied with a general or
limited knowledge of this or any
other branch which he may have oc-
casion to teach. To be a successful
teacher, one must be daily learner"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Another Remarkable Female
r-HefribUiiOn.

A Decatur, ILL.,, dispatch tells the
following remarkable story of whole
sale murder by a female poisoner.
Last September, A. W. Drake, a
farmer living near Moweaqua, Hi
nois, died under suspicious 5circum-
stances, and Mrs. York, his mother
in-law and house-keeper, was suspect
ed of having had something to do
with his sudden death, but no steps
were taken to investigate the matter,
and Mrs. York went to live. with a
son in Kansas, where a few days since
she was taken i'll, and the physician
summoned to her aid told her she was
poisoned, and had but few hours to
live. Fearing inevitable death, she
made a confession which exposed
to the world q fend incarnate. She
confessed to having poisoned her
husband in 1863, Mrs. A. W. Drake,
her own daughter, two children of
A. W. Drake, the wife off. A. Drake,
formerly of this city, and last Sep
tember A. W. Drake. She then went
to her sons, and a short time ago
made mixture of poison to ad-
minister to him on the first oppor-
tunity. Feeling unwell a day or two
aftelward, she went after some medi-
cine to the cupboard, and by mis-
take took the fatal dose prepared for
her son, which resulted in her own
death.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

something like that and do him
justice. He once, when the Micks
got to throwing stones through the
Methods Sunday school windows,
Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion,
shut up his saloon and took couple
OF six-shooters and mounted guard
over the Sunday school. Says he,
mo Irish need apply" And they
didn't. He was the bulliest man in
the mountains, pard; he could run
faster, jump higher, swear harder,
and hold more tangle-foot whisky
without spilling than any man in
seventeen counties. Put that in.
pard; it'll please the boys more than
any thing you could say. And you
can say, pard, that he never shook his
mother. ".--.'----. -'-sa- = '5---A
''Neyer shook his mother?"
'That's it-any of the boys will
tell you SC"
'Well, but why should he shake
herr"
''That's what 1 say-but some
people does"
''No people of any repute ?"
"Welb some that average pretty
$685." !
"In my opinion, a man that would
offer personal violence to his mother
ought To-"
''Cheese it, pard; you've booked
your ball clean outside of the string.
What I was a-lr;vin' at was that he
never Mro'ced off on his mother
don't you see? No, indeed. He
give her a house to live in, and town
lots, and plenty of money; and he
looked after her and took care of her
all the time; and when she was down
With the smallpox, he set up nights
and nussed her himself. [ think
you're white. I think you're a square
man, pard. I like you, and I'll lick
the man that don't. I'll lick him till
he can't tell himself from last years
corpse! Put it therel" Another
fraternal and-shake-and exit. I
The obsequies were all that ''the !.
boys" could desire. Such marvel
of funeral pomp had never been seen I
in Virginia City. The plumed hearse,
the dirge-breathing brass bands, the
closed marts of business, the flags
dropping half-mast, the long, plod-
ding procession of uniformed secret
societies, military battalions, and fire
companies, draped engines, carriages
of officials, and citizens in vehicles
and on foot, attracted multitudes of
spectators to the sidewalks, roofs,
and windows; and for years. after
ward the degree of grandeur attained /
by any civic display in Virginia City
was determined by comparison with
Buck Fanshaw's funeral.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

The wheat crop of the United
States last year yielded nearly two
hundred and fifty millions of bushels,
a considerable increase over 1871,
when the yield was not quite two
hundred and thirty-one millions.
Pennsylvania, years ago, was the
great wheat producing State of the
Union, but its comparative yield has
since declined, so that in 1872, pro.
ducing II, 10000 bushels, it was only
the ninth State in the order ofwheat
growing, Pennsylvania's yield being
exceeded by Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
and California. Last year the heav-
lest wheat crop was that of Califor-
MIA, over twenty-five and q half
millions of bushels, Illinois coming
second with twenty-four and three
quarter millions.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

II rise for information" said one OF
the dullest of the members of an
American Legislature. 81 am very
glad to hear it, said one who was
leaning over the bar, ''for no one
wants it more than yourself" An
other member rose to speak on the
bill to abolish capital punishment,
and commenced by saying, 'ssMr.
speaker, the generality of mankind in
general are disposed to exercise op-
preston on the generality of man
kind in general" ''You, had better
stop" said one who was sitting near
enough to pull him by the coat tail;
''you had better stop-you are coming
out at the same hole you went in at. !"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
RHYMES FOR THE TIMES.

Fill, for we drink to Labor!
And Labor, you know, is Prayer:
III be as grand as my neighbor
Abroad, and at home as bare.
0ebt, and bother, and hurTyI
Others are burdened so:
Here's to the goddess Worry,
And lreres to the goddess Show!
Reckless of what comes after,
Silent of whence we come:
Splendor and feast and laughter
+, Make the questioners dumb
Debt, and bother, and hurry!
Nobody needs to know:
Here's to the goddess Worry,
And here's to the goddess Show!
Fame is what you have taken,
Characters what you give!
When to this truth you waken,
Then You begin to live!
Debt, and bother, and, hurry!
Others have risen so: "
~ : Here's to the goddess Worry,
And here's to the goddess ShowI
Honor's thing for derision,
knowledge thing reviled;
Love is vanishing viSbn,
Faith is the toy of u child!
Debt, and bother, and hurry!
Honesty's old and slow:
Here's to the goddess Worry,
And here's to the goddess Show!
-[BAYARD TAYLOR, in Harper's Magazine fol
July.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Teachers Department.
School Room Tragedies.


When sixty per cent. of the deaths
IN this country occur before the age
OF twenty-five is reached, a painful
fact of which the opening address of
the Health Congress reminds us,
there must be something wrong in
the habits of our people. A large
proportion of. the mortality is that of
infants or very young children.
Enough of an excess remains, how
ever, to that period which we call
youth, to demand special consider
alton for those who have escaped the
perils which surround the cradle and
thsshafaery IA CORES fpehaehE Of the
Chicago Tribune throws light upon
the subject by his answer to the
question: 'Is the acquisition of
knowledge in proportion to the num-
Der of hours spent In the school
room q He says
Having been engaged in teaching
for some time, and noticed the pro-
gress of students, I would answer the
latter question in the negative. am
not alone in the opinion, for recently,
while travelling in Minnesota, the
Principal of school in a large town
told.me that those boys who work
during the summer, and attend school
only in the winter, accomplished as
much as the others who attended
school during tbe entire year; because
they were not tired of books and
stuGy and went to work with all the
vigor that they could command, de-
termined to make the most Of their
limited opportunities. If a given
lesson can be learned by close ap-
phcation in one hour, it is far better
for the student than to spend two
hours in careless and Indifferent
study, and it is selfevident that the
progress made must be in proportion
to the amount of study, and not to the
number of hours spent in looking at
the printed pdge. GAN work and no
play makes Jack o dull boy" is as
true in the school room as in the
field; and of all things, the most
discouraging to the teacher is room
full of children who have become
weary Of their books, and go to school
simply because their parents compel
them togo.
without using the Minnesota case
as precedent to be followed to the
letter, there is abundant reason for
believing that the children of our
cities have too much brain work. If
a child is ambitious, the encourage
ment of parent often goads him to
undue exertion. If he is slow IN his
studies, and prefers outdoor occupa-
ton, it is more often the result of
instinct for the exercise he
needs than q proof of idleness and
dislike for learning. Girls are worse
and suffer more frequently than boys.
Their approbativeness is large, their
frame is weaker, and they are not
permitted to find the same relief as
their brothers IN the athletic sports.
Ours is practical age, and we live
in practical country. Most children
must be the architects of their own
fortunes. Parents realize that time
is money, and forget that haste may
be improbable. Hence the forcing
system is carried to an extreme which
often defeats itself 1t is one thing
to educate q child; to wean him from
youthful follies and inspire noble
ambition. 1t is another and too
practice to hasten his jour
1ey to the grave"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Conundrums.

Where can even the most miserable always find
sympathy In the dictionary.
Why has the letter no smeIl?-Beeause 1t is in
OdoroUS.
When do sailors have very small beds?-When
they sleep in their watches.
''My love-" said Boyle to his wife, "why is Lap
lander like an umbrella maker? Dye give it up?
Cause he derives his support from the rein deer"
"Try another" said our chief, as he threw himself
on the sofa on Saturday night. "Why is your tired
htshand like an umbrella?" Because he protects
me from the elements, my love" Not bit Of II,
darling, bat because heisu used up.h
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
The Large PrHfltS OF Beer Sell
ing.and the Largrr f.O-s.S

InR-anu the Larger lsb<s.
Rev. VIM. Simmons, in letter to
the Xenia Torchlight, is down ON the
beer business with Just vengeance
He says:
I see it stated in the Xenia Gazette
that keg of beer costs two dollars,
which retails at six dollars, making a
profit of four dollars on an investment
of two dollars. No marvel that beer
makers and beer sellers are getting
rich and building fine houses, while
the poor dupes, sons and descendants
of nobleasires, are guzzling the beer
at five cents glass, giving profit OF
say three cents glass, to the misera,
BILE, lazy loungers who lie in the shade,
and suck the life blood of Young
America. 1 have been told by peo-
pie from the country that the boys,
young and old, ride and walk into
town often, and run to these beer
sinks to spend their dimes, and build
up a cause that viii ruin our land. ~
viii farmers, mechanics and labor
ing men wake up to see where we are
drifting? Where, oh where has fed
the spirit of '76? Where is the man
hood of former years, oh where {?
Let preachers preach, let the churches
pray, and all sober people, work,sto
save the youth OF our town, ,a1,aSeetln-
ty. Since the April election we have
had more drunken men and women
drunk on our streets than I ever saw
before. Why this? Lord, in mercy
save the people.
The same state of recklessness ex-
lists in more places than Xenia.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

Five girls, peither of them over twenty
years of age, have entered three hundred
and twenty acres of land in Kansas, and
intend to make a dairy farm of it. All but
two of the girls are graduates of Eastern
schools, and two of them are proficient in
agricultural chemistry.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
American vs.. English Steel

American Vs. English Steel.
The Sheffield Telegraph, announces
that a leading steel house in that city
has received letters from the United
States countermanding large num-
Der of orders, for the reason that the
goods can be made at lower prices
at home. 1t seems that Pennsylvania
is able to under-bid England in a
branch of manufactures wherein the
mother country not long ago was
without a rival.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Tax i'm Aid of Railroads.

The Committee on Railroads, of the Gin
natl Board of Trade, submitted the follow
ing resolutions to the Directors of that In
stitution, who adopted them by unani-
nous vote:
WHEREAS, The Supreme Court of Ohio
has declared the Boesel Railroad law un-
constitutional, and therefore we are without
an enactment on our statute books allowing
cities, counties, or towns to vote tax in
aid OF railroad construction and
WHEREAS, A comprehensive and careful
enactment allowing the cities, counties, and
towns of the State such privilege would be
conducive to the general benefit;
ResOtgedby the Cincinnati BO0rd0f Tralle,
That our Representatives in the Constitu-
tional Convention be requested to move for
such change in the organic law of the State
as shall make wise legislation on this sub
ject conform to its letter and spirit, that
while the rights of the people are jealously
guarded, they shall not be abridged of those
privileges which have been found to result
so adyantageously to the material interests
of other States. We respectfully petition
the honorable body constituting the Con
vention to frame the State Constitution so
as to authorize the citizens of counties
townships, or municipal corporations, by
vote, to levy tax, not exceeding four per
cent of the taxable property of their re-
spective jurisdictions, for the purpose of
railroads.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

The India rubber hustle" is again
heard from. This time it was a
Brooklyn young lady, who was thrown
from her carriage, coming down the
hill rom Prospect Park. She made
ninety-seven and a half bounces in
all, and was finally rescued by hook
and ladder company, from the top of
a telegraph pole, where she had stuck
in attempting to complete the ninety
eighth bounce.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Is rrid.Iy an UnIuclsy Day 2

Is Friday an UnlIIcisy Day ?
Friday, long regarded as a day OF
Ill omen, has been an eventful one in
American history.
FridayC Christopher Columbus sailed
on his voyage Of discovery.
Friday, ten weeks after, he discov-
cred America.
Friday, Henry VII. Of England
gave John Cabot his commission,
which led to the discovery of North
America. SO -
Friday, ST. Augustine, the Oldest
town in the United States, was ad-
mitted. - ~
Friday, the Mayhower with the
Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth.
Friday, they signed the August
compact, the forerllnner of the pres
ent Constitution.
Friday, George Washington was
born.
Friday, Bunker Hill was seized
and fortified
Friday, the surrender of Saratoga
was made.
Friday, the surrender of Corn
wallis at Yorktown occurred.
Friday, the motion was made in
Congress that the United States was,
and of right ought to be, free and in
dependent.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Problem.

A. bought a farm for 81 800, and agreed to pay for
1t in five equal annual payments; if money is worth
Z per cent, what are the payments?
An answer is requested.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

Ten African youths from Liberia
are expected to arrive this week to
enter Lincoln University, Pa. One
is Congo, one a Yey, Two are
Libe1ians, and six are Bassas, from
nine to sixteen years of age.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

You scarcely see Letter Envel-
ope in these days without printed
card upon it. It's good way to ad-
vertise, beside enabling postmasters
to gratify their curiosity, to know
who sends the letter. If you call any
time "within ten days" (or hundrcd)
you can get any number of Envel-
opes printed at the News Office.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03
Youths Department.

- Original Enigmas, Charades, Problems, ETC.,
are respectfully solicited The answers must always
accompany them, with the real name of the writer
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

The Court of Claims has awarded
to Willia1 Battesby, of Savannah,
S4S5, 5,248 for cotton seized during the
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

It is now known that 70 lives were
lost in the Dixon, Illinois, calamity.
Thirty persons were more or less in
iured.