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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-28
Arrivsl and Dspartur. Of Trains

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Passenger train going West:
Arrives at Knoxville HAS AN. Leaves. LASS An.
Passenger train going East:
Arrives at Knoxville. 1913 Pm: leaves, faSg p..s
Eight TRAINS.
PASSENGER trains going West;
Arrives at Knoxville l1s27 PN; leaves, ll:S9 Pm.
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Arrives, at Knoxville. Ia AM; leaves. 7:4 Az.
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Arrives Knoxville from Maryville. $50 AM: 1,.lss
Knoxville for Mar vile 2:40 Pm. .fii@ 'iHs.J
KNOXVILLE AND OHIO R.R.
Arrive at Knoxville. 1880 AM; leaves. Am.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-28
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session OF the Forty
Second Congress. ia..z.
published BY AUTHORITY

GENERAL NATURE. No. lIa.
AN ACT to revise, consolidate, and amend the
statutes relating to the Pest Office Depart
ment. -ss 3
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-28
Tho New York Weekly Times.
Terms for the weekly Times fsf 1878.

Thu WY
For every club Of fifty one copy. eff
Il Ell SEMIrWEEKLY TIMES
F. To the gsttsr-up Of he Clubt
When the names Of Subscribers are required to be
written upon each paper Of the Club at Postoce
address ten cents for each copy additional to the above
rates.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-28

the said Auditor shall deem just and e1pedi.
ent. +i.- i'.- oi''fi. Z ~ -5.t IT >
Sec. 3l7. That one.half of all pecuniary pom
alties and forfetures incurred for the violation
of any law in relation to the postal service shall
be for the use of the person informing and pros.
ecuting for the same, and the other for the use
Of the United States, except where other dispo-
sition thereof is specially provided.
Sec. 49, That in all cases where debts are
due from defaulting or delinquent postmasters,
contractors. or other officers, agents, or employ
ees of the Post Office Department, awarrantl of
attachment may issue against sll real aud per-
sonal property and legal and equitable rights
belonging to such officer, agent. or employees
and his sureties, or either OF them, the follow
ing cases: -.
First When such officer, agent, or employee,
and his sureties, or either of them, ia nOn-resi-
dent of the district where such officer, agent, or
employee was appointed, or has departed from
such district for the purpose of permanently
residing outof the same, or Of defrauding the
the United States, or of avoiding the service Of
civil process v9a7-T 4. - hos .e.orrettea
Second. When such officer, agent. or en-
ployee, and his suretiss, or either Of them, has
conveyed away, or is about to convey away, his
property, or any part thereof. or has removed,
or is about to remove, the same, or any part
thereof, from the district wherein it is situated,
with intent to defraud the United States
And when any such property has been remov-
cd, certified copies of the warrant may be sent
to the marshal of the district into which the
same has been removed, under which certified
to some convenient point within tbs jurisdic tlon
Of the court from which the warrant originally
issued. And alias warrants may be issued IN
such cases upon due application. and the valid
itY Of the warrant first issued shall continue IN
ill the return-day thereof ~
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05
General Miscellany.
MY NEIGHBOURS GARDEN
BY KLlzABKrn AkkRs ALLAN

BY KLizABEru AkkRs ALLYN,
Up to the border Of my small domain IL
NV neighbours garden stretches wide anu
His roses toss against my window-pane;
His jasmine wreathes my porch and doorway
seat
NV threshold every May is carpeted
With pale pink petals nom his peaeh-'ree
His taIlest lilac Lifts its plumy head
Up 10 the easement where SIT alone.
Waking. hear, as dawns the morning light,
NV neighbor busy In his bordered walks,
Noting the added beauties born of night,
Pulling the weeds among his lower-stalks
From early March, when the brave crocus
Edging the beds with lines of blue and gold,
Till the consoling kind chrysanthemums
Contend against December's cruel colo,
Nv neighbor tolls with wise and patient hand,
scarce pausing in his work for sun or shower,
Evolving gradually from mould and sana
The germ, the leaf, the perfect bud and flower.
A rare magician he, whose touch transmutes--
Helped by the sprites which rule the airs and
Dry dormant seeds and dark unloyely roots
TO graceful shapes and richest scents and hues.
His garden teens with glad and brilliant lives
There wheel and dive the gauzy dragon-nies;
Bees gather tribute for their distant hives
And gray moths iutter as the daylight dies.
sparrows and wrens sing songs which need no
words;
And over fower-cups scarce more bright than
they,
Green-winged and scarlet-throated humming-
Hang, tranced with sweet. then whir and dart
away.
From branch to branch, beneath my watching
eyes,
His net black and golden spider weaves;
And scores of many colored butterflies
Waltz In and out among the dancing leaves.
Nv neighbor in their midst-thrce favored one =
Delves, plants, trains, weeds, and waters pa
tently,
Studies the alchemy Of rain and sun,
And works his floral miracles for me.
For me. not one enjoys this Paradise
As /, within M overlooking room:
IL Is not seen even by the owners eyes
AT once-the whole wide stretch OF growth and
bloom.
With siaht and mind absorbed. he little thinks
How all his gardens sweetness drifts 10 ne
How his rich lilies and his spicy pinks
Send incense up 70 me continually.
Yet still he lab0rs faithfully and long
NV loneliness 10 brighten and beguile,
Asking for all this fragrance. bloom, ana song
Not even the small repayment Of smile.
Unconscious friend, who thus enrchest me,
Long may thy darlings thrive, untouched by
blight,
Unplagued by worm or frosti and may there be
No serpent in thine Eden of delight
And We whose spirits faint with WEAKNESS,
Count not your work unyalued and unknown:
Cheered by your TOLL some silent soul may bless
The hand which strives not for itself alone.
-HarPer's Monthly for Scpfenbcr.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05
President Grant on the Grab.

Without being compelled to submit TO
Sydney Smiths surgical operation. the
idea has been introduced into the Execu-
tive head that there Is very serious dissat-
isfaction among the people on the subject
of the Salary bill passed by the last Con-
gress. The tidal wave has got as far as
Long Branch, and the somewhat excited
President has seized his broom and be-
gun TO swept back. The righteousness
of his proposition for meeting this popu-
lar discomfort and allaying il is so strik-
ing as TO be indeed remarkable, and il
would be objectionable not To give it the
widest publicity. model for our youth
in matters so involved. and the measure OF
morals In an affair that swamps all con-
ceptions of public morality, it deserves to
be held up for such universal use as It
should serve in an unce rtain future. The
Presidents scheme possesses the artless
innocence of nature unspoiled by the
flattery of friends or fortune. He is well
aware, to his inexpressibe regret, that
his own increased salary cannot be re-
duced again during his present term by
law. and therefore he disinterestedly pro-
poses TO such Congressman as visit him in
his Long Branch retreat that they should
make early restoration OF their back pay
ana TUTtc monLUS l1CTtire 10 ldT IT.
ceived. and thus save the Republican party
from its sure collapse.
Ii Is not often given to a President to
show such gushing unseltlshness as this.
The willing sacrifice by Artemus Ward In
the cause of his endangered country had
no such touching elements In 1t as this.
Nothing but the memorable law binders
the President himself r om returning his
larger personal share of the voted plum
der. He Is under the sternest obligations
TO accept 1t with what equanimity he can.
Besides handing back their grab to the
Treasury from which they took IL, he
advises them to repeal the unpalatable law
itself. He Is naturally sorry that such a
repeal will not touch his own case, but
that is no reason why he NAV not urge 1t
on those whose case 1t does touch, and
urge IL with all his official influence for the
good of the Republican party that SO en-
cages his personal solicitude. The sequel
will put the President In just this posi-
ton, If Congress were TO respect the
popular demand and repeal the law: while
the members had involved themselves so
deeply and got nothing to show for IL, he
would take the credit of advising the re-
peal, while the benefit Of II to himself re-
manned undisturbed. Probably none OF
the Long Branch visitors will suggest to
him that he need not take q double salary
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05
The Sultan nj Prayers.

Friday Is the Turkish Sabbath. and
upon that day the Sultan goes TO some
one of the numerous mosques TO say his
prayers. This is ceremony attended
with much pomp. The mosque selected
during one OF the Fridays OF Gen. Sher-
mans visit was on the Bosphorus, on the
Peraside. Hearing that General Sher-
man and party were DESTROYS of witness
ing the ceremony, his Majesty caused 10
be placed at their disposal his kiosk,
which was near the mosque he proposed
visiting, a small house beautifully fur
nished. from which he usually witnessed
manpuvers OF the troops on the parade
ground near by. When the party reached
the kiosk they found drawn up In two
lines, facing inward, about 1000 Infantry
and the officers of the imperial household,
all in full uniform, awaiting the Sutan's
arrival, who was 10 come from his place
in one of his caiques. The steps of the
mosque were covered with carpet, as was
also the landing by the water. At noon
a gun gave the signal Tor the Sultan's de-
parture from the palace, and as the pro-
cession approached the ships OF war in the
harbor they fired salutes, so that the
noise of the artillery became deafening
and echoed and ro-echoed along the
hills of the Bosphorus. First appeared
around the turn caique rowed by about
twenty oarsmen, in which sat an official,
who jumped quickly from the caique on
the landing- and the boat then passed on.
This was followed by another in like or
der. and then came the Sultan, VINO sat
under handsomely embroidered velvet
canopy surmounted by the crescent His
caique. was rowed by about thirty oars.
men, who were dressed in white clothing,
made out Of very pretty material seen
at Constantinople. Their arms were bare
from the elbows, as were their legs from
the knees. In rowing they rose from
their seats in reaching 10 the stroke, took
one step forward, and at the moment of
pulling wedvery low, settling into their
seats as the stroke became exhausted.
The caiques were white, with gilt orna-
mentation. As soon as the Sultan's
caique appeared the troops presented
arms. and remained in that position. AS
he landed the officers of the household all
stopped, placing the right hand to the
ground, then on their lips. then on the
Cop % their heads-thus indicating that
they picked up the dirt. The Sultan was
in uniform, and on his breast wore his
orders. AS he passed by the troops they
cheered. and while holding the musket nc
a present in the LETT hand, saluted with
the right. AS the Sultan came near the
kiosk he looked up at the windows where
were the General and party and after he
had entered the mosque, sent his Lord
Chancellor 10 inquire If they Were COM
Portable. Passing into the mosque. the
troops and the attendants awaited him
outside. Some of the attendants wore
green gold-embroidered liveries, others
purple. -Harper tor September.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05
A Danbury Funeral.

The Danbury Nei1s says: The day Mr..
kuby across the way was 10 be buried.
Mrs. Moriaty told her daughter Clarlnda
that she guessed she would attend, as she
wasn't feeling very well, and ride would
do her good. She knew there would be
several covered carriages furnished at the
expense of the family. and she was equally
confident it could De so managed that she
would occupy portion OF one OF them.
She was among the first at the house. and
occupied prominent position. As the
other friends arrived. she took occasion 10
recall "reminiscences of the late Ruby that
brought tears TO their eyes. and when the
services were over, as the first coach
drove up for its load, the distress OF Mrs.
Moriaty at the death of Mr.. Ruby was so
marked as 10 excite the liveliest sympa-
thy. Then the second coach came up.
Mrs. Moriaty had got down to the gate
by this time, and as the door of the sec
ond coach was opened and call made for
the occupants, it seemed extremely doubt
ful If she could hold up another instant.
She leaned against the post. and stared
into the coach, and over the rich uphol-
stering. and said the late Ruby seemed
more like a son TO her than neighbor.
Whereupon the usher looked appropri-
ately sad and called up the third and last
coach. This had yellow cushions and
pink straps, and Mrs. Moriaty 5.dn't hes
itate to protest that in the death of Mr..
Ruby the community had met loss i
was not possible TO RI cover from, and
that she would follow him TO his last rest
ing place If she had to do 1t on her knees,
and would feel grateful for the opportu,,
nifty. Then the third and last coach filled
and drove off To take its place in the line,
and Mrs. Moriaty dried her tears, cAoked
back the sorrow of her heart with one
mighty gulp, and strobe into her own
house, shutting the front door without me
aid of the knob. She told Clarinda that y
was the scalest affair that she ever Went
to, and had il not been for the body there
voull have been no funeral at all.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05
A Domestic Scene at Cape May.

The Cape May correspondent OF the
New York World writes: A man was
standing at a hotel office at the Cape, the
other day, laughing and happy, with his
child by his side and another at the door.
waiting to be taken out In his carriage.
The mail had just come in, and the clerks
were distributing letters to the guests as
they assorted them. This mans supply
of letters was very great. He was quite
the envy of people who received no letters
at all. He broke the seal of this and that,
and said snow will do what seldom
have done. Here Ia a letter from my
wife's chum and confidential friend. III
peep into their secrets"
"Don't, Blivens," said friend.
"Oh. she opens my mail at every OPP
portunity. tn be a joke"
He opened the letter and in minute
turned chastity white. He staggered to a
seat and read a little more, and then went
TO the bar-room and swallowed some
brandy.
"Sick man ~ said soriebody.
WHAT was within? The disclosure that
an intrigue had long been going on under
his roof-tree. in the city Of his children,
and carried on, at that. with the conniv-
ance of the false guest and confidante,
herself admitted therein to be the leman
of some one unknown. And all thi-
burst upon the man i'm profound quiet, out
OF perfect peace, when he was proud and
fond and welded to the sweetheart of his
youth.
"Bliv's hurt" said the bystanders.
The next moment we heard a loud re-
port. Pistols? No! Only champagne.
Then, in due time drunken man carried
to bed to contend with staggered and
remorseful woman, who called her soul TO
witness that she had never been worse
than imprudent. But what could she
prove? Could she prove, out of that o'er
fond memory the hateful suspicion--the
brooding wretchedness-the awful doubt'
Down, straight to perdition, hand In
hand, 20 drunkard and a coquette, and
poverty throws wide the gate for them to
fatten on the barren floor. Next to vi.
cious man with diseased propensities there
Is nothing which can make life so durably
uncomfortable as a married coquette play
ing with men whose resources, power
and baseneas she cannot conceive of. Be
hind are the freight and the family treas
ures-the years Of trust and duty which
the better angel has added to the credit
side of human kind; out there is the
street: and like chain gang condemned
to tread IL, manacled together, pair OF
paupers and their posterity go down the
dreary vista, poor, broken, unloving and
unloved.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05

The habits Of this giant climoer
(Cissm antarctica) are graphically de-
scribed by writer in the Gardener
Monthly. He saw one OF these vines,
which was almost seven hundred ieet ~
length and measured three feet nine men
es in girth at the base. Ii had 1t ilrst
embodied in it's deadly embrace tree OF
considerable size, but this support had
died and disappeared. and nothing r..
NAMED but spiral column Of vine nearly
two hundred feet in height. from the sum.
nit of which the huge climber had sent
out its combinations i'm horizontal me
for more than one hundred and thirty
feet, until il reached a eucalyptus tree.
IL was the opinion of our author guiue
that the trees which had supported ], on
Its way TO the eucalyptus had perisDeu ~
strangulation. He named the vine llc
devils corkscrew." Around the eucalyP-
tus the vine had wound in several cons'
and then thrown out number OF ste.ia,
which were grasping all the trees IN 'n'
neighborhood OF its line OF march,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05

IL he does not choose to, and he will
therefore continue with the impression
that he is discharging a difficult duty i'm
condemning them by his advice and draw
ing money from the Treasury which he
has no legal right to refuse, and to think
that this would be for the good of the af
fict ID Republican party.-Bostois Post.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05

The first two machine shops IN on,na
were fitted out by the PUTNAM naoii''''
Company Of Fitchburg, Mass.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05

The Tichborne litigation has cost to
date over 100000.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
A Touching Incident.
Covington (Ky.,) Journal.

A short time since, in this city, q
brilliant and much admired lady, who
had been suffering for some time with
a trouble of the eyes, was led to fear a
speedy change for the worse, and i'm
mediately consulted her physician.
An examination discovered a sudden
and fatal failing in the optic nerve and
the information was impaired as gent
ly as possible, that the patient could
not retain her sight more than a few
days, and was liable to be totoally de-
prived of it at any moment. The
mother returned to her home, quietly
made such arrangements as would oc-
cur to one about to commence so dark
a journey of life, and then had her two
little children attired in their brightest
and sweetest costumes, brought before
her; and so, with their little faces lift
ed to hers, and tears gathering for
some great misfortune that they hard
ly realized, the light faded out of the
mothers eyes, leaving ineffacable pic
lures of those dearest to her on earth
A memory of bright faces that will
console her in many a dark hour.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
Is He Rich.

Many a sigh is heaved, many a heart
is broken, many ~ life is rendered mis-
erable by the terrible infatuation
which parents manifest in choosing a
life companion for their daughters
How is it possible for happiness to re-
suit from the union of two principles
so diametrically opposed to each other
in every point as virtue is to vice?-
and yet how often is wealth considered
a better recommendation for young
men than virtue How often the first
question asked respecting the suitor of
a daughter is this: Is he rich? Yes,
his clothes are purple and fine linen,
and he fares sumptuously every day;
but can you infer from this that he is
virtuous? Is he rich? Yes, he has
thousands floating on every ocean but
do not riches sometimes take to them
selves wings and fly away? And you
consent that your daughter shall marry
a man who has nothing to commend
him but his wealth? All beware, the
gilded bait sometimes covers barbed
hook. Ask not, then, is he rich, but
is he virtuous? Ask not has he wealth,
but has he honor? And do not sacri-
fee your daughters peace for money.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
To the Sheriifs Of the State.

/ COMPTROLLER s OFFICE, Nashville
May Is, 1973.-Your attention is called
to Section $3.50 and $500 of the Code,
which read as follows:
The Sheriff or other officer con-
veyIng a convict to the penitentiary,
shall make out his account in writing.
stating the number of miles on the
usual route from the place of convie-
tlon to the penitentiary, the number of
guards necessarily employed to insure
the safe conveyance of the convict.
and the distance each of said guards
may have travelled, and make oath to
the truth of the account before the
keeper of the penitentiary, or any
Judge or Justice of the Peace, who
shall certify the fact"
Upon presentation of the account
thus sworn to and certified, the Comp
troller shall issue his warrant for the
amount, as in other cases, if satisfied of
the correctness of the account"
You will see from the foregoing that
in making outan account for conveying
convictto thepenitentiary, It'll required
that you shall state the number of
guards necessarily employed to insure
the safe conveyance ofthe convict, and
make oath to the truth of the ac-
count.
You will also see that it is made the
duty of the Comptroller to issue his
warrant for the amount, if satisfied of
the correctness of the account"
[ find, since coming into Office. that
many of the Sheriffs of the State are in
the habit, when conveying convicts to
the penitentiary, of bringing with
them, at the expense of the State, as
many guards as convicts, whether
necessary or not to insure the safe con-
veyance of the convicts. Such is not
the law, and all Sheriffs are hereby no.
titled that l will issue a warrant only
for the mileage of such guards as are
absolutely necessary to insure the safe
conveyance of convicts.
JOHN G. BURcH, Comptroller.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-05-31
Incendiarism.

The National Board of Fire Under
writer's, at their late meeting in the
city of New York, resolved to raise a
fund of 100000 for the detection,
conviction and punishment Of parties
engaged in the nefarious business of in
cendiarism and arson. The Executive
Committee of that Board, at their
meeting on the 14th inst, carried out
the resolution and opened the sub
scription. u 1Dl edE
We hail this movement as a step in
the right direction, and commend the
action as one not only likely to benefit
underwriters, but also to protect the
public from wholesale loss. This ae-
ton is the more important when 1t is
remembered that the experience of the
large companies transacting the busi-
ness of fire insurance in the United
States, shows that the proportion of
loss to be attributed to the above causes
is not less than 80 per cent. Of the
whole, or a loss to the country of at
least twenty-five millions of dollars
per annum.-PkiSadelphio Evening
Bulletin.