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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
Pertinent Responses by the
Comptroller to Inquiries Of
Revenue Officials.
COAEPTROLLER's OFFICE,
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NAH41f AA+@E-s NV u 100
70 tLe Tax Collectors aad Chairmsn OF tac
COurts of the state;
In answer to inquiries from different
parts of the State, I issue this circu-
lar
1. It is the duty of each Tax Col
lectOr ''tO endorse upon his tax books
the date Of the payment of each tax
therein" whether that payment be
made to-day or year hence.
2. II is the duty Of each Tax Col
lectOr TO make TO the Judge or chair
man Of the County Court a monthly
statement showing the aggregate taxes
which have been paid during the
month, and an abstract of the report
shall be furnished to the Comptroller
by the County Court Clerk. / would
suggest that each Tax Collector make
MS first statement on to the first day
of the month next after he receives
his tax books, though a full month
have not elapsed; then afterwards up
to the first day Of each succeeding
month. This will give system to the
reports of the Tax Collectors OF the
State.
3. The sdm Of ten per cent. upon
the amount collected during the month
bT any Tax. Collector Will be fialnosai
-uI,a-z fsaiaaa svr--eacR month he fails OF
refuses TO pay over tle money collect
ed BY him.
4. AS the poll tax is levied exclu-
siVeiy for school purposes, it must be
returned so that il can be credited on
the books of this Office TO the school
fund, seperate and apart from the
general State tax. If the Tax Col
leetor makes his payments to a State
depository. his receipts should state
distinctly what he has paid in poll,
and what on State tax.
5. With the ten per cent. tax on
property for school purposes, the
Comptroller has nothing to do. No
report of it should be made to him. |
1t is paid and distributed by the |
County Trustee.
JOHN G. BURCH, Comptroller.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
A medical nl1p discour1i,IT uno

\ medical man, discOursing upon
sleep, makes this remark: cone
man may do with a little less sleep
than another; but as a general rule,
you want a clerk, lieutenant, a
lawer, physician, a legislator, a
judge, president, or n pastor, do
not trust your interests to any man
who does not take on. the average
eight good solid hours OF sleep out
of every twenty-fOur. Whatever
may be his reason fOrit,ifhe does not
give himself that, he viii snap some
time just when you want him to be
strong"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
RoRERT z. LEE.
The Death orhis vTidor.

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 8.-The obse-
quies of Mrs. Mary Custis Lee, widow
of the late Gen. Robert Z. Lee, took
place to-day in the Memorial Chapel
at Lexington. Her three sons w. H.
f. Lee, Custis Lee and Robert z. Lee
and her daughter, were present, be-
sides q large concSurse Of friends.
Her remains were deposited by the
side of her husbands in the Memori-
al room. Mrs. Lee was 81 years of age.
Business was entirely suspended, ma
ny places being draped in mourning.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
Oh, sever. xever FIlri, Girls

Oh, Never, Never FIIrf, Girls
OBJ never, never flrt, girls,
Don't play with human hearts,
You say you meant in fun, girls.
To wound with C'upig's darts.
But they are cruel wounds, girls,
Wounds that for life may hurt;
Thea heed wise old esuuseiior-
Don't fiirt, dear girls. don't lri-
You say that men are hardy, girls,
And really never feel;
Bat many an old bachelor
His secret could reveal,
And tell Of happier days gene by.
or false giTls-feelings hurt
And now condemns all wemaukind:
Doz't firt. then, girls, don't G'rt!
There is 10 real pleasure. girls.
In striving 10 excel
In such sn art as flirting, giils.
Though yOu may 10 it we'll
But II you love, love truly, gill,
But love not TO your hurt.
Choose wisely, well and sensibly:
But girls OH never fiirt.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

VALUABLE STOCK SALE.-The en-
tire herd of short horned cattle owned
by Samuel Campbell, of New York,
sold at auction last week at Utica, New
York. Buyers were present from
England, Canada and all parts of the
United States. One hundred and If
teen cutie were disposed of, the total
receipts being about three hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. The
highest figure paid was forty thou
sand six hundred dollars. This bid
was made by n. P. Davis, of Glouces-
tershire, England. Thirty-five thou
sand dollars, twenty-five thousand
dollars and twenty thousand dollars
were bid for single COWS. One seven
monthe-old calf sold for twenty-e;ght
thousand dollars, and another for ten
thousand dollars. This sale is proba-
bly, the largest one on record.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

!; is the happiest and most virtuOus
state of society, in which the husband
and wife set out early together, make
their property together, and with per-
feet sympathy of soul graduate all
their expenses, plans, calculations
and desires, with reference to their
present means, and 20 their future
and common interest. Nothing de-
lights me more than TO enter The neat
little tenement Of the young couple,
who within, perhaps, two or three
years, without any resources but their
own knowledge or industry, have
Joined heart and hand, aud engage to
share together the responsibilities
duties, interests, trials aud pleasures
OF life.
The industrious wife Is cheerfully
employing her own hands in domestic
duties, putting her house in order, or
mending her husband clothes, or
preparing the dinner, whilst, perhaps,
the little darling sits prattling upon
the floor or lies sleeping in the era
dle-and everything seems preparing
to welcome the happiest of husbands
and tho best of fathers, when he shall
come from his toll to enjoy she sweets
OF his little paradise.
This Is the true domestic pleasure:
the "only bliss that survived the fall. 4"
Health, cOntentment, love, abum-
dance, and bright prospects, are all
here. But it has become a prevalent
sentiment that man must acquire his
fortune before he marries-that the
wife must have no sympathy, nor
share with him in the pursuit of II,
in which most Of the pleasure truly
consists; and the young married peo-
pie mast set out with as large and cx-
pensive an establishment as is becom-
ing those who have been welded for
twenty years. This is very unhappy.
1t ellis the community with bache-
lOrs, who are waiting to make their
fortunes, endangering virtue and pro-
noting vice; It destroys the true econ
omy and design of the domestic in
stitution, and it promotes idleness
and ineficieney among females, who
are expecting TO be taken up by a for
tune, and passiyely sustained with
out any care or concern on their part:
and thus many a wife becomes, ssnot q
help-1ate, but hslp-eat - IYnsslilo.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
TIoss TraE BABY CAME.
BY MARY E. BRADLEY.


The Lady Moon came up last night
She did, you needn't doubt it
A lovely lady dressed in white;
I'll tell you all about it.
They hurried Len and me to bed,
And aunty said, "Now maybe
That pretty moon up overhead
Will bring us down baby.
''YOu lie as quiet As can be;
Perhaps you'll catch her peeping
Between the windOw-bars to see
II all the folks are sleeping.
And then. Il both Of you keep still,
And all the room is shady,
She'll float across the window sill,
A bonnie white moon-lady.
"Across the sill, along the floor,
You'll see her shining brightly,
Until she comes to mothers door,
And then she'll vanish lightly.
But in the morning you will find,
If nothing happens, maybe,
She's left US something nice behind
A beautiful star-baby."
We didn't just believe her then,
For aunty's always chatting;
The tales she tells to me and Len
Would make you die laughing.
And when she went out pretty soon,
Lea said. That's aunty humming:
There amt bit of lady moon,
Nor any baby coming
thought myself II was . fib,
Aud yet wasn't certain;
so kept quiet in the crib,
And peeped behind the curtain.
didn't mean to sleep wink,
But, all without a warning,
/ dropped right off--and, don't you think,
never walked till morning
Then there was aunty by my bed,
And when climbed and kissed her,
She laughed and said, ''YOu sleepy head!
You've got a little sister
What made you shut your eyes 50 soOnl
I've half mind TO scold you
For down she came, that lady moon,
Exactly as told you !"
And truly it was not joke,
In spite Of Lens deny yins,
For just the very time she spoke
We heard the baby crying.
The way We jumped and made = rush
For mothers room that minute!
But auntY stopped Us, crying. Hush
Or else you shan't go in
And so we had TO tiptoe in,
Aud keep US awful quiet
As il it was mighty sin
To make bit of riot.
But there was baby, anyhow
The funniest little midget
just wish you could peep in now,
And see her squirm and tidget.
Len suy, be don't believe It's true
Gle isn't such a gahy)
The moon had anything to 10
With bringing Us that baby.
Bat seems to me its very clear,
AS clear as running water
Lust night thcro was no baby here,
SO something must have brought her!
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

An exchange tells this: 4 good
lady who, on the death of her first
husband married his brother, has the
portrait of the former hanging in
her dinning-room. One day Wis
itor, noticing the painting, asked,
Us rflaC n EncmDer or inc Tau1lIy.'
"Ohi that's my poor DrOther-in-
law" was the ingenious reply.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

GIVE THEN WoRK.-Childrcn en-
joy playtime all the more when they
have work to do occasionally. If
you would have your little ones in
terested in home and its surround
ings, and also have them grow
up to love work, and to depend
upon that for their happiness, give
them personal interest in some
thing. One child may have piece of
ground and be allowed to cultivate
it, appropriating the proceeds as he
pleases. Another may have few
fowls and be taught to keep an ac-
count of their eggs and the cost of
their keeping. Even in towns,
something OF this kind may be
planned for each little one which
will combine profit with pleasure
and give them habits of industry.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
THE HRIDE.

Her eyes are bright as stars that keep
Their watch IN midnight skirs;
Her voice As sweet as winds that sweep
The harps OF Paradise.
And thou must queHch the starry rays
That make the midnight fair.
Ere thou canst teach the heart to gaze
And not to worship there.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
ADVERrIsIN0 RATES.

fzfJ- One inch space constitutes square.
Where advertisements are ordered 10 BE
Unusually displayed they viii be charged
f0r according 20 the space they occupy;
one inch TO constitute square.
SheriGs, Clerks and Rangers. who send
us their patronage Will reosiye the wing
without charge.
HTCANDIDATKs-For aEnouneing can
didates for County Offices and the l-esist-
ture a10. for CONGRESS 500; for Wuricipa
and civil district Offices. S5-atfiu adN1nce
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

Robert Tombs deliv-
cred an agricultural address in Geo
gia recently:
He affirmed that the building OF
an OK cart was among the lost arts
in GeOgia, and that planters gave as
their excuse for buying Northern
hay that grass would nOt grow in
this country, when IL is know to be
fact that, during the growing sea-
son, nearly every man woman and
child, black and white, able to work,
are laboring hard 10 kill grass-yet
it viii not grow, forsoOth, in this
State. His advices to the planters
with regard to the disposition of
the present cotton crop, was, to sell
enough cotton to pay their debts at
once, aud to retain st home the re-
mainder until money was easier and
prices more satisfactory.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
PIsIflE OE ,rICIIfsTS

Whole tickets so. 90; Halves $500, Tentlls.
or each coupon $500; Eleven Whole Tickets
for $500, ,09i 22s Tickets Tor 81 O000o; ll3 Whole
Tickets for s., ,O0l,Oli 2SI Whole Tickets FOR
$40, 600, %. No discount on less than 8 . 90
worth Of Tickets at time.
The unparalleled success of tho Thru GiIt
Concert as well rs the satisfaction given by the
First and Second makes IL only necessary 20
announce the Fourth to insure the prompt sale
of Overy ticket. The Fourth GIT Concert viii
be conducted in all its details like the Third,
and full particulars may be learned from cir
culars which will be sent free from this office
to all who apply for them.
Tickets now ready for sale and all orders &C
cOmpanicd by the money promptly filled. Lib
eral terms given 10 those who buy TO sell again.
THOsl. L. BHABILETTE,
Ag't Public Libr. Nv. & Manager Gin Concert,
Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky.
Augustl6-l6w.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
THE FAMILY.

Inc family is like \ BOOK
The children are the leaves,
The parents are the cover, thst
Protective beauty gives.
At first the pages OF the book
Are blank and purely fair,
But Tine soon wr.teth memorIe..
And printeth pictures there.
Love Is the little golden clasp
That bindeth up the trust;
Oh, break It not, least ~ the leaves
Shal scatter and be lost
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
How 30 Avoid Danger from Light
ming

As the season of thunder storms
is here, some of the methods by
which people attempt to shield
themselves from the danger of light
ming may not be unwelcOme to our
readers. Fear is a great magnifer
of danger, and people seldom think
that there is moro danger, as
an English writer says, on the best
regulated railroad than during the
heaviest thunder storm. Most of
the dangers from lightning can be
avoided by paying attention TO well
known rules of safety. Naturally
frightened people draw together IN
some room or place, seeking safety
in each others society, unconscious
that they are attracting danger IN
stead of preventing it, as the ascend
ing currents of vapOr caused by
their perspiration are excellent con-
dUctnrs of electricity. People seem
10 think that there is safely IN
crowd and in the neighbOrhoOd OF
some tall building, and some OF the
most horrible accidents on record
have been caused by this mistaken
belief. Others believe that lying
upon several mattresses will prevent
their being injured. unconscious of
the fact that persons have been
killed while cndeavoring 20 shield
themselves in this manner. 1t would
seem that these accidents have most
is occurred to persons who were
ignorant that the yapor of their per-
sons, or the mattresses upon which
they lay, were conductors. The
safest spot in thunder storm is
the center of the room if you are in
the house, or q place at some dis
tance from tall houses or tress, If
out of doors. But the laws of cleo
tricy, If that capricious power has
laws, are yet unknown, and the
best course is to trust in God and
keep your lightning rods in order.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

The Columbia Herald Of the 7th notes
an effect Of the panic in that town:
Lamb & Boyd. who Usually employ
thirty or forty hands, IN their machine
shop, and carpenter shop, stopped
operations, and discharged nearly all
their hands Caass-hard times and
no money IN circulation.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

[ Iuaius aIu III All lAt cOuAtEY EOuLti
there is not a happier couple, not even
excepting Mr.. and Mrs. James Martin.
But Hiram takes particularly good
care lot to let his wife know that he
proposed for her by mistake.
4 WAR INCIDENT.-An order
was sent from Gettysburg to q
"post" cOmmissary about Wood
stock or Mount Jackson, IN the Val
ley, to collect ratiOns for four or five
thousand prisoners. A bright idea
struck the "a. &. s." He had been
refusing to buy the bulls offered by
the farmers, though below the price
Of beef. He Immediately sent run
ners to bring in the bulls-"goOd
enough for Yankees to eat" In 4
few days his sergents had bought
one hundred and .JiJty oulis, assorted
sizes.
He had never thought how such
collections of cattle could be driver
TO Winchester, the point OF delivery.
Now, one big bull with a halter on,
and q deep bass voice, walking with
slow and solemn dignity in front by
tho side of his keeper, never fails 10
bring up the drOVes of steers, cows
ai.d hietoss ia regular order, in fart,
Is necessity TO every cattle man"
in the couDtry. But one hundred
and fifty bulls and no plain stock
behind them was entirely "unpro-
fessiOnai"-a disgrace to the cattle
trade.
Now the bulls had been gathered
and penned in twos and threes.-
These scuffied a little during the
night in their "primary meetings."
light. Early in the morning they
were all driven into the turnpike at
once, and an effort made 10 "start"
them. Instead of moving on, not q
bull budged. Every one squared
himself in the road, with his horns
lowered aud his hOOfs busily detin-
ing his position" Each covered
with q cloud of dust, and no
one "knew where he STOOD" un-
til some "member" accidently
"tramped on his toes" which was
followed by q "lunge," the signal
for a general fight. The hundred
and fifty announced with a loud
snort they had accepted the ISSUE"
One hundred and fifty tails flashed
in the air. Three hundred horns
long and short-Inet in fiecre colli-
sion. The dust rose in vast fogs, as
from an army in motion with can
non and cavalry. The mountains
on either hand beloved back the
deep and deafening roar of the COM
bat. Fences were splintered, trees
torn up, crops perished, the earth
shook.
The sun rose as they Joined battle,
and reached its zenith when the
fight was fiercest. Night settled
down upon a few battered bulls
along-the last of the
living ''rations." Hoofs, tails, hair
horns, and hide marked the distance |
of that days drive"-just a half
mile
AS the sun set and the detailed |
men" returned with only the stumps |
Of their whips left the commissary |
opened his mouth in wise saying,
There were too many bulls for |
l safe trip, boys"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

A youth WHO was taking an airing
in the country, tried to amuse himself
by quizzing an old farmer about his
bald head, but was extinguished by
the cid man, who solemnly remarked.
''Y Yo1ng man, when my head gets as
soft as yours, can raise hair to
sell. -
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WEpNEspAY. pECEMBER sra. IsIs.

only Sixty thousand tickets viii be sold and
one half OF these are Intended for the European
Market, thus leaving only 20, coo for sale in the
United States where 100, 500 were disposed Of
for the Third Concert. The tickets are divided
into tim coupons or pnrts and have oii-..heLE
back the Scheme with n fuli explanation OF the
mode OF drawing.
At this Concert which will be the grandcst
musical display ever witnessed In this country
The unureccfieufad .unn
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

In the dead of night, l am fre-
qucntly awakened BY little hand
stealing cut from the crib by my
side, with the pleading cry: please
take my hand, papaP Instantly the
little boys hand is grasped, his
fears vanish, and. soOthed by the
CONSCIOUSNESS Of his fathers pres
ence, he falls to sleep again. In the
same spirit of child-like tr ust, the
Christian may stretch ont his hand
toward his heavenly Father, and
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

1t is awful hard to make an edi-
tor believe that FIVE hundred dol
lar counterfeit bills are in circula-
ton. Some people can't have con-
fidence in things they never see.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

The Athens Post states that Hon.
T. II. Van Dyke has declined the ap-
pOintment rendered him by the Gov
ernor, as one Of The three lawyers to
examine into and digest the laws in
respect to land titles Ill Tennessee
Union and AaaeTieGH-
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

Defalcations are still the order OF the
day. The last Is, We believe, the chief
clerk Of the postofhce at Wilmington,
Delaware, who turns up short a small
amount, only about three thousand
dollars. = Union and AMsricaH.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

said Hiram with unblushing effron-
terry.
Thus It happened that Hiram Pink
ertOn married the plump little old
maid, and in all the country round
there is not a happier couple, not even
excepting Mr.. and Mrs. James Martin.
But Hiram takes particularly good
care lot to let his wife know that he
proposed for her by mistake.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
lask Citizen i
following:

METHODIST PREAcHERs.-The Pu-
laski Citizen is responsible for the
following:
Everybody knows how we'll Meth
odist preachers love chickens, but
it has been told and re-told so Of
ten that it has become stale. Tho
following, however, told rs by u
member of that much abused ira
}ernity Of chieken-eaters, is about
the best We have ever heard: Two
precocious little boys were attend
ing 4 Methodist Camp-meeting and
had just spent the night in 9 pile Of
straw under a big blanket. They
walked in high glee, and one OF
them, wishing to give utterance 70
the joyous enthusiasm Of his Young
spirit, remarked to his companion:
'Bill, 1 believe III crow To which
Bill responded: 'You do, you fool
you, and they'll have you picked
and in the pot in fifteen minutes
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
&1-5OO.OOO

divided into l9 600 cash gins win be distribut-
ell by lot among the tickel-holders. The num-
hers OF tickets to be drawn from one wheel by
children, and the gins from another.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22

Total, 2.OoOGifts, All CASH, amoun-
ting 81 100000
The distribufiOs VIII be positive whether all
The tickets are sold or not, and the II, 900 gifts
all paid IN proportion 10 the tickets a'ld-all
unsfld tickets being destroyed Ht the First
and Second Concerts and no represented in
the drawing
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-22
THE MARCH OF PRovIDExcE.-

THE MARCH OF PROVIDEECE.-
If we turn our eyes to history. we
shall find that all the great develop
menis of the human mind have
turned to the advantage of society
all the great struggles OF humanity
to the good of mankind. 1t is best,
indeed, Immediately that these ef-
fects take place; ages often elapse,
q thousand obstacles iutervine, be-
fore they are fully develOped; but
when we survey 4 long course of
ages, we see that all has bccen ae-
cOmplished. The march of Provi-
dcnce is not subjected to morrow
limits; il cares not develop to-day
consequences OF Q principle which
it has established yesterday; it will
bring them forth in ages, when the
appointed hour has arrived; and is
not the less sure that it Is slow
The thrcae of the Almighty rests
on time-it marches through lis
boundless expanse as the gods of
Homer through a space-it makes q
step and ages have passed away
How many centuries elapsed, how
many changes ensued. before the re-
generation OF the inner man, by
means OF Christianity, exercised on
the social state its great and salu-
tary influence. Nevertheless; it has
at length succeeded. No one can
mistake its effects at this time
Guizst.
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1900 CASH GIFTS $L5OO.OOO
Every Fifth Ticket Draws a Gift.
A25O.OOO foI. 30.

The Fourth Grand Gin Concert authroiz cd
by special art of the Legislature for the beRe-
nc of the Public Library Of Kentucky, viii