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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10
STATE NEWS,
sullivan County

The Bristol Courier says large guam
tity of dressed pork has been brought to
this market in the last week. Our dealers
are paying 81 cents peril
New corn, shelled, is worth only AZ cents
per bushel-instead of 80 as quoted in our
last.
This section was visited by "a heavy storm
of wind, rain, thunder and lightning on
Thursday morning.
The concerts at the Presbyterian Female
Seminary, on last Friday and Saturday
night, for the benefit of the Baptist
Church, Were we'll attended. Some $50
were realized.
Mcninn Conhiy.
The Athens Post, of the 5th, says 1.-The
Sweetwater Enterprise notices tue closing
of the free schools generally in Monroe
county, after period Of three months, for
want of funds to continue them. We
learn that number are closing in this
county form the same cause.
1t is eight months only to the regular
county elections, and yet aspirants are be-
ginning to look around and feel the popu-
lar pulse. 1t Is said there are severl par
ties anxious to succeed Capt. Gouldy as
Sheriff, and from the indications the other
offices are not likely to go begging.
While at Riceville last Saturday we
learned that the valuable mineral property
on the farm of Mr.. Hamilton Pearce was
III progress of sale to a gentleman of
means and enterprise enough to make it
available at an early day.
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Our business men Inform US that money
is easier than it was few weeks ago, and
that trade is reviving somewhat. We
think that by the first of the incoming
year the times will be flush again.
In passing by the farm of Capt. Raht,
near this place, few days ago, we were
struck with the fine condition it was in
the wheat crop has been well put in and
looks thrifty and promising, and every
thing pertaining to good and neat farmiyir
is plainly visible. Patterson, who has the
farm in charge, evidently knows how to
do good farming.
! a little money now and then
Is relished by the printer man.
There amt much poetry in the above.
| but there is IA ID of IA sight OF truth. to
which the attention OF all deliuquents is
most respectfully solicited.
Monroe County. ..... ..H
! Thc SWeetwater EatcrDTisc saws:
III. new Cumberland Church is now
! being erected under the supervision Of Col.
j. w. Clark. 1t will be splendid build
! ing, ana quite an ornament TO SweetwateT
Corn here Is worth 80 cents, Wheat
| pI.2O TO -Sl.5O. Some of our merchants are
! paying cash for corn and wheat. All 9TH
er produce bring good prices. Fresh pork
! , cents. Salt pork u cents. The demand
/ is very good.
The free schools at this place, Madison
! vile, and throughout the county we learn
have all closed for the want of the necessa.
| ~ funds. Prot Ramsay, here, aud Prof.
Paxton, at hadsOAville, are running their
high schools, aud ask the patronage of
those who wish to give their sons and
daughters thorough education.
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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10

Rev. Or. Tying, Jr., says the direction in
which the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the prese at day is tending il absolutely to
Rome. He spoke Of Bishop Cummins az be-
ing perfectly justified in seeding, aud had
no Hesitation in saying that if the action o t
six of the bishops, which was Indicated in
yesterdays paper be cousummHted, it
would be the most Infamous act thut has
over been perpetrated in any church called
by the name of Jesus ChEiEt.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10

The Cleveland Hammer of tho 9Th SAVE
The Knoxville Chronicle man has invited
US tospend a week with him can't do 1t
quit keeping bad company long ago.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10

GEN. JUBAL EARLI advises the South
ern people to have nothing to do with a
war in case one grows out of the Cuban
troubles. He says "let the Yankees fight
their own battles
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10
THE CUBAN NEWS.

.. = |..| U III
The most serious news we publish this
morning is that concerning the threatened
overthrow OF the CASTELAR, Government at
Madrid. The pressure against the Repub-
lie is evidently very strong. IF the intel
ligent and noble President CAN withstand
it peace is very probable, but if he goes
down war is almost inevitable.
The resignation of Gen. Sickless will not
complicate affairs, but rather render them
easier of solution.
The public feeling in Cuba will be gaug-
ed largely by that at Madrid. If the Re-
public tides through the storm of unmerit-
ed indignation, it will be able either to en-
force its orders in Cuba or render it easier
for our Government to do so, if it insists
upon the protocol, which it will do.
Mr.. MAYNARD, in his Washington
speech, struck the keynote of the situa-
ton when he said that what was needed
to relieve business circles entirely of the
depression following the panic, was some
one to proclaim with voice powerful
enough to make himself heard, and with
intelligence enough to make his voice re.
spected" coincidence" General distrust
has been the cause for the boarding of
thousands of dollars worth of currency
in every community. We know that
it is so in this city, and we believe it is
so everywhere. These menlpursue a selfish
policy and do the country great injury.
\ demand is now made for extended in
hation, which we do not believe to be
wise. 1t is based upon the plea that there
is too little currency for the business of
the country, and those who are boarding
money-withdrawin it from circulation,
are giving good foundation for the plea by
creating unreasonable stringency. Men
who owe debts and refuse to pay when
they have the money and could spare it, if
it We're not for their idle fears, are doing
the community a great wrong. Every
hundred dollars boarded embarrasses
trading circles. One hundred dollars in
one day might pay and would pay in such
stringent times thousand dollars of debts.
Pass the currency from debtor to creditor.
Confidence is what is needed to inau-
gurate a season of unexampled prosperity.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10

Tue literary event of the last fortnight
is the appearanre Of J0hE Stuart MilPs
Autobiography
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10

w EDNEsDAY, :; DECEMBER 10, 1873
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
The English.

"H. W." writes to the Louisville
Journal The English Women are the
poorest dressers in Europe; and yet
English society is singularly exacting.
A lady goes to common ballad concert
at ST. James's Hall, happens to wear a
light Paris bonnet, and is required to
take it off in dressing-room, paying
the waiting-woman sixpence to keep it,
before she is allowed to take the seats
she has paid for. She goes in and finds
the hall filled with scrubby, addressed
women, each having a bit of ribbon
stuck to her hair, and each considering
herself in full dress. OF course no
gentleman is admitted at Covent Garden
or Drury Lane without swallow-tailed
coat and white cravat not then until
he has paid sixpence to hag who turns
down his seat for him or opens the door
of box. Go where you will this petty
tax is encountered. Why? Because
the country is too full of people, and
living has to be got at for the overplus
in some way. If a London cabby cheats
you out of sixpence, he thinks he has
done good thing, but if he does you
for half a crown, he feels proud of him
sell, OF MS Vocaulon, ana OF his country
A pretty bar-maid swindled me out of
hapenny on a glass of sherry the other
day, and saw joy unspeakable beam
out of her lovely, thieving eyes, as 1
turned away, and she felt sure of hav-
ing bagged her plunder. They do their
robbery on a small scale. In London a
penny is big. thing. I asked an oyster
man to open ME dozen of his oysters.
"A dozen, sir? p says he. "Yes," L said,
"a Dozen" "Do you know, SIR" says
he, "what they cost ?" "No," said 1,
81 don't; what do they cost % Then,
rather mechanically, he said: "Two
and eightpence. When 1 had eaten
the oysters and paid him the money, he
rang it on the counter, and could hardly
realize that the transaction was genuine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
The MOdOcs.
Incidents of the Journey to Fort Kln-
math.


Boyle's Camp, the last remaining
camp of the Modoc expedition in the
vicinity of the theatre of war in the
lava beds, was broken up on the 18th
inst, and the troops there, together
with all the Modoc captives, baggage
and stores, were marched to Fort Kla-
math. The journey occupied five days.
The Modocs-men, women and chill
dren-were transported in seven wag--
ons, with guards before and behind
each wagon. In the front wagon were
Captain Jack and Schonchin, in mana
cles-the former robed in red blanket
with clean white handkerchief bound
around his head, and bearing himself
with characteristic dignity. There
were two bands of Modocs among the
Indians-Captain Jacks party and the
Charley, Curly-headed Jack, Steamboat
Frank, Shacknasty Jim, Curly-headed
Doctor, and Hooker Jim. These are
Jack after his last fight and came in
and surrendered themselves. A bitter
feeling exists against them on the part
of Captain Jack and his warriors on ac-
count of what Jack calls their treason,
anu IL WIS lOuuu utCcSSdly Oh piiO
march to place soldiers between them
to prevent an attack upon them by
Captain Jack and his men. On the
way very serious accident was avoided
by the promptness of Bogus Charley,
Shacknasty Jim, whose squaws and
papooses were in one of the wagons
which, at certain point on the route,
I,n Of nx-nr a
rocky ledge. These Indians rushed
forward and by main strength held the
wrgon in it's place, and so prevented the
catastrophe. Twice on this journey did
the traditional stoicism of the Indian
character disappear first, on the occa-
sion of this danger to their wives and
children, when these warriors exhibited
in their manner the most anxious solicit
trde for the safety of those dear to
them, and again, later, when they stood
around the body of one of their num-
ber Curly headed Jack, who desiring
to die and be buried in the old land of
the Modocs, committed suicide at about
half-past eleven the next day in the
camp at Lost River Bridge, eighteen
miles distant from the lava beds. The
warrior shot himself with pistol in the
head, and died in about an hour. His
mother and female friends filled the
camp with their lamentations, while his
fellow-warriors looked upon him with
tears streaming from their eyes. But
Captain Jack and his followers, on the
contrary, gazed contemptuously toward
the mourning group. The dead war
rior was buried with the usual Indian
observances. Nothing of any moment
occurred from this point except the
wrecking of six wagons on the fearfully
rocky roads. During the afternoon of
the fifth day the Indian procession
reached Fort Klamath, where the In
dians were lodged in strong and spa
cious stockade, which had been previ-
ously erected for the purpose, and
where they will remain during their
trial by military commission, which is
to take place at the fort.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
Hair, ana Its Uses.

The Dublin University Magazine, in
o discourse upon human hair, says:
1t is not the less useful because it
is ornamental. Tt is a bad conductor
of heat, and keeps the head warm in
winter and cold in summer. 1t wards
Off the effect of the sun and we find
negroes exposing themselves without
head-covering to its burning rays in
tropical climates, without the slightest
injury, and some tribes of wild Arabs,
who wear neither tarboosh nor trlrban,
are said to rely solely on their bushy
heads of hair as protection against sun
stroke. The mustache is natural
respirator, defending the lungs against
the inhalation of cold and dust. 1t is a
protection of the face and throatagainst
cold, and is equally in warm climates q
safeguard for those parts against excess
sive heat. The mustaches of black
smiths show by their color the dust
which they stopped as natural respira-
tor, and which, if inhaled, would have
been injurious. The mustache is bene-
fetal to those who follow the trades of
millers, bakers, masons, to workers in
materials, and even to travellers into
Egypt and Africa, when they are ex-
posed to the burning sands of the desert.
Full boards are said to be defence
against bronchitis and sore throat. 1t
is asserted that the sappers and miners
of the French army, who are noted for
the size and beauty of their boards, en-
Joy special inmunity from affections
of this nature. The growth of hair
has been recommended to persons liable
to take cold easily. It is stated that
Walter Savage Landor was a sufferer
from sore throat for many years, and
that he lost the morbid disposition by
allowing his beard to grow, according to
the advice of the surgeon to the Grand
Duke of Tuscany. The writer adopted
the same course for the very identical
reason, and with fair success. But he
is. bound to state that he has seen indi-
viduals with long, flowing boards, whom
those ornaments did not save from at
tacks of bronchial and laryngeal dis
orders. The curling nature of the hair
is attributed to large proportion of
oily substance, which prevents the alb
sorption of water. The effect of damp
ness in destroying the curl of the hair
is well known, but it is not so well
known that the state of the hair par
ticipates in the state of the general
health. In many instances, strong curly
hair becomes straight if the possessor
be out of health, and the condition of
the hair with them is as great test as
the condition of the tongue. The state
of the hairdepends much on that of the
general health. In perfect health, the
hair is full, glossy, and rich in its hues,
in consequence of The absortion from
the blood of a nutritive juice, contain
ing its proper proportion of oily and
albuminous elements. In persons out
of health it may lose its brilliancy of
hue, and become lank and straight, from
the presence of imperfect juices, in
others, again, there may be total alb
sence CT such nutritive elements, and
the hair constantly loos faded out and
dead.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24

In very few months afterward there
was darkened chamber in the Jeffcott
mansion, and within it the shadow of
white death.
A small cottage and about three hun
dred dollars year was left to Lizzie,
and the same to Mrs. Mason. The two
women made their home together, and
for many years Lizzie lived life so full
of sweet and helpful deeds, that I have
no hesitation in calling it a great life.
After I came to America never sup
posed I should hear of her again but
one day, in the log cabin of stock
raiser near San Antonia, lifted news
paper and saw her name. It was dur
ing the Crimean War, and she was
among that noble army of women whose
names the angels shall call out before
assembled worlds, saying, Come up
higher"
Suppose that the good woman who
found her stealing had treated her as q
criminal, instead of as a little child!
Suppose she had made her amenable to
the law of the country, instead of to
that higher law of Lovel Suppose she
had sent her to prison, instead of Civ
ing her home. Let those who dare,
follow out this supposition for me, 1
weep and wonder when consider how
many little children bearing in their
arms divinest gifts fall and perish by
the way, because there is no one to be-
lieve in them, and no one to help them.
~ Y. Ledger.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
Effects Of Smoking Upon the Blood and
Brain.

Says the London Lancet: "What
Injuries or enfeebles the blood must, as
a matter of course, affect the health and
activity of the brain. If, then, we as
certain the physiological effect of tobacco
upon the life-fuid, we shall be in fair
way for deciding the question, especially
if we find individual cases confirming
the views thus arrived at. There is
nothing stronger in medical evidence
than the agreement of physiology and
pathology. DR.. Richardson has SO
clearly explained the influence of smok-
ing upon the blood, that it will be best
to quote his graphic account. His
scientific eminence entities his evidence
to respect, and lovers of the weed must
recollect that it is smoker to whom
they are listening: On the blood the
prolonged inhalation of tobacco pro-
duces changes which are very marked
in character The fluid is thinner than
is natural, and in extreme cases paler.
In such instances the deficient color of
the blood is communicated to the body
altogether, rendering the external sur
face yellowish, white, and puffy. The
blood being thin, also exudes freely,
and q cut surface bleeds for a long
time, and may continue to bleed incon-
veniently, even in opposition to reme-
dies. But the most important change
is exerted ON these little bodies which
float in myriads in the blood, and are
known as the red globules. These glo-
bules have naturally double concave
surface, and at their edges a perfectly
smooth outline. They are very soluble
in alkalies, and are subject to change of
shape and character, when the quality
of the fluid in which they float is modi-
fed in respect to density. The absorp-
ton, therefore, of the fumes of tobacco
necessarily leads to rapid changes in
them; they lose their round shapes,
they become oval and irregular at their
edges, and instead of having a mutual
attraction for each other and running
together, good sign of physical health,
they lie loosely scattered before the
eye, and indicate to the learned observer
as clearly as though they spoke to him,
and said the words, that the man from
whom they were taken is physically de-
pressed and deplorably deficient both
in muscular and mental power Tobacco
modifies the circulation in the brain, as
in other portions of the body. Hence,
it would be remarkable indeed if it did
not exercise some influence upon the
mechanism of thought"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
A Bit of Romance,

Mr.. r. NJ. Boatwright, of st. Louis,
has lately received intelligence that his
brother Alexander, whom he supposed
to have been killed twenty-six years
ago, during the Mexican war, is alive
and well, he being resident of Goliad
County, Texas. The story is thus told
by the st. Louis Democrat:
"In 1916, Mr.. Boatwright, while on
visit to southern Illinois, where he
formerly resided, took the war fever
and joined Capt. Coffey's company of
volunteer infantry, bound for the seat
of war in Mexico. At the battle of Vera
Cruz he was severely wounded in the
shoulder, and not being able to bear
removal, was placed in the house of a
Mexican lady, near the battlefield. AS
he did not rejoin his company, and was
not heard of at the close of the war, he
was placed on the list of the dead, and
his land-warrant issued to his father,
who erected monument to his memory
in the family burying-ground, in Frank
lin County. Boatwright, however, did
not die. He was tenderly nursed by
dark-eyed senorita, a daughter of the
lady at whose house he was left, and
when, after many months of suffering,
he was restored to health and his wound
healed, he found himself captive to
the charms of his beautiful nurse, and
he married her and settled in Vera Cruz.
His letters to his relatives having mis-
carried, and some one informing him
that his family had removed from Frank
lin County, he ceased writing to them.
In 1S49 he went to California, and after
ward settled in Texas. Several years
after the close of the war the family in
Franklin County heard rumors that
Alexander was still living, and agents
were sent to California and to Mexico,
but failed to learn any tidings of him,
and he was given up for lost. A short
time ago Mr.. r. NJ. Boatwright happen
ed to see letter written by his brother
to an old friend in Franklin County,
and recognizing the name, was rejoiced
to find that his brother who was mourned
as dead for twenty-six years, was still
living"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
The June Drought.

Perhaps NO better idea of the "plen-
tiful lack" of water in certain portions
of the country can be derived than
from reference to the rain fall of for
mer years. Thus, at Albany, for eight
years before this year, the average rain
fall for June has been just short of
eight inches, while this year it was but
1.42. In the eight years named the
amount of rain reached as high as 7.4S
in 1870, and was 8. .04 in 1865. In June
of last year in New York city the rain
fall was 4.04. This year it was but l. %.
For all this century, this last month
was the dryest June, and its fearful
marks are left all over the Middle and
New England States. Hay is almost a
ruin. Oats and rye are absurdly low
and light, and corn is unable to give
expression to its feelings under the
present deprivation of water.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-24
Civilization in Dress.

Our guide and ruler in dress is that
irresponsible tyrant we call fashion, and
neither comfort nor beauty has word
to say. To be sure, men have discarded
many absurdities, though they have re-
tanned more. They hold to their stiff
shirt collars, which rasp their necks,
their wide expanse of linen front, which
the very act of fastening rumples, their
meaningless swallow-ta tails, their hideous
hats, their tight fitting military uniform,
and all the mysteries of seam and gusset
and band, which are mere symbols of
the art of cutting out and not necessary
to the comfort of shape. But even
with the follies they retain they can
move about with ease and unhampered.
Women, on the contrary, torture them
selves in the name of fashion with
touching fidelity. They would as soon
forego their nationality as their stays,
and the Thirty y-nine Articles are less
sacred to them than their multiplicity
of garments all hanging from the waist.
1t is to keep these up, and lessen their
into cages which destroy all grace of
in walking. The beauty of simplicity
is q thing dead and done with in their
code. Heads are loaded with false hair
stuck about with lace, feathers, flowers,
and colored glass ; ears are pierced that
bits of crystalized earth, or limitations
thereof, may be hung into the holes
health is destroyed, and the tender
vital organs which nature has so sedu-
lously protected by the outer casing OF
ribs are compressed and crushed that
the waistband may be reduced to seven
teen inches and the highest efforts of
millinery genius are directed to the
most elaborate method of sewing one
bit of stuff on to another bit of stuff,
to the confusion of anything like lead
ing line or an ineligible idea. We
laugh at the Chinese golden water
lilies," the Papuan head-dress, the
Hindo nose-ring, the African lip-dis-
tender we laugh while we look in the
glass and complacently brush out frills,
and congratulate ourselves on looking
"stylish" and "well got up" But our
highest efforts culminate in partial
nakedness i'll the middle of winter, if
we are women, in black broadcloth in
the dog-days, if we are men-in absurd
lengths of silk trailing after us as we
walk in one case, in ridiculous pennon
meandering at our backs in the other
they eliminate in fashion, not in use or
beauty or simplicity; but while we do
thus dress without personal convenience
or artistic meaning, we have no true
civilization in the matter of our Clothes
Modern millinery is neither art nor
nature. 1t is our translation of the
primitive mans delight in rags and
gaudy colors and there is no essential
difference between the two. What diff
ference there is consists simply in con-
ventional acceptance but the aesthetic
base of each is the same.