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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-10
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-10
I \ L E
SPRING.

THIS resort for health and pleasure is open at all
times for the reception of visitors. The ac-
commodations are being largely extended and
improved.
The season being opened out with such good
prospects, the Proprietors have just closed
tract for forty Cottage rooms to be completed by
LIST of August, in addition to those already on
hand. viz: Kitchens, Bath House, Ball Room.
Everything acceptable will be used for the COM
fort and pleasure of the guests.
The water is recommended in the cure of all the
arrangements of the Digestive Organs,
STOMACH, BOWELS, LIVER, KIDNEYS,
in Skin Diseases Scrofula, &c, in Chronic Diar-
rhae, Dysentery, and the Diseases peculiar to Fe-
males Is highly recommended IA tonic in Con-
sumption. We invite a comparison of the Analysis
of the Water With that of any other known Mineral
Water. II consists Of
Sulphuric acid . 81 Sulphate Of Lime 1906
Lime ............ 8I.I2 :. Magnesia 3I.97
Magnesia 10 Soda -. $50
Iron Peroxide -. LOO :" Potassa- 1.54
manganese peroxide Chloride of Sodium 40.2
traces Iron 1892
Potash and Soda $50 g Manganese so
Chlorine -. ...... 3263 Iodide of Sodium, traces.
Phosphoric acid . II Carbonate of Lime 2I.56
Carbonic acid - 900 SILICA ............ 27O
Nitric acid ......... 02 Nitric acid. .O2
Total grs in gal 27291 Total grs in gal. 272.91
There is a large amount of Carbonic Acid Gas
in the water.
Our Resident Physician is too well known to
require any comment.
Board for May s95 per week so !; per day 81 so;
for June saw per week SI2s Per Gay SA "a AuI
July August and September $45 per month per
week s1S; per day s. Persons coming in May get
the benefit of May rates during their stay.
BOWLING ALLIES, Sc, FREE
We have contracted with responsible parties to
convey passengers over the hack line in good, new
and comfortable hacks, who guarantee safety and
comfort, and we request our guests to patronize
this line,
Office in TURLEV HOUSE, MorristOwn, Tenn.
We are shipping great deal Of the water. We
deliver in depot at s. per Dbl, in good new iron
hoped barrels.
For particulars, address,
PROPRIETOItS TATE SPRINGS,
BEANS STATION, TENN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04

Eli Perkinsin the Granie

/ Ell HerklnSsiH the OTaI1c.
William Leland introduced anothe
young gentleman to a young lady las
evening, at the same time whispering i
his ear, She's worth six hundred thoui
and dollars, if she's worth cent, m,
boy"
! Then he went and told the unsuspect
ing young lady that the young gentle
man was worth just half million in hi
own right After that the remorseles
William went on dancing just as if b
hadn't committed a great and heinoui
crime
What was the RESULT"
Why, the innocent young man was al
devotion. He purchased two three-dol
/ lar tickets and invited her right straight
over to the Congress Hall ball, sent q
boy after a five-dollar bouquet, prone
naded on the bridge, and everything to
make that young lady happy. She was
| happy, too. A half million is enough to
make any young lady happy.
Well, after dancing four tsquares"
and three @ rounds" they took a stroll
up and down the long hall and sat in the
window. That is the correct thing for
spooney people to do, they say. Then he
unbosomed himself. He invited her to
dinner at the lake. He told her how
he longed for a companion in life. He
was not am biti0us and
''Well, Mr.. Thompson, what qualities
would you ask in good wite?" asked the
trembling Miss Brown.
ooh, nothing particular, only good
health, even temper, intellectually,
beauty, stylish figure, good family, ell
egant manners, and"
''Surely not money" interrupted Miss
Brown
''Well, no, money is not essential in
lady, Miss Brown, if"
Ppm so glad you're not mercenary,
Mr.. Thompson, ''gasPed Miss Brown,
for since father lost his property, and
we've been boarding, my mercenary gen
tleman friends have all dropped off,
and"
But, as I was saying, Miss Brown,
wealth is not essential in a lady if a gen
tleman is handsomely endowed, but as
We lost all our property in the Chicago
fire, and"
"Oh, gracious, Mr. Thompson, do let |
us 60 back and dance that last lancers."
As they passed back over the bridge, |
neither spoke word. The silence was
oppressive. They walked as if borne
Town with ruined hopes and disappoint-
ID expectations The sat languidly
Town, while his eyes rested sorrowfully
IN her s. bouquet. 1t was sad, sol
.mn sight to see two pure young souls
buried in such deep grief, each victim
If misplaced eonidence-m misplaced con-
idence in William Leland. Is it thus
hat disinterested affection is to be be-
rayed day after day in Saratoga? Is it
hus that beautiful maidens are to dream
or an hour of hope, of happiness, only
o be thus disappointed and deceived? Is
t thus that the guileless heart Of man
lood is to awake from the sweet dream
# love" only to find hopes shattered and
ruined? Alas it seems
wen SO.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
Beef and Brains.

There is tradition, pre- baby derived
from monkish times, that Il student or
learned man is also, of necessity, sick
" and sallow man, who despises the vain
cares of eating and drinking. This is
grave popular error. The very reverse
comes nearer the truth. Scholars and
savants are not always aesthetic feeders,
but, unless prevented by sheer poverty,
they are usually right hearty feeders
the principle being as true in the study
as elsewhere, that good work requires
good eating. A senior wrangler may
not be able to stow away quite so large
plate of beef as a coal-heaver, but he can
dispose of & portion big enough to terri
fy any one in the habit of dining with
bio Lewis-which take to be the Amer
lean for dining with Duke Humphrey.
"By their fruits We shall know them"
In all literature born of American sescet-
icism we see a thinness, a lack of color,
produced by a lack of learning, beyond
what the rest of our literature shows, IN
ferior even as that may he when Judged
by a European standard. Nor Is the
matter mended when the writer or speak
er endeavors 20 supply this want by
which he and portion of his public
have the faulty to take for poetical SEN
timent and poetical ornament. But still
more striking is the vuIgarity of our
aesthetic literature, from the highest, in
point of reputation and pretension, TO
the lowest A large number of the old
world saints used to derive in former
times-nay, some of them still derive at
the present day-much of their odor of
sanctity from very positive dirt The
holy friar is pretty sure also to be the
dirty friar his very name seems to de-
note filthy In like manner there are large
" circulating sescetic or semi-escetic lite
nature among us, permeated by that most
offensive kind of Philistinism, which
though narrow and ignorant, is, above
all things, essentially and hopelessly vul-
gar. That some amount of sensuous-
ness is necessary in art, all but very
few of the most erratie critics and artists
are constrained, however reluctantly in
some cases, to admit. A long and sad
series of proof points to similar con-
clusion in literature, and shows that an
attempt to remove the pure intellect en-
tirely from the regions of sense will end
by degrading rather than elevating it
Carl Benson, in September Galaxy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
NEWS Ann GOSSIP.

Connecticut has got rid of a snake
eleven feet long after two hours tussel.
Nashville bellies demand thirty-six
pages of love in their every day letters,
with a postscrip.
Weston talks of resuming business.
VIII some one fit him for trepanning OPP
GRAFTON?
That brick-bat Singing ghost of Vir-
ginia has opened in Norfolk for the fall
season. Admission free.
Five wives attended the funeral of a
supposed German bachelor at Hoboken
recently. 1t broke up in fight.
A party of seranaders in Macon, Ca,
footed sweetly in front of house for a
brief period before they discovered that
it was empty.
Major Perry, of the regular army, has
resigned, and taken command in the
army of the Khedive of Egypt. Gone
of those fellahs, you know"
"What," said a teacher to a pupil,
'makes you feel uncomfortable after YOU
have done wrong?" "My papa's big leath-
er strap" feelingly rel lied the boy.
A girl named Lucinda Smith, at ball
in Maysville, KY, called a justice into
the room and sighted a revolver at
Charles Brown There was an instanta-
neous wedding. No cards.
Butler has one ground for hope in his
gubernatorial aspirations: Wendell Phil
lips has pronounced for him. But there's
no telling what a day may bring FORTH
New York Graphic.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
VARIETIES.

The monument of Horace Creole,
ought to be an imposing stone.
Ex-President Taylor's grave at Louis
vile is neglected and forgotten.
Time never "stays" That accounts
for the great waste of time.
Steel bars are to be substituted for
bells in England and America.
Boiled white man is the favorite dish
of the Indians in British Columbia.
The new National Theatre at Wash
ington will be opened early in November.
There are 1912 policemen in Lon
don, and they bave to patrol 1912 miles
of streets.
Time cuts down all, both great and
small" How about the provision and
grocery bills?
Columbus, Ga, has three companies
of infantry, and it is about to organize
of artillery.
There are 154 blast furnaces in Scot
land. of which 120 are blowing, against
1872 at corresponding period last year.
Times have degenerated. People who
sold tainted meat in the dark ages suf-
fered at the hands of the public execu-
toner.
The steamers Alabama and Arndt
aren't lost The papers were inclined t.
1verdo the thing because the steamers
we're overdue.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04

This is the irreverent way in which n
Minnesota newspaper talks about agricul-
tural colleges: Perhaps if we were to
make a pick of humbugs, an agricultural
college, as now organized, would come
nearer the perfect product than anything
else likely to come to hand. Experience
demonstrates that the more young men
are educated to be farmers, the less they
are disposed to try that occupation. Out
of thirty graduates, on an average, it is
esteemed a decided success if one in ten
indicates purpose to try agriculture for
a living. For some reason the cultiva-
ton of the classics does not agree with
that Of potatoes, nor does trigonometry
coincide with corn. A literary training
is of less consequence to crops than
strong muscles and solid experience. No
reason exists for making agriculture a
collegiate speciality, nor do these institu-
tions amount to any great sum considered
from that point of view. The place to
learn farming is on the farm, and not on
a garden patch or out of books. As well
try to learn blacksmithing or bricklayng
out of school books as to pillow, SOW and
reap. 1t can't be DONE"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
Anew source Of Food.

Much attention is now being paid in
Germany to the cultivation of fish in
ronds and bitches, and it has been found
contrary to the generally received opin-
ion in reference to such localities, that
they are more favorable for the purpose
than other large bodies of water, appa-
rently fresh and pure in their character
This is doubtless owing to the great
abundance of animal lite, as well as to
the more decided concentration of vegeta-
bic substance in the form of living plants
of different kinds, including the alg9.
This produces contant evolution of
oxygen needed for the respiration Of the
fish, and allows larger mass of life to
be crowded together in a given space.
The reproduction of the species is also
unusually rapid, and the young grow
very quickly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04

Another curious memory OF great
and unfortunate man hangs around Salz-
burg. Theophrastus Paracelsus, the so
called magician, and the self-supposed
inventor of the philosophers stone and
elixir of life. came here in l04l, only to
die in poverty and solitude. The house
in which he ended his strange and boot
less existence stands on the corner of the
narrow street leading from the bridge
over the SaIza, a tributary of the Dan
ube. Everything round this town seems
struck as with a spirit Of silence; all Is
hushed as if dreaming over past glorles,
resting on the laurels of the past. The
palace and gardens of Mirabel, just out
side the walls, have the same spell on
them Quaint and deserted, they are
Schonbrum in miniature, but are full of
the most unexpected mechanical contrl-
yances. You stand admiring view
over smoothly shaver lawn and stately
yew-tree alleys, when suddenly water
springs up at your feet and dashes in
let over your face The guide has touch
ed hidden spring behind the pedestal OF
a marble goddess-there lies the secret OF
the surprise These cunnlngly hidden
springs are everywhere, and the whole
garden is a living water-work that may
change you for the once into an unwii-
ling Undine. In one place is marvel
Gus clock of gigantic proportions, with
landscape, figures, and houses complete
the motions of the puppets most life
like, perfectly regular, and very para
disc for children's imagination - the |
whole machinery worked by water and |
regulated to a nicely. A little further I
IN is an al fresco dining-room, the walls
grassy banks topped with a eornlce OF
and the floor an emerald lawn
A long stone table and twelve stone seats
without backs are immovablY' fixed to the
ground OF other beauties, such as
broad stone-coped pools alive with swans
md goldfish, and dotted by water-lilies,
'Iirabel has an equal abundance to show.
The imperial family are hardly ever here
low, even in the long Summer days when
is soft, alluring beauties are enough to
empt the shades of the Grand Monarque
nd his merry crew from the groves of
Yersailles itself Galaxy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
n Chicago widow.

A handsome Chicago widow lately
played it on Memphis in a way which
will render it very unpleasant for future
Chicago widows to visit the Tennessee
metropolis. She went there as a sufferer
from the great fire, and soon induced
several sympathetic gentlemen of means
to aid her in starting a boarding house,
that unfailing resource of adventurous
widows the world over. OF course, she
could not do otherwise than prosper, for
she did strictly cash business with her
customers, while her relations with the
butcher and baker were established en-
tirely upon credit basis. This went on
until she had accumulated the snug sum
of $4,000, when she babe Memphis a
precipitate adieu, leaving the sympa-
thetic gentlemen of means, as well as
supdry tradesmen, very much cast down.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
Lady i'm the Case.
From the Courier-Jourr

From the Courier-Journal.
An old, old story, but q sweet and
touching one, Is that of woman's devotion
and selfforgetfulness in season OF sorest
sorrow. The double railway disaster of
first frightful collision and then an ex-
| plosion of locomotives, which occurred at
midnight on the Chicago and Alton road,
was enough to paralyze the strongest
nerves, but the awful crash, which sent
some from the sleep of life to hat of
death. was to many of the women, SO
rudely aroused from repose, an Pportu-
nifty for work of humanity. The con-
ductor of the sleeping coach tells
straightforward story, which needs no
establishment of polished phrases TO
adorn the angelic work of these volunteer
sisters of charity: First thing [ knew
the ladies, Ged bless them, were tearing
up their underclothing to bind up the
sufferers Why, sir, in half minute
they had scarcely anything left on them.
There was round one mans hanc a lace
handkerchief that must have cost small
fortune. One lady thrust something into
my hand to tie round a mans arm, which
looked like-well, undertaking. l
could not stand that any longer. | did
not care what the company said, 80 | just
gave orders to open the lockers and tear
up anything that came handy And |
they did. There were two or three ladies
tearing sheets into lengths to bind up |
wounds, while a half dozen others were /
binding them around the bloody arms |
and bodies of the wounded men. There /
was one little lady who was an angel
she worked-how she workedl There's I
her card. God bless her." and he hand
ed the reporter card marked Mrs.
Robert Mozart, No. PIP South Centre
street Bloomington. 81 said | would
get her name into the papers, and she
begged me not to. But there it i. A
glorious girl, Miss Tracy, the daugh
If the editor of a paper in Houston,
rexas, distinguished herself for her de-
7otion and careful attention to the
who were racked with every
orture. Earth has no medal nor tribute
# honor that can heighten the beauty of
his loving kindness, which spaIkles up
n the full tide of womanly devotion and
in the arid waste of human
elfshness like fountain in a Turning
lesert.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
TIE ELEVENTH HOUR.
BY ANNA L. RUTH.


Whist. sir Would ye PLACE to speak aisy
And sit ye down there by the dures
She sleeps. slr. so light and So restless,
She hears every step on the ture.
" hat aiIs her: God knows! She's been
weakly
For months, aud the heat dhriges her
wild;
The summer has wasted and worn her
Till she's only the ghost Of d child.
All have? Yes, she is, and God help me
Id three little darints beside,
AS purity "a iver ye see, sir.
But wan by wan dhrooped like, and died.
What was il that TUX them, ye're asking?
WHY poverty, sure. aud no doubt
They perished for food and fresh air, sir,
Like flowers dhried up in a drought
II was dreadful to lose them? All, was IL
1t ~rencd like my heart-strihgs would
break.
But there's days when wild want aud wild
sorrow
I'm thankful they're gone = for their sake !!
Their father! Well, sir, saints forgive mel
It's foul tongue that lowers is own!
But W lat wid the sthrikes and the liquor,
I'd better be sthruggiin' alone!
10 want to kape this wan? The darlint,
The last and the dearest of all!
Shure you're niver "A father yourself, sir,
or You wouldn't be askin' at all!
What j. that? Milk and food for the baby
A docther ana medicine free.
You're huHLin' ont ali the sick children,
An poor Toilin' mothers, like me!
God bless yoa! an thin that have sent you
a new lite you've given me, so.
Shure, sir, won't you look III the cradle
At tie culleen you've saved, fore you go ?
% mother q mercies have pity
q darint why couldn't You wait
Dead! dead! an the help In the dureway
Too late o my baby Too late
Davis speech Before
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
A CoaaubiaI Tangle.
From the \. Y. Correspondence of the Oh
cago Times.

From the \. Y. Correspondence of the Chi
cago Times.
Six or seven years ago, two retail dry
goods merchants, who were married, and
who had been for some time intimate
friends, and were living in the same
house, and they and their wives they had
no children were on entirely harmo-
NOUS terms. After a while, they came
to the conclusion that they had married
the wrong women; that Calico (presum-
ing that to be his name) should have es-
poused Mrs. Muslin, and that Muslin
should have been the husband of Mrs.
Calico. They discussed the matter
openly, and, as they all agreed upon it,
they had no difficulty in readjusting their
matrimonial arrangements.
The courts of Indiana gave them the
desired release; Mrs. Muslin became
Mrs. Calico. and Mrs. Calico Mrs. Mus.
lin. They were altogether satisfied with
what might be termed the new connubial
deal, and, though they ceased to live
under the same roof, they were still on
the same friendly footing.
In little more than a twelvemonth,
Calico discovered that he did not get
along, on the whole, half so pleasantly
with his new cCnsort as he had done
With the old, and learned upon inquiry
hat it was exactly the same with Mus
in. Consequently a quadrilateral con-
Tention was held, at which Mrs. Calico
md Mrs. Muslin expressed their prefer
nee for their previous condition of we'd
ock; and the result was another journey
o the West, and another divorce
The reunion is only two or three |
months old; but, at present, promises,
understand, to be mutually agreeable |
nd adhesive If it does not, Calico and
Iuslin viii not be likely to exchange |
as they did before, since they |
ave learned by experience that they |
annot swap wives to advantage
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
Narrow Escape.

Several days ago, while a party were
out in the mountain, about three miles
from New Market, gathering whortleber-
ries, one of the party, lady, Mrs.
Stricken, standing below little elevated
bluff, reached up to pick some berries
which grew there. As she bent over to
get the berries, rattlesnake struck her
on the breast, but her dress prevented
the fangs from penetrating the flesh.
She liberated herself, but the snake
struck her again, fastening on her dress
a little lower down again she extricated
herself. just then several of the party
rushed up, and the snake was killed. =
Shenandoah Valley.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04

A bashful young man in San Francisco
recently called upon some lady friends,
and after spending some time in CONVEX
sation, rose to take his leave. He was
bowling himself towards the door, the
handle of which he seized, with his face
still to the company, and in another
moment was gone, and the door closed
behind him. Then to his horror he dis
covered that in his confusion he had
made for the wrong door, and had shut
himself up in a china closet, while the
uncomfortable laughter of the ladies by
no means tended to restore his equanimi-
ty,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04

A MOVING EPISODE. = This is the del
icate manner in which the Lebanon (Ind. J
Herald relates a social incident of the
sanctum; We gently, and, as it were,
uneonsciously, pushed a paper weight to-
wards the end of the table where she sat.
Directly it attracted her attention. She
looked at it, took it up, looked more
earnestly, and then, laying it gently
down, she calmly rose, gathered her
ample skirts about her, straightway took
her leave, not even saying goodbye
Certainly nothing was further from our
intention than to give offence. We
merely wished to attract her attention to
the paper weight as work Of art w e
regard it as fine work of art, and value
it solely for that reason-but the effect
it has on some visitors is remarkable and
inexplicable. 1t is a small slab of crys-
tai, through which may be seen sketch
representing a skeleton, surrounded by
this legend: This unfortunate editor
was talked to death.