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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

When jurors, medical experts, ana
journalists fall by the ears upon the ques-
ton of what tenor of action should be re-
garded as proof or disproof of insanity,
the public are apt to view the whole dls,
cussion as a mere pretext for such verDai
tumult as may either allow some criminal
misdoer to evade moral responsibility for
his crime, or cause a possible maniac to
experience the opposite fate. In other
words, there is no abiding popular faith In
what pretend to be. scientific tests Of
mental health, the prevalent idea being
that man Is either raving lunatic,
pulling idiot, or sane, reasoning creature;
his condition In any case as obvious to a
child as to the wisest physician, and all
pretense of learned doubt In the case the
veriest sham. Common scenes in modern
criminal trials 90 far to strengthen st
least the vulgar clamor of this conclusion,
but it undoubtedly owes its greatest ten
acity to the common minds slowness OF
credulity for what every common instinct
esteems the most terrible of human afilic.
lions. Men shrink from crediting insanity
i'm their own relatives or friends until II
has attained violence Of demonstration
leaving no further ground Of earthly hope
and cannot be reconciled save in the
vaguest general way to the theory that the
mind, like the body, is subject to various
diseases, and is only exceptionally In
condition of perfect health. Yet there /
: scarcely town or even neighborhoot
in the world without its "queer," eccen
trio character. whose tenor of action i
q such as to denote mental disease. In tn
many such cases finding daily record il
public print there are plenty of parallels Il
: instances like the following taken iron
papers of recs mt date. At Middleburg
Pa, SAYS the Post of that place, a ma
q named Ellsworth died lately, after locs
y career of brief but startling eccentricity
He came thither from Hartford Conn
d last spring, attired in curiously -patche
u garments and accompanied by dog; an
hired room in which to print for himse
v an incoherent pamphlet entitled, III
q Prospects of the End."' From long cor
sideration of the passage in Revelations
10 sAnd he laid hold on Satan and bound MI
r. a thousand years, after which he must
loosed for a little season." he had becon
= possessed of the idea that the season
- diabolic rule had begun, and that me
could avoid its influence only by abstail
ing rigidly from all physical grossn s
~ To maintain his own ethereality, WIN
Is printing his pamphlet upon hand-pre
which he had brought with him, he live
ID exclusively upon corn-meal and water, 7
re fusing to touch bread or meat. Thong
very taciturn and lofty in his manner,
N seemed to be actually insane on this su
M ject only, but died a victim to the pc
M diet and hard labor imposed by his del
sion.-N. Y. World.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05

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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
Legislative SUMMARY.

In the Senate yesterday, Mr.. Mccall in
trodnced n joint resolution. which lies
over, to appoint joint committee to in
quire and report into the constitutionality
of the tipping bill, and requesting the
Governor to withhold his signature for the
present. Senate resolution protesting
against donating of further land grants
by the General Government, was adopted.
Senate resolution requesting members OF
the House to remain with the Senators at
the Capitol until next Monday, was adopt
ed. A lot of House bills passed third read
ing. Senate resolution providing for ad.
journment on next Saturday was amended
by substituting next Thursday then adopt
ed
In the House in message was received
from the Governor urging the Legislature
to remain session long enough to pass
the important measures before the body,
especially the revenue bills. The House
voted to comply with the Governors sug-
gestion in his message and remain to take
action on the revenue and assessment bills
Ayes "a, noes 24.-Banner 21st.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
The Depth of the Ocean.


The ocean is not "bottomless deep"
except to the poets and to young ladies,
neither of whom are. familiar with the
modern Improvements in taking sound
ings. Not only have skillful seamen
known how to reach the bottom and fetch
part of it up to the top from great depths,
but 1nathen1aticians have given themselves
the trouble to calculate theoretically it's
average depth. Button gave this at 240
fathoms, or 1440 feet; Lacaille gives from
164 to 273 fathoms; Laplace, enormously
estimating the mean elevation of the land
at $3.50 feet-three times the height now al
lowed by physical geographers-thought
the waters of the sea must be of about
equal depth. Young assigned depth of
2735 fathoms to the Atlantic and about
$500 fathoms to the great South Sea. Ac-
cording to this estimate, other mathema-
ticians add, the Pacific must be at its deep
est point fifteen and half miles in depth,
which is scarcely probable. But though
little is known of the greatest depth of the
oceans, we do know that their bottoms are
of unequal depth, and that they contain
mountains as well as vast rolling plains
Nordhof, IN Harper's Magazine for AprH
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
The Cincinnati Railroad.

The following letter from Hon. VIM.
Crutchfield did not reach us until yester-
day, but as he would give us no further in
formation we print it now:
CINCINNATI, March II, 1873.
FRIEND KIRBY: 1 have spent the day
talking Railroad to our Cincinnati friends.
There is no doubt but that the road will be
built, yet our dirt owner settlers of Chatta-
nooga must not rest easy. Obstacles and
inducements are held out by competing
points, and such as to require your young
city to be up and at work-in truth there
is "many slip between the cup and the
lip" Many very important facts and a
great deal of valuable information has been
obtained by the different lines of survey.
The Board of Trustees are at work earnest
ly, they mean business. A large force is
at work in the office, making out and fin
ishing up the various lines of survey. Mat
tiers will come to point soon.
Yours, &C., VIM. CRUTCHFIELD.
Chattanooga Times, 22d. 5-s--
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM NASHVILLE.
0pposition to East Tennessee Universit,
Passage of the Assessment Bill.
Revenue Bill Fails for Want of Quorum
NASHVILLE, March %, 1910 p. NJ.
Special to the Chronfcle.l

NASHVILLE, March %, 1910 p. NJ.
Special to the ChronicIe.l
In little tilt in the House to-day be-
tween the representatives from Upton
county and the Floating member from
Knox and Anderson counties, in reference
to East Tennessee University, two of the
East Tennessee members made themselves
conspicuous in trying to oppose and clog
the University, but their cooperation fail
ed of its purpose.
The House asserted its strength against
the factious and mobocratic minority and
passed the assessment bill to-day.
The Senate concurred in the principal
amendments of the House and receded
from others. With the Governors sigma
ture it will become law and will raise the
taxable property atleast 81 100000.
When the revenue bill was then called
enough of the minority absented them
selves to reduce the number below quo
rum, and thus it was defeated. Z
The Governor sent a message to-day
saying that the interest on the funded
debt weuld be paid if itexhausted the en-
tire revenue. e.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
"The Watchdog of the Treasury"

Very probably he is occupied in con-
structing specimens of that mysterious
signature which ornaments all our paper
money, and is to most mena riddle more
unsolvable than any that the Sphinx ever
propounded. Translated it is F. E. Spin
ner. We observe that the pen with which
it is written is of peculiar construction,
and has three points, and that the ink used
has the thickness and consistency of mud
and the blackness of Egyptian darkness,
and is 'piled up" on the paper to height
which we would be incredulous had we
never seen it, and which, having been
seen, renders us more incredulous still
This delightful quality in the ink, the
messenger informs us, is produced by long
exposure to the atmosphere in an open
vessel to be accurate, an old pitcher with
a broken nose. 1t is astonishing, we are
further told to note the number of people,
principally from the country districts, who
stray into the Treasurer's room during the
course of year for the purpose of shaking
hands with "the man who makes that
funny signature" and of looking wonder
ingly on to see how he makes it.-Scribner
for dDyH f..t .-. ...-...e.-f .sr~- -s- ~
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
Pleasant Reading for the Ladies.

+ The British Medical Journal publishes
an abstract of an article by DR.. Lindeman
upon the parasite bodies (GregdrinidG)
found in the false hair and chignons usual
ly worn by ladies. These grow at the ex-
tremities of the hair, and form little Jumps,
visible to the naked eye. Each of these
Jumps represents a colony of about fifty
psorosperms, which are originally spheri-
cal, but become flattened and discoid by
reciprocal pressure. 30 Under the influence
of heat and moisture these swell, and the
granular contents are converted into little
spheres, and then into pseudonavicelle,
which are little corpuscles having a per-
sistent external membrane, and inclosing
one or two nuclei. These become free, and
float in the air and penetrate into the in
teIior of the human organism, reaching
the circulatory apparatus, and, according to
the doctor, reducing various maladies, not
the least Of which are Alterations of the
heart, Bright's disease, and pulmonary
complaints. DIR. Lindeman remarks, with
the exactness of the mathematician, that
in ball room containing fifty ladies forty
five millions of navicell@ are set Free and
he urges the propriety of abolishing false
hair on this account.-Es Editors Scientific
Record in Harper's Magazine for april.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
HON z N EWS.
Arrest of supposed English Forger


NEW YORK, March 22.-Judson Jarvis,
clerk of the arrests bureau, claims that he
discovered to-day, strong proof that Geo.
Mcdonnell, arrested. yesterday, is either
f. A. Warren himself or one of his prin-
cipal confederates in the late heavy forger-
les on the Bank of England. Letters and
packages have been found here addressed
to Austin Pridwell and Mr.. Byron Bid
we'll and to George Mcdonnell. The last
mentioned came to Duncan, Sherman &
Co., and they know nothing of its owner.
A Havana dispatch says, the Spaniards
are becoming seriously embarrassed for
want of funds to meet the expenses of the
prolonged conflict with the insurgents.
The bank statement shows that loans
have decreased S., 600; specie increased
$500, 600 legal tenders decreased SAG, 900
decrease of deposits 81, 900.
The letters andBpackages which have
been addressed to BidweIl, in the care of
Duncan, Sherman & Co., bankers, and the
Safe Deposit Company, are supposed to
contain the missing bonds of the Bank of
England, Proceedings to attach these let
tiers were commenced to-day. Bidwell is
an accomplice of Mcdonald.
SAVANNAH, March 22-The ship Caluce
is ashore on Sapelo Island and will be a
total wreck. The Captain and crew have
arrived here.
SAN FRANCISCO, March GA quarrel
is reported in Capt. Jacks camp, who has
been threatened with death should he give
up the persons accused of murder.
LITTLE Rock, March pa bill was
passed by the Senate yesterday to legislate
the acts of Probate Clerks between the
years 1861 and 1865, in reference to the ap-
pointment of guardians, administrators of
estates &c st-
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
WASHINGTON.

i y
WASHINGTON, March 22.-The follow
ing combinations were made by the Sen
ate to-day: Casey, Collector of Customs
of New Orleans Sham, Postmaster al
Tarboro', N. c.; Adams, Postmaster al
Pensacola.
The President is indisposed and has re-
ceived no visitors. There is no executive
business. The Senate, after brief open
session, went into executive session.
Casey occupied them two and a hall
hours and understood that the Democrats
generally voted for Casey upon the ground
tn at he was more acceptable to the people
of New Orleans than any person the Presi-
dent would nominate in his stead.
Exact figures and names are inaccessi-
BILE, but it is understood that Casey is
confirmed by respectable majority.
Nominations of VIM. P. Dockay, Collec-
tor at ST. Johns, Fla, and Joseph Inguson,
Collector, Virginia, were also made.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
Hints Not Usually Needed

Persons who are in the habit of lying
awake in the morning, before it is time to
get up, will often find that if they can but
impressit upon their minds that they ought
to get up Immediately, and that it is wrong
for them to lie still moment longer, the
bed will begin to grow more and more at
tractive, and that the gentle drowsiness
which besets people who ought to get out
very probable steal upon them. Every one
who has ever wished he could be as de-
lightfully sleepy on Sunday or holiday
mornings as he is on days when he must
rise early to his work, will appreciate this
plan.-Ffdnk R. Stockton; Scribneris for
april.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
FOR ZIG N.

MADRID, March 22.-The Radicals are
determined to prevent the demonstration
of the extreme Republicans and the crisis
is expected tomorrow.
BERLIN. March 22-To-day is holida y
in Berlin, it being the anniversary of the
birth of Emperor William. Flags are
flying from public and private buildings
and the city will be illuminated tonight
The Emperor is seventy-six years old.
The Rome appointment by the Pope, OF
the following Bishops for the United
States is announced to-day: Rev. NJ A.
Carrigan, for the diocese of Newark and
Rev. Mr.. Gross for the diocese of Savan.
NAH 1880 ---.-.r-.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
COnlmendable.

The following praiseworthy manifesto
explains itself:
We, the undersigned, members of the
Senate of the Thirty-eighth General AS
sembly, agree to remain at the post OF
duty until we complete the necessary bust
ness of the State, especially in perfecting
such measures as are imperatively lie.
J. III. Hughes, S. K. N. Patton, e. A.
James, w. P. Jones, D. Richards, James
Hamilton, n. Brandon. r. w. Robertson,
Robert McKenna, N. w. Mcconnell,
M. L. Mcconnell, James White, James
Coulter, N. Smithson, James D. Richard
son, F. B. Snipes, w. A. Moody, j. Caleb
Morgan, J. d. Tillman.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
DON'T GO IN.

tits lighted, we knew, like palace,
That fair gilded temple of sin;
1thas signs on the walls-let US read them
The Best of wine, brandy and GIN
Gas if human stomachs could need them)-
Ny son, oh my son, don't 60 in
Though il giveth its beautiful color,
Though it glesms in the cup like rose.
Though it seeks like serpent to charm you,
Like the bright, willy serpent twill harm you,
And rob you of earthly repose.
twill tarnish your glorious manhood,
And sow the vile seeds of disgrace B..
Why, then, deal with this terrible danger
Why enter this crime-haunted place?
Much better to pass it a stranger,
Than Gods holy image deface!
Much better to grid on the armor
To fight lifes great battle, and win,
Than to lay down your all on the altar
That burns in this temple of sin
To strike for the rights and not falter--
Ny son. oh my son, don't 60 in.
Queer Epitaphs.
A correspondent in Washington sends
us the following copies from tombstones in
the old st. Patrick's Cemetery in that
city
MARY T. Griner is my name,
And Heaven is my station.
Washington City was my dwelling place,
And Christ was my salvation.
When am dead and in my grave
And all my bones are rotten.
When this you see, remember me,
That may never be forgotten"
'Stop passenger as you pass BY
As you are now so once was I:
As am now. SO you must be- .... 81.
Prepare for death and follow me-"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23
THE HANGING OF FOSTER.
poisoned Himself on the Night Before
Execution, .. t-...


Execution, I..-
WASHINGTON, March pa statement
is published to-day based on information
derived from Tombs official, that Foster
took poison the night before his execution.
About s o'clock yesterday morning the
matron of the tOmbs found Foster sick
and in explanation he then admitted he
had taken poison. The mans symptoms
in every way confirmed suspicion on this
account. The sheriff fastened the execu-
ton, and while many believed the duration
of religious exercises were telling on Eos
ter's nerves, it was in reality weakness
caused by poison that was acting on him.
A Tombs physician says Foster would have
died if execution had been delayed until
10 o'clock.
William Foster was buried this morning
in Greenwood Cemetery, Rev. Dr's. Walk
er and Tying, officiating. After the service,
DR.. Tying said he felt it his duty to state
it was his belief that the report that Fos-
ter had taken poison and was dying at the
time of his execution, was false; that he
and DIR. Walker were alone with Foster
for three quarters of an hour Immediately
previous to his going to the scaffold, that
he seemed in good health and strength
and had remarkable self possession of his
mind, that he dressed himself with minute
care and conversed fully and freely, and
on being visited by the sheriff at nine
O'Clock, announced his readiness in a full
cheerful voice, and although pinioned,
walked with firm step and without assis-
lance to the scafold, where he stood until
the fatal moment.
4Both clergymen declared the idea that
he attempted or contemplated suicide, as
entirely inconsistent with their observa-
ton Of his physical and moral conduct
during the last hours of mis- life.
fweed's counsel, before the Senate In
vtesngaung Committee, take ground that
not having been nor intended being a
member. The Senate Committee decided
that the question was not within their
province and proceeded to examine wit
nessPS, go yc..
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23

A little thing in a Sunday-school was
asked by her teacher if she always said her
prayers night and morning. mo, Miss, 1
don't" "Why, Mary, are you not afraid
to go to sleep without asking the good
Father to take care of you and watch over
you till morningg' mo, Miss, I amt
! cause sleep in the middle"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23

Mr.. 3. B. Washburne, whom the Gins
cinnati Commercial calls "the next Presi-
dent of the United States" has written a
letter to the Illinois Stats Zeitung on
what he terms the "New Slavery Cues
tionfrthat is to say, on the tyranny of
railroad, telegraph and express monopo-
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-23

q. Francis Joseph of Austria, offers five
Thousand forins, equivalent to two thous-
anu dollars for the best editorial on Aus
.lian affairs; to be written in German and
no1 70 contain more than one thousand
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-07-24
Notice 70 Dealers in Hotel ana Saloon

Notice 70 Dc3lerS in Hotel ana Saloon
Supplies.
M.ssys Adler ! Eg-a1a.s have just re
ceiyel Tie largest and Most ComP'e e
S-g-k Of F,rei-n Vines, Liquors and
Cigars ever offered Ee- sale, and propose
Q serve their old patrons and such new
ones as may seek them, VIII FIR. class
sools Il The lowest l.e.a: rates, and Vii
mr.e their goods tn rha trade ~ tier
Waa.c ale House opposite F.-s- Nat;aa.'
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