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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-10
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Sawed Shin gles,

which I have been selling this season. I buy them direct from the manufacturer, and am au- thorized to warrant them free from knots, shakes sap and tapers. RIFED PINE and CEDAR SHINGLES always on hand. I have, also, large stock of EXPELLED SIDING, made from six inch dry strips, bought last July, and for quality and price will guarantee it unsur- passed. I also offer 8 full line of seasoned inch and II inch SPRUCE, WHITE PINE and SOUTHERN PINE FLOORING, narrow and wide; dry inch Surfaced and Rough Cutting-up Lumber; II, H. 2 and 3 inch good Lumber well seasoned; Ceiling in every variety ASH,
 WHLTEWOOD. CHERRY and BLACK WAL Nt boards and plank. I have the largest and best stnck of Hemlock Boards and Dressed Pine Sheathing in this section of this State All lumber delivered on the cars free of charge and special contracts made for delivery by rail o1
 teams. Orders by mail will be promptly attend 1 ed to.
 F.. J. HILL. Norwalk. Conn.
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-10
BANGOR HATH.

B Ba m 30 a I'd S. l have to offer one-haif million feet of Ottawa Stocks, 10 and 12 inches wide, 12, 1S, II, and 16 feet in length. It is an admitted fact that the Ottawa Boards are the best known to the trade, being remarkable for their freedom from the presence of the large black knots so common in Michigan Stocks. I can furnish these boards surfaced one side, edges tongued and grooved. dressed full width or narrow, and the quality of the dressing guaranteed I would call special attention to the brand nf IS inch
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"MRs. JUEKErr
 and Husband. ''

l saw the invitation lying on the piano after they had gone.
 Kitty" said I, who's that female with four chins whom met-no, who walked over me as I came in ?"
 ''That, Max? why, that Mrs. Trains Allston. She is a patron of high art
 I remembered the chimney-pots, and l remarked, ''Humph.
 Thereupon raised the windows to share with the outdoor people, the odor of aristocracy and musk left behind; Kit ty glanced at Mrs. Gaston's envelope.
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Ioh Printing.

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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-10
Dr. J. BLACKMAN'S Golden E.rtrOct

Is the only reliable medicine for the relief and cure of all diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs. It cures gravel in almost every in- stance, Incontinence and Retention ofthe Urine, Inflammation of the Bladder, Pains in the Back and Loins are speedily relieved, TO matter of how long standing. Price S1 per box. Prepared only by H. l.. LILLE, Norwalk Conn. JOHN F. HENRY, 6 College Place, N Y., Wholesale Agent. SOLD BY DRUGGIsTS. 7-1y
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-10
LUM F ER.

desire to call attention to the fact that Ihave on hand 8 full stock of all varieties of LUMBER called for in this market and am prepared to sell the same at the lowest market price for Cash. My stock comprises
 Easferp Spruce IiMbet, of all sizes from 2xs to 4x12 in Joist. and up to sx10 in Frame Timber. Only small portion of this Timber has eyer been rafted and is conse- quently clean and free from grit and gravel AL so, 5,0GO punches of first quality
Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-10

lous. in this sort of tale-telling the grea- ter the narrator's powers of gasconading, the greater will be his success. But even Baron Munchausen's unaided invention would sometimes fail under the ceaseless demands for thew fairy story, braa new" Consequently all entertainers of children ioyfully welcome every new fairy book that is even passably well written, and the one before us is much more than that. The adventures of the Prices, Res olute and Silvertongue might interest children of much larger growth than those for whom it is designed. The book does not strike us as being entirely original; at least two of the seven having the ring of certain German tales we could name. But the children will not know this, and as the stories are all marvellous to last degree, and are told in an easy, pleasant style, the little story-beggars will be more than sat isfed. The print is excellent; an essen sential point ill any book intended for children, but we could wish the numerous illustrations were a little more artistic
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
State Grange in Kansas.

The Patrons of Husbandry have
recently held large State conven-
ton at Lawrence, Kansas, at which
strong resolution were passed against
the salary steaP' and those who
have pocketed the money. A reso-
luton condemning the President and
asking him to resign, was voted
down by a small majority. This
was inconsistency; for if the con-
vention call his taking $25, 1000 a year
extra salary stealing" it should
deny him the moral right to continue
in an Office which he has disgraced.
The State Grange condemns itself
by first accusing the Chief Magistrate
of the nation of stealing" 100000
of public funds, and then attempt
ing to cover up the crime for his
benefit. Grant is either as guilty as
any member of Congress. or he is
innocent He cannot be at once
both guilty and innocent. Holding
much higher Office than that of
member of Congress, ''a steal of
100000 by him in signing the salary
bill, is twenty times as demoralizing
and humiliating to the country, as
for member of Congress to vote
for the bill to put only $4,000 into
his own pocket. 1t is an infamous
law or jury that catches and pun
ishes small rogues, and lets large
ones go free to ''steaP' what they
please. All these partisan efforts to
make stealing respectable, because
President Grant is VIGOROUSLY guilty
will fail. The principle of the Fed
eral Constitution is that a public
servant shall work for the salary for
which he agrees to serve when
elected. This principle has been
openly violated by men who had
sworn to support the Constitution.
The public interest demands that the
guilty be severely punished as a
salutary precedent. and the ground
work of much needed reform. The
way to have pure and honest gov
eminent, is to punish every depart
ure from the line of rectitude and
economy.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
The Mexican Border.

The Nashville Banner says: The
Administration organ at Washington
publishes a long letter from Fort
Clark, Texas, and rather warlike
letter on the condition of affairs
along the Mexican border. In the
letter it says the condition of affairs
which evidently exist, should not be
permitted to continue one hour long
er than is absolutely required to send
troops sufficient to punish the san
culinary marauders there is no use
of further trifing with these Next
can murderers. The state of af-
fairs on the Texan frontier is repre-
sented as worse than ever before,
an absolute reign of terror. The
Mexican State authorities appear
anxious for hostility, and are de-
handing that troops be sent forward
to repel a second incursion by Nc
Kenizie or any Federal force.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Pay as You Go.

One cause of hard times among
our people, says the Rural San, is
they pay too high for what they buy
in orderto get it on credit. This
credit system has been a great draw
back upon our prosperity all the
time, and the sooner we change it
the better. We may think and say
there is as much done on the credit
of a people as upon their actual capt.
tai. So there may be; but it is after
establishing character for prompt
and punctual meeting Of contracts,
and not where men deal with you,
realizing that at the time promised
to pay you, will wait to be sued, and
then take a stay OH the judgement
for eight months. When he sells
you his goods OF his wares, on
credit now, he adds Oh q double prof
it and compounds the interest to
make up for the several turnings he
could make of his money before you
pay it to him. Another feature is
that on credit you buy frequently
what you would not if you had to
plank down the cash. Better by
far to pay as you go, for payday,
like death, comes to all, and, as in
case of death, the people are too
often unprepared to meet it. 1t is
this willingness of the farmers to
pay almost two prices for articles
bought on credit, rather than pay
one price cash down, that causes
much of the difficulty they find in
squaring up at the end Of the year.
Watch your earnings, pay as you go,
and spend less than you earn, and
always have plenty of credit, com
forts and money.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

We do our very best to believe all
the queer stories that we find, for we
could not conscientiously present
them to our readers unless we be-
lieved them to be true, but here is
one that 1--WE caution the public
seems to us a little doubtful. We
will not say it is a lie, but it is i'm
probable. A horse in st. Paul,
Mimi, drank beer till he was in a
beastly state of intoxication. His
owner, knowing that his previous
habits were exemplary, thought he
was dead, and skinned him. Next
morning a CHASTITY steed without hide
or hair, was fround grazing on the
public common, and a skillfull veteri-
nary surgeon is engaged in plating
his superfcies with hair froma neigh
boring tannery.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
PrOmissOry NOte---ImpOrtant Decision.

Speaking of promissory notes an
exchange says, that a man promised
to pay one hundred dollars. He
used printed form, but did not
close up the blank devoted to dollars
and after it passed as negotiable
paper, somebody inserted land fif-
ty" after the one hundred and be-
fore the printed word dollars. The
note thus altered got into the hands
of an innocent party, who presented
it to the drawer, and, the Supreme
Court decided that the maker was
responsible for its face, because
through negligence he did not draw
a line between the written one hun
dred and printed word dollars. Any
testimony that the drawer might
offer to establish the fact that he
gave his note for only one hundred
dollars must go for nothing, as
there was nothing on the face Of
the note showing it had been alter
ed" Evidence Of an alteration on
the face Of the note would have
changed the case. Let this decision
be a warning to all drawers of prom
issory notes. No one can be too
careful in such matters.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Superiority of Tennessee.

The Rural Sun of a recent date
saws it is ascertained from facts
gathered from the census reports,
that Tennessee ranks ahead of all
her sister Southern States in indus
trial and financial affairs, and Vir-
ginia stands second. Tennessee
farms are valued at $218. 100000 ;
her real and personal estate at
$498, 100000, the products of her
farms at $87, 100000. and paid in
taxes, in 1870, $1,258.Oo0.
Virginia's farms are worth $215,-
100000; her real and personal
estate at $4O9. 100000; her farm
products at SOL, 100000; her taxes
at ST, 225, 900.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
The Postal card.

We learn something new every
day about postal cards. The latest
valuable piece of information is that
they cannot be sent at the ordin-
airy rate when written over the side
intended only for the address. You
may write your letter and crowd as
much as possible in a microscopic
hand upon the blank side, but let
no word transgress the opposite face
else the full letter postage must be
forthcoming to save your letter from
confseation. A case Of this kind
was brought to the Postmaster Gen
eral, who decided that any addition
al matter other than the address on
the face of a postal card renders it
unavailable except at letters rates
of postage"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Wantcd---A Situation.


We received the following epistle.
last week. and as we have no desire
to employ any one to write up our
editorials. we publish, thinking per-
haps it may be the means of getting
him an easy place:
BIEssRs. EDITORS 81 have long
felt that was born for something
more than an every day common la
borer. have thought, at times,
which seem almost divine, and when
following the pillow or working in the
harvest field, my heart so wells up
in my throat that can scarcely con-
tain myself. I am anxious to get
into some business more respectable
than hard work. Being a constant
reader of your paper, thought I
would write you-as you seem like
old friends-and ask your advice
1 am not very particular about what
l follow, just SO it is respectable, and
[ can get away from this work, work
from day light to dark, from week to
week 1 think / could soon become
expert as a salesman in a store. If
you cannot get situation for me in
a store, perhaps you can get me
place as clerk in one of the hotels ;
or if they are all full, perhaps you
would pay me enough to meet ex-
penses as an assistant editor. /
have very vivid imagination, and
am sure that l could assist you
greatly. 1 write both prose and
poetry. Now, l hope you will ex-
cuse my boldness in thus writing
you; for you must be fair men and
desire to see merit rewarded.
Some Of my friends are anxious
for me to 90 to school five or six
years yet. if am determined not to
stay on the farm; but see no good
sense in this. Study at dull text
books is hard work, almost as trying
as blowing and hoeing, and besides
all this, 1 notice that most Of the
nice young men, who are in the stores
and hotels, are not better educated
than [, and l see they are able to
wear good clothes and get the bar
bers to shave them and fix up their
hair. l don't see the use Of work
ing hard all the time either with the
hands or head, when it is plain that
many get along so well without
work. If they succeed so well when
young, of course they will learn
when older, to live and dress well
without working any. lam decided
~ in favor of progress in the right
direction.
Let me hear from you soon. l am
very anxious to get a situation be-
fore time for breaking up wheat
ground.
JOHN HOPE.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13


is one thing that goes hard with him
he has to milk the COWS. l have
seen but few families in Oregon
where the women milk. I fear that
l have already prolonged this letter
so as to trespass upon your patience,
but forget that you are enduring
that suffocating heat peculiar to all
that country east of the Rocky
Mountains, while we are constantly
famed by the gentle breezes from
the ocean. and our vision is feasting
on eternal SHOWS. Conceive six
huge mountains of snow to have
been reared from some of your
neighboring hills and mountains.
How delightful would be the vision
in midsummer? Such is the scenery
around us. From some places at
one view can be seen Mt. st. Helena
with her beautiful symettrical top,
the famous MT. Hood, an extinct
volcano, Mt. Jefferson, from whose
summit now floats the U. S. flag
placed there in the last Presidential
campaign, and the Three Sisters.
have also seen the Three Brothers in
Southern Oregon. All these noun
tains are covered with perpetual
SHOWS, and are not far away-just
above the horizon, as you might i'm
agine, and almost in our very midst;
but the waving golden grain at their
base proves that it is midsummer
there. Yours,
II. S. NJ.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
western North Carolina Railroad.

A correspondent of the New York
Times writing from Raleigh, says
A petition has been filed in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court for the
Western District Of this State to
force the Western North Carolina
Road into bankruptcy, which will be
heard by Judge Dick, at Greensboro,
some time during this month. The
commission appointed by the Legis-
lature to settle the affairs of this road
have held two secret meetings since
their appointment. If they have
been able to devise ways and means
whereby the road can be relieved of
its debts and completed to Paint
Rock, on the Tennessee line, they
have not been made public. The
road is under the control of Hon. w.
a Smith, as receiver, and will prob
ably remain so until the appeal
granted by Judge Dick is heard and
decided by the United States Su-
preme Court. The Board of Direc-
tors appointed by the Governor, of
which W. H. Howerton is President,
and who were made parties to the
suit, and were instrumental in taking
the case to the United States Su-
preme Court, are now not only will
ing but anxious to have the case dis
missed at their cost, and allow the
road to be sold under the decree Of
the court, heretofore made.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
The soldiers Of the Mexican war.

A convention of the surviving sol
diers of the war with Mexico has
been called to meet at Washington
City, january 10, 1874. We learn
chat, in order to get up a represen-
tation in that convention. meeting
was held at Cleveland, Bradley
county, last Monday, at which it was
resolved to have a convention of the
surviving soldiers at Knoxville on
the first day Of the Eastern Division
Fair. AS there are some of these
soldiers in Hamblen county-perhaps
quite number of them-it would
be well for them to take some steps
to participate in this proposed con-
vention.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

At the last Presidential contest.
Mr.. Cowlcy, Postmaster at Norwich,
Massachusetts,, voted for Mr.. Gree
Fey. For this he was removed by
Gen. Grant. Since his removal, &c
cording to the Springfield RepuJti-
can, more than three-fourths Of the
community have petitioncd for the
restoration of their old postmaster,
bat the authorities have been deaf to
their appeals. In the face Of such
occurrences as this it is sublime as
surance to, talk of the existence of
Civil Service Reform.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

The Democratic party in Ken
lucky has shown more vitality than
the party-killers gave it credit for
They have elected nearlya all their
candidates for Office throughout the
State. The independent candidate
for State Treasurer received few
thousand votes only, and the legis-
lature is overwhelmingly Democratic,
The solid old Democracy of Ken
lucky know how to win victories,
and they do not run off after new
lights. which lead to quagmires and
pitfalls of ruin and destruction.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

The Louisville Comjer-JomnaI
has the following on the new State
movement:
The convention at jackson, Ten
nessee, looking toward the formation
Of new State out of the portions
of Kentucky. Tennessee and Missis-
sippi, has taken definite action with
that object. We do not believe,
however, that the movement has any
considerable vitality. In Western
Kentucky the question has been agi-
tated to some extent, but does not
appear to have proceeded from any
real necessity felt or expressed on
the part of the people. In Western
Tennessee we are informed that it is
not recognized as in the least par
taking of popular movement, nor
do the people of North Mississippi
appear to be greatly exercised over
it. Doubtless the gentlemen prom
inent in the convention at jackson
are not wholly absolved from certain
ambitious hopes which the formation
OF the proposed State is looked to
to crafty. 1t is hardly probable
that, for some years at least, these
hopes will be crowned by the issue.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Poison in the Atmosphere.

An East Tennessee exchange says !:
There is. in the opinion OF physi-
clans, a poison in the atmosphere at
the present time, which is only lying
in wait to develop itself in every
case where any indescretion in eat
ing, drinking or exercise would be
liable to give it an entrance. Sew
eral instances of this character were
reported yesterday and it hehooves
every one to exercise great care IN
all their habits.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Kicked to Death by a Mule.

A son of Mr.. Robert Burns, aged
about Is years, living in the Sd dis
trict of this county, was kicked to
death by mule on Monday evening
last. We learn the young man was
in the barnyard or stable alone with
the mule, and was found dead by
some of the family, He had been
kicked in the breast.-KingSton,
Enst TenneaSeenu.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

A man called to see Mr.. Greeley
at Memphis, and asked him, if in his
opinion, guano was good to put on
potatoes. Mr.. Greeley paused a
moment, and said. eft may do, my
son, for those whose appetites are
vitiated with rum and tobacco, but
! like gravy the best
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Virginia.

Col. r. w. Hughes was nominated
for Governor by the Republican Con-
vention which met at Lynchburg.
Col. II. resides at Richmond. and is
connected with the press of that
city.
Cen Kemper was nominated by
the Conservative convention that met
at Richmond, for Governor, and
Col Withers for Lieut.. Governor.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13
Railroad Item.

In an advertisement by railroad
company of some unclaimed goods,
the letter 40 dropped from the
word .'lawful,' and it now reads !:
people to whom these packages
are directed are requested to come
forward and pay the awful charges
on the same
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

The indianapolis Journal says ::
"a correspondent tells of a certain
township in southeastern Massacbu-
sets which is six miles square, has
eight hundred Inhabitants, and
neither a lawyer, q minister, a doctor,
nor q pauper." Does your cores
pondent mean to insinuate that the
absence of the latter is attributable
to the absence of the three former?
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

It Is stated that a majority of the
Mississippi Democratic State Com
mittee have expressed themselves
against the policy of nominating a
Democratic State ticket this fall.
They appear to think it best to let
the carpet-baggers, scalawags and
negroes wrangle over the spoils.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

I'm Pennsylvania the Constitutions
al Convention has fixed the term Of
Supreme Judges at twenty years,
thus doing away with frequent cleo
tions, and in Ohio, where n Consti-
tutional Convention is now sitting,
the question is being agitated of
abolishing the elective judiciary and
going back to the old plan of ap-
pointing Judges by the Governor.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-13

The cholera is reported to be
spreading in Union county. It is
alleged that the disease was car
Tied there by a party who visited
Knoxville to see a sick relative,
and who took some Of the dead
mans effects home with him. Sew
eral deaths have occurred, and more
are apprehended.