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Vol. XIX. Whole No. $50 No. Is.

STUPIDITIEs.-Under this head, DR..
Hall in his Journal of Health for March,
1873, humorously discourses on the
tendency of the times, as follows:
1t is really great wonder that everv-
body is not dead and buried, and the
world itself used up entirely, if the
thousandth part of what is told us about
microscopal and other discoveries SO
called, is true. One man will have it
that the glorious Union over which the
stripes and stars toat so proudly will
soon become depopulated, because re-
spectacle people don't have children:
another has discovered myriads of bugs
III the chatelaines and waterfalls of the
ladies, boring into their skulls and
sucking out all the remaining brains of
the dear delightfuls. A German saran
now tells us that every sip of tea we
take is full Of oily globules which get
into the lungs direct, weaken them, set
up cough, and the person dies of con.
sumption. Another man has found that
the purcst spring water, clear as crystal
to all appearance, if let alone will deposit
sediment which generates typhoid
lever; hence he proposes that everybody
shall quit drinking water. Another
says that bread has so much lime in it
that 1t is turning us all to bone, and
makes us stiff in the joints, that being
the reason we have no 1.-THE, sprightly
old men now -a-days; hence we are full of
limbs and rheumatics long before our
time, therefore we had better quit eating
bread altogether, and live on rice and
sago and tapioca.
The water cure folks assure us that pork
and beans and ham and eggs are full of
abominable trichinG, and, if one il
swallowed and gets fairly nestled into
the system, he, she or it, will breed a
million more in short time, and that
roast beef has Juvenile tape worms in
1t. And here come Tom, Dick, and
and Harry, all in a row, loaded down
with microscopes and spy glasses which
show as plain as day that air is swarm
ing with living monsters and putrid
poisons, which fly into the mouth and
crawl up into the nose and creep into
the ear; hence it is death to breath such
pestilential air, and that the best way
is to keep the mouth shut, plug up the
nose, and ram cotton into the ears.
Ever so many learned professional
gentlemen have been torturing poor fg-
ures for years to make them tell the stu
qendous fib that everybody is either
crazy or soon will be; that the annual
increase is ten per cent, consequently
III eleven years everybody will be crazy,
and more too.
The fact is that the people who spend
their time in Matching out these tom
iooleries ought to be put to work and be
made to earn an honest living. This
world has been pretty well taken care
ot Tor some thousands of years, increas-
ing in comfort and wealth and life. the
average length ofwhich last has doubled
within two centuries, and the popula-
tion increased perhaps three fold and
the presumption is that the Great Maker
of all will so arrange all the antaponis-
tic forces of life for the future as even
tually TO make 'thc wilderness and
solitary place to be glad, and the desert
TO rejoice and blossom as the rose and
the race be happy still.
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DRAGDOS and Martins weA known stand for
D merly occupied by Woodcock and Goald Of
Franklin is now open with well selected Stock.
Jobing and all kinds work done to order ana with
dispatch Particular attention CIV en- TO Horse
shoeing. Thankful Tor past favors wish 10 in
form the citizens of Franklin and vicinity that
they will always find me in the shop when I Am
not IN the Franklin House. JOHN w. fIkEII
Franklin, June 18th 1872. tf85
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postrp.
Nearer Home.

LAY PHGBE CARY. Written in New Yorl
n 1852. Many variations of this poem hav
een published: but the author desires the fo
,wing TO be considered hereafter her authoriz
d version.l
One sweetly solemn thought
Comes 10 me DER and Ger:
I'm nearer home to-day
Then | ever have been before:
Nearer my Fathers house.
Where the many mansions be;
Nearer the great white throne.
Nearer the crystal sea-
Nearer the bound Of life.
Where We lay our burdens down:
Nearer leaving the cross,
Nearer gaining the crown.
But the waves Of that silent sea
Roll dark before nv sight.
That brightly on the other side
Break on shore Of light.
o. ifmy mortal feet
Have almost gained the brink.
II IL be TN nearer home
Even to-day than think:
Father, perfect my trust,
Let my spirit feel in death
That her feet are firmly set
On the Rock Of living faith
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be 1000.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
City Appropriations for Schools: S s,oo, $500 aSS 90
Amount raised from School Fund and
Bank Tax, 6e.2s
Amount coming to us from Mill Tax, 1892
Making in all. s1Olss.9o
By an Act Of the last Legislature entitled
ian Act in aid Of Free High Schools and
approved by the Governor, Feb. oath, 1873.
We shall receive five hundred dollars this
next year in aid of our High School. Al
lowing that We receive this amount and
that the city raises as much by appropria-
ton this year as last, We shall have more
than ten thousand dollars TO expend on our
schools, or more than five dollars for every
scholar in the city, as we have not yet ex-
pended any of the money which we deriv-
ed from the Mill Tax. This amount, If
carefully expended, should be ample to
give us larger and better schools the COM
| ing year than We have ever before had.
CONSOLIDATION.
The question of consolidating the school
districts in the city has been agitated to
some extent the past year and by a unani-
nous vote of both branches of the city gov
ernment the districts were consolidated.
Since that time. without giving it q trial,
the vote has been reconsidered in o ne
branch Of the City Council and as We are
informed is q matter of unfinished business
in the other. II our city is prepared to
consolidate the school districts, we think
much good. might be derived from SO do
ing. There are however many things to
be taken into consideration; unless care
fully managed it might prove a failure
, We have great territory with twenty-On'
. school districts. In number Of instance
, we find that the districts do not own the
land on which their school houses are stu
ated, but your committee think that if thu
city is prepared to expend the amount O
money which would be necessary in build
ing new houses &C.. that now is the tim
. to consolidate the districts if ever.
The Committee feel deeply the wron
4 and injustice of the present District sy:
TEN for place so large as our eli!
With q school appropriation as liberal a
those of the past three years, the school
at the centre will receive the Lions share
8 an undue proportion of school money
ID while those parts of the town where til
:. scholars are as deserving as any, nu
&c suffer short terms. From a business poll
Of view, our City Government will do
great service to the tax payers in the cou
try districts, by protecting them from d
er too heavy burden Of building scho
" M houses. We believe the pressure again
=: consolidation of our School Distric'
COMES from two directions-thoss, DR.
who are afraid Of unfair usage from {
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MIDDLETON's POCKET CORN SHELL

One Agent wanted in every county In the U. S
70 sell Middleton's Pocket Corn Shelter, patented
ls'o. 1t shells all sizes ofcorn. and can be used
bk any VIII last for years. Retail p-ice so cts.
wholesale TO Agents, rs cents. Territory FREE
MIDDLETON 4 Co.
4su AaFFiDbuKR. Pa.
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'eral districts 10 be in
Making in all.

By, mistake the number Of scholars in
district No. s, was made by the Assessors
to be 81, or ten less than there should be.
This number added TO the 1890 W would make
the whole number of scholars in the city TO
be 1000.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
City Appropriations for Schools, sSS.ES aoo ~
Amount raised from School Fund and
Bank Tax, 6g2 y
Amount coming to us from Mill Tax, 1893 81
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KENDALL & WHITNEY,
Importers and Growers OF
GARDEN, FIELD, AND FLOWER SEEDS.

All seed warranted, true to name.
Illustrated Catalogue sent free when reaueste
KENDALL 4 WHlTyRY.
Portland. Feb'y ii, 1873. 3mos
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about each purity %ylsitingthe woman, and
III fit OF passion, or it may ,have been
pr%cmediated, and in the diabolical wick
cdness of his heart, Limbaugh seized a
club, and one blow from his brawny arm
severed Morfison's skull and landed Inn
into eternity.
Many are the c~oujectures of the motives
which influenced him in the preparation
of this horrible crime. Whether or not,
he did it IN a moment of intense excite
ment or premeditatedly, "with malice
aforethought. - There is little or no plaus-
Utility in the supposition that ahuman be-
ing could become instantly enraged, at a
a man for so trivial an offense as to steep
his hands in the blood Of his fellowmau.
Is it not more probable that he was actu-
ated iby ranking hatrcd--malice un-
charitableness-that he had an Interior
object in viewg o. p. II.
Gree neville, Sept. 23, 1873.
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Capital Stock.
The capital stock of the Washingt on
County Agricultural and Mechanical So
ciety, consists Of one hundred and City
shares of twenty-five dollars each. One
hundred twenty-five shares of which has
been taken up By subscription leaving
twenty-five shares yet to be TAKEN,
We would be glad that these shares
could be sold to men in the adjoining
counties 50 that they would become part
of the household and co>workers in ad,
vaucing the cause mol only 10 this but in
every county IN Upper EAst Tennessee.
When the stock Is al sold no others
can be admitted to the rights and bcue>
dts Of stockholders. Consequent ~ those
who may desire 70 participate in the hon,
ors and and profits Of the society IN future
should secure at once share 10 The cap
ital stock Of the Company.
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Our Scrap Book


This is the title ofa new monthly Mag
a2lne, the publication of which is to COM
mence the first Of October next. The
magazine will be published by Messrs.
hayes y hardwood, at the Herald and
Tribune Office in J~onesboro'. We have
been shown the advanced sheets and
they exhibit a very creditablc display of
reading matter, both of II Literary and
Scientific character. We are wen ac-
quainted with both the gentlemen who
are engaged in the publication of the work
and take pleasure In recommending them
to the public.
The c%heapness of the Magazine is an
important itemt to many OF our people who
have been dcbarrcd from furnishing their
families and themselves with literary mat
ter owing to the high price at which our
flrst-class publications are sold. Here
they viii. get in a home publicaticnthc bes'
selections from all the Magazines of the
country, made with special reference to
the wants of II people and section, at a
cost of only One Dollar peryear. This is
certainly an inducement to many of the
people Of East Tennessee to get for the
use of themselves and families for a mert
trille a periodical that will supply a want
long felt among us, for 1t has been only
the weather. classes who could afford 10
purchase literature of this k'ndan char
acter in the past.
We hope our friends Of the SCRAP
Book will receive Il liberal support from
our readers. l
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Don't let the ladies forget that the
Fair Ground Company is dope nding on
them in a great Measure to sup erintend
the decoration of the Exhibition building.
There will be ample material provided
and hands employed to do the work, the
company will notify them of the time the
work is to be commenced and will fur
nish transportation to and from the
Grounds. Many names were omitted
from the committee announced last week,
the assistance of every one who can 60 is
not only needed, but will be highly ap.
preciatcd by the company.
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MARRIED.


I On Thursday, 18th inst, at the resi-
of the brides father, by Rev. VIM.
Keen, Mr.. J.. C. H. SMITH, Of this place,
and Miss EVA, daughter of D. w. +.
Peoples, ESQ,
Cramp is gone at last, and made two
happy hearts one. We tender our con-
CALCULATIONS and wish the loving pair q
long and prosperous life. Thanks to the
bride for cake.
On last Sunday, by VIM. M. Mckee,
Esq, JAMES NJ. ARMSTRONG and Mrs,
M. 4. HUMPHREYS.
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Homicide.

Homicide. 0EF
MEssRs. EDIT0Rs Owing to pres
sure of business We were unable to write
you, in time Tor your last Issue, concern
ing the felonious homicide, perpetrated
ten miles north Of III town, some two
weeks since. Although the sensation has
subsidized the enormity OF the offence is
none the less shucking-the dsmoraiizing
influence none the less potent, though it
had accrued but yesterday. From the
revelations of facts, deposed during the
preliminary examination it is evident that
3 disrepRable woman was the cause of
the sad tragedy. The facts arethesc !: On
the EVENING" of the 9TH inst, Wm. Morri-
son went to the residence Of Jas. Line
baughs. at which residence, living in one
end Of the house, wasa woman Of easy
<:s. &c; Limbaugh, fearful lest Morrison
was ingratiatinghimselfto str~ongIyinto
the favor Of his damsel, became enraged
at his appearsnce--his nature waselectri-
fed with the Earring elements of jealousy
aud revenge. and wheu Morrison took
his final adieu, he was assured by Line
eaugla that ho would ~aceompahy him
to the bars"-distance of twenty-five
] yards. Here an angry controversy arose
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We have examined the ladies' saddle
manufacturers by R. W. Elan & Co. to be
awarded to the most graceful young lady
rider at the Fair, and must say it is equal
if not superior to any that wi have seen
in any of the cities. 1t is a prize that is
we'll worth conteuding for. and We hope
to see a large number of ladies at the
Fair Ground on the last day of the Fair
at II o'clock A. NJ. to contest for this
valuable premium.
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lNyALIDS

- Thousands have found relief, cA5o
and thousands will turn TO this Medicine,
after eXhausting their purses and pa
thence in search of health.
Giddiness OF the head, aullness of the
mind, fwtid breath, coated tongue, loss OF
appetite, pains and ~wcakucssin the stom-
acll, enlargement Of the liver, y~ellowness
ofthe skin, constant fever andthirst, with
a total disrelish for business, pleasure, or
any Kind OF employment ,-FAHRNEN'S
PANACEA, it taken and %presevered in
for a few days, will remove this whole
class ofsymptoms,-The fluids Of the body
become pure. and mind clear, the stom-
ach strengthened, the tongue clean, the
appetite improved, and the whole system
so benefited that disease, in bad weather,
l. lnss linlln 10 nIlinI Nnn
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STATE OF TENNESSEE.
cuANcERy couRrAT rAyLoRsvILLE.

CHANcERY coURTAT TAYLORsvILLE,
Joseph N. Shown, Complainant vs.,
Calvin +. White and laiayett Jones,
Respondent,
II appearing TO the Master from the
allegations ineompluinant's bill' which is
sworn to that respondent, Calvin +.
White, Is a nonresident Of the State of
Tennessee. 1t is therefore ordered by
the Master that publication for four sue
cesslve weeks in the Herald a. Tribune,
published in the town of Jonesboro'.
Tennessee, notifying said nonresident
to appear at the Court House in Taylors-
vile, Tenn, on the I'd Monday in Febru-
airy next, 1874, at n term of the ChauCCry
Court there and then to be held for John
son county in the LIST Chancery Division
In said State, aud plead or make other
legal defence to complainant's bill or
tee same will be taken us confessed and
set for hearing eX parte. Witness, II. A.
Donnelly, Clerk and Master of said court
at office in Taylorsvllle, this Goth Septem-
Der, 1873. IL. A. D0NNELLY, CAN
Sept. 25-w4pfS3.
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The committee of ladies to decorate
the buildings at the Fair Ground are re-
quested to be at the Grounds on Tues.
day next at 10 o'clock A. N. EyergrecDs,
Irvine, &c. will be on hand and it is hoped
that the gentlemen of town and vicinity
will report for duty without any special
invitation, in sufficient force to render
all needed assistance.
The ladies of the committee are au>
;horized to call upon any gentleman they
may desire to assist them.
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McMinrl Items.

tlIcSsrs. Editors: Allow me to COM
municate a few words for the perusaF of
your readers.
Corn crops in this county, are general
ly good. Farmers are> making arrange
ments to sow a large amount OF wheat
this fall.
The people Of Athens and county have
at last been aroused on the subject Of a
new Court House. The old one has been
torn down and removed and the new one
IN process of erection is to be completed,
Se are Informed, in January, 1875.
There are several good schools In
Athens; but the one Of most note is the
East Tennessee University, having in
charge of it a fall corps of excellent
teachers. and in attendance a large nuns
Der of students. There are four Litera-
ry Societies in connection with the Uni
yersity, in which the students debate and
perform other duties for mutual improves
ment. The Philomatheans contemplate
a public debate SOON The number at
tending this school would, no doubt, have
been much larger had it not been Tor the
prevalence of cholera in Tennessee. For
the benefit of those who may be in sus-
pcnse, We would say that there has not
been a case of cholera in Athens; end it
is the general opinion that it has sutslded
in this State. Indeed, VIC think this to
DO one of the most healthy locations III
the South. We cordially invite our
friends in Upper East Tennessee, and es'
p~ecially in Washington and Sullivan
counties, to come and be fellow students
a. ..rs eeGarC Eros.
Athens, Tenn, Sept. 10, 1873.
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I-eneshero, SCHOOLS

The opening is encouraging Miss,
Ann Patton, al experienced teacher.
has excepted the position as Principal in
the Girls Graded School. She was pres
emit at the opening. Miss Mary Wilhoit
has charge of the Primary Department.
The best recommendation that a teacher
can produce is constant employment in
the same school. Miss Wilhoit has
taught several years at this place with
great acceptance.
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NOTICE OF SALE.


BY virtue Of the power vested in me
under a Deed Of Trust executed by Al
fred Jenkins, and his wife, Mary Q. Jen-
lkins, on the 18th day of February, 1872,
for the purpose of securing the payment
|of debts due J.H, Dosscr, Dosser & Fain,
VIM. =. Reeves and James IL. Deakins.
| Will sell the farm upon which Alfred
jenkins now lives, lying in Washington
county, Tenn, Civil District No. IL, adj
Joining the lands of Mark Pennibakcr,
VIM. p. Reeves and others, containing
by estimation $50 acres. Sale to be at the
Court House door in Jonesboro', Tenn,
on Monday the 18th day of October, 1873,
between the hours of ION the forenoon
and ain the afternoon for cash in hand,
without the right of redemption, the same
having been waived by the said Jenkins
and wife IN said Deed of Trust.
JOHN ALLISON, jr.
scpllw4s5. Trustee.
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] DIR. P. FAHRNEY'S J
Celebrated
Blood Cleanser or Panacea.


Asa medicine for children, the Pana-
cea Is, in every way, calculated TO take
the place of the endless variety Of drugs
which are annually sold for that purpose,
and which are often very injurious. A
medicine which possesses the qualities Of
a cathartic MS well rs a mild Alternative,
and which is capable of arresting disease
without the least injury to the child, is OF
tncalculable value to every mother. As
n cathartic, 1t is very effective, yet it does
not, if given IN proper quantities, cause
I ausea or distress in the stomach or bow
els. 1t isit very pleasant to the taste,
which Is n very important feature as Il
medicine for children. As Il preventive
of disease it is unprecedented, as it acts
directly upon the digestive organs and
the blood. In all scrotulous diseases. it
is the most effective medicine ever offered
to the public; and, il given regularly end
perseveringly, those eruptive diseases
so common to children may be entirely
cradicated.
Prepared by +. Fahrncy's Bros. q Co.,
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and DIR. =.
FAHltNEY, 30 North Dearborn Street,
Chicago. Price 81 ,2j per bottle, for sale
E5Dby Wholesale and Retail Deal-eTJ
Y eys, Y
;nn.Ocn1D
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Fair Grounds.

The Fair Grounds.
The work on the Fair Grounds is being
pushed rapidly towards completion, and
by the opening day the arrangements for
the reception of articles for exhibition :
for the comfort and accommodation Of
visitors will be complete. The company
have made large improvements both upon
the buildings and grounds, they have
erected a stable for the accommodation Of
horses and mules, 100 feet long by Is
feet wide, with double rows of stalls
through the whole length, with convent.
ent arrangements for feeding, grooming,
&c., also stalls sufficient for the acconmo>
dation of one hundrod head of cattle,
hogs, &c, they have a o provided ample
supply Of feed and water for stock upon
the grounds. The race track will be in
splendid condition, the grade having been
reduced, the surface leyeled and is now
being enclosed with railing. The fine
grove has been thoroughly dressed and
seats sufficient to accommodate 500 per.
sons at a time are being placed in It. The
Exhibition building has had large, addi'
tons made to it, the second story ha,
been fitted up With a view to the special
accommodation of the ladies and is to be
their exclusive department of exhibition.
The arrangements and grounds wilhac,
commodate $4,000 persons at a time and
no one need stay away through fear Of
not being cared for. The company have
ample arrangements for the preservation
of good order during the Pair and Intend
seeing to it that no one shall be annoyed
or disturbed by disorderly persons.
Let all come, and if there is any reli'
ancc to be placed in present indication:
VIC will promise that no one will regret
their visit.
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All Stockholders,

And the members of their families un.
der twenty>ono years Of age will be adj
mitted free during the whole Far upon
presentation of their certificate of stock.
Some Of the stockholders have not
yet obtained their certificates which are
ready for them at any time upon prescn~
tation of receipt from the treasurer, and
it is hoped they will all be called for on
or before the first day of the Fair.