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tanning leave, one of them fastened to show
and explain all the circumstances to the
magistrates. The facts are simply these :;
the body of the pilot had become full OF gas
NOT an uncommon thing-and would not
sink, but kept floating round them; they
therefore struck their boat hooks in several
times to allow the gas to escape, and the
body to sink; but, finding this did not sue
coed, they took it on board, fastened the
stones in the manner described, and, seeing
no more of it, the circumstances passed from
their mind till the paper came into their
hands. The innocence of the Piedmontese
was clearly proved, and one and all We'd with
each other in showing them every kindness
and attention.
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81 am Dying, Egypt, Dying.

The Richmond Enquirer gives the follow
ing interesting story of the death of General
Lyle, author of the beautiful poem, 81 am
Dying, Egypt, Dying" was killed
far in advance of his command, while gal
lantly leading an assault upon our lines, and
the steed and his dead rider were both cap
tured. So soon as it was known that the
author of that rare poem, as familiar and as
greatly admired South as North, 1 am Dy-
ing, Egypt, Dying, lay dead in the camp,
officers and men crowded around to take a
last look at the face of the poet soldier who
had achieved SO great literary triumph.
There was no rejoicing over the death of this
fallen enemy; but there was, in truth, some
thing on each soldiers cheek that, for mo-
ment, washed away the stains of powder.
Tenderly they took him up; and when the
battle was over, an escort of honor, appoint
ed from among the leading Confederate Off
GERS, bore him back to his own camp, under
flag of truce, and on rudely constructed
funeral bier, with his martial cloak around
him. In life he had touched that chord of
human sympathy which makes all the world
akin; and in death its harmonious vibrations
silenced all resentment, and thrilled the hearts
alike of friends and foes with nobler pas
sion than hatred or revenge"
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or Hanging Baskets.

E. ,sires to know the best time
for star ants for hanging basket. l
have 2 commenced to start plants for
hang cts for the ensuing winter, so
that become well established, and be
in ug state when the early frosts
fore 'ouse all my tender plants.
Ii he baskets do not use the COM
mon ,oil, as it is not suitable for grow
ing planC in this way, from its tendency to
bake together and shrink away from the sides
of the basket or pot; but if possible procure
some rop-soil from the pine woods, which is
rich with the decay of the tiny needles of
the pines, or a yellow loamy soil, part sandy,
from the florists. Then be sure there is
little hole in the bottom of the baskets to al
low the superfuous water to pass away, or
else put ip bits of charcoal to act in drain
age, and also to keep the soil sweet. A piece
of sponge is also an excellent substitute for
hole in the basket, as it will suck up all
the superhuous moisture, and then allow the
roots of the plants in their turn to receive it
Usually plants in hanging baskets require
more moisture than other plants, because
they are more thoroughly exposed on all
sides to the air, and the water evaporates
more quickly. So if they hang up away
from direct contact with your eyes, you must
give little water both night and morning,
so that they will not suffer for want of it.
am growing now for winter Towering and
foliage, the ivy-leaved geranium, Il Elegante;
IsOzepis gracilis, lovely grass of light
green; Coliseum Ivy; Smilax; Peristrophs
GugustJolia aurea, lovely plant, with yell
low leaves striped with green; while its flow
ers are of delicate violet hue; PLEA mucOsa,
which resembles tree moss, and its graceful
dropping habits makes it very desirable, and
Tpadescantia zebrina, whose striped leaves,
of rich purplish maroon and green, con-
trast charmingly with the other plants
These will fill three baskets, which will dec
crate my dining.room and parlor when the
face of nature is shrouded in its snowy man
tie, and not green thing is visible out Of
doors.
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How Young Men Fail.

"There is Alfred Sutton home with his
family, to live on the old folks" said one
neighbOr to another. at seems hard, after
all his father has done to fit him for bust,
ness, and the capital he invested to start him
so fairly. 1t is surprising he has turned out
so poorly. He is a steady young man, no
bad habits, so far as know; he has good
education, and was always considered smart;
but he doesn't succeed in anything. l am
told he has tried a number of different kinds
of business, and sunk money every time
What can be the trouble with Alfred, l
should like to know, for 1 don't want my
boy to take his turn
ALFRED is smart enough, said the other,
sand has education enough, but he lacks
the one element of success. He never wants
to give dollars worth of work for a dollar
of money, and there is no other way for a
young man to make his fortune. He must
dig, if he would get gold. All the men who
have succeeded, honestly or dishonesty, in
making money, have had to work for it, the
sharpers sometimes the hardest Of all. AL
fred wishes to see his train in motion and let
it take care of itself No wonder it soon
ran off the track, and a snasb-up was the
result Teach your boy, friend Archer, to
work with a viii when he does work. Give
him play enough to make him healthy and
happy, but lee him learn early that work is
the business of life. Patient, selfdenying
work is the price of success. Ease and in
dOlence eat away mot capital only, but, worse
still, all Of mans nerve power. Present
qualification tends to put off duty until to-
morrow or next week. 1t is getting to be a
rare thing for the sons of rich men to die
reh Too often they squaDder IN half
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IT WILL BE REMEMBERED, that during the
siege of Paris, the dispatches conveyed by
carrier pigeons consisted of photographs,
which, having been reduced to microscopic
dimensions, were afterward displayed in a
readable size by the solar microscope. This
discovery has been utilized by French sa-
want, in the discovery of historical monu-
mentS. He has caused photographs to be
taken of the four faces of the Obelisk at
Paris. Each of the faces are divided into
twelve equal segments, which appear ex-
tremely minute in the photographs, but are
reflected in convenient proportions on large
screen, by the help of magic lantern and
a powerful solar microscope. The page of
history traced upon the obelisk can thus be
deciphered at leisure. The toilsome task to
which scientific explorers are now condemn
ed, of taking down and ascertaining the
meaning of ancient inscriptions on the spot,
will be greatly lightened by this method,
which makes it possible to obtain the infor-
nation lurking beneath the hieroglyphics of
Egyptian and ASSyrian stones, by photo
graphing them, and investigating the treas
ure8 thus secured, when the hardships and
fatigues of travel are over.
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A Sweet Answer.

A little boy and girl, each five years old,
we're playing by the roadside. The boy be-
came angry at something, and struck his
playmate a sharp blow on the cheek, where
upon she sat down and began to cry.
The boy stood looking on minute, and
then said:
81 didn't mean to hurt you Katie. I an
sorry"
The little girls face frightened instantly
The sobs were hushed, and said:
"Wen, if you are sorry, it don't hurt me.
ladies Repository.
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SOME experiments are announced, which,
if the result which is attributed to them may
be depended upon, will prove to be very i'm
portant. An exchange says of them; "The
remark of Muspratt, that iron is natures
soavenger, has been justified by recent stud
les, in which it has been shown that strips
of iron thrown into cisterns of water speedily
destroys all sewage contamination. Med
lock has proved, by series OF experiments,
that iron produces nitrous acid by its action
on the heterogeneous organic matter, which ls
the most destructive power nature has. lie
has found, as a general result, that by al
lowing water to be in contact with large
surface of iron, in about fOrty.eight hours
every trace of organic matter was either de-
stroyed or rendered insoluble, in which state
it could be purified efectually by filtration
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score years what their fathers were life
time in accommodating. wish 1 could ring
it in the ears of every aspiring young man
that work, hard work, of head and hands, is
the price of success. Country Gentleman.
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q SALES AT WASHINGTON. u
A Jealous Husband Cured by Licorice. Water

There is man in this city, who is so af-
fectionately fond of his wife that he is
jealous if a man looks within forty-five
degrees of the direction in which she may
happen to be. The other day gentleman
spoke to her, and he Immediately threat
ened suicide. His wife was dispatched for
a bottle of poison, which she had put up
at the druggists, consisting Of little wa
ter colored with licorice and bottled, with
a glaring poison label outside. When he
threatened to take some of it, and actually
poured it into wine glass, she screamed
for help and ran into another room, where
she could watch him through the keyhole,
and saw him cody open the window and
throw it out. She then rushed back, ap-
parently frantic with grief, and implored
him not to do the rash deed. He merely
pointed at the glass, and laying down on
the floor began to kick out his legs like a
.jumping-jack. She told him she was de-
termined to share his fate, and swallowed
the rest of the licorice-water, whereupon
he became really frightened, called the
neighbors, confessed that he only sham
med, and said that if she only survived he
never would trouble her again Then she
explained the ruse, and he was so mortified
he tried to buy up the silence of the neigh
bors, but the story was too good to keep.
He was thoroughly cured. 7vtusviNe Her
mid -'ta-<f
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ufwAsHiNcToh.


80 = L. "a u
sWAsHNGToN, May1 17.-Gen. Van Buren,
denounces his Sdetractors as zcowardly
knaves and liars. He attributes his pres
ent unfortunate position to thes accursed
malignity and unhallowed ambition and
vanity of John Jay, the American Minis
ter to Austria.
Subscription TO the Mars Fishermen.
Jose Gonzales was elected Cuban agent
at Philadelphia.
Oswold Jugla, an Atlantic survivor, has
subscribed to the fund for the Mars Island
fishermen,A to whom he says hundreds
owe their lives.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-The President
Execution OF Nixon and Lusignani.
Nixon made his will yesterday, giving
his property to his wife and daughters.
; Nixon was hanged this morning. He
slept soundly last night and heard mass
this morning.
A conflict occurred yesterday after the
hanging of Lusignani, two priests claim.
ing the body, but the doctors refused to de-.
liverit up until after the post mortem ex-
animation. When this was completed the
body was left for the priests, who would
not touch it and it was placed in vault in
the city cemetery.
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M AR K ETS.
New York.

New YORK, May 16.-Money druggish
6a7. Sterling decidedly firmer, 95a9s
Gold, $1.17sa1.1 rs. Governments firm. q
Cotton weak sales OH bales uplands
19l Orleans, 108.
Net receipts, 234 bales; gross, 1,164 ex.
port to-day, so bales !; last night, 53.
Flour favors sellers and in fair demand.
Whisky firm, 93a9S9. Wheat shade firmer,
with fair export and trade demand. The
trade is restricted by inferior stock. Corn
in moderate request. Rice quiet. Pork
weak, $500. Lard quiet and weak.
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FOREIGN
Panic I'm Southern Russin.

LONDON, May 16.-The managers of the
Cunard steamers are determined to adopt
a low line across the Atlantic to avoid col
lisions. e n~.zv e.--.s.-.
ODESSA, May 16.-The panic has extended
to the bourse here. Business has stopped
and discounts have fallen to per cent. -
CITY OF MEXICO, May 16.!The Presi-
dent gave 2 farewell dinner to Minister
Nelson and Secretary Bliss.
Causc Of the Drummofd Mine Disaster.
HALIFAX, May 16.-The names of the
men who volunteered to go down i'm the
Drummond mine after the first explosion
are Abraham Grey, Timothy Hamatt, Ed
ward Burns and Thomas Glenwright. The
Coroner's Jury attribute the calamity to
the use of powder by one Mcleod, who
refused to work unless allowed the use OF
1t for loosening the coal. Ea8 SIS ,9F
Expulsion Of Catholics from Germany, &c.
BERLIN, May 16.-The German Govern
ment has resolved to expeI the Redemr-
torists and Lazarists congregations of
the Holy Ghost and Sacred Heart and the
occupants of close converts from the coun-
try within the coming six months. 80
LONDON, May 16.-A dispatch from, VII
emma says that one hundred additional fail
ures were announced on the bourse yester-
day. No important bank has yet suspended.
The protracted panic has caused conster-
nation In all branches of business s7eH
A son of a wealthy banker committed
suicide yesterday. 191 sig 1rsi ss5slrs
PARIS, May 16.-A complete remodeling
of the French Ministry upon strict re.
publican basis is certain at an early day.
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This may be trife personal, butit's the
way they put things out West. A St.
Louis editor, in speaking of brother. ink
Singer, says He is young yet, but he
can sit at his desk and brush the cob-webs
from the ceiling with his ears"
The MoJocs don't develop AGRICULTURAL
ly. Thus far they haven't succeeded in
raising anything but hair. Hz'i
Seven little ModoessssEE
rrEl rse Swinging on the gate, rssF,y l
Sax One got killed, =, !, Z * -. ss I
q $3.50 And then there were-eight. ~, /
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EAST TENNESSEE NOTES.
Hamilton County,

L
| Messrs McLane & Slocum are preparing
to build in this city blast furnace. We
gave the location and some minor particu-
lars in relation toit. We have now further
to state that it is the intention of these
gentlemen to build their furnace with
twelve foot boshes and sixty feet high.
The capacity will be from fifteen to twenty
tons of hot blast pig per day. Chat. Times.
bee aaia7sE Loadon County. 7as) s7.z.
The Athens Post says that a WOODEN fac
tory is being erected at Eve Mills, on
Fork Creek, Loudon county, five miles
east of Philadelphia, by Capt. w. J. Fow-
Ter and j. b. Irving. The latter is said to
be thorough practical machinist, and Capt.
Fowler we know to be one of the most SUBJ
stantial aud enterprising men of our sec
ton. 20. tl. s,.ts = :. ~ = .s.i'' e @ieE
1t has been well said that he who causes
two blades of grass to grow where but one
grew before, it is a public benefactor. We
take the liberty of adding that whoever
puts up cotton or woolen factory or any
available piece of machinery in East Ten
nessee, is worth more than all the political
slangwangers in the State, and deserves
monument as durable as the Everlasting
hills" gees ,eal
Washington County.
james SnaVer, son or JOnn SHAVER, Sn0e-
maker, while out hunting on Saturday
evening last, accidently shot one of his
hands into shreds by the accidental dis
charge of his gun. The boy is natural
cripple in his feet, and his present afflic-
tiOn will by great calamity to him should
amputatiOn have to be resorted to.-Ftag
and Adu. Jonesboro'.
Mr.. j. Fain Anderson, in company with
some others, killed very large bald eagle
a few days ago near Brownsboro'. When
spread, its wings from point to point meas
ured six feet, and it carried in its talOns an
eel q 'a1i i-5o af
If JonesbOro can boast of nothing else it
can certainly claim superiority over all
other towns of like size on account of its
age and the number of its dogs. i. The lat
ter are especially noticeable to the stran-
ger. We have every variety and descrip-
tion from "Nero,n y the big dog to the small
est and most delicate of the canine species. |
Herald and Tribune. a1 flrE
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Georgia Personal.

We met on our streets yesterday, Hon.
w. 6. McAdoo, formerly of Knoxville.
Col. McAdoo has been in the city for sew
erat days, and we learn that he is engaged
in railroad enterprises in the South, being
President of the st. Mary's and Western
and the Great Southern Railway Com
panies of Georgia. Col. McAdoo is one of
the first lawyers in the South, and we are
glad to learn that he is as successful in
pushing forward his railroad enterprises
as in managing law, cases.-Ndsh. Union
and Am e7'icGn. - 90
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CHANCERY SALE
OF A VALUABLE FARM
. 1"-4 NEAR KNOXVILLE

No. 2436, ~
Pursuant to decree pronounced bHktte Chancery
Court at Knoxville, at the March term, 1873 in the
case of James Hall. ex'r of w B Murray, decd VS.
Rebecca Murray and others. / will sell,
on Friday, the 9Th day of June, 1873,
at oclock NJ, on the premises at pub ic auction
to the highest the tract of land mentioned and
described in the pleadings lying in the 18th civil dis
trct OF Knox county. adjoining the lands of Duncan
Mccall; = Lones, Southey Nelson and others, near
Third Creek Church. and known as the home place Of
James ID Murray, containing about 136 acres. Said
farm will be divided into parcels and sold parts and
as whole and the sale adopted that realizes high
est price. "a kGN 81 - =
TERMS :-Said sale will be made upon a credit of
six and twelve months except the sum of 10 per cent
which will be required in hand day of SALE Notes
with good security bearing Interest from date will be
required of the purchaser and lien retained as fur
ther security. May 7th. 1873. - 49,
Y7d1W3 -. II. u. PATTERSON q A M.
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New Buildings.

The foundation has been laid for a new
1SOre To building ON the corner of Broad and
Creek. 'y 'ii' 'i"'' vi 'Set''i 'oi
-.s;d. ML: George w. Albers is having a neat
distance east of First Creek :" s@s.s's = = 1's