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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
TnE MANnERING JEW.
A Gentleman of the First Century n
Resident of Memphis.


During the past two years most
strange individual has been noticed
in this city. He defes the closest
scrutiny as to his former history or
present surroundings or even occu-
patton He works not, never has
been seen with cent in his posses
sion has worn the same shabby,
genteel suit, during the two years
/ past; has no friends or acquaintan-
ces except at speaking distance. and
never associates or walks with an
other human being. No one has
any knowledge of his place of rest;
! he has never been seen to eat or
| drink he is a mystery, and a pro-
found one at that. In personal ap-
/ pearance, he appears to he aged
about 50 years. light hair and eyes.
His clothes always present the same
neat appearance in fact, they look as
if they were part of his person and
had never been removed, but be-
longed to him as the feathers do to
| duck. Hundreds Of people know his
name, and speak to him from that
| standpoint when they meet. yet that
is all they know about him. He has
been known to take possession of
vacant room in the third-story of
some out-of-the-way building. and
there to apparently remain until
some party came in as q tenant. then
the Wandering Jew would pack-up
a small valise and bed quilt and ST.
lently depart, as if the settlement
was getting to thick for him. You
can see him at almost any hour of
the day or night gliding stealthy
past, his eyes cast down and his
countenance bearing trace of mental
suffering. He glides in the shade,
and at night he floats by you noise
lessly. but always as close to the
buildings as he can possibly get. Oc-
casionally he visits news stand and
reads everything. but on being adj
dressed he answers learnedly and
well. He possesses thorough knOwl-
edge of all subjects. and these he
dispassionately discusses for few
minutes, and then passes out of the
crowd and is lost to sight. He has
been known to converse fuently in
English, French and German, speak
ing each like native the country,
the language of which he uses. There
is not q human being in Memphis
that knows anything more about him
than is recorded above. May he not
be the famous Wandering jew, old
= Wait Thou Until Come" who re-
viled the Savior when on his way to
be crucifed, and whose strange his
tory floats down to us through me-
di@val times, through German and
Icelandic legends. as the Jewish
wanderer whose days are numbered
with those of the world, and whose
curious history has been so graphic
ally written by Eugene Sue in one
Of his most thrilling romances. This
unknown wanderer on earth is a Pro
methus whose sufferings are endless,
and whose apparent age is always
the me. He is a mystery that is
impeaetrabl,. and ono that has foiled
the investigation of several gentle
men WHO were curious to solve this
human riddle.-Wee1ly (Memphis)
Public Ledger.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

THE MosT GIGANTIC JOB OF THE
E-Intimations are given ont of
a stupendous Job" in pickle, to
make the General Government as
sumo the Southern States debts.
The Chicago Tribune opposes it with
vigor, and proposes to crush the
scheme in the bud. The New Or
leans Picayuae hints that it may be
a mere preliminary to the assump-
tion by the Government Of the Unit
ed States Of all the debts contracted
by the Northern States in the late
war. Thaddeus Stevens looked for
ward to them, and computed them
to be twice as great as the debt pro-
per contracted by the Government
Of the United States to carry on the
war. They have a precedent in the
assumption Of the debts of the States.
by the United States. to carry on
the war OF our Revelation in 1776.
fthey can establish the further pre-
cedent, of paying the debts incurred
by the Southern States under carpet
bag rule, to carry out the policy of
reconstruction in the South-how
easy may be the step to assume the
debts Of the Northern States, incur
red to put down the rebellion. The
hint is timely, and worthy of sober
consideration.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
The Scholastic

The Scholastic
Population Of Knox county, ac-
cording to returns made to the coun-
ty Superintendent, is as follows :
Between 6 and IS years of age +:
white males 1896. white females s.
1853; total white 1859. Colored
males 737, colored females 697; to-
tai colored ,434. Total white and
coloaed between and Is years of
age. 9,193.
Between I8 and 81 years of age {:
white males 504, white females 442 1;
total whites 946 Colored males 43,
colored females So; total 81.
Total number entitled to attend
school in the county under this emu
meration, 10,220.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
- The Conservative State &c

~ The Conservative State Com
mittee of Virginia is now preparing
for a most vigorous campaign in that
State. At late meeting it adopted,
among others, the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved. that while the commit
tee expressly disclaims the right or
the purpose to interfe e IN the ch, ice
Of candidates, or in the conduct OF
local elections, it does claim the
right and declares is earnest purpose
not only to throw the whole weight
of the organization against Radical
candidates everywhere. and in ac-
cordance with the resolution unani
mously adopte by the Safe Conven-
tion to treat bolters from our organ
ization opposing our candidates in
all respects as Radicals.ae
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
\ CHALLENGE
Is extended 20 the world to plaza before the public
better Cough or Lung remedy than ALIENS
LUNG BALSAM.
Read what well known Druggists say
about aliens lung BaISam.

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn, Sept. 13, 1872.
Gentemcn.-PIease ship US six dozen Aliens
Lung Balsam. We have not bottle in the store.
1t mas more reputation than any crUgh medicine
we have ever sold Have been in the drug 4ousi-
ness % years. We mean just what we say.
Very Truly, Yours
HURT & TANNER.
Drs. Wilson & Ward, physicians and druggists
write from pentreville, Tenn. ave purchased
Aliens Lung Balsam, and it sells rapidly. We are
pracuclng physicians, well druggists, and take
pleasure IN recommending great remedy, such as
we know this to be.'
DR.. Floyd of Ohio, surgeon in the army during
the war, from exposure, contracted consumption
He says: II have hesitancy in stating that was
by the use of your Lung Balsam that 1 am now
alive and enjoying health"
Dr. Fletcher of Missouri, says: sI recommend
your Balsam in preference to any other medicine
for coughs, and it gives satisfaction"
II Physicians do not recommend a medicine
which have merit. What they say about
ALIENS LUNG BALSAM can be taken as fact
Let al afflicted test it at once, and be convinced of
its real merits.
ALIENS LUNG BALSAM is the remedy to cure
all lung and throat difficulties. 1t should be thor
oughy tested before using any other Balsam. 1t
viii cure when all others fail.
II is hc0m1ess to the most delicate cb1d.
1t contains no opt5em IN a7ay form.
CaIl for Aliens Lung Balsam.
J. n. HARRIS & CO., Props Cincinnati, o.
sE-For sale by all medicine Dealers apsO
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

A New REMEDY FOR CHOLERA
Everybody in town knows old Sam
Bradshaw. colored. Well, old Sam
took the soapsuds diarrhea and
cured himself. When asked how he
did it. be said: BLESS God. I would
mt let him go through me; jis stand
on my head and stop him. And he
did, too Whenever he felt like his
bowels would move. he brought him.
self to ad enchor with his head on
the foor and his rect up his cabin
wall and remained in tnat position
till the disposition passed of. Sam
was binding oats the other day. and
the hands who were at work with
him. missing him, looked back and
saw him standing on his head in the
middle of the field. like a great fork
ed stumped.-Fraakaiqe (Ky.) Patriot.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

" 'Th difference 'twixt tweed
ledum am tweedledee'' is Illustrated
b, Ben. Butler. In 1857. afte. Con-
gressmen lad raised their pay to
So coo a year, Butler made a speech
in Lawrence, Mass, in which he con-
demned, in no measured terms, that
increase. Ben. was not in Congress
then
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

~ Col. Hughes, the Republican
candidate for Governor of Virginia,
SAID in his speech at Warrenton a
few days ago. that his party was
the party of relief" True said
Gen. Kemper, the Democratic can,
didate, st ey have relieved the South
ern people Of nearly all they had
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

- The Petersburg htden and Af-
peal announces in the same para
graph that Henry S. Foote and the
late Beaa Hickman were orn in i'ir-
ginia, and suggests that ''Foote-falls
on the Boundary of the other World"
would be an appropriate title for the
long epistolary remil iscences of The
former.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

The Savannah Neaos fayors the
farmers movement. 1t says. 1--WE
say, on with the Granges-let them
spread until they comprise the hon
est workers, the patriotic yeomanry
of the entire country. Their politics
is the restoration Of honest constitu-
tional Republican Government, and
the overthrow of usurpation. monop-
oily and corruption. In their move
ment we recognize the last hope of
the Republic Hrr
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
~ The South says Tennessee was

~ The South says Tennessee was
SO called in 1895 from it principal
river. 1t is an Indian name, and it
is said to signify "a curved spoon"
1t was formed from the territory of
North Carolina in 1890; adopted a
constitution 9Th of Fe ruqry, 1896;
amended in 1885. 1t was admitted
June l, 1896. Area $4,000 square
YniIaS
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
EXThe Chattannooga Tinea sars

@ The Chattannooga Times says /:
" HaperS' Weektg, under the man
agement of Mr.. Conant. has sunk in
to most pitiful sheet. mostly devot-
ed to abusing Cath lies, and lying
about the South. An impartial per-
usual of that sheet since last Novem-
Der settles it with the reader that the
editor is either very c9nsciencelsss
slanderer, fool, or IA attic, or all
three of these combined
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
ZAIisfortunes come not sir

g Misfortunes come not singly.
The widow of the late Col. George
L. Grisham. of JOnesboro, who lost
her husband during the recent chol-
era visitation at that place, received
news the other day Of the death Of
her brother at Richmond, who was
run over by the street car and killed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

The penitentiary folks want to
change their quarters. The NASH
vile Banner says: "Just as we go
to press we learn that a plot by ff.
ty convicts. led by the notorious Bill
Smith. to free themselves from Pris-
on, was discovered and thwarted.
Five guards and watchman, &C.
completes, we're discharged" gaE
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

INFLUENCE OF FooD UPON PoUL-
TRY AND EGGs.-There is no better
fattening material for poultry, says
the Maryland Former. than corn
meal. especially if mixed with milk.
and we notice that it has come to be
used largely in some of the poultry
yards of France. When insects are
not pracurable. animal food in some
form is desirable. and here again we
see that although poultry devours
the flesh of the dead horses which
have heen fiayea in France, it has
heen found to impart a disagreeable
taste to the fowls so fed Fowls, like
hogs, are supposed to be universal
scavengers but. as with hogs, neith-
er delicate or healthy flesh can be
made from them if fed upon garbage.
Great care should be exercised in the
matter. for the influence OF the food
upon the quality, not only of Meat.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

FORCE OF IIAGINATIoN.-At a
large sinner party once tie poet
Rogers was speaking of the inconve-
nience of having wiadows formed of
one sheet of glass. They look as if
there was no glass he said. A short
time ago. as l sat at the table with
my back to one of those panes. it APP
pearedto me that the window was
open, and such was the force of i'm
agination that actually took cold.
Dear me. said Babbage, who sat OPP
posite. how odd it is. Mr.. Rogers.
that you and / should make such a
different use of the faculty of imagi-
nation. When sleep unexpected
~ away from home, and consequent
" have no niehtcap, 1 should natu-
rally take cold. But by tying a
piece of pack-thread tightly around
my head, / go to sleep imagining |
have nightcap on, and catch no
cold at all.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

Ohio Democratic papers express
themselves as almost certain of the
election of William Allen for nest
Governor. His popularity seems to
he growing day by day among the
farmers in the interior of the State.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

A Mississippi correspondent ofthe
Memphis Register. says the people
are determined to support Alcorn !;
not that they love him more, but
Ames less.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

A MURDERER ARREsTED.-We
learn that man. named John Gift
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Webb, of Jefferson county, on Sat
urday, in the 18th civil district OF
this county, on the charge of murder.
From what We. can learn it. seems
that the murder was committed in
jefferson county by Gift during tho
war. when he made his escape and
has since been residing In West Ten
nessee. Being in this county on
some business with a man in the 18th
district. the jefferson county officials
got news Of bis whereabouts. and
hence his arrest.-R Rnozvilte Chr0n.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

A negro stole the carpet from
Tennessee church, and cut it up into
horse blankets, aud the congregation
all went over to Broad river to see
him immersed. From some unac-
countable accident, he was held IN
der the water just one minute too
long. So 8ar.t -saeo
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

The Lexington Reporter affirms:
There is a saw mill in this county,
and near it pond water Is hauled
and the pond is filled; then the mill
rms until the pond is exhausted,
when the filing process is again re-
,Nanfa1
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

The Methodist church, the world
over, claims an aggregate of 15.0O0.-
00O members.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

The Lawrenceburg Joasraal reports
distemper among the horses at that
place.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

but of the new eggs, has. in too
many cases, not been duly appreci-
aLed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

THE Pittshurg nail manufacturers
have agreed to reduction Of 373
cents 20. keg in the prices ofnaiis'
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28
rOREu;:N NEWS.


Letters from Madrid to the 24th,
state that an Alfonsist rising is an
ticipated. There was great anxiety
in consequence.
Don Carlos at last accounts was
at Vera, in Navarro. He issued q
proclamation on the 18th inst !,
calling on the national troops to
come to theil king.
In Madrid, on the 23d inst, ex-
citement was increasing among the
Insurrectionists Red Republicans
were urging extreme measures. The
Carlists were very active.
Minister Sickles gave a reception
last Saturday evening in Madrid,
which was attended by Castelor
and leading diplomats and men Of
letters in the city. Several repre-
sentatives Of the Spanish nobility
were present.
In commenting on the Pomeroy
Senatorial case, the London 1sle-
graph says, $50 long as America
can boast OF a free press and find
Yorks in each State, we shall not
despair OF American institutions"
Families were leaving Madrid,
Spain, on the Goth, in anticipation
of disturbances in the city.
A statue Of Washington has been
placed in the facade of the Hall 10
Barcelona, Spain.
The people generally, Of Hayana
favor tile Republic Of Spain.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

American civilization. Like the
Arab Of Asia, to rob and murder
is 10 violation Of its creed, if per-
formed upon an enemy; for It's
hand is against every man. Polyg-
amy should be suppressed. The
Government owes it to the people
to suppress it. Ifthe laws against
bigamy are enforced in other places,
50 should they be in Utah. # the
Government compe's men to obey
the laws III other Territories, so
should men be compelled to obey
the laws in Utah. If legislation is
necessary to crush ont the barbar-
Gus institution, Congress should
have backbone to make it, and the
Executive courage to enforce it.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

Honolulu dates to January 25th,
report King Lunallis as having pro-
posed several important amend
ments to the constitution. The first
is to separate the Legislature into
two branches-Nobles and Repre-
sentatives. He proposed free suf-
frage, and asks that the Attorney
General shall no longer be a men,
Der Of the Cabinet. The CONNER
cial Adcertiser suggests that the
King should visit the United States
in person, for the purpose of nego-
tiating a treaty Of reciprocity with
our Government. Official cores
pondence is published showing that
our Secretary of the Navy ordered
the fagship California to Honolulu
to convey the late King to the
United States.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28
EASTERN NEWS.

The Senate has directed the Sec
retary Of the Treasury to report
upon the expediency Of erecting a
lighthouse at the mouth Of the
Umpqua river in this State.
AT various points in New Eng
land Oh last Monday the themom-
eter ranged from 20 to 80 degrees
below zero.
Two murders were reported at
New York last Monday. The first
occurred at Burnside, Conn. An
old man, Ira Bliss, aged 70, station
agent, was murdered while on his
way home by two youths, aged IL
and 10 years respectively. They
beat him to death and robbed him
of $24 and a watch. The other
was a wealthy resident Of Bethle-
hem, Penn, named Monroe Snyder.
A villain had followed him on the
train from New York and when he
left the train at Bethlehem follow
ed him and killed him with sand
bag, throwing the body into Mono
cay creek. The assassin had not
been apprehended.
Two brothers, Tom and Henry
Wagner, were burned to death on
the 2Oth, by falling into sugar vat
in Jersey City.
A special from Washington on
the 21st inst, says President Grant
has sent a confidential document 10
the Senate, showing the necessity
for ratifying the treaty extending
stipulations ofthe treaty with Mex
leo. and its reference to the Joint
Claim Commissioners.
A kentucky man has been mar
ried in the same house, and by the
same minister, to four sisters.
One hundred square miles Of
land have been bought in Iowa by
George Grant, a London merchant,
for a colony Of emigrants.
Theodore Brown was convicted
at indianapolis, Ind, for the mur-
der Of his wife in December last,
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for twenty years.
The Indiana Senate on the Goth
inst, passed the temperance bill, by
. vote of 80 to 10. 1t previously
passed the House, and now awaits
the Governors signature. Itissim-
liar TO the Ohio law.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

A memorial is being signed ask.
ing the Government to turn the
waters Of tho Colorado river into
the Colorado Desert and make it
al inland sea. It remains to be
seen whether the Government will
80 s(ea)eeit.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

The political cauldron at Quebec,
Canada, has been allowed to get
too hot. At the nomination of a
member for Quebec, on the Oath
inst, for the Provincial House of
Assembly, it bubbled out into q
fierce riot between the Conserva-
tives and the adherents of the can
didate of the National party. Pts
tolls, knives and clubs were freely
used. About 5000 persons took a
hand in it. The riot lasted an hour
and a half, resulting in the killing
of two and wouuding Of many. It
was thought many Of the latter
would die. The National party
were whipped.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

II is reported that two Of Wis
consin's ex. Congressman are in the
wood, chopping logs at $50 per
month. Doubtless they do more
good there than they ever did IN
Congress. At any rate, nobody
will complain ii they "grind their
own axes" now.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-28

At a preachers meeting in New
York, not long since, one Of them
expressed great concern because
hell was not heard about as much
as in former times. We think he
could hear enough about it out this
way. It is used with many where
morals and brains fail to supply
better language.