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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
ROBERTSON COUNTY.

DRIFTED TO t'OLD RoBERTSoN''--PRo-
DUCTIoN OF THE FAyoRITE BEvER.
AGE-TIIE PEOPLE TEMPERATE AND
THE SOIL PoRoUs-sDIPLICTT OF
THE PEOPLE AND sUBLIMITY OF THE
CAvERNs.
SPRINGFIELD. July /, 1874.
To the Editor OF the Morristown Gazette.
Having drifted into old Robertson,
where spirits make their appearance
in an immense degree, and where
those who are after the spirits come
from every quarter of the common
wealth, and pay the biggest prices
for land that is not a whit better
than the poorest gravelly ground in
East Tennessee, it may not be un-
interesting to know how it has be-
come so rich and prosperous, for, be
it remembered, this thin white, gray
ely, cold land sells from $50 to $50
per acre. 1t is all dotted over in
the production of " Old Robertson"
So much for having established, in
by-gone times, reputation in the
manufacture of a special marketable
commodity. The production of this
favorite beverage has built up the
county, and rich class of citizens
that may be designated as euhiSky
driStocrdcg. who buy all their grain in
the North, and make Goodies Sc of it
daily, while it is all shipped abroad
at very remunerative prices, after
paying the Government over a mil
lion dollars annually as tax. 1t is a
singular fact that the citizens here
do no imbibe their production per-
haps they have long since become
surfeited and disgusted, just as in
some other counties, they become
disgusted with water, on account of
its super-abundance.
Citizens of Robertson county are
the most temperate people on the
globe-real Washingtonian abstain
ers-except few interlopers that
now and then straggle into Spring
field. the capitol of the county, and
emporium as a whisky market, who,
no doubt, come thinking they would
like to be at the fountain head of
their favorite beverage, and it is cur
rently said this pilgrimage is most
certain to kill or cure.
The land is thin, white and grav-
ely, covered with a white porous
stone that holds water in the sub
soil as a sponge, making it stand
drouth remarkably well. The far
mers are generally poor and accus-
toned to the habits of East Tennes-
see fifty years ago-corn-shuckings,
log-rollings, house-raisings reapings,
threshings, connected with quilting
frolics, tapered off with dancing.
They seem to be enemies to edu-
cation and pride, in their primitive
simplicity and inertness. Princi-
pally born on the soil, they seem to
be haunted to it, and going now and
then to the county site, seems the
height of their ambition to travel,
all out side with them is !" down yon
der'' or "out yonder'' where the
railroad go to and come back.
Next, sink-holes, connecting the
mouths of caves, and affording cool,
limpid water. are remarkably COM
mon, owing, perhaps, to the porous
soluble nature of the stone strata. /
travelled mile from one Of these
springs through the cave to another
spring, and the vast chambers that
often presented themselves were
truly sublime. A. III. G.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
Murders, Suicides Casualties,
&c.

MEMPHIS, June 30.-Dr. Robinson,
aged 55, was shot and killed by q
young man named Robh,, at Skip
with's Landing, one hundred miles
above Vicksburg, a few days ago,
for alleged criminal intimacy with
Robb's mother. s So ytl-rtt EI
Myer Friedland was shot and
killed, on Friday last, at Lecoli
Landing, Washington county, Miss,
by Edward Monach, his partner, i'm
quarrel over their business affairs,
which they were winding up-sagMon-z
ach was acquitted on the ground Of
self-defense.
NORFOLK, June 30.-Wm. L. G.
Kent, late sheriff of Norfolk county,
committed suicide this morning, at
his residence on Lambert's Point,
by shooting himself through the
head. The cause of the act is un-
known. t if9a8a
Boston, June 20.-A desperate
attempt was made to-day, by Marius
E. Seddrick, to,murder his wife, who
had left him for alleged cruel treat
ment. He attacked her with a knife.
infictiDg several severe and fatal
wounds. a v
CINCINNATI, June 3O.--Miss Kate
West of Paris, KY, died yesterday
from an overdose Of arsenic, taken,
it il supposed for the purpose of inn
proving her complexion.
Michael Barnsley was killed to-
day, by the caying in Of bank,
DETROIT, Mich, June 50.-The
boilers in Sayler & Co.'s saw mill, at
Carrolton, Mich, exploded to-day
killing four men and injuring a boy
fatally. ~ t---,-,
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COLUMBUS, ONO, June 29.-Tho
Straitsville coal operators are making
a final attempt to put white miners
into their mines, but thus far the
leaders of the union refuse to allow
their men to resume work at the
prices proposed. All the mines will
be filed with colored miners by July
A, and the white miners will be COM
PEELED to seek work elsewhere 1t is
reported that at Danville one hun
dred white men desire to resume
work, but are debarred by threats of
violence and the destruction of their
property by fire.
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A Member of Congress Shoots
his Daughters Defamer.

CINCINNATI, June 29.-A special
dispatch. dated Tuseumbia, Ala, to-
day to the Commercial, contains the
following: GA year ago George f.
Long, of good fame and family, was
forbidden by Hon: j. HI. SIoss, mem
ber of Congress from this district,
to have any communication with his
daughter. Long was indignant, and
denounced Mr.. Sloss, asserting that
he had been on terms Of too great
intimacy with her. Mr.. SlOss, re-
turned from Washington on Friday.
evening last, and learned the facts
from his daughter. On Sunday
evening he stood at an upstairs win
dow and fred at Long, who was on
the opposite side of the stree. Long
received four buckshot in his skull,
another through the neck, and two
in the body. The attending SURGE
ons declare that he can not survive.
Sloss confessed the shooting. He
is now in the custody of the Sheriff.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
How One Attorney was quick on
the Trigger. ~

MEMPHIS, July 1.-At 10 o'clock
this morning, W. D. Welsh, a well
known attorney and candidate for
Clerk of the Criminal Court, was
shot by b. B. Barnes, also an at
torney, and probably fatally wound
ed. They had a quarrel on Monday
morning, when Welsh drew pistol
on Barnes. To-day. mutual friends
attempted to adjust the difficulty
and had meeting in DIR. Jones'
Office. The parties to the quarrel
were present. Barnes said he was
ready to settle the affair, and it is
supposed Welsh misunderstood the
remarks, as he rose and drew pis-
tol, and said he was also ready for
settlement, whereupon Barnes fired
the ball striking Welsh on the left
temple, and coming out under the
ear Barnes at once surrendered
to the otflcer.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
How General Concha was Killed.

MADRID, June 29.-Gen. Concha,.
after taking Aburzuza, marched di-
rectly upon EsteIla. He found the
Carlists massed at Muro, behind en-
trenchments. A general charge was
ordered!
Gen. Concha placed himself at the
head of the troops, taking his posi-
tion in the centre Of the first line.
While advancing rapidly with the
entire line, he received q ball in the
chest, fell from his korse and died
almost the instant he touched the
ground. Gen. Echaguez then took
command and ordered the army to
retreat to Larraga and, Tafalla.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
Sad Death from Lightning.

A brief notice was made in this
paper yesterday, Of the death by
lightning OF the Rev. Richard Strives
and his wife, which occurred at Lo-
Gust Bottom, Botetourt county, on
Thursday last. Mr.. Strives mar
ried some years ago, Miss Fanny B.
Eppes, daughter of Travis Eppes,
Esq, and is well known and very
popular i'm this city. Mr.. Strives
was native Of Fairfax county, and
was during the war, lieutenant ID
the Confederate service. He was a
member of the Baltimore Conference
of the De. 3. Church South, and was
highly esteemed for his piety and
usefulness. The unfortunate pair
leave three small children.-T Peters
burg, (Ya.) Iader. June 29th.
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The Currency.
Washington Chronicle, sOth.

Washington Chronicle, 9Oth. rn~
Under the provisions Of the new
currency law the Eastern national
banks are generally surrendering por-
tions Of their currency, preferring
their bonds on deposit here as secu-
rity for their circulation they having
on hand more currency than needed.
This gives the Comptroller of the
Currency plenty of circulation TO
meet the demands for new banks.
There is also available $5,000,000
circulation Of suspended banks. and
the S354,000, 900 issue, under the old
act is not quite gone. The call Of
withdrawal Of the surplus circulation
Of the banks East is deferred for
some months on account Of the above.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
amt Be an Elder and a CIcrI
a LIQUOR Store

LOUISVILLE, June 29.-Rev. VIM.
Ell. Clagett, pastor Of Presbyterian
church in this city, has resigned, be.
cause, as is understood, one of the
elders ofthe church persisted in keep
ing his position as book-keeper in a
liquor store after remOnstrance from
the pastor.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
Prominent Odd FeIIow Shot.

YoNKERs, N. Y. July II. p.
Saunders who was shot by the de-.
fendant in a case he was prosecuting,
is Past Grand Sire Of Odd Follows,
and well known. There were two
shots one is feared to be fatal. The
tragedy occurred just as the court
was adjourning. t'o
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

whence no traveller ere yet has re-
turned But his fabulous stories
have become traditional, and are
now frequently repeated by the bold
mountaineers for their own amuse.
ment; SO that his memory will like
ly remain green for years to come.
D.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

u Rev. DIR. Thomas Madden
died at Nashville recently. He was
born in Philadelphia, Pa, in 1896.
and was one of the Oldest members
of the Methodist Church, South, in
Tennessee.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

According to local Journal, the
rattlesnalcs in the knobs Of Lincoln
county, Ky. have formed q N corner"
in water, and the supply Of somo
families is cut of. They gather in
large numbers around the springs,
and suffer nc one to approach.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
ADVERTISING RATES.

One square, nlines less, for firstinsertion
One Dollar, each subsequent insertion fifty cents.
| liberal discount from the above rate viii be
made to yearly advertisers.
Obituaries Of over ten lines win be charged as
advertisements.
AH bills due upon first insertio Of advertise
Enent unless otherwise contracteD for.
All announcements OF Candidates must be paid
'"55 56B Woax must be paid for ON delivery.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
TERMS
g A YEAR. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE

THE GAZETTE is permanently established
newspaper with paying and constantly increasing
list Of subscribers. Its circulation IN the counties
Of Hamblen, Hawkins, Cooke, Jefferson Granger
ana claiho,pe is more general than any other pa
per-nakine il the best advertising medium in
Upper East Tennessee.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

Farmers in the valley flooded
by the Mill River Disaster have be-
gun ploughing their meadow lands,
and find them covered with q rich
deposit of thick soil, which Ga ey
suppose came from the Williams
burg hats. aHa M
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The Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JULY s. 1874
RED x MARX.

Persons receiving the GAZETTE with RED x
MARK omit, are notified that their subscription is
due for the current volume, and they are respect
fully requested at once TO remit the subscription
r,rsc
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

AT q recent sale in London, the
enormous sum OF $25, 600 was paid
for three pieces OF Seyres ware. tt
is understood that Baron Rothschild,
Of Paris, was the purchaser.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

Summers death cost Massachuset.
is $4,000.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08

In Iowa paper -four barrels arc
rapidly superseding the wooden ones
now in use.
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SECOND DISPATCH.

New YORK, June 30.-A Wash
ington special to the Commercial Id
Uerttser confirms the statement al
ready published here, that applica-
tion has been made to the Spanish
government through Caleb Gushing,
demanding indemnity for the lives
and property of American citizens
DESTROYED in the Virginius affair.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-07-08
The Government Makes Peremp-
tory Demands on Spain.

New York, June 30.-A Herald
special from Washington says q ru,
NOR Of grave import prevails in
Washington. Tt relates to the re.
cent difficulties between the United
States and Spain, regarding the fit
ting out and sailing of the Cuban
steamer Virginus, her capture by the
Spaniards, and the massacre of her
crew. The rnmor is to the effect
that out Government, through Min
lister Cushing, has made a peremp-
tory demand upou the Spanish Gov
ernment at Madrid for full indem-
nifty for the prisoners slain by Gen.
eral Burriers orders. This. it is as
certained, is an absolute fact.
Secretary Fish, in an interview,
said the American Government has
made promp demand, and one quite
as decided and peremptory as that
by the British Government, for in
demnity for the lives of prisoners de-
stroyed and the loss TO their families.
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Episode at the Battle of Leesburg,
Virginia.

The following beautifully touch
ing poem-showing how the feeling
of brotherhood came up on the field
ofbattle between two graduates. and,
hence. how all bad feelings should
be buried between those of West
Point-was delivered at tile meeting
of the " Association of the Gradu-
ates of the U. S. Military Academy"
at West Point, New York, on the
evening of June 1lth, 1874, in the
Cadets Mess Hall. by P. T. TURNKEY;
of Jefferson county, Tennessee, a
graduate of 1916
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-05-07
Ensland's Coal supply.

The fit Of dependency which Englall
had, year or two ago, over the possi'.e
failure of her coal beds, will be rcmen-
bercd. The greatest apprehensions wee
expressed about their continuance. AID
what would England be without coal aid
iron? Mr.. Hunt, the chief collector f
statistics, has come to the front with a T.
port dispelling i'll degree that gloon.
He explains that the coal commissiol,
which made enquiries in regard to EN-
lands supply, never said that the amount
was nearly exhausted. 1t merely gaze
calculation that, if the population il
creased to such an extent that each pc
son could scarcely find standing room,
then the coal supply would be reduced 0
something like a hundred years VIII
this pleasing extenuation of the terrible
prediction, the cheerful statistician PR
ceeds to point out quite unlimited supplie
of both coal and IRON within English limit
There is an untouched mass of coal e.
tending from Lear Maspeon on the norf
to the Tees on the south, and also thr,e
miles out into the German ocean, whlchit
is now proposed to open up. There :
besides, a reasonable probability that i
great coal field exists around the know
coal mines of Nottinghamshire also tie
fields of South Staffordshire and vicinity
will yet produce from fifty to a hundrt
years before exhaustion From obsery.
tons, Mi. Hunt concludes that the est
mates, of the depth at which mines couc
be worked are toe small One is workoC
in Belgium at 4 900 feet, and he bnieveC
it could be worked at 5000 feet 1t wa
an error to suppose that the temperature
increased toward the center of he earth
the increase was in diminishing ratio
As regards the manufacture q iron, the
consumption Of coal was gradually being
diminished. But with all this torce(
cheerfulness, the prospects for England!
coal supply one hundred years hence
would ,et seem to be matter of the
gravest Importance and solicituCe
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-05-07
The Searsport Schools.


w. H. SIMPSON, Esq. Dear Sir: ncose to
YOU the following statement of Emery sawyer
ESD. the very dissatisfied member of the Sears
port school committee, at the high pressure
principle which Il certain legal gentleman was
applying TO the schools, aa the Age represents
Mr.. Sawyer to be. Will you please do me the
favor to publish the statement of Mr.. Sawyer III
the Journal? | would like to have il appear in
full, without any change-.iust as it came from
MI. SAWYER. | thought Of asking YOU to allow
me to reply to Mr.. Rust, i'll the journal, but
concluded that it might be considered bad taste
as Mr.. Rust does not call me by name 1t Is
sufficient that Mr.. Sawyer, his own witness
convicts him of falsehood and petty malice.
really ought to take no notice whatever OF MI
RuSt's article. is his case appears to be only
that Of huge bullock who, felled to the ground
by slight blow from the hand of a young lady
in struggling to regain his feet happens tc
throw some of the dirt from his hoofs upon me.
s.JEGAI GFNTIEIAN.'
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Correction,

The Progressive Age last week commenting
ON the article of Miss Curtis to the journal in
relation to schools says
| We thought we discovered in it tue hand Of a
| certain legal gentleman III that village. We
| have since learned from good authority that our
| suspicious were correct; that Miss Curtis had
nothing to do with the authorship except sign
| ing her name, nor indeed with the Superaddcd
| school notice; but the whole was the work of
that gentleman who. heretofore, having been
| disappointed in his ambition to be one of the
| school committee. secured her election, and,
| through her is attempting to conduct the
schools on the high pressure principle The
chairman of the committee, Emery SAWYER
| Esq. not rtIncying the performance, has re-
| signed 1t marks him a one OF those
narrow minded, bigotcd, fanaticitI. Woud-bc
| retOrmers, whose success is always in IN IN
| verse ratio to their efforts The people when
| they see them pointing i'll one direction feel an
| impulse to 60 exactly contrary.
Now, a,s a person reading the above might be
| led to the conclusion that | had communicated
TO the Age my reason for leSigning. desire to
| state for the benefit Of all concerned that have
not communicated 10 the Age the reason tol
| my resignation.
There is bat one lawyer residing IL the vii
age. He served on the committee three wears
| ince which time h. has, to my personal knoWl
edge. per~istenty refused to allow his name to
| be used for that Office. Last year the commit
tee was composed of myself, Rev, Mr.. Han
srom, and Mr.. J. ii. Eames. Mr.. Eames resign
ed. After Mr.. Eamcs resigned, both Mr. Hans
COMMAND myself repeatedly urged the only gal
gentleman" who now resides in the village to
allow Us to appoint him to the place on the
committee made vacant by the resignation OF
MIR. Eamc~, but we could not prevail on him to
accept it. | have no complaint whatever 10
make against the action which the legal gentle
man and others here are taking in behalf OF
our schools The only thing to be regretted is
that they have been SO tardy in taking action
| If the illegal gentleman" and the other members
of the village district had, during the past ycal
of my serving on the committee, taken >lcl
action for the benefit of the schools in sal,
village district as they have recently taken per
| haps | should not have seen tit TO have tenlerp,
my resignation. EMERY SAWYER.
| ~carSpOrt, May >, 1874.
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lncendiary Fire at Lubec.
EASTpORT. Nav

EAsTroRr, May 4.
There is large fire ut Lubec The Com
stock store and u sail loft with several
suits of sails in it is now on fire
LATER. The fire at Lubec has been ex-
tinguished. It commenced in rigging
lott, and burned schooner Maggie Hart
hans; 5: G. Deforest & !NIelrose, sails,
cooper shop and five hundred barrels, with
all the stock belonging to E. w. Brown !;
fifty barrels flour, two hundred bushels
OF corn, one fish house, and shop owned
by 5. Staples & Son Value of property
destroyed, four thousand dollars; no in
sllrance lncendialv.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-05-07

Few people realize how much in All
vance of this country is tn" position o,
England on the woman question. In the
latter country women have enjoyed the
parochial franchise from time immemOrial
and the municipal franchise since 1869
They exercise their rights in about the
same proportion as men, and none of the
evils that We're anticipated from woman
suffrage have occurred. No disturbance
on incivility attend their appearance at the
polls The bill for giving women the Par
iimentary franchise, about to be introduced
in the House of Commons, will receive the
support OF many of the most prominent
members and has fair prospect of pass.
ing, Portland Star.
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ON Saturday night Mr. Samuel l.. Allen, an
old and esteemed citizen of Bath, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat with razor. The
cash made was frightful one, the blade laying
bare. without severing, the carotid artery, and
it is thought that Mr.. Allen may recover. He
had been suffering for some time with cryspe-
las in the head, and the malady had doubtless
affected the brain. Mr.. Allen was and has been
for many years, an overseef of the poor.
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GeneraIties.


tcnderS to the Essex statesman.
The Boston contributions to the Louisiana
sufferers now amount to S4j,OO0.
The boy Pomeroy has been fully committed
for the murder of the child i'll Boston,
The Boston Transcript says the family which
originally favored cremation was the BurnehS'
Nathan Brown of Clinton, while At work
driving logs for Heath 81 Crosby, on twenty
Five Mile stream, broke both bones OF his right
leg.
Owing to the backwardness of the season, il
is stated that the shad catch in the waters
around New York is not one-tenth rs large A.
usual.
These are the ,lay> in which she says, II don't
care; wish was dead!" and he sympathetic
ally reioinS, Hang the bonnet. You're never
satiSied,'
Icelanders are beginning to seek homes in the
United States. They resemble the Scotch in
appearance, and are a bright, clearly. healthy
looking class.
BY the upsetting OF boat at Cushing, on the
22d, two Young men, A. G. Seavey and isaar
Thompson, Ir. were drowned squall struck
their sail boat
Now that the senate Currency bill has been
vetoed" pcrtinently asks the Chicago Tribune,
." what has Congress to show for IT'S laborS dur
ing the Wintert
A Young WIFE Wha found her husband hall
seas over" and lowed him home BY the ear,
forfeited her claim to salvage BY calling him
''Worthlc~- scamp"
In Bangor, Monday, a teamstcr WlS i'm
ing across The railroad track his horse stumbled
and struck his head on one Of the rails, killing
him almost instantly.
None OF the fishing vessel, owned at Ea-t
port will lit for the banks this spring and tn