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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
A HOPEFUL LOOK Ar TIE BUSE
NESS FUTURE.
Now York Herald. June as.


There are those who contend, and
not unreasonably, that the country is
not in a better condition now than it
has been for many months; that
trade is dull long hot summer is
before US. and there is nothing es-
2ecially encouraging in our present
commercial surroundings. This view
may be partially true, bat it is offset
by so many practical facts that the
weight of testimony is in favor Of the
class who look upon the future hope
fully.
/. The most encouraging reports
have been received concerning the
crops in all portions of the country.
Cotton is in fine condition; wheat
and corn are fiourishing; the fruit
and vegetable crops are unusually
abundant sugar and rice are said TO
be looking well. and there is pros
pect of a good market abroad. Un-
der slch promising conditions the
country will surely not 60 backward.
With good crops there should be q
general business revival.
g The price of labor is being
gradually reduced, thus enabling the
manufactures to supply his products
at lower rates. Cheap food and cheap
manufactures lessen the cost of liv-
ing and thus solve one of the dis
turbing problems of the day; for by
the equalization Of the earning and
producing powers a cause Of discon-
tent is removed.
8. Money is abundant-too abun-
dant. in fact-and too much confined
to financial centers. But we have
passed through the worst Of our dan
gers and although confidence is q
plant of slow growth, when it blooms
again 1t viii be to give q vitality to
new enterprises, put in active use
our idle capital, encourage invest
ment in whatever is cheap and
possibly fruitful, and SO start the
country afresh upon its forward
march.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
Personal.

Judge Randolph spent portion of Sab
bath last in our town, en- route for his
court at Maynardville. The Judge is an
ardent friend of the dog law, besides hsv-
ing other claims upon our respect and
esteem.
We are pleased to mention the return,
after a protracted visit to relatives in
Kentucky, of Miss Dora Dickinson. In
the name of our community, old and
young, we welcome her back.
Mr.. W. B. Anderson and family, of
Barbourville, KY, are on visit to the
family of Mai. Jno. NJ. Dickinson. We
hope their visit viii be pleasant and that
they viii speak FAVORABLE of our town
and section when they return to their
Kentucky home.
Mai. j. A. Sample, general manager
of the Warm Springs Hotel, returned
from q bushes trip South last week
Visitors from the South, in large crowds,
have been so ng to the Springs almost
daily for several weeks, and there is now
present large number of guests, but
not half the number who win be there
during the season.
Col. Wash. Allen, of the Warm Springs
Hotel, junior, Riverside, Tennessee, was
captured and detained one night last
week, the guest of Maj Guthrie of the
Turley House. By theway, strange re-
ports are current touching the probabili-
ty of an early change in the domestic
and social relations of Col. Washington.
But whether it is a wife or church he
is to have charge of, ''Sawbones" must
advise US.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
Sale of the Western North Car
DINA Railroad.

The sale of this road took place on
Tuesday. From the special dispatch &c
the "Observer" published yesteday
morning we were led to suppose that
the acti on of the Legislature had al
been for naught and that the road was
to pass into other hands than the State
commission. We were gratified TO
learn from Mr. Speaker Robinson yester.
day that such is not the case, but that
the bid has been transferred to the State
commission, and that the latter will be
in full possess ion as soon as sale is con
fime6r
The following is the explanation Of
the yesterdays dispatch. All the cred
itors of the road. Messrs Matthews,
Wilson and McAden, represented with
the exception of Richard Norris g. Son,
represented by the Hon. s. Merrimon
consented to have their debts scaled.
The later not only wanted the principal
in full but the interest also. Mr.. Merri-
mon, thought he could force the COM
mission 20 terms by bidding against them
but the commission very cody allowed
him to bid it OFF. The counsel for
Messrs. Norris s. Son found he had an
elephant on his hands and was very glad
to compromise with the commission on
their own terms. His debt was some
thirty Thousand, and had Mr.. Merrimon
allowed the commission to bid of the
road he would have received 81, 900
cash. As it is, he had 20 compremise on
fourteen bonds of 81 600 each for his
debt, and when we raeollect the bonds
are worth only 20 cents on the dollar
the fourteen thousand grows beautifully
less. Our distinguished Senator by
this transaction has lost somewhat of
a fnancier which he made in the United
States Senate last winter. We learn
that the road will remain in the hands
of Major Smith, the Receiver, till the
sale is confirmed, which will be about
the first week in August.
1t will seem from the above that the
Western North Carolina Road has passed
into the hands of the commission rep
resenting the State. 1t appears that
Judge Merrimon bid the road off in the
interest of certain creditors, and on a
compromise transferred the bid to the
commission. We hope now the road
will be built, except the politicians and
photographers shall delay work through
pretty quarrels and sectional jealousies
The people of the whole State are now
stockholders, and are liable for the bur
dens; let them scowl upon the man who
proves himself Observation-Disclosures
ErpOs5t0r.
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MorristOWn Produce Market.
Wholesale Prices.
1IoRRIsTowN, july 6, $50
Knoxville Market.

July 8, 1876.
WHEAT-Prime white in demand 81. OF
los.
Consolidating; loose, 74a75c. sack
ed in depot. 80a81e.
LARD Scarce. 16c.
OATs-Tn demand, 55a60c.
PoTAToEs-Peach blow and Peerless
z. O0a2 %.
Loose from wagons, zoe per 100 lbs
DRIED FRUIT-Apples, Ease. Peach
es, quarters 7as.; halves, saS Black
berries, 7a8c.
Flour - Dull and weak; country
family buying, So. 25a3. 90; selling 3.00a
1926; extra, buying, 81. 75a3. 90; selling,
81. 75a3. 90. Knoxville City Mills .our
standard family S. % Pearl Mills fami-
", SIS. 80: City Mills family, %. 10; Pearl
Mills extra, 81. 80.
BACON - Dull with heavy stock on
hand; buying from wagons-hans IS;
clear sides, "A; shoulders, II.
FEATHERs-In better denands prime,
50c.; mixed, 25a30c.
BUTTER-Dull and declining, 15a1S.
EGGs-10a11c.
RAGs-COttOn, 24a24c.
BEEswAx-27a28c per pound.
TOBAcco-Tennessee leaf, 5a12c.
GRASS SEED-Timothy, 50. TOAD 90 per
bushel
GRASS SEED-Clover, So 50per bushel.
IS Herds grass, 81. 50a2. 90
/" 81 Blue ''&1. 80 -
{" a. Orchard grass, $2-50.
GINsENG-$1 .30a1. 40.
SENEKA SNAKE-In demand, 55a60c.
YELLOW RooT-Dull, &c.
WooL-W Washed, 35a40c per ID.
FURs-As the season is drawing to a
close furs remain dull and depressed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
Prof. g. e. DiIIworth.

We clip the following deserved com.
pliment from the Jonesboro' Herald and
Tribune of the oath of June:
"Our citizens were all pleased last week
to meet this worthy gentleman again.
"A more respectable citizen Jonesboro'
has never had the honor of claiming,
and it is a sad fact that another town In
East Tennessee can offer him greater in
ducements than this for his services.
The people of MorristoWn have become
so much attached to him as a citizen and
teacher, and offer him inducements to
remain with them another year, which
he has concluded to accept"
The Masonic Female School with
Profs. T. p. Summers and r. A. Lowry
as associated Principals, and G. E. Dill
worth teacher in Music, will, it Is
thought, be the best of our East Ten
nessee schools during the next session.
Morristown has truly been blest with
good schools.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
How the Harry Helm Nearly
Came to Town.
Press and Herald. Sd

The steamboat Harry Helm almost
came to town yesterday. For weeks the
residents along the Big Pigeon, the
French Broad and Holston have been
anxiously expecting the Helm, and our
citizens have been curious to see the
miniature boat. A dispatch from the
captain, published yesterday morning,
announced that the boat would arrive in
Knoxville about 0 o'clock, a. m. About
II o'clock the whistle was heard, and a
large number of citizens and visitors
started to the landing to welcome the
Helm. Unfortunately, when just below
the city, one of the steam chests blew
out, and the boat was compelled to tie
up about three hundred yards below
Second Creek, just too far away for visi-
tors. The cause of the accident was the
thinness of the iron Of the chest. 1t was
believed that like fate would soon hap
pen to the other, and orders were at
once given to the Knoxville Foundry for
two strong steam chests to replace the
weak and the injured one. The accident
VIII uCiay Ih0 u0PSalIu VI TIC hSIA.
The Captain expects to leave for Lead
vale, this evening. This is doubtful, and
is possible that the boat may be re-
paired in time to leave tomorrow morn
ing, but it may be Tuesday before the
repairs are completed.
Barring the accident noted, the machin-
cry worked well. Ten miles in sixty
minutes were run, and when the break
occurred the Helm was booming away
towards this city at the rate of seven
miles per hour. The untoward contre
temps perfectly disgusted Capt. Helm,
and disappointed number of ladies and
gentlemen who were proposing trip to
Leadvale as passengers on the new boat.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
The Centennial.

Pursuant to a call published by us last
week for a meeting to be held last Satur-
day, in reference to the Centennial, a
number of our citizens met and took the
matter under consideration. 1t was
among other things suggested that there
was an organization in East Tennessee
which had the matter under advisement,
and which had already taken steps to Sc
cure the representation of this section of
the State at the Centennial. This being
so, the meeting took no steps in the prem
Uses, preferring to leave the matter in the
hands of that organization.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
LEADVALE WILEY.
THE GROPS-TIIE NECESSITY OF
ANEARLY COMPLETTON or OUR
SOUTHERN RAILROAD CONNEG
T7ON-LOCAL- MATTERS.

THE CROPS-IIIE NECESSITY OF
ANEARLY COMPLETION or OUR
SOUTHERN RAILROAD CONNEC
T7ON-LOCAL- MATTERS.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
Frequently seeing in the GAZETTE COM
munications from other sections of cOun-
! try, thought perhaps some of your many
readers would like to hear from our val
ley. Since the late refreshing showers
corn has improved a great deal, and is
growing rapidly. Though backward, it
has fine color.
From close observations, in at least
two or more counties, the wheat crop
win not exceed tw6-thirds of a crop, and
think the acreage reduced less than
last year on account of the spring fresh
cts
The oat crop is nearly failure except
in few rare instances, where the last
years crop happened to be turned under
in the fall, which made fine crop; and
there is not more than one-halfa crop of
grass anywhere.
Hogs went of at good prices last win
ter, and cattle also this spring, which
has greatly benefited our country, and,
with reasonable prices for the incoming
crops, better times win begin to dawn
upon us.
Our railroad connection with North
Corolina through the mountains will be
our salvation. 1t is a necessity both pub
lie and private, and we must have it at
any sacrifce-at any cost. We cant af-
ford to live without it. From Buncombe
to New Hanover, and from Mecklenburg
to Halifax, they are calling for and de-
handing all of our surplus corn, wheat,
oats, hay and hogs, horses and mules,
&c. Why is it sumo of our wealthiest
and most talented railroad OPERATORS
such as Col. McGhee, Col. Wilson and
Capt. Jaques-do not complete this inn
portant link and secure to East Tennes-
ses the golden prize so much needed9
Your welcome paper gave us the news
that the railroad proposed, through Capt.
Moore, to crush stone to Macadamize
Mill street, in your town-the one thing
so much needed i'm and out of town-for
it is almost impossible in winter. If
your authorities do not avail themselves
of such an opportunity it viii be last
ing shame and reproach upon the neceS-
stiles of the people and enterprise of
Morristown. 1t does really seem that
the only thing attended to Is the coIlec-
tion of most burdensOme taxation, for
the past two years, all of which are to
pay the bondholder, who took in the
scrip at about one-half its face value. It
has, and win continue forum your town
: and should do it. The debt should be
compromised, by paying the actual cost,
with six per cent. interest, or repudiated
If il is not done, and that
soon, your should-be prosperous business
town win be owned, in fifteen or twenty
years, by about two bondholders, and
to great extent, by bats and
owls" some white and some black
and be deserted entirely by the country
people who sustain you. Do away with |
your l-saxationl-and get |
.he Bristol Baptist Female College and |
he Morristown Masonic Female School |
merged into one, and secure the Messy
Greek Baptist College. then you viii have /
! little city in few years.
Your FRIEaD.
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We call attention to the advertisement
of MorristOwn Masonic Female Acade-
my. which appears this week. We are
aut horized to announce that this excel
lent school proposes to donate half the
tuition in the literary department to the
daughters of all ministers of the gospel,
engaged in regular gospel work. FOs-
tered as the institution is by the Masonic
fraternity, it also opens its doors to the
daughters Of INDECENT and deceased Ma
sons on the same terms. If Lodges or
individuals will guarantee half the tut
ton, the institution will, in all such ca
SEES, donate the other half.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
shipments from Leadvale.

Our friend, NJ. J. Minis, Esq, depot
agent at Leadvale, on the Cincinnati,
Cumberland Gap and Charleston railroad,
sends us the following statement of the
shipments made from his depot from
June 80, 1874, TO June 30, 1876:
Bacon and Lard, 3,97S pounds; Butter,
1883 pounds; Flour, l, $50 pounds; Corn,
65S, 1877 pounds; Wheat, 400, 564 pounds;
Other Grain, 4, 1913 pounds; Dried Fruit,
41s pounds; Eggs, 1859 pounds; Salt,
1850 pounds; Feathers, 1874 pounds;
Hay, 292, 500 pounds; Live Stock, IA car
loads; Hogs, miscellaneous items, 81, 100
pounds. Revenue derived therefrom,
81, 40 81. 81. J. MINIS, Agent.
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Sons of Temperance.

The Grand Division, s. of t., of East
Tennessee, will hold its next Quarterly
Session in Hoxie's Hall, Knoxville, on
Thursday, the 22d day of the present
month.
AS matters of more than usual impOr-
lance will probably come before the G.
ID. on that occasion, it is highly desira-
bic that each subdivision be fully rep
resented. We hope to have something
of Importance to us, from the National
Division to lay before the G. ID.
T. d. EDDINGToN, q. S.
BIaryville, Tenn, July 1, 1875.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07

We are receiving almost daily,
letters asking us what is the best
remedy for Flux, Diarrhea Dysinte.
ry,Cholic and other Summer com.
plants. and We take this method OF
answering all at once. that the
safe thing to do is 70 abstain from
eating any unripe and unwhoIesome
fruit or vegetables but II an attack
upon the system has already taken
place or is threatened, we can re-
commend nothing SO heartily and
cheerfally as DR.. LytIe's Elixir
Medical Journal
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Messy Creek Female Institute.

Messy Creek Female Institute.
The announcement of this we'll known
literary institution for the next year will
be found in another column, and to It
we would ask the attention of parents
who have daughters 10 educate. Prof.
Brown has been at the head of the school
for the last three years, and il is rapidly
gaining reputation for thoroughness of
instruction creditable to any institution.
A late number of the College EcsO has the
following paragraph about the school:
- Messy Creek College has reason
congratulate herself upon the character
and standing of her female school. We
may confidently say that, in all the essen
tial advantages of healthful, convenient
ana eligible location, diversity, extent
and thoroughness of instruction, and
firmness Of discipline, this school is
not excelled III East Tennessee. The
next session win open on the LIST Mon
day in September. The Principal viii
IS heretofore. be aided by an able corps
Of assistants In the various departments
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07

u John III. Fleming. J. F. Dead,
erick, Esq, Rev. James Park, DIR.
+. A. Ramsey, and A. j. Kicks, ESQ.,.
have been appointed a committee tc
prepare for publication description
Of East Tennessee, including eli
mate, water courses, mineral resour-
ces, agricultural products, woods.
forests, ETC.. for distribution at the
great Centennial Exposition. next
year. ut PHILADELPHIA.
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LOOK AT THIS!
Prices Aecording to the Time

Er1ceS according 10 the Times
viii do all kinds of BLACKSMITH
work at very reduced prices, and will
deduct 10 per cent for cash.
On all work have toput on my books
I win charge 10 per cent interest after 80
days; and on all my old accounts, If not
settled within so days, VIII charge 10
per cent on them.
All work done with neatness and dis
patch and in a workman-like style, or no
charge made. E. LOVE.
EB Shop on the corner of East side
of Cumberland and Sd North street,
north of the III. E. Church, South, Nor
ristown, Tenn. june 80 If
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Clocks! Clocks!! Clocks

II. II. Crowder, Silversmith and jew
eler, has just received a fine lot of new
Clocks, and offers them for sale at very
low prices for Cash. He also repairs
Watches in the best manner and guaran-
tees satisfaction. Shop at the Store of
L. P.& G. E. Speck. If
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Kansas Central Land AEaReI.

SALIVA. MAI John W. BERKs, Gent Manager.
Real Estate Business generally; also have for
sale all che lands OF the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company, amounting to 600 900 acres OF the
most desirable In Central and Western Kansas al
so, Whistles Coal lands, Farms, Cattle Ranches,
and City Property in Salina and the neighboring
towns, for sale at all times.
- Send for the stKansas Central Land Journal
3 large S2-column monthly paper, what they
have for sale and read al about the great Keystone
State Of the West
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CHURCH Directory.
IL > mnRnH SOUTH

Preaching every Sunday at 1890, A.
IA. and 6 o'clock p. N. by the pastor, Rev.
Geo. ID. French. Sunday-school at o
O'Clock, An. Regular prayer-meeting
Wednesday night. Young mems prayer
meeting Saturday night. Seats free.
All are invited.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-07
PREsRYTKRLAN oRURoH

There win be regular service in the
Presbyterian Church next Sabbath, at
the usual hour.
Sunday School at 9 a. m. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening. All
are invited.
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RAPTIaT nHHRCR

There viii be preaching in the Baptist
Church every Sabbath at 1880, A. NJ,
and 8, p. M., by the Pastor, Rev. O. @.
Pope.
Sabbath School at Q, A. NJ, and weekly
Prayer meeting on Thursday evenings.
"WhosoeveT win, let him come"
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In central Kentucky a mysterious
change has come over the tops of
the beech trees, the leaves OF which
have turned brown and apparently
died, while the lower parts remain
in full leaf.
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WeeC Advertisements.
YOUNGSTOWN
Masonic Female AtaianV
REv. 7. P. sUMMERs. A. NJ, principsl.

REV. 7. P. SUMMERS, A. NJ, Principal.
=. A. LOWRY Davidson C0ilage), Associate,
Principal, with such Assistants - lie vTaut1 ~
the school may require.
PRoF. Q. =. DILWoRTH, Principal Music De-
partment.
The ninth annual session, under the present
Principal, viii open August SOth. 1878
The course Of instruction win Be through am
bracing everything usually tanght nTst-cls- 3
schools for young ladies'.
Tuition i'm the Literary Department. from
$1,000 TO $4,000 per session Of twenty vweaka
Contingent fee 8, 90.
Contingent fee and one-hal1 Tuition rsaulrsd In
advances.
Board In families. from ca SO 10 g 90 Der weak
Including everything except washing
Correspondence solicited Address the Prinelpa
aa above aE Gorrfstown, Tenn nfatf
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ERRORS OF YOUTH.

"a GENTLEMAN who Bufferea far years from
"A Nervous Debility, preInaturs Decay and all
she effects Of youthful INDIGESTION VIII Tor the sake
Of suffering humanity send free t. all who need ~
the receipt and direction for mah1ng tho simzio
remedy BY which he wna cured. hEfleara wRhinG
70 proht by the ADVERTISERS experience can - 81
BY addressing N perfect confidence,
JOHN q. OGDEN, a. Cedar ST., NeE yesI.
ApKi4 n6-6m
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Gut This Quilt May Save Your
Life.


There is no person living but what
suffers more or less with Lung
Disease. Coughs, Colds or Consnmp-
ton. yet some would die rather than
pay IS cents for hottie of medicine
that would cure them. DIR. a.. Bos-
chee's German Syrup has lately
been introduced in this country from
Germany, and its wonderous cures
astonishes every one that try il. If
you doubt what we say in print. cut
this out and take it to your
Druggist, @. I. MAeEE, Main St.,
and get q sample bottle for 10 cents
and try 1t, or q regular size for Is
cents.
A. I'll. CoUssEHs g. Co., Wholesale
Agents. Nashville, Tennessee.
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Footing up 81 ,242 on polls $722 on
dogs $155 on bitches; and half of the
county to hear from.
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MARRIED.

At the residence of the brides parents,
in Newman, Ca, on the evening of the
24th, by Rev. A. 81. Thigpeu, Mr.. SAM.
T. SHIELDS, formerly of MOrristown,
Tenn, but late of Jasper, Ala, and Miss
LUCY MILLER WORD.
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IN the Circuit Court Of Claiborne
County, Tenn.
PETITION FoR DIVORCE
RhOda Owens vH. william Owens.
IN This CAUSEIT APPEARIHc

3 n AAlD OAOoEII AFFEA 1T q q
= sso.n the agations IN the bill which sworn
to- that the defendant William OvFrns IA = nom
resident OF the State of Tennessee nrsd F1mA f1an
9satnaky process OF law cannot be served upon
aasn ~ = therefore oFdered By me- that pnblica-
LOB ne maze Tor four successive weeks ia fha
MonhfAEoWN q AzEErE, weekly paper pubIished
IN MorriHtown, Tenn.. notifying ala NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
defendant 20 appear before the 3udre NJ Cur .cfr
cult court, &c court 10 be held for fhN ce..fv ~
Cla1b0wnes 81 the house IA TazaveH - flse
Arst Monday Of September, 1873, 70 make dafenae
20 c0mpiaLnents said bli o. the Sans iIl - 1900
~ confessed and MT for hearing sx-nsrte - A.
bin THOS. W. aT0NE CLARA.
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The Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JULY z. 1873


w. C. Witt, Esq, Assessor for Ham
blen county for 1875, has made the fol-
lowing returns of the poll and dog asses
ment in the five districts of the county
he hoe vfsitad