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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
mORRISTOwN ITEMS.

To the Editors Of the Chronicle:
The past weeks warm and spring.
like weather has been enjoyed and APP
preciated 10y all classes of our people.
Our farmers have been enabled to
plant great deal Of corn and do much
other necessary work that the cold
and wet weather of April prevented.
1t Is the general belief that our wheat
crop Ia not so much injured rs was at
first thought, and the dependency
that pervaded the county a few weeks
ago Is giving wsy to feeling Of hope
and trust for pretty fair crop year.
Many OF our farmers who have lots of
last years wheat yet on hand are sell
ing, and a considerable amount of
money will be brought into the coun-
try, thereby. Those who are still dis
posed to hold for a "higher price,
am fearful will be disappointed and
come out losers in the end. Choice
white wheat is worth SIPS per bushel
in our market; red wheat from 81 10
TO SLID and some lots are changing
hands at these figures.
SO far as your correspondent has
been able TO ascertain the feeling of
the people in this section on the cues
ton, the dog tax law is very unpopu~
lar, and much Indignation is expressed
against those members of the Legisla-
ture who voted for it. The dog tax
will be hard one to collect.
Morristown is improving on the
temperance question. A few years
ago our town supported five "dogger-
les" at one time, but they have "dwin-
died down" and but one remains now
and it is my opinion that this remain
ing one is doing poor business finan-
clally, as well as morally. Intoxicated
men are seldom seen on our streets
now.
Your readers here endorse and APP
prove your course in regard to Cathol-
icism, and the one subscriber that you
lost in consequence of your article on
that question will be made up by
many new ones from throughout the
whole of East Tennessee.
The Sunday School Convention of
last week was successin every respect,
and new life seems to be infused into
our Sunday school workers, in conse-
quence of the earnestness and zeal
displayed by the best men of our coun-
try in the cause. The Sabbath schools
of our country do more for the Church
and for Christianity than many think,
and our Christian people can find a
field of labor in the Sabbath school
cause that If properly cultivated and
worked up, will yield more bountiful
harvest for the Church of God than
any that can be found. 1t is the youth
full heart that is easily impressed; and
the Sunday school is the best place to
reach it. Yours, &C.,
NINo Harris.
Nav IN 1871
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THAT FIRST STEAMBOAT.
what AN Illinois Man Has 10 say
AbOutIt.

HIGH PoIST, Ills, May 9th, rs.
To the Editors Of the Chronicle
Being regular reader Of your pa
per, the bits Of history in relation to
the first steamboat that ever assembled
the Tennessee and Holston rivers aud
kissed the wharf at Knoxville, has
fallen under my notice and excited n
feeling OF the keenest interest. Maj
Joseph Wyatt may have been, proba
bly, was, the regular pilot of the steam-
boat, Atlas, on the occasion Of her
first trip to your port, a. iutimated in
The toast Of Col. W. B. A. Ramsey
But the special pilot employed for her
trial trip was my father, John Combs,
and not George Wells, aud the name
OF the boat was Atlas aud not Enter
prise AS recollected by Capt. Chapman.
My father was one ~ the leading fiat
bOatsmen of upper East Tennessee.
He lived near the mouth of Messy
Creek, on the Hoston river. i'm the
counties of Jefferson and Granger,
aud commenced boating soon after the
termination of the war 1872, and fol-
lowed it almost exclusively until 1927
or 1928, and knew every bend, shoal,
chute and current in the river from
the junction of the North and South
forks of the Holston to New Orleans.
During the time thus engaged, he
had number of partners. Among
them | remember John w. Howsley,
John w. Tilford, then of Huntsville,
Ala, but formerly of Philadelphia
John Carney aud Luny Peck, of Mos
sy Creek, and Arthur Cobb, of Grain
ger county. Mr.. Peck is still living,
and perhaps remembers the fact as
here claimed. My father was we'll
known to Gen. VIM. Brazelton, of
New Market, Col. John Talbot and
Mrs. Alcey Cobb, of Talbott's Sta
ton, who are still living and doubtless
remember that first boat and its pilot.
My fathers molber was "a Mabry, and
relative to the Mabrys in and about
Knoxville, and Southwest Point,
livingston believe it is called now
and some of them, If old enough,
may be cognzant of the fact that their
relative piloted the first steamer that
reached Knoxville.
l was between sixteen and nineteen
years Of age when this enterprise took
place, and know whereof / write.
See nothing in the "stray leaves !"
story, inconsistent with the facts, and
only regret that the whole story was
not published.
Yours truly, G. w. COMBS.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
County superintendcnrs Circular

To the People Of Rnor County:
The time is fast approaching for the
opening Of the fall and winter schools.
lu view of this fact, are the friends of
popular education bestirring themselves
as much as duty and interest would
dictate? The late legislature has left
intact the principal features of the
school law and IL now behoOves all TO
make 1t as efficient as possible, for The
purpose intended. Many sub districts
need new school houses, furniture and
apparatus. Now is the time for maxi
ing these improvements. Will you
make them ? Do you say times are
hard? Inactivity and slothfulness will
never make them better. If we would
go to work and build model school
houses, churches, roads, manu-
factories and other engines Of
thrift, everywhere, hard times "
would quickly disappear. No
business can thrive without en-
ergy and tools. No people can reap
prosperity without sowing the germs
which produce it. Sitting still in the
ashes of our discomfort and poverty,
will never lift us up to anything better.
Better times do not come in that
way.
Though 1t is a matter of congratula-
| ton that many new school houses
have been built, and much improve
ment made during the last two years,
still there is much yet to do. Every
school house should be good one and
| well furnished. The success OF the
schools, and the wise expenditure of
the peoples money demand it. Every
civil district should, in time, also have
a central, graded, primary and high
school where all pupils, who desire it
may have an easy opportunity, for bet
ter and more advanced training during
ten months in the year.
The directors and people generally
are requested to communicate freely
with me in regard to these matters. |
shall, as heretofore, ever be ready to
furnish plans of buildings, furniture,
ETC., or attend meetings wherever and
whenever you may think any good
can be accomplished.
Teachers should also bear in mind to
prepare for the coming years work.
There will be an institute somewhere
in the county during the summer,
which no teacher should fail to at
tend. You want to acquire a better
grade of qualification than you pos
sessed last year? Nothing but dill
gence will give it,
am at my Office with the County
Trustee, at the Court house, on Mon
day of each week, where teachers de-
string examination, or any other per-
son, can see me,
Very respectfully,
II. G. HARMS,
Co. Supt. Knox Co.
Knoxville, May 4, 1875.
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Helping the Preacher.
e Editors Of the Chronicle:

To the Editors Of the Chronicle:
The Baptist Church in Maynard-
vile, at their monthly meeting in
April last, unanimously adopted the
following resolutions. viz:
WHEREAS, Our beloved and worthy
pastor, the Rev. William Hickel has
labored among US with untring zeal
and energy for many years with but a
very small remuneration for his SER
vices. Therefore, we as Church, feel
largely indebted to our beloved pastor,
and in consideration of the same wish
to do what We can to repay him, lat
least 70 some extent therefore, be it
ReSOLUed, That We, as a Church. will
pay our most worthy and beloved pas
tor donation visit at his home at
such time as the Church shall see fit
to designate and that we all $50 far as
we cam will participate in the same
and will contribute toward the same of
the good things with which the Lord
in his bountiful Providence, has pros
pered us, and that we make said pas
toral visit on the first Tuesday in next
month.
In compliance with'the above reso-
lutions, on the 4th day of May, 1875, a
portion of the members of said church
visited the Rev. Mr.. Hicke, at his
residence, viz: J. F. Huddleston and
wife, Josiah Smith, wife and son, DIR.
r. J. Carr and wife, William Carr and
wife, J. N. Eldridge and wife, Mrs.
Bayless, Caswell Cox and wife, Lafay-
cite Huddleston and wife, Felix Hodge
and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Dyer, Miss
n. White, j. A. Smith, j. f. Huddles-
ton, Jr., Mrs. a. Mann, Coram Acuff.
Not members of the Church, VIM,
Weaver and Lee NJ. Wallace, and do
mated him the sum of $3.50 in cash,
and about S4S.00 in produce. One Sis.
ter donating $1,000. The good Sisters
also had large supply of the good
things to eat. So that all Jared sump-
tuously and Brother Hickel was full
of life and enjoyed himself as Is his
custom to do. T.. y. ].
MaynardviIle, Tenn, May 4th, 10.
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May 10, 1875.
Sale of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad.

A dispatch from Mobile, dated May
Sd, says: 1.-The Alabama and Chatta-
nooga railroad was sold to-day by the
Master Commissioner to the trustees
for the first mortgage bOndhOlders for
one million two hundred thousand
dollars over and above the lien created
by receivers certificates, court costs,
etc.
Upon reading the short dispatch an
nouncing the sale of the Alabama and
Chattanooga railroad, We were led to
remark: 1.-The agony is over, the child
is born, and his name is Stanton
The effect of this sale will be, when
it shall be confirmed, to refund to the
State of Alabama about $500, 600 of the
So 900, 600 of endorsed bonds, out of the
proceeds of which the road was princi-
pally constructed. And even at that
it may be doubted if it is not better for
the State and all concerned The
property now goes into the hands of
men, whose only interest in reference
to 1t will be to put the line in order
and operate it on paying basis.
The combination, at the head of
which stood Mr.. j. G. Stanton, are now
in full and permanent possession the
litigation is at an end the great inter
ests involved have finally ceased to be
the football of courts, politicians, rings
and cliques. And these are great gains
for the city of Chattanooga, for the
people who live along the line, for the
public at large, and no small compen-
sation to the debt-ridden State, which,
in place of getting her loan OF credit
to the road secured, has been for four
years helplessly looking on while the
only security she had was gradually
becoming worthless.
Certainty Is a great consideration in
this world, and now that all the parties
know just how deep they have been
skinned, they may set about repairing
damages with the one blessed certain
ty, that there is nothing more TO be
lost.
The sale will no doubt be confirmed,
as all the parties interested were not
only on the record in the suit, but
present in person or by attorney, con-
senting to the sale,-CHattdn0oga Com
nLercidk.
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Pluck, energy and self confidence will
drive anything before them.
STANTON.
II is known that the A. and G..
road has again come into the posses
sion of the Stantons. Give them the
capital and they will soon build up
Chattanooga aud the road too. Al
ready they are stirring. The Stan
ton House is being cleaned
up, reprinted and / understand
Is To be furnished in the best style,
preparatory to being opened and kept
IA hotel. A great many new enter
prise~ are being talked aud will no
doubt he put through at all early day
The average Chattauoogiaus talk with
the coolest confidence about popula-
ton of II ty thousand in the next ten
or fifteen years, and whether IL is au-
dacity or not, they have said IL so of
ten aud so emphatically that / am per
suaded that they really believe it,
They are very sanguine people, but
do not propose to take issue with them
in any declaration they see proper to
make. | have observed great many
things during my two days visit about
which ] like to write, but can not
do 1t in this letter without making it
100 long. i will allude to some ofthem
at another time. WI
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.


Rev. j. +. Goldman lectured at
Morristown on Thursday night, to a
large audience on the subject OF tenn
perance, and in behalf of the order OF
Good Templars, and after the lecture
secured Dty-one names for an organi-
cation Of a Good Templar's Lodge,
which will be instituted on next Mon
day night.
Last night he was at cambridge,
and We presume instituted a lodge at
that place. Mr.. Goldman Is doing a
noble work ia the temperance
cause, and his labors are meeting with
grand results. May the good work
continue until II Good Templaris
Lodge may be found in every village
and neighborhoodn i'm the State, and
until public opinion becomes 30 strong
on the subject that our Legislature
will be compelled to enact laws favor
able TO the great temperance cause.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
Alvin RartOn.

We would call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of Mr..
Alvin Barton, who is receiving new
goods nearly every day. His large
and spacious store is filed with goods
of the latest style, as Mr.. Barton al
ways keep up with the times. There
is no new style of goods put on the
market that Mr.. Barton don't get at
once. He keeps himself posted and
his customers pleased aud conse-
quently does thriving business. But
in the advertisement you will find
some of the goods enumerated.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
Real Estate Transfers.

The following are the real estate
transfers recorded in the Office of the
County Court Clerk, for the week end
ing Monday, May 10, 1876:
VIM. Cross and wife to NJ. d. Cox A.,
three acres, $500.
G.. H. Walker ct al. to West Walker,
81 acres, 81 600.
G. II. Walker ct al. to West Walker,
10 acIes, $1,000.
G. II. Walker ct al. to John Coker,
40 acres, $3.50.
C. II, Walker ct al. to II. ]. Walker,
40 acres, $500.
Tolbert Hamilton to r. L. Herul-
ton, lot, 500.
w. F. Crippin ct al. to NJ, b. Col
lier, 204 acres, ST. 200.
VIM. Kennedy to Howes, Humes &
Co., mill property, $500.
Martin Conner aud wife to A. b.
johnson, lot, $40.
NJ. Il, Patterson, G. & NJ, to l.. l..
Faust, 30 acres, 81 600.
NJ. l.. Patterson, &. q M, to II. G..
Mead and John r. Ogden, lot, $500.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12

recent tornado, were very peculiar.
The storm was most destructive in
Georgia, and so terrible was it that
whole towns were swept away. Chill
dren were picked up like feathers aud
carried off. The mountains divide
the storm, a part going to the coast
and part up the Tennessee valley.
In some parts of the city Of Knoxville
the wind was not noticeable, while it
was perfect tornado in others. Strang-
er than all, it has not interfered in the
least with the sales of Harris Relief, or
Lytle's Elixir for the darrhma.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12

Given under my hand, in Knoxville,
at Office, this 18th day OF May, 1875.
b, +, BEARDEN, Trustee.
Agricultural warehouse.

We would call the attention of ouI
country friends to the advertisement OF
Mr.. George Brown, wholesale and re-
tail dealer In Agricultural implements,
machinery, field and garden seeds,
phosphates, guano, &c. Mr.. Brown
has an immense stock of agricultural
implements, enumerated to some ex-
tent in the advertisement, and in fact
everything usually found in an estabS
lishment of that kind, and he proposes
to sell as cheap as the cheapest. Our
country friends will dowell TO examine
his stock.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12

At certain periods of life tonic is
necessary but there is danger in using
stimulants that injure the organs of
digestion while giving temporary re.
lief To obviate this, and present to
the public a tonic free from alcoholic
poison. DR.. Greene prepared the Oxy..
genated Bitters, a sure cure for Dys-
pepsia and all kindred com plants.
Sold everywhere. John +. Henry,
Curran & Co., Proprietors, and 8
College Place, New York.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
A swINDLER AT LARGE.
How he "SoId" a MaryyiIle MAJ

NV" "S oohu "dfStlIi hHus
Week before last stranger, rep
resenting himself as Mr.. Harris, from
Louisiana, obtained horse from Mr..
r. p. Chandler, the Tax Collector of
this county, for the purpose of riding
over the country, to look at farms for
sale. He stated that he desired to
settle in Blount as soon as be could
dispose of his plantation in Louisiana.
he appeared to be between fifty and
sixty years Of age, was well dressed,
and had prepossessing and winning
appearance calculated to deceive any
one, especially when backed by the
most tiatteriDg recommendations
which were doubtless forged Ones
" Harris y displayed considerable
amount of money while in this place,
and forwarded check for several hun
dred dollars to a bank in Georgia, but
he took occasion to borro " five dollars
from gentlemen. Instead of contin-
uing his explorations in this county,
the old swlndler struck a bee lire for
Knoxville, where he pledged the horse,
to livery stable man, for twenty dol
lars, representing that he was in ur-
gent need of money TO send aid to his
son in Mississippi. He remained in
Knoxville until Wednesday the 28th
ult., when he disappeared. Mr.. Chan
dler recovered his horse on Tuesday
last.-UdryUiHe Republican.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
Tsrtify The Body Against disease.

This is readily done by purifying all
she Fields of the system with DR.. TUFTS
Sarsaprilla and Queens Delight. Then
there need be no fear of epidemics.
Chills and Fever, Bilious attacks
rheumatism, Skin Disease, or Nervous
Debility. Buoyant health and elastic
fty of spirits will be the result.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
Notice 20 claimants

Having been appointed Special Com
missioner, to take testimony to be used
in claims from the State of Tennessee,
pending before the Southern Claims
Commission at Washington, / wish
to give notice that l may be found
for that purpose at the office OF
the United States District Attorney,
I'd floor Post Office building.
JAMES MAYNARD,
L. S. Special Commissioner.
ivlld3tM 81
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12
A CUTTING ARRAY.
A Man Beaten and Cut Near Unite
Death.

- nhn hthttu anu tut NehE UNIV
Death.
A correspondent and subscriber of
the WING AND CHRONICLE, residing
near Cedar Ford, in the upper end of
the county, sends us the following ac-
count of a serious affair at that place a
few days since, between a man named
Hill and John Walker:
1t appears that Hill went to the
shop where Walker was at work, he
being blacksmith, and asked Walker
what induced him to tell lie on him.
Walker denied the charge and just at
that moment Hill struck Walker with
a stick and knocked him down and cut
him four times, one time in the mouth,
once in the abdomen, letting out his
entrails, and in his breast and back.
Walker is still living, hut DR.. Dale
thinks there is no hope for his recov-
cry. Hill is still running at large.
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Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses are
recorded in the office of the County
Court Clerk for the week ending Satur-
day, Nav s, 1875:
Leesc Moses aud Emma c. Roundtree.
Erasmus Jones and Anna Dickinson.
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An Ex:ravegant Idea of the CosG OF
War.
SEvIERvILLE, Tenn, May I,

SEvIERvILLE, Tenn, May 1, 1875.
To the Editors Of the Chronicle:
SIR: / noticed in to-day's paper that
a cOlored man looking at the ruins OF
the bridge, remarked that it would
cost 81 900 to put it back, as it cost over
s., 900 to build it, Another wanted to
know if the damage would be s., 900.
We can beat that in Sewer. During
the late Presidential canvass, two gen.
tlemen were talking the matter over I;
one for Grant, the other for Greeley.
The conversation ran along until they
got a little warmed up, when one re-
marked, look here, this id rebellion
cost the Government about 81 800, aD0
Grant has paid half of that. Now
you id Conservatives want to beal
him for President.
Yours truly,
PETER w. glass;,
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School AppOrtIOnmenI.

This is to certify that the following
is correct apportionment of the semi
annual apportionment of State school
fund for Knox county, of interest on
the permanent fund and on sales up to
April, 1875:
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School AppOrtIonment.

This is to certify that the following
is a correct spportionment of the
County school fund collected by w. A.
Anderson, for the month of April, and
Jno. NJ. Harris, for the months of Feb
ruary, March and April, 1875, in the
State of Tennessee, Knox county:
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FOR SALE VERY CHEAP.
Or to Ren, ON Reasonable Terms.

A cottage, containing seven rooms,
with ten acres good land attached ;
good cistern, stable, &c, one and a
half miles from the Court House, on
the Clinton Pike. Possession given at
once. Apply to J. H. CROCKETT.
V9d2W |
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For Sale on Easy Terms

A brick store in city, rents we'll; a
farm mostly TIMBER in 10th District /;
and timber tract near Beaver Creek.
Enquire at Eifler's Exchange.
nnnr1 1WIf
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Co. Supt. Knox Co
Knoxville, May 4, 1876.
Premium Chester White Pigs.

SIS each, S2S pair. Chester county
Mammoth Corn, and Imported Bel
gian Oats, 4 lbs by mail, 81; peck 50
J bushel So bushel S.. Circulars and
sample Packages of Seeds Free for z
stamps. Address,
N. p. BOYER, Parkersburg,
mar10wS Chester co. Pa.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12

Given under my hand at Office in
Knoxville, this the 18th day of May,
1875. B. f. BEARDEN, Trustee.
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No Doubt Off

Campbell & Dow are selling shoes
and boots cheaper than any other
house in Knoxville. Go TO the new
shoe store. iv5wtf.
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MiIIersi MiIIersll

Use Bowles' Improved Current
Water Wheel" in rebuilding your
mills on the rivers. High water will
not effect it, unless 1t be to increase its
power. You can build your mill far
above the reach of these terrible fresh
cts. Without dam or race it can give
any power you need. 1t is the cheap
est, and by far the safest power for
propelling machinery ever invented.
Before rebuilding, call and examine
this wheel, or address, for further in
formation, DAVID BowLEs,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Care of John M. Harris. iil3lwtf