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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-21

OF which we make n Special
ty. These Silks are spun from
the finest and rureS! maieTi-
ais; are manufactured I'm
Lyons, and are woven by
skilled WOrAmen, on looms
at their own homes, thereby
giving the Hand Loom SILK a
superiority over all other
makes for their richness and
durability. Prices as low as
I'm any city in the onion.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-21
SATURDAY. OCTOBER %. 1879.
TOR - ALu.

j. W. MITCHELL, Auct.ouccr.
Taylor a Barr, Attorneys. sci
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08


~ Senator Key was serenaded
blythe CIauareoga Turp9 erein- the
nigtt before healeft for w ashington,
and made very pretty speech to
them in response. The Commercial,
announcing bis departure, speaks
thus kindly, truthrulIy and compli-
memtary: We SHALL miss his port
lyrfgore,gtiis goedznatured greetings
and lis neigh6oTly smile. The Sen
ator is, while altogether undemon-
strative, one ofthe best society men
that livess = His gonia!ity and kindly
sympathy have endearea him to all
classes OF our people. Men Of iall
shades of opinion in this part Of the
State. VIII watch his Senatorial ca.
reer with lively interest. because
they wish the man success; because
they believe that so intripsically
good, broad and sensible a nature
deserves TO succeed on It's own mer-
its and apart from any service its
possessor may render his political
party. We wish Senator Key a safe
journey, and hope his Senatorial la
bors.may'be as satisfactory to him
self and as useful to his State and
the country as his work in other po-
sitions of honor aud trust has been.
If his future is equal 10 his past in
honesty and usefulness, his neigh
bors viii be content, and care-very
little what tie professional poll
tieians of his party may say or do
about hiInsor lis eareer.p ssa5
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
Startling Assertion in Regard to
President Lincoln.


The Catholic ReUteao quotes from
the 1fonde he following statement
made by j. Z. Martin concerning an
interview whichhe once held with
the late Mgr. Lefevre, Bishop OF
Detroit:
We came to speak of political!
events aud of the assassination of
President Lincoln, and we were not
little surprised TO hear Mgr. Le-
fevre say. with sadness, .sAh poor
Lincoln If he had remembered my
advice his end woHd rot have been
so depiorable. Why did he not re-
main athome on Good Friday. and
why did he not continue to say his
beads? His heads!' we exclaimed
'but Lincoln was not a Catholic| =
He was not so latterly. You say
rightly. lie had become an infideI.
B.utin his youth he was baptized by
Catholic missionary of Illinois.
and | myself heard his confession
many. tines. l 4requently celebrat.
eel holy mass in the house OF his pa
rents. Later in life he aspired to
honors. he married "a Presbyterian.
ana he became member Of a Masonic
society. We feItit a.duty to break
off our relations.' We confess, -
says NJ. Martin, ''that we did not at
all expect this revelation.S the au-
thenticity of which we guarantee up
on the tesLimonyso of Mgr. Lefeyre,
and Americans need not have the
least doubt that they have nominal
eda Catholic for President. Int
Lincoln did as many others have
done: he abandoned a religion he
had freely embraced upon serious
examination. and to arrive at for
tune and position he became an
apostate and an infdel.'
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
Married in the Snow.

"A writer tells story OF a runa-
way couple who reached the parsons
house. in the dead of night. when the
snow lay on the ground and the wiu-
ter winds howled an anthem for the
wedding march. They succeeded in
arousing the parson. who had been
snugK tucked IN his warm bed for
several hours. The good man re-
luctantly raised the window and ask
ed, s.who was there 20 With chat
tering teeth the woufCl-be bridegroom
announced his ersand. Not even
the piety ofthe parson prevented his.
uttering a few impatient growls at
this unreasonable interruption of his
dreams. He did not tarry to put on
the wedding or any other garment,
but in laundering tones ordered the
shiyering couple to stand well of, in.
the moonlight and to clash hands.
Then he demanded their names.
= John Williams" he said. "do- you
swear in the presence of God, as
you will answer in the day of JuGg-
ment, that you will Take Eliza Cath
crime to be your own. your true and
only wife, aud that you will freeze
to her so long as both shall live p
phe promise was given bat the cold
was 30 Intense that the lady was
spared the question that bad been
given and answered by the man. u
pronounce you man and wife and the
biggest fools have ever matf' con-
clnded this brief and all sufficient
ceremony. The banging OF the clos
ing window intimated to the loving
pair that they had nothing more to
expect from that quarter. aid they
soon disappeared, wondering at the
atfangeness of the situation. ind yet
Eenbtfal ifr they we're as much mar
ried as they might have been under
more favorable circumstances.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

~ Plymouth Church has recon
sidered its action dropping Deacon
Vests name from the roll. Beecher
read las long letter Of his to Mrs.
Mounon containing this sentence ::
= We accept your proposition for a
nufliaI couhch of the churches and
will listen to their fraternal advice"
At the close of the mee9ings while
Mr.. Beecher was enjoying the talk
of his friends, Mr.. BOwen's clerk
stepped up to him and whispered Il
have some papers to serve on you,
sir, in the suit Of HeDry G. Boweno'
Mr.. Beecher, stepping aside, said,
Il will admit the service of the pa
pers in the presence of Witnesses" ."
The clerk answered that it was not
legal, and handed him subpGnas to
attend the trial Of the libel suits of
Henry c. Bowen against the Brook
lyn Eagle. Mr. Beecher took the
papers and the accompanying dollar,
and said he should be on hand.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

~ "A correspondent Of the New
York Wo,-id calls .a4ention to the
fact that the twenty-six Western and
Southern States have a population
Of 23.9l8,744 and a total rePresen-
tation in Congress of 100. The New
England States, together with Della
ware. Maryland, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, have a popu-
lation Of 13.2O4, All, and a Congress
sional representation Of 95. There
arc fourteen Western and Southern
Democratic Governors, seven East
ern ;the West and South have sent
twenty-one Democratic Senators to
Washington, the East six; the West
ern and Southern States have con
tributed one hundred and thirty-fve
votes 10 the Democratic majority in
The House, the Eastern States forty;
including Delaware. Maryland, New
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
among tie Eastern States" the
W est and South Lave one hundred
and ninety votes in the House, the
East ninety-Gve.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
The Mhiskev Frauds.

STgLoUIs, Nov 28.-Secretary.
Bristow telegraphed to the United
States Distric Attorney yesterday a
denial Of the rumor mentioned by a
witness III the Avery case that he
was interested IN aistillery orli6tuer
house in Louisville. Ky.ai - But, =
said he. 81 do not desire the matter
toaressa on my denial.i lSeg. to re-
peat the FeqaestheTetofore commun-
icated to you, that these frauds on
the Government shall be probed to
the very bottom. that every .Talnfi,
cation OF the Ring shall be foilowet1
in every part from beginning to end
and that no one having connection
with. or guilty knowledge ge of its OBJ
erations shall be permitted to escape.
Sofar as this department is concern-
ed. ask that every allegation
against any officer of it. from its
head TO its hum blest. employee. be
thoroughly investigated and vigor-
ously prosecute d. If any ground ex-
isis therefor / have read this to the
President, who repeats his injunc-
tion, Let no guilty man escape.''
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
Postal pepartment Report.

~ a4@-zN from tffe New -1Ofk
( WAsrINGToN, Nov 2 The Post
master Generals report will contain
few Recommendations to Congress-
Mr.. j ewell will refer to- the opera
tions of the Department during the
year in, terms Of satisfaction. will re-
cite the changes and improvements
| in the. manner of. making contracts
! and the transportation of the mails,
most of which have been reported
from time. to time, and will call at
/ tention to. The very iereditable fnan.
Eeial exhibit.s He will treat at some
length of the fast mail service
thronghout the country which be
| approves in the most earnest man
tner. A portion Of his report viii al
SO be devoted to the new system of
pfepayihga newspaper postage and
its operations. No change il the
method will hbe recommended. The
Postmaster General looks with re-
greet uponthe practice Of postmasters
who receive large salaries, ranging
from $500 to 50, 600, who devote
only a few hours each day to their
daties.s lie strongly condemns such
officers as come to their offices late
in the afternoon, hastily turning over
their mail, signing such documents
. as. require their official signatures,
then leaving their duties to subordi-
mates and giving their time to. their
private pursuits. Mr.. Jewell is of
the opinion that officers paid by the
Government should give, their whole
time TO the Government, and that
those who cannot do this ought to
retire, In this respect lie Will, with
out probabiy intending it, hit sundry
administration editorial postmasters
some severe blows. In regard to
what is known as the third class
matter, upon which the rate was SO
innreasonably Increased during the
last session of Congress-, the Post
lnaster-General will make some I'M 4
portant recommendations. The pres
cut postage on all printed matter
and packages is cent anIounce, or
fraction of an. ounce. on all transient
matter, SO taat it not uhfreque entiy
happens that q transient newspaper
will.reqnire four cents postage, or as
much as the original cost of the pa
per. Mr. Jewell, will recommend a
return TO The old rates. namely: half
a cent an ounce on newspapers. but
will ask that the law remain as it is
in regard TO other articles except,
perhaps, books, and upon this he has
not yet decided. Tr.f{ s..s-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
Report of the secretary of the

Treasury.
es Special to the Cincinnati Gazette, Nov 90. 2
The Secretary of the Treasury has
read portions of his annual report
to Senator Sherman, Chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee, Mr..
Knox, Controller Of the Mint, and
others. The report will be as un.
yersal and pronounced in favor OF
Hard Money as the most persistent
advocate of resumption could disire.
The Secretary viii sustain the poll.
cy of the act of last January provid-
ing for the redemption of the Uni
ted States notes in gold in 1879,
and urge its retention. It is proba-
ble that he viii make arrangements
during the coming winter TO carry
into effect the first section of the law
which provides for the retiring of
fractiol'al currency by the use Of
Silver coin. ,.'. 7''.. r.
The Secretary is Of the opinion
that additional Legislation will be
necessary to render other portions
of the law practicable, and he will
probably recommend bih8efo the
/ filn1ling of greeHbacksa Immediately
into gold bonds bearing four or -four
and one-haIfper cent. linterestsq and
having long time'to run. This is
also the theory of Senator Sherman
/ who thinks that ifithis was done the
f greenbaeks would at once began to
rise in value. until by January. 1873
they would be atlpar with gold, aud
still remain in circulation. bfpox aaz
| The Secretary will call attention
7 to the facts that the Eve per cent.
t.refunding bonds are all taken, and
ask for authority To- issue additional
bonds, bearing the same interest. 10
the amount of two or three hundred
millions. to take The place Of the
skies to be retired. The am cunt oil
skies still in circulation is S1,lO0,.
100000. but it is better to undertake
10 fund small amount at time as
the bonds are then more likely to be
taken rapid ". The Secretary thinks
that the resumption law is entirely
reasonable. and that it can be car
ried out With entire safety TO the
business of the country. raaia go
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
LETTER FROM KENTUCKY
PBo1D or ms N4z1vEl STATE
THE, TElEPEARS DOING 4 GOOJ
WORR-CROPL LPERSONAL.

/ Pro I'd OF HIS -N4TIVE, STA TIE-
THE T,ERTBARS DOING A GOOI
WORK -PERSONAL.
BaADroRD's STORE, KY, Nov. 2s, 1875.
1 To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:
/ I wish to say through5the- columns
Of your excellent aud popular papel
that I claim Tennessee as my moth
er State, the land of my birth, and
where many of my friends yet re
side. l was born and reared neal
the banks Of old HoIston, where
have spent many happy, hours in
youthful pleasures-at least twenty.
| am now living in Knox county, KY.
about eight miles west of Barbours.
willie, where people live at ease on
beef and corn dodger, which are good
you know. We mountain boys take
the world pretty much as it. comes
to us-free and easy-working about
three months in the year. But ]
must say The country is better than
the people who live in it. If we
would only use proper effort and in
dustry we could do much better for
our section and ourselves than we
do. But we are beginning to make
new departures" that will tend to
improve us morally and physically.
The Good Templars are now doing
a great good in this county, and we
believe if the jealous efforts of the
good brotherhood is continued, as it
will be in old Knox, times and ap-
pearances of things will change, and
that for the better. z--.-
AS to farming news-corn crops
are better than people anticipated.
1t will be remembered that it takes
less, labor to make corn here than it
does in many other places. I have
just gathered one four-acres piece of
corn which was only plowed and hoed
one time. Tt measured near two
hundred bushels of good corn. Sup.
pose | had worked this corn as I
should. what would it have done?
Farmers are not all done sowing
wheat yet. If they SOW now and
make half crop, what would it be
If they sOwed in season?
1t may be of interest to their many
friends in Hanbien 10 learn that
John and J. &. Mays have just left
the home of the writer and are now
in Laurel county. and intend having
a big hunt in company with their
brother. II. 2. Mays, who has been a
citizen of Laurel county for about
five years. l learned yesterday that
Ii. Z. had determined TO return and
locate in Hamblen. This will be
good news to many of your Hamb-
leu county subscribers, who will well
come him as the return Of a good
man and useful citizen.
am yours, truly, ~
GBa JAMES j. KIRk.JA
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
Gen. Joe Jo1nston's Joke.

A new anecdote of the rebellion is
as follows: AT the close of the
war, Gen, Joe Johnston met in Bal.
timore a young man who had enjoy
ed undistnrbed, the social delights Of
that rebeilious city, and WHO said TO
ihim. Well, General. we are con-
g0efed. but not subdued..' Were
you in the service, Young man p
asked the General. No, sir, I had
not that honors Then. IA Y affiend,'
said Johnston. you may not. he sub.
dued, but [ am. .'a7a odW aesdf - uols
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
! 1LE5E 3 90 - EEzzZE 80 80
The Morristown Gazette.
a. The Nashville 8naerteq1, says

u The Nashville american says
that Vice President Wilson was en-
gagged 70 be married to lady form
erly of Pulaski, but now Of William
: s6il County, Teanesssee ;sthat she is
one of the most highly cultivated
and wealthy ladies' Of tie South +; and
tbat NM Wilson intended to come
South as soon as his health would
permit. Their marriage had only
been delayed because of the state
of his health. 80 ez 81. .. EsT u e. s.s-5...,.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

IL Senator Ferry, of Michigan,
who succeeds to the Vice Presidency,
was a strong. opponent Of contrac-
tion''sduring the last session of Con-
gress. Unless he has, like Morton,
greatly modified his views to suit the
requirements of a party caucus, his
Presidency over the Senate while it
las contraction bills before it may be
u litle, embarrassing. The resump-
tion headers are already determined
that he shall step down and out"
Pie New York Herald sounds the
order Of procedure thus:
IT president Grant Should sud.
denly BE taken away Thomas w.
Ferry, Of Michigan. would be his
successor. The country has reason
10 shudder at the possibility. 1t
will demand that Mr. Ferry shah
define his present views aud tell
where he stands. lie must. une-
quivocaIly renouucei iu3ation and
pledge his honor. to sound monetary
d6etFiheB or step down and out.
IfEhe eannot make this choice the
Sdnae must make 1t for him on the
first dav of the session. 1t can
change It's President pro tenn, at
pleasure, and il AIr. Ferry is still
an infiationist it would be ineXcusa-
Bile fofthe Senate 10 retain him in
his present position, when only a
single life stands between so dan-
geFpnsa anan- and tie Presidency
Of the United States
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

i "A venerable Irish woman in Taun-
ton. Mass. went into the telegraph
office. the other evening. and stated
her wish to send message to her
son in q neighborlng city. Where
npon the, obliging operator asked IL
be. should write it for her, to which
she hesitatinglyf responded, . AV ye
plaze,. Mister I'll do 1t aneself. for
James knows my Handwriting
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
How they Manage it in Illinois

From woodruff & Claffiin's Weekly
The undersigned, this second day
of November, A. D., 1875, enter in
to a business partnership. under the
name Of Miller & Strickland, on the
following conditions. to wit: That
all earnings and profits arising from
our individual or joint labors, whe-
ther in departments Of literature, art,
mechanics, agriculture, or trade, shall
be shared and held equally.
Believing that the divine 2rinci-
pie of love, drawing together two
kindred souls, is the only binding
law in the conjugal union of the sex
es, and the only law making right
such intimate relations, we are also
happy TO confess to each other, to
God and his angels, aud to oil the
world. the existence of a mutual af-
lection known by that name and we
deliberately join heart and hand in
this most sacred Of unions, hoping
and praying that tile tie that binds
us may last through life, and survive
the grave. 5.
Should this union be blessed by
offspring. we jointly. and severally
pledge ourselves, our assigns and
administrators TO foster and support
them during the dependent years of
their infancy and youth, supplying
their. physical wants, and rearing
them is The principles Of virtue AMI
knowledge to the best of our ability
This simple form of conjugal uni-
on we are constrained TO adopt from
the deepest conscientious conviction
of right aud duty and we sincerely
regret that condition of society
which, if. we would be true to our
selves, makes it necessary for US to
oppose the opinions of a majority of
our fellow creatures-lisregardIng
the laws and customs which they as
sumo 10 make for the control of an
affection between the sexes. which
we believe is, and of divine right
ought to be, free. ~
rTSigned LEO MILLER.
TSigued. MATTE STRICKLAND.
CHICAGO, H., Nov. 2. 1875.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

.sThat picture is very we'll paint
ed. said 2 critic to an artist. :. but
Why did you take such homeIy
model p ssIt's nv mother" respond
ed Inc artist. "t0h, alf. stammered
tie critic, /" / beg your pardon. /
ought to have known. Tie resemb-
lance TO yourself is perfect"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

Was tue crowd tumulfn0us? in.
quired one man Of another. who bad
just come from mass meeting woo
multuousl" replied The Others ssoh.
no. just about multuous enough e
Gil the hail.:
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

..Where shall we putcthis 2 asked
a man Of a Hartford woman, at the
same time pointing to the dead boz
dy of her husband. which he and
other neighbors had brought home.
I'VE said the widow, aI'm sure /
don't know. I'm just done house
cleaning. and l cu1l't have il brought
in here r "
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

Silver Springs, in Florida, Is one
Of the greatest curiosities in the
South. 1t bursts forth in the midst
dfthe most fertile country in tie
State tt bubbles mp in basin near
one hundred feet deep and about an
acre in extent, and sends from is q
deep stream sixty to one hundred
feet wide and extending six or eight
miles TO OcklawahA river. In the
spring itself fifty boats may lie at
anchor-quite a feet. The spring
thus forms kind of inland port, to
which three steamers now regularly
run from St. Johns. making close
connection with the ocean steamers
at Palatka. The eTearness of the
water is truly wonderful. II seems
even moro Transparent than air; you
can see In the bottom. eighty feet
below the bottom Of your boat, the
exact form or the smallest pebble.
the outline color of the leaf that has
sunk, and ali the prismatic colors of
the rainbow are reflected.
.'Isn'tyour husband little bald p
asked ono lady of anothes in a store
yesterday. ''There isn't baia hair
in his heads' was the hasty reply of
fhn wife SFt9
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
J. Zanheniall. aai.l hls mifn IA

"Zepheniah. said his wife. with
o chilling severity. Il saw yon com.
ing out of . saloon this afternoon
''Well, my darling" replied the hor-
rid wretch, ''you wouldn't have your
husband staying in a saloon all day,
would yoH p
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08

Do you. Mr.. Angel and Mrs Hunt,
still adhere to the above marriage
contract. and are these your senti-
ments? m
This being your minds at the pre-
sent time, | pronounce you married.
Subscribed before me. this 18th
day OF October 1875. JAMES PoTTs,
Justice Of the Peace.
AS Witnesses: n. II. Stone. Clara
Barnard, Saphronia Stone, Orville
Stone.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
MARRIAGE.
A New Style in Michigan.

+ +
"A curious marriage was consum-
mated in this city, last Tuesday, BY
Justice Potts, in which the parties
were Joined in matrilnony to last on
ly during their own good will and
Fpleasure.-ignoring entirely the s'what
God hath joined together let no man
put assunder." This is the first time
we believe that marriage has been
consummated--not solemnized in
jackson by simple contract between
the parties, and pronounced legal.
1t may be legal, bat we doubt it very
much. If it is, we wish the parties
much joy until either or both of them
can ind more enjoyment apart but
If it is not, the Justice has. committed
au error of allowing man and wo-
man to live in adultery without let
or hinderance. The following is a
true copy of the contract under the
which the parties were married:
{ JACKSON, Mich. Oct. II, 1875.
We. Allen A.Angel, of the town
Of Williamson, Ingham county, Mi
chigan, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, of
the city of Jackson Mich, do pro-
test against the old and barbarous
system of marriage, as it holds wo-
man IN subsection TO man, and re-
quires woman to surrender her indi-
vidualiIy also requires persons en-
tering into the marriage relation to
agree to do that which they can not
possibly know they can perform.
But, as society requires of those
who enter into the marriage relation
an acknowledgment of existing laws,
we therefore submit to the bel;ests
of the law so far as to make our union
legal, that we may avoid all unne
cessary annoyance.
If the union and harmony that
now exists between US should con-
tinue through our natural lives, then
this contract is to remain in force
otherwise to be null aud void.
A. a, ANGEL,