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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
LENOIR BRoTHERs LOSS.

We learn from Mr. NJ. j. Condor, of
Section l75, Cincinnati Southern rail-
road, that the Lenuir Brothers lost
very heavily at Cooper's Landing
they having stored large quantity Of
flour i'm Cooppr's store room, six milss
above Kingston on the Emory river,
and near the line uf the Cincinnati
Southern railroad They also lost
some thirty bead ,! cattle on an island
near Ienoir's Station.
THE EMORY RIVER
was seven feet higher than in 1867.
and swept everything h,furp H.. A
number uf hu's on The Cincinnati
Southrru railroad were carried away,
and MI Coudou.says that one time he
thought one "f his piers would be cur.
ried away rs enough of driit wont had
lodged aga.us, * 10 have carried ai-
most any pier away. But Stood ne
tts' uob'N Al Coppur's L1udlng the
water WAS five feet deep u Cr...l'.
waite house. aud besides d,-u.,t,.
the flour ut LeuO.r Bru'h. r.. u.N-.
,rsiph, was carried away or ~. re- nt
less injured.
FIRST CREEK AT MIDNIGHT.
At II O'Clock last night fir.r Crrrk
Was still rising, and the foot bridge on
Cumberland street had been swept
away. TIA" masonry under The Ma
bry street bridge he'd nearly NIL wash~
ed out, and the bridge was considered
to be in danger Of being swept away
before morning. The stream Ina ai-u
made considerable additional iuruad
upon CrOzier street, and had The
rain continued all night, no doubt
| First Creek would have found its
way into Guntcr's fiat before morn
/ ing. Fortunately the rain ceased In
| the early part Of the night, and we
can reasonably hope no further dam
agr had been sustained.
CORPSE FOUND,
The following letter In regard 10 the
fresh2t ~ Diudrldge, was received
yesterday:
DANDbIDGE, Feb 18th. 1870
To TIC Editors Of the Chronicle:
The river j. higher than II was ever
known. a large quantity Of corn and
other valuable property was wusled
away. several boats and canoes were
caught and among other article. 90
box was seen floating down the stream
which, when caught aud brought z"
the bank, was found TO contain cutllu
and IN lt corpse of u muattu woman.
! The co.p,e had evidently never been
/ buried. Where it came from is un-
| known. Il
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
:. The Life of the Flesh is the Blood,

This is an admitted fact 1t is obvious
that when the blood becomes corrupt the
whole system is corrupt also, and those Or
gans which are weaker from functional de-
rangement will suffer most The large
majority Of female diseases proceed from
this cause. The true policy is to direct the
remedy to the source of the disease. 1t is
in this way that Dr. TUFTS Sarsaparilla
and Queens Delight acts Its specific effect
is on the blood. 1t purifes, vitalizes it,
expelling all distemper from the system.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
heat.

The pro. pect for a good wheat crop
in upper Last Tennessee this year is
not at all flattering. We have never
noticed the growing wheat at this sea-
son of the year look worse, but our far
mers have the consolation to know
That their graneries are full of last
years crop, and failure this year will
not by any means deprive them of the
great luxury of wheat cakes and rolls.
Herald and Tribune.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
Notice.

All persons indebted to the firm of
Rule d Kicks are urgently requested
to call at the CHRONICLE OFFICE, and
settle their accounts. Those living out
of the city can settle by mail. 1t is
necessary to close up the books of the
firm, and our debtors will confer a
great favor 10y prompt attention to this
notice. RULE & KICKS.
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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03

a lot of choice fresh Glover, limo
thy, Orchard, Herds and Blue Grass
Seed for sale at Williams, Zimmerman
d Wilson's ii2ld3w4
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
LATEST RIVER NEWS.

The river commenced to fall yester-
day afternoon very steady. Ii was es-
timated that 10y p. NJ. it had fallen
inches. At A. NJ, this morning our
reporter visited the river but could not
find any one to get any Information
from, but was Of the opinion that it
had fallen about inches more, making
a 6 inch fall up to this writing. No
further news has been received in re-
gard to the Strawberry Plains bridge,
but from the state Of the river here, we
are decidedly of the opium that SHE is
safe. Prof. J. X. Payne's reports from
his observations that at it, highest the
river contained 43 90 feet of tide water.
while in 1867 it was 45.75 feet Nearly
ali the river men agree that it lacked
from - to IS inches Of being as high
As il was in 1867, and that II was n
great many feet higher than they ever
want To see it again.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03

IT, t""v"'na n'hv Th-""'n'a r"h &C n
The river continued TO fall during
Friday night, aud by 8 O'Clock, yester.
day evening it was estimated that it
had fallen about ten feet, and was go
Ing down at the rate of nearly twelve
inches an hour. 1t is thought that by
morning it will be within banks. As
heretofore quite a crowd gathered at
the river and on the county bridge to
see what could be seen. Workmen
were still busy Strengthening out At
kin's lumber, Sc.
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JAPANESE PEAS.
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TO Agents, full directions for planting,
cultivating, &c.
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II particulars, inquire Of j. ID. Bennett, Family
Grocer. west side Market Square, Knoxville, Ten.
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KNOXVILLE MARBLE COMPANY.

The machinery of this company at
the junction of French Broad aud
Holston is entirely submerged. A
store house and dwelling house near
by, have both been washed away.
The water yesterday afternoon was UP
to the top of the doors ia the first
story of Mr.. Brabson's residence. At
one O'Clock yesterday, the French
Broad had fallen three inches ten miles
above the mouth, and has no doubt
fallen rapidly last night
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RAILROAD MATTERS.

The work on Fullen's Cut was com.
pleted yesterday, and the road is now
open from Knoxville tn Bristol. Road
Master Moore, with a large number of
hands and large train of lumber, will
leave the upper end of the road and
proceed at Cnce 20 the lower end, to
assist Road Master Benson in repair
ing his division of the ilue, which has
been damaged considerably more than
above Knoxville.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03

VIM. IL. Hatmaker and Jno. Beach
They were laboring to save raft OF
saw logs, and were out in the river in
canoes. In the surging waters the
raft was, as may be supposed, unman-
ageable. II struck the canoe which
these two unfortunate gentlemen were
in, aud either capsized IL or threw
them out. The rapid current carried
them under, and they rose ouly to
sink again. Mr. Hatmaker leaves a
family to mourn his loss. Mr.. Beach
was a youth about sixteen years old.
When our informant last heard from
there their bodies had not been re-
covered. l. is possible they may
not he.
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CAPTAIN JAQUES

Returned yesterday from his tour OF
inspection along the line. He made
his trip walking, riding on dump cars,
aud occasionally on horseback, and
looked considerably weuried He re.
ports % breaks between this city and
Charleston, some Of them pretty bad,
others light, aud quite "A number have
been repaired. Road Master Benson
with a large force, is at work on the
line, and he is expected To reach Sweet
water to-day. Several small bridges
have been carried away between this
place and Charleston, but with the
force at work ana the assistance given
by Road Master Moore in hands and
lumber, they will soon be erected
again.
Capt. jacques says that he was in
formed by heSheritf of McMinn cOun-
ty, that the water courses i'm that cOun-
ty were seven feet higher than in 1867.
His informant told him that there
was not a bridge left I'm the county.
Sweetwater was five feet higher
than in 1867. In fact all along the
line it looked gloomy, and the coun-
try below suffered much heavier than
above Knoxville.
capt. JdQutS eN pressed the opinion
that the road between Knoxville and
Chattanooga will not be opened before
the last of this week.
DOWN THE RIVER FROM LEADvALE.
Mr. j. G. Duncan left here Monday
for Leadvale to take "A duck hunt.
The food caught him on Tuesday and
Wednesday, and he went back to Nor
ristown % survey the Geographic field
and see what the prospects were.
Finding lac could not get tu Knoxville
by rail, he took "a dump car and went
back TO Leadyale, determined 70 take
the river for home. He left the bridge
at p. NJ. ON Friday and got 30 Evans
Island for the night.
He reached here yesterday afternoon
at p. m. He reports the destruction
along the river as very great. Scarcely
an island was visible. At places the
river was mile wide. He found but
two mile safe and undisturbed. He
thinks there are about twenty-five
mills between here and Leadvale, and
all but two were washed away or 9TH
erwise badly damaged.
AMAGEATM'MLLAN's AND VICINITY
We learn from Capt. w. o. Monday,
of McNillan's Station, that the saws
mill IF DR.. j. G. Strong, on Doak's
Creek, was swept away on Wednesday
night and consigned to the HOlston,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
OTHER RAILROADS.

The officials Of this road have not
learned anything in regard 70 the e. u-
dition of Mahon's road, or tine r.-.is
connecting with it,
The following dispatches were re-
ceived 10y the railroad official last
night:
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03

Cliuch river mas been very high
but lacked three or four feet being as
high as it was ia 1867. Several fami-
lies at Clinton, We're driven from their
houses by the turbid waters, and forced
to take refuge with their neighbors
who were fortunate enough to reside
on elevated land.
The water was into Burr & Terry's
Saw Mill at the mouth of Cane Creek
at $50 O'Clock yesterday and rising at
the rate Of two inches per hour. We
are glad to know that the loss of this
firm was comparatively light up to
that time, and it is not likely that the
river rose much higher.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
A sad accident occurred at the
mouth of Coal Creek on Clinch
river, on Thursday at eleven O'clock,
a. NJ. Two men were drowned.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
VAN DEUSEN'S
Worm CONNECTIONS

MY child was relieved of thirty-fve worms -
Winfield Malew, 512 River Street, Troy, N. Y.
My child passed thirty worms, "-Mrs:M.
Walters, 112 River street, Troy, N Y.
my child was relieved OF thirty-six worms y
5 McGreen, 452 Second street, Troy, N Y
My child was relieved of large quantity of pin
worms, IS Clement, ~ Green street, Troy, N Y
My child was relieved of twelve worms by ia
king Van Dusen's Worm CONNECTIONS Margaret
Iasell, 81 Van Wort street, Albany.
By using Van Deusens Worm CONNECTIONS nv
child was relieved of forty worms, ''-Almina Clute
1893 State street, Albany, n Y
by using one box of Van Deusen's Worm Con
fections my five children passed over one hnndr-
worms. MARY Ann Lovett, 325 State St, Ar,anv
My children were relieved Of twenty a-ya ,vo-r,s,
E Huskenghan, . Bradford st, Albany N v LIS
my two children were relieved of ovo- sf.,
worms by using one box of Van Densan's Cent:
tions."-Mrs Richard Bailey, no Fourth St. Troy
by using one box of Van Deusen's Confactions
MP child passed twenty five worms all over t,yeix
inches ng,n-Mrs Nj Dugan, 1O2 Sixth Street Ho
boken, n j. w. ih0
MY cnll0 passed worm over two feet LONG
Catharlne Fender, Jefferson Street Hobokens "
My child was relieved of ten worms. Mrs n,
fnalon' y Cathar1ne street, Jersey City,
Mo child passed fifteen worms. n-Maroa,at 10.
gan, l43 South Eighth street. jersey City
MY children passed a large number of worms nv
taxing Van Deusen's Worm CONNECTIONS Mars
heao' esAartin street, Albany,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
ESTABLISHED 1881.
HOVer'S Ink Manufactorv.
Office, 416 Race Street, PHILADELPHIA

once, 4l6 Race Street. .......P Philadelphia.
JOSEPH E. HOVER s. Co., Manufacturers.
A Silver Medal and Seven First Premiums awarded
by the American Institute, New York
The Manufacturers Of HovER's INKS with the ex-
perience of the last third of a century, have pro-
dnced an article to meet the wants of the CONNER
cial public, known as
HoVERS CHEMICAL WRITING FLUID.
lie qualities AREA freely flowing Ink, without
Delhg pale or watery. depositing sediment, does
not olur the opposite page, will not corrode the
pen; Its color Is greenish blue, which changes
gradually to deep and permanent black As
evidence thereof, samples are furnished free at
our office. 1t has beens extensively introduced
throughout the U s., and is at present used by
many of the Departments at Washington. and also
by the principal Public and Private institutions of
the country, the names of which would be too nu-
merous to specify the limits OF a circular,
All the varieties Of Writing Inks and Fluids are
manufactured and sold, and are put up in eight diff
terent size bottles the quart size being the largest
by the dozen, price lists furnished. and dis
count allowed therefrom. the rate being in proper
ton to the order, by the dozen or gross
Orders to receive prompt attention should be ad-
dressed to JOS EPH Z, HOVER & co, Manufactur
ers, ONCE, 4l6 Race street, Philadelphia.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
$1,S52. 3g5.U0
$1,211,557,91O


The debt of 1882, 1876, 900 therefore
represents only $l,2ll, 557,9lO received
by the government, or al average price of
about &c % cents on the dollar. This is
what the treasury reports call negotiating
loans at par" it is par sale of bonds
that has cost the people a loss of S64O,-
S37 900, or one third the whole amount of
bonds issued.
The fitting counterpart to this costly
sale OF bonds is the way in which the
practice of buying them up was subse
quently prosecuted In 1869 the greater
number of outstanding bonds were FIVE
twenties, payable by their terms in legal
tenders. The first thing that President
Grants administration did after coming
into power was to increase the price Of
these bonds by voluntarily making them
payable in gold, and then begin to buy
them. From 1869 to the present time it
has bought in 1928, O0O, 900 of them, paw
ing from SO to 80 cents on the dollar: in
other words, it has paid an average of 90
cents on the dollar for the very bonds it
sold for Ca system of financiering whose
sole merit is its capacity to make the peo.
pie pay 81 900 for debt Of 5000, and to
convert the bond-holders' claim of 5000
into one of Sl,0OO.-St, Louis Republican.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
What the Bonds Sold For.

During the war and just after its close,
the government issued great amount of
bonds of various kinds, which, as we learn
from the treasury record of the transac
tons, were sold at par" But this rec
ord is very delusive, and, in the sale of
the bonds referred to, hides enormous
losses. The bonds were sold not for gold
at par, but for greenbacks at par, which is
a widely different thing. For example,
$1,000 government bond sold at par, in
1865, when gold was l45 brought only 500
in gold value; and rs the interest on that
bond has been faithfully paid in gold ever
since, and the principal itself will be paid
i'll gold. it is to be considered that for this
debt of 81 900 the government received
only 800. The higher the price of gold
at the time an issue of bonds was disposed
of, the less value the government received
for the bonds, although they were sold at
par" in greenaacks, as the deceptive
treasury report inform us. An approx
imately accurate calculation of the net re-
suit of these sales of bonds give us an
other Illustration OF what Republican fin
anciering has cost US; and it deserves to be
presented and placed to the account Of that
party.
The various issues Of bonds and othe:
forms of Indebtedness issued in 1868
amounted in the aggregate to 1852. sos, OOJ;
they were sold at par for greenbacks when
gold was worth 1855, and greenbacks only
81. They therefore brought to the govern
ment is gold value only 1887 ,OS2, 9lO. In
1864, the ten-forty bonds. $l96, 100000 il
amount,!were issued, aud sold at 7 per
cent. premium-the only bonds issued dur.
ing the war that brought premium. AS
gold at that time was worth $50, the pei
cent. premium reduces this to 227; the
gold value of the price brought by the ten
torties, therefore, was A cents on the dol
lar, or $3.50, $40, 900 for the whole issue II
the same year there were issued of bonds
and other forms of indebtedness,
$l30,000,0O0, which sold for gold value
of fortythree cents on the dollar, makins
$55,9O0,0O0 In 1865 there were ISSUED
bonds to the amount of 1851 300, 900
which were sold for seventy cents in gold
leaking $3S5,9l0,0O0, In 1867 there
were issued 1880, 100000 of bonds, which
sold for eighty-three cents, making S3l5,.
100000. In 1868 there were issued $40,
100000 bonds, which brought seventy.
three cents, making $3l,O25, 900. II
sum up:
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton--A Rem,
iniscence.

In the year 1926, after all save one Of
the band of patriots whose signatures are
borne on the Declaration of Independence
had descended to the tomb, and the ven
cradle Carroll alone remained among the
living, the government Of the city of New
York deputed a committee to wait on the
illustrous Survivor and obtain from him,
for deposit in the public hall of the city. a
copy of the declaration Of 1875, graced and
authenticated anew with his sign-manual,
The aged patriot and Catholic christian
yielded to the request and affixed with bis
own hand to the copy Of that instrument
the grateful, solemn and pious supplement
tai declaration which follows:
Grateful to Almighty God for the bless.
ings which, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
He has conferred on my beloved country
in her emancipation, and on myself in per-
hitting me, under circumstances of mercy,
to live to the age of eighty nine years, and
to survive the fiftieth year of American in
dependence, and certify by my present sig
nature my appreciation of the Declaration
OF Independence adopted by congress or
the 4th of July, l776, which l originally
subscribed ON the I'd day of August of the
same year, and of which am now the last
surviving signer, do hereby recommend
to the present anG future generations the
principles of that important document as
the best earthly inheritance their ancestors
could bequeath to them, and pray that the
civil and religious liberties they haYe Sc
cured to my country may be perpetuated
to remotest posterity. and extended to the
whole family Of man.
CHARLES CARROLL,
August 2, 1926. of Carrollton.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
Send in the Returns.

Town clerks and judges Of election in
every town are requested before they seal
up the poll books, next Tuesday night, tc
take a memorandum of the vote in the sew
eral towns, and send it by the very first
mail to THE ARGUS Office. or to the Union
Office, no matter which, we are all inter.
ested in getting and publishing the news
as quickly as possible, and we always ex,
change news on election returns in order
to give it publicity as soon as possible
Sometimes the poll books are sealed w
and sent to the county clerk without taking
any such memorandum and unless some.
one does this the public have to wait fol
the official canYas. We especially urge
our friends to see to this, in every town.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29


Office of Geo II. Sweets ''Texas New Yorker,")
Nos %, 80 and 30 Centre Street,
New ork City Sept. s, 1874. J
Messrs, J. & C. hiagure. St. Louis: Gents -
Yours of the Dist t., with case of one dozen Cund-
ure- npo Liver and Blood Biters came duly to hand
i on will please accept my thanks for your gener-
erOsity | will try TO put the medicine where it
will do the most GOOD have given bottle to
a friend of mine who resides i'll Brooklyn, both
himself and wife have taken it, and their testimony
is the same as mine. first met With il in Houston
Texas afterw ards returned to my home in Austin
where | have the Texas branch oifiCc 81 my paper
NV Houston bottle used up, and l found
trial that corld ne obtain n single bottle il all
Austin, for / went to every druggist in the place
and there some five. but each house told me
they intended to order ton the strength of rec
ommc udation. Ere coming 10 New y rk 1 in
Galveston, and bought Il bottle of Rohirds. an old
friend and good hnuse. had no idea then that
| Couid not obtain it III New York; but after my
Galveston bottle was used up. started II find
more,and was much surprised 10 find none aftervist
lug fully dozen dfe rent Establishments. gave up
the search here and wrote to you, Now gents 50
good medicine as yours is ought TO be placed at
the command of the whole world, 1t Will not only
prove great fortune to yourselves, but lasting
blessing to the whole human family. As remedy
| in nv own case have never met with its equal
1t squeeZes my liver better than Caomel, OF which
[ have taken not a little. am hard worker and
constant thinker and consequently for the last ten
to twelve years my body has found it dfcultto keep
up with my BRAIN. There IA millions of American
people Just like myself. and they need some simple
herb medicine to keep them from sinking into dys
| peptic graves, until they can apply, brakes and
cut off part of the steam and where they are.
You have the medicine and You have great fortune
in it If you will but let the world know 1t. In my
4 search after your Cnndurango IN this market
| found preparation of Cundurango sold at 8 per
| bottle but no more like yours than is black man
IKE white. Of course did not buy it. This let
1 ter is only written to thank you and to give you
l Very Respectfully &c. GEO. Il. SWEET.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
sOPER's FATAL ERROR.
Imparting Interesting news to his wife
widow Stacy's Heifer.

From ths AkeghaRy Nal,
Mr.. Soper's wife has been very sick for
some weeks, but. although extremely re-
duced in body and mind, there is still
enough of the true woman remaining in
her, which led her last Monday, in faint
whisper, to ask her husband, who had en-
tered the sick room with funereal cast of
features, what was the news.
well, answered Mr.. Soper, sitting
uneasily down on the extreme edge of a
chair, and balancing his hat on his fingers
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-29
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