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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14
TAMMANY IN CONNECTICUT.


Our readers were no doubt struck
with the fact, which appeared in our
dispatches yesterday, that the Demo
cratic gains in Connecticut were chief
ly in New Haven and Hartford coun-
ties. This is easily explained. New
Haven and Hartford are both large
cities and are in close proximity to
New York. 1t was an easy matter
for the corrupt Tammany Democracy
to colonize a few hundred or a thou
sand Of their professional repeaters
in these cities and thus make large
Democratic gains. Such tactics are
not thew. They have been tried sue
cessfully before. BY such means,
Tweed and his associate thieves and
wholesale plunderers, were kept in
power until they became immensely
wealthy from their ill-gotten gains.
These men would to-day vote for
Tweed with more enthusiasm than
they would for Gov. mgersoll. 1t was
no doubt this class Of voters that de,
feated Gen. Hawley, and thus de.
/ priyed the nation Of the services OF
one Of the ablest men and purcst pa
triots in the national Congress. 1t is
a most serious matter and worthy OF
the consideration of good men every
where.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

The Press and Herald is afraid
to define its position in regard to the
Torbett Issues.
The Press and Herald maintains
silence on the Torhett Issue question
and Isham G.. Harris is not "vexed."
As a matter of course the Press
and Herald favors the payment Of the
Torbett Issues, otherwise it would
speak out.
IF the Press and Herald is OPP
posed to paying the rebel war debt in
the shape Of Torbett Issues, it would
be easy to say so. But it remains
silent.
THE Press and Herald thinks
the discussion Of the Torbett Issue
question out Of place. II is afraid Of
vexiug Isham q. Harris and other
Democratic leaders.
Wheat aud fruit promise an
abundant yield, aud we are pleased to
record the fact. We hope that in the
future, our farmers will accept the first
good offer made them, and let their
wheat slide.
Nine out of every ten of those
who did the fighting in the rebel army
are opposed to paying the Torbett
Issues. 1t is the Quartermasters, Com
missaries and stay at.home spectators
who favor the swindle.
Bacon and lard are advancing,
and will command fine prices. We
like to see our farmers do well, first
because they are meritorious class,
and next, because, when they do we'll,
all other trades prosper.
The election returns from Con-
necticul do not improve much. The
Democrats have gained victory,
electiug their candidate for Governor
and three members of Congress, gain
of two. The Republicans have made
a gain in the Legislature. When we
have received the iuli returns from a
reliable source, We will have some
thing additional to say.
We have received this week,
clubs ofsubscribers from various points,
ranging from ten to thirty.six suhcri-
bers, the largest being from Duc6town,
made up bg our friends in tina, rhriv-
ing, wiGe-awake town. We have also
received clubs FROM Parrntsvile, New
port, d tudriIge and Brownsville. Our
list is rapidly Increasing. To our
friends We say, continue to send on The
names aud we promise to merit your
liberal patronage. IL is not our pur-
pose to 70. excel Il by any paper pub
lished south of the Ohio river. To 'his
end we will spare neither labor nor eX-
pense. We receive congratulatory let
tiers by every mail from every direc-
ton, and We ar- determined that our
friends shall not be- disappointed.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

rich kinfolks, whole columns would
be devoted to the horrible details of
the cowardly midnight murder, but it
is not that way. We have the utmost
confidence in Judges Emmons and
Ballard who are trying the case, and
although the public may never know
all the details Of that terrible crime,
if the parties ON trial are found guilty
they will be justly punished.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

THE New York Times says an uliJi
is a weak defense, and that Mr.
Beecher's friends should not count
too much on the success of proving
that he was in Peekslill on his farm
when Mrs. Moulton swore he was
confessing to her and sweating great
drops of remorse at her house. 1t is
true that courts look upon such evil
dence with suspicion, but when it is
successfully established it is the
strongest kind of testimony. Mrs.
Moulton swears positively and with
particularly to the fact that at 2 P.
NJ, Of June 2, 1871, Mr.. Beecher had
an interview with her in Brooklyn at
her house, lasting for several hours,
and that he then confessed to the Til
ton charges. Now, Mr.. Beecher not
only denies that he eCer confessed
such crime, or that he ecer had such
an interview with Mrs. Moulton, but
he proves by fo1w reliable witnesses
that at the time Mrs. Moulton fixes
this interview he was on the cars on
his way to his farm at Peelsllill,
where he arrived at 4 p. NJ. He ex-
poets to prove where he was at ereyy
hour of that day, from early morning
till night. That is not only very good
testimony but absolutely overwhelm-
inc.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

Mn. JouNsoN's powerful speech on the
Louisiana question has opened the eyes Of
a very large number Of politicians to the
fact that there is one man in the country
whose utterances can reach the people and
be understood by them.-AUdldnchc.
Yes, after repeating those cutter
ances" on an average of once
month for the last six years, it is not
wonderful that Andy's "piece" should
begin to be understood,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

He failed to appear, for the reason, as
he alleges, that it is only a trick to
get him in Washington and compel
him to answer for certain publications
made in reference to Mr.. Sheppard,
late Governor of the District. Hay
ing failed he was arrested on an at
tachment for contempt of court.
Now, he wants to appear as a martyr.
But, to use a slang phrase, this is "too
thin"
If Governor Sheppard is guilty of
what Dana has charged him with,
whatever it is, it will be very easy to
prove it. He may plead justification
and prove what he has published to
be true. But if he has lied, as he
probably has, he ought to suffer for it,
and it is no outrage upon the free.
dom Of the press to punish him. Dana
is the guerilla of the American press,
and fancies that he has license to
Islander whomsoever he chooses.
When he is hunted down, his false
hoods exposed and the vengeance of
the law is about to take hold of him,
he cries out oppression p 1t is "too
thin"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14
THE PURPOSES OF CERTAIN
LEADERS.

It's almost incredible that at this
day, in the face of the events of the
past fifteen years, there should be
found men who are willing to revive
a controversy upon any of the ques-
tons, the agitation of which brought
about the late civil war. 1t does
seem as if enough blood has been
shed and enough treasure wasted to
satisfy the most reckless. But there
are those still who would occupy the
place of Yancey, Toombs, Wigfall,
jeff. Davis, Slidell, Benjamin, and
other politicians Of that school. Are
the American people fully awake to
the purposes and ambitions of such
men? We fear not. If they were,
they would frown down every dema-
gogue who is willing to ride into po-
sition by agitating the miserable
heresy Of State Sovereignty. 1t is q
question that should be forever ex-
cluded from American politics, and
the man who would advocate it as
understood by and eXpounded by the
school of politicians above named,
land there are such) should be treated
as one who would openly advocate
arson, murder and robbery. If any
thing was settled by the late war, it
was the supremacy of the Federal
over the State Governments. Those
who advocate the doctrine of State
Sovereignty, as do the Southern Dem
ocratic leaders, including the bour-
bons of the North, do not now 20 as
far as JEFF. Davis and his associates did
in 1861, and claim that any State has a
right to withdraw from the Union at
will, but the tendency is that way,
and when the party comes into power
it will soon come to that. The only
safety to the country is to put down
such agitators now, and forever keep
them down. They are a dangerous
element. Their hope for political
preferment is in sectional strife. The
masses Of the people, South as well
as North, have no confidence in them,
but they hope to overcome this by eX-
citing prejudice and stirring up the
people of the South against the peo-
pie of the North. While we, the
masses in the South, want to see the
Union preserved, these leaders hate
the Union of the States under the
Federal Constitution, unless they can
make it serve their own selfish ambi-
ton. They are in favor of the Fed.
eral Government as long rs they can
control it, but when they can no long
er do this they would rather see it
broken up. Rule or ruin" is their
policy now, as it was in 1861, and
whenever they have an opportunity
they will show it. For this reason
watch them, and again we say keep
them where they belong, in the
shades of private life, where they
will have no opportunity to do harm
Tuoreu the Connecticut voters had no,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

A SPECIAL dispatch from Browns
vile to the Nashville Banner, dated
April 9th, says
In an alteration this afternoon between
Robert Medlin and S. i. and Henry W.
Bond Medlin was shot and killed instantly.
Medlin is County Court Clerk Of Haywood
county, having been elected last August.
The two gentlemen who shot him are highly
respectable and influential, one being q
prominent lawyer Of this city. The affair
has created very general excitement Med
lin was a hot Republican in politics.
Robert Medlin was a Republican
member of the Legislature in 1878.
Those who shot him, t1cO Of them are
"highly respectable" but he is only a
common Radical" and therefore ii
matters but little.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14
"TOO THIN"

Last week a subpoena was issued
in Washington, commanding Charles
A. Dana, Of the New York Sua, to
appear and testify before the Grand
Jury Of the District of Columbia.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

THE Memphis Aoalmche, the organ
Of the Andy johnson wing Of Ten
nessee Democracy, says
Senator johnson has been strongly
urged b" leading Democrats TO take part
in thepol.ical campaign in Ohio and Penn
sylyania during the coming fall, but it is
not thought he win make any more politi-
cal speeches until the Senate meets in De-
cember."
Considering the source from which
this comes we presume it is authori-
tative, and for once we give "A. j."
credit for more than his usual wisdom
under such circumstances.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

The Nutmeg Graters If Connecticut had
no, heard ut Torbc.t Issues. Il IL OF
course very ssd.-Prc38 and Herald.
The Woodworking Taxpayers Of
Tennessee haze heard Of the Torbett
Issues, and they swear by all that Is
sacred that they will see toit that the
present set Of State and county Of
licers shall see these "Issues," hide
where they may.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

THOUGH the Connecticut voters had not
heard of " Torbett Issues" they had vivid
impression about "Third Term which
is far more important matter-and one,
by the way, on which the Chronicle has
not defined its position.-PreSS and Her
aid.
The "CHRONICLE would feel itself
disgraced if it were to refuse to ode
fine its position on any subject dis
cussed by the political parties of the
present day. The CHRONICLE, there
fore, approves of Grants First Term,
up to ITS close under the Apple Tree
at AppomattoX In military mat
tiers Grant never made a mistake.
We endorse his Presidential term,
with all its leading measures thrown
in. And if the National Republican
party should nominate him for the
third term-we are for his election,
and so will the majority Of the Amer
lean people be.
How is the Press and Herald on the
Torbett Issue? Come, neighbor, speak
out
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

ELSEWHERE we publish an address
to the people Of Tennessee from Hon.
Thomas II. Coldwell and Hon. w. +.
Prosser, Centennial Commissioners
for Tennessee. The matter to which
they invite attention is worthy Of the
consideration Of every one who feels
an interest in Tennessee or the country
at large. The Centennial Exhibition
will take place at Philadelphia, the
birth place Of the Declaration Of In
dependence, next year, and Tennessee
should be well represented there. 1t
is no excuse for us, to plead hard
times and financial depression. We
claim that we have here all the Gle,
ments Of wealth if properly deyel,
oped, and now we have an opportu,
nifty Of showing 10 the world what
we really have. Let us improve the
opportunity.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14

THE Press and Hcruid is afraid
to define its position in regard to the
Torbett Issues.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
OAK DELL.

RIVER AND HARBoR APPROPRIATIONS. - The
river and harbor bill reported to the House con-
tainA appropriations amounting in the aggregate
to $5,1"O,0OO: For Superior Bay, Wis, $500 !;
ontonagon, $25,coo; Eagle. $4,000; Marquette,
$4,000; Green Bay, $4,000. Menomonee, S25,.
600; Ahnapee, $25, 600; Manitowac, $4,000 She
boygan, $4,000; Port Washington, $40, COO; Mil
,r'--'--~ @os,0co: Racine. $40 900 Kenosha, SIS,
GOO; Chicago, $4,000; Calumet, $4,000: Mich.
gan City, $4,000; Frankfort, Mich, $4,000
Msnlstse' $4,000; Ludington. $4,000, White
river $4,000; Muskegon, $4,000; Black Lake
Sto'O0O; Saugatuck, $4,000; South Haven, $40 :.
hh'; ChahnVear3 Mich S1h,ooO. Rsfuge.-Iake
Huron. 100000; Monroe, Mich, $4,000.
The bill has PASSED the House with but little
alteration.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25

T. j. GILMORE will. for cents, to prepay
postage, send TO any reader of this paper the
December number of the MILWAUKEE Monthly
containing the first of series of fine en-
cravings illustrating Milwaukee, Its princi-
pal streets, tity and suburban residences,
giving some beautiful interior views. There
Is in this and in every number an illustrated
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valuable papers, all the rest of the book
beiug filled with the most entertaining orig
nal stories and poems. The price of # lis
magazine is only ST year, and - cents to
prepay postage, but on account Of the great
expense of the extra illustrations no single
number OF this or of the two succeeding
months, now out, can be had, except as
specimen copies, for less than TWEEN y-fve
GEMS each, and 80, 900 copies have already
been sold at that price. For 25 cents be will
send the three numbers containing the
entire article, sc splendid illustra items.
to those only who send for samples with q
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Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
SLEEPLESSNESS

To take hearty mea just before retiring
is, of course, Injurious, because it is very
likely &c disturb ones rest, and produce
nightmare. However. & little food at this
time, il one is hungry, is decidedly benefc
iGl it prevents the gnawing Of an empty
stomach, with its attendant restlessnes and
unpieasaD ut dreams, 20 say nothing of proha.
bic headache, or of nervous and other de-
rangements, the next morning. One should
no n ore lie down at night hungry than he
should lie down tfer very full dinner
the consequence of either being disturbing
and harmful A cracker or two, bit o.
bread and nutter. or cake, a little fruit
something TO relieve the sense of vacuity
and 50 restore the sense Of the system-is al
that is necessary.
We have known persons, habtual sufferers
from reStiessDess at night. to eXperie nee
material beLeft, even though they were
not hungry, by very hight luncheon before
bedtime In place of tossing about for two
or threee hours as formerly, they would
soon grow drowsy, fall asleep,and not awake
more than once or twice until sunrise. Thi:
mode OF treating insomnia has recently beer
recommended by severa distinguished ply
slelans, and the prescription has generally
been attended with happy lts.-ScrSbnSI
for March.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
UEAR EDITOR.

! notice your Bristol correspondent ls very par
tial to "soup made Of pebbles" In Randall the
cultivation of such taste is unnecessary, as the
material for an excellent 'soup'' is everywhere
rich ard absndant but. alas our ''eooks" ARE
few and far betw Gen. In lieu OF better "dish'
will you accept an attempt at describing the nat
ural curiosities for which our town is noted
| Near the base Of the "Big q llls' described In
the TELEGRAPH, Feb, 4. is situated o meadow,
lsome times very properly called 'sough'.) which
would afford to the Geolegist and Natualist many
points for study.
! The soil in some parts is composed almost ex
elusively of minute shells, causing 1t to have
| grayish appearance las though covered with ashes
The form oil some of these shells is well presar.
we'd, as may be seen in the larger ones with the
naked eye, and in smaller by the aid of micre
scope.
| One curious fact claimed to be peculiar to the
locality is this: The first spring rain after ditch
is dug, canses the water to be literally ''alive'
with minnows, although there is no communica-
ton with water At either end the ditch being with
out inlet outlet. And,whAt is quite asstrange.i
that after the first winter, the ditch Is inhabited
by no living thing, uL'ess it be microscopic the
frost or some other agent having entirely de-
stroyed Or removed them. Pickerel have bee
several times sesn in the trenches just described.
In the SUNNI Ell of H. a pickerel weighing ever
| two pounds was taken from trench excavatsd
the previous summer. Perhaps some Of yoal
scientific correspondents from the "litsrary
emporium could suggest theory for tho app ear
ance and disappearance Of the fish
This meadow numbers among It's many curiosues
mineral springs. TIL mineral ingredients impart
to the watera eighty bitter TASTE in one case il
has palpable taste of sulphur Doubtless the
water from those springs contain many excellent
medical qualities. Were we fow mil ss farther
| east, no doubt eanitarium would, ere
this, have been erected tn spot, and our little
town have become famous. The east, however,
seems to be slowly approaching. causing 40 to
cherish hope that the name Randall is not
doomed to oblivion, but may some time in the
future shine as brightly on the annals o! fame as
| new shines the name-Bristo!. But this is a d.
erosion.
| One of those natural reservoirs CHI anges int
stone the moss bordering it's edge. I do not
know that 1t has the power Of petrifyng any other
substance, but will experiment and report to You
the result. shall consider It pleasure to de-
post for examination in your editorial sanctum"
pieces of moss in various stages Of petrifactlor,
| if you care to bother with such trifes.
| Though the list Of 'curiosties' 10 by ne means
exhausted, fear your readers are, SO the remain
der we leave for second dish"
OAK DELL
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
Agricultural Notice.

The LIST Quarter Meeting for 1875. Of the
Agricultural s. cIery # Kenosha County
be he'd at he Hal If be Socit tv in Bristol
on Monday March lst, at 10 O'Clock N tie
that may legally come before the said NEE t.
ing.
The committee Of the Society appointed eft
the annual me- ting to dispose of the build
ing &c. on SAID air grounds will report
progress, EMO cfct back to he Society, The
dispo~ lion f Bald .Dgs aud fences moi hav,
Ing been all: 10 dispose Of tie prope, ty
satisfactorily Thr Society will prohahi !
dispose OF the building fences &c o. said
DAY Of the mteiipg el'ber ut snciion or pri-
yate sale Fl. H. TARBELL, Sec'y.
Ken0she Feb II, 1875,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
WooDwcRTH, Feb. Is, 1875

w OOO w SnAhi - OOs 1O1 10
Friend Briggs Enclosed find my
report for the second and third
months. We are getting along fine
ly. Your visit did my school great
deal of good; wish you would come
again. send you some problems:
Two boys bought ball for IA
cents, one paying three-fourths as
much as the other How much did
each one pay?
Soluticn-Let one or 1 represent
first boys part, and : second boys
part. Then If. Hence l4=7 Of
the first boys part. Since IA is !, i
.7=2. 4=2X4=6 the amount
the first boy paid. 14-8=6 second
boy paid.
A printer uses ore sheet of paper
for every sixteen pages of an octave
book; how much paper will be re-
quired for 500 copies Of 336 pages
each, allowing two quires of waste
paper on each ream, the waste paper
being reckoned on achole reanas
op2Q9
Solution:-Since one sheet makes
16 pages it will reqnire 2l sheets for
one copy Of the book 1885, le). For
500 copies it will require 10000
sheets OIL 1900. l050o.24 (num-
Der of sheets in o Quire) =4S7 quires
II sheets. 90 quires make one ream
but an there is waste Of 2 quires or
each ream, there are but Is quires
which are of use to the printer. 431
.18=24 reams, 5 qulres-Hence
the answer, "a reams, 5 quires, Il
sheets.
/ Solved by Theron Woodwork
District No. s, Bristol,
D. Il. MAHoNEY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
Kenosha Station.
TINA e TABL
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Congregational
Rev. a. G. HITCHCOCK, Pastor. Services at 1873
A. M. and 7 P. M.
Methodist
Rev. o. B. THAxER, Pastor. Services at 1880 a.
A. nnd7 P. M.
Episcopal,
Rev. LUc1EN c. LANCE, Pastor. Services at 1886
A. M. and 1880 P. VI.
German Methodist.
Rev. O. HupLER Pastor. Services at 1880 A. NJ
and T:30 P. NJ.
Unitarian
Rev. H. NJ SIMMONS, Pa.tor. Services II a. M
ST, Marks Catholic,
FATHER W. DcUGHARrY, Pastor: Services $1,000
A. NJ. and P. n.
Baptist.
RSv. HENRY CLARK, Pastor-Seryices 1890 A. M.
and 7 P, NJ.
l.uthereLr,
Father M. PopP, Pastor. Services at 1890 A. M
every other Sunday
ST. Georges Catholic
FATHER NJ. BETTER, Priest Services at 1880 A.
II. and $50 P. M.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25

MRS. FRANCES A. B. DUNNINe gave lecture
on Edgar A. Poe, as Man and Poet, and read an
original poem, AZ Simmons Hall last Friday eve
ming. The lectule and reading were gooI and
The audience email.
The Lime Readings at the Me,hodst Church
HAYS accustomed tie people o paying but cline,
and as The admission to Nrs. Cummings lecture
and reading was twenty five cent?, it IL probable
that the difference made quite differences in ihe
number OF RS. Dunning's audience
a lecture ard reading at a dime admission
might Craw a fall f0use which would be more
profitable than house quarter fu !, and thrn. ii
the lecture and reading were good, there would
be four times as many to speak in praise Of the
lecturer and reader.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
DI = D..

In this city, on Saturda morning the goth last
Of Apoplexy, MRS. ELIZABETH NJ, wife O
Capt. William Parker, aged 45 Yeas, months
and ID days.
In Mobile, Ala, February 14th, 1878, of quick
consumption, CHARLES ). Fl. HITCHCOCK
younger son OF Elizabeth A. and the late j. d
Hitchcock, aged IS years and months.
In Kenosha, Friday afternoon, February 18th
1916, ORSON S. HEAD, aged 81 years, months
and 10 days.