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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
Our Politics.

In the future, as in the past. W expect to
wage neyer-ceasing was on the corruptions of
the Democratic party. We do this because we
believe that party is not fit TO hold the reins of
Government il this Land of the Free and
Home of the Brave" We advocate the princi-
pies of the Republican party. because we believe
they are right. We expect to stand by:our party
and to work vigorously for its success.
While we do this. our eyes are not closed to
the possibility of corruption in our own ranks.
Wherever we believe it exists we will strike it
boldly and fearlessly We will. at all times and
upon all occasions. "cry aloud and spare not"
Neither do we expect to consult dictionaries for
soft words-we intend to call things by their right
names. If a man is a thief we will call him
thief, If he Is Il scoundrel we will emphatically
denounce him as such. If he is demagogue, we
will so denomioate him. If be is a villain. we
will not shield him.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
THE ONLY WAY TO GET MONEY
HONESTLY.

Our Tampico correspondent this
morning, gives in a nut shell the
views of the honest yeomanry in East
Tennessee on the recently much talk
ed ofcurrency question, and it is, chat
there is 10 way Of getting money
honestly without paying for it."
There it is, stated more clearly and
in more practical language, than will
be found in any Of the long diserta-
tons on political economy which we
meet with here and there.
The Democrats of Ohio looked upon
the masses as ignorant and purchase
ble' and hence adopted a plank in
their platform which looks well on
the outside, but when more closely
examined, it is the very essence Of
political heresy. The men who
framed that resolution knew it, but
they knew less about the honesty of
the people than we had given them
credit for.
\ portion of the Democracy of
Tennessee made The same sort of
calculations. They thought the
masses would, like children, be
charmed with the tinsel and the gilt
ter of the cheap currency platform,
and that they didn't have sense
enough to see through it. But they
are mistaken. The Nashville Ameri.
can, backed up by the Press and
Herald and other wild infationists,
will call in vain for Senator Key to
resign, because he does not support
their impracticable theories. The
people are with the Senator on that
question. The miserable policy of
this class of politicians, brought for
ward with no other motive than to
catch votes, is failure. The honest
people of Tennessee know there is no
other way to get money but to pro-
duce something to get it with. If
they have produce to sell they will
always get money for it. If they
have nothing to sell they know they
can not get it.
1t is always best to deal honestly
with the masses, for they are honest.
Duplicity and double dealing will
satisfy politicians, but the people
want straight forward unambiguous
transactions. The men in Tennessee
who opposed issuing greenbacks, be-
cause, they said, it was unconstitu
tional, and now want to abolish
national banks, are understood and
the public estimates them at their
true worth, whatever estimate they
may place upon themselves. They
/ know well enough that they have
made n miscalculation, hence the
ebullition of passion we see mani
tested such lordly assumptions, q:
in the insolent demand for Senator
T Keys resignation.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17

WE desire to place "A copy of either
our DAILY or WEEKLY Paper in
every household in Tennessee, and in
as many as possible in other States, To
do this we recognize the fact that we
must make thoroughly reliable and
live journal. This is our purpose. We
propose 10 keep our readers posted
during the Centennial Year, in every
thing in which the public is interested.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
Market Reports.

We exp ct to give full and reliable market
reports. both by telegraph AMI from our home
market. 1t is our purpose to mako these reports
source from which our farmers. mech anics and
business men NAV at all times obtain full aai re-
liable information.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17

1t is but wretched policy to allow
yourself to drift into an incurable dis.
ease, by neglectiDg the earliest and
most tracIable symptoms, BY cons
tentedly waiting for cold TO get well
Of itself, many a one has so damaged
the structure OF his Lungs, as to put
himself beyond the reach of medi-
cines, before being conscious of dan
ger. How much safer on the first in
dications Of a cold, to resort TO DIR,
Jayne's Expectorant, an efficaciOui
remedy for Coughs, Asthma, and all
Bronchial Affections, and sure TO ex.
ert beneficial influence on the organs
Of the Chest.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
TIE Detroit Free Press saws 4:

"Parson Brownlow may have his faults
but he is a good editor, and be is making
the Knoxville Wing and Chronicle first.
rate paper"
If he does have faults, one Of
them is, that in speaking of such men
as Dead Head Hill, of South Carolina
and other cattle of the same species
he uses language altogether too mild
TO do the subject justice.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
The Centennial.

This year is the Nations Centennial Birth
Day. Il will be celebrated in every town. village
and hamlet in the land. The Exposition at Phil
adelphia will be a grand eveat in our history.
Every patriot will want to know how it is
celebrated Memories of u will be revived and
patriotic emotions will be kindled in every breast
We will devote large share OF our space to re-
porting these celebrations. and especially the
Grelt Elk osition at Philadelphia.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
TENNESSEE BONDS-STUPID.
ITY.

lI1.
If the Nashville American could only
get the Government credit down to its
standard as shown in the price of Tennes-
see bonds, how happy it would feel. What
a harvest there would then be for the rings
Knoxville Chronicle
Stupid Chronicle. Whoput the credit of
Tennessee down where it is but-Brown-
low?
The foregoing is from the double
bsrrelled Democratic organ at Nash
vile. Its asinine stupidity was dis
played in an alarming degree a few
days ago by lordly demand for Sen.
ator Keys resignation as a United
States Senator from Tennessee, be.
cause that gentleman was not so stu.
pid as his party organ would have
him be. Now a word as to "who put
the credit of Tennessee down" When
Gov. Brownlow went into office in
1865, the credit of Tennessee had
been entirely destroyed. No effort
had been made to Keep it up for four
years previous. The entire revenue
of the State had been used in carry
ing on a war against the United
States. We repeat, the State was alb
solutely without credit in the markets
Of the world. Not only had the in.
terest on the State debt gone
unpaid for four years, but the
machinery of the State Govern
ment had been in the hands of the
revolutionary secession Democ-
racy who were striving to keep the
State out of the Federal Union. If
the State government had not gone to
the Devil it was none of their fault,
for they had been laboring with might
and main, to drag everything in that
direction. When they saw that their
Southern Confederacy had gone in
the direction Wards ducks went,
they tried to plunge everything else
in the same direction.
This was the state of affairs which
Governor Brownlow had to meet. In
1869, when he resigned his Office as
Governor to accept seat in the Uni
ted States Senate, Tennessee bonds
were quoted at &C cents. Last Sat
urday they were quoted in New Y orl
at 46s cents on the dollar, or nearly
twenty cents lower than when Gov
Brownlow went out of Office as Gov
ernor. These figures speak for them
selves. Tennessee bonds are no
worth as much by nearly one-third a
they were then. And yet the puffe'
up, stupid, central organ of Tennes
see Democracy, that assumes to kno'
so much when ignorance is on
of its prominent characteristics
calls attention to a state of facts, tina
must, IN the estim alton of honest, fail
minded men, brand its party wit
gross ineficiency or corruption, O
both, in the management of publ
affairs.
Soon after Governor Brownlow re
signed, a Democratic Legislature a
sembled at Nashville, which, for par
tisan measures, gross ignorance
incOmprehensible stupidity, an
general inefIiciency stands without
parallel in the history Of Legislatures
unless it be in its two immediate SUI
cessors. Under the manipulations {
these Legislatures, aided by a ring {
corrupt lobbyists, the credit of tn
State has gone down, down, down
until it has become thing in nam
rather than reality.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
The Elections

Next year an exciting PresideL tial contest
will be upon US, Every one will want to keep
posted in its progress. 1t bids fair to be one
of the most exciting events Of its kind in the
history of the country. We do not expect TO
be neutral in that contest. but will be heard from
on every question involved. No Republican. in
Tennessee especially, can afford to be without the
DAILY CHRONICLE or the WING AND
CHRONICLE next year. Those subscribing
for the paper now for year will receive it
until after the returns of the Presidential ecion
are all received,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
Agricultural.

We will endeavor in each issue of our journal
to make it more interesting and of greater benef.
to the farmers of cur country. We recognize in
them the chief source of our prosperity. With
the aid Of our Agricultural friends. we are deter
mined to make this feature alone in the WIG
ASD CHRONICLE worth more than the price we ask
for it.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17

On the sth inst. a difficulty occurred
between Alexander MUIR and James
Tefeteller, which resulted In the letter
stabbiDR the former in the shoulder.
II Is said that MUIR had first struck
Tefeteller with a rock. The parties
live a mile or two east Of town. Such
occurrences are to be deplored.-Mary-
vile Republican.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
Miscellaneous.

In addition to the foregoing, we will give the
latest news by telegraph from all parts Of the
world. We shall not forget the family circle, but
will in every issue of our Weekly, present, short
stories poetry, and other literary. as we'll as sci
entifc matter. taking care that nothing appears
which can possibly give ofense to the most fas-
tidious taste.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-17
The Memphis Avalanche wants to

TIE Memphis Avalanche wants TO
know its fate. 1t says:
The Nashville, American should print,
publish and circulate the terms on which it
will permit patriots to remain in the Dem
ocratic and Conservative party. This
MSsld avert great deal Of mental distress.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-12-23

baTHtiNgw spEAKER..- Here Is goSd
penn psotogtupb9 'of tiiei Few Speaker of
the. House, !: 'iME. Kerr IN, the beat lOak-
ing of the. two prominent candidates. "A
TN. stately man, more than six feet in
height BROAD 'sfoufdefsd, with head
welfp,ised, a, full groWth'nf broWD'hairj
and ey % that seems nto:fead you through
at a,glance. His scholarship is Of thee
highest order; books are his dearest
companions, and his Judgment of men is
keen and diserimihahaSi o The man Is
xho3li. practical. .. Thsreiis no. element
of hun,or OF, romance about him, and hiss his
manners are digni6ed almost TO austerity.
Hsis forty seven year5 old, and served
id the Thirty:ninth, Rortiesh and Forty.
frat Congresses. Mr.. Kerr is a man OF
high character. He Was born near II
tusJille, Crawfordville county, Pennsyl.
9ania, March 10Th, 1927, and is eonss-
quenIly in the forty-ninth year Of his age.
He wss chiefly, selfeducated, although
he stu lied at several academies. Fos. q
time b Q taught school. Subsequently be
studiei law in the University of Louis.
Vile, and there received the degree ot
Bachelor of Laws. After o brief residence
in Kentucky, he settled at New Albany
Indiana. Iri18b6 he was elected for a term
ofitWo years to the State Assembly. In
1862 te was elected reporter to the gu.
prsme Court of the State, and published
ave volumes Of reports. In 1854 he wal
elected Representative FROM Indiana tt
tha Thirty,nintA Congress'of. the Undtee
States, and served during that Congres.
on tie. Committees ON Private Lane
Claims and On Accounts. He was re-
elected, and in the !Fostieth Congress
served on important committees. y.
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!, SOUND ApuCh.-While the author Of
this piece may be unknown, the advice
certainly comed from o good heart and
soundi hasd:n >7>-tH -7a -
Would You show yours your really good
to your daightsrs Then be generous
TO tbeInn in a, truer sense than that Of
heapine trlnkets Oh thsi. nscks. Train
them for independence first, and then To-
Dor, to- give it to them. Let them, assoon
as ever they are grown up, have some
Little. money or means ofunaking money,
to;be their own, and teach them how 10
deal With s.. without needing every mo
ment somebody to help pthem .! Calculate
what you give them or will ibequeath ito
them. mot asifis usually done, on the
chances of their making q rich marriage,
but on the probability of theirremaining
single, and according to the scale of liv-
ing to which you have accustoned them.
Suppress. their. luxury, now, il need be,
but do not leave them with scarcely, bare
niecessaries hereafter, in striking contrast
70 their present home. Above 81, help
them to help themselves Fit them to
be able to add to their own means, rather
than to be forever pinching and eeono,,
Milling till their minds arc narrowed and
their hearts are sick. Give all the culIr
ture you can to every power which they
may possess. If they should marry after
all. they will be the happier and the bet.
ter for It. If they should remain among
the million Of unmarried they will bless
you in your grave; and say OF you what
cannot be lsafd of many doting parent
by his surviving child: "My father
cared that I should be happy after hi,
death as we'll as while | Was bis pet and
his toy."-Rural Sun. g..
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dered in thanklssa extravagant entertain
ments. The Viyians retired to a lovely
place in Kent, where they spend their
days now, doing good with alayish hand,
and.enjoying in happiness and modera-
tion, the splendid fortune which had 90
unexpectedly become theirs, Shortly
| after their accession to It son was born,
and in him the name of their benefactor
lives again; for they'call him "John Up
ton Vivian" ,am .pr.f, ..eii., !.ue. :..e-lnT
so, though no public charities nere
enriched by his death, and no Newspaper
record paraded the magnificent bequests
.of the departed solicitor; one family was
raised to happiness and . comfort BY bis h,s
many q poverty stricken home has been
-cheefed and gladden. and many a despon-
ding; heart has. cause Ito, ible1s the
thought that. prompted John Upton's
welcome windfall.. ,., ,o,. ,,..-,r...
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-12-23

- Little words are the sweetest to
hear; little charities fly flrthsat, and
stay longest on the wing, little hearts the
fondest; and little farms the best titled.
Little books are the most read, and lit
tie songs the dearest loved. And when
nature would make anything especially
rare and beautiful, she makes it little
pearls, little diamonds. little dew The
Sermon on the Mount is little, but the
last dedication discourse was an hour.
Aga's is a model prayer, yet it is but a
little one, and the burden Of the petition
is but for little. Life is made up of lit
ties; death is what remains of Them all.
Day is made up of little beams and night
is glorious with little stars. -.,,si
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-12-23
A Third Termer.

The indianapolis Sentinel says that
Bishop Gilbert Haven, in religious
gathering at Boston of preacher, and
Sunday school workers, proposed an en-
dorsement of Grant for a third torn as
measure of national safety. This is q
very queer movement, and that such q
resolution should have passed uneai-
mopsly is. passing strange. Religious
bodies, in times Of national danger, have
often deemed it necessary that they
should not meet without giving encour-
-agement and sympathy.to the soldiers in
the field and to the cabinet at home, but
that there is any sort of religious neces-
sity for the reelection of Mr.. Grant as
President of the United States is 80 SUI
premely ridiculous that We can scarcely
credit the. reports of the meeting
Things have come to pretty pass ii Mr.
Grant has become a religious necessity,
or his political supremacy longer to be
desired: While the veryair of the whole
country smells of fraud and corruption;
while the very White House itself has
been invaded by the bailid' of justice,
and arrests are screened by the mteryen-
|rtion of court martial, and while habits
of personal. infrmity are notorious, for
body of Christians to 90 out of their way
to declare that his further preferment is
necessity for the safety of the country
is satire.upon religion, and scandal
upon the character of the yirtuous and
eminent statesmen of both parties of the
country. Mr.. Grant is not the only man
in aIpopulation of forty. millions of peo-
pie that t;ean save our Liberties. Mr..
Grant is a. tolerably good judge Of horses,
! was a fair soldier, but he has not proved
/ in craftsmanship that the world was
awaiting his coming to rule in America
| in order that the millennium might be
started. There were many resolutions
| that might have been more appropriate
for the religious meeting over which
Bishop Haveniipresided.. q They might
haze, resolved that drunkenness is a great
sin, that evil associations have demoral-
izing effects, that stealing is forbidden
tby positive commandment, that shielding
iniquity is partaking. in the ofsnse, end
Dozens Of other things pertinent some
| what to the public and private character
of a. ruler. But, to pass by such legiti-
mate themes, sins Of the day, sins in
high. places; and. simply say that Grant
is.a necessity, would appear prostitution
of religious functions, an intrusion OF
political sentiment ayese to the moral
l-instincts and religious sensibility of the
people, clothed in religious garb, that
can but awaken disgust in three-fourths,
|, if not ;nine-tenths, of the people of the
whole. land.-Aug,istd Chronicle and Sen
lEnHL,:. T'if:-s'ut !G:h 1aii'f
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PK,.LopnNA.-".W -".Wip yeu eat. . philo-
,ena with me?" said young lady to me

~
Pn.1opnNA.-"Will zen eats philo-
pIena with nef" said ayoung lady to me m,
ons 'DsWhst is philopena rsi,1 asked, 10.
having recently come into, the country l
had neyer heard the word, before.
"Ytju eat half Of this double almond,
snd I eat the other" said my fir infor-
Imant. rHThenithe one who calls. ."philo-
.penap Tomorrow, OF ,nsxt time We meet,
is entitled TO q present from the OLD
= ate the half of the twin almond abe
offered me, and the next day abe was tho
first to cali philouens, and i had to make
her q present, But / wsa puzzled TO &C
Count for this custom, and I made many
inouifies as To- its meaning and origin,
|.bdt ALI in:fainj till the other day 1 found
the. following explanations lin ia French
la9T.Ssl TSe peo,ptats ,tat If AissaSc,e and Lorraine
were FORMERLY undef German rule, as
they ,il1ow1 are '.but while -. part of
France, they lost, . in great measure, the
use of the German Language, and what
they retained became corrupt: 1t was
an Old custom aamong them for young
couples to engage themselves by eating
the halves of double almonds, and then
to, salute each other. as sf:well beloved"
each time they met. The word in Ger
man was avie1liebchen !" but having for
gotten the meaning 0fthis word they
gradually changed it into a:philippo,,,''
which sounds Ike. If, sna apphliippina:@. ppl
til not restricted only to those who are
-betrotlredi; but then young people herb
.behayog towards .each:,.osher in many
respects ", they: gould only be Per.
miitted to, DO in Europe if they. were
4Ananeas, b '.i' ''f's'H'2's '"i''''''' - ~
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I'd - "Sir,p" said a fierce lawyer, "do, You,
on yoar solemn OATH, swear that this is
not your hand writing?" ,"I reckon not
was'tlie cool reply. f'Doss it resemble
your writing ",t'sYss isif, I thihk it
DON'T" g." Do you swear, shat it don't re.
semble your .writing~ swell, do, old
head" "You take your solemn oath
that this writing does not resemble yours
in a single letter." eyes, sir" snow,
how do YOU know!" "Ccs I can't 'tiwfite:
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Totals. ....... :.....$s14,e12,6o6 's8s, 1874

These pregnant figures include interest
on the public debt in each of the years
mentioned. They tell . story that no
amount of words can soften: They show
that the he-increase of expenditures has
quintupied the increase in population,
and vet the Secretary ofthe' Treasury de-
rnands, from us at the close of twelve
years of unprecedented waste; followed
by two,yean of commercial distress, , an
increase of taxes to the extent ;of, twelve
Der cent. Further comment on'the econ
omy of. Grantism; is unnecessary! The
rapacity of the different departments: IS
greater than ever before, and it is. the
DUTY, tho absolute ddty, of tho new house.
to protect the people from SUCH reckless
and bare-faced e1travaganca. The de-
partnents wiltscatter all they can get,
and there is no power to tighten the OPP
pressiye burdens which are driving men 10
the wall except the House Of Representa-
tiyes:. The country looks soat for heaslT
reductions in the estimates, and We nope
|. for it's sake and for the sake Of Conssi!a-
tive rule thst'such antioipations will be
irealized; ~: .:in.tt,t = :! i7f 7"?a1-i
~, Tho other parts of the report arenotlas
interesting or as discouragins as the esti.
mates we have given: The net receipts OF
the past 7facal year were M = 3,S2sS,ooo,o5l !;
net expenditures s274, ,62S, 2s2' leaving e
surplts revenue of$l3, ,976,65Sj exclusive
6f provisions forthe sinking fund. 'iThat
fund will. require this year S32, ,29S, ,692,
but it is thought that the surplus reYe-
Iues Of theyear will fall abort +of that
amount about three, and q quart r nail.
lions. The revenues ofthe coming fiscal
year are estimated at 1904, ,oOo, 600. = The
.reducaion Of thspublic debt during "the
.lasttfScal yearwas $l4, ,Sse,a4 -. !.
Tho balance of the reports relates 10
lMas Sumption, a'' government claims and other
evils of: the times.i'W have no space for
the Secretary's opinions and recommen-
.dations onthess. Subjects LehrOaictc' and
Sentinel, .7ei all .7'.s'1F II; H-:.''J''.i
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Estimate for Appropriation.
TotaisiE.... iiiE ssl4, ,el2,6o8 is SOS, los, II s.

In other words, the administration asks
from an embarrassed people for the next
fiscal year. $21; 46,4312 more than was
appropriated for the present year. The
Secretary absolutely has the face to ask
for over four and half million more
than3he did inaL last report. This Is
economy with 3 vengeance. That :our
readers. may see the difference between
the estimates that the Republican party
has Just furnished and those which. the
Democracy made in 1850, We present q
table that includes the two entire, al
though under different heads inaoms In
stances: z l.. IL. -. ~. l.a-...