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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23
Is it Nothing to Pay off the
National Debt?
From the New York Sun.


That Gov. Tilden is an able, prac-
tical fnancier, there can be no ques-
tion. In his letter of acceptance he
shows the people how the whole ma
tional debt can be paid off in the
comparatively short period of thirty
eight years, simply by the adoption
of a financial policy which should Sc
cure to the country the highest cred
it. By wisely availing ourselves of
this. he estimates that reduction of
one one per cent. on the interest Of
the loan could be effected and this
saving, invested at the low rate of
four-and-a-half per cent, interest.
would cancel our entire national
debt in the course of thirty-eight
years.
This is no chimera. 1t is no wild,
visionary scheme. It is the careful
calculation of practical business
man, who knows how to put in ope-
ration. and who will carry it into ef-
feet if an opportunity is afforded him.
We put it to the voters of the
country, the sensible men, whether
this payment of the national debt is
not a consummation devoutly to be
wished? The heavy burden of tax
alton which rests upon US would at
least be removed from the shoulders
Of our children.
Tilden. Economy. and the Reduc-
tion of the National Debt-let this
be the war cry!
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23
The Morristown Gazette.
ofLate I.m Filled with Thought

OfLate I'm Filled with Thought
a FROM A AaoRR1srowx MECHANIC. es
na Of late, I'm filed with thought,
Until my mind is brought s
.e At many things to wonders
One is, when try to think
How Belknap stole the peoples chink,
Ands still allowed to plunder.
'Tis strange the people ask and cry
Why taxes are SO very high,
In these last times;
Instead of making use of law,
To bring dishonest men to taw,
To suffer for their crimes.
wonder why the people taunt
Each other with the name of Grant
t7 If nothing's wrong
And still continue thus to sing 80
Like birds in forest, during spring,
This hateful song. 1896 stt.,.9-
That Grant and BeIknap stick together, =.
Like useless felt on Spanish leather,
wonder if it's so!
Such clash as this Is common talk,
In every place you take walk
No matter where you go.
The more I think, the more I wonder,
If people havn't made blunder,
And lost the Reign;
Invested men of high degree,
To manage things for you and me,
Who work for selfish gain.
Who hold the vault, and keep the cash,
And issue out the paper trash,
To you and me;
BY which they keep the taxes up,
And at the fountain sup and sup,
And say the peoples free.
Oh! hold, and don't become extatic,
The peoples surely Democratic,
And viii rule;
The time has come-the people must
Remove dishonest men from trust, q.
Or I'm fool
Men must be chosen who are pure, 4s
Whose hearts with gold you can't allure,
To selfish gain;
Who, for no price, nor sums untold,
Would sell themselves for lucid gold,
Such give us, Lord, to reign.
Then boom, Centennial gums, and cheer
The people North and South, and clear
The barrier to communion; RI
And let us form one solid band,
And take each other by the hand,
In friendship, love and union.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23
NUMBER 25.
POLITICAL.
The ChairInanO of the Indiana In
dependent Central Commit
tee Goes Over to Tilden.
The New York Democracy
I'll TTnifa6 81

United. ~
INDIANAPOLIS, August 12.-The
shock of a surprise awaits the Inde-
pendents of Indiana. The Sentinel
this. .morning contains a twp-eolumn
card from Maj. Geo. W. Russ, Chair
man of the State Central Committee,
wherein he renounces all allegiance
to the organization. and takes his
stand in the Democratic ranks for
Tilden, Hendricks and reform, Civ.
ing his reasons for not returning to
his first love, the Republican party.
He starts out with the statement
that the leaders of the party have
decided TO call O convention, TO
meet here on the nth inst, for the
purpose of putting silver plank-in
the platform, and after admitting
himself to be the majority, he an
nounces his determination to with
draw from the party, on the ground
that it has sold out TO the hard
money interest. He denounces
Buchanan 6 Co. as men who lust
for Office, and would secure it
at whatever cost to the cause Of
their country. Having formally
Withdrawn from the Independents,
he takes up the Republican organi-
cation. He alludes TO his old friend
Grant as the commander of politi-
cal privateef, and to the leaders of
the party SIS the crew who are going
into the campaign Haunting the
bloody shirt, the emblem of section
al strife. AS fair-minded man he
cannot follow such leadership under
such a flag. to say nothing of the
corrupt character of the organiza.
ton. He then takes up the Tilden
and Hendricks ticket and shows that
the only hope of the country is in it.
Their success alone can bring peace
and prosperity. So he gives in his
adhesion to that ticket, and advises
his political friends to do likewise.
This viii add much to the general
Generalization Of the already ratified
Independents.
The leading Democrats of New York
city, who have been so long at log
gerheads, have, under the influence
of congress water and outside pres
sure, come to the basis of an agree
ment which insures partial harmony
this fall. That the delegation to the
State convention is to be divided be-
tween Tammany and the opposition
is substantially settled. After the
State convention local nomination
may be arranged in satisfactory
manner. The presence of John
Kelley on the. race course recently
was a great surprise, aud not until
this agreement became whispered
about could it be accounted for.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23

Gov. TiIden within eighteen
months has originated measures that
have reduced the expenditures on
the canals $2,500.000, yet the Re-
publicans say his reform is '.sham.''
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23

The local elections in Kentucky on
Monday last showed Democratic
gains in the various counties in which
they were held. The work opens
promisingly for Tilden and Rerrom.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23

~ A temperance camp meeting
for all societies ann denominations
viii be held in New Haven begin
ming August 10.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23
Ne,O .Advertisenaents.
JOB PRINTING.

II you want Posters, Handbills, Letterheads'
3iTheads Statements, Business Cards, Pamphlets,
or ANYTHING else in the line Of Printing, leave your
orders at the GAZETTE efice, where they viii be
executed in neatest style and at less than city
prices Satisfaction guaranteed or no charge Tor
work Connected with the Office is a Book-Bindery
Competent to do any work in that line with neat
ness and at the lowest prices. Magazine work es-
pecial1y solicited
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23

An impartial history of the career
of u. S. Grant will be a history of
the nations disgrace and dishonor.
Hayes endorses Grant and his admin
stration.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23

In the event Mr.. Seymour should
be candidate for Governor Of New
York. the Reform Ticket -Tilden
and Hendricks-will sweep the State
by 10000 majority.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-23

70 Lookout for counterfeit silver
dimes; there are also counterfeit
$500 bills which you not mind about.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

JOHN w. MAcKAY. one of the owners
of the Consolidated Virginia, is consid-
cred one of the richest men in the world.
His income from the bonanza mines is
estimated at $500, 600 month. It has
been calculated in regard to his total
income that twenty-five golden dollars
drop into his pocket every minute of
the day and night. He was born in
Dublin, Ireland, on the 28th of Ne
yember, 1895, and is said to be the
youngest of all the worlds great money
kings. A few years ago he worked in
the Mexican mine at Virginia City at
81 per day. He is the only one of the
bonanza men that reside in Virginia
City.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08
REPREHENsIBLE.

All the respectable journals through
out the country denounce Grants
hasty acceptance of Belknap's resigua-
ton as being most reprehsnsible. 1t
was evidently done to shield the Seere-
tary from impeachment; the President
thinking that be could not be i'm
peached after be had gone ont of
Office, and that view was maintained by
several Republican members in the
House. But the Conservatives and
Democrats were not to be cireumvented
in their determination to punish this
Republican luminary by any such
shallow pretense and executive inter
ference. Grant soon learned that he
was not dealing with a Missouri Court
and jury, and that he could not COLI
troll the action of Democratic House
determined to punish corruption, as
he did the Babcoek trial, and thus have
a most dastardy villain 60 scot free
from the clutches of outraged law. The
determined and prompt stand taken by
Congress in the Belknap case has in
spired hope in the breasts of the peo-
pie, that relief from the long continued
robberies and oppression is at hand.
and the people everywhere are loud in
their praise of the present lower House
of Congress. The masses of the Re-
publican party are leaving the rotten
ship of Grantism and falling into line
to swell the Democratic columns, and
the question is now seriously discussed
at Washington by the leaders of the
whisky ring brigade as to whether the
Republicans can carry single State in
the next Presidential election, We can
not think of any now, except
Maine and South Carolina, whose peo-
pie may not hear of the frauds which
have been perpetrated by the RepuEli-
cans all over the country.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

The following named persons com
prise the Democratic State Central
Committee OF Nevada;
Ormsby, J, Z. Healy; Storey. A. f.
Mckay; Lyon, Joseph Angel;
Churchill, VIM. Hill; White Pine. A.
Lewis; Esmeralda, w. B. English Nye,
+. G. Turner; Humboldt, Z. Blenner-
bassett; Douglas. P. H. Clayton;
Washoe. Thos. E. Hayden; Lander. Jas.
Z. Rocker; Elko, s. s. Sears; Lincoln,
Fred. Baker; Eureka, Geo. W. Cassidy.
At large, w. E. Deal. r. F. Lowery,
w. S. Reyes. G. Cokn and James II.
Rice. Mr.. Deal is Chairman of the
Committee and Mr.. Lowery, Secretary.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

THE Austin Reveille says: schoon-
over, confined in the County Jail for
petty larceny, protests against the action
of the Supreme Court, i'll declaring
the jury law unconstitutional, and say rs
that tribunal can 60 to the bad place.
and he hopes that he may be trans
formed into horned-toad if any Su-
preme Court shall turn him out OF
Jail in the dead of winter.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

The other day, says the Virginia
Chronicle, a miner in the Belchsr,
while engaged in timbering on the
1000 foot level, was buried under about
q ton of ore which fell upon him. To
extricate him it was necessary to cut a
hole in the float and let him fall
through TO the one below. Strange to
say, he was only slightly injured.
although some of the pieces of rock
which fell on him weighed more than a
hundred pounds.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08
A NEW TICKET.

A Mississippi farmer dominates in
the New York Sun, subject to confirm
alton by the National Convention
which meets at st. Louis June n, 1876:
Allen G.. Thurman of Ohio for Presi-
dent. Benz. II. Bristow Of Kentucky
for Vice President.
He says the record of these gentle
men is well known. They are for
hard money, free trade and home
rule Ii is claimed that they will unite
the honest men Of all parties and re
ceive the unanimous vote of the South,
at least 1877 votes, from the Middle
States Al. from the Western sc,
from the Pacific II, and from
Connecticut 6, making 225 electoral
votes. AS honesty is strong point III
favor of Presidential candidates, Thur
man or Hendricks, aud Bristow would
make strong team and winning
race
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

ORyILLE GRANT is known to have
been partner of BelkDap in the sale
Of trading-posts on the frontier. He
had fail authority from the Secretary
of War TO dispose of trading posts as
he saw fit, that is to the highest bidder.
1t has been profitable to be relative
of Grant. but at present not very pleas
urable.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.

Strayed from Paradise Valley about
the 18th of September, 1873, two Day
horses. about five years old, the prop
erty of H. Dalrymple, branded on the
left thigh three bars lengthwlse ana
vented in same manner on left Shout.
der. Fifty dollars reward VIII be PAID
on the delivery of the horses to N
Levy & Co Winnemueca New.
Winnemucca, Feb. 1e. 1876. I'm
NOTHING is SO insiduous as GELD or
a cough. Poison does not make O
swifter progress in the system. Use
promptly the only snre anfedote,
HALE's HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND lar.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure IN one
minute.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

A BosToN paper says that American
consuls in Mexico spend most of their
time smoking cigars and superintend :
ing street fights. Nearly all have bust.
ness outside their consulate.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

DEACON NOAH PEAsE of Ellington,
Connecticut, and his wife, aged respect
lively eighty-four and eightyhye years.
died at the same moment on Wednes-
day of last week, and were buried to-
day side by side.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

THERE are 81 DOC, 900 acres of land
in England, exclusive of the city of
London, and 20, 600, 900 acres of this area
is owned by IL 900 persons. The aggrt :
gate income of 100 of these land own
ers is $57 100000 annually from rent
ais
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

GEN. yoS PEUcKER, one of the most
scholarly officers of the Prussian army,
died IN Berlin the other day. 70 bis
sagaeity the country owes the adoption
OF the needle gun at time when a
400 years use of the muzzle-loader
prejudic+d all tie world against the in
noyatiOn.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

SIR GEORGE ELLIOTT. who purchased
the Egyptian railways for English cap
italists, was once a pit boy in the
mines. He is now tho largest coal
proprietor in the world, and member
of Parliament.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

BULL RUN RUSSELL will leave India
In time to write up the opening oere-
monies of the Centennial Exposition
for the London Times.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

Two new postal ears, with all the
modern improvements and conven-
iencies, have recently been built at
the Central Pacific Railroad shops,
and have been placed upon the road.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

b. z. SHILLABER, of the Boston Post,
the original Mrs Darlington, is visiting
Oakland, California. for the benefit
of his health. He is n years old.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

CAPT. CREwELL of Ludlow. Pa, has
live three-year old brook trout with
two perfectly developed heads. OF
course he will take him to the Cen
tennial.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

THE Sisters of Charity of Emmitts-
burg, Maryland have purchased the
Ca:son race course for the purpose, it
is stated, of building a convent or
school on the grounds.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

ALL the railroad magnates of Califor-
MIA are focking TO Sacramento to
fight the Archer fare and freight bill.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

A DIVIDEND Of so per share has
been declared upon the stock of the
Consolidated Virginia, and 81 per
share on the Belcher.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

THE owners of the coal mine near
Carlin have made arrangements to put
up machinery to develop the mine.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

TALKING to her husband ia a loud
tone of voice is enough to send
Persian wife to Jail for thirty days.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

The Journal intimates that Tom
Julien will be interested in the new
Reno paper. Carson Tribune.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-03-08

CARSON CRY is described By tie
loca! journals az a sea Of mad.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-06-10
ONE OF THE BLAINE LETTERS.
Suspicious Correspondence for q
Congressman

Following is copy of one of the
letters written by Blaine to Fisher:
AUGUSTA, Maine, October 4, 1869
My Dear Mr.. Fisher: Find enclosed
the contract of the parties named in
my letter of yesterday. The remaining
contracts will be completed as soon as
circumstances will permit. / enclose
to you part of Congressional Globe
of April 9th, containing the point to
which l referred at some length in my
previous letter of to-day. You will
find it of interest to read it over and
see what narrow escape your bill
made on that last night of the session.
Of course it was my plain duty to
make the ruling when the point was
once raised. If the Arkansas men had
not. however, happened to come to me
when at their wits ends and in dis
pair, the bill would undoubtedly have
been lost. or at least postponed for
year. thought the point would in
terest both you and Caldwell,
though occu ring before either of you
had engaged in the enterprise. | beg
you to understand that | thoroughly
appreciate the courtesy with which you
have treated me in this railroad mat
ter. Your conduct toward ms ia bus
mess matters has always been marked
with unbounded hberality in past years,
and of course [ have naturely come TO
expect the same of you now. You
urge me to make as much as I fairly
can out of the arrangement into which
l have entered. 1t is natural that |
should do my utmost to this end. /
am bothered with one thing. and that
is definite and expressed arrangement
with Caldwell. | am anxious to ac-
quire the interest he has promised me,
but do not get definite understand
ing with him as / have you. shall
be in Boston in few days, and shall
then bavs an opportunity to talk the
matter over fully with you. / am dis
posed TO think that whatever do with
Caldwell must really be done through
you. Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher.
Sincerely. J.G. BLAINE.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-06-10
SUMMARY OF TaIS MORNINGS
DISPATCHES.

Go' / closed in New York this
iof' noon at 1929.
Assessments delinquent in Board
yesterday. were New Coso, SOC, and
Trojan, Coo. The General Thomas as
sessment of SOC will become delin-
quent to day.
The Orc Elmo Mining Company have
levied an assessment of 75c per share,
delinquent July 18th.
The German pol cy continues to aim
above all at the permanent peace OF
Europe, and leading political circles are
convinced that the efforts III that d.
recton will be successful in Constan-
tinople. The Sofas have been forbid
den to carry arms or to congregate In
public thoroughfares.
During a debate in the Spanish SEN
ate on the new Constitution, the Blsh-
Up VI tOdlaACi salu tuo opdhloA ElS-
lates would always oppose religious toll
Grafton, as incompatible with Catholi-
cism.
Commodore Vanderbilt has so far re-
covered, that he will soon be about
again.
Ia West Virginia the Democrtic Con-
yention at Charleston, June SIh. after
continuous session of seventy five
hours. succeeded in making nomina-
tons for Governor, Attorney General,
Auditor and Treasurer.
Jacob Thompson. formerly Secretary
of the Interior, was served at Wash
inSton yesterday with civil process to
recover "a miliion dollars principal and
interest on notes taken from that De-
partment while he was in office.
England and other powers have
agreed upon certain points, among
which is one not to resort to undue
pressure of the Porte. Russia, France,
and England have made successful
representation to Servia for mainten-
ance of peace.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-06-10
Two literary ladies' were lately wit

Two literary ladies were lately wit
nesses in trial. One of them, upon
hearing the usual questions asked,
"What is your name?" and How old
are your" turned to her companion
and said: :" / do not like to tell my
age; not that | have any objection to
its being known, but don't want IL pub
lished i'll all the newspapers. Wei,
said the witty Mrs. s., IL will
tell you how to avoid it. You have
heard the objection to all hearsay evil
dence; tell them you don't remember
when you were born, and all you know
of it is by hearsay." The ruse took,
and the question was not pressed.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-06-10

On the arrival Of circus at St. Crolx,
Wisconsin, u family who lived twenty
two miles distant, sold their only stove
to raise the money to attend it. Their
method of travelling was by means OF
an OK. team. One day was consumed
in going, another n witnessing tho en-
tertalument, and third in returning.
Happy and contented they arrived ut
their sleeveless hoIue and voted the cir
Gus the best thing they bad ever wit
nessed, and the money well aud ad-
vantageously invested.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-06-10
BLAINE'S TACTICS.

A report now comes from Cincin-
natl, that Blaine is to attend the con-
ventlon i'll person next week, for the
purpose OF Withdrawing his name and
seconding the ncmlnatlon of some one
else. The programme Is said to be ar
ranged ard will be carried out with
dramatic effect. When the Pine Tree
STAKE dominates her gifted son, whose
tracks to those Little Book bonds have
at last been discovered, the - Gifted
Son viii rise in the convention, re-
turn thanks for the distinguished hon
or, and state that owing to circumstan-
ces over which he has no control,
namely, the Investigations Of that Rebel
House OF representatives., which have
exposed his little private affairs with
railroads seeking subsidies while he
was Speaker. he is obliged to withdraw
from the Presidential contest He is
then expected to name his favorite, and
the question now puzzling the brains
of the other aspirants is to ascertain
who that person is. While there may
be good grounds for this report. it is
scarcely probable that Blaine will
Withdraw from the field, when it is SO
generally known that the bond jobbery
has only endeared him to the party
which upholds fraud, and would con-
sign the Democratic House of Repre-
rentatlves to everlasting perdition for
exposing it.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-06-10
A CONDENSED novel: He was offered

A CONDENSED novel: He was offered
a choiee between death aud marriage,
aud he chose the former. HIS name
was Friutz; he was clerk IN the CInciL.
natl Postotfice; was to have been mar
RED night beiore last. The minister,
the guests aud the bride were on hand ;
Erintz WASH { there; friend went TO see
him next morning; Frintz pulled pis-
til and shot himself through the hear /;
girl faints and swears she can never
love another. Revsiile.