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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25

The best evening paper that Nashville
ever had is the Banner. Its local depart
ment is admirably conducted, and alto
gether it is a live, interesting, valuable
paper. 1t has just completed its first
volume and enters its second with the
most encouraging evidences of popular
appreciation. a long life to it.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25

A correspondent of the Bristol Cour-
Ter says that Mr.. George Foust, well
known and respectable citizen, and for
many years Justice of the Peace, and
who resided on Eden's Ridge, 2 miles
west of Blountville, was taken sudden
ly i'll Friday morning, 18th inst, with a
pain in his right eye, and died the same
evening at o'clock, of what was sup
posed to be congestion of the brain.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25

Chancellor Smith has appointed Geo.
Fl. Groves, Esq, of Granger county,
Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court
at Rutledge, in the place of c. G. Smith,
whose term of office had expired. Mr..
Smith has held the office for fifteen or
twenty years, and has made an excellent
and efficient officer. Mr.. Groves is an
unobjectionable gentleman, every way
qualified to fill the place.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25

Bristol Courier: Mr.. John Lyons, a
respectable farmer, living in the yicini-
ty of EIizabethton, committed suicide
last Saturday morning, first severing the
arteries of the left arm and then cutting
his throat almost from ear to ear, with
razor, which was found in his pocket.
He was about 45 years old, and reported
to be in easy circumstances, and regard
ed by his neighbors as an honest man.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25

Jack Williams, who shot officer Pryde
at Memphis, some time ago, has been
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary for the shooting. This added to
fifteen he got for being engaged in the
Kaufman robbery makes eighteen years
Mr. Williams will be in exile. Officer
Pryde was a son of Col. John Pryde, of
this county.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25
From the Franklin Review
W. are deoidedlv Of the opinion

We are decidedly Of the opinion that
Gov Porter should call the General As
sembly in extra session and have the
State debt settled and taken out of poll
tics 1t is tho height Of folly to let this
question remain unsettled It is up now
for settlement. Let it be settled.
4 s4ss From the BIurfreesboro News
The course of the Legislature in refus-
ing to pay any interest on the State
bonds, and reducing the tax to 10 cents,
is having the desired effect. Sales of
Tennessee bonds in the market have
since been nearly nominal, land the bonds
have really no market value A little
more legislation IN the same direction
would make our bonds worth little more
than the paper they are printed on. This
would not be repudiation-oh no. 1t
would simply be a compromise, "a
compromise Of honor.
From the Memphis Ledger
The Legislature took no action Oh the
bondholders' proposition to settle at six
fy cents on the dollar, but simply reduc-
ed the State tax from forty cents to ten
cents on the one hundred dollars worth
Of property. Ten cents is the rate for
a. 1877 and under the new assessment law
property will be so assessed, unless the
Legislature is convened in time to
change it, which is not very likely We
believe the LEGISLATURE in reducing the
rate did not mean to repudiate, but to
make q compromise more certain at a
reasonable.rate The State cannot af
ford 10 repudiate, and will not we hope.
1t would be a lasting disgrace. We say
this the more freely because we opposed
and still condemn the funding ring, and
at the same time always stood commit
ted 10 the true principle Of State credit
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25
aetter from L.. Tnos. Mitchell
Of Hamilton, ca.
go q 1890. d5iaadoa. Z


GENTLE Please acceptmy thanks
for the trial bottle Of ''fr0n and Alum
Mass which you were kind enough to
send me feNszNgeeFs Tagp. a have also
received anels used four others from my
druggists in Atlanta, and to say / am
pleased VI II, docs not half ezpress it.
I an truly. de2lolted, and shall use it exten-
sively in my .praetieesT / an an old
physician of ll4R wears regulht practice
and do not jump ateyery new remedy |
fud, but test all-held on to that which
proves good, and expose thetbaa ~ have
already the report of one very inter
esting casesto max Of its eiTeetsg-in a
case of drowning from an accilmula-
ton of phlegfn"in a paFa9lizesl throat
When the patient was fast sinking from
oppression of phlegm the "Iron and
Alum Massfa relieved him prolnntlE and
saved his life, when ED reliable remedies
failed TWAS trial, bnt great sue
cess. Respectfully,
TII0S. s. MITCHELL. I'M. I'D.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25
= 2 = = III 4 y ALLlIlIIs
Hamilton, Ga ,sJan. 20, ~

Get a bottle from your nearest. drug
gist, or enclose 81 to Landram & Itch
field, Abingdon, Va and you will re-
ceive bottle by return mail
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25
From the wartburg Dispatch.

" G thInk lt mighty utJIng auu proper,
in the present juncture of affairs, for
meetings to be held in the several. cOun-
ties Ter the purpose of manifesting dis
1 approbation ofthe course of the Legis-
lature upon this subject, and endorsing
the action and position of Gov. Porter.
? Let the public speak out. We believe
that a policy Of silence is the policy of
ruin. The honest, patriotic men of Ten
nessee cannot afford to remain silent and
inactive in this hour of impending dis
honor. We owe it to ourselves and to
posterity to put on record our opposition
TO the dishonest, disgraceful and foul
dogma of udiatiOn-Tennessee free
from this stain, is the proudest Of proud
States: cover it with the dark shame of
republication and no honest man will live
in It ---s-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

Of political intelligence can see that what
has been done in making Mr.. HAYES Prcs-
dent of tho United states has been done 10y
excluding the operation OF the popular sense
in three States. Instead OF leaving the
electoral system to operate in its normal
method, the Republican con-pirators, when
they found that electors had been appointed
in Florida. louisiana and South Carolina,
who would be under popular instruction
to cast tho votes of those States for TIL
DIS, Immediately devised means for strk-
ing Mt that immediate act OF the people,
10y the substitution of another set of electors
who did not represent the majority OF the
voters who had expressed their prefer
cnces in the popular election. This was
done by every species Of cabal intrigue,
and corruption, the most deadly enemies
of republican government" applied, not in
corruuting the lawfully appointed electors
and inducing them to disregard the sense
Of the people," but by corrupting the re-
turning officers and making them declare
that another set ofclectors had been chosen,
contrary To the notorious truth.
Then followed the device Of the UNI
constitutional Electoral Commission for
declaring that all this had been done
in accordance with law and cOnstitu-
tiona provisions the vcricst fiction that
was ever devised for giving n seeming
Public sanction to an outrageous system of
frauds. No human wisdom. no foresight Of
the trainers of the Constitution. could have
guarded against villainy like this The
electoral system prcsuppu~cs that in every
state a body of men will have been appoint
-
their having no previous official existence,
ana by reason Of popular instruction. will he
removed from the dangers of "cabal. in
triyruc. and corIuption, when thcya-scmhie
for the express purpose of casting the elcc-
tural votes of the state. But the system
doc- not gaarl. and could not have been
made to guard. against cheating in the
counting of tn popular votes, nor could it
have been 50 framed as % preclude a Con-
grcs-ional declaration that although there
has been cheating in counting the popular
votes for the electors there H. no remedy
against the fraud.
/ Here is the injury which tho electoral svs-
1 tom has Sustained al the hands OF certain
uuscrupulou- leaders and managers Of the
| Republican rar,y. That system stands to-
day. la it, entire scope and plrpoS" rs wise,
| ~ pure. As hcnchcont. in its true operation,
as ii was when it came from the hands Of its
trainers, and rs it has proved to hc in every
election from WAsulSGroN to GRANT. 1t
has not failed from any inherent defects. 1t
! ha- been undermined and circumvcnted by
men who cared nothing for the Injury they
might do to il. f they could get their caudi-
| date into the Office Of President 10y fictitious
| devices that would be submitted to rather
/ than to nave tie country involved in another
/ civil war; They couli not get him into tine
oflice in any other way, and, having put him
There n this way, they must not expect that
/ their duings will bc overlooked.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

but with sincerity in his heart and WAC
NrR under his arm, while the crowds arc
charmed by tho larruppiug dittics OF OrEurT
and the njaiscrics Of JrNNy lIrGnEs. might
have kept roof over his head if hc had not
insisted upon making the summer scientific,
when any madrgal hoy could have told him
it was sufficient to make it tuncful. Such is
the penalty. however, of being teacher
when tine public want a troubadour. Concert
garden people were wont to say that they
wont to GILMORE to get the kind OF music
men wanted, and they went to THOMAS to
get the kind he wanted. On the whole
THOMAS is to be commended, but January is
u better month forit than July. Let us wait
till cool weather, says the New Yorker, be-
fore we put on our good taste and wear our
heavy aesthetic duties.
II l. to Mr. GILMoEE's honor that he has
furnished music to the million, and fur
ni~hcd II not only copiously, but crcditablY.
His special work was to- please the greedy
many, rather than to satisfy the fastidious
fcw His special triumph has been that he
has done both. For there is none so per-
verse as not to acknowledge that OFTEN
BACH is better than nothing in August: and
BEETHOVEN blown through brass may drive
the divine IDEAS into dull ears that no strings
would reach.
Mr.. GILMORE in pouring out music does
good work Let his horns advance, let him
blow up the trumpet in the new moon, and
make joyful noise. Our summer cannot
have too much of II, nor will the ten thou
sand tolcrs complain. Music is privileged
In summer, therefore give US BEETHOVEN,
STRAUSS, GILMORE. HANDEL cverything
sweet, tunablc, rhythmic, and stirring. We
shall accept it all thankfully at time when
every concert room organ loft, and opera
huuse Is bare. rninod and dcsOlnte.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23
Government Advertising.

The Post Oncc Department has sent ont n
circular saying that II is willing to pay for
advertising on business principles; and it
requires every newspaper competing for the
Post Onicc advertisements to certify pre-
,iscly what It's circulation is.
This is sound principle and it should be
carried out to it, logical conclusion. Let
the department establish the rule that 1t
Will pay for every advertisement it publish
Is at II fixed rate per line for every thousand
copies Of the advertisement circulated 10y
each newspaper ia which 1t Is inserted, aud
then the transaction Will hc fair and square
all around; and it will be ON real business
principles.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

There are many consulates with 81 600 n year
and others depend mt on f'os. which are omitted
from this compilation. These two classes are
allowed 10 transact husine hut The privilege is
not considered valuable since IL is denied posi-
lively 70 all the other grades. Altogether. there
are many fat places and little 20 DO in these hard
times. which will suit the thronG Of Office sock
ers that now infc-t Washington. and are willing
20 support the Constitution on tho best terms
that can l. made
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23
ma doctors Of nnnnce who inventol MA

Tho doctors Of finance who invented what
il called the MORRILL, tariff are Il turns ont. re-
sponsihlc for many II the frauds Of which the
Cabinet Investigating Commission has found
the New York Custom House guilty. The pro-
visions u the tar Y are yoluminous. and So
complex that 81 themselves they assure a dis
honest examiner that nobody can catch him II
be- accepts au importers rlh- and makes 70
.a-~ln att n-nin-' tine Treasury SINCE NV Ia
tl' Gust ma House ami none outside under
stand precisely what mo lau-r- 81 ia" trfi
mean. Iut what can Doe douef ENper'- say
that the tlrin laws Of other nations are as
faulty us ours Is. except that they do not EN-
brace So many dutiuhle goods as are scheduled
ia the tarin Of the United States.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

II Is exciting news for the Office hunters
two foreign missions are vacant. the Austrian
and the Brazilian. and six consulships also are
vacant. Tho hungry patriots have undoubtedly
got hold Of this news. and are studying how to
secure the full advantage OF It, They should
hasten TO put in their applications: they should
obtain strong list of hackers /; they should
write to HAYES and EvAHIs. But they should
not rest satisfied with this. They should
10 to Washington. call upon HAYES and
EvARrs and urge their claims in person.
with all the force they can command. If man
wants a foreign mission because he Is hard up.
let him say so ii he wants it rs a reward for
fraudulent party services. let him state the fact
II he wants it for the honor Of IT, let him ex-
plain the point. if he wants ii because he is out
Of n job. let him not conceal the reason He
will find that HAYES is n non-committal sort Of
person. and that EvARTs is a willy lawyer. and
that both are anxious to put him off. but he
must not permit himselfto be put on outwitted
or tired out. He must be full Of determination
and pertnacity II he would succeed. He must
call upon HAYES aud EyAErs early in the morn
ing. visit them soon after dinner. and drop in
upon them NJ night II they should forget the
facts of his case. he must refresh their memory
Somebody will get this Austrian mission. and
this Brazilian mission. and these six consul
ships. that Is certain. II Is the widc-awnke bird
that catches the worm. Never mind about both
ering or boring HAYES AMI EvARTs they can
stand that sort Of thing and are paid for ii. Tho
best place among the vacancies is the Austrian
mission. and the hungry patriot should first
apply for that; the neXt best place IL the Brazil
ian mission. But the consulsllips are not To- boz
d,~pised. and any of them Is beuerthan nothing
1t must Zoe possible Tor an cnterprising. per-is-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23
MISSIONS AvD covsULiTEs.

Tho rush for foreign appointmcntsh has had
no parallel since the first term Of Gen. Grant,
when nearly all the missions and most OF the
principal consulates were changed within sixty
days after his Inauguration. Don Hamilton
Fish was the cxccutioncr Of that general dccap-
itntion Of Mr.. Iincoln's appointments. and he
took pride in the work. Tho salaries OF many
Of these Offices were materially changed by the
last Congress. and the Department Of State was
instrumental in n partial reorganization Of the
diplomatic and consular service. which has not
increased its efficiency In any way. and, in
many respects. is stupid and absurd.
In order 10 assist the patriots who wish TO
serve their country in foreign lands we have
collected from the recent laws and the registers
Of the Department the principal missions and
consulates. with their present pay. as Il useful
guide in making their applications:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

Talk about waste in this ty; why, II was
shown by Alderman TCoMEY yesterday that in
the last eight years there has been paid for
armory rents and repairs in his city tho stu
pendous sum Of t3.Glj.535. willie nearly mill
lion moro dollars claimed for those armory
rents are yet unpaid. In look ng after this dis
graceful extravaganza. and demanding that
some way be- found out of H. Alderman TuoMEY
is doing a good work for the poor people who
raise Tho taxes that rieh mon deyonr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

public auction the only mode in which the city
can sell, it would not bring over 81 100000. We
deem Mr. SHEnwooD's proposition tho most
practical and sensible one for the people and
the city. II Forty-nrst stree should be opened
westerly from Fifth avenue to Reservoir
square there would remain eighty lots of lOoN2j.
belonging TO the city and available for building
purposes. We doubt If in these times they
could be ratified of at the Exchange at higher
average rate than 100000 per lot all around.
Inasmuch as Commissioner CAMPBELL has de-
clarcd the Fory-sccond street reservoir no
longer necessary, and nasmueh as its abandon
mcnt will merely involve the Encouragement Of
certain pipes nj a cost of about $4,000. while n
saving OF $4,000 per annum will be effected in
superintendent and maintenance. it s TO he
desired that the proper authorities take such
prompt action in the matter as may be best for
the interests Of the city at large.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

Not only are the French newspapers 20 Doe
k,it in order ny MAoMAn lN's new Ministry.
iut the circulation OF foreign newspapers ia
Frau'r is To- Doe tolerated only att taey
have hrDn subjected 20 Il minute CENSOR
ship. "" presume tho order i- intended
90 apply especially 10 the British press. The
London To,es. the Ddiy Aers. and other
leading newspapers Of Great britain have
us.d STR ng language H. eNpr. ~@iug their
disnruro,m ~ the recent change in
thr Cabinet AMI in The policy O.,
France. aud now the Government can
ever SIC the same kind q surveillance over
them that WIS at ono time exercised 10y NAro-
LEoN Ill. II Is an unwise Sop that MAcMAHoS
has taken; lut We cannot sIIpD-r DE VIII ~ so
far u- 10 itt.rlere with THL suns circulation
NJ IrNn-e.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

1t Is suggestive coincidence that imme-
diutrly after Mr.. r. B. HAYES Of Ohio had spent
sofnc time in examining tho portrait OF the
Fraudulent President engraved and printed in
THE sun. h. directed his private secretary, w.
X. RoGFns % WRIT an on .a letter TO this OH %
To endeavor 90 get TIRE svN added to the num-
herof n. wspaper~ supplied grniuiou-ly To the
White House. EoGlRS wrote the letter as he
WIS directed. hut luckily i1r Nh. HAYES he could
not obtain THE SvS on snsh conditions. He
docs not set much store hy newspapers that he
doesn't hav" to pay for. and when he pays down
his two cents day for this journal he Will feel
whit il costs him. and tae realizing Of 1t Will do
him great deal NOR" good than If he got It for
nothing. i. -ides. n man m perusr THE Sun
every dny without acquiring moral tonc and
perhaps Mr. HAYES may vet Dee brought e. the
point - r0i .utius 300 -h1m" and sorrow AMI
ceAzins 20 bee a receiver of stolen goods.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-23

Those WHO don't Ike the small onc-hor@c
ears GA the Bloeekar street railroad can stay ONT
of them. and only seounir'l would grt on
board II ear and then r'fu-r go pay the fare.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-18
IL was Another william A. Wheeler.

The Boston Herald recently published a
letter written by William A. Wheeler to Simon
Cameron in 1861. asking for an arms contract.
The Hon. William A. Wheeler OF Malone. n Y.
and Washington. d. c.. writes ~ the Springfield
Republican thus:
A friend has sent me the issue Of your paper
OF Nh inst. calling my attention To the article
cutitlci "A Discovery rs 10 VICE Pres d"nt
Wheeler" Every statement therein connecting
me with a contract for arms in 1861 II wholly
untrue. never had n contract with the Govern
ment. directly or indirectly. ofany natur. what
s,ever. Ordinary fair dealing r'qur"s that YOU
which YOU say is all found in on 'inl dpcu-
moui-." Please printan publ ia proof at
length, and forward hill at advert sim, rates.
for which will promptly remit You say that
when i was preposcl 10 invest cute Mr..
Cameron cvntra't Mr.. Wheel.r. made himself
cpuspi nous hy his oppos ton" II this bo true.
the Glole viii show H., Please also 10 print and
publish the proof Of this allegation. .or which
viii also pay your advert = ng rates.
There wore at that time three gentlemen he-
sides myself bearing tn" name AZ William 4.
Wheeler IN no way related 10 mel ON living in
Camhr,dg". Mass, one in tho lily al NV York,
and one. think. in Mor ester. Macs. cannot
say whether either of thrm had - contract for
arms with the Government or not. / re.ter-
Nte that did not
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-18
OFIICIiL SMUGGLING.
SERIOUS Charges Against John u. Bi-eiow, the
Treasury Agent in London.

WAsHISGToN. July 1.-THE announcement
that John Z. Bgelow. the Treasury agent in con-
du ting the Syndicate operations in London. is
on his way home in sgracc for smuggling
goods. rous's some little surprise here that the
Treasury Department has not earlier discover
I'd a notorious fact. 20 which The Sun has be-
fore called its attention. The particular offence
now charged against Bgclow. who occupies ono
%. the most rnsp1n- hl' pos tons I'm the git Of
the Secretary. s in the passage OF nine trunks
nlrd with dutahlc articles when on q visit some
tmc ago. When Bigelow came here last Marh
lac brought six trunks. which were said at the
time To be fun Of dutinblc goods. and cases
easily proved eN It in which he sold silk dress
patterns hcre in town at prices which put the
payment of sixty pr cent ud NalOr"m duty out
thousand dollars worth OF bronn.s owned hy
hm r. currently sud to lee in the
"tv now. and his systematic use OF such
AL u prs MS o. OH 'ius here in Washing
90 this IN" department must have known-anl #
tdlt ~ I NuH w.-upuli haNe known. th.t r. con
iliential ngent r'ntd Il hpus" IA london for a
sum which al soihrd nearly All b salary. and
liN"d upon ale which proved ia. "Nlst n 80
o. some hidden in ONE. 1t is "a curious Illus.
truion OF the shameless display with wli"h All
this has boon done. that. when h lepw went
aurpnd last April. a swarm OF Custom Hou-n
on 'ers and several silk brokers saw him of
with Il great flourish oi Hover and enthusiasm.
and while Il gclow holds place OF great conf
dent al importance. ne does not hold an ON 'nl
d monstration. Bgcow's return Will probably
uneurth a long course OF on iNl snuggl M, in
Nolvins large cir IL. Of men oi various degrees
Of prOnunrn and culminat NJ, 4 H. said, in
m "N-S Secretary OF the Treasury. However this
may BE-, the Government has lost heavily 10y
these frauds. and Bra'krus narrow escape
from summary removal Was probably owing to
the strong political intu"n'" Of thos' WHO have
prOuted " the sale OF smuggled goods.