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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-13
Mitchell's school Geographic.
From the Tribune and Age

From the Tribune and Age.
We are obliged to Mr.. John w.
Paulett for set of Mitchell's School
Biographies. After a careful in
spection of the books, we are pre-
pared to fully endorse what the pub
fishers say of these biographies :
!" The maps are more correct, the
graduation of the different books is
more nearly perfect and the series is
better adapted to the schoolroom
than any other published. They are
largely used in nearly all the States
and Territories of the United States,
and are gaining in popularity wher-
ever used.
We desire to call the attention of
educators to these biographies, and
to the other publications of J. Fl.
tanned an excellent reputation for
more than thirty years. They pub
lish full line of textbooks for the
public and private schools. and pro-
pose to furnish them at lower prices
than books of like quality can be
purchased for. Among the publica-
tions of this house may be found
Bingham's Latin and English series
and Buffers Pictorial History of the
United States. They are first-class
books in every respect and have been
largely introduced into the schools
of the country. We were furnished
sometime since with a set of the
New American Readers and
Spoilers. They are well graded,
well printed and Titled with excellent
matter
Added to these good qualities they
have the advantage of cheapness-
being lower in price than any other
series. Public and private schools
will be supplied with any of the
books at largely reduced prices. for
introduction. Information will be
promptly furnished in regard to the
books by Mr.. John w. Paulett. the
Southern general agent for Messrs
j. I'll. Butler g. Co. This gentleman
has acted as the introductory agent
for Buffers books for nearly four
years, and has travelled extensively
through the Southern and Western
States. He has done much to po-
pularize the books with school Off
GERS and teachers, from Richmond.
Virginia, to Little Rock, Arkansas,
and throughout the State of Ken
lucky and Indiana.
The time is at hand when the pub
lie and private schools of the coun-
try will be adopting textbooks for
the schools to be opened in the fall.
We advise all persons wanting school
books to correspond with Mr.. Pau
lett in regard to the books which he
represents. He will give prompt
and satisfactory replies to all letters
asking information. His address is
Knoxville, Tenn.
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FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
DRY WEATHER BUT "a H0RABEE
CROPS WANTS LOCAL NEWS.
LYNN CAMP, KY, June 8, 1877.

LINN OAMfs hys1 June ., 1917.
To the Editor Of the aIorristown aazette:
At the present we are having very dry
weather, and are greatly needing ram.
The wheat crop promises good yield
this year. Hog cholera has been visit
ing some parts of our county, and has
destroyed many of the hog family. Hard
times is also a great word with our peo-
Pile; yet see but little cause to grumble
from the fact that this is plentiful
year. The country is flowing with corn
and bacon, at low prices: corn 80 cents
per bushel, bacon 10 cents pound; but
money is very hard to get, and we wish
Mr.. Lambert to come this way with his
cave money, as we are needy people.
/ read in recent number of the GA
zETTE of some one having wheat four
feet high. At the same time we had it
with US more than five feet high. no.
tice that marriage license has gone down
to mere song, and that many of our old
friends are taking advantage of the low
priced paper.
Collar, arouse from your sleep and neg
lgence and give your county paper the
news of your neighborhood. We would
be pleased to see something from you in
the GAZETTE every week giving the news
items of Young's Creek. Tell us what
is going on up and down the old Holston.
Yours, truly, OLD Knox.
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$40, 800 per annum for the Pen.
itentiary

The bids for the lease of the Peniten-
tiary, its property and fixtures and the
labor of the convicts therein, for six
years from the first day of August next,
were opened in the presence of the Off
cial committee at the Capitol last We'd
nesday. The highest bid offered was by
A. M. Shook, of Tracey City, who agreed
to give $40, 500 per annum. The next
highest was sos, 900, and the lowest $780,
100. The bidders were A. M. Shook,
Cherry, O'Conner 81 Co., Lavender s.
Cox, F. NJ. Lavender, J It McEwen and
A. Hatchett. After the proposals had
been examined, Col. Gibbs, Secretary of
State, announced that the lease was
awarded to Mr.. Shook. The bids rang
ed as follows:
A NJ Shook, Tracey City. SIC, 500
F NJ Lavender, Franklin. .... 65, 900
A Hatchett, Memphis .......... 81 900
James T McEwen, Franklin. =. 50 ,275
VIM Moore and Martin III White So, 900
Thomas O'COnnor- 90, 1O0
Mr. Shocks bondsmen are William II.
Cherry, Thomas O'Conner and DR.. VIM.
Morrow, President of the Tennessee
Coal Company. Heretofore, says the
american, the State has paid for the
transportation of convicts from the place
of conviction, but under the law recent
ly passed by the Legislature, the lessees
will hereafter have to pay for such trans
portation. This transportation of
convicts has cost the State $25, 900 dur
ing the past two years, or $12, 500 per
annum. The Legislature provided that
persons hereafter convicted of petit lar
ceny must be sent to the penitentiary in
stead of to the county work-honses.
This probably will increase the cost of
transportation to SO, 900 per annum.
Add this to the SO, 500 at which the in
stitution is leased, and the actual cost to
the lessee will be about $50, 900. The
State pays the salary of the Superinten-
dent, which is 50, 500; Warden, 1000;
Deputy Warden, $500; Physician, 81
Chaplain, $500; total, $4,000 Subtract
this from the $86, 900, about the amount
at which the Penitentiary is leased, and
there remains SIS, 300 net that the State
will receive from this source. We can
but congratulate the State, as every
competitive bidder did yesterday upon
this gratifying result of the leasing sys-
tenn The successful bidder, Mr. Shook,
has long been known to the people of
Tennessee and the South as the energetic
manager of the Sewanee Coal Mines at
Tracey City. While he is nominally the
lessee, the business will be conducted
hereafter as heretofore by Cherry, o.
Conner & Co., under their firm name.
This firm has established a business rep
utation which is known throughout the
South. That they will sustain that rep
utation their past success is full guar
antee. With Major O'Conner, Dr. Nor
row, Mr.. Shook and Mr. Cherry as les
sees, the institution must pay both the
State and her contractors. We certain
lV hone So
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R The Washington correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
after again predicting with great
confidence that the President will
say good word for the Texas Paci
fc in his annual message but will
discourage the propositions to levee
the Mississippi and refund the cot
ton tax, says:
As was recently stated in these
dispatches, the Texas Pacific pro-
positions has steadily been growing
in favor with the Northern Repub-
licans who have the same view that
have been adopted by the Admins
tration with reference to the justice
and advisabjIity of the passage of a
subsidy bill to carry it out, so that
the measure will come before the
Forty-ffth Congress stronger than
ever before.
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A GHASTLY LIST.

A list of property for sale for take;
NAV be met with at this season il
the official paper designated by the
Tax Collectors of any of our cities
and counties. Such a one, covering
it is said, taCelue hundred columns,
and more, has recently appeared in
Chicago, to which the Washington
Nation. in an article entitled " A
Twelve Hundred Column Argus
ment," alludes in the following
strong language:
"Ex-Secretary McCulloch must
have experienced a curious sensa-
ton when he picked up, or rather
grappled with the Chicago Inter
Ocean of Saturday last. The spe-
cial object of interest in tho paper
was a protest against the policy
which was first inaugurated by Mr..
McCulloch at a time when he was
comparatively poor man and had
his fortune to make. The protest
was longer and stronger than any
speech delivered by that eminent
orator, Mr.. Evarts. 1t covered more
than twelve hundred columns. Ii
was at once a protest and an appeal.
It was at once forcible and pathetic.
It told of families in distress and
ruined homes. 1t told of merchants
who had toiled a lifetime and were
now about to lose all the fruits of
their toll. It spoke of manufac-
facturers who had failed to keep
their workshops in operation. or
laborers who were about to lose the
humble homes which represented the
savings and hard work of years. 1t
told Of widows and orphans in dan
ger of restitution and want. 1t told
of the sweeping away of the crafty
schemes of capitalists of men left
in their old age without support. 1t
told of the horrible crimes which
are produced by poverty. 1t breathes
of forgery, theft, suicide. 1t was
the most stnpendous volume Of mis-
fortune ever published. 1t was the
list of Chicago property, advertised
by the Sheriff, to be sold for delin-
quent taxes.
{" Think of it. Twelve hundred
columns containing the names of
more than two hundred thousand
pieces of property advertised for
sale at public auction What an
amount of misery entailed upon the
owners How many sleepless nights
how much anxiety how much suf-
fering; how much of absolute woe
to follow!
"Why is this so? Why should
the most energetic, intelligent, and
hard working people to be found in
any city in this country, be put in
such a position? But Chicago is'no
exception. Every other city. which
in times past possessed enterprise
and business energy, is in similar
condition to-day. Everywhere you
fnd manufactures idle. Merchants
taking down their signs and going
into Bankruptcy. SheTiffs adVertis.
ing delinquent property for sale. 1t
in the same story. 1t begins in the
year that Hugh McCulloch became
Secretary Of the Treasury, and it
will be continued until the vicious,
silly. ruinous policy Of contraction
is put a stop to. A policy born in
corruption and nourished to idiocy
and fraud. How long, Oh, Lord,
How long" .3ti
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GRANGER COUNTY.
MADISON ACADEMY-R RAID ON
ILLICIT DZSTZLLERS.

MADLSON ACADEMY = RAID ON
ILLICIT DZSTTLLERS
RICHLAND, Granger CO., June 8.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
The closing exercises of Madison Ac-
ademy were largely attended at Rutledge
last week. Prof. Davidson has been con-
Quoting a school at that place for some
time, beginning with quite small school,
but by untiring energy he has finally sue
ceeded in building up first class insti-
tuition, and one that any community
should be proud of. His closing exer-
cises were perfectly satisfactory to all
who were present, and the patrons of the
school were proud and delighted to see
that their sons and daughters had made
such progress in their studies. Exercis-
es closed on Friday night with compost
tiops by the young ladies and orations
by the young men. Four prizes were
awarded for excellency in composition.
.. S. D. R. C.'s Gilbraith and Dunn,
with posse of men, made a raid on il
licit distillers, last week, in this county,
OuO StlIIl III AAAA OAd-
er, having about eight hundred gallons
of beer and sixty gallons of singlins on
hand, which, with the still, were destroy
ed. Two arrests were made. One Tighl-
man johnson and Samuel Merritt were
brought before U. S. Commissioner Jos.
Grigsby for trial who, after hearing the
evidence, bound them over to the u. s.
Court to await further action. / tell
you, boys, you had better go slow still
ing, for the Marshals can smell whisky
long distance.
We are having very dry weather. A
good rain is very much needed. Farm
ers are very much down in the mouth,
but all seem to be at work in earnest:
Wheat is looking well and good show
er would be beneficial. More anon.
Respectfully, SNYDER.
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A FLOURESHTNG SCHOOL-SHEEP
AND THEIR ENEMIES
TnoRN HILL. june 6. 1871


THORN HILL, June 6, 1877.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette
We have fourishing Sabbath School
of thirty-five scholars, and expect to
have Sabbath School picnic some time
this summer for the encouragement of
the children. We are all strong advo-
Gates of the Sabbath School cause, for it
is there that we learn first the lessons of
eternal life. Our best and wisest men
were once little Sabbath school scholars.
Since the dog tax has been abolished
the dogs are seeking revenge. Our friend
Sam Turner'S dog became so joyful over
his freedom that he concluded to take
general dog spree in the woods First
he whetted his appetite on beef, then
pork and finally made hearty meal on
mutton, few nights ago. The dog was
shot But there is another class of sheep
disturbers that deserve attention. l al
lude to that class of men who take up
and sell sheep that do not belong to
them-who actually steal and sell sheep
they never owned. I think there is
law for such men, and also an Institution
at Nashville where they can learn some
trade. Youas,
CHUCKEL.
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Sudden Death.

Mrs. Celia J. Craig, wife of James
Craig, Esq, near Morristown, died sud-
denly last Sunday night, 10th inst, aged
CT years. She had been to Church in
the evening, in her usual health, but
soon after returning home was taken
i'll, and died in a few minutes. She
leaves husband and several grown chill
dren to mourn her loss. She was a mem
Der of the Presbyterian church of Nor
ristown, and will be missed by the
Church and large number of friends
in this community.
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WHAT JSENA TOR HARRIS THINKS
OF MEXICO.

Senator Harris. in response to
queries. favored us yesterday with
his views on the Mexican question.
He agrees substantially with the
views expressed by the american.
His opinion is doubly valuable, for
besides a long leach in the way of
political prophecy, the years spent
in Mexico have made him familiar
with the country, its inhabitants and
the modes of thought, and the forms
which anarchy take in that country.
He is opposed to annexation. He
says there are 100000 or worthless
population to 100000 of good in
telligent citizens. and we cannot af-
ford to deal with the problem of
carrying more of them than we have.
He thinks it the duty of the Gov
eminent 10 pursue firm and just
course. REFRESHING all lawlessness
and building up trade and supplying
an orderly, law-abiding population.
In the course of time he thinks
Mexico will, If such system is fol-
lowed. fall into our arms whenever
it is to her interest and to ours, that
is when the country shall be devel-
oped and built up, populated by
sturdy, solid, industrious popula-
ton, Americanized. Then it will in.
terest both to come together. and
neither. nor any class of either, will
oppose it. lie says the educated
classes are men of sense and
thorough education, while the other
classes are more than usually objec-
JionaOle as citizens. To take charge
of them as their guardian be would
regard as unfortunate. a dear res
possibility with no corresponding
benefit.
He thinks we have territory
enough to occupy US for the next
few years, without getting on our
hands such an elephant as Mexico
would be with her present popula-
ton and almost total want of devel-
opment.-NdsbVille american.
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whore to buy school Books.

Messrs. Shannon s. Co., of Morris
town, are prepared to furnish school
books to all The children of Hamblen
county at Introduction prices. This
means sauiaay to the people Of ooer fifty per
cent. from the prices heretofore charged for
scsOol-6OOks.
. They have on hand at present, Nit
chelI's Biographies, Goodrich's His
tories, Smiths Grammars, The New
American Readers and SpellersyB The
chronological Reader, Tenney's Geology
and Bingham's Latin Grammar and
Reader.
Their books are all first-class, and are
offered at exceedingly low prices for q
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-13
Death by Lightning.

Our community was shocked Tuesday
evening, 9Th instant, by the loss of one
of the most noble young men that ever
lived among us, Mr.. John Riggs, (bro-
ther-in-law to Col. J. NJ Bewley.) He
had been In the field, a short distance
from town, and was on his way home to
get out of the approaching storm, when
he was swept by the hands of Provi-
dence instantly into eternity. John
Riggs was gentle, kind and sweet in his
disposition, and beloved by all who
knew him. He was good citizen, and
although he was only about twenty-five
years old, his upright and honorable
walk had given him an influence for
good that few attain in ripper years. Pa
rents felt no fear for the morals of their
children while in his care. Fathers
pointed him out to their sons as an ex-
ample to them. 1t is said of him that
he never left the house to be gone any
length of time without telling where
he could be found at any moment, thus
showing one of the sweetest traits of
this habit of always being punctually at
his post at the appointed time lead to an
earlier search for him on the evening of
his death. He was not member of any
Church, but had been a seeker of reli-
.gion for many months. We hope he
found that peace for which he sighed,
by trusting in the name of the Master.
He was a member of the Sabbath school
at the Baptist Church, and his soul seem
ed to feast upon the precious truths re-
vealed in Gods word. How we shall
miss his bright face in the Sabbath
school His life has been brief, but 1t
sparkled like the diamond among the
rougher stones. Young men, follow the
path J ohn has pointed out, if you would
be honored and lamentcd in the hour of
death. e.
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~ The appointment of Mr.. Ha-
zen to be Third Assistant Postmas'
ter General is the first conspicuous
instance of promotion in the Post
office Department under the Civil
Service system. 1t is regarded as
craditaole to Postmaster General
Kew that the first important appoint
ment he has made has been filled In
this way.
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The Best Cage.
NEWPORT, Cooke COUNTY,
June 4, 1877,

NEWPORT, COOKE COUNTY,
June 4, 1877,
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
Cooke county can now boast of hav-
ing the best iron cage known in East
Tennessee. l purchased said cage of
Nielsen Bros in Knoxville, Tenn, by
order of our County Court. Said cage
is 7x8, 81 feet deep, openings two inches
each way, bars two inches wide, half
inch thick, doors 1S inches by 80, with a
first-class lock thereto. Said cage was
put up in our Jail for $57S. Any one
desiring work done in workmanlike
manner viii do well to give Nielsen s.
Bros. call. G. f. BOYER,
Shelf. Cooke Co.
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A good pious man, the editor of
the Methodist AdU0cate, of Atlanta,
thus maledicts our fraternal doings
here on the 30th of May:
Chattanooga +" stopped over badly on
decoration day. The blue and the gray,
rather gray and blue, were promiscu-
ously intertwined, the Union and Con-
fedeFate, or rather Confederate and
Union soldiers, walked arm in arm, and
SO on. If the Government is no better
than the Confederacy, union than dis
union, loyalty than disloyalty, or free
dom than slavery, as is always inferred
in the South from such demonstrations,
then the struggle may as we'll be given
up, the Union of States destroyed, and
Messrs. Davis and Toombs allowed to
reinaugurate their Confederacy. Peace
purchased by the surrender of the just
and vital principles is dearly bought.
We are very easily reconciled, but are
not yet prepared to admit that right is
no better than wrong, or heaven no
more desirable than the other place. If
reconciliation and fraternity are made
to serve bad ends, they become wrong,
but when the people of the South join
in the decoration ceremonies with the
Confederate left out, we shall rejoice.
If that good brother should, by
some mistake or through the omnip-
otent mercy of Providence, get to
heaven and find Stonewall jackson
there, won't he be in fix, though
Chattanooga Dispatch.
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During the last week we have had an
opportunity of testing to some extent
the excellence of Bonham's Arabic Soap,
mentioned last week, for which Mr.. J..
w. Miller has the patent right for East
Tennessee. We are satisfied it excels all
other laundry soaps in cleaning and
bleaching clothes. Rights to make and
use the compound have been purchased
by the leading housewives of our town,
and all certify to its excellence. Persons
desiring to purchase a right can do so
by calling on Mrs. Harvey Loop, of this
place, who is the proprietors' agent. We
unhesitatipgly recommend it to house
keepers Mr.. Miller goes from here to
Hawkins county.
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For Stomachs Out Of Order.

NO medicine will so effeetually improve the tone
the stomach these Pills; they all acid
ity OccasiOned either by intemperance or improper
piet. They reach the liver and reduce IL TO a
healthy action; they wonderful ofiicacious in
cases of spasIn-in fact they never fail in curing
all disorders of the liver and stomach.
HOLL0WAY'S PILLS are the best known in tho
world for the following diseases: Argue, Asthma,
Bilious Complaints, Blotches the skin, Bowels,
Consumption, Debility, DrOpsy, Dysentery, Ery-
siplas, Female Irregularities, Fever, of all kinds,
Eits, Gout Headache, Indigestion, inflammation,
Jaundice, Liver Complaints, Lumba5o Piles, Rheu-
matisn, Retention of urine, Scrofula Of Kings
EMIL, Sore Threats; Stone and Gravel, Tic Dou-
oureux, Tu1nors, Ulcers, Worms of all kindes Weak
ness from any cause, etc.
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T The Greenbackers of Ohio
met in convention at Columbus on
the 9th. The platform adopted de.
mands the unconditional repeal of
the specie resumption act, aud the
arrest of the present plan of cen
tralization. A ticket for State Of
ficers was nominated
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~ The Washington Republican,
Hayes organ, admits that the ''old
Wing party is too dead for resur-
rection. It also assumes with much
good sense, that the Democratic
party will control the organization
of the lower House of Congress.
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: ~ A correspondent from Con-
stantinople writes to the american
At Syria we had an addition to our
passenger list in the person of Mr..
James Maynard, son Of our Minister
to the Sublime Porte. He was ac-
companied by his sister, the twain
having just returned from visit TO
Athens and Southern Greece.
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IL Hon. Jefferson Davis is now
residing near Mississippi City, near
the Gulf coast, on the border Of Lake
Ponchartrain, between New Orleans
and Mobile, where he is engaged on
his memoirs. He is reported to be
inexcellent health, and looks younger
than he did few years ago.
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+ ~ Gov. Hendricks takes passage
for England to-day, 18th, from New
York. A complimentary banquet
was given him by the Manhattan
Club, last night, at which were TO be
present a number of distinguished
gentlemen, including Gov. Tilden.
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~ ]. G. Payne, son of Bishop
Payne, Of the Southern Methodist
Church. is announced as candidate
for Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
He is q brother-in-law of Senator
Gordon, aud classmate of Senator
Lamar and Representative Chalmers
Of Mississippi.