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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-05
Assie"lt"t'I9 Department
w. S. SHIELDS. EDITOR.
Be Merry While You May.


''There is crook in every lot
A shadow on the road
Through which we journey on to reach
A happier abode.
IS surely as the evening comes
To close the eyes of day,
Will grief appear; and so, my dear,
Be merry while you may.
We cannot say to joy, "Ren1ain, =
Nor unto grief, depart"
The morning and the night must come
To every human heart.
And though the twilight hour dispels
The cheerful, sunny ray,
Shed not a tear; but OH my dear,
Be merry while you may
The sky may not be always bright,
The sea not always calm,
Nor breeZes bring an argoSy
OF spices or of balm.
IT'S time enough to weep and mourn
When sOTrow has its day;
And you'll agree It's well to be
Right merry while we may.
Along the shores of life the tides
Have ceaseless ebb and flow;
And through the year the seasons have
Their time to come and go.
Then let us make the best of life,
And If not always gay
or full of glee, why shouldn't we
Be merry while we may?
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-05

at have used TUFTS Pills Ave years in my family.
They are uneauaed for costvencss and biliousness.
z. 8. WILSON, ceoFeetown, Tsxas.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-05
''TRE TREE IS Known ~ IT'S FRUTT.

$ rntt,s Piiis are worth their Sxeight r. anld..s
REV. ;. n. SIMPSON, 1OUiavAis, w
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-05

TUFTS Pills are Q special blessing OF the nins'
teenth century. "-REv. T. r. oSGooDs New VERT.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-05
THE SUN.
1873. NEW YORK. 1878.


AS the time approaches for the renewed OF SUBJ
seriptions, THE SUN would remind itR friend and
wellwishers everywhere, that il Ii again candidate
for their consideration and support4 Upon its
cord for the past ten it relies for continu-
ance of the hearty sympathy and generous coop
Grafton which have hitherto been extended it to
from every quarter of the Union.
The DAILY SUN is four page-sheet OF % col.
umes, price by mail, post paid 55 cents monthS
or Sc. so per year.
TIE Sunday edition of THE SUN is an eight
page sheet of Sc columns. While giving news
of the day, it also contains large amount OF ht-
erary and miscellaneous matter specially prepared
for it. THE SUNDAY SUN has met with great sue
cess. Post paid 81 40 year.
The Weekly Sun
Who does not know THE WEEKLY SUM It circu-
iates throughout the United States, tho Canadas,
and beyond. Ninety thousand families greet it's
welcome pages weekly, and regard it I'm the light
of guide, counsellor, and friend Its news, edito-
rial agricultural, and literary departments make
it essentially jouanal for the family and the fire.
side. Terms : ONE DOLLAR year, post paid.
This price, quality considered makes 1t the cheap
est newspaper published. For clubs OF ten, with
$40 cash, we viii send an extra copy free Address.
PUBLISHER OF THE SUN,
Nov. 7. New York City
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-05

A new variety of Ladies' Slipper
will be put on the market the coming
Winter TEey flourish best on pRrticu-
larly smooth ice.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
The Southern Element in the
House.

AS a majority of the Democratic
members in the House are from the
South, the New York Tribune
thinks they will doubtless dema- d
much greater consideration than
they have heretofore had. The
Boston Herald says: "The South
ern Democrats in the next House
are going to try to secure the con-
troll of two important committees,
namely, the Appropriation Commit
tee and the Committee on the Pa
cific railroads, the object being to
secure important Southern improve
ments and the Texas Pacific subsi'
dy. Atkins of Tennessee, who is
the senior re elected member of the
Appropriation committee of the
next House, expects to be Char
man of the committee on Appropri-
ations. He is a strong advocate OF
the Texas Pacific"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
Don't Go to Texas.

The following is taken from a
Dallas (Texas) paper:
'There cannot be less than a reg
iment of unemployed men in the
city of Dallas at the present time,
and nearly every train swells the
number. Induced by the glowing
accounts of our growing town,
many young men spend their last
cent to reach this Eldorado, and
once here they find to their cost
that the milk and honey they are
expecting to see flowing in the
streets, is turned to work on the
streets as vagrants.
There are more hungry lawyers,
doctors, printers, teachers, clerks
and book-keepers in Texas to-day
than In any State in the Union,
while at the same time the broad
farms on our great prairies offer
places to thousands of competent,
willing farm laborers. Will our
exchanges in the Older States warn
their young men not to come to
Texas in search of employment
unless they want employment on
the farm. There is plenty of work
on Texas farms to be had, but un-
less a man desires to labor on
farm, he had better give Texas a
wide BERTH"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
Over at Last.

New York Herald
After sixteen years the great war
is at last over. The last rebel laid
down his arms in 1865, twelve years
ago, but in one way or another the
constitution has been suspended
since then and the country has been
kept in a condition of constructive
war, until now, at last, federal sol
diers cease everywhere to interfere
in the State governments, and the
people of all the States are once
more happily to rule themselves in
accordance with the fundamental
organic law of the land and thus the
great war is over: the people of the
United States live once more under
the shelter of the constitution.
The withdrawal of the Federal
troops to their barracks in New Or
leans will deserve to be relncm-
bered as a great event in our histo
ry. 1t signifies the final and COM
plete return TO constitutional gov
ernment. When the Federal inter
ference ceased in Arkansas at the
command of Congress, in 1875, the
people of that State, of both parties
and races, celebrated the event by
a day of joyful thanksgiving for the
restoration of peace, security and
prosperity; the whole American
people might well mark the restora-
tion of self government to Louisiana
by similar celebration, for Presi
dent Hayes undoubtedly, by this
last act of his, gives him a new
lease of life to the Republic, new
feeling of permanence and security
to all interests in every State; he
adds to the value of every piece OF
property in the Union because he
opens the way to renewal of con-
hdence and renewal of business.
lie has made the future safe, as it
has not been safe in all the long
weary years since the first gun was
fired at Sumpter.
The President has. redeemed his
first and most important promise
that he would so govern as to abol-
ish "the South" in a political sense,
and make of us all countrymen.
equally living under the same consti-
tuition, and with no motives to sec
tional divisions. For the first time
in more than half a century there is
no "South," For the first time
since 1861 the people of all the
Southern States are left at liberty
to rule themselves in their local
affairs as their own interest and
wisdom shall dictate.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10

Some of the Northern Republi
can journals are terribly afraid that
hereafter the negro in the South will
have to do entirely too much work
in the fields for the "lazy Southern
whites" :" 1t is very possible that
things will resume their natural
condition, says an exchange, and
that negroes who are not fitted for
anything save manuel labor will
cease to occupy the position of law
makers and State officers for intel
ligent white communities. 1t is
quite possible that the 'lazy South
ern whites" will be quite as profita
bly, employed as the lazy Northern
whites, if men who do not plow and
pick cotton may be classed as lazy.
And while these Republican jour
nails are bowling about the "lazy
Southern Whites 1t would be well
for them to remember their own
chronic complaints about armies of
lazy, thieving tramps who roam over
the Northern States, making no at
tempt to be producers or factors in
the general prosperity.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
WINE AND GLORY.

A fly on the brink of tankard, was slipping
The rich mantling wave of the ripe Renish
wine;
"oh, what are you dOing' You rush to your
ruin;
Be wise, foolish fly, and to reason incline''
Thus argued another, careering in gladness,
Around the bright flame of taper afar.
'All drinking's folly andbrings melancholy;
Take warning and shun it, lost fly that you
arel
"Behold how passion more noble should
move you;
'Tis glory alone has a charm in my eyes;
Whatever betide me, its radiance shall guide
me;
Good bye, silly topper. and learn to be wise.
Thus saying, he sported his wings for u
minute,
Then few to the light that SO tempted his
gaze,
But burning his pinions IN glory's domiu ions,
He fell in the candle and died in Il blaze.
'AlasI" cried the fly that was peached on the
tankard,
"Can aught for the want OF self knowledge
atone!
We rail against others, see faus.s in our
brothers,
And blame every folly and wee but our
own"
But whether this fly was converted from
TOPPING
Or led new life is not easy TO say;
But if flies are like drinkers 'mong two-leg-
ged thinkers,
'Tis likely he sips bright VINE to this day.
From tie Corner Stone.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
NUM-. 19.
Backsliders.

The Methodist Recorder says
"Backsliders'' is a word of com
mon acceptance in Methodist no.
menelature. Everybody kaows its
meaning. We need a new word.
"Fence jumper" comes some way
near expressing the idea; but an
other term might be better. But
if the church be called a fold. or
a pasture, then fence is allowable.
And if sheep, as word, is scrip
tural synonym, for believer. then
fence-jumper may be accepted as u
definer of christians we have in
mind. For instance, a brother
takes offence at something the pas
tor says, or at something the church
votes TO have to do, and instead of
gracefully yielding to the situation,
away he springs in his indignation,
over the fence, out of the pasture,
into some nelghbor's enclosure
Every once in a while, such a queer
sheep may be seen leaping as for
dear life, suddenly jumping right
out of the fold! We have known
such cases. The fcncejumper, af-
fronted or frightened, as the case
may be, in a moment, in the twink
ling of a foot, is out and OF, and
nosing hungrily in other pastures.
Such specimens are in almost every
flock. Fidgitty, fussy wethers they
arel We guess they might be called
"fence jumpers"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
The Telephone.

There appear to be some draw
backs to the entire success of the
telephone. The experimental trial
at Philadelphia and New York,
Monday evening, demonstrated,
among other things, the following
facts: First, the music is audible
only at the receiving end of the cir
cult. The audience at Steinway
Hall heard the air of Home, Sweet
Home" very distinctly, but the
spectators who saw Professor Bos
covitz playing the piano at the
Western Union Office in Philadel-
phia heard nothing but the success
i've thuds of the keys. Second,
the telephone admits only of the
transmission Of distinct notes; it is
not capable of reproducing n har-
mony, or combination of sounds.
So far as the music itself is con
cerned, a child drumming some
well known air with one hand
would afford quite as much enter
tainment. 1t follows from these
facts that the telephone, although q
marvel of invention, is still more
like a scientific toy, to be admired,
like Maelzel's chess player, but OF
no present practical use. The
principle which il involves, howev-
er is one of immense Importance,
and may yet be so developed as to
supersede the telegraph sign manu-
al with the human voice.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
Military Strength of Russia
and Turkey.

Russia's military strength ex-
oeeds that of Turkey to far greater
degree than would be supposed
without reference to the statistics
of the subject. The Russian army
on war footing contains 1,641 1923
troops, 195,l4S non-combatants,
24O, S3S horses and 2,606 guns. In
addition to these there is an irregu-
lar army containing 140,4S3 men,
so that, al. told, the Russian forces
exceed 100000; though there is
doubt whether many more than half
of these can be made directly avail
able for war against Turkey. The
Persian army, which is expect
ed to cooperate with Russia, has
about 10000 available men. The
Turkish army on a war footing
numbers, of all classes, GIG, 100 men,
of whom 130, 900 are irregulars and
auxiliaries. 1t is not propable that
Turkey can bring into the field
many over 100000 men, so that
Russia, probably, in an active cam
paign, will outnumber Turkey two
or three TO one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
Change of Text Books.

One of the evils of the times is
the frequent changes made in text
books by the modern schoolmaster.
1t has become an insupportable
nuisance to parents of moderate
means, and school directors should
take steps to remedy the evil. 1t
seems to be a mania with some
teachers to change text books, and
if this change was brought solely in
the interest Of the scholar and the
cause of education, we might be dis
posed to overlook it. But the fact
is, the introduction of this and that
text boolI-the sudden passing to
and from one Reader or Speller to
another, is too often induced by the
sordid motives of the teacher. 1t
is done to put money in his pockets,
and is negotiated in this way:
book agent makes his appearance
in a certain neighborhood. He de-
sires to introduce a certain line of
books, and in order to do so, he
buys up the teacher by presenting
him with so many volumes, and
these books the teacher sells to his
students, after having first ordered
the change in text books. This, of
course, puts the patrons of the
school to an unnecessary expense,
and doubtless the price of tuition.
The truth is, that Davies Arithme.
tic is as good as Rays, and vics
versa; McGuffey's Readers are equal
to Goodrich's, and Vice versa. There
is no substantial difference between
them, and when q schoolnaster
finds his scholars supplied with
either class of these readers, he
ought to let that suffice, and not or
der change to suit his whim, or TO
put money in his pockets. School
teaching, like every other business,
is cursed with first-class frauds in
the way Of schoolmasters. Men
who break down in everything, re-
sort to school teaching as soft
place to fall on, and to hide their
failures. They first supply them
selves with plenty of cheek, and then
with key to an Arithmetic, and a
translation of the text book used,
should they aspire to the classics.
The Arithmetic must be changed to
suit the Key, and thus they go on
through all the scholastic year,
bumbugging pupils, defraudiDg pat
rons, and bringing shame upon the
noblest vocation that ever enlisted
the brain and heart of man.-J0ek-
son Whi1 and Tribune.
Rather sweeping, but doubtless
true in many cases. This continual
changing of text books is unques-
tionably getting to be an intolcra-
BILE nuisance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
Changed Their Tune.


Redfeld writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial:
Ex Governor Brown, of this
State, who accepted a place on the
Commission to Louisiana, and who
was so severely criticised by some
of the Bourbons IN consequence.
has experienced reverse tide in
his favor. The success of the Com
mission has been so marked, the
whole thing resulting in manner
to please the Democrats, that they
no longer look upon Brown with a
critics eye as having accepted"place
under usurper." On the contrary,
the Bourbons conclude that Brown
did good thing for their white
fellow citizens in Louisiana by help
ing so materially in the work which
has resulted in setting Nichols on
his pegs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
The Arlington Estate.

Gen. G. w. Cnstis Lee has insti
tuted an action of ejectment against
the United States for the recovery OF
the Arlington estate, now occupied
as a soldiers cemetery aud by Fort
Whipple, the instruction academy
of the Signal Service Corps. The
Arlington estate was originally
owned by George Washington Park
Custis, the adopted son of Presi-
dent Washington, and was inhori-
ted from him by his daughter, tho
wife OF Gen. Robert +. Lee OF Con-
federte fame. When Gen. Lee
joined the Confederacy, the estate,
comprising eleven hundred acres,
was coniscated under the act "for
the collection of direct taxes in tho
insurrectionary State" sold at auc-
tion, being bid IN by the Govern.
ment for $26,SO5 The Government
paw WIS hoAN1 lhtO us own A INuhs
ury, and the owners of the estate,
as was customary under the confs-
cation act received nothing. Mrs.
Lee and Gen. G. w. Custis Lee, her
son, have had claim before Con
gress for a long time, but no action
has ever been taken upon IL. An
other attempt was made TO secure
the passage of bill by Congress TO
refer the case TO a Court Of Claims,
but this also failed Of passage.
Now the heirsenter into the courts
of Virginia, and the case will prob
ably come before the Supreme
Court of the United States before IL
is finally decided. IL is claimed by
the Lee heirs that the con1scation
act was unconstitutional, and the
sale consequently void; hence they
sue for their property and for dam
age TO cover the rental FROM 1864
until the present date.-N y. Graph.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
No Faith in Blue Glass.

Old 81 and one of his chums met
at Bank corner yesterday morning.
"Whar's you bin dis mornin',
TunsT
"I's bin up dar at Marse Dawes
putin in some blue glass in dc
wlnders OBJ de flower konservatiff"
"Blue glass? Whar for dey put
in dat kline OBJ glass in dere, 'stid
o5 de or'nary glass?"
81 dunno, sho', but dere's some
kline oh sience in it, for 1 heard
Marse Dave sayin' dat some man
hez 'skivered dat blue glass kyores
dizease, fattens hogs, meks de
crooked strate, an an de vegitibles
and flowers to grow three times ez
fas' and fo' times as finew
cav, go way niger; wha' kline
OBJ Ticker did Marse Dave glib yer
dis mornin' for da' job.
"Hit's de trufe,' cordin' to Marse
Dave. He say dat blue glass is
got mo- raisin' power dan all de gu
amer an souperhosfates in de
country"
"Well, now, you'se stewart in de
church, amt yer?"
"Yas, sar."
"Well, now, you jes' git er blue
glass sasser next Sunday, an see
de 'fecks oh it when yer go ter raise
de collecshun-ef dat succeed, Pse
gwine ter b'leeb in de silence OBJ blue
glass an not befop
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
Cure-AlIs.

"If you need a physician" said
an ancient sage, "there are three 10
whom you may recourse; a tranquil
mind, exercise and temperance" A
celebrated physician when in tho
agonies Of death, and surrounded
by his professional brethren, who
deplored the loss they were about
to sustain, declared that there
would still remain after his deccaso
three great physicians.
On being pressed to name them,
each present nattering himself with
beng one Of the three, the dying
man replied, water, Exercise, and
Diet"
In illustration of the above, "a
French writer relates the following
story: A lover, whose betrothed
was dangerously i'll, sought every
where for skillful practitioner, in
whom he could place confidence,
and TO whose care he might conhde
u life so precious TO him. In the
course Of his search he met with
man possessed of n talisman. by
the aid of which spirits might bo
rendered visible. The young man
exchanged for this talisman half his
possessions; and having secured
his treasure, he ran with IL TO the
house of famous physician. Flock
ing round the door he beheld n
crowd Of spirits, the ghost of those
persons whom the ply had
killed. The same vision presented
itself, more or less, at the house Of
every physician in the city. One at
length was pointed out 20 him in "A
distant quarter OF the town, at
whose door he perceived only two
spirits.
"Beholdw he exclaimed with n
joyful cry, "the good physician OF
whom have 80 long been In
search"
The doctor, astonished, asked
how he had been able TO discover
his standing in his profession.
''Pardon me-" said tue afflicted
lover, complacently, "your ability
and your reputation are well known
to me-"
any reputation! why I have been
in the city but eight days, and in
that time have had but two pa
tients."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10
The Latest Radical scheme.

And now there comes a note all
the way from the 4g olden region"
-California-announaing in mys-
terious cadences that Senator Blaine,
tired and disgusted with the way
Mr.. Hayes seems inclined to run
the Government, proposes a refer
ence to the questions of law and
fact connected with the counting
in'' of the President to new High
Court of Arbitration. The New
York World of the oath has the
following to say about this anoma-
lous procedure:
The latest developement of Sena-
tor Blaine's plan of campaign
against the Administration comes
from California in the form of an
amazing story that the Radical
leader intends to propo~e a refer
ence to the questions of law and
fact connected with the counting
in of Mr.. Hayes to a new high
Court of Arbitration. This court
is to be composed of the members
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, with whom, for obvious reas-
ons and to re-establish public conf
dence in that august tribunal, are
to be associated the Chief Justices
of the highest courts of the several
States OF the Union. The title of
Mr.. Hayes to the Presidency may
be tested before this court by any
citizen except the defeated candi-
date. Of course if Senator Blaine
has ever for q moment entertained
such a wild project as this, it must
have been in the hope that it would
be supported by the Democratic par
ty; and it is worthy of note that a
very similar project has been re-
peatedly urged upon the considera-
tion of leading Democrats since the
adjournment OF Congress. 1t has
been secuted, so far as we know,
by every Democrat of character to
whom it has been sugg, sted; but as
nobody can tell what may seem
reasonable to the infuriated and
disappointed Radicals of whom Sen
ator Blaine has assumed the leader
ship, it may be worth while to oh
serve, truly but firmly, that the
Democrats of this country, North
and South, have had quite enough
of commissions and of high courts
for at least a generation to come.
They have had quite enough, too,
of schemes for dragging the judi
cial ermine through the mire o poll
tics and lowering the tone o. that
instructive hereditary respect for
the law and for it's tribunals which
has been the sheet anchor of our
safety as a people so often in the
past. The leading imperious de-
mand of the country now is for
peace and for the consideration by
our public servants of the econom-
ical and social needs of the people;
and all Radical mischief makers
who may be speculating on the
chance of turning Democratic dis
gust with Republican roguery and
thimble-rigging in politics to the
account of their own factious aspi-
rations, may as well understand at
once that they are coming without
their host.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-05-10

A Fort Madison man went into
bis COW stable the other day, and
by mistake, mixed her up a nice
mush in a box full of saw dust in
stead of bran. The cow merely
supposing that hard times had come,
and they were all going to econo-
mise, meekly ate her supper, and
that man. never discovered his. mis-
take until the next morning, when
he MIXED that COW, and she let
down half gallon of turpentine, a
quart of shoe pegs, and a bundle of
lathes.