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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

AvoIo THE LAw,-Two boys passing
near large tree founl Il fine large wal
nut.
" 1t belongs to me, said Bernhard, " be-
cause l saw it first"
" No, it's mine, since picked it up"
replied james, and there soon resulted an
angry contention between the two. A
large boy was appealed to for his judg-
ment in the case. Cracking open the nut,
he thus decided:
D." Bernhard, take this she'll, since You
first saw the nut, and to you belongs the
other shell, as you picked it up. The con-
tents of the nut belong to me as payment
of court expenses, as is fitting and usual
in cases where the law is appealed to-
Selected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

SHORT WORDS. Reader, do you wish
to have your expression of opinion weigh
us much rs possible? DO you wish youl
narration of an incident strong? The1 ust
short words. This marks the educated
man. Long wo.ds are sign of shallow
thoughts-of mental poverty. Never speak
of an individual" when you mean mere
y man or a person. Seldom speak oil
" the commencement of an address -
when you mean the beginning of Il speech
or of the conclusion of discourse u
when you mean the end of sermon
Never use the words commence - OF
conclude " anyhow, if you can help it.
Stick to short Saxon words. DO not say a
residence when you mean house, or
ask "Where do you reside at present."
when Won mean Where do you live
now?" DO not ransack your memory for
long affectations when short words will
serve your purpose. Say "I have been
looking for YOU and not II have been
anticipating your arrival" Don't say es-
tablishmant instead of store or shop, nor
speak Of purchasing instead of buying,
nor of disposng of instead of selling, nor
of perusing insteld of reading, nor of
procuring instead of getting, nor of re-
questing instead of asking, nor of intend
ing instead of meaning, nor of attemptir Q
instead of trying, nor of performing in
stead of doing, nor of remarking instead
of saying These longer Latin words have
their proper functions, of course, and are
to be used sometimes, but they should not
be luggcd in for display of elegant Eng
lish. Avoid hiftlutin. Study tile style of
the Old Testament for model, rather than
that of the dime novel.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

1900 NEW FARMS STARTED WITHIN A
YEAR.-Does any one know how many
new farms have been opened in the Uni ed
States and their Territories this year; how
many log cabins have been built how
many acres of virgin soil ploughed up for
the first time? 1t is not probable that any
one does know with exactness, but there
is a little table in the report of the Secre-
tary Of the Interior, presented to Congress
the other day, which furnishes the mater
ial for an approximately correct answer to
these questions During the year ending
with June last there were taken up under
the HOME stead law 2.S75, 900 acres. New
land taken up under the Homestead law is
for actual cultivation, and it is generally
taken in lots of 100 acres. 1t would APP
pear, therefore that more than 1900 new
farms were commenced last year under
the Homestead law alone But this is not
all. There were sold during the year
640,G9l acres for cash, and 1877 640 acres
were allotted on military land warrants
1t is no doubt true that portion of these
1855 acres weie bought or entered by
others than actual settlers, by speculators
OI Dy persons WHO HlluC investments OF
this nature for future purposes. 1t would
be fair to estimate however that one-half
of the 1881 acres were purchased or en-
tered for the purpose of immediate settle
ment and cultivation; and this calculation
would give us 2,432 more new farms of
lG0 acres each. There were also q ,04S
acres entered upon the Sioux and Chippewa
half-breed scrip, and COZ, 1884 acres taken
up under the Timber Culture law. Leav-
ing these two latter items out of the cal
culaton, we have IN aggregate of about
l9,500 new farms commenced during the
year. This means ~, go new homes. In
five years from now, iese l9,j00 farms
under good management, ought to produce
annually some 20,000,0O bushels of wheat
some 100000 bushels of corn. and some
400,000 head of cattle or swine making
provision more then enough to furnish
meat and bread for New York city for II
whole wear.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

Don't put too much confidence in
lovers VOWS and sighs," said Mrs. Par
tington to her neice; "let him tell you
that you havs lips like strawberries and
crea IN, cheeks like tarnation and eyes
Ii Ike an asterisk; but such things oftener
co me from Il tender head than from ten
der heart"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

An old-ashioned minister was preach
ing in a tight, unventilated church, in
which by some means window was left
open. A good deacon during the sermon
closed it. Tho minister stopped, and
turning to the deacon said in solemn
tones, "If was preaching in Jug, l
believe you would put the cork in, ;"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

MAKE THE BEST OF YoURsELF.-ArC
You making the best of yourself? Arc
sOu using to the best advantage the ma
BURIAL powers of the body and mind given
sou by your Creator? Or are you droning
through life in half efforts, and steadily
drifting behind men of less ability than
|your own-men who, with fewer talents
than you possess, are making the best OF
themselves? Think of this. Put the ques.
lon to yourself as we put it to you and do
it honestly. Look the matter right in the
face. Doyour best in overything-in your
thinking and in your doing. Rise out Of
Incidence and self-indugence, and not on
ly will the world be better for your having
lived in it, but you will be better for hay.
ing lived in the world.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

A Belgian pomologist has succeeded in
grating the apple upon II cherry stock.
The fruit precisely resembles cherries
the same stem, the same size the same
form and nearly the same color; and its
taste is that of an apple, and it contains
pips instead of stones. 1t is generally
thought impossible to graft a pip bearing
fruit on the stock Of tree bearing stone
fruit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29
Court Cuttings,

VIM. Shields and Jacob Zimmerman
pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and
were remanded for sentence.
Russell and others against Sam. Cary
and others. The testimony in this case
ls In progress.
Weber against KleinfeIder. In this
case the jury rendered verdict for the
defendant.
Phil. j. Cauthern against Fred.
Schatsman. In this case, an action for
assault and battery, the jury rendered
a verdict Ior the plaintiff, and assessed
his damages at $50.
Kenner Gerard against John Book
wig. An action to recover rents. Yer
dict for plaintiff Tor 81, $3.50.
The Trustees of the Cincinnati South.
ern Railroad against VIM. y. Meara and
others. This case came up on a motion
died by the defendants to compel the
plaintiffs to make more definite and Ger
tain their petition, which was fiiod !ol
the purpose OF condemning land upol
which to build the northern approach o.
the Cincinnati Southern Railway to the
bridge across the river at this point
Motion granted.
The Cnild Brothers, of Dl! ton, filed !
petition in bankruptcy yesterday.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

A colored man named Chas. Cooper,
who has wife and three children, and
who has been living will widow
named Christy, on farm west of Bur-
lington, Boone County, KY, was al
rested day before yesterday, for a shock
ing crime.
Cooper Is s2id to have, on six differ
ent times last Sunday, outraged u white
gill Of fourteen years, OF imUecile mind.
The crime was found out Oh the mex
day, and Cooper taken to Andersou's
Ferry. where he had a hearing before a
Justice Ci the Peace, and Was held to
bail in $50. In default he was brought
10 tue jail at Burlington.
Cooper denies his guilt, and has nc
fear OF being lynched, although the pee,
Die have talked some OF sucn course
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29
STATEMENT,
LEGAL.


T EGAL-srATE OF OHIO, HAMIL.
LTON County, ss.-EzckIel q. Robinson.
Susan Trevor, Edward Is. Stevens, John ST.
vcns, Anna NJ. Hubbel and lsab .lla Byi, Corr
nelia Byl Jesse f. Byl, Mary Byl (heirs VI
Lccndert Byl, deceascd), Mrs. Joseph Wilson,
JChn X. Spease and Mary e. Spease, h wife,
and the unkno Nn heirs and Geyisees o. joshua
Stevens, deceased, are not ID that q sui is
pending against them anu oth;rs in the Com
mon l'leas Court OF sald county, case Ne. Al, TOi
on Che petition OF Orrin N. Sage, and the am.
sWeIs and cross petitions OF Aiphouso Tat
and ,hc heirs OF Amos p. Holde', ueccas /.
the object and prayer Of SAID suit and plead
ngs being to obtain partition of al til; land
remaining unsOld, that was conveyed TO CHS
5. Bryant and Samuel Trevor, Trustees for tina
FairmoWpt Land Company, by deed recorded
il Decd Bo k 10. page %, OF tNe records Of
sid county, 70 VII cl deed reference is ncrcby
lcsr tcia ly made: said land beng situat, I'd in
said county, and haYing been since rleite ia L
Kh0 n Is Dr. ant q Irevuis .olIu ~
rairmount; ald to gu ct the title of said ,accc'
IeIt and Holden heirs respectively TO ccrISic
lots Ia san 'ubiiyis!or, anu to obtain c0nvrv-
ances to mem re pcctiveiy for certain a, ber
lots and land included th r, in, to exclu,ie tHa
other parties to said suit from any In ter al
therein, and to obtain a unal settlement NJ t,c
Affairs oi said company. Saul deienIantA ars
required " answer on or before XpriI ~ ar
SAGE n HINKLE,
A. fAFT " son,
GOODMAN Il oTORER.
March 1, 1877. mIi .6tTh
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29


25 generally 81 81
81 80 with what you have been paying nearly double
job bought to Close at SO 5 SO So
Some II
auctions cheapest
offered
45,
York jtbbing
superior
49, 65e; best value
city 0
goods co. 75 Soc 81 to
I
upwards
RIBBONS Tes Ruchng Collars and Cuffs selection
| and$l owe
gain Half Hose
made quality 81
selling for
dollar
Ladies' who care to economize should examine
our goods and compare our prices, this being a
strictly cash house. with ample facilities to offer to
customers every day some bargains and job lots in
Dry Goods
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29
A NEW INVENTION.
s4.<SI EDUC aTIoNAL, .=su
OBERLEN COLLEGE,

Collegiate and Prepara
i tory Departments Elective stu lies. AL
mits both sexes. No saloon temptations. Best
of religious influences. Thorough ant cheap
Tuition. inciieutals an library fees only S27 a
year. over /, ,20J students annually For fuller
address J. II. FAIRCHILD, Presi-
dent. or j. u. 4. MARSI, Socr;trry. Obcrlin.
Ohio. aus d&w,i
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

Things in themselves genuine and val
liable need but little extrinsic aid to
make them agreeable aud attractive. In
fact, too much outside or surface charm
Indicates hidden imperfection. For this
reason b. I. Babbitt makes his superb
Toilet soap, designed tor the toilet use,
without 0dOr, except that delicate nell
derived from the use Of the swee lest
vegetubl oils.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

Stop that cough, or it may take your
life. 1t will lead TO consumption, and
consumption leads to the grave. Medi-
Gated Honey will cure the cough and
prevent consumption, and save your
lie. FRY 10. Druggists sell IL.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

Hot drinks should be avoided in day
time during cold weather, as they nave
tendency to weaken the lungs aud al
iect the throat. Take DIR. Bu.Ps Cough
Syrup Tor all cases OF coughs, colds and
nOarSeDes9
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

OoRNs, BUNIOSS, INVERTED TOE
NAILS. Frosted Feet and Chilblains perma-
nently cured by DIR. II. III. HIRSCHFELD,
Graduated Chiropodist. Office aO1 Fourth at.
corner OF Plum. Jal9-3m-S, ,Tu&Th
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

Polls to be opened between the hours Of and:
Z O'Clock A. M. and closed at O'Clock p. nj.
Given under my hand and seal. the corporate
seal of Cincinnati, this % day of Ma ch, 1877,
[sEAL1 6. W. q. JOHNSTON,
mh23-tt Mayor.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-29

MABLEY's CLOTHING HOUSE
Will open on sturday, March 81, at GU
W. Filth street, opposite the Fountain.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16
A Shooting Scrane.

Last Thursday a difficulty occurred in
this county between Barn EFT Smith and
Lon. Ivey. Our information is that a
brother of Barnett Smith had had pre-
vious difficulty with Ivey. The three
parties met last Thursday, when Ivey
made some provoking remark to Barnett
Smiths brother, which he did not re-
zsent. Barnett Smith interferred, when
he was slapped in the face by Ivey. He
returned the assault by knocking Ivey
down with a stick caught from the
ground. As Ivey rose he drew his pis-
toll and fired, the ball entering the side
of Smith and running round the bowels,
creating a wound that is not considered
fatal by the attending physician. He
was doing we'll at last accounts.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16
LETTER FROM oLzNcH.
LEE VALLFY. Nav 6. rs

LEE VALLEY, May 6, 1877.
Once, there was three cats in Kilkarny
Each, thought there was two cats too
many;
So they quarreled aud fit,
And they scratched and they bit;
Until, excepting their nails,
And the tips of their tails,
Instead Of three cats, there soasnt any %
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
The above sublime verse is quoted
as timely warning toyour three ram
stugi0us correspondents from Grain
ger, Snyder, Puncher and sedge-
Grass. The sad fate of those am
bilious felines, clearly fore-shadows the
end of your three scribblers, should they
persist in their acrid criticism concern
ing each others long-horned and muley
cattle, their razor-backed and long
shouted swine, and their broom-sedge
and millet.
Mo Frank Brown who recently re-
turned from the land of "Tarheels, ,"
from horse-trading trip, gives us some
information about muley COWS, which
may be interesting to Mr.. Sedge Grass.
Frank says, they winter their muleys
down there on tobacco stems, and fatten
their beef on cotton seed and buckeyes;
and he asserts that one old muley COW
actually asked him for ebaao of the
weed one day; that bovine would suit
Granger county to T.
Prospects are suspicious for large
crops of grain and fruit on the Clinch;
the season has been favorable for corn
planting, which is mostly finished in this
region.
Wheat looks well, but there is not as
much sown this year as last.
We predict a lively stir in the matri-
monial market this summer and fall,
owing to the decline in the price of mar
riage licenses; any body can afford to
marry and keep a dog now, thanks to
our aOise ~ legislators.
Hawkins and Hancock counties are
going to have a Macadamized road to
the Railroad some of these days, if the
people are alive to their interests, and
encourage the new enterprise by taking
stock in the road. We know the men
who are at the head of the undertaking
to be honorable and reliable gentlemen,
and that they earnestly intend to build
the road. The advantages to the coun-
try, together with the liberal terms of
fered by the Company, should induce
every public spirited East Tennessean
to invest, at least few dollars in their
stock.
Hayes =" Southern Policy" and pros
poets of better times at home, has about
cured us of the Texas fever.
Respectfully as ever,
{" CIINCH"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16
PRHSOnRI.


Doctor speck has returned from
RogersviIle.
Capt. Robt. c. Crouch, of popular
Baltimore hodse, is in town.
Mr.. L. L. Poats, of RogersviIle, and
our associate editor, is in the city.
The senior editor of the GAZETTE re-
turned from Nashville last Friday.
Mr. s. B. Scott, of Atlanta Ga, is
/ circulating among relatives and friends
in this vicinity.
viii S. Dickson, Esq, returned from
Hawkins county last Friday, where he
has been on business.
Mr.. j. G. Roberts and wife, and also
his mother and brother, of Frederick
county, Md, are visiting our town, with
an eye to settling among US. Hope they
will.
Capt. VIM. Rule, editor of the ClsgOn-
icIe, and E. J. Sanford, Esq, of Knox
vile, passed eatward Sunday evening
en- route for Washington City. Sanford
v ould make an excellent foreign Minis
ter, and fill the Constantinople mission
with a youthful vigor unknown of late
years. If he should succeed the pres
ent incumbent, who would object.
The Knoxville Tribune pays the fol-
lowing compliment to Hon. VIM. Nc
Farland of our town: "Hon. VIM. Nc
Farland is on a short visit to our city.
In the last canvass he made a gallant
fight to hold the District, which two
years before he so nObly rescued, and
though leading his party over thousand
votes, was defeated by small majority.
Two years will more fully satisfy the
people of their mistake in electing his
competitor and may induce them to call
a well tried and efficient public servant
to again represent them in Congress.
Mr.. Fred. E. Mitchell, of Greeneville,
Tenn, formerly Of Rogersville passed
down the road last week accompanied
by his family en- route for Oakland, Cal
ifornia Mr.. NJ. leaves a host of friends
behind in various sections of the State,
whose hearts will beat for his success
in his far-off new home. We under
stand he goes to California to engage in
the commission business and we cheer
fully commend him to the citizens of
Oakland, many of whom are readers of
the GAZETTE, as an honest and energetic
gentleman, who will reflect credit upon
his calling and the community in which
he lives. We feel 10th to give Fred. up,
but know that where Tennessee has lost
a noble fellow California has gained
one in every sense of the word
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16

We learn from last Fridays Tribune
and Age of a most deplorable calamity
in which an interesting son of Mr.. FL.
H. Miller, of Maryville, Tenn, aged ten
years, met the day previous which
terminated his life within few hours,
and shrouded in gloom a happy house
hold. Little Alfred Miller, in the alb
sence of his parents, had gone to the
saw mill in the vicinity of Maryville,
and was riding on the carriage of the
mill. While the sawyer was engaged in
running the carriage back and re-setting
the log the poor boy was brought in con-
tact with the saw, and both his legs
were nearly or quite severed from his
body, one above the knees and the other
below. Every possible medical aid was
rendered unto the unfortunate youth,
but to no avail. The bereaved parents
have the sympathies of large circle of
friends in their sad affection.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16
A Shooting ARRAY at sneedviIle.

A Shooting ARRAY at Sneedville.
We learn, through reliable source,
that on Monday, last week, Floyd Col
Inns and Andy Rhea became involved in
shooting affair, resulting in the former
receiving pistol wound from the hands
of the latter, but the locality or extent
of the wound our informant was unable
to tell. No particular difficulty is
known to have occurred between them
until the above mentioned day, when
Rhea met Collins in Sneedville and
walked up to him and remarked GIVE
been wanting to shoot you for some
time" when Collins quietly replied
cd d-n it pitch in" Whereupon
Rhea Immediately drew his navy six
shooter and shot him on the spot. II
will be remembered that Collins is the
man who shot Rev. Mr.. Clark sometime
since. So far as the difficulty is con-
cerned, there seems to be little or no
feeling in the matter. No arrests were
made nor any bonds required.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16
Married.

On the 10th inst, at Esq. Donaldson's
office, Mr.. SAMUEL A HUBBARD to
Miss SARAH JANE KENEFE, all of this
county.
In District No. 6, Hamblen county,
April 10, 1877, at the residence of Robt
H. McGhee, by Rev. P. Fl. c. Hale, Mr..
JAMES INMAN, of Cooke county and
MISS MARTHA E. MOORE.
In Morristown, May IS, 1877, by A. J.
Donaldson, Esq, Mr.. JOHN A WILLIAMS
to Miss SARAH J. COOPER, all of Ham
blen county, Tenn.
At the residence of the BRIDES mother,
by the Rev. T. P. Summers, Mr.. JOHN
MITCHLL to Miss KATE CROxDALE, all
of Hamblin county.
One by one they are leaving US and
seeking happiness.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16

No one in walking over our town can
fail to note the various and substantial
Improvements that are being made, not
withstanding the cry of hard times. In
every quarter of the town new and taste
full bu Idings greet the eye, and premises
are being beautif1ed and adorned. If
our old residents, the solid men of the
town, would only put their heads to-
gether and act in concert, Morristown
would soon be the most. desirable and
important city in East Tennessee, as it
is bound to be in the lives of our chill
dren's children, if not sooner.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16

For two weeks past we have been re-
ceiving The Sunny South, published at
Atlanta, Ga. We hope we are on its
exchange list for year or during good
behavior. 1t is the best literary weekly
ever attempted in the South; and as Mr..
Seals, its protector, editor and proprietor
has engineered it successfully for three
years, it is hardly probable that it will
not survive for many years to come. He
engages the best of writer's in the coun-
try, and its serial stories are superior to
the generality of the serials of the older
and more widely circulated papers of
its class, North Its illustrations are
creditable. The last number contains
an engraving of President Johnson's old
Tailor Shop, in Greenville, which will
strike all who have ever seen the original
as being a very correct picture. Very
cordially do we commend The Sunny
South to the patronage of our readers.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-16

There is now every incentive to in
duce the farmer to exert all his energies
to produce a very abundant crop, espe-
cially of provisions, corn, wheat, hogs,
and cattle. There is now tremendous
war in progress in Western Europe, be-
tween Russia and Turkey, to be waged
by Russia, as she announces, for the
protection of the Christians against the
cruelties Of the Turks, but we suppose
quite as much for the possession Of the
BOsphorus as for the protection of the
Christians. This war will create an ae-
tive foreign demand for all our surplus,
and everything that will serve for food
or raiment will command a good price;
and our domestic manufactures will be
greatly stimulated aud benefited by the
wars beyond the seas.