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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-28

/ sim head OF the house, and must an
| swer for it, was Saul s response; to which
there could be no dsnllr.
So fearful Susie brought her husbands
cap and revolver, and Captain Hooper
| brought water proof coat; while Moss
Cohen ventured only one more piece of adj
vice:
f'It may be all right, Macy" he said,
| ''there's no harm in reporting for duty,
| if duty must be done. But, must be of
for nay expedition, and we'll take carriage
together. You can leave me at the New
Haven depot on your way.
"That's agood idea, said Captain Hooper;
Sand take the Mayors messenger along
with you, if he's going back. I'll send
Barney for the coach"
So Barney the door-boy was ordered to
bring carriage from the neighboring liv-
cry stable, while Saul Macy, going down to
see the Mayors messenger" found him q
| gentlemanly, middle-aged citizen, in black,
| with a large umbrella to cover his own am
| pie bulk. Saul announced his readiness to
report forthwith, and said he had sent for
q carriage, because the night was so wet
concluding with an invitation for the mes
senger to take seat in the vehicle, if he
were disengaged.
you are extremely kind, SIR respond
| ed the man, after pause, as if he could
hardly realize such courtesy.
Then, IN q low voice, he remarked that
he had two assistants, serving notices, who
were to join him few squares distant, and
that, of course, would prevent his accept
ing so polite an offer.
81 don't see it in that light" replied
| Saul, as Cohen entered the parlor with Su-
sic and her father. ''This gentleman will
ride with US to both street and Fourth Ay-
enue, and | can take box seat with my
waterproof on. That'H be my first out
post-duty"
Saul Macy laughed, in his hearty way,
and the large man responded, more moder-
erately; but protested that he, or one of his
people, should take the box seat Then
Barney re-appeared heralding the coach; and
Susie kissed her husband, and Amelia came
for another kiss; and there was hand-shak-
ing for Moss Cohen; and finally, from tear
drops within to rain drops without, the
''home-guard" left home, in order to de-
fend his fireside; and the Mayors mes
senger," as they got into the carriage,
called out:
Make yourselves easy as possible, ladies.
He II be back before breakfast tomorrow
morningl"
And, in order to make themselves t'easy
as possible Susie and Amelia returned to
the library with su h rueful faces, that
Mrs. Revere and FANNY were soon mingling
condolences with them, in spite OF Captain
HOoper's assurances that all must be right,
because the Mayors messenger" appeared
TO be 'a perfect gentleman.
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Some few years ago it was quite
an easy matter to apportion TO each
section OF this mighty Continent
its various sources of wealth to the
New England States belonged the
industries TO the West the raising
of wheat. and to the South the pro-
duction Of the cotton, but as the
country has developed, the minds of
| all shrewd business men have been
opened to the necessary OF combin-
ing manufacturing enterprises with
agricultural pursuits; the West was
the first to adopt the necessity Of
producing goods In proportion TO
what was grown within her districts,
for she found out she never derived
any benefit or reciprocation from
the importation Of the articles she
paid so dearly for in the East.
Apart from the mere question of
gain, it is one of the first principles
Of political economy tc diversity as
much as possible the different chan
nels in which labor is employed and
so of late years it has dawned upon
the .Soath that so long as she con-
tinued to plant cotton and make it
her chief source of occupation, she
could only attract TO her territory
the very poorest class of field labor;
for from statistics il has clearly been
shown that the cotton iaborer very
rarely is able to earn anything over
and above his actual expenses, and
fNf
to spend does nothing for the open
ing up or progress of that section In
whice he is working.
The contrast has been very mark
ed between the farming hands of the
cotton States and the worlzmen in
the manufacturing districts; 10
this end the South has been obliged
to push forward her utmost energies
in encouraging everything that tend
ed to promote her future wealth
and so has determined to appropri-
ate certain share in the rapid
growth, the United States has made
in manufactures. which have doubled
within the last ten years. The
finan cial crisis of 1873 did q great
deal of good to the South, as while
all industries were at stand still
North. suffering as they did from
the encumbrances of debt contracted
in prosperous times, the few cotton
factories that had been erected in
the South, were all doing a most
successful business. In Tennessee.
Alabama, Georgia and Texas, mill
property to this day is paying large
dividends; the only way TO keep
trade ever on the increase, is to
create new activity, the moment it
is discovered that certain other To-
calities are outstripping the South
of her legitimate occupation, the
spinning as well as the growing Of
cotton. The great drawback to the
advancement of manufacturing en-
terprse Is that both States and mu-
nicipal laws prevent the untrammeIed
execution of local energy. and while
of course, it is very difficult for leg
islators to see that the wealth OF
their various sections depends upon
the self-supporting capacity or their
inhabitants, still it is an essential
point to inspire due encouragement
to build up every kind ofenterprise,
instead OF pulling it down by strin.
gent taxes, for the amalgamation Of
agricultural and manufacturing pur-
suits is the only way for any people
to acquire permanent wealth and
retain a lasting Independence,
~. Y. Cotton Record.
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CHAPTER XXI.
" NAN ON HORSEBACK. F."

Yet, it is an old adage that, GO Many
true word is spoken in JEST and before
Moss Cohen and Macy could join Captain
Hooper In his . smoke in the balcony, a
sudden crash of martial music in the street
below their front windows, caused young
Reyere's pulses to leap, and Susan Macy's
to qulyer, as If an engagement must follow
the draft" Fanny Revere ran to the open
easement, and, looking back, exclaimed
sob, mother, it's the soldiers! it's the
Boys in Blue"
'' Yes" said Cohen, GO Mayor Opdyke has
issued a proclamation, | heard, and the
navy-yard marines are to garrison the
Arsenal
docs the Mayor apprehend any
danger I" inquired Macy. g The drawing
passed off quietly on Saturday"
:" There was a rumor about noon," OBJ
served Captain Hooper, ''that provost
marshal's Office has been attacked, uptown
somewhere .
"Well," remarked Saul, &c Uncle Sans
sea-boys will settle things, guess" and
he blew wreath of peaceful smoke
But as the drum and fife receded from be-
fore their cottage front, another sound, less
military, but more common in New York,
arose from that back street, beyond which
the stable abutted, wherein a row of tene-
ment houses gave squalid habitation to
some hundred families of all nationalities.
The sound was made by human voices,
cheering hoarsely, and a tramp of human
feet succeeded, accompanied by the sudden
breaking out of loud chorus; the first
notes of which caused Sergeant Revere to
straighten himself to sitting posture; for
2e had not heard that tune since he lay in
prison at Belle Isle, and his Yankee curiosi-
ty was reused, when, through their eastern
window, the words ofa Southern song came
clearly -
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-MoRRIsToWN TENN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 1877.

sc It means what you were surmising,
Cohen - said Macy. " "Organized resistance
to the draftl''
6 1t looks like that, responded the He
brew. "Hush; what's that now ?"
As they listened. loud voice, issuing
sharp commands, III military tones, was
heard, proceeding from the street which
formed an angle with that wherein the
tenement houses stood; and measured
tramp rang upon the sidewalk, beyond
their garden fence, that extended back, to a
corner which the stable formed. Next
moment, under the light Of street-lamp,
the lockers from that balcony beheld dense
crowd of men marching IN column and
moving past the front of their house; and
presently the heavy marching tread re-
sounded on that pavement lately trayersed
by the Navy Yard Z" Boys in Blue"
" Keep back from the front window, I"
was Saul's instant direction, as Fanny went
toward it, and the other females rose to
follow.
No gas was yet lighted in the cottage, and
neither moon nor stars were visible that
Monday evening In July, which Saul Macy
was to remember thereafter. But the gas
lamp ON an opposite corner cast its rays
across the moving column of men, whose
cry and shouts now gave place to the meas
ured tap of drum, marking time for their
footsteps.
Saul and Captain Hooper, standing on
the balcony, could see man on horseback,
carrying q flag; and Fanny whispered to
her mother, . That's the bonny blue flag,
| guess; !" but Mrs. Revere, with finger on
her lips, drew Fanny on the ottoman, so
that her white frock might not be so plainly
seen by those outside, as wns tie white
steed which their leader rode, IS he gave
his commands -
g Forward, by the left flank march ! -
and, like trained military, the foremost
files turned, on crossing the street, and the
crowd behind them followed in their track,
rank after rank the drum changing to
quickstep, as that man on horseback rode
ahead of at least a thousand men, armed
and unarmed, but all apparently obeying
his orders with alacrity.
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in excess of the interest to be used for
the gradual extinguishment of the d ebt.
This, with the constitutional prohibit
ton which they are informed is now ex-
isting, that ''no debt can be incurred by
the State for the creation or in aid of
any public improvement" will give
augmenting value to the new bonds, and
SO far tend to mitigate the loss which
the creditors incur.
The consideration that the decision of
his momentous question by State so
distinguished in cha racter and position
as Tennessee, will exert unbounded in
huence upon the other States, gives i'm
measurable responsibility both to this
award and to it's adoption Yet the
committee confidently present it with
the belief that while it is best for her
creditors, it is also best for the State,
and that it will remove the greatest
sbstacle that now stands in the way of
the prosperity of the whole nation. And
they have the honor to be, gentlemen,
your obedient servants,
GEO. s. Coz,
J. D. VERMILYE,
B. B. SHERMAN,
B. B. CoMEeYs,
ENooH PRATT,
Committee.
The question of offering suggestions
relative to calling special session of
the Legislature, to act upon the PROPOSE
tion of the arbiter, was discussed, but
no argument reached. 1t seemed to be
the general opinion of the committee,
however, that the present session of the
Legislature was too far spent to admit
of proper action upon the question
now
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~ Capt. L. S. Marye, lately OF
Chattanooga and two years ago
member of the Senate Of Tennessee,
has been appointed Postmaster at
Lynchburg, Virginia, by Mr.. Key.
He is a Democrat The Lynchburg
Necs. of recent date. says: We
yesterday hung out our bulletin
board as usual and announced that
Capt. L. S. Marye, Virginian land
to the manor born," had been ap-
pointed Postmaster at Lynchburg.
Our Republican friends read the an
nouneementan and suddenly remember
ed that they had important business
down town. The colored brigade
raad the intelligence and adjourned
to the sunny side of the street and
cussed and discussed the situation.
One old Bedford Garkey said: "Mr-
Tildum wouldn't treat us dat bad
A Democratic darkey remarked :
ives thankfulIer dan we 'spected 10
. be-but how de debbel can anything
. good come from a President which
wern't elected" A city colored Rad
said they didn't expect anything
better and didn't care a continental
any way. The RAIDS, as q general
thing. looked as though their din.
ners laid heavy on their stomachs
The Democrats were as placid rs the
immortal "Jeems" in July.
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Easter in England.

OF Easter Monday rites various curl
Gus relics still linger. One, called "clip
ping the church, is performed by chll-
dren of the charity schools, amid crowds
of people and shouts of joy. They place
their backs against the outside of the
church, and join hands till the circle is
complete and the building surrounded,
when the ceremony is over, and they
go to another church.
Another custom in Durham, is for men
to go about the streets and take off a
shoe from every woman they meet, un'
less she will pay small fee to prevent
it. The next day, as is but fair, the wo-
men retort by doing the same to men.
In some parts a still more ridiculous
custom is found, called '!heaving" OF
''ifting" On Easter Monday the men
lift" women, and on Tuesday the wo'
men are the Iifters. 1t is done thus:
two strong men cross hands in the way
we used to call making a chair" in my
school'days, or they carry chair lined
with white, and decorated with flowers
and ribbons. On meeting a woman in
the street, they invite her to take seat,
and, in fact, insist upon it. They then
lift her into the air three times, when
she must kiss each of her lifters, and
give them money besides. In the time
of Edward l. this custom was so general
that even the king was Gifted"
In Kent, the young people on Easter
Monday ''go a pudding pieing." That
is, go to public-hOuses to eat pudding
pie, dish about the stzc of a saucer,
with raised paste rim, and custard in
side.
And everywhere, and all the time, are
eggs, eggs, eggs; boiled and colored /;
striped and motled, and gilded; orna-
mented with names, or notices, or pic
lures. Common ones are variously
adorned with designs drawn with a bit
of tallow, which keeps the dye from
taking on those parts. A better kind of
decoration is to scratch the design with
a sharp knife on an egg after it is dyed;
landscapes, notices, etc, can be made
very neatly.
A common game-which, perhaps you
KNOWS played with Easter eggs. The
owner of hard-boiled Easter egg cha.-
lenges any one he meets to strike eggs
with him. If his eggs breaks the other
it is called 1.-THE cock of one," and it's
owner has the broken one as a trophy.
When it has broken two, it is "cock
of two" and so on. If an egg which is
cock of one or more is broken, the con-
queror adds the numbe. of trophies won
by the victim to his own score.
The custom of making presents of eggs
is said TO be Persian, and to bear allu-
sion to the mundane egg" from which
the world was tabled by certain nations
to have been derived. 1t is a custom
among Jews Egyptians, and Hindoes,
and was adopted by Christians to SYM
boliZe the Resurrection.
This feast of eggs, therefore, very pro-
perly occurs at Easter.
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A Generation on the March

a generation on the march from the
cradle to the grave is an instructive spec
tacle, and we have it carefully presented
to US in the report of DR.. Farr, as Eng
lish physician. Let US trace the physi-
cal fortune which any million of us may
reasonably expect. The number, to be-
gin with, is made up of 5l1, 754 boys and
498, ,255 girls. disproportion which, by
and by, viii DC redressed by the undue
mortality of boys, and will be reversed
before the close of the strange, eventful
history. More than quarter of these
children will die before they are five
years old in exact numbers, 141 1897
boys t21 795 girls The two sexes are
now nearly on a level. The next five
years will be much less fatal. In the
succeeding FIVE years from ten to ff-
teen-the morality will be still further
reduced. Indeed, for both sexes, this is
the most healthful period of life. the
death-rate, however is lower for boys
than for girls.
There will be some advance in deaths
| III IAS neat Afc years, anu Sill moro IN
the next five years, and still more in the
five which follow, but 534, ,O45 will GER
tainly enter on their twenty-sixth year.
Before the next ten years are at an end,
! two-thirds of the women will have mar
ried. The deaths during that period will
be 62, ,052, and of those no fewer than
%, ,134 viii be caused by consumption.
Between thirty-ive and forty-five still
larger 'death-tolP will be paid, and lit
tie more than half the original band-in
exact numbers, 502, ,915-will enter on
their forty-sixth year. Each succeed
ing decade, up to seyenty-fve, will now
become more fatal, and the numbers win
shrink terribly, At seventy-ive only
161 ,224 will remain to be struck down,
and OF these 122, $40 will have perished
by the eighty-fifth year of the march
The 80. 500 that remains will soon lay
down their burdens; but 2,151 of them
will struggle on to be ninety-fve, and
223 to be one hundred years old Final
ly, in the 1O8th year of the course, the
last solitary life will flicker out. Such.
then, is the average lot Of million men
and women.
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Stop Fault-Finding.

In speaking of persons faults
Pray don't forget your own, aE M
Remember those with homes Of glass
Should seldom throw a stone
If we have nothing else to do,
Than think Of those who sin,
'Tis better We commence at home
And from that point begin. -efa sd
We have no right TO judge man
Until it's fairly tried; -
Should we not like his company It
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults, and who has not +?
The old as wen as young;
Perhaps we may, for all we know,
Have fifty to their one 81
IN tellyou of better plan
And ind it works full we'll
To try your own defects to cure 81
Ere others faults you tell.
And though sometimes hope to be
No worse than some know,
MY own Shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go. l-
Then let us all when we begin a
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know, -
Remember curses, chicken-Eike,
VIII oft'times roost at home,
Don't speak of others faults until
You have none of your own.
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We Are But Seven.

met little Democrat,
A gray-haired httlela
Who piped his eye and heaVed sigh,
Superlatively sad,
wherefore" :" asked, ''these dismal sighs
That aspirate to heaven? ?"
He brushed the tear-Irops from his eyes,
And said ave are but seven!n
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W Spain has decided to suppress
the Cuban Rebellion Immediately.
For this purpose she has instructed
Gen. Campos to proceed according
ly, etc. The Cuban war has already
cost Spain $I,5OO,OOO,OOO, and the
end Is not vet.
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~ The number of square miles
in the United States is 1887, 7,663.-
The real and personal property in
the United States is S29,942, 49,
443. The number OF persons who
cannot read are 4,444,5O3. The
number of those who cannot write
is 5.551. 3I1.
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~ Morton is to have another
trip to Oregon so soon as the com
ing extra session of Congress shall
Senate committee, which is 10 90 TO
Oregon and investigate Grover, is
composed Of Morton, Wadleigh and
Salisbury. Grover will be allowed
to be present and examine witness
es and introduce evidence.
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- OF the three hundred mem.
bers of Congress, there are only about
thirty, or say ten per cent. who
command the attention of the house
and galleries when they speak. l.
is q good place for a man to find his
level, and the most Of them find it
on a lower round Of a ladder Of fame
than they supposed. To speak to q
mob al corner grocery and win their
applause by telling indecent things
and to command attention in Con
gress is quite another thing.
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~ Nashville is about to buy a
$4,000 engine for her water
works" With all the water that
such an engine as that can pump up.
she can afford to put on a clean
shirt three times a week-that is, if
she can sell enough OF her bonds to
buy the necessary amount of soap.
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ES Three additional revenue Of
fcers are to be appointed in each
Southern District to look after illicit
distilleries. This, we presume, is
in lieu of the employment of troops.
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VOL. 11.=-=NO. 3.

sae carriage puri1uu on irving Place, and
ratified on, passing by Gramercy Square,
and thence On, until Macy saw the New
Haven depot.
',Well, III leave you here" said Moss
Cohen, abrnEaiy oGaring his hand 20 Macy,
as the carriage stopped. -
Saul felt double grip of that true hand
as he held it; grip that seemed to say
I'm leave you here, but I'll not abandon
you, He returned the close grasp, and
said:
Telegraph me from Boston, to-mors
row!" h
'Of course, - answered Cohen, as he
alighted with a small travelling bag, only
large enough to contain change Of linen
and forty thousand dollars worth Of dias
monds; which, OH the whole, Moss Cohen
thought more secure in his own valisa.
than in any leather pocket he might have
made in the lining Of hackney coach.
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u During 1876 Colorado's bull
lion yield was $6,625, 900, and dur
ing last year, for the first time in
the history of Colorado, her silver
industries exceeded that Of gold.
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V That was a good prayer
which the old fashioned Methodist
minister uttered: 20, Lord, start us
right, because if we get started
wrong we are hard to turn"
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Gov. Porter has authorized the state
ment that he will call the Legislature
together in extra session 10 dispose OF
the Bond question, Wherein we think
the Governor is right. Let us have a
settlement at once and thus avoid trou-
bic In 1878.
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~ The seventh claimant for
the Presidents position has arrived
at Washington and was sent to the
insane asylum. They are all Re-
nnhlicans
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~ The Senate on Monday passed
on its third reading, the bill to pro-
vide for the re moval and re-inter-
meut of Ex-Governor Willie Blount.
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~ a staunch Democrat has been
made postmaster at Lynchburg Va,
and Virginia Radicals are not happy
at all, at all.
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~ Don Cameron, the younger,
has been elected U. S. Senator from
Pennsylvania in place Of his DADDY
who resigned.