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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-30
Land for Sale.

l have a tract of 100 acres of land in Dis
trict No. II, nine miles east of Clarksville,
near Halliburtons Store, with dwelling
house and all necessary outbuildings, fine
orchard of peach and apple trees, one-half
in fine timber, balance under good fence, all
of which can be cultivated, which will sell
on reasonable terms. Call soon.
KELLY ROGERS.
June 80, lS77-1t"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-30

Resolved, That we return our sincere
thanks, as an Association, to Rev. j. II.
Plummer for his kindness in rendering the
use of his cOmmOdiOuS hall for our meet
ingS to the members ofthe local press and
the various local committees, for numerous
courtesies; and to the corporate authori-
ties and citizens of GAINESVILLE, for private
and public hospitality as elegant as it was
unstinted, and of a nature to make our visit
to this city the most delightful of our many
delightful recOllectiOnS
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
A Cure for Stammering.

A Canada journal contains letter from
a correspondent who processes to have
been a stammerer from childhood almost
to manhood, and who wishes to give
other sufferers the benefit of the treat
ment by which he was cured. He says ::
Go into a room where you will be quiet
and alone, get some book that will inter
est but not excite you, and sit down and
read two hours, aloud to yourself, keep
ing your teeth together. Do the same
thing every two or three days, or once a
week, if very tiresome, always taking
care to read slowly, and distinctly, NOV
ing the lips, but not the teeth. Then
when conversing with others try to speak
as slowly and distinctly as possible
and make up your mind that you will
not stammer. I tried this remedy,
and read for two. hours aloud, with
my teeth together. The first result was
to make my tongue and jaws ache-that
is while was reading-and the next to
make me feel as if something. had
loosened my talking apparatus, for
could speak with less difficulty immedl.
ately. The change was so great that
every one who knew me remarked 1t. i
repeated the remedy every five OF slS
days for month and then at longer In
tervals until cured.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
The Great Wall Of China.

Kalgan commands one OF the passes
through the great wall of China. 1t is
there built of large stones cemented to-
eether with mortar. It tapers toward
the top, being twenty-one feet high and
twenty-eight feet wide at the foundation.
AZ the most important points, less than
a mile apart, square towers are erected,
built of bricks. It winds over the crest
of the mountains, crossing the valleys at
right angles, and blocking them with
Notifications. The Chinese estimate its
length to be about 8, 300 miles; but In
parts more remote from Peking the wall
is of inferior construction There is
nothing but dilapidated mud rampant,
as Colonel Prejevalsky saw it on the
borders of ALASKAN and Kansu. 1t is
said to have been built upward OF two
centuries before Christ, to protect the
empire against the inroads OF the neigh
boring nomads; but the periodical II
ruptions of the barbarians were neve
checked. by this artificial barrier
BlackUood's Magazine.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
Work and Wait.

Forty days and forty nights,
Blown about the broken waters,
Noah and his SONS and daughters; 5
Forty days they beat and blow
Forty days Of faith, and 10!
The olive leaf, the lifted heights,
The rest at last, the calm delights.
Forty years Of sun and sand,
Serpents, beasts and wilderness,
Desolation and distress,
War and famine, wall and woe
Forty years of faith, and 10!
The mighty Moses lifts hand
And shows at lest the promised land.
Forty days to fast and pray,
The patient Christ outworn de6ed
The angry tempter at his side.
Forty days or forty years
Of patient sacrifice and tears
Lo! what are all of these the day
That time has nothing more to say?
Lift your horns, exult and blow,
Believe and labor. Tree and vine
Must flourish ere the fruit and wine
Reward your planting. Round and round
The rocky walls, with faith profound,
The trumpets blew, blew loud, and 10
The tumbled walls of Jericho.
joaquin Miller.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
She Didn't Understand.

Two young ladies called at dry goods
store on Woodward avenue, says the De-
troit Free Press, to look at one OF the
late styles of circulars. The one who
wanted to purchase was amazed and aus
appointed to find the circulars mace
without sleeves or armholes.
"Well, that's the style, said the sales.
man, "a and they are very popular. They
are meant to cover both shoulders and
arms"
II guess Iwon't buy e,"whispered
the Girl to her friend. If had beau
how could I take hold Of his arm with
that circular on ?"
"Why. you goose !" replied the other,
"you let him put his arm right around
you, of course! That's what it's made
mister, I'll take that circular r
| promptly observed the anxious pasT'
sad she had II sess hozee.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
A Balky Cow Surrenders to Steam.

The San Francisco Chronicle says
A ranch hand arrived by the San Rafael
ferry in charge of mich COW and its
young calf, which he was to deliver to a
family residing in the Western Addition.
He tied the legs of the calf, dispatched
it to it's destination on truck, and fol
lowed up Clay street, leading the COW by
a stout halter with long, flat, strong
leather shank. He had little trouble till
he got between Kearney and Dupont
streets, when the COW planted its fore
legs at a resolute angle of forty-fve de-
grees with the street railroad track. The
driver exhausted every variety of cow
doing known to the profession. He
went ahead and tried to pull her along
he went behind and argued with her by
twisting her tail into short and crack
ing spiral he tried various devices
kindly suggested by the crowd that had
gathered around, and finally fell back on
the eloquent and effective profanity
fashionable on thoroughly conducted
dairy ranch.
But the COW was stubborn and wouldn'
move. and the desperate vaquero had
Just come to the conclusion that he could
only wait helplessly and witness the ter
rible telescope tragedy with the dummy
of the next up train, when an ingenious
and airily dressed young Barbary coaster
took the job off his hands. He slipped
the end of the halter shank fatwise
through the slot in the street railroad
track and dropped it on one side Of the
moving wire beneath, then he reversed
his attenuated cane and slipped it
through and past the wire on the other
side; then he twisted the hooked top of
his cane around, caught the end of the
shank, drew it up through the slot, tied
it with the slipping knot round the stand
ing part of the shank, then drew the
knot through the slot ard tight round
the wire. The halter shank stretched
out, but it was of the toughest and best
tanned leather the cows horns cracked,
but declined to come out of her head ;
the vertebra of her neck elongated, ,'but
stuck to the remainder of her body ;
there was an instant abnormal STRAIN on
the engines over the hill, and clatter OF
the great wheel in the Kearney street well
for taking up the slack, then the COW re-
luctantly raised one foot set and it down
again quick, then another and set it down
quicker, and then she surrendered to the
superior powers of steam and wire cable
and trotted rapidly off. With head down
and tail up, like an eager and well train
ed setter beating a stubble field for
birds, she went over the hills and far
away. Dexter couldn't have made as
good time up the grades. John Gilpin's
ride never attracted so many astonished
eyes. As she went over the divide and
let out link or two on the down grade
the train men at the terminus were
thrown into temporary panic at the
new and inexpicable dummy bearing
down on them, but one of them had the
presence of mind to cut her loose before
she was drawn in and cut into steaks on
the friction wheels. She was little out
of breath and a trifle astonished at her
own outcome of speed. but she was cured
of baking, and continued without fur
ther trouble on to her new residence.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
Sober, Second Thoughts.

Contentment abides with truth. And
you viii generally suffer for wishing to
appear other than you are, whether it be
richer. or greater or more learned. The
mask soon becomes an instrument OF
torture.
If we need strong will in order to do
good, it is more necessary for us still in
order not to do evil, from which it often
results that the most modest life is that
where the force of will is most exercised.
Charity is that rational and constant
affection which makes us sacrifice our
selves to the human race as if we were
united with it 80 as to form one individ-
ual, partaking equally in its prosperity
and adversely.
If we will take the good we find, ask
ing no questions, we will have heaping
measures. The greatest gifts are not by
analysis. Everything good is on the
highway. The middle region OF our
being is the temperate zone.
It is the great privilege of poverty to
be happy unenvied, to be healthy with
out physic, secured without guard, and
to obtain from the bounty of nature what
the great and wealthy are compelled to
procure by the help of art.
Thus certain wise man replied to one
who said: "Such and such thoughts
have come into my mind" by saying
sLet them goagain. " Andanother wise or
acle said: "Thou canst not prevent birds
from flying above thy head, but thou
canst prevent their building their nests
in thy hair.
The misery of human life is made up
OF large masses, each separated from the
other by certain intervals. One year,
the death of child years after, failure
in trade after another longer or shorter
interval, daughter may have married
unhappily. In all but the singularly un-
fortunate, the integral parts that com.
pose the sum total of the unhappiness OF
q mans life are easily counted and dis
tinctly remembered
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
A Mothers Terrible Adventure.

A letter to the Galveston Tex. } NeWs,
from Kaufman, in the same State, says {:
A few evenings ago Mrs. Thompson,
living near East Fork, took her three
children, the eldest four years old, and
started out to look for a cow. The day
was cloudy, and in the evening cold
norther with rain set in, and the mother
lost her way in the woods and was .?,s out i
thirty-six hours, during which time 4
was very cold and rained continuously.
When found two of her children were
frozen to death, and the other nearly
dead. The poor mother had made them
a kind of bed of her shawl and Other
gartnents, and was leaning over them =, te
protect them from the storm; Ihs
mother and Surviving child are i'uptoT
sne.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
Betting.

The dangers of betting, especially on
the question of Presidential election, is
forcibly illustratedby the case of young
lady and gentleman of Bellevue, Ohio
She bet a kiss that Tilden would be
elected-he to pay if Tilden won, she to
pay if Hayes was elected. On the morn
ing of the eighth of November he called
and paid the bet; on the ninth he called
and took it back. That evening she
paid the bet. Next morning she took it
back, and he paid; then she paid, and he
paid; and so they have been kept busy
by the contradictory dispatches ever
since. and both declare their willingness
and ability to hold out until Congress de-
cides the question.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29

"Good. Neither do I care for my
self, but for Winnie, my little Winnie.
I tell you what, Mayberry, perhaps you
will wonder if 1 am crazy, but ri agree
to settle quarter of million on Winnie
the day she marries your boy. And I'll
lend you as much moreif it'll be any use,
and I'll start the boy for himself, if you
say so. Eh?"
Mr.. Mayberry looked at him in
speechless bewilderment
Wilmington went on:
"I made fortune out in India, and
it's safe and sound in hard cash in good
hands-a couple of millions. I deter
mined to bring my girl up to depend on
herself, and to learn the value of money
before she had the handling of her for
tune. She has no idea she's an heiress
my heiress. Sounds like story ont
of a book, eh, Mayberry? Well, will
you shake hands on it, and call it bar
gain ?"
Mr.. Mayberry took the little dried up
hand almost reverentially, his voice
hoarse and thick with emotion.
Wilmington, God will reward you
for this. May he, thousandfold y
Wilmington winked away suspicious
moisture on his eyelashes.
"You see it all comes of that dinner,
old fellow. You acted like charitable
Christian gentleman, and between us
we'll make the boy and Winnie as happy
as they deserve, eh ??
And even Mrs. Mayberry admits that
it was a good thing that her husband
gave that dinner, and when she expects
to see Mrs. Ernest Mayberry an honored
guest at her board, she candidly feels
that she owes every atom of her splendor
and luxury to the violet eyed, charming
girl who wears her own honors with
such sweet grace.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
The OctOroOD Ball.

A New Orleans correspondent of the
Des Moines (Iowa) State Register hav-
ing noticed the structures of the North
ern press on the celebrated octoroon ball
at which ex-senator Trumbull and ex-
Gov. Palmer were present, protests
against the assumption that the enter
tainment was low-toned affair. The
octoroons, he insists, are very beautiful
and proud, resembling the maids OF
Spain rather than theSbelles of Ethiopia,
and displaying exquisite taste in dress.
The correspondent went to the ball and
hence knows whereof he speaks when ne
describes the senator's dancing. One OF
the girls with whom Mr.. Trumbull had
been laughing and joking smiled bright
ly at him, and, with her head arched on
one side and her arms enticingly extend
ed. exclaimed: "Senator, won't you
dance with me?" why, of course l
WILL" responded the senator, gallantly,
catching the fair one around the waist
and circling down the hall, while MIR.
Palmer looked on like poor boy at q
frolic. At times he was SO dizzy that his
partner, who had the pretty name OF
Lurline, fairly had to hold him up.
When a dance resembling Northern
ouadrille was put on the floor, Mr.. Pal
mer was induced to take part, but his
performance was spiritless. In this
dance there was figure known as the
"gents' solo," Several Southern gem
tlemen danced with agility, and finally it
was Mr.. Trnmbulps turn. He was fired
with the spirit of the.occasion, and gave
some plantation steps. The correspond
ent here uses technical language: He
rocked back on his hind feet q little,
then cut the pigeon-wing to the right
and left, and came around on the alliga-
tor circle, and retired to his place on the
figure of the windin' blades, a rare and
difficult movement" The band was
playing Jump Jim Grow" the merry
yybi1o
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
A Stupid Son and a Mean Father.

The southington (Ct) Sentinel says:
There is man in this town between fifty
and sixty years Of age, who has steadily
worked for his father until the present
day; never had a dollar in his pocket;
never went to church, wedding or fun
eral; never was on car; never to q
party; never spoke to a girl except to
ask where her mother was; never had a
holiday; and yet had his poll tax abated
this year on account of poverty, While
his fathers estate Is estimated at sssfn
$4,000 10 $50, 600
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29
Seaweed.

Alas, poor weed The careless tide
Has left thee with his ightest foam;
And now desert drear and wide
Divides thee from thy wisfed-for home.
His flow may bear thee back once more,
But canst thou live thy life Of yore2
Alas I, too, am left awhile
By her I love, in Ightest play?
On distant loves see her smile, =.
I hear her laughter far away.
Her heart may turn to me again,
But can my heart forget the pain?
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29

The new sultan of Turkey is the hus-
band Of one wife, who is said to be a
Belgian, very pretty and very clever
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29


FREE SCHOOLS.
But at the basis of all prosperity for that as
well as for every other part Of the country, lies
the Improvement Of the intellectual and moral
condition of the people. Universal suffrage
should rest upon universal education. To this
end liberal and permanent provision should be
made for the support of free schools by the
State governments, and, if need be, supple
mented by legitimate aid from national author
ity. =,
Let me assure my countrymen of the South
ern States that it is my earnest desire to regard
and promote their truest interests, the inter
ests of the white and colored people both and
equally. and to put forth my best efforts in be-
half of civil policy which will forever wipe
out, in our political affairs, the color line, and
the distinction between North and South, to
the end that we may have not merely united
North or united South, but united country.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
I ask the attention Of the public to the para
| mount necessity of reform in our civil SER
vice a reform. not merely as to certain abuses
and practices of so-called official patronage
which have come to have the sanction Of usage
| in the several departments OF our government,
but change in the system OF appointment 1t.
self reform that shall be thorough, radical
and complete return to the principles and
practices of the founders of the government.
| They neither expected nor desired from public
| officers any partisan service. They meant that
pnblic officers should owe their whole service
70 the government and to the people. They
meant that the officer should be secure IN his
tenure as long as his personal character re-
NAMED urtarnished, aad the performance oi
hi. duties satisfactory, They held that ~
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-29

"Proud of you, indeed, my child, nc
matter what you wear. Yes, we'll go.
And thus it happened that among the
ten guests that sat down at Josiah May
berry's hospitable, overhowing boaro
that cold, blue skied day, Winnie Viii
mington and the little old man were two
and two to whom Ernest Mayberry
paid more devoted attention than ever
his father had asked and expected.
Of course it was a grand successful
excepting the cold hauteur on Mrs. May
berry's aristocratic face, and that was 6
failure, because no one took the least
notice of it, so much more powerful
were the influences of Mr.. Mayberry's
and Earnest's courteous, gentlemanly at
tentions.
Josiah said, with what was meant to be
withering sarcasm, after the last guest
had gone, and she stood a moment before
the fire; "I only hope you are satisfied
particularly with the attention Ernest
paid to that young woman-very unneces'
sary attention, indeed"
|. Mr.. Mayberry rubbed his hands to
gether briskly.
"Satisfed? Yes, thankful to God,
had it in my power to make them forge,
their poverty, if for only one little hour
Did you see little Jimmy Hurd's eyes
glisten when Earnest gave him the Sec
ond triangle of pie? Bless the young
ster's hearts, they won't want anything
to eat for q week"
81 was speaking of the young woman
who -
Mrs. Mayberry was icily severe, but
her husband cut it short.
$50 you were-pretty little thing as
ever I saw. A ladylike, graceful little
girl, with beautiful eyes enough to ex'
cuse the boy for admiring her"
"The boy. You seem to have forgot
ten your son is twenty-three-old enough
to fall in love with, and marry-even
poor, unknown girl you were quixotic
enough to invite to your table"
"Twenty-three? So he is. And if he
wants to marry bsggar, and she is q
good, virtuous girl-why not ?"
A little gasp of horror and dismay was
the ONLY answer of which Mrs. Mayberry
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-22
THE WONDERFUL EGYPTIAN BLOOD PURIFIER.
 HEMAR.

11ts incOrnp0rGbte DEP URATTVE ts e pOtcerfmI ALTERNATIVES, TONIC, DE- URET1C, DIAPHORETIC, aud APERI- 1cNT, combining Virtsues sUhioh render {t inUGIHGble and saeTer- fatItnO, 0Ssd bN &tS continued asse SctlL thoroughly eradf- dtessts are Of q -pWTely hGrnsIess estrGc- ftO1, the products gathered frOts rcHsOte EOyptiGm PrOvtnces, and srhere there G tens, tt saeuer ftsiLs ifs ejeetfMO that disease through the 9nediNIb Of the skin, e&- PeIttm0 tt through the 'sany 0'd .arioss thetr proper normal and Titnctional eOm- Son.ee %s"n anS Ssrg .:gs..c s s ;s doubted reliability and SvOnderJat rwts,- tive properties, tt beinQ, S'sose s.'iGMgstieH- aud the OreGtest dtscOvery Of ehe flpese,,t age, in the treatment of every disease sChere tIe blood itself 6 prtmiaritv ths SCROFULA G,.d the thosssassd amd oHs causes tIs0t I6Gd to this terriOte aGatctioH, Of sChich GW civiIiSed coN.an asSstSies are ed thGt the SinS Of the fathers shau Visit eUen sSsstO tue third and fourth gens EHEEEiLED S1sTaEi % C0NS2fTUTTOSs 1tH Ns ss S ts. POscerfSL rejMcen0tOr, causing ths srreck Of 'r1GN once 1'sOre to assume the GOd-lteO
 For CUT1NEO US DISEASES, URIN- ARY DISORDERS, CONSTIPATION OR COSTIEENESS, LIyER AND KIDNEY ONS DEBIIiTT, # RHETM W ITfSM. M GI1NDUL1R ENI1RG EME MENTs, EFI1 THELIOMATOU US CANCER, SC0RTY, AFFECTIONS OF THE BONES. INDO- LENT UL c E s, FEMALE COM PLANTS (01ad to the 0esstIes. sec C ts e boon LONO sought f01' by sensitiUe, sWscep- tible, and deLicGte fesn0les, as te takes direct action stp0n their Gitsmesstsl AND ALL FORMS OF CHRONIC DISEASE IN WHICH THE BLOOD IS THE SEAT OF THE TROUBLE, tt is fnUGgN0bIe. 4 4IeTseUeFGNce acith this remedy 6Ciu pToc0 q pOsitiUe and perNs0Messt esIrs s10r CHILLS GNd PETERS 0nd 0u MALA- RIAL POISONS.
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 Price, One Dollar, Sss large bOttIeS Or eic bottles, S6.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-22
BRONCHITIS AND LUNG
 AFFECTIONS.
TRACHEON.

4 stight sO-cGIled cold SciTE Offttsnee lead to q serious cOMyh, 1cEich. sIncOred for or bGdEy tTe6ted, s1taSt hare bat Ossc 3'eSasEt-it a1BsGst eCentn0tc tss 1 SeftIed case Of BRONCHITIS, OT sclt0t is scoFSe, fac ieGdIy CONSUMPTION. To 0H aWHeTtHO frOns h0rGssiGO cOUOh aud "GpecsorGttOm, TRACHEON offers e sOWSsd, TrIi0bss, an6 permanent relief. It aSGJassefstS SHpeet0- ration, 01ld enables the PGti~nt tO eGPes thGt terribly septic depOsit, Irhtch, iT trTT sCithOGst jGdtciOWs treGtsHemf, TssssSt e0wa- sIaSssic6te its poison to the resieWLaF sHb- stance Of tue lttnO, degenerdtiNG aud de- strOyinO thdt aHosc esSentfGt or Oggasas. GE1sd 1CLtint0teS 0nty Ire Hn c0rfy aud Wbs- timely deGth. TRACHEUN h0s ssO. eQSlhS, a1tssch Jess G superior, aud its use Srin nOs OnIy rensOVe fhe dePOSif, thereby uHor6essa Gre9t Telief. bart he0Is the s,aessS braaesu uss3 teGves- the f'Gtient -iSa possession OS heefthp JlSSsD tissue.
 Price, FifSy Cemts Per bottle, CT SiS
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-22
DYSPEPSIA. GASTRnN

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 Price, One Dollar, iN tGr0e bottle, OP miae hOttLeR. &R.