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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03
WHAT BEN HILL SAYS.
How Ex-RebeIs Prevented An
other Civil War.

HOW EA-R0D6lS HfeVG0G6Q An
4 other Civil War.
Senator Ben Hill gave a core
| spondent some of the inside history
of the last days Of the counting O
| the electoral vote. He said that the
Wormley conference had nothing tc
do with the result reached, and thai
the persons who took part in it were
those who did it on their own re-
sponsibility. with no consultation
with any one. He spoke as follows
Il am now about to reveal to you
the dim outlines of what will some
day form one of the most patriotic
pages in American history, and af-
ter conclude my brief narrative
you will know just how much int1u-
ence this so-called Wormley confer.
eaee had in effecting the result of
the electoral count. When the de-
cision of the electoral commission
iD the Florida case became known, /
was convinced that the disputed
States would be decided in favor of
Hays, and that the issue which would
presently confront US would be the
legal inauguration of Mr.. Hayes as
President or another revolution. |
consulted with a few ex-Confeder-
ates, all members of the House of
Representatives, and the situation
was thoroughly and earnestly dis
cussed, Not to enter into unneces.
sary details, We, who had just emerg-
ed from a ruinous and disastrous
war and had experienced its devas-
tating effects-we ex.rebeIs deter
mined to prevent a second civil war
and spare the country from all the
terrible herrors that would attend it.
Accordingly, forty.two ex-Confeder-
ates solemnly pledged themselves to
each other, upon their sacred honor,
to oppose all attempts to Illustrate
the counting of the votes for Presi
dent and Vice President. We had
neither caucus nor meeting. call
ed upon each gentleman personally,
and obtained his signature to pa
per that | presented to him, We
conducted the movement with the
greatest caution, for we did not de-
sire our plans should ever be sus-
pected. You may judge how well
the secret has been kept, when it
has remained inviolate till this day.
Having disclosed these facts, you
can now determine what degree of
Importance to attach to the influence
exercised by the Democratic mem
hers Of the Wormleys conference up
on the result of the electoral count.
The forty-two ex-Confederate Con-
gressmen had pledged themselves to
abide By the decision of the elector.
al commission several weeks before
the Wormley conference took place,
SO. that. despite the sensational ru-
mors that filed the air, toward the
close of the count, there never was
the remotest possibility of trouble.
We held the balance of power, and
did not propose TO permit another
war. If our votes could prevent it. .
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

It is said that Montana, with q
population of fifty thousand. has not
had a business failure in a year.
This circumstance is said to be due
to the custom of hanging those who
are unable to make satisfactory ar
rangements with creditors.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

The people of Nevada think they
have too many officials and are pay
ing them too much, and talk about
contraction in both respects. At a
late election it is said there was one
candidate to every fourteen voters.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03


A French paper humorously Illus
trates the high charges in Paris dur
ing the exhibition. At q restaurant,
a gentleman who Enthusiastically does
not belong to the Iight.fngered tribe.
is openIy-not furtiyely-shoying
the spoons and forks into bis pocket,
The ga'coo says: "AlloW me toaob-
serve, monsieurs that you are putting
the silver articles in your pocket. y
"Well, are they not eempHised In the
dinner bill? 1 thought BY the charge
itincluded everything on the table, =
crows. no cream. was the
way eompositor set up the words.
No cross, no crown IN -
&c
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

The New York Star: An English
medical authority, says that persons
who blow the big horn in band
rarely live beyond period of three
years. The same may be said of
the persons who swallow big horns
in whisky saloon. Even the Big
Horn country and the horns of
bull are dangerous, Therefore, avoid
all "horns'-even those Of dilem-
ma. @ ta @ s
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

Whena q man wants to call puppy
he whistles, but girl Just walks
along with her handkerchief floating
across her shoulder go
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

Tennessee is enjoying the most su-
perb blackberry crop ever known in
the memory of man.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

Ten selected head of three-year-
old cattle, of an average weight OF
2,1s7 pounds. have lately been ship
ped from Paris. Kentucky, for Paris,
France. to take par in the show.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

1t is bad religion which makes
us hate the religion of other people.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03
Lynch Law in Tennessee.


Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 20
twenty-five armed men on horseback
went into Springfield at 1 o'clock
this morning and demanded Pearson
and Sadler, charged with having
outraged the person of Mrs. Graves
on May 16. near a place called
Mitchell. The Jailor refused TO give
them up, when the mob commenced
to knock down the door of his dwell
ing aud threatening him with death.
Some citizens hearing the noise
came up toward the Jail, only to find
that the streets had been picketed.
The jailer attempted to scare them
off by telling them he recognized
some of them, when they called him
a id liar. They finally secured
the keys Of the Jail and dragged out
the prisoners. Pearson at the same
time appealing to the Jailer to save
him. The prisoners were taken on
horses behind members Of the mob,
carried three miles away, and hang
ed to the same limb by a greasy
piowline, their feet almost touching
the ground. Both were strangled to
death. When it was found that they
were dead the lynchers went home
leaving them hanging. When dis
covered this morning they were cut
down. An inquest was held. aud
both bodies were inferred in the
same grave under the limb upon
W hieh they were hung.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03
Crops and Politics in Virginia.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, {
June "a, 1878.


HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, .
June ID, 1878.
We have splendid crops in this
portion of the old State. Heaven
has sent upon us in rich profusiop
a great many showers, and last Fri.
day evening we had the King of show
ers, which caused much damage to
the corn and tobacco planted along
our creeks and rivulets. The creeks
overfiowed their banks, prostrating
the corn and tobacco planted on the
low grounds.
The wheat crop is good; | had
almost said excellent. but some fields
we're damaged by rust, and others
by milk-weevil.
The tobacco crops are all planted
and look well. In the early spring,
the flies injured the plants very
much. and many persons predicted 9
failure IN the tobacco crop; but, as
the spring advanced, the flies discon-
tinued their depradations, and we
can safely say that full crop has
been planted. .se 5sT
Corn never looked better than at
present, and unless some fortuitous
circumstance transpires, heavy corps
of corn will be raised in Virginia.
The oat crop is looking well, and
an average will be realized.
The fruit, in many locations, is
excellent. and promises an abundant
yield.
Fine tobacco is selling for good
price, at Lynchburg. Richmond and
Danville. at present; but inferior
grades are bringing low prices. The
cause of this is, that there was very
little fine tobacco raised in Virginia
last year, and the market is oppress-
ed with inferior grades, but when a
fine article comes into market good
price is always realized. [ know
that much fine tobacco was raised in
East Tennessee, last year, and ad-
wise those persons who have it on
hand, to send it Immediately to mar.
ket.
Much political excitement is at
present manifested, superinduced by
the desire of certain members of the
Democratic party in Congress to un-
seat Hayes. The Democrats think
that the party is revolutionary in its
designs, and that such second inyes.
tigation is premature, and entirely !
in the present emer-
gency of our country. Every person |
with whom l have conversed says |
that Hayes administration has been |
by a sincere desire to |
reconcile the conflicting political ell |
ements between the North and the |
South. and bring about coalescence
Of fraternal good feeling, and event
ually to establish the relations of am
ity and goodwill throughout the Ma
ton. The movement, it is contend
ed, will finally give the administra.
tion the next Presidency. Be that
as it may, l am entirely confident,
that the Democratic party has lost
many friends since the Inauguration
of the second investigation COM
menced,
Times are hard in the old State
scarce, and every department
Of business depressed. j. A. C.
Lynch Law in Tennessee. /
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 20.- !
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

S What is 3 boys idea Of the shor-
test cut to manhood? A short pipe.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-03

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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19
PITH AND POINT.

THE man who was kicked out of the
| house by an irate parent, didn't laugh
in his leave. Whitehall Times.
THOUGHTS that burn-Amateur poet
ry when the EDITORS waste basket is
overflowing = Stamford Adcocate.
You can not tell a man who is con.
tented in the world merely by looking
at him. The neatest fitting boot often
covers raging corn.-Breaktast Table.
The man whose lame back prevents
him from splitting a stick of wood or
building fire is the one who leads an
attack on pile of ten cords of wood to
help uncover and kill frightened rab-
bit. Detroit Free Press.
"PA," asked an uptown boy the 9th.
er day, "what is meant by paradise?"
Paradise, my son." replied the father
gloomily, "paradise, my son, is the lat
ter part of next summer, when your
mother goes on a visit to your grand
MOTHER -
A RURAL editor has lost faith in the
luck of horseshoes. He nailed one
over his door recently, and that morn
ing there came by mail three duns and
seven stops" and man called with
a revolver to ask, "Who wrote that ar
ticle?''
He lives in the country, and he want
ed to get married, but his remark was
applicable even unto the youth of the
town. 81 can almost support myself
now, and it must be a mighty poor sort
of a woman who can't do the rest"
WHAT a beautiful example of SIM
pliciiy in dress is shown some of the
followers of fashion by that domestic
animal, the cat, which rises in the morn
ing, washes its face with its right hand,
gives its tail three jerks, and is ready
dressed for the day.
AN American tourist was visiting Ma
Piles, and saw Vesuvius during an erup-
ton. "Have you any thing like that in
the New World?" was the question of
an Italian spectator. "No,'' replied
Jonathan, 4" but guess we have mill
dam that would put it out in five min
utes!" sf..f6 ysrffsE
ExTRAvAGANCE is the cause of hard
times,'' said Nevada capitalist. We
must be more economical. Ten years
ago began working in mill in Gold
Hill at small salary, and in less than
year owned the mill and had some
money in bank" "You are right"
returned listener with great earnest
ness. 6 1t is possible for man to lay
up 50, 900 or So 900 month on salary
of $5 day, but he must be very eco
nomical and have the handling of the
amalgam.n
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19
THE L1DY OF CASTELNORE.

Bretagne had not her peer. In the province
far or near,
There were never such brown tfeSseS, such
n faultless hand;
She had youth and she had gold, she had
Jewels all untold,
And many a lover bold wooed the lady of
the land.
But she, with queenliest grace, bent low her
pallid face,
And Woo me not, for Jesus sake, fair gen.
temenP' she said,
If they wooed, then with q frown she would
strike their passion down;
She might have wed crown to the ringlcts
on her head.
From the dizzy castle tips, hour by hour she
watched the ships,
Like sheeted phantoms coming or going
evermore;
While the twilight settled down on the sleepy
seaport town,
On the gables peaked and brown, that had
sheltered kings OF yore.
And so oft she sat alone in the tu1rct of gray
stone,
And looked across the moorland, so woful,
to the sea,
That there grew village cry, how her cheek
did lose its dye,
As a ship, once sailing by, faded on the
sapphire lea.
gray
| And ragged, Jagged rocks that fringe the
lonesome beach;
There sne would stand, the sweet! with the
white surf at her feet
While above her wheeled the fleet sparrow
hawk with startling screech.
And she ever loved the sea-God's half utter
ed edmystery-
With its million lips of shells, its never
ceasing roar,
And twas well that, when she died, they
made her grave beside
The blue pulses of the tide, by the towers of
Castelnore.
Now, one chill November morn, many russell
autumns gone,
strange ship with folded wings lay doing
off the lea
1t had lain throughout the night with its
wings of murky white
Folded, after weary fiight-the worn nurs-
ling of the sea.
crowds of peasants flocked the sands; there
we're tears and clasping hands;
And a sailor from the slip stalked through
the church yard gate.
ihen amid the grass that crept, fading, over
her who slept,
How he hid his face and wept crying, "Late
alas, too late!''
ana they called her cold. God knows. Under
meath the winter SHOWS
Inc invisible hearts of flowers grow ripe for
oiossomlng!
anu the lives that look SO cold, If their stories
-, could be told,
would seem cast in gentler mold, would
seem 1till OF love and spring.
n. b. Aldqich.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19
Dissemination Of Yellow Fever.

How is the disease disseminated? In
two ways: in q given town or city, by a
slow and regular progression from house
to house; between distant places, by
following the lines of travel and COM
merce. 1t is carried with special fire.
quency by sailing ships, and generally
makes its appearance in previously
healthy place near the docks and
wharves. Whether the part of the
town nearest the water happens to be a
clean or a dirty quarter, q rich or a
poor one, makes no difference Clean
streets do not check the disease, nor
does foulness favor its spreading. In
1857 the yellow fever prevailed in that
part of New Orleans which was by Off
cial report, "in the best possible sani-
tary condition." and in no other, though
the rest of the city was and had
for years been almost indescribably
filthy. The germs or the disease are
portable, like bulk in freight, and they
will take root in any soil. They lurk
in baggage-cars, in boxes, and in cloth
ing, in any loose-textured substance that
is closely shut up, as even in cargoes of
sugar. In nporous materials like these
fomites, as physicians call them-the
poison will hide and ripen from some
two months time, and develop its full
est strength of infection. A parcel sent
from New Orleans may start an epi-
demic of yellow fever in Boston or Que
bee.
The disease is one of hot climates, and
of low alluvial ground by preference,
though any kind of soil will do for it,
and any elevation above sea-level that is
not too great for the degree of heat re-
quired. That degree is daily average,
continued for some weeks together, of
from II deg. to 80 deg. F.-a tempera-
ture which is reached for a month or
more together, and exceeded, during
our more than torrid summers, in al
most anv of our towns and cities from
Florida to Maine. Yellow fever has
prevailed as far north even as Quebec,
and may extend as far again in the
future.
OF the mysterious way in which the
disease travels from house to house, a
living messenger of death, we know lit
tie. Science has not yet been able to
SCIZ6 upOu GIlc StCItb VI It's CduSC, w Hull
in all cases is probably the same, though
some observers think that there are
two distinct forms of the disease.
Is it in microscopic plant or insect, too
small, however, for detection by the
highest magnifying power yet at our
command, that its exciting cause con-
sists? That is probable. 1t is supposed
that these germs enter the blood and
destroy it by process comparable to
that which is set up in yeast by ferment-
alton. 1t has been suggested, very
plausibly, that this living germ can en-
ter the human body only at a particular
stage of it's own growth, and that when
it has completed its career by multiply
ing there, it has no power to leave that
body and invade the sanctuary of anoth-
er life. This theory would account for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the disease.
DR.. T. N. Coan, IN Harper's for De-
ce9nber
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19
History of Writing Materials.

The materials used for writing on
have varied in different ages and nations.
Among the Egyptians. slices of lime
stone, leather, linen and papyrus-es-
pecially the last-were universally EN-.
ployed. The Greeks used bronze and
stone for public monuments, wax for
memorandums and papyrus for the or
dinary transactions of life. The kings
of Pergamus adopted parchment, and
the other nations of the ancient world
chiefly depended on q supply of the pa
per of Egypt. But the Assyrians and
Babylonians employed for their public
archives, their astronomical computa.
tions, their religious dedications, their
historical annals and even for title deeds
and bills of exchange, tablets, cylinders
and hexagonal prisms of terra Gotta.
Two of these cylinders, still extant, con-
tain the history of the campaign of Sem
nacherib against the kingdom of Judah,
and two others, exhumed from the Birs
Nimroud, give detailed account of the
dedication of the great temple by Neb-
uchadnezzar to the seven planets. To
this indestructible material, and to the
happy idea of employing it in this man
ner, the present age is indebted for q
detailed history Of the Assyrian mon
archy; whilst the decades of Livy, the
plays of Menander and the lays of An
acreon, confided to more perishable
material, have either wholly or partly
disappeared amidst the wreck of EN-
pires.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19

THE following story is told to illus
trate the almast Quixotic regard for
truth Of Alessander Asinaria-formerly
Papal Nuncio at the Court of Brussels
who died few days ago. On his recall
from Brussels, as he was journeying to-
wards Rome, Monsignor Asinaria was
stopped by bandits near Viterbo. Purses
having been duly delivered up and the
carriage conscientiously searched, the
chief Of the brigands turned to the pre-
late and asked him if he had concealed
any thing. Monsignor Asinaria replied
that he had 5000 francs slowed away
under some soiled linen. The brigands
took the money.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19
A Newspaper Mans Experience.

He is prominent newspaper man
and parts his hair in the middle. The
part is over FIVE inches wide, which
gives him an innocent cast of counte-
nance. To those who knew him not he
might be considered verdant in appear
ance. He was riding in a sleeper on
the Central Pacific Railroad, and fell
into an innocent little game of pedro
with Colonel, Professor and Doctor
During an animated conversation and a
quiet deal, three aces were thrown on
his side of the table, after which one Of
the three gayly remarked, with the
greatest GOODNESS, 81 wish that we were
playing poker. l don't know that I
have been favored with such nand for
years" Our editorial friend saw the
game, looked up innocently and re-
marked:
81 have been favored also. 1 have q
pretty good poker hand myself"
The three looked at each other as he
continued thusly:
"They call you Professor?"
eyes"
"They call you Colonel?"
"You are from the East, l believer
HYes"
"Well, gentlemen" he continued,
rising, ".you had better take the next
train back. We meet it just the other
side of Battle Mountain. You can't
make cent at this They have been
teaching it in the Sunday-schools in Cal
ifornia for years. .n-Graphic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-12-19
The Fat Man and His Tailor.

A fat friend of ours makes mournful
plant because there are no fashion
plates constructed with view to men of
his build. "Look at them, next time
you go into tailor shop" said he "All
the fellows you see in those plates are
tall, well proportioned men, who look
well in good clothes whether they fit or
not. Did you ever see short, fat
man in fashion plate? Never. And
yet there are as many short fat men, in
the world, and probably more, than of
any other variety of proportions. Why
can't we be represented once in while
in tailor's fashion plate? We like to
dress well and look well. Bnt the tailors
never afford US model so that we may
judge what is more becoming to our
style and build.''
There is sense in the fat mans CON-
plant. Tall, well proportioned men
are the exception, and short, stockey
men the rule. Don't make all the fash
ion plates for the exceptions, gentlemen.
When a fat man comes in to order suit
of clothes, and, after selecting the ma
terial, asks what style they had better
be made up in, the man with the tape
line marches him up before the latest
fashion plate and asks him to decide
what style he prefers. He sees lot of
rim-figured men standing there in va
rious attitudes of grace (attitudes which
have been impossible to him for twenty
years, probably, if they ever were),
whose clothes fit them faultlessly-for
you see the artist drew the clothes first
and then the men to fit them. 1t makes
difference which is made first, the
men or the clothes, don't you see? But
did you ever notice what small feet
these fashion plates have? We never
saw one with foot over an inch and a
half long. Well, the fat customer sur
veys the plate for while, and then he
usually selects style particularly be-
coming to the very thinnest man there.
The gentleman of the shears takes his
measure and makes his suit as directed,
and when it is done, fat Customer is en-
ragged because he doesn't appear in it
just like the slim fellow in the fashion
plate, curled mustache, plug hat, lilli
putian feet, and Cincinnati Satur-
day Night.