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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

midst of bounteous harvests. in re-
gion one Of the fairest ever fashioned
by the Almighty for the abode Of
man
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear
And flesh and blood so cheap
Suppose. that resumption were
attainable without further fall of
values and depression of industries,
and that after January l. 1879. pros
perity should promptly return. Let
US make a rough estimate of the
cost OF resumption. It will have
cost the people at large, through the
enforced idIeness of factories. an
enormous sum, probably surprising
several times the aggregate of our
national debt.
The debtor class, instead of pay
ing seven billions, which they owe,
would have to pay one half more by
the shrinkage of former values; that
is. the enormous sum of about three
and three-quarters billions of dollars
would be wrcngfully taken from
them, so far as they have power to
pay it, and given to the creditor
class. without consideration and in
violation of the spirit of the con-
tracts.
The census of 1870 indicates that
there are not less than ten millions
OF wage-people in the United States,
men, women, and children. If there
be 40 increase of demand for labor
by resumption day, we may safely
put the loss of labor. unemployed.
or only partly employed, at daily
average Of three millions of days la
Dor; aud, putting wages at an aver
age of a dollar q day, the loss. from
want of employment alone. will have
been nine hundred millions a year
for about three years-an aggregate
of $2.7OO,OOO,OOO wrung from the
poorest class of our people.
The loss to taxpayers in depre.
citation Of property with which taxes
are paid, while the sum Of taxes re.
mains the same, would be three hum
dred and fifty millions a year, OF
over a thousand millions in the three
years and the increase of bonded
debt in purchase of gold and silver
to pay and cancel the greenback and
fractional currency, will be four hun.
bred and sixteen millions more.
Thus under the specious pretext
that national honor requires US to
add 10 per cent, to the value Of three
hundred and fifty -four millions OF
greenbacks, the contrivers OF this
scheme will have wrested from the
people many times the sum of eur
vast national debt.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

At the residence of G.. L. Brady, near
Morristown, on the 25th of December,
1877, by A. j. Donaldson, Esq, Mr.. g..
L. BRADY, of Hamblen county, to
Miss ALICE McGoLDRIcK, of Granger
county, Tenn.
At the residence of ]. w. Smith, near
Wits Foundry, on the 26th of Decem-
Der, 1877, by VIM. Felknor, Esq, Mr..
CHAs RIGHTsELL to Miss MAGGIE
BRowN, all of this county.
On Chucky river, Jan. I'd, 1878, by
Rev. W. II. Smith,, Mr.. SAMUEL NJ. ED
WARDS to Miss KATE d. McCURLEY, all
of Greene county.
On the same day, and by the same
person, at the residence of the brides
father, Mr.. GEORGE s. EoKEL to Miss
RoENA ROBINSON, all of Cooke county
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THE HOFFMAN.
lChristian Union.l


walking along the gliHtening sand,
She saw = boatmAn approach the land
"Boatman," she said, ''what is thy fee?
am tired, and fain would sail with thee"
He shook his head. death is my fee;
When come again you may sail with me-"
ST am tired, SO tired !" she mournful said,
s4sI.et me rest with the silent dead.''
''2Sot now, poor child it cannot be;
But wait, one day viii call for thee"
Two years passed of weakness and pain
Ere the boatman moored by the bank again.
She heard the dip of the oar in the wave,
And moaned 'sNow give me the rest crave"
He caught her whispered cry for f'rest,''
And folded her safe in his loving breast
Then we, watching near, knew the Lords dear
face,
And that Heaven was the boatman's destined
place.
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sTATEafENT OF THE jury.
Shooting Tragedy.

FARAIvnLE. Va, Dec PA
shocking tragedy occurred hare to-
day. Col. Wm. Randolph Berkeley,
an eminent lawyer of this place, was
seated in his Office conversiig with
Mr.. Alfred Moth. cashier Of the
English and American Bank. when
a knock was heard at the door, a2d
Col. Berkley got up to answer It,
On opening the door, a shot was
fred from without, and the Colonel
fell back with a ball in The temple.
immediately afterwards Capt VIM.
II. Kennedy entered the elise. aud
stepping behind Col. Berklc.'s desk.
placed a pistol at his own head and
fired. Mr.. Moth says all he heard
was remark by Capt. Ken rely, a.
he fired. which animated that he had
some grievance against. Col. Buckley
It is stated that Kennedy matc three
attempts on his own life. and for a
long Tins has been In moody and
dependent condition. Col. Berk-
ley died instan ~. He leaves q
large family. lie was a member
OF the firm OF Berkiey & Be kley. of
Richmond. Kennedy still lives. but
with no hope ofrecoyery. lie was
formerly from Petersburg.
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A Double Addiction,

Our heartfelt and sincerest sympathy
goes out to our esteemed friend, Judge
John L. Moses and family, of Knoxville,
in their recent sad aff1iction. On the
morning of December "A, the telegraph
announced the death of his aged and
honored father, j ohm F. Moses, at Exc
ter, n. H., and few hours later another
dispatch gave the sad and unexpected
news of the sudden death, near Amite,
La, by falling from and being run over
by a train of cars on the Mississippi Rail
road, of his eldest son, John w. Moses,
who was in the employ of the road.
John F. Moses, lived to the ripe old age
of more than 85 years, 81 years of which
he was consistent and faithful member
of the Baptist Church, serving SO years
as a DeacOn,-a period probably I'M
paralleled, and the fact that the office
was held by representatives of three
generations of his family at the same
time = himself, two sons and a
grandson = is also, perhaps, without
a precedent. He was a soldier in
1912, and represented his town three
successive terms in the State Legisla-
ture. For many years he was largely
engaged in manufactures and trade, and
was in all circles respected for his sterl-
ing integrity, and for the interest he
took in all that pertained to the
welfare of the community in which he
lived. When a member of the Legisla-
ture, says writer in his local paper,
che spent portion of every Sabbath at
the Penitentiary, praying with the con-
victs aud exhorting them to enter upon
better life; and, according to. the testi-
mony of the Warden, his labOrs were
much more efficient than those of the
regular Chaplain, Infidels, in their ex-
tremity, would send for him to talk to
them of the God whose authority they,
in their health and strength, had denied.
Catholics, in the absence of their priests,
would, call upon him te conduct the
burial services of their dead; and none
of them ever called in vain"
John W. Moses was born December
10, 1847. He left Knoxville, the home
of his birth, in the spring of 1874, and
went to Texas. Thence he went to Cali
fornia, from which State he was called
to Knoxville in July last to attend the
death and funeral of his mother. Last
October he went to Louisiana and OBJ
tanned situation on the Mississippi
Central Railroad, in which he lost his
life He was a young man of much
promise. Trained by religious parents,
he needed their counsels, and exhibited
in his daily walk all of the virtues and
none of the vices of youth. Many
friends, young and old, besides his rela
tives, will drop q sympathetic tear at
his sad and early death.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

East Tennessee is overwhelmed with
homicides, just now. 1t seems that
crime is sometimes epidemic; and GER
tainly is so here. Only few weeks
ago James and William Leger lost their
lives in ARRAYS in Granger county.
This was December ID and 10. On Sun
day, the 18th, Oliver Mullins shot and
killed cousin, son of widow Mullins,
in Newman's Ridge, Hancock county.
On the goth, William MARYLAND (white)
killed Abe Bly, (coloredl at Elizabeth
ton, Garter county, by shooting him
through the head with q pistol ball.
This was an unprovoked murder. Be-
sides these homieides, one has been
committed in Knox county. and one in
this (Hamblen). Various 'scrimmages''
have also been INDUCED in by numerous
parties, in which homicide would have
been considered only O natural result OF
the quarrels. In the meantime, two ex-
ecutions have taken place, as awful
warnings against crime. The question
arises, Does hanging criminals for
murder have a tendency to lessen or in
grease like offences y
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To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:


I see in the last issue of the MORRIS
TOWN GAZETTE two propositions from
the holders of our Tennessee bonds,
either of which if accepted by our Leg
islature, will place our State indebted
ness entirely under our control. One of
said propositions are forty cents on the
dollar bearing six per cent interest; the
other fifty cents on the dollar and four
per cent interest.
Now supposing we were able under
the forty cent basis to raise an annual
sinking fund sufficient to pay the debt
in fifteen or twenty years, we ought to
accept and close the offer at once. But
if we anticipate thirty years to be the
shortest time possible for us to pay the
same, we had better agree to pay the
fifty cents on the dollar drawing only
four per cent. interest. Then by appro-
priating 1864, 900, each year. to be APP
piled first to the payment of the inter
est, and the remainder to the liquida-
ton of said debt, supposing it to have
been reduced to $11 900, 900, will enable
US to pay the same in thirty years, lack
ing only about $685., 1895, and making
this last basis on thirty years time better
for the State than the other for the same
length of time by about $454 ,914
L. +. LEEPER.
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NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

In Chancery at Morristown. % Bill No. asa.
Mary Riggs r. r. Dotaon, n. M. Riggs, NJ Il.
d. Johns, John W. Dotson, Julia r. Foster,
Burrel Foster, James Y. Dotson, Mary O. Long,
J. x. p. Long, John g. Riggs, Eliza T.. Riggs
and Rebeeea A Riggs. fse
IN THIS CAUSE. 1T APPEAR
n ing 10 the Master. from tae allegations Of the
bill, which is sworn to, that the defendants Jghn
Q. Riggs, Eliza E. Riggs and Rehecca a. Riggs,
are noA-residenta OF tile State Of Tennessee. Il ID
therefore ordered By the Masar, that said non-
resident defendants appear btdore our said Chan-
Gerry Court at Morristown, on rle
4Ihild Moaddy ia JtlRmtry, 1878,
aud make defense to said bill or the same viii be
taken for confessed and set Tor hearing Ex-PARrR
as To them 1t Is further ord red BY the Master,
that this notice be published for four consecutive
weeks N the Morristown GAzErrR This Novarsl-
Der SO. 1877
dec5IwprFfs5 JOHN MURPHY, G. M.
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1t becomes our sad duty to announce
the death of Mrs. Naomi Trent, on
Wednesday, December Goth, 1877, at
the residence of her son, Capt. ]. 81.
Trent. The remains were inferred on
the following day, in Morristown
Cemetry.
Deceased had been a great sufferer
for several years from complication of
disease, which finally terminated in
dropsy. She bore her sufferings with
out murmur or word of COM
plant. She was plain, ktnd-hearted,
good woman; and left satisfactory assur-
ances of her present happy state. She was
in the 77th year of her age and leaves
several children and many grand-chil
dren. We tender to the family and
friends of the deceased our heartfelt
sympathies.
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beautiful aud overwhelming eloquence
could avail, his power was irresistible.
At heart, he was tender, sympathetic
and affectionate, and was tha friend and
protector of all victims of ini<t ,rtune.
He was generous and kind TO a fault,
and his liberality had no limits within :
his ability to give. No kinder hus-
band or father ever lived, and his
home and family were TO him paradise
with its angels; few have known him
who will not remember his affectiOnate
illusions to his Mary tIie wife of lis
youth, the partner of his joys and sor-
rows through life, and ever the object of
his tenderest and most steadfast devo-
ton. He was the light and life of his
family, and his death has shrouded in
gloom a home unused to darkness.
During the last few days of his life
he gave his family and friends many
assurances of his hope of salvation. A
few evenings previous to his death lac
remarked to his wife that he felt as if no
were standing on peninsula between !
time and eternity. with one hand in
hers and the other in that of their angel
babes who hail gone before. And in
his last hours, and even in the moment
of death, his compressed lip and the
benignant smile which left its impress
upon his countenance, like the lingering
rays of golden sunset, spoke in tones
as loud as life
Colae now all We terrors, sally,
Muster forth into the valley
Where triumphant DARKNESS no .ers
With q sable wing, that covers
Brooding Horror Come, thou Death,
Let the damps Of thy dull breath
O'ershldow eeH the shsde
And make darkness self afraid;
There my feet, cen there, shall ind
Way for q resolved fuiud.
Stin my Shepherd, still my God,
Thou art with ssill;
Still thy rod and tiny stan, whose
Influence gives direction,
Gives defence.
In his death the Slate has lost one of
its strongest pillars, the bar its most
brilliant jewel, Tue community its most
gifted citizen, and his c 1mpanions their
most generous friend; but Ills memory,
less frail than the flesh, will not decay,
but Will live in the hearts of his cOun-
trymen, and deep in their memories
upon a tablet more lasting than marble,
his virtues " III be Inscribed in letters of
life, and TO the passer by who nears his
tomb in after years, the voice CT memo
ry will ever say
! o, ye whose cheek the tear OF pity stains,
| Draw near, With piOas reverence and attend;
| Here lie the loving husbands dear re1nains
| The tender father, this generous friend
TIE plying heart that felt FOR human woes
/ The dauntiess heart that feared human pride:
/ The friend OF man, to vica alone a foe,
| q For cen his failings leaned to virtues side"
/ SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas, Dec. IT, 1871
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Grigsby House,
Formerly VSagiisia House,)
MOrrIstOWns Tenn.
UNDERSIGNED HAY-

gHNIIE UNDERSIGNED HAV-
q ing leased the above popular and convenient
stand, begs leave to inform his many friends and
the travelling public thai he isl prepared 10 ac-
eomnodate his guests in the best and most appr0v-
ed STYLE This House is situated ON Main street. in
the center Of the town aud coAxanient to this depot
The proprietor has hlted up in his house q room
which viii be known as the Drnmmer's Rest, where
they can conveniently display their samples to the
many inquiring business Of this thriving
young city MY table shall be always supplied
vi the delieacies and substantias of the season.
Charges shall be moderate, servants polite and IA
fact neither pains or expense viii be spared 20
makethe Grigsby House pleasant Home Cor the
traveller and stranger. porter win be in waiting
az the depot upon the arrival of each train to con-
vey your baggage to and from the same free OF
charge. There is also in connection with the Ho-
tel first-class Stable -G
Please give me a call, thing You will not regret
at all.
JOSEPH GRZGGBY
Sept. "a, 1877. PRorRrEToR.s
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The first snow fall of the season in
Morristown and vicinity, occurred on.
Thursday night last. 1t was much
deeper further south.
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Brown & Wells, in addition to the
many improvements made on, in and
around their store houses, have lately
erected commodious ice house in rear
of their store.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

The ''Ice Kings" or cutters, were
busy last Monday and yesterday, gather
ing and storing ice. 1t is clear. solid
and good but not very thick.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

Mr. M. s. Shannon, of the firm of
Shannon 81 Co., left last week for Yazoo
City, Miss, where he will remain dur
ing the winter for his health.
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Lost.

Between Brown s. Wells store, and
the Depot. last "Wednesday, a ladies'
velvet Portmon@, containing eighteen
dollars and fifty cents, or may be more,
in bills and silver. a. liberal reward
viii be paid for its return to this Office.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

In Greensburg, Ind, a susceptible
young man fell in love with tickle
widow, obtained her promise to marry
him, and invested all his money in
house for her to live in after they were
welded. They were never welded,
however, for the widow Tilted him. and
now he has sued her for breach of
promise, claiming that his heart has
been damaged $4,000 by sorrow, and
his pocket So, 600 by the real estate in
Vestment.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

FOLSOM. & Magee have quit butcher
ing tor this season. They have killed
about one thousand hogs.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

The dfptheria is with us yet Mr..
Akens,4of Rheatown. lost daughter
from that disease last Thursday.
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The ponds are frozen over, and boys,
and those of larger growth, even, are
giving themselves up TO nnalioyed pleas
ure And tho young ladies too take a
hand In skating. 4sst
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Chattanooga Times; The. East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia road sent
seven heavily laden freight trains East
from this point, on Thursday. Over
one hundred car loads of cotton were
shipped East over the road on the Goth
inst. The business on this road has
been steadily increasing, and also has
assumed large proportions.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

Every body in Hamblen county should
have White Sewing Machine in their
house. 1t is the best machine made.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

The thermometer indicated Dig. above
Zero, in this town, on Monday morning
last
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

Senator B. II. Hill, of Georgia, hav
ing been invited to deliver an address
before the Tennessee Press Association,
at Knoxville, in June next, has replied,
expressing the hope to be able to COM
ply with the request. Mr.. Hill says he
really desires to address press associa-
ton, because,a as he declares, ''there is no
power in this country capable of doing
so much good, and really doing so much
evil, as the press of this day"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09

Mr. Joseph Martin was shot and kill
ed last Friday night at his home near
Fullen's Depot, by negro boy named
Howell whom Martin had living with
him at the time. Mr.. Martin was sit
ting at his own ireside, between two OF
his daughters, when the assassin, armed
with an Enfield rifle, loaded with SPUR
rel shot, approached within three steps
of the window and fired at Martin, lodg-
ing the contents in his temple. Martin
lived until 3 o'clock next morning
Howell was arrested and lodged in the
Greeneville Jail.
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Do not forget that @. B. McCrary is
agent for the White Sewing Machine.
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Congress is to re-cOnvene tomorrow.

There are six inmates in our county
jan.
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midst of bounteous harvests. in re-
gion one OF the fairest ever fashioned
by the Almighty for the abode Of
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JULIEN G. REYNOLDS,

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
PORTRAITS, scenery and fresco paintings, at low
rates. IT,
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1878-11-14
NET ADVERTISING RATES.
Payable Quarterly in Advance.
EDWARD u. FOSTER, EDITOR.
The Result.

From all the news that can be ob ainpd
it appears that Bennett is elected by 1901
majority; Dakota Herald (Dcm) admits
10o0 Stoye'l wins by \ plurality Of -.
Roberts, Republican, is elected over Back
for Council; aud for all We can learn to-
the contrary, Burbank over Hoag for the
House We will give the official canvass
now being made at Fargo, IN our next
issue. ....-.
Large Republican gains on November
4tb, offset losses in October, so that the
next J.. S. House of Representatives
stand about the same, with this difference
that upon vote by states for Prc<ident
Of the United States, the states would
stand evenly divided Is to IS. The
South is ''solid South" Democratic,
against not solid North, but the chances
are for Republican victory in 1870, the
cipher telegrams working damage to the
Democratic party. 1t may be that the
Greenlm kers can hold the balance of
power, but we can hardly credit it as that
movement seems to be on the decline. In
the mean time we have time to breathe
and do our best to settle up Dakota, with
= strong probability Of it being admitted
rs state, and as state having its say
who shall be president. ~
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1878-11-14
Why the Patents are not Forth.
coming.

Why the Patents are not Forth.
ADu'u,h Tribune. l
A great many persons, oil over the
country, who during the past two years,
have purchased lands from the govern
ment, or proven up on their hcmesteads,
wonder why their patents d" not come
along, and some Of them have been dis.
posed to complain about the matter until
informed that last year, the Commissioner
Of the General Land Office had to. dis
charge nearly one half Of the clerks needed
in his Office, by reason Of the fact that
our economical Congress had neglected to
make sufficient appropriation for the
payment Of their salaries. But to make
ma ters still worse the Commissioner has
just been compelled to discharge number
more Of his clerks, as will be seen by the
following which we clip from Copn's
Land Owner, for October, paper pub.
lished Washington under the auspices
Of the General Land Office:
The General Land Office has been
seriously crippled during the past month
by the discharge Of some sixty employs
through lacks of funds. 1t is useless to
waste words on this subject. If those
most interested, who live in the public
land states especially, cannot induce their
Congressional delegations to allow suR
cieut appropriations, they need not expect
to get their cases acted upon: General
Williamson has done everything In his
power.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1878-11-14
Dakota Election News.

Press and DAEOtalAn. /" "It"-
YANKvoN. Nov 6, 8-Yankton,
Union, Bon Il"mme, Hutchinson, Clay,
Turner, hanson, Burleigh. Minnehaha,
Cass, McCook, Barnes, P,mbina, Stuts
man. Stevenson. Morton, Moody, Lake,
Lincoln, Bm"kings and Codington c"un.
ties have been heard from, with an aggre.
gate result IF 1913 majority for Bennett.
Adviccs from the Black Hills indicate
& small majority for Bennett.
The remaining counties will probably
swell Benefits majority to 1000.
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The McGrexor Extension.

Press and OAK alan. -- ~ - !"
a correspondent writes from Miltowm:
Il hink there il now little doubt Of
the location Of the McGreg"r railroad
through Miltnwn. The engineer and his
outfit have been here several days and
dpar!cd Saturday towards the east. He
says there is good route from Canton
here. They promise railroad fn us by
this time mkt year Their objective
point on the Missouri is the mouth of
White river but no survey west of here
will be made until next year.