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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-25
OUR TAzEWELL LETTER.

TAzEWELL, Tenn, Dec. II, 1873.
To the Editor of The Morristow1r Gazette:
"Times are bard" over here. pro
duce is very low, the weather is cold
and roads awful bad, but health is
tolerably good as a general thing.
Everything is basking along after
the old style, except
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-25

A recent communication from Judge
Randolph states that many of the best
Republicans on the line of road in up
per East Tennessee, met him at the sew
eral stations and earnestly asked him to
make the next race for Congress.--Neao-
port Reporter.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-25

1t was Christ who said, f'The poor ye
have always with YOU" Let those of our
people who are in good circumstances
remember this as the joyous holiday
season approaches, and assist the poor
to the full extent of their ability.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-25

If Noah had advertised his boat "fOr
sail' in his county papers, he would
have had more passengers, but like some
fellows of the present day that's where
he made a mistake"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-25

Frederick o. Prince, Secretary of the
Democratic National Committee, has
been elected Mayor Of Boston.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08
MY Lord BeacOnsfieId.

What a marvellous man is this Dis
raeli Son of prescribed and re-
viled race; his own ancestors banned for
their religion, and their property confs-
Gated and themselves declared outlaws;
himself poor scrivener, living by his
wits, scribbling for papers, writing
novels, the butt and jest of his asso-
ciates, and the contempt of the men who
governed England-now standing on the
steps Of the throne, handing to his i'm
perial mistress a new title and new
crown studded with Oriental jewels, and
offering with odd nonchalance to give
Jerusalem to the Pope, that the Chris
tian Church may again kiss the affairs
where the apostles worshiped, and
where his ancestors crucifed it's Divine
Head The whole scene is dramatic
beyond parallel. federation must have
done it's perfect work when a Jew
Yields the most important scepter in
Christendom.-CbM Union.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

DRs. BRADFORD and Cutter, of Boston,
have investigated anew the physical con-
sequences of rowing races. They found
that 113 Harvard men had rowed in in
tercollegiate races up to 1870. OF these
ten were killed in the war and two died
of diseases contracted in the service.
Of the remaining 1O1, one died of Bright's
disease, five of consumption, one of neu-
ralgia, one by suicide, two by accident,
and one from an unknown cause. OF
the eighty seven who are still alive, six
ty-seven say that they are in perfect
health, and nineteen have not definitely
answered the question. The average
health of all these oarsmen is rated as
having been above the average. DR..
Bradford says =" Although the few facts
we have been able to collect are INSULT
cient to prove that the practice of row.
ing and training is beneficial to the
health, they appear to show that it is by
no means certain that rowing and train
ing are as injurious as is often sup.
posed" ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

WHAT England has undertaken in Of
fering to insure good government
throughout Asiatic Turkey will appear
from the memorial presented to the For
eign Secretary of State by the Armenian
Committee of London. The Armenians
in the Turkish empire number 4,OOO,-
900. They are commingled with the
Moslem population; in some districts
they are more numerous than their
Moslem neighbors, in others less. They
are subjected to oppressive taxation,
can obtain no justice in the courts, and
are excluded from the police and the
army. In addition they are harassed by
wandering tribes of Kurds, who claim
the Armenians as serfs, rob them, and
sell them at pleasure. The Turkish
Government is either Indifferent to these
Kurd outrages or unable to punish
them. The Armenis1s pray for British
interposition, which England has now
bound herself to accord.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

JOKE on Alexander Ell. Stephens His
feeble condition warrants him in carry
ing small flask of good whisky fo1
medicinal purposes, and, when he be-
comes exhausted from speaking in the
open air, he draws out the flask and
takes drop before the audience. The
other day he was expatiating upon the
principles Of Jefferson, and, i'll the mid
die of one of his most glowing passages,
stopped and took drink from the bot
tie. Resuming at once the thread OF
the discourse, he said: "Yes, fellow
citizens. This is the true Democracy, u
whereupon the audience. thinking of the
whisky and not of the discourse, clapped
and smiled audibly at Old Alexis ex-
pense.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

A REMARKABLE accident occurred in
Chicago the other day. While at play
on the fourth floor of building, little
3-year-old girl fell over the banisters
through the well-hole of the stairway to
the bottom floor, distance of sixty
feet. Her playmates gave the alarm,
and the frantic mother rushed down
stairs, expecting to find her child man
gled corpse. She was astonished be-.
yond bounds to find her alive, and, so
far as she could discern, with no bones
broken. A physician was sent for, who
made close examination for internal
injuries. Considering the nature of the
accident he was greatly surprised to find
that no bones had been fractured; in
deed, not so much as an abrasion of the
skin could be detected. There were no
internal injuries either, and, after her
recovery from the nervous shock, the
child resumed her play as well as ever.
This is certainly one of the most mar
velous escapes from death on record.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08


A PRELIMINARY meeting of the dele
gates to the congress for the considera-
ion of commercial treaty between
France and the United States has been
held at Paris. The draft of treaty was
submitted, and will be discussed at a
future meeting. It is proposed that the
French Government shall engage to ad-
NIT all American productions on the
same terms as are imposed on the pro-
ductions of the most favored nations.
and that the United States shall make
the same arrangement regarding the
productions Of France: that if other ma
tions impose a domestic duty upon their
own productions, the same duty may be
imposed upon the productions OF the
other party to the treaty.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08
ACCORDING to statement published

ACCORDING to statement published
by DR.. G.. Mayr, the Director of the
Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau, the
proportion Of blind, deaf, and dumb
people, and of imbeciles in the different
countries Of Europe and in America is as
follows The proportion of blind people
is, in Germany, $40 per 1000 Of the
population in England, 9.35; in Den
mark, 1856; in Norway, 1858 in Swe-
den, SOC I; in Finland, 22.46 in Austria,
5.55 in Hungary, -; in Switzerland,
7.61 in France, 8.37; in Spain !, 1.26;
in Italy, 1915; and in the United States,
SGT. OF deaf and dumb people the
proportion is, in Germany and Austria,
$3.50 per 1000; in England, 5.74:;
in Denmark, $40; in Norway, 1922 in
Sweden, 1923 in Switzerland, 24.52
in France and Spain, 6.26; in Italy, 1884;
and in the United States, 400. The
proportion of idiots is, in Germany, %
per 1000; in England, 81 in Denmark
and Sweden, %; in Norway, 3Oa !; in
Switzerland, 90; in Belgium, IA; in
France, %; and in Italy and the United
States, Is.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

WILLIAM III. STOUT went from Texas
to Illinois with companion, who was
soon afterward murdered. Stout was
accused of the crime, and his defense
was an alibi-that he was in Nebraska
at the time Of the murder. A tavern
keeper near the place of the killing,
however, testified positively that the
two men slept in his house together.
Stout was convicted and sentenced to
death /; but the punishment was altered
to imprisonment for life. Now, after a
lapse of four years, ar account book be-
longing to the tavern keeper comes to
light, in which an entry showing that
the date of Stout's lodging was month
earlier than was supposed. There is
other proof of his innocence, and he has
been pardoned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

HENRY WATTERsoN, writing in the
Louisville Courier Journal of Stephen
A. Douglas, says: ga more genial man
never lived. His capacity for both work
and play was boundless. An illustra-
tive story bearing upon this point is
told of his seating himself in the lap of
Beverly Tucker, on certain occasion,
and exclaiming, in his impulsive way,
'Bev, old boy, love you = Douglas, ,
says Tucker, will you always love me p
yes, I will But, persisted Tucker,
will you love ME when you get to be
President IF Idon't, may be 7
says Douglas. What do you want me
to do for you?' WELL says Tucker,
when you get to be President, all I
want you to do for me is to pick some
public place, and put your arm around
my neck, just as you are doing now, and
call me Bev 7"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08
Derivation of Fowl Names.

Those vino keep chickens may be in
terested to know now the different spe-
cies of " fowl genus derived their
names. The Stock Journal gives the
following. information on the subject {:
The Dorkings were named after Dork-
ing in England the black Spanish, or
as they are otherwise known, everiast-
ing layers, after Spain; the Polands
came from Poland the Houdains (pro-
nouced Houdon) from Houdain. France;
the Shanghais are named after Shanghai
in China the buff and partridge Cochin
Chinas also take their names from
Cochin, China; the Siberia or Russian
fowls, from Russia; the Malays, Java,
Columbians, Barbarys, Dutch fowls,
all from their respective countries.
There are also the Guilders from Guild
erland, Holland; the Bolton grays and
bays from Bolton, England, and the
shakebags, named from the fact that they
were carried to cockpits in bags, which
the owner shook as challenge for some
ther bird.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08
The marriage of Queen Victoria

The marriage of Queen Victoria
third son, Arthur William Patrick AL
bert, Duke Of Connaught, to Princess
Marie Louise, Of Prussia, will leave
only two of the Queens children I'm.
married, namely, Leopold and Beatri ,e.
Prince Arthur is % years old. The
Princess Marie Louise, of Prussia, is
daughter of Prince Frederick Charles,
who is a nephew of the Emperor Will
lam, and is the Prussian General tc
whom Bazaine surrendered Metz. The
Princess Marie Louise is the oldest
child, and was born on the 14th of Sep
TENDER, 1855.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

Of fertility, CALIFORNIA; navigable rivers
are also filling up, SO much SO that the
Sacramento is not at all the stream it
was twenty-five years ago-the large
steamers have been withdrawn with in
creasing distractions, and it's lower bays
have so filled up that old surveys are
not to be relied on, and Congress has
granted an appropriation for surveying
them anew.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

A GENTLEMAN who was with Mr.. Bar.
mum for several years says that Maj.
and Mrs. Newell were the smallest we'd
ed couple that ever lived. One smaller
pair is mentioned by Marco Polo in his
travels in Tartary. They were each Is
years of age respectively. They mar
ried by order of the Khan, and their
fourth son was six feet two inches in
height.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

You will observe that these additions are ex-
clusively for works of an important national
character. The small creeks and tro 1T streams
in the bill which could be best improved by
macadamizing were all carefully taken care OF
10y the House. .... ......
The Army BiU.-The entire addition of
$908, 814 made by the Senate to the Army bill
was rendered necessary in restoring our little
army to it's present numbers from the reduced
and mutilated condition in which it had passed
the House.
The House BiU.-The small sum added by
the Senate to the Navy bill was mainly for
"pay of the navy" for 50 equipment of YES
sells. and for repairs of hospitals.
The Pension BiU.-The Senate added $35,
600 to pay examiners So for each examination,
instead Of 81, as provided by the House. The
was to be made liable to pay pensions for life
by the report of these examiners, that So was
not too much to pay for faithful and intelli-
gent service :.
The Military academy BiU--The Senate ad-
ded $83, 466 to this bill, mainly for "complet-
ing hospital building" procuring supply OF
pure water" and "completing the system OF
sewerage" It was shown that these things
are much needed as sanitary measures and fol-
the protection of public property in case OF
fire. The hospital building has been stand
AS lOI lWO years WlluOub d. FOOl VI WluuOWS
with the winds and storms beating uponlt, ano
serving, in its unfinished condition, as stand.
ing advertisement of the bankruptcy of the
Government or the incompetency OF Congress
4 The Consular and Diplomatic Biu.-The
Senate added $83,7OO, mainly in restoring the
salaries OF our foreign representatives to what
they received last year. The compensation nov
paid them is disgracefully small. The Senate
thought it onght not to be reduced.
The Legislature, Erecutlue. and J1dicla
Biu.-The House had regarded the clerica
forces Of the departments. in order to reduce
their meager salaries, which were fixed twenty
five years ago; it had abolished two Auditors
Offices, which were established in 1877, whe1
the entire money transactions of the Govern
ment were not one-sixth as much as are nov
those of one of the Offices proposed to be abol
ished it had Cit down the pay of the laDorer
and watchraen, who can now barely exist OF
their pinched compensation, and in various
other ways it had mangled the public servic
and impaired it's efficiency. In order to cur,
this mischief and to provide sundry othe
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

AS CALIFORNIA is becoming more
thickly settled, the rapid disappearance
of its forests attracts serious, attention,
10000, 900 feet of lumber being drawn
from them annually. LAUNDERING opera.
tons are carried on there, as in all new
countries, with prodigal waste Of tim
Der, and the business is increasing, te
supply the growing home population
and for shipment to foreign market
Besides this threatened aridity and loss
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

The territory which Turkey loses by
the treaty of Berlin is roughly estimated
by the London Daily NeaOs at II, 500
square miles, or about Is, 900 square miles
more than the whole area of England
and Wales. The loss in population
amounts to more than 100000, or
somewhat more than the entire popula-
tion of London.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08
The Nenosha telegraph,
KENOSHA, WIS, AUGUST s, 1878.

The latest story in regard to Gen.
Sherman's son, who is to enter the
priesthood, is to the effect that he loved
his cousin, the present wife of Senator
Cameron, and that, on hearing that his
love was not returned, he decided to
leave the country and become a priest
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

THE important decision of Secretary
Schurz, that the lands granted to the
Pacific railroads are, three years after
their completion, subject to entry and
pre- .emption by actual settlers at $1.25
per acre, is slowly making it's way into
the public mind. The following are the
figures of an estimate of the quantity OF
these lands:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

io''i. .SlU, 3O5 Az
The above amount for 'public buildings -
Is IN the line of economy in various ways: First,
the buildings are needed, and if completed
would save the Government an amount In rent
greater than the interest on their cost; second,
that they can be built very much cheaper now
than ever before, and much cheaper than here
after, when business shall have revived; third,
1t being Ill the line Of economy to finish them
now, another powerful motive is added in the
employment it would give to labor. The items
for "illfe-saving service and eight houses, "
etc., are for the encouragement and protection
OF commerce and for safety to life and proper
ty. The items for "navy-yards, arsenals, :"
ETC., is rendered necessary by the dilapidated
condition of this kind of public property by
reason of the failure to make the necessary ap-
preparations to take care of it during the last
two years. The $250,00 for UNDERWRITING
the States was simply in compliance with a
law which requires these claims to be paid
when audited.
The large amount of over $1,500,0OO for
deficiencies" was necessary because the
House has been compelled to pass so many de-
ficlency bills on account of former unwarranted
reductions that they were unwilling to make
these, and so throw the responsibility on the
Senate. About 81 200. 900 Of these deficiencies
were for the Postoffice Department and the
Department of Justice. The courts in some
States had already been compelled to adjourn
for want of funds, and the execution of JUS
tice would have been substantially suspended
II the Senate had not insisted upon the appro.
priation. Several branches of the postal service
would also have been seriously crippled, or
actually suspended, without them. These
facts were all understood by the House COM
mittee, but because the necessary deficiencies
would have swelled their bills to an amount
larger than was agreeable or seemed expedient
they declined to insert them, leaving them to
be put in by the Senate. for which the Senate
was to be charged with extravaganza. The
other item, $500, 900 for payment of the
I" Halifax award d" was necessary to maintain
the national hoLor. Had the Senate not in
serted it as an amendment an extra session
would have been unavoidable. The balance Of
the amount ($450, $3.50, added for "sundry
small items,' is made up of many items, such
as expenses of foreign intercourse, Paris Elk
petition, Silver Commission military roads,
bridges, aud telegraph lines on the frontier
and in the Indian country, Investigations of
diseases of swine. grasshopper and forestry
Investigations, publishing records of the re-
bellion furnishing artificial limbs to soldiers,
etc. -. ...
The River and Harbor bill-Senate addi-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

you will lind several other feats in book-l,eep.
keeping almost equal to this, bnt they are quite
excusable IN proving the proposition he had in
hand-namely. that an actual increase of $685.
152, zoo. ~ means retrenchment. Having wor-
ried the stubborn and honest figures in vain TO
induce them to prove that difficult proposition,
| the Chairman Of the House committee. evil
IDENTITY not gratifed with his success, draws a
sigh. and concludes HAD there been
economic accord between the two houses-in
other words, had the Senate not added
$l6, OOo to the appropriation bills, as re
ported to the House-the grand result would
have been a still greater triumph for retrench
ment." 1t must be admitted than an increase
OF $4,000, 900 is not a very brilliant triumph
for retrenchment;" but notice the peculiar
phraseology by which the failure to make it
Sill greater is charged upon the Senate :
Had the Senate not added $16, OOO 900 to the
appropriation bills as reported to the House %
Now, Mr.. Atkins own figures show that
81, 636 of the $16,000,00O were added by
the House itself to the bills as reported" by
the COMMITTEES, before they even reached the
Senate. | submit that this is hardly fair, even
In proving that an addition of $4,000, 900 was
really reduction.
Correspondent-Wh amount was added bv
the Senate to the bills as they passed the
House. and what was the character of the
addition?
Senator Windom-The total of such addi-
tons Is Sl3. 925, 442 No part of this amount
was extravaganza. but the whole was in COM
plance with some obligations OF the Govern
ment which could not be honorably evaded. or
in the line of economical expenditures.
This will very clearly appear by reference
TO the Items constituting the additions. The
following are the amounts added by the Senate
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

really are. In such case the expenditures
of the next, or succeeding year, will show
proportionate increase. An instance of this
kind is found in the apparently reduced ex-
penditures Of 1877, which will be fully balanced
by the increase for 1878 and 1879, when all the
deficiencies are charged up. r.
When the Executive Departments are honest
| and faithful, only SO much money as is neces-
| sary will be used, and the balance of the ap-
| preparations will be returned to the treasury.
A striking illustration of this is presented un-
| der the last administration. From 1869 to
| 1876, the amounts thus scarried to the surplus
| fund.- as shown by an official treasury state
ment, were very large, exceeding by many
millions per annum the amounts so "returned
| to the treasury under late Democratic ap-
propriations. This proves two things First,
that a mere comparison of appropriations
| does not show the relative cost of administer
| ing the Government and second. it proves
that the hue and cry of corruption and extrav-
agance raised against the last administration
was without foundation.
You will see at once that their loud boasts of
economical reductions, based upon the COM
parsons of mere appropriations, without
| taking into account the sums respectively car
ried to the surplus fund.-" are absolutely mean
ingless, or elsea sham and a fraud. These facts
may serve to explain how it is that with all
| their empty vaporings about IS diminishing the
ouueAo vi LILO Peopie, luey nVe uaIuly az
tempted to reduce taxation. From 1868 to
875taxes were reduced by the Republican party
by various bills an aggregate of $3.50, 600, 600
4 per annurn, while during the three years of
| Democratic domination in the House of Rep
resentatives no bill reducing taxes had passed
that body except the reduction of some cents
per pound on tobacco. The reduction of ex-
penditures by the Republicans meant adecrease
Of taxes. The reduction. Of appropriations
by the Democrats meant only deficiencies
and postponed national obligations.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-17
FROM CALIFORNIA.


The California State Grange is in
session and we append that part of
the Worthy Masters report, which
pertains to some of the cooperation
institutions of the Grange in that
State. The Grange in California is
in reasonably prosperous condition
and it has gone quite largely into CO.
operation, IN some cases with the
usual failures which are incident to
all enterprises, in others, and that
the greater number with flattering
success. The Changers Bank is in a
prosperous condition, as is also the
Granger's Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
which shows that large operations
can, under able management be con-
Quoted successfully by the Grange.
The Changers Union of San JOS
quin Valley, has transacted business
to the amount of $l45,513.69 in the
last eight months. This company
manufacture the Scut patent four
pointed steel barbed fence wire.
California Mutual Fire Insurance
Company have insured on the mutual
plan as follows, viz: