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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
A Hint to the POst-Offce.

Louisville Courier-JoIrnaIl
There were some mad men in a
certain Kentucky Post-ofice a few
days ago. A postaI-oard was drop
ped into the letter-box addressed to
''Rev. John Penobscot-, =" It
was an ordinary card and the Post
master was an ordinary Postmaster.
He took it up, glanced at the address,
turned it leisurely over and read:
-'May2, 1879.
You, to whom this card is not address
ed, and who, nevertheless, have the
cheek to read it, are contemplate, un-
principled sneak and a prying, pusilani-
nous coward. GEORGE F. DUNCAN.
The Postmaster laid the the card
gently down and lounged to the 9TH
er end of the house, softly Whistling
''Nancy Lee" In due time the clerk
came upon the card, perused it and
made the neighborhood hideous with
the howl OF his pet dog, which ne
kicked in the ribs. How the card
Jared with the various route agents
through whom it passed it is imposi.
bic to say, nor do we know whether
it was read by the woman who is
Postmisstress of the Office where
the Rev. John Penobscot is supposed
to get his mail; but the report is
that on the day it reach there she
smashed bottle of ink on her h1s-
bands head, spanked the children
all round and chewed up 50 cents
worth OF wax. We cannot be too
careful never to write on postal-cards
anything in the least calculated to
wound the sensitive delicacacy Of
the Post-office peoples feelings.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

We find the following in the Evansville
Journal: The through freight line from
Chicago, via Danville and Evansville, to
Nashville, has been recognized for sew
eral years as by far the fastest route be-
tween the North and South. Freight
has been repeatedly sent from Chicago
to Nashville in from twelve to eighteen
hours, quicker than by any other route.
The Louisville and Nashville Company
have appreciated this possibility in a ri
val line, and their purchase of the E. Fl.
and N. was a matter of necessity and
of preserving unsuccessful competition.
It is announced in Nashville at the offices
of the L. & N, that as soon as that road
obtains legal possession of the new pur-
chase, the company will put the line in
condition to make it great deal quicker
route. 1t will be some months proba-
bly, before the arrangements and trans
fer is completed, and habit will require
only two months to build the gap
between Evansville and Henderson, if it
undetermined upon. The L. Sc N. officers
have announced their intention to put
freight through from Chicago to Nash
vile in twelve hours, and this would
seem to make the filling of the gap ne
cessity.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

In a review of the condition of Allan
ia, Ga, the past year, the Constitution of
that city says: 1.-THE number of houses
built during the past year is larger than
for any year since 1870-the most of
them being residences. Whole blocks
of tenement houses have been put up,
and the tap of the hammer has been
heard in all parts of the city. These
houses have been promptly filled, usual
ly having been bespsken before they
were finished. There has been a re-
markable influx of people during the
past year, it being hardly possible that
less than five thousand citizens have
been added to our population"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
Two Notable Rhetorical Figures.

Daniel Webster is credited with
one Of the most vivid pictures in the
rhetoric Of American eloquence. The
orator was eulogizing the financial
genius of Hamilton, and startled the
audience by the sentence, uttered in
his impressive tone:
"He touched the dead corpse of
public credit, and it sprung upon. its
feet"
The audience rose to their feet
it was a public dinner--and greeted
the sentiment with three rousing
cheers.
The figure, Mr.. Webster said, was
an impromptu one suggested by q
napkin on the dinner-table. He had
paused, in his usual deliberate way,
after the sentence, itself containing
figure beautiful in it's appropriate.
ness: "He smote the rock of the
national resources, and abundant
streams of revenue gushed FORTH"
His eye fell upon folded napkin
that suggested corpse in its wind.
ing sheet, and the figure was in his
mind.
Grand as this rhetoric is, it is al.
most paralleled in vividness, while
exceeded in wit, by figure which
Seargent S. Prentiss, of Mississippi,
once used.
A statesman, noted as a political
tactician, had written a letter on the
annexation of Texas. As public
opinion in the South favored the
measure, while in the North it was
opposed, the tactician. whose object
was to gain votes for his party, pub.
lished two editions of his letter. The
edition intended for the South was
bold in it's advocacy Of annexation;
but that designed for Northern cir,
culation was remarkable for it's am
biguity.
Mr.. Prentiss denounced the trick
on the stump" GraspiDg the two
letters he threw them under his feet,
saying:
81 wonder that, like the acid and
the aIkali, they do not efervesce as
they touch each other I''-Youtk's
Companion. q
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rehect that he who takes down from
the responsibility aud respectability
)f a representative Of the people
strikes at the whole system Of Law
and government? Worse than that,
every blow aimed at the faith OF
whole class of men iS q blow aimed
at virtue and integrity 10 general.
There is q large aud growing class
who recognize in everything the
taint of selishness, and who say that
no one but an illusionist can believe
that there is any real disinterested-
uess in the world. l am ashamed
10 see SO many young men growing
up with this opinion. It is an evil
which grows by that it feeds on, and
it ought to be much more pondered
ON than it has been.
SECTIONAL AND RACE FEELING.
Mr.. Beecher deprecated sectional
dislikes and those due to differences
Of race, This great nation was divi-
ded by an invisible line, morally
visible enough, on both sides of which
he North and South had stood in
bloody antagonism for FIVE terrible
years. In my own ] lAgmeut, when
[ consider human nath.e. when con
slider that a proud people have seen
themselves emptied out Of power,
their political existence almost an
nihilated, their property swept out
Of their hands as by a consuming
flame, the sscendancy of the despis-
ed slave established over them by
what was to him q foreign arm,
should not have wondered if there
had been ten times the resistance
that there has been to reconstructive
measures. Never in history has a
people borne so much with so much
patience, gallantry and patriotism
a spectacle of moral grandeur and
Of substantial good intent and honor
in those who have been so terriical~
ly scourged which is without parallel. |
The spirit which would set the North |
against the South, the East against |
the West, the Germans against the |
old Puritans or the old Puritaus |
against the Germans, the whites
against the blacks or the blacks
against the whites, is not only politi-
cally criminal, but it is absolutely
of the fundamental in.
stincts of humanity. There is yet
the power and the honor in this coun-
try to hold men together in charity |
and unity. When it was the need
Of the untempered North to be Derv-
ed to resist the arrogance of planta~
ion domination l was no: wanting.
What we need now is love, charity,
lnion. l speak again. Though /
hated slavery L did not hate the
l loved him and still |
owe him. I love all mankind, not
'uly for what they are, but for what
hey are going to be.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

Henry Ward Beecher was greeted by
an audience of 4, 900 people at his lee
ture IN the Exposition Building a: Mem
phis last week He was presented to
the meeting by Mr.. Heating of the Ap-
peal and his lecture was frequently in
terrupted by applause. At its close Mr..
Beecher presented Mr.. Heating with a
check for $3.50 to be by him distributed
between Orphan Asylums of Memphis,
Chattanooga and Atlanta. While in
Memphis Mr.. Beecher was treated with
the utmost respect, and his coming was
the occasion of excursion trains being
put on all the roads leading into Mem
phis, all crowded with people from
West Tennessee, North Mississippi,
North Alabama and Arkansas.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

Forty-nine failures were reported in
New York city during the month of
April, in which the total liabilities
amounted to 81, 1919, 1888, and the assets
are estimated at $633, ,121. Compared
with the preceding month, this shows
large increase in the aggregate of liabil-
titles, the menth of March having forty
failures, with liabilities to the amount
of $3.50, ,449, and assets of $211, 754. In
the month of April, 1873, there were
seventy three failures, and the total liza
bilities were $9, 800, 900.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
How a battle-ground in the Will
dernesS Looks,

1 went over the Wilderness route,
writes a correspondent Of the Cincin'
natl Enquirer, in sight almost all
the way of the leading roads on
which Lees army had moved out
from behind the Rapidan to strike
Grant in the line of march for Rich
mond. At that time no railroad
existed through the Wilderness. A
narrow-guage railroad of very rough
quality, about thirty-nine miles long,
now reaches the whole distance from
Orange to Fredericksburg, passing
within sight of Charlottesville,
within a short distance of the Will
derness Tavern, and crossing Mine
Run, where Meade lost so much
time, on high, frail trestle; the rail.
road also crosses the lines of march
of Grant after he left his camps
around Culpepper and crossed the
Rapidan to Raccoon and Germania
fords.
The Wilderness at the present
day has only changed as far as build
ing small station-houses and in>
cipient towns along the railroad goes.
1t is one of the poorest pieces of
country in Virginia, originally dug
over to find surface iron ore; these
ore-pits have been changed by the
rains into gullies, which figured in
the great battles thereabout. All
the trees in sight are either sickly
oak or a stunted pine. There are
few creeks of any kind running from
the Wilderness proper until you
come to the sources Of the Mattapo-
ny, where the country grows more
fertile.
The Wilderness people are gener-
ally low order of white, a rather
better order of negroes, and once or
twice we encountered in sunbennets
some quite pretty Virginia girls.
This region is sort Of hill land, be-
tween the sources of various rivers,
whose original soil of clay mould
was washed off by the heavy rains,
and has long ago disappeared into
the river bottoms,
They were getting out railroad ties
at about every point we saw in the
Wilderness, and also hoop slaves
the former to go to Europe. All the
bodies on Wilderness and Chancel.
lorsville battlefelds have been dug
up and removed to the cemeteries
at Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg
beautiful cemeteries where
almost all the dead are unknown,
but which alone embellish this evil
country, the deadly mud-hole of the
world.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

sylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Alabama, Connecticut. Tennessee
and Mississippi. Acceptances are
continually coming to the Governor.
There is no room now to doubt that,
as Mr.. Manning says in his letter to
the Governor, the settlement will be
acceptable to large majority Of the
bondholders.
In this connection il is proper to
state that the amount represented
by the figures contained in Gov. POr-
ter's message to the extra session in
1877 as willing TO accept the sixty
cents proposition was $5,741.000.
The sixty cents proposition made TO
the present Legislature was made
by a meeting in the city of New
York, which suppressed the amount
it represented because. as they ad
mitted, 1.-The paucity of the holdings
represented would greatly injure the
movement
This proposition has the sanction
of much larger number and much
larger amount than ever agreed to
either of the other propositions, and
upon this information the Governor
issued his proclamation. Let all
the friends of settlement now set
themselves earnestly about the work
of securing its ratification by the
people, and in a few years the dis
asters the agitation has brought up
on Tennessee will be retrieved by
the prosperity and progress of our
State and people.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

Cincinnati (Republican) Commercial :
Blaine does not propose to follow Conk-
ling. He sees that if Grant goes back
into politics as the great and only Re-
publican leader, he comes to stay The
Republican party will be at an end.
There will be only Grant party. The
foremost Republican statesmen will
dwindle into insignif"ance. Senator
Conkling alone will remain important
as the personal representative Of his SOW
ereign.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
PIE MORRIOTOFN GAZETTE
subscription Price So.

Senator Chandler says he believes
twelve Democratic Senators hold their
seats frauduently. If the truth of the
matter was in accordance with Mr.
Chandler's belief, which is not apt to be
the case, don't the President of the Uni
ted States hold his seat by fraud, the
chief actor in which was the venerable
achariah himself?
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
How to Put Children to Bed

Not with a reproof Of that day's
omission or commission. Take any
other time but bed time for that. If
you ever heard little creature sob.
bing in its sleep, you could never do
this. Seal their closing eyelids with
8 kiss and blessing. The time
will come, all too soon, when they
will lay their heads upon their pill
lows lacking both. Let them have
at least this sweet memory of hap
py childhood, Of which no future
sorrow or trouble can rob them.
Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild license, The
udiclons parent will not SO mistake
my meaning. If you ever met the
man or the woman whose eyes have
suddenly filed when q little child
has crept trustingly to its mothers
breast, you may have seen one in
whose childhood's home dignity and
severity stood where love and pity
should have been. Too much indul-
gence has ruined thousand of child.
rem; too much love not enc.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

you see," said Colonel Flipem.
Il didn't marry the girl because she
turned out deceiver." "Yes,p said
a bystander, "and the deceiver she
turned cut was Colonel Flipem."
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
RAVENS AND JAcKALs.

Mr.. Beecher condemned undue
Consciousness in the strongest
terms. It tended to vulgarise what
God had made so sadly grand. he
could not conceive of anything more
adverse to the whole temper of
Christ. How long was the march
upward of humanity How slowly
dH men growl Was that a reason
foF pity or for contempt? Suppose
a ship were laundering upon a rock
and the people on shore were jeering
over each victim that went down to
rise no more. This was what was be.
ing done in o moral sense. When
the sand was strewn with corpses
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

She gave him her fingers At parting,
And he tenderly pressed their tips;
And eatisfed not, 80 he bolder became,
He lifted them 10 his lips.
His grasp grew ardentIy tighter,
And her face huahsd rOsily red,
And he swept kiss from the proper place
"From hand to mouth, > he said.
CoURRR-JOuRNAE.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

A dealer announces that be has
brown and bleached domestic on
hand.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28

"Are we undeyeloped lunatics?"
asks the Albany Times. Good
gracious, sir cheer up. We have
no doubt you are just as much devel-
oped as anybody.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31
KERRY.
PERS ONIL.

WILLIAM CREE, OF Scotland, is at the Riggs House.
REV. j. BARsBY, of London, is sojourning at the
Ebbiu House.
5. Il. HALL and William Morris, of England, are
at the Ebbltt House.
MIR. AND Mrs. d. f. HAWKES., of England, arrived
at the Arlington yesterday.
THOMAS B. PETER and Mrs. Peter, of London, are
booked at the Riggs House.
Hos. JOHN G. BuRCH and family, of Tennessee
are stopping at the Ebbtt House.
Mr. AND Mrs. JOHN A. KING and family, of LONG
Island are among the guests at Wormley's.
ARTHUR J. WoRTHISGToN and b. L. Worthngton
Zurich: Switzerland ArG 5..- ;-= ,- ;svUi;t Rouse
JOHN Z. EARLE, of Connecticut; ]. J. Hewitt
Georgia; A. J. Mclean, Chicago, and A. burgess
New York, are Ut the Arlington.
THE Rev. Mr. Greene, of Casenovia, n. Y. has re
ceived unanimous call to the pastorate Of the
Calvary Baptist church in this city.
J. b. PRICE of Missouri J. Dyckhof New York
Mrs. and Miss FoXcroft, Maine; C. IL. Gillespie
New York; e. X. Parker, Boston, and Ed. p. Harri,
and wife, are stopping at Wizards.
L. c. PoPE and wife, of Ohio; David C. Town
send, Philadelphia Rev. j. G. CAN'T, Anne Arun
del County, Nd. o. B. Richardson, Florida; Ed
win j. Meeker, New York; =. Werlein and wife
New Orleans; l.. l., Bristow, Kentucky. and An
drew O'Neill New Haven Conn, registered at tn,
st. James yesterday.
Never give up the Ship. DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup
Will cure you Ms II has done Others 1t costs ttl,
and can never harm. Price, 25 cents.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

The Charlotte IN C.) OJscrrer seems to
bewsil the fact, TO use it's own words that
Northern people will accept General DoUo-
LAS word in preference to ours" This
seems hard, but ii is nevertheless so, for the
reason that no Democrat in the South has
ever kept perfect faith with the results of
the war. The amendments to the Constitu-
tion which make citizens of the freedmen
are reviled, despised and disregarded by the
Southern Democrats as are all the other
measures born of the war; and for the fur
ther reason that their conduct is such n
breach Of good faith, that the Northern peo-
pleput very little trust in their sayings and
dongs. II vii vii take time and continued
good behavior on their part &c restore conf
dence in Southern Democrats.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

A CANDIDATE lost. Governor ROBINSON,
TILDEN's candidate for reelection, says that
he has not seen his patron saint for six
months. Then TILDEY has strayed or been
stolen, and should be advertised for at once.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

GENERAL SCoTT said of General GRANT !:
The world has not only indorsed General
ScoTr's statement, but has declared him
the ablest of Americas citizens.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

THE rear guard of the New York Repub-
hcans will leave here to-day and tomorrow.
If there are any stragglers they must pick
themselves up and get into line tomorrow,
or they will be left.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

employment and spread want and suffering
through every section where manufactures
give employment aud bread and add to the
general wealth of our common country.
This is what these emissaries of free trade
aim at, and it will be sad day for the
United States when such dogmas and de-
signs prevail.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

The Philadelphia Inquirer says that Sec
retary SCHURz cannot well go to New
York TO make speeches against CORNELL,
but he can frown terribly on the clerks in
his department who want 20 go home to
vote, and make it as uncomfortable for
them as possible. The Inquirer has peeped
into the Secretarys hand, and knows just
what he holds
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

THE people of the State of New York are
greatly disappointed that BLACKBURN, the
great American wiper" does not come into
that State to help ROBINSON out He
would have made a rare show in the Empire
Gfotn
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 30, INoaEN, daughter of the
late Hugh CaperOn.
Funeral will take place from Trinity Church.
Georgetown, October 81, at IL o'clock a. M.
DlCKINS.-At Snbot Island Richm ond, Va,
on the 21th inst. FRANCIS A. DICKINS, eldest
the late Asbury Dckins formerly OF this city.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

MARsTON-SULLIyAN. the evening OF Oc.
tober 70, at the Church OF the Incarnation. by the
Rev. Mr. steele, ALFRED T.. MARsTOS, of Washing
ton, and ALIck A. SULLIVAN, Of Georgetown.
WUNDER-SWART.-At the roctory OF Trinity
parish, Washington city, by the Rev. Thomas q, Ad-
olson ID: D., on October IS, WILLIAM IL. wUNDEIi, of
Alexandria County, Va, 10 LAURA b. SMART, of
Georgetown, ID. 4.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

THE Democrats have found new tune
in their hurdy-gurdy. There are too many
Irishmen on JOHN KELLY's city ticket.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

JOHN G.. THoMPsoNs motto is: In poll
"tics we never could trust them Dutch"
That is Democratic opinion.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

SECRETARY ScHURz has no politics now
save of the aboriginal stripe. He has Or
ganized sort of oURAY party out West, and
that engages his entire attention. He will
be Ouraying next week while the Republi-
cans are hurrahing.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

THE prattling AcKLEN has put out his
Congressional sign early, and has declared
for TILDEN in 1880. The bar'l scents
strongly, and then ACKLES has rather an
over-ripe reputation, which, added to the
fragrance of the bar'l, will make a sweet
afiair of it
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

SENATOR BECK has been using his slate
and pencil; and comes to the deliberate con-
clusion that New York will elect ROBIN
SON by at least 10000 majority. This should
convince any one that BECK knows just
about as much of New York politics ms
NIcoDEMUs did of the new birth.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

SPEAKER RANDALL, Mt the New York
Madison-Square meeting on Tuesday even
ing last, reminded his hearers that Catho-
lies were still legally dsfranchised in New
Hampshire, but he forgot to tell them that
the Democrats dominated there when that
act was performed
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

THE National Fair booms along success
fully in spite of the cold comfort bestowed
upon it by vagrant press which seeks to
belittle every effort put forth by its enter
prising and public-spirited managers. 1t
will survive all attacks in that quarter and
thrive under them.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

THE REV. J. HYATT SMITH, Of Brook
lyn, n Y, has declined the canvass as a
Peoples candidate for State Senator, and
has thus lifted his feet out of the dirty pool
Of politics. 1t is the most sensible act of
his life
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

combined within its provisions. This Is
loyalty, and there is none other to be recog-
nized by loyal men anywhere.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-10-31

MURAT HATsTEAD, who stands around
promiscuous to be interviewed has Just
been tapped in New York by the TriJuB<,
and expresses the fear that GDoESg WILL
lam CURTIS has sort O. fia,ted out poiiti-
eally, so to speak.