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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-11

cnty eight, Alexander Morrison Of Ply.
mouth, in the county Of Plymouth and
State Of Massachusetts, born In the town
of Sand dwich, in the county Of Barnstable,
Massachusetts,, having produced the evi.
deuce, and taken and subscribed the oath
required by law, was admitted 10 become
citizen Of the said United States accord.
ing to the acts Of Congress in such cases
made and provided.
In testimony whereof / have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal OF said
court, at Plymouth, in said county, thil
first day Of November, in the year Of our
Lord eighteen hundred and seyenty-eight.
(Signcd) WILLIAM ii. WnIfMAs,
(Seal) Clerk.
/ was sworn and so were my witnesses:
after that ! went TO the selectmen and
they registered me, and voted for
Butler.
i. w. Robbins Sclectmen at Plym
oush refused 10 register the young men,
and / think near dozen Of them lost
their votes who were born in the State
because OF this refusal 10 register them
Lemuel Bradford Selectman at Ply.
mouth Hodge removed 10 Boston with
his family in October last came back
when his name was off and was allowed
to vote; he was and is in the Boston
custom.house; men born in the State
OF foreign parentage were refused regis.
tration because not naturalized.
IN GENERAL.
McCarty; Supervisor in Ward T.
Boston, carefully examined the Lists
given him by chief supervisor, and
found but three names 10 check a.
doubtful. These names did not present
themselves on election day; 400 in the
precinct.
Kilduff and Daily In employ OF gov.
ernmcnt on new post.ofiice building in
Boston last Oc oge, We known "A,
Butler men were discharged before
election day ; think OF voting for But.
Ter; both soldiers.
OConner: Discharged in Cambridge.
port on evening of election day for yot.
ing for Butler.
Plympton, Worcester: All the board
of registration in Worcester last year
were Republicans; rejected Democrats
from registering because presented by
the Democratic committee they pre-.
sented Themselves through the Repub.
lican con nittee and were registered
the effect ot the rumor, about the man.
uiacturcrs' meeting, held in Worcester
in October, was To cause the employees
10 be silent and decline to act with the
Republican party.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-11
BULLDOZING AND BRIBERY.
AS IT WAS rRAcTicgD IN CHELSEA AND
GARDNER.

GARDNER.
w. j. Dowd, Chelsea Heard Curry,
oil manufacturer, tell colored employe
on election day, 1873. that he must not
vote for Butler or he could not work
for him.
James J. Creed, Chelsea, aged twenty.
five, cmploye OF the Elastic Fabric Com
pany IN Chelsea, said they could not
vote for Butler or they would lose their
places Bell, the foreman, stood at the
polls all day TO see how the men voted !;
Sullivan. the official Of the company.
told the employees they must not vote
for Butler.
Frank McGoyern, Chelsea: Heard
BURY, oil manufacturer, say to his col.
ored man Gray on election dav, If he
voted for Butler he did not want him
any longer
Robert y. Gray; Lived with Curry
thirteen years on election day he told
me If voted for Butler he did not want
me any longer; he said / might vote
for Morse, but he wanted me 10 vote for
Talbot; Mr. Curry discharged me this
morning; was in his employ since until
to day last November a. hc was going
down to City Hall to vote, Curry asked
him whom he was To vote for. and, not
answering, Curry said "Look here
have done n good deal for you. and il
YOU vote for Butler will discharge you.
You can vote for Morse if you want to,
but want you 10 vote for Talbot"
q. by Senator Wallacc.) What did
YOU say when you came back? A..
Nothing.
Q. Did you 60 on with your work A..
! went on with it.
Q. When did you get your summons
TO appear here? 4. Last night at 10
o'clock
Q. When were you discharged! A..
This morning at 80.
q. Did Curry give any reason for dis.
charging your 4. No he said I
needn't take the team any more.
q. Did he seem TO be angry7 A..
Yes. he seemed to be-
Q. iBy Senator Platt.) How long
have you worked for Mr. Curry? 4.
Thirteen years.
q. Ever been discharged by him for
anything A. No. sir.
!. 4. Perham, Gardner. Worcester
county: A man named Newell, from
Boston. boarded with me from July un.
I'll after election three or four DAYS be
fore election. in November, rs, he came
in with
ROLL oP BASE BILLS,
took them out and said he had got
them down at the national bank he
offered me $40 Of it If would vote for
Talbot; or g. il | would not vote | am
Democrat and 30 was he ! refused to
take the money and voted for Butler.
Kemp V, Lynde proved dismissal of a
man from employment 10y an overseer
OF poor in Gardner, for voting for But,
lcr
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-11
MUST VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET +;

IT was the interest of the company they
should do so; Democrats among them
voted the Republican ticket Butler
stood ut the ballot box and watched
how the men voted he could tell. for
the bollots were open ones; Moore
stood ut the front of the room where
the men came in Butler in the rear OF
the room and at the ballotbox.
Warren Casey: Discharged from Dou.
glas' works for voting for Butler; was
warned when he voted for CASTOR.
Charles A. Stearns; More constraint
in elections in Douglas in 1873 than for
thirty years; never saw the agent oi
the company peddling tickets until
then.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-11
U. s. OF AMERICA,
OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
PLYMnuTu COUNTY. A..

To all people 20 whom thesc presents
shall come, greeting.
Know ye, That At a superior court, begun
and holden at Plymouth on the fourth
Monday In October, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sew
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-11

A roET says "How sweet the music Of
the Sabbath bell" and yet there are
men who prefer 70 listen 10 Il = mile or
80 away in the vicinity Of berry patch.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01

BEULAH P. o., Greene Co., Tenn, |
Sep. 81, 1879.

BEULAH P. o., Greene Co., Tenn,
Sep. 81, 1879.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:
We have not had rain enough to wet
the ground for more than four weeks,
and as a consequence another drouth is
upon US. After so severe one as we
experienced through May, June and July
| did not expect another so soon, and
thought it would prove a favorable fall
for the growth of tuTnips TO help out tn e
scant amount of fodder, but fear we are
to be disappointed, though the turnips
on the farm on which this postoffice is
situated are looking well and are grow
ing finely.
PEOPLE BEGAN
to pass here for "Morristown and the
hanging" as early as Thursday noon,
and kept it up during that evening and
night, flor parties went by as early as
three o'clock yesterday mOrning,) and
till nine o'clock Friday. So many went
by here that / estimated you would have
a crowd of from 5000 to 1000 people,
who were instigated to travel some as
many as forty miles, just to see human
being landed into eternity, while could
not have been hired to behold it if one
had been hung on the only "sour apple
tree" on the Lyle farm. But tastes diff
| fer.
The horses and mules pass here almost
daily on their way to South Carolina.
The pilgrims have not yet done passing
back home at 10 o'clock a. m.
Hogs are numerous, hereaOouts, and
| fattening finely, though it is hard work
| for some owners to procure them SUI
| ficiency of water. J!S. ".
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01

All over the country the complaint
is too much silver. The Govern
ment pays silver to clerks, contract
ors, to workmen. Every man who re-
ceives it except in fractions of dol.
lar complains, and the result is q
steady stream pouring out and into
the Treasury with everybody dissat-
isfed. Silver gluts the market.
Where are the men who wanted sill
yer? There has been immense agita.
ton to get a metal coin which every
body repudiates. and which lies idle
by the hundreds of tons in the Treas
ury.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01

Why is it. asks the World, that we
have nothing from the Tribune If
praise of the stalwart poetjournalisl
of the Northwest who sits in "he
red planet Mars" and exhales per
dition in convulsive little pufft
against the shotgun rulIians Of the
Yazoo? OF the Okolona States we
hear much. OF the Le-Mare SENT
mel nothing. Ard yet the buckle
berry of the stalwarts in Iowa hangs
miles above the persimmon of the
shot-gunners in Mississippi. For
example take this dithyrambic out.
burst, in the manner of Walt Whit.
man, forecasting the grand program
me of the stalwart Grant Nationals
for 1880:
Rutherford, are you the Man {?
Issue the proclamation.
Appoint Ben Butler military governor
of the insurrectory provinces, with head
quarters in Yazoo City, in old Mississip-
pi;
Call an extra session of Congress-;
Exclude therefrom every so-called
Senator and Representative from the re,
belious territory,
And with a loyal legislature begin,
the great work of moulding a plastic
Nation into form.
This is the heroic method, and re
quires hero in the van.
Rutherford, we fear you are not the
Man on horseback.
The white-winged couriers of the deep
will bring HIM from the Orient,
Where he is now arbitrating the af
fairs of Empires whose history takes
roots in the mists of an antiquity meas,
ured by thousands of years.
Grant, the simple citizen, smoking his
cigar, the statesman without an equal,
the soldier without a peer,
Is coming, he. for whom the loyal
North
Watches and
Waits:
Think of those empires taking
root in mists T. Ossian never equal
led that. And these "white- winged
couriers of the deep bringing HIM ~
Why does the Tribune hiGe this fight
under bushel? Is it jealousy? Is
it dread of the simple citizen smok
ing his cigar"3 Is it a low preju.
dice against the use of tobacco?
Whatever the motive may be, it is
for the Tribune to understand that
the ''Rutherfords" and the Blaines
and the Shermans must make way
for the Man on Horseback. He is
coming, ''he for whom the loyal
North
watches and
Waits"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01

Some men achieve distinction, 9th.
ers have it thrust upon them. The
latter appears to be the recent fate
of Senator Conkling. A colored
baby has been named for him. The
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce, (the
father is a United States Senator
from Mississippi,) is to bear the dis
tingnished name. Mrs. Sprague be-
ing unavoidably absent on the bap-
tismal occasion, failed to act as
sponsor. With this single excep.
ton, the scene, as reported, was IS
impressive as it well could be under
the circumstances. The following
is the report, as it appears in a
Southern journal:
Standing near the fire place, Miss An
ma Wilson, sister of Mrs. Bruce, acting
as sponsor, held him in her arms.
The Rev. Mr.. Rullison repeated the
Lords Prayer, after which he asked:
'Who stands as sponsor for this
child?"
81 do" replied Miss Wilson.
"What shall it be named?" asked the
reverend gentleman.
Roscoe Conkling Bruce" was the
reply.
Then said Mr.. Rollison:
"Roscoe Conkling Bruce, [ baptise
you in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. !"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
THE CONFEDERATION ELECTION

On last Saturday an election was held
in Morristown to elect a board Of Mayor
and Aldermen to serve for the ensuing
year. For a rarity there were two tick
cts in the field, and the race was a real
~ exciting one. The respective tickets
were headed by W. S. Dickson, Esq.
and B. F. Mitchell. Perhaps none Of
the gentlemen whose names were run
on either ticket desired to run or to be
elected. Yet their constituents some
how, got up the idea that one set of can
didates If elected would do one thing,
and another set if elected would do an
other thing. So far as we can learn il
was a mere idea, not based upon any
sufficient evidence. But it served its
purpose, and called out about a full
vote. The result was "a for Dickson,
"a for Mitchell, with the old board elect
ed by about like votes over their oppo-
nents. The city fathers as elected are
B. +. Mitchell, Mayor, "a votes; Alder
men, Mcfarland, l24 votes; j. M. Bew-
ley, 112 votes; ID. Pence, 107 votes; q.
A McNutt, 100 votes; j. X. Lawless,
so votes; S. B. Noe, SO votes.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
Letter from eCl1nch.'
RoGERsvILLE, TENN, Sept. q, '79.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:

RoGERsvILLE, TENN, Sept. q, '79.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:
CIRCUIT COURT.
Circuit Court is in session this week q
Judge Hacker on the bench. Although
the business Of the court has been rapid
ly put through, it will probably hold on
most of next week. Attorney General
his family, and Messrs. Kyle and Nc
Dermott are looking after the interests
of the State in a way which lie fearful to
wrong-doers. No one has been sentenced
to the penitentiary this week, but the
gambling and pistol-carrying gentry
have been well taxed-one gay and fes-
tive young sport having been fined
$50 90 and costs for playing a losing
game of old sledge for twenty-five cents.
PERSONAL.
Among the notables here during the
week, were Hon. G. r. Vance and Maj.
W. s. Dickson, Judge james T. Shields,
81. T. Coleman, ESQ, and Gen. G. p.
NJ Turner, of Memphis, who has been
spending the yellow fever season among
US. Gen. Turner has made hosts of
friends among the people of Hawkins
| during his short stay. His speech on
the State debt question, just before the
late election, was a master piece of ora
| tory, and he has been very successful as
a lawyer in our circuit court this week.
CLOSED OUT.
The "Pellissippi Bank of Rogersville"
| has closed out its re1TesSnent depart.
ment, and will henceforth deal exclu-
| sively in Hawkins county warrants,
which means that the temperance folks
Of ROgersville have 8Ot dOlon on the bar
room which flourished under the above
mentioned monetary nom de plume.
REUNION OF CAMPAIGN VETERANS.
AS came into town 'tother day met
little bench-legged Deputy Marshal
fox-trotting up the sidewalk, and
wondered if Maj. Pettibond wasn't
somewhere about. | next met the port
~ and well-filled stomach of the Jones
boro' Herald and Tribune, when | Offered
to bet two to one that the Michigan
der" was in town; but, before found {
tGher, up walked the gallant and battle
SCARED AdOlphus Herodotus Pettibonat
tus himself as natural as life, aud al
much like a congressman ~ as he did a
the JOnesboro' convention of sacred
memory;-as he passed "these few
lines" with frown across his GreciaI
phiZ, / imagined that he still had baG
taste in his hash-trap from the sou
grapes he ate last fall. | vas not sur
prised by his GOODNESS, however, as
recollect that some of those same sou
grapes were found growing wild in tn
rough and rugged land of "CLINCH."
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
THE PoLICY OF SILENCE.

The Brownsville Democrat thinks
that all discussion of the state debt
by Democrats at present is as suici
dal as It is absurd, and that there
should be unity and harmony among
Democrats, because Radicals are
waiting for us to fall out so they can
gather the spoils. We have already
had too much silence on the part OF
Democracy. For four years, in order
to hold the party together, we have
been compelled to stand on plat.
form that would accommodate the
most sinking reputation just as we'll
as it would the purest state credit
man in the land. We have held this
question in silence until Office seek
ers, tricksters and demagogues have
scattered poison enough to bring
about the result of Aug. 9TH. The
people were being deceived and
humbugged by these men, and state
credi! papers as we'll as prominent
men of the state held their peace
having the people to believe that the
odious doctrines which they preach
ed were unansWerable. The las
convention left the question almOs
entirely out of consideration, at leas
it adopted a platform which so ia
as it went had as well to have beer
silent. The candidates from til,
Governor down gave it wide berth
stateAmen-and there are Statesmen
in the State-failed to discuss il
Newspapers we're also silent, an
thus demagogues have had full sway
and the prejudicos of the people an
not their reason and Judgment, hav
been worked on until the questiO
has assumed such a shape that Demo
cracy can no longer be silent an
: shoulder the responsibility of repudi'
. ton. We say that whenever th
people Of Tennessee are Invested {
4 their prejudices and come to look 8
, this matter from a business and con
mon sense stand point, then ther
. will be a vastly different result t
: that OF Aug. 7th.-ClarkSVile II
: baccO Leaf.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01

Our Republican contemporaries pro
fess to be quite jubilant over what
they are pleased 10 call their "vic.
tory" in Maine. A few more of
such victories" would be equiva-
lent to an absolute defeat, as the
following figures, furnished by the
Bangor Commercial, conclusively
shows: SIN 1866 in a total vote of
1882 the Republican majority in
Maine was 1882. In 1867 the Re-
publican majority was 1911 in a
total vote of 1O3,753 In 1868 in a
total vote of 1919 the Republican
majority was 19, 264. In 1869 in a
total vote of 95,O82 the Republicans
had majority of 1886. In 1870
the total vote was 99.801 and the
Republican majority was 8,248. In
1871 in a total of 105.897 votes the
Republican majority was 1858, In
1872 in a total vote of 127, 266 the
Republican majority was 1850. In
1873 in a total of 80,953 the Repub-
lican majority was 1856 In 1874
in total OF $4,000 the Republican
majority was $3.50. In 1875 in
total of Ill ,665 their majority was
1859. In 1876 in a total of 136 723
the Republican majority was 1871.
The average Republican majority
then for these eleven years was IT,
1872. In 1876, a Presidential year
when extraordinary exertions were
made, the vote reached a total of
136,823, the largest that had ever
been cast in the State. and the Re-
publican majority over all was 14,911
This year the vote is several thous.
and larger. The last Republican
reserve has been brought out, an
immense amount OF money has been
spent by The managers of the party, |
every means honorable or dishonor-
able has been resorted to TO secure
Republican votes. And yet after
this struggle, in total of not far
from 100000 votes, the Republican
minority is not less than 1.446."
land this, Says the Commercially is
being heraIded all over the country
as great Republican victory"
"But what good came Of it at last ~
Quoth little Peterkin,
'swhy, that I cannot tel, ;" said he,
i'But twas q famous victory"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
HOME AGAIN.
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL GRANT
AT SAN FRANCISCO

L
SAN Francisco, Sept 21-Upon the
arrival of the steamer. City of Toxic, at
her warf, last evening, General Grant
was received by the Governor and staff
city officers and Executive Committee,
and welcomed by Mayor Bryant in a
brief speech. He then took a carriage
and drove to the Palace Hotel, at the
head of an immense procession and ac-
companied by great crowds. BOntires
blazed at the street corners, illumina.
ton lit up every window and the glare
of Roman candles and electric lights
made the broad thoroughfare as bright
as day Under a continuous aTchway
of flags, banners and festoOned draper
les, the procession moved up Market
street to Montgomery and turned down
the latter street. Crowds blocked the
side walk. Cheer after cheer rolled
along the whole line march and almost
drowned the martial strains of the nu
merOus bands. Broad ensigns tossed in
the nights wind, glaring with the light
of fires and glare of rockets and fire
balls. A light mist lowering over the
city reflected the light of the fireworks
and Examinations until the heavens
seemed ablaze. Not only the streets on
the march, but cross streets between
Market street and Montgomery avenue
were brilliant with decorations. Even
the Chinese quarters seemed to have
caught the infection, and from hundreds
of staffs the great dragon flag Haunted
its fantastic blazonry beside the stars
and stripes. Continuing its march the
procession moved through Montgomery
Avenue to Kearney streets. Here, if
possible, the crowds were still more
dense and enthusiastic, and display of
fireworks, electric lights, lime lights
and every conceivable means of illumin-
alton of increased brilliancy. On the
arrival at Market street, the procession,
moving up few blocks, cOuntermarch-
ed to the Palace Hotel. Here a mag
nifcent arch, forty feet in heighth, span
ned New Montgomery street, blazoned
with National cOlors and bearing the
inscription, "Welcome to Grant" At
this point, the carriage containing the
General was drawn up. While the pro-
cessiOn marched in review, cheer after
cheer was given, rending the air, as
division after division passed by. On
the conclusion of the review, the vari
Gus organizations were dismissed and
Gen. Grant was conducted to his quar-
tiers in the Palace Hotel, which had been
specially prepared and furnished for his
reception.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01
10 THE BAPTXS7IS OF WHITES
BURG AND LOCALITY:
Copied by request.l

Copied by requestl
To ALL CoNCERNED:, The Baptist
church in Whitesburg having a good
brick house unfinished, and as our AS
ISOLATION (Nolachucky) had appointed
to meet this year with MS, therefore we
have resolved to finish our house, aud
while this was being attended to by
church members and friends, and our
bell being broken, our old and wide
awake Deacon, VIM. 81. Coffman select
ed large number of excellent young
sisters as solicitors to get up money TO
get US bell. The effort met u hearty
response by our members, and with
many not members of our church, and
also several Masons whose Lodge room
is on the second floor of our church.
The money was soon in the hands of
VIM. N. Haun, merchant of this place,
who finished the amount by a donation
of five dollars, and had already an ar
rangement with our much esteemed
brother, w. w. Woodruff of Knoxville,
Tennessee, who made us liberal dona-
ton, and the bell was soon sending out
its inviting and cheering tones to all
around. Our solicitors, Anis Homer,
Laura Lane and Addie Lane, will &C
cept the hearty thanks of the church
through their Pastor, for services rem
dered, and as am pastor and agent for
our church, do hereby tender our most
sincere thanks to all alluded to in this
communication, and if any omissions,
hope they will excuse the same.
/ cannot close we'll without express
ing my thanks unto God for having put
il into the hearts of so many to work in |
this good work for His glory. and our |
good, and my prayers go up to GOO that
He may bless both, saint and sinner as I
they may severally need.
THos. j LANE,
Whitesburg, Tenn, Sept. 1879.