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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-08-06

through fertile valley and near the
base of some OF the moot magni6
cent mountain scenery 10 NOrtt
Caroliua. Ali we're delighted with
the scenery of the Craggy mountain,
which is near Black mountain, Be-
ginning at the base Of Black noun
tain, we started the accent for Mt.
Mitchell. the highest point east OF
the Rocky mountain, its altitude
being 6,710 feet.
We had now come to the closing
and crowning part OF our long trip.
the beautiful cloud land, Roane
Mountain. With light hearts and
heavy baggage, the ascent was made
in good time, having, by practice.
become good pedestrians. At the
base the trees we're large and tall,
but On nearing the bald part they
become small and very low. As we
emerged from the wood, the air was
filed with what is termed mountain
music, like the humming OF many
bees. From the highest peak, which
is 6,367 feet, seven States. Or noun.
tains in seven States, can be seen.
Roaus mountain is the home OF
clouds. We found it cold enough
to sit near the fire, and IL out, to
use our shaWls and coats. The wa.
ter ls Is deg. above freezing. We
were unfortunate in being on the
RoGne while it was raining, and
failed to see all the grandeur of
this elOad land region, but were
highly delighted with our trip. Lack |
of time prevents giving q more |
minute account of our sightseeing
travels through the mountains of |
North Carolina. We spent the
night on Roane mountain, with the
hope of seeing the sun rise next |
morning. Being awakened from
Dur peaceful slumber, Duke, Good
man, Brown, Don Rabbish, Robert
son and Pick started for sunrise
'ock, the highest point on the noun
ain, leaving Sauco still mapping.
When We had reached our point, to
'ur great disappointment only a ball
If fire was visible, now and then
'eeping through dense mountain
clouds. All were loath to leave the
'loud-nurtured mountain, where the
un gave forth its softest rays, and
made summer only an imaginary
eason, with here and there a wild
'looming flower, late to give its soft
weet perfume to the mountain
'reeze and soon to die.
Here we bade farewell to our
fountain trip, and turned our course
y way of Johnson City back to
lorristown, after lapse of thirteen
lays. Each member pronounced
he trip a success, with q strong de.
ire to make another, in the rough,
ONE time in the future.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-08-06

nocenL, ana upon JnOSe VINO come aItel
them. 1t is like the leprosy, that knows
no cure, or the taint of original sin
which infects all the succeeding genel
ations
The most cherished policy of ouu
State is to increase cur population and
resources by immigration. But if we
become repudiatOrs, who would bring
his family and his wealth within our
borders? The political department has
in this all important crisis cast all the
responsibility upon the people. So, ii
the great wrong is done, it will be the
crime of the sovereign people, and not
the politicians. So much deeper and
incurable will be the wound Let the
people prove in this great emergency
that they are capable of doing right, and
able to resist all influences to do wrong.
The temporary pecuniary benefit of
getting clear of debt and taxes would
be poor compensation for loss of cred
gal obligations to do so, our creditors
agree with us, that our loses and misfOr
tunes entitle us to some mitigation of
the rigor of the law, and agree to release
us upon the payment of one-half the
debt, upon easy terms. How can we
escape disgrace as people if we neglect
to accept compromise so liberal? If
these views be correct, does it not be-
hoOve every citizen, and particularly
the young men, who have their futures
before them, not only to vote for the
compromise, but use THEN utmost inf1u-
ence to get others to do so. The most
battles are often lost by mac
tivity and lethargy, as well as by weak
ness and want of strategy. The time is
short, the stake great, and the conse-
quences momentous. No friend of his
country, or lover of his State, should |
fail to enter the conflict with zeal and |
So great stake should !
not be lost by inaction and neglect. This |
danger avoided, our State |
will enter upon a career of prosperity /
that will eclipse that of all her Southern |
sisters and make herself great and glori-
0us 1t has already been selected by all
he great denominations of Christians as
he seat of their brightest literary insti-
utions; capitalists are looking this way
or investments in mining and manu-
Some of them have come al
eady No more will do so If, on the
tn of August next, the high character
md fair fame of the State is lost by the
uicidal hands of the people themselves.
With capital comes increase of wealth
nd population and additional ability to
aise revenue and pay debts. 1t is bet
er to bear the evils and burthens we
ave than by throwing them off to en-
xcept that they are too great and last
lg to be estimated.
I have heard it said, and suppose it is
'ue, that very prominent Senator
ON a neighbOring State refused to ac-,
ept foreign mission upon the ground
lat his efforts would be paralyzed by ,
le fact that his State, more than o gen. !
ration ago, had been guilty of the un-
ardonable sin of repudiatiOn. Shall
lis be the fate of Tennessee statesmen
the future? The result on the 7th of '
ugust will decide. May they be wise
nd avert the evil that threatens them
Id their children after them.
ROBERT L. CARUTHERs.
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. A lightning-rod peddler was struck
by lightning in Indiana, while seat.
edson his wagon, during q thunder
storm, talking through the window
ofa farmers residence, trying to in.
duce the farmer to let him rod the
barn. It was the largest funeral
ever seen in Iddians. People went
Gliles 70 see the deceased. They
couldn't believe it until they saw it
with their own eyes.
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WITH WHITE HANDS.

Years she went about the world,
Lovely eyes and smiling face,
Dressed and scented. gemmed and eurled-
Always queen by right Of grace.
All the time there WAS q grave
Meath the warm italian sky,
By the Adriatic's wave;
She alone Of all, knew why.
He whose dust lay lonely there,
Far from friends and native land,
Worked to win a name to wear
Till she let him kiss her hand
Love and longing, pain and pride,
Passion first, and coldness next;
When ahe went away he died
Being frail, intense and vexed.
But the snow above her heart
Melted suddenly one day,
And, awakening with start,
She wrote, ''Ob, forgive, pray,
>" All my coIdness, all my pride:
1, unwiaingly, am true,
When my lips said No. lied;
have never loved but youI"
Weeks She waited, then there came,
Tardily from that far land
brief letter to her name
Not his signet nor his hand
just to say that he was dead: -.
His light went out suddenly.
Brekenly she bowed her head:
IAN is said and done for mel"
Then remembering life, as TwerO
Just burden at her feet
Heavily she stopped her there,
LoAthing what had been so sweet.
"A And tonight there is feast
I am promised, must go
Might see his grave at least
But the world would scorn me 90.
I" Well, it May be that some day
When I'm wrinkled, bent and old,
When my hair is thin and gray.
None viii think but am cold.
''I may do then as please,
Gross the sea and seek the crave,
Linger near it at my ease
I, that slew where colld savei"
Oh, she was so fair that night
Soft flushed cheeks and sweetest eyes,
Shoulders so divinely white
And a voice Of low repliea!
But the while she bent her head
In the waltz's rapturous wave,
She was thinking, +" He is dead 2"
And, "What flowers grow on his grAve2"
-Ltppinc0tt's Magazine.
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If poverty is a disgrace, mended stock
ings are darned shame.-Ex.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-08-06

The Howard Association at Mem
phis has received numerous letters
frem differert parties throughout the
North profering their services as
urses. The Association has Motif.
ed all persons not to visit Memphis,
and they say to these nurses that
unacclimated persons can be of no
service to them.
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
The Family Ash barrel.

Superintendent Walling's new order de-
termining the hours and position of that
humble but indispensable family servitor.
the ash barrel, will lead to some social
changes not ungratiiying to certain classes
of the community. As ash barrels have
generally been on the pavements until
late in the afternoon, even when the
carts began their collection at midnight
of the' previous day. 1t stands to reason
that they must now line the curbstoues
until very late hour of the night. The
effect Of this, during the daylight hours.
will be to break up and diversity the long.
level stretches of sidewalk which are now
80 wearisome to the cultured eyes of ladies
making afternoon calls. At night they
will serve tho less nsthetic but more
humane purpose Of supplying in
ebriated citizens with appropriate
The New York herald., 1879-12-09

resting places at convenient intervals;
iamprosts are too far apart for this pur-
pose and doorsteps too cold, but ash bar
reis filled, according to police regulation,
to within four inches of their tops afford
seats that are sufficiently oapacious, rea-
sonably soft and not overcold. Many of the
poor will approve the change, for fuel
is prime necessity at this season,
and woodyards are seldom left un-
locked at night the outstanding ash bar
rel, however,. after being quietly relieved
OF its contents, can noiselessly be carried
to where it may be far more useful than it
was when merely the recipient of the refuse
OF other fires. And what comfort to be able
to look out of the front window at any hour
on ash day and know that you will see some
OF your own property! We have no hesita-
tion in saying that an ash barrel of
average appearance in front of good
house on a fashionable street. where it
has remained all day, will elicit more
spirited comments from the home-seeking
merchant or professional man that owns
the house than if it were the turnout of
some local Croesus. The press is SO fire.
quently compelled to criticise the course
of the Police Department that the oppor-
tunity to call attention to what is evidently
devised to meet the views of many classes
the proud as we'll rs the humble-is not on
any account to be neglected.
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
Shelving Mr.. Blaine.

The republican editors of Kansas seem to
have entered into conspiracy to shelve the
distinguished Senator from Maine From
a series of interviews printed in the Leaven-
worth Times we learn that these gentlemen
are almost unanimously of the opinion that
this impetuous statesman should be nomi-
mated next year for the Vice Presidency.
with General Grant as the head Of the
ticket. Mr.. Blaine would, of course, make
an excellent presiding officer of the Senate.
He is handsome, dignifed, and as con-
versant with Jefferson's Manual as he is
with the manipulation of the hidden
wires and pulleys of q small State conven-
ton like that Of Maine. To make him Vice
President, however, would be to deprive
him OF all his usefulness to his party. It
would be base surrender to Mr.. Ben Hill
and the brigadiers in the Senate whom Mr..
Blaine has specially in charge. No; Mr..
Blaine's place Is in the last Senatorial
ditch of stalwartism, where he is as gal
lantly fighting the new rebellion as whea,
far in the rear, in the brave days of old, he
upheld the flag against the first one. The
Maine Senator makes 30 interesting and
picturesque figure on the floor of the
Senate that it would be a pity to consign
him to the cold oblivion Of the Vice Presi-
dency.
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
Those Guilty Utes.

General Hatch may be correct in the sup
position, telegraphed by him on Sunday.
that the Utes will surrender the Indians
Chief Douglass being among them who
took part in the massacre at White River
Agency, and Secretary Schurz may have
good reasons for his own sanguine expecta-
tions to the same effect, but the public will
do well to indulge in no anticipations OF
such surrender. 1t would be entirely
contrary to precedent, to Indian nature in
general and the character Of the Utes in
particular for the tribe to surrender any
of its braves to certain death. If
Douglass and his band are really delivered
up to issioners or army officers it
will be in order to expect an attempt, and
a successful one, at rescue, after which the
tribe and the murderers will be little more
lawless and warlike than ever before. The
indications" to which General Hatch re-
fers are not explained in detail, but the
craftiness of the Indian is fully equal to q
pretence of submission while the most seri-
GUS mischief is being plotted. The best
news that con safely be expected from the
Ute country is that General Hatch and his
party bring themselves out. Even a sur
render for trial only at Washington, which
is Ouray's extreme concession ut last ad-
vices, is not likely to be indorsed by such
of the tribe as may be rambling when the
prisoners start.
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
Food for Ireland.

Within the next two or three weeks Mr..
Parnell is expected in the United States,
and preparations are already making by
some of our Irish citizens to greet him with
a great demonstration of welcome. We
make no objection to this; for although
Mr.. Parnell is the leader and chiefiDspirer
of the agrarian agitation among the Irish
tenants he has borne himself with degree
of prudence hardly to havo been expected
of so young a man. We trust that before
he comes an American movement will be
practical relief in a shape different from
that which it is understood to be the aim
of his mission to promote. Americans can
do nothing which will influence British
legislation on this burning question
of tenant rights in Ireland, but they
can render more valuable service.
Before the winter ends multitudes
of the Irish people will be in a famishing
condition. Their most urgent need is food
to save them from starvation, and until
they are rescued from this distress and
peril it is idle and heartless for anybody
on this side of the Atlantic to waste breath
or contribute money to keep up an agita-
tion in Ireland looking to change in the
laws. If the land question were solved to-
day that would bring no present relief to
the sufferers-it would merely insure
them larger share of future crops
of which the seed cannot be sown
for many months and from which
people dying of starvation in advance
of the planting would derive no benefit.
The great thing, the imperative thing, is
immediate food and succor for the famish-
ing. When Mr.. Parnell comes and depicts
with moving eloquence the wretched con-
dition of his countrymen. let us be pre-
pared to say to him 1--WE believe this;
our people take lively interest in Ireland,
and our press keeps them fully informed;
we have as early and copious Irish news as
the newspapers of Dublin; we have not
waited for your coming to stir our sympa-
thies. Look around you! We are already
collecting food and are about to send it by
ship loads for the relief of your people.
We invite your cooperation in infusing
zeal into this movement and dissuading
rected efforts. We will give you meetings
for raising food as large as the famous
meetings in the Tabernacle at the time
of the great potato famine. In proportion
to the degree of suffering we will do as
much now as we did then, when seventy
three ships laden with provisions. the free
gift of our people of all religions and
nationalities, were sent to Ireland from
American cities"
Before Mr.. Parnell arrives we hope we
may be able to soy to him something like
this, not in the language of promise, but
descriptive of what he will find well started
and going on before his eyes.
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
Inventing Widows for Wealthy Dead
Mem.

Men.
The extraordinary testimony introduced
at the hearing in the Lewis will case yester-
day, before the Master of Chancery in New
Jersey, deserves to arrest public attention.
Mr.. Lewis was the gentleman who died in
Hoboken two years ago and bequeathed to
the United States an estate valued at o
million dollars, deeming that disposition
of his property the most comprehensive
scheme of public charity possible. Instances
of such gifts by subjects to royal person
ages are not infrequent. A considerable part
of the private fortune of the present Queen
of England was derived from such source.
But, probably owing to the impersonality
of republican government, bequests by
citizens to the Commonwealth have been
comparatively rare in this country, and
Large as it is, however, litigation i'm
mediately ensued. which promised to use
it up in costs and lawyers fees. Such a
benevolent will was assumed to imply eccen-
tricity on the part of the maker, and several
contestants of it appeared, the foremost
being q woman who claimed to be his
widow and presented some evidence to
support her assertion of that relation to
him. But yesterday the very witnesses
who had testified in her behalf, being re-
called by the government, confessed that
their documentary evidence was forged
and their oral testimony perjured, and
made some revelations concerning other
conspiracies to pervert the disposition
of dead mems estates, which indicate
that bogus widowhood is carried on
MS regular business in New York and its
suburbs. In the records of celebrated
trials we know of few incidents more ex-
traordinary. There is material here for the
most sensational novelist or playwright.
II the government is in possession of evil
dence to disprove the claims of all the rest
of the contestants as effectually as those of
Mr. Lewis alleged widow seem to be dis
posed OF, possibly even after deducting the
costs and the lawyers fees there may be
some remnant Of the estate applicable to
the payment Of the national debt
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following Americans werc registered ct tho
Paris oHace OF the New YoRx HERALD. on Monday,
December 8. 1879:-
Gator, +. p, Baltimore Hotel de rAth6nee.
Chamberlin, H.. New York. Grand Hotel.
Chase, w. s. and wife, New York. Place d'Anvers
Costa. d., San Francisco. Hotel Bellevue.
Darlington. J. M. Phiiadephs. Hotel Bellevue.
Ducker. W. NJ. New York. Hotel Binda.
Gates, A. j.. New York. Hotel do rAthen6e.
Hale, W. s., New Hampshire. Hotel Binda.
Horner. r. j.. Now York. Hotel Binds.
Hunter, D. McBurney. Now York. Hotel do
pAthen6e.
Jones, J. D.. New York, Hotel dc France.
Kisch. David and wife. New York, Is Rue Drouot.
Lewis. John M. Cincinnati Grand Hotel.
Murtha. W. II. and wife. New York. Hotel dc Lon
dres.
Neale. A.. New York. Grand Hotel.
Rice, Miss A.. New York, Hotel dc Londres.
Schweitxer. s., New York. II Rue d'Or6ans.
Seymour. G. j.. Now York. Continental Hotel.
Smith. L. Randolph. New York, Hotel do Lyons.
Turner. Mrs. Louise. New York. A Rue Ciichy.
veit, Felix, New York. II Rue Tr6visc.
Senator Theodore f. Randolph. Of Now Jersey, is
st the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Count D0nhoff. OF tho German Legation at WASH
ington is at the Brevoort House.
The President yesterday appointed George Stone
man, OF Cul1tornle 10 Dc momDer OF the hoard OF
Indian Commissioners.
Senator Wade Hampton has been invited by the
Pittsburg branch of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie TO deliver address before them.
A correspondent wishes to know whether the item
about the British army being the most" cxpensively
dressed "of any in Europe should grammatically bo
accredited to us to the Saturday Reriew of Lon
don. To the Saturday Reuieo. The item was simply
. quotation.
Saturday Revictc: Americans never caro- to re-
member. when recounting their triumphs. that in
no case did they encounter more than the ieavings
OF tho English force, the strength that Great Britain
could spare when engaged in desperate conflict with
more than one formidable European enemy
London Truh:--"To elect SUFFICIENT following
for Mr.. Parnell. money also was requisite Hence
the proposed mission to America. No not an
actual donkey could imagine that servanta allsm in
the States could afford the help adequate to pur-
chase tho fec simple Of Ireland As matter of fact
believe that it precisely domestic money
question that prevented Mr.. Parnell's contemplated
visit to America"
Tho OF Lawson w. LAbouchsrs 10 fat piokings
for the London legal profession Up to the present
the Attorney General has nsttsd $s.7So. while the
The New York herald., 1879-12-09

lowed. 1t supported the family fairly in
GOOD years-in bad ones it scarcely did
even that. In this way the economical
position became an entirely false one.
Irish farmers seemed to be solvent and were
drawing to keep up that appearance upon
a source that they had no good right to
count upon. They were bankrupt all the
time. With the rent paid from outside and
the farm only supporting those who worked
il the rackrenter was ever active. Upon the
prosperity which he saw he based an in
crease of rent. With those who are near to
the extremity of their resources that diff
ficulty Is ruin which to others would be
temporary trouble. Thus it is with the
Irish now. But it is easier to point
out why they are in Distress and to esti-
mate the financial difficulties of their posi-
ton, than to propose remedy. 1t is only
certain that agitation and a campaign OF
hifalutin eloquence will do them no good.
It is ridiculous to assume that it is crime
for men to own land in Ireland,
since every tenant himself aspires to
be a landowner yet that is all there is
in the Gland league" eloquence. If the
present agitators can really satisfy Ireland
with remedy for her difficulties and griev-
ances they will please the world at large as
well as Ireland. But they cannot conjure
financial difficulties with phrase, andth
term 'peasant proprietorship," though
good enough as far as it goes does not pay
for any land; and. communistic contiscation
aside, the land the peasants are to have
must, we suppose, be paid for. though who
is to pay the plan does not hint
The New York herald., 1879-12-09
MIR. BELMoNTs BIRTHDAY.

Mr.. August Belmont. the banker, yesterday passed
his sxtythrd birthday aud received the congratula-
tions of many OF his friends. somo of whom called
on him during the day at his Office on Nassau street
aud othors at his Fifth avenue in tho
ing. Mr. Belmont in appearance looked several
years younger than his actually recorded age. Gvon
TO active outdoor exercise all his life tho cares Of
business have lett marked traces his features.
Foremost among the bankers of the country and oc-
cupyipa q distinguished place In tho ranks OF the
doinocratic party Mr.. Belmont has beon uniformly
regarded as OF superior clearness and vigor of
intellect. He has beon always prominent leader In
with tho turf has ever bscn guarantees for correct
aud Legitimate prasticss ~ the sport OF horse raso