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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03
Chaaeery Sale of a Very Desirable
House aud Lei and aCant Lot.
Eot al

Ne al.
c. P.Tenp.e vs.. Z. A. ReeTo ard VIE ct 81.
DURsUANFTo A DECREE PRONOUNCED
L in tbs above cause at the june
tern, 1879 Of the chancery Court at Knox
yiie, Tennessee, & will sell at auction, to the
highest bidder, in front of the court house door,
in Knoxville.
ON SATURDAY. THE I1TH DAY OF 0CT0-
Der NEXf, a II O'CLOCK A. NJ,
Tie house and lot mentioned and described in
tie p eadings, lying in thu 12th civil district of
Knox county. Tenn. ard bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stake in Temple avenue In5 feet
snoEth IT. "a the point OF intersection OF Temple
avenue and Motif street. and IN the ca terly
line or side of sad avenue, thence an easterly
course at night angles with said avenue 80 feet
to stake, thence with an alley northerly par
aliel with Temp avenue $50 feet to a sta o.
theT CO right az giles with said avenue 290 feet
to stake in said avenue. theme vii SAIL ave.
nus 15U fee to the beginning. and being the
property formerly occupied by +. a: Seeve. and
also onevacant lot 81 uatei ii the 18th civil dis
trlet of Knox county, Tenn. bounded on tn
street, on the east by alley, aud Cd tae nor b
by the lot above desert ed having front of ISj
feet on he east side of Temple avenue. anu q
| depth CT go fee. Comfortable dwelling aud
| oUt~houses, and large number OF fruit and or
namental trees on the premises.
TERMS.
Said pr perty will be sold on credit of nine
and eighteen months. and in bar of thu eq1itS
of redemption and homestead taking from t. G
yu-chasers rotes with approved security bear
lng interest trC date, and retaining lien as fur
ther security, This. 10Th of Scptem Der. 1879
cent Gw4t 81. l.. PATE 80 i, G. & NJ.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03

OLsVER DET&ON l. co., BOstoa.
Oh. DITSON & =, 84} Broadway New York
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03
Chancery Sale Of a Valuable
Ii0uSe and Lot.

No. 1874.
jos. E. Norman, ADM. &C., W. Vim, Lawhon,
80 et al.
PURSUANT TO AN INTERL0CUT0RY D e.
i CREE pro eounceG IN the ABOVE at
the june term, 1879. of the Chancery Court at
Knoxville Tenn. l will sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, 10 front of the court house
ON SATURDAY,, THE 18TH DAY OF OC-
TOBER, 1872 AT IL 0COCK A. NJ.
the house and iot mentioned and described in
the pieadnes. lying in the l2,h civil district of
knoz county Tennessee be NJ lot No IS, In
Mc0hee's additi to Knoxville. for tlrg o
fact on Richards street ard ruuIir hack west
ward'y i5) feet to alley,
TERMS
Said sale will be nAd5 UPON A or, dit Of six,
twelve Gig hteea and twenty ur months, taking
from the purchaser notes, with goOdsec0 ty,
bearing interest from date, snd retaining a lien
as fl Their secu i'y. L zig eptembsr 18th. 1879.
nj. l.. PATTERSON,
sept vat Clerk and Master.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03

inst out. The last ruulbsr of THE MUSICAL
RECoRr Send cts. for one number. = o. tor
the year "Wcud' 1T be without 1t for FIVE times
the price"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03

a good soldier, it was his will as
well as his pleasure to obey orders.
He did obey and bravely lost his
life. May we not hope that these
occurrences have 50 quickened the
public conscience that a voice viii
reach the ears of demagogues in
Congress, and put an end to the
useless, nonsensical, wicked, I'M
patriotic war that has been made
against the army and that has re-
suited in reducing it SO low in point
Of numbers as to make it utterly
impossible for it to protect the from,
tier from savage tribes.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03

The Centennial calls up many
"reminiscences of the past. The
memory of the Jacksons, SEWERS,
Tiptons, Carriers, Doaks, McLins
and other illustrious names rise up
before US. We can hardly realize
the fact that one hundred years
ago the foundation of great State
was laid at Jonesboro', and that
these great men were the builders,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-03
Chancery Sale of Valuable Lands.

NO. 0JSls
J.. u. Kennedy. Treasurer Of thu Hospital
Association of East Tennessee. We. James
Rodgers and vile ct al and N Brains VS.
JAS Rodgers and wife ct al. Bill and Cross
B III. %
DUkSUANT TO AN INTERLOCUTCRY DE-
L cree pronounced in the above cause at the
June term 1879. of the Chancery Cour at Knox
vile, Tennessee, will sell at public auction, to
the highest bi ider. in front Cf the court house
door in Knoxville, Tennessee. OF
SATURDAY THE 18TH DAY OF
OCT. NEXT AT IL O'CLOCK, A. M. ,
the lands mentioned and de ,cr bed in the plead
ings, lying in the y d civil district OF Knox
county, Tennessee adjoining the lands formerly
owned By Judge " 'cker. the lanos of Michael
Davis. John Wrinkle and others. containing
about So acres, being the land mortg lged by
jas. Redgers aud wife to VIM Braiue on tho
9th of July. 1872 and REGISTERED the same day in
the Reeister's Office of Knox county in Trust
Book B. vol let, pages 168 and 269, first offering
for sale that portion of the said land embraced
IN the deed of trust executed On the 9Th dag {
May, 1872. by jag. Rodgers aud Wits to W T.
Sc bg and ", c. ia nison for the benefit of the
St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company. and
OF trust but eub. AGED N tho mortgage to VIM
Braine. d then 0feHing the whole tract
to Eethcr as set cut II the mortgage executed to
said B aine, and adopt that sale wh:o2 brings
tire bighesI price.
a TIE RMS.
Said safe will be made upon credit CT S J2
Is and a moths and in bar of the equi y
redemption. taking from the purchaser notes
til goCd security and retaining q lien as further
security This Sept, 17th. 1879
septl6wfC N. L. PATTERSON. G, Nm,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
Owls and their Uses.

The utility Of the common owl as q
destroyer ofvermln is scarcely likely
to be called in question at the present
day. A remarkable instance In point
is recorded by Herr Grote in the Jour
nal ~ she Hanover Agricultural Socie-
ty. Last year this gentleman discov-
ered III rs garden an OWLS nest built
in hollow tree. When first observed
1t contained four eggs and the bodies
of seven field mice. On the following
day six of the mice had been devoured
and eight fresh ones introduced in
their place. On the third day six more
mice were added to the stock, and the
carcasses of seven more were found In
a contiguous hollow OF tree, Day af-
ter day the same thing was observed,
fresh supply of mice being constantly
introduced. From circumstances which
are not specifically mentioned, Herr
Grote was only able to continue his OBJ
servatlons for period of fourteen days,
but within that time the number of
mice found In the nest was ascertained
to be more than two hundred, and In
addition to these the wing cases of a
large number of dung beetles were
found In the same place. In order to
avoid any source of possible error In
this computation, the observer took the
precaution of marking each days sup
ply of mice when first noticed, so as to
make quite sure that none of the bodies
should be counted twice.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
Disadvantages In Life.

Cultlvating beard.
Sitting at the foot OF boarding
house table.
Wearing tight boots witha big wad OF
cotton-darning in the heel.
Walking through crowded ferry
boat with year-old baby in your
arms.
Passing the club or billiard room
without dropping in to see who's
there"
Having bad cold in the head and no
handkerchief within halling distance.
Being asked what time it is when
your uncle is keeping your watch to
suit his time.
Endeavoring to persuade tailor that
the longer your bill goes over the soon
er willthe sun of resumption rise like
forty cent sky-rocket.
Carrying scuttle of coal up stairs
while the partner of your joys stands
in the hall, and yells ooh, Henry what
dirt you are making on my new car
pet"
For the first time In ones life asking
a girl if she "wouldn't like to go out
some evening next week." and have
her cOldly say "No, you mustn't keep
late hours! !"
Taking off ones shoe in the lower
hall to walk up stairs noiselessly, and
just as the top is reached, to drop one
shoe, hear it 60 rattling to the bottom
like the gong of eternity,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
Chinese Charms.

AS a general rule, anything red ls
serviceable in this way. TO mark the
''stops" in book with red ink will
keep away evil spirits from the reader;
so, also, will pieces af red rags or
strings. As those wicked spirits very
often mutilate helpless little boys un-
less duly armed against them, parents
stitch piece of red cloth in the pock-
cts of the little fellows and braid the
queue with piece of red silk to pre-
vent flends from cutting 1t off. Yellow
paper is also very eflicacious. Strips
of this paper six to twelve inches long,
inscribed with red or black ink, are
suspended on bed-curtains, or it is
burnt and the ashes mingled with tea
or hot water and drank as a specific
against evil influences Ancient coins
are very good also. They are tied to
the wrists of new born babes and put
under the bed of the newly married.
The small point of an old iron plough
share will do If the coin is not conven-
lent, for iron of any kind is potent
against spirits. A knife that has been
used In killing person is very excell-
ent, Iron nails that have been used in
scaling coffin are not amiss, If carried
In the pocket or braided into the queue
or they may be beaten into ring and
worn in that shape until boy is six
teen years old.
Yet, excellent as are these remedies,
they are used only on the defensive /;
but, as the flend may feel more or less
emboldened by mere defensive tactics
alone, an aggressive policy is often
adopted especially in the case of a man
lying sick in bed. For this purpose a
hempen whip is made in the shape Of a
snake, with which the bed and bedStead
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
"Matches Against Time"

An Arab Donkey-bOy will 60 at a
run all the way from Cairo to the Pyra-
mids and back again, without any visi-
BILE signs of fatigue. A Siku dispatch
bearer will scamper through miles Of
jungle in the dark, with heavy bag
on his shoulders, shaking a bunch of
metal rings to scare away the tiger and
hyena. Four meagre Hindoos, who
appear barely able to carry a handbag,
will take a heavy palanquin, contain
ing an officer and all his belongings,
over the ground at smart trot for
hours together. Even more marvellous
are the achievements of the Persian
shatirs professional couriers) who,
trained from their childhood to feats Of
strength and activity, daily accomplish
distances bordering upon the incredi-
BILE. Not many years ago enc of these
men reached Teheren fully two hours
before his appointed time, having oov-
cred an immense tract of very difficult
country in fourteen hours of almost in
cessant running; but his chief, SO far
from praising him, simply remarked !:
"Could you not have done it in 12P"
and on his return journey the man ac-
tually did so. The occupation is dan
gerous one, not only from the extraor-
dlnary exertions which it demands, but
also from the fact of the runners being
so tightly girdled that fall or even a
stumble would be certain death. Per-
sian chroniclers relate that certain
native promised his daughter to any
man who would keep up with his char
lot all the way from Teheran to Ispa-
han. A celebrated shatir undertook
the task and held his own till the gate
was full in view, when the Shah, alarm
cd at the prospect of having to make
good his rash promise, let fall his whip.
The runner, knowing that it would
cost him his life to stoop, contrived to
pick it up with his feet. The treacher-
Gus monarch then dropped his ring,
when the Shatir, seeing his fate was
sealed, exclaimed reproachfully: "0h,
King, you have broken your faith, but
am true to minel" picked up the ring
and fell dead on the spot.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
Flattening Her Finger.

One evening when Ralph Waldo En-
erson was engaged in preparing his
new lecture, Mrs. Emerson, who had
at that moment tlattened her finger
while trying to drive nail with tho
smoothing iron, thrust her head into
his study and said:
"See here, sir! | want you to drop
that everlasting pen of yours, for a
minute or two, at least, and go down to
the grocery and get mackerel for
breakfast"
"My DEAR" replied Mr.. Emerson,
looking up from his work, "my dear,
can't you goP You see am billed in
dozen places to deliver this lecture on
Memory and it isn't half finished
yet"
"And that's what you call your infer
nal lecture, is it? said Mrs. Emerson,
sharply. GA nice party you are to de.
liver a lecture on Memory"
"And why, my love?" said Mr.. En-.
erson, meekly.
"You never 60 out Of the house that
you don't forget to put on your hat OF
your boots, and you never take letter
of mine to mail that you don't carry Il
in your pocket for six months or 9
year unless ] happen to find 1t sooner
During the past thirty daysEyou have
carried out of this house and forgot tC
back bring no less than seventy-fve ol
eighty umbrellas; and you know your
self that the last time you went tC
church you took out your false teetl
because, as you said, they hurt your
corns, and came away and left them ii
the seat. | say you are nice man t
talk to a cultured audience on Mem
ory,' and If you don't trot right off t.
the grocery, Pll expose you befor,
you're twenty. four hours older"
Mr.. Emerson started on jump fo
the grocery, and when he got there h,
couldn't for the life of him recollec
what he had come for.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08

In some parts of Scotland, in former
times, the plow used to be drawn
by four horses abreast, and required
the attendance Of three men. The bust
ness of one man was to drive. For
that purpose he placed himself between
the middle horses, with his face toward
the plow, to guide it straight, and in
this position he stepped backward with
the reins in his hand. Another walk
ed behind the horses with check
staff, which fastened In the front of
the beam, and, by means of it, regula-
ted the depth of the furrow by raising
or lowering the plow as occasion re-
quired. The plowman followed, with
bolt of stills; and with this formida-
BILE and ludicrious manner they repeat
ed their attacks on the soil. In harvest
basket machine was placed on horse
back for carrying home the grain, and
persons were employed on each side,
with folks to keep itin proper position.
1t Is said that this practice is yet to be
met with in Galloway.
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CLEVELAND, TENN, MAY 8, 1879.

are well whipped and the lurking
spirits made to take hasty exit. Evil
spirits are much addicted to the ma
licious practice of iniuring houses
in the course of erection. To put a
stop to their pranks, piece of red or
yellow paper, duly inscribed with the
proper formula, is tied to the ridge
pole, or a small bag of red silk, or cot
ton is used instead, containing five
kinds Of grain in honor of five success
I've emperOrs, or five iron nails of diff
ferent lengths. Another very excell-
ent safeguard against evil spirits is a
picture of a flying tiger, the spirits be-
ing much afraid of that ferocious feline.
A lion grasping a naked sword is good ;
but two lions coming down a hill, the
sun and moon between them, are much
better. A cat made of lime and burnt
clay, and looking at something at dis
tance, is efficacious; or three paper ar
rows, or paper boy in the attitude OF
shooting an arrow, or an earthen lion,
either of these is also good.
The shell of a gourd is suspended by
the bed of children who have not yet
had the smallpox, on the last night of
the year because the god of measles
will empty the small pox into the shell
if it be placed convenient to his hand.
But the better plan is to cover the
chlld's face with an ugly mask, and
then the god of measles, who is mis-
chievously addicted to spelling pretty
faces, will not think it worth while to
waste his small pOX upon so ugly a
child and will pass him by. The fiend
is thus tricked out of his victim. The
combined pictures of tiger, lizard
centipede, snake and an unknown ami
NAL with three feet, suspended round
the neck, keep off the collie. A mirror
suspended to bed curain, face out
ward, will keep the deYil away, be-
cause on'approaching the room, he will
see himself reflected in the glass, and, =,
shocked with his own ugliness, will
hide himself in some deep cavern un-
til he forgets his fright.
or the few innumesable omens of
good or evil which the provident gods
degn to manifest few here are given :
The magpie is bird of good omen and
hence if man is projecting, say an in
vestment in stocks, and hears The voice
of this bird, it is sure sign that stocks
will go up and that this investment
will be Il success. A crow on the
other hand. is bird of evil omen. A
strange dog coming TO take up his quar-
ters with family is sign of prosperi-
ty. The coming of cat is an evil
omen, because the feline instinct points
out the whereabouts of rats and mice,
and these creatures have preference
for dilapitated houses. A growing hen
and whistling woman are both bad
omens--both being unnatural, and
whatever is unnatural is also unlucky.
A cock Growing before midnight is an
other bad omen and will soon be killed
or sold,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
FAIR INDIAN SUMNER.

At last the toil-encumbered days are over,
And I'd Of noon are mellow rs the morn,
The blooms are brown upon the seeding
clover,
And brown the silks that plume the ripening
corn.
All sounds are hushed Of reaping aud Of NOV
ing;
The winds are low the waters lie uncurled;
Nor thistle down nor gossAmer is flowing.
10 lull'd in languid Incidence the world.
And VINEYARDS wide and farms along the
valley
Are mute amid the vintage and the sheaves,
Save round the barns the noise of rout and
sally
Among the tenant-masons OF the caves.
Afar the:upland glades are fecked in dapples
by fiocks Of lambs a-gambol from the fold (;
And orchards bending beneath their weight Of
apples,
And groves are bright in scarlet and in gold.
But bark hear the pheasant's mufiled
drumming,
The turtles murmuring from distant dell,
A drowsy bee in may tangles humming,
The far, faint tnkle tenor of bell.
And now, from yonder beech-trunk sheer and
sterile,
The ia tat Of the yellow-hammtr's bill.
The sharp staccato barking Of the squirrel,
A dropping nut, and all again is still.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-08
Ten Thousand Years Ago.

About four miles below Camp Verde,
Arizona, there are about fifty cliff or cave
dwellings, rooms hewn cut in solid cliff
of rock. One has to use ladders in order to
penetrate some Of them. The rooms are
plastered inside, and have side rooms lead
fng from the main room. Many Of these
side rooms seems to have been used for
granaries, for in them have been small cells,
wherein have been placed ears of corn, cot
ton and other seed, and then cemented over
and made air-tight' When these places
are picked into, you find the ears Of corn at
first apparently natural, but when the air
strikes them, or the fingers touch them, the
grain falls to ashes, leaving nothing but the
cob, which seems to be little affected. In
one of these cells found bunch Of we'll
twisted cotton thread, and another kind of
thread, which was beyond my comprehen-
sion as to what il was made Of They also
cortain water tanks or csterns neatly hewn
out, in the open valleys, extensive ruins of
great cities. Judging from the debris,
many of the buildings have been four or five
stories high, built of stone neatly dressed,
showing considerable mechanical skill in
their construction. The parts of walls that
are still standing bear traces of ancient writ
ings andsculpture, with hcrosses and notches
cut deep into the solid rock at regular in
tervals. There are also traces of canals and
reservoirs of vast dimensions, from which it
is inferred that the country at one time was
fertile and well watered. But the once
beautiful and fertile valleys are now covered
with boulders and flat-rock from the noun
tains. They are also defaced by great
yawning chasms thousand feet in depth,
cut down by the winter torrents of perhaps
ten thousand years since the inhabitants
have fled from their homes or perished amid
wars and pestilence. Several of the largest
cities must have contained several hundred
thousand inhabitants With the exception
of broken pottery, but few relics are found.
These pieces of pottery are remarkable from
the fact they have been finely glazed and
bear paintings of flowers and ornamental
figures, the coloring matter of high min
eral substance of some kind, which can not
or has not been defaced, and appears to be
perfectly indelible These relics have been
exposed to the storms, which have worn
away the solid masonry of the walls, and
show the colors as when new. The pottery
itself has been found to be perfectly fire
proof, upon a severe trial in crucibes, while
the heat of furnaces will not affect it. If
the secret of its manufacture could be dis
covered, it would be worth millions of dol.
lars to the possessor The ruins are un-
doubtedly those of the cities built by the
Aztecs, who populated the Southwest cen
turies ago. and had their capitals on the
present site of the City of Mexico when the
Spaniard took possession of the country.
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exhibited 1t to the youngsters there, it
was not only universally but bolster
ously hailed by the same name. When
he returned home, he brought, instead
OF the Jumping Jack, a silver half dol
lar, for which he had sold the toy to
an eager, well dressed lad of his own
age. And not only this, but he had
orders from the boys for half dozen
more, to be made as soon as possible.
That evening he whitfield, and before
night had added to his capital three
more shining half-dOllqrs. The next
day he doubled his money. The de-
mand for jumping-ja jacks increased.
Boys came to the door. silver in hand,
to get what he had not time to make.
But 1t would be uninteresting to re-
peat all the details; so the rest of my
story shall be brief.
Alec's Sunday school teacher, who
was lawyer, procured fer him a pat
ent on Jumping Jacks Of every des-
criptlon; a rich old uncle of Alec's
mother built him a factory and started
him In business; and within a year
from the afternoon when the poor lad
wondered at the p'anks of the cOlored
boy, Jumping Jacks from the Ramsey
factory were selling in great numbers
all over America.
Truly Alec did "mak'a fortoon wiz
his knife"
TO school he went; into a better
house, all their own the family moved;
easier circumstances, better health,
less weariness, and ample means for
doing good, came to the Ramseys.
But the best point in my story is that
fine asylum and school for hunch-
backs, free to the poor, is one of the
noble enterprises in which Alec has
been chief contributor.
Those deformed lads in the carriage
yOnder are from the Ramsey Asylum
for Hunchbacks.
That was Alec's carriage, and that
crooked gentleman on the back seat
was Alec himself. Every fair after
noon he is out in this way, taking
load of "his boys" as he calls them,
and thus as often as once fortnight,
he gives every inmate of the asylum a
turn in the park.