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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
ENTOiLED.
BY GEORGE DOUGLASS (BEAURY.)

AUdnt sire dessiIlltS0ne.
Where, my sweet enemy lies your power
To move mems wills
You are deadly perfumed flower
That shines and kills,
Your face is brighter than diamonds splendOr,
Or any jewel,
swift-eyed, yet sad and seeming tender,
Demure and cruel.
Thrown back in warm and fragrant tresses
Your mingling hair
Falls from brow too chRste for loves caresses,
Too ehaste and fair.
Your bps bushed deeper than the roses,
Your murmurfng words
Are better than the breath of violet closes
Or song of birds.
watch, you love, my heart is trembling
To find you there,
So strangely salf-same, undissembling,
So fair, so fair!
Calmer than death; white-faced statue,
How can I move your
I love you, darling, wondering at you,
Hate you and love you?
Leave go my soul and let US hasten
Far from your spen;
These bonds you bind me with unfasten
While all is well
Why do you glisten with such beauty,
So strange and fsteful2
When walking coldly down the paths Of duty
You seem so hateful?
I think Of treason, plot dcfa-ce;
Your vivid presence
Comes on and holds me with g rla 70 science
s That never lessons.
You subtle, SO magnetic,
thrill and crave
Seryile beneath you and ecstatic
Like drugged slave.
Eyes swift like lode stars in clear winter weather.
Lids lashed and curled,
Oh, face, more fair than the worlds, together,
Than all the world.
Why Will your glory ever pursue me
With pleasant pain,
Bright eyes that kill me with your burning thro
me,
And quicken me again.
I ask not love, nor loves endearment,
But only this:
To kiss the hem of my lady's garment
With souls whole kiss.
To have you near me, waking, sleeping,
Living and dead;
To give my heart, sweetheart, into your keeping,
And keep You in its steadl
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
New Burial of Sir John Moore,

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Not a drum was heard because the
drummer was not feeling very well
and asked to be excused, nor a fu-
neral note of any kind. as his corpse
to the rampant we hurried; not q
single, solitary son-of.a-gun of q
soldier discharged his farewell shot
o'er the grave where the late Mr..
Moore were deposited. The fare
well.shot business was omitted en-
account Of the great scarcity Of am
muniLion. We buried him darllly
at the dead of night, and did the
best job we could for him under the
circumstances. We could not Dor.
row, beg or steal pick or shovel in
the entire neighborhood. and we're
obliged to turn the sods with our
bayonets since we had been drafted.
We did this by the struggling moon
beams misty light, and the lantern
dimily burning, with just about half
enough oil in it, and strip Of an old
flannel undershirt for a wick. Few
and short were the prayers we said,
the chaplain being home on a fur.
lough, and no one within forty miles
to take his place. We spoke not a
word Of sorrow, our time being some
what limited, as the enemy was not
far distant, advancing with gigantic
strides. We thought, as we hollow.
ed his narrow bed aud smooJhed
down his lonely pillow with a cam
teen, that The foe and the stranger
would tread Ger his head, and we
far away on the billow; but not TOO
far, however, as the enemy outnum-
bered -us about seven to one. Light
ly they'll talk Of the spirit that's
gone, and wonder where they can
get another flask filed whith the
same, and DER his cold ashes up
braid him, knowing, Of course, that
he is in no condition to defend him
self; but little they'll reck if they
let him sleep on ia a grave
where a Briton has laid him,
and not bother hun to get up and
take out burial permit or ask him
to pay ground rent. We wish here
TO correct the impression that slow
ly and sadly we laid him down from
the field of his fame fresh aad gory.
We did no such thing. The corpse
was washed and put in good shape,
and we defy any man to show that
there was drop Of gore about him.
1t is true we carved not a line and
we raised not stone, because there
was no stone-mason handy who
would do the job at reasonable fig
ures. About this time we heard the
distant random gun that the foe was
sulleuly firing, SO we adjourned the
funeral, left the deceased alone in
his glory, and made ourselves scarce
in that vicinity.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23

Esq, of Hawkins County, are here
by appointed Commissioners to re
run and remark said county line be
tween the top of said Chimney TOP
mountain and the mouth Of the north
fork of Holston River.
Section 2. Be it further enacted.
That said Commissioners shall EN-
ploy two chain bearers. who. togeth.
er with said Commissioners, shall
take an oath before some Justice Of
the Peace for either Sullivan or
Hawkins County that they will per-
form the duties of said Commission
honestly, faithfully and impartially ;
said Commissioners shall perform
the duty herein designated, within
six months after the passage of this
Act, and shall make two plats Of
survey, and accompany them with
such report as they may deem neces.
sary to explain the survey; that
they shall remark said line on such
standing timber, either as fore and
aft marks or said lines as they may
deem necessary to enable said line
to be plainly and fully known; said
plats of survey shall be by said Com
missioners signed, and enc copy filed
in the Registers Offices of said Sulli-
van and Hawkins Counties, which
shall be registered by the respective
registers of said counties, said regis
ter's fees to be paid by the respec'
tive counties.
Section 8. Be it further enacted,
That said Commissioners shall be
paid for their services two dollars
per day, for each day employed in
and about said business, and that
the chain bearers be paid two dollars
per day that the counties of Sulli-
van and Hawkins pay equally the
expenses of said survey; that the
County Court of Sullivan and Hawk
ins Counties shall at the first quarter
ly term after the Commissioners
have completed survey, which shall |
be evidence by filing the plat as re-
quired in the second section Of this
Act, in the Registers office OF said
make an order on the Trus-
Zee of the respective counties to pay
Jaid Commissioners and chain bear
srs the amounts so found by said
Courts to be due them respectively.
That this Act take effect from and
Lfter its passage, the public welfare
it.
Passed March %, 1879.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23

Much Of the meat sold in London
as prime English beef is American.
American beef sent over ia refriger-
ators is just as good as English-
many think il better. Atone of the
first clubs in London recently there
were served an English and an
American sirloin of beef, ard no one
could tell the difference. Hungarian
and Bohemian beef, too. is coming
into the London market at II cents
a pound, and much game, especially
pheasants, from Bohemia.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23

An Act to run and remark the county line be-
tween Hawkins and Sullivan counties.
Whereas, the county line between
the counties of Hawkins and Sullivan,
from the top of the Chimney Top
mountain, to the mouth of the North
Fork of the Holston River, is uncer-
tain aud the marks obliterated so
that the same is about to become a
source Of much litigation between
the citizens owning lands along said
line; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State OF
Tennessee, That the county survey
ors Of the county of Sullivan and
Hawkins,tog with David Sewer,
ofSullivan County. and J. Z. Denny,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
Passed March %. 1879.

An Act to change the lines between the counties of
Hawins and Hancock counties,
Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of the state of Tennessee,
That the county line between the
counties of Hawkins and Hancock,
be changed as follows; Beginning
at William j. Davis and running
East with the top of Pine Ridge to
Turkey Creek. thence North 45 deg.
East to the Hancock county line.
Be it further enacted, That this
Act take effect from and after its
passage. the public welfare requiring
it.
Passed March 25, 1879.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23

A Syracuse school mistress
thought to puzzle her Juvenile class,
and asked them where ali the pins
so. A little boy replied that all the
other boys bent 'em, and laid EN- on
the seats, but he didn't want to tell
where they went.
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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11

| From the Burlington llawkcyc.
The night is dark, the AIR is raw and
chill and damp, the storm is raging. An
old and eminenty respectable citizen, out
on North Hill, is sleeping the sleep of the
just with the snorc of the wicked, and the
private clocks, on their respective brack.
cts and mantels throughout the city. fol
Burlington has no town clock, are toling,
as well as they know how to toll it, the
hour OF l;30 4. NJ.
A violent .iangling ut his door bell
awakes the cmincntly respectable citizen.
Shuddcring, lie crawls ont of bed; NUT
tcring, he gropes across the floor.
Swearing, under his breath. he falls
over rocking char.
At last he finds a match, lights Il lamp,
and descending the stairs opens the hall
door, and admits gust of wind that
blows out the lamp ana torrent Of rain
that drenches him to the skin
"What is wanted?" the rospcctable
citizen asks.
care you the resident owner of this
property" promptly inquiries the caller.
al am, wonderingly replies the emf
nently respectable citizen.
"Were you in bed wheE rang?"
81 was, v replied the eminently respect
able.
"That was right" chceriully cxclaims
the caller; that is the place for man
of your age ut this time of night. am
surprised to see you out Of it, Get back
to it, and pleasant dreams
All is silent after the crash that ensues,
save a mocking smile that dies away in
the distance. The fragments of the lamp
that are revealed on the sidewalk by the
coming of the dawn indicates that either
the lamp fell out OF balloon at u height
of about twenty.nine miles, or was hurled
at some object with great force. When
will the mystery be solved?
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11

From the Rural Record
A century Or two ago, before books ant
cheap periodicals were as plentiful as al
the present day, gardening was an occu
patton of which many of the processes
were kept secret, and only impaired t.
those rho, by long service. had earned
the right to know them. But as man ad
vanced in civilization, and his knowledge
Of Nature and her works increased, he be
came less inclined to keep his discOvcrie,
to himself, or to use them as capital fol
his own individual benefit. A hundred
years ago books on gardening were so rare
and costly that they were beyond the reach
of the ordinary laborer, and those who
possess them were 10th their less-fOrtunate
tellOw-laborers read them, lest some of the
supposed secrets should get out, and the
head gardener or foreman of nursery
would cease to be looked up to as the EN-
bodiment of horticultural wisdom by those
over whom he exercised brief authority.
But the days Of secret gardening have
long since passed, for with cheap books
and hundreds Of periodicals. published in
the interest Of horticulture there is little
chance Of keeping any discovery very long
a secret, even if the horticultural should
feel so disposed. llorticulturists at the
present time, Or at least the more intelli-
gent Of them, take great pride in making
their discoveries known, not fearing com.
petition, but rather provoking it. They
believe that the greatest success comes
through business management. and not
from any secrets Of the trade. There are,
it is true, very many second.rate garden
ers who still cling to the idea that there
are and always should be secrets of the
trade which must be kept inviolate; bat
ninety.nine out of every hundred of the
supposed secrets can be found IN any of
the standard horticultural works, and are
therefore secrets only to those who cannot
read or have not felt sufficiently interested
to look themup.
The majority OF our professional gar
deners are Of foreign birth, and they usu-
ally come here fully imbued with the idea
that their art will be something novel on
this side of the Atlantic, and that what
has been done in the way of gardening in
Europe is wholly unknown to Americans.
A change Of climate, however, soon brings
a change of ideas, and many a gardener,
who, when he landed, was full of conceit
as to his knowledge and experience, has
had it all taken out of him in the first
year of his competition with the Yankees.
Whenever gardener assumes to possess
secrets in regard to the propagation or
cultivation Of plants, it is pretty good evl.
dcnce that he is quack, and second
rate one at that
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11
Aoeiw
MY LOVE.

Lightly she's tripping thro' the wood
smile on her rosy face;
| watch, and wonder if Nature could
Fashion more beauty and grace.
She comes to my side,-my heart beats hig
AS l take the little brown hand.
Does the wind in the branches with env
sigh?-
On her finger slip gold band
Glad voices hear in the waving trees,
Soft whispers the nodding grass,
and the low hum-hum of the differing bees
Gladdens me as they pass.
And the ripping laugh of the tiny stream,
And the song of the happy bird
As it chases the sunshine's golden gleam--
Ah, my soul is strangely stirred.
The field flowers laugh and nod their heads,
As they gossip and merrily ilirt;
The pOnd-lilies chat in their watery beds,
Fearing no harm or hurt.
Each finds its sweet mate, and lives content,
Happy in Loves embrace.
Tis thus Dame Nature kindly meant
Should live the human race.
Each speaks in its way to its chosen mate
Trees birds, and the flower and the bee;
And even the stream that refuses to wait,
But hurries on to the sea.
And have found my hearts first choice
To my love gladly sing
Soft thro' the woods doth steal my voice.
"Oh, life is glorious thing
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11
Among the MOund-Builders.

From the Inter Ocean.
A party led by Drs. Evans, of Streator
and La2ier, Of Lacon, and Spencer Els
worth, Sr., of the Lacon "Home Journal,
visited yesterday the burial mounds o
the ancient inhabitants of this region, sit
uated some FIVE miles south of this city
These mounds are found south of here il
large numbers on both sides of the lllinoi,
river, and many OF them have, at differ.
ent times and by different parties of arch.
biologists, been opened and examined
They seem 10 consist of two different
periods. Some of the mounds are so an
cient that the pottery found in the tombs
crumble ut the touch; others contain evi-
dences Of later intementS. From some Of
the mounds have been taken male and te-
male ornaments of silver, of patterns as
rude as doubtless were the makers and
wearcrs of the same. Many of said orna.
ments are is the possession OF Mr.. Abso-
lom Jones, upon whose farm the eXcavq-
tions were made yesterday. Two mounds
were opened, but they did not prove to be
rich IN archaeological discoveries, contain
ing nothing but pieces of pottery and
skeletons of the recent and remote peri.
ods. Many arrow and spear heads, stone
hammers, battle-axes, mortars, and the
list of Indian antiquities, are found in the
region spoken of each year by parties ex-
ploring the same, and several very inter
estlng cabinets of them are possessed
hereabouts, notably by Captain Wight
man and DR.. Lazier, of this city. From
here south to Peoria seems to be rich
field for searchers after these imperisha-
ble relics of people who left no other
record of their lives behind them.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11

Boston Letter to Chicago Tribune.
went to the silent city of Mount Au'
burn, where, only mile from the classic
shades of Harvard, slumber $1,000 souls
| sought the resting place of Charlotte
Cushman. 1t iss delightfully."- situated in
the back part of the cemetery, at the base
Of q hill, with grand view Of Boston and
the Charles river in the far distance. The
keeper told me that, when Miss Cushmar
selected the place, she said, nodding hel
approval OF it: Here shall lie in sight
of dear old Boston" The lot is a very
large one, and in excellent order; but not
q flower, tree or shrub ornaments it. A
little plain marble tablet, three inches
thick and about four feet high, resting on
a fiat freestone socket, bearing simply hel
name, and valued at about $40, is oil
there is to mark the resting place of the
tragic queen who left half a million to hei
next OF kin. All mel when dead how
soon we are forgottenl The profession OF
which she shea lustre would have pait
better homage to their dead queen''
lmemory.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11
CHIIICOTHE LIVINGSTON MISSOURI


81 can't help it, sobbed Tina; you're
so good, Miss Betsev; your areal angel!'
"The mortal! You must be out o youl
mind, child. Who ever saw an angel
with yaller.gray hair and not but six teeth
to show tor't?" laughed the good old soul.
"You stop cryin' and talkin' about angels,
and swaller your beef tea, or the doctor'll
be scoldln Of yc, for certain sure"
When Mrs. Beardsley was well enough
for change Of air, she went to the city to
see her sister, who had just come bach;
from Europe, and was naturally eager to
hear all about Tina's surroundings.
And have you got any neighbors,
dear?' she asked, after many other ques-
tions.
Zone, said Justina, smiling.
The question still remains to be answer
ed; "Who was Mrs. Beardsley's neigh
bor?"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11

In Seville, Spain, says the London Bml.
der, wherever the irregularity of the
buildings provides a corner, little stalls
with picturesque awnings are established,
at which a great variety of cheap bever-
ages are dispensed to the ever-thirsty
crowd. They are more frequented than
the wine-shops, and are considered more
respectable, e,-in fact, all classes indulge
in the excellent drinks provided. THESE
consist of Il multitude of syrups mixed
with very cold water; of lemonade OIL
orangeade, made with the fruit itself and
in your presence; or of orchata, a delicious
mixture of crushed almonds and sugar
which, when dissolved in water, converts
it into a milky substance, and imparts q
most delicate and refreshing flavor. In
all this there is no wine, and less spirits
Even tea and coffee would be esteemed
too exciting for constant consumption
while out of doors in the hot streets
Magnificent men-toreadors and others
gypsies, and horse-tamors-leap off theii
horses and drink with satisfaction one o.
these innocent decotions.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11
TWO CLASSES OF PIGEONS.
A FABLE,


A farmer once had flock of pigeons
which throve finely in a new house he had
made for them. Never did he want a pig
con pic when friend came to see him.
Foryou see the pigeons had a fine range
over his stubble fields, and picket up plen-
ty OF grain and were plump and fat when
he wanted them.
But all at once he found that the devil
had got among the pigeons. Some Of
them were bloated and unsound of flesh,
with disease on their limbs answering
to the gout in an anstocrat. But the
great bulk of the flock were emaciated,
their feathers dropping, and not pick on
their bones,
And behold, the farmer was greatly puz-
zled and perplexed to find out how the
devil got in among the pigeons.
And he took a ladder and climbed up
into the pigeon-housc and concealed him
self, to see what he might find out.
And behold, in the middle of the pigeon
floor was mass of grain that would gil
sacks. And he noticed a sly old king pig
con perched upon the top Of the heap, sur.
rounded by body-guOrd of lctor pigeons,
whose use he soon saw.
For those lictor pigeons were busy div
ing in the emaciated birds that had been
ont all day gathering in grains of wheat,
and rye, and corn, and whatever they
could pick up into their crops, and the
lictors drove them in with their sharp
beaks and made them disgorge on the
Capital" heap all that they had gath
cred together. On this heap the king pig
con and the lictor pigeons sat, and they
befouled it and made the grain which
composed it impure and unwholesome,
and around the bottom Of it they scraped
little of the tainted grains and gave to
the gathering pigeons, that they might
be able to live, and 90 out again and
gather their cropfuls next day to deposite
on the heap as usual. Those cropfuls were
called Production" and the modicum of
dirty grains given to the gatherers ii
pleased the king pigeons and tie lictor
pigeons to call distribution" ="
And so the farmer saw what was the
matter, and cut the heads off the king
pigeons and all the lictor pigeons for act
ing so wickcdly, and went near to Danish
the whole brood of gatherers for their
meanness in submitting to such state Of
existence.
But as they had suffered 50 much, and
as he delighted in a good flock of pigeons,
he said unto them-for this farmer spoke
a language that bird beast, and body
could understandable said unto them,
go forth and gather up your Production,
and make no bother about the thing called
Distribution but just distribute it into
your own gizzards and carry home enough
tomake the eyoungpigcons fat and hearty"
A ragged old rooster then spoke ont and
said that King ScoIndrel told us that all
the farm was his, and that we must re-
turn all the production" to him and take
his rule of what he called "Distribution. >"
He called Political Economy a new artlf-
Gal science-a great improvement, he
said, on the cid, stupid, unscientifc way
of gathering and eating as you went
along.
Well, retorted their master, you would
deserve to have your necks wrung for be-
1iaviru sr,rh stuG nc that