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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-24

PROBABLY the oldest of the early
American stateemen now alive is
Peleg Sprague, of Maine. He is
eighty eight years of age and entirely
blind. He was member of the
United States Senate from 1929 10 1885,
when Webster, Clay, Calhoun and
Benton were the leaders of that body.
ana he was member Of the national
mouse of Representatives from 1925 to
49, lie was Judge of the Unlted
States District Court ~ Ma.sacb,.
sT'S from 1871 to 1S6l.-Nev Yorh
Evening Post - -
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-24

1T is reported that the Ohio river
can be forded at hundreds of points
between Pittsburg and Cincinnati.
For twenty years it has not been 80
low and all navigation is at an end
Eighteen millions of bushels of ccaf is
S' Plttsburg awaiting transportation,
while the stock in Cincinnati will not
last more than week longer.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-24
PROFESSIONAL,

~ P, TEMPLE. Attorney at Law. at his Old
~. Once. East Side of Gay Street, near the res-
ldence of s. L. Atkin. Charges moderate,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-24

Maximum Thermometer C2', Minimum t8o.
B. +. HOUGH,
Seraeant Signal Corps U. s. Army.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Senate.


Mr.. Beck submitted an amendment in the
nature OF a substitute for the Legislative, Ex-
ecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill. The
substitute does not change the amount appro-
priated, but is intended to improve the form
of the bill. Ordered to be printed and referred
o the Committee on Appropriations -. Mr..
Wallace reported without amendment the
House judicial bill Mr.. Blaine called up the
bill authorizing the use of trcoirS IN certain
cases, and replied to MI. Hills speech OF the
day before 80. Pensions of 800 each per month
were granted to the widows of General James
Shields and Colonel Fletcher Webster. Adj
journed.
The Army Appropriation bill was read a
second time and referred TO the Committee on
Appropriations 80. The House Supplemental
Post Route bill was taken up, amended and
passed -. The Senate proceeded to conside-
the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro-
priation bill as reported from the Committee
on Appropriations. Mr.. Beck explained the
bill. The amendments made in Committee OF
the Whole were agreed TO, and the bill was
pissed without division. Adjourned
Mr.. Withers, from the Committee on APP
preparations, reported with sundry amend
ments the Army Appropriation bill =. Mr..
Morgan offered the following resolution /:
" Resolved, That the Committee on Education
|
is practicable and beneficial to aid in the estab-
lishment and endowment of schools OF science
and technics in the several States and Terri
tories and in the District OF Columbia, for the
education of females in appropriate branches
of science and the useful arts, upon plan SINH
lar in its principles to that upon which agri-
cultural and mechanical colleges have been
aided by the United States, and that said com.
mittee have leave to report by bill or other
wise" Adopted. -. The supplemental Ju
dical Appropriation bill was debated. Ad
journed.
Mr. Conkling presented petition and me-
mortal of the officers and members OF the
Women's National Temperance Union ant
others, praying for legislation to remedy tn,
evils resulting from the use of intoxicating
drinks. Referred to the Committee on Fl
nance. Mr.. Walker introduced resolution
that the President of the United States be re
quested TO inform the Senate how many sol
diers we're killed and wounded, the estimated
value of property destroyed, with the expens,
incurred by the United States, in the various
Indian wars since 1865, and also as nearly a
possible the number of Indians killed therein
The Supplemental Judicial Appropriation
bill was discussed further and then passed b,
a strict party vote OF q yeas to 10 nays. Ad
journed.
i Mr.. Chandler, from the Committee on Com
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25

A correspondent of the Massachusetts,
Pl0atghnaa9 gives the following cure for
collie in horses, which is convenient at
all times and easily applied. He says he
has never known it to fail: Spread a
teacupful, or more, of fine salt on the
back of the animal over the kidneys and
loins, and keep it saturated with warm
water for twenty or thirty minutes, or
longer if necessary. If the attack is
severe, drench with salt water. / have
u valuable bull, weighing nineteen or
twenty hundred, which had severe
attack of collie a year ago last summer.
l applied salt to his back as above, and
it being difficult to drench, we put q
wooden bit in his mouth, keeping it
open about two inches, and spread salt
upon his tongue, which, together with
the salt upon his back, relieved him at
once, and within very short time equi-
librium appeared fully restored. have
for several years past successfully ap-
piled this treatment to other animals in
my herd.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
Cannlbal and Idolater.

A recent letter from Otis, Mass, to a
New York paper says; John Smith, of
this place, has resumed his peculiar out
door worship. Last Sunday he went
precisely at ten o'clock into the forests
and set up an image, before which he
knelt and performed other idolatrous
ceremonies learned while he was in the
South Sea Islands. This custom he will.
as he has done for years, keep up until
cold weather sets in. During the winter
months, and especially upon stormy
Sundays, he worships stuffed squirrel,
which is set up in nook in his house,
Smith also humbles himself before
gnarled trees or any peculiar object that
he sees in the woods.
In Difference to the customs of the
people, Smith refrains from another
practice learned thirty years ago, he
says, during a residence among the
South Sea Carribees. He says he was
shlpwrecked and got ashore, and met
with the favor of the chief. He there
tasted human flesh, and now admits
frankly that he practiced cannibalism
ior several years. He says that he graf
lhed his appetite in this respect in New
Jersey some years ago, but gives no
further details. A day or two ago he
said that he yet hoped to secure the con-
sent OF some of the fat and handsome
people in Otis to allow him to make q
meal from them, but he does not want
any one who uses tobacco or wears 6
beard. A year ago he offered to work
SIX months for the father of a little cir
and to take his pay in a repast from the
childs shoulder. Smith is a man with
an actual iron jaw. He eats meats raw
and grinds beef bones as a mastiff would
and he is particularly fond of fish, which
he eats as he takes from the hook. There
is nothing that Smith likes better thar
to get hold of a snake. If he finds one
he seizes it and bites it through the bacl
to stop its squirming. He says tina
striped snakes are better eating than th,
most delicate cells. When Smith frs
came here people thought him crazy
put ne Is so sensible in other matters
That they now believe he acquired, as Ii,
says he did, these tastes in the Soutl
Sea Islands.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25

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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
Chinese Proverbs.

New milk is not got from statue.
Ambition is like hunting for fleas.
An emperor may have the measles.
The hasty man drinks his tea with a
fork.
A little scandal is to tea what an olive
is to wine.
A wise man at court is like mermaid
in ballroom.
Shave with a file if you like, but don't
blame the razor.
A disobedient son is a bad bull tied to
his fathers pig-tail.
Teaching a woman scandal is like
teaching kettle to boil.
Be not too prodigal; the kettle when
too full puts out the file,
Carrying peacock on your head does
not make you a nobleman.
If the golden key won't open wo-
mans heart, try one of brass.
A comet can be caught any time by
putting little salt on his tail.
He who marries an angry woman
must sleep in a bed of fireworks.
Never do anything hastily; remember
it is the last cup of tea that is the
strongest.
Looking into the future is like giving
blind man pair of spectacles to see
through milestone.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
News and Notes for Women.

Bloomington, ILL.,, has female super
intendent of schools.
Two female physicians residing in
Chicago realize from their practice
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively.
A woman is candidate for the office of
State librarian of Kentucky. Michigan
is one ahead, for she has had lady
librarian for several years. -Detroa Free
Press.
Miss Sophia Lehrberger died recently
in New York from the effects ofswal-
lowing a common brass pin nearly year
ago. She suffered terribly during the
last six months.
Mrs. Martha MaretU, of New Haven,
left an estate of $4,000, and among her
legacies was $500 to John Carroll, a
newsboy, who did her service once
when her house was on fire.
Miss Florence Nightingale is now sixty
years old, and lives in London almost
prisoner to her room. She wrote lately,
in a letter to friend: "Overworked as |
am, my health is necessarily bad. Thank
God for still giving me work to do"
In the tombs of ancient Egypt womens
shoes have been discovered having soles
of wood, to which are affixed four round
props-a sort of footstool fixed to the
feet and raising the wearer about foot
in height. The shoes were laced in
front.
Mrs. Butler, formerly Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, has in the London ROYAL
Academy this year pathetic picture of
the arrival at Jellalabad of the one sur
vivor of the British army of 10000 men
slain by the Afghans in the Khyber Pass
in 1872
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
Sl4 4ll GIVEN AWAY !

This is Square and Honest.
The very best reference In this town. Send for full
particulars at once, only few weeks to 20 tn wAuc
bisiuess In or send 81 to =. II. SHAW. Root =
land, Mass, for the best opportunity you ever ha'l
To- get a Nice Gift, from 81 to $4,000. Send
money in Registered Letter. Stamps taken.
June LIST. 1879
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25

The stomach Cannot be Freighted
With greater trash than n violent drastic
purgative. True, such medicine relieves
constipation Tor the time, but at the expense
OF great injury to the intestinal canal, which it
both infiames and weakens, thus uniting it
for Che performance OF its proper functions.
Widely different is the action of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, tonic aperient which pro-
and convulsing. The purity of its botanic in
gradients, its unobectionable flavor its genial
influence upon the mind, and the thoroughness
of its remedial action in cases of constipation,
liver complaint and dyspepsia, combine to
render it a most desirable family specific. 1t
increases both physical vigor and substance,
tranquilizes and invigorates the nervous sys-
TEN, and gives an unwonted relish for the
food. A wineglass three times daily is about
the average dose.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
FOR THE FAIR SEX.


Lemon color takes the lead.
Elizabethan ruffs are the thing.
Long trains are slowly vanishing.
Gasoline is only thin, fine bunting.
silk muslin is used for over-dresses.
Some of the new cambrics are reyer-
sible.
Belt bouquets are nowmade immensely
large.
Ties of embroidered cashmere are now
shown.
Broad belts are becoming to slender
figures.
Waists with a sharp point in front are
revived.
All new wraps are much trimmed at
the back.
Stout women cannot wear panier
draperies.
Batiste is blue-white, India muslin
cream-white.
Sewing-silk grenadines have tiny bro
caded figures.
New bangles are silver-filigree snakes
with ruby eyes.
Standing collars of shirring are worn
with shirred vests.
Velvet and brocade is the last variation
in pekin grenadine.
The Marquise polonaise has panier
folds around the hips.
The Marquise polonaise is much used
for thin-msterial dresses.
Black silk gloves with open-work
wrists are shown for mourning.
The hats with low crowns and wide
brims are called Diana Vernons.
Satin ribl ons are used with bunting,
and watered silk with dotted muslin.
Plain stockings of solid color are worn
under the fine open-work stockings.
Worth charges at least 5000 for dress,
even when one furnishes ones own lace.
The proper belt bouquet for French
bridesmaid is a knot of orange blossoms
The two latest importations of English
round hats are the turban and the Prince
of Wales.
Standing collars around the neck OF
new dresses are covered with shirring
when shirring is used on other parts Of
the costume.
What are called cheese-cloth dresses
are made of unbleached muslin OF do
nestle, and trimmed with bias bands OF
red, yellow, blue and white plaided
Madras handkerchiefs.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
Western and Southern States.

Governor Gear, OF Iowa. has been renomi-
mated at the State Republican Convention in
Des Moines.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company have had a bloody dispute
as to the right of way in Colorado. During
the contesta fight took place between sherif7s
posse and employees Of the latter company.
Two railroad men were killed and two wound
ed. The courts decided the matter in favor of
the Denver and Rio Grande Company
Jesse Davis, colored man, was ha nged at
Smithfield, N. O., tor a criminal assault upon
Mrs. champion. The hanging was witnessed
by 5000 persons, to whom Davis made a
speech on the scaffold advising them to avoid
bad company.
caved in upon number OF workmen, killing
two and injuring two more.
A waterspout in the Black Hills caused a
sudden rise and overflow of Beaver creek,
flooding the country for space of forty miles
and drowning eleven persons-six men, two
women and three children.
During thunderstorm at Boswell, Ind,
about $50 persons, who were engaged in IL
shooting match, took refuge under shed. A
thunderbolt struck the shed, instantly killing
two men and injuring six more, two fatally.
George r. Reynolds was sentenced at Salt
Lake City, Utah, to two years Imprisonment
and to pay fine OF $500 Tor committing big
amy. He is the first Mormon convicted of
polygamy since the passage OF the act in 1862.
Manly Stevens, Dr., night Waterman at
Hunters Creek, Mich, who had been married
but few months, went home early in the
morning and found John House there. Sus-
pecting him OF criminal intimacy with his wife
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
S0ldiers---P customers

We publish an eght-page paper - The NAuoNAr
TRIBUNE devoed to the interests Of Pensioners Sol
ders and Sailors and their hers also contains interesting
family reading.
Price Fifty cents yearspecia inducements to clubs
proper blank to collect amount due under new AR
REtRs or PENsoN BILL furnished gratuitousy to regular
subscribers only and such claims fled in Pension Once
without charge. January number as specimen copy Free
Send for It. GEORGE l.. LEMON CO.,
II mex X.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
PAPER MILL FOR SALE.

For sale at Lancaster, N. H., hrst-cass MIL now IN
operation The plant comprises ten acres OF land with
;ul power Of river with l5foot head. Twostory frame
MIL 4OxgO with annexes-barn storehouse, sheds scales
&C. The Mil contains Pinch single cylinder Rice
Barton Fales machine, complete four 2O-pound
beating engines two tub beaches, cutters calenders
reels; one 50 horsepower boler and all the appliances
for running the MIL.
straw plenty at S. Wood at So. Excellent freight
contracts 20 with the MILL which is wrapping.
owners bave other business.
The property which is valuable will be sold at fair
price and at bargain. All inquiries by mail promptly
answered Address
HENRY o. KENT, Treasurer,
LANCASTER N. H., 1879
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25

Let seven Pounds in Three wee WEE spd
AIisnis Anti Fat i = genuine meiiei 49,
will reduce oorpulenoE IRON two 70 'e .-se.,Iv
per week. Purely vegetable ana 81 ~.
harmless. acting entirely on the io.u n,
stomach, preventing the formation o. "a .n5
i also a positive remedy Tor dyspeis
rheumatism ~ 1878
BosroS, Mass, Feb. llth. 1870
BoTANIc MEDICINE Co, Buiiale' y =, ..,-.,
(;snflemen- The lady alluded 10 luS' 49,
r,un5s IN three weeks, by the use OF Alian's
Anti-Fat. Yours truly,
SMITH. DOoIITTLE A SMITH
Wholesale Druggists.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25
CHEW
The Celebrated
Il MATCHLEss
Wood Tag Plus

The Mendelssohn Piano Co., NO. Il East
18th Street, N. Y, sell Pianos at FACTORY
Prices. Write for catalogue.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Sr,,,,, pogra,a HSitting Bull Durham Tobacco
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25

There Is no time TO be lost, when a eons.i
attacks one, in adopting means OF pre'eii,i',iii
aa,,inst consumption and bronchitis, cough
may, with perfect Truth be termed ihe lloli 4,
ienf stage of those destructive maladies, ana u
4 The height of folly to Disregard il. II neg
iected. Il viii assuredly culminate in some SO.
dangerous pulmonary affection, but i Dr. VIM
Halls Balsam for the Lungs be used the com
plant is speedily vanqushed and the d ai :,
this great specific. Sold by druggists
An ARTICLE OF TRUE MERIT" Browns
bronchial Troches" are the most popular arti-
Gle in this country or Europe Tor throat us.
eases and coughs, and this popularity Is pAseu
upon real merit. Twenty-Five cents ooN'
A thoroughly good Cabinet or Parior organ
il worth t'go poor ones. Mason ha .l,lI
make the best. The prices are little highel
than those of poorest organs, but 1t Is muci
cheaper in the end 20 obtain the best.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-02-26
An ExOdus.

Fifteen thousand Menopites, who now reside
in Russia, are preparing to emigrate to
the United States this year. Some years
ago large number of Menonites emigrated
from Germany to Russia because they enter
tain conscientious scruples against war and
fighting, and in consequence of Russia guar
anteeing them protection and exemption from
military duty, which guarantee Russia has
Withdrawn. The Menonites are German Pro-
testant Baptists, and are an Industrious, sober
and excellent people. An exodus of Is, 900
Of such people from Russia will be great
loss to the latter country, while they will be
a corresponding benefit to the United States,
which they intend to make their future home
They are all practical agriculturalists, and
with the means they can command they will
be able to found new State in the Great
West, and people it in q very few years. What
q sad spectacle this item of news presents to
the minds of rejecting people? Fifteen thou
sand people compelled to leave their homes
and seek new ones in a strange land to escape
the exactions of military despots, who to gra-
tify their mad ambition would feed those peo-
pie to the cannon's mouth without remorse, and
all this in the name of Christianity and the
cause of religion in the nineteenth century.
Alas poor human nature.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-02-26
The International Exhibition at
sydney.

Through the politeness of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, we are in possession of the
illustrated Sydney News, and New South
Wales Agriculturist and Grazier," under date
of January 25th, 1879, in which among many
other very fine engravings, we find a beautiful
representation of the exhibition palace building
now being erected on the domain, outside the
public gardens, in Sydney. From the ground
plan of this magnificent building, which is
being erected by the government, we gather
the following facts: The building will occupy
clear space of seven and a-half acres of
ground. 1t is in style, Corinthian, and will be
built of iron and glass. 1t will have four
towers, one at each end of the building, and
one at each side; it will have dome
in the centre of the building, and in its general
appearance differs from the buildings at Lon
don, Paris, Vienna, and Philadelphia, with
improvements on all of them, which will
greatly add to the architectural beauty of the
building. From the design and dimensions of
the exhibition building at Sydney, we feel free
to say that it will outrival anything of the
kind ever erected. The international exhibi-
ton at Sydney, New South Wales, will be one
worthy the enterprising people who have
charge of it, and who are determined to spare
neither expense nor trouble to make it attrac-
tive in the highest degree.
We think it would be step in the right d.
rection if the P. NJ. S. g. Company would issue
excursion tickets from San Francisco to sgd
ney and back at a reduced rate of fare, SO as to
induce larger number of persons to visit the
exhibition during its continuance. If the P
N. S. s. Company adopts our suggestion on
this subject, we hope that it will extend the
benefits Of the reduction to citizens of these
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-02-26
The u. $. Steamer Richmond.

The L. S. steamer Richmond which left the New
York Navy Yard Saturday to join the Asiatic squad
roa has her cabins and stateroom elegantly furnished
for the comfort Of General Grant and son. the latter
travelling aide. New and elaborate carpets and
furniture have been added the cabin aud wardroom
and the interior fittings give paatiAl appearance
The Admiral's cabin has been fitted up in a sump-
tuous for the express odation of Gen.
Grant and suite. The officers selected for this
special cruise. ..-..r
We find the foregoing in the San Jose
Weekly Mercury of January l6, and if the
Richmond left New York Oh the previous Sat
urday that would be the llth. From this it
seems that if Gen Grant intends making any
thing like protracted stay in the East. he
will not and cannot be along this way till
some time next summer. We have seen so
many contradictory accounts of Gen Grants
movements in connection with the q. S. steamer
Richmond, that we can hardly arrive at any
definite conclus ion as to any of them. The
extract from the Mercury seems to be more
definite than any other statement we have
seen, and we presume is more reliable, and
therefore we publish it.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-02-26
The Census Returns.

Next week we will give a corrected state
ment of the census returns of the Hawaiian
Islands for 1878, prepared by the Secretary of
the Board of Education, from which something
like accurate information can be drawn by
those curious enough to investigate the tables.
An accurate census is matter of great i'm
portance, and should be taken and compiled
with the utmost care by persons competent to
do so. In country like this, where the most
efficient persons cannot always be had to col
lect the details necessary to make truthful
statement of the population, condition and re-
sources of the Kingdom; we can well imagine
the trouble and labor of compiling the facts
imperfectly gathered by those officers charged
with the duty of correcting and tabulating
the details. Happily for this Kingdom,
however, it has gentleman as Secretary of
the Board of Education, who is not only a
painstaking, but competent officer, and who
will see that the materials furnished him will
be put in the best possible shape to afford sat-
isfaction to the public.