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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-13
Harper's w eeklv,
1879.
ILLUS TRATED.
Notices of ne Press.

The Weekly remains easily AZ tho he'd II IL
lustrated papers by It's hue literary quality. the
beauty Of its type and wOodcuts.-lSpriagftid
Republican,.
It's pictorial attract ne arc superb, and en-
brace every variety Of subj act and of artist
treatment -Zion's Herald. Boston.
The Weekly is a potent agency for tho dis
semination OF correct political principles, anIt
pop eIful opponent ofshams frauds and falsc pro
lenses vcHiHg Express. Rochester.
The volumosDt Weekly begin with the Grst
Number for Januat OF each year With no
timeis mentioned, Il will'be undorstood that tho
subscr Der wish - to commence with tho Mum.
Der next after the receipt of his order.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-13
COZ. T. SIobo Fdrro5g, Editor Spartan

FLAT Rock, y. c..
Nav o6 1870
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dress,
a Es. EESE.
Travelling Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
WHIT. ROC EEss.
Passenger Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Or w. &. EsANLEY.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
Nashville, Tenn
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KNIGHTS OF HONOR.


II ELlEF LODGE, No. 163. X. of H.-Meets
Il, eyeTs Friday night at TeutoniR Hall. cor
ner Church and Gay Streets,
81. Q. Cooley. Ii l.; Harvey Clark, Reporter.
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NEW ADVERTIsEMENTs.
SUMMER TRAVEL
N z 5Zy ! EETE

e. - WI pay Agents Salary OF SluO per monir
= or allow large Commission, 20 sell Ouf
S-i, tul inventions. We tchaf ~ 90.
- A14fesa SHERMAN < Co. Marshall. ~. ~
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15
Minute Writing.

DR.. William E. Scott, an eminent
physician of Buffalo, N. Y, who died q
few days ago, had carried the art of
minute writing to a degree Of remarka-
BILE perfection. The Courier says his
work is the most extraordinary speci-
mems Of nerve power ever shown. Some
of his writings contain 225 lines to the
inch, and he demonstrated that the BIZ
BILE might be written on single sheet
Of paper. At the age of 20 he became
conscious Of decaying power of vision.
Being professionally physician and
naturally a philosopher, he conceived
the idea that the eye Nigh: be improved
by what he denOminated series Of ocu-
lar Gymnastics. He therefore un-
dertook to exercise his eyes upon the
formation Of minute letters-working
upon them until the organs OF sight be-
gan to be weary, and then, like pru-
dent man, resting for hours. By pro-
crossing slowly and carefully, he be-
came 1t last able TO do wonders in the
way of fine writing, and also became
able to read the newspapers without
glasses. At the age Of Il DR.. Scott
wrote upon an enameled card with q
stile, on space exactly equal 20 q Scent
piece, the Lords Prayer, the Apostles
Creed, the parable OF the Ten Virgins,
the parable Of the rich man and Lasa-
rus, the beatitudes, the 18th Pslam. the
120th Psalm, the 1S3d Psalm, the 15lst
Psalm, and the figures 1860. Every
word, every letter, and every point of
all these passages was written exquis-
itely ON this minute space; and that old
man not only saw every mark be made.
but had the delicacy Of muscular action
and steadiness of nerve to form the let
tersso beautifully that they abide the test
of the highest magnifying power. They
were, Of course, written by microscopic
aid.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15

week at . house ON Benton Street, got
his congo yesterday morning by saying
to the lady of the house, after eating q
hearty breakfast. "Say, old woman,
can't you give me . chaw Of tobacker
out Of the old mans pouch?" "No, 1
can't" replied the lady, .'and you
needn't come here any more. "-Ss.
Louis ReDnhllcaA. ..--.--
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, when but IL
wears old, made an excellent transla-
ton of the fifth eclogue of Virgil. The
verse is remarkably smooth.
Senior Zamscona, the Mexican
Minister, is thorough musician. He
has piano and an organ in his house
at Washington, and plays remarkably
well upon both.
The most gifted of the younger au-
thors in Holland is a young lady who
writes under the pen name of A. 5. e.
Wallis. She has just published his
torical novel of the days of the eighty
years. war.
Lady Anna Blunt, who has just pub
lished an account of a winter residence
among the Bedouin Arabs, is grand
daughter of the poet Byron, being q
daughter of the Earl of Loyelace, by
"Ada, sole daughter of my house and
heart" LLs s..s44 .'sA
Mr.. Plstt, the Connecticut Senator
elect, had no other education than that
he gained by home study and at boys
academy at such times as he could be
spared from his fathers farm. He has
at present a very large and valuable law
practice.
Caleb Gushing, it is said, could read
16 hours day for month and never
forget an important fact obtained in that
time. While Attorney General he would
have his meals brought to him and laid
on his writing-desk. His custom often
was TO eat the entire meal without look
ing at it or resting from his work.
-Bayard Taylor's will has been ad-
mitted to probate. The sword Of Schil-
Ter, presented by William Makepeace
Thackeray to Taylor, is ordered depos-
tied in Schiller's house in Germany
among the other relics of the poet.
Taylor's unpublished writings are left
to his wife and Geo. H. Boxer, Presi-
dent of the Union League of Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. Bret Harte, since his Consular
appointment was bestowed upon him,
has been twice in England. Last sum-
mer he visited Mr.. Froude, in Devon:
shire, and recently be was the guest Of
ga live lord" Mr.. Conway says that
in one of the poorest districts in London
he has heard of clergymen gathering
together the wretched parish children
to read them Mr.. Harte's pathetic Cali
fOrnia romances.
Winnie Ream, although she has a
husband, is seldom called by his name,
that of Hoxie. 1t was under her maid
en- name that she won the brightest
laurels in her chaplet, and it is there
fore reasonable that she should be more
frequently known as Winnie Ream than
as Winnie Hoxie. She makes an affec-
tionate wife, and there was no recep-
ton in Washington on New Years Day
where genuine hospitality shone more
conspicuOusly than at her residence on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
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rO CORREsPONDENTs.

All communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the Of the author not necessarily fur
publication but evidence Of good faith on The
part the writer Write only side OF the pa
per BE- particularly careful In giving names and dates
10 have the letters and guS plain and distinct Prop
often difficult 10 deciphsr because VI the
carrless manner In which they are Written
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15
Aiming the New York SHb.Treasnry.

Work will soon be begun under con-
tract already awarded .'fOr the better
defense of the Government Treasury
Building" on the corner Of Wall and
Nassau Streets. The vaults are to be
about twenty feet below tho street, en-
cased in solid masonry, and in the in
terror of the silver vault alone about
500, 600 pounds Of chilled steel will be
used. On the Nassau Street side will be
twenty-fOur openings, with as many
more in the basement. All these will
be protected with bulet-proof shutters
pierced for musketry and arranged so
rs to swing out at any desired angle, so
as to command any portion of the street
adjacent. There will be three turrets
on the roof with steel plates three
quarters of an inch thick, and with loop
holes for musketry on all sides The
officials at the Treasury Building yester-
day said that the details Of the proposed
plans were not known to them, all those
affairs being settled NJ Washington.
There was no doubt, however, that such
= contract had been given out, the con-
tractor being Boston man whose name
they did not know He had been to the
building during the past week and had
taken some measurements, but was not
at present in the city. No attack, so
far as is known, is contemplated by any
belligerent and armed force, but il has
been decided that the depository Of the
Government money can not be made
too secure. In the event Of riot, in
case the police were overpowered. the
first point of attack it is suggested would
naturally be the building containing the
Government money. if the rioters had
any sense Of propristy.-Ne'c York
World. lr. uIr n-aa ll.F ue
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900, and there was gain of 45 in the
number of Sunday-schOols.

600, and there was gain of 40 in the
number of Sunday-schools.
The Protestant Episcopal Commits
sion in charge of mission work in Mexi-
CO is much encouraged by recent reports
of work accomplished, especially in the
City of Mexico. The cathedral in that
city is nearly ready for the renewal of
services. A council has been charged
with the duty of preparing liturgy
suitable for the Mexicans.
The starvation wages at which
are kept is beginning to attract the at
tention of members Of Parliament. An
Irish National or public school teacher
now only receives S210 a year The En-
glish teacher of the same rank averages
a salary Of S5l5, and the Scotch teacher
$3.50.
AT the University of Cambridge,
England, mechanical workshops have
been fitted up with machinery for the
ratus to be employed in philosophical
research. Good workmen have been
employed as teachers. Several Uni
versity men, who intend becoming en-
gineers, have become members Of the
classes now formed for regular instruc-
ton in the use of tools and machine
construction.
The Episcopal Church has taken its
work of civilizing and Christianizing
the Indians out of the hands Of its For
eign Missionary Committee, and placed
it in charge Of the Committee on Do
nestle Work. This recognizes the In
dians as citizens and brethren, rather
than regarding them in the old way, as
foreigners and heather. By this change
the machinery Of collection and distri-
button is simplified, and the expenses
reduced several thousand dollars.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15
Science and Industry.


Establishments for refining petrole-
um are springing up throughout Japan.
"A Jacksonville, Florida, dealer sells
alligators of all sizes, from ten feet
down.
-Fernandina, Florida, ships snap
ping-turtles in tierces to Savannah and
the North.
In India there are now 1851 miles
of railroad in operation, of watch SOC
have double tracks. ' 5E5
All the shoes now worn by United
States soldiers are made st the Military
Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
The mining regions of Southern
Arizona alone, it is thought, might sup
ply the world with precious metals 4
they were fully developed.
Specimens Of Florida beach sand
have been tested in Northern glass fac
tories, and found to answer the needs Of
such factories admirably.
The experiment made last season of
cultivating cranberries on Bouldin Is
land, Cal, among the tules. was so sue
cessful thst plants for 100 acres have
been ordered from New Jersey.
Prof L. S. Arnold reports that of
16 Oleomsrgarine factories known to
him in this country, IS had failed, though
backed with an aggregate of 81, 800, 900
to begin with. He thinks that the re-
mainder are running on q very small
profit, if any.
The average daily shipment of
oysters from New York to Europe is
over 1000 barrels. out for Christmas
season the shipments increased to 800
barrels. A few years ago people in
England would not eat American
oysters.
The wood Of the apple tree is very
tine-grained. and when green. weighs
from 48 to Sc pounds per cubic foot, and
when dried loses about One-tenth. The
wood is used in the manufacture of shoe
lasts, plane handles, cog-wheels and the
like.
-"Shark-skin" has recently been put
to variety of uses, among which are
some that render the articles to which
it is applied much more useful and
durable, as belts, for example, and
purses to which silver and steel noun
tings are attached. 1t is very soft, very
pliable and of the fashionable mastic
shade, with dark spots. just now it is
considered very distinguished.
Haps and Mishaps.
AT Eiizaville Station, Ky, an infant
child of Charles Undertake was scald-
ed to death by the upsetting of kettle
Of boiling wafer.
A 0-uear-old child NJ Milford Mao
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15

i. Wilee, q saloon-keeper Of Wal
ton, Ind, while handling pistol ACCT
dentally discharged it, the ball entering
his body, producing serious and prob
ably fatal wound.
Mrs. P. Dawson, q wealthy widow
of Elmwood, Peoria County, ILL.,, was
fatally burned the other evening by the
explosion of a coal-oil lamp standing
upon table near which she was en-
gagged in sewing. She lived only two
hours.
WIN. HARDWOOD, wealthy farmer
of Padua Township, Ford County, ILL.,,
took dose of what he supposed was
quinine, but he died from the effects of
the medicine in about 20minutes. Upon
examination at the Coroner's inquest
the fact was discovered that the clerk in
the drug store Of Henry Fuller & Co.,
had made mistake and gave HARDWOOD
strychnine, which he took, suppOsing the
same to be quinine. ~l
"A most distressing calamity oc-
Cured at Scion, johnson County, Iowa.
Mrs. Felix Kessler, q lady aged about
60 years, was burned to death. She was
working alone in the kitchen, her hus-
band, who is very deaf, being at the barn,
while her son was half mile away in
the fields. Her clothing was fred in
some way by the stove, and her screams
were not heard by her husband and only
family by her son. -.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15
Haps and Mishaps.

AT Eiizaville Station. Ky, an infan
child of Charles Undertake was scald
ed to death by the upsetting of kettle
of boiling wafer.
"A 2-year-old child at Milford, Mass
named Cummings, came 70 his dealt
from the effects q poisoning caused b.
swallowing small pistol cartridge. -
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15

One awful cold night-colder than
two Of the coolest nights consolidated--
hunter named Hosting Quilt an extra
big fire in his log cabin % keep warm.
an he kept piling on the wood until
his shanty was all ablaze. and when .
few persons Twin round there saw the
light an run to his assistance, they saw
Hosking a-ssttin' in the midst Of the
flames a-shiverin5 an arFubbin' OF his
hands - though be couldn't get warm;
and when the shanty was all burned 70
4sAes they found him ip the ruins asst
ting On . big hickory log. frozen to
ldeokh s.-Aian6sotsasi E6 lferksss.f ''7r'
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roreigD Notes.


The sum of 1924 600 has already
been raised towards q monument to
Victor Emanuel at Rome. 1t will be
placed on the Place de Terusini and take
the form of a triumphal arch, and art
lists of all nations may compete for the
honor of erecting it. la-'l'ii 7i' D.
There is "Book Of Heiresses" in
circulation among the young men of
London. The compiler has devoted
much time and trouble to his work, and
has appended notes relating to the ages,
tempers, good looks and social positions
of the various entries. Twelve hundred
pounds yesr or its equivalent in ready
money is the lowest qualification for ad-
mittance to the work.
Queen Victoria has written a grace
full letter expressing publicly her heart
felt thanks for the sympathy shown to
her by her subjects in her recent be.
reavement. Overwhelmed with grief,
she says, at the loss of q dear child, who
was a bright example of loving tender
ness, courageous devotion and self-sae-
rifice to duty, it is most soothing to the
Queens feelings to see how entirely her
grief is shared by her people.
AT the "Greek party. given not
long ago in London by Madame P6effer,
only two ladies appeared in modern
dress. One OF these was Miss Frances
Power Cobbe, whose enormous waist
less figure would not, indeed, have car
ried Of well the peplum and the cestus.
1t was considered hopeless to try to
inme os per;cles cconseonon,iv ,hs On
tlemen came in svsIlowIts;ls and made
~. mi. 40 our;ors ;nda.d r,;,h 81
60 Greek ladies.
Odd. md End..
wou., o-c;,.,,v . s;h
~, o.u "A' ~ .p"0 ~.
Inc vulgar woru nasn Is not
nearo IN boston. Inat art'cie Is aiiuded
10 rs q culinary symposium.
The beauty of mans parting his
mar IN the middle Is that II gives both
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15
school and Church.


The schools of Muncie, Ind, have
added photography to their course of
study.
The newly created Humboldt Acad-
envy at Berlin was opened on Jan. Is.
Its purpose is to give sort of Univer-
sity education to persons who have not
qualified themselves for entering reg
ular University.
The Japanese Government never
until now has authorized any portion of
the scriptures to be published in that
country. Recently it gave authority to
a Japanese publisher to print an edi-
ton of the Book of Genesis in the Chi
nese language.
"A distinguished teacher in Ger
many writes TO Professor Adrian Scott
that spelling all over Germany has been
crowded out by the sound-method,
(which teaches the sounds represented
by the different letters and pays no at
tention whatever to their names" Only
few quite aged teachers still admit
spelling.
-Universalism during the past year
made an increase of 50 parishes, 500
families, 46 churches, 1870 church
members and 20 church edifices in the
United States and Canada. The value
of its church property increased $751;
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-02-15

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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-15
LEARN A TRADE.

Years ago, when the middle aged mt
of to-day were boys, Horace Greek
wrote: at is source of consolation to
that when the public shall be tired of
as an editor, we can make satisfactu
livelihood at setting type or farming
that while strength lasts ten thousar
blockheads taking cffense at some artc
they do not understand, could not dnr
us into the poor house"
Another editor, whose name is Vi
known to US, says: 81 never look at n
old steel composing rule that do not BE
myself that while my strength lasts la
not at the mercy of the world. If my pit
is not wanted, can 60 back to the twp
case, for learned the printers trade tho
oughly. | am glad | have a good trad
1t is rock upon which the possesser c.
stand firmly. There is health and Wig
for both body and mind in an honest trad
1t is the strongest and surest part of a Sc
made man. Go from the school to tb
printing office, or the artisans bench, d
if you please, to the farm-for, to be SUI
good farming is trade, and a good %
at that. Lay thus a sure foundation, aa
after that branch off into whatever Pa
fession you please"
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-15
THE COTTON INDUSTRY

The Louisville Courier Journal expand
over a new era about to open to the co..
ton growing interest through two late in
ventions--one for picking, the other fr
ginning and spinning cotton as it /
brought from the field. These will dis
pense with living pickers and ginners and
balers, and with bagging and ties. Til.
thread they produce-from long fbr
unimpared by the sharp teeth of the pin
saw, undried by sun exposure, unmaceratsd
by pressing and COMPRISING, and saturs
ted with the vegetable oil from the seed
we are assured will be incomparaB,
smoother and stronger than factory van
either English or American, and must 50
percede the latter The increased facG
tiles for gathering the crop furnished b.
the mechanical cotton-picker removes TIL
grand obstacle to an indefinite increasa
With the mechanical appliances whd
the Courier ournal is confident ha
been secured, ''the Northern States.
says, SHOULD they desire, may remove til
great bulk of the negro population witt
out serious prejudice to an indefinite er
pansion of the cotton industry; and cottu
shipped in the form of thread will hut
double the market value of the raw lint
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-15

Our good friend and brother, Worthy
Master Dial, the leading spirit of the Order
in Hopkins county, Texas, is getting the
farmers thoroughly aroused to the neces-
sity of the Grange, and they are rallying
to it in good numbers. Worthy Overseer
Rose, of the State Grange, made several
speeches in Hopkins county, commencing
on the 4th inst Bro. Dial writes us:
''The meetings at Bro. Roses appoint
ments in this county were not large on
account of the bad weather--it rained all
the time he was with US, but notwithstan-
ding all this, much good was accomplish
ed Bro. Rose is the right man in the
right place. His whole soul is IN the
Grange cause and that of cooperation.
He thinks our business here is doing well
and bound to succeed. He has no fears
of the success of cooperation when man
aged on the true plan. Bro. Worthington,
the Grange and cooperation are all that
will keep the farmer from being enslaved
The merchants business, ifnot supplanted
by the cooperative system, Will inevitably
make serfs of the toiling masses.
enclosed find names of club OF ten
subscribers with the money-making the
second club | have sent you this month
l hope to send you another soon, for L look
upon THE PATRON as the only true
Grange paper and true friend of the far
mer published in the Southwest"
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-15
VALVE OF COTTON SEED.

Capt. S. r. Sproles of this county, hav-
ing about forty acres of bottom ridge land,
all of substantially the same quality which
he desired put in corn, planted II acres on
his own account, throwing a handful of
cotton seed near each stalk or hill of corn.
The remainder of the tract was planted by
tenants who used no cotton seed. All was
planted the same week, and received
about the same kind of cultivation. Now
for the result: The corn was gathered a
week or two ago; that where the cotton
seed was used yielded 80 bushels to the
acre; and that where none was used yield
ed only 81 bushels per acre, showing a
difference of 10 bushels to the acre in ia
vor of the cotton seed, amounting to 1872
bushels on the II acres, which, at 50 cents
a bushel, the average price of corn in this
locality, would be worth 500
Capt. Sproles thinks that about two
tons of cotton seed were used on the Il
acre tract. Now, suppose it took man
and team two days, at So per day, making
So, to distribute it over the land, and we
still have net gain of $oo-or $45 per ton
as the value of the cotton seed.
We know of no reason why this single
experiment should not be accepted as a
fair indication of the average value OF
cotton seed as fertilizer, but suppose it is
only worth one-half that much, does not
every person who suffers it taken off his
land at the ruling market prices grossly
misconceive his own interests?-1azoC
Valley Flag.