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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02
THE PRIEST AND THE
TEACHER.

Boston has started another revo-
luton. notwithstanding the fact
that all the venerable old fossils
unite in bewailing the degeneracy
of the men of the present day the
same sturdy Puritan spirit that
threw the chests of tea into the
waters of Boston Harbor and made
the first file that was employed in
saving off the shackles of Ameri-
can slavery seems still to live in
and actuate the people living in and
around the ''Hub of the Universe. -
This controversy of which we speak
is the same one now going on in
some of the Catholic countries of
Europe, viewed through the small
end of the telescope.
From the very nature of
our Institutions religious polemics
assume milder form with
US than they do in those
lands where religious freedom is to
be found only On paper. It is an open
secret that the authorities of the
Roman Church do not view with
feelings of any great kindness the
public schools of America, but until
quite recently the disfavor has not
been manifested by any mark ed meth
cd of opposition. That Church always
has been believer in the " train a
child in the way he should go" idea,
and, where it is possible, has con-
trolled absolutely the education of
its youth. To this is due the wons
derful success that has attended its
efforts in times gone by. Its teach
ers, until a comparatively recent
period, have been the finest in the
world and their influence upon the
malleable mind of the young was
incalculable. In America the au>
thorities have been rather cautious
in using the vast influence that the
church machinery puts into their
hands, knowing full well that it res
qnires but a short breath Of
freedom tosfester q spirit of indie
pendence that is hard to battle
against.
A demagogue, though, can some
times spoil the work of a
dozen statesmen, as we of
this State have reason, to our
sorrow to know; and an impru-
dent man can sometimes render
utterly worthless the efforts of the
wisest and most cautious men.
Such thing happened in the town
of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts,.
The priest in charge of the parish
is Rev. Father Scully. This man
has for some time past been untir-
ing in his efforts to prevent the
members of his flock from sending
their children to the public schools.
Finally, finding that all his milder
modes of treatment would be unable
to cope successfully with the evil, as
he considered it, he published
pronunciamento, setting forth that
camel might more easily pass
through the eye of a cambria
needle than child educated in the
public schools could enter the
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02
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THE KNOXVILLE CHRONICLE
And Weekly Wing and Chronicle
for 1880.

During the coming Presidential
year, the DAILY CHRONICLE will
take an active part in the vigorous
discussions Of all political issues
involved, and will, at the same
time, keep its readers fully posted
on all the important events of the
day. 1t will do whatever is honest
and legitimate to promote the sue
cess Of the Republican ticket,
placing fidelity to the interests of
that party above any personal aims
or privata ambition. To this end
it will favor the selection of good
men with oloar records, per-
sonal and political, for standard
bearers in the coming canvass, and
when such are selected, it will do
everything reasonable to secure
their success.
In State politics, the CHRONICLE
will support no man for any office,
from Governor down to constable,
who is not in favor of paying the
State debt upon terms satisfactory
to the creditors of the State. 1t
will oppose the efforts of repudia-
tionists to drag the entire State
down to their low and degraded
standard, first, last and all the time,
and even though the repudiationists
should be successful, it will continue
to denounce them and their infao
nous schemes.
The WING AND CHRONICLE will
be published weekly, as before, and
will be made up from the issues of
the DAILY CHRONICLE. 1t will con-
tain a choice selection Of miscella-
neous matter each week, together
with editorials, telegraph and local
matter. Especial attention will be
given its columns, and everything
that could be Objectionable in the
family circle will be carefully ex-
Guided. It will be the object of the
publishers to make it a welcome
visitor into the families of the
country.
Its market reports will be carefully
revised every Monday and made as
nearly perfect and reliable as pos
sibie.
The Agricultural columns of the
WING AND CHRONICLE shall receive
close attention, and will be i'm
proved all the time. In this depart
ment, the views of practical farmers
on topics of interest will be invited. |
The proprietors of these two old
and we'll established journals will |
spare no pains to keep up and add
to their established reputation, and
are confident that they will make
them worth many times more than
the subscription price charged.
TERMS.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02

blissful land prepared for true
believers, and furthermore an
nounced it as his unalterable de-
cision that parents who persisted in
sending their children to the Sun
godly public schools should be
denied the last sacraments to the
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OLIVER DIT ON l. TO-. Boston.
C. Fl. DITS0N & G :, s43 Broadway New York
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dying.
Even this heroic treatment, cut
ting as it did at the very seat of
life of Catholic belief, was not
attended with such good effects as
the Rev. Father fondly hoped it
would. A poor mans fortune is
his offspring, and where there was a
large fortune, the tuition at the
parish school was beyond the pocket
of many of the members of his
church, and they must needs dis
obey the mandate or leave their
little ones to grow up in ignorance
and vice. Now, parental love is a
mighty thing, in fact, it passes all
comprehension. Numerous parents
resolved to brave the wrath to come
rather than entail upon their chils
dren the curse of illiteracy, and to
the public school these children
went. But nothing is SO certain as
death, and to this some of the par0
ishioners were compelled to sues
cumb. The Father was as good as
his word. These helpless wights
were left to cross the dark river
without the aid and protection Of
the Church, and their souls were
left to take care of themselves.
These facts became public, and,
as was natural, created a great
commotion. A number of the
most intelligent and influential
Catholics in Boston resolved them
selves into Committee of CONS
plant and waited upon the Arch
bishop of the diocese. They laid
the matter before him, and then
left it to him for arbitration. His
reply was given through Father
Scully, and this reverend gentle
man was SO elated with it that
lecture was given there by him, in
which the following noteworthy pas
sage occurs:
eff not had the right to do it I
never should have done it. I did it
because it was my duty to do it; be-
cause my mother, the Church, as she
is of you all, through the decisions of
Rome, and the proclamations and
statutes OF the Bishops in the various
parts of the world, has ordered that
wherever Catholic schools are estab-
lished the curates of the parishes in
which they are established must, un-
der pain of mortal sin, send their chill
dreD to them or be denied the eacra-
ments. The Archbishop of Boston
knows everything that I have done.
he knows that [ have refused the sac
raments to these people, and I am
glad the parish rose up to know
told them, as you have heard them
say, I approve of everything that
Father Scully has done in his parish
AS your committee has told you with
regard to these miserable and foolish
men and women of this parish who
call themselves Catholics, the Arch
bishop says: Pass them by, and
take no notice of them.'"
The decision of the Archbishop
was also not as eficacious as it
might have been, and the case will
not rest here. It matters not, how
ever, what the outcome may be, for
the agitation will act as trial by
means of which it will be deters
mined whether Church or whether
the United States is paramount in
this land Of ours.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02
City Dtrsttoru.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

DEL1EF LODGE, No 1885, L. OF H--Meets
Ii on the first and Third Friday nigh OF { ach
month at Teutonia Hall coraer Church And day
Streets.
H. Brown. ii DE-: Harvey Clark. Reporter.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02

Rev. It. r. Osg0Od, New York, says:
~ have had Dyspepsia, Weak Stomach and
Nervousness. never had any medicine to do
me so much good as TUFTS PILLS. They are
as good as represented.
Office IS Murray Street, New York.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02

tic medicine that can be employed: cleans
ing the stomach and bowels, and even the
blood. In small doses of one pill a day,
they stimulate the digestive organs and
promote vigorous health.
AYERS PILLS have been known for
more than quarter of century, and have
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virtues. They correct diseased action in
the several assimilative organs of the
body, and are SO composed that obstruc-
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stand or evade them. Not only do they
cure the everyday complaints of every
body, but also formidable and dangerous
diseases that have baffied the best of
human skill. While they produce power
full effects, they are, at the same time, the
safest and best physic for children. By
their aperient action they grippe much less
than the common purgatives, and never
give pain when the bowels are not inhamed.
They reach the vital fountains of the blood,
and strengthen the system by freeing it
from the elements of weakness.
Adapted to all ages and conditions in
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nor any deleterious drug, these Pills may
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sugar-coating preserves them ever fresh,
and makes them pleasant to take; while
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02

Are the most eff
tective and congo
NAL purgative ever
discovered. They
are mild, but eff
fectual in their
operation, moving
the bowels surely
and without pain.
Although tie
in their operation,
they are still the
most thorough and
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20

Glenn Berry, the sable philosopher Of
Carson, spent few days in this city last
week. He was sorry to find his old
friend, Marcus Aure1ius johnson, con-
fined to his bed when he called.
"Why, Marcus, what On erf's de mat
ter wild ju?'
Dunno, Clem-dunno 'zactly Doc
Bronson SEE de disease hasn't gone Tor z
'nuf ter make erect doggyneses of il,
but he believes it's de roomytism or the
newralzy''
"Wen, if dat's what de matter. / Jest
know how ter fix you. Been lots Of it
cured down der in Carson. Der was
GUY nor Kinkead, an ole Jasper Bah
cock, an Farmer Treadway, an a lot
o. dem kind o. feller-ali had de room
ytism, or de newralgy, or some udder
mighty reliable disease of de same GIN
raj nature-an' I've seen all dem cured.
You jes' send To- yo' doctor, an tell
him to cut button-hole in yo' hide whar
de pain does de mos work, an to take
a seeringe an squirt bout half a pint
mawfeen in dar. OATS what'll cure
you, Marcus-you hear me. I'm a
talkin', chile-cure you shuah. OATS
what we call de suffer ranean injecshin,
an don't you forget it.'-Ttrginia
(Ner.) Chronicle.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20
Mis- Fanny Heath. who has

Mis- Fanny Heath, who has lately
made tour OF observation among the
German and Swiss schools, has sent
to Macmilian's Magazine for September
an interesting account Of the way need
lework is taught in them. Instruction
in needlework and knitting was begun
in the elementary or primary schools and
continued in the secondary or grammar
schools. The ncedlework in the Swiss
school visited is under the management
of a mistress who teaches nothing else.
and is very thoroughly tsught-mueh
more so than in English schools.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20


In Mr.. Proctor's Sunday evening lee
ture on the Religion of Astronomy
he alluded to the prevalent superstition
about the ill-luck Of beginning journeys
on Friday, and cited in illustration the
delay Of troop ship by order of the
British Admiralty some years ago, out Of
consideration for the terrors Of the sail
ors. An apter illustration lay close at his
hand in the fact that Friday is avoided
as the day of departure by all the At
lantic steamers which ply from this
port. But MIR. Proctor ventured an as
sertion about this superstition which adj
mits of doubt. He said that it dates
back four or five thousand years. So
erudite writer as Robert Southey, on
the contrary, regards it as Christian and
as arising from the crucifixion. II MIR.
Proctor has facts to controvert this
opinion Of the author Of "a The Doctor"
they would be very interesting to the
public. The historian, Buckle, who de-
lighted in that kind of research, seems
to rest content with Southey's assertion.
In u considerable mass Of material he
accumulated about the ill-luck Of Fri
day, we find no examples cited outside
Of Christendom save from the west coast
of Africa. The fact that Columbus
sailed on a Friday upon his first grand
voyage of discovery implies, also, that il
is superstition of comparatively modern
origin. II it had been widely diffused
among sailors in his time, surely he
would himself have avoided adding such
u terror wantonly to the expedition.
Still further, had such a superstition
been known at the Spanish court it is
scarcely possible that an express prohi-
bition would not have been laid on him
by Queen Isabella against defying il.
illusions to the common existence Of il
are made by Shakespeare and Nlontaigne
a century later, which indicate the six-
teenth century as the period of its rise
and diffusion. In "Troilus and Ores
sida" Shakespeare makes Pandarus say.
of Cressida. And she were not kin to
me, she would be as fair on Friday As
Helen is on Sunday" but we scarcely
think this would justify Mr.. Proctor in
dating back the superstition to the time
of the Trojan war 1t is one Of Skak-
speare's immense anachronisms, like the
of firearms in "Julius
Caesar" and proves only that Friday
WAS deemed unlucky in his own age.
The allusion by Montaigne is contained
in his Essays" where he says that
sooner than fall into the vice of obstin-
acy to avoid that of superstition he
thinks himself excusable II he should
Z" rather choose the odd number Thurs
Al - ru-l
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20
School and Church.

-Spurgeon has preached his fifteen
hundredth sermon.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
not 81, 600 out of $4,000 people in that
city attend church.
The English Wesleyans have raised
nearly sl,OOO,OOO for mission and edu-
cational purposes.
Henry Lava Selwyn, -bloOded
Sioux Indian, and a son of leading
chief of the Yankton tribe, has been or
dained pastor of the Church at Yankton
Agency.
Indiana has the largest school fund
of any State. 1t comprises S11, 900, 200
in school property and S9,000.0OO in
the State Treasury, total of $50, 6OO,-
600, or $40 to every child in the public
schools.
The Reformed Episcopal Church in
Great Britain has organized Canadian
Synod, and made application to the
General Synod to elect Bishop for
Canada. An ex-Vicar of the Church of
England, who is a graduate of Oxford,
is spoken of as likely to be elected.
The Mount Vernon Church, Boston,
sustains Chinese school in that city;
35 pupils are in attendance, whose ages
range from II to 40 years. The teach
ers use books with English and Chinese
and slate or slip of paper. The school
has been established about three years
and some of the pupils who have used
its advantages have done exceedingly
well after leaving it.
Complaints are published in New
York against the policy of the Methodist
Episcopal Church with regard to mis-
siOnary work among the Indians. 1t is
shown that Of the S600,0OO annually
appropriated by the Methodist Mission
airy Society only about $4,000, taking
the present year as an example, goes to-
ward missionary work among the Amer
lean indians, and that of this small
amount only the pitiful sum of 800 is
set apart for use among the Indians of
the far West. Methodists are the COM
plainants, and these consider the appar-
ent neglect the more remarkable be-
cause, under the plan adopted during
President Grants Administration, the
Methodist Church controls the nominal
ton Of agents to IA out of 6S agencies,
or more than One-fifth of the whole
number.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20

The following is q good way to
clean carpet which has had hard
usage: First swept clean. then put
three tablespoonful Of ammonia in a
bucket Of hot water. With stiff brush
and plenty of borax soap scrub yard
or two Of carpet at time, rinsing il on
with a second bucket Of water and am
monia and wiping as dry as possible
with wooden cloth. Proceed in this
way over the entire carpet and when
done open the windows to dry it
quickly.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20
Pockets are always ripe enough to

Pockets are always ripe enough to
pick.
Kisses by telephone taste like q
boiled china egg on toast.
"A rolling stone gathers no moss,
especially if it is grindstone.
When the wind gets round, then
comes the whirlwind.
"A cold wave-The preliminary
flourish of the handkerchief.
Don't buy thermometers now.
They'll be lower after a while.
AT this season of the year it is al
ways fowl weather at the markets.
When in crowd a man steps on
your foot, you often acknowledge the
corn.
The dry-goOds clerks of Baltimore
have organized club, but the side
splitting humorists of that city persist in
calling it yard-stick.
"A correspondent wishes to know the
best way to winter geraniums. The
best and cheapest way is to sling 'em over
the back fence and buy a new lot in the
spring-Boston Post.
Prof. Proctor says the earth is 5OO,-
O0O, 200 years old. And We believe him.
Almost every day we come across joke
'''a n. !, e'ery VIII as 'eler'oie as '''a''
D'''o'' 1'A"'e'~-
81 predict" said Caudle the other
day to his bosom friend, ga mild WIN
ter. "On what grounds?" My wife
and her mother have gone to Europe to
stay till spring. "-Cincinnat CONNER
ciat.
"A man in Sprincfield. Mass. sold
his horse last lime. Int the blacksmitb
he had EMPLOYED has sent in his hin
for shoeipp. etc. monthly. with unyarv-
ing REGULARITY ever since In his early
DAYS he had been a bookkeeper for a oas
company.-Boston Globe.
-,
-, lnere !: ON Long tsiand S9ahd an
orI oys.er elsger VINO IN mas lakeu Ihe Of
wave lor ~ years. ne estimates .,,. that
IN MS 'ine ne mas causnt olilions OF oys-
!ers anu mas eaten 'n9usanus OF oysters
III soups anu s'e"s. me o.her nlSnt ne
was taken 10 cnurcn iair' anu was
nc eNc.ainieu' nave eaten notnihg
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20
Foreign Notes.

The British National Lifeboat Insit-
tuition has 800 boats and spends abotu
100000 annually in rescuing, on an
average, 1900 lives.
The latest fashionable freak in Eng
land is the giving of concerts by ladies Of
rank in public halls. Lady FOlkestone
and the Marchioness of Waterford, both
fine pianists and fine singers, are at the
head of this =" boom.'
The Empress Eugene has become
almost childish with grief, and she car
ries about with her all day small dag
ger-shaped fan bought at some fancy
fair, and of no intrinsic value, which
happened to be her sons last gift to her.
She listens to all that is said to her,
steadily regarding the fiower-painting
on the fan.
The Earl of Seton would be to-day
almost the wealthiest man in England If
his ancestors had not sold, for a COM
parative trifie, his harbor rights, held
under an ancient grant, to the town Of
Liverpool; and the Marquis of Donegal
would to-day be thrice as rich as the
richest man in Ireland had he not reck-
lessly leased the town of Belfast on per-
petual leases at nominal rents, receiving
in so doing heavy :. fines" or payments.
Almost the whole town is nominally his
property.
An American lady, who has lived
in England, says: "For the street,
English women dress horribly, but for
dinner parties and balls they are lovely.
They wear usually white or black, and
their skins and compilations are daz-
cling. But every English woman when
she gets to be thirtv-five or forty has a
rash break out on her nose. l believe
it is because they drink so much. They
are always drinking wine and all that
with their meals. They don't get faded
and worn, looking AS we American
women do; but they get very stout, and
their beautiful compilations get to be
really berry. "
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20

Squash Pie: Take good sized
crook-necked squash, one-fourth Of u
pound of butter to a milk-pan Of squash
Sweeten to taste. A bottle of cream;
one quart of milk, unless too thin. Sea-
son with mace, little nutmeg, brandy,
and rosewater. One dozen eggs, and
little salt; eggs beaten
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20

The wool clip of Texas this year is
estimated at 22.OOO,0O0 pounds.
Six thousand tons of steel rails have
been purchased in Germany for the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad in West
Virginia.
A vessel from Victoria. the chief
seaport of British Columbia, lately car
ried to London $4,000 cases of canned
salmon.
Swedish cutters at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, work in the shops all day and
spend the evening at schools, in which
they are trying to acquire English.
Fifty thousand acres of land in Par
ker and Palo Pinto Counties, Texas,
have been purchased by French cap
italist for colonization purposes.
The four electric lights which now
illuminate the reading-room of the Brit
ish Museum at evening have each a
power equal to 5000 candles, and yet
cost only shilling an hour.
A new hay press has been patented
in France and England which delivers
the bales in the form of a solid uniform
cylinder about two feet in diameter,
which may be rolled along by one man.
A Californian has seven acres de-
voted to the culture of tuberoses, which
it is claimed pay better than 100 acres in
wheat. Druggists buy them for the
manufacture of perfumery.
The Bell Telephone stock, the par
value of which is 800 per share, is now
worth $1,000 per share. One year ago
it was hard to sell it for $50. The Com
pany practically controls and is the
owner of the Telephone patents, and all
companies that use them will have to
pay royalty. The high price at which
the stock sells is the prospective value
of the exclusive rights.
There has been surprising devel-
opment of the gold fields of Georgia.
From a yield of S1O0,0 in bullion four
years ago the yield is now over $780,
900 per annum, and is rapidly inereas-
ing. New mines are being opened and
new veins discovered. The mining
operations extend from Oglethorpe and
Wilkes, on the right, to the Alabama
line on the left, leaving little doubt that
the whole Of upper Georgia is rich with
gold-bearing quartz.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-12-20

Float: One tablespoon Of loaf sugar,
and one tablespoon Of jelly to the
white Of every egg; beat for several
hours.