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NO. 33.
A Tennessee ROmance-The Most Re-
markabie CIandesiine Marriage
ON Record.



GALLATIN, Tenn, May 2O.-In one of
n the most arlstocratic neighborhoods in this
i county, some eight miles from Gallatiu. re-
sides family proud of their genealopv.
ana III pEucely circumstances. Scarcely
+ hVe miles away resides another family,
b equally as wealthy and aristocratic. For n
quarter of a century the heads of these two
powerful families have been at war, On
several occasions the ''code' has been con-
suited, and only the Intervention of mutual
friends prevented their Observation-Disclosures
from being settled by it years ago. Each
tnlnks the other has done him deep wrong.
Each cherishes i'll his bosom eternal hatred
} towards the other, and there is no abatipg
IT,. Both OF these gentlemen have nice in
Iellectuai families One has Il SON I'll other
d daughter They were reared, though in
the same neighborhood, entirely strangers.
Both had been off at school for several wears.
Both returned home in the early nart of the
summer of 1877 full blown graduates, They
met several weeks afterward at a ueighbof-
hood picnic, and looked upon each other
| for the first time. The young man beheld
the wonderful beauty of the fair one with a
feeling we know not how to describe. He
sought her acquaintance, which was grant
ed, and the youthful and blushing. though
handsome pair, strolled off alone. and seat
ed themselves upon the yelvety sod beneath
the spreading trees.
And wars mnn soul soui' I'aa ,,I' met
A., 1noii superior eoucatloh htted them for
tue society OF none but themselves, In
1tai1iH8 "oruS' Iull OF eloquent meaning,
tne youn8 man pIedsed ms love, and asked
LUIS ~ return; ohe gave MN III return all
ne ASKED ana IN SO doing the inimitable
liPPie ol nef voice made music to The sweet
i oen'inaehtS l ol hef soul, the harmony of
"nlcn lel upon MS TOO welcome ears as
pure aS SOU, as gentle as flakes Of feather
eo SNOW ana completely
"Lapped him in soft Lydian airs.
IN IN iftt@, Hotes with many winding bout
With want"n baad and i'iS 7'I,% 5i%"I, l, or
The melting voice through miazes running
TTha%tsiEg mn EI id5, al la the s chains that tie
''''4'' '''' VI '''''ii'o"y'
During this time the fathers of tbo 1o,,org
we're looking on, neither knowina with
7hom his child was associatino. and both
ad expressed themselves complimentorv
0 the fine looking COUPLE On in01iry
be situation was explained to them ibaI,
9th became frantic with rage and lnft ~
ic-nic thoroughly disguised with tao i5ae
f their children associative with ench
took. The severe clticism that aach nrn
the new lovers received from their nav.
nts that night may well be imagined +
as such at least as to cast a nall of Go,.1-S
ess over the bright path of life winch fLav
I'd so beautifully pictured few Lnnrs 1,o.
re.
The old folks cave tbemea1rao ,,,, f,,...,,,..
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NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE, a colored boy, is
to hang at Sardis on the goth of this
month.
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Beside the Brook
BY GEORGE BIRDsEYE.

II go a-fshing!" and he sped
With rod and line, where by-paths led
Meath latticed boughs, beside the brook
Where fish werel lured with cunning hook.
"I'll read in solitude awhile!"
With favorite book, and morning smile,
Through winding ways, she sought the nook
ohe loved the best, beside the brook.
Later, passed; the line and book
Were Were queerlv twined, beside the brook;
,Whlle, In the grove, the anglers prize
was reading love-songs in his eyes:
Bric-a-Brac:" Scribner for June
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PRESIDENT HAYES is much pleased with
the nomination of Foster. He and Foster
are fast friends.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

Ex-GovERNoE ALLEN, in most positive
and unmistakable terms, announces that
he will not be a candidate for Governor Of
Ohio.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

GARDINER. the bogus agent of Appleton
u Co. and Petersons Magazine, will rusti-
cate four years in the Tennessee peniten-
tiary.
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BEN BUTLER, SO stated, will be candi-
didate for Governor of Massachusetts again
next year.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

THE Macon Beacon says if there is an
Independent or Greenbacker in Noxubee
county he unknown.
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GRANT men are furious because nothing
was said about Grant in the Convention
that nominated Foster
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GENTLEMEN upon entering places of
amusement in New Orleans are seached for
concealed weapons.
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YOUNG women, under twenty years of
age, are being placed in chains and thrown
in prison for political crime In Russia.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

VIM. Lloyd Garrison is dead He was
an anti-slavery fanatic, and was relentless
enemy of the South
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

AT the special request of its mother, the
ittlo stranger lodging at Senator Bruce's
residence, is called Roscoe Conkling.
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AN exchange says the ladies sing it in
the "sweet buy and buy, we will meet on
that beautiful shore"
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The cotton worm has made its appear
ance in Montgomery county, Alabama.
His advent is early.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

They say Grace Greenwood has become
spiritualist.
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F. @. PACKARD, the celebrated tenor ot
the Carl Rosa Opera Troupe, is insane.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

PAROLE won the race for the EPSON
gold cup.
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Iowa has cheering prospects for good
crop.
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The Brookhaven Ledger is opposed to
a Convention in Lincoln.
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Cast Thy umbrella upon the waters with
a friend, and it will be many DAYS before II
will come back to thee.
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The Missouri editorial fraternity is on
an excursion through Ohio.
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A Corpse Weighing $50 Pounds,
From the Harrisburg Patriot.

i'il4 INC LII iouul5 IulIloI.
Benjamin Singerly, formerly proprietor
OF the State journal, and State printer for
a term of years, who died suddenly after
travelling from Philadelphia to Pittshurg
one hot day about two years ago, was a
very heavy man, weighing from $50 to 400
pounds. He was inferred at Pittsburp
few weeks ago the relatives of Mr.. Sin
gerly made preparations to have him resur-
reected and taken to Philadelphia, where
his parents and other relatives are buried
When the persons to whom the work was
mtrusted had dug down TO the top of the
casket, they were surprised to find that no
otlenslver odor prevailed.
The rough box was opened, Int the ais
tempt to remove the cashct from il was ins
etectual, on account of the extraordinary
weight. When the lid was removed tbe
face and body was found to have unJsr-
| gone petrification-they had assumed the
| color of yellow marble, and the entirs face
and form seemed like one mass of marble
chlselied from a block-not one of tba
features or linaments being out of place or
unnatural in the slightest degree. The
body was raised from the grave by means
OF block and fall, and was foHRd to weigh.
when weighed for transportation to Phila-
deiphia, nine hundred and eighty pounds.
The San Francisco Chronicle ciyes tTo
names of large number of citizens who
wero discharged by their employers for
voting for the new constitution of Califor-
mia The Central Pacific Railroad Gonna.
ny appear to have organized a system of
and detection that would have
astonished even a New England manufac
turer, and men who Went to the polls
firmly convinced that their cinoloyer did
not know how they were going to vote.
found on their return to work. that their
services were no longer needed. T.. p.
Pulcifer was dismissed because he hurrah>
ID for the new constitution. and NJ. Nc
Laughlln because he desiled TO exhibit his
lcket to civil engineer OF the company.
who was stationed near the polls to over
1--WE voters. John Anderson one of the
men, is a first class mechanic
iOber and industrious. and had worked for
he railroad company for ten years. Alb
lrleen Weekly.
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VOL III.
lie eruption at Mt. Etna is increasing

Conn is being laid by in Yazoo county.
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" Two congenial souls had met.
And were one forever more.

IheIr Superior education fitted them for
the society of none but themselves. In
flaming words, full of eloquent meaning,
the young man pledged Ais love, and asked
hers IN return. She gave him in return all
ne asked, and in so doing the inimitabIe
ripple OF heryolce made music to The sweet
sentiments of her soul, the harmony of
which fell upon his too welcome eaTs AZ
pure, as soft, as gentle as flakes of feather
ed snow, and completely
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-17
The Pellagra.

The pellagra, an awful and loathsome
disease, the degree of prevalence ofwhich
statisticians attempt to measure by the
tale of recorded suicides which the ago
nies and the madDes5 caused by It pro-
duce, is increasingly prevalent in the
richest districts of the north Of Italy,
especially Lombardy, Venetia and r :
magma. The best medical opinions con-
cur in considering the principal and al
most sole cause of this horrible scourge,
which seems to BE much akin in its
nature to leprosy, to consist in the use
Of an exclusive diet of maize, or Indian
corn There are districts, however, in
the Trentino, about north of the Lago
di Gardo, where the hill population
lives almost, if not quite. exclusively on
maize, but where pellagra is unknown.
And it would seem from inquiries di-
rected especially to an explanation OF
this phenomenon, that the dreadful dis
ease in question is, in fact, produced by
an habitnal diet of Indian corn IN bad
condition. A very minute investiga-
ton, extending over wide extents Of
country, has revealed the fact that the
maize consumed by the poorest classes
of the rural population, is far more often
than not, partially rotted from having
been stored in mass before the grain has
been thoroughly dried. British Quar-
er}y RsUiew, Isl 81 -
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King Winter.

Ho! no! no, toss the snow,
Knee deep, over the land,
And stop the mouths OF the talking brook
Close with my iron hand,
All the tree dress
Up in shining white,
And my lips press
Oh, SO very tight!
To the maiden's cheek as she trips along
And in the chimney tops sing my song
Sing and whistle ho. ho!
Sing and whistle ha! ha.
For q right jolly king am /!
All round, when do sound
My trumpet through the wood,
To see how the tall trees humbly bow,
And cringe, it does mo good.
And when on the beach
riot and play,
And my minions screech
In their roundelay,
While roll and laugh in my hearty glee,
You may hear my voice over land and sec
Loud and hearty no! ho!
Loud and hearty ha! ha!
For a right jolly king am |!
In a trice spread the ice,
Over each window glass,
And rattling ride over every root
AS with my train pass.
Oh woe to the wight
That we catch abroad
On this stormy night,
But we'll pinch him hard!
For short live and must have my sport,
Take lesson from me oil mankind ought,
Gay and merry no! no!
Gay and merry ha! ha!
For right jolly king am 1! s
-Ge0rae CooDer.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-17
Words of Wisdom.

There is only one thing that is more
terrible than to say a mean thing, and
that is to do one.
1t is all very well TO be promising
youth, but the hard part is to keep your
promise in after life.
Do not..confine your secrets to aperson
of noble lineage, because the old adage
says that Blood will tell"
A bad habit is like a cat in that it has
nine lives. And like cat also you
must kill it nine times before you can
be sure that it is dead.
The more man accomplishes the
more he may. An active tool never
gets rusty. You always find those men
the most forward to do good, or 10 inn
prove the times and manners. always
busy.
Don't fiatter yourself that friendship
authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates. On the con-
trary, the nearer you come into relation
with person, the more necessary do
tsct and courtesy become.
When you speak evil of another. you
must be prepared to have others speak
evil of you. There is an old Buddhist
provero which says; He who indulges
| in enmity is like one who throws ashes
to windward, which cones back to the
same place and cover him all over"
| None of us wish to change our identity
for that of another; yet we are never
satisfied with ourselves. The unknown
has always charm. and unless blinded
by miserable vanity, we know ourselves
/ too we'll to appreciate our special char
acteristics at a very high rate
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Sorghum.

Sorghum, the cultivation OF which
has been so strongly recommended by
the national agricultural department as
substitute for foreign sugar, is species
of grass generally known as Indian mil
let The species embraces four varie-
ties-broom corn, imphee, durra, and
sweet sorghum-which seem to be only
modified forms, exchanging properties
when growing near together, and gem
Grating new by brids, like different kinds
of maize. Sorghum has been cultivated
for centuries in Egypt and India for
food for man and beast. The first per-
son in Europe to direct attention to it
was Pietro Arduino, q Fiorentine pro-
fesser, who tried in 1926 to introduce
imphee into Italy from Caffraria. The
French consul at Shanghai sent seeds
thence to Paris in 1851, but they all died
except one, and from this one all the
plants in Europe and America are said
to have been raised. About the sam.
time Leonard Wray, in England, showed
that the Zulu Kafirs produced some six
teen varieties of the plant for its sac
charine matter. which they got by chew
ing the stalks, without ever attempting
to make sugar. Some twenty three
years ago, sweet sorghum began to in
terest people here, the patent office hav-
ing got number of seeds from France.
Orange Judd, proprietor of the A'nerica's
Aqricslltarist, also imported l 900 pounds
of the seed, and distributed $1,000 par
GELS to the subscribers for his publica-
ton in all parts of the country. This
| variety OF sorghum, often called
Chinese sugar-cane, will thrive where
ever corn thrives, and even upon
| lighter soils, though it cannot be de-
pended on north of latitude forty-one
degrees. The plant, when fully grown,
is from six to eighteen feet high, the
stall S one to two inches in diameter
the weight of the green crop from ten to
forty tons, and the seed from fifteen to
sixty bushels per acre. Stalks yield
about fifty per cent. of their weight oI
juice, and of this. from five to ten gal
Ions, according to soil, locality and
maturity of the cane. make gallon o.
syrup. The product of juice to the acrs
is from l40 to l5O gallons. from five t.
nine per cent of which is alcohol. Tht
product of dry saccharine matter, wher
the sorghum is well-ripened and grown
on warm, light soil, is from thirteer
to sixteen per cent, and about One-six
teenth of this has been converted int<
clear, crystallized sugar. With repeated
| experiments, the proportion will, M
doubt, be much increased
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MANUFACTURING PROPERTY
FOR, 8 A LIT.

Situated in the village OF Sandy Hook, town
OF Newtown, Conn, on the Housatonic rail-
road, nineteen miles from tide water, and
near the proposed depot on the New York and
New England railroad, now. in process of COM
pletion. Said property has been used as
wooden mill, but Is suitably arranged for any
other business. Water power never failing
VIII be sold with or without machinery. For
particulars inquire of
MfNOIT sAUGUR, Receiver,
Sandy Hook, Conn.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-17
PR CENT. STERLgN


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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-26

A most stalwart Republican organ, as
It's locality dictates, the Rutland (Vt.)
Herald, under the head ''Victol ious
Cowards' speaks in the following words
of the temporizing of the Republicans
with the greenbaCk question.
''The Republican party never behaves so
badly as when it has won brilliant vic
tory by doing right it always seems
. scared by its own success. After Meade
had won great victory at Gettysburg he
found Lee at Falling Waters the swollen
river wasAbehind the rebel; his troops
were so bNDken in spirit that two Vermont
regiments beat rebel brigade at Funks-
town; every corporal in the army knew
that his commander ought to attack Lee
bnt Meade was fearful that he might lose
his laurels, so he halted, and that fatal
halt added another dreadful year of blood
to the war, when it ought to have ended
there. To this temporizing spirit, which
is content to let well enough alone, we
owed the slaughter of the Wilderness,
Cold Harbor and Petersburgh. The
political mood ofthe Republican party to-
day seems to be the military temper of
Meade; it seems so astoniShed ut it's own
financial success that it halts when it
shouldpush it's victory Ifthe Democratic
party had tithe of the intelligence that
they have courage, they would follow the
lead Of Rayard to-day and rob the Republi-
cans of the initiative for 1890"
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@ IMPORTANT TO SCHOOL DIREC

M1 IMPORTANT TO SCHOOL DIREC
TORS AND TAX PAYERS-The fol-
lowing decision of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction is of great Importance to
taxpayers as we'll as directors, as violation
of the law upon the subject will deprive di :
tricts of the State appropriation, and snbject
Directors to severe penalties:
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DEPARTMENT OF PUB. ms,
Harrisburg, Pa, Dec. 1, 1879.

-
There is but one time in the year when d-
rectOrs can adopt new series of text books
for the schools under their charge, or change
old ones, and that is between the time of
electing teachers and the opening of the
schools. Section %, Act of May 1, 1854, SAYS:
" That Immediately after the annual election
of teachers in each school district of the state,
and before the opening of the schools for the
ensuing term, there shall be meeting of the
directors or controllers and teachers of each
district; at which meeting the directors or
controllers shall decide upon series of school
books, in the different branches to be taught
during the ensuing school year; which books,
and no other, shall be used in the schools of
the district during said period"
Such is the law, with this exception, that
books cannot now be changed more frequent
iv than once in three years.
j. 2. WICKERSHAM,
Superintendent Public Instruction.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-18
ALWAYS WITH YOU"

The following presented to the charitable
as worthy of immediate relief
In the rear Of No. 244 West Sixteenth street. top
floor, are living man, wife and three children who
are in extreme poverty broken table. two chairs
and miserable bed, together with the stove. const-
infant sick
On the second floor rear house, of No. 248 West
Sixteenth street, family of six living. The
has been out Of employment for the last
months They wholly destitute of food and fuel.
At No. 553 West Twenty sixth street family OF five
are in distress. The husband il blind
On the third floor OF No. LA Thompson street an
aged couple are in great distress. The husband was
engraver but years since his eyesight failed
him. and since then he has been able to but little
at his trade. Now they are in extreme poverty.
In the house of No. All West Thirty-sixth
street aged widow is sick with rheumatism Un-
less the rent Is paid before Monday next she will be
dispossessed
family Of four persons. on the top floor, room
No. 49, OF No. 434 West Thirty-eighth street, in
great poverty.
In the basement of No. 70 Sullivan street family
of Ave are in great distress The husband has been
out of employment for four months.
In the back room. first floor. OF No. 214 West
Thirty-ffth street. an aged colored woman aud her
daughter are in want. The latter has been confined
to her bed for the last eight months.
woman Is in great distress at No. $50 East Sixty
third street. Her husband injured last Septenl-
Der In the government excavations at Hol Gate, and
has been since that time helpless victim to his
juries. His wife, deprived of her natural support is
q deserving person for the charitable to assist.
The following contributions have been received ut
the HERALD Office r." tor Lawyer and No. IA
Roosevelt street, 81; Staten Islander" for clergy
No. Centre Market place and No. IA Roosevelt So;
IS b. M. c." for general fund, $40; ''vI, 2i-26,
for general fund, 81; MRS. @. II. L." for No. IA
Roosevelt and No. Manhattan. So; Emma" for
No. IA Roosevelt 50; Potomac" for No. 1876 Green
witch, 81; STRANGER" for No. o. South Fifth ave-
nue., ST. Total, S27.
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BELDEN & co.
APPOINTMENT OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO
CHANGE THE RECEIvERsHIP.

APPOINTMENT OF A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO
CHANGE THE REcEIvERsHIP.
The legal complications growing out Of the suit
brought by w. 4. Conner against William Beden and
others for the dissolution of the firm of William
Belden Co.. of which the plaintiff and defendants
were partners not yet it seems. fully ended In
the Court Of Common Pleas yesterday. Judge J. F..
Daily appointed Mr.. Everett P. Wheeler referee to
take evidence in the
At four o'clock he heard an application upon an
order to show cause, granted by him on Thursday
for the appointment OF receiver of the firm in
place of W. +. Conner and Henry Belden, Jr., the
present receivers The motion was based upon an
affidavit by Mr. Conner that Mr. Belden had refused
to deposit all the securities and assets of the firm as
required by the judgment entered upon the stipula-
ton between the parties and also that Mr.. Belden
had refused him access coreceiver to the books Of
the firm.
Mr.. Thomas J. shearman representing the defend
ants. opposed the motion. saying that it
was q trick to obtain control Of the assets
of the firm and to sacrifice the interests
of the defendants. He charged that the
though Mr.. Gould was NORMALLY defendant. knew
the outset that there just ground for bring
ing the action. and that Could pending the motion
receiver, had proposed to the other side that Mr..
Henry Belden be made such receiver, and, when that
was acceded to. insisted that MIR. Conner should be
Joined with Mr.. Belden After obtaining stipula-
was charged now was to force disagreement SO as
to take the receivershp entirely from Mr. Belden'
control. The Judgment, Mr. Shearman commended.
should be and the defendants be allowed
to oppose the original application for receiver.
Their afdavits. he claimed. entirely dsproved the
charges.
Judge DAILY said he could not pass upon the matter
at that time and postponed the further hearing to
Monday morning next.
be placed in the custody of the referee Mr.. Wheeler
Mr. A. j. vanderpoel, on behalf of the plaintiff &C.
cepted the offer, and Judge DAILY directed that the
transfer be made before him this forenoon at Special
Term.