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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
A Horses Revenge.

The society for the protection of
animals against the cruelty of human
animals is not remarkable for its activity
IN this country" writes the Paris cor
respondent of London paper. "The
police appear to think it no business of
theirs when carriers or coachmen brut-
ally maltreat their horses in the streets,
or when boys amuse themselves by
torturing dogs and cats or whatever
other creatures have the i'll luck to fall
into their hands. The horse would
appear to be aware of the supineness of
their supposed protectors, for they have
taken the matter into their own hands,
or rather into their own teeth and feet.
A carter, by hard fogging at his three
horses, got them to drag sixteen tons
Of coal to the foot of the steep hill
which leads to the Boulevard Bessieres;
but his powers of stimulation utterly
failed to induce them to proceed any
further-a thick steam rose up from
their painting sides and nostrils.
"Budge said the fiend; and straight
way the carter began to lash and swear.
A crowd gathered around the ferocious
beast, who abandoned the lash and be-
gan to bang his stick about their heads
and to kick them with hob-nailed boots
in the sides. The leader of the team
took upon himself to protest against
this extreme measure. He turned
around, seized the carter's arm with his
teeth, tossed him to the ground and
trampled him with his hoofs; then
seized him again with his teeth and
tossed him about. The crowd and the
police which had looked approyinply on
while he tortured the horses, interfered
for the protection of the human monster,
who was with great difficulty torn bleed
ing and mangled from the just equine
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
Astonishing Faith,

Once upon time, years go, plain
MIR. Disraei was in Leeds, and he was
waited upon by the Secretary of a GER
tain institution in that town, who asked
him to give a lecture or an address. He
first made several excuses, then refused
utterly, and at last, being further
pressed, said: sWeu, [ will come and
give you an address this time ten years"
With that assurance the Secretary went
away and waited. The ten years rolled
along, and at their expiration he came
to London, sought and obtained an in
terview with the Premier, reminded
him of his promise, and claimed its fuI-
fillment. The great man had, of course,
forgotten all about the matter, but when
it was brought to his recollection he
again made polite excuses, pointed out
that circumstances in the meantime
had greatly changed, and that he had
other duties to attend to now. But the
Secretary was an old-fashioned man;
he had the curious and obsolete idea
that a promise was promise, and
ought to be carried out, and said as
much. "And did you really believe at
that time" said his Lordship, "that
should carry out that promise?" Seer
tainly," was the reply, :" if you were still
alive and able to do it." "Well," said
the Premier, in musing tone, " it is
truly astonishing what faith people
have in me-" He did not deliver the
lecture, and is still, therefore, consid-
cred to have broken his word by the
Secretary of the institution.-Lo London
Letter
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
The Literal Barkeener.

The scene is located in well-known
lunch saloon A specimen of the genus
free lunch Gend enters; coat threadbare
and greasy ha, among the tiles that
have seen better davs, boots down at the
heels, "cheek prominently displayed,
happiness great, hunger greater, impe>
cuniosity greatest. The +" fend' pro
ceeds with cautious step t6. the lunch
counter anl goTges himself with noodle
soup, onions, sausages fried liyeS, pork
and beans, sauerkraut and Limburger
cheese, grabs and pockets handful of
wooden toothpieks reads the morning
paper and step, Up 10 she bar. Lean.
ing over it, ne gazes fo some time at
bottle of seItzer, mIstaking it for ba-
rometer. Addressing the German bar,
keeper, he asks:
What DOES the weather indicator
"Oh, aboud den cends." sI
Do you think we'll have rain?p
Veil, glancing at the well-cleared
lunch counter" no; dinks we)1 have
a famines "
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
OUIP8,

A FOOT note-Sole.
PENsToC oCK-Hogs.
A GAME Iaw-FoIlow suit.
SPIRIT of the press-Cider.
HEADQUARTERs-A pillow.
ARE book worms good for baitP
Presents of mind-Bits of advice.
A BELLE wringer-A pretty laun-
dress.
SOME men pay attention who never
J pay anything else. ...
WHEN man goes into stock specll-
| lation he aims at better life.
To AVOID the first wrong step, let
your first step be right one.
The writer whose pen is his shears is
the pride of the compositor's heart.
A MICHIGAN chirOpodist offers to
chirop with any man for 5000 side.
THE swell young man wears two
watches when his time is not very
valuable. ...r ...
WANTED to know-If a Havana ci-
gar makes man Ill, will two make q
manila?
SOLITAIRE earrings are set SO that no
gold is visible, and the diamond appears
as if suspended in air.
TRYING to do business without adver-
tising is Ike winking at a girl in the
dark. You may know what you are
doing, but nobody else does.
BALDHEADED persons are recon-
mended, by one who knows how it is
himself, to have a spider painted on the
ton of their heads in fY-time.
MANY of the people of Afghanistan
are as fair as Enghshmen. The boys
are noted for being particularly hand
some.
NEGLIGENCE to pay up newspaper
subscriptions amounts III the long run
to nothing short of an unremitting
efart to starve out the country editor.
EUGENE, before she ever saw Louis
Napoleon, had laid romantic plan for
releasing him from the prison of Ham.
because Der imagination told her she
was to be the guardian angel of imper-
No thief ever experienced so much
remOrse of conscience, as he who steals
a curl from a pretty wOman's head
and afterward learns that it is false
hair
To SAW and split wood, carry water,
coal, and wood, plow, harrow and
thresh, and in cities sweep the streets,
are, gays the Berlin TagloGcbt, among
the ayocations of German women.
A REALLY lively neighborhood:
Landlord Ito prospective tenaEt)-
Il Lonely? Yer wife feel kinder lcne-
some here so far from neighbors?
Why, man, this is right on the road to
the cemeteryI There's funerals passin'
here every daY of yer life"
THE London Telegraph induIgee in
the following display of remarkable
knowledge: John Quincy Adams left
Che whole of his property, valued at
to his s1n, the subsequent
President, Charles Francis Adams, who |
died rich man, having married a lady
Of great wealth."
mo, THANK you; L never waltz; ma
says if any of the young men want to
hug me they must do it on the sly; she
won't have them mussing my dress up.
and leaving finger marks on my white
waist, so long as she does the washing
,2a has 80 support me-"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
Alaska WnUers.

In winter. from what I can learn, the
storms are mostly rain, at temperature
of 35 or 40 degrees, and strong winds,
which, when they sweep the channels
lengthwise, lash them into waves, and
carry the salt scud far into the woods.
Thelong nights are then gloomy enough
to most people, and the value of snug
home, with blazing, cracking, yellow
cedar fire, and book-coyered tables,
maybe finely appreciated. Snow falls
quite frequently, but never to any great
depth, or to lie long. Only once, since
the settlement of Fort Wrangel, the
ground was covered to the depth of
four feet. The ordinary depth any
where near sea-level is said to be a
sloppy condition. The mercury seldom
falls more than or 6 degrees below
the freezing point, unless the wind
blows steadily from the mainland. Back
from the coast, however, beyond the
mountains. the winter months are in
tenseiy cold. At Glenora, on the
Stickene river, less than 1000 feet
above the levelof the sea, a temperature
of from 30 to 40 degrees below zero is
not uncommon.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
Iuproved Methods Of execution.

Tits not surprising that from time to
time attention is recalled TO the bar
harOHs naturesO of the mode of executing
the death penalty in this country
Hanging by the neck till the criminal
Is dead is obviously a relic of barbar-
ism; it is the most primitive, the most
various, the least prompt and uniform
and certain of the modes OF execution
which have been or could be devised.
If the objectofan execution nowadays
be to insure the rapid and certain death
of the criminal without any probabil-
ity of Intervening accident, delay or
torture, hanging by cord and trust
ing to the rough adjustment of
weight and fail which the eye and
experience" of an ignorant hangman
can afford, is the most fallible of meth
DDS, and must of necessity from time to
time lead to painful scenes of torture.
The garotillo is, perhaps, of all exist
ing foreign methods of legal execution
the most rapid and certain; but with
out proposing any one substitute for
our own resloonsibility-whether the
earbenic acid chamber, the massive
electric discharge, or any other method
lit is certain that any scientific man or
commission could very speedily devise
a prompt and bloodless certain mode of
execution which would be free from the
clpmslness and uncertainty of hanging.
The retention of this ancient. relic of
past barbarisrh is not creditable to our
jusisprudence- British Medical Jour
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE.
t TIE IRON PEN.

~~~'a--
Made from letter Of downward, the Prisoner o
Ohillon; the handle Of wood, from the frigat
Constitution and bound with q circlet Of gold
inset with three precious stones from Siberia
Ceylon and Maine.l
thought fhis pen would arise
From the casket where It lies 81 .---
OF itself would arise, and write
My thanks and my surprise.
When you gave it me under the pines,
dreamed these gems from the mines
OF Siberia, CeyIon and Maine
Would glimmer as thoughts in the lines;
That this iron link from the chain
Of Downward might retain
Some verse of the poet who sang
OF the prisoner and his pain;
That this wood from the frigate's mast
10 Might write me rhyme at last,
IS 1t used to write on the sky
The song Of the and the blast,
But motionless as wait,
Like Bishop lying in state,
Lies the pen, with its miter of gold,
Andits jewels inFiolate. H ..e
Then must speak, and say
That tie light of that summer day
In the garden under the pines
Shall not fade and pass away.
I shall see you standing there,
Caressed by the fragrant air,
Win the shadow on your tacep
And the sunshine on your hair.
shall hear the sweet low tone
OF a voice before unknown.
Saying, "This is from me to you
From me, and 10 you alone"
And in words not idle and vain
shall answer, and thank You again
For the gift and the grace of the gift,
O beautiful Helen of Maine!
And forever this gift will be
As blessing from you to me,
As drop of the dew OF your youth
On the leaves of an aged tree.
Henry W. LOHQfeliOlC. DI HuFUey's Magazine.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
Suicide Of the ScornIon.

Mr.. Allen Thomson In a letter says
While residing many years ago during
the summer months at the baths of
Lucca, In Italy, in q somewhat damp
locality, my informant, together with
the rest of the family, was much an
nOyed by the intrusion of small black
scorpions into the house, and their be-
ing Becreted among the bedClothes, in
shoes, and in other articles of dress. It
TINS became necessary to be constantly
on the watch for these troublesome
Creatures, and to take means for their
removal and destruction.
Having been informed by the natives
of the place that the scorpion would
destroy itsefif exposed to sudden light,
my informant and her friends soon be-
came adopts in catching the scorpions
and disposing of them in the manner
suggested. This consisted in confning
the animal under an inverted drink
ing glass or tumbler, below which
card was inserted when the capture was
made, and then, waiting till dark, sud-
denly bringing the light of candle
near to the glass in which the animal
was confined. No sooner was this done
than the scorpion invariably showed
signs of great excitement, running
round and round the interior of the
tumbler with reckless velocity for a
number of times.
This state having lasted for minute
or more, the animal suddenly became
quiet, and, turning its tail or the hinder
part of its body over its back, brought
it's recurved sting down upon the mid
die of the head, and, piercing it quite
forcibly, in a few seconds became quite
motionless, and, in fact, quite dead.
This observation was repeated very
frequently; in truth, it was adopted as
the best plan of getting rid of the ami
mails, and the young people were in the
habit of handling the scorpions with
Immediately after they were
so killed, and of preserving many of
them as curiosities.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24

! Tie most probable conjecture has
fixed the ctedle of our race in that corr
ner of land which n55 westward the
steep range of the Beloot Tagh f1otnt-
aims, an offshoot of the Himalayas, and
northward from the high, barren land
, Of Kabul. This country, the ancient
| Bactriana; is the most bal1itsble district
| to be fot1nd anywhere in Central Asia'
Ihete the hills stretch ont ih gentl6
slopes toward the west snd itclOse fer
lie valleys, whose innumerable streaLis,;
fed by the mountains east and south,
all go to swell the waters of the Oxus,
now called the Jihon. Further north
lies another fruitful country, watered
by the Jaxartes, separated fFom the FIRST
by range of hills much inferior to
those which divide both lands from
Yarkand and Kashgar on the east, and
from Kabul on the south. Both the
great rivers empty themselves into the
sea of Aral, between. which and the
Caspian, sharply cutting off the fertile
country from that sea, stretches The
Khiva desert, a barren land af-
fording a scanty nourishment to
the herds of wandering Turkic
tribes. There is good reason
to believe, however, that this desert did
not always exist, but that in times not
extraordinarily remote the Capsian sea,
joined to the Sea of Aral, extended
over a much larger area than it at
present covers; it is known even now
to be sinking steadily within its banks.
With such a contraction of the great
sea the desert would grow by double
process, by the laying bare its sandy
bed, and by the withdrawal of a neigh
boring supply of moisture from the dry
land. So it may well have been that
the fruitful territory wheCein in re-
motest ages were settled our Aryan an
cestors stretched SO far west as TO |
border upon large inland Asiatic sea.
1t has even been conjectured that the |
turning of so much fertile land into |
desert was the proximate cause of those
migrations which sent the greater part
of the Aryian races westward--to peO-
pie, at last, all the countries of Europe. |
The root which is common to the Eu-
ropean languages for the names of the
sea means, in the Indian and Iranian
languages, a desert; how can we ac-
count for this fact better than by
that after the European ma
tiOns had left their early home their
brethren, who had remained behind and
who, long afterward, separated into the
peoples of India and Persia came to
know as a desert the district which
their fathers had once known as the
sea a?-Ihe Co71tenlpoTG ReUielU.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
WIT AND HUMOR.
THF sf,IyDERFD sALFsMAN,


TIE sEAEDERED sALESMAN.
Daysiogo. dear wife, my treasure, g. s5rilsF
laas Wlea. our sad fate defined, - -r..E ..-...r
HopefIII words spoke unto yorf-
aA &" Willing hands sure work win find.
-t.., IhroJstlh your tears you smiled upon me.
As yiJu stOoped to kiss our child;
cBut the weunding probe stiH rankled
In my heart till 1 felt wild.
p s-i it.l sss.N EtA ef-lt- l'1H9l -aH ODDS. #.
Yesterday you, too, remellbe5
How murmured at my lot
That 80 business men frOwned on me,
t5f.. Looking words they dare speak not.
Seemed 60 me that when oreauoa
3 IlA ) Eeigflod to form nan Ike me- .r. 10
Some L1iGtske was made about it,
" That the devil laughed n glees a.1a
Their requirements we're too menial
s-E For man like me-" they said.
PatroniziDgly they said it,
45 while my face flushed deep with red,
..r As, / told them that Z" c0mpUlsion
Fitted man for any fate"
Then f'The price / was deserving
Far surpassed their usual rate"
Then 1 vowed to don my old clothes
Thrust my silk hat in the fire.
st-ti Buy a Wood-saw, AK and shovel,
&. And solicit for such hire.
But yorr vacant look unnerved ms
And said, an Try again
For place-yet far more slaving--
EIonf, the genteel business nal.
"
But to-day met man, -s
With heart and soul of Justice,
Aptng not the general clan.
This it was he spoke unto me,
From his mouth. not from his eyes
Hark you, wifel "Your late employer
Dares to utter willful lies"
You are trembling now-be calm, wife
Though the chargeis base and dark,
1t viii vanish through the clearing
From my good name, as a lark
VRnishes through the distant ether,
When Photographic view
But rem aims upon the vision
Of the tracings where it few.
Oh, my God to thus be branded
Thief-thiefY 1t cannot bel
Yet-this good friend vouches for it
Truth it was he spoke to me.
Must my pride face this foul insult
To my manhood's better part
I, who ever held as sacred,
Next to God. an honest hearth
How dare men scandal each other,
When the Maker knoweth ALT
Well I know dare not do 1t, .
Lest myself receive a fall;
Black ard damning was the spirit ..
LoOsing thus his singing tongue,
For the hurt in firing missiles
Is the aame-spread where they're dung.
@Vengeancel" did you say, wifei NeverI
Vengeance, saith the Lord, "is Nine"
But for your sake and our daughters
He his standpoint must define
By the gods he'll live to rue it
If my health and means abide,
Through the courts, before the people,
He must prove, or own he lied.
Mich. UNoLE LUTE.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
Character in Voices.

[sportfng Adventures in the Far west.1
| have noticed as fact that struck
me as peculiar, that the bravest and
largest wild animals always had deep
voices, and that they were generally
melodious, full of music as it were,
while the small fry, which would run
from a .commen cur, had high, sh8rp
voices. | have hunted with some of
the bravest men, the best scouts and
most famous hunters in the West, and
[ found that they also had heavy tones
as rule; and deduced from this that
the highest order of animals, those that
were brave and daring, were also deep
in voice, and that their intonations
never Jared on the ear. When saw
that the heroes in an opera were tenors,
it struck me as an old idea that thin
voiced animals were seldom so coura-
geous in actual life as their deeper
toned congeners, and this has caused me
to express it here, to see if it is in any
way founded on fact, or whether it is q
mere artificial system of display
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24
The Letter wv.

A temperance paper advises people
to drink spirituous liquors only in such
months as have w in them. In such
case, spelling reform would set in at
once, and we should see Januwary,
Februwary, Jewne, Jewly, August, Oc-
towber, November, and SO on. come
into general use, sst
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24

WE should enjoy our fortune as we
do our health-enioy it when good, be
patient when it is bad, and never apply
violent remedies except III IAN extfeme
necessity.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24

IT is only the female sex who can rip,
darn and tear without being considered
profane.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24

Made from letter Of Downward, the Prisoner o
Chillon; the handle Of wood, from the frigat
inset with three precious stones from Siberia
Ceylon and Maine.l
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-24

mo, THANK you; L never waltz; ma
says if any OF the young men want to
hug me they must do it on the sly; she
won't have them mussing my dress up,
and leaving finger marks on my white
waist, so long as she does the washing
,aA has 20 support me-"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14
DIR. e. B. DE LAMATYR.

HOMEOPATHIsT AND
II residence in Togninis building. next to
Bishop Sabins new brick building, Main
street. Once hours 8 to 10 NJ; 2 to 4 and
Z to r. n.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SIXTH
Il Judicial District, in and fer Eureka County,
State Of Nevada. The State Of Nevada sends
greeting to the Rescue Silver Mining Company.
: corporation described in the complaint here
You are hereby required to appear in an &C.
ton commenced againet you as defendant. By
b. Ssdler, as plaintiff. in the Distr1ct
Court Of the sixth Judicial District, in and for
the county Of Eureka, state Of Nevada, at the
town Of Eureka. and snewer the complsint
therein, which is on file with the Clerk Of said
Court, within ten days after the service on ycu
Of this Summons (exclusive Of the day Of SER
vice), Ii served in said county, or twenty days
If served ont Of said county but within this
district. and in all other cases forty days; or
Judgment by default will be taken against you.
according to the prayer Of said complaint.
The said action is brought to recover judg-
ment against yeu the said defendant. for the
sum Of $1.782, on account Of goods wares and
merchandise BY plaintiff sold and delivered to
defendant at its special instance and request
and on account Of work and labor done and
performed by one John Madden for defend
ant 1t its special instance and request
lsaid John Madden having assigned his said
account to defendant for value. and before the
commencement Of this action) all Of which
will more fully appear on reference to said
complaint. . certified copy Of which II here
with served for costs of suit.
And you are hereby notified. that II you fail 10
appear and answer the said complaint a. above
required, the said plaintiff will take judgment
against you for said sum Of 81 .7s2 and costs.
In testimony whereof, l, T.. B.
(GuAE NDoDaE. have hereunto set my hand
ssa sasS s.y es e ;s: m.rcS g. Z s.1S d @ cSor
Clerk District Court sixth Judicial district.
Eureka County, Nevada.
By =. N. BELL. Deputy Clerk. my2s Sm
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14
gHE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.

,.,,suxp EVERY MORNING tExcEpr NON
DAY1, BIZ
CASSIDY T. Skill L MAN,
v GEO. W. CASSIDY.
,omce-oorner Of Monroe and Basemsn sts.)
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14

MEETS EVERY FIRST AND THIRD SAT.
Ivl urdsy Of each month, at their hall,
corner CLARK and Edwards streets, ct y30
O'Clock. THOS. MURPHY, President.
PAxHIcx HARMON. Secretary.
Eureka. July 10. 1880. jy20-t
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14

7 HAVE LOST MY rooKETBO0K CON-
i tanning letter., papers and pictures. be-
tween Trims ranch and Eureka. The finder
ct the sxNxxaxL once, or 81 Jos Nendes, saloon-
pu1RA ox6oAH
HasssAs nv ~ 1eo. nySu
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14

BEATIFIC LODGE, NO. =, X. OF r.,
MEETS EACH FRIDAY OF EVERY
lM month, at 7 so O'Clock p. NJ. ct its Castle
Hall. In the 'Rickard- Foley building.
Ali Brother Kntghts, In good standing, sre
fraternally invited TO attend such meetings.
W.. II. DAVENPORT, O. o.
O. n. CApy K. OF R. and 8.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14
ATTENTION. EvRRxBoDrf
Having purchased the entire interest Of
W. N. CIarh's Mercans1le Busines~.
am now prepared to furnish
ALL KINDS OF GOODS
A Prices as Low Is she Lowess.
BY prompt attention to business sccommo-
dating clerks, good goods. low prices.
SOLICIT TRADE xaox ALL.
Try me, and Bs sasfsnea.
F.w. OLUTE.
Eureka, September !, 1879. =


Sherman, Hyde 4 Co., San 1rsne1sco. pacine
Coast Agents.
instruments sold on the fnstallmsnt plan.
Weber Pianos, by all great musiciaSs. - con-
sidered the best and most dursb1e.
One only buys Piano In life tina. iher,fora
get the best. the best IL the cksapss1. -
Prof. VIM. Plumhofr. Local Agent. Eureka.