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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS,
For Representative.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Representative.
We are authorized and requested t. announce
w. A A. CONNER, Esq. rs a candidate for Rep
reSentatiYe of Knox county in the next Legisla-
ture,
For Sheriff.
We are authorized to announce C. B. GOSSETT
as candidate for Sheriff of Knox county, at the
ensuing election, August 5. 1880.
Trustee.
We are authorized to announce w H SWAN
as q candidate for reelection as Trustee of Knox
county, at the ensuing August election. -
For Constable.
lam under many obligations to the voters of, the
lst district for the call to become a ,aHdidate.
stable at the ensuing ection promising If elected
to Terform the duties of The Office faithfully.
Respectfully JOHN B. MANSON.
We are authorized and requested to announce
s. F. SHEPARD as candidate for Constable in
the lst civil dist riot of Knox county at the en-
suing August election.
We ara authoriz and requested to announce
JOHN A. REEDER as a candidate for Constable
in the first civil district If KICK county, at the
enSiug August election.
We are authorized and requested to announce
NJ D. SULLIVAN as a candidate for reelection to
the Office of Constable in the LIST civil district OF
Knox county, at the ensuing election in August
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-21

A DVERTISERS! send for our Select List Of
N Local Newspapers. Geo. p ROwell & Co.,
10 Spruce ST., NY, ...-.r
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-21

uIVIT.. BOTANICAL, AND MINING EN-
u GlNEERIN 6, at the Rensselaer, PUlytech0
Tic institute, = roy. N. Y. The oldest engineer
ing scho'1 in America. Nexs term begins Sep
tcmber 18th. The hesister for 1880 contains
list of the graduates for the asst 81 years, with
heir posiIions; also course Cf STUDY. require
ments, expenses, etc. Address
DAVID NJ GREENE. Director.
National Republican., 1880-12-30
Let the Thing Die.

The New York Democrats are now en-
gagged in the laudable work of abolishing
halls and "bosses," with u view TO thor
ough reconstruction. Tammany Hall and
Irving Hall are to be demolished as polit-
ical nests, and the "bosses" on both sides
of that house are to be remanded to the
rear and take their places with the band
wagon and the baggage train. This is
well so far, and il will be far better for the
country if these factions abandon to the
underwriters, throw up business alto
gethcr and retire to the shades of inac-
tivity at once. The Democratic party
has performed its mission, and should die
with becoming submission and decorum.
1t hasworn out itsprinciplesa aswell pub
licpatience in itsattempts to securepower
for the purpose of abusing it, II has not
shared an impulse of fpatriotism in twenty
five years, and, hence, has not been safe
receptacle of power during that period,
Its highest ambition has been to secure
the spoils of position. Its chief purpose
in the last two decades has been to corrupt
National Republican., 1880-12-30
Beccl,cr On "Rob.v

"The trouble with Ingcrsoll," says Mr.. Beecher,
al. his. lie has selected the excrcscences of hI,.
man life - II has grown in churches and has rep
resented the cNcrtscepces rs the essence of rcli-
gion. Suppose phys!ean, wishing to get up u
museum representing the hnnai hody IN all ages
with wens and warts all over them. Suppose that
the physician should gather them into museum
and say: There's humanity for you; what do YOU
the religious world. He says scores of true things
that have been said before, but he don't know II.
He Is not widely read in theology. I'm afraid he
don't read his Bible very much. What does he
read II for? I'll tell you The doves flying over
the landscape see all that is sweet and peacehil,
put put M Whem tne phzz,rd 1 ana the vnlture ny abroad
II II Is anywhere In sight they don't fail to see IT,
lngersol sees what he is looking after" Laugh
ter IngcrsOl and Bcecher both dsbeicve in a
hell IN the next world, This probably had some
weight In producing THIS affinity which they re-
Gently seem TO have for each other. These last re.
not go any further In believing as Ingersoll does
National Republican., 1880-12-30
PERSONALITIES.

ES-sgGRETARy boutwell, is at the Sher-
man House, ChitsSo.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY wears long, full
beard, and has delicate features.
Ex-GovERNoR RICE has been nominated
for the presidency of the Boston Art Club.
VENNoR, the weather prophet, IL sed to
be workman In an axe factory at Balston, n. Y.
SPARKS ought to hire one Of the pages
OF the House to sit on his coat,tails when he comes
back.
The DUKE OF AosrA, once King of Spain,
now lives in Turin, aud Is widower with three
little sons
MRs. SHERMAN, the wife of the General,
is Ill., and will probably not perform any social du-
ties this winter
CLEsINGER, the sculptor, moulded in
plaster the dead face of Nine. Thiers, and will
probably make bust other
Lucy HOOPER says the Parsians, with
all their culinary science are wholly ignorant of
that noble institution, wcll'madc pie,
Mn. PLIMsoLL, who has done SO much
for English sailors, now proposes TO benefit the coal
miners by improving the colliery laws,
GENERAL SToNEMAN, who lives at Los
Angeles Cal, Is making money out of grapes. lie
has just sold his crop of the present year for
$4,000.
lr turns out that Judge Woods was not
born In Ohio, but in Kentucky. The Southern
newspapers will think better of him after this dis
| cOvery.
MRs. PATTY STICKNEY, of East Brown
field, Maine, though ninety-six years old walks a
mile without fatigue and scws oil fine work with
out glasses
AN uneXempli6cd copy of the will Of
franklin Pierce has been placed on record In the
Register of wills Office to perfect the title to lot
| in this city.
EX-SENAToR SPRAGUE, with contempt
! ible cowarlico transmitted from old Adam, lays
the blame on the woman, aud whncs about his
| wilo's extravaganza.
Miss TnuRsBY, who was at last accounts
in Vienna, Is about to make n concert tour through
Austria and Germany, Brunn, Prague Dresden,
and Leipsc being on the route.
The expenses of Scnator-elect Fair in
his senatorial canvass are stated to be one hundred
and iifty thousand dollars. And may be that the
money was thrown away after all.
MAJOR BURcu's daughter, who was mar
! rled November so TO Mr. Warner, of Nashville,
while on her way to tho latter city with her hus,
band, was so unfortunate us to lose all her baggage
National Republican., 1880-12-30
lsOssIp About Garfield.

Governors of States have generally been fail.
ures as Presidents. William Henry Harrison was
the old Governor of the Northwest and all the his.
torica indications that, If he had lived out his
term, he would have been even more of q failure
than John Tyler, who was also State Governor
success as n President. Monroe was success as
state Governor and a very thin President. Van
Buren, was regarded In New York as a good politi
lapsed at Washington. Polk was not renominated
and he had been State Governor. johnson was
complete failure as President but strong State
Governor
"There Is not politician in the coun
try who need feel i'll At ease with Gar
field, though he is little shy and
metallic at first with strangers. He admires bright
people, and fires back ut them, aud there is 10 say
ing that after while COnkling may not be Gar
fields prime tavorite. Garfield has good feeding
qualities, and likes long dinners, with champagne
and Hayes likes respectable dinners, without
champagne, where everybody is superior. Gar
field doesn't like them too good, but just good
enough. ."-Gdh
National Republican., 1880-12-30
How others Look at Us.

Since the late election, in which all
Europe took deep interest, the people
there have an opinion of the contest and
its incidents, and do not hesitate to ex-
press it. The followingis is an extract from
letter of recent date, written by gem
tleman residing in Paris to friend in this
city, which i'll some degree reflects the
views held by intelligent men in the Old
World:
Politically, everything seems right in the United
States Only one thing more is needed to close up
the election properly, l. C., to send Barnum and
Hewitt and perhaps the balance ofthe Democratic
committee, to the penitcntiary. do not see how
decent men throughout the country can be content
to remain In u party 80 thoroughly vilanous as
has been the Democ ratic party. This Congress, of
course, will still be the same old rebel brigadier
Congress; but In the next, IL the Republicans do
not unscat every man who has been seated by fraud
in the South, then the Republicans have very little
slGck or grit. II the House of Representatives
would sSad iicmc about twenty Representatives, II
would cure fauluier. voting very quickly. If j
am not mistaken, President Garaeld knows abou,
as well us any man in the country .ha spirit OF
Southern Representatives. and will be stiff cGongh
to apply the remedy If the House will support him
National Republican., 1880-12-30

SENATOR DAVID DAVIS has had ample
opportunity for tasting of all of the polit-
ical dishes spre:;a upon the board, and as
it now looks he is satisfied that there is
none 50 palatablc as the roast beef of
Republicanism. 1t is pure, sweet, and
nutritious, and since the meeting of the
present session of Congress he has sat to
il with decided indications of favor. In
politics there is snothing so toothsome and
healthful as Republicanism, and for
steady diet it has no superior, lift has an
equal
National Republican., 1880-12-30

A CORRESPONDENT OF the Chicago Inter
Ocean, writing from Wyoming, where
female suffrage is slightly in fashion,
says they are famous scratchers, scarcely
ever voting straight ticket" Such vot-
ing does not facilitate the count nor har-
monize the contest. However, it would
break the monotony of the occasion some-
what, no doubt.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE
draws near. 1t is a good time 10 post your
books How much good have you done
In 1880? Put it down on the credit side.
How many enemies have you gone to oand
forgiven? Set that down. How many
have you given cause TO forgive You? Post
it. How much have you given TO tochdrity?
There is room enough for that too. How
many sick and in prison have you listed?
Figures won't lie. How many naked have
you clothed? Still there's room. State
specifically and particularly what adyan-
tage you have been to the worldny how,
Enter it mp, Now climb into the other
side Of the balance and let go Of the lever.
Goodbye. Write us from down where
you are going. We are interested to know
about it.
National Republican., 1880-12-30
Dead I'm Enrl,est.

The Commissioner of Agriculture is dead in
earnest In his purpose TO try to promote tea-cul-
ture In this country. He has Just rented farm In
South Carolina upon which an attempt will be
made to grow good varieties of tea; and the best
guarantee of its success Is that excellent tea has
been raised in that very neighborhood. Thilddei-
uhia Erening HclitiiIl,
National Republican., 1880-12-30

Ir is gratifying to know that young
Whitaker is to have trial by court-mar-
tial This, under the circumstances, is
but just and proper, and IL is to be re-
gretted that this measure of justice has
been delayed too long already. The case
challenges wide public sympathy for the
reason that it is generally believed that u
wrong has been done this cadet simply on
account of his color. Now we sincerely
trust ;hat the truth may be divulged, and
that he will be placed before the public
in q proper light.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

THE New York Times expresses the de-
liberate opinion that if General Garfield
wants to take the shortest path to lunacy
all he has 70 do is to follow the advice of
the newspapers and undertake to appoint
Cabinet which will satisfy everybody.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

THE doctors OF the party got together
in New York Tuesday night to turn over
the carcass of the Democratic ass to see
If they could find one place on it sound
enough to offer hope of successful treat
ment. If they know what is decent they
would bury II at once.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

TIE Democrats declare that they will
have no more Hall " rule, They de-
nounce Tammany Hall and Irving Hall
alike. But there is one hall upon which
the party relies chiefly, and they dare not
rcpudiate it, and that is alcohol.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

SHOULD the time ever come when the
States which contract debts and issue
bonds can be sued like'individlals to re-
cover the amount Of their indebtedness
we shall hear less of reputation and of Il
reckless running in debt. A law on the
statutes of the United States which shall
provide for the protection Of the rights of
creditors in this way will not only lower
the standard of State sovereignty, but
open new era of State honesty and fair
dealing with those who have confdcd in
them No honest State will object to
such law.
National Republican., 1880-12-30
A SON T,,,o. ia. Al. n q

II Is understood that the President will In Feb
ruary appoint Private Secretary Rogers to be Re-
corder OF Deeds of this District. The place Is
worth between 5000 or $4,000 per year, and is
now held by General George Sheridan, of Louisi.
ana. The latter will be otherwise provided for
Cath IN Cincinnati Enquirer.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

All Sin HEWITT says that the only way
to reform the New York Democracy is to
repudiate both halls-Irving as well as
Tammany. He is doubtless right. There
will then be nothing left of the party.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

IT would be good idea to get up u
contribution for the poor of the District
on New Years Day. This weather is
very hard on them.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

WOULDN'T it be good idea to entice
Vennor down TO the Inauguration? Then
when he is here we can pay up old
scores.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

PRESIDENT GARFIELD will have the
largest Cabinet ever known in the United
States if he appoints all the members
proposed by friends who volunteer their
aid in filling up its ranks
National Republican., 1880-12-30

GENERAL MCCLELLAN has not declined
the presidency of the Underground Rail-
way of New York. OF course not. When
itcomes to digging the General is in his
element
National Republican., 1880-12-30

Jusr as the country is counting John
Kelly among the dead of the late battle,
he arouses himself and declares that the
fight has just begun. Crippled, but un-
dismayed.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

The NATIONAL REpUBLIcAN will print
complete list Of those receiving callers on
New Years Day in its issue of January !.
All communications giving notice of calls
must be accompanied with the name and
residence of the writers. Send them as
early as possible.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

the ballot-box, disfranchise the Repub-
lican party, trample upon the rights Of
citizenship, and take the lives of citizens
who have insisted upon the sacred rights
of opinion, speech, and suffrage. This, in
brief is its record and il is difficult for any
American citizen who loves the Union,
reveres the Constitution, and desires the
future peace, prosperity, and happiness of
the Nation, to discover any good reason
why the Democratic party should ever
have existed, or why its existence should
be prolonged. Let the thing die, that it
may no longer afflict the Nation.
National Republican., 1880-12-30
The Question An.wered.

"when does acarpetbagger cease to be carpet
baggcr2" queries Northen Goth. Why when he
Joins the Democratic party. Ask q harder one
Memphis Audidnche (Dem)
National Republican., 1880-12-30

THE Sunny South is now wrestling with
The north end of the North Pole.
National Republican., 1880-12-30
Too True

Republicans In the Southern States know al
about boycOtting, They've been there, and the
are there yet-DdnpWc (ky) Tribune (Rsp)
National Republican., 1880-12-30
Murder VIII Ont

w ohts
That the settlement of the Halifax fish
cry dispute in no degree fattered Ameri-
can sagacity and shrewdness we are not
prepared to dispute. John Bull, or his
provincial representatives rather got the
best of Uncle Sam in that treaty, and we
have always thought that the result was,
to some extent, case of conscience on
the part of this Government. We had
Jared well, and better, perhaps, than we
really deserved in the settlement Of the
Alabama claims, and hence were more
generous than we otherwise would have
been on the Halifax fishery question. 1t
now appears that the Canadians are q
little disturbed in their consciences over
the award received by them under that
treaty. 1t is now said that Professor
Henry Youle Hind, the compiler of
the analytical index to the docu-
ments of the Halifax Fisheries Com
mission, declares that, in order to
make it appear that the value of the
fisheries to the Canadian people was
greater than it really was, the statistics
laid before the Commission were falsified
for period covering twenty-five years,
the evident purpose being to cheat the
United States. The document which was
thus prepared and presented to the COM
mission has never been printed in the
proceedings of the Halifax arbitration,
and its circulation was exceedingly linz
tied. Some copies are in existence, how
ever and Professor Hind has repeatedly
urged the Governor-General to make
what reparation is possible to the United
States by causing an inquiry in Parlia-
ment, by punishing the guilty official or
officials, and then laying the whole sub
ject in an official form before our Govern
ment. The Canadian authorities are a
little tardy in coming to time under the
information of the Professor, and he now
threatens to send the documents in ques-
ton to Washington. He characterizes
the papers as showing beyond all doubt
or .cavil" the intention to cheat and
swindle. Our Government should thank
the Professor for teaching it that its
credulity has been too large for its hat
National Republican., 1880-12-30
Fort Sun,t.r,s s,,ot

The ssot that hit Fort sumter glanced through
the heart OF slavery. That institution died-aRd
all the North and South now rejoice that II is
dead.-MOnt1OmerU NuR
National Republican., 1880-12-30

MOTHER suIproN's year is at hand.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

THE Burdett-Coutts affair is near its
consummation, and still the lady stands
by her sweetheart, and will marry the
young American to whom she has given
her love, though her friends decaim
against it and her income suffers
n frightful impairment thereby. This is
really an instance Of the hcroism of love,
just rs fine in its way asanything ascribed
to the days of chivnlry Modern lovers
should make the Baroness their patron
saint.
National Republican., 1880-12-30

The Brooklyn school-houses have been
thoroughly fumigated during the holiday
recess. This is an excellent idea, as any
one who has been school boy will say.
The nose has wonderful memory, and
the stale, musty, unwholesome, and un-
healthy smell of a closed-up school-build-
ing once smelt is never forgotten. 1t lives
in the memory. 1t is not too late yet to
give our buildings good airing at least
National Republican., 1880-12-30

WAsHINeroN--"A winter city,"
National Republican., 1880-12-30

"LEr's talk about the weather"
National Republican., 1880-12-30

ACCORDING to the last stock exchange
list from Frankfort, where the securities
of almost every nation are largely dealt
in, the following are the official quo
National Republican., 1880-12-30

WASHINGTON. D. G, DECEMBER 30. 1850.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-01-17
The Sensitive Plant.

The idea Of subiccting this remarkable
plant TO the action Of anWsthctics was ma
tural, and several experiments OF the kind
arc recorded, the plant having been placed
IN vapors of ether or ChlorSfOrm Recently,
hr. Arloing has made some interesting
observations of the effects OF chora, chic
rOiOrn, and ether presented for absorption
at the roots. The pots were sprinkled with
aqueous solutions of these substances, then
covered 20 prevent escape Of the vapors.
After absorption of Chloroform or ether.
one notes primary and secondary effects:
the former are phenomena of cxcitatiop si-
milar to those arising from mechanical irri-
taiOn, and comparable TO those in animals
when anmsthetzed. They occur sucessivelv
from the bottom to the top Of the stem. In
thirty TO sixty minutes the common petIOles
Cor leaf stems) straighten and the leaflets
separate, beginning from the top OF the
stem; but the plant is now found TO have
lost its sensiblity. The secondary effects
consists Of elimination Of the anmsthctic
The scnsibilty often does not return for
one and a-half or two hours Chloral does
not act anwsthctically ON the sensitive
plant. These observations afforded NJ
ArlOing an opportunity Of asccrtaining We
lociiy Of liquids in the stem and branches Of
plants under strictly physiological condi-
tions whereas past experiments ON the sub
jcct have been made with withcred or mu-
tilaicd plants. If the leaves are i'm rood
state, the common pctiOlcs bend down sud
denly and succcssivcly from below upwards
/ in the plant as the absorbed chloroforn
reaches them. Hence, knowing the di-
I mcnsions Of the plant the velocity
Of the choroformizcd water in
the stem and primary pctiolos can be casi y
calculated. Within The stem, the velocity
is modified by the state Of the tissios and
foliage, the temperature, &c; it was found
in different cases, at the rate Of O.9O met
rc7, 222 metres, 2.4u metres, and =. rs
mc'rc per hour The velocity increases
fr'm ae base 90 the top of the stem in the
rn'D of ~ l.25 or 80, and it is one and
% haii times or twice as great bon the pctioles
as i'm the stem The time Of absorption by
the roots was found to vary from two TO
six and half minutes.