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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-29
HARRIET REPORTS.
Wholesale Grain and Produce marks.
CORRECTED DATLY.1

CORRECTED DAILY.1
CHRONICLE OFFICE,
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct g, 1880.
Demand for wheat more active, with
some advance; prime grades of white, 95a
$l.00; red, 95a$, DOL; FuHz, g.
But little corn is offered; new 33a35e.
Oats are scarce and in good demand.
Bacon and lard scarce and, wanted at
full prices.
Field seeds are offered freely by our
merchants. Clover $5.0OaS5.50; timothy
So Is, red top SLIGO and orchard grass s. 90
per bushel.
Country cured Bacon, mono in market
sides, 94al0c; hams, 10a111c; shoulders, 7c.
Lard, country, buying at saSac; selling at
9!a10c; city rendered. 81a9c
OATs-New, 30a35c.
PoTAToEs--.Loose, scarce, 40a50c. per
bushel.
BRAN-75a8Oc pei. 100 pounds.
but prices unchanged. We quote 2a2Bc.
Peaches, receipts light, dull, 5a53c.
Blackberrles firm at 6aG3.
FLoUR-Nominal; country oxira, buy
ing, dull, $2Ooa2. Is; selling. 50 5Oa2 is
per sack; family. buying, 22.50a2. rs F.;
selling, 81 75a3.C0 per sack.
FEATHERs-Advancin prime, 44a45c;
miz 81, Z0a25o.
BUTTER Choice roll. 12aI5c; prime,
6a10c; grease butter. 5a7c.
EaGs-Buying lower lac.
PoULTRY-Live, Hens, SC. per lb
BOOSTERS, &c; Turkeys, sc; young chick
ems, &c per lb.
kAGs-Cotton, lie.
BE sswAx-20c per pound
EIDEs-Dry flint, 13al4; green. 63a7c.
TALLow-4a43c.
| FLAX SEED-Per bushel, SOC.
BRAss-lOal2c.; Copper, 10s12c.
WooL-Dull and lower. We quote
choice tub-washed, 374ci fair to good 35c;
| dark coarse 3Oc; unwashed 224a25c.
GIEsEEG-Fall, 81 25al35.
SENECA SEAKR-25a30c.
PINK RooT-I5c.
YELLOW RooT-SIa4c.
| LADY SLIFPER-2c.
MAY APPLE-13c.
BLUE FLAG-2a24c.
BLOOD RooT-2c.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-29
CHEERING.
Peftibone StiIIAheasi.

JoNEsBoRo' Tenn, Oct 81, 1880.
Mr.. EDITOR: The republicans are In
excellent spirits. The outlook is bright.
Col. Wilson, the loW-taX democratic can
didate for governor, addressed our citizens
yesterday, on the political issues of the
day. He made strong speech and from
his standpoint, Gen. Wright, the other
democratic candidate, has no chance to be
elected. 1t afforded the republicans no
little amusement to hear simon pure
democrats pitching into one another.
Col. Wilson is good speaker and very
pl easant gentleman. l am told he made
some converts among the democrats of the
Wright wing of the party. The truth is,
the democratic party is greatly demorali-
zed. There is confusion in its ranks
They expect defeat and they deserve it,
too. They are constantly crying fraud,
when in fact, they are daily and hereby
practicing the greatest kind of fraud.
Some time ago a few republicans ex.
pressed desire to vote for Taylor for
congress, where upon their names were
proclaimed from every stump and found
in every democratic paper in the district.
Those men become disguised with such
treatment. They had no desire to be
advertised in any such way. The result
is, the democratic party must depend upon
itself. Ignomineous defeat awaits it. Its
leaders have committed so many ludierous
plumbers that many sensible men are
leaving the party. Nothing but the solid
south policy holds it together.
Hon. w. FL. Maxwell in his speech last
night, asked this question, "who are the
leaders of the democratic party in this
country?' This question fell like a thun-
der bolt upon his audience.
The Garfield and Arthur club had a
grand old.fashioned revival, MaxwelFs
speech made splendid impression. The
republicans are rejoicing. The good
work is going on. Every man at his
post, and the battle cry is, 'bOys, vote as
you shot" The old First is all ablaze
with enthusiasts. Cup, and at them
boys" is the pass word. CIvIs
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From the First District.
ELIzABETHToN, Oct,

ELIZABETHTON, OcL, 70.
Mr.. EDITOR 1t was decided last
night that both the republicans now
running for the house of commons in
this district, Carter end Johnson
should retire and Hon. r. r. Butler
take the track. Both gentlemen
agreed to it. This not only secures a
number one member from these
count es, but also adds. at least
200 votes to Pettibone, as there would
undoubtedly have been swapping
among the friends of these gentlemen.
/ have been over the two counties
pretty thoroughly, and you may set
them down for Pc tjbone by at least l :
400. Some men of influence say 900
and /, 700. I met, yesterday afternoon,
in short ride, seven men who voted
for Mr.. Taylor two years ago and five
of them will now vote for Pettjbone.
This is tue state of things in both
counties. In haste yours,
@ TRAVELLER
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THE CANVASS I'm UNION
COUNTY.
The Republican Fires Burn
Brightly.


Brightly.
A lively canvass has been progress
ing in Union county this week. On
Tuesday Horace Foster, Esq, spoke to
large audience at Lead Mine Bend,
on Clinch river. The same evening,
VIM. Rule and eur next state senator,
L. Huddleston, addressed a large au-
dience at Cedar Ford church. They
went to Wits school house Wednes-
day, where they aud Mr..
Foster addressed very large
audience in the glorious old ninth dis
trict of Union county which votes 40
republican to about dozen democratic,
sometimes less. The republicans there
are wide awake and will give good
report of themselves next Tuesday.
From there we proceeded to Pin Hook
and were met there by torch light
procession, at tne head of which was
the old battle flag Of the End Tennessee
cavalry, carried by Lee Trick,
whose father carried it in the
war for the union and who gave his
life as a sacrifice to the cause. The
crowd present was very large and the
enthusiasm unbounded. Among those
who assisted in getting up this mag
nificent demonstration were Capt: j.
G. McCrary, g. W. Evans, Esq., r. l..
Sharp, s. l.. Butcher, Jas Sharp, Sam.
Smith, Sheriff VIM. Cakes, Jno. A.
Smith, Josiah Smith and others. It
was ereditable display in every partic-
ular. Speeches were made by Mr.. Rule
Mr.. Huddleston, Horace Foster and
Col. Thornburgh. After the speaking
there was treat to twenty bushels of
apples. 1t was one of the largest and
most enthusiastic meetings that has
ever been held in Union or any other
county in East Tennessee. Look out
for the largest majority ever given the
republican ticket in Union county,
from Garfield down.
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To the Republicans OF Carter
and Johnson.

We, the undersigned, candidates for
the lower house Of the legislature,
having learned that it is the desire Of
the republicans of the state, that as
there is United States IS natOr to he
elected and the state to be redistricted
both for congress and state senators
and representatives, by the next legis-
lature, and believing that r. r. Butler
should be a member of said legislature
on account of his lorg experience as q
legislator and his acknowledged ability
and extensive influence, and we both
desiring the success and prosperity Of
the republican party, do respectfully
withdraw from the canvass and ask
Judge Butler to become candidate,
pledging him our support and ask our
friends ID do likewise and give him q
hearty support. j. NJ. ROBERTS,
..t l.. F. HYDER.
Elzabethion Tenn, Oct. Goth, 1880.
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Strange Idea, Isn'tIG?
Communicated I

In the last democratic procession I OBJ
served one colored man and several coll
ored boys. Why had they not been
excluded, if, as you say the principle of
the democrats is ''no African need
apply.n Or did all the thousands of
colored people not want to apply? If all
the colored people of the United south
wourd not want to apply. and would take
it in their abstinite heads to 60 their own
way, and vote their own way, probably
with the white republicans of the south,
and in spite of the united south, don't
you think we could after the election, hear
something of that disunited south!
Strange idea, isn't it.. rs
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-29
To the Republicans OF Garter and
Johnson.

DR.. Roberts and Mr.. Hyder having
declined the race for the Legislature and
solicit I'd me to become q eandidats land
many of the leading republicans of
the ststs having recently requested
me to become a candidats on account
Of the election of United States sem
ator Iedistricting Of the stat, and the
seeming anxiety Of my old friends to
have me in the next Legislature,
therefore announce myself as candi-
date, promising my friends to do all
within my power to make them
good and efficient representative, II
elected. Il. Il. BUTLER.
Elizabethton, Oct. 25th, 1880.
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C. 8. MORRIS
Brownsville, W. '
why Il Woman Can Not Shoot
Straight.
Galveston News.

A tramp gave woman living in the
suburbs of Galveston some impudence. So
she rushed in and came out again with a
shot gun. She did not see the tramp at
first, but he rushed out into the street in
plain view, and told her to shoot, which
She did, and missed him, of course. He
went up the street smiling and remarked
to his confederate: ''That was close
call. If she had fired without seeing
where I was she would have plugged me
certain, but as soon as she drawed down
on mel felt that my time hadn't come
Yet. I've been there five times before,
1t is singular that it is impossible for a
woman to fire off gun without shutting
her eyes and turning her head away.
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Mount St. Joseph's Academy
BOARDING SCHOOL,
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
Notice.

pY VIRTUE OF FOUR EXECUTIONS Is
~ sued from the chanoery court of Knox
Nabb We. J. M. McCampbell ct al, will on Sat
urdsy. the 30th day OF October. 1880, in front
the court house door in the city of Knoxville,
the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand. the
following described property, to.wit: One tract
of land lying in the 7th civil district of Knox
county, Tennessee. and bounded as follows: Be
ginning at a postoak, J. c. Mynatt's corner
thence perth As West % poles to stone, thenee
IS east II poles to a white oak near the ditch,
thence south 10 west poles to dogwood, thence
south 81 east 81 poles to a postoak, thence north
east 46 poles to postoak in PalsOn Elkin,s line,
thence south Al west with said ElkIn's line
l22 peles to stone, thence north 80 west TO an
elm, thence north 26 to an ASH thence 81 west to
the beginning, said land being levied on as the
property of said j. III. McCampbell to satisfy the
above mentioned executions.
This Sept. 22nd. 1880:
0ct6w4s W. +. GIBBS. Deputy Sheriff
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-29
A Wise Deacon.

deacon Wilder, want you to tell
me how you kept yourself and family
we'll the past season, when all the rest
of us have been sick SO much, and
have had the doctors visiting US so
often" -.-.-.s --
"Brc. Taylor, the answer is very
easy I used Hop Bittars in time;
kept my family we'll and saved the
doctor bills. II rec dollars worth of it
kept US we'll and able to work all the
time. I'll warrant it has cost you and
the neighbors one to two hundred dol
lars apiece to keep sick the same time"
deacon, I'll use your medicine
| hereafter"
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Atlanta Market,
Atlanta Constitution, Oct. %.


fancy. 6.25.
BAcoN-Tennesseos sid lO3 sa1 2111c: sugar cured
hams 13Ia14c; breakfast bacon, 121zalSc.
BULK MEATs-Clear rib sides S1ss9,.
LARD-Terces los; kegs and cans 1910.
WHEAT-Kentucky. choite, S116@1.1S per
bushe1.
OATs-52c per bushel.
HAY-Timothy, ST. 20a1.25; mixed, 81 .10al.l5.
CORN-White, e8, in sacks; yellow, CSC.
MKAL-6Sc.
PHAs-Stock. 50a66c per bushel.
PeTATOEs-Irish, Tennessee. new, S2.00a2. Is
per Dbl; sweet. 65a7tc per bushel.
ONIONs- Tennessee. Si0Oa$I,50 per Dbl.
EGGs-Per dozen, l6a17c.
BUTTER-Tennessee. choice, 25c.
PouLTRY-Frying Chickens, 20a22]zc; hens,
25a27c.
BKEswAx-20c.
FRATHERs-New Choice white 50.
DRIED FRyIT-Pealed peaches, 10al3X I'M
pealed, 414c; apples, 2a3H.
LIVE STocK-Cattle, Tennessee choice 3Kc
Sheep, Tennessee, $40.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-29

The GREAT REMEDY FOR COUGH
AND CONSUMPTION ALIENS LUNG
BALsAM will break up the most dis
tressing cough in a few hours time,
without fail. 1t is making cures of
many cases of consumption which
were considered incurable.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers
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SOLE AGENT,
400 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

Since the introduction of this Spool Cotton
into the American market, its success has
been unprecedented No other brand of
thread has ever met with the same amount
of public favor in the same space of time.
The so. N. T." manufacturers were the
first to recognize the importance of the Sew
ing Machine and to make six-cord cotton,
which has ever since been the recognized
standard for machines.
All the improvements in machinery that
the inventive genius of the nineteenth Gen.
fury has produced have been adapted by the
manufacturers of 90. N. IT," aE.sre
At all the great International Fairs of the
world, 80. N. t." has been awarded the
highest honors.
The 40 N. t." factories at Newark, N. J.
and Paisley, Scotland, employ $500 opera
tives-make sufficient thread daily to 90 o.
round the world four times.
Consume 140 tons of coal daily.
The manufacturers of 80. N. T. are the
largest manufacturers of Spool Cotton in the
world.
full assortment CT this Spool Cotton can
be had at wholesale and retail at
ALVIN BARTON'S.
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You want the election IT turns and
consequently the DAILY CHRONICLE.
Thirty-fve cents for two weeks.
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what Eminent Physicians Say

What Elninent FhysIcLans say
Colden's LIEBIG'S LIQUID EX>
TRACT OF BEEF is particularly use
ful in dipbt1eria, ague. malarial, ty-
phoid fever, and every depressing dis
ease. We have prescribed it with ex-
cellent success. J. e. Leslie, M. D.;
G. P. Copp, M. D.; s. B. Pyrsons, NJ.
D., all of st. Louis.
Sold by Sanford, Chamberlain &
Albers, and Hunter s. Co.
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rs STRONGLY ENDORSED.

Rev. E. F. L.GAUss, Galena, Ills, writes-"For
over ten years ave been a great sufferer from
pains in the small of the back and region of the
Kidneys which was most excruciating and at
times almost inSutferable. DOctOring brought
no reliei, and was finally advised to go abroad
and seek the climate of my youth. In Germany
and Switzerland, eminent physicians, after close
examinations, declared my SutferingS to arise
from disease of the Kidneys OF long standing and
could do no good. l was however benefited by
S me, climate and consequently returned No
Soohef mad been back and began my pastoral
as to mea the old trouble grew again SO intense
% W H it ME burden. 4 few months ago l
SANE Gd1t mo possession of one of DAYS Kidney
5aqS' put II on and the effects were truly won
after wearing the second Pad afra u co orc oj
there can be no doubt but that am enipeIT chr
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health. write this perfectly Voluntarily, and #
Is dictated only by truth and gratitude Indeed
consider the Day Kidney Pad Co Gods agents
and great benefactoIs of mankind. May ali the
suffering be helped as have been is my earnes
wish"
MRS. R. L. SPORE, SvARoN, IWIs-"The doc
tors had given nv mother up with what they
called BrightS Disease. She is now wearing
p ageS, pap. gaining strength, and improving
IA Elaa1R NdORE & DEAN Druggists, Niles. Mich.
ba avn years in buSineSS)-"DayS Kidney Pad is
factoS fha %ge sale and gives better general salts
CISpEp9l I u 3ly remedy we ever SOld.'
az 45 5J EN- mElIZEI4, Policeman Lancaster, Pa.
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CAIITI0N Owing to the many worthless
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Live STOCK Markes.
TCoRRECTED DAILY.1

Live STOCK Market.
CORRECTED DAILY.1
Reported for the CHRoNIoLs by Jones.& Lee
Caldwell, Butchers.
KNOXVILLE, Oct. %.
REVIEW.
Cattle in good supply. Hogs in demand
tor October. Sheep scarce.
.. BEEF CATTLE.
No. &c; good fat, 19a24c; medium, 13c;
common, dull.
HOGS.
Gross, 4a43c; net 5a53c.
SHEEP.
No. 1, 2!c; common, &c; common l4a2c.
.. CALVES.
$3.50 to $500. sccording,to quality.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-29
AT THE HOTELS.
List OF Arrivals i'm the City
The following is list of arrivals at
the city hotels for Oct. 28th:
HATTIE HOUSE.

j W Crumley, A T Love, johnson City.
Boyd's Creek. F Lafferty, F Scruggs,
Morristown. S 7 Blair. w l. Day, Lou
don, j L Lewis, Cum berland county.
W Shepard, Buffalo, n Y. j E Dagger,
Philadelphia. L f Woodruff Ga. b a
Cliff. Chas r Benson, F Owen, Sweet
water. John Anderson, Ormond, Fla. w
T Roberts, Bristol. E McClanahan, S 7
Devices, So Elk Co. V N Smith, Tom
Slower, Athens. VIM Allen, Campbell
county. d 81 Taylor, Washington. ia:
F Wheeler, Jacksboro Geo Fl Herson, N
Y. RW Cohoone, Newark, N. J. w r
Turner, Sevierville. S S Lloyd, j S Crary,
Charleston. N Haworth, Detroit. F A
Harris Toronto
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GBt Chilly GBro'ritlt,
THE DAILY CHRONICLE.
Rates Of Advertisinr

Per month. by carrier or by MALL. rs
Per year by mail. 90
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Retail Iron Market.

Retail Iron Market.
KNOXVILLE, Oct. %, 1880.
TIRE IRoC-Two horse, per pound, 81
cents; One horse, per pound. cents.
NAILs-Per keg rates S400; per pound,
Scents.
HORSE SHoEs-Per Reg, $500; turned
10c each.
HORSE SHOE NA11s-Per pound, 2Oa25c.
HARROW TEETH-Per pound, 54a53 cents.
HoLLowARE-Per pound, Sc.
GLAss-Common size. per box, 49, 5s
$500.
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ATKTN HOUSE.

Rev r 81 Graves, Baltim ore. II G Neal.
Philadelphia. T Mofett. Plainfeld, N j
DR. Joel Smith and lady, Coal Creek. s A
Marshall, Chattanooga. D { Legg, Man
ming, S G. T d Caldwell, j w Doug
lass, Sol Caldwell, Sam Kennedy, Straw
berry Plains. j j Barnes, Texas. Henry
Cree, Troy. Ala. d Heis. N Y. 81 W
Hope, Lenoir's. Geo j Wardwell, Rut-
land, VT w L Mcfarland, Bristol. @
A linton ,Tr London
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Rates Of Advertising.
II lines solid ENnpareil constitute one inch.
One inch each insertion. 90
az Special rates on application for advertise
ments by the year or month
Local Notices Is cents per line each insertion.
City Notices 10 cents per line first insertion.
All advertisements due after first insertion.
yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Al
other advertisements payable on demand after first
insertion.
WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
One year. 90
Clubs Of Twenty, or over, per copy. 90
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LAMAR HOUSE.

w S Tranmell, Chas Hill, Bristol. S W
Shields, Morristown. j F johnson, r
Pritchard, r K Robinson, MadisonVille.
FL A Fraser, Sewer county. M s Russell,
j G Cox, Avery Gamble, Louisville. Ed
D Brown, Jos Raphael, n Y. B Cobb, 4
Brice, Knox county. l G Grant, Concord.
s W Jarnagin, Blain's z Roads. James
White, Rogersville. S Grstz, N 7.
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Teas,
Spices.
Canned Goods.
aHGEes,

GrOceFs' Dr1Ss.
Indigc,S.F.p n S5aS1 OF
Madras 75a l OF
Dutch Madder la Il
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-07

EQUALIZATION OF HOMEsTEADs.
bill for the equalization of homesteads,
which passed the senate last week, was
introduced by Senator Paddock, of Ne
braska, and is as follows:
Be 1T enacted, etc. That every person
entitled, under the provisions OF Section
2,2S9, Chapter 5, Revised Statutes of the
United States, to enter homestead, who
may have heretofore entered under the
homestead laws quantity of flands less
than 100 acres, shall be permitted to en-
ter SO much land as, when added to the
quantity previously entered, shall not ex-
ceed 100 acres; provided that when such
additional entry cannot be made OF lands
contiguous to the original entry of the
applicant, he may select lands elsewhere
within the State or Territory in which
his or her homestead is located; but we
shall not be entitled to patent therefor
without satisfactory proof at the General
Land Office of the planting and continu-
Gus cultivation of crops or forest or fruit
trees on an area eff the same equal to one
acre for each forty acres thereof during
the period of three years, and all assign
ments and transfers of the rights hereby
secured and all contracts to assign or
transfer such right made prior to the is
sue of the patent shall be null and void;
and provided, further, than any person
who has entered less than l6O acres may
if he so elect, surrender his original en-
try to the United States for cancellation,
and thereupon be entitled to enter lands
under the Homestead laws, the same as
if the surrendered entry had not been
made.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-07

LITIGATION OVER THE SPRAGUE Es-
TATE.-The great Sprague case has at last
found tribunal before which it can be
heard, Judge Potter, of the Rhode Island
Supreme Court, having qualified after
considerable efforts. He was trustee of
some estates which included Sprague
paper, and his brother held stocks in
several Providence banks that were in
terested in the floating notes of the once
famous house. The creditors of the
Sprague estate propose now to test the
validity of Mr. q. Chafee's title as the
trustee of the large property which re-
presents, perhaps, value OF $40, ,OO0, 600.
The entire affair is somewhat grotesque
in its huge confusion. The nominal
owners of the estate have formerly treat
ed it as a family concern, and no one
knows what proportion, if any, may be-
long to the various members of the fami-
ly. The creditors on the other hand, are
indignant that for years they have receiv-
ed no dividends, no interest, and no ac-
count such as they think themselves en-
titled to. Mr.. Chafee, the trustee, mean
while, has administered the estate to suit
himself. He has paid very little atten-
ton to the brothers sprague, and he ap-
parently believes in the principle thatposs-
ession is nine points of the law. He has
once or twice been, asked to resign his
position as trustee but calmly answered
that he could not very we'll entertain
such proposition. Nor has any court
thus far succeeded in making the slight
est impression upon his confusion
Boston AdUertiser.