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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Prof Proctor is 43 years old.
George Eliot is better She is
spending the winter in London.
Harvard University has in its libra
nv a set of Goethe's works which he
himself presented.
Prof. F. Blass of Kiel has discovered
on sheet of Egyptian parchment a
fragment of one of the plays of Eurip-
ides.
Mr. Black has written a novel dealing
with the secret political associations of
the day, called g Sunrise; a story of the
Times"
Ole Bull now resides at Cambridge,
Mass. He is a near neigbbor of Long
fellow, and has dedicated composition
for the violin to the poet.
Mark Twain tells new joke about
Artemus Ward never before in print.
Ward said to Twain one day, 81 have
done too much fOOling, too much tri-
fling; am going to write something
that will live Clemens asked him
what it would be, and Artemus an
swered promptly, "a lie"
Henry w. Longfellow's seventy
third birthday is to be celebrated in
Cincinnati on the 9th of February
proximO by $4,000 pupils of the public
schools. The great poet expresses his
regrets that he can not prepare special
poem for the occasion, but he gives the
children some excellent advice in prose.
Formerly women never were in-
vited to any notable banquet or break
fast. At the authors breakfast, given
to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his seven
tieth birthday, woman in literature was
recognized for the first time on such a
grand occasion. Some twenty lady con-
tributors to the Atlantic Monthly were
present among the great Yankee litera-
ry lights.
Comparatively, books in the Nine
teenth Century are cheap. In A. ID.
600, the King of Northumberland gave
800 acres of land for history of the
world; and Countess of Anjou once
gave 200 sheep and large parcel of
furs for volume of homilies, and 120
crowns for single book of Livy! In
1920 Latin Bible was valued at $3.50;
and this was time when two arches of
London Bridge were built for less than
$3.50. A labOrer's wages in the Eight
zenith Century were so small that the
earnings of Is years had been necessary
to buy the Bible; and, the Bible being
in Latin, he could not have read it after
all.
Edward Everett Hale wrote a New
Years article on how to read books.
He has been investigating libraries and
he finds that the first volume of Sc
rieS on history or science is generally
pretty well worn, the second less so, the
third not so much damaged as the sec
Ond, the fourth in better preservation
still, and the last volume generally as
good as new. Mr.. Hale detects in this
state of things a series Of good resolu-
tons broken. Many attempt the course
of study, few are faithful to the end.
The suggestion given in this article is
for a club of say three to take up, for
instance, one of Macaulay's Essays.
Each is to read the essay and jot down
on a slip of paper any thing that is not
understood, and these jottings can be
conned over and discussed at a weekly
meeting OF the three.
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NEST AND sourHWEsr.

News was received at the War Department
on the 18th that the Indians at Mesealero
Agency, New Mexico, were threatening seri-
Gus trouble and that Gen. Pope had ordered
all the available troops inthe southern part of
the Territory to march thence at once. The
renegade Apache Indians under Morrow
have also returned from Mexico to their old
haunts and are liable to resume their raids
upon settlers.
Capt. W. G. Wilson, leader Of the band of
the National Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, on
the night of the 18th shot both his wife and
himself. Both were dead when found.
Cause, domestic troubles.
At Davenport, Iowa, on the 18th, Alice
Webb, aged rs, was fatally burned by her
clothing taking fire from lamp. She died
within two hours.
Quite an extensive riot occurred in the vi
cinity of the Chicago stock-yards and pack
ing houses on South Halstead Street, on the
18th, caused by the attack of striking butch
ers upon non-Union Een as well as some
Union men who had gone to work after a
months idleness. A large number were
badly beaten, and finally If was necessary to
send some 200 policemen to the ground to
hold the mob in check.
An extensive strike of coal miners, en-
bracing nearly the entire bituminous region
in Pennsylvania and Ohio, has been inaugu
rated.
Senator Lamar had a stroke of paralysis at
his home in jackson, Miss, on the 18th. His
condition, although declared not dangerous
by his physicians, was such as to give his
friends grave apprehension.
A most terrific hurricane prevailed
throughout Oregon and Washington Terri
received until nearly week later, ON account
of the total interruption of telegraphic COM
munication vita San Francisco. AT Portland
many buildings were blown down and one
man was killed, and at Umatilla, Astoria,
Vancouver, Salem, and other places more or
less damage was done.
A dispatch from Fargo, D. T., 18th, said
that the Dakota Division of the Northern
Pacific Railroad had been completely block
AIDED by snow and ice for a week past.
Senator Lamar had a stroke of paralysis at
his home in jackson, Miss, on the 18th. His
condition, although declared not dangerous
by his physicians, was such as to give his
friends grave apprehension. s -
The Louisville (Ky.) Savings-bank sus-
pended payment on the 18th, caused by a
deficit in the accounts of the Cashier, Mr.. J.
H. Rohrer, to the amount Of $4,000. Mr..
Rohrer is GO years of age and is one Of the
largest stockholders in the Bank. The Di-
rectors will make good the deficit.
A negro named Charles Smith, charged
with arson, was hanged by amob at Walton,
Ky, on the 14th.
Abe Rothschild, the convicted murderer
of Diamond Bessie" has been granted a
new trial by the Texas Supreme Court.
Major Morrow's command had another
brush with Victoria's Apachos on the 18th,
striking them at the head of the Rio Puerco
in New Mexico and driving the savages
towards the Animas, where Morrow expect
ed TO again come up with them. Sergeant
Gross and one Indian scout Of Morrow's
command were killed and several hostilos
were killed and wounded.
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Odds and Ends.
Missing men-Bad marksmen.
AN active tool never grows rusty.
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Missing men-Bad marksmen.
AN active tool never grows rusty.
An old march-The march of time
All bellies wait for the wedding
rings.
Working between meals is what
wears out the tramp.
When man falls down his temper
generally gets up before he does.
The most eminent liars of Reno col
lected few DAYS ago and the result is
as below: Beck said he had seen it so
cold in Ohio that it froze babies in the
cradle. Tom Hymers said he had seen
it in Thomas's Canyon freeze the mer-
curry, and said you could not 60 within
six feet of spirit thermometer without
running it up five or six degrees with
the heat of the body, so he couldn't tell
how cold it was. Ben Bacon said a cold
snap came along when he lived AT Green
Bay and froze the waves standing right
up on end and the air full of spray and
Finley Cook said it was so cold the
winter he lived in Minnesota that when
he threw basin of water out of the
door it turned into little balls of ice be-
fore it struck the ground.
Every town has its mean man, and
ours was no exception to the rule. Enus
Smuggs, our next door neighbOr, was
remarkable for his closeness and invent
i've genius. The other day he wanted
to purchase ton of egg coal, and, bor-
rowing the morning paper from US, he
read it till he found out where it could
be bought for the least money. The only
thing that troubled him was how to get
it into his back yard without any labor
or expense. There was large alley
way between our houses which led to
Enus's yard, and when the coal ar
rived he opened the door, and walking
up few feet he drove an old broom
stick into the ground and put a large
bottle ON the top. He was waiting in
the yard with a shovel in his hand when
three small boys came along and opened
fire on the bottle with the pieces of
coal. In half an hour the sidewalk was
cleared and the coal safely slowed away
in the shed, and then old Enus, grinning
from ear to ear, sold the bottle to junk
man.-Danbstry Nes0S.
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The distress in ireland is increasing.
Thousands are on the brink of starvation
The streets of Cork are patrolled by mounted
police, and the magistrates of the city passed
resolutions urging greater activity in sup
pressing demonstrations partaking Of the
nature of bread riots, and asking for the APP
pointment of additional police. Liberal
contributions are being made TO the Duchess
of Marlborough relief fund, which already
exceeds e17,0O0.
Gambetta, Republican, has been re-elect-
ed President Of the French Chamber Of
Deputies.
A cablegram from st. Thomas says news
has arrived of terrible floods on the Island
of st. Kits, by which 200 lives have been
lost, property to the extent of $500
destroyed, and the whole island deyas-
tated.
Rev. Albert Bushnell, the first American
missionary to the western coast of Africa
died at Sierra Leone on Dec. 2 last. Mr..
Bushnell was a native Of Rome, Oneida
County, n. Y, and went out as missionary
in 1913. He was very influential in pro-
curing the abolition of the slave trade
and ameliorizing the condition of the ma
tives.
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and papers, and will commence its labors at
once.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
on the 18th began an investigation into the
causes Of the recent Ute outbreak. Gen.
Adams and Miss Meeker were the first wit
nesses called. The testimony is not made
public.
The Senate Committee on Territories hav-
ing referred to a subcommittee, composed
Of Senators Vest, Butler and Logan, the
question Of the organization Of the Indian
Territory into a Territorial Government,
the latter, after several sessions, have
directed Senator Vest to pre-
pare bill providing for the
establishment of the Territory of Oklahoma,
and the appointment by the President Of the
usual Territorial officers. The legislative
branch Of the proposed Territorial Govern
ment is to consist Of the Colhcil Of 10 men,
bers and the House of 20. Representatives
are apportioned among the several
tribes according to the number of
qualified voters. Any male Indian q
years of age, who has adopted the customs
Of civilized life, will be entitled to vote.
Lands are to be surveyed, and each person
who is member Of tribe occupying res
ervation within the limits Of the Territory is
entitled to a homestead of 100 acres. The
bill repeas all acts granting lands in the
Territory to railroads upon the extin-
guishment of the Indian title, and Sections
16 and So are reserved for school pur-
poses. The committee, it is said, are very
doubtful as to the right Of Congress to dis
posses the Indians of their lands, and they
will endeavor to so frame the bill as to pre-
vent those objections which the Indian tribes
within the Territory have hitherto made
against the organization of a Territorial
form of government, and will endeavor to
protect them in their rights by every means
within the power of Congress.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
have agreed upon report in the Fitz John
Porter case. The majority report, signed by
all the Democrats of the Committee, will
recommend that Porter's disqualifcations
be removed, that he be restored to his
former rank and privileges, and that the
sum of $4,000 be awarded him in
lieu of back pay. The minority report,
signed by the Republicans of the Committee,
agrees in recommending that Porter be re-
stored to his former rank, but without any
compensation for back pay, and also disa-
grees with the assertion of the majority that
injustice was done him through the errone-
GUS finding Of the Court martial by which
he was tried.
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600, the income from which is to be APP
piled to the establishment of a school,
to be called the cease School of APP
piled Science"
The Regents of the University of
California have taken stand against
all secret societies, and will require stu
dents, on entering the institution, to
keep out of them while they remain I'M
der college rule. The decree has occa-
stoned considerable feeling, and will
bear hard on one of the Greek letter So
cieties, which has considerable prop
erty.
Formerly the high schools were re-
garded in Massachusetts with more
favor than the private and endowed
academies and were thought to furnish
better education. Now, according to
President Eliot of Harvard University.
the contrary opinion prevails, and the
academies are multiplying, while the
high school has relatively declined. A
bill has been prepared to be presented
to the next Legislature providing that
any town in the Commonwealth which
is required by law to maintain high
school may, instead thereof, send its
high-school pupils to an academy or
private school, provided there is one
within its bounds which gives competent
instruction of the kind required and
which is not controlled by any religious
sect or denomination.
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Foreign Notes.

The Car has three American de-
tectives at his Capital
The rich Dublin brewer, Sir Arthur
Guinness, has sold his business interest
for S5,000,000.
The rage for mediavalism in Lon
don is greater than ever. The craziest
of the medieval is to write "ye 5" for
''the.n
AT the dinner given to Prof. NOrd-
enksjold at Nagasaki, speeches were
made in English, French, German,
Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, jap
anese and Chinese.
"A celebrated beauty in the time of
Napoleon Bonaparte, Nine. Louise Luz
cerne, has just reached her Tooth year.
She was the friend and rival in beauty
of Nine. Recamier.
Frederick, Duke of Schleswig- Hol-
stein, died recently, in the fifty-frst
year of his age. He was the chief of
the younger branch of his family, in
consequence of the remuneration of his
father. He was Major General of the
Bavarian Army, and was married in
1856 to the Duchess Adelaide, daughter
of the late Ernest, Prince of Hohen-
lohe-Langenburg.
There are few more beautiful seats
in England than Studley Royal, the
residence of the Marquis of Ripon, who,
when Lord De Grey, resided for so long
time at Washington as head of the
Alabama Commission. At the outskirts
of its magnificent park on one side lie
the ruins of Fountain Abbey, that al
most unique specimen of q Cistercian
foundation which transports one into
the full middle ages; on the other side
is the town, astir with the life of the
nineteenth century, lying peacefully I'M
der the shadow of St Wilfrid's Church.
The house, of the style that Thackeray
delighted in, takes us back to the days
of Sir Robert Walpole, of Pope, Addi-
son, Swift, and Arbuthnot.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-22

The statement sometimes made that
the German nobility disdain all trades
but the military one, and think COM
MERGE beneath them, is hardly borne
out by facts. The UOn, equivalent to
the French de as a sign of gentle birth,
is frequently found figuring on the sign
boards of grocers' and apOthecaries'
shops; and few German trade diction-
aries are to be found in which the aris-
tocratic prefix does not occur. A few
days ago there appeared in the Neuer-
ten Ndchrichten of Munich an advertise
ment in which an undoubted noble, the
Count Won Hirschberg, announces that
he has opened a marriage office, and
from his high connections is enabled to
offer those who may favor him with
their custom an unusually rich choice of
advantageous matches.
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Intense COId-Where and How is 1t
Generated!

1t is Il problem of prime Importance,
SAYS that New York Herald, for meteor
ology to determine how and where in
tense cold can be generated. The old
explanation, which refers the phenOme-
non to the chilling effect of the Rocky
Mountains, can not avail, since it is now
well known that a current of air which
passes over a mountain range has its
temperature raised decidedly, and be-
comes fohn-like in its descent. Equally
unavailing, apparently, is it to ascribe
the cold waves to polar agencies and
call them "polar waves" for, as far as
polar research has shown, such Their
mometric enormities are not peculiar to
the Arctic seas, and in the whole OF the
exceptionally severe winter of 1S7S-19
were unobserved by the Swedish expe-
dition when stationed beyond the Arctic
circle, in the very track which these
meteors, if of polar birth, would neces-
sarily take in order to reach the United
States. In all probability, as the Nor
denskjold expedition found, the great
thermometrie wave of the 23d was prop
agated from the northeastern Siberian
UOhdIuS bllJlcH ulo-
lance of less than 1880 miles. 1t is very
far from incredible that wave which
travelled eastward from Manitoba to the
Atlantic in 60 hours could have crossed
the narrow part of the North Pacific,
dividing the Asiatic and American con-
tinents. The observations of the jean
nette, at Wrangell Land, when COM
bined with those of the Vega, will I'M
doubtedly solve this great problem of
American meteorology, and enable us to
trace the normal lines along which the
winter climate of the United States is
developed, as also to discover the indi-
cations of approaching cold waves for
purposes of weather prediction. A
series of weather observations taken
within the polar area will be of immense
value to science in solving this climatic
mystery.
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zens were killed at long range from one of
the vessels. The Legislature of the State has
appropriated money sufficient to equip a
force of 200 militia, which will be sent to dis
perse the marauders.
Prof. Samuel Gardiner, formerly Govern
ment Electrician, and a well known inventor,
died suddenly at Buffalo on the 18th.
Lane Emmons, Treasurer of the Town OF
Everett, Mass, is defaulter to the amount
of $4,000 and has absconded. tits said that
other officials are implicated.
Nat. Smith, negro, confined in the Jail
at Jonesboro, Ca, for an assault upon
woman, was hanged by mob on the night
of the 10th.
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At the recent meeting of the Mary
land teachers, the report of committee
on Greek was read 1t declared that
the language was VIGOROUSLY unpopular
in educational institutions; and it advo-
Gated different mode of teaching, and
a shorter time devoted to its study.
Professor Newell of the State Normal
School said that in his experience young
students We're generally appalled, at the
sight of the Greek alphabet, and only
those who were students in fact ever be-
came enthusiasts in the study.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-22

ANTS are m IRE domestic than man.
These wonderfully intelligent six-footed
communists make forays in flank
marches by columns or by solid pha-
lanx. They believe fully in the 'survi-
val of the fttest, for they exterminate
the lazy by biting them in two. Com
munications are conveyed to one another
by their antenne, and their chief
sense is that of smell. They raid the
haunts of other species, carry away the
pupa, and keep the captured product in
a life of slavery. Beetles are their hens,
and lay eggs for them. A black ant
furnishes a secretion answering to the
dominant race for milk, and this milk
they actually squeeze from their cows.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-22

"A young man, while attempting to
fix misplaced switch " on a young
lady's head in ballroom, stepped on
her dress and wrecked the train"
She told him to conductor to seat and
be more car-ful in future.--W Wheeling
Leader.
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I'm the House of Lords which as
sembles this year there are 20 Marquis
es, of whom II are supporters of Lord
Beaconsfeld's Government: Abereorn,
Abergavenny, Ailsa, Bristol, Butte, Cam
den, Cholmondeley, Exeter, Hartford,
Salisbury, and Winchester. And nine
are opponents: Ailesbury, Anglesey,
Barh Gecently), Lansdowne, Normandy,
Northampton, Queensbury, Ripon, and
Townshend.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-22

"A boys mustache played upon by
the breeze is ike tree uprooted by the
gale, because it is blown down.--N. 0.
Picqualne.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-22

THERE is one thing easy to borrow,
and that we don't want-trOuble.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-11
THE DEVOURING ELEMENTS
The Winds and Waters In a Murder
Gus Mood.
Fragments indicating Wrecked
Vess Is.


LoNa BRANCH, Sept. 9.-For twelve
hours the coast has been swept by a
northeast gale, blowing at the rate of
20 to so miles an hour. Old seamen
say it is the severest gale that has
visited this place since 1854. The
large summer house on the bluff, in
front OF the Florence hotel, was
broken up and carried seawards.
The storm has driven away the fugi-
tives who remain at the hotels and two
thitds of the cottagers, who ge L
orally stay until October, have also
departed at the Highlands. The
beach is strewn with +. 4gments of
the broken bathing horses. The
break in the Southern railroad of
New Jersey was red + lay and
trains are running over it. Fears
ale entertained that TIE tide at mid
night will make 3 other w-ehout. A
vessel is repo. ed ashore north
of this place at DC, n G-ose.
The tide is the hiIi;e3t kroNn
for years; washing in shore
thirty feet furthe.' IN usual. Por-
tions of wrecked stuff are being con-
t:nualiy washed up Oh The beach.
The life saving guard has been
doubled. TIE beach is much washed
fiy~y. The Storm inc eases in sever
ity, and at 8 o'clock the wind is
blowing at the rae os sixty miles an
holr. The waves ase breaking over
the ocean pier, bU5 the iron struc-
ture orlv shows SIGHT vibration
At Asbdry park spar and water
tank, apparently belonging to
ve%y la,ge vessel, were
washed ashore tonight, supposed
from the ve~sel wrecked off the shore.
The vessel off of Morgan creek is the
schooner Hattia NJ, with oysters
from Norfolk She will probably
float at high tide.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-11

'NTOxiCATING liquors produce
diarrt u or constipation and a torpid
condition of the liver, resulting in gen.
eral debility and inertness of mind
To overcome this prostration, appeal is
again made to the liquor as a stimu'
liant, ouly to increase the gastric dis
turbance. Tie judlcious application
of such q tonic as Summons Liver
r gulator would strike at the very root
of the evil by correcting the cond.'
ton of the liver, exciting the bowels
TO action, or corr.c ing their looseness,
9 imulating the kidneys aud removing g
ne feeling of general depression, and
with it The craving for liquor.
"Fhis Is to certify that / suffered
wi b the Gastriiis for faur mOnt hs, and
could not be relieved until I procured
De-. Simmons Liver Regulator, and
was entirely cured ir short time.
sc. II. THORNTON,
"Coman's Well, Va"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-11
Ell =.

LrUls1.'-F i7. Sc. t. 1o.-At 2:"0
this .or'.'og ire br. lle Cd5 IN
FInzers toba' CO VIC ks. ire con-
tents being h,rhly c. mbus;%'.le tie
engines fal>l t. III c'l tie flares,
anu the b.;,G h,:ld'ng, I'VE Stories
high, burne out 10 helf al hour.
1t was filled VIII leaf TO ,acco, ard q
large quantity of manufactured plug
was stored in other parts of the
building. Several sharp explosions
from the bursting cf barrels filed
with gasoline, were hearJ during the
fro. n. liL1or state tlat tie es-
tablisamCnt, as it stood, was worth
upwards of 100000, but lie could
not say how much stock was II the
house, but thought there was sornc-
where between 100000 and 100000.
The insura- CO was Sc: 900 or $T2,-
900. Several small buildings ad-
joining were buried involving loss
of $4,000.
CHAnLEsroN, S. c., Sept. 1O.-A
fire last night destroyed Quacken-
bushes steam -four mill, Nos. 120 ;.,li
12S, east Bay street. loss al cut
| $4,000 The brildi, g was insured
for 5000 and the stock for 81, 1000.