Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-21
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must leave TO their idiotism. ..
Our own heart, and not other mems
opinion OF us, form our true honor.
% Ayoung man, of Lodi, Tenn, has
gone crazy overs mania for neckties.
Call him your friend who dares to
tell what he honestly thinks OF. your
society department and home be-
baylor. ~. Ut. it.s "a.
Miss Eleanor Sherman, daughter of
the General, will be married to
navy Lieutenant named Tharkora,
early in May. ldi ..."'H. rd. f.5. .
''i It doesn't hurt a good man to have
his character. investigated; neither
does it hurtla gold coin to try its ring
on the counter. noffw t,.~.
If men would spend in doing good
to othersa quarter Of the money they
spend in doing harm TO themselves,
misery would vanish from the earth.
The vanity Of loving fine clothes
and new fashions, and valuing our
selves by them is one Of the most
childish pieces of folly that can be-
Sir.M. Hale. 1850 .d .-w'.a1 .f H..
E0 Mr.James u. Forbes. an American
btea-grower, residing in the East Indies,
writes that all that is needed is capital
and enterprise. to make tca-growing a
success III Florida. '''-i ."'' -
IT is all bosh to talk of Kelly. wLo
has been bought by the Republicans,
with his fifty thousand Tammanyitcs
Eof debating President to forty mill
ion of peoplc.-[Ex. h..s Ea,. .v
}; Out of l0l Republicans in the New
York Legislature, 46 arc for Grant.
Still the New York Tribune asserts
that the Grant boom is fading away !!
Chattanooga Times" .a'' '' .-
There is probably nothing in this
I ftransitory world that Yields larger and
quicker returns on the amount invest
ed than poking a wasp with your fin
ger TO scerif he feels well. i'm aH, hur
lsThc principal female agent and
angel in the, North Carolina exodus
has drawn fifteen thousand dollars of
the fund from a bank in Kansas on a
forged order, and exodusted with it to
parts unknown. This is the best ar
gument we have yet seen against the
exodus. .t -. ..-. r......
Maior-GenCral Hancock has a farm
of $50 acres Of fine land near Wind
sor, No, which he looks upon as his
homestead, where lac means to pass
the latter years of his life. Before
going into the army he was a citizen
of Missouri, and married in that
State. "''.''''. '.' ..-t
Self-aontrol is one of the highest at
tainments we can ever reach. The
man who can so control his passion,
.his feelings, his emotions, so that they
shall never find untimely or improper
expression in word, is as Christ-likc,
orperfcct, as he can ever be in this
world. aH.,gH. .H.... st.l. an,t..
Cincinnati Enquirer: If the Bay
ards, and the Kernans, and the others
in the Democratic party had not stead
fastly favored the money power and
opposed the people, the Republican
party to-day would not be in possess
sion of eight States in the Union. ,
The oil story FROM Birmingham,
Ala, turns out to be hoax. The
Meridian Mercury saysi The Mobile
Registers correspondent, who nara
ted his fabulous story about the OIL
well at Birmingham, had lost his
almanac, and thought he was writing
first of April goak. ~ I.I ....
Farmers and countrymcn who have
constructed or contemplate the con-
struction of fish ponds, and who de-
sire to stock them with Austrian carp.
should remember for themselves that
these fish arc now being propagatcd
at Washington City, by the National
Fish Commission, for distribution
throughout the country free of
charge. Dose ''l
1t is1 generally supposed that the
roots of grasses do not penetrate very
deep, but these roots have been traced
as far down into the soil as four feet
Persons ploWiug for seeding think
that just ioosening the surface is suffi-
cient, but.if deep blowing is necessary
for any kind of crops it is for grass.
unless the soil has been deeply worked
for other crops.
IN1EtE N N 9sG. .t.H. t.. r.
Iron and steel goods of all dcscrip-
tons can be Kept free from rust BY
! the following: Dissolve i ounce of
/ calnphor in one pound of lard. take
boff dhe scum, and mix as much black
lead with the mixture as will give it
an iron color. Iron, steel, and ma
1chiilery Of all kinds, rubbed over with
this preparation and left on for 81
hours, and then rubbed with linen
! cloth, will keep clean for months If
! the machinery is. for expectation, il
ysloold be Kept thickIy coated with
this during Tic voyage. 3a