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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14
SETH REEVES. City Clerl
No Service.

As the coming Sabbath will close
the labors of Mrs. Van Colt in our
city, it has been thought best to hold
no service at the congregational church
that day-The Sabbath School will be
postponed one Sabbath also.
Ell. y. PHILLEo, S. S. Supt,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14


Mr.. Fl. Fl. Balcomb wishes US to
state for him through the columns OF
the REPORTER, that he can not take
any more pupils for the days Wednes,
dag and Saturday. The hours are
all taken and cannot meder any circuna.
stances give any more lessons on those
days. He has time for three or four
more pupils on Tuesday and Friday
He also states that no one need apply
for one lesson per week as he does not
think it would be of any real benefit
to the pupil. He has now large class
in the two cities and Port Edwards.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14

Peter Douville is building dams all
along the river for the Wis. Imp. Co. i.
the old ones having disappeared during
the June food. He has just oomplet-
ed two wing dams below the railroad
bridge and has repaired the Locker
pier. He has taken his crew and gone
down below Hurleyville, where they
will build dam 200 feet long. Mr..
Douvillc is and old hand in the bust
ness and does nice Job.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14

Geo. NJ. Hill returned home from
Denver, Colorado, Tuesday morning.
George started out to seek new home
but finding things more disagreeable
than he anticipated, has returned to
remain with rs. He visited our broth
er Ernest several days while in Den
yer and reports him doing well, in the
bakery business. He brought a nice
fruit cake from the bakery for us to
sample. It was just excellent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14

Colonel Chase of the Iron Brigade
has returned from his trip west.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14

TheDemocratic Co. Convention met
in this city at the court house on
Thursday last, placed in nomination
the following ticket:
Sheriff-Phil Ward.
Treasurer-John Arpin.
County Clerk-D. D. Demarais.
Register of Deeds-Edward Lynch
Clerk of Court-H. J. Pankow.
District Attorney-C. W. Briggs.
Surveyor-Wm. Scott.
Coronor-Rudolph Voigt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14
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We are in receipt of bill from
Clement Brothers which we presume
is as an announcement that they intend
to make this city visit. Our citizens
know what to expect from these gen.
tlemen in the way of singing and
performance, from their past record
We bespeak large audience for them
should they favor us with visit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14
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On Friday afternoon the dwelling of
Fred Paul, just back of Geo. Woods
residence, was discovered to be on fire
near the chimney and the alarm given.
The fire engine was soon at the scene
of action, but on account of mud and
some arrangement in the machinery,
was Of no service as the house was
small and soon consumed. They saw
ed their furniture and the loss is fully
covered by insurance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14

nclther absent or tarQV;
HIGH SCHOOL.
Annie Schmidt, Minnie Spafford.
Ella Whitney, Mamie W'itter,
Byrde Vaughan, Olive Teel,
Belle Raymond, Annie Huban.
Olive Huntington, Teresa Byrnes,
Minnie Brown, Hattie PhilIeo,
Florence Miller, Emma Miller.
Ella McRaith, Lizzie McRaith,
Cora Kline, Anna Hasbrouls,
Lima Hasbrouck, Eva Crawford,
Eddie Brundage, Belle Brundagc,
GRAMMAR DEPT.
Addie Brazeau, Cora Pratt,
Jennie Huban, Isabel Mosher,
Fred Tibbets, Chas. Donnelly,
Mabel Ingraham George Brazeau,
Nettie Roche, Emma Smith,
Mary Osterman, Aurelia Simons,
Carrie Morrill,, Eugene Miller,
Alvina Arpin. May Norton,
Willie Love, Alma Compton,
Henry Edwards, Elmer Burr,
Moses Dugas,
INTERMEDIATE DEPT.
Almond Burr, Grace Beadle,
Ellis KRONER, Harry Raymond,
Lee Ticknor, Walton Warren,
Nina Briggs, Mary Mcguire,
Cora Rcadle, Bertha Boron,
Dora Miller, Louisa Russell,
Fred Brunky, Lottie Ingraham,
Chancey Warren, Anna Lavigne,
Heber Lord, Jennie Hasbrouck,
Arthur Miller, Matthew McRaith,
Joseph Martin, Charlie Philleo,
John Lehaie, Grace BaIderston,
Title Spafford, Frank Gary,
SECOND PRIMARY DEPT.
Emma Boron, Stella Belanger,
T. Pomalnville Henry Klein,
Francis McRaith, Frank Russell,
John Brundage, Frank Ticknor,
Arthur Love, Fred Closuit,
George Simons, Teresa Schmidt,
Anna Martin, L. Montgomery,
Stanley Bezaillon, Arsine Arpin,
George Miller, Eddie Morrill,,
Mary Emmons, Joseph Arpin,
Alfred Canning, Willie Wheeler,
Libbie Miller, Willie Raymond,
Grace Briggs, Emma Palansky,
Mary Barnier, Frank Teel,
Liea Belknap, CEra5. Labreche,
Nellie Cole, Helen PhilIeo,
Ada Donnelly, Rosa Miller,
FIRST PRIMARY.
Alice Aough, Emma Paul,
Alfred St. Amour, George Warren,
Walter Canning, Charlie Belknap,
Ella Hasbrouck, Carrie Klein,
James Keyes, Maude Thompson,
Mary Norris, Nellie Herschleb,
Rosa Dessaint, Maggie Hamm,
Carrie Breire, Leonor Boron,
John Stafford, Laura Canning,
Thedie Brazeau, Mabel Mohn,
Willie Brazeau, Eddie Herschleb,
Golda Miller, A. Buhlmeire,
Warren Beadle, Helen Schmitt,
Clara Lindsay, Natalie Bezaillon,
Charlie Lord, Clara Rablin,
Bonnie Closuit, John Waterman,
Juliet Lafond, John Arpin,
Bessie Case, Laura Schmitt,
Annie Paul, Oracle Mohn,
Alice Higgs, Robbie Stafford,
Ernest Norris, Katie Long,
Zelda Beadle, Eddie Whitney,
Louis Barnia, Hattie Davis,
Ellen Byrnes, Willie Stafford,
Frank Russell, Lille Russell.
Claude Miller, Albert Miller,
Dalbert Miller, Armand Lafond.
Joseph Boron, Frank Hamm,
Emma Closuit, Anna Poderville,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14
Howe High School

The following pupils have been
neither absent or tardy;
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

her, and altogether judged capricious
and injudicious when, with her hus.
band, Philip Lee, she first came to
America, there was nosuspicion blem-
ishing her fame.
1t was in 1872 that she made her
first visit here. At once critics and
playgoers were taken by storm. The
tre OF genius was Enthusiastically
manifest, and she was Justly estimated
the best Shakspearean actress we had
seen. From New York to San Fran
cisco her success was almost unparal-
leled. Her subsequent visits, al
though she came tainted by the di-
vorce court, were scarcely Jess ova-
ton.
Her last two visits here, although
notably successful, gave evidence that
she was waning. Her plumpness, her
fresh young color were passing away.
Her acting was less spirited, less re-
fined, yet unmistakably great. She
had fewer worshipers at the shrine
of her beauty, and found fewer new
friends than when she came before.
Last year she paid America fare
well visit" Few believed, however.
who saw her a few months ago that
she was really saying farewell to
America. Yet so it proved.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
A RICH STORY.
Senator Sharon Gets Some VRlu-
able Information from "a
Barber.

Carson Appeal
On Sunday afternoon Senator Will
liam Sharon sauntered down Carson
street in search Of a barber shop. The
tonsorial establishments are as rule
closed at that hour, but Mr.. Sharon S
luck did not desert him, and at $40
p m. he was fortunate enough to find a
place open. He was soon stretched
out in the chair, and the barber had
no sooner lathered his face than he
began to pump him with regard to
stocks.
THE BARBER OPENS THE BALL.
do you hear anything new about
Union?" (Slap dab with a lather
brush
Haven't heard" said the man in
the chair.
"They say the ore body pitches over
into Sierra Nevada.
Perhaps it does"
"Times have been mighty tough
down here for a spell, and if stocks
don't take q walk up the grade pretty
soon I'm dished (slap dab, and you
can bet on it, Don't you by stocks?"
"Never held a share in my life"
"The devil. Must be from the east.
What state are you from?'
I'm from Caifor- Ali Heml Nc
yada, replied the senator, reeolleet-
ing just in the neck Of time.
"W hat DO you think Of the senator
ial fght?'
Haven't kept track of t."
swell, Sharon, he's in the field, and
the boys say Uncle Jimmy Fairs 60
ing to run" Here the barber swept
his steel down Sharon's left jaw and
made him whinoe with terror.
rs that 500"
"Yes, but | guess he's N. g., that
is he don't sling the rocks around like
Sharon. He freezes to twenty like
it was the last he had. Sharon, he is
regular w. -, but | guess he's
liberal. DO you know SharonY"
mo, do you?'
Saw him once on q train chuck
full. Lord, he drinks like a fish when
he's out on run. lie looks like a
darned cadayorous starvationist.
voted for him six years ago aud got
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
BY CABLE.

ROME, August 19.-It is denied
that the Italian ambassadors at Lon.
don and st. Petersburg have been
summoned. The affirmative report
was sent hence by the correspondent
of the London Standard on the 10Th
instant.
LONDON, August 19.-It issaid that
some Dublin officials have been
urgently pressing for the renewal of
the coersion acts.
The harvest in the west of Ireland
is now certain to be not only abun-
dant but unusually early.
BERLIN, August 19.-The papers
are again full Of disheartening reports
Of the harvest in Silesia Pasen and
east and west Prussia. The crops in
certain districts in these proyincesmay
be said to be wholly destroyed, lives
have been lost, railway and river en-
bankments swept away, bridges bro
ken down, villages flooded, farms in
undated and vast tracts of grain
growing land converted into lakes and
swamps by torrents of rain. A great
| famine is feared in all of the above
named provinces.
LONDON, August 19.-It is reported
from Constantinople that the sultans
prime minister, Kadri Pasha, has re-
signed and a new cabinet is forming,
The colossal bronze statue of Burns
for New York, has been completed by
Sir John Stell, sculptor to the queen
Rev. VIM. G. Csokesly died to- day
aged 78 years.
The bullion in the Bank of En-,
gland has increased e4,3OO during the
past week. Proportion of reserve tC
liability 5lB per cent.
VIENNA, August 10, "A Russian
iron clad has landed a battery o
mountain guns and a large quantity o
muskets at this place.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
Adelaide Nelson.

LONDON, August 15.-Adelaide
Nelson died suddenly to-day at the
Continental hotel, Paris.
The famous actress whose death the
brief paragraph above records was al
the time of her demise but thirty.
three years of age, although her celeb.
rity aud her experience were so wide
as to make her almost without a peer
Nelson was Of provincial birth, but
her rare beauty and really remarkable
talent made her prime iavorite upon
the London boards twelve years ago
when she had been but one brief sea
son on the stage. Then the breath Of
scandal struggled seemingly to avoid
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

George Eliot will never write
again.
Dark roses may be worn on one
shoulder of light dress.
Sir Samuel Baker recently deliver.
ed lecture at Simla, India, on the
Nile and its political influences.
The equipage used in South Africa
by the Empress Eugene has just been
sold at Natal. The price it brought
was $500.
Miss Mary Banks, the eldest daugh-
ter Of thegeneral, has married a young
clergyman who is going to China as a
missionary.
1t is, says an English writer, the
jury Of matrons who make society cor
rupt by extra indulgence at one
moment and stOny-heartedness at an
other.
The great majority of the inhabi-
tants of Portugal have chestnut hair
and brown eyes, although there is de-
eidedly a blonde type. The dom
inant form Of the head is dolichoee.
phalic.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
A LIVING EMPRESS PACKAGE.
An Eleven Year Old Boy Shipped
from Texas 20 Philadelphia.
pittsburg Post, 17th.l

Pittsburg Post, l7th.l
All sorts Of queer things are carried
by the railroad companies nowadays,
but the oldest piece of freight that
has been seen in Pittsburg for a long
time, passed through on Saturday. A
chubby, round faced, bright looking
boy, eleven years old, arrived in the
city on Saturday evening in care of the
messenger of the Baltimore & Ohio
express company. The little man was
named Casey Pemmel, and he travelled
as a piece Of express matter from some
place in far away Texas. He had
a paper tab tied to him just as though
he were a bag of potatoes and on the
tab was written the address of his
consignee, Isaac Buzly, Philadel-
phia, He was entered on the way
bills and mapifests just like any other
freight and as he passed from the
hands Of one express messenger to
another, he was duly receipted for.
This living express bundle left Texas
on Tuesday and has been we'll taken
care of. With Casey was a package
containing some money, a baggage
check and ticket over the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, from Pittsburg to Phil
adelphia. When the boy wanted any
thing to eat or desired some other
reasonable object, the messenger took
sufficient money from the package to
pay for it and charged it on a bill
which was with it. Casey was placed
on board a passenger train on the
Pennsylvania road on Sunday and is
now probably safely in the hands Of
his friends.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
No yellow Fever This Year.

Pine Bluff Press.l
1t is now the middle of August. and
Memphis and New Orleans are yet
free from yellow fever, with strong
probability that they will escape from
the dread visitor during the remainder
of the season.
A slight ripple vas caused by the
one case imported into New Orleans,
few weeks since, on some foreign
vessel but this was effectually quar-
antined, and it did not either frighten
the citizens or in any manner ieopar-
dize the health of the city, any more
than an occasional case at quarantine
does the health of New York or Phil
adelphia.
The escape, therefore, Of these cities
from an outbreak that so many people
predicted, looks as though this
scourge, which has devastated the
Mississippi valley for the past two
years, has yielded at last to the COM
bined assaults Of quarantine and
thorough enforcement of sanitary
laws.
Memphis, if reports that reach us
are true, is the best drained and most
thoroughly swept and garnished of
American cities.
New Orleans, owing to the peculiar
nature of the land where she is built
cannot be drained except by bitches
and open cutters but she can be kept
scrupulously clean, and when she is so
may be rendered one Of the healthiest
Of cities.
Memphis, on the contrary, lies high,
and with the enlightened and thorough
purifcation she has been forced to un-
dergo in the interest of preservation,
bids fair to become one of the most
charming of southern cities, as she
has long been one of the most enter
prising.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

my money for it, but blast my life il
he gets off as cheap this time. He's
too devilish lazy for senator. Never
gets round in time to vote. Turn
your chin up little; that's it. Now
look at old Dag, so fat he can't
hardly walk, and Sharon's thin enough
for runner; yet Dag. works like a
horse for less pay than Sharon gets
for loafing around the Palace hotel,
playing whisky cinch and freeze out
with Joe King and Old Smith. Lit
tie powder on your face, stranger
"How's Sharon fixed now?" asked
the man in the chair.
Guess he aint so flush as he was, I"
replied the barber. "They say the
boys at the Bay have had the clamps
on him several times, and since the
bank busted he's been short. Then
that Palace hotel amt paying. lie
serimps all he can, but it won't work
| guess by this time he's goin to keep
the boys on the ragged edge, get what
he can aud let them whistle for the
change. Oh, he's sly. OF course,
when he's got full sack he planks it
down, but when he hasn't he travels a
good deal on wind-and he's awful
slick, a smooth Eph. right along. If
| stand in, | want the cold cash right
there in my paw. Little oil, pard?
That's the kind of man | am. Let
me put little tonic on your head.
Id knock that bald spot cold in two
applications. just take that bottle
right along-my own make-only q
dollar"
Don't want any of vour id
hair oil said the senator, somewhat
irritated.
"All right; don't have to take any
thing here that you don't want. I'd
had a talk with Sharon, but they say
Yorington stays by him so he don I
give the boys a chance. Here, let
that mig brush your coat looks dusty
If you was used to this sage brush
country you'd wear duster. Thank
you, sir. Come again"
BY this time Mr.. Sharon's face was
purple, but he controlled his temper
and drifted back to the hotel. When
he had passed out of sight some par
ties told the barber who his distin-
guished guest was. The artist, on
hearing the news, hastily closed up
the shop under the impression that
Sharon had gone off after firearms.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

Hon. Jno. V. Wright arrived in the
city this morning, and is cordially vel
coined by many personal and political
friends. He is no stranger among our
people, who so we'll know and highly
esteem his brother, General Marcus
j. Wright. Colonel Hawkins will ar
rive this afternoon, and it has been
arranged, as will be seen by a
notice elsewhere, by the chair
men of the democratic and
republican executive committees,
that the two candidates will have a
Joint discussion tonight on the bluff.
The people at large Of both parties
are invited 10 attend en- masse. The
bluff is spacious, the gentlemen have
good lungs, and all Who attend can
hear for themselves. We bespeak for
both a large attendance and fair
hearing. They are both gentlemen OF
high standing, much experience in
public affairs, and great eloquence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

A LARGE majority of the Shelby
delegation to the Nashville conven-
ton, to their credit be it said,
were willing to insert line
in the platform providing that
any settlement of the state debt agreed
upon should be submitted to the peo-
pie. The dominant majority Of the
convention would not even permit this
single proposition to be voted upon.
1t seemed more convenient to dodge
this issue than to face it. The people,
however, viii have full opportunity
to pass upon some of the men who ran
that convention and who drove off and
hooted at respectable minority. The
democrats Of Shelby county are not
extremists, and majority of them,
at least, are not afraid
to rebuke their party when
it goes wrong, as it has
done ia this instance. There is a big
element in Shelby and all over the
state which cannot be whipped into
measures. Big speakers and big
newspapers do not always carry cleo
tions, When they go wrong the peo-
pie are sure to find it cut sooner or
later. Last August nearly every
paper and many Of the best speakers
in the state supported the fifty and
tour proposition, which was
really plausible and reasonable
compromise upon its face. Yet the
people. knowing that the bondholders
were suing the railroads for a large
portion Of the debt, and being suspi
cious, voted it down by an oyerwhelm-
lug majority. In Hardeman county q
very thorough canvass was made by
some Of the best lawyers in the state
who reside there, The measure wat
opposed only by representative j. a
Manson, Of Salisbury, aud priva
citizen, a butcher, living at Bolivar
AS TO numbers and work, it looked
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
B. LOWENSTEIN & BROS.

request Miss Griswold to sign a con-
tract to appear at the Grand Opera
house, she will be compelled to do so.
In such an eventuality her salary
would be about 5000 francs for the
first year. Should her debut prove
successful, Mr.. Vaucorbeil would
have the right to demand her services
Tor a second year, at salary of 1000
francs. After that she would be at
Liberty to make such engagements as
she desires.
Miss Griswold is the niece of Mr..
Bret Harte.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

like an unequal contest. What was
the result? Hardeman county voted
for the compromise 428, against it,
2l64. We commend these figures and
facts to those who imbibe their ideas
from the morning papers of this city
and the Nashville American, and also
to all who were carried away by the
late big con 7ention at Nashville.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

A most romantic duel was recently
fought by candle light between a
young cavalry officer and student at
the Ecole des Mines, Paris. The Off
Ger, NJ de Montfort, went to dine in
company with another young fellow,
NJ. do Villarnon, and a fair friend, ],
Mile. Clemence Chapuis, at a bouil-
lion on the Boulevard st. Michel, frt-
quented, according to the expression
of the latter, by the most CONNIE il
faut ladies Of the quarter. All were
enjoying their repast when a certain
NJ. Protchie, a pupil at the school Of
Mines, sat down at an adjoining table
and began to "make eyes" at Mile.
Chapuis. Her host gradually grew
more and more impatient at these
marked signs of NJ. Petrochie's admi-
ration, and on an angry remark from
its object he got up and went to the
table az which his annoyer was sitting
and expostulated. A discussion en-
sued, and M. Montfort presented his
card and the whole party adjourned to
Mile. Chapuis' apartments in the Rue
des Ecoles to Gght the matter out with
swords. The encounter took place
by the light Of three candles and an oil
lamp. NJ. de Montford eventually re-
ceiving a couple of wounds which laid
him up for a fortnight. Matters were
kept dark for some time until the fair
cause of the duel unlucSilg happened
to quarrel with her waiting woman,
and in revenge the latter informed the
police Of all the facts OF the incident,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19
InaIOrlty.

Mr.. A. G. Harris, the we'll known
Front row merchant, las just returned
from a business tour through the
counties of Obion, Lauderdale, Dyer,
Gibson, Weakley Carroll and Henry,
and he reports that the people will
poll a much larger vote for Wilson
than they cast against the so and 4
proposition last year. This trip was
made since the convention, and the
people are greatly incensed that the
managers at Nashville, assuming to
speak and act for them, should refuse
to allow the peoplea voice in the set
tlement of the state debt. Stopping
at a little store on the edge of Obion
county the other day, he found twenty
men assembled and every one of them
for Wilson. He found a majority ol
enthusiastic Wilson men everywhere
he went, and SO the report comes tc
us from various parts Of the state.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

NEw ORLEANS, August 10, 1l:30
a.m.-Cotton firm. Middling, 1lsc.
Sales to-day 100 bales receipts 36
stock, 3O,295 bales.
LIVERPOOL, August 10, 1:3O pm
Cotton firm aud 1-l6d higher. Up
lands 6 15-16d, Orleans 7 l-l6d. Sales
to-day 10000 bales. Receipts, 3,4OO
bales American, 1,40O bales. Flu
lures opened firm now steady. De
liveries for August, 6 29-32d to 6 10
l6d; August and September, 6 u -32d;
September and October, 6 l9-32d; 0c-
tober and November, 611-32d; 6 No
vember, December, January and
February, 6 8 .32d.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

NOTWITHSTANDING the premature
shouting and boasting Of the state
credit folks about the big crowd and
the enthusiastic reception given to
Colonel Jno. V. Wright at Milan, a
gentleman direct from there informs
us that Mr.. Wright will not poll
thirty votes at that precinct. The
outpouring of the masses, however
respectful and complimentary in a
personal sense, was no indication OF
the way they will vote. The people
are for Wilson, and he will carry
West Tennessee by an overwhelming
majority.