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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
FARMERS CONVENTION.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION At THE
NEXT REG ULAR MEETING.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION At THE
NEXT REG ULAR MEETING.
The following have been agreed upon
as the topics for discussion at the farm
ers' convention, to be held at Knoxville
on the 18th sf September, 1880:
1st-Wheat: The best for seed; the
best mode of culture; can rust be pre-
vented; the general average raised per
acre; should it be drilled or sowu hand
cast
Opened by Hon. D. w. G. Senter.
2d-COrn: H G. Smith
3d-What lands In East Tennessee re-
quire under drainage? Hon o. P Tenn
Pile.
4th-Are the taxes, federal and state,
levied on the property of farmers, just
and equitable, compared with those levi
ed on the property of others. J. b.
Stokely.
5th-Essay on agriculture. OrvilIe
Taylor.
6th-Are dairies profitable in East Ten
nessee? Albert Chevannes.
7th-Sheep husbandry. Col Tom
Crutchfield.
8th-The horse. James R. Martin.
9th-Cattlc. s. F. Gettys.
10th-Improved agricultural imple-
ments. II. B. YeaTwood.
11th-Practical Suggestions on stock
farming. Professor Nicholson.
12th-The grasses. w. s. Shields.
13th-What are the NEST profitable
crops that can be raised in East Tennes-
see? Gen. Alfred E. jackson.
14th-Should farmers and others be
required To keep their stock in enclos-
uIus, on their premises, so as to save the
great expense and labor of making fen
ces? H. H Hubbard
15th-Ensilage. Prof. McBryde.
j. A. TURLEY,
President Convention.
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Condolences.

About the time General Hancock
fought the battle of Gettysburg, Genor-
al Garfield turned his back to the front
and went into politics.
About the time that General Hancock
issued Order No. 40 at New Orleans,
Mr. Garfield was negotiating at Wash
ington with Oakes Ames for the shares
in Credit MobilIer, on which he after.
wards received a cash dividend of $329.
Some of our Republican contempora-
ries are fond of drawing comparisons
between the careers of the two candi-
dates, "as soldiers and as statesmen. y
These condolences cannot fail to afford
them interesting material fer study
Neao York Sun.
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The Useful and Beautiful.

The tomb of Moses is unknown; but
the traveller slakes his thirst at the well
of Jacob. The gorgeous place of the
wisest and wealthiest of moGarchs, with
the cedar, and the gold, and ivory, and
even the great temple of Jerusalem,
haIlOwed by the visible glory of the
Deity himself are gone; but Solomon's
reservoirs are as perfect as ever. Of the
ancient architecture of the holy city not
one stone is left upon another, but the
grim's reverence at the present day.
The columns of PersepOlis are mOulder-
ing into dust, but its cistern and aque-
duct remain to challenge our admira-
ton. The golden house of Nero is a
mass of ruins, but the Aqua Claudia still
pours into Rome it's Iimpid stream. The
Temple of the Sun, at Tadmor in the
wilderness, has fallen, but its fountain
sparkles in its rays, as when thousands
of wOrshippers thrOnged its lofty colon
nades. Should London share the fate
of Babylon, and nothing be left to mark
it save mounds of crumbling brick
work, the Thames would continue to
flow as it does now. And if any work
of art should rise over the deep ocean
of time, we may we'll believe that 1t
will be neither a palace nor a temple
but some vast aqueduct or reservoir;
and if any name should flash through
the mist of antiquity, it would probably
be that of the man who, in his day,
sought the happiness of his fellowmen
rather than glory, and linked his MEM
cry to some great work of national util
ity or benevOlence This is the true
glory which outlives all others, and
shines with undying lustre from genera
tion to generation, imparting to works
some of its own Immortality, and in
some degree rescuing them from the
ruin which overtakes the ordinary mon
ument of historical tradition or mere
magniicence.- Edinburgh Regje1O.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
Unseen Powers.

Who can measure the vast, the illim-
liable forces that have their play in the
world around us. Not with the roar of
artillery, the waving of banners or the
sounding of drums, do the mightiest
forces reveal themselves upon the earth;
but as the gentle influences of spring
spread themselves over the land, and as
the soft breezes blow across the fields,
buds SWELL leaves put forth grasses
spring up. millions of tons of moisture
are lifted from the earth, bearing life
and strength through trees and leaves
and flowers, and passing upward to fill
the air with vapOr, health and beauty.
Mighty processes of vegetation are 81
lently going On; air currents are sweep
/ ing with unmeasured force across vast
continents; rivers are gliding toward the
sea; tides are ebbing and flowing; suns
| and stars and planets are wheeling in
their mighty courses; and in everything
there is seen design, contrivance, skill,
wisdom, and POWER unmeasured and
immeasurable. The surging of single
| tide exhibits more power than the whole
! human race could exercise. The rush
and roar of a single waterfall has in it
more power than a nation could put
/ forth. Man stands amazed amid the af-
fluence of divine activity; and while the
scoffer in his blindness may forget and
| disregard it all, he who looks with an
einted eyes sees the power of God surg
ing through all creation, beating in ev-
cry pulse, glowing in every star, shin
ing in every sun, rolling in every tide,
laundering in every tempest, breathing
in every zephyr, blooming in every
flower, waving in every branch, turning
the seasons in their steady roll, bringing
summer and winter, seed-time and mar
vest, moving this whole universe ac-
cording to Gods predetermined plan,
marking it in the revelation of hif pow
er, his goodness and his grace.
"The heavens declare the glory of
God, and the firmameut showeth his
handiwork;" but in every flower that
blooms; in every blade that springs from
the green earth; in every forest tree that
crowns the mountains brow; in every
living thing that creeps or scars, that
walks or swims, is seen the working of
the hand of Almighty God, the omni-
present energy of Him who made the
worlds. "The invisible things of him,
from the creation of the world, are
clearly seen, being understood by the
things that are made, even. his eternal
power and Godhead." Rom. i.20. All
thingf obey their Makers high COM
mands. The suns and stars wheel in
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
Obey or Perish.

Obedience or perdition is the destiny
of fallen men. God rules; and high
above kings and emperOrs, he plants his
throne and asserts his authority. Above
the rage and wrath of angry and rebel
lieus nations he sets his King upon his
holy hill of Zion, and gives him the ma
items for his heritage, and the uttermost
parts of the earth for his possession. He
lays upon earth's rulers the solemn
charge, kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and ye perish from the eody, when his
wrath is kIndled but little" All ma
tions must yield to his command. "An
kings shall bow down before him, " and
"the nation and kingdom which will
not serve" him, "shall perish yea, those
nations shall be utterly wasted"
'These are the true sayings of God;"
and the history Of six thousand years
OF wreck, and ruin, and overthrow, con-
firm them in every jot and little, The
path OF the ages is strewn with the
wrecks of destroyed and desolated ma
tions; nations that have warred against
God and have been broken in pieces like
potter's vessels. Never has a nation
been everthrown while it made the Most
High its refuge and its trust; but no ma
tiOn has ever been found that was mighty
enough to defy the most high God, and
maintain its existence in disregard of
his will. The hoary empires an antiq-
uity are illustrations OF the OmnipOtence
OF GODS providence. Pharaoh from the
depth OF the RED Sea, and proud Egypt,
now become the basest of the Kingdoms,
testify to us how hard it is to fight
against the Lord The perished grand
eurs Of Ninevah and Babylon, were ma
tiOns, cities and languages have been
buried beneath the wreck of ages; the
downfall of vast empires, such af Per-
sia, Greece, and Rome; the overthrow
of Jerusalemn, with her desslate shrines
and her scattered people, all bear wit
ness to the truth that only righteousness
exalteth a nation, and that in God alone
is safety for the sons of men.
Where iniquity abeunds and vice and
cruelty and corruption prevail, sooner
or later comes the earthquake of revolu-
ton, the avalanche or evasion, or the
thunderbolt of divine judgment, which
consumes and desOlates and destroys.
They only are safe who hide beneath
the shadow of Jehovah's wing. They
only are secure who trust in the living
God. They prove that righteousness
exalteth nation, but sin is reproach
to any people, and that the Most High
ruIeth in the kingdoms of men, and set
teth up over them whomsOever he will.
Tile AanlOgy.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
Gains Wife.

Rev. VIM. F. Hatfield, of the
Washington Square M. E. Church,
New York city, in a recent sermon.
said:
"Of the many questions asked
about Cain, doubtless the one hard.
est to answer was, Who was Gains s
wife? That Cain had married there
was no doubt, and there was every
reason to suppose that the wedding
took place after the murder. Some
say that the bride was a sister, a
cousin, or niece, but it is a mistake
to suppose that there were but two
or three people in the world at that
time. Adam and Eve were then one
hundred and thirty years old. II
they had no children until their six
ty-ffth year, learned physician
had calculated that the family mum
bered one hundred and thirty when
Abel died. The children of these
children would have numbered more
than 100000. But if, as is more
likely, Abel died in his one hundred
and twenty-eighth year, the descend
ants would have reached the enor
nous number of 421. 200. from whom
Cain could have had no difficulty in
a wife. These figures are
based upon the suppositIon that
Adam had only two sons. There |
nay have been many more, though |
,he Bible does not mention them. In
hat case the inhabitants of the
world may have been twice or three
lines as many"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

obedience to his mandate; the stormy
wind fulflls his word; the seas clap
their hands before the Lord as he COM
eth to judge the earth; the flowers pour
forth the incense of their praise upOn
the morning breeze; the birds lift up
their songs to HIM who feeds the ravens
and watches the sparrOw's fall;-only
man rebels against his power, fOrgets
his goodness, and fails to speak his
praise. Only man rebels against his
Maker and fails to answer the end for
which he was ordained.
Oh, that He who breathed of old upon
the face of the waters and said, ''Let
there be light" might breathe again
upon the darkness of disordered and
fallen humanity, and cause "the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ" to shine in
eur hearts, that we might be "created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them," and so ''proVe
what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of God - Exchange.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
Tennessee census returns, though

Tennessee census returns, though
incomplete, indicate a considerable
increase of population since 1870
Tweuty-nine counties in Middle and
West Tennessee show an increase of
129, 9,O77 in ten years, being a little
over 20 per cent. None of the East
Tennessee counties, where the per-
centage of increase is supposed to
have been considerably greater,
have as yet been heard from. Esti-
mating the forty.two counties yet to
be heard from at only 20 per cent.
increase, the population of Tennes.
see will be about 100000, an in
crease nearly equal to that of Wis
consin, one of the most prosperous
agricultural and manufacturing
States Of the Northwest.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
"Out of the Mouths of Babes .

There is a whole volume of solid exc,
gis in this little paragraph:
A little boy was learning his Sunday
school lesson, which happened to be the
eighth chapter of the Acts, and when
he came to that part which tells of tn
baptism of the eunuch, he said to his
mother (whe was pious pedobaptist),
ola, mother, this is a Baptist bible
''No, my son, it is not; what makes you
think SOP" "Why, it says here, they
went down into the water, both Philip
and the eunuch, and he baptized him; ;
and this is just the way have seen the
Baptists do"
Would that all might have the spiri
of child in reading not only this pas
sage, but every portion of the God-giv-
en- Word.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
CHESTER 4. ARTHUR,

The Republican candidate for Vice
President, has the following tirst-Glass
endors ements:
"You have made the CustOm-house a
centre of partisan political manage
ment. '-R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur,
Januayy S1st, 1879.
With a deep sense Of my obligations
under the Constitution, I regard it as
my plain duty to suspend you in order
that the office may be honestly admins
tered. "-R. B. HCtyes to Collector Arthur,
January 81, 1879.
"Gross Abuses of administrations
have continued and increased during
your ineumbeney. John Sherman to
Collector AgtFur, January 81 1879.
persons have been regularly paid by
you who have rendered little or no SER
vice; the expenses of yeur office have
increased, while its receipts have di-
minished Brides, or gratuities in the
shape of bribes, have been received by
your subordinates in several branches
of the Custom-house, and you have in
no case supported the effort to correct
these abuses. ."-,Secreta7y Sherman to C0I-
ector Arthur, January 81, 1879.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

A sad-lookiDg man went into a
Burlington drugstore. Can you
give me-" he asked, something that
will drive from my mind the thoughts
Of sorrow and bitter recollections? ?"
And the druggist nodded, and put
him up little dose of quinine, and
worm-wood. and rhubarb, and epson
salts, aud q dash of castor oil, and
gave it to him, and for six months
the man couldn't think of anything
in the world except new schemes for
getting the taste out of his mouth.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
Brooklyn Eagle: Mr.. Garfield

Brooklyn Edgse: MT. Garneld
said among other things last night /:
And the republic rises on the step
ping stones of its dead heroes and great
struggles to a higher and purer and bet
ter national life. Hence, we must stand
guard over our past as soldiers; we must
stand guard over our past as patriots;
we must stand guard over our country
as the common heritage and blessing of
us all"
Well, seems to US that the man
who stood guard at Gettysburg can
be trusted to do all this quite as we'll
as any politician to whom Office hold
ing is second nature, whose integri-
ty is clouded and who stole the
Presidency four years ago, and the
men who did the stealing in the cred
it mobilier at an earlier day. 1t will
look better TO have General Hancock
than the counsel of DeGolyer stand
ing guard over our dead heroes.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

honor him. "He is not here-he
goeth before you into Galilee," F"
might be said to many a despondent
seeking after spiritual peace, look.
ing in vain for blessing in religious
selfshness. There is one place we
are ever sure Of his presence, and
that is in obedience to the command
coupled with its companion promise,
60 ye into all the world and preach
the gospel TO every creature, and
10, am with you always even unto
the end OF the world."-GoSpeL in
all the Lands.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

His letter to General Sherman,
recently brought to light, lifts Gen
eral Hancock far above the past ap-
probation of his civil ability. 1t
marks him as one of the wisest Of
his time, with a statesman's grasp
of mind and with the integrity of a
patriot whom no sense Of expediency
could swerve from his honest con-
victiona.-SenatOr DaUjd DaUiS.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

An exchange says: "After an en-
thusiastic lover spends two hours
hard labor over a letter to mis- girl,
and then mars its beauty by spilling
a drop OF ink on it, he first swears
in a scientific manner for a few min
utes, and then draws circle around
the blot and tells her it is kiss,
and she, poor thing, believes it."
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A London dispatch of the nth says;
A Reuter- telegram from Alden reports
the steamer Jeddah, from Singapore,
14th of July, off Gaurdafai, on the sth
inst, with 953 pilgrims for Jeddah. All
on board perished except the captain,
his wife, chief engineer, chief officer, an
engineer and sixteen natives, who were
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

An Illinois girls toast: The
young men of America-their arms
our support. our arms their reward /;
fall in, meu; fall in"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25
j. A. TURLEY,
President Convention.

X bare, footed boy came cry ing to
bis mother. What's the
matter, my child? Boy,-I-v-e
kicked-boo-h hoo-a fly that bad a
splinter in its-boo hoo tail.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

Hancock will not be counted in"
National Republican. Nor count
ed cut. He will simply be elected
by the people and inaugurated.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

The Radicals wanted soldiers at
the polls and the Democracy want
one even In the White House, and
intend to have him.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

"a full vote, a free ballot and a
fair count" t."-HancocEs s letter Of &C.
csntnnce.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

"The bayonet is not a fit instru-
ment for collecting the votes Of free
men" Hancock's letter Of acceptance.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-08-25

Job printing dispatched neatly and
heaply at.the GAZETTE Job Once.
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TS Hon. JAS E, Harvey, Washington
City.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-06
The Umbrella.

The umbrella is one of the most curl
GUS things in existence. 1t is happy only
when stolen, or when it can turn wrong
side out. This seems to afford it the
greatest pleasure. It is the meanest
thing an umbrella can do, aud it does it
in the meanest way. Some rainy, windy
Sunday you start for church. On your
way You have enough trouble with your
rain screen to make you throw stones at
your grandmother-but that's enough.
You reach the church and are about to
enter the vestibule, when suddenly, and
without warning, you find your UNI
brella inside out. It is somewhat annoy
ing just at this iupcture; there are nnm-
ber of people passing on the opposite
side of the street and they laugh freely,
Loudly and heartily. What there is to
lauA about when an umbrella acts
mean I never could understand. There
are people coming up behind you and
they can't get in, tan umbrella wrong
side out will cover the whole front of a
church. You proceed to turn it back,
by placing the head end of the umbrella
against the pit of your stomach, then
spreading your arms SO that you can
reach the opposite sides of the UNI
brella, you clutch the two extreme tips
of the opposite ribs neryously
and begin to pull. The ribs begin to
bend back in the right direction. Ev-
erything is coming lovely, the change
back to its right position is about ae-
complished when an obstacle seems to
appear, you try and pull, and if You are
not exceedingly pious you-it; but it is
no go. All this time the people are
coming and you are surrounded by a
crowd Of church goers, who may be talk
ing sweetly about you; but it doesn't
sound that way At last the sexton
comes out and pushes on the opposite
side, and by this combined effort the UNI
brelia is turned. It is done SO suddenly,
however, that you run the tip against
the region of the sections diaphragm.
He quickly bends over, you do the same,
heads bump and both sit down on the
pavement. The next rainy Sunday you
stay at home. By the way, another Pc
culiar property of the umbrelly is that
it is only borrowed ones that turn inside
out, and that too in places whore you are
Just sufficiently known to have the peo-
pie believe the umbrella is stolen one.
The only way to humble an umbrella,
which is mean enough to act that way, is
to run the handle right through, take
hold of the tip and march off as though
there was nothing the matter.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-06
sBangeav Heads and the Hereafter.


I read few days. ago that the Bishop
of Cincinnati had forbidden. banged" or
ssfriZzled'' hair to be worn in his diocese.
A large confirmation was held lately in
st. Johns church lRomish| in this city.
The young girls were told beforehand by
their minister that the Bishop would not
lay hand on any stfrizzled" or changed"
heads. am afraid in many instances
the banged" and 'frizzled" heads dis
appeared only for the time of confirma-
ton. Lately, too, the ecclesiastical po-
tentate of Montreal issued an edict
against the female members Of his
congregations appearing in the church
with q shawl or some kind of flow
ing drapery to screen their forms from
public gaze. When We were in Rome in
1S41 no lady was allowed to 20 without q
veil over her face into any church where
the Pope was to officiate. remember
one day in driving out we suddenly met
the carriage Of the :. Holy Father, Greg
ory XVI, and found that he was to holy
some sort Of service IN neighborinG
church. We gave orders at orce for oul
carriage to follow, but were respectfully
told sSignorar myself could not 60 II
without veil, which appendage I did
not have at that moment To rush to 1
shop and buy q strip Of black lace and IL
| it on over my bonnet took only fey
minutes, so that ] was soon armed an(
| equipped according TO law Proyi
dence Journal