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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
a scriptural Darky.
Washington Republican,

Deuteronomy Dunn was born in North
Carolina, olindigent bat black parentage.
this birth he was too little to help him
ealE 50 | excuse hum, and so would you if
Won had bzen in bis place. During Deut-
eronomy'g juyenility he had the misfortune
to fall against q red-hot cooking stove Il
misfortune belonging wholly to picCanln-
n1os) and had, not The mark OF Gain, but
thst of the pat1ntee, stamped upon his
ebony brow. Bat this didn't seem to have
sfftrIad his gastronomIcal organs in the
80 ba aeyOured Just rs much, if not
more corncake and money, than before the
handing. ID -uterOlUmy generally Went
.,f,red IN a long cneckered shirt and d
modest expression OF countenauce. bis
cumolexion was dark-yes, olhcK; III other
words. he was SO black III the lace that ne
couldn't always tell when II was daylight.
Charcoal would have made white mark
upon him; and his teeth resemDled piano
kevs and his feet looked like door mats.
such was Deuteronomy. Alter Deut bad
arrived at the age Of devOurlshness 90
years Old), ne, being liberated person
Of color, was entere1 at the collegiate in
| stitute situated 1t the CROSSROADS and pre-
sided over by natche faced female from
! Connecticut, who was known to be Learnt q
on account Of her wearing specs. This
| u uuttb pICSCpkISSN bOIC 49, ~ =.
! honorable name of E beth b gelow,
shortened by common consent and the
| coored pupils to Mss BIgeloW or Miss
| Lizzie. Deu. entered the school room oue
rainy Nenday morning clOthed IN the
aforesaid varIegated umder garment and
| benign expression Of counLonanCe, totlng
| yellow backed, dog cared primer.
! Selcol being called, the teacher thus ad'
| dressed the new scholar:
Teacher. Well, my son, what is your
name?
Deut. Use not your son, Use mammals 8,
an my name is Deuteronomy Dunn.
! Teacher. | should judge by your blbll-
cal name that you have been pretty well
| drilled in the scriptures.
| Deut. | is. I knows all about 'em.
Teacher. Well, I'll try you. Who died
| to save men?
| Deut. William Tweed.
Teacher. Good gracious Try again.
! Deut. Jesus.
Teacher. Where was he born?
| Deut. In New Jersey.
| Teacher. You sacrilegious wretch, what
| do you mean?
| Deut. Well, we can't keep run ofall the
| births in the Bible.
Teacher. he was born in Bethlehem.
| Deut. Well, that is in Pennsylvania;
only missed de State.
At this point 4Ee teacher swooned; the
| school adjourned. The distorted remains Of
| the teacher have been forwarded to New
! Haven on ice Deuteronomy still lives.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
About Editors and Reporters.
HAS .ead,s "TaIes for Little Folks.,,


A few days ag, I promised to tell you
something more about reporters. You
have nlready learned what easy times they
have; but often those who have the best
chances in this world do not seem to ap
preciate the fact, and sometimes d reporter
gets this way and thinks his salery ought
to be raised. So he speaks to the editor
about it. Editors are very liberal men.
uany of them DO not thin any more Of
a dollar than some men do of their lives,
but they know that if the reporters were
paid too much they would save their
money and buy the pape and then the
editors would have to be like the Chinese,
they would have to 90. SO il self-pro .
lection they are obliged to keep the s la
ries OF the reporters at s., 900 to $4,000 a
year. They hate to do this, but self
preservation is the first law of editors as
well as of nature. Many edit rs preserve
themselves so we'll that the reporters never
buy them out.
But editor are kind hearted. Mr.
Dana 4 the New York Sun, once heard
that horse which had been very fast but
which everybody thought played out was
going to be sold at auction by his master,
So he sent around and bought the pooc
horse for $4,000. The next summer he
pat him in big race, Just for fun y
every body said There were great many
noted horses in this + ce, and men bet
large sums of fmoney on them, Mr. Dana s
horse only bringing 81 in $50 pools But
he won the race and all the money that
was bet.
This is called Fpa' alyzing the pool.
box" 50 you see that the fairies are
kind to those who do good. Some good
stories are told bout reporters. Once
young m IL, who had graduated at Har
ward College, and was q splendid scholar
in baseball and throwing came to 4 large
Western city and hired out to be report :
er The next day the editor sent him 20 an
Inquest. He came back to the office at
night with enough manuscipt to make a
book
The cdito G We this to an experienced
reporter and said: "Cut hat stuff down
to a stickful'' After awhile he went over
to where the experienced reporter was
sitting and said: How did that new
duck manage with the inquest?n ooh" :"
said the the experienced reporter, ''he
got everything the verdict" And
then the other reporters that were sitting
around laughed heartily, but the editor
only let drop a few words Of tropical
warmth. and discharged the new report
er-who was very much surprised to see
that the paper continued to come out
regularly after he had left it to its fate.
New reporters always tell everybody
that they are Journalists but the old
ones cali them deck. hands. New report
e always think they know everythir g.
and in some offices it is customary to put a
dish of salt on a reporters desk. This is a
delic te way of telling him that he is too
fresh. Reporters never like to hurt any.
bodys feeling. Once an editor in Gin :
cinnati hired reporter in Chicago to do
some work for his paper. After awhile
the reporter forgot to send anything
about an important matter, which made
the editor ve.y angry.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
\ Perpetual Motion Machine.

A mechanic at Lyons, Iowa, claims to
have al last succeeded in perfecting per-
petual motion machine which will even
tually suporsede steam. 1t is machine six
feet by eight and consists OF framework
with two incliDes and perpendicular, with
a hollow wheel at the top in which is s
shifting counter balance. or, in other
words, a wheel that is continually thrown
offits centro. Over this wheel and down
the incline and perpendicular runs an
endless bet, with, at intervals Of about
two feet, revolving weigh s, the principal
on which it works being that certain
incline The power is estimated by pounds.
Sir. Jennings, the inventor, says that he
has spent nearly IS COG in perfecting this
machine, for Il quarter OF which be was
recently offered $40 0 O.-[I Iowa journal.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
THE SENATE.
Report Of Proceedings of the Sen
ate in Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, March s.

w 4fl1I CIl %
The Senate convened at II NJ,
President Arthur in the chair.
The galleries were we'll filed with
spectators and a large number of
members of the House occupied seats
upon the floor of the Senate, the
impression having gained that
the Democrats would move to organ
ize committees.
Communications were laid before
the Senate from ex-Senators
Kirkwood, of Iowa, and Blaine,
of Maine, announcing that they had
forwarded to the governors of their
respective States their designations
as members of the Senate.
Upon motion of Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, the communications
were ordered to be placed upon the
files of the Senate.
At 1920 p. m. a message from the
President was announced, and upon
motion CT Senator Bayard, of Della
ware, the Senate went into executive
session.
When the doors were reopened
the Senate, at 1910, adjourned till
tomorrow.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

So he sent dispatch to the reporter,
saying: I" You are dischs srgcd. Why did
you get left on that murder? Answer"
When the reporter read this he laughed to
himself and said: II wonder if that Old
plum thinks he can get the best OF nle?'
So he wrote the longest kind Of an answer,
explaining all about the matter, and
closed by saying he had been discharged
because he disliked to be connected with
a paper that sl!owed itself to get scooped.
1t took 1850 words to say this, and, as it
was sent by telegraph, the Cincinnati
editor had pretty big bill to pay. But it
taught him never to ask for explanations
by telegraph again, and that Chicago re-
porters were pretty liable to keep up with
the process on.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
WASHINGTON.
News from the Ma
tiOnal Capital.

WASHINGTON, March S-The Pres
ident sent the following nominations
to the Senate to>day: Nathan Goff,
jr., to be United States attorney for
West Virginia; Lewis Richmond, of
Rhode I,land, to be consul general
at Rome. United States consuls:
John L. Frisbee, of Michigan, at
Rheims; Phanor NJ. Elder, of Nava-
da, at Guayaquil; Albert Rhodes, of
the District of Columbia, at Rome !;
Edward Backus, of Illinois, at
Para; Emilis Courtads, at La Union;
john A. Haldernan, of Kansas, at
B4ngkaki Abbot L, Daw, at Aleppy,
India; j hn F. James, of New
J rsey, at Neuva, Laredo
The Sena e, III executive session,
co tlrmed the nominations of Goff.
Richmond and Frisbee, and left the
oilers on the table for future
! action.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
THE LEGISLATURE
Most of the Members Returned
from the Junket to Wash
ington.
A Brief and Unimportant Session
of the Senate.
The House Without a Quorum and
Adiourns Over.
Special dispatch to the Chronicle.

Special dispatch to the Cnronice.
NASHVILLE, March 8.-A majority
of the members of the legislature
have returned from their junket to
Washington. Both houses assembled
at 2 p. m. to-day. The senate was
in session an hour, during which fif-
teen bills and other new business
we're introduced. The house, having
no quorum, adjourned until to-mor-
row.
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Liquid Or Dry.

Some people prefer to purchase med
icines in toe dry state. so that they can
see for themselves that they are purely
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or desire to prepare the medicine, and
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To accommodate each class the pro
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MILITARY DRILLS.
The Nashville Exposition Will
Award Large Premiums.

NASHVILLE, March 9.-At meet
ing of the board of exposition II an
agers TO- might, it was decided to give
an aggregate of $500 in prem ums
for competitive military drills, to be
held on the Oath, 25th and 26th of
May. The largest prizes are $1,000
for the best drilled infantry company,
and $500 for sec md best. The drills
will include artillery, target and
military rife practice.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
Good Company, NumDer Eish-
RPSn,

Good Company $500 a year );
Springfield, Mass. }, number ghteen,
has a second article by DR.. G. II
Hepworth, one of the committee for
the distribution of The New York
Herald relief fund, on Ireland and
Irishmen An account Of Seargent
S. Prentiss is given. There is a
sketch of modern travel in Egypt.
Mrs. L. W, Champney has cleverly
done satire on ephemeral literary
reputation entitled The Story of a
Lion. A bit of fiction true to life is
the quantity wierd New England
story, On the Edge of the World. A
story of which the scene is laid in
Spain is A Girl of Cadiz.
There Is an installment of Rose
ana the Doctor, ELLEN w. Olney's
charming and powerful serial" as
one OF the papers calls it; O cave
Ihanet has Colloquy in which tha
methods of practiclng charity are
discussed; there is paper On the
New Testament and Creeds and
several articles under Discussion and
Suggestion, one of which deprecates
the opposition manifested by some
of the Southern bourbon papers to
the views regarding the condition
and needs of the South, recently
expressed by Senator Brown, OF
Georgia, and others.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
Ob9CuarF.

Mrs. Minerva Jane Nighbart, wife Of
Hugh Nighbert departed this life near
Adair's Creek, Il miles from Knoxville, on
the 4th day OF March, 1881. She died Of
dyspepsia and rheumatism, after a severe
s months and u days Sne profe5sed the
Christian religion in 1857, aud joined the
Baptist Church near "a years ago, which
profession she has ever honored by her
orderly walk She leaves q companion
alone near her own age. Al! Cf their
children, six in number, are married ard
have families of their own TO mourn her
loss. The remains were inferred Sunday,
March 6, at IL O'Clock at Adair's Creek
Church. The funeral service was con,
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Jones, editor Of the
Baptist Beacon. lis teXt.was Revelations
20th chapter, 18th verse. W. n.
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THE COMMON FATE.
Death Of a Prominent Virginian in
His 89th Year.

RICHMOND, Va, March 8.-Charles
7. Workman, of the old and well
known firm of Cparles T. Wortham
& Co., of this city, is dead. He died
in the seth year of his age. The
deceased had been a prominent busi-
ness man since many years before
thealate war, and by strict integrity
had won the admiration and esteem
of the mercantile community.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

Hop Bitters, which are advertised In
our columns, are sure cure for ague,
bilousness and kidney complaints.
Those who use them say they cannot
be too highly recommended. TEose
aftl 'cted should give them fair trial,
aud will become thereby enthusiastic
In the praise of their curative qualities.
Portland Argus.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
FOREIGN.

LONDON, March 8.-The dispatches
report that another earthquake oc-
Cured at Casamucciola Monday.
Eleven more bodies were found. The
latest reports show that 1876 persons
have been killed, and 179 injured.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
FORTUNES WHEEL.
Lucky Numbers in the Louisiana
Lottery.

Lucky Numbers IN the Louisiana
Lottery.
New ORLEANS, March 8.-The prins
cipal prizes in the Louisiana State
Lottery, drawn to~day, were as fol-
lows: 1876 drew $4,000, sold
half in New York and half in
Raleigh, N. c.; 1,178 drew $4,000,
sold in New York; 87,768 drew
$1,000, held in Chicago; 69,759 and
50,475 drew $4,000 each, sold in ST.
Louis and Madisonville, Ky. The
following numbers drew 81, 900 each :
23,646, 1882, 71,O45, 86,413, 90
799, sold in Beloit, Wis, Sharps-
burg, Tex, New Orleans, Richmond
and New York.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
FIRE.

Destruction Of $685. 900 Worth of
Property at Bolivar.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 8.-A fire
on Sunday night, at Bolivar, Tenn,
destroyed ten buildings. The loss
IS about $4,000. Insurance Sill
OOO. Messrs. Moore & Hardy, T.
Owens, 1app & Baily, T. P. Camp
bell, L. j. Joiner, Ben Oppenheimer
John Austin, E. P. Mcneil and Gen
5. T. Neely occupied and owned the
buildings burned.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

Monday morning, 7Lh inst., Carrie
Brooks, infant daughter Of B. L. aud
Belle Smith. Funeral services from
residence on HenIg street at 10 a. 10.
today
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1881.
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Every number furnishes the latest Information
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umnS,
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FIRST EDITION.
70 p. M.

GARFIELD should have consulted
Tho editors of the Tribune before he
made up his Cabinet. They would
have selected a stronger one for him.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
MURDER MOST FOUL.
A Young Lady Of Eighteen Years
Murdered for Money.

Murdered for Money.
NV ORLEANS, March 6.-A dis
patch to the Democrat reports a
horrible l murder at Jonesboro, Craig
mead county, Ark. Matte Ismael,
10 years OF age, was left alone in the
mouse while her father went to mill.
On MS return he found his daughter
lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
She had been murdered, the object
being money. Her father being
wealthy, it was supposed a large sum q
of money was in the house. The
place was ransacked, but no money
was found. A number of negroes
have been arrested.
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

The Charleston News and Courier
says ''the Garfield Cabinet is strong,
without doubt" The ed tor had not
seen the Knoxville Tribune when he
wrote the above quotation.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

The Cincinnati Gazette and Com
mercial are at daggers' point over
the mayors election. The Gazette
opposes the denomination by the
Republicans of Mayor Jacob on the
ground that he "has pandered to
the worst classes, and has suffered
the city to be controlled by vice.
The Commercial replies that 6 if the
Republicans indulge in a blue-belly
programme they will be beaten.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

The Westminster Review for JAMS
uary, reprinted by the Leonard
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St, n. T., completes the present
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
WGmen-s Foreign Missionary So

y
ctefy.
Br0a!-street M. Z Church, South
was attended by a very large c0ngre-
CATION Sunday night t, witness the
exercises of the W. mems Foreign
Missionary Society OF Church and
Broad street churches. The meeting
was presided over by Rev. J ii Keith.
the pastor of BrOg d street church.
Encouraging reports We're read by the
orrespoDding secrt taiy and treasurer.
Short addresses were made by Judge
J. F. J. L wis Ind others.
A report va. msd8 by Master
Thompson McClu1 G. president Of the
Lutte WORKER 5 c!efy," of the
Chufch ,S'Iet church. This society
was org gtuiz i in Angus, 1873 to
ralse funds for the education of q
Cninose girl, 10 be ramed Julia Me-
Clung, in honor Of the decea-ed in
faut nf Mr.. and Mrs. Matt. McCIung.
h reported $40 iaised during the last
year.
A brief memorial services was held
in memory # the late Mrs. Annie NJ.
| ID wis. who was one Of the most active
members of the Womeu's Society.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

Ary Eureka Silver Polish, al
Dunbar's.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09

THE Cincinnati Commercial says
that the more thoroughly the Cabinet
of MIR. Garfield is studied the more
clearly it appears that it IS neither a
Grant, nor a Blaine, nor yet an Ohio
Cabinet, but a Garfield Cabinet, and
then adds that the President COM
menced the discharge of his execu
tive office by showing the possession
of more sense than he had been
credited with. The Gazette also
seems to be thoroughly satisfied with
Garfeld's selection.