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The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12


We. sometimes hear it sneer-
ingly said: That mans father
was a boot black; or that lady 8
mother was washerwoman.
The sneers, of course, are di-
rected against those who are
trying to make some figure in
the world. Would it not be we'll
for US all to put on the robes of
humility? The ancestry of the
whole human family were only
savages. The ancestral begin
uing Of every one of Us was
hardly worth Dragging about,
and what is worse, we greatly
fear, that our posterity a thou
sand years from now will be
heartily ashamed of us.-[Dr
Foote's Health Monthly.
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DIR. W. E. PUGH,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
BASTROP, La.

Having permantly located in Bastrop,
offers his professional services to the peo-
ple Of this town and viciniay. He will
be found at his office, South of the public
50 uare at all hours when not engaged m
the duties of his profession. And will
be ready, night or day, to respond
promptly to the calls Of tho people.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12

The notorious Indian Chief
Sitting Bull having surrendered
with his braves to the govern
ment, it is now a question as to
what shall be done with them,
and how are they to be provided
for. The regular army appro-
priation bill only provides for
the maintenance of 500 Indian
prisoners. The number sur
rendered amounts to 5000. Until
Congress meets and makes an
appl opriation they will be kept
at Forts Keogh and Yates, al
though Gen. Drum recommends
that they be distributed over the
different Indian reservations and
made to work for a living.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12

The melon season has just opened
in New York and the entire popu-
iation of that city, as we'll as the
negroes and small boys, are wild
with delight in consequence. The
schooner Martha was the first of
the watermelon fleet to arrive from
North Carolina, and disposed of its
cargo, 1000 melons, at the good
figure of $50 o hundred, or thirty
cents a piece. Georgia generally
ships the first melons of the season,
but North Carolina got ahead OF
her this year. Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware, however, furnish
most of the New York demand, but
the melons in these States are 8
little late and not yet pickable.
Indeed, the melon season opened
very late tlis year, June being the
month when the season usually be-
gins. New York's receipts amount
to about 100000 day during the
season. They are retailed at the
average price Of fifty cents piece,
making the cost of providing that
city with melons something over
800, 900 month. n. Q. DEM
ocrat, Aug. Sd.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12

ONIONS FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA.
We have frequently remipded
our readers of the excellence OF
chopped raw onions as food for
chickens. A Canadian gentle
man says that he cured his
chickens of an attack of the
cholera by mixing raw onions
with their food once day for a
week. Occasionally he added a
little ground ginger, keeping
them we'll supplied with all sorts
of green food. His neighbors
for miles around lost nearly all
of their chickens, while all OF
his recovered, and after the first
attack were exempt from the
disease.
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Mississippi county, Missouri

Mississippi county, Missouri,
is the great watermelon region
Of the world. Over 1000 acres
are this year devoted to water
melons alone, and the yield is
about a cal load an acre, 80 that
1000 car loads will be shipped
to ST. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit,
and Indianapolis. Contracts
have been made with many
farmers at 800 a car The gen.
eral prices run from $50 to Slos
a car during the season.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12
IMPROVED COTTON SEED.

The following, from cotton. a
weekly journal published in New
Rork for manufacturers, dealers
and planters, contains some impor-
tant truths and wholesome and
good advice. The writer is an Al
ALBANIA gentleman of 20 years ex-
perience in cotton culture. Read
the article: s.. .
'sThe value Of improved seed for
planting IS not properly understood
by most farmers. There can be no
doubt that the cotton crop of the
Southern States could be improved
one-t third by the use of the best i'm
proved seed. We know of one
farmer who planted, last year, a
part of his field with improved seed,
and the balance of the field was
planted with the common seed of
the country. In all other respects
the conditions were as near uniform
as possible. The part planted with
improved seed made fraction over
one hundred per cent. more than
that planted with common seed.
Another farmer writes us that he
planted field with two varieties of
improved seed, conditions uniform.
The product of two rows of each
variety was carefully ascertained by
weighing, and it was found that,
whilst two rows of one variety pro-
duced sixty pounds, two rows of
the other produced ninety pounds
a difference of one-third in favor of
the best seed.
The really wonderful results to
be obtained from the use of COM
mercial fertilizers have forced that
subject upon the attention of even
the most backward farmers. The
advantages of using improved seed
are second only to those of employ
ing chemical manures, and yet the
subject has thus far attracted
scarcely any attention in the South.
Probably three-fourths of the farm
ers of the cotton States use the
common seed for planting and a
large majority of them pay five dol.
lars per acre for guano to increase
the yield, when the same or greater
increase of yield could be obtained
by paying one dollar for improved
| seed. A considerable number o.
farmers buy improved seed, and
instead of selecting their seed every
year, as they should do, they buy
a new supply every few years
This is shameful waste of money
and the only consolation is that il
falls into the hands of enterprisins
men, by whom it will be used in 6
way that will probably promote the
public good to some extent. This
is not quite SO bad as sending
North for ak handles, but every
farmer ought to be ashamed to dt
so, when he could so easily keel
his seed as good as they were whel
he got them, and thus secure full
crops every year.
s1The difference in favor OF
crop from selected seed is hun
dred fold greater than the cost o
selecting the seed. The hand tina
selects the seed will pick nearly a:
much cotton in day as the othe
!. hands, and, if farmers could onc'
be induced to make the experiment
and observe the results for a yea
! or two, they would take create
pleasure in it afterwards. A hal
. bushel of seed is bountiful sup
ply with which to plant an acre, 1
the work is properly done with
good SEED drill. We know of ont
farmer who planted TWENTY-FIVE
acres last year with nine bushels o
seed, and got at least fifteen stalk
for every one he needed.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12

When a Boston girl is pre-
sented with a boquet she says:
"Oh, how deliciously sweet; fra
GRANGE impregnates the entire
atmosphere Of the room" A
down.east girl says it smells
scrumptious; thanks, Reuben. -
Waits.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1881-08-12

I have just received new lot OF
buegies and will offer as an induce
ment. to sell them on easy terms
say half cash, and balance on time'
if the purchaser can make a good
note j. S. HANDr.
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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
EUTAW, ALA,
July Both, 1881.


is the dividing line between
Hale and Greene eounties. 1t
is the county site Of Greene,
which is one Of the border conn
ties of West Alabama. Il boasts
of a population something less
than two thousand souls. Before
the war Eutaw ranked first as Il
fast and aristocratic Southern
village. Her citizens were fabu-
lously rich, and extravagantly
liberal with their wealth. They
lived in splendid and costly
mansions, which were furnished
in regal style During the sum-
mer they flashed their silks and
diamonds in the faces of their
more economic Yankee friends
around fashionable New England
watering places, where the peo-
pie Of Butaw won the suggestive
appellation of "full-blood aristo-
Gratis" The winters were passed
by the men in testing the feet
ness of their horses and hounds
by chasing the sly and cunning
fox, The war and its results
have revolutionized this town
and its people most astonish-
ingly. Men and women who
we're reared in the very lap OF
idle luxury, are now toiIing for
their bread. Magnificent resi-
dences, whose occupants were
formerly "big rich" are now in
habited by the humble daily
laborer. Men who, in ante-bel-
lum days, were poor, are now
advancing provisions to mer
who then counted their slaves
and cotton bales by the hun
dred. Indeed, the whole thing
is changed, and, as the negro
guard said to the captured Con
federate soldier, ''de bottom
rails on top now"
Eutaw is a pretty town. Like
your town, it has a beautiful
court house in the centre of the
public square, around which art
located the principal business
houses of the place. The mer
chants are live, wide-awake gen
tlemen, who are just now yer,
uneasy about the prospects o
getting pay for the enormou'
amount of goods which they
have sold this year on credit
There are two good papers pub
lished here-the Wing and th'
Mirror. The Whig is a thor
ough- bred Democratic journal
whose influence extends con
siderably beyond it's count,
boundaries. For forty year.
this fearless paper has holdl,
maintained what it considers th,
right, regardless of what eithe
friend or foe may think or say
and It's bids fair, from its presen
healthy appearance, to live a
least a century longer. It's edi
| tor is one OF the truest OF all TIT
true Alabamians, and we'll doe
he deserve success.
South of Eutaw are what ar
called the prairie lands, which
long years ago, were wonderful.
rich. That section is often des
ienated as the "Black Belt"
presume that name was givel
ID on account Of the color bot
of the land and its tillers, VIII
are all negroes. These land
are now poor, and, without fer
tilizing, yield very sparingly
Near Forkville. a little town j
this country, situated in tn
angle formed by the confiuenc
of the Warrior and Blgbe
rivers, the lands are very fe'
Itile-so are malarial feYers. !
heavy business is done at Forh
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DIR. #. G. GRar,

BAsTRoP, LA.
Offers his professional services to the
eople Of Bastrop and vicinity, Can De
found at his residence, or at the drug store
Of DR.. A. L. Bussey, when not pro1es-
onally engaged. ieoy
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05
LETTER FROM sCLINCH.'

LEE VALLEY, Tenn, Dec. 80, 80.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette: m
Although The atmosphere up "Salt
river" does not greatly inspire one
to write newspaper letters, | feel
obliged to return the compliments OF
the season to the GAZETTE, and to
hope you h2ye been blessed with the
latest of turkeys and other i49liday
nic-nacks for Christmas and New
Years.
I have but little to interest your
readers Just now. We ar6 naW ea-
during the coolest spell of weather
[ ever experienced in Tennessee.
Lee Valley High School has just
CLOSED q most successful term under
the care of Q4F popular teacher,
Prof J. M. DAVIDSON. The examin-
atians, recitatiens, and the beautifnl
Christmas tree provided by Prof. D.,
and loaded with rich presents by the
patrons of the School, were each and
al highly interesting. The second
tern Qfthis fpot-Glass school begins
on the 10th Of January, 1854.
Before this can be published the.
legislature of Tennessee will be in
session, and at work, / hope, in the
interest of the people. If they will
re-eiee4 Senator Bailey, or elect Hon.
James d. Porter in has stead, settle
the State debt, and pass some en-
public road law, they
could adjourn sseling like they had
earned their pay, and Waald aach
member merit a fifty cent chrome.
[ hope the House will do themselves
the honor of electing Hon. R. R.
Butler Speaker. He would make a
splendid presiding officer. I would
be pp94d to hear Of our old friend,
!. E. Cunningham, gettiHg 2 clerk
ship in the Senate. he vas q HFe,
member of the last House,
and would make splendid clerk.
With a Happy New Year" to all
my friends of the GAZETTE, am, as
,yeF, Respectfully,
Or TNyCIT
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

The Knoxville Chronicle publishes
letter addressed to Hon, VIM. A.
McTeer,, of M,iryville, by Thomas
G. Robinson, Esq, Secretary of the
committee ofTennessee bondhoIders,
in which he reiterates at length the
assumption of Eugene Kelly to the
effect that the bondholders- will not
accept a settlement of their claims
at so cents on the dollar Tn fact,
Dir. Robinson asserts very emphati-
cally that.a majority of the bond
holders never made a proposition for
a settlement. This is contradictory
of Gov. Marks proclamation, call
ing an election on the so 4 PROPOSE
ion, andbegets further enlargement.
The comments ofthe Chronicle upon
the letter are Brief but to our view
they are correctly indicative of the
general sentiment of the State
credit public Ont question OF, our
indebtedness. 1t says:
ave fear there's a wide difference
between the demands the holders of
Tennessee bonds are going to make
ADD public sentiment throughout the
State on the subject-tOo wide to JUS
tify a hope that satisfactory COM
promise will be made. We will IA
vor the settlement OF the debt upon
terms satisfactory to the credit of the
State but we speak advisedly when
we say that demand for a cOmpro-
mise at a higher rate than fifty cents
will be met with fierce and determ-
ined opposition. We}haye said, and
say now, that the proposal to com
promise at sixty cents was liberal,
and that it ought to have been &C
cepted, but we cannot close our eyes
to existing facts. We will hope for
the best, but fear our hopes will not
be realized. 2
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05
MoRRlsT9Wy AND ITS OUTLOOK.

We take pleasure in eGpying the
following from the editorial page of
the Knoxville Daily Dispatch of
Saturday morning last - assuring
brother Charlton that we and the
good people Of orr town fully appre-,
ciate his interest in 4si
While we feel a peculiar pride,
as all East Tennessee does, in the
city Of Knoxville and rejoice at ev-
cry evidence Of its coming prosperi-
ty, at the same time KaGXyille is
not all of East Tennessee by a vast
deal, What would it be without
that broad section stretching out on
all sides of it, and those eHteeppieipg
towns whose merchants, professional
men and other business men concen-
trate their trade upon it? Say
What would it be without these ad-
iuncts? Knoxville is really more
indebted for its prosperity to these
influences than to her own exertions.
It might have all. the enterprise in
the world-its citizens wide awake
to its condition and thoroughly i'm
pressed with the importance of
every nerve and taxing
every energy to reach the zenith Of
her feaawn, but without the cooper
alton Of East Tennessee towns and
East Tennessee merchants and farFa-
ers, it would make comparatively
tRrdy strides toward the acquisition
Of wealth.
Taking this view Of the matter
we feel that it is our high and inn
psFative duty to give to our enter
prising toWas all the prominence
and consideration they deserve and
% stimulate them to renewed and |
PERSISTENT efforts to better their. con-
lition. We have often. alluded to I
some 40 miles east of !.
his city, on the East Tennessee Vir-
,inia q Georgia Railroad and at the
qnetiop Of the North Carolina road,
S an Important town. its outlook
! a commanding one and il becom
hing more aud more 20 every day.
With its fine schools, It's elevated !
loral tone, it's admirable social sys-
I'm, its elegant hotels, its enterpris-
ig merchants, its educated profess
onal men and last thaqgh not least,
s railroad prospects-aiI these
lings are rapidly pushing Morris Z
'wn to the front ranks of success
I'd prosperity.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

A representative OF the GAZETTE
had the pleasure Of witnessing the
rendition Of the drama of Dickens
"Old Curiosity Shop" at Staub's
Opera House, Knoxville. last Tues
day night, by thai charming and
elegant little artistic, Miss Katie
Putnam, and her splendid troup
Miss Katie took the role Of Little
Nell and the "Marchioness, and
to say that she fully sustained the
characters wenld be merely stating
it mildly. AS far as we are able to
judge she is inimitable and above
criticism. Every where she appears
before the foot-lights she delights
and captivates her audience. After
seeing her we could but feel, I'm
so glad r.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

Our young friend and former fell
lOw-tOwnsman, r. VI. Barton, Jr.,
Esq, was the recipient recently at
Chattanooga of rare and graceful
testimonial from number of the
citizens of that town as an express
ion of their esteem and regard for
him as an intelligent and faithful re-
firing Alderman He was publicly
presented with full dinner set Of
decorated china, covered with figures
Of birds, in blue, and handsome plat
ed water pitcher, on which was in
scribed, ITO r. NJ Barton, Jr., a toll-
eli of the esteem and confidence of
his fellow-citizens. Chattanooga, Dec.
Is. 1880.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

MessHs J IL Butler a To-. Edu-
catiOnal Publishers, announce their
removal to the New Store No. Is
South 9th Street, Philadelphia. Pa.
AS a standard school literature for
training "the young idea how to
shoot, their series of publications
are unsurpassed, and, we are pleased
to say, are receiving universal pOpu-
larity at the hands of their Southern
patrons. Through their jealous
agent for the Southern States, John
w. Paulett, with headquarters at
Knoxville, Tenn, their books are
being largely introduced in the lead
ing city schools and with an increas-
ed per eentage in the valley and
mountain school houses of this State.
Mr.. Paulett having had much expe-
rience in the business as well as a
natural eye to educational progress,
is well qualified to grade any school
in his line of hooks, and will do il
on the most reasonable and satisfac-
tory terms School teachers should |
consult their interest by consulting
with him in regard to the partic- |
ular books they may desire for !
their respective schools j. II. But
Ter & Co. school publications should |
be in every Southern schoOl-house, |
and NE trust snch may be at ne dis
tant day.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05
IRELAND

The gravity of the situation in
Ireland, says the Philadelphia. Times,
may be estimated by the fact that
the British Government finds it
necessary to concentrate thirty
thousand troops in, that country, or
nearly one-half the force which the
Duke of Wellington commanded at
Waterloo, and four times the num-
Der of .Cornwallis surrendered at
Yorktown, Adding to these the po-
lice force ofIreland, which is pure
ly military body, this is the strong
est armys Great Britain has put in
the field at any one time in half
century That even Hthis- force is
not deemed sufficient is shown by
the cable dispatches, which daily re-
port the departure of additional
troops from England. But this is
not all. Nearly every harbor con
tains one or more men-ofwar, and
the channel. feet is ready TO bear
downjon. the Irish coast at 4 mo
mentss 4otiee. When 1t is recollecf-
ed that the Land League disavows
anything like resort to physical
force these precautions are certainly |
extraordinary. If the design is TO |
protect obnoxious men like Boycott,
who was literally starved out of the
country, this imposing military dis
play has. utterly failed of its intend
ed efeet, for the Boycotting bust
ness AenFishes=ste-a greater extent
than ever, 4e4nFhile ID is. net in
probable that the volunteers will be
called out in England. There are
,omemil ions.Of Irishmen there. who
ire nsarly all in fun sympathy with | |
heir brethren at home. So agrees. |
re and menacing have they become !
ately that it 10 reported the Queen |
afraid topper, PaFIiameBt in per- {
on This is prObablya Tory dodge. t
be object being to infame the pub. :.
e'nind agefHst the Gladstone Min
try and drive thesa into a policy Of v
The next thirty days will Il
] All probability bring some start. b
ng news, for it is almost impossible a
nat the present condition of afFaira q
aouid continue without an outbreak q
some kind. b
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

The following officers of Norris
town Lodge, No. 972, Knights of
Honor, were elected last Thursday
night for the next six months b.
F. Stubblefeld, Past Dictator t; J. NJ.
Mcfarland, Dictator ]. A. Town
send, Vice Dictator J. L. Howell.
Assistant Dictator H. NJ Sher-
wood, Reporter; Geo Livingston,
Financial Reporter Harvey Loop,
Chaplain; J.. X. Lawless, Guide /;
VIM. Williams, Guardian; John
Noe, Sentinel r. A. Lowry was
elected representative to the Grand
Lodge. -.
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- 49,
A Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati CommreipEgives this
item of personal news that is not
without interest to many admirers
of two of the gentlemen named: "S.
c. Ranage, from Khoxville5 holding
a 81 400 clerkship in the POstofice
Department, has been discharged by
Postmaster General Maynard. A
Mr. Armatage, Of Tennessee, hold
ing aspface in the same Department
has also lost his, official scalp. Maj
Thos. K. Kirby, who was Keys pri-
vate; Secretary, has been changed
from that position to q 81, 200 place.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

We have on our table a copy of
.zkaekS. hI9gaL-(fWide- for 1881. OF
the'many Guides and seed and plant
Catalogues sent out by seedsmen and
nurserymen, and that are doing so
much to inform the people and beau
tlty and enrich our country, none
are so instructive and beautiful as
this. It's Illustrations are eiven bv
the hundred, and are most elegant.
Its colOred plate is a gem. 1t con
taihs 112 pages and costs only lOc.
Address James Wick, Rochester, n.
Y. See advertisement. ~
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05
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A CARD OF TIA NFq

l take this method of returning
my sincere thanks to the city pa
irons Of I'VE MoRRIsTowN GAZETTE
whom / have delivered the papsn t.
during the year Just closed, in the
capacity as carrier boy,) for the
gehefois libeFality with which they
greeted me on Christmas day. ES=
pecially do / desire to return my
heartfelt acknowledgements to Mr..
Jas. E. Thompson, our efficient
county Trustee and Tax Collector,
for the very encouraging manner in
which he has responded to my an
n49l calls dpripg ihR ffEg Years of
PAY earriershiR. Again I thank my
patr0as, one and all, and shall ever
retain their acts Of kindness fresh Ia
my memory. Trusting the future
may bring them many merry
ghristmases and happy new years,
~ Esil a. Hsgerat prosperity, | as
tribe myself
Very gratefully, etc,
JAMES a. HCLsToN.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

a's iha Ediios % US Mofssiosn oauaiiei
Will you please allow me b. ep-
tend through your columns our most
unfeigned thanks 10 the people 90
MorristOwni both within and with.
out the communion OF our own
church, for the great kindness shown
ps since gg haze beea h theh hidtt
assaIans them lt ID a real pleasure
TO serve them tn the capacity of a
Christian minister. And especially
do we thank them for the unspar.
ing Npounding they gave ~ ON
Chrtmas Tvs, and Wil ever. hold
Them In the bondspf Christian low.
X. Q. ATKMa
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05

The grand dress ball given at
Yoels Hotel, Messy Creek, last We'd
nesday evening, was everything that
the most wishful could have wished.
The attendance was large and Sc
lect and aside from being enter
tanned by such an agreeable host
and hostess as Mr.. and Mrs. Voc.
the affair in itself was the most
pleasurable thing of the kind that
has probably ever occurred at that
place. 1t was a decided success
AT least the Morristown delegation"
voted it such.