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1 K1IxrNNY CAT DnaAaEMrNT.

GARrIKLD divides with him.
CoSxLSo complains that it is not an
equal division.
Thereupon GARFIELD says you
shan't have any" and pockets the
whole swag.
To Illustrate: Two boys, JAMES and
Roscoe, steal biscuit from the family
lsrder.
JAMES thrust in bis hand and stole the
biscuit, while Roscoe stood by giving aid
and comfort.
JAMES turns about and offers Roscoe
half the stealings for his encourage
ment.
Roscoe not is satisfied with half, but
claims the other half, and gets mad be-
cause he wasn't consulted about which
half he wanted.
JAMES cuts the matter short by put
ting the whole biscuit into his pocket,
and thereupon, the two boys shed their
coats and begin pulling each others hair
and scratching each others faces.
These boyish pranks are very natural
and would have but little significance,
were it not for the misfortune that the
boy JAMES happens to be President,
and the boy Roscoe a United States
Senator, whereby the dignity OF these
high positions has been grossly comPro-
missed and great country disgraced and
Inundated.
In the first place it is humtliating to
see President OF these United States
actuated by no higher conception OF the
dignity and demands OF his high posi-
ton than an equitable distribution" OF
the spoils.
He Acknowledges that he has not
made his appointments in New York
and if not there, why anywhere?-with
a view OF securing the best men for the
good OF the service, but to make an
equitable distribution" between the
factions.
But GARFIELD has not been faithful
even to this low view.
According to the rules OF the "spoils
system" which he consents shall control
his administration, he is wrong and
CoNKLING is right.
The CoNKLISG wing OF the party in
New York comprises perhaps, three
fourths OF the whole party.
CoSELISG has not, therefore, received
his share OF the biscuit.
An equitable distribution OF The
spoils would give CONXLING the Collec-
torship and most Of the important Of
fees.
Measured, We say, in GARFIELD 5 own
hall bushel, his offer to ConKLING Is
short.
There is ground too, to believe that
he has not lived up to his bargain with
CoyKLISG that he has deceived him
that he has endeayored to play game
of fast and loose with CoSKLING with
the sinister design OF undermining and
DESTROYING his political influence in New
York.
ua t,rned ont an nnexcepiionable
Collector in the middle of his term, to
nm, in an ayowed enemy of CoNKLING,
which could scarcely have any other
exclamation than design to deprive
CoxErrxG NJ bis chief source of politi-
col nowcr in tina, State
From the pojn, of view which both
Coxrrrxc are ACTING and
arc p,ofessiny 70 ACT, viz. an equitable
distribption" Of the snoils we saw that
Covv,,vo ia r;,ht and G,pprr1D &c
wror, G,pr,r,n had no rj,bt N rec.
o,r;7, tho ssspoiIs svstsmn IL he did
no, iptend ~ work in harmony with il .
Had GARFIELD bees actuated bv the
b;gb uo,ivas which We would exnect
from n President anil honestly endeav.
oro1 80 ne, ,ha rrhI;o osrv;,o % q b;,hor
,,laro no vorIJ bova ba,d tho adysr.
" -
Oo - - ~ -, @, - 49,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-07

SEVERAL of the interior counties oil
this State will vote this month on the
question OF railroad or no railroad
There is only one side to this question
in West Virginia. We must have the
ralrnaN
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-07

TUE sudden death OF Prof. HERvEY,
Yesterday, will be a shock to the entire
community in which he has labored for
90 many years. He has been a very
useful man in his sphere, and his loss
will be greatly deplored by those who
have the interests OF our schools at
heart, in this city. The bereayed family
will have the sincere sympathy OF tie
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-07

An Ohio doctor cured himself oil
small pox by eating lemons, and de-
G ares that it IS a specific for the disease.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-07

GARFIELD will fight the machine by
machine methods. Greek against Greek,
so to speak.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-07

IT is now in order for WILLIAM MA
HONE to hold a caucus and find out what
he is going to DO about it.
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Farewell RrDDLEBERGER.

WILL the illustrlous trio, CoSSLISG
CAMERox and LOGAN, stick togetherT
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Invincible Bed Bug Poison

" IL ~ 'A' "O' ''''> LOGAN ( co.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-04

For some time the newspapers
have been reporting the widow of
the late President Lincoln as lying
at the point of death. This is not
true. Her physical condition is good
for one of her age, and she may live
many years yet. She is now about
sixty years old. But while she is in
fair health physically, her mental
faculties are strongly disturbed. She
is the victim of queer fancies and
gives her friends no little anxiety.
She seems to live in constant fear
that want may overtake her in her
old age, but shows no disposition or
capacity to prepare for it. She has a
weakness for supplying herself with
large number of dresses, in
anticipation of the time when
she will not he able to pro-
cure them. She frequently tells
those who care for her comforts and
necessities upon retiring at night,
that she will not live to see the light
of another day. When told that her
son Robert had been appointed
Secretary of War, she manifested
great concern, saying that he was
sure to be assassinated. She mani
tested no surprise whatever when
told that the President had been
shot, but seemed to expect such an
event as matter of course. Reason
is sadly dethroned. It is no wonder,
perhaps, after the shock she received
in 1866, when her husband was as
sassinated. She is kindly cared for
and lacks none of the comforts of
life
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-04
Our Foreign Commerce.

The Treasury Department has just
issued its statement of the imports
and exports of merchandise of the
past fiscal year. The total exports
for the year ending June 30, 1881,
amounted to S902, 319,473. The
total imports for that time were
42,593,219. The excess of exports
over imports being 259,726 25+.
For the year 1880 the total exports
amounted to 1885 638,65S, aud the
total imports to S667,954 746, max
ing the excess of exports $l67,6S3,-
9l2.
Thus 1881 shows an increase in
expor of merchandise over 1880 OF
S4S, 1929 47 and decrease IN im~
ports of SIS, 36l,527, making the ac-
tual increase of exports over imports
of merchandise for the year 1881,
$12S6, 1872. The exports Ut coin and
bullion for 1881 am united to $40,
IO6,S47; the imports, S1l0,575,4 AL
making an excess OF imports over
exports of SOL, les, $3.50.
The exports OF coin and bullion
for 1880 amounted to SIT, 1921
the Imports to $93,034,6I0, making
the excess of imports over exports
for that year S75,89l, 39l. The in
crease of exports of coin and bul,
lion of 1881 over 1880 amounts tC
50 263,929, and the increase of I'M
ports of 1881 over 1880 to SIT 81,
1877, making the increase OF eXces:
Of impo, is over exports for 1888.
over 1880 amount to s;l5, 277,259
The total exports of merchandise
coin and bullion for the year lSS
amounts to S921,726,320, the i'm
ports to S753, l66.7l6, and the tota
excess to $l68,557,604 For tn
year 1880 the total exports wer
SS52,7Sl, SIT, and the imports $3.50,
: 989,056, and the excess of export
over imports s9l,792, 521. The in
crease of exports of merchandise
coin and bullion for 1881 over 1873
amounts to S6S,944743, and the de
crease of imports for 1881 owe
those for 1880 amounts to $3.50,
$40.
> For the first seven months of III
fiscal year there was a larg
t increase in exports Of mer
chandise over those Of the sam
r months for 1880, except in Novem
Der. when the exports were S2,O46
745 less than they were for Noyen
Der, 1880. In April the increase fc
" the fiscal year dwindled to $325,07'
} and in May the exports were $l,5l6
> 295 less than hey were for the sam
month the preceding year. Jun
t 1881, showed Il decrease in export
t over June, 1880, Of SS,739,898.
5 Ia the matter of imports, the frs
s four months If the fiscal yes
y showed an increase Of from $4,000
: 900 to $40 100000 over the san
f month Of the preceding year, bl
= in November the imports began
1 dwind e, and the last eight month
d Of the year showed the followin
: 1880: November. $3,358,377; D.
t cember, So, 227,276; january, 50
IS 923, $50; February, $7,S97,97G
: March, SO 1T, 387; April, SIS
Y 6.S4l; May, S9,374,033, and Jur
G $I664 0SS.
s For the month of June, 1880, Il
If excess Of imports of coin and bu
}, Ii, n over exports amounted to SIT
d $50. This year the increase of e.
d ports of coin and bullion over in
ports for the month Of June is 81
II OPP, 1872, showing a remarkab
. change. During the last ten yea
the value of exports of merchandil
: from the United Stats has inc ease
y from S442,S2O,178 IN 1871 to $500
: 3l9,473 IN 1881.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-04

If the taxation upon spiri and
tobacco were now removed by the
United States, as result of the
abolition of the internal tax system,
one Of the conditions thus created
would be of great public importance.
With the withdra wal of the national
collectors, opportunity would be
given the States to advance their
own. The necessities of the States,
in many instances, are most press
ing. This relief would be to them
of the highest value. Ina ratio cor
responding to the almost total needs
of the internal revenues to the
Golfers of the national tress-
ury, is the extreme urgency of the
demand for them in the treasu>
uries OF such States as Virginia, the
| two Carolinas, and Tennessee. Is it
to be insisted that the United States
reaching out for what i. no longer
needs, shall maintain an army of civil
servants throughout the country
backed by another legion Of armed
men, for the purpose of gathering
in taxation that would revive The
financial fortunes of the communi-
ties from which it is taken? Such 6
policy is indeed perpetuating the wa,
spirit and war operations.
| An examination of the interna
returns shows that the following
sums were collected in the fisca
year ending June 80, 1880, in tn
several Sta es Of the South:
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-04

It is out of the question to deny
the significance of this array OF fig
ures. That SO great sum as twen-
weight and half millions of dol
lars should now be annually drawn
by taxation from the States whose
finances are VIGOROUSLY embarrassed,
is a proceeding justifable only by
necessity-sucn s>ity as does
not now exist. There are some nos
ticeable instances of special hard
ships in the list The large amount
collected in Virginia, with her empty
treasury, her defaulted bonds, her
delinquent interest, and her contest
over Reputation, seems shocking 10
every principle of sound public
policy, unless it be true that we cans
not spare her the money. So also
in Tennessee, SO in North Carolina,
so in Louisiana.
It is Of no consequence to say that
these taxes are indirect, and do not
bear upon the people of the States
where they are collected, This is
not the point the fact is that they
are collected in these debt-embar-
raised communities, from objects of
taxation and sources of revenue ex-
isting there. If, then, the United
States can get such sums, 50 could
the States for themselves. And here
we come back to the essential ques-
ton: Does the national government
need these taxes, that she sweeps
them away from before he State au-
thority? Can she not, now, or very
soon, for abundant reasons relating
to her own policy, and also for this
excellent one affecting the welfare of
tie States, cease her war taxation,
and let them replace it by taxes and
revenues to repair the ravages and
heal the wounds of war?
| We do not pretend to say Whether
the views of the American are prac-
ticable or not. We have entire con-
'fdence N the capacity of Secretary
Windou to manage the financial af-
| fairs of the country. and we believe
| it will be done with the least possible
oppression of taxpayers consistent
with maintenance of the public SER
vice and the public credit. But, il
the statistics above given are correct,
and in our own State, for instance
we could derive $1,O03,735. which
we paid the government last year
; from whisky and tobacco principally.
and we could devote that amount
to the payment of inter
est on our State debt, it would
simplify things amazingly. Tuat
would pay the entire annual interest
on our State debt, as adjusted by
the recent legislature. and leave
$25O,OOO to be applied to the pr nci-
pal. With an ordinary additional
tax of 25 cents on the one hundred
dollars, we could pay off the entire
debt in fifteen years. 1t is pleas
ant thing to think of, at any rate.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-04
THE WAR TAXES.

Some of the newspapers are begin
ming to discuss the proposition that
we are fast arriving at point when
the internal tax system, growing out
of the late war, may be abolished.
So able journal as the Philadelphia
American takes the ground that it
can be done. It takes the ground
that the revenue derived from inter
nal taxation is surplusage to the
amount of more than seventy five per
cent, and that there is no doubt of
the practicability of dispensing with
it altogether, and that the revenue
derived from our customs receipts
will, with economy in their expen-
diture, be sufficient to meet all de,
mands against the government, and
at the same time provide for rea-
sonable reduction of the public debt
each year. It says:
Providing for a moderate annual
reduction of the debt, is one thing
to pay off the whole of our bonded
obligations in less than fifteen years,
as we are now doing, is quite an
other. The one plan would be con
serva' i've of all the elements of our
present prosperous condition, by
moving carefully and giving time for
all interests, including the national
banks, to adjust themselves without
shock or embarrassment while the
other, which we are now pursuing
with such excess Of zeal, is product
i've of injuries as it passes, and
threatens to overthrow, at the end of
a decade, the whole system upon
which the circulation of the national
banks is established.
The American takes another view
of this question, which, if practicable,
is peculiarly comforting to the people
Of the South. 1t says:
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Everybody knows more or less about Derlor-
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was slight. The surgeon anticipated
a fatal termination, but to his sur
prise the boy rapidly recovered, and
is now running about as usual, This
is pretty good story, but its truth
l. vouched for,
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RECENT events have brought out
quite discussion through the news
papers as to the probable fatality of
wounds received in the liver, and if
some OF the stories printed are true,
that organ is not SO vital or soneces-
sary to ones existence as is popularity
supposed. The latest case reported
is that of negro boy who resides
at Georgetown, eolored settlement
near Charlottesville, Va. He fell
from tree upon sharp point of a
stake. The right side of the boy
was penetrated and the liver pierced.
DR.. W. G. Rogers was called to see
the patient, and on reaching him
found the liver protruding and con-
siderably torn, SO much 80 that he
clipped off q portion about the size
of a marble. the exposed organ
was replaced and a few stitches taken
in the orifce to prevent its protru-
sion. The liver was torn on the left
edge, where there are not many
blood-vessels, and the hemorrhage
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