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WANT GUARANTEES FOR STEADY
WORK.

PITTsBURe, Pa, August 26.-The
teasers, mixers and filters employed in
the various glass houses OF the city
and vicinity are preparing a form Of
agreement which they will present to
their employers in a few days for reg
ulating the question of wages and 9TH
er details of work for the coming year.
They do not ask for any increase in
wages, but want a guarantee of steady
work.
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A STRIKE AvERTED.

PITTsBURG, August %. : The
threatened strike of the mixers, teas
ers and fllers-in of the South Side
glass factories has been averted by
mutual concessions being made. The
workmen withdraw the obnoxious
agreement which they wanted signed,
and the manufacturers will hereafter
recognize them as skilled workmen.
The factories will resume next week.
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CoHoEs, N. Y, August 28.-On
the opening of Harmony Mills this
morning a general break in the strik-
ers' ranks took place, aud there we're
three thousand looms in operation,
with a proportionate number Of oper-
ators in the other departments.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12
He Had No Fun In Him.

One of the members of the Methodist
| Conference held in Detroit was out fol
walk at an early hour one morning,
and encountered strapping big fellow
who was drawing wagon to black,
smith shop.
"Catch hold here and help me down
| to the shop with this wagon, and I'll
buy the whisky" called the big fellow.
never drink, " solemnly replied the
good man.
"Well, you can take a cigar"
/ never smoke"
The man dropped the wagen-tongue,
looked hard at the member, and asked
"Don't you chew?"
"No, sir, was the decided reply.
" You must get mighty lonesome"
unused the teamster.
ST guess I'm all right, I feel first
rate"
"I'l bet you even that L can lay you
ON your back" remarked the teamster.
81 never bet, replied the clergyman.
Come, now, let's warm up little. Z"
81 am In n hurry"
"Well, let's take each other down for
fun, then. You are as big as am, and
I'll give you the under hold"
"Inever have fun" solemnly replied
the member.
"Well, I'm going to tackle you, any
way. Here We 60"
The teamster slid mp and endeavored
to get backhold, but he had only lust
commenced his fun, when he was lifted
clear off the grass and slammed against
a tree-box with such force that he Rasped
half dozen times before he could catch
his breath.
"Now, you keep away from me-"
exclaimed the minister, picking up his
cane.
"BnSt me If I DON'T" replied the
teamster, rs he edged off
Whats tde use of lying and saying
that you didn't have any fun in You,
when you are chuck full of itP You
wanted to break my back, didn't your"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12
REMARKABLE FLoW FRozr AN OH
VEIL.

II
Any one familiar with the heavy oil
developments knows that goodly part
OF the drilling Is done on the hill known
as the "Point," near Franklin. It rises
from the bank of the French creek in a
very abrupt manner. Philip Cheeseman's
brewery is situated at the foot Of South
Park street, on the west side of the
creek. His beer vault is ON the oth@
side. 1t is an immense vault, blasted
out of solid rock, and penetrates into the
hillside nearly 100 feet. In this is
stored large quantities of lager beer.
The casks that hold the beer contain on
an average abont ten barrels each. One
cask in the rear end of the vault is used
as a supply cask. All the others are
connected with this one by pipes, and
the supply cask, being sunken, is al
ways kept full of beer. The hill at this
place is so steep that it cannot be as
cended.
Above this vault, on the hilltop, Rial
& Son own lease. They drilled num-
Der of wells ON their lease, and they were
all profitable. Some time ago they
located No. 8 directly over this beer
vault. The rig was built and things ran
along in the usual manner for about
week. When the. had reached depth
of 400 feet, 200 feet less than where they
usually find the sand, the drill struck
crevice and dropped away several feet.
The tools were withdrawn from the hole
and tie bailer run. It came up SEEM
ingly full of oil. Bail as they would,
they could not exhaust the supply.
They decided to tube the well, and were
ordered to do SO by Mr.. Rial. The next
day the well was tubed without being
shot. They commenced to pump it, and
it threw the fluid out at great rate.
Noticing something queer about the oil,
one of the men tasted it. He found it
so good that he put his lips to the pipe
and took long gulps of the delicious
stuff. First one and then another drank.
They became what is known as drunk. |
The owners visited the well, drank, and
were overcome. Operators came 10 see
it, drank, and were overcome. The
people of the town who had heard of it
went up the hill, drank, and were over
come.
Little by little they came to realize
what they had been drinking. One man
was found in the crowd who had tasted
beer before. He affirmed that it was
beer, but they laughed at him. How
would this Rip Van Wrinkle elixir get
into the bowels of the earth? At last
they decided to call in undoubted au-
shority on the beer question, and sent
Tor Philip Grossman. Grossman came.
He tasted it once, twice, and then he
tore his hair. els it beer?" they asked.
' Beer? Yes; it's mein own make.
Mein Colt in Himmell, You are pump
ng mein beer vault dry" Such was
he fact, and the way that well was shut
lown was a caution. They visited the
rault and found it to be SO. Three Of
he large casks were empty.-OH City
Derrick. F.,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12
POLAR EXPLORATIONS.

For many years explorers have made
attempts to penetrate to the far North.
seeking the open Polar sea, which was
believed to exist, and endeavoring to
penetrate to the North pole. In 1850
an Arctic expedition was fitted out by
Henry Grinnell, of New York. with
Lieut.. E. J. DeHaven as commander
and DR.. Elisha Kent Kane as naturalist
and surgeon. This is classed as the first
United States expedition of search: it
returned in 1851 without finding trace of
Franklin. DR.. Kane in 1853 sailed
from Boston in the Advance, with n
company of seventeen men, among
whom was Dr.. Hayes; they encoun-
tered many dangers, and returned to
Boston, where they arrived Oct. II. 1864
On NAY 20, 1860, the first expedition 0
Charles Francis Hall sailed from New
London, Ct, to search for Franklin.
- returned without finding any trace
of that navigator, after an absence O,
two years. Dr.. Hayes sailed from Ros-
ton, July 8, 1860, in the schooner Unit
ed States, of 1873 tons, with fourteen per-
sons in the party, not including him
self; he reached land in latitude 81.dep
81 min. Hail started from New Lon
don, Ct, on his second trip, July 30.
1864, and returned in 1869; and again
he fitted out an expedition by Con-
gressional appropriation, and went
north to find the open Polar sea. but he
died in Greenland, Nov. 8, 1871 his
vessel was the Polaris, which sailed from
New York June 80, 1871. On july 8
1879, the steamer Jeanette was fitted |
put at San Francisco by James Gordon
Bennett, for an Arctic trip through |
straits, the crew numbering /
ihirty-two men. On June 10. 1873. I
Lieut.. Fred Scwhatka, with a party
If five, left New York in search of the |
'emains of the Franklin party, which /
were found, and the party returned after
IN absence of over two years. A prop
'sition has been made by prominent
md adventurous English naval officer to
20 north as far as possible by vessel and
lodges, and take balloons and with them
eek the North pole. +
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA,

The great wall of China was built by
Che Hwhng-te, who has been named
"the Universal Emperor" This ruler
made many improvements, building
roads, forming canals, and erecting
numerous handsome public buildings
throughout his domains, as we'll as SUBJ
DUNG his enemies, who were threaten
ing him, and putting down several for
midable rebellions. When he had
strengthened himself and his empire, he
discovered that the northern states OF
Thsin Chaou and Yen were building
lines of Notification along their northern
frontier for protection against the incur
sions of the Heung-noo, and then he
conceived the idea of building one great
wall, which was to stretch across the
entire northern limit of the vast empire
from the sea to the farthest western cor
ner of the northern province of Kan
sub. The year 214 before Christ wit
messed the beginning of the work, which
was under the immediate supervision of
the Emperor. It was pushed forward
very vigorously, but he died before it's
completion. 1t is pronounced by some
as the most gigantic work of defense
ever erected by man. In some places it
is simple rampant, in others a solid
foundation of granite, while the eastern
section has a height of fifteen to twenty
feet, and breadth such that six horse
men may ride abreast upon it. At various
distances there are towers of brick about
forty feet in height. It is stated that,
with its windings, it is from / 200 to
!, 500 miles in length.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12

There is abundant evidence that the
amount of water on the surface Of the
earth has been steadily diminishing for
many thousands Of years. No one
doubts that there was a time when the
Caspian sea communicated with the
Black sea, and when the Mediterranean
covered the greater part of the Desert OF
Sahara. In fact, biologists tell us that
at one period the whole Of the earth was
covered by water, and the fact that con-
tinents Of dry land now exist is proof
that there Is less water on our globe now
than there was in its infancy. This dim
mutton of our supply of water Is going
on at the present day at a rate SO rapid
as to be clearly appreciable. The rivers
and smaller streams of our Atlantic
States are visibly smaller than they were
twenty-five years ago. Country brooks
IN which men now living were accus-
toned TO fish and battle in their boy
hood have in many cases totally disap-
peared, NOT through any act of man, but
solely In consequence of the failure of
the springs and brooks which once fed
them. The level of the great lakes is
falling year by year. There are many
piers on the shores of lakeside cities
which vessels one approached with ease,
but which now hardly reach TO the edge
of the water. Harbors are everywhere
growing shallower. This is not due to
the gradual deposit of earth brought
down by rivers or of refuse from city
sewers. The harbor of Toronto has
grown shallow in spite of the fact that it
has been dredged out SO that the bottom
rock has been reached, and all the dredg-
ing that can be done to the harbor of
New York will not permanently deepen
IT. The growing shallowness of the |
Hudson Is more evident above Albany
than 1t lis In the tide-water region, and,
like the outlet of Lake Champlain, which |
was once navigable by Indian canoes at all |
the Upper Hudson is now almost |
bare of water in many places during the
summer. In all other parts of the world |
there is the same steady decrease of wa
ter in rivers and lakes, and the rainfall
N Europe, where scientific observations
ire made, is manifestly less than 1t was
1t period within mans memory.
What is becoming of the water? OBJ
7iously it is not disappearing through
evaporation, for in that case rains would
Five back whatever water the atmos-
here might absorb. We must ac-
ept the theory that, like the water of
he moon, our water is sinking into the
aTth's interior. York Times.
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A Horrible Tragedy and its Sequel.

I cannot close this letter without
chronicling tragic event which took
place recently. It was on the northern
frontiers of this empire, over~againsi
Saxony; the scene, an inn; time, even
ing. Many old customers Of the place
were assembled in the snug room, with
its time-polished tables, its tail-tiled
stove, its amazing pictures of saints and
angels. Beer enough to float an IRON
| clad, wine enough to intoxicate CONT
nent, had been served out in that place
since it's first dedication to Bacchus two
| centuries ago. Tonight the worship OF
! of the wine-crowned deity was proceeding
as merrily as usual, and the air was
thick with tobacco smoke, when man
with a sleeping child In his arms
slouched In and sat down in a corner.
He drank glass or two of beer, while
the child, a golden-haired little fellow of
about five, rested his head Oh the table
and went on with his nap. The jolly
topers soon forgot all about the stranger,
who after while desired to be shown to
his room, as he wished to put his son to
bed. But soon an angry dispute was
heard without, at the foot of the stairs,
the father using shocking language, the
child whining piteously: g Father,
father, you know i have been unable to
go up stairs by myself ever since 1 broke
my leg"
nlenacingly, "you can get up very well
If you choose, and, besides, you have
only yourself to thank for your broken
leg-up you go or I will beat you black
and blue, and he administered a cruel
blow to the cripple. Several of the
guests had come out into the passage, |
and now demonstrated vehemently with |
the brutal father.
:" Is that your child, you monster ?"
asked one.
whats that to your" was the an
swer.
"Yes, oh, yes, he is my father"
moaned the boy, as he sat helpless on
the stairs, and rocked himself in an
agony of tears. The man became still
more enraged, and would, doubtless,
have belabored his son, had not one OF
the persons present laid hold of him, ex-
claiming, ''Cease your brutality, or we'll
fetch the police" But this only had the
effect of throwing the father into a real
paroxysm of rage He drew a knife,
and struggled frantically.
"Take care, take care" screamed the
boy, she viii rip us all up, same as ha
did my poor mother"
Little fend," yelled the father, and
freeing himself with great effort. he
buried the knife in the child's body.
The poor little soul sank down with
groan. A shout of indignation came j
from the others, who rushed at him en- ,
oaGsse; but the man, taking his hat off !
politely, said with a winning smile:
IS Gentlemen, we have to do with a
wooden child. I am ventriloquist and /
40 mean one either, as you will admit" t
l pause of speechless astonishment, dur.
ng which could have been heard the a
lropping of the traditional pin, and then 2
he rafters shook with prolonged (Hon- !:
'ric) laughter. The clever deceiver was .
ragged into the parlor, where. besides :
many funny trick of voice,
Ie took much more wine than was good
or him, and finally rolled to bed with
is pockets full of money, and his MUIR
cred child smiling blandly under his
Vieano Letter.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12

Andrew jackson, colored man Of
high standing In the church, was arrest
| cd on q charge of assault and battery.
The facts were so strong that Jackson
was advised by a lawyer to play insane.
When the case came up before Justice
of the Peace Jackson entered with q
piece of hoopskirt in his mouth.
"What are you chewing that thing
for ?" demanded the Justice.
Case Use goat. sab. I chaws dis
Ike yourself would chaw de ham strings
OBJ witch in de land of Canaan"
Are you guilty of the charge of as
sault with intent to kill p asked the
Justice, regarding the prisoner Curl
ously.
"1'se guilty oh knockin' dc left horn
often de debil, sab. Use got de horn in
my pocket. Use not lamb, Use goat
wild powerful appetite fur buttin'."
The witness detailed the manner Of
assault; that jackson attacked Daniel
Webster with a knife. He had never
before exhibited signs of insanity, but
was, among the colored people, regarded
as a man of fine sense and superior edu-
cation.
"Jedge," exclaimed the prisoner,
desc people don't know a spectacle
crazy man when dey see him. Use de
crazies' man 1 cher seed in my life. Use
so insane dat it makes me sick at de
stomach. What must I do now p whis-
pered the prisoner, leaning over to his
lawyer.
"I'l act as your adviser" exclaimed
the Justice. "You can go to jail. -
Little Rock Gazette.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12

The cedars of Lebanon are now in
closed by n heavy wall, and the pick
nicking tourists who have been In the
habit Of building fires out Of their twigs
and against their trunks and distributing
sardine boxes and scraps OF paper under
their shades will no longer offend travel
ers who feel reverence for these relics
of antiquity. II is the most enlightened
thing the Turks have done for some time
past, and we have TO thank Rustem
Pasha for il.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12
ENGLISH IND FOREIGN soxG-BrRDs

EHGLISH AND FOREIGN SONG-BIRDS
The English birds are more domestic
and familiar than ours more directly
and intimately associated with man
not, as class, so withdrawn and lost in
the great void of the wild and unre-
claimed England is like a continent
concentrated-all the waste land, the
barren stretches, the wildernesses left
out. The birds are brought near to-
gether and near to man. Wood birds
here are house and garden birds there.
They find good pasturage and protection
everywhere. A land of parks, and gar
dens, and hedge-rows, and game pre-
serves, and a climate free from violent
extremes-what a stage for the birds,
and for enhancing the effect of their
songs How prolific they are, how
abundant If our songsters were hunted
and trapped, by bird-fanciers and others,
as the lark, and gold-fnch, and mavis,
ETC., are In England, the race would
soon become extinct Then, as a rule,
it is probably true that the British birds,
as a class, have more voice than ours
have, or certain qualities that make their
songs more striking and conspicuous,
such as greater vivacity and strength.
They are less bright in plumage, but
more animated in voice. They are not
so recently out of the woods, and their
strains have not that elusiveness and
plaintiveness that ours have. They sing
with more confidence and copicusness,
and as if they, too, had been touched by
civilization.
Then they sing more hours in the day,
and more days in the year. This is
owing to the milder and more equabIe
climate. / heard the sky-lark singing
above the South Downs in October. an
parently with full spring fervor and de-
light. The wren, the robin and the
wood-lark sing throughout the winter,
and in midsummer there are perhaps
three times as many vocal throats as
here. The heat and blaze of our midsum-
mer sun silence most of our birds. 50
On the other hand, there are certain
aspects in which our songsters appear
to advantage. That they surpass the
European species in sweetness, tender
ness and melody have no doubt, and
that our hooking bird, in his native
haunts in the South, surpasses any bird
in the world in compass, variety and ex-
ecution is highly probable. That the to-
tai effect of his strain may be less winning
and persuasive than the nocturne of the ]
Is the only question in my I
mind about the relative merits of the I
two songsters. Bring our birds together
Is they are brought together in England.
al our shy wood birds-like the hermit
ihrush, the yeery, the winter wren, the ,
water wagtail, the many warblers. the
yTeenlet, the solitary vireo, etc.-be-
'ome birds Of the groves and orchards. r
md there would be burst of song In. !
Iced. John Burroughs, IN the Century. II
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12

The students who are now fillinu
these positions were from the States
OF kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee and Ohio.
Therefore we-would ask the fol.
lowing questions:
l. What other Business CoIlepe
can show as many applications made
to them by business men, in tho
short space of four months Z?
2. Who is better able to Judge Of
the qualifications of young men.
than the merchants and business
men themselves?
3. What moro substantial endorse.
ment can ;tn institution have. than
to receive frequent applications from
BUSINESS MEN who wish to en-
ploy STUDENTS, also when lead
ing MERCHANTS and others pur-
chase its stock at premium?
4. is it not commendable for such
an institution TO place its advan.
tages within the reach of Young
men in ALL PARTS OF THE
SOUTH, by establishing at consid-
cradle cost, chain of such institu-
tons?
D. Is it not better for school TO
refer to the numerous applications
from business men, than for it TO
say "we teach the best commercial
course in the South ?"
Goodman's College has NO THREE
MONTHS OR PARTIAL COURSE. Hence
the success of OUR STUDENTS.
The Session for 1882, opens Mon
day, January 2.
For general information, address
FRANK GOODMAN,
President o. Goo9man's Business COLLEGE,
Either at NAsHyILLE, Tenn,
Or KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
jan is Pm
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-12

I The word vendetta" Cvengeance) or.
iginated, it is said, in Corsica, where tho
practice was formerly general, and still
prevails in remote parts of the island.
The custom, one writer remarks grimly,
-hourishes among the Bedouins. Traces
OF 1t are found sometimes among tho
Montenegrins, Albanians, Druses, and
Circassians; and, indeed, il may be said
that the custom prevailed at one time or
another among every tribe and nation.
Wheneyera person was murdered. tho
practice among those holding to this
custom was to avenge the death; and
that duty was imposed upon the son,
brother or nearest kinsman, who forth.
with sought private vengeance upon him
who shed the blood OF the relative As
the administration Of justice became a
more and more settled social institution,
the custom disappeared, although Corsica
still clings to it in its most cruel form,
and on that island it plays most inn
portant part In social life. 80