Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1882-11-30
NEWS ITEMS.

One hundred new Mormon con-
verts left Chattanooga last week for
their colony in Colorado. They were
all from the Southern States.
Til the fifty years from 1880 to 1880
the amount Of money invested in cot
ton manufactures in the United
States increased from $40,00O,OOO TO
1925, 100000, and the bales consumed
from 49, to 100000.
In Greene county, Miss, is double
pine tree which has two distinct
trunks twenty feet apart, uniting 30
feet above the ground, forming at
that point one solid trunk, round and
symmetrical.
More than twenty members-clect
of the 4Sth Congress arc natives Of
Ireland.
The Garfield board of audit have
made a footing of the cIaiie3 present
cd thus far, and find that the pbysi-
clans claims aggregate $9l, 900, and
all the other claims amount 10 $685.
600.
Don't forget The printer when You
are squaring up your accounts.
Containing al the essentials Of Il
true tonic, and sure TO give satisfaction,
is Browns Irons Bitters.
The President recommends The peo-
pie to deeds of kindness and acts of
charity to-day. Call and pay what
YOU owe us, and induce your neigh
Dor (who borrows your paper) to
come and subscribe and pay for a
copy OF the paper; thus YOU will do
Kind and charitable act.
The pOstmastcr-gcncral has 'deeid-
cd thai canned meats in soldcrcd tin
cans weighing not over four pounds,
can be admitted INTO The mails as
fourth-ciass matter, at sixteen cents
per pound postage.
A spoon touches a girls lips (Oh,
how we long 10 be thcrc) without
kissing them, aud the Judge says
thai Is The reason they call y fellow
who don't know any thing spooney.
a man should not bc ashamed to
own he is in the wrong. which is but
saying in ether words that he is wis
CT to-da! than he was yesterday.
A tcaspoonful of charcoal in half
glass of warm wafer often relieves q
STICK headache. Ii absOrbS the gases
and relieves the distended stomach,
pressing against tho nerves that eX-
tend from the stomach TO The head.
"What are younG men coming tor
Coming TO see .he girls, Of course.
There have Eecn over 1875 deaths
from yellow fever at Pensacola, Fla,
since The disease appeared there.
Out of thirty-cight States in the
Union twenty-five of them have
Democratic Governors.
John Griffin Carlisle is the name of
the rival Of Samuel Jackson Randall
for the speakership Of the House Of
the Forty-eigth Congress.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
every Republican candidate for Con-
gress iii Ohio who advocated high
protective tariff was defeated
A new railroad is being surveyed
from Joncsboro to the Mitchell coun.
ty, n. c., line.
It's a poor mans luck, but We are
going to-put up with tits a gal,
aud arrived last Sunday. Sevicrville
Enterprise.
The publication of tho Republican
Farmer at Loudon has been discon-
tinued.
The Moristown Times is to be re-
moved TO Newport, Cooke County.
The remains of DR.. L. Earhart, of
Allrghany City, Pa, were crematcd
in LcMoync's furnace oh the 9th
inst.
Horseshoes made Of three thick
nessess Of green rawhide, compress
ed III q steel mould, are used TO some
extent in England. They weigh about
quarter as much as iron and wear
longer.
1t is reported that a combination
has been formed among the great pc
roleuIn producers in this country TO
discontinue drilling for new wells un-
til May !, 1888, in order to send up
the price of oil.
The United States stands at the
head of the gold and silver produc-
ing countries. Australia comes next,
with about One-fourth Of the product
of the United States.
One hundred and sixty thousand
dollars was subscribed at Chatlonoo-
ga, recently, to build a hundred ton
iron furnace at that point. The work
will begin soon. 1t will be one of
the finest furnaces in the country,
and seyeralinom will follow.
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