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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14
OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH.

The census volume on public indebt-
edness, prepared by Rafael A. Bailey,
of the Treasury department.. has been
issued. His compilation embraces the
entire scope of our national history.
In that time, covering the period be-
tween July A, 1776, and June 80, 1880,
the different loans negotiated by the
general government have numbered
1874, the whole amount borrowed hay
ing been $10,69O,055,96 OF this vast
sum less than 100000, OO0remains. Tt
would he difficult to present a more
vivid conception of the strength and
elasticity of our financial resources
than is afforded by these figures. They
represent an enormous amount OF tax
paying power, and they suggest des-
tiny commensurate with the vastness
of such totals. What other country
can show such a record I The most
civilized nations of the Old World can
point to debt piled up to mountainous
height, and to aggregates of debt ex-
panding to higher attitudes, with more
crushing effect upon the hopeless peo-
pie who have to bear the immense load,
but rapid progress in the extinguish-
ment Of debt is a phenomenon received
for the United States alone. Our pub
lie debt, whether regarded as a prin-
cipal. or as per capita obligation, or
as an annual interest charge, is decreas-
ing at rate which must, ere many
more years elaspe, make our national
treasury as free as our institutions. 1t
is such things that cause the Ameri-
cans heart to throb with patriotic emo
tions, and to be proud of his govern
ment and it's starry flag. But they
should impress every voter with the
stern sense of the duty which he owes
to his country in so guarding the bal
lot-box-the portal to political power
from being made, in the hands of
demagogues, an instrument for pur-
poses of their elevation by the sacri-
flee of the public welfare. If the
apathy manifested by our best citizens
at the recent city election should ever
be extended to state and national
elections-the tendency, as compared
with the distant past. being already
in that direction there will be dread
ful retribution.-Chicago Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

A correspondent of the Ohio Farm
eg has discovered a remedy for the
worms that play so great havoc among
currant bushes. The ordinary black
ant is an inyeterate enemy of the cur
rant worm. He encourages ant colo
MES near the bushes, and the result
has been that while his neighbors had
few or no currants, his crop was abun-
dant. At one time he took pains to
destroy the ants. This is another in
stance of the necessity of a knowledge
Of the habits Of insects to the fruit
grower and to agriculturists In general.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-14

Fast young men with money and a
free-and-easy manner of making
friends with whom to see the town had
better steer clear of Cincinnati. The
prsrtiesalnr whom they arrest on SuS-
picion of being one of the many safe
blowers who ply their vocation in safe
ty there. The last instance of this
kind: happened last Friday, when
Richard Preston Nichols. the son of a
wealthy Sc. Louis banker, visited Gin
cinnati on lark: andsWas arrested by
two detectives who took him for Little
Dick O'Brien, the safe-blower. He
was arrested, taken to !. the police
station and relieved of $500 before the
officials were convinced of,their blum
der.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

probabilities are, that Knoxville as
well all East Tennessee will be-
come tributary to Chattanooga.
Our large merchants need not and
cannot, in that event, hope to re-
tain their trade and ascendency.
Their trade will gradually steal
away to a larger city, and many
of then will go with
it. The larger and more
enterprising cities will always
attract the largest part of trade
Just as Knoxville has heretofore
attracted trade from upper East
Tennessee
Our merchants. must see that with
numerous large manufacturing
establishments in our city, their
trade must be greatly increased.
They must be sensible of the fact,
also, that no interior town can de-
pend alone on the sale of merchan-
disc for prosperity. Such a town
must have something else, also. If
our people had displayed half the
zeal and enterprise of our sister city
in building up manufactures, we,
to-day would have thirty thousand
inhabitants instead of eighteen. 1t
is perhaps, not too late yet. But it
soon will be. Our capitalists and
merchants are liberal minded.
They only need having their minds
directed to these things to see them
in all their force. We need gen.
eral awakening ON this subject.
Let us have action taken in the
right quarter. If none is
taken, we may soon find
Chattanooga the successful
rival Of Knoxville in the wholesale
trade. Let our merchants and cap
italists ponder these things before
it is too late.
Knoxville possesses many natu
raj advantages over Cha ttanooga.
1t is healthy; it is the centre of
educational advantages; it is in the
very centre of East Tennessee; it is
surrounded by large and product
i've agricultural region, the natural
market of which is here; in every
direction lie inexhaustible fields of
iron ore; this is the outlet for our
zinc; all around US, and under our
very feet, lie immense veins of the
very best marble, the sale of which
promises in the n ar future to yield
more money than our coal; and
this is the point through which the
great coal fields north of US will
pass their treasures to market. We
also have wealth and intelligence.
But do we not lack enterprise and
pushs Do we not rely too much on
our natural advantages
Manufacturing enterprises ara,
80 to speak, gregarious. There is a
natural reason for this. One helps
another. They naturally go whore
others are. Every day men are
coming to Chattanooga looking for
locations for some new manufac-
tory. We can scarcely get stran
ger to look at Knoxville for this
purpose. Let our people reflect on
these facts.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

Caught rocks that Numbered in its naked,
lap,
An Irish trader built store and in,
And bartared wolf and deer for whisky
skin;
His native better future saw
Rise for sons, in piety and law,
And pressed her husband till affection won
Young James Buchanan school at Dick
inson.
Cautious and grave, he framed his purpose
hard :;
Substantial wealth and honors afterward
No place for play left in his SCENE of life,
He closed it childless and without a wife,
Strict in his tasks, ambitious without heat,
Courtier by rule and stranger to defeat.
Ladies and gentlemen, have talked to
men who have seen General Washington,
and received from the son of Hamilton
his recollection of his father the night be-
fore the duel. l have been in the chamber
where
AARON BURR WAS MARRIED,
and in that where he breathed his last. The
favorite grandson of Jefferson and the Sec
rotary of Madison / have questioned, and
coming down the families of other Presi
dents have seen Lincoln and Buchanan in
their collins. There is another list of men
/ see visions of, the defeated candidates,
those who, in the by-word of my youth,
had ''gone up Salt River" Perhaps they
are reunited there in the precious philoso-
ply of defeat, and look with proud pity on
the mere favorites of success. Can we not
ascend even Salt River and place our fingers
on these exiles' wounds and believe they
live?
In conclusion he read a poem on the
great men who have gone up the Salt River
the most striking lines in which refer to
poor old Horace Greeley, decked out like
Ophelia with wreath of sorghum tassels
on his hair; man who had lived his life
happily 'sas one whose whole world lay in
the printing case,
'''Till kindness set him foremost in revolt
And passion slew him with thunderbolt."
After the close of the lecture Mr.. Town
send was given a supper by his friends and
admirers at the Mercantile Club.
The WARRIORS FRoNT.-The
guardsmen returned from Egypt
who now walk the streets of London
have a wild look about the eyes and
marked unquiet about the brow.
The same expression was noticeable
in the faces of the men returned
from Zululand. zone single echo of
the war whoop by night will rob a
man of twenty years of his life, and
he may bid farewell to his youth for
ever after" said Gen. Custer, just
before entering on his campaign on
the Rosebud River.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
KNOXVILLE-CHATTANOOGA.

The recent announcement in the
newspapers that two of Knoxvitle's
capitalists had invested money in
a 100000 iron furnace to be started
in Chattanooga, furnishes the occa-
sion for serious reflection. Of
course, no one will question the
right of these gentlemen to do as
they please with their money; but
what does this fact mean? Does it
mean that Knoxville cannot COM
pete with Chattanooga in manu-
featuring? And if so, then why =?
Is it because the railroads will not
give fair terms of freight? We do
not believe this can be so, because
our roads are owned and managed
by progressive men, who are sharp
enough to see that such a policy
would be fatal to their own inter
ests. Is it because our coal is not
suitable for the manufacture of iron
and steel? If so, then we have an
overwhelming argument in favor
of building the Emory Gap road
The coal of Poplar Greek is, we think
conceded to be good cooking coal
If this is the only good coking Goa
near us, Knoxville should build thai
road, whatever the cost, of course
with such aid as she can obtain
from other sources.
The questions of freight and Goa
are clearly the only ones involved
in the determination of this sub
iect. If difficulties are in the way
of iron manufa curing, growing ou
of high freights or bad coke, OIL
either, these difficulties can ant
should be removed.
AS manufacturing centre, Chat
tanooga is now ahead of Knoxville
and soon will pass beyond our RI
valry in population and wealth a
well, unless we also go to manufac
turing. In few more years, tn
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

dfhEOlAlED HI5 HOkORb.
With Taylor and Fillmore he brought in
the slavery question, but touched it lightly.
Fillmore, like all the Presidents. he
said, was anxious to be reelected, trying
hard to accomplish the task by lifting him.
self over the fence by his boot-straps.
Pierce he dismissed with a sentence.
closing with Buchanan, of whom he said
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
ard the last to preside over slave Democ
racy, saw lying dead in his coffin, and de
scribed him recently to his neiehbors il
the following lines:
! Where Story Battery in the mountain gar
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

In suit brought by a father for
damages against dealer who sold
his child a toy pistol with fatal re
suits, the Supreme Court of Indi
ana decides that ga man who places
in the hands of child any article of
dangerous character, and one like
ly to cause injury to the child itself,
or to others, is guilty of an actiona-
BILE wrong"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
PRESIDENTIAL SPECULATIONS.

The result of the recent elections
show conclusively that a great deal
of Presidential timber has been sent
wildly adrift. The hitherto com
pact raft of Republicanism, in some
way seems to have encountered
bar of public opinion, whilst float
ing with the steady current of des-
tiny. 1t does not follow, however,
in this mishap, that the elements
cannot be reformed, and under ap-
propriate management, the float be
made as strong as ever. Not
plank has been lost, not a single
has disappeared, and those who are
interested, have only to see to it
that perfect unity must exist here
after among those aboard. This
unity must not be simulated, it
must be real, if the idea is to afford
absolute protection from the pratt
cal horde, so eagerly watching tor
the SPOTS in case of break up.
The crew must agree to stand by
each other in some course of policy,
and to surrender, if need be, private
preferences, as regards the leader
ship for running the rapids in 1884.
To drop the smile, it is apparent
that rejecting minds are asking the
questions-What is to be done two
years hence? What manner of
man must be put forward to per-
petuate Republican government
And, where is he to be found? The
first two queries are easily answer
ed. The reply to the third must be
the result of courteous, and per
chance, earnest, but not heated and
vindictive discussion.
We are to beat the Democracy
two years hence, the same as we
; did in 1876, just following the tida,
wave of 1874. We are to do this be
cause Republicanism is the embed
iment of progressive and righteou;
principle, and utterly eschews the
effete Bourbonism which cbarac
terizes our political opponent; be
cause the country has been pros
! porous, and in the main, well gov
erned, ever since we have had tn
, reins of power; and because tn
rights of the masses, aud the pro
, lection Of honest industry, as wei
' as universal education, are sure O
: recognition at our hands.
+ The manner of man is not hare
, to determine. He must be fire,
1 from those strong factional associa
r tons and influences, such as hav
been disturbing US of late; he mus
be man of acknowledged abilit
|. and clean-handed; aud, he mus
j have Judgment in the hearts q
1 the people, so that real enthusiasm
o can be evoked in his behalf. Ant
\ once selected, he must be support
ed with all the fervor which patriot
j ism and an honest love of Republ
canism can inspire, tinctured wit
= pride of the past and aboundin
Y hope for the future.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

Remember that stamina vii al energy the life
principle or whatever you may choose to call
the resistant power which battles against the
causes of disease and death, is the grand safe
guard of health. 1t Is the garrison of the human
fortress. and when 1t wakes weak, the true pol
ICY is to throw in reinforcements. In other
words, when such an emergency occurs, com
mence course OF HoStettef's BitterS. For sale
by Druggists and Dealers, to whom apply for
Hostetter's Almanac for 1888.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
A WORD TO OUR READERS

yxJHEN YOU READ OF A MEDICINE THAT
w will cure all diseases, beware of it, for
every sci ntifc physici on earth knows how
fallacious such statements are: But when you
read OF a medicine, compounded by regular
physician and surgeon OF high standing, that
cIsims to cure only certain di>ease, and fur
nishes high proof that 1t does this, You can
cure YOU. Or. v r. stone, late Physician and
Surgeon of the q. 5. A., has placed before the
nuhIic A preparatIOn called
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
BROWNS PAIN ANNIHILArOR,

bod for all kinds of Aches and Pains. Used
OK ernally and internally. Manufactured ano
sold by B. F. BROWN. Knoxville, Tenn.
nly12-1Y
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
sADDLEs AND HARNESS.

SIMPSON keeps full line OF Saddles,
. Collars and Harness. All repair work neatly
and promptly done. Shop opposite Thompson
stabie, on Reservoir street, east of Gay. WIN be
pleased TO have you call.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
MARBLE DEALERS.


MANUFACTURES AND DEALERS IN
vi italian, Vermont and Tennessee Marble,
Tombstones and Monuments. Gay Street, Third
Door Below Lamar House. Write for prices to
JNO. A. BEAN & BRO,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
AP Z P STA!

which no doubt is the greatest scientific prepa-
ration yet discovered for the cure of Dyspepsia
in all its forms, and refers to Ladies aud dentle-
men OF the highest reSpectaoility that have
been cured OF cases from i've to twenty years
standing, and pronounced incurable by the best
ply sicianS liz the country.
The following references should be sufficient
to convince the most skeptlcal
Mr.. Albert Howard, firm OF Howard Watch
and Clock Co ia fremont Street Boston.
Prof S. Kronberg, Is NOyes Place, Boston, Mass
Dr. samuel W. Adams, P.U. Box lS43, New York.
Mr.. ii. A. Clark, firm Of Clak Bros. s. Co..
Philadelphia case OF twenty years standing
Matthew Robinson, 303 N. 81 stree Philadel-
phia case of Dyspeptic Vertigo.
William 6 all agher, Record once, Philadelphia
Frank c. Smink. business manager Reading
Iron Works Reaoing, Pa.
Moses Thompson, Thurlow, Pa, P. W. & B. R.R
Miss Kate s. Willard, Seminole, S. G.
Capt, George NJ. Weymouth, Savannah.
Clarence s. Connerat, Savannah, Ga.
Mandatory, 219 Levant Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
For Sale by MoCRUM d YKAGKR,
j. A. MoCAMPBEIL,
GEO. w. ALBERs,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

BROWNS IRON BIT
TIERS acts like a charm
on e digestive organs,
removing all dyspeptic
symptoms, such as tast-
ing the food, Belching,
Heat in the Stomach,
Heartburn, etc. The
only Iron Preparation
that will not blacken the
teeth or give headache.
Sold by all Druggists.
Brown Chemical Co.
Baltimore, Md.
See that all Iron Bitters are made by
Brown Chemical Co., Baltimore, and
have crossed red lines and trade
mark on wrapper.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14

Boston, November as, 1881.
Brown CHEMICAL Co.
Gentlemen - For years i have
been a great sufferer from Dyspepsia,
and could get no relief (having tried
everything which was recommend
ed until. acting on the advice of a
friend, who had been benefited by
Browns IRON BITTERs, ! tried a
bottle. with most surprising results.
Previous to taking Browns IRON
BIrTKRs, everything / ate distressed
me, and suffered greatly from a
burning sensation in the stomach,
which was unbearable. Since tax
ing Browns IRON BIrrKRs, all my
troubles are at an end. Can eat any
time without any disagreeable re-
suits. am practically another
person. Mrs. w. ]. Flynn,
80 Maverick ST., E. Boston.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
SUFFER

no longer from Dyspep-
STA, Indigestion, want Of
Appetite, lossof Strength
lack OF Energy, Malaria,
Intermittent FeverS, &c.
BROWNS IRON BIT
TIERS never fails to cure
all these diseases.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-14
AS RUDE AND AS ROYAL
st. Louis Republican.


as Peter the Great essentially poor white,
getting his wife somewhat on the Sabine
plan, making 1000 removals the first year
when he came to the Presidency He had
killed his man in duel had been ''nigger
trader" and a horse racer, but he had never
been insincere-no more afraid of man
than he was of a nation-one of the few
great Presidents indeed, who have made
this country a nation to be feared and
respected.
Van Buren, was the next man handled !;
he was the first President to consider litera-
ry, polishing himself from tavern-keep-
er's son into one of the most elegant of his
day. He lies buried in his native town,
sullied only in that he prostituted the gifts
of the Office for his personal ends.
Harrison, Townsend considered 'jowl
and greens kind of mali" Polk was not
a leader of men, or brilliant mind, but he
was thrifty sort of person and the
length of the inscription on his monument
showed that he
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-26
An Apt Illustration.

An Emperor of China was sitting one
day in the garden of his palace with his
favorite counsellor, III Chi. They talked
of the glories of the Chinese empire
from the beginning of the world to the
present time; of the excellence of its
laws, and the wisdom of its government.
At length the emperor asked:
"Ti Chi, what is most to be feared in
a great government ?"
sin my opinion, sire," the counsellor
replied, "nothing is more to be dreaded
than what might be termed rat in the
statue"
The emperor did not understand. The
allegory was beyond his comprehension.
So Ii Chi explained it to him:
"You are aware, sire, that it is COM
mon practice, amongst our people, to
erect statues III honor of the presiding
genius of town or village. These
statues are of wood, hollow within, and
without they are fancifully painted and
gilded. Sometimes a rat will make his
way into the interior of the statue; and
if he is allowed to remain there, none
can tell the amount of mischief he may
do. But, how shall they get him out
1t will not answer to use hre, Tor that
would endanger the statue itself it can
not be plunged into water, as that would
destroy the beautiful ornamentation of
color and gliding. So, in the end, the
regard which the people have for their
beloved statue saves the rat that has
made his way into it.
''Such, sire, are in every government
those who, without virtue or merit,
have gained the favor of their prince.
They ruin whatever they touch. One
sees it; one laments; but, while the
person of the prince is sacred, the
remedy cannot be found"
The emperor laid his hand upon the
head of his counsellor and blessed him.
Ell Chi, he said, with deep emotion,
"thou hast spoken golden words.
Henceforth the historian of the life ot
Hoen Thong shall have none of that
evil to record against him T.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-26
Sitka From the Sea.

AS we entered the harbor of Sitka
from the sea the general appearance OF
the place was tropical. The snowy
cone of Edgecombe first appeared, then
the sharp peak of Vostovia-a triangu-
lar patch of white appeared against the
sky. Everywhere below the snow-line
the mountains were green with luxuri-
ant growth. The harbor was protected
against the sea by curved line of reefs,
on which grew frs, pines and cedars,
with bare trunks and tufts of branches,
making them not unlike palms. The
warm, moist atmosphere curtained all
the middle distance with a film of blue,
and, in the foreground, a feet of very
graceful canoes; filled with naked or
half naked Indians completed the illu-
sion. A line of surf seemed to bar every
approach to the town, but suddenly
narrow channel opened. The ship
swung sharply to the right and glided
into long, narrow harbor. The Indian
village is built upon the beach, and at
evening it was covered by the shadow
of the adjoining forest. The green
spire of the belfry OF the Greek church
reached up above everything except
the former Russian governors ''castle,"
huge log structure perched upon a
pinnacle of rock near the sea. The
church on the lower ground was SUI
rounded by the rambling, dilapidated
houses OF the Russian inhabitants, who
then numbered about four hundred,
their neighbors being two hundred
mixed whites and about twelve hundred
Sitka Indians. Century.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-26
The Bug ExterminatOr.

In the spring of last year a smooth
tongued, glib-mouthed young man who
had gone through the lightning rod
course and graduated in the book
agency business passed through Wash
ington and the adjoining counties, in
Producing what he called the "bug ex-
terminator." He was very fair and
reasonable, and as he was only taking
orders for his invention he merely re-
quired one-third go cents) cash and the
rest he would collect in the fall when
he passed through. In case the exter-
minator failed to kill every bug upon
which it was used, according to the ac-
companying directions, he would refund
the money. Nothing could be fairer
than that, SO he was we'll received
everywhere, and went away with about
$500 in his pocket, leaving his address
with every purchaser in case he should
neglect to send the exterminator.
Well, in due course of mail, every farm
er received a neat looking little pack
age labelled "Bug Exterminator-
tain death h-due $l-none genuine with
out signature" etc. Upon opening it
the farmer discovered two nice, smooth
little square blocks, containing the fol-
lowing direction on No. l: "Place the
bug on this block" and on No. q:
''Strike the bug violently with this
block" The farmers were ready for him
when the time came for him to return,
but need not say the time came on
alone.