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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-26

cies by teaching to these starving and |
sliveringpersons science and art. In
their way-as l do not doubt You
will believe-I rm very fond of both;
and I am sure it will be beneficial
for the British Nation to be lectured
upon the merits of Michael Angelo,
and the nodes of the moon. But [
should strongly object myself to be-
ing lectured on either, while [ was
hungry and cold-and l suppose the
same view of the matter would be
taken by the greater number of
British citizens in those predica-
ments; so that I am convinced their
present eagerness for instruction in
painting and astronomy, etc, pro
eeeds from an inpres-
sion in their minds that
spmalGw, they may point or sl:,ir,
gaze Themselves into clothes Sasd
victuals * OF all
attainable liberties and educations,
then, be sure first to strive for leave
to be useful; independence you had
better cease to talk of, for you are
dependent, not only on every act of
people whom you never heard of,
who are living round you, but on
every past act of what has been dust
for thousand years.
So it is the law Of fate that we
shall also die, in part, for our own
faults, but in the greater part, for
the faults of others.
Mr.. Editor, don't you think our
much lamented Presidents, Lincoln
and Garfield, had to suffer
and die Gas Ruskin says
on account of the faults
of others, that lived fifty or
hundred years before they did, [
can mind some thirty years ago,
when I was u mere boy, all the Gull
tivated land in East Tennessee, at
that time seemed to be one vast corn
field, with a still house i'll every
neighborhood. I think now there is
much poor land to be seen, and too
many poor people suffering for the
want of food, clothes, &c, brought
about by this thing. While I think
there is feeble effort made by our
farmers to reclaim our wornout soil,
it will be very hard for the common,
ality to shake off the bad habits that
have been handed down from one
generation to another, especially
when they are practiced and taught
to do SO by our politicians and some
others, &c RoDERRICK RoLKER.
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SADDLES And HARNESS.
SOME REITFRATIONS.

A few days ago we published the
information that when q most impor
tant amendment to the army appro-
priation bill was voted on, involving
the question OF investigating claims
against the government, Judge
Houk was recorded on the list as
those I" not voting We also called
attentionto the fact that he telegraph
ed to Messrs. Gibson and Temple, Civ
ing as one of the reasons for not
filling his appointment to speak at
Knoxville April 8th, that he was de-
tanned in Washington to watch the
army bill, while in reality that bill
had passed the House of Representa-
tives two days before. The publica
ton of these items of news has Great
cd quite commotion in some quar-
tiers and the Judges hired men are
abusing us for what we have publish
ed. We care nothing for that. We
have said nothing we are not able to
prove We intend to misrepresent
no one, but will give the plain
unvarnished truth, and will now re-
iterate what we have heretofore
stated.
LIST. When the army appropriation
bill was under consideration on the
9th day of April, and an amendment
was offered, providing that no part
of the funds therein appropriated
should be used in the investigation
of war claims, Judge Houke was re
corded In the list of those mot vo-
ting, he was paired" We chal>
lenge his friends to deny that fact.
He assumes to be the champion Of
the loya, claimants of East Tennes-
see, but when they needed his SER
vices worst be was not in his seat
and failed to vote.
2. He was billed for speech in
Knoxville April 8th. He failed to
put in his appearance, but telegraph
ed that he was detained by important
public business, and mentioned
among other things the army bill.
That bill had passed the House two
days before the date of his dispatch,
Let him or his friends deny this.
While he says he was detained by
important business, some of his
friends say he was too sick to be seen
on the day his dispatch was sent. A
curious public would like to have an
explanation of this. VIII his organ
give it, or does it prefer that we
should?
3. We have stated that the Con.
gressional Record for thirty-foul
days of the last session OF the Forty
sixth Congress shows that on seven
ty-three roll>calls of the House
Houk was absent, and mot voting
sixty-eight times, and present only
FIVE times. Ii We have not statee
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the truth let him or his friends, or
any one of them, show from the rec
ords that we have misrepresented
the facts.
4. We have stated that when an
effort was made last week to fix q
day for the consideration of the ma
tional bank bill, Houk is recorded in
the list of those mot voting" and
that the resolution failed for want of
a two thirds vote.
Now, we wish, in all candor, to say
to the editor of his organ, that his
buster amounts to nothing; it does
not brighten us at all. He says we
have slanflered Judge Houk, but we
dare hiei 70 pfore IRON lha Cs,agfs:sl
sional Record, in which The proceeds
ings of Congress are faithfully re-
corded, that we have misrepresented
him in a single instance. As soon as
we can obtain the complete
Record for the last session of the
46th Congress, we propose to show
that he was absent, or failed to vote,
foe times ont Of eoery siG, when his
name was called, during the entire
session. What the Record shows
we will publish, and may illustrate
some points by giving unpleasant
facts, of which hundreds of living
witnesses are personally -cognizant.
The editors of his organ may as
we'll make up their minds to these
things.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-26

Browns IRON BITTERs efectual-
iy cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
Weakness, and renders the greatest
relief and benefit to persons suffering
from such wasting diseases as Con-
sumption, Kidney Complaints, etc.
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PLAIN
TRUTHS

The blood is the foundation of
life, it circtilates through every part
of the body, and unless it is pure
and rich, good health is impossible.
If disease has entered the system
the Oniy sure and quick way to drive
it out is to purify and enrich the
blood.
These simple facts are well
known, and the highest medical
authorities agree that ,sothfng but
iron will restore the blood to its
srastral Gontitfpn and a.s0 Ei ,...s
. all the iron Preparations hitherto
made blacken the teeth, cause head
ache, and are otherwise injurious.
Browns IRON BITTERs will thor
oughly and quickly assinlilate with
the blood, purifying and strengthen
ing it, and thus drive disease from
any part of the system. and it will
not blacken the teeth, cause head
ache or constipation, and is posi-
lively net injurious.
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Extracts From Ruskins.
MARYv1LLE, April ~, 1882.

MARYvnLE, April ~, 1882.
Mr.. EDITOR: [ send you a quota
ton from John Ruskins works on
Political Economy and Education:"
''The first object of all work-not
the principle one, but the first and
necessary one-is to get food, clothes,
lodging and fuel. Tt is quite possi>
BILE to have too much of all these. I
know great many gentlemen who
eat too large dinners great many
ladies who have too many clothes. [
know there is lodging to spare in
London, and / know there is fuel to
spare everywhere. Since we get up
steam to pound the roads with,
our men stand idle, or drink till they
can't stand idle or otherwise. Not
withstanding there is agoniz
ing distress, even in this
highly favored land of England,
in some classes for want of food, etc.
And it has become a popular idea
among Tie benevolent that you may,
in great part, remedy their defcien>
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-26

UNOXyILLE DIVISION Nc. 9. OF
II T.-Thur day Evenings, at Golden Cross
- - Hall corner Gay and Ctincn streets.
* - Accesslons earnestly solicited. and
nxX members of TIE Order cordially vel
" coined. J, B. JONES, W. 7.
j. L. RHEA W. 5.
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Saved his Child.
I'm. Estaw St baltimore Md

II n. Estaw ST., Baltimore, Md.
Feb. II, 1880.
Gents Upon the recommended
ton of a friend ] tried Browns
lRoN BIrTERs as a tonic and re-
storative for my daughter, whom
/ was thoroughly convinced was
wasting away with Consumption.
Having lost three daughters By the
terrible disease, under the care of
eminent physicians, l was 10th to
believe that anything could arrest
the progress of the disease, but, to
my great surprise, before my daugh-
ter had taken one bottle of BRowa's
IRON BITTERs, she began 10 mend
and now is quite restored 10 former
health. A fifth daughter began TO
show signs of Consumption, and
when the physician was consulted
he quickly said TONES were re-
quired :" and when informed that
the elder sister was taking BRowN'S
IRON BITTERs, responded that is
q good tonic, take it,
ADcRAM PHELPS.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-26
HATTIE HOUSE,
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
NEW THROUGHOUT
Opened June /, 1880, and Completed
August 10, 1881.

This House Is located la the Exact Business
Contrs, one square only from the Post-office.
CustOnl-hoase, Ba ks and the principal Whole
sale and Retail Stores.
This House is neatly 500 feet long, the Halls
feet wide, and it u sitiated ~ the highest Point
on az Street. ali = which Contributes to make
II the coolest potn III lie city.
Our Rooms are ali desirable, and cur New
Large Rooms for Co3nE41reia Travellers cannot
be equaileI between Iew York and the Coast.
4 Baggage Elevator has been added, also
ELEGANT BATH Bo0ss for Ladies and Gentlemen
Hi Bnd Gold Water, sssd s,nwer Attachments
Il mas an Electric AnnSnt5-.I'F and telephone
Connections with aii the prin;ipal business places
~ he city. including the Dei,Gs Station.
DER NEW DINING ROGA-the Location, VEN
;iiati Il and Surroundings are such that 1t CANNOT
EE EXCEILED FOR coz FoKT
Our NV Kitchens, New Ranges and New
Equipments throughout will enable us 60 do as
well a. THE BEST.
Our New Lam ry wiz be found equal to all
reasonable requirements.
z. s. PoIteTs always at the Trains. Omnibus
Free.
tNG. a.. EEsGDE2tss. Proprietor.
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MARBLE DEALERS.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
"reminiscences and Monuments. Cay Street, Third
Door Below Lamar House. W rite for prices to
JNO. 4. BEAN q BRO,
Knoxville, Tenn.
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London ard lockwood Mail Packet.
The steamer Emory City, carrying the mail,
passengers and freight, runs daily between Lou
don, Kingston and lockwood, arriving at Lou
don TO connect with the eastern bound train, No.
4, at 10.45 p. M, and leaves for Kingston and
lockwood on the arrival OF the western bound
train, No. 3. at 4.2S a. m.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-07-13
Experiments in Feeding.

Inc superintendent OF the model
farm at Guelph, Canada, gives as below
the results of some experiments made
there in cattle breeding:
l. A steady frosty winter is better
than an open one in feeding cattle.
2. An average or year old steer
will eat its own weight of different ma
terials in two weeks.
3. Two or 3 year old cattle will add
one-third of pound more per day to
their weight upon prepared hay and
roots than upon the same materials I'M
prepared.
4. 1t is 80 per cent. more profitable to
premature and dispose of fattening cat
tie at two years old than to keep them
up to three years.
5. There is no loss in feeding a cattle
beast well upon a variety of materials
for the sake of manure alone.
6. Farm-yard manure from well-fed
cattle years old, is worth an average
of 50. 80 per ton.
z. A 3 year old cattle beast, well fed,
will give at least one ton of manure
every month of winter
s. No cattle beast whatever will paw
for the direct increase to its weight from
the consumption of any kind or quanti-
ty of food.
9. On an average it costs Il cents for
every additional pound of flesh added
to the weight of a or3 year old fatten-
ing steer.
10. In Canada the market value of
store cattle can be increased Sc per cent
during six months of finishing by good
feeding.
IL. In order to secure safe profit,
no store cattle beast, well done to, can
be sold at less than AZ cents per pound
1.-Two weight.)
vi ~ T. tho +a,' ming of wethers, to
finish as shearings, the Cotswv-'i ''iie
Leicester grades can be made up to 200
pounds, the Oxford down $50 pounds,
and the South down (grade) 100 pounds
each, live weight.
49, A COW wintered upon two tons
and half of hay will produce not far
from five tons of manure, provided that
she be well Uttered and none of the ex-
crements be wasted.
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An Open Field.

In this great country of ours we are
continually wanting more food; our de-
mands keep pace with the supply, while
if there be a superabundance, our
cousins across water are glad enough
to take it from US. 1t follows, then,
that there is to be money made in farm
ing. People must eat; therefore the
producer has the means of indie
pendence at hand. Why do not young
men possessed of small capital dismiss
all idea of a professional or mercantile
life and turn farmersa The problem of
how to make living can be more sat
isfactorily solved by falling back on the
soil than by any other experiment.
There are still cheap lands in the West
and South, and if a young man lacks
money to farm on a big scale, he can
begin in smaller way, and by stock
raising, small fruits, truck patching or
some other limited essays in this whole
some and useful field of agriculture Sc
cure living, and, with reasonable for
tune, in time competence. There are
hundreds of young men in cities who
could, in few years, save up enough
money, if they were SO inclined, TO buy
little place and devote themselves to
raising food for the ever-increasing mil
lions of consumers in the country. With
all the hardships of farm life, and they
have been greatly exaggerated, it is the
happiest life known. to men. 1t is freer
from the chickering's and the worriments
and the tortuous devices and the selfish
riYalries and the antagonisms that mark
the struggle of humanity for food, shell
ter and clothing than any other mode of
existence 1t IS life which is common
ly attended with health, with good APP
petite and digestion, sound sleep, clear
complexion, expanded lungs, firm mus
cles, an open mind and an untroubled
conscience. A farmer is his own mas
ter, and to be that is thing to be COW
eted and sought after. The brave and
energetic young fellow who has made a
good selection of little farm in we'll
watered valley, and who means to be
forehanded and avoid debt and slavery,
can in time, unless he is signally unfor-
tunate, be his own master in every
proper sense, and he will find this free
and beautiful open-air life thousand
fold happier than the artificial life of
towns. Here there is field that's ever
open. There is no danger of IT'S being
overcrowded There will always be a
tendency to rush into the cities for the
excitements which flourish there, and
the wise and ardent young. men who
turn their backs on these false shows
and 90 straightway TO nature will come
out best in the long run, and enjoy life
in simple, wholesome way as they GO
along.
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Magenta aud Iattatnra

Both dictionaries and scholars fail to
answer the question, which the opera
with the title constantly raises, what is
mascotte? But the visitors of Monte
Carlo tell us it is fetich-a luck-bTing-
er. All gamblers are superstitious, and
draw their inspirations from the oldest
circumstances. A mascotte may be
sou or a siXpence with hole in it, a
button, q lock of hair, anything which
the punter has associated with lucky
turn. Aims to a beggar-mascotte
denial of alms-mascotte; seeing
hunchback or white horse-mascotte
meeting black cat-mascotte Three
years ago a little hanchback at Monaco
derived large returns from standing near
the table and rubbing his hump at the
request OF the players. He had a tariff:
Once, five francs; long rubbing, ten
francs; for standing half an hour be-
hind certain player and not rubbing
for others, twenty francs. At the end
of the season, returning TO Paris on the
train, he was seen TO throw away his
hump. Mascotte is the opposite of Jet
tatura, or the evil eye.-NeU YORK San.
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A Business Transaction,

A man went into clothing store and
bought hat for three dollars and a
half, left his old one, and said he would
pay for it when he came back. In half
an hour he returned, and entering the
store met the proprietor. who was alb
sent at this first visit. The proprietor
was glad to see the man-a neighbor of
his but, observing his new hat, shad-
ow passed over his face, and he said,-
"Where did you buy that hat? can
sell you hat just like that, and a good
deal cheaper than what you paid for it,
l know"
This pleased the neighbor, and his eye
twinkling, he asked how cheap hewould
sell him one.
We'll, you are heighbor of mine,
and you shall have one for just one dol
lar and seyenty-live cents"
Every well,' replied the customer,
'I'll take this one which | have on.
which got here half an hour ago, and
just returned to pay for"
And he counted out a dollar and sew
enty-tive cents and departed for his SUBJ
urban home, satisfied at his bargain.
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A Cats Gratitude.

One day last summer, as we were
riding through the broad avenues of
California's most famous seaside resort,
We noticed a costly statue III the yard
of the handsomest cottage. 1t repre-
sented a cat rubbing herself against the
body of PROSTATE man. Our driver
told us the following story as TO the oc-
casion of the statue:
Years ago, when there were but a
few settlers in California, a hunter seek
ing for game came upon cat caught
in the underbrush of a thicket and cry
ing with pain and hunger. The poor
creature was so wasted that the bones
almost pierced the skin in places. The
hunter rescued her, fed her with food
from his game-bag and carried her TO
his cabin, as cats were scarce. That
night he went early to bed, leaving 'puss'
asleep on pile of shayings. To his
great surprise he found that the eat had
escaped through the window of the cab
in. Several years passed, and the hunt
er had almost forgotten about the eat.
One day, as he was climbing tree for
lodged game, he fell TO the ground and
fractured his ankle. For two days he
lay on the ground in despair, hungry,
and suffering. Toward the close of the
second day he heard the mewing of a
cat, which, at his calling. came to him,
and he recognized her as the one he had
saved from the thicket. After rubbing
and purring about him for awhile, pus-
sy, who seemed to take in the situation,
scampered away. A few hours later
she returned accompanied by bent old
man, talking to the cat as she ran on be-
fore. The hunter told his story, and
the aged man, lifting him up, assisted
him to the hunters cabin. Then this
unknown benefactor. whose face was
almost hidden beneath his long and
shaggy beard, went back into the forest.
The cat that had saved the hunters life
followed her strange master, who told
neither his name nor his abode. The
man who lives in this cottage is the old
hunter. Becoming rich in the time of
the discovery of gold, he has erected
this monument in honor of the cat that
: saved his life. &c. o. W. IN Youth s
Communion.
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He Couldn't Fit Him With Pair Of
Shoes

A negro, with nothing but ragged
look and pair of big shoes to distin-
griish him, entered RUDE Hoffenstein's
store at New Orleans and asked to look
at some shoes.
..Vat number do you wear? Hoffen
stein.
Il don't 'zactly member replied
the negro, ..but it pears to me de num-
Der is somewhat round fourteen" and
he held up broad, fat-,ooking foot,
which shut out the light from the door
ike q screen.
s.My gr-r-acious.'' exclaimed Hoffen-
stein as he gazed at the dimensions of
the negro's pedal extremity. ''ef your
feet was couple uf inches longer, my
trent. deg would be bair uf wings, un
ven Gabrial blavs his drumpet all you
would hat to do is to work your feet ind
you flys shust so good as little mock
ingbird. My gr-r-acious, vat feet"
''Look hyar," said the negro, indig-
nantly, Il didn't come to dis store to be
suited. l nebber talk bout anybody,
and / amt gwine to low anybody TO
talk bout me. God made dem feet,
and 'pinted me to tote 'em frew dis
world, an you amt got no right to find
fault wild dem Foxes have mighty
'spisable ways desc times, pears to
me-"
well, my trent, you don't must get
mad, you know. If you see my broder's
feet yot vas in New Jersey, you don't
dink you vas nobody. Wy, if my brod-
er vas in New Orleans, ind walk on his
hands in de summer dime, he nefer get
sdruck on de head NIT de sun. His feet
would be dwice as much peter as an
umprella. He vas broud uf his feet, my
trent, und cferypody yot has been any
we're near him say dot dey vas his
strongest point"
II didn't come hyar to talk bout
feet said the negro, Il come fur de
'spress purpose oh gettin' er pair OBJ
shoes: if you amt got any, say so, an
I'm gwine somewhat else"
''Vait, my trent. Herman, come and
dake look at de shentleman's feet und
see if dere vas anyding in de store vot
vii Wit HIM"
The clerk did as he was hidden, and
said there was not a pair of shoes in the
house that was large enough.
''f you is ali gwine to keep shoe
store" said the negro in disgust, ''why
don't you hab shoes on hand dat will fit
foxes"
''Vell, my trent" replied Hoffeustein,
I'VE don't can afford to keep shoes in de
stock vat will Wit your feet. 1t would
pay us peter. you know, to put a lid
und couple uf handles to desc kind If
shoes, und sell dem for ledder trunks, ="
and with Il bland smile Hoflenstein
bowed the negro out.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
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Peter Gibson. Jr.. and Robert Sulli-

Peter Gibson. Jr., and Robert Sulli-
yam drive stylish dog carts in Cincin-
matt, and in these vehicles took two
Young ladies to the races. The latter
were 10th to 90 in such 4 conspicuous
way, and had good reason to regret
that they had given their consent, for
the young men got intoxicated. made
them cry with modification, and COM
PEELED them for decency's sake to 90
home in a horse car. The offenders
called on DR.. 10y, 4 relative, to make
IN apology, and during the Interview
Gibson received such thrashing as
made him present a very deplorable
appearance.
Elmer Slusser was q deformed child.
When his mother died in Louisville his
father had some difficulty in getting
him properly cared for. and n length
found a place for him with Mrs. New
ton, the wife of an intimate friend. Mis-.
Newton pitied the boy for his misfor-
tune, and it was supposed that her ten
derness toward him arose solely from
sense of duty; but when his father cot
ready TO marry again. she asked to keep
him permanently. This was refused.
She declared that they should not live
apart, but it was not imagined that her
feeling was as deep as the words inn
piled, until Elmer was found dead from
a dose of morphine. and the woman
nearly so. Insanity will be pleaded in
her defense