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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-01-17
OYER ESQ. 900 PAID FOR ESCAPE.

OYER $50, 900 PAID FOR RSCAPK
A dispatch to the Galveston NeIrs
from LAedo, says that Polk, after
bis arrest by detective Price, was
liberated for something over $780,
900, and tSok the train for Laredo,
getting of at Webb station, thirty
miles from that place. u. s. Marshal
Shelly, upon learning this, started
in pursuit on horseback. On arriv-
ing at Webb station he arrested tho
detective sent with Polk. After con-
siderable trouble he found Polk So
crersd seven miles from Webb sta
ton. Polk was at frst disposed to
fight, but afterwards he offered the
Marshal $4,000 to release him. Polk
was taken to Laredo where he will
DO held until the necessary papers
arrive. He has very little money
with him. IL is reported that his
nephew and servant crossed into
Mexico with large amount Of mo-
nsy. Polk appears much distressed
At his arrest. His hands and cloth
ing were filed with prickly pear
thOrns, which he had got from wan
dering in the thicket
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POLK. AT SAN ANTONIO.

The particulars of Folks arrest
and release ut San Antonio, Texas,
are thus told: Shortly after the SIX
o'clock train came in on Saturday
night, two men, with q Mexican, ar
rived at the international depot and
finding n sleeping car conductor of
the train to leave for Laredo at 10
o'clock, asked admission to the car,
the spokesman saying hewas i'll and
q cripple, exhibiting q cork leg. The
conductor led the way to the car
still in the shed ut some distance.
Sometime before train time the lead
er gave the conductor s25 to purch-
ase tickets to Laredo. refusing to re-
esiVe back SO change, the tickets
costing S19. Just before train time,
while the conductor was mt the de-
rot conducting his arrangements,
4 gentleman approached and, de-
scribing the party, asked if they
were not in the sleeper. The con-
ductor thinking the stranger was q
friend of his guests, conducted him
70 the car. The stranger was De-
tectiv0 Price, who had received
telegram from Pinkerton detective
at Houston. Price entered the car
and found the party comfortably
seated around table, with wine and
cards, prepared to enjoy the night
ride. Polk was arrested and charg-
ed with being the defaulting Treas
ursr, but be protested that his name
was Tate, and that his party had
been travelling in Europe for pleas
ure, and was now en- route to Mexi-
co to look after mining interests and
that he had come direct from New
York Price with his prisoner and
Folks companion drove to the Men
ger house, where Polk registered as
X. Tate and the young man as A.
Van Leer and servant, but none of
them gave their residence. They
remained at the hotel under surveil-
lance all Saturday night and Sun
day, Polk putting in his time Sat
urday night writing and mailing |
letters to different parts Of the coun-
try. On Sunday afternoon they |
TOOK a carriage rlde with the detec-
tive TO see the sights. Price, not
receiving the authority to hold them
longer, released them and allowed |
them to proceed. He is severely
censured by some for giving up his
game 50 easy, and by some it was
said that $4,000 was an inducement
for a man of Folks standing to 60
TO Mexico, and q much smaller sum
might be an inducement for a de-
tectiye to aid him. In justice, how
ever, to Price it is reported that he
sent q detective on the same train TO
arrest him again at Laredo. The
sleeping car conductor is said to
have seen in the possession of the
party two sacks filed with money,
one with greenbacks and one with
gold.
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A NEw-FAsHIoNED SHIRT

| saw while there. A dispute arose
between a young and an old man as
to whether the younger's sweetheart
could make him a shirt after they
were, were-well you know what l
mean. 30 to decide the matter the
young gent had his shirt cut out,
took it to his girl to make, and ask
ed her if she would make it for him.
80, yes" she replied. In a few
days the shirt was sent home with,
to the young mans utter disgust, a
broad bias piece and heavy ruffie
around the skirts of his shirt. The
gussets were on the wrong side and
left hanging loose. The yolng man
has not been back since.
Now, MIR. Editor, if you will ex-
cuse the length of this, and all other
errors, / will subscribe myself as
LEE SHELTON.
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A Word to Our Readers

NAE HEN YOU read of medicine that will cure
w all diseases, beware of it, for every scientific
physician 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 claims to cure only certain
disease, and furnishes high proof that it does this
you can safely try it, and with the assurance that
it will cure you. DIR V. r. STONE, late physician
and surgeon of the U. s. A., has placed before the
Dublic q nrenarafiOn ca lied
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MoRRIsTOWN TENN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II, 1883.

the three years past. He came here
with no eneouragemeEts; but by his
indomitaDle will and unfinohing en-
ergy, has raised the enrolment from
about 60 to 17S for the past session.
AT his coming there was no house
except public school building; but
by his efforts and "go-ahead" zeal,
he has succeeded in building a good
house, in which he opened his school
this morning. Surely the people of
Whitesburg and vicinity should pa
tronize him, and give him the hon
ors of President as long as be as
pires thereto.
/ enjoyed my trip to Cooke coun-
ty last week, and if you will just
pardon me for taking so much time
and space, / will tell you a little
about it-little if must be.
There were three of us in compa-
ny when we started, but only two
when We returned. One of the
company was so unfortunate as to
have only one leg, but he was none
the less interesting for that. He
had a sweetheart on the road, and
as we near0d her fathers residence,
was convinced of the fact that he
intended to stop. But we reasoned
the case" with him-telling him how
improper it would be for him to stop
when she had informed him that
she could not receive him during
the holidays; and we only succeed
ed in preventing his stopping by
persuading him that she was not at
home. Would you believe me if l
were to tell you he ran away and
left two of US beyond the river, and
staid two days and nights with her?
This is how there happened to be
only two of us in returning. You
may just put this in parenthesis,
then he won't know who told YOU
about it.
Noon found us at Judge Hold
ways, and, at bis earnest sugges-
ton, we concluded to dine with him.
Horses in the barn bountifully fed,
two of us were seated around a good
fire to listen to the merry jokes and
jests of the Judge, while dinner was
preparing. The third-"oh where
was he ?"
One of the Judges jokes is so
good 1 will give it for the amuse-
ment of your readers
During the late campaign for the
county officers, both the candidates
for Trustee of Cooke county were
One day several gen
tlemen of different political princi-
Piles were standing talking, when
one of the candidates rode up, and
inquired of them how they would
run in that Misunderstanding that
they were both Republicans. One
of the party said, "You are both
high-tax men, are your" The af-
answer was given, when
he replied, "Well, it is impossible
for a high-tax man to get to stay all
night in this district" The fellow
thought he was in good earnest,
failed to go to his appointment to
speak that night and lay out in the
woods all night, and went to a pri-
vate house for breakfast next morn
ingl OF course the gentleman was
testing with him.
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GOSSIP IRON WRTrKsBURG.

WmTEsBURG, Tenn, Jan 2, 'S3.
To the Editor Of the MorriHto-n GAEstte:
A i have not seen my name in
print since l wrote you from our
noted little village, Sheltonville, /
Just thought / would write you n
short letter from this place and let
you know that / am still in the
Gland of the living" and enjoying
the best health have enjoyed since
first became acquainted with you.
have withdrawn my name from
the list of pedagogues, and quit the
profession of teaching. / attribute
my good health to this cause.
You know that ever since 10 /
have been connected with the pub
lie schools of Hamblen county; nor
did withdraw because i felt no in
terest in them. My desires for their
success is as great as ever, and ac-
cordIng to my previous promise i
expect to furnish you the articles
relative to them when get time.
But this il enough of this.
Everything is quiet here now.
We had a little difficulty Christ
mas day. One fellow got drunk,
and insultingly aecOsted another,
when the one accosted just deliber-
ately laid a brickbat up to the side
of the others head. The drunken
man struck him twice with a knife,
but did not hurt him.
IL 10 n mystery to me why young
men will drink no much and thus
throw themselves away Nor is it
any less mystery why 50 many men
protesting to be christians will in
dulge in selling the poisonouf stuff ;
they sell the sO-called bifterS,
which is worse than the pure whis-
Nv, and in its sale there is no less
sin. / would better not write any
more about this, just now, so / will
just stop it, and tell you something
about
QUA SCHOOL.
It's name has been changed to
Whitesburg Seminary. 1t opened
its fourth session this morning with
very hattering prospects. Prof J.
r. Hale, who hAs been Mt its head
for the three past years, has been
elected President; Prof It. N. Haun
bis associate, with Misses Maggie
Lane and Mile Welch as primary
teachers. The school is now thor
oughly organized. Prof Hale cor
tainly does deserve great credit for
the manner In which he has man
aged this school and its affairs for
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To Travellers.

EARTIES WHO ARE THINK
ing of going to any point in the West
can secure the very lowest rates, maps,
time tables, etc., by addressing or call
ing on R. s. PATTY.
General Enaigrant Agent,
nov. Sly JoHKsoN's Cry, Tenn.
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DINNER OVER.

We are now on the road leading
NY Knob creek. This creek GER
tainly has been properly named !;
but when we got on the headwaters
of Clay creek, / began to think that
it should have been called Knobbier
creek. The land on both these
creeks is rich and productive. The
people are generous as could be de-
sired. They, of course, live differ
emily from us along the railroad. 1
remarked to my friend, with whom
l was in company, that the people
over here were certainly going
West, as they had their land ready
rolled up. But he told me it was
only an advantage they had over us,
of cultivating two sides instead of
one. / heard him ask a fellow if
that hog would come down off that
hill without brakes and when l
asked a gentleman how his corn
would get down out of the field, he
replied that she would take round
ance." The land was mountainous
indeed, but the people know how to
make grain and raise stock. We
found that their hogs were dying of
cholera. All along the road from
Lick creek to the mountains We
found them lying dead-in some
places thick.
This letter is already too long. /
am in the habit of writing too much
when write, but / want to tell you
-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
Dishwashing Her Life Away.

The quiet fidelity with which wom-
an will dish wash her life away for her
husband and children is a marvel OF
endurance. Here is the servitude of
woman heaviest-no sooner is her work
done than it requires to be done again.
Men take jobs, work on them, finish
them, and they are over for good and
all. The prospect Of ending them and
drawing pay for the labor is alluring,
but no such allurements are held out
for the wife. She washes Monday after
Monday the same garments until there
is nothing more of them to wash; then
they are replaced by others of new ma
terial Just like them, and the rubbing
and wringing goes on forever. She
mends the stockings with tireless fidel-
ity, the same holes meeting her gaze
week after week, for if there is darned
place in sock she" invariably puts his
irrepressible toe through it. Every
morning the rooms are put in order,
only to be in the widest disorder by
the time night falls. There are no jobs,
each one different, no terms, no pay
day. The same socks, the same wash
ing, the same room every time. There
Is TOO little brightness III tne liVoo "a
women in the country. They have too
little help in their domestic occupations.
The nurse in house where there
is baby to care for ought to be set
down as one of the regular expenses,
as much as the potatoes for the family.
A mothers health, both of body and
mind, is worth more than additional
acres of land or finer live stock. The
heart should not be allowed to grow old.
Life should not have lost its charm, the
heart its spirit and the body its elastic
ity at forty years. And yet how many
women are faded and wan, and shat
tered in mind and health, long before
they are forty. All the joy of life is not
in youths morning. If we SO will it.,
we can to the last moment of life be at
least negatively happy. -Erchange.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
pUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Should music be sold by the chordP
Drum music might be sold by the pound.
Milton Ne,os.
Strange that a black man should
be called colored man, when black is
not a color, but the absence of color.
--.Now is the time to subscribe, !"
said the crossroads editor as he led his
wealthy bride to the marriage register
and showed pen into her trembling
hand.-N Y. News.
The man who thinks that his boy
can hoe in the garden while circus
procession is passing is always the man
who has front seat when the perform
ance begins. Detroit Free Press.
"A man may boast that his fore
fathers came over in the Mayllower, yet
if he can't keep his family in bread
every month in the year his Wanting is
all in vain. IN. Y. Aduertiser.
AT a reception the other evening
one of the ladies present wore q
black velvet dress, on which were sixty
solid gold buttons down the front
Everybody knew they were solid because
she said So N. " Mail.
"A noted physician says it is danger
Gus to kiss any one who is fasting.
Young man. never let your girl go by a
restaurant hungry, on the way home
from theater, if you have the means 10
satisfy her Is.tural longing for some
thing good to eat.-Ptcaymne.
"A Mr.. Robert Griffin, of London, is
afraid that the earth will not be large
enough to hold the inhabitants it will
have some years hence. Robert is
living in very crowded part Of the
world. Set him down on an American
prairie and he will not feel so punched
up in his mind as lie does at the present
moment. Detroit Post.
"A gentleman not long since, in one
of his rides in Southern Illinois, sought
to make himself interesting to good
looking mother of sweet baby occupy
ing the next seat in the car After duly
praising the baby he remarked to the
pose' '.No, sir, said the lady, blush.
ing, 1--WE had to raise him on the bot
tle." The gentleman resumed his read.
ing and has not Dragged on any strange
babies since. - Chicago Herald
Why he made the mistake: He
came home late the other night, and his
wife woke up and found him with a
burning match trying to light the cold
water tap over the marble basin in his
dressing-room. James, she said,
that is not the gas-burner." II know
it now, my love" hereplied, unsteadily
'.fact is, I've been over-worked, and
that's the reasen / made the mistake. y
Eyes, you look as if you had been lift
ing good DEAL" she quietly answered
as she returned to her pillow Chicago
Tribune
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NUMBER 80.

drowned every one Of them. What
shall | dor And she ran along the
edge Of the pond, clucking and cack-
ling like a crazy creature.
But the little ducks were so happy
that they forgot all about her. They
swan along on the water, and dipped
their heads down now and then and ate
little water-bugs or something, and
they never had such a merry time in all
their lives.
1t was bad time for Chickabiddy.
When she was nearly distracted they
all came safely out of the pond, as dry
as ever, and would have gone off with
the strange ducks, but with great diff
iiculty she persuaded them to go home
with her. They had frightened her
once before by running into puddle,
but this was much worse.
"How could you be so naughty, my
dearsp' she said TO them that night.
20 mammal" they said, IF you
only would go into that beautiful cool
water with us once, you wouldn't call
us naughty, and you never would want
to come out again. "--Annic Moore, in
Iouths Companion.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe Is
building a church near Jacksonville,
Fla.
Rev. DR.. Eddy, Congregational
minister of Detroit. has been fifty years
n the ministry-yet he is only sixty
seven years old.
Every college has its faculty, but it
sn't always a faculty of getting along
smoothly with the student. -LoaeeU
Ciisen.
AT meeting of the trustees of the
University of Georgia, at Atlanta, re-
Gently. Senator Joseph f. Brown pre-.
sented $50. 900 in bonds to that institu-
ion, and the gift was accepted.
Rev. DIR. Buckley, who has charge
Of the New York Christian Advocate,
reported to the New York East Confer
snce of the Methodist Church that the
profits of that journal for the past year
amounted to S63.000
One of the best definitions of faith
was given by a bright Sunday-school
boy to his teacher: "As near as | can
make it out, it is feeling perfectly sure
Of a thing when you have nothing to
back it up"
Omaha has high-school principal
who makes written contracts with the
boys TO the effect that after being called
up certain number of times they shall
be whipped, and he says the plan works
finely. Denrer Tribune.
The Presbyterian Synod of Ken
lucky proposes to raise $4,000 by next
October to erect dormitory and board
ing-hall as an addition to the buildings
of the Central University, to be called
the Centennial Memorial Hall, and to
commemorate the Tooth anniversary of
the establishment of Presbyterlanism
in the State, which will occur in Octo-
Der next.
Prof. w. T. Welcker, California's
State Superintendent of Instruction,
has ruled that the children of Chinese
can not be admitted to the public
schools of that State, as they are not
eligible to become citizens, and 1.-THE
whole drift of one specified article OF
the State constitution sis Enthusiastically
hostile to the Chinese coming into the
State or remaining in the State under
any condition whatever"
In the course of sermon preached
lately in the Tabernacle, London, Mr..
Spnrgeon said that although he had
preached the gospel now thirty years
and more, that night, before coming
upon the platform, he trembled like an
aspen leaf. Often when he entered the
Tabernacle his knees knocked together,
and not that he was afraid of any one
man or of the whole congregation, but
simply because he regarded 1t as a most
solemn thing to proclaim the gospel to
| dying men. ~ y. Examiner.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
Indians Who Are Shrewd Buyers.

I watched some Indians shopping
and was astonished to see how invaria-
bly, they waived aside inferior goods
$1.50 to 50 yard. One of the mer-
chants told me it was useless to offer
them anything but the best. An In
dian, who could not speak English OF
French, and wanted five things, divi-
ded his money according to his idea Of
their relative cost in little piles on the
counter, and going through panto-
mine descriptive of his wants, was
handed some silk handkerchiefs. TAX.
ing one up he felt it, held it up to the
light, and throwing it aside shook his
his head vigorously, muttering an "Ugh'
of disgust. When shown better one
he was doubtful; but a much superior
article being produced, he took it, and
willingly handed over one pile for it.
This, however, was too much, and when
given the change he put it on one of the
other piles, and proceeded in the same
way to make the rest of his purchases.
'.How easily they could be cheated;" /
said to the clerk, after the Indian had
left. No. he replied, mot SO easily
as it would appear. They generally
come in from their camps in great num-
bers once year to sell furs and make
purchases. They 60 to different shops,
and on their return compare notes as to
the cost and quality of their goods,
Then if one has paid more than another
or has been cheated in quality, he will
never enter that shop again, and the
firm that gives the greatest bargains is
most patronized on their return, Miss
FttSg6bbon's Book on Manitoba.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
An Oyerworked Husband.

Sam Johnsng, an Austin colored
man, who is afflicted with the chronic
habit of whipping his wife whenever he
gets drunk, which is as often as he can
get whisky, was administering the usual
castigation, when he CHANGED to look
round and saw crowd of urchins look
ing in at the door with open eyes and
mouths, taking in the entire circus.
"G'way from dar chillins, said
Sam. pausing in his labors with the leg
of table, and wiping the perspiration
from his brow. .'G'way from dar,
say What yer lookin' at. Hasn't yer
seed dish heah performance cherry day
for de las foah munfs, and once more
the regular whacks. annotated with
yells and profanity from the victim,
showed that the Industrious husband
had resumed his labors. = Texas Siftings.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
THE TWO SOWERH.


Death came to the earth. by his side was
Spring,
They came from Gods own bowers,
And the earth was full of their wandering,
For they both were sowing flowers.
Il SOW" said Spring, by the stream and the
And the village children know
Inc gay glad time of my own sweet prime,
And where my blossoms grow.
There is not spot in the quiet wood
But hath heard the sound of my feet,
And the yiolets come from their solitude
When my tears hath made them sweet"
Il SOW" said Death, "where the hamlet
| SOW in the churchyard drear;
drop In the grave with gentle handA
My flowers from year TO year.
To the sleep that waits them below;
But clasp the children unto my breast,
And kiss them before CO.
81 SOW said Spring '.but my flowers decay
When the year turns weak and old,
When the breath of the bleak winds wears
And they wither and droop in the mould.
"But they come again when the young earth
The new blood leap in her veins,
When the fountain Of wonderful life unseals,
And the earth is alive with the rains"
IT SOW" said Death; 'but my flowers unseen
Pass away from the land of men,
Nor signs nor tears through the long sad years
Ever bring back their bloom again.
"But know they are wondrous bright and
fair
In the fields of their high abode;
Your flowers are the flowers that a child may
wear
But mine are the blossoms of Cod
Death came to the earth by his side was
Spring;
The two came from Gods own bowers;
One sowed In night and the other in light,
Yet they both were sowing flowers.
-Aleranier Anderson, in Good Words.