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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

We regret to hear of the death. at
Greeneville,. of Rev. A. J. Blankenbeck-
Ter. of brain fever.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

The sudden death last week Of Geo.
w. MeGhse, Esq, from heart disease, at
his residence above Morristown, will
be sAd news to his large number of
friends in HAmblen and elsewhere.
He was found dead in his bed Thursday
morning, during the absence Of his
family at MoOresburg Springs George
MeGhee bad an extensive Acquaintance
and among that acquaintance We have
net yet met a maa who could say AuGht
against his good character. His virtues
were many, and OF a rare sind, He
lived an upright life and is entitled to
the Just reward be no doubt will receive
IN the great hereafter. He was aged
about IS years. and leaves a wife and
three children 10 mourn his irrspArAble
ioss
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

The Chattanooga DAILY Democrat
started in that city less than year ago
by Walker s. Powell. Of Rogersville,
and afterwards leased to Major G. C.
Conuor, announced Its indefinite sus-
psnAiOn last week. Maj. Conner has &C
ccpted lucrative position in the rsil-
road service, and failing to md any one
generous aud patriotic enough 10 con-
tinue the publication for its receipts
wisely gave it up. The Democrat bad
become first class daily journal and We
SHALL miss its visits. Il is yet doubtful
whether its publication will be resumed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

DIR. 9, p. Harris, whom we mention.
ed last week as being in very critical
condition, quietly and peacefully
breathed bis last Sunday evening. Hs
was an old land-mark-ripe in years
and full of those nobler qualities which
ever insures happy rest beyond. His
funeral occurred Monday, and his re-
mains were buried in the cemetery at
Panther Springs.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

One OF the most pleasant OF the many
pleasant resorts in East Tennessee 10
Mineral Hill Springs, located ten miles
north Of MOrristown, where the cool,
exhilarating shadows Of Clinch noun
tam fall peFpetuAlly, and which nature
has done so much for 20 make a place
Of health, pleasure and rest. The pro-
prietor, DIR. W. J. Heaeker, who also
has his sanitarium there. has spent
much time and money within the last
twelve months in identifying and max
ing attractive the premises. The won
derful Improvements that have been
made reflect much credit upon DR.. H-'s
coed taste The hstel management is
frst-clAss and the fare equal to any liz
this section. A number Of guests are
nov in attendance, enjoying the ex-
cellent accommodations and drinking
the fne. health-giTing mineral water.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29
sEVIERVILLE.- Enterprise 23d.

East Tennessee Association of Baptists
meets with Red Bank Church five
miles east of Sevierville, on Thursday
before the 4th Sabbath in September.
Married. - On Sunday afternoon,
ut 4 o'clock, August LIST, Mr.. j. NJ.
Hammer and Miss NJ. NJ. Henderson
were united in the holy bonds of ma
trimony, at the residence of the brides
father Mr.. E. Henderson, five miles
above Sevierville.
Died. At his home in Blount con-
uty near Euseba, on last Saturday,
Thomas Pickens, aged II years He
had been sick about tive msnth and
was recently struck by paralysis.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

A two-hOrse team belonging To Maj
T. c. Cain became frightened near the
railroad last Saturday evening and ran
or. causing no little excitement along
Main street for several niHutes. A lit
tie son Of DIR. ThoH Butler. who was
in the wagon, mirAenloutly escaped be-
ing killed. The team attempted to
cross the Main street bridge when the
wagon struck one Of the dividing
braces and upset, turning the bed COM
pleiely over the little boy who wRs
cliagiog 10 the bottOni when rescued
bis injuries were found 10 be slight.
aud bis pain caused more by having
his head and eyes filed with lime dust
than froH anylhing else. lie was well
limed-up. aud for a while presented one
object about NoFrlslo~n that vac In q
good sanitary condition. The team es-
csped without Injury AHd the damage
othcrgise was small.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29
NEIcHsoRiMc TOWNS.
Local Occurrences all Around
Us.
RIOUNTVIIJ,E 0knr q.

BLOUNTVILLE. Star. 24th.
Married. -On the 18th inst., at the
residence of the brides father, G. w.
Humphreys, by Rev. n. B. Sherry,
Mr.. William ID. Wine aud Miss Fan
ME ". Humphreys.
Thomas Malsnee, near Whites
Store, aged about 10 years, is said to
be at the point Of death, frsm heart
disease. DIR. Martin is his physician.
Markedly Rev. James 3. Gem
verse, at the Clay House, ON the 18th
inst., w. S. Sale, formerly of Lynch
burg, Va, but now q conductor on the
X. A. Va. & GA. r. R., to Miss Mollie
Hill, of Bristol, sister to Will and
JaHner Hill
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

4 sewers storm, bordering on cy-
clone, visited Morristown last Friday,
and did a miscellaneous amount of dam
age, but not of very aerieus character.
Quite heavy rain fall and some hail
accompanied the storm. A large guam
tity of corn was blown down in the
vicinity, and the damage in this way
was perhaps the greatest.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

GREENEVILLE.- 23th,
We regret to learn that Rev. A. J..
Blankenbeckler is dangerously i'll, at
his residence, in this place.
Arrangements have been made with
the Standard Dramatic Company to
furnish music at our fair.
The condition Of the people Of this
county, as . rule, is much better
financially than it has been for years
past.
The killing Of the colored boy by
the cars, at the depot, on last Saturday,
should be warning to our boys about
jumping on and off Of passing trains.
We learn that Mr.. j. M. Overholtzer,
whe lives near WOelsey College, lost,
a few nights ago, fine mare, valued
Mt 5000. The belief is that lightning
caused her death.
Herald, 23d: The project Of building
q public hall is again being agitated.
On Wednesday of last week, while
Mrs. Taylor, wife OF Mr.. John Taylor,
who died on last Friday, was watch
lag by the bedside of her then almost
dying husband, she received q tele-
gram from her home at Helena, Ark,
Informing her that her only brother
had been assassinated in the street in
front of his office.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-29

JOHNSON CITY.-EnterpriSe, Doth.
Mrs. Gee. Swadley, who was thrown
from her horse last week, and badly
hurt, is, we are glad to note improv-
ing.
Mr.. p. G.. Range, will soon erect a
two story business house. on the
square, next dood to Hart & Ranges
Confectionery.
Seine of oar farmers who have COM
menced to dig their Irish potatoes re-
port the yield as being little more than
half they expected.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
FASHION NOTES.

Cream white is not worn any longer
by brides.
Silk pocketbooks, hand-painted, are
the newest.
Shirred yokes and full waists are
much worn.
Galloon is revived for dress and
bonnet trimmings.
Plaids, blocks, checks and stripes are
features in fall fabrics.
Silver and gilt crops out in the new
dress and bonnet galloons.
Black-beaded bonnets are now re-
lieyed by coquille of lace arranged
over the brim in front.
Mantles of plain black silk, trimmed
with profusion of lace, are the fash
ionable wrap for middleaged women
this fall.
The Gallo cock in metals of all col
Jrs, gilt, steel, bronze or silver, and
also in feathers, is a very fashionable
ornament.
Russian Pschutt and elephant gray,
czar brown, royal French blue, Mos
COW green, and violet purple are very
fashionable colors.
The Princess of Wales recently
wore at garden party cream colored
dress of light material, trimmed with
old gold; small princess bonnet
Ornamented with rosebuds and tied
across with turquoise blue. At her
breast was a bunch of crimson roses
rress skirts are growing decidedly
fuller and wider, an this decided ten
dency to bouffant style has, as history
plainly reveals, been almost invariably
the forerunner Of crinoline, and crino-
line we are to have unless scores Of
manufacturers. who have summoned
their hitherto idle forces ana begun the
work anew of making hoop-Skirts, have
listened to a delusive rumor Of their
coming popularity.-Neoo York EOe'l-
ing Post.
New bonnets for autumn wear are
displayed in New York in a bewilder-
ing and elegant variety of styles.
Dainty and uncommon models in dark
English braids and felts are sh wn,
the former handsomely trimmed with
richly col red fall flowers and fruits,
and the latter showing velvet crowns
and puffed velvet brins, with trim
mingS of fluffy feather-tips and jeweled
ornaments, the garnitures for these
showing a decided tendency to high
art shades and mixtures.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
A Mountain Alligator.

William Blackheath, who has just re-
turned from siX-months' soiourn in
Arizona, has brought to the Comstock
the skin of what he, for want of bet
ter name, calls a Gila monster, but
which is evidently that Of saurian Of
different species. The skin now
measures seven fest from tip to tip,
and it has evidently shrunk some
inches in drying Though about the
color of an ordinary ella monster, the
reptile is evidently kind of inland
crocodile, or, more properly, cayman,
as it had not the webbed feet of the
crocodile.
The strange saurian was found in a
small valley in the Wheatstone noun
tains. When alive it stood two feet
high, and its body, just back of its
fore-legs, was over three feet in Cir
cumference. The creature was as saw
age as bulldog, and as full of fight
as viper. 1t was found by the dogs
of Mr.. Blackheath and partner. When
the men arrived at the haunt of the
reptile--to which they were attracted
by the fierce and peculiar barking Of
their dogs, three in number-they
found that one dog had already been
killed and the others were badly cut
up and covered with blood. The
creature displayed such activity and
was so diabOlically vicious that the two
prospectors feared to go near it, being
armed with nothing better than pros
pecting pick and shovel with short
handle.
Finally the thing got one OF the
dogs by the foreleg, and finding that it
held on like a terrier, with no sign of
loosing its hold, Mr.. Blackheath ran
forward and struck his pick into its
head. Even then the reptile held on,
and it was not until it had been struck
several blows with the pole OF the pick
that its Jaws relaxed and it gave up
the ghost. When the dog was released
it was found that the foreleg had been
broken at point about two inches
above the knee.
Mr.. Blackheath says he has met
with several creatures known as Gila
monsters that were two feet and two
and a half feet in length, but never
before or since saw, or even suspected
the existence of one so large as that
whose skin he possesses. 1t was a
surprise to all the white men in that
section, but some Of the In Iians as
serted that far south in the Sierra
Madre mountains they hal seen some
that we rs large or larger.
Unfortunately in laying the sau.
rian, Mr.. Blackheath's only idea was
to have the hide tanned and made
into boots and CATERS, therefore he
did not preserve the feet otherwise
the skin might be stuffed and mounted
ly a taxidermist. lie says the teeth
o. the creatures were over an inch in
length, were sharp as needles, and in
shape resembled the Ceeth Of a shark.
u -Vir9inta city (Nec.) Enterprise.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
A Metropolitan Crematory.

Ground has been purchased on the
highest and the most picturesque
grounds on Manhattan Island on which
to erect a crematoTy to reduce dead
bodies to ashes The New York Gre
nation society wish to avoid ferries,
railroad trains and crowded thorough
fares when conveying the remains Of
their relatives and friends to the last
resting-place. This will be secured by
the proposed works on Washington
Heights. This cemetery will be more
complete than anything of its kind in
the world. There are to be no yew or
willow trees and no emblems of mourn
ing. A picturesque chapel for memo'
r al services will be ected, and the
grounds will be laid out and adorned
with plants and flowers suggesting
hope and Joy instead Of the more mel
ancholy emotions. Nor will there be
any roasting and burning Of the bodies,
but The remains will be incinerated by
an intensely hot, dry air radiating from
furnaces fifteen feet distant, which will
reduce the corpse in short time to
heap of ashes. The crematory is to be
in part modelled upon those in Ger
many and Italy, where they are in
much more general use than in this
country emOreSt.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
How A Pianist Avoided a Duel.

A duel in which an eminent pianist
was to have taken a leading part is
said to have been happily arranged
without loss of life or limb on either
side. An alteration had taken place
at a Paris cafe between the said pianist
and well-known man of fashion; and
it at last became so animated that the
latter offered the former his card and
accepted one in return The pianist
waited at home the next morning, but
heard nothing from his opponent The
day afterward he met him by chance
in the street, and expressed his sur
pr Sc at what had, or rather at what
had not, taken pla e. 81 asked you
the day before yesterday" said the
pianists adversary, "for satisfa tion,
and yesterday / received it," "IIoW
sot" asked the pianist, more astonished
than ever. "Instead of visiting card
you gave me ticket for your con
cert, was the reply. Il went to it,
heard you play and was more than
satistied,-St JGReS' Gazssk
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
''SHE DOES NOT KNOW CHICKEN
FROM TURKEY

Helene is the handsomest girl of her race;
She's an elegant form and an exquisite face,
And she dresses with perfectly consummate
grace.
But she doesn't know chicken from turkey.
She knows many languages, living and dead (;
In science and fiction is very well read,
But she cannot cook meat and she cannot
make bread,
And she doesn't know chicken from tur-
key.
She can play "Fantasia" or "NoctuIne y
with skill;
Can sing up to "B "-has a wonderful t.
Can write good story or sonnet but still
She doesn't know chicken from t.. TX Y.
She's been up the Tiber, the Rhine and the
Nile;
She's painter in every popular style
Can decorate china, a plaque or a tile
But she doesn't know chicken from turkey.
She's always self-satisfed, graceful and cool !;
A critic, both just and correct, as a rule;
And knows every stitch of the Kensington
School,
Butsh doesn't know chicken from turkey.
She can work design by Lensing or Burt;
But she cannot cut out for her children a
skirt,
Or make for her husband well fitting shirt
She doesn't know chicken from turkey.
I'm willing a girl should read Latin and
Greek
Should German and French and Italian speak ;
And be Cup" in the latest esthetical freak.
If she only knows chicken from turkey.
I'd like her in music and song to take part;
Read poetry, science, and cultiviAe art,
II husband and children were first in her
heart,
And If she knew chicken from turkey
Knew barley from rice, knew tart from
pie;
A boil from a stew, a broil from fry;
And if she went into the market TO buy,
Knew very well chicken from turkey.
For to make home happy, all knowledge
must blend;
Art, science and service their benefits lend
Then, ladies so clever and wise, condescend
To know about chicken and turkey.
Lille Il. Barr, in the Continent.
-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24

page. No word of love had passed.
All was on a strictly business basis,
the history of the missions of the
Northwest the objective aim.
But at last there was no excuse for
lingering longer. The hills across the
prairie were red and gold, the robins
had fled, and the grain around the
little burying-ground cut and slowed
away.
Charlotte was walking home as usual
Far away in the road two moving dot
appeared, which developed into the
twins as they came nearer. Tears
were cutting briny burrows down their
not very clean cheeks. Hysterical sob5
alone came from their mouths as they
tried to speak, but finally sisterly intui-
tion eliminated these words from the
chaos:
Mother has runned away She
said she would if we didn't stop pound
ing, and we didn't, and she has
runned p
That poor mother ! She had made
the same threat a hundred times be-
fore, but had been pacifed.
Which wayP Tell me quickly"
thinking of the river, SO tireless and
so cruel.
"She ruined up the railroad track"
No more words were needed. Back
of the garden was the branch railway
from La Paz. The evening train was
nearly due.
Leaving the twins TO toddle after as
well as they could in their exhausted
state she ran. Ran? She flew. The
bright invalid shawl was a beacon.
Mrs. Brantome sat upon the track,
idly playing with some yellow flowers.
Charlotte knew her patient well.
Mother" she said, cit is late, and
the boys are calling, and You must feed
the chickens"
The mother shook her head. Per-
suasion was no persuader. Then
Charlotte scolded. Alike useless.
Then, as last resort, she used gen.
tie force. A failure. Sit there and
pull those yellow flowers to pieces
that the poor unbalanced woman would
do, nothing else. In Heavens name
what was to be done? Those who
have had experience know the strength
of the insane. The train whistled for
the crossing a mile away, and just
then, some guardian angel guiding
him, James Duncan jumped the fence,
a wet handkerchief in his hand.
Blessings upon the medicine which
subdued the bugs! 1t subdued this
poor woman in a moment, and he had
lifted her out of danger before the
train rushed past.
Then he explained. He had been
copying the inscription on the Indians
tombstone as the boys went screaming
by. He gathered enough from their
incoherent words to learn what the
matter was. The chloroform idea was
simply an inspiration.
"How can L repay you?" asked wet
eyed Charlotte, as the party, boys,
mother. and all, were walking back.
"By making over to me Pierre
Brantome's manuscripts-and his
granddaughter. l can never write
the history without her."
"Well," softly, "in the cause of
science-perhaps."
And this is how it came to pass that
the boys marched up the church aisle
before the robins came again with
Charlotte and the bug-man.-FlorG IL.
StanfeLd.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
LULLABY.


" "Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is grcsnS
Fathers nobleman, mothers queens
Rockaby, lullaby, all the day long,
Down to the land of the lullaby song.
Babyland never again viii be thine,
Land of all mystery, holy, divine.
Motherland, Otherland,
Wonderland, Underland,
Land of a time ne'er again to be seen;
Flowerland, Bowerland,
Airyland, Fairyland,
Roekaby, baby, thy cradle is green.
Rockaby, baby, thy mother viii keep
Genie watch DER thine azure-eyed sleep;
Baby can't feel what mother-heart knows,
Throbbing its fear Ger your quiet repose.
Mother-heart knows how baby must fight
Wearily on through the fast-coming night;
Battle unending,
Honor defending,
Baby must wage with the powers unseen.
Sleep now, OH baby dear,
God and thy mother near;
Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green.
Rockaby, baby, the days will grow long;
Silent the voice of the mother-love song.
Bowed with sore burdens, the man-life musi
own
Sorrows that baby must bear all alone.
Wonderland can never come back agaan;
Thought will come soon-and with reason
comes pain.
Sorrowland, Motherland,
Drearyland, Wearyland,
Baby and Heavenland lying between.
Smile, then, in Motherland,
Dream in the Otherland
Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green.
From the German.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
" THE BUG-MAN."
n old saying for a poor housewife.

The proverbial straw had broken
the metaphorical amels back The
patience of Charlotte Brantome,
usually equal to the exigencies of the
occasion, wa exhausted. The twins,
as matter of course, were the cul-
prit'. They, however, W tin the COM
placency natura, to boys of six or
thereab0uts, were Indifferent to the
tempest of despair which ragged in
their ister's breast. They had con
slderately refra a.ned from adding deceit
to their guilt, but had confessed, fully
and unreserve, ly to riding the canary's
nest, to tearing a jacket, and losing a
hat down the well, to eating the straw
berrie that were saved for supper, and
to cate hing Their most faithful hen
with a tisAhoo'l. That hshhook repre-
sented the straw; Charlotte the camel.
She could have orne anything better
than downright cruelty developed 50
early in one of her own blood. She
never was boy.
"And man was here" went on
Popsey; "a big man." volunteered
Wopsey, the other twin. "And he
asked us about everything, and we aid
our mot er wasn't very well and our
sister was a old maid school -ma'an."
Charlotte win ed. Where had he
picked up that expression? And had
it come to tnat?
5" You must not talk to strange men
about mother or me. What did he
want?'
q IIa xuoptaJ fo caa Won ,,
"MeY Visions of tramps, of spy
ing burglars, only they had nothing to
"burgle," as Popsey had said one day,
came into her mind.
How did he look ?"
70 "He was beautiful" "He was
dreadful" said the twins in duet.
Further questioning elected these
facts He was young he was old f;
he was short he was tall he wore
spectacles he had a mustache and
was a bug-man. In the last and
crownlng fact the boys agreed.
Practice had made Miss Brantome
a tolerable clairVOyant so far as read
ing those two small minds was con-
cerned. She jumped at the conclusion
that some wanderingnaturalist chasing
an elusive bug had chanced that way,
and gave the subject no more a,ten-
tion. She had other things to think Of
than "bug-men or any men, and
the problems of how to provide a new
hat for Wopsey and how to instill
rem rse into the hearts of her charges
drove other thoughts away.
Sitting down on the low doorstep OF
the house that had been home to her
for six and twenty happy years she
tried to reason it out. The sun was
vet high, the days were at their long
est. Behind her flowed the tireless
river; in front Of her, across the
prairie, the hills were green. In the
field of rye over the way cleaned a
large white wooden cross. Her grand
father, in whose veins flowed some of
the blue blood of France, had bought
a home in this Western country when
the remnant Of an Indian tribe had
still property TO sell. The deed of sale
provided for the preservation of their
little burying ground. The grain
grew thick around, but the tiny vii
lage of the dead was never disturbed
by spade or plow.
Old Pierre, however, had never pros
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24
RATES OF ADVERTISING

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements collected
quarterly. Temporary advertisements must
be paid in advance.
Job work. cash ON delivery
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24

did the prisoner knock Mr.. Smith
down in retaliation p asked the lawyer
of the witness "No, sir; he knocked
him down in the board yard, ,"-ON
City Derrick.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-10-24

1t certainly was astonishing how
much consulting the Brantome manu-
scripts needed. And, to-, Mr.. Dun
can required so much assistance. 1t
was Miss Brantome, will you kindly
read this list while l copy it?" or,
Miss Charlotte, really can't make
out whether this is an or an i, all
the while. Grandfather Brantome
would have begun to inquire rs to
marriage settlements and SCOT h pedi-
grees had he been alive to see those
chestnut locks, innocent of bangs, and
that dark mustache in such dangerous
proximity. 1t was the old s.ory-two
young heads bending over the same