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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-30

Barrel factories are springing up
all over the State. T
AJewish Temple was dedicated
in Memphis last Sunday.
Knoxville is shipping large guam
titles Of zinc to Connecticut. -'"
Irish potatoes in McMinn County
have been damaged by the Colorado
beetle. '
The report Of the Commissioner
shows the crops of the State to be
very good. ...., l,5.., ,...'''o ,t'.r
A farmer Of Sumner County sold
the product of half acre of onions
for 500 cash. ''
q A negro convict was killed at the
Tracy City mines last week, by a
mas of falling slate.
/ More and better clover has been
saved in Sequachee valley this season
than ever before. - 9a'
A child fifteen months old, at
Chattanooga, died the other day from
the effects Of drinking coal oil.
In Rogersville, was set the first
type for the first newspaper ever
published in the State Of Tennessee.
Five men were lynched last week,
> near Elkmont, Giles County, for the
, murder Of William Trice, near
Prospect.
A man died, in the train, Of con-
sumption as the cars came round
the foot of Lookout Mountain, a few
days ago.
The Aiiantus, or Heaven tree,
It which grows in Tennessee under the
e protest Of man, is found to be good
Il for the silkwOrm. 24eA
VI If the farmers Of Sullivan County
Is set out as many fruit trees during
lie the next five years as in the last
'f five, the whole country would sooa
le be an orchard. - o'
. The Roane Iron Works, the largest
!" rolling mill in the South, which has
: been idle for six months, has re-
- sumed operations in the pudding
= department, giving employment to
= 200 hands.
a The mail bag which was lost two
% years ago by upsetting Of the ferry
le boat and drowning the ferryman at
ID Daddy's creek, Cumberland County,
J. was found few days ago. 1t con-
0. tanned $lS in money, which was
ID found uninjured. - p" ~
ly A man, near Lawrencebnrg, COM
mitted suicide one day last week
in q novel manner. He peeled the
bark from hickory bush, and,
fastening it around his neck, tied
ne the end to the limb of sapling,
from which he launched himself.
10 An ex-state senator from Ten
nessee, while paying a bootblack in
b. Wall street, New York, the other
ry day, dropped roll Of bills contain
ing $3.50. The bootblack picked up
the money and handed it to- its
% owner, receiving $40 for his reward.
Discussing the fence law, a corres-
n pondent Of the Ripley Ne,cs COM
,st putes that using 1880 rails, twenty
rails to the pole, at $3.50 hundred,
will cost $l09.20: estimate on fence
to last five years, and $21.s5 year
'S' will cover the annual cost of fencing
so acres. 6a-s DT 9
=. !" On Tuesday the East Tenn, Va.
" & Ga. Railroad Company made a
contract for 500 new cars to be built
me by the, Southern Car Works a,
lie Knoxville. The cars must be de-
to livered in the next few weeks. "A
number of new engines has just
rg, been ordered, ,I,5a9 r-,s, h. 81
'eu The stock in the Mechanics
aS National Bank, of Knoxville, be.
u longing to the estate of Thomas
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08
SCHOOL AND CHUnCA.

"A new secret society is to be formed
at Yale, rival to the Skull and Cross
bones and the Scroll and KEYS. 1t is
said that building for its use is to be
at once erected, Hartford Post.
Two well-known clergymen who
are brothers, Rev. Hugh o. Pentacost
and Rev. George F. Pcntecost, hap
pened to preach on recent SUNDAY in
different churches in Hartford. Conn.
The American Sunday-SchoolU Union
has recently received from the executors
OF the estate of the late Frederiek'AIar-
quand ST., 1872. Also alegacy of $1,000
from the late George Nugent William
E. Dodge bequeathed $4,000 to this
society. N. Y. Examiner. s-. p D .r
Christ Church, Philadelphia, in
which the Centennial Convention OF
Protestant Episcopalians is TO be held.
was the place of the first convention OF
that denomination in America. 1t was
built with brick from England. and
money raised in II lottery under the
management of Benjamin Franklin
chicago Times. 't3
According to Western school
teacher the habit of chewing cum is
productive of myopia among the pupils.
Beng forbidden to chew gum during
school hours, they seek to avoid dete..
ton in the Illicit enjoyment of the en-
during morsel by holding their books
close to their faces, thus bringing On
short-sightedness.
1t costs France So, 500. 900 to.sup-
port State church. EpiscopaIifa as
well as Roman Catholic clergymen are
paid by the State NJ. Paul Bert, in
view of this enormous expense, and in
view of the alarming influence of
which patriots complain, demands that
the Public Worship budget be abolished.
The Government, he says, should 'sever
the last link which connects Church
and State" NJ. Ferry does not seem
to think that it should. He appears to
be very DESTROYS of conciliating the
church and the Pope. -
The Reformed Dutch Church at
Spotswood, N. j., was knocked to
pieces by a sudden thundergust. First
the steeple toppled over on the roof,
which it cut in two at the ridge pole.
Then the walls fell apart, tumblino to
the ground in sucha conditioner wreck
that the remains are nothing better than
hlllulIIlS WOOu.. Inc cnurCn cost SS,-
900, and was considered as good as any
wooden sanctuary of similar style. The
members are possessed of considerable
means, and are able to rebuild. In q
few months they will have better
building than the one which was
wrecked Y, SIN.
The United Presbyterian Church
has relegated the organ question to in
diyidual churches. The committee APP
pointed by the recent General Assembly
on the subject has issued n majority
and minority address. The first argues
in favor of the constitutionality of the
adoption CT the overture upon music;
the other avoids arguing the question,
but reaches substantially the same re-
suit as the majority letter in urging
each church to accept the action of the
assembly as final, leaving each to de-
eide whether it will admit the organ or
not. This agreement practically makes
the organ local issue in the church,
N. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08
A Youthful Prodigy.

The Dispatch received a call vester-
day from a Mr.. H. B. Castle, the con-
tractor and builder, and his son Morris
Castle, bright little fellow of not quite
five summers. Perhaps it would be
better to say that it was call from the
son, accompanied by his father, etc,
who was in the city on business, for the
pretty tive-year-old chap was the real
visitor and will be the subject of the
following:
Little Morris Castle. aged not quite
live, Is a very remarkable child, as
children average. He has never been
to school day, nor has he ever been
taught at home, and yet he is better
| mathematician than two-thirds the
grown people year out of school. In
| formed of the nature of the visit. and
the pleasant little fellow perched in the
largest editorial chair in the office and
the editorial paste brush to play with
borrowed from the editors desk-the
Dispatch man asked Master Morris if he
could count a hundred.
Forwards or backwards?" asked
the boy, looking up quickly.
Either"
Morris chose the latter and ratified of
the numerals from 100 to | in better
time than his questioner could were he
to begin at one.
"Twice COZ" asked the Dispatch man.
and Morris answered so quickly that
his father volunteered to select problems
equal to the boys ability.
"How many feet in a mile?n asked
father
-, $780," replied he, without the least
''Twice 1902" was asked him.
I,5413," he replied almost before
the question had left the speakers lips.
Then followed questions and answers
involving both memory and calcula-
ton, and within a reasonable range not
problem puzzled the boy for an in
slant. He would look up with his
pretty blue eyes, move his lips slightly,
as if calculating to himself, and give
out the answer in business-like way
that was simply astonishing. He told
readily the number of feet in rod,
hours in day, days in the year, ounces
in q pound, twice 400, three times y
and four times 81. He repeated the
''threes' in the multiplication table and
could have gone on to the end for
aught the Dispatch man knows. Mr..
Castle said that no effort whatever had
been made to teach the child, and that
he had obtained his knowledge OF
mathematics by his own eXertions, and
up to within few months ago his par
ents knew nothing of his precocity.
The boy is not all given to figures, fol
when the Dispatch man asked "what
was the capital of Pennsylvania" he
instantly answered columbus, on the
SciotO." Then he recolected he was
not in Ohio, looked up with an intero-
CATION point expression and said, 81
guess it's Harrisburg" BY this time
the little fellow was well nigh tired out,
and the Dispatch man, satisfied that he
had entertained an embryo Artemus
Martin, helped him down out of the
chair, called down the speaking tube
for the Office man to give him picture
card and cordially asked his precocious
caller to come again.-Erie (Pa.) Dis.
pdtch
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08

when Mr.. Dollar reached the railway
station he had quilted barely twenty
four hours ago. What was his dismay
on being asked to show his ticket to
find it gone! Then he smiled grimlv
once more. He had thrown the half of
his return ticket into the fire, with the
thought it was not in accordance with
the fitness of things that a millionaire
should travel third-class.
So Rev. John Humphrey went back
to his school drudgery and his unbound
books, and the hale seXagenarian tool
to himself young wife. And at the
end of twelve months q son and heir
was born to the rich man, and the poor
mans dream of millions vanished for
ever.
But not without leaving trace be-
hind. When the patient quite recovered
his health, and learned down to the
minutest particulars what had taken
place, his heart smote him. He ought
not to have come back to life again /!
he was touched in vulnerable place. as
he adored wealth moreover. john
Humphrey Dollar was his kinsman,
and, though needy man, had never
come to him for farthing. The poor
fellow should no longer grind at school
work for two hundred a year
1t was, moreover, respectable thing
to have relation in the Church. He
presented Rev. Mr.. Dollar, therefore.
with living in an agreeable Midland
county.
Mr.. Dollar would never ride through
green lanes by the Lady Felicia's side.
But he married her all the same. He
did not pension off half-a-dozen of his
needy friends, but he supplied his old
college tutor with chicken and Madeira.
He did not become the possessor of a
superb library, but he sent all his books
to the binder,-M. Betbana- EdeGards, in
Longmaaa'S Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The Baptist Weekly SAYS: IF
church wants to secure a new pastor it
can scarcely take surer course to drive
off desirable men than by maligning the
pastor who has left them.
The Burlington Hawk-Eyc predicts
that by next season society will be so
artificial that the unrepresentable dam
sci will remain in her cottage and send
her photograph into the surf.
Mercy! exclaimed Mrs F., as
she caught sight of the camelcopard,
''just look at that BEAST what long
neckn' Yes" replied Fogg, ''the
most remarkable case of soar throat I
ever saw. "-B0St0N Post.
-Lvnchings are becoming so COM
mon in the West that housewives are
afraid to leave their clothes-line out
over night. In the morning they might
find it a mile away with man hanging
to the end.-Hroy ~ ~ Times.
Before the city directory man takes
a census of st. Louis, watermelons are
always sent there from Chicago to
double up the population. After that
an official count is made, showing how
unreliable st. Louis figures are. N o.
PcGyU11e.
In modern Egypt a young man is
not permitted to see his wite's face be-
fare marriage. The Boston girls are
using every effort to have this custom
introduced into this country. 1t is the
only way they can hope to compete with
the Western branch of the business
Lynn Bee.
The High School girl says that
modern seismologists incline to the
opinion that the phenomena of the
earthquake is vibratory motion, propa-
gated through the solid molecules of the
earth after the similitude of the trans
mission of sound through the atmos-
phere. We think so too City
Derrick.
When Virginia belle was once
surprised by her father in the parlor of
hotel at the White Sulphur Springs.
supporting upon her shoulder the head
of middle aged admirer. she at once
disarmed the impending rebuke by ex-
claiming: Surely, father, this is not
the first time you have seen an old head
on young shoulders. IN. Y GRAPHIC.
"A little girl and boy, who live in
Des Moines, Iowa, were discussing the
stars one evening recently. The little
boy argued that the stars were worlds
like ours, and he claimed that they are
peopled just like the earth. The little
girl, with all the disdain she could mus
ter, said: They are not! They are
angels eyes; cause l saw EN- Wink
-Golden Days. -.a..
"A Boston gentleman married
musical and literary lady who was very
charming, but who was wholly Ignorant
OF and indifferent to housekeeping He
was very proud of her and exceedingly
fond of displaying her talents to his
friends. One day his brother, blunt,
Eeen-eyed country man, paid him a
visit, Leading him into the sitting
room, which was dusty, dirty and dis
orderly, he requested his wife to play
and sing for them. Her husband list
ened with great delight to her per-
tormance, and, turning to his brother.
5ald; Your wife has no ear for music,
| believe!" "No, but She has an eve
tor dirt! was the gruff reply.-BoS!oa
transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08
A Short Financial Novel.

"Sir, " muttered the trembling cashier
as he confronted the president in the
private office of the latter. 'Sir, have
two confessions to make to you"
4" What are theyP" demanded the
president in his most dignified tone.
1.-The first is, l have robbed the bank
of $780, 900"
eve will give you an opportunity to
repeat that confession in open court, ="
was the freezing response. what is
the second?"
THAT love your daughter!'' replied
the stricken man.
"My dear boy!'' exclaimed the presi-
dent grasping him by the hand. INV
dear fellow, why did you not make that
confession first and the other last Take
her, my son, and we will see what we
can do about the money"
'Alas, sir! we can do nothing. I
have lost every dollar of it in specula-
TONI
''Then to jail, vile wretch!' roared
the honest president. II will summon
the police"'
And he did, and atyoung cashier lies
in quod, while his successor treats the
girl to church festival ice cream. and
the old man looks on with the hope that
he will improve on the folly of the youth
in the nolsome CELL Detroit Free Press.
If nutmeg is grated and mixed
with the ginger in hard gingerbread, a
piquant flavor is given to it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08
FRATERNITY.

Who holds the household one and all
As slaves 10 his despotic sway,
His every within Il mighty law
That no one dareS to disobey?
My baby brother.
Who often in nights Silly hour,
; About the lonely stroke of one,
Doth often raise his piercing voice
And sing to the delight of-none?
My baby brother.
Who roams alone adown the stairs
That bump and bang his precious noodle,
And tries at throwing somcrsaults
Before he has learned how to toddle?
My baby brother.
Who mauls my books and bric-a-brac,
And useth them for chewing-gum,
Then gggleth at my sore distress,
While duty* holds me sadly dumb?
My baby brother.
Who will be glad when baby's old
Enough to suffer discipline,
And feel as oft he used to feel
The smarting consequence of sin?
His elder brother!
e. r. Terry, in N. Y. Independent.
*The word duty" is here significant of tn
presence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-08
A DREAM OF MILLIONS.

*The word duty" is here significant of tn
maternal presence
National Republican., 1883-07-13
RepubIicnnism In Grent Britain.

There are many evidences of q growing
sentiment in England that royalty is very
expensive luxury. Especially has this been
brought to the mind of the British taxpayers
in the many and extravagant provisions made
for the children of the queen. The average
Englishman, proud as he has right and
ought to be of his country, its history, and its
institutions, would be glad to be rid of the
burdens which the pageantry of royalty en-
tails upon the country, if he could only see
way of escape without the loss of prestige.
The near approach made by Great Britain in
many particulars to republican government
without detrimcnt, and the growth and pros.
perity of the United States, have convinced
him that republics can be great, rich,
and prosperous; but the troublesome
question with him is whether or
not they are really gcnteel and
respectable. Convince him of this and
he is almost won over, barring tho innate
aversion that all Englishmen have to any
thing new or to making changes. For Queen
Victoria, as n ruler and as woman, we doubt
if any portion of her own subjects have
higher regard than tho people of this coun.
try. And for Great Britain, from whose pop.
ulation the larger part of our people are de-
scendcd, and from whom we have received
the basis of the organic laws upon which the
government of our country is founded, there
is general feeling of admiration and respect
Believing, however, that the theory of our
government is the one best suited to promote
not only governmental prosperity, but the
greatest happiness to the greatest number we
will hail any advances toward republcanisn
by that government with delight.
National Republican., 1883-07-13
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.

Mai Houston, transferred from Norfolk,
Va, has assumed command of the marine
corps.
The United States ship Vandaia has boon
released from quarantine, and has proceeded
to Norfolk
The United States ship Kearsarge and the
tug Catalpa were placed in the dry dock at
New York on Tuesday,
Sergt. Joseph j. Hittinger, troop @, LIST
cavalry, is ordered to return to Fort Bayard,
N. NJ, with permission to delay ton days en-
route.
The superintendent general recruiting SER
vice will cause twenty colored recruits TO be
prepared and forwarded under proper charge
to Fort Smelling, Minnesota, for assignment
to the 25th infantry.
Tho Navy department Is informed that the
tug Triana left New York for Newport ON
Wednesday TO tow the tug Cohasset to New
York for repairs. She took large quantity
of stores for the training squadron, and a
draft of twenty-five men for the United States
ship Portsmouth.
Second Lieut.. Edward Lloyd, 18th infantry
now on leave of absence in this city, will re-
port in person to the superintendent general
recruiting service, New York city. TO conduct
detachment of recruits to Fort Smelling
Minnesota. On the completion of this duty
he will join his company.
National Republican., 1883-07-13
The English sparrow.

The legislature of Pennsylvania has passed
a law authorizing the destruction of the eggs
nests, and young of the English sparrow dur
ing the breeding season. Tho farmers and
gardeners of that state will choerfully and
most willingly undertake tho execution Of
the law. The job of exterminating these
little pests will not be found by any means
an easy one. Ancient authority informs us
that before tho era of states and blackboards
men developed the Mathematical instinct by
multiplying upon the face of the Garth. The
mode is popular even to this day. But the
English sparrow as champion multi
plicr is unequaled. The female
lays from six to twelve eggs several times
year. She always builds her nest wisely, and
rarely fails to hatch out all of tho eggs. The
young ones from the moment they leave the
shell are confident and self protecting You
need not rely upon heavy rains or high winds
to destroy them. They seem impervious to all
the laws of nature which destroy the young
of other bird. These young ones only re-
quire fow months to arrive Mt the age when
they too commence multiplying, and it not
unfrequently happens that n member of q
particular brood deposits her eggs in the nest
from which she has but lately emerged
and there matches a second generation. The
English sparrow is small bird, but he is
thoroughly game and always has an eye to
business. His idea is to whip all other birds
out of existence in what he claims as his
domain, and to multiply his species so rapidly
that there will be absolutely no room for any
rivals. You have two or three of these little
fellows TO take shelter under your caves, or
in the vines of your back yard and thinking
what destroyer ofworms they arc, you rather
congratulate yourself on theacquistion. Fatal
delusion Instead of eating the worms which
destroy your flowers, he eats the flowers and
all of the falling seeds. You now begin to
discover what sort of bird he is. Reason
ing poSteriori you discover that you
have acquired dangerous ncighbor. While
you are pondering on your mistaken ideas OF
his worth he is busy in increasing his num-
bers to such an extent that soon your premi-
ses become pandemonium of sparrow music.
Eventually land not very long at that you
will be forced to admit that the English
sparrow is the champion lightning multi
plier of the world, and that as nuisance he
has no equal in the heavens above, the
earth beneath or in the waters under the
earth"
National Republican., 1883-07-13
BRANCH OFFICES.

The following IS n list Of the branch Offices In
Washington. Others will be added hereafter
VS.. RoosEs News stands at the ARLINGTON
ItoTu. WuLARDs HOTEL. and METROPOLITAN
HoTE1.
RoosE & QUEENS News stand, NATIONAL hoTEh
p.F. QUEEN, ST. JAMES HOTEL
RIGGS HOUSE News stand.
ErrlTr House. News Stand.
AMERICAN HOUSE News stand.
W.S. THoMPsoN's Drug Store
CHI. TICKlISo's Drug Store, Georgetown
!BRADLEY ADAMss Book Stores
CIR DuFouR, Druggist, 1918 Fourteenth street.
Il. Il. FERGUSON, Druggist. corner Second and
Pennsylvania avenue S. L.
sE LEWIS, Druggist, corner Fourteenth and T
streets.
&C. c. srNys. Druggist, corner Fourteenth and
New York avenue.
VIZ. SCALA. Druggist, 800 Fast Capitol street.
II. A JOHNSTON, druggist, corner Tenth aud
streets northwest
s. sLArERs Cigar Store. corner and First
streets northwest.