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TENNESsEE'S DEBT.

Chancellor Merritt on the 10th refus-
ed to grant the injunction asked for by
]. II. Wright and others, to restrain the
funding board of Tennessee from carry
ing out the provisions OF the act passed
At the last session of the legislature to
settle the State debt at so 3, except in
so far as it applies to the State debt
proper. The gravamen of the bill filed
by the plaintiffs was that, first, the
bonds issued under the internal ina
provement act of 1852 are void; void be-
cause the act of 1852 is unconstitutional,
and because certain perquisitos made
condition precedent under the act of
1852 were not observed; and, second,
that the act Of 1888 is unconstitutional
ane void. Chancellor Merritt in his de-
cision said:
1T seems to me to be obvious that
the act of 1852 being valid, the non-ob-
servance of the conditions alleged TO be
conditions precedent to the issuance of
the bonds was a defense available emily
~ the State, and that it was clearly
within the power of the State to waive
the irregularities complained of in the
whole or in part, and compromise the
debt. If the general assembly can issue
bonds without conditions precedent it
would seem to me that the legislature
could waive the conditions at any time
if not complied with. This was done
by the act of 1888. am of the opin-
ion that the fact that there were irreg-
ulariues in The issuance of the bonds on
the part of the agents of the State after
the bonds had gone into the market and
passed in the hands of innoc mt hold
ers. / am of Opiaion that the same le-
gal obligation was on the State to pay
the bends under the act OF 1852. as to
pay the State debt proper bonds" For
these reasons the application for injunc-
tion is refunded.
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lries of Virginia's statehood there has
has sprung from the loins of her heroic
race a SON whose name and deeds will
bloom throughout the ages. Both
fought fol. liberty and independence.
George Washington won against 3
kingdom whose seat was three thou
! sand miles away, whose soldiers had to
sail in ships across the deep, and he
found in the boundless area of his own
land its strongest Notifications. Au-
gust, beyond the reach of detraction,
is the glory of his name. Robert Ed
ward Lee made fiercer and bloodier
| fight against greater odds, and at
greater sacrifice, and lost, against the
greatest nation of modern history,
armed with steam and electricity and
all the appliances of modern science
a nation which mustered its hosts at
the very threshold of his door. But
his life teaches the grandest lesson
how manhood can rise transcendent
over adversely, and is in itself alone,
under God; pre-eminent-the grander,
lesson because as sorrow and misfor-
fortune are sooner or later the common
lot, even that of him who is the con-
queror, he who bears them best is
made of the sternest stuff, and is the
most useful and universal, as he is the
greatest and noblest. exemplar
{ Aud now he has vanished from us
forever. And is this all that is left of
him-this handful of dust beneath the
marble stone?
No. the ages answer as they rise
from the CULTS of time where lay the
wrecks of kingdoms and estates, hold
ing up in .heir hands as their only
trophies the names of those who have
wrought for man the love and fear of
God, and in love unfearing for their
fellow-men.
No! the preseat answers, bending
by his tomb.
No! the future answers, as the
breath of the morning fans its radiant
brow, and its soul drinks in sweet in
SEPARATIONS from the lovely life of Lee.
No! methinks the very heavens echo
as melt into their depths the words of |
reverent love tina: voice the hearts of
men to the tingling stars.
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THE WRONG MAN TAKRNLN.


A TENNESSEE PREACHERS EXPERIENCE
WITH NEW YORK BANCo swINDLERs.
James Ammons, an itinerant Baptist
preacher from the mountains of East
Tennessee, visited New York for the
first time last week. He was in the
clutches of the bance steerers, but es-
capped without loss, as his story, told to
a reporter, will show. He said called
upon a friend at the Metropolitan Hotel
At 10 o'clock as / was about to go to
my hetel stepped few moments in
Broadway watching the passers by A
well dressed young man came up to me
and asked if l knew what time some
theatre would let out Il forget the name
of the theatre.J / told him no-that
was stranger to New York. He said
that he was a stranger also, and was
stopping at the Metropolitan; that his
sister was with him and had gone to the
theatre with a cousin. They were from
New Orleans. He asked my name, gave
me his, which he said was McEnery,
and insisted that / should come and
take breakfast with HIM next morning;
that his sister would be delighted to
meet Southern gentleman, etc. Just
then another "nobby" looking young
man came up, to when I was intro
duced. He told McEnery that he had
splendid luck; that his ticket had drawn
prize of $500, and wished to get it
cashed. / was invited to accompany
the young men up town ga little way"
and did so on the promise of a bottle of
wine, etc. paid for a bottle myself
before we started-also for the cigars.
We went as far as Twenty-ninth street,
when we all three went in a high stoep-
ed house where some bald headed per-
son stood behind a desk counting q
large roll of bills, 'Ah, he said, "Mr.
Jones, yeur ticket was aelucky one.
Here's your money He then handed
the fellow a roll of bills which he seem
ed to pocket Jones went to the mid
die of the room and pulling cloth of
a table wanted to know of McEnery if
he'd play a little. They played and
tried to entice me to do 50. declined
The ostensible proprietor of the place
played. Ny new friend lest all. They
appealed to me TO come to their relief.
As never gambled I declined anew.
/ started for the daor, having smelled
a rat. The door was locked. de-
manded that they let me out They
swore / should not leave the place un-
less played game or came TO the re-
lief of my companions. 4 was q little
scared. but as / had been in the war /
did not betray il. / took seven-shoot-
er out Of my pocket and gave fair warn
ing that | was prepared TO deferd my
self and asked for the key. The cow
ards finched. The door WAS opened
and thanked God / was out of that
hole.
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TTLDER AS A CANDIDATE.

HE WILL OBEY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
The N. Y. Times of the 18th prints a
very important interview with an
intimate friend of Ex-Governor Tilden,
which possesses more than ordinary
interest just now. The views express
ed are assumed by the Times TO be these
of Mr. Tilden himself, and they bear
out the assumption very strikingly.
The gentleman interviewed saw Mr..
Tilden yesterday, and is advised as te
the latter's views and purposes regard
ing his denomination fer the Presidency.
He told the Times correspondent: "I am
willing to answer your questions on my
own responsibility, and will endeavor
to correctly reflect Mr.. Tilden's views
as gathered from recent prolonged in
tervieTs with him, but with the under
standing always that I am not his
mouth-piece and do not pretend to re-
peat his language. To the ordinary
method of newspaper interviews be-
lieve Mr.. Tilden's lips are sealed, es-
Pecially upon topics personal to him
self" Continuing, he said, 81 am sat-
isfied that he views his public career as
a matter 50 absolutely in the control of
the public decision that he will tacitly
abide the event of a denomination. In
regard to the idea of an excessive strain
upon his physical condition, he has been
fully prepared for any contingency of
this kind, not merely by his rapid restor-
atien to health and vigor, but by his
changed relations to such a campaign
should it occur. At one time aot long
since even his immediate followers
abandoned the idea of his further lead
ership and went to seek their fortunes
in other directions. Many of them are
now somewhat alarmed at the prospect
of his nomination, as they have set up
for themselves or Joined adverse inter-
ests. But that Mr.. Tilden will respond
in the affirmative to a proper demand
by the party and the people there is not
particle of doubt. 1t is also his posi-
tive conviction that the time, the OPP
portunity and the necessity for his iden-
tity with g movement for a renomina-
tion of the ticket which was elected by
the people, but denied by their tribunes
in 1876. is now at hand. The recent
course of Mr.. Hendricks has, perhaps,
given this idea more positive vitality
than it seemed to have a few months
ago. The refusal of Hendricks to rec
ognize the historical justice, as well as
the popular expediency of renomina-
ton of tlre "old ticket" by the last
Democratic Convention, caused the
nomination of Hancock and begat the
failure of that experiment. This last
remark you will please take as an ex-
preston OF my own opinion"
The reporter here asked; "Is it, then,
the Willingness of Mr.. Hendricks. as
recently indicated, to run on the old
ticket that has changed Mr.. Tiiden's
Views?"
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COUNTRY ROADS.

Country roads have not kept pace
with national development in other re-
spects, and the day is not distant when
the subject must be taken up in earnest
aud a system inaagurated by which
what is expended upoa them one year
is not entirely dissipated before the next
year comes around. The question has
been left mainly to the farmers, and
their slowness is proverbial, but many
Of them begin to see their mistake and
are ripe for better system. And it
will come before many years,
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ia LOST coEoNY.l z

There are some strange, unsolveC
problems in existence, and among 9th
ers the disappearance of whole col
ony 500 years ago, the people o.
which have never been heard of since
or their descendants. This strange
Disappearance. will will probably have
light thrown upon it by the time an.
other summer comes round. In thu
year 9S6 Eric the Red took a colouy tC
Greenland, then a fruitful country,
which settled by a creek at Brataliild.
on the eastern shore of Baffin's Bay.
The colonists became Christians; the
settlement was prosperous and fol
lowed by others, the country occupied
being divided into two districts, which
at one time contained $50 farms, three
towns, cathedral, fifteen churches
and four monasteries. The first bishop
was ordained in 1911, 1.-The last in 1404 ;
in l409 the bishop is known to have
officiated at marriage. Sineethen no
more has been heard of the colony.
Bishop, people, farms, towns and
churches have been gradually but
surely invaded by the slow but steadi-
ly advancing glaciers, and either de-
stroyed or hemmed in. Capt. Grach,
in 1929, made carefal Investigation,
but could discover no traces Of the
people. On The west coast are ruins,
implements OF wood and church bells
have been found, also large stone,
with an inscription relating to the
clearing of the ground by Bjarni
Thordasson and Eindred Oddssen; and
an inscription upon woman's trunk,
"Niagis resteth here; God made glad
her soul" What became of this in
dustrious and well-doing people?
Some have fancied they were carried
of by the plague, bat the evidence is
against that theory. Others believed
they had fallen the prey OF the Morse
pirates, bat they were too remote and
not rich enough for those men. No
mere Esquimaux could attempt 70 at.
tack them, of course. The more prob
able snpposition is that more desirable
lands and milder climate were dis
covered in the interior, and thither
they removed. Then, in course of
years, the ice barriers covered all the
coast range, shutting the people in
among their farms and towns. Are
their descendants still dwelling in
those RESPONSIVENESS penetrated for
800 years-to-day Speaking there
their old Runic tongue, now dead
wearing garments of the
old fashion, and ignorant of all that
research and science have discovered.
The great traveller Nordenskjold, who
has sailed around the pole, has gone
this summer to search this mysterious
Iand. He expects TO penetrate the
boundary glaciers, to get beyond those
hills and precipices of ice, and to reach
The green and comparatively mild in
.erior. Will he find the descendants
Of Eric's colonists there, pursuing the
Did ways of their fathers amid their
fields and their herds? When Nor
lenskjold emerges from the ice, and
.idings of him reach Europe, how we
shall long to know whether he has in
Iced found the descendants of the
tenth century colony of Eric the Red.
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PERSONAL We arc glad to see our
old friend Major Scott on the streets
again. He has been suffering for a
long time with Dyspepsia and Indiges-
tion, but is now entirely cured He
was cured by taking the justly famous
''Seven Springs Iron and Alum Mass. !"
manufactured only by Landrum Z Litch-
fied, Abingdon, Va, and for sale by
all Druggists al 90 cents and 81 per bot
tie This is simply the salts Of min
eral waters and is no humbug. Try il.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-25

Colored stockings have given so much
discomfort to ladies and children by
''crockiug, aud are so apt to wash bad
ly that they are being given up BY
many. and ecru Balbriegans are used
instead.
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And he, its type, lived aAd died,
teaching life's greatest lessons, 'sto
suffer and be strong" asd that "mis-
fortune nobly borne is good FORUM :"
There is rare exotic that blooms
but once in century, aud then it fills
the light with beauty and the air with
fragrance. In each of the two centu-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-25
Neac advertisements.
KNOXVILLE
Fire Insurance Company.
Office East Tennessee National Bank.
Capital Stock$100.0 900.
OFFICER.

OFFICERS=
D. A. CARPENTER, PRESIDENT.
F. FL. MCCLUNG, VIcE-PREsIDENT.
w. II. SIMMONDS,
SEC & TREAS
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DIRECTION
JOSEPH JAQUES, g. NJ. MoGHEE,
A. CALDWELL, F. W. TAYLOR, SR.,
e. J. SANFORD, O, e. LUOKEY,
s. b. LUTTRELL r. O. JACKSON,
w. w. WOODRUFF, f. Il. MoCLUNG,
FINANCE COMMITTEE:
JOSEPH JAQUEs, E. ]. SANFORD
O. NJ. MoGHEE, O. e. LUCKE1
STOCKHOLDERS:
G. NJ. McGhee, F.H. McClung
Joseph Jaques, ID. Carpenter
e. ] Sanford W W. Woodruff
Joseph H Earnest, A. Caldwell,
A. j. Albers, "a. L. Ross,
A. J. Mountcastle, #. W. Taylor,S Sr
w A. Anderson, ". Fulkerson,
8. T. Logan, G. W. Palmer,
r. G. Jackson s. B. Luttrel,
W. p. Chamberlain nj. j. Condor,
D. T Boynton, Chas. ii. Brown,
j. Y. Johnston, Hugh Martin,
James L. Gaines, @. E. Luckey,
T. s. Webb Is. Z. Earnest,
w. P. Washburn, X. I. wilson,
John e. Chapman, Thos. O'Conner,
Jos r. McTeer Jno. G.. Earnest,
r. G. Powell, N. Bogart,
g. Saltmarsh R. NJ. Rhea,
Thos. L. williams, j.. W Lilliard,
j, B. Hoxsie, ID. +. Ross.
aug IA 78-1y
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Make HENS LAY

.a Gso 3 5oss.6s 6ss O. Bs. BS.ad. s.
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An Enriish Veterinary surrecn and CHEMIST
ula trlgtlIur m L1ls cuuutry. tayt tn4t laoai
81 lrr iirrar and Caffie fuN1ffs sod here
are Founiess trash. Ne savs nat snert1An :
Culd Llcn fuWders are ahtolutcly rlre and
lmufuEelF Naluatll- Aolhinr on EARN vii q
81 b piui flc1- bold every O. neut ,.
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eAhl realm Of tombs. But let it bear
This blazon to the last Of times;
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-01

Two little girls of Mr.. Baker, living
west of us, were killed, and Mrs. b.
badly injured. These are all the
deaths we have heard of yet, although
many others were more or less injur-
ed. 1t is said house standing on the
banks of Grand river was blown
down and big cast iron stove blown
across the river and smashed to pieces.
A flock of 60 sheep are also said
to have been carried entirely away.
Thousands of people have been to see
us and look at the wreck, which is
fearful to behold, since Monday.
We had narrow escape, as the cy-
clone seems to have been the strongest
near here.
The terrible, terrible awfulness-
the inky blackness, the roaring, tear
ing, raging and crashing destruction
of a cyclone can neither be imagined
or described to see one is the only
way to know what they are, and we
never wish to see another.
You do not know how thankful we
are that we escaped but are sad to
think that where we have escaped
with life and property, Others have
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then you can finish with pecans,
raisins, walnuts, almonds, figs, oranges,
and apples, and for beverage there is
tea or coffee. The time for dinner
is from ~ till two p. NJ.
You can now bid dc Glance to hun
ger for few more hours, but when
six o'clock comes you find it is neces,
sary to pay a third visit to the stew
ards dominions, and the supper bill
OF fare indicates that you will be
able to again conquer the hungry
feeling and feel at peace with man
kind. You can have broiled fish,
beefstake, ham, or bacon, and if these
don't suit, there is fried pigs feet,
aesthetic mush, and still more aesthetic
fried tripe. Potatoes are served eth
err baked or stewed. Cold meats are
well represented, and the ocean con-
tributes Holsters, mackerel and sal
mon. Then there are hot rolls, tea
biscuits, dry toast, milk toast, butter
toast, plain bread, brown bread, gra-
ham bread, assorted cake, sauce and
various kinds Of pickles, also tea and
coffee. Supper is served from six to
eight o'clock p. NJ.
To use common expression, we
have served our readers with three
square meals" but our serving will
only feed the mental appetites of the
readers and help to feast their curiosity,
but if there is wistful desire to
crafty the physical appetite, they
can take trip on the steamer City
of Cleveland, and we are under the
impression that their physical appe-
tite will have agreeable Qualification
provided of course that they are not
without a supply of half dollars.
Mankind in general delight in be-
ing hungry if they are only sure of
being able to demolish it with well
cooked and sumptuous repast, and
the memory of magnificent dinner,
EMBEDDED on the ruins sof an hungry
appetite, is not soon dispelled from
the mind.
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The Western Unions Watered Stock.

Since its establishment the company
(the Western Union) has issued, for
the purchase of the Pacific Telegraph
Company's franchises, stock to the
amount of 81 ,279, 260 for the Unit.
ed States Company, 81 ,216.S00; for
the American Company, 81 1893, 100 ;
for the American Union Company
S15,000,000; for the Atlantic & Paci-
fc, So, 400, 900, and in its recent trans
actions, for which the courts are try
ing to call it to account, $4,000, 900.
OF these S5S, 100000, more or less,
not more than $12,000,000 represent
ed actual investment, and it is proba-
bic that of its present sS0,000,000 of
nominal capital fully two-thirds, and
and certainly more than one-half,
represents nothing but water. BY the
construction most favorable to the
company, the granting of all the de-
mands of its employees would not re-
duce its capacity, without advancing
rates, to divide at least ten per cent.
upon every dollar actually invested.
Probably fifteen per cent. would be
much nearer the true figures. That
a company thus managed should in
fict incalculable injury on the bust
ness of the country in order to keep
its employees in absolute servitude to
its arbitrary dictation is simply mons
trous, and the unchecked preparation
of such an outrage is a serious stain
upon the justice of the government
under which we live.-New York
Sun.
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A Railroad Operators Chances.

A first class operator OH the Grand
Trunk railway made the following
statement to the Detroit Free Press,
as to the prospects of an operator on
that line:
A man begins as night operator
and works twelve hours a night to be
on hand at call. If he is called two
minutes he is reprimanded, and if he
is called FIVE minutes he goes before
the Superintendent This he does for
three or four years at from $50 to
$3.50 per month.
Then, if he is a good operator, he
is promoted to day work at S1.15 per
day, and out of this are seventy-fve
cents approximation fee and thirty
eight and half cents insurance fee
deducted. After doing this two or
three or four years he is promoted to
taking his choice between a better
day situation or an agency at the
same salary. They generally take
the agency-which is usually some
small town-where they work every
day in the year at S1.15 per day with
the fees named deducted. After eight
or ten years an operator, if he is
good one, gets station with salaries
of from sl5 to $50 per month and
supplies-coal oil, matches, a broom
and fuel. The operator mentioned
the stations of Forrest, Thedford,
Park Hill, Lucan, Craigs, etc, where
men who have served from eight to
twelve years are working for the S45
or $50 (and supplies salaries.
"On the other hand" he continued,
IF you 60 into the train dispatcher's
office you work from three to six years
as third hour man working from ~
midnight to SAM on $50 per month,
and responsible for all trains and dis
charge is certain in case of acct
dent, and prosecution for manslaugh-
ter liable. Then you get to be Sec
ond hour man working from A to II
p. NJ and after working there from
four to six years, you may, il you are
lucky, get to be a chief"
"How do the Grand Trunk opera.
tors feel in relation to the striker"
ave are all in sympathy, and ready
TO 20 out on an hours notice from the
brotherhood"
Twill you go out?"
"Assuredly we will, if called upon
to do So"
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Ritter Bread.

Complaint is frequently made by
those who use baking powders that
they leave in bread, biscuit, or cake
raised by them disagreeable, bitter
taste. This taste follows the use of
all impure baking powders, and is
caused either by their containing alum
introduced to make a cheap article),
by the impure and adulterated char
acter of other ingredients used, or
from the ignorance of their manufact-
urers of the proper methods of COM
bining them. These baking powders
leave in the bread a residuum formed
of lime, earth, alum, or ether deleteri-
Gus matters, not always, though fire.
quently, tastable in the food, and by
all physicians classed as injurious to
health. The Royal Baking Powder
is free from this serious defect. In
its use no residuum is left, and the
loaf raised by it is always sweet, light
and wholesome, and noticeably free
from the peculiar taste complained Of.
The reason of. this is because it is
composed of nothing but absolutely
pure materials, scientifically combin-
ed in exactly the proper proportions
of acid and alkali to act upon and
destroy each other, while producing
the largest amount of raising power.
We are justified in this assertion from
the unqualified statements made by
the Government chemists, who after
thorough and exhaustive tests re-
commended the Royal for Govern
mental use because of its superiority
over all others in purity, strength and
wholesomeness. There is no danger
of bitter bread or biscuit where it
alone is used.