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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
HOW THUNDER $40 WERS COME
Up

OF.
In order to convey more definite
idea of our theory we will choose
certain locality which may serve
the purpose of a diagram to our
demonstration, and this locality
shall be the region of West river.
This river takes its rise among the
forests near the summit of the Green
mountains, at a height of some p
900 feet above the leyel of the sea,
and, flowing southerly forty or fifty
miles, empties into the Connecticut
river about two miles north from
the southern boundary of the State.
During a hot summer day the
sides of the deep valley of this river
reek with intense heat, and cause a
few of moist air upward toward the
summit of the mountain region
from the valley of the Connecticut,
and also from the sea. This moist
air, meeting with the general cur
rent from the southwest, piles up
an immense mass of cumulous cloud
of many square miles in extent. So
long as the intense heat prevails
this cloud increases in size, grows
blacker with its dense vapor, and
casts a gloomy, lurid glare over the
face of nature, darker than that of
any eclipse. The vapor, pushed by
the ascending currents of heated air,
attains great height above tho sea,
where the temperature is very low.
But finally, at that hour of the after
noon when the heat begins to de-
cline, the accumulated vapors, no
longer augmented or sustained by
heated air from the valleys below,
inrain.-PopuIar Science Month
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
DEVLNE JUDGEMENT FOR SAB
BATH BREA KING

To the end ofthe sixteen century,
in England, Goods judgements
were much in vogue. A Suffolk
clergyman, named Bownd, adduces
many such judgements. One was
the case of a nobleman "who, for
hunting on the holy day, was pun
ished by having child with head
like dogs" Though he cites this
instance, Bownd, in the matter of
Sabbath observance, was very
lenient toward nobleman. With
courtisr-like plancy, which is not
without its counterpart at the pres
ent time, he makes an exception in
their favor: Concerning the feasts
of noblemen and great personages
or their diet upon this day, because
they represent in some measure the
majesty of God on earth, in carry
ing the image, as it were, of the
magnifcence and puiscance of the
Lord, much is to be granted them"
The civil war was regarded as
punishment for Sundny desecration.
The fire of London and a subse
quent great fire in Edinburg were
aseribed TO this cause, while the
fishermen of Berwick lost their
trrde through catching salmon on
Sunday. a daunkenpeddler "fraught
with commodities" on Sunday, drops
into river One Utrich Schretorus,
a Swiss, while playing at diceon the
Lords day, lost heavily, and appar-
entity to gain the devil to his side
broke out into this horrid bias
phemy "1f fortune deceives me
now / will thrust my dagger into
the body of God" Whereupon he
threw the dagger upward. 1t dis
appeared, and five drops of blood,
which afterward proved indeIible,
fell upon the gaming-table. The
devil then appeard, and, with a
hideour noise, carried off the vile
bIasphemer. His two companions
Jared no better. One was struck
dead and turned into worms, the
other was executed. Popular SCI
ence Monthly.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16

Steps are being taken in New
York for the relief of Mrs Meikle-
ham, the last surviving granddaugh-
ter of Thomas Jefferson, who is said
to be living at present in absolute
need in Georgetown, ID. C. Mrs.
Meikleham is the daughter of Mar
tha Jefferson Randolph, Mr.. Jefier-
sons favorite daughter, and was his
attendant during his last illness. A
bin was introduced in the last Con-
gress for the relief Of Mrs. Moikle-
ham, but it was not acted on.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
AN Old BIT OF HISTORY,


Fifty nine years ago Mr.. Jacob
Augustine, the spruce young son of
one of the pioneers of Ohio, reached
bis 21st year, and his good mother
gave him q roll Of home made wool
en- cloth, spun by her own hands
and woven by q neighbor, where
with to have q wedding suit made.
The happy day was set, but the ex-
pectant bride was taken Ill and be-
came demented. Mr.. Augustine
laid his wedding suit away, and no
one saw IL again until a few weeks
ago Mr.. Augustine had died, and
his executor, looking for his will,
found laid away in the bottom Of q
well-filled chest the wedding suit,
carefully folded and wrapped IN q
sheet. Within il was the will, and
in the left sleeve of the coat (thus
accurate and careful in details Is the
local chroniclor9 was found s625 in
n.5.t -stIttt tfiI,ss s.a+
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
g THE WORLD OWES ME A LIZ
ING"
MISTAKEN IDEA WHICH FREQUENT
IYTEADS THE yOTrTu To raTrrpr

A MISTAKEN IDEA WHICH FREQUENT.
| LY LEADS THE YOUTH TO FAILURE.
Charles Barnard, in "a Fable fol
Boys" which appears in st. Nicho-
las for May, says: AS soon as a boy
leaves school and looks around to
see what he shall do next, he is
very likely to be told by some un-
wise person: "The world owes you
a living" This probably strikes
him as being very wise remark,
and the boy says to himself: eff it
is true that the world owes me q
living, then I'm all right" He
finds a place, and goes to work
manfully; but after a time he con-
cludes that there is no fun in it, and
he stops to consider: "If the world
owes me living, why should I
trouble myself? Let the world pay
its debt to me-" Suddenly he loses
his place and has nothing to do. He
is surprised, and wonders why the
world does not give him his due.
GA nice bed, warm clothes, and reg
ular dinners, are good things and
ought to have them. The world
owes them to me, and if [ do not
get them I've been cheated out of
my rights. +"
AT one time this country was a
wilderness, where no man could
live, save by fighting the wild
beasts. Some one chased away the
bears and wolves, and cut down the
forests, laid out roads, built towns,
and dug canals. Somebody spent
vast sums of money in constructing
railroads, steamboats,, docks, light
houses, schools, libraries, and all the
fine things you enjoy SO freely.
More than this, somebody pays the
policeman, the fireman, the soldier,
the sailor, the lighthouse keeper,
schoolmaster.
From the day you were born
your father and mother have fed,
clothed, and sheltered you. 1t has
cost you nothing. None Of these
great public works, roads, canals,
towns, navies, and armies Cost you
anything. How can you say the
world owes you living? Is it not
you who are in debt? What has a
boy done to deserve all this? Not
a thing. 1t is you who must pay
not the world.
All boys, he was foolish crea-
ture who first said: "The world
owes me living" He told very
silly fable. The world owes no man
a living till he has done some wor-
thy deed, some good work to make
the world better and fairer place
to live in. Those old fellows who
dug canals and laid out towns, who
built cities and invented all these
splendid things these telegraphs,
these ships, these magnificent en-
gines-had the right idea. They
worked manfully, and the world at
last did owe them living, and paid
1t many times over. If you mean
to get out of the great debt you owe
the world, do something-go to
work and show you are man.
Then, when you have shown the
world you can work, it will gladly
pay you living, and the finer and
more noble your work the greater
will be your reward.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16

3 A recent dispatch from Austin,
Texas, says there is considerable ap-
prehension on the lower RIO Grande
regarding the yellow fever. Gov.
ireland received telegram from
the chamber of commerce of Mate
moras, Mexico, advising that should
quarantine be necessary this season,
that the station be established at
Bagdad instead of Brownsville. The
governor directed the health officer
at Brownsville to consult with the
Mexican authorities on the subject.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
A QUEER SORT OF YARN.
GEORGE WASHINGTON ALLEGED TO
HAVE BEEN S161 900 SHORT IN
HTS ACr0TTNTC


Washington Dispatch to the Boston Globe.
According to the books of the
Treasury Department, Gen. George
Washington, the father of his coun-
try, is indebted to the country in
the sum of $161 ,00O Mr.. Vale,
chief of the collections division in
the Office of Third Auditor Height
ly, recently had occasion to rum
mage among some old books in the
top story of the Treasury Depart
ment. While doing SO the records
of the pay Office of the Continental
establishment from 1774 to 1892
were unearthed and in them the in
debtedness of Washington to the
government was found. These cid
books are in a wonderful state of
preservation and they are properly
regarded as one of the greatest curl
osities in the Treasury Department.
General Washington's accounts
with the pay department are found
in four separate entries, in two vol
umes Of the journals. The money
charged to him, and for which cred
its are given, was on account of his
disbursements in the war for indie
pendence. AS before stated, the
books show that he received $161,-
339 more than is accounted for, ex-
elusive of a large balance due the
government on General Washing
tons specie account. 1t is impossi-
bic now to tell what was the cause
of the apparent deficit in the regu-
lar pay account, but the deficit in
the specie account is believed to
have been due to the depreciation in
the value of the colonial com.
The name of Colonel Benedict
Arnold appears on the record near
that of Washington. A balance of
81 ,831.67 appears by the books to
be due the government from Ar
mold. An index accompanies the
journals, and on this index, opposite
Arnold's name, is written, in a
steady hand, the word "traitor."
Aaron Burr also had an account |
with the pay department, and his
receipts and expenditures balance
to penny. Colonel Ethan Aliens
accounts, upon examination, are
found to be correct, but the Mar
quis de Lafayette was not SO fortu-
nate. There appears to be bal
anee due from him of $2,020.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16

One Of the most extensive bands
of horse thieves in the West has
just been broken up by the convic-
ton of several of its leaders at La
fayette, Ind. It is estimated that
during the past six years the thieves
stole horses valued in the aggregate
at $500, ,000 Ex- Congressman Ste
phen o. Taylor, now sheriff, is cred
tied with breaking up the band. A
number of so called respectable citi-
zens are said to have been in collu-
sion with the thieves.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16

Long -looped ribbons of satin and
velvet are worn with white dresses
in cordinal, gold colored, strawber-
ry-pink, raspberr-red, pale-greenish
gold tints of lune and dark-red
brown. Ox-blood red, SO called
from the dark reds seen in Chinese
porcelains, is the favorite color for
the wide satin sashes of white null
dresses. Sashes of yellow satin and
and Ottoman. ribbon will be also
quiet popular.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16

Woman's writes-Her perennial
N. B. and p. S.
Z Ladies, piece of adviee--never
send your letters by male.
la One of the best living sculpto;s
cannot carve turkey.
What's in a name? Well, if its
a Russian name, we should answer,
the alphabet.
The Germans, when they want
to say that man is great liar,
say he lies like printing.
A man who mrrries a girl for her
good looks sometimes discovers that
"a thing of beauty is jaw forever" !"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16

FASHION NOTES.


Embroidered ginghams in plain
colors have fan and parasol to match
The new sash ribbons are border.
ed with designs of tiny Kate Green.
away figures. s,r
Large sailor collars of linen for
children are finished with Cluny
fiace two inches wide.
/ Valenciennes lace will be the
favorite trimming for thin white
dresses this summer.
Sleeveless jackets composed en-
tirely of rickrack, will form part of
the costume finished with that trim
ming.
The fashionable wrapper is the
Mother Hubbard of figured satteen.
1t presents very tasteful and
Piquant appearance
Shaded pompons will be fashion
able all summer for the crescent
hat.
Black Spanish polka dotted lace
is to be popular for trimming black
grenadine dresses.
Sunshades are very large. They
have deep lace borders and large
handles adorned with ribboned with
ribbon loops.
The new artillery jacket is made
long and round and is handsomely
trimmed with braik and brande-
bourgs
Tunique aprons are no longer
drawn tightly across the front, but
are made very full to allow for much
draping.
The new jerseys are literally
covered with tiny cut beads, knitted
into silken loops so as to show the
surface.
The most fashionable TRAVELLING
dresses are braided and como in all
the new dark shades. They are
simple, but elegant.
Black lace saques, so fashionable
some years ago, are to be worn
worn again this year over white
dresses and those oflight silks.
The latest fashion for capes is to
have the shoulder-p pieces gathered
to form kind of raised epaulet. The
ends in front are pointed.
Hats and bonnets of pure white
are not to be worn at all this sum-
mer. The nearest approach to these
are the cream yellow hat wreathed
with dropping white feathers.
An exquisite jabot consisting of q
fullness Of cream surah, with
small, blue flower. 1t is edged
with ruffie of lace, and is orna-
mented at top and bettom with
loop bows of blue satin ribon.
Silk Isle thread and cause Isle
gloves for warm weather are shown
in the sued gantlet or jersey shapes.
They are as long as those worn dur
ing the winter, and for evening
wear much longer.
Many walking dresses are of soft
woolen material, with skirt trim
med with pleated fiounce and
drapery arranged over the upper
part of it. Tie bodice is Of the
same fabric, while bands of velvet
trim the efiounce, drapery and bodice,
and collar and cuffs are formed of
it as well.
The blouse tunic, which is becom-
ing very popular, is very full and is
gathered or ploated at the waist
and turned pu inside above the
tunic in full, regular pleats. 1t is
longer in front than it the sides or
back where it loses itself under the
drapery of the puff which falls in a
panel over the skirt.
The most fashionable materials
this season for wedding dresses are
lace, watered silk, brocaded satin,
brocaded velvet, velvet embossed
grenadine, ottoman and plush, both
plain aud brocaded. The costume
is usually mixture of two of the
materials named, tastefully blended
Most of these bridal
robes are tastefully blended togeth-
er. Most of these bridal robes are
made high in the neck and with
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
BrLpAsr. Nav 3.-Two bnndref

10y W. HuhOAO Ou
persons who are known to be mem
bers Of the Patriotic brotherhood,
have left Cross Maglen, county Ar
magh, and its vicinity, because of
the revelations which have been
made recently duplicating them in
unlawful acts,
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When a dumb photographer
wants to say 'syes' 10 a customer,
he merely displayes two negatives.
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MoRRIsTowN CIRCUIT.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, soUTI
APPOINTMENT FOR 1889.

APPOINTMENTS FOX 1907.
Bethcar church, 1st Sunday, 1890 a. I'M.
Graham's chapel, {" $50 d. m.
Russellville. =. I'd Sunday, 1890 a. m.
Whitesburg. 80. $50 p. m.
olston's chfp.l, Friday . ,fo-e Sd Sum-.
Liberty i'll, Sd Sunday, 1890 q. m.
Noes chapel - :" $3.50 D. m.
Ebenezer, Friday before 4th Sunday.
Panther Springs, 4th Sunday. 1890 a. m.
Pleasant III -" 800 %. m.
9Th S'dys and Satd'y before at Ebenezer.
Appointments on Friday at 1890 n. m.
j. r. PAYNE, Pastor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-08
A FITTING CLIMAX.


The relief committee has decided to send out
relief boat next week, which viii go down the
river from Lawrenceburg to Cairo, and 1t will be
final expedition for the distribution of provs-
ions. -Four boats have already been sent out,
and most of the destitute people the interme-
diate points between Lawrenceburg and Shaw
neetown have received temporary relief through
the agency of the Indianapolis committee.
Lawrenceburg, New Albany and Jeffersouville
have received aid from all sources, while the
people along the river have been overlooked al
most entirely, and the alienation of their suffer
ing has depended wholly upon the committee
in this city. To meet the needs
of such of the destitute as NAV
nave been overlooked, and those who need an
other supply OF provisions, the committee will.
on saturday, start boat down the river on a
nnal mission of charity, and it VIII be fitting
climax to their noble work. j. A. Closer re-
turned, yesterday, from Cincinnati, where he
went 10 charter the newly-bult steamer John
r. dalpln Tor the expedition. All arrangements
nave Deen made, and the boat Will start from
Lawreneeburg on Saturday, with o cargo
of $4,000 worth of provisions, bedding,
clothing and medicines, which will be
distributed along the river. wherever
n n ior a distance of 600 miles.
V. T. Malott j. A. Closer, n. S. Byram and W.
L. Gallup, members of the relief committee, &C
companied by DIR. L. S. Elder, will go with the
boat for the purpose of learning by their per-
sOnal observation If further relief will be needed.
with this expedition the distribution of provis-
ions Will probably cease, unless there is an ap-
parent need for another supply, hut the commit
tee viii not entirely abandon their work until
several days after their return from the trip
down the river, which will require about a
weeks time.
secret session of the State Relief Board was
neld yesterday for consultation regarding the
disbursement of the appropriation, but nothing
of Importance was done.
The relief committee yesterday received
Sll5.S7 from the citizens of Munce, and 800
FROM Hallsvlle. A dispatch received from
Horace 3. Watson, stating that the relief boat
started by the committee from Madison last
Monday had reached Louisville yesterday morn
ing at 1880 o'clock, having distributed the
supply of provisions, which will be all that are
urgently needed Amos Marshall, with the
apparatus and force OF men for house-moving
Will go to Lawrenceburg next Monday under
the direction OF the relief committee to begin
the work of replacing houses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-08
A HEAVY FAILURE.
George W. SPOTS Fails for $40. OO0-The
Result of Dealing in Margins.

Mr.. George W. SPOTS, the Virginia,avenue
grain dealer, made an assignment yesterday,
his liabilities being estimated AT $4,000 and
assets about $4,000 A Journal representative
called at the residence of Mr.. SPOTS last even
ing and elected the following information: The
failure was due to outside speculation in grain,
the principal losses having occurred within the
last six months. The business has been pros
porous without Interruptions and has PAID a good
percentage. The assets, consisting of the ele-
vator house and lot and household furniture Of
Mr. Spots, was transferred yesterday to his
father-in-law, Mr.. Adam Scott, who is a
creditor to the amount of $4,000. The
other creditors, Bennett & Moore, Brown &
Boyd, ana Foster & Closer, with claims little
less than $1,000, accepted secured paper on long
time. The business will continue, with Mr. Scott
as proprietor, and Mr. SPOTS said that its profits
will pay his entire indebtedness within three
years, provided no nnlOOked-for circumstance
prevents. He is inclined TO take the matter
philosOphcally, accepting the misfortune as a
very natural result of speculation, but is de-
ternined to repair his shattered fortunes by en-
ergetic application to his legitimate business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-08
THE ROYAL AROANUM.
The Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Ses-
siOn-Election of Officers.

The fourth annual session of the Grand Lodge
OF the Royal Arcanum, of Indiana, was held
yesterday at the rooms of the order in the Bates
block There was a large representation OF the
lodges of the State, and great interest was man
ifested in the proceedings. Routine work and
the report of the committee on credentials &C.
cupied the time of the morning session. In the
afternoon Grand Regent c. B. Miller, of Law
renceburg; Grand Secretary Frank NJ. DIN, and
Grand Treasurer N. s. Byram, of Indianapolis,
submitted their annual reports. 1t is shown by
these reports that there are twenty-six lodges in
the State with a membership of $50, two new
lodges having been instituted and no charters
surrendered during the year. There have
been five deaths, upon which was paid in bene-
fits $4,000, and there is now a balance in the
treasury of 1854, with no Indebtedness Every
year has been more successful than the preced-
lug one, and the reports, without exception,
would indicate the lodge to be in tOurishing
condition.
In the evening the following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing year:
Grand regent, j. f. Fee Greencastle; grand
vice-regent, Robert Stratton, Fort Wayne past
grand regent, c. b, Miller, Lawreneeburg; grand
orator, j. n. Runyan, Warsaw; grand secretary,
Edward Z. Schoer, Indianapolis; grand trea-
surer, N. S. Byram, Indianapolis; grand chaplain,
". II. Fulton, Indianapolis: grand trustee, j. b..
Green, Vincennes. The Grand Lodge then ad.
iOurned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-08
Third Quarterly Meetings.

For Indianapolis district, Indiana Conference,
Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. John Poucher
presiding elder, the following meetings are an
nUuneed:
Martinsville, March II and Is; Gosport, at
Wesley, March "a and 25; Bloomington circuit,
at Simpson, March 81 aud April 1: Brooklyn at
White Lick, March 81 and April l. Meridian
street and Calfornia-street churches, March 81
and April l; Monrovia, at Monrovia, April 7 and
8; Mooresville, April ana 8; Waverly, at Union
Village, April IA and 10; Morgantown, at Nor
gantown, April 81 and %; Quincy, III Eminence,
April % ana 30; Belleville, at Salem, May and
6; Cory, at Plymouth, May IL and 10; Center
Point, at Calvary. May 10 and 20; Putnamville,
at Putnamville, May &c and 81; Locust-street,
Greencastle, May &c and 27 South Greencastle,
May 27 West Newton. at Sloan, June aud 8;
Ames Church and Blackford street Church,
June and 3.