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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-03-15
NON CREslANsD slEs FaICagFs.
MIR. SgcS,nrsy Promptly Replies
10 Nxr. sVise's Paper EEulies.

McCartythls AFTERNOON publishses-thc
letter in reply to that OF
Congressman John $. Wise
There is card in the Wing Of
yesterday morning from Mr.. John
Wise, the object Of which seems to be
an explanation Of why he did not
challenge me in answer to an article
charging him with being q puborned
witness against his State, and the al
legged reason is that he has given up.
dueiing. II he had rested his case
with that statement there might have
been claim to dignity in his plea,
but when he calls me Sir Lueius 0'Trig.
ger, ] must say that the comparison
could have no other foundation than
his own likeness TO Bob Acres, whose
reform as a duelist only occurred In
tho face OF an adversary whom his ex-
cited fancy exaggerated, just as Mr..
Wisedoes me- Mr.. Wise has mistaken
ridicule for what he is pleased to term
abuse, for certainly treated his ex-
ploits as stump speaker on the wit
ness stand only in the light of the
facts, referring rather to his intention
than to any harm that his hearsay
testimony could do. mnocnousby its
overzeal against his State, and satirized
by his doubtful position in contested
seat in Congress, perhaps he will fur
ther signalize his reform by treating
the country to the particulars of his
contest with Mr.. Massey, in which,
during the taking Of the evidence, this
| suddenly-reformed hero of thirteen
duols on paper slapped the face of a
gray-haired preacher. This would be
good piece Of testimony--after he
changed the rec0rd---to put up the
bloody-shirt issue, and, artistically
ground out by the committee, might
set the precedent for introducing the
blood curdling picture he has drawn Of
me. AS to his paying profession, this
Is the first that has been heard Of it
and when he makes money the stand
ard of respectibility, people will natural
NY inquire if it come by work. The
people who known us both may Judge
Of the comparative civilization of thu
two men, and any others who are in
terested in Mr. Wise's literary compo
sitions are welcome to his autobio
graphy and his interesting portrait o
). himself, which may do Tor farlil,
picture to hang in the kitchen wher,
he receives colorel statesmen. MI
Wise states chat ! would be glad to ge
an opportunity for some gentleman t
kill me. When I reach that point
should certainly not apply to Mr.. Wise
and for two reasons. First, hisunsur
ported testimony, which he himsel
does not believe, is insufficient to es
tablish him as gontlcman; second
the hero of thirteen bloodless pape
duela is not the person whom on
would naturally seek to Go the jot
Mr.. Wise's testimony is good oih
against himself as an undenisble proc
that he is a ridiculous little poltroo
|. and an ass, who, not being able t
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-03-15
Xs iafErae?

The Knoxville Tribune is authority
for the statement that Judge s. j..
kirkpatrick, OF Jenesboro, is. the
Moristown Goseke's Democrat who is
to run independent, and with the aid
and support Of the Republicans, dc
feat Governor Bate should he be re-
nominated. We have no authority
from Mr. Kirkpatrick to mako a denial,
but we believe the use of his name in
this connection is altogether unwar-
rsnted. Mr.. Kirkpatrick, WHO'S d law
yer OF fine ability and of still GREATER
nui;hi,itics, has been a good and con
0muuaa 1nng IN s,,nu,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-03-15

Esxsrssct from u H4ecausse by Es0ras
~. a.. Taylor. On
ssEaEE SaSEEgEy AND ssbg'rHH.''

~. a.. Taylor. on,
'sTaaE NSWTsy AND sspg,rHu.s' /
cosId Aot If | could: fcopldAot II !
| would, recall the awful sceneso Of that
tremendous conHict-of four years q |
deaths carnival-when the white pin-
Toned Angeloi peace
Floated ofr to her home in the skies
Memory can recall some Of the hor-
rors OF that war--but language is too
barren to express them-eolors are too
dim to depict them, apdsculpture too
lifeless 70 represent them. War is
bad bad enough when it's with a.
foreign foe in foreiga land 1t is lar
worse, with a foreign Invader in our
fortified harbors and cities, and along
our frontiers, but the sNpurfatfsu W
wars unutterable terribleness is only
experienced Git never can be told)
when in volcanic thunders and earth
quake throea, it belches itg foods OF
living fire, and hurls ite torrents OF
burning death into our very homes,
from the yawning craters OF civil strife.
Yet we have been told that civil war
is the glorious remedy for civil wrongs.
| War a remedy! hollow voice from
the tongucless caverns of 100000
new-made, bloody graves echoes in
sepulchral eloquence, What wrong is
righted?'
Gloriousl Ayl like the gloriousness
| of Erostratus, damned to everlasting
fame. But war is grand sublime!
thrillingly, transcendantlg grand and
sublime, it is so indeed, but only in
J preface, the sequel. OH the dreadful
sequell When all are buoyant witr
life and hope, when manly-courage
} and high-born chivalry, on prsncing
} chargers, ride proudly in the front,
} with shimmering epaulets OF gold,
Z and bright swords cleaning, when ri
hes glitter under banners of silk, when
, unstainod bayopets at uniform angles,
T reflect thousands Of SUNS when the
5 thrill fife screams, and the kettle-drum
/; times the heavy tramp, tramp OF the
: shining battalions, as the infantry de-
: ploy into line, when double-shotted
e batteries unlimber on the frowning
3 edge OF battle, when snowy plume'
c are nodding above flashing sea o
: swords and sabres, and sense OF i'm
= pending conflict gives eagerncss to the
= eye and tremor to the frame of ten
4 Thousand cavalry lowering on the
y TANKS and rear, awaiting the bugl,
Q signal for tho 1ge, in that awW
r. moment that an ,datos the first cxpls
It sion Of battle, then war Is grandly 81
o premoly sublime.
! So when nature marshals her squsd
., rons for hattie on high. Rank OF
y rank the gathering mists expand ant
If spread themselves along the firma
s ment. Peak on peak and crag above
|, erag, stupondous, mountains OF con
n densing yapors in silent, solemn awful
Ic ness, heave up their murky masses t,
b. the zenith, I'D from their Furnishes
y SUBMITS reject in golden or cs tn
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-03-15

IftTHu a IftUUHe Nv HIfItF IBHU-
rance" And 50 your ignorance and
our folly make uptthe coIlplet
"Whore ignontace is bliss,
IT'S folly to be wise.
Look here, friend, We want peace,
but fool with JUS much, we'll toss you
up on the tail Of THE COMET, carry
you out into boundles space and let
you drop. There shall be Il "wheapin'
and whalin and a smashin' OF teeth. "
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23
A Laugh at the Expense of George
William Curtis.

washington DlspaLcn.
The clerks in the Washington department
INDUCED in an extra guffaw when they reach
that clause in Mr.. Curts's circular in which
he remarks that his committee would as ear
nestly protest against the assessment system
under Democratic as they now do under
Republican administration. 1t is not necessary
to go to the books of the General Land Office
to find that Thomas A. Hendricks was active
in making political assessments. An investi-
cation has already been made aud is found in
Report 313, second session Twenty-ffth Con-
gress. One OF the clerks in the Land Office
when Hendricks was Commissioner swore that
he collected percentage of the salaries of the
clerks, list OF clerks baving been provided
him, that two assessments were made in the
year 1856. The following questions were asked
him:
"Who was it that requested or directed you
to perform this duty?,'
Al took the paper around at the request
of the Commissioner of the General Land Office
Thos. A. Hendricks.
Q-Who told you what amount was to be
raised?
Al think it was the Commissioner.
Q-Into whose hand was the money (S3000)
paid after you collected it?
A.-The money that / procured paid /
think to the Commissioner April IL, 1860.
Another clerk who was sworn was asked the
question by whose authority be took around
the assessment list.
Al was requested to carry the list around
in my division, that is to cellect, by Mr.. Hen
drcks, who was the Commissioner of the land
Office.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office
is the only administrative office that Thomas
A. Hendricks ever held under the general gov
eminent. 1t is proved that he asked the heads
of divisions to assess the clerks in his Office and
that he personally received the money collected
by them, and Mr. Hendricks is man for
whom George William Curtis urges the Re
publicans to vote.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23
Capt. Patten, the Chief of the New Burea

Capt. Patten, the Chief of the New Bureau
of Navigation, says that the Dingley Ship
ping bill is in his opinion the most advanced
step that has been taken in the interest of
the American merchant marine since the
foundation of the Government. The law
works admirably in all respects except the
one section forbidding the payment of ad
vance wages to seamen, and this section
causes difficulty only in two ports-New
York and San Francisco. In these cities
the captains seem to have discovered some
method of evading the Law, which method
has not yet been learned Captain Pat
ten adds that for three years the English
statute books have contained a law relating
to shipping which is very similar to the
Dingley bill, but there the clause forbidding
the payment of advance wages is in reality a
dead letter. He thinks that with time the
rough points in the law will wear smooth,
and that within year the full benefit will
be appreciated. Capt. Patten does not at
present contemplate recommending Con-
gress to make any change in the law at the
next session.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

500 yards away, and the last bullet pierced
three inch plank. Apparently there was
no dlminution of the energy stored in the
cylinders, the last shot fired showing as
great force as the FIRST Mr.. Kelley says he
takes air aud water and produces by
generation an effect that liberates from
them the inter atomic ether which is the
force used in this quo. He says he has fire.
Quently produced pressure of 10, 900 pounds
to the inch in quarter of second. The
government engineers expressed themselves
as highly pleased with Saturdays exhibition.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

Kelley, the much ridiculed inventor,
seems to have scored a notable success in
the experiments with his Vaporic gun in the
presence of the government engineers at
Sandy Hook on Saturday. The weapon
looks like cannon, very heavy at the
breech, with thin barrel about foot long.
The force which propels the ball is stored in
cylinders, which are connected with the gun
by hollow wires about as thick as lead pen
Gil. The gun is loaded by putting in rub
Der wad and then bullet. Nineteen shots
were fired in quick succession at target
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

fireman F. Weeks of Augusta has made
another public appearance. The first time
anybody ever heard of him outside of the
limits of Augusta was when he signed an
affidavit which was published in the New
York World alleging that be had sold his
vote. His next appearance was in an aft
davit in the columns of the Kennebec Jour
nal in which he said that when be made
the first affidavit he was drunk, and that
there was no truth in it. Now he has ap-
peared again in another affidavit in which
he says that he was frightened into making
his second affidavit, and that the first aft
davit was true.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

Secretary Chandler is very enthusiastic
over the Republican prospect. If Blaine
carries Ohio by good majority, as be be-
lieves he will, every Western state and five
states in the South will give their electoral
votes to the Republican ticket.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

Judge Gresham believes the Republicans
will carry Indiana. A great many Germans
who vot' d with the Democrats in 1880
have come back to the Republicans, while
very substantial accessions are coming from
among the Irish
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

The keen edge of Mr.. Thomas A. Hen
dricSs's anti-prohibition speeches in the
West has been dulled good deal BY the
discovery that in 1867, when bill was be-
fore Congress prohibiting the sale of liquors
in the National Capital, Mr.. Hendricks was
reported n the Congressional Globe as say
ing: 81 am perfectly wiling to vote for this
or any other bill short of putting to death a
man who shall take a drink of liquor" The
most violent Prohibnionst never made a
more radical declaration than that.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

The Argus is not fully satisfied with Mr..
Blaine's statement regarding his marriage.
However, nobody expected it would be. 1t
always did cling to scandal with the tenacity
of dog TO bone.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

Gen George Fl. Sharpe says Blaine will
have $4,000 plurality in New York, and he
feels no doubt whatever of his ell ction. He
says the talk about the stalwafts not voting
for Blaine is all moonshine.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

The Hon. j. r. Bqdwel pronCunces the
assertion of a special despatch TO the Boston
Herald hat he had called upon Mrs Nor
rili and prevailed upju Ter to pronouce her
published statement regarding Mr.. Blaine a
forgery, untrue in every particular. He
has had no interview with Mrs. Morrill,, in
deed has not even spoken with her since her
husba died. Why his name has been
connec ed With this matter he cannot i'm
agine. The fact probably is that the des
patch was manufactured by somebody SIMPLY
for tie purpose Of giving Mrs. Motria al
opportunity To iei crate her statement. The
Cleveland press is very clever at tricks.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

The Independent party reminds the New
York Sun of tadpoIe-a very large head
with very insignificant following.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

The Boston Journal abiding to state
ment of a Portland correspondent of the
Boston Herald that Mr.. Blaine made Gen
Conner govern says the fact is that Cap
tain Charles E. Nash, ex-Mayor of Augusta,
was the first man TO mention the name oil
General Conner in connection with the
position which he did to General Hyde,
Colonel Spaulding and others. They found
it difficult to induce General Conner to per
nit them to use his name, but when they
got his consent, they consulted With other
Republican soldiers, and by them and the
papers they could influence, General Con-
nor's name was presented. Mr.. Blaine was
not consulted.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23
III f r. Il S s.
TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER %.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
sations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubica
ton but as guarantee of good faith.
Wa cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muRicstions that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

Under the lawno person can act temporari-
~ as Secretary of the Treasury longer than
twenty days. Nearly that period has elapsed
since the death of Secretary Folger, SO that
the vacancy must be filled by permanent ap-
pointment within few days. The story
that Minister Morton will receive the ap-
pointment. which was circulated several
days ago and subsequently discredited, is
again revived: and apparently there is good
Foundation for it. 1t will be recollected
that Mr.. Morton was strongly urged for
Secretary when President Garfield was
forming his Cabinet. Subsequently he was
offered the Secretaryship of the Navy, po-
sition, however, which he declined to accept.
The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23
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The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23
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The Portland daily press., 1884-09-23

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Ladies do not suffer, now that you can be relieved
at once by calling upon DR.. W.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
ST. JOHN.

When St. John was running for Governor
the second time, his party feared if he took
specific grounds he would lose his election,
and they labored with him to speak in gen.
eral terms ON temperance, and this is what
he said: 81 would sooner save one drunk
ard by adherence to Prohibition principles
than to 90 to the White House over the
drunkards, slain by the suppression OF my
conviction" He will not steal, and we
cannot say aught against him. When his
wife and others went to meet him, to try
and dissuade him from going to Leaven-
worth and Topeka to speak on Prohibition,
and told him that bands of drink-primed
men were lying in wait to kill him, said
'sWell. wife, am as near ready for mar
dtyrom as any one. am going And
God gave him courage and blessed his go
ing to the salvation of many in these cities
of his State, and their deliverance by con-
stitutional prohibition. Can't you vote FOL
such a mana man with such clean re-
cord having been twice governor and yet
poor man. who spent his all in helping
others? Do so, and leave the consequences
with God-Neao5usy Witness.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
THE SENTENCEOF SIN.

Wicked men make no worse blunder than
when they mistake the inattention of the
community for carelessness or its lack of
speech for lack of conscience. Because
sentence against an evil work is not ex-
ecuted speedily, therefore the heart of the
sons Of men is fully set to do evil" Passion
and lust drive them on to foul sin. Each
base act goes by without comment or cor
demnation. Men still honor the impure
man in public. The doors of good women
are not closed to him. He prospers in for
tune and he continues in wickedness. The
days pass, and his sin grows. From the
careless vice of the libertineh goes ON to the
fouler wickedness of seduction and betrayal.
He and men like him dream that the COM
munity is light in Judging these things.
His associates are silent. They may even
make merry over their guilt, and the Inflated
man persuades himself that the moral sense
of the community sleeps never to speak.
1t is dreadful mistake. The heart and
core of American life is sound, upright and
wholesome. Its judgments are not the
judgments of the impure, nor is its
opinion and standard the standard and
opinion of men who gloze their wicked
acts with worldly code ofeasy morals and
treat hideous sins as pleasant pastime.
The day comes when this man, stepped in
vice and full of wickedness, is forced to
face the full responsibility of his misdeeds
They were done in darkness; they are
spread broadcast in the light of day. The
acts he hid from his own familiar friend
are spread before all the people. Turn
where he will, look into what face he may
he finds there the anxious questions of
his friends. and. worse, the silent waiting
of his enemies until his sin works its own
punishment,
Where is then his confidence in the easy
opinion of his fellow men? OF what avail
is it that he trusted in his heart that other
men were even as he himself, bat worse
The moral sense of the community awakes,
and the soft excusing of lifetime shrivels
before it like flax in the fire and tow before
the burning, Thepublic conscience speaks,
not broadcast in the spreading sheets OF
newspapers, but worse, thousand fold
worse. man speaks to man his condemna-
ton and woman to woman their pure pro-
test against evil in high places. VIII it
help man in such day that honors are
heaped thick upon him, that he is regarded
of the nation and set above his fellows?
He will but hear the palmer the whispers
of public wrath and private Judgment. In
his plight, the work of his own hands and
the handiwork of his fingers, he has no es-
cape from confession save in silence, and
from silence SIS confession. '-Press
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
THE SOAP CAPER.

A very successful swindle. operated by
street peddlers, is what is technically known
as the '.soap caper." Any common soap
will wash the dirt out of a grease spot, and
a person is apt to come to the con-
clusion that the stain itself has been
taken out, until more dust accumulates on
the grease and he finds himself mistaken.
For the purposes of the swindle two fell
lows will buy lot of cheap soap, and cut
it up into small pieces, which are daintily
perfumed and nicely wrapped in fancy col
ored paper. This is all the stock in trade
needed, except a generous allowance of
cheek. One of the fellows dresses himself
up like a dude, and generally conducts him.
self so that everybody to whom he appeals
makes fun of him. Perhaps he does sell
few pieces of the soap, for it appears to do
what is claimed for it, but he purposely
makes such an ass of himself that nobody
wants to trade with him. Soon, when he
is Boosting of how much soap he can sell in
day, communicating fellow in the
crowd calls out: well. why don't you
sell il them" and at once they get into a
wrangIe, which is ended by the plain fell
low betting that he can sell more soap in
ten minutes than the proprietor of the stand
can sell in half an hour. The bet is general
ly quite large one, and, as sympathy is en-
tirely with the communicating fellow, the
crowd comes TO his support, and he rapidly
sells out his share of the soap, and finally
also disposes of the greater part of the
others packages. 1t is almost needless to
say that the fellows are confederates and
are playing into each others hands. Two
good operators can make tremendous
profit by working this game, and they run
no risk of being arrested.