The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-03-22

appearance IA Jacks0nyilie, Florida.
The new telegraph line in Chicago
V " have its wires laid underground
ne Thousand Wcavcrs III the Allan
: mills OF Lawrence, Mass, have
fk.s@Asa s
oattls ranch in Texas has just
sold 70 Al English company for
2, po.0Ooss 7ln
.sfs impossible fora man to despair
Remembers that his Helper is
iipotant
congress has 479 employees that cost
bo-quarters of million, and still |
Y want more. i
Few York city phys annually s., ,200,-
for pure milk and S6,200000 for
nmed milk and water,
Fdlerb cannot even find time to be
e, or the industrious TO be at leas-
,, We must be always doing or
fering.
"a man who needs forty cents worth |
s. whisky to give him an appetite for
fiteen cents dinner always has the
bspepsia.
Tho. man who deliberately goes into
bmptation is like one who holds cam
10 that the devil may find him more
asily.
Tho Public Library Of Boston con-
ains 429,116 bound volumes, 1t
btands as No. 10 Of the great libraries
ofthe world.
He that cannot forgive others,
breaksthe bridge over which he must
pass himself, for every man has need
70 be forgiven.
The recent food in the Ohio river
was higher by five feet than it hasbeen
any year since 1892 In that year it
was Ga feet, last year 66 and this year
II.
One hundred and seventy-one loco
motives on the Reading Railroad were
.run during the last year with coal
st, effecting a saving Of $S6S'o0O,
The Missouri democratic papers are
kenorally for the old ticket. They
are divided between Mcdonald. and
Morrison for second choice.
President Taylor, of the Mormon
church, said the other day: when
they come west to wipe out polygamy
they will find 100000 muskcts point
ing czstvard.s
M
NO other man in the United Sates Is
sonoar the heart, so strongim the con-
ssicnce Of the democracy as Sumucl j..
Tilden. With him in advance the
party would DO sure Of victory.
Itis written on the sIate in Pennsyl-
vania that tho republican state con-
veution, while warmly indorsing
Athnr's administration, viii instruct
the delegates at large to the Chicago
convention to vote for Blaine.
Congfessman Deuster, Of Milwaukee,
wants the democratic NOMINATION as
eovornof oi Wisconsin, and has
glimmering hope that theprohibition-
lists might reduce the republican vote
enough tpgive him an election.
The Wheeling Intelligencer, re-
publican paper, says that, on the'dem-
ocratic side, West Virginia i Tilden's,
1t no want It, and that on the republic
can side West Virginia ism I committed
toanybody at present.
Asvornont man has a hen SO years
old. The other day hawk stole it,
but after an hour came back with O
broken bill and three claws gone, put
down the hen and took an old rubber
boot in place Of tt
Dan Voorhees, 10 not exactly a
candidate for the vice presidential
nomination, but if it becomes neccssa-
nv for himto make sacriticein order
to save the country he will. take the
place, So his friends in Washington
say, ~. ~ %
issTs b Nsie8f lsiA
II has boen computed thai English
men vwn2o, 94l, ,66e acres Of American
soil, ora territory about as large as
Ireland, which has 20,S18,l11 acres,
Now Il England could only arrange to
"swap" the population Of the two dis
tricts how happy the average British-
erwould bel
While q dance was in progress at
Dallas a pistol SHOT suddenly rang
through the room, and one Of the
young ladies fell to the floor with
painful but not dangerous wound in
her leg. II is supposed that one of
the dancers had pistol in his pocket
which was accidentally discharged.
The 'culprit did not diyulge his
identity.