The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-14

against Ulysses S, Grant, Jr., Ferdi-
nand Ward, Ulysses s. Grant, and
James D. Fish, composing the firm Of
Grant & Ward, for the recovery Of
promissory notes made payable to the
order OF james ID. Fish, and given to
the firm, One note was for $4,000,
made payable May Is, 1884; another
for $4,000, each payable June /.
A Happy Retort.-"What business
was your father2' asked an imperious
colonel of understanding lieuten-
ant. "a tobacconist, sir" "What a
pity he did not make you one" '"Pos-
sibly, sir. And now, will you allow
me to ask you aquestion2" Certain
~. What is itP" "What was your
father?" "My father was gentle
man, sir" replied the naughty and
imperious colonel. "Well, then, it is
deuced pity he didn't make you one.p
C. K. Bushnell, at Bean Hill, has
fourteen martin boxes on his premises
which have long been occupied by the
birds. Last winter the plucky English
sparrows took possession of the boxes
and held them until spring, when the
martins returned. A bird war ensued
and as result the martins have recov-
cred twelve of the boxes. The spar
rows still hold two boxes, which they
have so valiantly defended that they
have been left in quiet possession Of
them.
After reading and dijesting the 200
selected poems, picked out of the l.
600 pieces Of verse written by compet-
itors for Mr.. Barnum's $500 prize for
the best 50-line poem about the sacred
white elephant, Chef Justice Daily,
Judge Brady, and DIR. Robert Collyer,
the judges, the other day rendered a
written verdict that three of the poems
possessed merit, but that none of them
was worthy of the $500 prize. 1t is
probable that Mr.. Barnum will offer
to divide the prize among the authors
of these three poems and publish them
together,
Cincinnati Enquirer letter. II is a
sight for the gods to see the Southern
mokes marching from hotel TO hotel
with white conveys. Those fellows
are thrifty, They only get pic mic
like this once in four years, and they
can be sold and rcsold. Tonight in
the rooms OF the Georgia delegation,
a sail'ron-eolored Texan was coaXilig Il
delegate as black as the ace of spades
to support Blaine. "What for?" said
Pompey. "'Kase he sat down on dat
force bill" "Now, go away, dar;
have heard dat before. Blaine urged
dat force bill to put us niggers back in
slavery. Arthur, he beat it; he sat up
in Congress all night and defeated
that bill" OF such stuff are southern
delegations
Charles 0'Connors will bequeath',
to the New York Law Institution all
} the bound volumes in his library
: marked "My Own Cases. 1tprovides
5 that $4,000 in money and two silver
testimonials be given to Mrs. Elize
beth W. johnson. To Miss Gulielnis
i, Folger, Ross Brayton and Miss Isa
bella Chsflin $4,000 each. are giyer
and a lot in Nantucket goes to Anna
Rose, He divides the residue OF hit
estate as follows: Two-tHirds to hi
sister, Eliza Margaret Sloan, and thu
remaining third to Miss Julia Pardon
The papers concerning his doings il
the matter OF Jefferson Davis ant
those concerning his intercourse will
Mr.. Forrests's affairs he devises to b,
carefully preserved. ss
Mr.. Buchanan's niece, Miss Harrie
Lane, now Mrs. Johnston,, was honor
ed during the administration lof he
!, uncle in the naming Of the smartes
revenue cutter of the day. The cut
. ter became cruiser at the outbreal
of the war and many thousand lip
) repeated the well worn announcement
: "That Harriet Lane has been fire,
: at" Semmes captured her off Gal
= weston and took her as prize to Hs
wanna, where she was turned into
Is sailing vessel and rechristened Ellio
y Ritchie. The sequel to her strang
l. eventful history comes in the follow
e ing dispatch from London: Bark E
Ie hot Richie Perkins, from Brunswick
& March %, for Buneous Ayers, ha
4 been abandoned at sea water-logge
e, and crew handed at Pernambaco.
. Judge Longworth, Of Cincinnati,
!" one Of the best known jurists in tn
y West. The other day he reache
Liverpool by steamer and cheerful
70 submitted his baggage to- the inspe,
tor of the customs officials, Unfo
)" tunately there were in one of tn
a packages two or three revolvers,
h. happened that this package was br
nr ken open, merely by mistake, and ii
\" deadly weapons were revealed to IL