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Together Again.

Perhaps the most pleasant gather
ing, to those concerned, that has ever
assembled, was the reunion Tuesday
Of the five living children OF the late
Peter Miller, one OF the first settlers in
this county, at the residence of DR.. f.
S Miller, ST. Mr.. Samuel H. Miller
the elder son and DR.. Ebert S. Miller,
live in Johnson City. Mr.. James s.
Miller, the third son, lives in Shelby
vile, Tenn. Mrs. Nancy G. Easley,
and William X. Miller live in Sullivan
county, In the morning the party
visited the gallery and had their pho
tographs taken in group. On their
return heme they made the COMET a
very pleasant call. They were accom-
panied by Mrs. S. III. Hunt and Mr..
Frank Easley. The reunion dinner
was served at twelve o'clock and there
were present besides the five children,
now gray-headed men and women,
Mr. Pouier, brother-in,law, Mrs. DR..
L. S. Miller, Jr., Miss Winston, Messrs.
Frank Easley and Cy H. Lyle. The
day was, in many respects, the hap
piest in the lives Of the different mem
bers OF the family and when they sep
arated in the afternoon it was in full
belief that the next meeting would be
when the entire family were reunited
on that bright and happy shore
"where the wicked cease from troub.
ling and the weary are at rest"
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Laconic Locals.

a ~@~NNNA~'
P. G Range went down to Lime
stone Monday.
Ladies, if you want fine shoes go to
Hunter Il Brown.
Rev. John Boring has had his res
idence reprinted.
G. K. Lide & Co. sell pure lead,
paints, and oils, guaranteed.
Jobe's Livery Stable has been very
much improved by an addition to the
front.
Go to II. w. Weiler's for queensware
and glassware cheap.
Mrs Ike T. Jobe returned Tuesday
from visit to homefolks. at Piney
Flats.
The dear people still rush to
Kirkpatrick & Cos. for bargains.
We are receiving a large line OF
gents fine shoes Hunter & Brown.
The annual rush Of immigrants has
begun. The great majority are from
Ireland
Oliver Chilled Flows and Reapers
and South Bend Flows and Reapers
at G. G.. Seavers.
II, w. Weller deals exclusively in
queersware, glassware, lamps, &c, and
sells cheaper than any man in the
city.
G. X. Lide & Co. have the largest
stock builders hardware in East Ten
nessee, and sell cheaper than any body
The new waiting rooms at the E. T
V. & G. R. R., are now fitted up for oc
eupancy but passengers seem 10th to
desert the platform at the depot,
Don't fail to call and buy YOU
goods of kirkpatrick 4 Co, anc
save big money.
Large lot of Bay State boots anC
shoes just received, the best goods OF
the market, sold only by Hunter 4
Brown.
R. w. SmalIings, of Carriers callet
into see us Tuesday and paid his sub
scsription He has just returned iron
visit to Florida.
Chronic constipation, with all its al
tendant evils, is cured by takin
Ayers Cathsrtic Pills. Sold by a
dealers in medicine.
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w. C. Il. L.

The election Of officers at last meet
ing resulted as follows:
Mrs, r. D. Wilson, President. A
vine-President was elected from each
church in the town. They are Mrs
Wade, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs Willard, Mrs
Evans and Mrs Lide. Rec. Sec. Miss
Stacy Crumley; Cor. Sec, Miss Jennie
Crumley Treas Mrs. Adams.
The hour for meeting was changed
from 2 to 3 o'clock. All the members
are expected to be present this after
noon, as business of importance will
receive attention.
Rv ordar nf prae
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IInlYersaI Pntterns.

Miss Eugenia Murphy, at Jonesbo-
70, has the agency for the Universal
Patterns, and will be pleased to send
them to any address upon, postpaid.
upon receipt of price. Album Of
Fashions, GA pages, with over 1000 il.
lustrations sent, postpaid, for 20 cents
Also full line Of stationary, and every
thing usually kept in a frst-class book
store.
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A Pleasant Occasion,

On last Friday evening Mrs. Geo. F.
Buss, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, en-
tertained few of her friends in the
parlors of the Piedmont Honse, where
she and her husband are stopping
while in the city. Progressive pedro
was INDUCED in until the wee sma'
hours. At eleven o'clock the game was
interrupted and an elegant lunch par
taken Of and highly enjoyed. Mrs.
Buss Is charming hostess and has the
gift Of knowing how to entertain and
to make every one feel easy in her
presence, Her task was made lighter
on this occasion, however, by the as.
sistance of Miss Constance Tinsley, a
highly cultivated and accomplished
young lady from Richmond, Va. Miss
TinsIey's graceful presence and bril-.
liant repartee added much to the
pleasure OF the evening. Those pres.
ent were Mr. and Mrs. J. III Sin.
clair Mr.. aud Mrs. ! f Crandall
Mrs. f, A. Stratton, Mrs. Keller, Miss
Tinsley. Mr.. Douglass, Of Baltimore
Mr. Martin, of Richmond, Messrs. J
J, Weller, H. R. Kenyon, H. H. Cor
son, E, D. Duncan and Cy II. Lyle.
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OPENED AT LAST.
The Newest Addition to Knoxville. :
A Large, First.class Dry Goods
Establishment has Just Been
Opened BY
MESSRS. BARUCH & ARNSTEIN
At Io7 & Ioo Gay Street.

The whole city is proud of the mag
nifcent storel The finest in the
southt The ladies delighted and be-
wildered at the display OF fine dress
goods and silks! We keep only choice
and fashionable millinery. Every
thing that pertains to a lady's OF
baby's complete outfit can be found al
AsT0NIsHlNGEY Low PRICES
We have large stores in New York
city and Charlotte, N. c., and buying
in immense quantities, can undersel
any and all.
Write to us for samples. We guar
antee satisfaction in every instance
When you visit Knoxville be sure tc
call on
BARUcH 4 ARNsTEIN,
Inaugurators and Leaders in Low
Prices.
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G. X. Lide & Co.
Mrs. Geo. f. Buss has been confined
to her room at the Piedmont House
for several days. 1t is hoped that she
will be able to be out soon.
Rev. A. w. McGaha, of Chattanooga,
will preach the baccalaureate sermon
at the commencement exercises of
Newman College, Messy Greek.
Loaded with impurities, your blood
needs cleansing with Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla.
G. c. Seaver has an immense stock
of Old Dominion Nails and is selling
them lower than ever.
From the cheapest to the best quail
ity queensware and glassware sold
cheap at II. W. Weiler's,
DIR, S. Fl. Toy, Of this city. attended
the meeting of the Tennessee Medi-
cal Fraternity at Knoxville last week,
accompanied ny his wife He repoi Is
the meeting one Of the best ever held
in point of attendance and impor-
lance OF papers read.
Buy your Groceries, Dry Goods
and Notions at the cheap cash store
of kirkpatrick & Cos.
Farming Implements OF all kinds
can be found at g. c. Sewers He
has just received large stock.
Gov, Taylor has accepted an invita-
ton to deliver the annual address at
the commencement exercises OF
Washington College on the 18th of
May.
J. W. Crumley, Esq, OF Johnson
City, has been granted license toprac,
tice law. On Tuesday last he wa.
sworn in as a member OF the Jonesbo
70 bar, and is now a full pledged law
yer. We wish him great success.
G. e. Seaver's is headquarters fur
doors and sash and all kinds ci build
ers hardware.
A big line of satins in all shades
cheap at Kirkpatrick & Co.'S
Emperor Frederick and Empires,
Victoria will be crowned King and
Queen Of Prussia at Konigsberg il
June, if alive.
II do WISH" remarked the white
horse, YEARLY, chat auburn haired
girls would try and keep indoors
more"
The King OF Siam has 5000 wives
He is a monarch of extraordinary firm
ness and courage. These facts nat
urally group themselves.
CRYSTAL ICE COMPANY, Knox
vile, Tenn. Ice made from pur,
Spring Water in 200 pound blocks.
Charley Rhea, colored, of this place
who has been in Jail for severa
months, was tried this week for as
saulting Jas. Miller, colored, with
shot gun, and acquitted. He was de
Tended by Judge Kirkpatrick and Isaa
Harr, Esq.
The Johnson City Furniture Com
3 pany received two new machines las
week One was dou6le-surlacer an
the other four-sided moulder. Thi
t company is constantly added new an
. improved machinery and is one Of tn
largest and best equipped furnilur
factories in East Tennessee.
Nanz & Neuner of Louisville, XIV
the well known Florists, have sent 4
their New Illustrated Plant and See
Catalogue for this year. Itcontains
; complete assortment and descriptio
of the choicest plants, seeds, bulb
d roots, small fruit grape vines, &c, i
cultivation, The Catalogue is printe
on fine paper, well illustrated and I'll
d best this well known Firm ever i
n sued
& II You need anything in their lir
send for a copy, free OF cost.
4 Address Nanz e Neuner, Louisyil
Kentucky
n Y. NJ. c. A NOTICE.
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y. NJ. c. A xorIcE.

Topic for next Sunday 0pportuni.
ties Lost, Mark 10 17-22; Acts % (:
22-29. Leader, H. r. Kenyon. Ev-
cry man invited 90o'clock, Come !
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-04-19

Down so the prices! Buy the hest
and cheapest We won't be under
sold. G. K, Lide & Co.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-04-19
Look and !Sn al VH vsHa--VA.s Can, b H.
Cement! Cement!

No. Black Diamond at 80 80 per
barrel, guaranteed.
G.. K. Lide & Co.
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SPEAKERS.

DIT. Ioung VIII also examine the
Physiology class at the closing exer-
cises.
Rev. f. d. Crumley, Of johnson City,
preached an able sermon at Locust
Grove last Lords Day
The sick people of tins neighborhood
are improving. WHIPPERwIH.
April II, 1888.
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Nails, NaIIsi. NaIIs.,,

We have large stock Of steel nails
cheaper than any body.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-04-19

To every purchaser of Suit of clothes from will
with good stylish hat worth $Iso $500 This Hat does
cost cent will be compelled pay any profit
the suit
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-04-19
TIE Homes? TRUTH !!
IRREGULAR CUT-THROAT Year
In Prices Of Clothing for 1883.

We honestly propose and will sell you Suit of Clothes Pair of
Pants from 81 to IS cheaper than any house in the city
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-04-19

We propose sell Goods this year cheaper than the cheapest
don't you forget this
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01

TO near what woman nad TO say.
Women lecturers were quite curiosity,
too, in those days. used to notice that
after had finished my talk, whether on
women's rights or on temperance, a great
many people, women especially, would
remain and come upon the platform, os-
tensibly to see me, but really to inspect
the dress"
Mrs. Bloomer showed the reporter cut
representing herself in her younger days,
attired in one of her noted costumes. A
short skirt reaching to the knees baggy,
very baggy trousers gathered and frilled
at the ankle; straight brimmed sailor
hat, set we'll back upon the head, made
up the attire from masculine point Of
view Female observation might have
disclosed that the skirt and waist were of
one piece, and that the sleeves of the waist
were full and slashed, and gathered and
frilled at the wrists. Close scrutiny and a
reversal of the picture might possibly have
led to the discovery that hustle was not
part of the attire. This point, however,
can be left to those ladies who have been
accustomed to calisthenic exercises and
surf bathing.-Omaha Herald.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
Results of entertaining.

There is one aspect of the Sullivan
Mitchell fight which is so far devoid of
brutality as to be of public interest; this
is, that man seemingly in superb physi-
cal condition may, in reality, be so far
overturned, as it is termed, as to have
been deprived of his staying powers.
Nature supplies to us certain quantities
of adipose tissue, which may seem to the
critical eye of one who looks only at the
outside to be an incumbrance, which
should be reduced by careful training;
but it may turn out that in thus bringing
the human organism down to a mass of
bone and muscle the trainer will deprive
the body of the food that it needs to make
good the waste of physical energy. A
man thus prepared may be well fitted for
a squirt, but entirely unable to keep up
under long continued physical exertion.-
Boston Herald
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01

are generCszs.
When the writer was planning in the
autumn of 1861 to enlist regiment for
the civil war, it occurred to him TO invite
the celebrated John B. Cough to go as
chaplain, since his personal magnetism
and eloquence, although he was not a
clergyman, would be felt through the
whole Union army. On inquiryit turned
out that Mr.. Cough was absolutely fet-
tered by his own large earnings and pro-
fuse charities, he could easily earn $50 or
800 day the year round by lecturing;
but all this large income was mortgaged
in advance to young men whom he was
educating and poor families whom he was
supporting, so that he absolutely could
not afford to stop work for moment
Had he been poorer, he could have gone.
So when one reads of Miss Alcott's coming
into the office Of The Woman's Journal,
and bringing 800 that she had earned
before breakfast one is led to ask whether
it would not have been better not to have
earned it than to give it away SO lavishly
as to have to go to work after breakfast
for another 800, instead of taking day
off and letting the tired brain rest. 1t is
the last lesson ever learned by writers
and artists to be wisely economical of
themselves, and to spare the sources from
which prosperity and usefulness too easily
flow.
The other lesson goes deeper. Miss AL
colts intellectual work itself found a
limitation in its grade by reason of its
ready abundance. She had the ear of her
public; she was, as was said Of her, "a
benefactOr of households" and perhaps
she did-it is impossible to prove the con-
trary-the very highest work of which
she was capable. But it was not very
high or very permanent; she never
eQualed her first successful work of fic-
ton, and for the rest of her life, as in the
case of Bret Harte, she simply repeated
the same few delineations. They were, of
course, more innocent and healthful than
Harte's, but they were as mOnOtonous;
children, doubtless, continued to cry for
them, but no maturer reader-at least
none familiar with Northumberland to
keep the run of them. Her muse was do
nestle, simple and sociable; the instinct
of art she never had. 1t is difficult to
imagine her as bordering a. situation
deeply, still less as concerning herself
about phrase or diction. In this she was
curiously unlike Helen Jackson, who was
an artist by nature and by habit, and who
was able to write Ramona so rapidly
that it seemed an improvisation, because
she had learned the use of her tools be-
fore-T. w. Higginson in Harper's Ba-
Ear,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
The "Larrikins" Of Australia.

The governor, instead of importing q
decent class Of women, advised the home
authorities to send out shipload of the
worst characters, and thus it was that
transport containing $40 women-the
refuse of London alleys-was dispatched
to Australia. These viragos were called
the ''red rovers." They intermarried with
the male convicts, and their progeny, as
might be supposed, turned out of the
criminal order. Their descendants of the
fourth generation are, with few eXcep-
tons, curse to the colony. They fill the
jails, and when at liberty congregate at
street corners, eXpectorate on the foot
paths and insult women and children.
They are called 'larrikins."
The 'larrikin" is generally thin, re-
pulsive looking youth of 10 or 20. He is
never known to work, nor in fact to do
anything but steal and insult old men and
young nurse girls yet he manages to get
enough to eat and to dress well at all
times. He has his clothes made of black
cloth, and occasionally sports velveteen
waistcoat. This is cut very low in front,
the better to display a frilled shirt and
small stand up collar, with tasseled neck
tie. His boots-sometimes let in with red
morocco-have two-inch heels, and as the
proud possessor swaggers up the street or
''holds the post up" he affects devil
may-care sort of manner as indicative of
his character. So much for the 'larri-
kin. "--Australia Cor. San Francisco
Chroniclp
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01

....lIze Jnese moors, and several land
owners have combined to form company,
whose object it will be to attempt
gradual fertilization of the soil by replant-
ing trees. How much good such an enter
prise can work under careful manage
ment is shown by similar undertaking
in Denmark, which has been in existence
for the last quarter of a century. The
Danish society for the fertilization Of
heaths and moors, chiefly by forestation,
has now some 1000 members, among
whom may be found the principal agri
culturists of the kingdom. 1t enjoys large
subsidies from the government and from
the agricultural societies, so that it has
been enabled to start some 400 "conces-
sions" or plantations in different parts of
Denmark. In the Netherlands it is pro-
posed to work the scheme upon similar
lines.-Boston Transcript.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
A Busy Mans DAVIS Work.

Erastus Wiman began his business
career in the Canadian Office of Dun,
Barlow & Co. on a salary of 81 week.
A sketch of Mr.. Wimans life shows that
he has been and still is hard worker.
His usual hour for rising is 5 o'clock,
and after he is dressed he dictates some
letters to his stenographer, then he mounts
a horse at O'Clock and canters over the
hills of Staten Island for half an hour,
eats a hearty breakfast, and takes the
8 o'clock boat for New York. In the I'M
used pilot house of the boat he meets a
party of business friends, and they talk
over Staten Island improvements until
New York is reached. At 2 O'Clock he
takes his lunch, and after lunch he sees
the ''cranks," who he says take as natur-
ally to him as ducks do to water. He al
ways sees them, for he says one out Of 100
is likely to have good idea. Mr.. Wiman
takes the $50 boat home, and the days
work is done.-Harper's Bazaar.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
The Australian War Dance.

The customs of the "black fellows" Of
the Australian bush in their wild state
are not uninteresting. Their grand dance
or corraberee, performed on occasions of
great state, such as victory over an
enemy, or to appease an angered deity,
for they have crude notions of a Supreme
Being, is a weird and ghostly spectacle. 1t
is always performed at midnight in the
darkest glade. A huge bonfire is built,
and the natives, with their bones outlined
on the surface of their bodies with white
paint, thus giving them the appearance of
skeletons, leap and jump in circle about
the fire to the tune of rude chant.
Faster and faster the dance becomes,
higher and higher the leaps are made, till,
in one grand finale, all fall fiat to the
ground. Should one fall before the end,
he is at once tabooed as possessed of the
evil spirit, and death will be his lot if he
fails to make his escape.-Alta California.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
Sales of Patent Medicines.

Proprietary medicines spring up by the
dozen every day, but you seldom hear of
any outside those manufactured in your
own section of the country. Every prepar-
alton is born under lucky or unlucky
star, as they seem to succeed or perish
regardless of the energy or money pos
sessed by the men who are interested in
pushing their sale. None succeed without
advertising, although millions have been
spent in putting medicines that never sold
the original stock shipped to wholesale
druggists. 1t is a game of chance where
you cannot estimate the risk. Results
cut very little figure with the statesmen,
for if the stuff will sell it will go off their
hands with scarcely an effort, because
their best customers are the chronic in
valids, who are thicker than flies around
a molasses cake.
Nevertheless, I would prefer to take a
new medicine out on the road than handle
any of the old ones which have been ad-
vertised from the cliffs of the Pacific coast
to the rocky banks of Labrador. Ameri-
cans are eXperimentative, and will buy a
new nostrum without any recommended
ton, for the simple reason that they have
heard nothing against it. st. Louis leads
the country in sales of quinine, malarial
specific and bilious antidotes, and some of
the local manufacturers will clear millions
from two articles that originated here
within the last two years, but which are
already beginning to elicit notice.-George
Haskell
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
ChiIdren's Undergarments.

For undergarments, the best houses
show a little wooden knitted petit
coat, which has waist like corset
cover, and this buttons closely around the
body, and is being knitted very elastic
and warm. Those who do not care for
the petticoat can find little knitted
chemises, which are long and double
thickness over the stomach and abdomen,
and every child should wear these at all
seasons of the year. Elastic suspenders
for the stockings should also be worn in
stead of fastening them by any other
means. Shoes for small children have no
heels, though they have what they call
spring heels, which do no injury to the
tender bones and muscles. Harper.
IraIIans CuuhCorroIoo.s.
'Why do Italians almost hold monop-
oily in counterfeit coinsH' was asked of
treasury detective.
"There is not money enough in it for
natives. These latter want big money.
Besides, many Italians are expert at max
ing plaster of paris models, and they came
over TO avoid detection in their own coun
try, where, l believe, counterfeiting is
punished with death. Over here it is just
a matter of year or two, and then when
they are in prison they are better fed than
when they are free, so that detection has
little terror for them. They are satisfied
with light profits, and seldom try to dis
pose of more than a couple Of dollars
worth at a time among the small stand
and storekeepers. New York Telegram.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-01
The Greek woman's Vanity.

The most striking faults in the Greek
woman's character are her vanity, fond
ness for dress and display, and jealousy Of
the better circumstances of her neighbors.
The spirit of ambitious rivalry is often
carried to such excess that the real COM
forts of home life are sacrificed to it; ana
many live poorly and dress meanly at
home, in order to display well furnished
drawing room and expensive holiday
toilets to the public. There are, how
ever, very domestic, make devoted wives,
and fond, if not always judicious, mothers
Boston Budget.