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STOCK BETS.
OR THE
MANGOLD WURZEL.

There is no better feed for cattle
than this variety OF beet, and nothing
that cattle loves to eat better, they
will eat them even when running on q
CLOVER pasture, and for milk cows is
unequalled. There is no food that
will increase the flow more or will pro-
duce more or better butter than this
variety OF beets.
Then it seems strange that every
one does not cultivate stock beets,, for
there il no crop which pays better for
the labor bestowed or that is more
easily harvested or taken care of than
a crop OF mangold wurzel. Good rich
loamy soil will easily produce from
$50 to 800 bushels per acre, and com
mon soil from 100 to $50 bushels pei
acre OF course we do not mean poor
soil. for that will not produce Other
crops and, of course. will not produce
beets. Try the crop, it will pay you
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The trial of Joe X. Banks for the
killing of John j. Littleton was set
for last Monday but was continued
until next term. Some very sensa.
tional affidayits we're presented by the
defendants.
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The presidential party returned
home Sunday morning much pleased
with what they saw and with the cor
dial reception with which they met on
their hurried Southern trip,
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$1,000 to $500 worth OF the
st. John, Kirkham 4 Co.'s
BOOTS T. SHOES.

Which We are now offering at cost,
for CASH, or good marketable produce.
This stock Of boots and shoes EN-.
braces large variety in gentlemen's,
ladies', boys, misses and children's.
We also have variety of other brands,
which we reduce in price. ALSO We
have sole control from the manufac-
'urrrs Of the justly celebrated Zeigler
Brothers boots and shoes, every pair
II which is warranted. We also reduce
IN the price OF these goods for the
next 80 days for CASH or good produce
Try our ~ cent sugar; we are sure
1t is the very goods you want.
An Irishman came to America Will
he Understandings that he would
work until he had earned enough
money when he would send for hi,
wife and children, but after arriving
IN this country he met another Bird
,et that he loved better than the one
he had left in old Ireland, but what Il
10 with the old one was puzzle e
MS wits, but at last bright idea strucl
aim and he suatched up pen, ink anr
paper and began 70 write in this style
Dear wife Il died yesterday, the,
hilt me wake last night and III b,
buried to.morry. Nov I'll advise Y,
to marry Pat Marooney, who'll hell
We take good care of the childers
And pace be to my ashes.
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Annual Meeting.

4Ihol u w Ehl EhN |
North CAROLINA RAILROAD Co.
JOHNSON CITY, WASHINGTON Co, I
Tenn, February 9TH, 1888. J
The annual meeting Of the Stock
holders of The East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina Railroad
Company will be held at the office of
the Company, Johnson City, Wash
ington county, Tennessee, on Wednes-
day, the l4th day of March, 1888,
between the hours OF 10 A NJ. and ~
o'clock NJ, for the purpose of electing
Board of Directors to serve for the
ensuing year, and for such other busi
ness as may he brought before the
meeting.
JOHN s. WISE, Secretary.
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For Governor
ROBERT l.. TAYLOR.

Washington is in mourning for its
foremost private citizen, w, w. Cor
coran, the millionaire philonchropist,
He was buried Monday afternoon,
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VlGnP youth, and beauty, in TN
Aver S Hair Vigor,
Sod by Druggists aad perlumers

sGprFc1 SAFETY, prompt action, and
yoaoerfri curative properties, easily
pic Ayers Pills at the head o. the list
,:t,-aNg remedies for Sick and Nerv-
e.. ,..a3ae;e3, Constipation, and all all
l'.a..s sri.,aa.lng in lisordered Liver.
'e. .-e.n y great sufferer from
s&.a. .nl Ayers Cathartic Pills
.. ,a medicine that has ever
.f. One dose of these Pills
.. Move my bowels, and free
pain. William l.. Page,
CO.,. H.
@2f'a pills,
..A..., ilrJ.C. Aver h Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sod rs MI Dealers In Medicine.
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The strike on the c.. B & Q railroad
is practically ended. The X. OF L.
engineers and firenen from the Read
ing road are taking the places Of the
Brotherhood strikers.
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The Importance Of purifying the blood can
not be oyerestimated, for without pure blood
you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs q
good medicine to purify. vltalize. and enrich
the blood, and We ask you to try Hoods
R@~,,l;a~ Sarsaparilla. 1t strengthens
TCNUHot and builds up the system,
creates an appetite, and tones the digestion,
while It eradlcates disease. The peculiar
combination, proportion, and preparation
Of the vegetable remedies used give to
Hoods sarsaparilla pecul tn I+enlf
lar curative powers. No ~ sSSS''
other medicine has such record Of wonderful
cures. II you have made up your mind to
buy Hoods Sarsaparilla do not be induced to
take any other instead. 1t Is Peculiar
Medicine, and is worthy your confidence.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by c. /. Hood s. Co., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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PLEASE COME AND SETTLE

PLEASE COME AND SETTLE
Is what that statement means, then
we add, THANK YOU FOR YOUR Gus
TOM. Come again, we will do you
good.
4 per cent. discount for cash, so
spend your cash with US and get one
hundred cents worth for every dollar,
l6 OF. to the pound and S6 in. to the
yard. and all goods as represented.
Did you hear us say come and try
our 90 cent coffee and ~ cent sug-
ar? We are sure it will satisfy you.
some good fat hens is what we
want just now, and OF course We will
not object to taking some good fresh
butter. Egg trade still lively.
We will take flour on accounts or
pay goods for it; highest market price.
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LII WYERS.
DOBERT BURROW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR Ia
CHANCERY,

johnson City, Tenn.
viii practice Ia the Law and ChunCe cry Court,
ofthe counties of Washington. Sullilol, carriers
Johnson and Unicat. Collections made any.
where IN East Tennessee.
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Pullman Palace Buffet or Mann Boudoir Buffet
Sleeping Cars from Cincinnati and Chatta-
nooga through to Jacksonville
E@- Absolutely the Shortest Line from st.
Louis, Cincinnati Chattanooga and Atlanta to
jacksonville,
B. W. WREEN,
Gen. Pass and Ticket Agent.
/. J. ELLIS, Knoxville, Tenn.
Asst Gen Pass Agent
Atlanta. e.
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Something Dead,

A young man from the rural dis
riots visited the city in the days
When all hotels did not have bill OF
tare, and on the morning after his ar.
rival the house where he stopped had
Goldfish balls for breakfast, and the
young man having never seen any
thing of the kind thought it was 20.
tatoes. He accordingly cut one open,
gave gentle sniff, then put his face
near his plate and took long smell
and raised his head with an air OF dis.
gust. Then, motioning to the waiter,
he said softly: "Waitah, please bring
me some more potatoes, there is some
thing dead in that which you did
bring me.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-03-01

Hotel Baking Powders 20 cents per
pound.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-03-01

ST. John, Kirkham Il Co.'S boots
and shoes at cost,
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Landreth's fresh garden seed,
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Red Notified Soap 4 and S cents d
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-03-01

Fresh garden seed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
THEY CONTRIBUTED.

The Holyoke Republican club ad-
dressed asweetly scented little note to
the Hadley and Lowell companies, two
large woolen manufacturing establish
mentS in Massachusetts. asking for a
contribution to the Republican cam
paign fund. They got it. But not in
the way that had been anticipated. 1t
didn't come in the shape of 500 green
back bills, nor 81 900 bank checks. 1t
came OH paper all right enough, but it
was plain, white letter paper, on which
ARTHUR L. LYMAN, secretary OF the two
companies, penned contribution that
is worth preserving. Mr.. LYMAN
told them in so many words,
and good old English words, too,
that the Republican party wanted
to keep the high duty on wool while
the interests of American woolen man.
ufacturers demanded free wool. He
also told them that the Republican
members of congress from MaSSa-
chuSsetts had done more harm to the
cause of protection than all the Demo-
Gratis of the ways and means committee.
This kind of talk from one of the
leading manufacturing companies in
New England is a refreshing indication
that the monopoly power is going to
pieces. The protection insanity has
reached its limit in section where the
malady was in its worst form.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
Cablegrans.

Emperor William will stay at the Quirinal
during his sojourn at Rome, and will hold
receptions at the German embassy, Prince
Bismarck has sent long dispatch to the
Vatican, explaining why the meeting between
Emperor William and King Humbert was
arranged to be held i'll Rome.
The tenants on the Vandeleur estate in
County Clare, have resolved to abandon their
resistance to the payment of rents, and it is
expected that they will settle with the agents
tomorrow. In that case there will be no
more evictions.
Prof. Jameson, the naturalist writes from
kasongo, on the Congo river, that he is max
ing preparations to leave with Maj. Bartellot,
I1ppoo Tib, and 900 men to search for
Henry NJ. Stanley. He says all the Europeans
in the expedition are well.
Mayor McHugh, of Sligo, has been tried
and convicted of the charge of publishing
boycotting notices in his newspaper, the
Sligo Champion. He was sentenced to four
months imprisonment
The London Standard says it is believed
that Justice Day will now refuse to serve ON
the Parnell commission. Several of the
Gladstonians supported the government in
favor of his retention.
1.-THE libel action of William O'Brien against
the Cork Constitution has resulted in YER
dict In favor of Mr.. O'Brien for Gl00 dam
ages. He claimed 25, 900.
The emperor will visit the pope imme-
diately upon his arrival in Rome, before
going to the Quirinal, in order not to offend
the pope.
King Milan has asked the consistory to
grant him a legal separation from Queen
Natalie.
Emperor William intends to see Queen Vic
tOrla at the first opportunity, probably at
Baden.
1t is reported that the Prince of Wales will
pay visit to Dublin before long.
King Christian decorated Prince Henry
with the order of the Elephant.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY
Dan Lamont Tells How Mr.. Cleve-
land and Friends Enjoyed Them

NEW YORK, July 30.-The revenue
cutter Chandler, having the president
and party on board, ran up to the Penn
sylvania railroad pier in Jersey City at
II O'Clock this evening. There was a
small knot of men, chiefly reporters, pres
ent at the time. The president was first
to step ashore, followed by Dan La
mont, Postmaster General Dickinson,
Smith III. Weed, Collector of the Port
Magone and Surveyor Beattie. Of the
original fishing party,two were missing.
j. j. Hill went ashore at Stapfeton, and
Joseph Stickney remained on the yacht
Susquehanna. Dan Lamont gave the
following account of the trip after leav-
ing Fire Island on Sunday.
1--WE sailed up the sound, rounded
Block Island and anchored off White
stone, l.. i. Friday and Saturday we
averaged about SiXty-five deep sea bass
day. The president got fair share
of them. We got up early this morning
and went down and cruiSed off Long
Branch and Sea Bright. We -fiShed a
little from the yacht, but the catch was
not large. We came up the bay about
dusk this evening. We sailed about the
bay for time, until the revenue cutter
came down for u.s."
At the depot the president at once
went into the palace car ''Idlewild" and
retired. Only Dan Lamont and Don
Dickinson returned with him to Wash
ington on the fowl" train that left the
depot at 1875 this morning. 1t will
reach Washington at a. m.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
PENSION RECORDS.

To the Editor of the Globe.
] am told by a prominent Republican here
that President CLEVELAND has not approved
single private pension act during his ad-
ministration. Is it true? AN OLD SOLDIER.
St. Cloud, July %.
No, it is not true. President CLEvE-
LAND has vetoed a great many private
pension bills because he did not believe
that the parties named in them were en-
titled to draw money from the public
treasury. And it is notable fact that
no Republican member of congress has
ever made an effort to reverse one of the
presidents vetoes.
1t is likewise true that during the less
than four years of his presidential term
Mr.. CLEVELAND has approved OF al
lowed to become laws by limitationover
1000 private acts granting pensions.
And yet during the entire twenty-four
years the Republican party was in
power only 1,421 private pension acts
were approved or allowed to become
laws by limitation.
During the first three years of Mr..
CLEvELAND's administration a total of
S217, ,399, ,757 was disbursed on account of
pensions, as against SlS3, ,399,2l6 dis
bursed during the last three years of
Republican rule.
The record shows that during the first
three years of Democratic rule $50, ,452
pension certificates were issued, as
against 191,2 ,221 certificates issued dur
ing the last three years of Republican
rule.
During the first three years of Demo-
cratic administration los, ,121 new
names were added to the pension rolls.
Cut this out, and if anybody comes
around telling you that President
CLEVELAND has never signed private
pension act, or that the Democratic party
is not a friend of the soldier, just show
them the record.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
Cause for Goodness.

1t is said that GOODNESS now exists
between a prominent banker of this
city and his charming wife, says the At
lanta Constitution.
Under the circumstances it is quite
natural.
Yesterday the bankers wife was sit
ting with her five-monthS-old baby boy
in her carriage in front of the bank,
when gentleman friend came up and
stopped for moments chat. The gen.
tleman, after paying his respects to the
baby, carried the youngster into the
bank.
Thought I'd bring my little girl in to
see you," he said to the banker, sand,
by the way, don't you think she looks
very much like your boy? They are
both the same age, believer"
The resemblance is remarkable" re-
marked the other, as he patted the pink
and white cheeks of the laughing in
FAINT. Calling to his cashier, he said:
come here and see this handsome
baby, and the striking resemblance to
my boy"
Think Pll have to tell my wife about
it," he continued. ''Your little girl is
almost the image of my boy"
The gentleman, who was unable to
keep straight face any longer, took
the baby back to the carriage and told
the mother all about his interview.
'.lt isn't possible" the lady ex-
claimed. 'Do you mean to say that my
husband did not know his own child?
Pll go in and see about it.''
And she did. She stepped out of the
carriage, and in the twinkling of an
eyeodisappeared through the doors of
the bank.
Il guess I'll CO." said the party who
had been getting all the fun out of the
joke, and he lost no time in turning a
corner.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
EDITORIAL MENTION.


1t is disgrace that one of st. PauPs
suburban resorts should fall into so no
toriously bad repute as the locality
about Bass lake has gained. The city
government is not to blame for the
malodorous condition of affairs that
exists there, because the place is outside
of the city limits, end consequently be-
yond police jurisdiction. it ancs seem,
however, that the sheriff of the county
ought to have authority to organize
some sort of police regulations whereby
order and good conduct can be main
tanned at Bass lake. The locality is
now fayOrite rendezvous for ''toughs,"
and the rendezvous should be broken up.
-
The cellar was a popular resort with a
good many of our people yesterday
morning when the fierce storm broke
over the city. The dread of cyclone
was what drove them to the basement,
and it is a safe place to be when cy-
clones are around. But those who un-
derstood the habits of real cyclone
were not so apprehensive when they
saw that the storm was coming from a
little north of west, the opposite direc-
tion from which cyclones usually travel.
The regulation cyclone travels in
northeasterly course. Still wind
storm travelling in the other direction at
the rate of sixty miles an hour, with
whirligig motion, would be nearly as
ugly customer as the regulation-built
cyclone.
Heat and health are rarely in partner
ship. Therefore it is essential that the
health department of the city should be
unusually alert during the excessive hot
spell we are now undergoing. There is
good deal of decaying matter in vari-
Gus parts of the city that cannot be
dumped into the river any too soon for
the cause of good sanitation. Nor is it
confined to the outlying districts. Per-
sons walking down Fifth street, in the
neighborhood of jackson, yesterday
found it necessary to hold their nostrils
on account of horrible stencil in that
locality. Such condition should not
exist in the heart of the business part of
the city. 1t should also be borne in
mind that this is the favorite kind of
weather with the cucumber and the
watermelon. 1t develops the cramps
that lie concealed i'm their luscious
meat. Moral: Be careful of what you
eat, and when you eat.
~
Two prominent gentlemen we're
standing on the corner of Fourth and
Wabasha in earnest conversation. One
was Democrat, the other a Republi-
can. ''I'll not vote for ALBERT SCHEF-
FER if he is nominated by the Demo-
cratic party, because he is not a Demo
crat," said one. "I'll not vote for him
if he is nominated by the Republican
party, because he is not a Republican"
retorted the other. They parted, each
equally firm in his convictions that
SCHEFFER belonged to the opposite
party from what he did.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
MIR. sCHEFFER's LETTER.

This is a free country, in which every
man has the right to follow the bent of
his individual convictions; and for that
reason Mr.. SCHEFFER'S somewhat re-
markable communication in this morn
ing'S GLOBE is beyond the range of crit
fciSm. Mr.. SCHEFFER is free Ameri-
can citizen, invested with all the priv
iliges which pertain to that high and
dignified station, and as such has right
to think for himself, to act for himself,
to gauge his own conduct and to choose
his own associations. There is no law
to prevent his fellow citizens, whether
Democrats, Republicans or Mugwumps,
from having good opinion of HIM and
from expressing that opinion in any way
they see proper. Such being the case,
the necessity for Mr.. SCHEFFER' letter
at this late day.is hardly apparent, espe-
clally aS his position was as well under
stood before he wrote it as it will be
after its publication.
AS nearly as Mr.. SCHEFFER's letter
can be interpreted, he is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernOr on tariff reform and anti-monop-
oily platform. In other words, he is a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion on platform opposed to Republi-
can principles. This platform is so
thoroughly in accord with Democratic
ideas and doctrines that the GLOBE
could not do otherwise than to wish him
success, and yet for the life of us we
fail to see how this anomalous
mosaic in politics is going to
be produced. 1t is true there are many
strange things happening this year
in politics, but all previous sensations
will be surpassed if the Minnesota Re-
publicans array themselves in direct
antagonism to the national party, and go
into the canvass opposing every doctrine
embodied in the national platform. We
would like to see them do 1t, yet we
confess that it will be the one great sur
prise of our life if they do.
Notwithstanding Mr.. SCHEFFER' s
sanguine expectations, we are still of
opinion that the Democratic party is
the only home the tariff reformer can
call his own.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
WAS MISQUOTED.
Gladstone Explains His Recent
Remarks at Edinburgh.

BUFFALO, July SO.-A dispatch of
July 1st from London, said: 'Mr Glad
stone, in letter to the Edinburgh
Printing and Allied Trades, says he sup
ports their agitation against the Amer
lean copyright bill, but his public med
ding as a politician at the present
stage, might tend to stimulate the
jealousy and susceptibilities of Amer
lean protectionists, thus injuring those
who thought the battle of judgment and
good sense. Let US, as politicians. leave
the case in the hands of the great Amer
lean people. Agitation can make the
case fully known, and possibly they will
find the government disposed to medi-
ate."
On seeing this dispatch, Anna Kath-
arine Green, the novelist, wrote to Mr..
Gladstone. and to-day she received the
following letter. under date of July 20:
The paragraph does not quote my words.
strongly support International copyright !;
but told the Edinburgh printers they were
right in objecting to restrictions which be-
lieve would prevent the use of the same type
frames in both countries, while / advised
them Of the danger of any presumptuous in
reference. Yours, very faithfully,
W. Z. GLADSTONE.
July 20, 1883.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
KISSES FOR MAYOR HEWITT.
A Several Hundred Pound Colored
Woman Looking for the Famed
OSculatOr.

A Several Hundred Pound Coiored
Woman Looking for the Famed
Osculator.
Since Mayor Hewitt has shown a
desire to outdo the great American
osculator, Gen. W. Tecumseh Sherman,
no opportunity is lost by New Yorker
to give him chance to crafty his new
fad. A colored woman, fully six feet
tall, as broad as a hogshead and as black
as the famed ace of spades, called at
police headquarters, says a correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Press. She met
Sergeant James K. Price, Inspector
Williams right bower. She put her big,
chubby fOrefinger on the edges of a little
butt0nhoie in his uniform coat and
asked in a stage whisper how much it
would cost to get married. The genial
little sergeant looked up at the woman
in surprise, but she did not notice the
effect of her query.
"Mr. Sam Washington Clinton have
won my affections" she continued in a
confidential vein; land as he is Door |
want to know how much it will cost"
The sergeant told her that marriages
were not performed at police headquar-
tiers, but if she would call upon Mayor
Hewitt at the city hall he would be
more than pleased to tie the knot. With
a very solemn face the sergeant said the
mayor always kissed the bride. A few
days ago he married duke to an Ameri-
can heiress, and all he asked was kiss,
and he thought the mayor would per-
form the ceremony for her at the same
price. The big colored woman went
away smiling from ear to ear, saying
that she would give Mayor Hewitt 'as
many kisses as de gemman wants, sah."
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
A Bit of Human Nature.

Among the places in which self-re
vealing scraps of human nature crop
out are railway stations. In one the
other day, says the Boston Record. a
big, brawny Irishwoman, whose good
clothes showed that her condition in the
world had risen in a ratio rather too
rapid for her culture" went up to the
Office to purchase an out-of-town ticket
for herself and little girl. At the same
moment a male acquaintance of hers,
who was about the same business, fore
stalled her efforts and got her the tick
cts, and then gallantly, if trifle halt
ingly, refused to take the money.
''Ah, botheration to ye," cried the
woman in rough. good-humored badin-
age, ''don't ye be for putin me under
obligations to ye like that; the more so
when | don't need it," and then in a
sort of rallying stage aside: ''Faith if 1
did maybe its pigskin yer pocketbook
would be made Of"
'HOw SOP" asked the man.
''Grunt a long time before it opened" ;"
she added promptly. The man took the
money"