The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-11


G. F, Clarkson, Jr., another son OF
his pa, has been appointed private Sec
retary to the First Assistant Postmas.
ter-General.
In the twenty years from 1867 to
1887 the divorce courts of Tennessee
discovered sol matches that were not
made in heaven.
The hundred-ton gun is not yet re-
garded with great favor. The majOri-
ty OF guns for new ironclads are be-
tween sixty and seventy tons.
Mr.. Blaine bas remembered his
friend Carnegie and made him one of
the delegntes to the American con-
ference. 1t is good appointment
A mania Of suicide is prevalent in
Pittsburg. Within the past week
nine attempts at self-destruction have
been made, and six of them were sue
cessful.
Mr.. Robert T. Lincoln called upon
the President and Secretary Blaine
yesterday ana formally accepted the
English mission. He will sail for
England about the 18th of May.
Twenty-Five States are endeavoring
to purify their election laws by intro
ducing the Australian system of
voting. Senator Dortch, OF Tennessee,
appears to-have a mighty large follow.
ing.
Dispatches from Dakota report that
fires have been raging fearfully
throughout the state. Many lives
have been lost and thousands OF dol
lars worth OF property destroyed.
Many families have been deprived of
everything.
1t is an Australian advertising geni-
us who suggests that the Government
farm out the backs of postage stamps
for advertisements, which would be
printed under the gum, so that the
user OF the stamp in wetting it would
see the "ad."
The Tennessee State Medical Socie-
ty holds its fifty-sixth annual meeting
April Both at Nashville. Governor
Taylor will deliver the opening ad-
dress and President Happel, OF Tren-
ton, will make an andress on " Alcohol
as a Medicine"
Richard Dowell, a condemned mur-
derer, has just been discovered in Da-
kota after a hunt of twelve years. He
murdered two people in West Virginia
in 1876, was tried for it, convicted and
escaped. The detectives have been
hunting for him since,
The Washington Light Infantry Of
Charleston, S. c., will take part in the
centennial pageant at New York, and
will march under the original crimson
battle-hag OF Col. VIM. Washington's
calvary. This flag was actually in the
battles OF the cowpens and Eutaw
Springs, and is the revolutionary stan
dard extant in a condition for use in a
parade.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. l.. Crumley, for
several years citizens of this place,
have taken their departure for John
son City, their future home. 1t is a
matter OF serious regret that our best
citizens continue to leave. Mr.. Crum-
ley was superintendent of the Method
ist Sunday-school, and prominent
member oi that church, and will be
greatly missed 10y them AS well as by
all our citizens. Our good wishes 60
with them.-Blountville Correspond
ent in Bristol Courier.
The late Dr. Austin Flint, professor
in Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Fellow OF the New York Academy ot
Medicine, member Of the state medi
cal societies of New York, Virginia
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, etc, says
in speaking OF advanced kidney dis
ease (or Bright's); Fatal termination
is many times due to pericarditiI
(heart disesse), apoplexy, difficult
breathing, dropsy." The foregoing
are but symptoms of diseases Tha
being the case there is nothing absurs
: in the claim made by the proprietor
of Warmers Safe Cure that they pre-
vent apoplexy and cure heart disease
etc., with Warmers Safe Cure. Why
Because it removes the cause OF dis
ease, and when the cause is removes
the symptom called disease is cured
Senator Dortch's good wook in fran
ing and securing the passage Of his elet
stion bill has encouraged the Democrat
Lpress in many States to loud demand
for similar laws One OF the latei
comments in this, from the st. Lou
Republic OF yesterday; "Tennesse
: has enrolled itself in the list Of State
H.. L,ya odontod tho Australian ha