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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01
Where 10 Go.

Where are you going to spend the
month Of August? Ifyou can't afford
to 60 to high.priced summer resort,
but still want to get out of the hot city
fol- few days or weeks and go where
yoU can keep cool, drink chalybeate
water-as good as can be found-fish,
hunt, boat and get all you can eat,
you want to pack your grip and go up
in Unicoi county and stop with land
lord A.V. Deaderick at Unaka Springs
They don't put on style up there, but
what is much better the ali, the water,
the exercise and the food put flesh on
your bones. If you are looking for a
stylish hotel you don't want to go
to Unaka, but if you are seeking rest
and want to 60 where you can get pure
air, pure water, pure butter,pure milk,
fresh fish-and catch them yourself
and where you can sit and view the
handiwork of Dame Nature in all its
glory and listen to the ripping waters
OF the Nolachucky for hours, until you
forget all the rest of the world and i'm.
agine that you are shut in by the tow
ering peaks that rise all around you
from your very feet, don't stop until
you get to Unaka and hear Uncle
"Dot" blow his dinner horn. The
Spring is about Is miles from here and
can be reached by hack easily in half
day. A regular hack line is run from
Jonesboro. The Three C's will run
within 100 yards OF the place, and next
year you can go up on that. After
passing Erwin the road to the Spring
follows the Nolachucky river the last
two miles, and the scenery for thai
distance alone will more than repay
you for taking the trip. After crossing
the river and entering the hotel
|
grounds you are completely shut of
from the outside world. At your FEEL
is the river, full of perch, waiting fol
you to come and catch them, (if you
CAM and all around you are noun
tains, SO close, you have but to step of
the porch and begin ascending, and Sc
high you cannot shoot over them with
a Winchester rife. But we will no
try to describe the place. II there il
any poetry in your soul and you wan
to realize what real pleasure is, 60 t.
the Unaka, and, if you are not salts
fed, THE COMET will refund the none!
you have paid to have it mailed to you
while out of the city.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

JIM. Ross & Co., large quarry firm,
shipped from this city yesterday to R.
G. Fisher and Co., Of New York, fifty
car loads Of marble. The gross weight
of the shipment was over one million
pounds. This lie probably the largest
shipment from this market for num-
Der of years and goes to show that
East Tennessee marble is, on account
Of its superior quality, in great demand
in the Northern and Eastern markets.
This consignment to r. G, Fisher 4
Co., is to be used in the construction
of the Public Library now being built
at Boston, Observation-Disclosures.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

THE COMET is not fighting ALT Tay.
lor's battles, cause it amt bSilt that
way, but we can't see the use Of accus-
ing man Of riding in a sleeper when
he occupied the smoking car from
Knoxville to Johnson City. The
trouble seems to be with the Pilot, he
could not tell which direction the train
was moving, and saw the NJ. G. in
what he thought was the rear car,
Come, Fitzgerald, take something with
ice in it, that hot stuff will kill your
chances for any other piece Of pie be-
sides the P. 0.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

Last Saturday Elizabethton voted
on proposition to subscribe $4,000
TO the capital strock of the Bristol,
North Carolina and Western railroad.
Major A. D. Reynolds, J. NJ. Barker,
A. @. Smith, A. S. Mcneil, w. A.
Sparger and several other Bristol gen.
tlemen were on hand to work for the
proposition. Maj. Reynolds and Gov.
Taylor made speeches before the polls
opened The most influential citizens
Of Elizabethton worked hard and con-
stantly for "the bonds," and when the
ballots were counted it Was found
that only . votes out Of $50 were
against the proposition. Elizabethton
has done well, and il the county will
only do as well when it is asked to
take $4,000 stock, Bristol and Eliza
bethton will soon be connected by
rail.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

The corporation has leased Science
Hill Institute for five years for public
school purposes. The building and
grounds will be repaired at once and
put in shape for this fall. The board
did wise thing in securing this build
ing rather than spending all the mon
ey now on hand for school purposes in
putting up a new building. Science
Hill Institute is centrally located and
is large enough at present to accom-
modate all the children who would
take advantage of the free money.
Should the time come in the next
five years, when larger building is
needed, it could be built more easily
than at present and more advanta-
geously located, as the centre of popu-
lation is liable to change in a few
years.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

J. w. Boring and G.. W. Mountcas-
tie, formerly cashier and teller OF the
Watauga Banking Co, left Monday
for Lexington, N. c., where they go
to start bank. Mr.. Boring, who will
be president Of the new bank, is self
made man in every sense OF the word,
and Johnson City is proud to own him
rs son, and sorry to lose him. He
belongs to that class OF men that make
things go and has done his share in
building up Johnson City. He is a
practical banker, fine business man,
and enjoys the confidence and esteem
of the whole community in the fullest
sense. Mr.. Mountoastle, the cashier.
is young man Of fine business talent,
having graduated from Poughkeepsie
business college with high honors,
and, like Mr., Boring, is known to be
thoroughly reliable. The combination
is strong one, financially, and the
Bank OF Lexington viii commence
business with capital equal to any
private bank in the South. The peo-
pie Of Lexington are to be congratu-
lated on securing these gentlemen.
Mr.. Boring will return to johnson
City in few days to arrange to move
his family 70 his new home.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

Every growing, ambitious town is
composed of three elements. Those
who work periodically, vigorously and
intelligently for its advancement ;
those who are in a state of apathy or
indifference, and those who take Gu
rious delight discouraging the efforts
Of others by ridicule, by a persistent
denial that any progress can or has
been accomplished, and by boast of
every other town besides their own.
The last class are called croakers, but
they are really something worse, for
their opposition does not arise simply
from dependency, but from that UNI
enviable spirit which will neither act
itself nor suffer others to act.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

1t is settled fact that Johnson City
is to have an Episcopal Church, and
that in a short time. The Johnson
City Real Estate Company has do
mated the lot, and about $500 have
been secured through subscription bv
Col. 7. E. Matson. The citizens OIL
johnson City are liberal people and
give freely to all laudable enterprises
DR.. Ringgold, OF Knoxville, expressed
himself to Col. Matson as more than
satisfied with the amount raised and
said the church he contemplated
building would cost about $500 OF
$1,000, and would be built at once.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

Every Democratic family in Morris
town and surrounding counties would
do we'll to take The Tennessee Pilot
during the next year and thereby give
encouragement to work that is ma
king them big rich. Democratic papers
published in the South haven't any
more influence in bringing capitalists
from the North than so many scattered
patent medicine circulars would have.
Pilot.
For horrible gall the above article
takes the cake. If you could see a
copy Of the paper it wants you to sub.
scribe for, you would think it was the
representative OF q pill factory only
1t has not enough subscribers to justi'
fly it in printing but two pages-the
other two are patent.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01
Can't Do without It.
AKRON ONO, July %

AKRON OHIO, July %.
OK II. LYLE, DEAR SIR:
Enclosed find money order for 81 .25
for COMET. l end my year was up
last February. Pardon me for delaying
but / have been too busy TO even read
the paper for some days after it is re.
ceived, but manage to get there some
time, so you see keep posted. Send
the paper another year.
Yours truly,
E. HUGHES.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01
Censnmntlon EurelY Cnrrd.

ToTHE EDIToR-Please inform your
readers that ! have a positive remedy
for the above named disease. By its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured shall
be glad to send two bottles of my rem
edy FREE to any OF your readers who
have consumption if they will SEND
me their express and postoffice address
Respectfully, T. A. SLoCUM, NJ. c., 18l
Pearl street, New York.
222-293.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01
HOlstOn Association,

The E. T., V. & G. R. R. will give
rate OF 5 cents per mile for round trip
to Bluff City to delegates attending
Holston Association from all stations
east of Knoxville, including Knoxville.
Tickets to be bought on the 9TH or 9Th
OF August Good to return by or be-
fore the 18th.
r. F, DUNCAN, G. & t.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01
Last Thursday was the first pay da,

Last Thursday was the first pay day
on the Three CPS road, and quite a
sum OF money was put in circulation,
The merchants are beginning to real
ize now what the building Of the road
means, and, like the lion that gets a
taste of blood, are anxious for more
They will get it every month now, and
in increased quantities. Something is
going to drop in few days.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

Johnson City, Tenn. August /, 1889.

A grand reunion Of ex.Coniederate
soldiers was held at Byhalia, Miss, last
Thursday. About 5000 people, inclu-
ding over 600 old soldiers, were pres
emit Three hundred head of cattle,
sheep and pigs furnished the barbecue
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-01

IMPORTANT FACTOR.
All kinds Of produce
will be taken in pay
ment Of the old n otes
and Accounts OF Chris
tan & Crockett and
Christian, Fl SIS &
Hodge, this will be an
important factor in
helping you settle up
these old notes and &C.
counts. AS they must
be settled up.
COME AND SEE NE
And bring me your
Cash and Produce, and
get your goods at as
low figures as any man
can sell the same, be he
Jew or Gentle, bond
or free, noble or ignoble
Beeswax wanted at
from 90 to IS cts trade,
I want your Feath-
ers and will pay top Of
the market for them.
! And don't forget tc
bring your Ginseng tc
me, you cannot do bet
ter.
Still buying May APP
pie, Blood Root, Pleu'
risy Root and Other
Botanical Roots.
The only place where
you can sell your cot
ton rags, I will buy al
the clean cotton rags
you can muster.
Come in and see u:
next week, if you can
not do SO tomorrow.
/, Come in and give us
a shake, even ifyou de
; not wish to buy.
But if you wish tx
buy goods of any line
call by all means, anC
thus take care Of you1
cents and I am sure the
dollars will take care
of themselves.
Truly Your Friend,
WILEY II CHRISTIAN
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-08-27

M. Reinhart has
just received his
Spring and Summer
samples for custom
made clothing. Il
you want your
clothes made to orr
der, give him a call
and see as fine d
line of samples ad
has ever been e1I
hibited in ElkO|
You can get a suit
of clothes made I'd
order from SCI Oh
up. Fit GuaranI
teed.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-08-27
C. M. RIDDLE,
S u r v b YOR
AND -
- CIVIL ENGINEER

nEPUTY U. s. LAND AND MtNtRl
- Surveyor for Nevada, Mines laid o.
and surve, cd for Pate mt. Land surveyed, y
plicattons, contracts. payments on land, 50
app~riaining to taking mp or holding lard
the State or Cove ,nmont attended 10. BIAS
keep fully posted as to all lands taken up y
vacant IA che eastern part Of Nevada. y
drsss, klko, Nevsda.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-08-27


An immense stock
of Wallpapers, Bor-
ders and Decora-
tons, in all grades
and qualities and at
lowest prices at
Reinhart's. These
goods have just ar
rived and are the
latest patterns out
this season.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31
HUMAN CHATTELS.
Slave Trading Carried on in Zanzibar
with British Capital.

LONDON, Special.-Letters from Zanzibar
received at the Office of the anti-slavery
society here report that the buying and sell
ing of human chattels in the streets OF that
city is being carried on with scarcely an at
tempt at concealment Weekly markets are
held, at which slaves are bodily exposed TO
the gaze of intending buyers and in many
cases each slave carries placard suspended
from his neck, on which is written the price
at which he can be bought The women are
not usually ticketed in this way, but are sold
for what they will fetch, the ordinary price
being from E6 to 910 each if they are young.
The merchants who carry on the traffic are
all Arabs. but it appears to be well under
stood in Zanzibar that a rich firm of traders,
furnish all the capital TO conduct the busi-
ness, and that by far the largest share
of their immense yearly profits is derived
from this traffic All the local officials in
Zanzibar are said to be in the pay of this
firm, who purchase immunity by bribing the
authorities from the highest TO tho lowest,
and so complete is their influence that no
complaint receives the slightest attention.
To illustrate the openness with which the
traffic is carried on. it is pointed out that the
receipts of slaves every week are publicly
announced by placards upon the walls of
the houses The letters complain that the
representatives in Zanzibar of the different
European governments appear to take no in
terest whatever in these matters.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31
BLOWN UP WHILE BED.
Oscar SterngerG in Butte Has a Giant
Cartridge Exploded Under
His Pillow.

BUTTE, Mont, Special Telegram, Oct. "a
A sensation was caused in the center OF
town this morning by an explosion in q
house. Oscar Stenberg, sign painter, slept
apart from his family in a room under his
shop. There have been family jars be-
tween him and his wife, in which q
man named Schmitzgcr was the disturbing
element, the children taking the mothers
side. Proceedings for divorce have been be-
gun on both sides, which fell through, and
Stenberg has been arrested more than once
for abusing his wife His family live in a
house adjacent to his shop, and his wife
has taken care of his sleeping room,
to which there were two keys,
one kept by him and the other
by Mrs Stenberg. The family retired early
last night and at 6 o'clock this morning were
alarmed by the explosion In Stenberg's
room. His son and daughter, aged sixteen
and fourteen respectively, rushed into the
room and found it In horrible dlsor er,
filled with smoke and the bed clothes
on fire. Stenberg was assisted out to
the other house, his head frightfully lacer-
ated and blood streaming from wounds in
the face. By miracle he escaped death,
though suffering painfully from his injuries.
Investigation showed the explosion was due
to q giant cartridge having been placed
under the pillow of the bed, q fuse
about six feet long having been
passed through small hole to the outside of
the room in the yard. Another cartridge
placed there had failed to explode, otherwise
the building would have been wrecked and
Stenberg blown into eternity. Mrs STEM
berg and her son were arrested during the
day and placed in separate compartments
in the jail No evidence has developed point
ing directly to tine perpetrator of
the outrage, but the authorities believe
these two to be implicated in the affair to
the extent of justifytng their arrest. The
doctors say Sternberg will recover, propided
blood complications do not arise. Schmitzger
cannot be found, though the officers are
searching for him. The wrecked condition
of the room and furniture in which the oc-
currence took plack make it mystery how
the victim escaped with his life.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31
RICH AND RACY.
Correspondence Between Gen. Noble

correspondence Between Gen. Noble
and Pension Agent.
ALBANY. N. Y, OCT 24.-Secretary Noble,
in q letter to w. W. Thompson, pension
agent for the district of Maine, refuses to
accept that gentleman's resignation. The
correspondence as furnished Mr.. Thompson
is as follows: Secretary Noble writes under
date of October %:
I have received letter addressed by you to
Hon. Hiram Smith, Jr., deputy commissioner of
pensions. In this document you endeavor to
resign, but inasmuch as you have not had the
intelligence to direct your paper to the only per-
son who can accept your resignation, and it Is
handed to me by Mr.. Smith, beg leave to
inform you that your intended resignation is
not accepted. but as you are thereby shown to
be both slanderer and one totally unfit for the
services Of the United States, You are dismissed.
and your services are no longer required.
Mr. Thompson gives the following as his
reply to Secretary Noble:
Your favor just received. Your letter lacks
dignity, respectability and exhibits the writer
in his true character. l feel free to
ciSlly 1 yU sycophant w and ieEspittie Hd dislike like
to use this language to any person in official
station. and cannot afford to waste more post
age ard time with pen. I shall send all your let
ters to me, and an account Of your dictatorlal
methods to the president, and If he sustains
you shall be confirmed in the general opinion
OF all good people that you mtsrepresent the
men who made 1t possible for Benjamin
Harrison to insult the nation by putting you in
place and power, which neither your services or
cha racter can justify, and your continuance in
office is a violence to every sense of propriety.
There can be no usefulness in your further SER
vice, certain no benefit to the peo-
pie will be derived from your persistent
slander Of better than you ever attempt to be
or ever have been. While dislnissals are going
on you are conspicuously worthy notice. The
president wouln consult the public welfare by
letting you return to the obscurity in which no
found you and for which your talents best fit
you.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31
A JURY AT LAST.
Resume of Work Done in the Cronin
Case to Find the Twelve Men.

Resume of Work Done in the Cronin
Case to Find the Twelve Men.
CHICAGO, Special A complete jury was Sc
cured in the Cronin case has been
When this work had been finished the stqte's
attorney asked for IN adjournment for
two days, in order to give the
prosecution tims TO make out q plan
for the presentation of its case. The
defense objected. and Judge Mcconnell COM
promised by adjourning the hearing until
Thursday morning. The impaneling of q
jury commenced on Aug. 80, and, allowing
for the time occupied by the court in the
drainage commission and Rn adjournment
asked foc by the states attorney,
seven weeks have been occupied In
getting the Jury; 1901 Jurors have
been summoned, of whom 927 have
been excused by counsel for cause. In addi-
tion to the 1901 special venirnen sum-
moned there were also twenty-four on the
regular panel disposed Of One hundred aId
seventy-fve peremptory challenges have
been used, Of which the defense has used
ninety-seven. At the time the jury was
sworn in Mr.. Begps, the defendant, had three
perempiory challenges left, and the state
twenty-five.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31
A NEW CONGRESSMAN.
Mr.. HansbrouGh Thought to Ee That
in Every Sense of the WCrd.


WASHINGTON Special Telegram,
CONGRESSMAN Hansbrough has secured quar-
ters at the Riggs house aud will remain there
during the end of the session. He is sized up
in the Evening Star as follows:
Representative HansbrouCh Of North Dakota
is a new member in the broadcast sense, for he
and his state are both new. Having been a news
paper man, he is modest and does not undertake
to saw what congress is going TO DO with the tar
if. He says Dakota is glad to go into the Union.
where she belongs, and her representatives will
pay their share OF attention to public affairs
after they are initiated He has already learned
something of the duties Of member of congress
through having number of applications for
office to look after He is young I4an, plain,
matter of-fact talker and Is evidently not def
cient in energy. He says be is inclined to think
that ex- Gov. Ordway may not get the senator
ship he seeks. Pierce will probably be elected,
he thinks.
ID a haIf-colulnn interview in the Phila-
delphia Press Congressman Hansbrough
takes exceptions 10 the reports of great des-
titution in North Dakota. especially in Ram
sey county, He says that the report pub
llshed so widely in the East that there are
1000 destitute people in Ramsey county is
erroneous as there are only that number of
people in the county. Good crops are what
the people need, and more moisture is all
they ask In this connection Mr.. Hansbrougn
is studying irrigation matters and will be
ready with the entire Northwestern delega-
tion to put through some measure that will
secure more water for prohibition Dakota.
Mr. Hans brough ca led upon Secretary
Proctor to-day in the interests OF the dis
tressed residents of Ramsey county, N. D.
Mr. Hansbrough has 0sked Secretary Proctor
to permit the destitute settlers to cut fire.
wood from the timber tract on Devils Lake
reservation, Fort TOtten, covering several
thousand acres on the shore of the lake.
The secretary was not certain of his au-
thority in the premises, but promised Mr..
Hansbrough an answer to- morrow. Ho feels
inclined to rant The request
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-10-31

fountain from which trailad ivy vines drir-
ping with the water of many spraying jets
that sparkled in lights clustered around aud
beneath. The guests were shown to sea
upon the platform, where President Charles
A Cox, of the exchange, received
them. On the floor were seated
several hundred of ladies in st. Louis
society, Gov. Francis wife holding the cen
trail place Addressing the guests, Mr. Cox
briefly greeted them and then presented
Gov. d. II. Francis, who formally welcomed
them. Mayor E A Noonan added a brief
welcome, after which Minister Zagarra
of Peru responded for the delegates.
He said the glau voice of welcome here was
in unison with the greetings everywhere re-
ceived during the present trip through this
grand and marvellous country. The hearts
of the strangers had been filled with
gratitude and with faith that the coming
congress would have good results. No otti-
cial scheme had ever received SO hearty or
so popular endorsement: from people so
great and so powerful. He said in conc!u-
sion: The mighty river that washes
by our city points you to our
lands and to our great markets
and we extend our wish for you to have all
the blessings ;hat make people great, pros
and happy After quartet son by ladies,
the visitors were pre>euted to the ladies
present, and before the close there was
merry whirl of dancers on the great floor.