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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-10-09
From a True Republican.

PASADENA, September. 80, 1890.
EDITOR COMET;
have located for one year at the
above address, and would be pleased
to have my paper sent TO the above.
At present the postotfice people send
it to one OF my former places, and /
have difficulty in getting it, and as we
can't get along without THE coEET,
please send il as above.
You are having a grand old time, |
see, in business way ,as we'll as politi-
cally. I believe, as you do, that II a
man believes in Democracy, on prin-
eiple, he ought 10 have chance to
vote his principles. or eourse, don't
believe in Democracy, but |
believe in the philosophy OF your
position, Please send me bill for your
paper up to the end Of your next,
OF rather, ny next year, and | will
send you the amount.
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Ladies' Auxiliary Organized.

Last Sunday afternoon the Ladies
Auxiliary to the Young Mems Chris
tian Association was organized in the
Y. NJ. @. A. Hall. Mrs. j. j. Adams
was elected President, Mrs. Charles
Moore, First Vice-President, Mrs. Will
Harr, Second Vice-President, Miss
Fannie Iipscomb, Secretary, and Miss
Cora Shewalter, Treasurer.
The Auxiliary will meet with the
Association the first Sunday of each
month, and every lady in town who
feels an interest in the young men Of
Johnson City is cordially invited to
become q member.
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The Celebrated

French & Co.'s Circus came to town,
as advertised, on Tuesday. 1t is the
best show of tho kind which has Wis
tied this place for many years. Many
Of the performances excel anything
we ever saw. The programme, as adj
vertised, is carried out much nearer
than is usual. The show was patron
lied by large crowds both afternoon
and evening, as it deserves. The band
is the best we ever heard with a cir
Gus. AS long as Mr.. French keeps his
show up to the present standard he
will deserve and receive the patronage
of the public.-Lake Geneva, Wis.
News, June 10, 1890.
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strayed or Stolen.

On Tuesday night a Sorrel Horse
10 hands high, either strayed or was
stolen from my stable on Watauga
avenue. The horse was 4 4 years old,
had white iorefeet and nose, and heavy
name and tail. 1t also had a scar
on right hip made by kick. $25 re.
ward for the horse and $25 fo appre.
hension OF thief.
JAS. A. MARTIN.
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Death of Mrs, Wofford.

The announcement of the death OF
Mrs. Octavia Wofford, which occurred
near noon to-day has cast a gloom
over the city. She was a, most es-
Unable lady and during her short
residence here has made many warm
friends who will mingle their tears
with those of the bereaved husband
and children. The deceased was fifty
five years old and had been consist
ent member OF the Baptist Church
for years. She died after an illness OF
several weeks surrounded by her fam
lily and at peace with her God. The
funeral services will be conducted by
Rev. ]. G. Cowan at the Baptist
Church Friday morning at ten o'clock
Interment in City Cemetery.
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OTHER MAKES.

Ladies Heavy Kip Shoes, former
price, ooc., will now go for 75c.
Heavier Kip Shoes for ladies which
have been sold for 81, will be sold
for Soc.
Ladies Heavy Kip Whole Stock
Shoes which we sold at $I.35, will
be closed at $I.Io. Mems Lace
Shoes, former price, $I.75 now
$40. Mems Lace and Congress
Shoes, sold at 81, for $I.75. Mems
Shoes, former price, $3.50, at $2.75.
Same kind of cuts made on Mems
Heavy Kip and Calf-skin Boots,
Misses and Children's Heavy Kip
Shoes so cheap that no one need go
barefoot. They will be sold regard
less of cost.
also have some Rubber Boots
which we offer at $2.2o, former
price, So. And quite lot of Misses.
and Children's Rubbers to close at
IS and zoe. per pair.
| have quite a stock of Mems and
Boys Fur and Wool Hats which |
will sell cheaper than you can get
them elsewhere, and, that you may
be convinced, just call at No. s,
MARKET STREET, and see with
both eyes open. Also nice lot of
Mems Derbys, which will be sold
at prices to suit the times on the
Spot Cash basis.
400 or 500 gallons Stone Ware at
Ioc. per gallon.
You will also find quite stock
of mems odd coats and odd vests
and odd pants that you can get at
prices to please you. They must be
closed out. The pants are extra
large sizes and extra low prices.
also want to call your attention
to our fannels, domestics, cotton
plaids, ticking, cottonades, striped
velvets and pushes, towels, towel
ing wigan, selecias, cambrics, corset
jeans, linseys, corsets, overalls,
working shirts, Hamburg edgings
and insertion, laces, ladies' and
gents handkerchiefs, suspend
ers and hundreds of other articles
in the notion line. A full line of
groceries and provisions a good
stock of staple drugs and medi-
cines, all of which will be sold at
prices ranging with and below
prices that you can obtain them at
in any othe,, house.
These prices are for SPOT
CASH, No Time, NO CREDIT,
or for good produce at CASH
PRICES. And here l want to
state that buy more country pro-
duce than any other house will
handle. l want to buy corn, wheat,
oats, corn meal, clean cotton, rags,
eggs, butter, chickens, Irish pota-
toes, ginseng, Virginia or black
snake root, Seneca snake root, an
gelica, burdock root, May-apple,
pleurisy root, jamestown or jimson
leaves, spiknard.
So bring along your produce and
your cash, and get goods at prices
below what you can at other houses
and other places. will always be
glad to see you.
Your friend and
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Evidence to the Point.

0. l.. Kits, a prominent merchant
OF Shelton Ford, Granger county,
Tenn, says that he has been selling
DR.. Harris Worm Cream since it made
its first appearance, and that it has
given better satisfaction to his custom
ers than any worm medicine he has
ever sold, and he has been merchant
for many years, and sold all kinds on
the market, He says that no instance
has come to his notice where Harris
Worm Cream hds failed to bring about
the desired result, and he knows o.
cases where one.half dose brought al
many as fifty or more worms.
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Elsewhere in this issue will be found
an advertisement of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Development Company, at
West Clifton Forge, Va, This is one OF
the growing towns in Southwest Va,
and is practically Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway town. The Company is ia
thering the town and will locate
their large shops there. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the @. & 0. peo-
pie will make OF West Clifton Forge
what the Pennsylvania Railroad has
made Altoona, Pa. You will find
some interesting facts by referring to
the advertisement.
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The Courier's senior denies that he
electioneered for the position of Float
err as he went to Morristown. He is
probably correct. 1t was the position
of Senator he wanted then, but when
he learned that there was cand date
for that position, he agreed to be con-
tent to be Floater. His answer was
like that of the old maid to the owl
anybody, Lord" or anything, so it is
an office.
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The Bristol Courier cannot conceal
is envy and malice and ill-will toward
Gov. Taylor. 1t cannot even let the Re-
publicans settle the Congressional race
without interjecting spiteful insinua-
tions against him. Why is this? What
has Gov Taylor done to arouse the ire
of the Courier? So far as we know, his
only sin OF omission or commission
was that he failed to appoint its editor
his private secretary.
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After Brother Slack, of the Bristol
Courier, had withdrawn from the race
for Floater, the Democrats of Sullivan
gave him sort of perfunctory post
norton endorsation. But that was
better than no endorsement at all,
and we hope it will molliiy his wound
ed vanity.
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L. l.. Lawrence, Esq, of Greene
county, is a Democratic candidate for
Floater. He is a Democrat-a good,
true, outspoken Democrat who will
serve his party faithfully and well. He
deserves and will doubtless. receive
the support of Democrats all over the
State.
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HUNTER & BROWN,
Wanted

To sell my farm of 12O acres at Tus-
culum, Tenn, Az miles East OF
Greeneville, 2 miles South of Alton
Station. Good land, good buildings,
good water, and close to one Of the
best Institutes of learning in the
South. Apply at once, to
II. M. DoBsoN,
1t Tusculum, 7 enn.
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The plans for the new depot have
been accepted by the committee and
the building will be erected according
ly if the Three C's road will pay
$4,000 of the $4,000 necessary to
build it. The committee is now in
correspondence with the Three C's
officials.
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Also, still have few pieces OF
Blantyre Ginghams, which we sold
at I5c. now offered at Ioc.
Dress Ginghams, 81, 9, 10 and
II cents.
White Dress Goods, former price,
I5c. now I24c.
White Cross barred Muslin re-
duced from 10 to Sc.
India Lawns reduced to 10, II
IS and I6c. former price, II, IS, is
and 2or
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The Windsor is the the name of a
new restaurant just opened on Market
rect in the Faw building. The house
has been thoroughly everhs uled, re-
painted and papered and the appoint.
ments are perfect. 1t is frst.class in
in every particular and will be a fea.
ture of the city.
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w. r. Rhea, Of the firm of Rhea,
Seehorn & Co., has returned from a
business trip to Louisville.
The Courier announces that Hon,
w. P. DUNCAN has decided to with
draw from the race for Senator.
DR.. Knapp, the occulist, is in the
city and may be found in his Office
with DR.. J. w. Cox, during the re-
mainder Of the week.
The cornice Of the First National
Bank is being painted light brown
which adds very much 10 The appear
anoe Of the building.
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Death of judge peadrIek,

JoNEsBoRo, October 7.-Hon. ]. w.
Deaderick, late chief justice of the
Tennessee supreme court, died at his
residence here at o'clock this fore
noon, age rs years. Judge Deaderick
was one Of the Oldest and best known
lawyers in the State, and through his
long and blameless life has enjoyed
the respect and esteem of all who
knew him.
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Alt Taylor's Side.

Last Thursday night Hon. A, A.
Taylor addressed a large crowd OF Re-
publicans in Jobe's Opera House. The
greater potion of his speech was TAX
en- up in explanations. The speech
was well received and the speaker
was frequently applauded. The even
ing passed off quietly as no Butler
men was there to answer him. The
services was opened with music by
Mr.. Taylor's special quoir. 1t was the
feature Of the evening.
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For Governor;
JOHN P. BUCHANAN,
OF Rutherford.

The Journals sourenir Edition is a
gem and refe1ts great credit on the
management. The "a pages are filled
with appropriate and choice read
ing matter and will be preserved by
both sides as a memento of the oc-
casion.
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A Nice Contract.

The contract for the tin work on
Hotel Carnegie has been awarded to
A. F. Henderson & Co., of this city
The firm has also secured the contract
for the tin and cornice work on Hotel
Carlisle, The contracts are large ones
and are well placed.
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Don start away without getting an
Accident Ticket for $4,000; $25 week.
ly indemnity in the American Acct
dent Company, of Louisville, KY.
Cost, % cents per day $3.50 for thirty
days. For sale by Chas. P. Wofford
and at the Railroad Ticket Office and
at Hotels.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-10-09

Hon. p. M. Kiser, Of Johnson coun-
ty, was in the city Tuesday, returning
from Blountville. Mr.. Kiser has an
nounced himself candidate for Con
gress on the Democratic ticket, and
unless the Executive Committee de-
eide to call convention to nominate
a candidate, Mr.. Kiser should have
the support of every Democrat in the
district.
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ABoId Burglary.

Tuesday night one or more persons
entered Toney & Browns clothing
store through a back window and Sc
cured about $500 worth of goods, in
GLIDING watches, rings, chains, silk
handk ercieis, ties etc. There is no
clew to the theft.
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The grading Of the streets in Min
neapolis has been let to Mr.. Kenefck,
who is man Of great push and enter
prise and we may look for the com.
pletion Of the grade at an early date.
-Bickley's Mill yirginian.
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Bishop Quintard, of the Episcopal
Church, preached an able and elo-
quent sermon at the Presbyterian
Church last night to an appreciative
congregation.
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For the Next Thirty Days
will make a Great Slaugh-
ter Of Goods for the
:.
CASH PRICES AND NO TIME

1900 y Ne'Aa'1
former price, zoe. now, soc.
Doe-skin Jeans, former price,
Goo. now, 45c.
Wooden Dress Goods, former
price, I5c. now, I2c.
Wooden Dress Goods that were
22c. now I5c,
Dress Goods that were soc, for
20 cents.
Dress Goods that were SIC, for
&c cents.
Broadhead Dress Goods that were
Soc, for $50, and it is the best
goods for the money in America.
Broadhead Dress Goods which
we sold for 65c. we will sell for sac.
Two pieces of black Henrietta
Cloth, very fine, at 90 and 95c.,will
be sold for "a and 49,, and same
kind of cuts on all Wooden Dress
| Goods.
A few pieces of side-stripe Mus
Inns that cost &C., which you can
have at SC. yard.
A few pieces Sateen which cost
roc Won can have for 10 cents
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zIEGLER BROS SHOES FOR
LADIES'.

So shoe, $2.5o; $3.25 shoe for
$a.75 ; $3.50, for $50 81, So IS.
Misses and Children's Shoes sub
;ac+ 10 +ha CANA c,,t
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STARTLING WONDERS OF THE BRUTE CREATION
Six Shows One Ticket To All.

The Finest Bare Back Riders the most charming Lady Equesans the
Athletes Gaos the most Fearless Aerial Artists the Won
de Hndoo and Persian uggs the greatest number OF Champion acts
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IMMENSE HIPPODROME FEATURES.

Hazardous High Wire Art
Groesque and Comic Clowns the best Performing Horses and
Tight Performers the Largest Performing Elephant
big Herd of Came the greatest collections Lions Tigers Leopds
Panthers etc.
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Have you seen the lovely beaver
sailors at Mrs. Brunners.
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Statement Showing the Amounts
Due the Various School Districts
on October st. 1890.
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LATE STYLES.
FINE DRESS GOODS
beforel purchasing. We have the
most complete stock ever brought
to the market.
Having recently enlarged our

Having recently enlarged our
building, we have opened our Mil
linery Department on the first floor
and has displayed the largest
and most stylish line of Millinery
ever brought to this market.
Our Line of Dress Goods is
also superior to any in the city, and
you will find the latest styles at the
lowest prices. The cash system
enables us to make the above prop
osition.
Miss Bette Griffin, OF Knox
vtlle, will have charge of the Mill
merry Department. She is an expe-
rienced and artistic Milliner and
will give satisfaction to the trade.
Very respectfully,
HUNTER B BROWN,
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OFFICE TRUSTEE, WASHINGTON COUNTY,

Very Respectfully,
8. H. PouDER, Trustee.
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CASH, YOU KOW.

I2c., you can have for 10 cents
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-06-22
A Lawyer Knits Stockings.
phtiadelnhia Racord

Knitting stockings with hand-machine
is the daily occupation of j. Monroe Shell
lenberger. Bucks cOunty's disgraced law
yer, whose twenty-five years sentence in
the eastern penitentiary is the heaviest in
the institution. except that of the life pris-
oners. 1t was quite q come-down for the
once respected and influential attorney. and
he resented the labor very much at first
Work was always a foreign quantity to
his vain and happy -go-lucky nature. but he
has adapted himself to his new occupation
with an aptitude excelled only by his for
mer ability TO steal other folks sigma
tures." His overseers state that he is one
of the most industrious workmen in the
institution, and the quality of his work is
unusually good.
His appearance has been SO much changed
that his own fellow-citiZens would hardly
recognize him. The luxuriant head of IRON
gray hair is gone. and the massive mustache
that dropped gracefully over coarse. full
mouth has disappeared in accordance with
prison rules His figure is not improved by
the striped prison clothing. He is no longer
the loud-spoken. good and ostenta-
tious shelly" but quiet and tanned
number" He shirks the presence of
strangers, showing extreme sensitiveness
at his present state of degradation, and
rarely speaks to a fellow-conyict.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-06-22
A MODEST BONANZA KING.
The Shy Manners and the Democratic Wa
of John w. Mackay.

The Shy Manners and the Democratic Ways
of John w. Mackay.
New York Letter to Augusta Chronicle.
The fast express from the West has Just
rolled into the Grand Central Depot. There
is the usual hurry and hustle and the wild
shouts of the cabmen. One of the passen-
gers who alights, takes his valise and um-
brella In his hand and goes along in a busi-
ness-like way is one Of the wealthiest men
III the world. 1t is John w. Mackay, the
famous bonanza king. He has just returned
from q trip across the continent and an in
specti0n of some of the mines that he is in
terested in. He is refreshing sight in
these days. for he is a millionaire who shuns
notoriety. His fellow passengers never
dreamed who the quiet. unassuming man
was who sat In corner OF the car with his
head buried in q newspaper hour after hour.
When he reached the depot he made no
fuss. but quietly took up his baggage and
hurried away TO his hotel. He did not even
take the precaution TO telegraph in advance
for an elaborate suit of rooms. He went to
the hotel where he usually stops. was as
signed to S5-a-day room on the Broadway
side of the house, and IN few moments
was In the large dining-room, enjoying no
more expensive dinner than the average
drummer.
He is as shy as q school girl, makes no
pretense of wealth, keeps his own counsel,
steers clear of reporters, and was never
known to give an interview for publication.
He never answers any of the Thousand beg
glng letters that come to him in the course
of q month. pays no attention to what his
neighbors are doing, but rather minds his
own business-a unique proceeding in this
day. How much money he is worth is still
a topic of speculation. His fortune is
placed anywhere from SSO,000.0OO to
500, ,OOO, 600. Perhaps the first sum is nearer
the truth. But nobody will ever know
until he dies. He has no confidants. He is
really the last of the big four who ruled
the mines of the West for so many years.
1t may be just as well right here to say
that there is one topic on which Mr.. Mackay
talks to his most intimate friend. That is
his wife. He is as much in love with her
to-day as ever. There is nothing that de-
lights him quite SO much as to read of her
social success abroad. That she should
have conquered even among queens in the
old world is no small feather in the cap of
one who was once washerwoman in q
mining camp. Mr.. Mackay is proud of her,
but he laughs at the newspaper reports of
the ridiculously large sums she is supposed
to squander on her entertainments abroad.
And well he NAV. for, while Mrs. Mackay
entertains lavishly, she is not extravagant.
1t is not unlikely that she may visit this
country during the summer.
The Indianapolis journal., 1890-06-22
ANARCHIST MENDELssOHN.
He Is . Cousin of the Famous Composer
The Nihilist Nest in Paris.

He Is . Cousin of the Famous Composer
The Nihilist Nest in Paris
Springfield Republican.
The recent arrest of Russian Nihilists in
Paris had some peculiar features, and it
affords singular shock to find that the
principal man among them. whose wealth
supplied the means by which many of them
lived, is q second cousin of the gentle Fc-
ix Mendelssohn. being reat-grandson of
the serene philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn,
who did so much TO moderate the enmity
between jew and Christian in Prus-
sia. This MendelssOhn Inherited a fortune
from his great-uncle. the banker. and
dwelt In q fine 2llla In the suburb of Fon-
'tenay Roses, having charming andac
complished wife. Yet he has long been
prominent in the terrorist faction of the
Russian revOlutionlsts, and has repeatedly
exposed himself to danger, having once
been sentenced for taking part in acOnspir.
acy against the life of the Gar. although
he managed To escape. He has been en-
gagged in experimenting with explosives,
and was with Demski. near Zurich,
some time ago when that person was
woun0ed and O friend killed by the
explosives which they were trying. His
motive in this career is certainly not
patriotism, since he is neither Russian
nor Pole and the same is to be said of
Reinstein. another of those arrested, who
lived in the GObelIns quarter, and, like
Mendelssohn, is q Hebrew and IN good cir
cumstances. though not wealthy. These
terrorists were distributed in several
quarters of Paris, so as not to draw atten-
tion to their affairs by close association
though that is really of small consequences.
since the spies of the Russian Gar are
everywhere. There were seventeen of
them in all. fourteen men and three women.
including two young women students and
Mrs. Reinstein, but not Mendelssohn's
wife. In every room these seven
teen occupied there were explosive
bombs. OF their material-dynamite. nj
tro-glycerine and panclastite. All these
people professed to be pursuing scientific
studies, but science of this description is
thoroughly appreciated by police authOri-
ties everywhere. The Czar's spies are
equally we'll acquainted with the propa-
randist division of the revolutionists. who
never have anything to do with the terror
lists. but confine their energies to producing
and circulating revolutionary literature,
just as Russia's refugees in this country do.
as we described at length several years
ago. Some of them condemn terrorism
most heartily. realizing that violence al
ways retards. never helps. the opportunity
of freedom. But there are no doubt others
who sympathize with even such insane
folly.