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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

A button hole mandatory is re-
ported by an exchange. it, a ques-
ton with the TINES, as to how
these holes are to be used, and
what kind of material will they be
made from, will it be cloth, metal
or leather, but laying aside all
jokes, they can he made practical
from all these substaces, as much
so as. buttons are practical, and
will save deal of trouble to our
home folks.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
rHEPRIcE OF WHEAT.

The price Of wheat is largely gov
erned by the supply of the article.
The foreign market for the surplus
wheat in this country is England.
If there were no other countries to
supply England except the United
States there would be no question
as to the price the farmer would
realize for his wheat.
The competitors for the supply of
wheat to England, are Russia, Ger
many, Canada, India, Australia and
some other countries. The last two
named have lately become large
wheat producers, SO that instead of
thirteen thousand tons in 1866 in
1885 they furnished nearly forty-one
thousand tons, being an increase in
twenty years of 2l3 per cent. In
1865 the shipment from the United
States was only 749 tons, to 1899
tons in 1885, an increase of 1866
per cent in twenty years. Now,
Great Britain needs certain
amount of wheat each year to feed
her millions ofpeople. The amount
from foreign countries Of course de-
ponds upon the amount Of her own
productions and the production of
our foreign competitors, India and
Australia, in the last fifteen years
have furnished Great Britain with
nearly one-fourth of her purchases.
And as these countries can produce
wheat cheaper on account of cheap
labor than we can, it reduces the
price of our wheat.
The shipment of wheat to Great
J Brittian is not impeded by any tariff
as that country admits it free, 81
} that it is the competition we have
that reduces the price of wheat. l
it was not for our home market il
} the United States built up by ou
, manufacturing interests, the pro
) duction of wheat would be reduce,
l to actual wants Of few non-produc
5 ers and the limited amount shipped
Q But to settle all controversy as t
! what has been the price of whea
1 for each year, the TIMES refers t
y Chicago Board of Trade for tn
s prices given you herein. The aver
s age price of wheat under the admin
e istration of James Buchanan 1856
1860 was S2B cents per bushel; fror
o 1861 to 1864 1919 cents; from 1876
It to 1868 1909 cents; from 1869
: 1872, 1154 cents; from 1873 to 1877
IT 1O8s cents; from 1877 to 1880 IL
cents; from 1881 to 1888 1861 cent
from 1884 to 1887 635 cents. ]
: 1858 wheat was as low as so cents
bushel: in 1856 it ran down to
n cents. During Cleveland's admin
J. tration wheat was down to 66S cent
m and yet the Democracy have bes
d talking of the low prices of whe
,e under Republican administrati(
a since Harrison's election, when
e. has not reached the low price
III Cleveland's four years.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

THE TIMES is in favor of consti-
tutional convention. The people
now can afford to have such con-
vention. The old hatreds of war
times are past. The people can
deal fairly, literally and economic
ally with all subjects that might be
right for state to consider in a
constitutional convention. The
great developments in all directions
demands new code of laws, or au-
, thority to revise those we have now
on the statute Of the state. The
great interests of the ''state demand
: this much at the hands of the next
Legislature, and we trust the press
Of the State will fully discuss this
matter.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

The New York Sun reviews John
Houk and a circular John sent to
his subordinate doorkeepers. John
says in that circular that he was not
appointed to be a key hole listener.
1t is not known to US whether John
Was accused of that low business or
not, but it is said IN the Bible that
"the wicked flee when no man pur-
sues.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
WHAT SHALL NY FAMILY READ?

The question at the head of this
article is one Of the most important
and is only second to the question
asked by the jailor ofPaul and Silas,
"Sirs, what shall l do to be saved?"
There are published in the Uni
ted States eleven thousand, four
hundred and three weekly and
monthly papers and periodicals.
These papers are largely published
for the money there is found in them.
1t is not so much to furnish good
reading as it is to decoy the people
into reading the class furnished by
the publishers. A large per cent. of
publishers are on the same line with
the vendors Of intoxicating liquors.
They do not stop to ask for the CT
feet produced; its the money they
are after, and any class Of reading
that will accomplish this end is what
they will give in their publications
The secular press carries with ii
the greatest responsibility, as il
reaches millions of people, while the
religious, comparatively speaking
only reach thousands. The reason
of this great disparity in numbers il
found in the fact that one is reforma
tory while the other panders to the
degraded appetites Of the people
A large per cent. of the secular
press desire to reach the degraded
tastes of such as crave scandal ant
indecency as food, and can only b.
satisfied with them. The newspape
that publishes the outrages of Grim
inals and the degradations of human
society, is the paper whose bushes
it is to lead young boys and girl
astray, is the one sought for by tn
lepers of human society. The dali
papers that are loaded down wit
that class of reading, prosper Will
the moral and religious papers ar
starving. Fathers and mother
often furnish the money to lea
their children to destruction in thi
: direction, as they never stop to Sc
what their children read. The goo
J things that men do are denominate
the actions oftanatics. Even Sunda
School scholars tire in reading. L
the,work ofdemons, devils and brute
that modern readers want, and til
dailies and large city weeklies al
hunting in the dens of infamy
supply such information and give
in dime novels or through the r
ports Of the telegraph and CORFU
reportorial articles.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

THE Knoxville Medical College
will sue for damages, the officers
who served writs on that body, and
made searches for dead bodies in
the College.
CORONER GALYON, Of Knoxville
Tenn, died suddenly at his home
on last Thursday morning. Mr..
Galyon was a leading democrat
and q member of the Masonic or.
der.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
LAND SALE.

By virtue n the terms and provisions OK q
deed in trust executed I" ue On tbs 20. day Of
December 1881, by y II. l.sie ami wife liza
In he, % secure a note OF $500. payable TO I. d.
Carp nter: and which sal! trust deed is register
ed in the Registers office vi Blount lyauty III
1rus. Book. Vol. l. PAGES md :, will sell on
the s.h dry u, March 1880 at To court honse
door in the town " Ma.wville, Tenr, to The high
est bi iticr for cash IN hant AMI in oar OF aquttJ
o. redemption, tract of land situated IN the 7th
civil !;srict Of Bio mt t,oults, Tehuessee. all
ioinGg the lands nf A. B. Mdltag, DR.. J. n.
MarIn and others and ally 'isSrr bod By meets
and bounds IN saia trust dee.
SAN /. i.owA,. T.Istee.
Feb. Z. 1900, 3ti.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

The Republicans in the Lower
House of Congress have 1859 mem
bers, while the Democrats claim
161. This gives the Republicans
eight majority. There are however,
a few Democrats occupying seats
who are not entitled to them, and it
is hoped the Republicans will clean
out all such.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

Rev. De WITT TALMAGE arrived
at home in New York last Thursday
night. Some of our readers feared
that his absence would prevent our
giving his sermons regularly, but
there need have been no fears as
the TINES has special contract for
his sermons.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

THE republicans everywhere en-.
dorse Speaker Reeds determine.
ton to do the business of the coun.
try and not be hindered by the
m en- who resolved to act the part
of a Congressional mob. The
TINES says success to Speaker
Reed.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

THE glass manufactures have in
creased the price of glass about four
per cent. Instead of deducting
Fights and five they only deduct
eight.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

Mr.. WooDARD, of Knoxville, will
start another paper. The TIMES
does not now remember the number
of papers he has started in Knox
vile. Well, go it Charley, you
may hit the right key after while.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

Corn was held to be fuel in Kan
sas, which decision defeated an at
tachment on 1000 as it was decided
that amount for the year.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

Marking paper or wrapper with
red X means your time has expir-
ed and it is time to renew. 1t is
not often we do this except to
subscribers outside of the county,
as WE expect cash in advance from
all such.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
WEDNESDAY, FEB. -, 1890.

CHARLES KURTH, the plumber of
Knoxville, has failed and a receiver
has been appointed.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12

CONGRESSMAN Phelan, of the
Memphis district, is said to be dan.
gerously sick.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
ELEVEN WE'RE cREMATEp.
Father, Mother, Eight Children and q
Guest Burned to Death.

Father, Mother, Eight Children and a
Guest Burned to Death.
HANCOCK, Mich, Dec. 3O.-A calam-
ity not surpassed in the annals of the
comfy occurred early Sunday morning
at Hurontown. A family named Gross,
consisting of the parents and eight chill
dren, with a visitor, were consumed in a
burning dwelling. Theodore Gross and
wife returned from a dance near by at 2
O'Clock. At $3.50 son, Theodore, Jr.,
returned from the Huron stamp mills,
where he is employed. He went into the
house and to bed, Shortly after he was
awakened by his brother Nicholas, who
heard screams coming from an adjoin-
ing o occupied by their three sisters
and three little brothers. They ran to
the partition door and found the room a
mass of flames. Smoke and fire were as
cending the stairway, and the boys es-
capped by. jumping through q window.
They reached the ground seriously cut
by glass and in a semi-nude condition.
One attempted to enter the house on the
ground floor, where the father, mother
and two children slept, but was driven
back by the flames that enveloped the
building. 1t was impossible for the
spectators, who quickly gathered, to
save the inmates. They We're compelled
to stand by and hear their agonizing
cries. In the course of three hours q
searching party went over the ruins and
discovered the charred remains of the
eleven bodies, distinguishable only by
size of the bones. They were gathered
in a sleigh box and deposited in the pub
lie hall.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

A SHORT time ago, one Thompson
of Cass, so designated to distinguish
him from other legislators of similar
cognomen, a man whom we have met
face to face and a son of our post
master, startled the grave and bowed
down.affairs.of-state Solons of the
legislative assembly by introducing a
resolution to name the children born
within our state "Flicker-tails." Our
heart is brimfull of patriotism and
we believe the children of our com.
monwealth entitled to all the rights
and benefits of civilization although
we have but just emerged from the
chrysalis stage of citizenship. While
the fickertail gopher is the little ami
NAL which plays havoc with the
wheat, yet the name is scarcely pic
turesque, and it requires Il little rati-
ocination to apply it to certain sexual
divisions of humanity, but man can
not always determine the DEGREES of
fate, and if it is to be "Flicker-tail,"
we can but say: "Let her flicker"
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
SUEF0CAYBD BY SMOKE,
Terrible Details OF the Fire in
the London Industrial
School.
Twenty-six of the Inmates, All
Boys, Smothered in Their
Beds.
Eleven Crematcd in a Burning Dwell.
ing-Terrible Railway Wreck
Casualties.

LONDON, Jan. 2.-Further details of
the fire in the pauper's school in Forrest
Gate New Years v are now at hand.
The fire was caused by an overhcated
stove in a clothing department in the
boys dor,nitory. The female depart
ment, in which were $50 girls, was not
touched. The boys retired at night in
the highest spirits, having been promised
presents and a New Years fete. Twenty
six of the boys who were in the upper
stories were suffocated before they could
be rescued. ~Fif9y-eight other boys were
safely taken from the burning building,
amid terrible excitement. Two of the
matrons of the institution escaped in
safety by sliding down the water pipes.
Several of the boys escaped in the same
way. The superintendent of the school
repeatedly rushed through the flames
and brought out a number of inmates.
There were 600 persons inthe institution.
The bodies of those who were suffo-
Gated were carried to the main hall of
the building, which was still profusely
decorated with Christmas greens. The
bodies of two boys were badly burned,
but it is believed they were suffocated
before they were burned. The ages of
the dead range from z to IL years.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

A MOVEMENT is projected among
western congressman looking to the
repeal of the timber culture law and
providing for the protection of those
who have already filed timber culture
entries by allowing them to commute
for the same by paying one dollar and
a quarter per acre.. We believe the
law would prove of much value to all
who have taken tree claims and by
experience have learned that there
are almost too many difficulties in
the way of successfully growing trees
and complying with the timber Gull
ture law. The passage of a law al
lowing timber culture entrymen to
commute would be but giving them
the right to secure land which they
have fairly earned by years of vast
ed tSlk in q vain attempt to grow
trees. Our representatives in con.
gress will be working for the inter-
ests of a large number of their con-
stituents by securing the passage Of
such a law.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

SAYS the jamestown Capital: If
the self-constltuted begging commit
tees who are back in the States hav-
ing a winter picnic on the contribu-
ton they receive and e%xaggerating
the restitution in North Dakota in q
way that would make Ananias and
Saphiraturn over in their graves were
arrested for obtaining money under
false p%retences, Dakota people would
applaud the act. Contributions sent
to the proper authorities in some
parts of Dakota will he thankfully re.
ceiyed and judiciously dispensed, but
the travelling tramps referred to
should be given the cold shoulder.
Those who will deliberately lie about
the restitution in Dakota will misap-
propriate contributions given them
on such misrepresentation. AL sol
icitors for aid for Dakota should be
required to show up credentials from
some creditable source.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
MOULD BUY A I

Sioux Reservation Boomers Will AttcuuDt
to Negotiate for Rights of the Half
breeds.
PIERRE. S. d., Jan. 1.-The agitation
at this point owe the Fort Pierre troubles
has somewhat subsidized over the news
that the boomers at a secret meeting re-
solved, if possible, to purchase the de-
sired land of the half-breeds with whom
the troule is imminent. The boomers
are very secretive, and move cautiously.
Word has been received that the officers
at Fort Sully have received orders from
the interior department to send two or
three companies of regulars to occnpy
the mile square and preserve order.
Monday night the half-breeds who
were victorious in the fight
with the boomers got glori-
ously drunk, and drove up and down
through the Fort Pierre settlement dis
charging firearms and making a perfect
bedlam. The leader of the boomers was
hung in efigy. 1t is also learned that
the inhabitants of Fort Pierre have
formed a secret society in which they are
bound together by a death oath to hold
together for the keeping of the land they
have settled on. One settler who refused
to take the oath wal driven across the
river, barely escaping with his life.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

Dom Pedro's Property Not Connscated.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Dr. Valente,
the Brazilian minister, received the fol-
lowing telegram, dated Rio de Janeiro,
Dec. 80, from Ruy Barbosa, minister of
finance under the new government: We
observe that the European press contin-
ues to accept false rumors as ground of
accusation against US. The property be-
longing to the imperial family has not
been confiscated; on the contrary, the
decree granting it allows the imperial
family two years time for disposing of
the property. What has been cancelled
is the allowance assigned by law and the
subsidy which was granted by the pro-
visional government.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

ACCORDING to the latest reports,
the number Of Indians in this country
is 100000 and the land which they
hold in reservations is 110,63O,1 O3
acres, OF 400 acres for each Indian in.
Guiding women and children. Thus
it will be seen that the Indian who
makes very little use of the land and
is even fed, clothed and petted by the
government, has more land than a
white man can secure from the gov
eminent. The figures show very
plainly that the policy inaugurated
by the government of cutting down
reservations and allotting land to the
Indians as individuals should be car.
ried on until all the reservations are
thrown open to settlement.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

TIE resignation of w. II. Richards
leaves a vacancy in the Office of pro-
bate judge to be filled by the board Of
county commissioners at their meet.
ing next week. The Office pays but
very little and there are few men
who care to hold it, yet it is one of
the most important in the county and
should be filled by Il person whose
integrity and honesty is unqucstioned
and by a nan of some ability and the
citizens of Stark county look to the
commissioners to select a man for
the office whose character is such
that the people can rely upon his
faithfully attending to the probate
business that may come before him.
We trust the commissioners will do
this.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
SUFFERING kANsANs.
Food, Fuel and Funds Are Needed by thu
Settlers of Stevens County.

Food, Fuel and Funds Are Needed by the
Settlers of Stevens County.
WICHITA, Kan, Dec. W.--Word comes
by wire to the authorities here of ex-
IRENE suffering in Stevens and adjoining
counties in the southwestern part of the
state The storm reached there Satur-
day with unusual and unexpected VIC
lence. Many of the people there are
without food, and some without fuel,
and the distress at present is pitable and
the outlook very alarming. The officials
of Stevens have during the day reached
nearly all the counties of the Arkansas
valley with messages praying for relief
in the way of food, clothing and money
with which to buy fuel. They urge
great haste in the matter, as but a few
days would, in numerous instances.
prove fatal. For the past four years the
crops have been failures, but the i'm
poverished farmers, hoping for better
times, did not move away.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04

observed within the walls of the palace
of Neceses Dades, where the oath was
taken before the Cortes, and Carlos was
crowned King of Portugal and of the
ancient and now forgotten Kingdom ST
Algarve. This had been preceded by a
brilliant pageant, the king and the royal
family driving from the castle at Belem
through the streets to the palace, sur
rounded by the dignitaries of the king
dom and amid the cheers of the popu-
lace.
After the coronation the procession re-
turned to the town hall, where the
president Of the municipality handed
the a keys Of the city ayt to . the king queen Queen
from her attack of influenza, was able
to accompany the king.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
A Big Year for Duluth,

DULUTH, Dec. 30.-The annual inn
provement record of Duluth shows
S ,093.S 1926 spent for all classes of inn
'provements for the year just closed. OF
this S2,370,O 95 was spent for buildings,of
which 700 were erected; $4O4, 900 for gas
and water main plants, S215,OO on
street railways, $4,000 for harbor i'm
provements, $l82, 900 on electric lights.
For store and office building 5000, 900
was expended, 1888, 900 on residences,
and SOS, 900 on manufacturing plants.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
CAN GO CHEAP NOW.
The Burlington md Northern ake q
Cut In Chicago Rates Other Roads Fol-

h Burlington and Northern Makes .
Cut in Chicago Rates Other Roads Fol-
low Suit.
CHICAGO, Dec. 81. - The expected
break in passenger rates, in consequence
of the collapse of the Western States
Passenger association was inaugurated
Saturday by the Burlington and North
ern in a tariff, to take effect Jan. i. It
quotes rates between Chicago and st.
Paul Sc less than the present tariff,
which is S11 first class and 50 second
class. From st. Paul to st. Louis it re-
duces the present rate of $15.S5 to S13.
In addition, it meets a number of greatly
reduced excursion rates by the 500 line
from st. Paul to Canadian and New Eng
land points. The Burlington and North
ern claims to have issued the tariff UNI
willingly and to have been forced into so
doing by the action of its competitors in
secretly quoting 50 and 81 rates to
Chicago. 1t was likewise forced into
meeting the 500 rates, or go out of that
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
POWERS ELECTED SENATOR.

The Separate Vote of the Montana Rcpub-
lican House and Senate Confirmed in
Joint Session.
HELENA, Mont, Jan. 2.-The Republic
cans of the senate and house met in Joint
session and unanimously elected Col. w.
F. Sanders on first ballot for United
States senate. For the second senator
the first ballot stood: Mantle, II; Rick
ards, IL; Leavitt, 8; Hersh, 4; Power, 8;
Carpenter 1. The joint session then dis
solved for the day. The Democratic
house and five senators met for a joint
session, but no quorum was present. The
informal ballots taken for United States
senators were in favor of w. A. Clarke,
of Butte, and Martin Maginnis, of Hell
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
A Judge Appointed.

HELENA, Mont, Dec. Ex-Governor
Toolc has appointed j. j. Mediation, of
Butte, district judge of the Second judi
cial district, which is Silver Bowcounty,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of both contestants for the posi-
ton. Judge Hamilton, the Republican,
and Mediation, the Democratic claimant,
both resigned a few days ago in order to
settle the difficulty by allowing the gov
crnor to appoint a man for the contested
judgeship. The governor promptly ap-
pointed Mediation. The mandamus case
to compel Auditor Kinney to allow the
bill of Representative Roberts for per
diem and mileage was argued before
Judge Hunt, who took the matter under
advisement until mex week.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
TO BURN BARNwELL.

Trouble on Account of the Negro Lynch
ing Not Yet Over.
CHARLESTON, 8. c., Jan. 2.-Dispatches
received here indicate that there are
probabilities of trouble in Barnwell.
kilograms have been received at Blacks
vile and other neighboring towns asking
for help, and a special train left Blacks
vile, fifteen miles distant from Barn
we'll, with reinforcements. 1t is said
that the negroes intend to burn the town.
The trouble is by no means over and the
whole country seems to be up in arms.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-04
Kansas Sugar Industry,

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 2.-George F. Kel-
log, of Sterling, Kan, state sugar in
spector, has filed his annual report con-
corning the sorghum sugar industry in
Kansas. The reports show that the grand
total Of sugar manufactured was ST, $685.
25 pound as against $685. 4 pounds
manufactured last year. In addition to
the foregoing Inspector kellogg states that
fully 200, 900 pounds more sugar will be
obtained from the "second," which will
take a month or six weeks longer to get