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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
Our Schools.

There is, on the part Of the masses,
an alarming apathy with regard to the
school work.
Only about 45 per cent. OF the young
people between 6 and 81 years of age
are in sch vol. We daily see on our
streets idle children upon whom
largely depend the manhood and
wQnanhood, the intelligence and en-
terprise, society, church and state of
the coming generation, and who are
acquiring no educarion but that of u
mischievous loafer, and no aspirations
to incite them to higher life. Now
would it not be good missionary work
to get these children from the streets
into the schools? 1t costs the city as
much to teach the number now in
school as to teach a greater number ;
and it would be the part Of economy
and wisdom for the people to see that
as many as possible get the full ad.
vantages offered by the schools sup.
ported by taxes. Now, may appeal
to every citizen to use his influence
over the children, that they may be
induced to get off the streets and into
the schools.
Our schools are we'll taught, The
teachers are all studying and working
earnestly to inspire their pupils and
advance them as thoroughly and rap
idly as possible; and the mid term
examination some days ago showed
good work.
The Eighth Grade, comprehending
algebra, book keeping, composition
and rhetoric, general history physical
geography and Latin grammar, has
been added AMI those who have pass
ed upon the Primary and Grammar
School Grades, and any Others suifi
GENTLY advanced to undertake the
work, may now have High School adj
vantages vi hout having to so abroad
Let all who desire to enter this grade
report at Science Hill Monday morn
ing, January 9th A tuition fee of 81
per month will be charged in the
Eigth FIRST year OF High School,
Grade. The other grades comprising
the prescribed State course are free
the balance OF the session.
w. A. RAMSEY, Supt. CITY Schools
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
A New Move.

Knoxville Journal
JOHNSON CITY, Dec. 27.-MeDonald,
Shea e. Co, and VIM. Kenefick, con-
tractors, through their attorneys,
Maj. T. s. Webb and G. E. Lucky,
Esq, yesterday, filed an amended
bill against the Charleston, Cincinna
ii and Chicago railroad, and Massa'
chusetts and Southern Construction
company, asking that the affairs OF
the companies be wound up, Chan
cellor Smith, in open court made de-
cree as follows:
"And it appearing to the court tn t
this amended bill was filed for the
winding up OF the G. G. & G. R. r.
Co, and Massachusetts Construction
company as insolvent corporations,
and it further appearing from the al
legations of this said amended bill,
which is sworn to that the said COM
panies are insolvent, court takes juris
d;ction of the purpose of winding
them up as insolvent cor porations,and
hereby enjoins all persons from bring
ing suits against id companies, or
either of them, except in this court
and in this cause and the clerk and
master of this court is hereby directed
to make publications in the Herald
and Tribune, published at Jonesboro
Tenn. for four consecutive weeks
notifying and requiring all persons
having claims against said corpora
tions, or either Of them, present the
same by petition in this cause on OF
before the next regular term OF this
court beginning on the fourth Mon
day in May, 1891, and notifying all
persons that they are enjoined from
bringing or prosecuting suits against
either Of the said companies Except in
this court and cause;
1t is further ordered that the Je
Ownership OF Samuel Tate, Jr., be and
hereby is extended so rs to cover anC
embrace all OF the engines and carr
OF said railroad, and all OF the depots
offices and other buildings and fix
lures therein, and also all Of the maps
profiles, drawings and other papers in
: or belonging to the engineers Office
ard all other property belonging t,
or in the custody OF the said Two com
: panies OF either OF them, or in tn
custody OF their officers, agents o
servants in the State OF Tennessee.
1t is further ordered that defendant
: w. P. Harris, aud the sheriff Of Wash
+. ington county and all persons havin
t in their possession any OF said proper
: ty surrender the same in the pose:
8 sion of the receiver; and that said rt
ceiver he and is here Y directed t
a run and TO operate said engines, car
= and trains under the order OF thi
e court, and employ the servants, agent
and trainmen necessary to econom
cally operate SAID trains.
/ 1t is further ordered that said RI
!. ceiver file in this court as soon q
practicable an inventory OF all propeI
ty taken possession Of by him undo
. the orders OF the court"
b The orders OF the court were carrie
n out by Sheriff Hawkins this morr
ing, Mr.. Tate will be here Monday,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
Mrs. ]. Il. Drummer,
MILLINERY
And Fancy Goods,
Main St. Johnson City.
East Tennessee's Growth.

Knoxville Journal
The census reports show that the
increase in popua ion in the Second
Congressional District Of Tennessee
has been greater than any other con-
gressional district in the State. In the
First it was 22,000 Second, $4,000;
Third, $4,000; Fourth. 10 900; Fifth,
35s; Sixth, 33,000 Seventh, 1000;
Eighth, 5000; Ninth, $4,000; Tenth.
$4,000. This large increase in the
population Of East Tennessee is due to
the development Of our mineral re-
sources. Unless all signs fall the in.
crease of population in this division of
the State in the lext ten years will be
very much greater than in the past
ten. The census of 1900 wi show .
population Of not less than 200 600 in
the counties of Knox and Hamilton
alone. And B istol, johnson City,
Greeneville, Morristown, Cleveland,
Rockford, Cardiff Hartman. Clinton,
Athens aud Jellico have only begun
to grow
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
The Depot.
1891
The day we resolute.

There is great deal being said just
now about our depot-that is to be-
and as there is a vast difference OF
opinion as to what can be done with
the $4,000 in bonds left in escrow by
the Three C's to secure depot in the
old portion Of the town, we republish
elsewhere the contract between the
city and the Three C's.
There lie unanimous opinion that
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia road should give us a better,
or more properly speaking, depot
and passenger station at their own
expense there are some, however,
who are afraid the road will not do so,
aud are willing that the town should
give 5000 toward such building,
again there are those who believe that
the city thould claim the $4,000 in
bonds that have been forfeited and
that the E. T. V. & G. should be COM
PEELED to build depot besides.
THE COMET believes the bonds are
forfeited and are the property Of the
city but can only be cancelled IT.
however, they can be claimed by the
Three C's we have no objection to
their giving the E. T. V. & G. $1,000
We do not believe johnson City ought
to give the East Tennessee, Virgins
and Georgia Railroad one penny to
wards building Il depot, as that com
pany collects at this place over $500;
a month for freights and ticket sales
to say nothing Of the train loads o
freight shipped from here each week
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
General Manager
Grading Commenced.

Pr. Cogan, the contractor for grad.
ing Main and Market streets, has put
large force at work on Market near
Division, and is arranging TO put a
force on Main. Mr.. Cogan has suffi.
cient paraphernalia to do the work
rapidly and will push it to completion
as last as the weather viii permit. BY
the time these streets are well under
way the city engineer will have others
ready to let to contract, and Mr.. Co
gan will probably be kept busy here
until next summer.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01


In the Knoxville Tribune of the 2lst
Of December the Johnson City CORE
spondent has the following to say
about the reports that a number OF
our merchants are in shaky condi-
ton:
1.-THE statement sent hence some
days since that some OF our local mer-
chants we're in shaky financial con
dition was without foundation in fact.
undertake to say that there is not
anywhere in Tennessee more pru-
dent, conservative class OF merchants
than those of Johnson City, and while
come Of them have bills past due from
the unpaid contractors on the sus-
pended railroad work, yet they are
net pinching, and it will be long
time before the sheriff will have any
business at their doors. 1t is shameful
for men to go about ignorantly dis
GUESSING their neighbors' affairs, insin.
uating this and that upon groundless
rumor. It is a good plan at such
times to attend strictly to ones own
business, help each other all we can
as far as possible pay our own debts.
and have care that we first are not
in the hands Of the sheriff before he
touches our neighbor and friend, the
pushing, energetic merchant.
johnson City merchants are all
right.
johnson City is all right.
"The Three C's will soon be all right
Stick pin there"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01

A Chattanooga special says tin
plate has been made in st. Louis by
the Granite Iron Rolling Mills, sheet
to be dipped having been rolled
from the Basic steel, made by the
Southern Iron Company, Of this city,
from cheap Southern ores mined IN
this vicinity. The St, Louis men
write that they are delighted with the
material 1t is excellent fer the pur-
pose to use it steadily. Tin plate
from Chattanooga steel means max
ing the finished article here in due
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
For the Reneflt 81 the Poor

At the request of a number of citi-
zens The johnson City Choral Society
Prof, lie Clair director, viii give an
other entertainment next Monday
night Jan. 5.h for the benefit OF the
destitute poor Of the city. Miss King,
Of Morristown, and Mr.. Duncan will
assist, and the entertainment will con-
sist OF almost al entire change Of
program and pleasant evening is
promised to all who attend. Admis.
sion So and Scots sests on sale at the
Book store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01

We learn that John T. Essary, Esq,
this city, Col. Hord's present assistant,
will be an applicant for the Office oil
State Commissioner of Agriculture
under Gov. Buchanan. Mr.. Essary ia
4 practical farmer, gentleman oil
liberal education, is already familiar
With the duties Of the Office, and with
many Others OF his friends we shall be
gratiied at his uccess.--Morristown
Gazette.
THE COMET would be glad to hear
Of Mr.. Essary's appointment.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES
ENTs: That the undersigned, r. A.
Johnson, General Manager, and in his
own right, hereby agrees and binds
himself that ii the new subscription
proposed by the town Of johnson City,
Tennessee, to the capital stack Of the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago
Railroad Company, by way of an OK
tension and in lieu OF the subscription
heretofore voted by said town, shall be
made by said town upon the vote and
in the manner prescribed by law, then
in that event there shall be erected,
within one year from this date new,
neat and sufficient station building on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad at or in the vicinity
of the present station on said railroad
in the old corporate limits Of said
town.
And the said r. A. johnson, Gener-
al Manager of the said O., G. 4 G. r. r.
Company, hereby further agrees that
Ten Thousand Dollars 40 000) If the
bonds OF the said town proposed to be
subscribed as aforesaid shall be held
hack by the bank, trustee or trust
company with whom they may be
placed in escrow under the terms oil
said subscription until the new station
blilding shall be erected as aforesaid
and, upon the erection, as aforesaid
of said new station building (and moi
hefore) the said Ten Thousand Dollars
OF bonds shall be delivered to said G.
G. & G. Railroad Company.
Given under my hand this 80th day
of December, 1889.
R, A. JoHksoN,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01
THE COMET
Johnson CITY. Tenn. Jan. /. n9l.
DURING 1891

u ~ 4N~ANA ~ NV
THE COMEr expects TO see
A Daily COMET.
The Three C's finished.
A Telephone exchange.
Water Works completed.
A steel plant commenced.
5000 people in Johnson City.
Electric street car line in operation.
And be seen in every house IN the
city.
Every street in the city graded and
paved.
1000 dwelling houses erected in
Johnson City.
Bessemer steel pig made here al
less than $1,000 per ton.
A new depot erected by the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Ill
road company.
THE COMET will DO its part to bring
all these things to pass, will you help
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01

A bill was filed in the chancery
court for Knox county, December 26,
againt the city of Knoxville to collect
1896, 900, claimed to be due by her to
the Knoxville. Cumberland Gap and
louisville railroad company, the com.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-01-01

The board OF Aldermen decided
Monday night to purchase forty acres
Of the Patty land for cemetery pur-
poses at a cost to the city of about
$4,000. II seems fitting the present
board of Aldermen shoull have pur.
chased their own official burying
ground.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
Hard Work for Young Children.

Mrs. Alexander Bremen, one of the factory inspectors of this city, afirms that children as young as eight years are employed in mercantile houses from ten to twelve hours day at wages often as low as one dollar per week, and sell dom above two dollars per week. She believes that, all things considered, the work of these children is as hard as that of many employed in the factories, for sixty hours week is the maximum per mitted for the employment of children in factories, and the work of the in spectors insures some attention to sani- tation. Mrs. Bremen thinks the worst feature in the case of young children employed in mercantile houses lies in their lack of opportunity for education and the .impossibility of their knowing aught of home life. It is not unusual for children thus employed to pass a whole week without sight of their parents.-New York Recorder.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
1t Was Tiresorne.

On the trains which use in travelling between my summer castle and the place where give up my daily sweat I see a great many people who live in the New Jersey suburbs and do business in Wall street and Broadway. and often over hear remarks and parts of conversation that are highly amusing. Sometimes bits of wisdom drop from the lips of these great men or great mems sons that make me wish the whole world could hear. Here is sample:
 The other day as the train was passing place where an aqueduct is being con 8 ructed one chappie said to his, seat mate:
 "Just look at those men who are dig ging there; they are all Italians. A few years ago that kind of work was done altogether by Irishmen, but they have been forced out of it and up into better positions, in spite of themselves, and the Italians have done it. ;" And was tired.
 Jos. R. BUCHANAN.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
A Chicago Swindler.

Some swindler is going around the city selling tickets for alleged musical entertainments to be given at Central Music hall once week for the benefit of various labor organizations. Last week he went to steam radiator estab- ishment and sold tickets at a dollar apiece for a concert soon to take place ''for the benefit of the Brotherhood of Steam Fitters." There is no such organ ization in Chicago, the only union in that trade being the Steam Filters Protective association The tickets bore the names of M. J. Murray, president; R. c. Woods, secretary, and H. B. Doran, treasurer.
 An officer of the regular union went to Central Music hall on Tuesday night and found no preparations for an enter tainment, though several persons who had bought tickets were at the hall. The man in the box office knew nothing of the affair, but said that the previous week parties had come with tickets for a concert for the benefit of the wagon makers with the same result. The mat ter has been put in the hands of the police.-Chicago Herald.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
America Helps Sweden

A Stockholm dispatch says that the government of Sweden has ordered an inquiry as to conditions in parts of that country said to be almost denuded of young men by emigration to America. Young women for domestic service are also becoming scarce, and the wages de- manded by servants have risen to double the figure of a few years ago. The sup ply of conscripts is running short, and the burden of military service falls more heavily on those that remain. As the aged and crippled are generally left be- hind, while the young and strong of both sexes emigrate, the country in many places looks as if the effective population had been carried off by war, leaving only the physically worthless.
 Another fact that causes regret and anxiety to the Swedish government is the large proportion of the pure, light haired Swedes among the emigrants, this being the class akin to the North Ger mans and English. that has heretofore upheld the country both in war and in peace. ' Their places in northern Sweden are largely taken by immigrant Films and Lapps, who are akin to the Mongols. In Wermland, called the cradle of the Swedes, the people are leaving in throngs, and nearly every young person wants to enigrate
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
The One Day in the Week Christians.

The One Day in the Week Christians.
 The trustees of the Green Lawn ceme- tery, in Columbus, O., refused to allow the unveiling of the soldiers monument on July because that date fell on Sun day. The Post, of Columbus, interviewed a number of the old soldier workmen on the subject, and then printed the follow ing pointed paragraph:
 As is well known, this day was selected be- cause of the fact that the vast majority of the old soldiers and their sons and daughters are workingmen and women, the most of whom can only obtain employment a portion of the year,sa that during the busy season they cannot afford, neither will their employers will ingly consent, to their losing any time if it can be avoided. Now come the shoddy aristocrats, the trustees above referred to, and their abet- tors of the Wells post, who have grown rich by prison contract labor, by usury and by the ne- farious contract system generally, and by an ukase that would put to shame the czar of Russia they deny the old comrades brothers, sons, daughters and other relatives of those who defended their country in its hour of need the privilege of witnessing the unveiling of a monument to their memory on the only day possible for them to be present.
 Such action on the part of such class of our citizens, in the opinion of the members of or ganized labor, deserves the unqualified con- demnation of all patriotic, generous and Chris tian people.
 The opening of the Metropolitan mu- scum in New York on Sundays, which custom was recently adopted, shows that the old narrow ideas concerning that day are being added to the list of mistakes of the past.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
Remembering Tom Armstrong;.

On July 6 the grave of Thomas A. Armstrong, at Steubenville, O., was wis tied by fully 25,000 persons. There was speaking by many well known labor men and the grave was covered with flowers. The principal decoration was a handsome floral tribute ten feet high, costing $500. It was in the form of a dome resting on base two feet high. Above this were four globes represent ing the world. In the center of the dome was a life size bust of Armstrong. The top was surmounted by the Pitts burg Press clubs emblem of hand with a torch. The base was decorated with an emblem of the G. A. R. Pittsburg Press club, Amalgamated association and K. of l.. was filled in with everlast- ing and fresh flowers.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01

CagO officially in hostile attitude toward the workingmen of all other places, and the action may create much bitter feel ing.
 Yet the circumstances seem to justify the course of the joint labor committee. Something must be radically wrong in system which makes it necessary for one set of workers to oppose themselves against another; yet where so much is monopolized how can we expect the la- borer alone, who has no other means of living but by his opportunities to toll, to be broad minded and generous? Capi- salists retrench their positions behind "business principles s'-fraternalism and generosity are with them side issues Were the raw materials of earth, as well as natural Opportunities unmonopolized, free and open competition might result in very little injustice. But as it is why is it the ethical world asks only the workingman to be brotherly and unsel- fish in business matters?
 It may be that the demands of the labor committee have not been put in the wisest way, and that just the re- quirements made are not to the real ad- vantage of the laborer, yet it is evident that some united effort is necessary, for the promoters of the grand exposition scheme do not intend labor shall be rec ognized or rewarded as it deserves. All the work that can be got out of the com mon people will be obtained at as little cost as possible. Already heartlessness in the economy of money at the sacri- flee of human life and strength, is be- coming unusually apparent. Results alone win be considered. Those who can s'come in at the finish'' will share the honors. The hard toi1ers at the be- ginning will sink out of sight. Those who sickened and died in the trenches under the cold spring rains will be for gotten; the men who handled enormous loads of stone and iron and laid founda- tions that may endure to the end of time received nothing more than enough to live on while doing it. The works of women and children, in whose texture life and vitality are woven, will be ad- mired, and the humble creators will be unremembered.
 It is great problem, no doubt, how the producers of the Worlds fair won ders could receive equitable returns and the just honors that belong to them. Whether justice can be legislated into the relations of men, or greater freedom would allow them to be naturally ad justed, is deep question. None the less, the civilization of the Nineteenth cen tury should grapple with and solve it. Difficulty should not stand in the way It is humiliating fact that is going side by side with the grand achievements of the century's science, intelligence and skill that we as race are so ignorant of social scienceAa proper adjustment of our relations to one another-so back ward in economic knowledge that a magnificent exhibition of our marvellous works will also be a magnificent mock cry of our civilization.
 LIZZIE M. HOLMES.
The weekly examiner., 1891-08-01
THE IMPROVED WOMAN.
Her Physical Condition Has in the Past
 Few Years Improved Wonderfully.

Her Physical Condition Has in the Past
 Few Years Improved Wonderfully.
 It may be ungallant to suppose that there is, or has been, any room for i'm. provement in woman, but it is undoubt- ed1y true that in the last ten years there has been a marked bettering of the physical con- dition of American women Whether it is the result of gymnastics or the travelling of many of our girls in for eign lands, where they have had an op- portunity of admiring the superior phys ical qualities of English and German women, or the general discussion of the e1bject, do not know. Perhaps the fact that so many of those females who prided themselves on their bewitching 1anguors and fashionable invalidism having been passed by when our young men came to make selection of lifetime partners, may have helped to cure the folly. It has been found that doll-ba- bies are of but little worth in the strug- gle of life, and capacity on the part of a woman to sweep oHt drawing room without fainting, and to make a loaf of bread not sour nor soggy,. is of more importance than the satin in the cheek, which the fingers of diphtheria may un- ravel, or the color of the hair which one strong grip of fever may pull out There is cause for Nongratulationi in the fact that woman's physical condition is rising, but there is room yet for higher stages of progress. A race, of weak women will make a race of puny men I am not ambitious for Amazons, but for out-and-out Christian women, who enjoy what'rights they have and sup port great souls in strong bodies--Lar dies Home Journal