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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

Here are two factors of singular pu-
rity for making Bessemer pig within
short distance. 1t would be difficult
to find a point at which they cen be
combined cheaper than at Johnson
City. OF course the iron cannot be
produced as cheap as in Alabama.
But it will not come into any compe-
tition with Alabama iron. tits spe-
cialty, a pure metal suitable for max
ing the finest steel, and will command
the highest market price. Costing
probably S12 per ton to make, it will
sell for seven or eight collars more
than the low grade irons. The Car
negie Iron Company have a furnace
nearly ready to go into blast, and
there can be no doubt that many more
will be erected here. Indeed, If the
rumor about the Hewitt people put
ting up large plant in the South"
has any foundation, it is somewhere
in this district it must come, for here
they can make their pig at the mini
mum cost.
Apart from its minerals, this is
rich and beautiful country. Freestone
springs abound, timber is plenty, and
the soil is capable of producing album
dant crops. Being a mountain coun-
try the climate is pleasant, healty and
invigorating.
Nine counties are said to be tributa-
ry to the town, and the four railroads
when completed will bring great
amount of additional business.
Bncked by the great natural re-
sources and directed by men of ener-
gy aud business enterprise, the growth
of Johnson City promises to be very
rapid, and few years should see it
worthy rival of our younger Western
cities. WILLIAM BOSWELL.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

In Elizabeth'sreig the English army
wore variety of colors, but a change
occurred in 1884, when some of the
troops for Ireland wore coats of motley
and others of ''sadd greene or russell. y
The cavalry at this time wore red cloaks
and breeches, and the infantry who
went to low countries wore red coats.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04
Arguing from the measurement 80 ~

Arguing from the measurement of the
ffty-second parallel of north latitude,
between Valencia, Ireland, and Orsk,
Russia, the conclusion is reached that
the earths surface on this parallel is
not that of an ellipsoid of revolution.
This confirms the conclusions reached
In this country when the forty-second
parallel was measured, and shows that
the earth is not perfect spheroid.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04
Johnson City, Tenn, June 4, 1891.

IT is very clear from the number of
wildcat orators to be dumped into
Tennessee that an unusual effort is to
be made to wean the people from prin-
ciples that are tried and true.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

SENATOR CALL may yet have close
call for his seat in the Senate. Gov.
FLEMING is being urged by his enemies
not to sign his certificate of election.
1t would seem that his calling and
election are not yet sure
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

AMOS CUMMINGS says: ftIf GoRMoN
will keep his mouth shut and stand
on his own record his chances are
mighty good"
Suppose he stands on his head in
stead of his record, would it not do as
well.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04
Particular.

"Don't let me deprive You of your
seat" she said, as he rose.
'Don't mention it, madam. 1t isn't
mine, anyhow; it belongs to the road"
said he.-Harper's Bazaar.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04
sweet simplicity.

Mother-Are you not afraid of staying
in the house all alone with nurse?
Young Hopeful-Not a bit; there's q
sergeant always Genes to protect u.s.
Wiener Figaro.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

pont and A. NJ. Young, of Waterbury
w. B. Hosmer, of Boston; E. Fl. Ste
vens, Of Bristol, Conn, and many
other New Englanders. Mr.. F. al
Stratton, of Tennessee, is president OF
the land company.
Thus it win be seen that capitalists
from every part of our country have
selected Johnson City for their invest
ments. These are several English
capitalists interested in iron proper
ties here also.
IT is TO IRON
indeed that this town owes her growth
and future prospects. This is perhaps
the onlp point at which Bessemer pig
can be produced in the South. Ger
tainly it can be produced here cheaper
than at any other southern town.
Leaving out the large deposits of
brown hematite ores which are so
plenty in the neighboring counties,
the great amount Of the
CRANBERRY MAGNETIC ORE
of North Carolina is sufficient to mark
out Johnson City as the future steel
center of this part of our country.
1t is not the exceeding richness of
these ores which renders them so val
liable. They are not nearly so rich in
iron as our Lsse Superior ores. But
they produce an iron of singular puri-
ty. During the recent visit of the En-
glish ironmasters to this district, Mr..
William Whitwell, of Stockton-on-
Tres, said:
"I want to copgratulG you, gentle
men of the Cranberry district, on the
possession of an ore that in my judg-
ment will, in connection with pure
coke, produce an iron in quality as
near perfection as it is humanity posi-
BILE to make it."
This ore yields about AZ per cent. of
iron and not,over .007 of phosphorus.
The Cranberry Mining Company have
exposed vein $50 feet high, 400 feet
wide and LOO feet long above the sur
face of the ground, perfect mountain
of ore, from which they are shipping.
This vein is said to have been tested
for over twenty-five miles. All the
product of the company's little fur
mace is taken by one Pittsburg firm at
$25 per ton.
These mines are twenty-five miles
from Johnson City, with down
grade. In the opposite direction the
great Pocahontas coal field is tapped
seventy miles from Johnson City by
the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago
r. r. which is nearly completed this
distance. The railroad runs through
a coal field which averages over seven
feet in thickness. Coke made from
this coal gives the following high anal
ysis, according to p. d. Langdon, of
Chattanooga:
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

ONE DOLLAR A DAY TO REDUCE WEIGHT.
terested in the signs upon the business
houses in London. So many Of them
bore the talisman (more likely the legend
or fiction), 'tPurveyor to Her Majesty"
or ''His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales" or "Her Highness the Princess
Maud" In gilt letters on all sides were
the names of royal toothpullers, old
clothes buyers, chiropodic artists, etc.
Riding along Walton street, In an aristo-
cratic neighborhood, of course, / saw in
modest letters:
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

You can readily see that times have
materially changed, when about the only
one of our family now In England is
chimney sweep, and with no draught on
the royal fues at that We feel it keenly,
Mr.. Bowersock, and you cannot wonder
that we are, as family, little soured,
especially regarding royalty. Times, Of
course, may change, and with his DEM
ocratic freedom and practical notions the
Prince OF Wales, upon acceding to the
throne, might give our family access at
the same time to the chimneys Of the
royal house, thus making the Nyes once
more identified with his majesty's SCOT;
but we are not depending on it. We are
not selling out at a sacrifice in order to
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04
Advice.

Doctor-You are in very bad way,
You must take plenty of exercise
Patient-Please, sir, I'm 'elp in a
boardin' 'ouse from 6 in the mornin' till
10 at night.
Doctor-Ohi In that case take plenty
of rest.-Judy.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-04

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Treatment sent G. 0. D. to all parts OF the Unit
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dress DIR. ALBERT f. SMELL d CO., Knox
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Corner Reservoir and Gay Streets. Office hours,
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PERSONAL.

Hon. George c. Hazelton, District Attorney,
has returned from flying business trip to the
Pacific coast.
Hon. H. A. Taylor, commissioner of rail-
roads and representative of the Interior De-
partment in the Worlds Fair Board of Con-
troll, and Secretary Bickford, of the board,
spent the past week in Boston on official
business
Mr.. George c. Hazelton, jr., son of the
the District Attorney, who is a member of the
Madame Modieska's Company. will take part
in the performance at Albaugh's this week.
Judge John n Scott, who has been visiting
at the White House the past week, left last
night for his home in Port Townsend Wash
Judge Scott came East with his father, the
venerable Dr. Scott, who visited him in Port
Townsend for several months. DIR. Scott is
now in his 92d year and enjoys excellent
health.
Mr.. r. Edwin Joyce has been confined to
his home for over week by an attack of
rheumatism.
Mr., George n. Rose assistant appointment
clerk of the Treasury Department, is taking
fortnights leave of absence.
Mr.. Ed Schneider, of the firm of Schneider
Wood, has returned from Atlantic City
much improved in health
Nh, G. NJ Peach, of Upperville. Va, was
in the city last week for few days.
Dr.. S. e. Gulich, one Of the best known
physicians OF Northern Virginia, has decided
to locate in this city, and will have his Office
at 7l5 Eleventh street northwest.
Judge Jerry Murphy, of Iowa, has returned
to Washington after summers tour i'll Eu-
rope, undertaken especially for the benefit of
his health by course of treatment at Carls-
bad. His friends will be glad to know that
the famous German baths greatly benefited
him, and that he is now in good shape physi-
cally.
Northwestern Investment Company and a
member of the firm of Speare &; Videtto, left
last week for the West on business tour.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

be effectually checked by the action of the
hotel proprietors in pledging themselves to
make no advance in rates because of the en-
campment. The hotel proprietors have shown
most commendable spirit In this action, and
are entitled to the gratitude of citizens gen
orally for the promptnesss and cheerfulness
with which they have complied with the re-
quirements of the G.. A. Il. management
Nothing now remains that ought to interfere
with the emphatic success Of the grand en-
campmeut. The citizens committee can be
relied on to afford every facility for making
arrangements to veteran bodies that contem-
plate visiting the encampment, and when the
old soldiers come they will be welcomed with
heartiness never exceeded by any commu-
nifty which they have favored with their grand
annual gathering
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Lone Star state Society.

A gathering of Texans was held last even
ing at Scottish Rite Hall and after an informal
meeting for the transaction of business all
repaired to Faber's where a banquet had been
prepared by the committee of entertainment,
consisting of Mr.. H. Floyd S, f. Tracy, s. A.
hours exercise on the menu Mr.. s. A. More
land responded to the toast "The Texas Girl"
in a most clever manner, and the needs of
Texas were outlined eloquently by Mr.. Sam
Straugh, who said the one great necessity of
Texas was that Roger @. Mills should be the
next Speaker of the House and subsequently
President of the United States. Miss Henri
eta Morrison rendered several solos, Miss
Cora B. Dowd recited, and Mrs. Debbie Leech
Penniman sang delightfully."-.
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managed the Capital in this city he used it
with boldness and effectiveness that will
not be forgotten by those whom he befriended
or attacked. Few writer's of the day excelled
him in the use Of terse, forceful, brilliant Eng
lish and he was power in Washington while
he was active in journalism. After Colonel
Piatt's retirement from active journalistic
work he resided quietly at his country home,
the same house in which he died He was
called from this retirement in 1855 to found
BeifOrd'S Magazine. After one year at that
work he returned to Ohio and engaged upon
an extensive biographical history of General
George H. Thomas, which was almost COM
pleted at the time of his death. His latest
work for the press was series of letters on
the the issues and candidates of the campaign of
1888. Colonel Piatt belonged to Kentucky
family, but lived mostly in Ohio, where he
was for a time member of the Legislature
He was twice married, and his second wife,
for many years an invalid, survives him.
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nUNCANSON BROS, AuLtioneers.
~ 9th and d streets northwest.

VALUABLE IMPROVED AND UNIM-
PROVED PROPERTY ON VERMONT
AVENUE, NEAR r STREET, NOS. 1886
AND 1857, AND ON ELEVENTH STREET,
NEAR @ STREET NORTH WEST. NEAR
IOWA CIRCLE.
On THURSDAY AFTERNOON, Novem-
Der 10, 1891, at 4:30 o'clock, we will sell in
front of the premises
Parts of lots II, Is, 10, and 90 square 300,
fronting 3S 3l00 feet on Vermont avenue,
with depth of about 105 feet, with side alley.
This lot is improved by neat, almost new
brick dwelling, No. 1857 Vermont avenue; S
rooms, with bath; we'll finished, modern i'm
provements. Also frame house, No. 1886 Yer
mont avenue; stable in rear of this property.
Immediately after above we will sell
LOT 10, SQUARE 1856,
Fronting20 feet on Eleventh street, with depth
of 95 feet to an alley; splendid building lot.
Terms: One-thrd cash, balance in one and
two years, notes to bear per cent. interest
per annum, payable semi-annually, and to be
secured by deed of trust on property sold, or
all cash, at option of purchaser. A deposit
of 5000 on each piece of property sold re-
quired at time of sale. Conveyancing, ETC.,
at purchasers cost. Terms of sale to be com
piled with in fifteen days, otherwise right re-
served to resell at risk and cost of defaulting
purchaser after five days advertisement Of
such resale in some newspaper published in
Washington, ID. g.
nol5-lt14 DUNCANSON BROS, Aucts.
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while 1t has come to work a positive injury to
this city. / am perfectly free to say this be-
cause was one OF the Youngest men, or rather
boys, enrolled among Uncle Sans volunteers
during that far-away stormy period. The young
est boy so enrolled is now on the shady side OF
forty, and the average age of the surviving
veterans is nearer fifty than forty
While they do not lag superfluous
on the stage, they are past the
time when they could enter upon the ardu-
Gus duties of policeman and perform them
with satisfaction to the people and credit to
themselves. am led to these remarks by the
publication some days ago of an interview
with local g. A. r. official to the effect that
an effort would be made at the coming Cor
gress to amend the law as It now stands so as
TO compel the appointment of the veterans OF
the Civil War practically regardless of age
Nothing OF the sort will be done. and It ought
not TO be done. To attempt it will only be to
bring the men engaged in 1t into ridcule and
to work Injury to the G. A. K. itself.
An Army officer said to me the other day:
81 see that DR.. William S. Tremaine, a re-
tired Army surgeon with the rank of major
mas been disappointed In his efforts to become
Health Commissioner of Buffalo. DR.. Ire
maine is seldom disappointed when he sets
out to achieve anything. He is a good ply
sician and surgeon, and he is also good
diplomat He managed to remain on sick
leave Tor some three years or more, until he
was retired last February. He was given this
long leave Of absence on account of physical
disability, but during all those years ne en-
gagged at Buffalo in the practice Of his profess
sion as physician and surgeon for his own
private benefit, and also occupied a profes-
sionai chair In a medical college there. Yet
during all that time he was physically unable
to do duty at an Army post. don't want to
be understood as alleging that there was
favoritism in the matter; but / can't help
thinking that If DR.. Tremaine was not born
lucky he certainly achieved the same results %
DIOGENEs JONES
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

Brazil as at present constituted is an un-
wieldly country, made up of vast provinces
of the most diverse and even conflicting in
terests. Owing to the lack Of means of quick
communication and intimate intercourse be-
tween the people of the various centres of
population and civilization, 1t will take long
time to weld the people into compact nation
From the same causes the work of enlight-
ening the lower classes and developing the
material resources of the country will be
painfully slow. So that on the whole, per-
haps it would be no bad thing for the people
If the present country were divided up into
several more homogeneous and compact in
dependent States, each Of which would de-
Velop its own resources and improve its
civilization rapidly.
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I ATIMER & SLOAN, Auctioneers,

I ATIMER & SLOAN, Auctioneers,
l4O9 G street, near United States Treasury.
VERY SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD FURNI-
TURE AT AUCTION,
EMBRACING IN PART:
NERY HANDSOME SIX-PIECE SILK
FLUSH PARLOR SUITE, FINE BRUS-
SELS CARPETS, LACE HANGINGS,
HANDSOME ORNAMENTS, HANDSOME
OAK HALL STAND, WITH FRENCH
PLATE MIRROR; WILLOW AND OTHER
FANCY CHAIRS, SUPERIOR WALNUT
EXTENSION DINING TABLE WALNUT
M. T. SIDEBOARD, CHERRY BENT
WOOD DINING CHAIRS, PICTURES,
GAS COOKING STOVE IN GOOD CON
DITlON. WALNUT AND CHERRY
CHAMBER FURNITURE, MATTRESSES,
PlLLOWS AND BOLSTERS, SERVANTS
FURNITURE, WALNUT BOOK CASE,
ROUND WALNUT TABLE, LIBRARY
CHAIRS, KITTEN REQ QUISlTES, etc.
On TUESDAY MORNING, November
II, 1891, at 10 o'clock, we shall sell at resi-
dence No. 9O7 o street very superior collec-
tion OF household funiture in fine condition.
LAT1MAR 81 SLOAN.
noVlo-ltr2 Auctioneers.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

1T is doubtless true that English capitalists
and traders in South America are doing all
in their power to prevent Americans from OBJ
tanning a foothold in that region of the world
and TO keep the South American markets
closed to American products and manufact-
ures. And it is only natural that Eng
lishmen should do this Our commercial
policy under Republican administration
has been and is one of war to determination.
We give them no quarter in our commercial
dealings with them, and we must be prepared
to receive similar treatment. They will hest
tate at nothing to hold against us the markets
they have obtained in South America, from
which under an extreme protective policy our
merchants were excluded. We will now have
TO fight tooth and nail for whatever we get in
that quarter. We should expect no favors
from the English, French, or Germans, for we
have in the past shown them none. Major
Mckinley and other Republican statesmen
have gloated over the commercial depression
and distress our protective tariff has caused
in foreign countries. If the foreigners did
not feel bitterly toward us they would not be
human.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

THERE may be a spasmodic yearning after
jingoism in the foreign policy of the present
administration, but there is no danger, of
course, of its ever going SO far as to coolly
contemplate the off-hand seizure OF sven such
an insignificant nation as that of the late fat
and feeble-minded King Kalaksua The re-
port that the Charleston had been instructed
to seize the Sandwich Islands under any pos
sible circumstances was almost too silly to be
denied
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

The story current during the week that
President Diaz had left Mexico in cog. for a
visit to Europe was absurd on the face of it.
President Diaz is just about as likely to leave
Mexico at this time as a man sitting on safety
valve is to try to get off before the engine fire
has died down
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

DEMOCRATIC gentlemen of Senatorial or
even lower rank should not upset their dignity
and endanger the integrity of their epidermis
by becoming too precipitate in their ''rush to
Cleveland" OF course, they want to get in
out of the wet as soon as possible, but they
should have proper regard for appearances.
And they can always be certain where they
will find Mr.. Cleveland.
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n BRILLIANT WRITER GONE.

The Late Donn Piatt. who Once Made
Washington journalism Very Lively.
No writer of the last quarter OF century is
more vividly remembered in Washington than
the late Dom Piatt, who died rather suddenly
at his home at Mac-o-Chee, on Thursday
His pen was keen as lancet, and while he
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15
the EoIipse of the Moop.

A total eclipse of the moon takes place to-
night, beginning about Gas o'clock and last
ing nearly one hour and half. People on
the Atlantic Coast States will be especially
favored by the eclipse, which is the first of its
kind to occur since 1874. 1t will not occur
again until 1909. Though this section of the
country will afford the best opportunities for
observing the phenomenon, ii viii be obserY-
able in every part of the United States.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

Now THAT Chilli has, by the installation of
General Montt as constitutional president re-
covered her head, it is to be hoped she will
come to her senses and not go any further in
the way of inviting q sound whipping from
this country
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

HOWEVER much man may have decsyed in
the effete monarchies of Europe, the elements
there seem to have retained all their pristine
vigor. The storms there the past week seem
to have been equal in violence and .destruct-
iveness to anything the wild West can get up.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15

THE Grand Army veterans Of the country
have now, it would seem, every guarantee they
can desire that they and their families and
friends will receive absolutely fair treatment
from the business men Of Washington next
year. II there was any disposition on the
part of any Washington business man to take
advantage of the encampment visitors, it will
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-15
AnStiu1t SalHx.

T ATIMER q SLOAN, Auctioneers.
~ l4o9 u street, near u. s. Treasury.
IMPORTANT SALE OF SUPERIOR
FURNITURE
AT RESIDENCE 1890
CONNECTICUT AVENUE
NORTH WEST,
BEING THE HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS OF A
FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER
TO THE
UNITED STATES.
TURKISH CARPETS, RUGS, AND POR-
LIENS SOLID MAHOGANY SIDE
BOARD, WITH MIRRORS, CARVING
TABLE, PILLAR EXTENSION TABLE,
LL1EMAIIHE.RS;CONERED III "a DINING CHAIRS,
FINE ASSORTMENT OF PARISTAN
CHINA AND GLASSWARE CTHiS
CHINA AND GLASS Is EXCEPTION
ALLY FINE, MANTEL MIRROR, PAR
LoK FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS,
LAMPS, BOOK CASES, ANTIQUE IN,
LAID CABINET, SILK BROCATELLE
WINDOW DRAPERY, VERY HAND.
SOME CERRA MARBLE-TOP CENTRE
LIABLE: :MANTEL AND OTHER CLOCKS,
BRASS FIRE IRONS, HALL FURNITURE
MASSIVE MAHOGANY CHAMBER FUR.
NIIURE with FRENCH PLATE MIR
KoKl, MAHOGANY CHIFFONIER, IN
LMAiD M TABLES, LEATHER COVERED
LIBRARY FURNITURE, WALNUT AND
ASH CHAMBER SETS. HAIR MAT
TRESSES, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
ARTICLES.
On WEDNESDAY, November 49, 1891 at
residence No. 1890 Connecticut avenue north
west, we shall sell at 10 o'clock a. m, an ex-
ceptionally fine collection of household effects.
LATIMER & SLOAN, Auctioneers.
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