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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
Greatest Graveyard OF the World.

More men have died and are buried on
the lsthmus of Panama, along the line
of the proposed canal, than on any equal
amount of territory in the world.
1t was in 1887, the year before the
final collapse of the canal scheme came,
that chance took me to "the isthmus, {"
as it is more usually described. How
many people are buried out in Monkey
Hill? Certainly 5000 or 9,OO0-probably
10000 or $4,000; but it's all matter of
guess work as to the exact number. But
the ground about Aspinwall only holds
d small percentage of the men who have
died on the isthmus. The city OF
Panama, of course, lays claim to the
largest number of burials, but can say,
without exaggeration, that the entire
line of the railroad and canal, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, is a continuous
graveyard. At Matochin alone over
$500 Cinnamon met their death in one
day That was 25 or 30 years ago, while
the Panama railroad was being built,
and long before work on the canal wa.
began. Ten thousand Cinnamon had
been brought from China to work on th>
canal Over onelhalf of them were
campod at what is now Matochin. Small
,-ToA broke out among them and the NOR
tllity became so great that the China
men, always easily excited, became panic
stricken, and preferring to die by drown
ing, ran down the steep sides of the hills
ntar the canp and threw themselves into
%he Chagres River As have said 3,ou0
Of them drowned. 1t was because of this
aact that the name of the camp was
Changed to Muertechino, muerte mean
ing "dead" in Spanish and Chino signi-
flying Chinaman. The name has since
become perverted to Matochin. 1t is :,
common saying, believed by many on the
isthmus, that every tie on the Panama
railroad represents dead man.-!St,
Louis Republic.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
One Dollar WeekIy

Buys a good Gold Watch by our
Club System. Onr i4-karat gold
filed cases are warranted for 90
years. Fine Elgin or Waltham
movement. Stem wind and set.
Ladies' and Gents size. Equal to
any $50 watch. To secure agents
where we have none, we sell one Of
the Hunting Case Watches for the
Club price $2S and send c. o. D., by
express with privilege of examina-
ton before paying for same.
Our Agent at Durham, N. c., writes:
"Our jewelers. have confessed
they don't know how yoI can fur
nish such work for the money"
Our Agent at Heath Springs, n. C
writes.
"iOur watches take at sight
] he gentleman who got the last
watch said that he examined and
priced e jewelers. watches in Ian
caster, that were no better than
yours, but the price was $45."
Our Agent at Pennington Tex
writes:
"Am in receipt of the watch, and
am pleased without measure. AL
who have seen it say it would be
cheap at $40."
One good reliable Agent wanted
for each place. Write for particu-
lars. EMPIRE WATCH Co.,
49.1yr. New York
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
Election Notice.

KBy virture of authority vested in by law l
will open and hold an election at the regular vot-
ingplace s in each Civil District of Bloun tcounty
Tennessee, ON the first Thursday in August
1892, it being the ith. day Of the month, for the
purpose of electing Sheriff, Trustee and
Tax Assessor: Also three School Directors for
each District of said County: Two Constables
for the 9th. District and one Constable Tor
each of the other Districts of said County
Also Justice of the Peace for Srd, District, to
fill the vacancy caused by the renewal OF j. ID.
Whitehead ESQ.
The polls will open at o'clock A, M. and
close at P. N. on said day.
This July LIST. 1892 j. CuRRIfR'
Coroner of Blount County.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
NOTICE..

Pursuant to dacree of the Chancery Court
for Blount County. Tenn, rendered at the feby.
Special Term, 1872. will sell to the hlghest
bidder at the Court House door in Maryville,
Tenn. on the sth day of August 1892, tract OF
land situated in District No II, Blount County,
Tenn, containing 1,2l acres, more or less, and
adjoining the lands of d. Spradlin, VIM Tucker,
the j. H. Donaldson lands, Little Tennessee
River, s. d. Caughran Store House lot and pre-
haps Others, and well known as the james Har'
riso1 lands for a full description OF the above
lands reference is here made to the decree foI
sale recorded on pages 104 and l05, minute rec
ord of the Chancery Court.
On the above tract there is an encumbrance OF
S15 acres homestead and dover.
Said sale will be made on credlt OF siA
months, in bar of the equity of redemption, IL
the case of Stanley Brothers VS., George b. Cow
lam ct ais, the purchasher to give note WITT
sale. and iein retained on said land for thu
payment of the purchase money,
This, 18th day of July, 1892:
w. C. CHUMLEA,
Clerk and Master.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
Could've Tell Lie.

1t is painful to find that the father Of
his country practiced deceit down ia
Jersey. Elias Boudinot, whose papers
are getting printed, reveals this side of
Washington's character. He actually
played trick on Sir William Howe and
made him believe he had 12, 600 men in
his army about Morristown, when he had
I but 5000. 1t seems that Howe had sent
one of his innumerable spies, who were
Tories in New York and patriots in
Philadelphia, to see what was going on
about Morristown. The adjutant gen.
eral found out the rogue and asked Gen.
eral Washington if he would not have
| him arrested.
No, said the crafty virginian-and
here lquote Boudinot-"but ordered him
to go home and Immediately to Draw re-
turns from every brigadier in the army
of the number of their brigades making
the army to consist of about 12, 900 effect
I've men, etc.--to place these in the
ipigeon holes of his desk, and then to get
introduced to the spy and invite him to
lodge with him. To endeavor to get him
to sup with him alone. About o'clock
in the evening to have an orderly SER
geant to call on him with positive orders
that the adjutant should attend the gen.
eral in haste; that then he should make
an excuse to the gent. suspected as spy,
and leave him alone about half an hour.
This was done and in this interval, as
was suspected, the spy took copy of
the returns, and next morning went off
with them to New York. This convinced
General Howe that we were too strong
to be attacked and saved us thro' the
winter"
Professor Hasmer, who has written so
well about Sir Henry Vane and Samuel
Adams, thinks that Adams and Frank
lin did not behave quite right in the
matter of Governor Hutchinson's letters,
which put Massachusetts in the hands of
the patriots. But here is George Wash.
ington, who "could not tell a lie, max
ing his brigadiers all tell one. Alas.
alas! revolutions are sinful games.-[F.
.. Sanborn. in Boston Advertiser.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
What the Yankees Discovered in Cali
fOrnia.

W nnN tuc hohReeS bisCoNeTeU In NalI~
fOrnia.
On the lookout of crudities and bar
barrie taste, as travellers from the enlight-
cned East are likely to be, party of
New England tourists were recently
treated to genuine surprise. While
driving with their Western friends their
attention was attracted by a number o.
gravestones of peculiar ugly design, the
distinguished feature being dial on
which the hands pointed to figures indi-
eating the age of the deceased, Coming
out of the cemetery they stopped for a
chat with the stonecutter at its gates,
and in course of conversation one of the
visitors, bent ON mischief for the Cali.
fornians, referred to these remarkable
monuments. "Why, yes, said the graft
fled sculptor, "they air popular. I've
sent for some more, but the dealer says
they're going off like hot cakes round
there, and I'll have to wait little before
he can ship another lot. "Then you
don't make them here?" asked the visitor.
"Oh, no; only make the base, The
tops are patented article. They come
from Connecticut. "-[Chrisuian Union.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
NOTICE

Pursuant to decree Of the Chancery Court
for Blount County Tenn. render, d at the July
Spsclal Term, ls92. / will sell TO the highest
bidder at the Court House door in Maryyiile.
Tenness on the 20 h day of August 1872, a
tract OF and situated in District No H. Blount
Coarty lie IN, containing 100 acres. more OF le IS
ana adjoining the lands Of j. u. McMurray.
George Lath am, Stevens Graves, Harve Latham.
and perhaps others and known HIS the Jonn ID.
Rogers tract of Land
Said sale will be on a credit of sixa and twelve
m onths. in bar Of equity and Of redemption In
the case of Thomas N. Brown Admr etc VS.
] .sse Rogers Estate tie purchaser to give note
with good security bearing interest
from date of SALE and lein retained on said
land for the payment of the purchase money
This 20 day of July, 1892.
W. C. CHUMLEA, Clerk and Master
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
MEAT MARKET.
Groceries, country produce,
fresh and sailed meats.
Give US a call!
J. w. NEWBY& SON.
BuCklen'S ArniCa Save.

THE BEST SALvE in the world
for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chap.
ped hands, Chilblains, Corns and
all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cure Piles or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction, or money refunded. Price
% cents per box. For sale by,
GEORGE h FROW,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
Accidents Make Cripples.

So does Rheumatism, and after a
time il kills, too! DR.. Drummonds
LightningRemedy relieves the pain
at once and is warranted to cure
One hottie, price five dollars, is
enough for any ordinary case. II
you cannot get it from your drug.
gist write to the DrummOnd Medi.
cine Co, 1850 Maiden Lane, New
York. Agents wanted. 23-2w
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
INTERESTING TO
Farners!
A Big Firm That Appreci-
ateS Their Trade and
Them.
The genial and ener.
getic manager of the
eW York Clothing

~ A. SAS cAAA~~S
Company, Mr.. John
Smith, has got up a
plan that will be Of in
terest and profit to the
farmers; but the New
York Clothing Com
pan are always doing
something that is ex-
ceedingly liberal, and
this time the farmer is
not forgotten.
Mr.. Smith offers a
prize Of $40 in gold to
the farmer raising the
largest pumpkin this
season, and to the far
mer raising the second
largest pumpkin, he
will give $40 in gold.
This should make the
farmers pay some at
tention to their pump
kins this year.
Every farmer in this
section can call at the
ew York Clothing
Company's store and
get any quantity and
quality Of seeds that
they may desire to
plant, as Mr.. Smith has
secured some Of the
finest pumpkin seeds
that have ever been
raised and the farmers
would do well to secure
their seeds from the
Clothing Company.
The contestants for
these prizes must
bring their pumpkins
to the ew York Cloth
ing Company on the
first day of October,
where on that day the
prizes will be awarded.
Immediately after
the awarding of the
prises a pie eating con
test will follow. The
Clothing Company will
have not less than TO-
900 large JUICY pies
cooked for the occasion
so that everybody car
have their fill of pies
and the one eating the
most pies will get 6
} handsome prize.
The e w York Cloth
ing Company have Civ
en- away more than SO
10000 in cash prizes
for different things
They are undoubtedly
the largest clothiers il
this country. They de
more than twice the
business Of any Other
house here. They
guarantee all the goods
they sell to be just as
represented and will
cheerfully refund thu
money in evey instance
: where the goods turr
out differently wha'
they were recommended
!, by their statesmen
!. They will not employ
: a man unless they con
/. slider him reliable anC
: will deal fair with theil
customers.
It's a show to SCI
their establishment
Call and see them an(
tell them that you saw
their name in thu
TIMES and we feel saf'
to say that you will b.
treated fair by
! !; new YORK
! CL0THING.C0
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28

| other way to get rid of her. She is from
| Wisconsin,
She had accepted that rather ungracious
order without word and set to work
The triumph of a woman's devotion was
something very grand, when you come to
think OF it. She got her man, and took
| him back to Sank county. The tide of war
/ rolled on, but there was dead calm in one
northern home.
| No. that isn't quite all.
May came along. She didn't know it,
that stanch girl, but she had dropped her
tears, and they made, with the flowers
they believed, the first Memorial Day
Yet another May came.
A man was hurrying across the state,
| and some kind of spring influence made
him turn aside TO see Jenny. Somehow
in all the waste and wreck of war he re-
membered her as something that staid in
spite of death itself.
He caught her at her own door with her
arms full of the spring wild flowers, and
through the chink he got glimpse of the
shake on the wall.
She was going to the graveyard with her
little girl, and so he helped her carry the
flowers
1t was the 31st OF Mayi
Brave little Amaranth herself, there was
no flower in Sank county with her heart
bloom, and he thought if he could only
decorate her he'd go away with a cleaner
sense of having performed a duty. So be-
fore he left her he pulled a wreath of the
wild jasmine down, threw it over her and
lifted his hat
Jenny" he said, az have waited all
these years and l have never ceased to love
you. Promise me now that you will some
day give me what is left of your heart
Let me tell you how I happen to know
the sequel.
| saw a letter from Bellona It came all
the way to New York. Somehow when
read it it brought back the swirl of the
muddy Tennessee, the regular chime of
the bells on the gunboat, a white face in
the door of a tent and subtle odor offwild
honeysuckie.
Jenny is dead" it said, "and her
daughter keeps two graves green. No,
she was never married again. Did you,
from what you knew Of her, think she
would be?"
Before I knew it had said "No."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28

newspaper men, emery anxious TO get rr
Paducah or Cairo, where we could lay hold
of wire.
You can imagine our impatience, as we
went down the long and winding Tennes-
see in IN old sternwheeler. 1t seemed an
age before we got to Cairo, and when we
got there We encountered the great wave
of excitement, indignation and sympathy
rolling down from the northwest. Ten thou
sand of our boys had been killed or wound
ed, and were lying in the woods without
hospital service 1t seemed only yesterday
that they went gayly away with new col
ors and eyultant music. Somehow, as l
encountered the excited crowds in Cairo.
thought OF the L1vincibles, and there came
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28

The towns and villages of Yamhill
county, Or, all have history more OF
less interesting. Lafayette is probably
the most historic in the county. 1t wa
founded by Joel Perkins about 1850, and
named after his native town, Lafayette
Ind. Dayton, founded by General Joe
Palmer and named after his native
town, Dayton, o., was the principal
shipping point for the entire Yamhill
valley before the advent Of railroads.
McMinnville was founded by ". T.
Newly in 1854, and named after his
native town, McMinnyille, Tenn
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
Do You Know YSur letters.

Any man who can read would probs-
bly, resent such an imputstien Of igno-
rance as this question conveys, DO
you know your lettersT" is what is asked
the little tot when he or she first sets
foot In school. But grown up men and
women may be paraoaed for believing
they are speaking the truth when they
answer Eyes" to the question. The
chances are, however, that they dent
know their letters. Why has "A" its
present shape2 Stumped the first timel
Every American ought to knew that
A takes its shape from a picture Of an
eagle. B was once the picture of an
Egyptian bird. b represented mans
hand. F was the horned viper. The
tive upper strokes are the remains of the
horns and the perpendicular line the up
right body of the viper. II was once the
semblance of q sieve.
We get our letters from the Phoenician
alphabet, which in turn came from the
hieroglyphic picture writing of Egypt.
So don't be SO sure of your knowledge
next time you are asked staple ques-
tion.-Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28

Funny world we live in. A man who
has six horses standing idle in a stable
walked two miles out In the country on
little matter of business a day or tive
ago, while another man who had no
horses and very little money hired a
team to go the same distance. This was
an actual occurrence this week, and
shows the perversity of human nature.
He who has the facilities for driving
prefers to walk, while he who could
much better prefer to walk and has no
team, goes and hires one. Men are
crazy to own q team, and it soon be-
comes bore to give the horse necessary
exercise. 1t has always been thus, and
we presume always will be.-West-
chester Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
HELEN.
Before I knew

] an Helen, and my name
Is glory and shame;
For my beauty was Earth's crown,
And my sin shook cities down.
Oh, the days, and oh, the dances
When l was queen,
By the glamour of my glapces
And the splendor of nay spleen!
My life was all romances,
And no dull days between.
From the golden dais
Where l reigned alone,
As a woman way is,
descended to a throne.
And my life, that lately
Leapt as mountain stream,
Now crept still and stately
AS river in a dream.
He came;
In his eyes was fame:
And a new desire,
Unknown by name,
The godhead dire
No god can tame,
Took all my frame
With fire.
The years, the ten swift years, are fed:
Troy is fall'n, and on my head
Lies the guilt. Her princes dead
In the darkness throng me round,
Showing each his bleeding wound
No word speaking,
No wrath wreaking,
They pass in silence one by one;
And when ! think the dream is done,
Lol the white haired king appears,
kneeling, as he battles in tears
The hands that slew his son.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28

But nevertheless all the units
emotional centers, and nobody has ever
dared to picture the subjective hell that
scorches and consumes in few moments
of delirium all that is best and tenderest
in the consciousness of the inexperienced
man when this hell flames forth all around
him
You see am trying to write this from
the point Of view of the boys who had to be
baptized before they could become veter
ans, and am trying to place before you
something of the effect of the ordeal upon
them.
My own experience must have been that
of thousands. l have Il strong but con-
fused recollection of my dash into the
woods as l tried to make my way TO the
front. Only the incidents that made their
impression in shock remain.
The din had grown more terrible and
more acute. / was nearly torn to pieces by
flying artillery horse, that swept past me
blind with agony and fear, and daShing
himself against tree fell with wild
scream Twice l was knocked down as a
shell exploded in the dense network OF
branches above me with deafening crash,
and hurled upon me mass OF limbs and
splinters Ordinarily l could have got to
Sherman's headquarters in ten minutes,
but in the confusion l must have devlated
from the straight course.
At all events I got entangled presently
in mass of panic stricken men, all max
ing empty handed to the river. l shouted
to them and even abused them, but they
plunged heedlessly by AS this stampede
grew and confused me, felt for the first
time in my life the awful and irresistible
influence of panic. l can recall now ex-
actly what that sense was 1t was simply
the destruction of order and the substitu-
ton of chaos. The moment the mind CT
the soldier feels that the centers of Orgal.[
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28

ions, and / think | shouted to them to
turn in" Then the character of the dis
turbance grew upon me as / regained my
consciousness. Out of the steady wave of
sound | could hear the conflicting rattle of
far away drums, the call of voices, the
rumble of wheels, the crash of timber and
then the sharp but distinct crack of mus.
kerry. In a second l was on my feet 4
dull. wet, gray light shone through the
open entrance. Ordway's coat and belt Law
across the camp table and the chain of his
watch hung down. pulled the timepiece
out and looked at it. 1t was half past j,
and battle was raging.
1t does not take the faculties of even the
amateur soldier long TO assert themselves
IN such a crisis. Even while l stood there
pulling myself together the wave of battle
grew and rolled around me in unmistaz-
able olstlnctness and appalling reach anL
l heard the echoing boom and answering
crash of artillery.
l felt then, and feel now, after the long
lapse of time, that the stroke of actual war
must have come that gray morning like
the stroke OF doom TO many of the inex-
perienced boys. None of the acute realities
OF war ever get into the accounts of it and
are never participated. What is rhetoricallv
referred 10 as the baptism of fire and
blood" has no other than gallant mean
ing 10 him who has not passed through
the awful ceremony. You might as well
expect the operating surgeon 70 give wav
to hls natural Sensibilities rs to expect for
one moment that the officer who has 10
Keep general results in view will stop to
consider the emotional particulars, In Of
fetal reports there Is no psychologist an
alysiS, The human unit is swept in q mo-
ment by the blast Of Death into fierce
writing generality.
The individual Is anrihilsted by the
Cause
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
Worth 2. 600 !

Worth 1000 Times Its Weight In Gold
The Sevres vase, given by Louis XVI
to Tippoo Sanib, was sold in London IL
1876 for a sum equal to 81 ,2s5 in Ameri
can currency. The vase is very thin,
urn shaped and only eight inches high.
The gold exchanged as the purohase
price of this rehc weighed upward @;
1900 times as mitch as the vase itself.
Talk about something being worth its
weight in goldr-St. Leuis Republic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
The Easier Wsv.

Burglars in the town Of Sulphur Rock,
Ark, found It very difficult TO open a
safe in an Office they had entered. 50
they suspended operations until they
visited livery stable, from which they
stole horse and wagon. They then re-
turned 20 the safe, placed it on tas
wagon and drove of.-Yankee Blade.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
Low Pares Bring Rusine.s-

The reduction in the scale Of French
railway tariffs has produced Al inne-
date revival in the constructive eEgi-
neering industries. All the railway com
panies have in the past few weeks been
entering into heavy contracts for the
supply q locomotives and rolling stock.
pwch4rga
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
TUFTS Hair Dye

Gray hair or whisEers changed to n glossy
black by single application of this Dye Is
imparts a natural color, acts instantaneous
lyand contains nothing injurious to the hair.
Sold by druggists, or viii be sent on receipt
of price, SI.0o. Once, So Park Place, y. 4.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-28
A. WOMAN'S FAITH.
A STORY FOR MEMORIAL DAY BY NyM
CRINKLE.
tCopyright, 1892, by American Press Associa-
an

tCopyright, 1892, by American Press Associa-
toni
How clipper we boys were when we
heard that first drum call. 1t was associ-
ated in our minds with dress parade. We
had general notion that it would be a
jolly spree to volunteer and help thrash the
south and come back with the brass band.
What did we know about war? 1t was
braided up in our minds with Fourth of
July rhetoric and star spangled glitter.
The whole thing was going to be a walk
over Wait till the rebels saw the Irwin
cibles in their new bearsiin hats, 100strong.
All, what deal we had to learn about
war! We saw the Invincibles melt from
their local glory into the blue battalions of
Uncle Sam. They were swallowed up in