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About Delinquent Taxes.

The question of delinquent taxes
has been discussed great deal late
ly, but the question OF the officers
commissions has not been discussed
as it ought to have been. Under
the law the tax books go into the
hands of the county Trustee on Oct.
/, for the year to which the taxes
was assessed, and he collects until
the 1st Monday in February-the
year following without cost and on
the LIST Tuesday Of Feb. of each year
or as soon thereafter as practicable
on the receipt of tax books to make
out and deliver to the constable Of
each civil district in his county a
certified list OF all delinquent taxes
due in said constable's district. and
said list shall include description
OF said property as appears on the
tax books. These lists shall have
the force and effect OF execution
from court OF record and shall be
authority for the officers TO whom
issued to collect the unpaid tax IS
therein specified. All the commits
sion that the constable is entitled to
both city and district is the commits
sions on the money he actually col
lects from the delinquents himself,
and on the lst Monday in June the
constable returns to the Trustee or
city Recorder the unpaid taxes that
can't, by him, be collected, and
then the recorder and constable Ger
titles the delinquent taxes over to
the city attorney for collection by
suit or otherwise. And it has been
the practice or custom to collect A
per cent. off the delinquents for the
constable after the tax has been
turned over to the city tax attorney.
The commissions given by oul
statutes to collecting officers are in
tended as compensation for services
actually rendered. The officer car
set up no claim to these commits
sions unless the services have beer
rendered and the collections actual
ly made by him, If they be demand
ed and received by the officer with
out the performance of the service,
he renders himself liable to an in
dictment for extortion. So all the
commissions that has been turned
into the tax attorney on taxes car
not be collected and must be cut
out because the constable has done
nothing to earn the money, and is a
violation Of the law of this state.
| remain your obedient servant,
Fl. G. HART.
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its duties on coal and iron ore. 1t had
not given final form to the sugar
schedule. The duties on raw mater
ial are q betrayal OF the party faith.
They are, rs Mr.. Cleveland says, "per'
Iidy and dishonor" for the Democracy.
Any one who has doubt as to the rec
ord OF the Democratic Party, as to
what it promised, rot once, but over
and over again by every method
known to parties for making binding
pledges, has only to consult the cita-
tions from Democratic platforms that
we publish this morning, Mr.. Cleve-
land speaks with just and natural in.
dignation Of the treason to the Demo-
cratic Party involved in these duties.
He needs no excuse for his Earnest
appeal" to Mr.. Wilson that he siren
uously insist upon party hon nd
good faith and as'urdy adherence &c
Democratic principles" He is right
when he says: 81 believe these abso
lutely necessary conditions to the con
tinuauce OF Democratic existence" II
such strong words he but expresses hi
view Of his responsibility not mcrel!
as a party leader, but as the singh
representative, Of undoubted authori
ty, of the prevailing sentiment Of tn
Nation.
Mr.. Cleveland is in full accord witt
the position announced by Mr.. Wilson
and he would refuse as Indignantly a
the Chairman OF the Ways and Mean
; Committee to yield to the dictation c
Mr.. German In that refusal tn
Democratic Party Of the Nation wi
! firmly stand by both -NeU YOr
/ Times
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MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894.

between the hours of II a. m. and p.
IN in front Of Jobe's opera house in
johnson City, Tennessee, sell to the
highest bidder the following described
real estate, towit; A certain tract of
land lying in the 10th civil district o.
Washington county, Tennessee, adioin-
ing the Samuel Shorfey lands, the lands
of Joseph Bowman and others, being the
same lands on which said Keller and
wife now reside, together with all the
improvements thereon-for more par
t;cular description of said property ref
erence is here specially made to said
deed Of trust, as recorded in said regis
try at Jonesboro
TERMS OF SALE.
Said property will be sold for cash
in hand, in bar of the equity of re-
demption, to satisfy debt due from
said Keller to J. d. Thomas. by note
bearing date, 18th day OF May, 1898
in the sum $4,000 with interest there
on from date.
This the 10th day OF July, 1894.
s. ]. KIRKPATRICK. Trustee.
525 At printers fee, 81,
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DR.. HawthOrne's Lecture.

l see the announcement OF lee
ture to be delivered in the opera house
OF johnson City on the evening OF
August l by DR.. Hawthorne, of At
lanta, Ga. Having heard The doctor
several times in his own church in
Atlanta and twice on the lecture stand,
l take pleasure in commencing him
to our people as good thinker, and
an able speaker, adorninga persuasive
eloquence with the graces of finished
oratory. 1t will pay to hear him.
J. s. Wilson.
What the press says OF DR.. Haw-
thorne:
Raleigh News: "This lecture alone
would prove DIR. Hawthorne to be be
yond all question an crate. OK q very
high order. II is full of grand thought,
grAndly expressed, and sparkles all
over with real wit"
La orange Reporter: This lecture
far surpassed anything that has been
delivered in La Grange in decade or
longer"
Smalley, in New York Tribune:
"He has the gift of oratory which
used to distinguish In rem arkable
degree the educated men OF his native
state. His elocution is almost fault
less; his gestures as graceful and ex.
presaive as they are abundant, and the
MISTER OF his discourse forceful, com
pact, and eloquent-ln admirable
specimen OF style Of oratory formed
ON classical models, and rules OF
rhetoric which is seldom heard now
except in the South"
Charlottesville Jeffer oman: "Dr.
Hawthorne is the finest pulpit orator
we have ever heard, and we have
heard many OF the greatest preachers
of this country. 1t is impossible to
describe the effect which his magnif-
icent voice, commanding presence.
unanswerable logic, beautiful rhetoric,
and powers Of elocution have upon
his congregation"
| West Point Star: "Dr. Hawthorne
spoke yesterday to the largest audi
ence ever assembled in our spacious
college chaple. This superb orator
never shown to greater advantage.
His lecture was such treat as men
are permitted to enjoy very seldom in
| o life time."
Mobile Register: 1.-THE lecture was
listened to throughout with great in
terest, and the orator kept the atten
; ton OF his audience, and left many OIL
them, like Oliver Twist, crying for
more"
Religious Herald, Richmond, Va:
"Few, if any orators have ever had a
more enthusiastic reception at the
hands Of Richmond people, than has
been given DR.. Hawthorne. AL
: classes flocked to hear him. and bursts
OF applause pealed forth to emphasize
almost every sentence which fell from
, his lips"
Richmond Dispatch: "Dr. Haw
! thorne is regarded not only as an ora
tor, but he is poet, though we know
. not whether he ever attempted versi
: fiCation. HE discourses are all EN-
bellished with the pictures of an un
/; mistakably poetic nature, and orator
: as he is, he might secure enduring
. fame by his devotion to the muse"
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EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Miss Bid Huffine has been sick for
some days Miss Mamie Fine has
also been on the sick list for sometime.
Mr.. Jacob Huffine and family went
down to Cherokee the other day on
berrying excurei.n. We hope they
had both q pleasant and profitable
trip.
Mr.. w. F. Hufiine spent Sunday
with his best girl. Any one who owns
a horse they desire TO have trained
will find Prof. Huffine an efficient in
structor.
A son of Mr.. Andrew Vines was so
unfortunate as tn get his leg injured
on moving machine few days since.
We hope he will soon he able to re-
sumo work,
Farmers are rapidly hauling in their
grain and preparing for the thresher /;
corn is being "laid by" and the hustle
and hurry characteristic OF this season
OF the year seem in no wise abated by
the drouth we have experienced for
several days, Corn, as a general
thing, is looking fine, but the potato
crop from present appearances, is a
failure.
Politics in our district are in con.
fused state at present, owing to the
surplus OF candidates. The idea that
the man should not seek the office
but the office the man, seems TO have
been buried in the graves OF the mez
with whom it originated, aud every
man with sufficient egotism to pre-
sumo on the gullableness of his fellow
citizens, has become "pie hunter
1t seems that the time has come wheI
an Office can not be so unimportant al
to go seeking for the man. Our offices
like all other positions with which
money is connected, are being sough
by mel who are scarcely qualified 10
voters, let alone the duties OF an office
What about it, voters, will you vote Il
place in one Of your district offices
man who has continually fought tn
interests OF education and social ad
vancement; man who has neye
been known to give dollar to an
, benevolent purpose, and whose idea
, OF morality would scarcely be tolerate
by Fiji Islander? II you do you
will say as plain as words can say,
am opposed to what is for the upbuilC
ing OF my community and he ad
vancement OF civilization and Chri
tianity. How many OF you, fello
!. citizens, say tina. you will not sell you
O vote, and that you vote your sent
4 ments? You might refuse to vote f
!. a man who offered you fifty cents f
r your, but if he should come to yC
n and say; have done you mora tina
one favor since we have been neigl
n bors, and now want you to vote +,
A me, will you vote for him any soon'
q than you would should he never dor
A 80? II you do not vote for him b
cause you feel thai he is the manrt
the ticket best qualified for the offic
,. you sell your vote. This is putting
rather plain, but you can not deny
q Vote your sentiments, not your pr
sonal interests.
. ScHooLBoY.
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Mrs. R. O. Rhea,

OF Milford, Ncb, says she suffered
greatly f ON complication Of diseases
of female weakness and liver and kid
ney troubles. Her health was fully
restored by using DR., Hale's Household
Tea, the most pleasant and most eff
fective medicine known. 25c. and Soc.
per package at Mcfarland & Co.'S. drug
tore.
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Illinois. Kentucky.

From Danville, H., Mrs. II. J. Ma
bors writes: / have been using your
medicine for sCrofula and am greatly
benefited. Ny back was almost one
solid sore. Two boxes OF DR.. Hale's
Household Ointment healed il entirely.
From 0liveHill, KY, Mrs. M. J. Mat
ney writes, May Is, '92: my daugh-
ter has been afflicted with erysipelas in
her eyes from infancy. She is now y
years old and one 25c. box has cured
her" 1t costs no more to get the best
This is the best ointment in the world
for general use. Get box at McFar-
land & Co.'S drug store.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 9Th, 1894,


sell at public outcry to the highest bid
der, in front of Jobes opera house door,
in Johnson City, the property mention
ed and described in the pleadings and
said decree, and ordered to be sold towit:
certain lot Of land situated in John
son City on the f. I. & w. N. G. R. r.,
and bounded as follows: Commencing
ats planted rock at the southeast corner
Of d. j. Wheeler's garden fence and
running east with said fence 800 feet to
q stake; thence north 167 feet, within
thirty feet of the center Of the railroad;
thence west 800 feet to the north corner
of said Wheeler's fence; thence south
100 feet 10 the beginning: To satisfy
complainant's decree against defendants
for the sum of $912.6l, with interest
thereon from March 10Th, 1894, and the
costs of this suit, unless said debt, in
terest and costs are sooner paid.
TERMS OF SALE.
Said land will be sold on a credit
OF six and twelve months and in bar
Of the equity OF redemption. Notes
with good personal security will be re-
quired OF the purchaser, and lien
will be retained Oh said property for
purchase money until fully paid.
July rs, 1894
w. +. YOUNG, @. & NJ.
By G. w. Hodge, D. @. & II.
prs fee $13 SAG II
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Suffered Five Years. . Cured.

Mr.. Chas. Wallace, Of Atlanta, Ca,
suffered five years with violent in6iges-
ton. Had tried all kinds of medicine
and a number OF eminent doctors. He
says, II heard of your remedy, tried it,
and two bottles completely cured me-"
Try it for all forms of indigestion and
dyspepsia. 1t never fails. Price Soc
per bottle. Send to Chas. o. Tyner
druggist. Atlanta, Ga, for book Of par.
ticulars.
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"WE have in our platforms and
in every way possible declared in
favor Of the free importation of
raw materials. We have again and
again promised that this should be
accorded to our people and our
manufacturers as soon as the Dem,
ocratic party was invested with the
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Washington Gossip.

WASHINGTON July 49, The treas
ury department was informed this
morning that 81, 600, 600 in gold was
withdrawn from the sub-treasury at
New York to be exported to Europe
in addition to $3.50, 600 taken. for
shipment to Canada. This reduces
the gold reserve to $62, 200, 600.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-07-26

THE Democrats of Washington
County made no mistake in select
ing Col, Thos. E. Matson, of this
city, as chairman, vice Geo. w.
Willett, resigned. Col. Matson is
a staunch Democrat, an active
worker and gentleman every
member of the party will be proud
of.
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ly working to claim the irritation
and arouse the party fealty of those
Democrats WHO feel personally
agrieved at the tone and language
of President Cleveland's letter.
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nown.Towu Once.

For the convenience Of its patrons
The COMET has established a down.
town office at the book store OF Lyle d
Cos, next door to the postofiice.
Copy for advertisements and orders
for Job work and subscriptions may
be left there and receive prompt at
tention.
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"THE business of our country
timidly stands and watches for the
result of our'efforts to perfect tar
if legislation. - President Cleve-
lands Letter to Chairman Wilson.
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LITERARY NOTES.
A Scientific Basis for Morality.

oNNhUhV DAnAb tVA NAVHuAAtye
To Mr.. Huxley and Mr.. Kidd, &C.
knowledging that nature is immoral,
and that evolution has no instrument |
but strife, the counsel comes from
these pages Professor Drummond's
Ascent of Man, to go back and study
their biology little more carefully,
with minds open to the diyiner lessons
that nature is teaching them. "The
struggle for liie," replies Professor
Drummond to Mr., Kidd, "is not the
supreme fact up to which biology has
slowly advanced 1t is the fact to
which Darwin advanced; but il biolo.
gy had been thoroughly consulted it
could not have given 30 manned an &C.
count OF itself, The other coordinate
factor IS there, and when we make
due account Of it our whole estimate
OF the meaning Of Lille undergocs a rad.
ical change"
The significance Of this interpreta.
ton OF nature can not be exaggerated.
II this lie a substantially true account
OF the direction OF those streams Of
tendency by means OF which life is
being brought to its perfection here,
then We have a good foundation for
morality. Surely our ethical doctrine
must be IN harmony with the nature
Of things. The teaching that leaves
bottomless chasm between what is
natural and what is right coniounds
our reason. But if we are permitted
to believe with professor Drummond
that the morality Of nature is moi
only simply the stark and fierce mo.
rality oil strife. but that good will and
helpiulness have been essential ele
ments OF it from the beginning, the
sanctions Of the higher law will be
nightly strengthened. When the bid
men love their neighbors as themselve,
it will not be possible for them TO turn
upon us with the Gictum that the rule
will not work; that individualism il
the only law that nature recognizes
When We urge that good will must b.
insparably joined with self regard il
all our industrial and social enter
prises, they cannot answer that th,
council is visionary for we can shov
them that II has been the law OF al
life since the beginning. Some OF u
! have long been urging that the prin
ciple OF cooperation must some hoy
: be brought into industrial society, h
mitigate the strifes rising from com
petition. The answer OF the multi
tute has been that the scheme wa
impracticaple; that natural law
which is the law OF competition, wa
the only reguIative principle in ccc
:. Monies. But now comes a student q
:. evolution, who tells us that "the ma
!, ter Of the earth is built up Of coopera
= ing atoms; it owes its existence, it
;. motion, and it's ability to cooperatin
:, stars, Plants and animals are mad
= up Of cooperating cells; nations, OF c,
= operating men. Nature make n
= move, society achieves no end, III
!. Cosmos advances not one step, that
q not dependent on cooperation; an
!, while the discords of the world disaI
!, pear with growing knowledge, scienC
! only reveals with increasing know
edge the universally Of its recipr
Cities."-From an article entitled TT
NeW EvolutiOn," by Washington ella
den, in McClure's Magazine for A
gust.
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Supreme Judges.
Circuit Judge,
District Attorney,

County Court Clerk,
A. f. MAUK.
Circuit Court Clerk,
TIM. WELLS.
Trustee,
County Register,
JAS. @. GLAZE.
Sheriff,
JAMES s. PRITOKETT.
Justices of the Peace, Ninth Civi
District,
JNO. w. CAMERON,
MARTIN / GUMP.
Constable,
CHAs. G. MITCHELL.
School Directors,
L. w. COOPER,
L. @. HOSS,'
WI. BARTON,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-07-26

Our chicken has been prscticing
on a new-fangled crow for several
weeks. Listen for his melodious
voice next week.
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AT LARGE.

Jonathan A. Lane, os on, ass.
Aretas Blood, Manchester, N. H.
Russell A. Alger, Detroit, Mich.
Theodore FreliD ghuysen, New Jersey.
j. Wilcox Brown, Baltimore, Nd.
Thomas X, Worthington, Baltimore.
Clinton Furnish, Washington, d. G.
Hamilton Dsston, Philadelphia, Pa.
Clarence Clarke, Philadelphia, Pa,
William MoAdoo, assistant secretary
of the navy, Washington, D. c.
Thomas P. Grasty, Versailles, Ky.
Abram S. Hewitt, New York city.
Stuyvesant Fish, New York city.
James Swami, New York city,
Samuel NJ. Jarvis, New York city.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, New York city.
William r. Grace, New York city.
Walter Stanton, New York city.
Henry NJ. Flagler, New York city.
Henry B. Plant, New York city.
John H. Inmani New York city,
Hugh r. Garden, New York city.
Charles A, Deshon, New York city.
William G. Maxwell, New York city.
R. Wayne Wilson, New York city.
Atwood Violet, New York city.
George II Sullivan, New York city.
OFFICERS.
President, Hugh Il. Garden.
Vice president, Stuyyesant Fish.
Secretary, r. Wayne Wilson.
Treasurer, John II Inman.
General manager, r. Wayne Wilson.
Note Temporarily the offices Of
secretary and general manager are
united in one person.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Hamilton Disston, Pennsylvania.
Samuel NJ. Jarvis, New York.
George H. Sullivan, New York.
John H. Inman, New York.
R. II. Courtney, Kentucky.
II. NJ. Caldwell, Alabama.
Harry Alien, Louisiana.
| Alex. @, Haskell, South Carolina.
t John SHELTON Williams, Virginia.
: Hugh r Garden, ex-olIicio, chairman.
The power for good, if wisely man.
aged, which such an organization can
: be made can scarcely be measured,
and the character OF the men chosen
to guide its affairs is, it seems to us, a
guarantee to the South that this asso'
citation will become one of the greatest
q factors in its advancement Those
: who attended the meeting on June q
and had the pleasure Of stening to
the strong speech in favor Of the
South by Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish will be
0 glad to know that this association ia to
have his hearty cooperation as its
+ vice president. AS vice president OF
the Park National Bank, probably the
greatest creditor bank Of the South in
n the Union, closely identified with the
foremost financiers OF America, and
deeply interested in the South, Mr.
Fish is in position to do great good
y. for the association and the South
Hamilton Disston, the greatest saw
ri manufacturer in the world, long since
re demonstrated his faith in the South
by investing several millions there
Samuel M. Jarvis, whose firm has pu
y over $30000,000 OF English money il
l. this country since 1886, much Of it il
#, the South, is one OF the most activ,
d, workers in the association. Georg,
~ H. Sullivan is a member Of the grea
70 law firm OF Sullivan & Cromwell
to widely known South rs we'll as Nortl
a as among the leaders in financial ant
e. legal matters in. New York. The othe
~ officers and members OF the executiv,
~ committee ale Southern men wei
r. known personally throughout tn
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THE COMET
N0iiea AfRam0Yal.

THE COMET has moved into the
Hoss & Hodge building on Market
street neal Roam street.
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10 llothers mailed free.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co., Atlanta, Ca.
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IT is rumored that tickets have
been circulated over the State with
the names of the Supreme Judges
improperly printed thereon. 1t is
very important that all tickets
should be examined on election day
and see that they conform to the
form printed below. If the names
of the Supreme Judges do not ap.
pear as below the ballot will moi
count as to them:
Supreme Judges.
The State at Large, VIC. CALDWELL
The State at Large, W. K. MoALI5TEB
Eastern Division, d. L. SN0DGRASs
Middle Division, JNO. s. WILKES.
Western Division, w. D. BEARD.
Chancellor.
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Pursuant TO the decree Of said court
at its March special term, 1894, in the
above cause, will, on
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OUR CLUBBING OFFER.

THE COMET has arrangements by which II
can offer the following newspapers and period
Gals in c0nnectionnwith THE COMET ct the fol-
lowing rates. for cash in advance:
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CLERK AND MASTERS SALE OF
LAND.
10 the Chancery Court at Johnson
City, Washington county,
Tennessee.

Watauga Bank VS.. W. W. Gilmer ct al.
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CLERK AND MASTERS SALE OF
LAND.
In the Chaucery Court at Johnson
City, Washington county,
Tennessee.

Carnegie land Co. VS. J,J, Hunt NO.4S
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rnoM rnr riRsr rAnr.
FOR THE SOUTH.

Virginia (Richmond)-John 9kelton
Williams
District Of Columbia (W,ahington)
Boyd Smith.
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TERMS OF SALE.
CLERK AND MASTERS SALE OF
LAND.
In the Chancery Court at Johnson
City, Washington County,
Tennessee,
Carnegie Land Co. VS.. J,J. Hunt, No.49.

Pursuant TO the decree Of said court
at its June term, 1893, in the above
cause, will, on
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PursuaAt to the decree of said court at
its June term, 1898, in the above styled
cause, will, on