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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

THE Atlanta exposition was formally
opened last Wednesday afternoon with
appropriate ceremony. The machinery
was started by President Cleveland
from Gray Gables. The Grafton of the
day was delivered by Judge Emory
Speer, of the United States district
court, and was chiefly signifcantfor its
references to foreign relations and to
the negro. AS to the latter he said there
was really no negro question. "The
true policy Of our people is to ignore
the question and drench with vitriolic
contempt the narrow, intense, minutes
imal creatures who forget the issue and
disturb the good feeling between the
races to advance their selfish political
ends. *** The same influence which
affect men elsewhere will ever prevent
the solidarity of the negro vote here.
Every intelligent southern man under
stands this, and northern man who
comes here soon ascertains the fact
for himself. This is a fortunate fact
for,the negro and for the country. Our
theory of government does not contem-
plate voting on color or other class
line.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
State Board Of Equalization,

The State Board of Equalization has
completed its labors. Complaints are
being made because of the action of
the board in raising the tax aggregates
as reported by the assessors in forty
three of the ninety-six counties of the
state. The largest increases are in
Bledsoe and Crockett counties where
the board raises the figures of the coun-
ty assessors 10 per cent. There is 1C
per cent raise in IS counties while the
tax payers in 30 other counties will be
called upon to pay taxes upon per
cent increase. The increase by coun-
ties are
Fifteen per cent, Bledsoe and Crock
EFT.
Ten per cent-Cheatham, Chester,
Dyer, Humphreys, Lauderdale, Meigs,
Moore, Morgan, Overton, Robertson,
Rutherford, Sequatchie, Sewer, Shell
by, Sumner, Van Buren,, Wayne and
Williamson is.
Five per cent-Blount, Cannon, COT
fee, Cumberland, De Kalb, Dickson,
Franklin, Gibson, Grundy, Haywood
Henry, Hickman, Houston, Jefferson,
johnson, Macon, Montgomery, Maury
Polk, Smith, Stewart Weakly, Wilson
-23
The total increase in the forty tire,
counties named above is so, 439, 1856.
The tax aggregate for the ninety 81,
counties in 1894 amounted to 1919, 1922
1877. The aggregate for 1895 as report
ed to the board from the various coun
ties will be $311 500, $50, a decreas
from the previous year of $S, 324, 6G7.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
NONRESIDENT NOTICE
In tho Law Court at Johnson City
Washington county, Tenn.
Synthia Jane McRoberts VS.. Alexan-
der McRoberts

In this cause it appearing from the
allegations OF complainants bill which
is sworn to, that the defendant, Alex.
McRoberts is q non resident Of the
State OF TENN, ssee: 1t is ordered by
me that publication be made for four
successive weeks, as required by law.
in The COMET, newspaper published
in Johnson City, in said county, com
manding said Alexander Nc Roberts to
appear before the judge of the law
court to be held at the court house in
Johnson City, on the third Monday in
December, 1895, it being the 10th day
of December, and make defense TO
said bill, or the allegations thereof will
be taken for confessed and this cause
proceeded with e1parte as to HIM.
This September 8, 1895.
S. HI. i COOPER, Clerk,
BY FoY w. DULANEY, D. Clerk.
printers fee. 81. 584 At
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

insurance. This loss will fall very
heavy on Mr. Hartman, who is greatly
afflicted with rheumatism and is at this
time at Hot Springs, Ark. -Greeneville
Democrat
Last night about eight o'clock Rev.
j. II. Burroughs married his five hun
dredth couple at the Nickels House.
The contracting parties were Miss Mary
A. James and John A. Totten, both of
Chatham Hill, Smyth county, Va. The
couple came in private conveyance,
and after the ceremony they left and
spent the night in the city with friends.
Their ages were 20 and II respectively;
the groom the senior. Bristol News.
A number of hands are at work put
ting in the telephone poles between
this place and Jonesboro. This is quite
step for our little city to take and she
should be proud of such an acquisition.
The convenience Of communication il
will afford is too evident to need men.
ton. The work is being pushed right
along and it will be only short time
till we can "Hello" to Jonesboro anC
all connecting lines. Long may i
thrive!
Brownlow Davis, Of Lower Turkey
town, who has been laboring under al
unbalanced condition of mind for sew
eral months, was taken to Lyons View
Asylum at Knoxville, Tenn, Tuesda,
morning r. t. Johnson, of this city
accompanied him. Watanga Vale,
News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

GREAT is the office of comptroller of
the treasury! The department of JUS
tice, after investigation, has arrived at
the conclusion that the Dockery reor-
ganization act, which went into opera
ton August 1, 1894, makes the comp
troller's authority paramount in all
matters involving the payment of mon.
ey from the United States treasury.
The investigation was made at the re.
quest of Secretary Morton, because Of
an opinion rendered by the acting
comptroller on the power of the secre
tary of agriculture to expend certain
money for the distribution of the Far
mer's Bulletin, department. publica
ton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

A DEMOCRAT who has never been
specially friendly towards Senator Hill
has just returned to Washington from
New York, where he was in touch with
everything going on inside demo-
cratic circles. Said he: "Senator Hill
has been doing wonderful work in his
efforts to get the democra. ic party in
such shape that it will have a fighting
chance to regain possession of the state
of New York. 1t matters not whether
this work be done for one reason or an
other, Senator Hill deserves credit, and
l am quite sure that he will get it, too,
not only from the democrats of the
state, but from those of the entire coun-
try" Democrats are much interested
in the New York state democratic con-
vention, to be held this week. They
want to know whether it will declare in
favor Of any presidential candidate.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

NOBODY seems to know just what is
going to be done about the sugar boun-
ty. Secretary Carlisle notified ex-Sen-
ator Henderson, the counsel for the
beet sugar men, that he would hear his
arguments against certifying the case
to the court of claims, any time after
the twentieth of this month. Since
that time nothing has been heard from
Mr.. Henderson. Regardless of any
argument that may be presented it is
not thought likely that Secretary Car
Isle will send the case to the court Of
claims against the wishes of the claim
ant. 1t has been stated that he might
override or reverse the decision Of
Comptroller Bowler, but that is some
thing that Secretary Carlisle himself
has positively stated that he had no au-
thority to do.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
George D. Prentice

The Newspaper Maker met country
editor from Kentucky the other day.
He was dressed in the latest fashion,
and utterly forestalled all ideas of coun-
try journalists, The Newspaper Maker
fell in to talk with him and was reward
ed with the following results. 81 con-
cluded," said the Kentuckian, CATER
following the pillow for about three
years that / would patent an electric
light or become journalist. OF course,
we did not have any electric lights at
that day, but even then was anticipat-
ing the marvel. So L became repor-
ter on the Daily Journal of Louisville.
Gas plowboy | received five dollars
and my board per week. I received
three dollars and nothing per week as
reporter, but / was looking for glory
not for gold.
cone day rather busted communi-
ty dropped in and asked for the editor
pointed to the proper door, through
which he disappeared. He was rag
ged, rugged boy, chuffy-like and wad-
died. l chuckled to myself, until he
finally came out with the editor in
charge, instead of being in charge of
the editor. Next morning the Journal
appeared with column of the bright
est paragraphs that any southern pa
per had ever printed, all written by the
ragged, rugged boy. Not only this, he
was assigned to room by himself, and
from that day and hour the fame and
fortune of the journal was made"
"And whom might this prodigy have
been?" asked the Newspaper Maker.
eyes, sab, George d. Prentice, {
blamed Yankee from the Nutmeg state
hate Yankees, but you would never
have known he was one of the breed, i
he had not confessed it himself. He
finally captured the whole concern, and
one day, in mellow mood, after I hat
received q higher promotion on his
staff, he told me the following story:
81 ran off from home in Bridgeport
Conn, with fifty dollars that | haC
saved and struck for the south. Reach
! ing Louisville, met with wharf ra
and went ON blind drunk. Watkins
up next morning found my compan
ion non est; myself in hOg-pen, Will
riotous rain beating upon me through
the leaky roof, without a penny to bles
myself with for breakfast. l crawle,
! out from among the swine and rose
Eyes, interrupted the Kentucky ed
itor. Eyes, rose to be the great edito
of the south, and one of the grandes
councillors Of American statesmen"
"Was his personal reform perma
nent?" queried our reporter.
"No, not after he had made his perma
nent mark. Often and often in late
: years | tramped the streets of Louis
, vile in search of him; found him in
: merry mood over the cup that cheers
! hoorays, kicks up its heels, and whis
| pered the magic word "copy'' in hi
! ear. Instantly springing to his feet
: he fastened to the office, tied we
: towel round his brow and ratified owe
!. squibs and editorials. There was neve
e but one Prentice. There will never
: another"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

Mr.. A. Y. Sheats, Kingston, Co.,
says, May 9lst, 1895: Il was troubled
with dyspepsia for twenty-five years,
and could get no permanent relief
from any treatment or medicine until
| began the use of Kings Royal Ger
metuer, some five years ago. 1t gave
me great relief, and after the lapse of
five years, ! can recommend it as the
best medicine | know of for Indiges
ton and Dyspepsia" This case is but
one out ofthousands which prove that
for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and all
stomach troubles, Germetner cures
when all else fails New package, large
b title, los doses, 81,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
Want to starve the government.

Want to Starve the Government.
1t has been given out from Washing
ton that Republican leader of the
house has thus outlined the program
of his party:
eve will pass q tariff bill restoring
protection duties on many articles,
equalizing the expenditures of the gov
eminent with the income to be derived
by protective system, and that sort of
a bill, the best we can frame, we will
send to the white house for Mr. Cleve-
lands signature. He can accept pro-
lection or starvation, just as he pleases
If he chooses to veto our tariff bill he
can go on borrowing money and run
ming the government into debt until
the next presidential election, when
the republicans will sweep everything
before them"
At first blush, it would seem that the
republicans would be reluctant to pur-
sue policy of this sort, which would
not only be very prejudicial to bust
ness, but might react upon them Sc
verely. But when we remember how
persistently they sought to protract the
hard times, how they refused to admit
that any improvement had taken place
until it was clear as the MONDAY sun,
and how even now they rejoice at every
symptom of reaction, we can not fail to
perceive that they are welded to hard
times as their chief argument.
If, however, panic should follow
the attempt of the republicans to starve
the government, it would not be so
easy to saddle it upon the democrats.
This aspect of the case might deter
them from such an attempt, but it is by
no means certain that it would. They
have so long assured the country from
day to day and from week to week that
they possess all the political sagacity
there is in the country that there are
those who believe them. But there
never was party on earth that went so
gayly and unsuspectingly to over
whelming defeat as did the republican
party when it was passing the Sherman
and Mckinley bills and trying to pass
the Force Bill. No greater amount of
political stupidity, not to give greater
name, was ever perpetrated than the
action of the fifty-frst congress. To
be sure, they have since been chastised
by defeat, but they have also been elat-
ed by victory. They may not, there
fore, be afraid to try it again.
From mere party point of view, the
democrats could desire nothing better
than to see the republicans attempt to
carry out the program above outlined.
But there is more in life than party
politics, and the country does not de-
sire TO see business ruined again to
make political capital for anybody, least
of all for the party that obtained power
on promise to put an end to tariff agi-
tation. Should they deliberately vio-
late that pledge and bring another pan
ic, democratic successor to Grover
Cleveland will be certainty. Courier
journal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
EXCHANGE ECHOES.

The great trouble with our equaliza-
ton board is that most of the equalizing
was done while they were at Roam
Mountain and Old Point Comfort for
their health. There is no parity be
tween free passes, parlor cars, summer
resorts and an overtaxed people.
Brownsville Tribune. F<,f5
Dixie and Yankee Doodle have heen
so badly mixed that they don't know
which is t'other. Chattanooga News,
We visited the county Jail the other
day, and found eighteen men confined
there for various offenses; and strange
to say every one of them are innocent,
at least each one of them said he was
! perfectly innocent" and one went so
far as to say that the spirit of the Lord
Jesus Christ was comforting him in his
tribulation. -Greeneville News.
The Bristol creamery did its first
churning yesterday and turned cut
forty EIGHT pounds of nice butter. The
article was placed on sale at Charlie
Bondurant's.
Rev. J. J. Robinette, of johnson
City, has been preaching since Tuesday
night in the M. Z. church. His sermon
Tuesday evening is said to have been a
most excellent one. The crowds out to
hear the doctor have been getting
larger every night, and we hope that
he may accomplish much good during
his visit to our city. -Mountaineer.
An exchange tells of man who stop
ped his paper and wrote to the editor
as follows:
| think folks auten to spend their
muney fur paypers, mi dady didn't and
every buddy sed he WIS the intelligent
tbs man in the kentry and had the
smartest family NV bois that ever dug
taters.
The Yankees captured the south this
time easier than they did back in the
sixties. -Tomahawk
Miss Jessie Kirkpatrick, one of Jones
boro's most charming and popular
young ladies, who has been visiting
friends and relatives in Abingdon for {
couple of weeks, is now spending a few
days with the Misses Taylor, on Thirt
street. Bristol News.
If a fellow thinks he can take drink
son the sly" in Greeneville, and no
be found out, he is as badly mistaken
as the fellow who burnt his shirt. Sc
you gentlemen who enter the rear door
as we'll as you boys who use the tele
phone to get drink, may as well un
derstand at once that all your heather
Chinese plans are known. -Greenevillt
Republican.
Miss Kate Deaderick, popular lady
of Jonesboro, died very suddenly a
her home Tuesday night. She was
about forty years of age. She had no
been complaining of feeling i'll until q
short time before her death. The flu
neral occurred Wednesday and the re
mains were inferred at Jonesboro. 4
Bristol Courier, September 90.
The man who doesn't advertise for
feits his right to succeed. Big Stone
Gap Post.
The barn of Francis Hartman, q
RAIDERS side track, six miles west o
town, was struck by lightning Monda.
night and burned to the ground will
its contents, which consisted of tw'
horses, large amount of hay and corn
! a moving machine and wagon. n
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
The "BlueS."

Do you ever have the "blues"2 Do
you know what they come froml Do
you want to know how to drive them
away3 Listen:
The blues " are simply natural re-
suit OF disorganized liver. Your liver
secretes bile instead of discharging it.
The bile must be filter ed from that which
IS to make blood, anC if not properly fiji
tered your blood BECOMES impure. Then
you feel wretchedly, ana " Don't kncy &Rr
yOH are so bIue',''
Now, in two or three weeks time,
you can make yourself feel like
new creature, with rosy cheeks, good
appetite, healthy bowels and sound
sleep at night.
Ask your druggist for RamOn,s
Tonic Liver Pills anG Ra-
mons Tonic Pellets. These
are two separate medicines, III sepa-
rate boxes, but both together they cost
only Is cents.
You will then have a sure treat
ment which will not only cure your
billion sness but prevent constipation
in the future by strengthening your
digestive system.
At all dealers or mail, for 25c., 5 boxes 81 co.
BROWN MFG. CO., New York.
For sale by Wofford & Co. 566 50
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
THE COM EFT
EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the POStofice at johnson City, Tenn, a
Second Class Matter.

The first issue of the Lenoir City
(Tenn Leader is on our table. 1t is a
neatly printed six-column folio, Re-
publican in politics, and edited byLouis
j. Scholl. The indications are that il
Scholl succeed and we hope it will.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

WHEN the necessity arises, the Chat
tanooga Times proves itself equal to
the emergency and maintains its repu-
tation for being a thoroughly up-to-
date newspaper. It's dedication
issues were really gems and warrant
the belief that the Times will contain
a full and accurate account of the
Judgment Day the morning after, il
the management is unchanged.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

SENATOR VEST was naturally much
irritated at having his position on the
silver question misrepresented by the
wide publication of what purported to
be an interview with him. In order
that there may be may be no misunder-
standing Of the position he pceupies he
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

H. G, and w. D. Yost received or
ders this week from Nashville for two
drummers' wagons, also an order from
Cy Lyle (the only Cy, editor of the
johnson City Comet for a fine vehi-
cle.-Greeneville News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
MORTGAGES SALE.

By virtue OF certain mortgage with
power Of sale, executed by Samuel
Simcox and Adelia Simcox, his wife
to the Southern Building and Loan
Association, of Knoxville, Tennessee
dated June 23rd, A. d., 1889, and reg.
istered in the registers office of Wash
ington county. Tennessee, in trust
book volume 8, page SCI, to which
reference is made for particulars, and
for the purpose OF paying the debt
therein mentioned, described and Sc
cured. together with certain taxes
thereon, and fines Tor nonpayment OF
dues, and insurance premium paid, as
provided by the terms of said mortgage
and the charter and b. laws OF said as
ISOLATION, default having been made in
these payments, the undersigned viii
On
SATURDAY THE 18TH DAY OF OCT, 1895
between the hours oil II a. M, and Il
o'clork III in front of tie door of the
court house of said county Of Wash
ingtnr, proceed to sell the property
described in said mortgage, wit
That certain lot or parcel OF land sit
uate in the 9th civil district of Wash.
ington county, in the State OF Tennes.
see, and described as follows: Being
two town lots lying adjacent to the
southern intersection Of Spring and
Maple streets, in the town OF johnson
City, 10 said county and state, includ-
ing all the improvements on The same
Said lots fronting on Maple street
combined frontage OF 100 feet and
running back of even width with
Spring street $50 feet, and being the
same lots conveyed to said Samuel
Simcox by the Johnson City Real Els.
tate Company, on the 22nd day Of
June, 1887, by deed now on record, in
the registers Office, of said Washing.
ton county, in deed book 81, at page
167, to which reference is here made
and being the property now occupied
by said Simcox and family as home
stead.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

That dull, listless feeling every morn
ing indicates the need of Ayers Sarsa-
parilla.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

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Send 2 two-cent stamps to pay postage to the
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

DR., Prices Cream Baking Powdes
wpFla's FslF Highest Rsaalsaa plplema
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26
TERMS or SALE.

Cash, free from all equity of redemp-
ton, homestead or dover
Dated this 10th day of September
1896
The Southern Building and Loan
Association.
By A. R. JOHNSON, its duly author
ized agent.
$50 II primers fee, sl5
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-09-26

RamCn'S Liver Pills s Tonic Pellets
are Perfect Treatment for Constipation
and Biliousness. BsS@ O1e pill dose.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-08-23
MIR. PETER TO VETERANS.

TorEEA, Aug. I7.-United States Senator
Lucien Baker and ex-senator John j. Ingalls,
have promised to attend the reunion of Bntler
county veterans at II Dorado, September 80.
Senator w. a. PETER, owing 10 an engagement
in Ohio, mas been compelled TO decline. The
concluding paragraph of his letter TO Bent Muir
dock says: 81 wish You and all the boys an
agreeable meeting. The average age of the
surviving soldier is nearly, if not quite, sixty
years, and we now fall out of the ranks at the
rate of 10000 year. The death rate is con-
stauty increasing, and it is expected that the
death roll will reach its maximum of 10000
year at about 1905. From that time OH, the
rate will diminish until about fifty years from
J-s aag, Vc may -.as0naOiy expect that the
las, soldier of the Grand Army OF the Republic
Will have passed away. God bless their mem
or,. The value of work they accomplished
mas not been, and will never be, adequately un-
derslood OF accurately estimated"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-08-23
. PROF. BEMIS.

Prof. Bemis, of Chicago University, has been
bounced. Chicago University was founded by
the great and good John d. Rockaffeller. Mr..
Yerkes, the street railway magnate, gave the
university 100000.
Prof Bemis, it seems, refused to teach the
class on political economy that monopolies are
a good thing and Heaven-ordained, and that.
God had chosen Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr..
Yerkes as the dispensers of His bounty. Prof.
Bemis has been rghtfuly served. The Lord
has had no such stewards as Mr.. Rockefeller
and Mr. Yerkes since the world began. Mr..
Rockefeller gave four million of his many
millions to found an institution i'll which
men could be taught that a millionaire is
royal personage-an ''anointed of the Lord
and faithful steward"
Prof Bcmis did not believe in th- cNac-.ona
Of corporations he said SO TO his class. This
was heterodoxy and rebellion against the
powers that be. of went his head, and now
some man who can teach that the Lord intend
ed the earth for few rich men, and sores dress
ell bv dogs, and cruns from the ricl mems
tables, for the masses, will be placed in l1of
Dems' place.
Why will the people not learn that the
the nobest thing on earth (and, far as
known, in the next stopping place, is rich men
who endow universities, and help on the Lords
cause by giving away whole dollars in private
charities
Prof Bemis has lost his bread and butter
preierring to starve rather than barter his birth
right, and the university will now serve its
Lord in teaching what it was intended it should
teach.