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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

The Staff very kindly extended us
the use of their plant in getting out this
issue, which we very much appreciate,
but fortunately we were not compelled
to avail ourselves of the verj generous
offer.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08
NOTICE.

The Crystal Ice Co. will furnish the
dry flint ice again this season. See
Webb Bros. or ]. B'Worley.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

Alderman Cameron, for the light
committee, reported that the lights
were poor and did not, in the opinion
of the committee, fill the contract.
Alderman Martin, for the school com
mittee, submitted the report of j. E.
Brading, secretary of the school trus-
tees, showing that the money appropri-
ated was being judiciously used. The
committee reported that the school was
mot in fourishing condition, +" and
recommended that the board of trustees
look after the matter, as it is response
BILE At the adjourned meeting Mon
day night the following business was
transacted Bill for lumber, $500,
allowed.
The tax grievance committee made a
report covering few cases, the most
important was the release of e. II.
West from paying tax on $1,000 worth
of stock in the Watauga Bank.
A committee was appoited to investi-
gate the advisabilitg Of buying two
horses and wagon for the use of the
city. @"i 9a
A resolution was adopted requesting
the city attorney to give written
opinion on the legality of an ordinance
compelling property owners toput down
sidewalks in front of such property.
Hunter & Brown was allowed to close
the alley between tenth and eleventh
avenues by filing an agreement to open
it when ever the city demanded it. II
The mayor was requested to inquire
into the feasibility of purchasing the
strip of land along Roam street where
the Chinese laundry was recently de-
stroyed by fire. The object is to widen
the street.
The report of fire and police commit
1 80 ,,,o, ,,ov4Ixv 90 foI1ouo.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

Mckinley no longer has the edge on
us, We have a pie counter of our own.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

1t must have been an odorless Goa
oil.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

The Chinaman and his opium were
rapidly parted.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

Our devil was in his element for once
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

The ordinance creating asinking fund
wGs passed on its third and final read
ing. The ordinance providing for a
bond book, in which to record the bonds
of city officers for safety and convent
ence was also passed on its final read
ing,
A resolution was adopted fixing the
bond of the sinking fund commission
ers at 1000. They were elected as fol-
lows: Tate L. Earnest for term of two
years, and J. E. Brading for term of
one year. W. B. Whiteside was re-
elected street foreman for the ensuing
year.
On motion Of Alderman Collect the
street labor for the ensuing year was
fixed at four days work or $3.50 in cash.
Alderman Woford read the report of
the street committee. The most i'm
nortant items were as follows
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

The Office towel was badly damaged
by water
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08
NOTES.

We are greatly handicapped in get
ting out this issue, as the editorial shears
and the paste pot were lost in the dis
turbance.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08

do not promise you a drink from the
Spring of Perpetual YOUTH" a
craving for which, in days gone by,
lured the chivalrous Ponce de Leon
to tempt danger in the wilds OF
Florida. Neither do they hold Out
any hopes of furnishing you with
clew to the location of the long lost
" Philosophers Stone, but in max
ing garments in the styles prevail
ing in the metropolitan cities of the
world 4ig
AAr rnY%rC
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08
OUR FIRE.

Last Shnday morning about O'Clock
fire was discovered In the Chinese
laundry building on the corner of
Market aud Roam streets. The alarm
was sounded and the fire department
quickly responded, but the structure,
being an old frame one, burned very
rapidly, and before the water could be
turned on the flames had communicated
to the roof the THE COMET Office build
ing. 1t is a brick building, but was
built years ago and was covered with
wood shingles that had become dry
with years of exposure and burned like
paper. The entire building was burned
and the upper ceiling almost totally de-
stroyed. THE COMET plant was serious
ly damaged, but the loss was partially
covered by 81 900 policy in the Etna
Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn,
placed by their popular agent at this
place, t. V. McCown. Thespecial ad-
iuster Of the company, Mr.. Manson,
came to the city yesterday on the AGO
vestibule, adjusted the loss, paid the
damage and went on his way rejoicing
over the settlement on the S15 train.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08
City Council.

The city council met last Thursday
night and had so much business on
hand that it had to set an adjourned
meeting for Monday night The mayor
and the following aldermen were pres
ent: Boring, Cameron, Jackson, Col
lett, Persell, Wofford and and Martin.
Absent Beckner and City Attorney
jennings.
The following bills were reported by
the finance committee and ordered paid (:
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-04-08
MERRI1'S SKIRTS
ARE ALWAYS THE BEST,

FIR IT in Quality. FIRST in style, Fit anc
Finish Forty years experience finds us still il
the lead.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
FOUR vERDIcTs SET ASIDE.
Three Against the SANTA Fe and One
Against City and Electric Light Co.

Judge Holt. of the common pleas court,
yesterday reversed the findings of his jury
in four damage suits. In the case of Vene
Hester against the Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany, the judgment in favor of the plaintiff
for 5000 was set aside and a new trial
granted. The suit grew cut of the death
Of Robert Hester, an engineer in the en-
ploy of the company. He was killed in
the railroad yards in this city.
Fred Mercer brought suit against the
Santa Fe company about four years ago
for the killing of n team of horses, and got
judgment for $50. a new trial was Sc
cured by the company, and after a trial of
three days duration the jury rendered a
verdict for Mercer in the sum of 500. ".
r. Smith, local attorney for the Santa F'e
company, filed a motion asking that the
judgment be set aside and the costs OF
the case. amounting to about $3.50 be taxed
against the plaintiff. Mr.. Smith, in making
his argument on the motion, showed that
from the evidence the death of the horses
was due TO negligence on the part of the
driver. Judge Holt sustained the motion.
The Santa Fe company was also granted
rehearing in the case of w. II. Stevenson
for damages for the retention of a mailing
machine. The case was tried about three
weeks ago and the plaintiff was given judg-
ment for $3.50.
The fourth verdict set aside was in the
case of Grace File against the city of Kan
sas City. Kas.. and the Consolidated Elec-
trio Light and Power Company. The case
was originally tried at the September term
of court and the plaintiff given judgment
for $500 damages. The judgment was
Jointly against the city and the light COM
pany, but from the evidence introduced at
the trial the light company was not liable
for damages, and}a few days ago the COM
pany's attorneys filed motion TO set aside
the judgment. The motion was sustained
yesterday. The plaintiff was painfully in
jured by coming in contact with a live cleo
trio wire.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
orntory Out of Place.

From Harper's Round Table.
He was bright, dapper. young lawyer,
fun of spirits, and possibly a little too
smart. For some time the judge of the dis
trict court had been waiting an opportunity
to suppress trifie of this smartness. as
it became a bore when constantly opposed
to his honor's long experience. The young
lawyer jumped up to defend a case of steal
ing in which the accused man had retained
him. Unfortunately he had failed to thor
oughly acuuaint himself with the facts OF
the case. other than that his client had
been arrested for stealing.
Your honor" he cried. 'T ask you does
the prisoner look like man that would
steal? Does he look like man that would
suffer his honesty to be demeaned by ap-
propriating another mans gold? No: a
thousand times no! He is patriotic citi-
zen of the country, one of the proud up
holders of our grand republic. and 1 say it
is an outrage for the plaintiff to accuse
such a gentleman of theft. Think os his
friends that will weep over his disgrace
undeservedly thrust upon him. Think of
the blight upon this mans existence. I
say the accused is too manly, too gener-
Gus. too noble a specimen of hum"
Smash! went the judges gavel, as he
roared out: Quit that! Young man, this
is a case of hog-stealing!"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
sUCCUMBED TO A STROKE OF APO
PLEXY RECEIVED FRIDAY.
LEAVES WIDOW AND DAUGHTER.
FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE THIS
AFTERNOON AT = O'CLOCK.
Judge Holt Sets Aside the Verdicts in
Three Cases-LiEhtning Rod
Agent Successfully Works
an Old SwindIe-
Other News.

Edward A. Webster. an old and well
known resident of this city. died shortly
after o'clock yesterday morning at his
home, 2O55 North Fifth street Death came
very suddenly, and is thought TO have been
due to apoplexy.
The deceased was superintendent of the
provision and fertiizing jobbing depart
ment of the Armour Packing Company,
which position he had held for the past
fifteen years. He went 10 work Friday
morning and seemed to be in the best of
spirits. Friday evening, after quitting the
plant he went direct to his home on North
Fifth street. The evening meal was not
quite ready and he decided to do the chores
about the house before eating.
He went to the stable, where he was dis
covered twenty minutes later by his wife
staggering around in a dazed condition.
Mrs. Webster got him into the house and
Immediately summoned physicians. Drs.
Elliott. Bates and Benson responded. There
were two or three small bruises on Mr..
Webster's forehead, and it was first
thought he might have been slugged, but
Rn examination proved that the bruises
were only about skin deep and were in
Hicted by fall. 1t is thought Mr.. Web
ster, when stricken, fell, and thus received
the slight bruises.
Several times during Friday night Mr..
Webster seemed to rally, but he never
fully regained consciousness and expired
without making any statement The de-
ceased was 50 years of age and leaves a
wife and daughter. He was well known
In the two Kansas Citys, both in social and
business circles. He had lived here about
twenty years.
When a young man he was engaged I'm
the newspaper business in Chicago. For
several years he was connected with the
circulation department of the Chicago
Tribune. He was afterwards a salesman
for big machinery house and was follow
Ing these pursuits at the time OF the great
Chicago fire in 1871. He served on the
board of appraisers that appraised the
losses on machinery occasioned by the fire
He then came TO this city and connected
himself with the Armour company.
The funeral VIII take place this afternoon
from the family home at . o'clock. The
body will be placed i'm the receiving vault
at Oak Grove cemetery.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS.
Why the Publisher Accepted ths
Young Authors Book


From Larks
The publisher was evidently pleased.
So also was the young author sitting as
his side.
The latter's book had been declared very
acceptable by the man of business. and
the author felt that he had not worked
in vain.
The publisher told him several times that
he was glad TO have the book. and con-
graduated him on his good fortune.
You think. then" said the author smiI-
ingly. that the plot is a good one?''
The plot? Um-ah-well, 1 did not notice
the plot exactly
No? But you like the style of the story,
though. don't you?''
The style? Oh. the styles all right (
think. but it didn't impress me particular
ly.'
The smile faded from the young authors
face. and he seemed somewhat taken abacE
and a little chagrined withal.
Really" he observed, Il should very
much like to know what it is you do like III
it so much. don't see why
The publisher turned impatientIy in hi9
chair.
My dear young friend. he calculated,
hang your plot and your style, Your hand
writing is so Internally bad that l am go-
ing TO have the book printed simply to call
the foreman of my composing room down
because he said there wasn't anything he
couldn't decipher."
Truly-there are wheels within wheels.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Anecdotes of Lord westbury.

From Cornhill.
There is always freshness about stories
of the first Lord Westbury. even though
some of them may have been often told
and retold, and many, persons will probably
find interest in w. Is. Duffield's article on
the wit and wisdom of this brilliant advo-
cate and famous lord chancellor. His read
iness was never at fault. When solicitor
handed him-then Sir Richard BethelI-a
case in which he had advised years before
in sense directly opposed to the line he
was now taking. his only remark was:
1T is 4 matter of establishment to ms
that any one capable of penning such an
opinion should have risen to the eminence
l have the honor to enjoy"
Once when arguing before Lord Campbell
he was stopped by that judge with a re-
quest for cases bearing out his contention
My lord he said. such is the law, but
as l have to be elsewhere shortly, my
friend. Mr.. Archibald, will quote the cases
in support of it,"
Needless to say Mr.. Archibald hastily left
the court before his leader
One who acted as his Junior in a heav1
case records that after stating all tho
points in their favor. he asked him to pue
anything he thought their opponents might
have to say in reply The junior, who had
studied the case carefully then put the
opponents in the best light he could. Beth
ell seemed to be listening intently. so the
other at length said:
so you really think they will say that?''
They might say that" replied BetheII
'but what - fools they would be-"
Another remark of his to young bar
rister too eager to distinguish himself is
applicable to all time. II think" said the
junior, when he had finished and they re-
tired for lunch. that you have made a
strong impression on the court"
Il think so, too" said Bethel, don't dis
turb It,"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
UNDER WATER EIGHTEEN HOURS.
The Possibilities in Favor of subma-
rine Boats Are Looking Tn.

From the Scientific American.
An Italian inventor named CorZetto has
constructed an apparatus which he calls
n 'methydric sphere" and by means of
which he processes to be able to descend
to any depth in the sea In his experiment
at Spezzia he stored some 1000 cubic feet
of compressed air in his apparatus. which
he entered with two friends, and which
was then lowered to a depth of some thirty
feet. As after an expiration of nine hours
the sphere had not yet been seen to re-
ascend to the surface, a message was sent
to the admiral in command of the naval
department, who at once sent diver to
the spot. The sphere" was found still
resting on the sea bottom, but the diver
heard nothing in answer to his knocks.
Some barges having been brought to the
spot by a tug, the sphere was hauled
up with ropes, and as soon as it emerged
its door was opened, and the inventor ap-
peared with ivid face and half asphyxiated.
His two companions We're unconscious, but
were quickly resuscitated. They had re-
mained eighteen hours under water. The
inventor explains that so far all his eX-
periments were successful, but on this oc-
casion when he intended to return to the
surface the air pressure at his command
proved insufficient to eXpel the water bal
last of about two tons weight, which had
so far kept his appliance submerged, and
hence they had to remain where they were
until rescued. At any rate, three persons
were enabled to remain under water for
eighteen hours, and this experiment NAV
not be without significance as regards the
much discussed problem of submarine nav
igation.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
METROPOLIS MISCELLANY.

Dodson & Hutchings, 54S Minnesota ave-
nue. write burglary insurance.
Desk room to rent. Journal office. Room
E. Hustled building.
Mrs Dr. J Troutman has returned home
after pleasant visit with friends and rela-
tiSes in Iowa.
Miss Lizzie Counselman. OF Washington,
Ia. is in the city, the guest of her cousin,
j. r. Richey, and family.
Rev. II. G. Mendenhall, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church. has returned
from a visit with his parents at Philadel-
phia.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Y. NJ. C. A.
will hold its annual election of officers Mt
2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the asso-
citation rooms.
The board of managers of the Rescue
Home Association will hold a business
meeting tomorrow afternoon Mt the home
on Armstrong avenue.
The Populists and Democrats held Il
meeting yesterday afternoon at Boylan's
hall and made arrangements to attend the
inauguration of Governor-elect Leedy.
Registration for 1897 will commence to-
morrow morning. The poll books will be
opened at the office OF Commissioner of
Elections Foster and remain open until the
spring election.
The police are keeping up their war on
Migrants. Yesterday morning five more
idlers We're given forty days each in the
city jail. They We're strangers to the Do-
lice Frank Stabler and Fred CARRIER were
on suspicion.
r. C. Foster has been appointed chair
man OF the committee on TRANSPORTATION
for the Populist excursion TO Topeka on
the morning Of the 1lth. Mr. Foster stated
last night that he would secure a special
car providing he could get fifty patriots
who would go.
The Police Relief Association met yester-
day afternoon at police headquarters Will
lam Clark was elected president; w. Rev
nolds, vice president; j. +. Porter. treas
uler. and Sam Harrison. secretary. The
claim Of Mrs. George Noah for $500 on the
death of her husband was allowed and or
dCred paid.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
WAS A LOOSE CHARACTER.
He Would Lose Anything Except His
Comprehensive Thirst.

From the Buffalo Express.
The man with the corduroy vest was tell
ing the story. He said he was there when
it happened. He has the reputation among
his friends of having been at every i'm
portant event since the landing of the
ark. Anyhow, this is what he said:
Il was over at the theater last night and
was standing in the lobby waiting for
see the show. Two men, both of whom
had been drinking, came in. One of them,
the more unsteady one, wobbled up to the
box office and bought two seats. He lost
the tickets between the box Office and the
door.
when they got to the doorkeeper and
We're asked for their tickets the man who
had bought them began hunting through
his pockets and looking hopelessly into
his hat. His friend encouraged him with
maudlin advice and finally the doorkeeper
told them pretty sharply to hurry up and
let other people in.
Can't do it,, replied the man who had
lost the tickets.
Why not? asked the doorkeeper.
L lost my tickets
Why, you couldn't have lost them. 1
saw you buy them two minutes ago. You
couldn't have lost two little bits of paste
board like that so quick
1.-The ticket loser was quite indignant He
looked as sternly as he could at the door
keeper. Then he said:
oh, l couldn't losh 'em, couldn't 1? l
couldn't Josh 'em? Thash all you know
bout it. 1 can losh anythin'. I Josh a
bass drum once"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Some LegaI Fees
From the Illustrated London News.

From the Illustrated London News.
A would-be client once wrote to Parsons.
the American advocate stating a case for
his opinion. and inclosing a $50 note The
other did not reply, whereupon the man
wrote 4 second letter. Then Parsons an
swered that he had read the case and form
ed his opinion, but somehow or other 'it
stuck in his throat" Whereupon the man
perceiving what was amiss, inclosed a 500
note, and got the opinion. Nobody does
anything well for nothing, and certainly
not n lawyer. Lord Mansfield was so SEN
sible of this that when on one occasion he
had to attend to some professional busi
ness of his own, he took some guineas out
of his purse and put them into his waist
coat pocket to give him the requisite slim
ulus. Sir Anthony Malone. an Irish attor-
ney general. was so imprudent as to omit
this precaution, and as Croake James IN
forms us, was grievously punished for IT.
for he was so inattentive as regards some
property he bought for himself that he lost
$4,000 a year by 1t. In future he caused his
clerk to make an abstract of the title deeds
of any property he bought, and lay it be-
fore him with a fee of 5 guineas, properly
indOrsed, which the clerk was scrupuIousIyy
TO account for, after which Sir Anthony
made no more mistakes, as regarded. at
least, his own affairs.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
A boys FIRST CIRCUS.
The Enhancing Thoughts He Has of
the Peerless CoraIie.

From Scribner's.
A thud of unseen hoofs first set us
aQuiver; then q crash of cymbals, a jangle
of bells, hoarse applauding roar, and
Coralie was in the midst of us, whirling
past twiXt earth and sky, now erect, fiush
radiant, now crouched to the flowing mane
swung and tossed and nodded by the mad
mighty whip of the count in the frockcoat
marked time with pistol shots; his war cry,
whooping clear above the music, fired the
blood with n passion for splendid deeds, as
Coralie, laughing, eXultant, crashed through
the paper hoops. We gripped the red cloth
in front of us, and our souls sped round
and round with Coralie leaping with her,
prone with her, swung by name or tail with
her. 1t was not only the ravishment of her
deliriouS feats nor her cream-Colored horse
of fairy breed. long-tailed, roe-footed an
enchanted prince surely, If ever there was
one!
1t was her more than mortal beauty-dis-
played, too, under conditions never vouch-
safed to us before-that held us spellbound
What princess had arms so dazzlingly
white, or went delicateIy clothed in such
pink and spangles? Hitherto We had known
the outward woman as but n drab thing
near legleSs, punched
here, CONSTRUCTED there; slow of movement
and given to deprecating lusty action of
limb. Here was n revelation! From hence
forth our imaginations would have to be
revised and corrected up to date In one
of those swift rushes the mind makes in
htgh-Strung moments l saw myself and
Coralie, close enfolded, pacing the world
together, DER hill and plain, through storied
cities. past rows of applauding relations-I
in my Sunday knickerbockers, she In her
pink and SpangleS.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Misses krnh.x Party.

One of the most pleasing events of the
past week was the party given by Miss
Georgia and Ormond Kroh, last evening"
at their home on Tauromee avenue. 1t
was the second meeting of the Elite Club
a social organization recently organized by
the young people of this city. The parlors
were canvassed and dancing was one of
the features of the evening. Those pres
ent were: Misses CAME Armentrout, Clara
Wagonseller Lena Gilbert. Georgia Ange-
vine. Edna Barnes, Margaret Northrup
Helen Fletcher, Olive Wells Helen Wells
and Georgia Kroh; Messrs. Roland Ham
mond, Roy Wood, Archie Chaplin, Percy
Barshfield. Arthur HoIbrook, Claude
Barnes, Fred Turner, Charles Haren, Bert
and Ormond Kroh.