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The age-herald., 1898-01-07


 New York, Jan. 6.--The stock market out today and gains were maintained with only insignificant reactions at a few h. tcrvals. Buying was on very large scale and was aggressive and confident A num- Der of prominent operators were in the movement and their combined takings made up large share of the transac- tions. But it was manifest all outside in- terest in the market which was awak- ened by yesterdays strength and thefcom- mission house buying, was on fairly large scale. The investment demand for safe dividend-paying stocks and heavy buying of bonds were also evidences of an infus- ion of new life into the market It is likely these dealings were due to the large amounts made avilable for investment by the January dividend and interest dsburse- ments. Most of the dealings were profes- sional, nevertheless, and they seemed to have been melted by the very confident ex- pressions of one of the largest and most dasf1ing operators in the market and who was in large part the leadep of last sum- mer's rise. Some of the most notable gains were achieved early in the day and were quite freely held throughout, even in the face of very large transactions. There was suggestions of realizing in this, but all of- ferings were well absorbedI The closing was only slightly below the best and showed net gains of between one and two points for nearly all active markets
 Prices for American securities were good in London and in European markets, and gave an impetus at the opening here, the international stocks being the first to ad- vance. The next to feel the movement were the Vanderbilts, New York Central being conspicuous for the large buying and ar extreme advance of points. There was report circulated that the active man. agers of these properties had been sharply admonished by the controlling interests that their hold on their positions would be made dependent on rates for traffic be- ing maintained on their lines Continued strength in Sugar also helped to sustain the market. The prevailing tightness of money showed the first decisive tendency towards easier rates today, and while most loans were made at 31s per cent. the rate yielded to per cent. and closed at that. There was better demand reported also for commercial paper, though not suf- ficient to cause any yielding of the rate. which continued at 3h to per cent. for choice grades.
 The band market was even more active and strong than stocks, and material gains were scored.
 Missouri Pacific collateral trust 5's gained 9, and Mobile and Ohio As, 1%. Total sales, s5. .090,0
 Governments were 4 higher all around.
 Total sales of stocks today, sSs,6oo. in-
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Local Staple Groceries

Flour-Best patent, $5.5G65.75. Straight-$5.0O; extra family, a.50. Sugar-Granulated, $5.45; Y. C., A75. Coffee-Rio green, SG13l2c Arbuckle, Lowering and Lyons packages, S11.1O. Lard, 51hc basis .adr Clear ribs sides, $5.07h Molasses-Centrif., 15Q25c; sugar-house. 20d35c
 Rice, 514d61Ac.
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For Circuit Court Clerk.

The undersigned respectfully asks til, support of the voters of Jefferson count, for the nomination for the office of clerl of the circuit court of Jefferson county subject to the action of the democratic party.
 WALTER K. MADORY.s
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St. Louis.

St. Louis. Jan. 6.-F1our dull and un- changed
 Wheat, lower; No. 2 red. cash, elevator, 971a; track, 9S; No. 2hard, cash, S7; January, 93; May, 9sss bid; July, 7s,
 Corn, higher; No. 2, cash, 25a; January, 26 asked; May, 271s bid; July, 2Sh.
 Oats, steady No 2, cash, elevator, 23; track 2s1s; January, 2s14; May, 2S7s; No 2 white, Al4a25 TT Rye, lower, 441s.
 Butter, dull; creamery, 17d22; dairy, 9ll1Ts Eggs, firm, 1Sc. Whisky, $1.19. j Pork, quiet; standard mess jobbing, $9.121k.
 Lard easy; prime steam, $4.55.
 Bacon, boxed lots extra short clear, s5. .121kg5 3711s; ribs s5.25@5.5O; short, s5.372Q 562h.
 Dry salt meats, boxed shoulders and ribs, $4.75@5 extra short clear, $462l244S11s; shorts, s4S71a@5.121s.
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Circuit Clerk.

Walter L. Howard announces himself Ia candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court for Jefferson county subject to the action oi the democratic party. d&wtf.I
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Notice of Stockholders Meet
 ing.

The annual meeting of stockholders of the office of the company in Birmingham, Ala, on Monday, January 1O 1898, at 10 o'clock, a. m. J. R. VAIL,
 Secretary and Treasurer.
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ArticIes IOpening hIgne 5 1

Cash quotations quiet. No. spring wheat, S6a4c@S7c; No. spring wheat, =; No. red, 9Ol4cQ91c; Mo- corn, 26sscQ26a4c No. 2 yellow corn, 265scQ26a4c; No. oats, 22Ac; No. 2 white, f. o. b. 24cQ2414c; No. white, f. o. b. 29c@4c; No. 2 rye. 441Ac; No. 9 barley, f. O. b. 2Sc@S0c No. 3, -; No. 4, =; Mo- flax seed, $1.19a1.2O; prime timo- thy seed, s2.671a; mess pork, per barrel, s9.O5Q9.1O; lard, per 100 pounds s4.721A short ribs sides Qoose $4.40@4.7O; dry salted shoulders Oooxed), 41Ac@4alc; short clear sides Cboxed), $4.75@4.S5; whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gallon, $1.19; sugars, cut loaf, $614; granulated. s551; Standard "A" -; cheese quiet, Sc@S1ac; eggs steady, fresh, PC.
 On the produce exchange today the but ter market was steady. Creameries, 15c@ 21c; daires, 12cQ1Sc.
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ANNOUNcEM ENTS.
G. R. HARSH

is canida te for nomination by the dem- ocratic party, for the office of senior judge of the city court of Birmingham.
 10-10-tf.
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If it is advertised in The Age-Herald it is all right.
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LOCAL MARKETS.

Local Cotton Market Cotton-Middling, 51s.
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We are authorized to announce Charles B Powell as a candidate for the above named office, subject to the action of the democratic party u-10-t
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SAMUEL HUNT,
 General Manager. O. K. CAMERON,
 Master of Trains. N. R. ADRIANCE,
 Superintendent.
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For Associate Judge of the City Court of Bir-
 mingham.
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Through Pullman Buffet SIeepers running between st. Louis and Jacksonville, Fla, handled on trains and between Bir- mingham and Albany.
 Connection at Savannah with superb freight and passenger steamers of the Boston and the East.
 For further information apply to
 s. Jacobs, Com'l Agent, Jack W. John son. Union Ticket Agent, J. c. Halle, Gen. erai Passenger Agent, D. H. Hinton, Traffic Manager
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
 RAILWAY co.

ARRIVALS No. 3-From Jacksonville, Albany, Columbus, etc .. .......... .ll:Sz am No. 1.--From Savannah, Macon, Co., lumbuS, etc b5f pm
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The Iron Market.

Birmingham Jan. 6.-The following are tho Iot tact afatiOns on iron.
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BIRMINGHAM & ATLANTIC R. R. CO Time table No. 21, taking effect a. m. July
 1. 1896 w Bd. E Bd.
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TRANSIT METEORS.

If Spain does not award few con-
tracts to American shipbuiders, her
case may be considered utterly hope
ess-Nashville American.
Young Fowler, the lamb which is to
be slain, is the same, identical bird
whose warblings the boys declined to
listen to at the fair grounds, at this
place, two years ago.-Cookeyille
press.
Gen. Peter Tracy, of Memphis, is
said to be cousin of Admiral Dewey
and an Uncle of Hobson-M aury
Democrat.
And father to Moike Connolly, a
niece of Walker Kennedy and a sister
to Cy Lyle. --Hardeman Free Press.
Our paper is late this week on &C.
count of sickness. We was down to
Memphis. and ree-lunched on catfish,
ice cream and beer until we didn't
know whether we had gills, icicles or a
faucet attached to us. Them that joys
must suffer Hardeman Free Press.
Tennessee will send eight Demo
cratic Congressman to Washington, at
least, and if Gibson-we refer, of
course. to the gallant Captain-should
be nominated by the Republicans in
the Second District, another Demo
cratic Congressman should be added to
the list. Brownlow sees that the
counting is done by the right men in
his district, so that it does not much
matter who runs against him. He
runs things up there very much like he
did the Republican convention down
here. Nashville American.
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again choose in 1900 a leader equal to
the emergency and worthy of democ-
racy's cause. And we believe that that
leadership can be given to no more
worthy and deserving man, no ADLER
statesman, no drawer leader no truer
democrat and patriot than that splendid
American, William J Bryan.
The chair appointed John Bowman,
Samuel Gray, DR.. Hoss, r. L. Patton,
and G. G. Walker. a committee to select
delegates to the congressional conven-
ton when called. They made the fol-
lowing selection and recommended that
all the democrats from Washington
county who will attend be recognized
as delegates and entitled to seat and
voice in the convention.
A. D, Taylor, VIM. Humphreys, w.
A, Self, A. s. Deaderick, Baxter Tay-
lor, J. L. Humphreys, w. B. Bowman,
W. r. Reeves, U. S. Keebler, J. A.
Radford, Henry Jackson, Benz. White,
T. M. Wells, j. M. Copp, NJ, I. Dump,
George t. Campbell, W. P. Jobe.
The Hon. Gus Bowers, of Boones
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Hawaiian Girls.

The half-caste Kanaka are the most
attractive women to be found in the
Hawaiian islands. they have clear,
brown compilations; small, plump fig
ures, black hair, dreamy dark eyes,
and beautiful white, strong teeth
They almost live in the water, conse-
quently are scrupulously clean. Their
dispositions are gentle, and they have
the soft, dangerous ways so charming
and so characteristic of the women of
tropical chimes. The soft, loose,
brightly. colored gowns and the wreaths
of flowers about the head or waist make
a picturesque costume. The feet are
always bare.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

There is more Catarrh in this section OF the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable, For a great many years doctors
pronounced it q local disease, and prescribed
local remedies and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t In
durable. Science has proven eatarrh TO be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo.
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market, 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to teaspoonful- 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces OF the system
They offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address.
T. J. CHENEY 8 Co., Toledo, 0.
Price zoe per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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detrimental to the best interests of the
people, They are the results of con-
spiracies formed for the purpose of re-
stricting trade and commerce, the OBJ
ject of which is to extort from the peo-
pie the fruits of their toll.
There is new form of oppression,
rightly termed "go, eminent by injunc-
tion, " which has found its way into our
system of government by usurpa-
ton of power, and which is one of the
most dangerous abuses that has ever
been practiced under our political sys-
TEN. 1t destroys popular government;
it centraizes all powers in one body.
The preservation of local self govern
ment is absolutely necessary in all true
Republics, and to destroy it means the
destruction of freedom and the estab-
lishment of imperialism.
The right of the states to govern all
internal affairs not expressly delegated
to the general government, must not
be infringed. We believe in the truly
Republican system of government as
Jefferson taught it; "The support of
the General Government in nil its con-
stitutional rights as the sheet anchor of
our peace at home and our safety
abroad" "The maintenance of the
states in all their constitutional vigor
as the best administrators of eur home
concerns and the surest bulwark against
anti-Republican tendencies. JeffSr-
son has rightly said that the concen-
tration of all powers in one body has
destroyed the lights and liberties of
man in every government which has
ever existed under the sun. We there
fore denounce this abuse of govern
ment as un-American, un-democratic
and despotic, to which only tyrants re-
sort. There must be q plan devised
which will speedily remedy it or else
the great Republic will soon "perish
from the earth"
The democratic party must not re-
treat from the ground upon which it
planted itself in 1896; it must not aban-
don the struggle for the salutary and
necessary reforms it then inaugurated
and which it ''has thus far so nobly
advanced" Recognizing that this
struggle, reduced to its last analysis, is
one between plutocracy and democra-
cy, in which are arrayed on the one
side "the idle holders of idle capital
!, and ON the other "the struggling
masses" the party of the people must
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GRAND GIFT DISTRIBUTION.
sOlutely Free to Every Family in
the United States.

Full Set OF Six War Memorial spoons Ab-
SOlutely Free to Every Family in
the United States.
For sixty days we'll give absolutely
without cost full set of six War Me-
mortal Spoons to every family sending
us cash order for Household Furni-
ture selected from our catalogue, no
matter whether the order be for 81 or
$1,000. This means that we're going
to add fifty thousand names to our list
of permanent customers. We're going
to demonstrate that it pays to seud di-
rect to the factory for furniture. This
distribution will cost us thousands of
dollars-an make us thousands of
friends. Each spoon is of different
design-four U. S. battleships, inclNd-
ing the Maine, Soldiers in Camp in
Cuba, and Moro Castle. These spoons
are not the cheap kind. advertised ex-
tensively at$1 90 to $3.50 set. They
are warranted best coin silver plate on
a base of pure nickel silver (not low
grade BRASS. They will wear for years
and become q priceless heirloom for
future generations. Send for copy
of our catalogue today. You should
enclose a stamp or two to help pay
postage. QUAKER VALLEY MFG. Co.,
357 W. Harrison ST., Chicago. 74O-4m
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EDITOR REAVEs OPENS UP.

The Hon. John R. Reaves, editor of
the Hardeman Free Press, who is a
candidate for the state senate, has be-
gun vigorous canvass. He opened
his campaign Friday evening with an
eloquent speech from the steps of the
Bolivar asylum to large and enthu-
siastic multitude. Among other things,
Editor Reaves said
'Feller citizens, l have received this
here honor somewhat late in life, but l
am still young man. am also hard
working young man, and what's more,
l am an ambitious young man, and /
want to say right here that my ambi-
ton will never be satisfied and my ca
reer complete until 1 have decorated
the walls of congress. This here nomi-
nation for the legislator is all right in
its way, but if you think I'm going to
stop here, you'd be fool enough to
think that brindle bull comm down
the side of q hill is goin' to stop at the
halfway place. I'm going to Nash
vile to do my duty, and you need not
think I'll be on one grand, sweet bum
ell the time I'm there. can be jus as
sober as anybody under compulsion.
OF course I've got my enemies. A lot
of little pin-headed peckerwoods is
sayin' that I amt ftten to make laws,
but as the adverbs of Solomon says: III
is the hit dog that gathers no moss
am proud to be the standard bearer OF
the grand old democratic party, and
may my right arm wither and my
tongue cleave to the hoof of my mouth
if I ever rest until I have planted the
Star Spangled Banner in the raven
heart of our foes and warned EN- to
give us liberty or come off the roof.
thank you, Teller citizens, for this here
magnificent oblation, and 1 depreci.
ate it more than words can tell. Com,
mercial-Appeal.
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THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN.

A prose poem from the pen of Will
I. Hale in last Saturdays Sentinel
Autumn has in the last day or two
given intimations of his coming. The
slow rain, the hollow rustling of the
evening leaves, the wind that is as yet
but chilly breeze, but having almost
an articulate sob in it for the days pass
ing away,-are alike the knell of sum-
mer and the herald of autumn.
Fall time in East Tennessee In
few weeks at the fartherest the green
old hills will under the magic touch Of
the frost, change their garb into man
tie of red and violet and purple and
gold. The wild grapes will hang in
purple lunches among the vines; the
sumac will haunt its robes, drabbled in
the blood Of summer; the nuts will
fall rafting through the half-naked
boughs to the moist earth, startling
the chip-munk scampering along an
overthrow tree trunk; the cricket will
be less cheerful as it clinks it's fairy
gong on the silence, and there will be
unutterable sadness in the song of The
little mountain stream.
And yet-as there is still for all the
sorrows Of the autumn of our lives
some sweet memory or dear hope to
cheer the way-the gentians will bloom
among the waste places for many q
week; while the coo of the dove, sound
ing through the haze, will be symbol
Of faith that calls through the mistlands
Of death.
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tenn that concentrates the money of the
country in the hands of the few, Great
ing excessive wealth on the one hand
and extreme poverty on the other, will
lead to the downfall of the Republic;
for this has been the prime cause of
the decay and ruin and the final over
throw of every great nation of the past.
We have occasion just now to recall
the desperate struggle between the
money power and the people in which
the people under the brave leadership
of Andrew Jackson triumphed. The
same evil presents its self to-day I'M
der the deceptive garb Of currency re-
form" as proposed by the present adj
ministration. We denounce the pro-
posed plan of currency reform" as
utter madness, highly dangerous to our
liberties; we oppose to the uttermost
the retirement Of the greenbacks, the
peoples money, and the substitution
of national bank currency, the bank
er's money. The government of the
United States must not surrender its
sovereign right to issue money into the
hands of private individuals; such a
step would be the surrender of the lib
critics of the people to corporate power.
We accept the wise teachings of Jeffer-
son and declare as he declared: "Bank
paper most be suppressed and the cir
culating medium restored to the ma
ton to which it belongs"
We believe in system of tariff du-
ties levied for purposes of revenue on
ly, which will operate equally upon all
sections and classes, giving equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none" We denounce the so-called
protective tariff as fraud and a rob-
berry; it is a cesspool of evils in which
are bred some of our greatest national
woes.
The democratic party has ever been
the enemy of trusts, pools and mono
poles because those institutions are
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

We call the attention of the city au-
thorities to two ponds of stagnent water
made by the l. Q. r. II. Co., on either
side of their track, where the bridges
were removed and tiling put in. This
water is green and full of poisonous
miasma and mosquitoes. - Hardeman
Free Press.
The I. G. must havemistaken Bolivar
for watering place, as a great many
of the inhabitants there are inseine all
the time.
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1t now looks as if at least two Of the
Tennessee regiments were to be mus
tered out of service. Under date of
9Th the following was telegraphed from
Washington: "Adit. Gen. Corbin said
tonight that action of Saturday in
naming all Tennessee regiments to re-
main in the service, indicated nothing
The 4th regiment and one other would
be kept, just as soon as an understand
ing could be reached with Tennessee
officials"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

'"Tsll you one reason why Roose-
velt's such fighter" said one of the
Rough Riders. 'It is the way he eats.
He can eat anything, and about these
times as much of it as the ordinary
man. When there was bareback and
bacon he ate bareback and bacon as if
it was just what he'd been hungry for
a month. The other day / saw him in
one of these restaurants here, where
everything had given out but ice cream
and bread, and he was putting in ice
cream and bread in way that made
the eyes of the waiter bulge. If there
WASH anything but hay, l believe he'd
eat hay and enjoy that. That's the
reason he wasn't laid up at all with the
fever"
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Col. Jack Faw, editor of the Times
Courier, received the nomination for
the legislature in the Sullivan county
primary last Saturday. With Jack
from Sullivan, and John Reeves from
Hardeman, the next legislature will
contain two editorial Cap. Us at least.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

Cy, Jr., provoked his mama q few
days ago and had to yield to the inevi-
table. After he had cried as long as
she thought necessary she issued an
order to desist. He quit long enough
to inquire: "Well, what did you whip
me for, if you didn't want me to cry?"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

A fashion item says "a very fetching
pocketbook is in a gray leather, bound
in black, and containing q little black
watch in one corner" That may be
all so, but the pocketbook that carries
the greatest weight is the old yarn
stocking full of gold.
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The democratic convention Monday
nominated the Hon. A. G. Bowers to
represent the county of Washington in
the Legislature. Sous" is q free sill
yer democrat and is running on a plat
form built out of that sort of material.
He is an ex-federal soldier, ex-repub-
lican and an extra good speaker, and
when he meets Brabson on the stump
will make him wish he had never &C
cepted the nomination.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

Gum Coates, a candidate for the leg
islature in Tennessee, will probably
not be obliged to come in out Of the
rain Minneapolis Tribune.
We knew Gus Gates was a.rubber
neck but did not think he was going to
become famous by running for Con-
c,unss
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Joint Appointments.

The following is list of the East
Tennessee appointments agreed to be-
tween the democratic and republican
sIecutiys committees, for Hon. Benton
RcMilliH, democratic candidate for
governor, and HoAs JaAss A. Fowler,
Asainee Of the republican earty:
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Creek, was nominated for Representa-
tive amid great enthusiasm and ac-
cepted the honor in o neat little speech.
He said he joined the democratic party
because it represented what he be-
lieved was right and would remain a
democrat as long as he was permitted
to breathe the free and unlimited air.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

A Tennessean recently killed man
because he owed him debt. If this
manner of collecting ever becomes
popular we are in position to kill and
be killed.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

After our season was over last fall the
Hotel was closed for the winter. Re-
Gently discovered the house was in
tested with rats, they were destroying
the bedding and bed clothes and max
ing havoc Of everything. Rat CHEESE
was recommended; I tried it and was
surprised at the marvellous result. In
q few days there was not a rat about
the place, they seemed to have left the
barns and out houses as we'll as the Ho-
tel. Every one who is pestered with
rats or mice should try-Rat Cheese at
once; it did the work quickly and we'll
for me I gladly recommended, it. A de-
cisive battle quickly won. Please send
me one dozen boxes by express and
oblge.
Yorrs very tsaly,
3. H. SonMsoN,
Fern Hall, Crystal Lake,
Dundaff, P. o. Pa.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-09-08

Since there was no chance for fight
ing, Lieut.. Milton thought the pen
was mightier than the sword and is
again editing the Knoxville Sentinel.