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Year: 1879

The monetary power of a government
is as essential to its existence, prosperity
and defence as its military power. Suppose
our government should delegate its entire
military power to such captains, foreign
or domestic, as would command the troops,
with power at any time to increase, di-
minish or direct the armies. This would
be more dangerous or absurd than the
national banking system, which gives the
entire control of the money volume to
such capitalists, foreign or domestic,
friends or foes, as are proper to take our
bonds and bank upon them.
Year: 1879

HAD the constitution intended to limit
the federal government to gold and silver
as the only legal tender, it would have
forbid the federal government which it
created, equally with the states from max
ing anything else a legal tender The
power to create legal tender being an un-
limited sovereign prerogative, the very
fact that the constitution took it from the
states except as to gold and silver, and
delegated to congress the power to coin
money, is evidence that congress possess
cs all the power that absolute sovereignty
can confer.
Year: 1879

An awakening is going forward in
New England as to Tennessee land.
since the settlement of the Lowell col
ony in Coffee county they have written
numerous letters home of their delight
with the change. Influenced by these
and other news they receive from
Tennessee, many letters daily arrive
at the Bureau announcing the depart
ure Of sections and families to this
State. We are on the eve of a boom
in immigration. Our Commissioner
is meeting with fit reward for his Ia
bors. 1t is now the duty of the peo-
pie of the State to aid him. Do not
sit still and expect the emigrants will
find you out. Publish your advan-
tages everywhere. Write letters to
the Northern papers, and tell them
you have cheap lands and will receive
them cordially, giving them all the
assistance you can. Do you know
how the people of Coffee county get
them there? Wen tell you of one in
cident of to-day. A letter came to the
Bureau from prominent citizen of
Coffee telling the commissioner what
a chance there is, and imploring him
to 90 North to aid in the movement.
"And now We want to hel p you in
paying your travelling expenses, and
our people will do it if you say so.
We do not think you ought to pay
them yourself, and as the State is too
poor to do so, We want to help you.
That's the way the people talk and if
the Commissioner but say the word
they will pay it all But the Commits
sioner is determined to 60 and do his
duty, trusting to the justice of the next
Legislature in rectifying the great
wrong that was perpetrated. We be-
lieve they will do it.
Year: 1879

We have always had an abiding
faith in the future of Dyersburg, and
we expect to live to see it a thriving
and prosperous little city with many
railroad advantages. We have seen
a recent letter from Superintendent
Monsarrat in which he gives hope that
the Paducah 4 Memphis Railroad
will be completed to our town before
winter fairly sets in. In any event,
this road is too important and too near
ly completed to be abandoned, running
as it will through a country rich as
the famous valley Of the Nile. 1t
would be a valuable and indispensa bic
acquisition to the Nashville u St.
Louis road. Col. Cole is always on
the lookout for convenient and profta-
bic connections. Were he to get con-
troll of the P. & NJ. from Paducah
Junction to Memphis he would be
master of the situation and have the
most desirable through line in the
State-giving him an open highway
from Nashville tc the metropolis of
West Tennessee-that would bring to
him the richest of local harvest both
in freight and passenger traffic. A
glance at the map viii prove all we
here say. If the P. d NJ. is not
completed by next September, by an
act of the Tennessee legislature, it is
bound to pass into other hands. Col
Cole and the merchants and business
men of Nashville are vi:ally interested
in getting possession Of it, for it would
throw untold West Tennessee wealth
into the lap of our native city. That
road finished to Dyersburg, the Ten
nessee Central, now being built from
Huntingdon to Trenton via the little
queen city of Milan, could find no
better connection than here. The
Brownsville road, too, will find it to
its decided interest to come to Dyers>
burg at no very distant day. All
this is among the reasonable proba-
bilities Of the future of our town, and
we have thus hurriedly sketched this
picture for the benefit of those most
concerned in it.
Year: 1879

withstanding it is so early. (They
usually sell higher later in the season.


1t takes from three to three aid a
half quarts to the pound, owing to
ripeness offruit. If picked as soon as
turn black, it takes about three quarts
to the pound, while if very ripe, three
and half to four quarts. So in this
way when our rasp5erries hereafter
go below seven cents per quart for
fresh fruit, they go into the drying
house. One will see by above figures.
that at seven cents per quart, an acre
will bring from 1925 to $3.50. Now
what crops are there that will do bets
ter, and isn't six to eight cents as good
now as nine to twelve cents per quart
three or four years ago? In these fig
ures we have not referred to two i'm
pOrtant facts-one the supply Of nice
fresh fruit for the growers table, and
the other money coming in at a time
when there is no other crop to sell.
As to red raspberries, the demand for
them at ten to twelve cents per quart
is such that the question of drying
them need not be considered; and an
other important point we would not
overlook. Apples, pears or peaches
can be grown on the same land. In
fact, we have one plot of fifteen acres
on which is 600 apple trees ten years
old, 1,SOO peach (half way between
the apple each way, and blackberries
in and half way between every tree
row. So let the croakers harp away,
for just so long as we can grow these
fruits and get even five cents per
quart in home towns we shall do
SO, and make money at 1t, tOO.-Fi7tit
Recorder.
Year: 1879

Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.


The District of Columbia Supreme
Court made an important decision af-
fecting the liability of express COM
panies. Suit was brought against the
Adams Express Company to recover
the value of three packages of jewell
ry, amounting to a trife over 500.
The Express Company plead a special
contract set forth in the receipt given
for the goods, and by the terms of
which they only agree to become liza
bic to the amount of $50 on packages
not expressly valued. The Court re-
ferred to Lockwood'S case 07lh Wal
lace's Supreme Court Reports, page
$50, and held that common carrier
cannot stipulate for exemption from
responsibility for the negligence of
himself or his servants. The princi-
pies of law forbidding Il common car
rier to bargain for complete ex-
emption from responsibility for a vio>
lation of his duties in particular cases,
also torbids him bargaining for a par
tial exemption that any agreement
which operates to relieve the common
carrier of the duty of proper and care
full handling, and of the good faith
which he owes the public, is void; and
as an agreement that the carriers
negligence shall be cheap must oper-
ate in this way, it falls necessarily
within that principle. The fact that
the shipper fails to advise the carrier
that the actual value of the goods
shipped was greater than its supposed
value does not affect the shippers
rights. This decision is one of very
considerable interest, as every express
receipt, and, in fact, every blank also
upon which a telegraphic message is
written contains stipulations relieving
the carrier and the telegraph company
from certain responsibilities.
Year: 1879

In late letter from Senator Thur
man to friend in Washington he
has no doubt that Gen. Ewing will be
elected by handsome majority, and
that the Legislature will be Democrat
ic on joint ballot. He says his conf,
dence is not based on casual observation,
but on the precise knowledge of work
being done and sentiments expressed
which were for time justly regarded
as doubtful to the Democracy.
Year: 1879

A Washington dispatch says: "Since
the report that Tilden declared that
Southern lawlessness and reputation
were running the Democratic party
North, he has become more unpopu>
lar that ever with the Southern lead
ers. Southern men in Washington


say he need not trouble himself about
the weakness Of the Democratic party
North, or its wickedness South, for he
will not again be called upon to lead" F"
Year: 1879

For the length of time have been doing business here have with
exampd My endeavOr the people, whom
my lot has been cast has met with great satisfaction and
can confidently the citizens of Gibson and
adjoining counties thatI will offer greater


bargains than Please


look at the following
Year: 1879

Mrs. Helen, the wife of Benedict Dull
Get, is very vivacious. There is not that
kind of pride in her which ma kes one
keep at a distance from her and causes
herself to deport insolently, but a con-
sciousness of her station which will not
allow her to humiliate herself below a
certain degree. am the most privileged
person Of all persons. around hers and
this probably because she considers me
a mere child. She plays tricks on me,
and is highly pleased when [ take it into
my head to retaliate; she often upbraids
me in company and laughs heartily at
my repartees. But [ have never seen
her treating any one else in the same
manner. 1t seems that she uses me sim
ply as the innocent cause to display her
amiable qualities. And [ love to be in
her company. In fact, her company was
the hardest temptation for me to resist
when I had made up my mind to study
up what [ had neglected during my
brothers illness. She is fond of croquet
and of parlor games in which there is
much running to be done and a certain
liberty permissible But she will never
propose such games when there are per-
sons in the house whose perfect decency
is not known to her. When such a pro-
posal is made by another one, she will
find a plea not to participate In the
game There is everlasting sunshine in
her presence; she cannot endure a long
face She says that she never dislikes
me more than when [ enter into long
debate, and use words with as many syl-
tables as a spider has legs. And it is
strange to myself how [ allow her to
treat me like child, while | would not
permit any other person in the world to
do it. But one cannot help yielding to
the Whim of such lady,


Mrs. Lena, the spouse of Marcus Dull
Get, is very amiable lady of rather
passive nature. IF her husband were
scholar and needed her assistance in his
study. she would make it her object to
know every one of his books by sight;
she would with pleasure copy his manu-
scripts, make entries in his note books,
and believe in every one of his theories
as in scripture. IF Marcus Dulcet would
need her assistance in his business, she
would take great pains to become the
Year: 1879

trade of Boston, making the rates of
duty depend upon the degrees of saccha-
rine matter, as shown by the polaIi-
scope, No action was taken on Robin
sons amendment.


Tucker, from the conference commit
tee on the tobacco bill, presented the
report and explained it.


A sharp colloquy ensued between
Conger and Tucker in relation to the
action of the committee regarding the
tax on matches.


Conger attempted to speak but a
motion to adjourn prevailed.
Year: 1879

FIVE hundred negroes will leave
South Carolina soon, to go to Idaho
and locate on the lands and work on
she railroad from Boise City. Trans
portation is provided and they under
stand that they will be taken care of
I'LL they can stand alone, through the
efforts Of Senator Bruce and other
congressman. This is the first Of a
large number to follow and establish
colonies in the territories; and Senator
Bruce thinks 1t an excellent beginning
VI negro independence and manly self
support.
Year: 1879

clergyman said that he once visited lady
Of bis parish, who had just lost her husband, in
order to offer consolation; and upon her earnest
inquiries as 10 the reunion Of families in heaven
he strongly asserted his belief in that fact, and
when she asked with anxiety whether any time
must elapse before friends would be able to find
each other in the next world, he emphatically
said, :" No! they will be united at once" He
was shrinking Of the happiness Of being able to
offer the relief Of such faith, when she broke in
upon his meditations by exclaiming sadly, s'Well,
his first wife has got him by this time!''
Year: 1879

Colonel Rice, it is said, lost a leg
in the Union cause. General Ewing
gave out that his great expectation
of success in this election campaign
were in the figure of their three
legs as against the four of the Re-
publican ticket. But Colonel Rice
could not lose leg in the Union
cause when his heart was not in that
cause. His political conduct showed
that his heart was on the Confeder-
ate side, ard that his enlistment as
commissioned officer was a specu-
lation. A Colonel's pension for a
lost leg is a handsome income for
life, and is very high pay for Val
landigham leg. When Colonel Rice
undertakes to run on his claims as
a soldier of the Union for party
which was hostile to the Union sol
diers, and when he harrangues for
the principles of state secession
which the Union army fought to put
down, he justifies us in examining
his politico-military record, and this
examination proves that he was then
a professed Union colonel with Con-
federate principles, and that his SER
vice was very much worse than use
less to the country.-CINcINNATI GA
zETTE.


General Rice, while at Covington,
September 5, took occasion to reply
to the slanderous article that ap-
peared in the Cincinnati Gazette of
September 4. The General said:


81 am not in the habit of intru-
ding personal matters into a polit-
ical canvass but the charge made
against me by the Cincinnati Ga
Zettee is so slanderous and insulting
that my self respect will allow me
to remain silent no longer. l spent
five of the best years of my life in
the defense of my country and flag,
enduring privations and suffering
with no other thought than loyalty
to my country. | was wounded at
Vicksburg, wounded again at Look
out Mountain, again at Resacca,
again at Pine Mountain, and lost
my leg at Kenesaw. / bear on my
body the marks of five balls and
two shells. l spent four years in
Congress endeavoring to procure
justice for my comrades, and secure
the passage of arrearages and pen
sions' act, and the equalization of
bounties. Yet Longstreet, a rebel
General whom l fought in the field,
is appointed to a lucrative Office un-
der Republican administration
Key made a Cabinet member of the
government, and Mosby, the black
flag guerrilla, sent as an ambassador
to China. When | think of these
men loaded with honors and emolu-
ments and credited with loyalty and
patriotism, while |, because | am a
Democrat, suffering as l have, Grip
pied as l am, while in the service
of my country, am denounced as a
sympathizer with treason. Itseems
to me that it is high time that my
comrades, the survivors of the late
war, should know how their record
for loyalty stands. Under the cir
my friends, l think no
apology is required for these re-
marks"


This manly and justly indignant
reply of brave soldier and a pat
riotic citizen to the attacks of a
sneaking coward will meet with a
hearty response from every patriot
in Ohio who may read it. We mis-
take the temper of the boys in blue
if they do not rebuke the party
which endorses this unnatural and
infamous war upon the character of
General Rice whose shattered body
and wooden leg attest his bravery
and gallant services in defense of his
country.
Year: 1879

The fair which is being held in the Presbyterian
Church. corner of Euhty-sixth street and Lexington
to help pay of the debt will close this even
ing. The tables are neatly arranged and we'll sup
piled with articles of both an ornamental and useful
character. peculiarly of this fair Is that neither
voting. raining the taking Of chances il allowed.
Year: 1879

directors and hs declined to answer. He said he
never sent q letter to Assemblyman Sheeran telling
him he had only six days to live if the bank didn't
pay its debts.


James j. Reed one of the directors, next testified.
and the prosecutor. after Offering in evidence the
minutes of the bank declared the case for the state
opening for the defence when the Court adjourned
until Monday.
Year: 1879

w OdJSs


Feeling myself irresistibly impelIed by
inclination, and prompted by a sense of
propriety, have presumed now to ad-
dress you upon subject of importance
and delicacy.


Having conceived an affection for your
daughter miss Sally, I beg leave to
solicit your permission to make my
address to her, and at the same time let
me express the hope that should I be so
fortunate as to succeed in gaining her
affections, my first wishes may not be
frustrated by your disapprobatiOn 1
have thought proper to make this appli-
cation to you on the subject in this
manner, rather than in person, because
my character it I have acquired any,,
my condition, and my situation in life
are not altogether unknown to you, and
if objections are to be made they can be
more freely communicated in this than
in any other way.


have heretofore proceeded no iurther
with the lady than merely obtain her
permission to make this application, and,
sir, now pledge you the honor OF a gen
tleman that, in case you have objection
of an insuperable nature to the proposed
union, whatever may be the chsgrin,
regret and modification which I may
feel on the occasion, will not disturb
the quiet of q parent extremely solicit
tous, no doubt, for the happiness of g
beloved daughter, by persisting any
further with her.


Permit me to assure you that I am q,
with much consideration and respect,
your obedient servant,


JOHN WISE.
Year: 1879

favors a change in the law by which
cadets will be compelled to serve two
years at sea before pursuing the college
course. The present law is just the
reverse Of this, and results. in many
cases, in educating boys for sea life
who are physically unable to endure
the hardships incident to such life.
The secretary considers that such g
change in the law would prove most
salutary in wedding out from the ranks
of the navy large number of additions
which only prove to be dead weights to
the service.
Year: 1879

Those who possess telescopes carrying
astronimical eye pieces have now the op-
portunity OF enjoying views of some of
the most delicate and beautiful lights In
the sky. One of the most marvellous of
these is the double,double star In the
constellation Lyra. A very bright star,
of blush color, may be seen in the
northwest at 10 or IL O'Clock. 1t is
Vega or Alpha of the Lyre. Near it are
two-hfth magnitude stars that make a
pretty little triangle with the large star.
An ordinary spy glass will show that the
northernmost OF these small stars is
double. Then if the observer possess a
telescope Of about three inches aperture
with s power of 200 diameters, it will
show that each of the stars composing
this double is itself double. These stars
are believed to have q motion of revolu~
tion showing that they are connected,
and the two pairs revolve nound COM
mon center. There is no more beautiful
and instructive object visible in the
sky.
Year: 1879

Rain and Electricity in the Atmosphere


There is a probability that the ma ture
of the connection between rain and the
electrical condition of the atmosphere
will soon be explained in satisfactory
manner. Lord Rayleigh has commune
Gated some interesting facts in connee~
tiOn with his experiments on the beha.
viOr of slender water jets when subjected
to the action of electricity, and the gen
civilizations which he will base on them
when his inquiry is co npleted cannot
fail TO prove OF great value TO the mete~
Orologist. He has already proved that
the usual scattering of nearly vertical
let is due TO the rebound OF the drops
when they come into collision with one
another through the different veioclt es
acquired by them under the action Of
capillary force This scattering or en-
laTgement of the Jet takes pl ce before
reaching the summit. " Under mode


rate electrical influence there is no mas
terial change IN the resolution into drops,
nor in the subsequent motion of the
drops up to the moment of collision
The difference begins here. Instead of
reboundi az after collision, as the uHelecs
trified drops of clean water generally or
always do, the electrified drops cOalesce,
ano thus the Jet Is no longer scattered
ab ut. When the electrical influence is
more powerful the TepuIsion between
the drops is sufficient TO prevent actual
contact, and then of course there is no
oppOI tunity for amalgsmatioD." One
plain inference from this is that the
formation Of rain depends greatly upon
the kind OF encounters between cloud
particles. When the particles are 90
affected that thsv rabouud thaV will
remain the same size, but If they are
endowed with a tendency to unite, they
must grow 80 large thai they viii fall as
Year: 1879

BowMAN's FOLLY, 11th May, 1881
SIR: Although the application made by
your letter OF this day was unexpected,
yet my reflections heretofore on the sub
ject have prepared me to answer That
however sOlicitOus may be for the tenn
poral felicity of my daughter and future
respectability of my child, she Is the
only proper judge Of the person best
calculated to make her happy. Respect
and imPartiality ought to be shown By
me to you or any gentleman that might
make his address to my daughter, and I
confde IN your candOr and judgment. I
am, sir, with due respect, your obedient
servant, JOHN CROPPER.
Year: 1879

A LARGE number of postmasters in


mall places have given bonds for cons
siderable amounts in order to sell the
refunding certificates. They are in local
it es where they can not sell many and
it is supposed that spectators have in
duced them to send Tor the bonds land
then sell them out in bulk.
Year: 1879

NOTIOIh FIfgInIan'


As an illustration of the stately court
esy and somewhat grandiloquent style of
our grandfsthers, the following letters
may be of interest to many of our read
ers, and an example OF the etiquette of
courtship in the olden time that may be
commended:
Year: 1879

The Marcelus News has the following -
"Whereas my husband, Lewis Etter, has warn
cd the people not to trust me on his account,
saying had left his bed and beard without
just cause or provocaton, this is to notify said
people that the only bed or board said Lewis
Etter ever furnished me was at my fathers and
his brother -in-law's, William Chrstes at
neither OF which places was he man enough to
pay for his board; and instead of my ever leav
ing him he absconded from me, aud has never
furnished me with one cents worth of support
from the day of our marriage to the day he left
me. Now, therefore, this is to notify all per-
sons not to harbor, or trust, or board him on
my account as shall pay no debts Of his con-
tracing after this date. (Signed) Jane Etter.'
Good for you, Jane. Give it to the pusillani
nous pup.
Year: 1879

Att meeting of the Board of Trustees o! the
State institution for the deaf dumb and bind,
at Flint, the question OF separating the blind
from the other scholars was discussed, and the
change will probably take place during the
coming school year.
Year: 1879




Hello, there, friend Whittier bound in
such haste 90


TO that store, Of course. Everybody is
focking there, and if l don't get there soon
shall lose my chance. Delays are dangerous,
and If am not on hand soon the bargains will
be gone, the cheapest stock in the city ex-
hausted, and shall make dead loss of it If l
am compelled to so elsewhere for my Clothing"


That's fact and as am rather ont at the
elbows I'll go along too, as the old proyeb says
"A sixpence saved is worth nine pence you
haven't got" So / will make the most Of my
money. and buy at SMITHS


And sure enough they did, and SAVED
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. by having their eye
teeth cut and knowing thing or two