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Year: 1874

II is the universal opinion in Washington
that the merchants have made out their case
against the Custom-house so completely that
neither Jayne, nor Butler, nor all the DOliti-
clans of that snug and active combination, can
save the system from thorough overhauling.
The Committee of Ways and Means is said to
be unanimous in cOndemning the abuses which
have grown up under the laws of 1868 and
1867, and is expected to make strong report
in favor of reform. But we must not fatter
ourselves with the hope that the victory is yet
secure Accepting the necessity Of some sort
of a reform, the moiety hunters will bend all
their energies to prevent that reform from
going deep enough TO ruin them. They will
tell us-they are telling US already-that with
out seizures we can never collect the revenue.
without moieties We can never mako officers
alert, without inspecting merchants private
accounts We can never be sure that his in
voices are honest. They will point
to the vast aggregate of penalties dur
ing the past ten years as proof that the
mercantile community is rotten 10 tho core
and they will bid us be satisfied with few
delusive safeguards for the prevention OF
illegal and extra-iudicisl oDDressiOnA while
Year: 1874




The receipts for tho two years preceding
the panic of 1857 were sixty-four millions per
year. Is it not tho actual truth, in spite of
all attempts to hush things up, that every in
huence which contributed to make q deficit of
seventy million dollars dnring the Adminstra =
ton of James Buchanan is now in operation
panic and consequent stoDpage Of industry
and prOstratiOn. of confidence quite as deep
seated as that of sixteen years ago (; an admin
istration of the public service moro scandalous
than anything of which we have had expert
ence, or could imagine; the same disposition
TO Jump at the conclusion that the trouble is
all over, and that tho revenues from foreign
imports viii hereafter equal the ante panic
figures the same reluctance even to breathe
the word taxation; and last, but not least, the
Gauls at the gate, in the shape of
an outraged people celebrating what
shall be done. what can be done,
to make Congress something better
than nuisance. We tell the Republican
majority in Congress that tho present state of
our finances demands their earnest attention.
and that the matter cannot be disposed of by
a party vote like contested election case.
The welfare of our country for the next ten
years depends upon fearless, honest intel
licent treatment of our financial disorders.
Year: 1874

them. ttcy save Kings Chapel. which IL
worth saving for its own beauty. ana
the Old South, they will never
regret it. Harvard College has some
of tho ugiest aud most interesting brick work
on tho continent, but this, sooner or later,
will be pulled down or burn down. IL Boston
goes on demolishing, only saving FaneuiI
Hall because it makes good Market Whist
will it have of tho ancient sort to show To
strangers when they visit the city of more
than two centuries ageq 1t was founded for
the sake of q sentiment-wiil it be any better
off when it has trained itself TO do without
sentiment altogether
Year: 1874

The week opens upon the same stagnant conditos
of business which gentlemen at Washington have
succeeded in bestowing upon the country for tho Lad
two months. Until they can be coaxed or drives
into doing something which shall give the business
community definite knowledge of what tho vol
ume of the currency is to be- no revival need be OK
pected. Men will not buy or sell cloth till thu
length of the yardstick is fixed.
Year: 1874

We publish to-day great variety of reports.
concerning the temperance crusade IN various
parts of the country. In our own vicinity the
prospect may be more hopeful than it appears J;
but the movement begins with much more
preparation than was thought necessary an the
West. A beginning has been made at ProVI-
denoe, K. L., and there are signs of immediate
active operations. The Western people abate
nothing Of their characteristic fervor in the
work, and q letter printed on our second page
gives lively idea of some Of the features OF
the war in Indiana, where there has been sonS
conflict between iai.as and works
Year: 1874

II is remarkable fact that after the lapse OF
three months the United States authorities
able to obtain from the Spanish officials IN Havana
any intimation of the result Of the judicial inquiry
into the mysterious fate Of Ralph keeer. Our
readers will remember that an investigation was SIT
on foot at Manzanillo early in December. and that
we obtained q summary Of part Of the evidence
elected. IL appeared that at Santiago there was
young Spanish lieutenant who came with Mr..
Keller in the same steamer from Havana stopped as
tho same hotel, and left the same day. Ho seemed
very intimate with Mr.. Keller. and told him be was
a Carlis sent out here for punishment. and that he
expected to be sent into the country in few days.
Here the testimony breaks off, and the most urgent
application of our consular officers in Cuba has
failed to extract from the authorities another word.
Ii is naturally supposed by Ralph KeeleTs friends
that something has been discovered which tie
Spanish Government has reasons for Withholding.
and the state Department has been requested to call
for an explanation. To those who know the Spanish
method of not doing to-day what possibly be put
off till tomorrow, the delay in furnishing copy OF
the official report .of the inquiry may not be dicut
to account for: but it quite right that our Govern
ment should spare effort to satisfy the anxiety Of
poor KeeleI's trends.
Year: 1874

There is probably no sort of political DIP
lomatic or other public significance attaching
TO the return of Minister Schenck. He Is here
because he has been away long time, ana
because he has affairs at home which need bis
personal attention. He returns apparently in
admirable health, but he may be excused for
not q little bewilderment as to the condition
of health in which he finds the party OF the
Administration he represents. 1t Will doubt
less take Gen. Schenck. and most other lead
ing Republicans who have been out OF the
country for some yeals, a good while to find
out--what they are finding very rapidly III
Boston-that the Republican party is not now
in power, and that, if it is not already in
direct conflict with the party that is in power,
it is liable to find itself in that predicamcnt
at any moment.
Year: 1874

A good story is told at the expense of
somewhat inexperienced housekeeper in
this village, who found herself one NOR
ming without servant to cook or wash.
A few hours trial convinced her that she
must have help, and she started out in
search of girl. After calling at several
places without success, sLe was passing
one of the best residence in the town, and
observed a tidy>looking woman cleaning
the yard. Hailiug, she inquired of the
woman whether she know of girl that
could be hired. The answer was in the
negative. The lady had by this time be-
come desperate, and resolved to hire the
woman before her, although she knew it
was wrong to covet her nsighbor's servant.
In allow tone of voice she began to relate
her troubles, and wound up by urging the
woman TO leave Mrs.---~-and come
with her, offering her dollar more a
week than she was then receiving. The
woman answered that she liked her place,
and could not be induced to give it up,
And she added: ~. iIfG .e13 I


Besides, generally sleep with
Mr.--, and l don't think he would
allow me to 60 away" ,.llrr


. The lady departed, utterly astonisbed
at what she had heard. Her feelings
may be imagined when she afterwards
learned that she had been talking with
the mistress Of the mansion. and the wife
of one Of our most esteemed citizens.
Year: 1874

A wonderful cave has recently been
discovered in Buckingham county, Vir


ginia. which writer tells about. After
describing several chambers, the account
continues. m.n


We had satisfied our curiosity and we're
about to leave the cave, when behind a
large rock, or rather spur Of the main
rock which formed the bottom, we dis
covered larger passage than any we had
before seen. This we entered, and after
following some six or seven feet emerged


into an apartment of immense size. The
light of our torches falling upon the stal>
actites revealed scene of beauty which
was fairly dazzling, The size of this
apartment caunot tell, as the roof and
sides we're lost in darkness. We pene>
citrate to considerable distance, keeping
close to one of the sides, so that we
might easily find our way back; and
would have gone further but for finding
in recess some seventy-fve feet from
where we entered, lying directly under a
shelving rock, the body of a man wrap
ped in some diugy, cloth,liks SUBSTANCE.
We did not know it was the body Of a
man at FIRST, and were net positive 1t was
until we had gotten it outside the cave.


Mr.. Boyd discovered the body, and
when we moved it from under the rock
py son found several large and beautiful
pebbles where tie body had lain, aud q
small round vessel some four inches in
diameter aud abont two inches in height,
shaped very much like an inkstand with
a handle. This and the stones or peb-
bles he put into bis pocket. We took
the body and at once went out of the cave.
The cloths With which it was wrapped
Year: 1874

We're very rotten. and when we laid the
body down after leaving the cave. they
had nearly all been rubbed from it.
What we're left crumbled like burnt pes
per. We brushed the bo6y clean, and
found it to be the dried up remains Of a
man who had evidently been of more
than ordinary size, for found it to be by
actual measurement five feet, nine inches
in length. 1t is dried aud withered
something like dried meat, only the skin
is tightly drawn over it. 1t is hard to
the touch, and wherever there is wrin-
klt it is hard like parchment.


1t is impossible to form any idea of
what color the man was, or wha. his fea-
lures were like. The body now is sort
of smoky color, and the hair, though
there is very little of it, is intensely
black. On the second finger of each
hand and on the thumb of the right were
large square rings, round on the inside to
fit the finger. Those rings and the small
vessel referred to, were evidently COM
posed of gold with large quantity of
some kind of alloy. which gave them a
very peculiar appearance.


We took the body to my house, where
it is now. When we arrived with it there,
my son bethought him of the pebbles he
had found, and showed them 20 us.
There were seven in all: five all richly
colored, and unlike anything else / ever
seen. The Others think are diamonds;
they possess in very high degree the
power Of reflection aud refraction, and
are about the size of corn-6eld pea.
Year: 1874

Miss Cross, girl 10 years of age, was
teaching school in Stark, N. H. Her
classes fell into confusion and disorder
and the teacher was summoned pv the
committee, who gave her the alternative
of improving the discipline or resigning.
The girl committed suicide by drowning.
She left note to her sister merely sta
ting that the curse was being fulfilled
A careful inquiry into her history was
made, and the riddle was solved. Her
father, Amos K. Gross, of Waterford,
Me-, was separated from his first wife and
married again. His own mother was
greatly incensed againss him, aud, in ft
Of rage, cursed his children, saying that
'hls sons should die in infancy, and hi:
daughters in sorrow, if not in shame be-
fore they were twenty" The curse had
been fulfilled so far as the sons were con-
cerned, and this coincidence confirmed
the belief of the unfortunate girl ia the
curse. AS she neared her 20th birthday
the gloon of approaching death untitled
her for her work, and the circumstances
which followed urged her to the dreadful
step which developed the mystery. She
leaves one younger sister, whose future
will be watched with care and interest by
an awe-stricken community. With such
history to look back upon, it would re-
quire mind of no average strength to
combat the melancholy and superstition
which caused her SISTERS death. But
what could be the remOrse of the wretched
woman who had wrought the ruin? Let
us hope she is dead, aud beyond the
knowledge of the verifcation of her fear
full curse.
Year: 1874

Last Spring a half,drunksn fellow
asked permission TO leave an old overcoat
and worn>out valise in an Indianapolis
grocery. which was accorded, and be de,
parted With the intention Of coming back
Year: 1874

AS by constant friction steel is
kept highly polished, so by con-
slant exercise is talent ever at its
brightest. All our powers grow by
If Nv nvslvS. :. --l.:~--- 49,
habit of observation, we might as
we'll walk through the world blind
fold. We lose our faculty-what
artists call our touch by neglect
of practice on other things besides
the piano. The man who seldom
readsreads slowly; the woman whose
writing is confined to an infrequent
letter to some absent child spends
more time over that than does q
practised writer over a dozen pages
of manuscript Exercise of possessed
talent is absolutely necessary, then,
if we would retain our gifts. For
example: if occupation is sedentary,
we need to plan for walks, rides, and
active games to keep our muscles
1.-THE and servicable. But if our
employment gives US enough mus
cular action, it is not one whit less
important to our health of body
that we should plan for mental ex-
ercise-for employment enough of
our memory and our reasoning pow
ers to keep them from rusting.-
And, in either case, that life must
be a dwarfed and unhealthy one
that does not provide exercise for
our spiritual faculties-for worship,
and charity, and patience, and
magnanimity. Exercise of soul,
mind, and body can alone bring us
to the stature of the perfect man.
l
Year: 1874

A lady became so much dissatis>
fed with her lover that she dismissed
him. In revenge he threatened to
publish her letters to him. She
replied have no reason to be
ashamed of any part of my letters
except the address"
Year: 1874

The appeal was too touching to
be successfully resisted, and I never
saw the mother of a family hoist in
Il dozen fried at two O'Clock in the
informing with greater determination.
p The next morning, however, l
had TO shell out for Tommy and
Gassy and the pew rent.
Year: 1874

L met ilnn in Blackberry Lane,


when went up before breakfast to


get some fruit for grandpapa; and


he told me he had an ins piration
from the blue skies and green
fields, the gil reverently answer
Year: 1874

AN UNsOPIIsTICATED MoUNTAINEER


SENDS US SPECIMEN cHRoMo WITH


A APUNGENT CRITICISM ON NEW YORK


CaRoMes AND CREATURES.


To the Editor OF the Morristown Gazette:


/ sent to New York sometime ago
for picture paper for the children,
and they sent me the thing accom-
panying this note for what they call
the premium chrome r Look at
the - thing dispassionately! Did
you ever see such q specimen of art
before? Is there some one In your
Office who can efface the wings and
substitute gun or pistol7 And the
old woman would look much more
comfortable with pipe in her mouth
The face and attitude of the angel
is exactly that of Nancy Sykes, as
we see her in Oliver Twist


The papers are filed with the TIL
ton-Beecher nastiness The police
should take the case and if he and
the lamb are guilty, give them six



time since Beecher said the South
had been robbed enough; but his
congregation went for him, and he
Immediately apologized, said he did
not mean it-that he only sloshed
over!


Tho doings of these old clerical
bucks make mighty interesting fam
lily reading Tilton. it appears, did
not consider the lamb damaged, as
he continued to live with her! 1t
reminds mo of an incident of years
ago, when the Mahomedans pitched
into the Druses and Christians, at
Mount Lebanon and Damascus. wip-
ing out about forty thousand. A
Yankee missionary wrote that the
heathens had ravished his wife and
sisters and-ruined the running gear
of q good clock He laid great stress
on the clock i SAWBoNEs.
Year: 1874

At a meeting OF the friends OF
Temperance, held in Jonesboro', the
undersigned committee was appoint
ed with instructions to communicate
with Temperance organizations
(where they EXIST and (where they
do not exist)with individuals favor
able to Temperance in the various
counties of the State and through
them endeavor to secure the elec.
tion of members to the ensuing Leg
islature, pledged to work and vote
for the passage OF o "t0caE option
liquor law during its next session.


We therefore pray the lovers OF
good order and sobriety in each
county of the State TO unite In q
grand effort to elect men to the next
General assembly of the State,
pledged to give the people an op-
portunity to free themselves from
the mammoth evils of Intemperance.
We suggest that committee be ap-
pointed at once in each county
whose duty shall be to bring to pop
ular notice the views Of the different
candidates upon the subject of Tenn.
perance. especially with reference to
the passage of local option law.


A vast majority OF our people are
lovers of Temperance, and sheer JUS
tice demands that they should have
an opportunity TO be heard against O
meager minority who entail upon US
all the poverty, degradation and
misery incident TO the evils Of In
temperance.


Much good may be accomplished
by judicious legislation. Our oppor-
tunity is at hand. Our duty is plain
it is clear, and, we believe, emil
nently practicable. Let us perform
it and secure to us and our posterity
the blessings of peace and sobriety.


We make this appeal TO you in be-
half of the young men, the middle
aged men, and old men in our State,
who havo fallen victims to strong
drink i'm behalf of innocent Wo-
men and helpless children who arc
to-day pining in wretchednes and
want in thousands of drunkard' O
homes. We appeal to you in the
name Of our common humanity to
come to the rescue and let us make
one more united struggle against the
the acknowledgements.


"a Correspondence solicited, eli
ther public or private calculated to
promote the design contemplated.


70 All newspapers and Journals
OF the State are respectfully request
ed to copy this memorial.


j. i. LAMPSON, Chm.
Year: 1874

ITS DESIRABLENESS As A SUMMER RE


soRT-PURE MOUNTAIN AIR AM


VARIETY OF MINERAL WATERS


CAPITAL AND INDUSTRY ALL THAT
Is NOW WANTED.


The Importance Of this place as q
health resort is not duly appreciated
Indeed its inaccessibility has hither-
to prevented its being widely known.
1t is only small mountain town,
the county site of Hancock county,
and is situated tWenty-six miles
north of Morristown. The approach
es to the place are over mountains
that are not insurmountable - the
roads being OF tolerablc easy grade /;
but It's only after the place is seen
that the health seeker realizes what
he has gained by the fatiguing ride.
1t is situated in q picturesque glen,
almost, and apparently, altogether
surrounded by mountains. But it's
peculiar advantages in a hygienic
point of view, consist in the purity
of the atmosphere and the remarka-
bic excellence of its mineral waters.
It's altitude-its consequently excel
lent drainage-and its contiguity to
high mountains, render it especially
free from malaria and all diseases
produced by that cause.


In praise Of the different kinds of
water, much could be said, did space
permit. Within a radius of half a
mile may be found six different kinds
of excellent water. So far as We
know, no correct analysis Of these
Springs has ever been made; but
each different kind of water is dis
tinctiYe enough in its taste and the
appearance OF its deposit, to deter
mine its most abundant properties.
First, there is the White Sulphur
Spring-most excellent water of its
kind then the Epson Well, the salt
in which is so abundant as to chrys-
talizc on twigs, if allowed to remain
in the water for some time. Next
in order is the Alum Well, (Bi-Sul-
phate Of Alumnia and Potassa), very
strong, and used with great success
in cases of chronic diarrhGa and dys-
intery. Then comes the Chalybeate
water, in several springs and one
we'll, from the strongest to the weak
est. This water is unrivaled as n
tonic in general debility, arising from
almost any cause. There arc also
excellent springs Of Freestone and
Limestone. All these kinds of wa
ter are clear and cold-conditions
very inviting to the thirsty.


Inaccessibility to market makes
the price of living low. Good board
can be had in private families at
from three to four dollars per week.


If capital and enterprise were
properly applied in means Of easy
conveyance, and in disseminating
knowledge of the whereabouts and
the valuable properties of these wa
ters. it would confer a benefit on
many of the afflicted, and profit on
the investment. I. Il. G.
Year: 1874

Persons receiving the GAZETTE with . RID x
MARK on It, notified that their subscription is
due for the current volume, and they respect
fully requested at once to remit the subscription
uriee
Year: 1874

We have been warned great many times
this session that the gifted public men in the
United States Senate. tired of exposures and
disgrace, were going to shut the mouths of the
newspapers. This habit of talking right out
loud about the nations best and purest must
be stopped. The Republican party could not
bear it; and, what was more important, the
leading statesmen of the period could not bear
it. The newspapers had broken up the Credit
MObiler Ring, discredted the Back Paw
fnanciers, ruined rs pretty speculation as
ever was made in the District of Columbia,
and robbed a great many honorable gentle
men of the faintest hope of reelection. The
scheme upon which the Senate has spent its
ingenuity is at last brought forward by Messrs.
Carpenter and COnkling, and hurried through
with whip and gOad as near the close of the
session rs it seemed prudent to trust it.


Stripped Of legal phraseology the bill
amounts to this, that a suit for sander or
libel against q newspaper may be brought in
the United States Court in any place where
the newspaper has an agent or correspondent.
In point of fact, the principal newspapers
have correspondents everywhere, and it is
quite possible for NewYork publisher


under this bill, to be taken to California or
Texas to defend vexatious prosecution in
stituted by plaintiff who lives in the next
street The chief object of the bill however
is evidently to enable members of Congress to
sue all their critics in the Washington courts !;
and what chance the defendants would have
before Washington jury our readers can
easily imagine. II the law confined itself to
libel suits, respectable newspapers, although
they might condemn the principle upon which
it rested, would have no great reason to dread
its cops?QQences. But it affects tho mercantile
Year: 1874

community as much as it does the newspapers.
Every merchant who sells by drummers and
agencies is subjected to the same danger. He
can be sued 5000 miles away for an offense
committed without his knowledge by an agent
whom he has never seen.


We suppose there is little or no danger of
such mOnstrous perversiOn of justice and
burlesque upon law being cOncurred in by the
House. 1t is worth remark only as an exhibi-
ton of the meanness and folly of which the
Senate of the United States has become capa-
BILE, and of the outrages upon decency and de-
fance of public reprobation which fifty crown
the seasons work of the friends of Jayne and
the supporters Of the MOicty law