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Year: 1873

A Western paper describes the feas
OF noted marksman, who while en-.
gagged in deer hunt and occupying n
stand, the rest OF the party being en-
ployed in drive, three fine deer, run
ming abreast, were passing his stand 1.
when he fred, killing two OF them dead
and severely wounding the third. II
was n fine shot, undoubtedly, and one
of which Natty Banks might have been
prond. But friend OF ours saw n
better shot still, made by a naval officer
on the bank of the Perdido river in
Alabama. A party OF navy men, in.
cluding four old Commodores, oil OF
whom are now dead, went from the
yard ut Pensacola over to the Perdidc
on hunt. A fine pack of hounds was
turned loose, and the Commodores were
placed In the most eligible positions for
enjoying the sport, the host, VIII? was
remarkable for his skill with gun,
taking post on ono side, prepared to
pick of any struggling deer that might
come near him. The dogs soon gave
tongue. starting several deer, but they
ran wild, none Of them coming near
enough to either of the old sailors for
shot. Presently they saw a fine buck
running rapidly in direction that
would bring him within easy range of
the solitary gentleman, who was trying
to amuse his guests. While they were
waiting, full Of excitement. expecting
to hear him shoot, they saw another
deer coming from an opposite direction.
and taking a course that must bring
them together near his stand Az thew
met he fired, and with the same rifle
ball killed them both, and they fell not
much more than yard apart.
Year: 1873

Says the Milwaukee News local.


young lady and gentleman were
standing upon the hulkhead erected by
the c. Il n. w. Railway on the Lake
shore opposite the Wisconsin street
depot lately. The waves ran high and
looked truly beautiful in their terrific
grandeur. The lady had remarked this
to her companion, who, thinking he
could improve upon it, began reciting


"What are the Wild Waves Saying


He soon found out, for just at this mo-
ment a huge white cap dashed over the
parapet and pouring barrel or two of
water on each, eff.ctually banished ell
the romance of the situation in twink
ling. The Young man finished his quo
tation with series of highly improper
remarks as he mopped his new "tile 4"
with q handkerchief and there was
look of hearty disgust ON the radiant
face of that fair maiden as she gazed on
the limpsy wreck of her once lovely hat.
Year: 1873

The BEST Observation-Disclosures
acid, in some of the various forms in
which it is offered to the public, liz one
of the most popular disinfectants, and
deservedly 50. For simple disinfection,
where the cause has been removed,
nothing is superior to the acid itself,
either concentrated or in solution. For
disinfecting the air of sick-room a
few drsps may be put upon hot shovel
or stove-lid, or any article that will re-
tain its heat for some time. 1t has the
advantage that it does not iniure cloth
ing or metal articles with which the
vapor comes in contact. 1t should be
used with care, however. as the liquid
itself is "a violent poison, even in small
Year: 1873

| Text.-"The laborer is worthy of his
| hire"


This scriptural truth is generally


acknowledged, but there is in almost every
| occupation a sad difference Of opinion b.


tween employer and employee, as to what
the proper amount to be paid as hire should
be. Corporations, as general thing, are
notedly less liberal in dealing with their
employees than private parties. Why this
the fact, as witness the salaries of our city
school teachers. No class of laborers have
greaterstrain or tax upon the intellect, the
patience and the body; none require more
time and labor to qualify them for their
work, aud no work (outside the Gospel
Ministry of such value aud responsibility
AZ the school teachers. And yet no class
Of laborels receive salaries SO inadequate
to their wants and SO little remunerative
for the honest service rendered. And what
is most remarkable, when an honest effort
is made to increase these starvation salaries
a majority of the City Council meet and
defeat the movement, not on the principle
that supply and demand regulate these
matters" but on the score of economy"
he'majority Of our city teachers receive
an annual stip nd of only $500, less than
one-half the amount received by teachers
in any other city in the South. What an
extraordinary inducement for a young
man or woman to prepare him or herself
as an instructor of the youths of our city


A boy who goes to learn his trade in our
machine shops or elsewhere, gets the first
year of his apprentice ship $3.50 to
$3.50 /; the second year $3.50 to $3.50
and the 3D. from $3.50 to $500, and then
he become $ journeyman, from 81 90 to
Sl200


Now, these laborers (teachers) spend
from three to Sax years close application
learning their trade; with this difference
the boy is being paid during his appren-
ticeship, while the teacher not only re-
ceives no pay, but is actually at large ex-
pense for books and tuition.


When their trade is learned and they are
provided with places as journeymen, if we
may be allowed the expression, what do
We find? Not that they get 500 nor $500,
nor even S409, but the paltry sum of $500,
which amount, they are dependent upon
their own resources, will barely keep soul
and body together. What a glorious pros
pect they have before them! What a mag
nificent incentive to use their every eXer-
ton to reach the highest position Of fame
as teacher in our city schools.
To think of all intelligent business man
asking any one thus qualified to work for
such a miserable pittance, would be mon
strous. But when we read in our public
prints that majority of the City Board
have actually advocated and voted to con-
tinue these niggardly salaries, our very
feelings are outraged. People of Knoxville,
is not this state of affairs u disgrace to our
city? Shall it C ntinue longer without
remedy? Let the Board, or Committee of
Education render their proposition for an
increase of salaries, and if opposed by any
Alderman let the intelligent citizens of the
Ward he represents petition him to resign
at once. CAM.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. ~, 1873.


Mr.. EDITOR: Yesterday the House of
Representatives passed the bill introduced
by Hon. Horace Maynard, appropriating
eS brass cannon for the erection of mon
ument to the memory Of that brave, noble
man, Maj Gen. Geo. H. Thomas.


The time is coming, yea already come,
when the South will rise up in her might
and show her appreciation Of Southern
men who upheld he flag of the Union in
that trying conflict through which the
country was called to pass.


Not that they did more than Northern
or Western men, but that they sacrificed
more, they bled deeper at every pore. They
took arms to resist their own offspring,
they went to the conflict to wrest from the
domination of their native soil and 1nstl-
tutions of their fathers and brothers, 10
save and cement the union of States.


Thus it was with this gallant son OF
Virginia. born on the soil of the old COM
monwealth. Yet he Obeyed his country's
call and sped to the rescue, leading on
through Kentucky and Tennessee the
victorious hosts under the flag of the
Union. His memory will outlive in story
and song the monument of enduring brass
that will now be erected to his memory,
and as generation after generation shall
file away and march from the stage OF
time, the memory of Major General G. H.
Thomas will live in the hearts of the
American people.


must beg your indulgence for this little
effusion. [ never write or speak of this
great man without sort of fnspiration-I
Year: 1873

EDITORS CHRONICLE In communi-
cation published by you on last Saturday
it Is stated as ''factn that if Professor
Bradley had been authorized to offer sum
approaching what Mr.. Dunning offered,
those interesting specimens, from the
mound at the fork of French Broad and
Holston "would have been in the posses
sion of the East Tennessee University
This means that the Trustees are to blame
for not having given Prof. Bradley the
necessary authority. I wish simply to say
that, whether there is any blame in the
matter or not, or whether, if there Is any
blame, it is of little or much importance,
one thing is certain, that Prof. Bradley
never communicated at all with the Trus-
tees OH that subject of the "interestiDg
specimen" They only could give him au
thority 10 offer u sum for them, but he
never asked for such authority. He knew
they were then to be had. They did not.
1t was in the line Of his business to know
of it. Had he asked for an appropriation
in the case. it would have been for them to
grant or refuse it. Probably he thought
he was certain of getting 1.-The interesting
specimens" by the agreement made with
him by the owner and could not interpOse
in time 20 prevent their passing into other
hands. How that is he is, no doubt, able
10 say. But 1t is an injustice to charge the
Trustees with q "Sln OF OmlSl0n" IN the
affair. Suppose, though, they had refused
to authorize an expenditure of money for
a number of skeletons and shells andso to
prevent their being carried out of East
Tennessee, when there are ten or twenty
times as many left to supply applicants!
They had right to do so under the circum-
stances. At that very, time, 1s69-7O, the
University was struggling to keep its feet.
and almost, for its existence. It had ex-
pended largely of its limited means to COM
ply with the conditions of the State law
for the establishment of the Agricultural
College. The then Legislature had order
ed the Comptroller not to pay to the Uni
versity the interest on the College endow-
ment. The Trustees were, therefore, oblg-
ed to borrow money to run the College
with that, at large rate of interest. They
did not know when this condition of
things would improve or when it would
grow worse. Suppose they had then de-
cded it was imprudent in them to spend
money, which they did not have, in buy
ing "the interesting specimens" Who
could have blamed them But they did
not do so. Why blame them still


A TRUSTEE
Year: 1873

VIM. Satterfeld was dangerously and
perhaps fatally wounded yesterday by g
M. Thomas in the Sd District. The two
men were driving deer. They, or one o
them. killed deer, and dispute arose a.
to the ownership of the carcass, hence the
difficulty Mr.. Satterfleld was shot three
times; two taking effect in the face and
one in the breast. Our informant think
he will not long SURVIVE his wounds
Chat Times. 2d.
Year: 1873

Knew DIM, and living, WAS WlIIIUg % Ue
led by him, and dead, delight TO honor
him.


The bill will now come before the Sen
ate and doubtless pass without opposition,
as Senator Brownlow will watch it and use
his influence for it, and trust soon to see
shat. rise that will do honor to his
memory. wM. *#x
Year: 1873

HONESTY An ACQUIRED QUALITY
What makes a man honest? Honesty
is not natural virtue /; man must be
drilled to it. 1t is after man has
looked at temptation when he has been
put to the proof, that he is to be judged.
There is not farmer on Long island
that is as honest as the men in Wall
street. Why? Because these men are
old veterans. The old farmer is as
good as men go, but he would probably
break down at the first offer. / asked a
friend, not long ago, who was giving me
n sad story of the purchasable values oil
different members of society in the leg
;slatrre how it was with farmers.


:. Bless your soul" said he, they are
,be cbeapest stuff we buy in the legisia-
,urs" I am not up for election, Just
now. and therefore l am not Obliged TO
call farmers the 1'bone and sinew OF the
country. Henry Ward Beecher
Year: 1873

sentence the audience applauded, rather
to the disgust of divers diletianG in the
orchestra, who Immediately attempted
to ridicule the applause. Inspired
by this Philistine opposition, the
democratic element asserted" itself SO
energetically that it rose to the height
of striking popular demonstration.


This 10 straw that does something to
show the course of the wind in France.
Year: 1873

The director of the mint makes the
following statement of the purpose of


the government in paying out silver
coin As III other countries where gold
is the standard, or measure of value,
silver coins are over-valued for the pur-


pose of rendering them ine1portable.
They are manufactured and issued on
government account, the law, however,
placing, directly or indirectly, limit


on the issue to prevent redundancy.


If issued in times of specie payment
beyond the requirements of the public
| for change, such coin will not maintain
their purchasing power with standard
| coin. Owing to various causes in this


or other countries, silver has declined


in value to point at which the govern
ment can purchase it with gold, manu-


facture it into small coin and pay it out
Fat fair profit. The government has
recently purchased quantity of silver
bullion sufficient for its purposes, at
1924 cents per standard ounce, and will
manufacture it into coin at fixed legal
rate, at 124 and four-tenths cents per
ounce, the differences between the pur-
chasing and issuing rate being within a
fraction of II cents per ounce, or about
ten and a half per cent. on gold coin
paid in the purchase. This operation
! is believed to be a more profitable one
| for the treasury, and also more advan-
tageous to the public in the present con-
dition of the money market, than the


sale of gold for legal tender notes, and
| is not II scheme for the resumption of
specie payments, but simply a compli-
ance with the mint laws. A dollar in


United States currency will purchase a
little more gold in the market than a
dollar of small silver coin. The dollar
will therefore soon find its level, and
| unless there be rise in both the prices
of gold and silver, small coins must cir.


culate concurrently with paper money.


The government has in possession OF
the assistant treasurer about five hun.
dred thousand dollars in silver coin,


and at the mint and assay Offices, in sill
/ yer bullion and coin, about ~, 900, 600.


This stock is ample for the present.


This mode of paying out silver coin
will be continued until circumstances


shall dictate contrary course as pro-


per. The government will exact the


full seignioragc required by law, but


will not undertake to control the dis


position of coin after it is paid out.
Coin will then become the property OF


holders, who may do what they please


with it. This course was not decided


upon until it had been fully considered


by the secretary of the treasury. Out


standing legal-tenders, 1850, 2s8, SSS.
Year: 1873

The MIsMANAGEAIENT OF COTTON
The following cotton statistics are COM
piled from the New York Journal OF
Commerce and other reliable sources,
showing the number OF bales grown
each year Tor eight years, and the value
of the staple on the first OF FEBRUARY
Year: 1873

THE BRIGHT SIDE.-Look on the
bright side; it is the right side. The
times may be hard, but it will make
them no easier to wear a gloomy and
sad countenance. 1t is the sunshine,
not the cloud, that makes the flower.
Troubles gives sinew and tone to life,
fortitude and courage to man. That
would be dull sea and the sailor would
never get skill where there was nothing
to disturb the surface of the ocean.
What, though things look little dark
the lane will turn; and night will end
in broad day. There IL more virtue III


ons sunbeam than in whole hemis-


pbere OF clouds and gloom.
Year: 1873

There is no doubt but the amendment to
the Constitution has passed by large ma
ioritv, notwithstanding avery small vote was
cast. Some doubling over-anXious friends
have fears of 1t. finally accomplishment, ar
guing that it will take majority OF the reg
istered vote of the State, whether cast or not
to carry it. This Is mistake. 1t VIII be
seen from the following extract from Sec.
Of Art l3 of the Constitution OF the State,
that it is very plain that only a majority Of
the votes cast is necessary


at shall be the duty of the General Assem-
bly, to submit such proposed amendment or
to the people IN such manner
and at such times As the General Assembly
shall provide; and II the people shall approve
and ratify such amendment and amendments,
By a mojority OF the doctors qualified 10 cote
Tor members ~ the GensrdI hssembiy rotlng
thereon, such amendment or amendments
shall become a part Of the Constitution Of
this State
Year: 1873

On Wednesday of last week rs Mr..
Richard Kirwan of Seneca was riding
with a friend to the Shawnee Agency,.a
few miles from town, he discovered the
body Of man, whom he at first supposed
to b" drunk, lying in the bushes by the
side of the road near the Agency. The
horses refused to approach the body, and
after getting out and approaching it, he
discovered that it bore evidence ofa foul
murder 1t proved to be the body OF
Lolly Tom, recently elected second chief
Of the tribe The breast was beaten in
as if with club or spade, and it was
evident that the crime was committed
with the most brutal violence lnforma-
ton was given at the Agency and the
body was brought in.


Suspicion of the murder rests on the
opposing faction, which supported John
Jackson, brother Of the first chief for
the second chisftainship, but there is no
positive evidence.


On the night following the murder,
Billy Jackson, the first chief, died OF con
gestive chills, and the tribe is now with
out q head -Neosho Journal.
Year: 1873

~ A lady who is not thoroughly
posted in natural history asked a friend
who was going to Utah to bring her n
couple Of Mormons for her aquarium.
She thinks they are some kind Of an oys-
tor
Year: 1873

Absolutely pure iron is said TO have
been produced by Russian chemist


by means of the galvanic battery. Dur.
ing the process a large quantity of
hydrogen was disengaged from the
ordinary ifon used. The pure iron is a
silver:white metal, very malleable and
ductile, and 90 soft rs to be readily cut
with q pair of scissors. Il ia very dif-
ferent from iron which has hitherto
been supposed to be pure. 1t oxidizes
very rapidly and water is decomposed


by it by the rapid absorption Of oxygen.
Year: 1873

The lovers of ga good glass of Port
wine" will rejoice to hear that the
vintage of 1873 promises to be one of
the most remarkable that has beon
known for many years. We refer to
black currants.
Year: 1873

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.


The Lebanon Standard relates the .ol'
lowing incident as happening near Lor.
retto. 1t illustrates complaint that is
only too common among certain class
of beaux whose silly ambition reaches
no higher than a fashionable necktie
and foolish boast that they are like the
butterflies who gather sweet from every
garden, but, unlike the bees, they carry
no honey home with them. These in
sipid youths have about as much earnest
ness in any department of life as in
love-making, and secure as permanent
success. The girls should lean them up
against shady tree some bright summer
day and fau them to death with a rose
leaf. The Standard says:


A young man living not quite a thou
sand miles from Lorretto not long age
laid seige to the heart Of yong lady
in Louisville, who in due time surrender
ed the fortress 10 his keeping. A day was
appointed for the nuptials, friends were
invited, good things to eat and drink
were provided, and all the concomitants
for well-regulated weddings were pre-
pared. The day came, the guests came
but the bridegroom-"tbe young man
from the country"-came not. He made
default, and the question on every
tongue was, "Why is this thus?"


The mother of the bride, that was to
be, came up to Loretto and went out to
interview the son-in-law that should
have been. She told him of her daugh
ter-how, like Amy in ''Locksley Hall
her "cheek was pale and thinner than
should be for one so young" and how
she was pining away from Disappointment
and grief-The young man observed
depreciatingly, that the young lady had
never been very fat but the would be
mother-in-law parried this thrust and
represented to him the impropriety Of
his conduct in such moving terms that he
felt bound to apologize. aoha-


He accordingly told the old lady tina
he was sorry to have grived and disapoint
ed her daughter and herself; but tina
he was the subject of uncomfortable fit
of loving, and when one of these CAM
upon him he could not keep from court
ing somebody. This, he said, was dis
ease and that he was in no sense respon
sible for anything he did while this tenn
porary madness was upon him. Ii HI
had, under the power of this malady
made love to her daughter, he was sorr,
for it; but he could not help it. If sh'
doubted his work, he could bring hun
dreds of physicians to prove that such
disease existed, and hundreds of his &C
quaintances to prove that he had it.


The Lad, from Louisville went hom
sadder if not a wiser woman. Before sh
left she expressed great sympathy for th
young man, observing that sit was pit
he could not be cured"
Year: 1873

An Indiana man who applied to the
administration for the position of Minis.
ter to Russia, closed his letter by saying:
"If you can't give me that, l would have
no objection to being appointed hostler
in some warm stable where could boss
two or three boys,as 1 love the horse and
have considerable executive ability" -
Year: 1873

sent to Miss Ellsworth for her message,
and it came.


"What hath God wrought p


1t was sent in triplicate in the dot and
line language of the instrument to Bal
timore, and was the first message ever
transmitted by recording telegraph.
A fac-simile of that first message, with
Professor Morse's Endorsement, is here
given.


The story of this first message has been
often told with many exaggerations. II
has roamed about Europe with various
romantic material attached to it, origi
mating mainly in the French imagina
ton, and has started up anew from time
to time in our own country under fresh
forms, but the above story is simply and
literally true. An inventor in despair
receives the news of his unexpected sue
cess from his friends daughter, and hs
makes her promise which he keeps,a
thus links her name with his own, ant
with an invention which becomes one o
the controlling instruments of civiliza
ton for all time.-Scribner's for March.
Year: 1873

Done at the RECORD office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de
livery. unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the Office. No de
Walton from this rule.