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Year: 1873

that be was well acquainted with his
wife's eharacter-even were it as black
as was alleged--as to make the insanity
plea idle, and having besides strong
leaning toward the belief that the
symptoms of insanity just before and
after the murder were in large degree
feigned.


A motion TO appeal the case for a
hearing in q higher court has been
made.
Year: 1873

F in need OF an Elevator Of any sort we can
I furnish Il and guarantee satisfaction. We
make them to be driven from any shaft, where
power is used, by a special engine, by water in
cities where there are water works, or by
hand. II will cost you nothing to get an esti-
mate from US, and may result in gres. profit
to you; 50 send for descriptive circular, tell
ing US what is probably wanted.


So 4 SPECIAL ENGINE WILL ONLY
COST FIFTY CENTS A DAY FOR FUEL.


JAS.I HAVEN & C0. C5i.ei-no{i n
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, March 2.-It is stated,
on what seems to be reliable authority,
that the Investigation Committee viii
tomorrow report that the charges
against Senator Pomeroy have not been
proven. It is also understood that the
delay in the presentation Of the report
is owing to the efforts Of Senator Pome-
roy's friends, which are still In progress,
to induce the committee to include in
their report some expression Of opinion
adverse TO the validity of Senator In
CALLS election, on the ground that it was
effected by merely pretended expo
eIIre
Year: 1873

THE Commissioner of Agriculture has recently forwarded large variety of gar den seeds to Hon. R. C. Mccormick, which seeds are now in our possession for free distribution to gardeners or farmers who are willing to plant and cultivate them with care and make short report of the results to the Agricultural Department. Nearly every kind of seed is in the lot. The quantity of each is not large, yet is enough, if properly cultivated, to give quite product.
Year: 1873

A great many people who know what they are talking about and why they are doing it, are in favor of adding Sono ra to the United States, and so are many more who know nothing worth knowing of the subject. This annexation proposi ton is not a new one and should it be adopted, many who now favor it would as zealously disapprove of it when too late to effect anything either way. When some thing is not right in business circles, ii has come to be a chronic disposition of the public to call upon government to do something to help out of the trouble, and when it comes to the rescue, then the manner of the action is sharply and often unjustly criticised. A lot of newspaper statesmen now want government to take Cuba frem old, weak and contemptible Spain, just as some want our Uncle to take or buy Sonora from Mexico.

 It cannot be that we are in want of more land, because we now have millions upon millions of untouched acres; it can hardly be that we want to add to our pop ulation by the acquisition of States or parts of other countries while largely in debt, it seems almost criminal folly to add to our burdens in this regard; while at peace with @ nation, we should not make war with it just for the sake of few peo- pie and some territory, having no press ing want for either. Our unoccupied ter ritory is so large and little known that Congress, at great expense keeps several exploring expeditions out each year to find out what we have; before we get more, would it not be well to know how much and of what kind we have on hand? Then as to people, would it not be as well to educate aud Americanize what we have before acquiring more at wholesale, by purchase or war-one of which methods would be necessary and unlikely to i'm prove the adaptability of the people to American customs. If government must go into the missionary business or the work of developing the natural resources of the earth, we submit that it's present possessions afford field enough.
Year: 1873

Probable war with Spain is the present eX- citement in our country and abroad. The latest from Washington dates up to the 22d. If definite course had been decided upon it was then unknown to the public. Natu- rally enough, all opponents of the present administration are clamorous for war evidently for no other purpose than to ac- complish some partisan advantage. News paper statesmen and damagogues gener- ally never expect to expose themselves in actual war-even war they begged and coaXed for. They seem to care nothing how many others may have to lose their limbs, lives or property or all together; and while condemning taxation and large public debt, they zeaiously labor to make an in- crease of both necessary. President Grant understands this and will not allow the execution of a hundred men engaged in violation of international laws, to precipi- tate a war without the clearest possible evidence that Spain has committed an in- eXcusable outrage on American rights. The Cuban Junta in New York for years has been making New York base for war upon Spain-as the Fenian Brotherhood did for war upon Canada. Some of the latter were killed by the Canadian or Brit ish troops and a few of the leaders were afterwards tried in the United States courts, convicted as criminals and sent to the penitentiary. Of similar character was the crew of the steamer Virginius engaged in carrying war supplies to those making war upon the Spanish government. The Spanish authorities may have too hastily or informally executed the crew of that vessel. At present no other wrong ap- pears to have been done.
Year: 1873

4 PRIVATE letter from Mineral Park says that Davis X Randall had shipped by last steamer to San Francisco, eleven tons of rich ore. So much water had been found in the Keystone mine that the su- perintendent had gone to San Francisco for pump. Assays from the mine went from two to four hundred dollars to the ton. MT. Fisher at Cerbat had just run out seventy bars of bullion with the furn- ace at that place.
Year: 1873

THE Texas and Pacific railway has evi- dently received check ill its construct ion by the recent money panic, but that it will continne to be built by its present managers, we have no doubt; nor do we doubt that they will rush it through much faster than required by act of Congress. In addition to the assurances of this kind in dispatches from Philadelphia, we have some private advices from that city which are favorable to the company's ability and purpose to put the work through with considerable rapidi.y.
Year: 1873

TIE San Carlos division of the White Mountain Indian reservation has been formally abolished and those in charge have turned over their wards and property on hand to Agent Roberts of Apache. The Indians now at San Carlos will continue there at least until the crops now planted are harvested-which mus t be several months. Major Randall of Apache will exercise military discipline overthem, and probably no officer in the service knows better how to do it wisely than himself We have good authority for saying that the White Mountain Apaches were never so well contented, so cheerfully submissive to proper discipline, so desirOuS to see bad members of their people punished, as at present. These excellent conditions have been brought about by doing right toward the Indians and compelling them, when necessary, to do right in all essential par ticulars.
Year: 1873

We have a private letter from Mcdowell of date 23d, which says

 We have an excitement about new dis trict of gold, silver and copper recently dis covered by Row and others about thirty miles north of Mcdowell. Row and party came back yesterday, and if the mines are anything like the ore they brought with them you may look out for something big.
Year: 1873

We have private advices that this indi- vidual left Chicago westward on the 11th instant, and his name appears in the Car lin passenger list of the 18th. It is report ed that he is en route to Arizona. Very many good people are of opinion that there is not another officer in Arizona whose total absence from this Territory is so desirable.
Year: 1873

REGULAR IN THEIR HABITs.--W We
like to see family that is regular in its
habits, but the thing may be carried to
distracting degree. For instance, there
is a woman in Springfield who was born
on the 18th of December, and her mother,
grandmother, great-grand mother and
great great grandmother were born on
the same day of the same month, and tho
interval between the generations was ex-
actly twenty years in every case.
Year: 1873

There is something which all of us
should have found out long ago, and
which some of us are fated never to find
out-the wisdom of wise and well or
dered life. Whether the sin we serve be
squalid or splendid, the wages thereof
are all the same, and are death either of
soul, which is the worst, or of body, which
may be of little consequence. The demi
monde of Paris recently had preached to
it a sharp sort of sermon, by which it
profted after the old left-handed fashion.
A Spanish woman who for twelve years
or so has led life which brought her a
fine domicil and diamonds and equipage,
was weak enough at last to fall in love
with nobleman for whom his family
had arranged a marriage, which the
painted demoiselle in vain tried to break
off. Her passion may have been no
better and no purer than that of tigress
for her mate; but such as it was, it took
possession of her body and so much soul
as she happened to possess. After
dining with the gentleman at a restau-
rant, she drove home with him in cab,
storming, pleading, threatening, all the
way. From him she rushed into her
splendid apartment filled with a thousand
objects of exquisite elegance-books, pic
lures, statues, iewelry, plate, china, Ia
pestry, furs, and, dearer than all to the
female heart, not less than one hundred
and seven dresses. Around her we're the
rich results of her brilliant bargains with
folly, and below upon the pavement still
stood her nobleman paying for the cab.
In M noment frenzied and despairing,
she had rushed to the window and flung
herself from the balcony. In another
moment she is bleeding and palpitating
and dead upon the sidewalk, 1t was a
swift descent, yet who can tell how long
it seemed TO herr Who knows what
years of agony were crowded into that
rapid fall2 Who knows that she would
not have given, not the perishable wealth
which she left behind, but her own soul,
for one more year Of life in the shabbiest
and most shameful Of Partisan quartersf
Was 1t consolation even then instinct
lively to feel that she would be gossipped
about and gabbled Of as "Cette pauvre
Pepita Sanchez Yet it was only a
niue days wonder. All the world came
10 the auction Of poor Pepita's goods and
chatiels-four or five hundred women,
the wives OF ministers and deputies, and
everybody's wife, so that there was a
treble line Of barOuches and broughams
for two days blocking up all the avenues
TO the Rue DrOuOt. There, too, we're
noVelists, statesmen, artists and officers,
journalists and stockholders, joking,
laughing and looking. Poor Pepita was
not there-she was somewhere else, Of
course. And where2 Only gone home
10 get her wagesl
Year: 1873

some men never lose their presence of
mind. In Milwaukee the other night, a
man threw his mOther-in-law out of the
window in the fifth story Of burning
building, and then carried a feather-bed
down stairs I'm his arms.
Year: 1873

DR.. Gelcich is erecting very hand
some residence on Fort street, between
Sd and 4th. 1t is y frame, one story
high, fronting forty feet on Fort street
with depth of fOrty-five. The Doc
tor has very sensibly set his building
up on brick foundation, three feet
above the ground and this with the
high story and handsomely ornament
ed porticO gives the house quite an inn
posing front. A hall eight feet wide
runs through the building. On the
north side fronting the street is the
Doctors office, fifteen feet square, with
u private office in the rear fifteen by
nine feet. Then comes a chamber
fifteen by nine, dining-room fifteen by
ten and kitchen fifteen by nine. On
the south side of the building in front,
we have parlor fifteen by eighteen,
followed by a chamber fifteen by
twelve, servants room fifteen by nine,
and bathroom fifteen by six feet.
There is cellar under the house
twelve feet square. In front there is
verandah seven feet wide running the
entire width of the house; and pOrticO
Ornamehted with fiuted columns. The
contractor is A. M. Shannon, who be-
gun work on the 18th instant, and
agrees to finish the building in sixty
days, at cost of $4,000. From the
raDidity with which it is going up we
have no doubt it will be ready by the
appointed time.
Year: 1873

Ha. The tide of immigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is tothrow away their New York Hats nnd buy
new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two.
Year: 1873

NASHVILLE, Feb. II.


EDITORS CHRONICLE The Legislature
is plodding, dragging. The attention of
the public has been directed principally to
its action, or rather anticipated action, on
the question Of schools and the State
finances. There is certainly disposition
manifested by both Houses to do some
thing to solve these important and chief
problems, but there seems to be great diff
Guilty among the members in arriving at
any unanimity of opinion. But why
should I speak further of the action OF this
body? Your regular correspondents and
exchanges have enabled you to keep your
readers fully informed.


MARDI GRAS.


The fun-loving public here, following i'll
the steps of other and larger cities, and
obeying the commands of King Comus,
will observe the 25th inst. The Mayor,
being jolly fellow himself and fearing
to violate the Kings orders, has requested
that all places of business and the public
schools be closed on that day, in order that
all who wish may participate in or look
out upon the fun and the follieS of the
occasion. Some of the maskers have been
promenading and holding meetings here,
but I think the impression prevails that
their efforts may not prove complete
success.


A large portion of the lower House of
the Legislature wanted to go to Memphis
in order to enjoy and see the sights, but
the Senate disappointed their hopas by re-
fusing to adjourn.


Query-Isn't this custom, which we are
falling into, of making clowns of ourselves
several DAYS every year, rather dangerous
and demoralizing for a dignified people?


THE SUPREME COURT, slfff ga
1t is believed, will adjourn about the first
of March. 1t has done much work, but
its efforts to reduce the large docket here
seem to be vain. Notwithstanding the
large number of cases disposed of, the
docket vet remains almost if not quite as
heavy as it was two years ago. This being
the case, it is we'll that the Legislature has
thought. to devise some plan to relieve the
docket and anxious litigants. A commits
sion or special court should be created.
-rH AN INCIDENT. sIr
A few nights since grand ball was had
at the Maxwell House, at which the young
and the gay and the beautiful gathered and
danced. In the morning in, one of the
rooms above, 4 guest OF the house lay a
corpse


In the ball room below the young and the gay
Are tripping the hours of night away
And sound Of music and flying feet
The ears of the list ner constantly greet.
In a still room above soft lights shed
| On man who lies on a feverish bed ; f
He breathes, but he gasps. and the watchers see
That ere the morn a corpse he must be.
In a ball room below the young and the gay
Kept dancing the hours of night away
| In a still room above before dawn of the day
| The form of o mar on a bed there lay;
| But the soul had taken its flight away


And the body was nanght but body of clay.
KNOXVILLIAN.
Year: 1873

We have always been of the opin-
ion that there were great many
mean men and boys in the world,
but we had never thought that there
was any one mean enough to take hat
from q newspaper reporter-and the only
one he possessed at that-and force him to
90 home bare headed from wedding par
ty. Such, however, was the case. 1t ap-
pears that a great many boys found their
way, unasked, into Turner Hall on Mon
day night, and being away from under the
watchful eyes of their parents, their con-
duct was not exactly such as to reflect
much credit upon themselves. The
consequence was, several gentlemen
were minus their hats, and we were among
the suffering. We hated to part with it, as
it has been faithful servant-we only had
itabout two years-Dut if it will do its new
owner as much good as it did us, he is well
come to it, We would not have cared go
much had it not beer that we feared being
accused of feloniously entering one of the
city tin shops, as we had to borrow one of
the Turner'S tin helmets to cover our dc |.
fenceless head. Testing aside, boys should
not visit any place Of amusement unless
they intend to behave themselves.
Year: 1873

The Credit Mobilier occupied the day
with no action. The speeches were better
and the galleries were packed


IL is AN understanding in the Senate
that the Louisiana matter will not come
up before the appropriation.


The RESIDENTS message in the House
was referred to the Judiciary Committee,
with the privilege TO report at any time
A bill for Louisiana NAV by being attach :
ed to report for or against the impeach-
ment of Durrell, become privileged quas-
ton which will give control of the
matter to the majority of the House. There
is no other machinery which will prevent
one-third of the House from the staying
of the legislation regarding Louisiana.
Year: 1873

AT this Concert the best musical talent that can be-
procured from all parts Of the country will add pleas
ure to the entertainment and TEN THOUSAND
CAsH GIFTS. aggregating vast total of Half Mil


hon Dollars currency will be distributed Ey lot to the
ticket holders. as follows;
Year: 1873

That mechanics are the most useful and
industrious class of any community. Is
universally admitted, and We endorse
what the Atlanta Constitution says in 70.
gard to giving homo mechanics preference |:
do not send abroad for help il you have
work to do, when it can be done in your
own town. Encourage your own honest.
industrious mechanics. They need all
the work they can get. BY such course
youkeep money at home, assist the worthy,
and generally have just as good work per.
formed. 1t is the way to make your own
town prcsper-to support your own schools
and press. Where there is disposition
to send hund,ed miles for an article
that. to say the least. could bo mauufac.
tured as well at your own door, there will
always be little or no business dons in
that place. The churches will be thinly
attended, and all kinds Of labsr extremely
dull Wherever mechanics are the best
employed. prosperity is seen, the social
virtues predominate, and kindly, brothefly
feeling is experienced. which is the source
of uuspeakable happiness. Whatever
you have to be done, look around and sec
if your mechanics cannot do it. II you
have house to build or shoe to tap, or
. saddle to be made, tinware To mend. q
house to paint, or pack of cards to print,
just look among your home folks before
you send abroad, and if there is none In
the town capable Of doing the task, it will
be time enough to look elsewhere. It if
wrong idea to :hiuk nothing is SERVICE
able that is made at home. We know Of
many an instance whare men have refuse
ed to purchase work made by their neishS
Dor, and send to distant city for the ar
ticles which they needed and paid third
more for them, when, behold, they have
been manufactured and sent away to sell
by the same neighbOrs Of whom they rcfus'
ed t, purchase.


"Let The motto Of all be, ! will encour.
age my own mechanics. In turn you will
be encouraged also. A mutual feeling
of good will and kindness will sprirg up
in our midst, and prosperity will DO OBJ
servable in every street and in every
dwelling" t
Year: 1873

Good manners arc not learned from ar
bitrary teaching 50 much ss acquired BY
habit. They grow upon us by use. A
coarse, rough nature at heme begcts a
habit Of roughness which cannot be laid
aside among strangers. e.s
Year: 1873

green as fast as made, all times . year; with the best results. Some reported sowing one bushel of timothy and clover to the acre, and obtained very thick fine crop of grass. Of course the land must be rich

 The agricultural society of Danbury took 1t upon them to furnish entertain ment for all in attendance. Thanks to them

 believe that the convention was com posed mostly of the best and most intelli- gent farmers of the State, and any one attending that could not derive lasting benefit must be dull scholar indeed :; and believe that every one that attend ed went home with the determination to take hold of the farm with new zeal and encouragement. Long will it be remem- bered by many.

 The addresses were frst-class, especi- ally that of MT. Alexander Hyde, of Lee, Mass, whose subject was ''Farm Build ings." The speaker, a very modest man, but still firm and decided, took very practical and common sense view of his subject. He urged all that he could to build on hill, away from the malaria o1 the low lands, and to live in the south side of the house, in the enjoyment of the health-giving influence of Gods sun light"

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Year: 1873

desire to call attention to the fact that Ihave on hand full stock of all varieties of LUMBER called for in this market and am prepared to sen the same at the lowest market price for Cash. My stock comprises
Year: 1873

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. either
himself or allows some one else, lays down
these excellent rules for EVERYDAY fisher
men:


First-Find out if there is any fish in the
water to which you are going; if so, get
some one who knows the water to show
you where the fish lie; and when he shows
them to you, don't show yourself to them.


Secondly-Don't imagine if the fish does
not dart away, that he has not seen you ;
on the contrary, he is very likely devoting
his whole attention to you. and preparing
to start the moment danger is imminent.


Third-If you are fishing with fly. and
you pass it neatly three times over him,
and he refuses it, you need not wait any
longer; he has seen your line ofinvita-
ton, and does not intend to come.
Fourth-It you are above a fish when
you hook him, get below as soon as you
can; for if you pull him one instant
up the stream. and he is heavy fish, he
will break his hold. l&eet


Fitth-Never throw long line when u
short one will answer.


Sixth-Never mind what is said about
playing your fish till he is tired" put
him in your basket as soon as you can.


Seventh-Remember that everything
depends upon the way you begin your ac-
quaintance. If you can prevail on fish
to go down the stream little way with
you, you will afterward have no difficulty
in persuading him to let you have the
pleasure of seeing him to dinner.
To these excellent naxims Mr. Beecher
begs leave to add one of Mr.. Stoddart's.
especially intended for bachelors, young
and old: Never fall in love with a
woman by the waterside; there are situ-
ations in which every woman looks an