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Year: 1872




ist. You enjoy the exeitement OF giving
people shiiiings and half crowns for i'm
parting to you the valuable information
that an old door Is a1l old door though the
widest freak of imagination could never
lead you to fancy ibswas new one. Eure-
ka! ft has suddenly occurred to me that
/ can account for Lord Derby. He must
have had something to do with Charles
the First, If he didn't, / don't see how
he escaped It. because everybody else /
have heard of yet had, and 1 know Charles
the First went to Chester expressly to
stand in tower on the walls and watch
his army defeated by Cromwell on Row.
ton Nor, SO that they would have an ex-
cuse for charging shilling to go into the
tower from that day to this. My expert
ence with Charles the First was like Mark
Twain's with Michael Angelo was
rather glad to hear he, was dead, and
think i my joy was rather added to when n l
found that he died suddenly and with the
assistance Of the State executioner. My
principle grievance is that he was not
domesticated character. He was too fond
of going to see his friends and staying all
night when he got there. 1t looks to me
as though he rather sponged on them. He
slept at nearly every castle in the United
Kingdom, and when he could nOt go him.
self he. generally sent friend, and the
guides charge you an extra half crown
for telling you about it. The fact is, he is
becoming monotonous.


'This is the old passage, num- These
are the old stairs, num-" They was
thinking of building museum behind
the old door, and now they are thinking
of not building one" &c. &C., &.


And for this valuable Information your
amiable tourist delivered up "backsheesh
extraordinary, feeling satisfied with the
fun of nothing else. L&.
Year: 1872

Notwithstanding the indifference Of the State
authorities on the subject of free popular edu-
cation, Knox county and the city of Knoxville,
in particular, have risen to the magnitude of
the occasion, and determined that the children
shall be educated nevertheless.


The School Committee of the City Council
have labored assiduously for the object IN vlew'
and by their advice the corporation has pur-
chased the Bell House, which will be used for
school purposes. 75 -


Accompanied By Alderman j. A. Rayl, our
reporter visited the old hotel, which is being
rapidly metamorphosed from its original pur-
pose of supplying physical wants, into place
where food for themind is dispensed.


THE FIRST FLOOR


will be used as Preparatory Department, the
office being the largest room. The corridor Is
left unchanged and the first double parlor Will
be used as a recitation room, while the second
to the left of the main entrance, will be used 6y
the School Committee and Superintendent. The
smaller rooms will be used for the different
classes and will afford ample room for all.
sz- --s THE SECOND FLOOR


is designed for tho intermediate Department.
and the partitions between the rooms OF the
main Building have been removed, dividing
them into three large room. the Larger benz ing g


THE THIRD FLooH,


is the High School Department and is arranged
the same as the second floor, except the main
room, which is 29x36 feet, the largest in the
building This will be occupied by the young
ladies farthest advanced and will comfortably
seat about one hundred girls


.tt THE GROUNDS


Will be dived by high fence, separating the
boys and girls play ground, which will be put
in complete order. ~


There will be eleven schools taught in this
building, six for boys and five for girls, which,
with the schools at Summit Hill and the yellow
church in North Knoxville and the three color
ed.schools, make sixteen in all. The committee
will have to rush the work if it is completed by
the 9th inst, which is the day set for the open
ing of the schools.


The CRATES are to be removed and the fire pla-
ces filed up, when stoves will be used In their
stead for warming the rooms. Where the parti-
tions have been taken down, those places will be
plastered but there will not be sufficient time to
repaper the rooms until the next session.


The location is an admirable one and we think
a bargain was secured in its purchase by the
city. There will be several rooms unoccupled
for the present, but if the public necessities re-
auire it they can all be used By having as
many schools under the same roof as possible,
though entirely separate, considerable expense
is saved in salaries for janitors as one per-
son can attend to a dozen and in manner
much more satisfactory to himself and the com
mittee With the experience of the past year,
we look confidently forward to the next session
as one that will demonstrate to the opponents OF
public schools the blessings and benefits OF free
education beyond the shadow OF q doubt,
Year: 1872

A negro lad being in somewhat pugilistic
humor, last night, attacked another lad, and the
two together caused such disturbance that the
attacking party was arrested by, policeman
Shields and put in the calaboose, where he was
left bewailing his fate in anything but melodi-
Gus measures
Year: 1872

Nothing of certainty has yet been ascer-
| tanned in regard to the sudden disappear
ance Of Mr.. j. B. Watkins, the collector of
levee dues for the First District. His
deficit to the Department Of Commerce
amounts to something over $4,000. Until
| about ten days ago his accounts were in
perfect order, every dollar collected being
accounted for. Toward the end of last
week he was reported to be drinking freely,
and when last seen he exhibited many of
the characteristics of a man who had been
drugged. 1t is believed that he left the
city with barely sufficient money to take
him out OF town, aud that the remainder is
in the hands of those with whom he has
been seen for several days. His surety, a
wellknown merchant, it is thought, will
make up the deficiency, and in any event
the city can suffer no pecuniary loss, but
the affair is regarded in the Department of
Commerce with both surprise and sadness,
as heretofore Mr.. Watkins was regarded as
above suspicion.


A committee of shippers, headed by the
president of the Mississippi Valley Trans
pOrtatiOn Company, yesterday morning
waited upon the Administrator to ascer-
tain what landing could be permanently
secured for the mooring of barges. They
consider the exaction of levee dues for the
extra time in which they lay at the wharf,
especially when the place is not required
for other vessels, a stringent exaction, and
ask that hereafter no charge shall be made
for lay days.


The Administrator of Commerce has ap-
pointed Mr. E. T. Schmidt, president of the
Howard Associate IN, collector OF levee dues
Tor the Third District. A large number of
the wealthiest and most prominent citizens
volunteered to become Mr.. Schmidts sure
ties.


A pocketbook containing money; which
was found on Wednesday. will be returned
to the owner upon application to Mr.. Miller,
at the Mayors Office.


The Administrator of Improvements is at
present constructing plank road from
Canal street to the Bienviile street drain
ing machine. The dirt roads in that vicinity
are in so terrible condition that it was
found impossible to transport fuel to the
machine.
Year: 1872

contrast with the spirit of seeking fortune
il another country. telling the story of Col
onei Jones and Colonel Brown. and how
Brown bought rough piece of ground from
Jones, and made money out of it, ard when
Jones came back from Texas without money
or property he was furnished square meal
by the thrifty Brown, who had stayed at
home.


The pride of all was that OF a man who,
by his individual efforts, made himself a
name and place in the world. 1t was
true pride. and the passion was all the
greater if the man had beeu born in a coal
bin, or if his father had been hung. Men
had been proud of their literary abilities
who could not write a grammatical sen
tence, and who spelled "Of" with ''v:''
women had been proud of their beauty who
could carry off the prize for ugliness; of
their small feet when they were large out
of all proportion.


The lecturer then touched upon the good
passions-the four sisters, love, hope. pity
and joy. Love often springs from pity, is
always fostered by hope, and invariably
leads to JOY. These four sisters object in
the world is to make all people happy
Love is a girl, not boy, as he had been
represented, with feathers" The idea of
a boy baby impersonating love, when the
office OF babies was to love milk over other
substantials Love was girl-a kind, low
ing, faithful, true hearted, full grown girl.
That boy baby is a humbug. Love is true
when it has no other desire than to make
people happy. The lecturer went into dis
sertation of love in married life. Love was
its capital. A man who should marry with
out i is like a merchant going into business
without money; with everything smooth he
might get along, but let storms come and
he would be ruined. The man who dares
to take woman without love does not
marry in the spirit of Christianity. Love
was an absolute necessity in married life
There was too much. nonsense about stern
parents. He is needed, for there is so much
folly about boys and girls that stern pa-
rents play an important part. He was a
useful member of society.


Miss Logan closed her lecture after few
more general remarks, much to the salts
faction Of the audience.
Year: 1872

The term scalawag was first used in the
New York Tribune by Solon Robinson, VINO
adopted the expression from the drovers to
designate lean, scrubby cattle The word,
as used, was a corruption by the drovers of
Galloway, a species Of horses Of small size
first bred in Galloway, Scotland. Greeley
gave it political significance in the year
1879, to describe scurvy politicians.
Year: 1872

The Administrator of Finance notifies
the public that the city taxes Of 1871,
amounting 20 two per cent, are now. ready
for delivery at his Office. Payment for the
city's proportion will be received in GER
tifcates OF appropriation and Metropolitan
Police warrants
Year: 1872

We subjoin the beautiful address of DR..
Drew, delivered in the st. Charles Thea
tre, on the occasion of the presentation to
Lolita of banjo from her New Orleans
friends:


Miss LoTTA-Of the many attributes
with which we are endowed, the faculty
of teaching those with whom we come in
contact to cherish kind and lasting re-
membranes, is gift but few individuals
possess: and it is IN recognition of this
happy faculty. SO remarkably exemplitied
iD YOU, that have been delegated to ad
dress you tonight. 1t is this special
faculty by which you have inspired the es-
TEEN and admiration of the best and most
sterling of our citizens: and it is this by
which you have achieved reputation, fame
and wealth as a delineator OF life in the
mimic world, and attained a high position
as type of that nobIest work OF God
the true woman IL the social and practical
world.


In somewhat selfish spirit, few friends
conspired to render you this surprise, and
combined to present you this beautiful in
strument-a banjo-an instrument on which
you excel. This manifestation of regard
from those to whom YOU are not d stranger
in the full significance of the term, who
have the experience and ability to form,
from close observation and critical discrimi-
nation, an unbiased Judgment, is to evince
an appreciation of that versatility of talent
and excellence and purity of character
which have placed Lolita the bright, peerless
little - star of the American stage.


And when you have gone from us let this
instrument serve. if need be. as 8 souve-
nir''-let it's sweet accords, given Off by your
magic touch, open the gates of memory
that you may look down the vista of the
past, and recall some pleasing recollections
of your friends IN New Orleans.
Year: 1872

A special meeting of the Council was
held yesterday in the Mayors parlor, for
the purpose of taking into consideration
the transfer of d portion of the duties of
the fiscal agency to another banking insti-
tuition than the fiscal agent. 1t appears the
charter has modified the late ordinance con-
cerning the agency, so as to include the ad-
ministration of the floating debt, which
latter function, as we understand it, may
not be transferred. Yesterday 1t looked as
if the sense of the meeting was that reso-
luton be proposed at the next session of
the Council transferring to the Louisiana
Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Company
that portion of the fiscal duties included
under the ordinance of 1855, which made
the fiscal agent simple depositary of city
funds. The ordinance was discussed as to
its propriety and legality, with the above
result.
Year: 1872

The St. Louis journal of Commerce, not
a political, but commercial paper, allud-
ing to an article in the st. Louis Republican,
pertinently says:


1t is simply partisan fancy for which
Democracy is remarkable enough to say, as
does the Republican this morning, that the
New Orleans tiasco between the War
mothites and the Carterites is the fruit of
reconstruction. 1t is not the fruit of recon
struction, but the fruit of the old system,
to provide against the recurrence of which
recons nstruction was devised. 1t is rebel
lion against law, and it was possible only
through the cooperation Of the Democratic
element in the Legislature There is no
doubt that all the proceedings of the Car
terite faction in organized conspiracy
against the recognized authority of the
State were prompted, as they were GER
tainly sustained by the Democrats.


The truth is here expressed in a nutshell,
and if some Of our Republican exchanges
would investigate the subject, they would
arrive at the same conclusion that the St.
Louis Journal of Commerce does.
Year: 1872

:" If ever cease to love- is good thing
in its way. 1t has the power to please for
little while; but it is not circumstance to
a ticket in the Louisiana State Lottery
that draws the fifty thousand dollar prize.
That pleases for long time if the lucky
one is careful The daily drawings of this


popular lottery give much cause to please,
and the single number drawings-the next
of which comes off on the third of next
month-have been source of pleasure to
many, and must continue a source of
Measure to all who are fond of prizes.
With ticket your chance of prize is
Year: 1872

The very last of the New Orleans politi-
cal inflammation went out yesterday with
the extinction of Mr.. Carter. That ludi-
crous Bombastes, after making prodigious
ado about his pretended marches on the
State House, seems to have discreetly sub
sided; and, in order to break his fall, his
last dying confession is that General Emory
has won the fight So long as peace and
order have won, what Carter says is not OF
much account but the truth OF history
compels the statement that Governor War
moth is left master of the field.
Year: 1872

We are requested to give notice that
there will be a meeting of Republican
editors from the country in this city to-
morrow, at ten o'clock. at the room OF the
Committee ON Public Education, in
Mechanics Institute.
Year: 1872

BY TELE CRAP
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
BECK AGAINST THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH
REVENUE FRAUD CASES
REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE
MEXICAN STEAMSHIP BILL
THE CUsTOMHOUsE ASSESSMENTS
SUIT AGAINST A COLLECTOR
BRICK P0MER0Y IN COURT
BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT
Sun SHOT BY A FATHER
THE KU-KLUX PRISONERS
AFFAIRS AT VERSAILLES THREATENING


Factions Hostile to Theirs
LEGISLATION IN MISSISSIPPI
UNION PACIFIC BLOCKADED
STEAMSHIP IN DISTRESS
The Florida at Newport
Year: 1872

The directors and managers Of LA COTERlE an
nounce that their arrangements for this first OF a
series Of GRAND BAL DEGU!SE are most complete
in averv particular FETE PAR EXCELLENCE OF
Year: 1872




TO JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON
From dawn to dark they stood
That long Midsummers day!
While fierce and fast the battle-blast
Swept rank on rank awayl
From dawn to dark they fought
With legiOns swept and cleft,
And still the wide, black battle-tide
Poured deadlier on our Left!
They closed each ghastly gapl-
They dressed each shattered rank! l.
They knew how well-that Freedom fell
With that exhausted hankl
"Ohl for thousand men!
Like those who melt away ~
And down they came with steel and fame
-Four thousand to the fray
They leapt the laggard train
The painting steam might stay
And down they came with steel and fame
Four thousand to the frayl
Right through the blacklist cloud
Their lightning path they cleft
And triumph came with deathless fame
To our unconquered Leftl
Ye. of your sons securel
Ye, of your dead bereft!
Honor the brave who died to save
Your all upon our LEFT!


atlanta San.
Year: 1872

STABBING AFFRAY.-On Wednesday the
18th. difficulty occurred between two men az
Big Bend Tunnel in which a negro named Black
stabbed negro John Kent several times with
knife. Kent had been boarding with Black
and being ordered to leave removed his clothing
while Black was absent. Black suspected Kent
OF taking articles that did not belong to him
and searched for them, when fight ensued.
Kent and his brother afterwards tried to kill
Black, but they were arrested before they could
accomplish their purpose Tafchnan.
Year: 1872

The parents of the marriageable young men
of Atlanta, Ca, have agreed to enforce as
rule that young ladies paying attention to their
sons must not stay later than 10 o'clock at
night
Year: 1872

THE CLERKS SToRY.-When [ used
to tend store at Syracuse, the old man
came around ore day and says he:
"Boys, the one that sells the most be-
tween now and Christmas gets a vest
pattern as present" Maybe we didn't
work for that vest pattern! [ tell you
there were some tall stories told in praise
of goods just about that time; but the
tallest talker and the one who had the
most cheek of any of US was a certain
Jonah Squires who roomed with me. He
could take dollar out of mans pocket
when he only intended to spend six
pence and the women, Lord bless you,
they just handed over their pocket-b books
to him, and let him lay out what he
liked for them. One night Jonah walked
me up with, ''By Jove, old fellow, if you
think that ere's cotton in it, I'll bring
down the sheep that it was cut from,
and make him own his own wool 'Twont
wear out, either; I wore pair of pants
of that stuff for five years, and they are
as good now as when l first put them on.
Take it at thirty cents, and I'll say you
don't owe me anything. Eh, too dear ?
Well, call it twenty-eight cents. What
dye say? Shall l tear it? All right,
it's bargain l could feel Jonah's
hand playing about the bed-clothes for
an instant, then rip, tear went something
or other, and | hid my head under the
blankets, perfectly convulsed with laugh
ter, and sure that Jonah had torn the
best sheet from top to bottom. When L
awoke the next morning found that the
back of my shirt was split from tail to
collar band
Year: 1872

A demure looking chap hailed a
charcoal peddler with the query,
Have you got charcoal in your wag
on? Yes SIR said the expectant
driver, stopping his horses. That's
right observed the demure chap,
with an approving nod; always tell
the truth and people will respect
you!" And he hurried on, much to
the regret of the peddler, who was
getting out of the wagon to look for
a brick.
Year: 1872




INHUMAN CRUELTY TO AN INFANT,-A
man named Eli Stow'and his wife have
been arrested at Windsor, Broome coun-
ty, N. Y, for terribly i'll treating their
infant child, eighteen months old. 1t
appears that the child was whipped by
its father until it was literally black and
blue from its waist down to its feet
Here and there upon its little body were
also deep incisions, from which the blood
was oozing. The reason assigned by
the unnatural parent for this treatment
/ Of his offspring was that the child re-
fused to tell him its name The man
and his wife belong to a sect called the
Nazarites, and a Mrs Blatchley, who is
an apostle and oracle among them, as
serted that the child was the possessor
of an evil spirit and its father had been
compelled to whip the evil out of it. To
assist the spirit in making its exit from
the lacerated body of the infant, accord
ing to this prophecies, the latter had
been placed upon a high stool, without
support to its back or feet, a0here 1t hoo
been sitting for tsoenty-three hours, wher
its grandfather, who had been informed
of the state of affairs, made his appear
ance and put stop to further cruelties
These details seem too horrible for be-
lief, but are declared by a correspondent
of the New York Times to be strictly
true. The father and mother have beer
held for trial in $500 bail each.
Year: 1872

CHANGE OF GAUGE.-The Europe
an and North American Railway is
to change to the narrow gauge anoth-
er Summer, thus making one gauge
from Halifax to Boston, New York
and Chicago. 1t is also rumored that
the Grand Trunk will follow its exam
pie, though this cannot be done with
out the consent of<the Governor-Gen-
eral of Canada.
Year: 1872

Poverty -exeept~heFe-there-is aa-
actual want of food and raiment, thing
much more imaginary than real. The
shame of poverty-the shame of being
thought poor-is great and fatal weak
ness.
Year: 1872

The landlady of a hotel said to
boarder: "Look e'here! l want you to
pay your bill, and you must I have
asked you often enough for it; and I
tell you now that you don't leave the
house until you have paid il" ''GoOdr'
said the lodger, "I'll stay with you as
long as [ live
Year: 1872

The inventor of "spoon fishing
is said to be an old man named De
Castle, who, for twenty two years. has
been lock-master on the canal around
the Morrisburg rapids on the st. Law
renee river. He had been fishing off
one of the islands below the town with
little success, and looking down from
his boat into the clear, green water,
could see the fish moving lazily about.


In taking q pinch of snuff from his
vest pocket he pulled out a silver six
pence, which, failing into the river,
went wavering down through the wa
ter. The glitter, attracted a large pick
erel, which dashed for the sixpence and
swallowed it. The sportsman ponder
ed over the matter, and on his return
home confiscated his wife's brass ket-
tie, and cutting piece out of 1t, sold
cred it to hook and set out with this
new bait, He had not been long on
the water before he had a very fierce
strike. After struggle of an hour, he
succeeded in landing the largest fish he
had ever caught, musealonge weigh
ing forty-eight pounds.
Year: 1872

A man, IN chen1ise, was in Philadel
phia the other. morning, hanging high
up among the telegraph wires When
rescued by the aid of a feather bed,
upon which he dropped, having reach
ed the extreme point of exhaustion, his
hands were found to have been severely
cut by holding on so tenaciously at the
perilous height. 1t is supposed he was
suffering from an attack of mania-a-
potu, during which he must have
sprung out of the window and caught
the wire
Year: 1872

What fit representatives of the great
Republican Party,-one the brave and
magnanimous soldier; the other a tried
and true statesman. Both springing from
the humber walks of life: where could any
two men be found who are better able to
understand and apply the principles OF
this government One has been tried four
nearly four years in the Presidential chair
and not found wanting: the public debt
gradually and securely reduced; confidence
in the Government at home and abroad;
a security for life and property to those
who were not born South, more strong
than was felt before; Kukluxism thing
of the past. In the language of Greeley,
certainly more fitted in seventy-twe, than
in 1868 for President Of the other, his
name is familiar to every lover Of his
country. A life of service in the Senate;
ever the bold and manly champion of lib
erty; tho stern foe of all oppression and
wrong. A triumphant victory awaits them
in November.
Year: 1872

The Methodist General Conference on
Tuesday adjourned sine die. A report from
the Committee on Education was adopted
denouncing the efforts of certain persons to
abolish the common school system, and
pledging the Conference to use every effort
to make such schools permanent, and Cd


posing the division of the public none;
among denominational schools, and denoun-
cling all efforts to remove the Bible from
the public schools. A resolution was
also adopted having for its object harmon
lzing Of all differences between the church.
es Of the Conference and the Church South,