A Cynical Stratagem by Richard Ashe King A father is trying to get his son to marry a girl different than the one he wants.

Consoled The Wrong Man How a preacher unintentionally talked horse

The Cost of Revolution How New York suffered in the War for Independence

Climate and Language Harsh sounding names in the North and Liquid Sounds in the South

Income and Luxury Taxes The two from which the British Government gets most of its revenue

Pith and Point Example: People who borrow trouble never have to go far to find it.

Diving for Pearl Shells The output recently restricted by French authorities to prevent depletion

Turned the Tables on Him Nevertheless the keen-witted woman still lives on the frontier

Phonographic Music Some of the results that may follow machine's use. Some persons have expressed a fear lest the wide distribution of an apparatus capable of echoing all sorts of music, in a more perfect fashion than any music box, might lend to the gradual extinction of piano playing or violin playing, except for purposes of public exhibition, the phonographic echo of some great performer's work being so much superior to what most people could hope to accomplish, It seems to me that the contrary would be the result. Cheap phonographs, giving more or less perfect echoes of music, might make superfluous the painful attempts - painful to others as well as to herself - of the unmusical young woman to master impossibilities.

To the person of real musical instinct and capacity, the wealth of good music would certainly prove an incentive. When the graphic music is cheap, the housewife can listen to Rubenstien as she darns the stockings in the evening, and get superb lessons at the great fountains of musical art, if she has any taste that way.

There is no reason to suppose that it will be any more difficult to record a performance of "Die Meistersinger" than a recitation by Coquelin, or Beethoven symphony under Bylow's baton. There is a good time coming for the poor man of good taste. - Philip G. Hubert, Jr., in Century.

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W.S. Hallock, Editor and Proprietor

This page is also taken up with political articles and such, plus some ads.

The ads are: Pick Miners wanted at Bryant, Ware & Co's Pine Knot, Ky. 65 cents a ton run of mine, seam 2 and one half feet. L.E. Bryant. V.C. & N.Q, Allen, Attorneys at Law. Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment. Karl's Clover Root purifies the blood. Brown's Iron Bitters. Deafness, it's causes and cure by A. Fontaine, Tacoma, Wash. Kennedy House, Chattanooga, Tenn. Henniger & Barton Dry Goods.

University of Tennessee Academic Law and Teachers' Departments. Session Opens September 13th. Ladies as welcome as men, free tuition.

The East Tenn., Va. & Ga., Railway.

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Sam Stairs, City Editor

Time Table for the Queen & Crescent Route of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific R R in effect June 11, 1893.

Town and Country All sorts of little items collected for Times readers Dayton is dry and dusty. The day we didn't celebrate. Chancery Court convenes Monday. A sprinkling cart would be a blessing. J.F. Johnson went to Spring City yesterday. Harriman for poke weed, Dayton for dog weed. The farmers are putting in the hay in fine condition. G.F. Spence came up from Rathburn Tuesday and spent the day. A passenger station in north Dayton will be a great convenience. John Gains and Charley Gaut, of Carp, were in town Tuesday. Recorder Holt was busily engaged yesterday in settling Fourth-of-July cases. Thomas A. Allen and wife left today for Morgan Springs for the summer. The county Normal Institute meets at Rhea Springs today and will be in session three days. Misses Corrie and Bertie Healen, of Atlanta, Ga., are the guests of Miss Jennie Allen this week. While in town attending court, call at The Times office and see how much you don't owe on subscription. Thirteen car loads of extra fine Georgia melons went up the road Saturday morning bound for the World's Fair. R.F. Brown and his two little daughters, of Rhea Springs, were in town Monday and made The Times office a pleasant call. George Cawood, of Lorraine, was in town Monday. It is not a corn that causes him to limp, ban an attack of the rheumatism. Misses Corrie and Bertie Healen, of Atlanta, and Jennie Allen and Messrs. W.B. Allen and Chas. Gillespie, spent Tuesday at Rhea Springs. The Georgia watermelon, as the season advances, grows larger in size and smaller in price. You can now buy fine ones for 25 to 30 cents.

Mrs. Cawood came down from her home on Cumberland mountain last Sunday for a visit to her sons, Andrew and George Cawood, of Lorraine,

Spring City had no Fourth of July to speak of, some of the boys went fishing but the fish had probably gone off to celebrate, for they didn't get a nibble.

Robert J. Coulter (our Bob) with Gillespie & Johnson, left last night for Soddy, where he will spend a few days vacation and inhale the rarified mountain air.

Conductor McCarty, of the accommodation train, is taking in the World's Fair, but a smaller man is pulling the bell-cord to the satisfaction of the traveling public.

The Sourwood trees are in bloom and the bees are working fifteen hours a day. By the way, Capt. Hallock of The Times has christened his place at Grand View "Sourwood" in honor of Bob Taylor's fiddle and bow music entitled "Sourwood Mountain."

E.N. Gannoway, who runs the tannery a short distance below town, has been turning some good leather this season, which fins ready sale in the New York and Baltimore markets, but Mr. G. informs us that prices are so low as to rather discourage operations.

Passenger Station for North Dayton In the United States Circuit Court, at Cincinnati last Monday, Samuel M. Felton, receiver for the Cincinnati Southern road, was granted permission by Judge Taft to begin the erection of a passenger station at the head of Main Street, North Dayton, in the State of Tennessee. That means us. It is what many of our citizens have long wished for as a matter of convenience.

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Quarterly County Court The July term of the Quarterly Court convened at the new court house last Monday, when the following proceedings were had: There were present L.L. Barton, Chairman, and the following Worshipful Justices: Holloway, Cowles, J.H. Morgan, Mowrey, Brown, Hindman, McPherson, Win. Morgan, Green, Benson, Johnson, Shaver, Hayes, Broyles, Franklin, Clack, Trentham, Perkinson, Waterhouse, Dye. Dickson, Johnson, Clouse, Ferree and Knight.

Ordered that J.L. Runyon be released from working road and paying poll tax. Same order in case of C.M. Myers.

C.M. Trentham presented his commission as Justice of the Peace in the Fourteenth Civil District, and gave bond and qualified.

Bill of Marshall & Bruce, of Nashville, for $121.50 for books furnished county, was allowed and ordered paid.

L.M. Cass was allowed $9.70 for putting up signs at Piney bridge.

(They then bought a lot of furniture for the court house)

J.A. Howard, coroner, was allowed bill of $17 for holding inquest on body of Arthur Johns.

Ordered that Win. Wolf, G.W. Harris, C.A. Corvell, A.F. Green and John Sharp be relieved from working on road and paying poll tax.

Poor-house bills for the quarter were allowed as follows: W.G. Denton $244.65, B.K. Mynatt $22, T.J. Robinson & Co., $1877, Gem City Mill Co $5, J.H. Donaldson $28.50, R.T. Green $22.75, Henniger & Barton $2.86, C.G. Gillespie $2.50, S.H. Pearsey $9.

Dr. J.F. Able was allowed $7.50 for medical services rendered prisoners. The following Notaries Public were elected: A.L. Wilson, Tenth district; C.E. Mowrey, Eleventh district; Ed. Houston third district; J.H. Cobb Second district.

J.H. Burkhalter was allowed $5.50 for goods furnished Circuit Court. J.L. Daniels was admitted to practice in justices' courts. He is a mountain lawyer. A warrant was ordered issued to J.W. Gee for work erroneously assessed collected of him in the Third district. John Mull was elected constable in the Eleventh district. F.J. Paine, treasurer of court house building committee, presented report and settlement, showing he had received of J.T. Howard, county clerk, and John Morgan, trustee, $1,00.23. Settlement approved.

Ordered that John A. Denton, who was security for G.W. Ballew in the Circuit Court, to secure a fine, be relieved from the payment of $50 of said fine and to pay $25 of same.

Court adjourned to Tuesday morning. Only the Republican members signed the record for this day.

Second Day It was moved by J.L. McPherson and seconded by W.R. Clack that the record made yesterday in regard to establishing the 15th district be changed so as to make it speak the truth. Ruled out of order. Bill of A.G. Slawson for $57.63 for barbed wire was allowed. W.H. Perkinson was allowed $17 for holding inquest on remains of M.U. Baird. Ordered that claims to Bridge Commissioners as follows: W.A. Templeton $6 and cash for iron $2.90, R.T. Green $6, J.M. Howard $6. In compliance with legislative act of 1892 the Court elected J.C. Carney as County Fish Commissioner, he receiving 14 votes to 12 for J.L. Hoyal. On application of W.A. Templeton, L.L. Barton was allowed $40 as chairman, and $10 for services on Board of Equalization.

Bills on court house grade were allowed to the following: C.G. Gillespie, Ed. Hayes, Knight & Brady, W. Williamson, Wm. Birchfield, Jos Coates, J.T. Mathews, Mose Howell, J.R. Johnson. (end of column 2)

Claims in favor of J.D. Patton and T.J. Knight for $5.75 each for waiting on Circuit Court at March 10 were allowed. R.T. Young was allowed $7.50 for similar service. H.F. Morgan was allowed $4.00 for making coffin. Ordered that H.A. Hass and Joseph Clark be relieved from working road or paying poll tax. W.G. Taylor, sheriff, was allowed $144.45 for service. John C. Mull appointed constable at yesterday's session filed his bond, with D.H. Hindman and R.M. Sherman as bondsmen. Salary of court house janitor was fixed at $48 per annum. R.J. Killough was elected janitor. Lafayette Gott was allowed $33.07 for goods furnished prison. H.A. Pool was elected a Notary Public in the 14th District. Bills allowed as follows: D.C. & I Co. for coal, W.W. McDonald for hauling same. J.M. Atchley work on jail well, W.G. Taylor unloading coal. M.V. Reed was appointed guardian of minor heirs of W.T. Holt, deceased. J.A. Kelley was appointed guardian for his son, Jas. H. Kelley. W.M. Johns was appointed administrator of estate of Arthur Johns, deceased. M.S. Holloway and H.C. Collins were appointed as finance committee. J.W. Clouse, administrator, was allowed one year in which to make final settlement.

A Jerrymander The attempt of the Republican faction in the County Court to form a new civil district, for the purpose of electing two more Republican Justices and thereby insuring a Republican majority in the Court, and for the further purpose of defeating registration here in Dayton, was a bold attempt at political trickery that will not soon be forgotten, and one which will probably recoil on its originators.

The Democratic members of the Court walked out when the matter came to issue, all save Squire Jim Johnson who remained to tell the conspirators what sort of men they were, and it is said he did so in no uncertain language. The Democrats did not sign the record Monday, and it is intimated that any attempt to put in operation the action of the Republicans will be enjoined. We shall have more to say on this question at another time.

Early Tomatoes M & J Wallis, the well known fruit growers and truckers of Spring City, began last week making large shipments of early tomatoes.

Death of John Holden John Holden, a coal miner, who was hurt in the mines at Rockwood two weeks ago last Saturday, died in that place Sunday night, and Monday morning's train brought the remains to this place under escort of ten members of Rockwood Lodge No. 191, I.O.O.F., of which deceased was an honored member. He was formerly a citizen of Dayton and a member of the Baptist Church. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father. (end of column 3)

(The next three columns are mostly about Hog Cholera and how to treat it)

J.C. Kimmer has been appointed Postmaster at Grassy Cove, succeeding W.H. Bristow.

The following is a list of uncalled for letters for the week ending June 24, '98 Lee Billingsley, John Goin, W.T. Hughes, Miss Louise Merford, Albert Rose, Leah (?) C Shelton, J.E. Watson, Mrs H P Windom. J.D. Morgan P.M.

Real Estate Transfers For the week ending July 5th. J.W. Williamson and wife to Mary E Smith, one lot in Eighth district. E.J. and J.F. Morgan to G.D. Morgan half interest in lot in Tenth District. Same to Oscar Barton, one lot in Eighth district. Darius Waterhouse to J.N. Shirley, in Thirteenth district. R.W. and E.J. Holloway to Milo P. Duncan one lot in Fourteenth district. R.C. Gray to Jacob green, five acres in Second district. Harriet L. Spinning to M.H. Devaney 70 acres in Fourth district. Lucy A. Osborne et al to M.A. Bishop one acre in Fourteenth district.

Circuit Court Circuit Court convened Monday morning, Judge Traynor presiding, and has been industriously at work. In the case of State vs Godsey a verdict of guilt was returned and a sentence of one year in the penitentiary imposed. In the chicken stealing case the jury was still out this forenoon.

Wedding Richard Hill and Miss Grace Bell, both of Dayton, were married last Sunday night by Rev. G.W. Brewer. This is Richard's second voyage on the matrimonial sea, and he and his fifteen year old bride have the best wishes of many friends.

Ads on this page:

W.H. Rodgers selling shoes. First National Bank. S.C. Norwood, Pres., V.C. Allen and John Abel Vice Pres's, W.B. Allen Cashier, Directors V.C. Allen, John Abel, J.T. Howard, James A Ross, S.C. Norwood, J.M. Howard, T.G. Montague. Nashville College for Young Ladies.

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Page 4 contained misc articles and ads, nothing to help with genealogy-EC

End of the July 6, 1893 Newspaper.