The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-09-10
Items of Interest.

Owing to the recent unexampled heat,
all the tropical plants in the public gard
ems of Paris have lowered and produced
fruit and seeds. The indigo, cinnamon,
coffee, banana, and cotton plantare among
the number.
Andrew Wickstrom, Swede, aged 60
years, died in poverty in Boston on the
18th. He was on guard at Fort Sumter
the moment the first gun was fired.
The prettist girls at Saratoga are fIom
Baltimore, the prettiest at Newport from
New York, at Long Branch from Phila.
and at Nahant, from Boston.
"Surpise weddings are the greatest
novelty in Ohio. They take place at pic
MICS, camp-mectings, excursions and the
like.
The sales of the dry goods auctioneers
of New York for the first six months of
this year amounted to Sl2,S09,OO0
There were $4,000 barrels of pork on
hand on the first of August in New York
against S6,SS6 barrels the same time last
year.
a travelling correspondent of a Penn
sylvana paper writes that scotsman in
Edinburg, Scotland, sells annually $4,000
bushels of turnip seed.
The Appomatox Paper Mill, at Peters
burg, Virginia, turns out daily $500
pounds of printing paper.
A Louisville firm has contracted for
$4,000 barrels pure copper-distillol whisky
to be delivered within two years.
There are eight thousand Mormons at
work on the road between Salt Lake City
and Green River.
Baron Bramwell recently instructed an
English jury to give moderate damages in
a breach of promise case, because it was
Il most mischievous thing "to brighten a
man into marrying woman he did not
like, by heavy damages. 1t is much bet
ter for the girl that he should find out his
dislike before than after marriage"
The Vermont election returns show an
increased Republican majority. The State
has probably gone. wrong by majority of
10000 votes.
The Norfolk Journal says that the Board
of Trade has appointed Wednesday, the
l4th day Of October, as the time for the
reassembling of the adjourned Bristol
Convention, to meet in that city. The
Journal adds 6" " our citizens, one and
all, unite with the Board of Trade, and
make the coming event one long to be re-
membered, from which Norfolk will date
her progress, and an era in her history that
will be referred to in after years as the
dawn of her commeEcial greatness"
The Democrats in Michigan grow more
and more confident, and there seems to
be fair chance of carrying the State for
Seymour and Blair. Changes are occur
ring throughout the State, and all in favor
of the Democrats.
In the recent investigation into the col
ored bounty frauds in the Second Audi
tors office, 50 cases were found, in which
colorcd men who had enlisted as slaves,
and were consequently entitled to 500
bounty, received $500 each, which is the
amount paid under the bounty act to
freedmen.
The Secretary of War, perplexed by
conflicting legislation, has asked the At
torney General4 advice on paying the
Southern claim Oh file in the War Office,
growing out of Che war. They aggregate
twenty to thirty millions.
There is apparently no truth in the
statement that the dry goods merchants of
New York had generally agreed not to sell
goods to the South except for cash.
The Atlantic cable is earning at the
rate of $2,OOO,O0O per annum in gold,
equal to $2,9OO,O0O in greenbacks, or at
the rate of about fifty per cent. per annum
on the cost.
The salaries paid to the managers of
the Freedmen's Bureau amount to $780,
$50 81 all of which comes out of the Ia
Dor and sweat of the toiling millions-to
pamper indolent negroes who ought to be
at work. -
Doubtless many foolish election bets
and rash promises will be made this Fall,
but we doubt if any can be more ridicu-
lous than that said to have been made by
jealous Fremonter in california. Dis
appointed at the defeat Of his candidate,
he took off his hat, threw it up in the air,
and took an oath that he never would
wear a hat until Fremont was elected Pre-
sident. Twelve years have passed away,
and it is said that he has faithfully kept
his word and goes about bare-headed. He
ought to have his head shaved.