The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08
Items of Interest.
Butler paid over $4,000 for his nomination
to Congress. He is anxious to serve his country
p,.;cL Do,,,erou

The coming winter promises to be the busiest
ever known in tho Pennsylvania oil regions.
A South Corolina editor, just arrived in Wash
ington, says the negroes Of that State are armed,
and also express determination, if trouble ar
Uses, to use the torch, The editor says that in
consequence of these threats the whites have also
armed, and if an outbreak occurs, it must end
in the determination of the blacks. Untiring
efforts, however, are being made by the whites
to prevent n catastrophe 30 terrible to eOntem-
plate.
Intelligence from all parts of the country in
dictate very large increase in the number OF
hogs for market this fall AS the crop of corriis
unusually heavy throughout the West, it is ex-
pected that the increase in weight, will also
serve to swell the amount of product far beyond
that of any former year. The prevailing inn
preston among the operators is that prices will
rule lower than last year. -rtlF
The gold in the Treasury vaults amount to
eighty millions. Thirty millions viii be requir-
ed on the LIST of November to pay the interest on
fvc-twenties. r.- rt,
Calvin Shaw, town constable at JonesbOro',
in this State, was shot and killed by a man
named McInturlf on the night of the LIST inst.
Shaw had insulted the latter's wife.
A justice, better yersed in law than gospel,
not long since married couple in this way :
"HOd up your right hands. You solemnly
swear that you win prOfom the duties of your
office, jointly and scverally, according to your
best skill and judgment, so help you God.
Fee 81 co."
1t is said to cost the Government two hundred
dollars day to keep General Grant advised by
telegraph of the operations of the War Depart
ment while the Radical party is keeping him in
Galena that he may be free from the excitement
of political campaign.
Harlan and other Senators are urging Secre-
tary Seward to have officers appointed to Wyom-
ing Territory. They represent the citizens as
requiring protection which can be properly fur
nished through that medium.
The Radical Rump Congress have cost the
country, in the way of congressional expenses
merely, nearly ten times as much every year as
full Congresses, wherein all the States were rep
resented used to cost.
A New York paper says, ''it is the nature of
radicalism to waste money. 1t can't help it,
1t is the nature of radicalism to lie, too. 1t can't
help that either.
| A newly married man of seventy-eight, in
Buffalo, was grieyed, but not surprised, to find
his BRIDE of eighteen had run away with his ell
der brother the other day.
The loss of life by the late earthquakes in
South America, amounts to forty thousand. Or
the heels of the earthquake famine is now claim
ing its victims, s' '.'.' -
j The last Radical wirc-pulling and electioneer
ing dodge is this to send from Baltimore t.
PENNSYLVANIA several thousand votes for use il
the coming election. The information comes
from the Baltimore custom house, and is reliable
In Milan, Italy, there is a man sixty-eigh
years old who married his fourth wife about {
year ago, and during the last few days had hi
thirty first child baptized.
Daniel Suter is under one thousand dollars
bond, in Philadelphia, for calling Judge Kelly
Odd Niger" while he was addressing al
outdoor meeting in that city the other evening
II has been ascertained through the Revenue
Department that only four distileries are in op
Grafton in New York and surburbs. Last yea
there were seven hundred. This is the result o
the law tax on whisky.
There is q lady in Boston who hasn't WASHED
her face for fifteen years. She thinks water in
furious to the skin, and uses fine Indian mea
in its place.
At the close of recent political discussion
Clinton in Henry County, Missouri, some thirt.
Radicals marched up and joined the Democratic
party.
There are twenty-five thousand disfranchise
voters in Missouri---all Democrats. This is on
way of swindling Seymor and Blai&out of tn
vote of the State.
The Union Pacific Railroad now runs dali
trains to Black Butt, 1913 miles west Oh omaha
The road is graded to within sixty miles of Sal
Lake, and is building at the rate of seyenty-fou
miles o day. q a
A correspondent from Lewisburg writes u
that 'there will be heavy gains in the Fourt
District for the Democratic ticket, and We stan
equal chance to carry it."
A correspondent from Paris, Tennessee
writes oIf allowed to vote in Henry County
we can carry the country for Seymour and Blai
with all ease"
J "Drick" Pomeroy Is delivering temperate
} addresses in New York. He says he never dram
glass of liquor, nor was he ever in bar-room
One of the Grant electors in. Alabama is a
ex-Confederate Captain, who swore solem
oath never to take q Federal prisoner alive.
; Three hundred books have been written abor
the American,wars and 1900 about the shol
Prussian war of 1866. ,-', -
Cincinnati has a tobacco ring who .swindlt
the Government monthly out Of 100000. I'll
detectives are afterethe gentlemen.csxgH
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