The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-10-12
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in the State University Of Missouri
Beeisteak retailS in some q the YER
mont towns for ten cents a pound
The tune Of Butlers's followers at the
Worcester Convention--"Ben Bolt
Happy San Franciscans can indulge
in street car rides for three cents head.
Southern saloonists have formed
syndicate to put the price Of drinks
down to ten cents.
During the four years OF its existence,
Harper's Bazaar has had 14,0OO ARTICLES
sent to it for examination.
Liquor is forbidden in Greeley, Colo
RADIO, but the amount of "ammonia" that
the druggists sell is enormous. - .l.-
Gen. Wade Hampton is better than he
was, but the New York Tribune stiIl
thinks he is no better than he should b..
A Milwaukee woman, whose husband
had been prosecuted TO death, married
the creditor and prosecuted him to death
in less than six months. r.fi
AT the burial Of Walter Montgomery,
his wife knelt over his graveAnd dropped
therein the orange flowers worn ut her
wedding two days before, = /. ..N
The New York Tribune asks counun-
drum: (Which is the largest room in
the city of New York; Answer. Tho
room for improvement at the city hall.
It's given ont that Greeley "believes"
Mayor Hall to be mad. This might be
supplemented by the statement that the
Mayor knows Greeley is-N. Y. Com.
Adv '. ..f 't
A woman with an infant walked one
hundred and fifty miles TO Nashville TO
beg the Governor to release her husband
from the penitentiary, and she accom-
plished her mission. .
Ata Richmond auction sale recently
confederate flag broughta dollar and =
quarter, and just afterward a specimen
of the stars and stripes was Knocked
down at sixty cents. We call that rebellion.
The Tribune thinks one agricultural
exhibition, such az that at Nashville Tenn.
organized and carried out by colored
men, is worth more to the race than o
score Of negroes in Congress.
DR.. W. H. Russell, editor OF the army
and Navy Journal and correspondent Of
the London Times, is about TO publish his
private Diary Of the Franco Prussian
War" us viewed from the Crown Princes
army.
Under the deceased wifes sister" law,
q Londoner has Just discarded his We.
cond wife, the sister of his first, with
whom he has been living in matrimony
for twelve years, and the courts can do
nothing for the woman. ....
Over $50OO,00O are invested in the Sy-
racuse salt springs, from which 5000, 900
bushels OF salt were manufactured last
year. BY u treaty in 1856, an annuity Of
$7OO and $50 buseels of salt were 10 bo
paid to the Onondaga Indians forever.
for the title to the springa r.
A well informed writer says that more
than 10000 acres of the best timber in
America ore cut every year TO supply the
demand for railway sleepers alone. In
single year the locomotives in the United
States consumed $56,0OOOOJ worth Of
wood.
Fernando Wood has been interview
ed. He says the expenses Of New York
city are fifty per cent. more than they
ought to be. Within the past few weeks
he has himself paid $4,000 assessments,
and it is not a very good time for assess
ments either.
A new definition of the word "civiliza-
ton" reaches us from Japan. Lately, n
japanese visitor to the English Club WAS
induced to take some champagne, and.
on putting away his third tumbler, ex-
claimed with great fervor, II like ciyili-
zation like civilization!
1t is reported that King Charles, Of
Sweden, is about to marry q daughter
of the King of Denmark. II 80, there
will be new genealogical puzzle--for
the King of Sweden's 8 daughter is already
married to the King Of Denmark's son;
the new bridegroom will therefore be-
come his own daughters brother-in.l law,
and the Danish Crown Prince will bs
the son of his own sister.
A facsimile of the London Gazette OF
1866 has been published in London. 1t
contains full account of the grest con-
Aagration in that city from September 3
to 10, 1866, when 13, 200 dwelling houses,
81 churches, s chapels, bridges, 3 city
gates, the Exchange Building. Custom
House. Newgnte Prison, and Guildhall,
were all destroyed by fire. 7''''. .''
A mamma in the rural districts lately
gave her five year-old hopeful an outfit
of fishing tackle. Soon she heard 4
shout from Harry, and running out found
one of her best hens fast winding up
the line in her crop, whittier the hook
had already preceded it. Harry, obstr-
wing the troubled look of his mother,
quietly remarked: Don't worry, moth
err l guess she'll stop when she gets to
the pole"
De Joinville, declining to be q candi-
date for the Presidency Of France, said;
But if were King / should know how
10 govern well. The means are very
simple. would have Constitution Of
two articles: the first article should en-.
act that Frenchman should be func-
tionary; the second that every French
man, on reaching the age Of Eve. should
be decorated"
The Republican tells the suffragists