The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-12-17
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

I I'VE ~ -dNO VI AGh IL E41E .
Susan B. Anthony had a man prt
off railroad train in Rhode Island
for winking at her. Susan certainly
made a mistake. The fellow per-
haps only winked at her indiscre-
ton.
There are two ends to be attained
in iournalism-one is glory and the
other money. The one is a most
exhilerating enjoyment, while the
other is more comfortable in the
end.
I The vote in New York on the
proposition to ammend the Constitu-
tion by appointing instead of elect
! ing Judges. stood 115 337 for and
319.979 against.
The Committee on Banking and
Currency. in the House. is regarded
as rather looking to imitation, but
not sufic emily to cause hasty ac-
ton.
Tweed is the first ex-member of
Congress ever sent to the peniten-
tiary for a crime. If exact justice
were to be meted out. we have no
doubt the Boss would not be long
alone in his glory.
A dispatch was sent to the Mo-
bile Register, OH the fourth instant.
to this effect:
WACO. TEXAS. December 8. 1873.
The Lone Star State is entirely
lovely, and the Radical goose hangs
low The Straightout Democratic
ticket has swept the State from end
to end like prarie fire. There is
fifty thousand Democratic majority
and every official elected in the
State, from Governor to Constable,
is a Democrat
Press dispatches announce the
sudden death in Washington on the
9Th Of Judge Underwood, Of Virgin
ia. While the diseased made some
little name since war. in connection
with reconstruction in Virginia his
decisions were sometimes thought
to he characterized by a politicfl
animus that gave ground for doubt
as to their sound judicial wisdom.
A young man in Fon du Lack was
a party TO a mock marriage at fes
tive gathering. and it proves that
the man who married them was
magistrate and so the marriage is
binding. The girl holds him to it,
but he is engaged to another girl
who threatens suit for breach Of
promise. 1t is a complicated case.
A Chicago widow. who has an in
come of 100000 to live on. was
found drunk in a Chicago gutter the
other night. and taken to the police
station, where she slept on the downy
side Of plank until morning. She
was elegantly Dire sed, and two
diamond rings sparkled upon her
fingers when she was fsled out of
the mud.
A lady who had never been hles-
sed with children went to a shop to
buy some illuminated notices for
her sitting rooms. "This would be
the best said the dealer. who hap
pened to be an acquaintance. and
he passed her g" Suffer little children
to come unto me-
The steel gun manufacturer.
Krupp, in Esson has forbidden his
workmen to enter into any discus.
sion Of religious questions in his
shop. and will Immediately dismiss
any one from the lowest ionrneyman
to the highest official, who disturbs
its religious peace.
A man went to sleep on a West
ern railroad track and was killed.
The fact is thus recorded by a Fort
Wayne paper: He was fast
asleep. and firmly clasped in the
arms of Morpheus and Somuus,
and was awakened by the glorious
light that shone from the Judgment
seat in the world beyond the river"
Stephen Girard's will prohibit
clergymen from ever entering the
doors of Girard College. At re-
cent visit of the knights Templar
of Boston to the institution, one of
the knights, a we'll known physician
who wears a white neck-tie. was
passing in. the janitor accosted him,
saying " You can't pass in here. sir
the rule forbids it. " The h-U I
can't" replied the physician. IAN
right, sir rejoincd the janitor;
"pass right in.''
Hard times don't effect the liquor
business at Boston. Here are the
fgurers which the Herald thinks
represent the trade in that "pro-
hibited city: 5000 liquor shops,
running from / 2 to l8 hours per day,
patronized by 10000 customers,
who drink 100 barrels of whisky
and proportionate amounts of milder
beverages daily. AS for the profits
of the business. a barrel of whisky
that doesn't cost $40 at wholesale.
brings over $500 by the Is cent glass.
UuiUersal amnesty.
LFrom the Louisville Courier-Journall
WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-Under the
somewhat Unexpected lead of Mr..