The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-11-12
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NEWS AND oTHER IrEMS.

over the bridge across the Niagara
below Buffalo on the Sd.
| Col W. R. Woodward, General
/ Superintendent. cf the Missouri,
I Kansas and Texas railroad, has re.
signed his position, to take effect
+ November so.
Between seven and eight hundred
thousand dollars of silver, of differ
ent denominations, will be coined at
the Philadelphia mint this month.
Selma has raised her quarantine
against the outside world.
Milwaukee rejoices over the COM
pletion of her waterworks.
The managers of the Chicago sEz-
position resolved to donate one-half
the gross receipts from tickets last
week, to the charitable institutions
of that city.
A collision occurred on the Sd on
the Midland railway in England, by
which thirty persons were injured.
Boston reports large drug house
burned on the third-loss $4,000,
partially insured.
w. Z. Wade. formerly clerk in the
Office Of the Secretary of State of
Tennessee, was arrested in ST Louis
on the 1st and. returned to Nash
vile. He is charged with forging
$4,000 State bonds.
The Philadelphia mint is now
G1O 000 0On
month. 1t has ceased coming silver,
owing to the demand for gold coin
age. Most of this gold comes in
bars and ingots from Great Britain.
The Spanish Minister of war has
presented Gen. Sickles United States
Minister, with sword made express
ly for him at Toledo.
A company has been organized in
San Francisco, with a capital Of
100000, for the manufacture of
juta bags and twine.
The Washington Star says Con
troller Knox will favor an increase
of twenty-five millions of dollars of
national bank currency.
The courts of Illinois are reported
to have already over eight thousand
divorce cases on their dockets, with
accessions Of new applications at the
rate of twenty thousand per annum.
The consumption of ardent spirits
in Great Britian during 1872 amount
ed to 35,941,517 gallons; malt
liquors. 28,591,326 barrels; wine,
16,766.464 gallons; other liquors,
100000 gallons.
1t is announced that Ben Butler
is organizing movement to have the
House Republican caucus declare
against giving leading positions to
persons implicated in Credit Mobilier
transactions.
An Illinois county clerk refused to
issue a marriage license because the
man was only four feet high, while
the woman was six.
A beet sugar factory in Sacramen-
to Will this year make 5000 barrels
of sugar, worth 100000, and the
sugar can't be beat.
According to the official report of
the Vienna Exposition it was patron
lied by 3,736,498 paying and $685.
575 dead-head visitors.
Mr.. Allen. Of Texas, a thrifty
farmer, owns five thousand square
miles Of land in that State, and one
hundred and twenty thousand cattle.
The Three Brothers, the largest
sailing vessel in the world, left San
Francisco, the other day, for Liver
pool, with 4, 800 tons OF wheat.
The Illinois Central has paid a
widow $4,000 as compromise damag-
es for killing her husband, which is
high price for white man at this
time.
Stenhouser, the publisher of NJ.
Remains skeptical books in Prague,
publicly declared his remorse for
disseminating such wicked works.
NJ. Renan is still impenitent.
OF the $4,000 inhabitants of Mem
phis. it, is estimated that $4,000 have
left the city, leaving a population of
some 10000. No city in modern
times has been so rayaged by dis
ease. @f
One of Victoria's daughters has
turn for getting.up busts. Her sons
have the same propensity. Between
the different members of the royal
family, England is we'll chiseled.
A large black bear took his stand
on the track of the Wisconsin Cen
tral last week, and stopped the train.
After looking the thing over for a
few minutes, he trotted off to the
woods. reav
Of the 271 ,267 taxpayers in the
city of Berlin more than 100000
have incomes which DO not exceed
$3.50, and many of them much less.
Only 5000 families have incomes of
more than $1,000.
The most impudent witness in
New York appeared i'm the famous
Kelsey trial. He said he never told
anything to his wife unless he wanted
it to be known over all the neighbor-
hood.
Alexander Berrell has been con-
victed Of murder in the first degree
for killing his brother James with a
shoe knife, in New Jersey.
In some of. the Western Oranges,
it is said. the members are pledged
never to go to law with one another,
blltsto settle call their disputes by
arbitration. - .a an rff
A rude man in New Orleans was
recently impolite enough to kill
another man IN the presence Of
ladies. The local press Is indignant
of sI3eh n breach of u00d manners.