The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-12-03
NEWS AND OTHER frEMs.

| CcIteS, scAhi1AogiiiS |sOOV. H2AiI0S.
To provide food for the hungry is
seasonable food for reflection.
Buffalo has a blacksmith named
Shakespeare.
Chicago is very proud of its new
hotel, which. with the site. building
and furniture. cost s.. 100000, a.
I Service was held for the first time
last week in anew ritualistic Epis.
coral church in Washington.
John Lewis, living in Ixonia, Jef-
ferson county, Wis, is eighteen
years olda % inches high and "a
pounds weight. AxeA \,,
An ingenious mode Of advertising
was recently tried in Paris. consist
ing OF sticking small labels Oh the
current coin.
A Boston paper reminds economi-
cal people that diaries for the pres
ent year may now be bought at very
reasonable prices.
The rent roll of Marquis of West
minister. from property within the
$5,O00,0OO per .annum.
Savannah, paper complains that
ordinary sized cabhages. cost 25
cents each in that city VIII lie other
vegetables are proportiona'ely dear.
1t was recently stated chat the
commerce of Baltimore and Boston
had relatively gained more within
the past few years than New York.
a girl nc Vienna. Indiana. swal-
lowed a wasp. which stung her in
the throat and she died from sutIo
cation on. account of the swelling.
Ladies are said to he like bills of
exchange because they ought TO be
settled st maturity.
Miss Swimmer, of Quincy, H.
linois, lately plunged into the sea Of
matrinony. and is no longer Il Swim
mcr.
The Rev, NJ Toothache has been
extracted from the pastoratc Of a
Congregational church in Maine.
Matthew d Arcy. 4 member Of
Parliament from Wexford county.
Ireland. has offered $500 600 for the
erection Of Catholic cathedral in
that country.
The various district unions of ag-
ricultural laborers in England, re-
Gently sent delegates to a general
meeting in London, when it was re-
solved to form a National Union. 10
be called The Federal Union Of
Agricultural and General Laborers.'
At a recent meeting Of the Royal
Geographical Society in London, it
was statcd that the ransom for DIR.
Livingstone had been sent. but that
the friends Of the explorer were not
inclined 10 trust entirely i'll the re-
port Of his imprisonment.
Referring to the many horrible
displays of the execution of crim;-
nails caused 10y the ignorant hungling
OF the execntioner. the New York
W0rM thinks that it would bc use
ful to establish n national school for
hangmcn, where they might properly
learn their profession.
Recent European Journals state
that at Munich, where several cases
OF cholera have occurred the rocks
and crows which flew about the
steeples and through the trees of the
public prOmcnades have nearly all
emigrated, and that the same thing
happened during the cholera seasons
of 1886 and 1884.
A sewing machine agent In Indi-
ana has been arrested for having
four wives. The Immense profits
that are made on sewing machines
certainly justify an agent in having
four wives, but he ought to know
that nothing else does.-Co&rier
JO~raM. .srrI Eos
Bitter to Babbage, the Dubuque
defaulting bank cashier, in his in
voluntary exile from this his native
land, with about $26TOOO OF the
banks funds in his pocket, oh, how
bitter must be the reflection that,
with all his opportunities, he left
over 100000 to be stolen by the
President of that bank. - Detroit
Post.
Geo. Woodley, an errand boy,
sixteen years of age, recently COM
mitted suicide at Brighton, England,
whilst in a state of depression caused
by the fear that promised rise of
wages would be held in consequence
of his having oversight himself.
Canada gives currency to story
of an Indian patriarch who retains
all his aboriginal vivacity at the age
Of one hundred and thirty-two, and,
Notwithstanding his specie is lC,
numerous papers quote the copper
ccntenarian above old Parr.
The Boston Traveller remarks
that, for real madulterated sensation
for tragic and bIood-curdlingr reading,
to a person fifty miles from the
locality, there is nothing that com
pares with a 4ist-of premiums at a
county fair. n 10 ~ :
The man who cannot muster up
courage to pop the question: such
weather as we have been having OF
late, deserves to freeze to death this
winter.
If anybody sees a row of buttons
coming down street. let him preserve
his equilibrium and think not Of
supernatural agencies. There's a
woman behind them.
Suicides as the result of financial
troubles are multiplying, which shows
how near many men are to the verge |
of insanity or desperation ut all times, |
and how little pressure is required |
to topple them over iAto ruin. Men
should be made Of stronger staff.
just because a young man in