The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-12-10
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Lady Franklin is taking about the
Northwest Passage at the age of 68.
A New York establishment adver-
tises ''perfumed milk baths for the
complexion
If man cannot be Christian in
the place where he is, he cannot be
Christian anywhere.
The marchioness Of Lorne has just
busted her husband, and done it
handsomely, the sculptors say.
The way to get a plate of Indian
cakes in a New York restaurant is
to order "Modocs for one
Justice Noah II. Swayne is recon-
mendcd by the Detroit bar for pro-
motion to the chiefjusticeship.
Anna Dickinson won't lecture in
Bay City, Mich, because the people
wantonly gossiped about her.
Sidney Andrews, Washington
correspondent, is about to marry
Miss Sarah Washburne, daughter Of
the Governor of Massachusetts.
Brother Beecher skips out and de-
livers a $500 lecture, and comes
home to tell his cook that times are
so hard that she must be very care
ful of the coal.
A New York manager advertised
for supernumeraries, and had two
thousand applications. Two-thirds
Of the number were respectable
young ladies.
The London independent under
stands that Henry Ward Beecher
will go to that city in May next, to
preach the annual sermon for the
London Missionary Society.
The engineer Of the spanish gun
boat Tornado is an American.
Since the massacre he feels so
small that he thinks he could
crawl under a ten-cent piece aud get
lost.
Immediately after the death Of the
late child prince, it was decreed that
there should be NO music in the
japanese houses for three days, and
the order was universally respected.
According to the latest report of
the Secretary of the National Grange
at Washington there are now 8,262
oranges in the United States, with a
reported membership of GI9. $50.
For it is false altogether says
CARLYLE that the world is q steam
engine. Whether the world be so
or not, it is quite certain the Ameri-
can Government isn't.
A Boston club is said to have ex-
PEELED q member recently for admit
ting, for the sake of argument only,
that Lake Superior might be larger
than Jamaica pond.
Secretary Belknap's wedding,
which will soon take place in New
York, which will be private. The
invited guests will be limited to
twenty-five or thirty relatives and
immediate friends.
A Bay City paper announces the
discovery that a half-breed Indian
girl in that city is heiress to ST.
600, 900 estate in Pittsburg.
a Providence, r. l., man was re-
Gently fined $40 for calling another
man ''besotted human hyena."
A girl of the season comments
thus on Mornonism: How absurd
four or five wives to one man, when
the fact is, each woman in these
times ought to have four or five
husbands. 1t would take about that
number to support me decently.
Artemus Hale, of Bridgewatcr,
Massachusetts, is the oldest suryi-
wing ex-member Of Congress.
An Ohio soldier, who was a prison
er in Libby for u year, is now fore
man Of tobacco factory i'll the
building. n
If you want new shoe to fit as
easily as an old one, put on two
pair OF stockings before your
measure is taken.
An old farmer says the best way
for a young city chap who wants to
become an agriculturist is to hire
out to some farmer for couple of
years, and then marry a girl that
knows how to raise chickens and
make pantaloons.
Gen. Baxter Bragg is canvassing
the cities of Georgia as agent for Il
patent wooden water-pipe.
japanese editors are allowed to
carry swords, and common man has
to take Off his hat to them.
Many sad experiences show that
successful financiering and fast wo-
men can not long keep company;
they don't mix well.
The people of Lebanon are now
attempting to raise funds to build a
monument to Gen. Robt. Haitian, Of
that place, who fell at the battle of
the Seven Pines,' near Richmond,
in 1862.
A widow said to her daughter:
"When you are of my age, it will
be time to dream of a husband"
Eyes, mamma" replied the thought
less girl, "a second one" The
mother tainted.
The Grange Store at Dyer Sta
ton purchased cargo of salt from
first hands in Va, and dispensed with
middlemen. The salt cost when re-
ceived So so per barrel when it was
retailed there at 81 90.-Trenton
Gdzette.
Here's a little bit of monopoly for
the Grangers to think over: j. Ii.
Glen of Colusa county, California,
owns forty-fve thousand acres of
land, most of which he cultivates.
On this farm he has two hundred
miles of fencing, and last year he
employed in the plowing season six