The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-12-24
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS


Texas is Spanish, and means
plain.
Reversible Elizabethan rufies are
the latest. They are lined with
light-colored silk.
WE learn from the Sweetwater
Enterprise that the free schools in
Monroe County have all been closed
for the want of necessary school
funds.
Worthington, Mas, boasts of
house one hundred years old in which
no funeral ceremony was ever per-
formed.
An Irishman, trying to put out
gas light with his fingers, cried out:
Och, muther there's niver a
wick in it.
A recent writer on Persia repre-
sents the people as much more ener-
getic than those of Turkey, and
more ripe for Improvement and
civilization.
An eccentric citizen of Webster,
Mass, has made it practice for the
last thirty years to treat his friends
to pea soup on the anniversary of
his birthday.
The Lieutenant-G G Governor of Rhode
Island writes poetry, which leads
the indianapolis Sentinel to observe
that it is the only instance on record
where a Lieutenant-Go Governor ever
did anything.
The editor of the Kokomo In-
diana) Tribune, who was robbed of
$400 in an Indianapolis hotel, the
other night, attributes the affair to
" an over ruling Providence, and his
forgetting to wear his nose glasses
when he bolted the door,"
Florada journals say that the.fail-
ing of Northern orders for lumber,
owing to the financial depression,
has led to the increase of foreign |
trade. There are now six or seven
vessels loading at Jacksonville for
West Indian and South American
ports.
A negro preacher holding forth
to his congregation upon the sub
ject of obeying the command of God
says: Bredren, whatever God
tells me to do in dis book (holding
up the Bible,) dat I'm gwine to do.
If see in it dat must jump troo
stun wall, I'm gwine to jump at it.
Going troo it long to God, jumpin'
at it longs to me-
The Arizon Miner says that men,
women, and children are being
murdered in Sonora by Indians from
American reservations. The Indians
are armed with breach-loading rifles,
given them by the Peace Commits
sioners and by privileged traders,
who have influence enough with the
of the Interior to be
allowed to traffic in firearms.
A country Postmaster, in making
a requisition on the Department at
Washington for three thousand pos
tai cards, apologies for the unusu-
ally large number by saying: You
may think that this amount of postal
cards that l send for are great (Our
Office being small, but l will explain
to you. We want them to!advertise
for a man that was our town treas
urer and absconded.'
The latest defalcations are James
A. Bryan, ex-Treasurer of jackson
county, Iowa, charged with en-
bezzeling SAL, 200, and bound over
in $1,000; Rufus King, ex-Postmast-
er Of Silver City, Utah, indicted for
embezzling postal money to the
amount Of $4,000; and Conrad III,
Gates, School District Treasurer of
Hartford Minnesota, who carried
away the funds of the district and
about 5000 belonging to an insur-
ance association.
It seems that the fraud by which
rations, clothes and annuity money
were obtained for a tribe of Weber
Utes which never existed was
brought to light by Richard Thomas,
an educated Indian, who was en-
trusted with the work of making a
census of the Utes. The fact is sug-
gestive as to whether civilized and
educated Indians would not make
better and honest agents than the
sort of white men appointed by De-
lano.
The case of the New York physic-
ian who caused the death of child
by allowing a piece of lunar caustic
to slip down its throat is surpassed
in recklessness by that of DR.. j. S.
Clark, of Portland, Me. who gave a
young lady sixty powders composed
of pure corrosive sublimate. Any
one of the powders, was enough TO
cause death. Fortunately after
taking theafirst, the patient vomited
freely, and was relieved by dose
of lemon and gelatine, followed by
egg-nog. She is not yet out of dan
ger. What the doctor meant to
administer does not appear.
On the 5th of September the num-
ber of prisoners in the empire of
Russia was 73,464. Russia has 620
prisons, with Accommodations for only
Sc, 200 persons. Over $4,000 pris-
oners had therefore to be put in
quarters, even more un-
healthy than the regular prisons.
The immortality of prisoners is
therefore, inordinary large. In the
two years 1863 1869 of 6O0,2O0
prisoners kept for longer or shorter
time in confinement, Isl, 1852 had to
medical treatment, and
1880 died. That is to say, one
put of every four got sick, and one
put of every nine died.