The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-07
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS

Columbus, Texas, still has the
yellow fever.
Congress is flooded with temper
ance petitions.
The prospects of the Texas Pa
cific Railroad, are Frightening.
Outstanding legal-tenders, 1914
O65,O1 s.-4,f<
The public debt has increased
since the 1st, of December $5,OOG,-
900.
Judge c. b. Thomas. of Lexing-
ton KY, died en- the evening, of the
18th.
The Farmers movement, is grow
ing in Importance and power all
over the country. H#I
The British navy has two thou
sand vessels at sea in the different
parts of the world.
Boston celebrated on Monday, the
one hundreth anniversary, of throw
ing the tea over board-which act
inaugerated the first revolution.
The Hon. Alfred Dockery, Of
| North Carolina, a distinguished
politician of the old school, died at
his home in Richmond county, N.
c., OH the Sd, instant.
Pennsylvania politicians say the
Philadelphia ring will not be able
after all to defeat the new constitu-
ton.
Eight hundred Oranges in Hi
nois, and 1928 in Iowa, were repre-
sented in convention at Chicago,
last week. "a as
David A. Gage, city treasurer of
Chicago. is short in his accounts
with the city, to an amount which
will reach nearly or quite 100000.
A man, wife and child, were muir
dered near Little Rock, Arkansas,
on the 10Th. Their names were
Moore and that's all that is known
about them.
Tie Rev. DR. Sunderland, chap
lain of the Virginia Senate. has been
gently informed by the Senators.
that his prayers are too long. Long
PRAYERS are super1uous.
The prize for the best bale of cot
ton at the Vienna Exposition was
awarded to Mr.. Greenwood and Mr..
Mccall. of New Orleans, on bale
raised in the State of Mississippi,
Ialabusha county.
The large manufactures in PhiIa-
delphia, have resumed full time, but
at a reduction of wages from 10 to
Is per cent.
David d. Kimball, of No. 10 Com
mon street, Boston killed his wife |
and step daughter, and then killed
himself.
The Indians are again raiding on
the Nueces river settlements. and |
several collisions between the saw
ages and the whites have resulted !
disastrously on both sides.
A San Francisco doctor has re-
ceived a legacy of one million
francs from a French testator,
whom he relieved from an apoplect-
ic attack in railroad car, a year or
two since.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Dec. 12.-The
jury i'll the case of Lewis E. Parsons
against Richard Busteed. Judge
Of the United States District Court, /
For false imprisonment, gave the
plaintiff $4,000 damages.
F A wretch by the name of Charles
7 AIfnY, coJ,@oI
teacher in Warren, Michigan, out
ragged the persons of Is young girls,
within a year and a half. None
were over IA years of age.
The Independent South. of Holly
Springs, Miss, says: The iron on
the Kosciusko branch of the Mis-.
Central Railroad, has been laid
from the Central across the Big
Black, and is going down at the
rate of half mile day.
A wife wanted her husband to
sympathize with her in feminine
quarrel. but he refused, saying,
I've lived long enough to learn that
one woman is just as good as
another, if not BETTER "And l."
retorted the exasperated wife.
have lived long enough to learn
that one man is just as bad as
another, if not worse -
IT is fact very familiar to news.
paper editors that sometimes it
happens that there is no news what
ever and also that, Notwithstanding
this destitution. the various news
must be kept full.
Under such circumstances it is that
the real talent of an editor displays
itself, and good story is told of
Mr. Bennett, now dead, but once
city editor of the Cincinnati En-.
qutrer. His regular plan, when
news was scarce, was to make
small children offspring OF the
brain alone-fall from the Newport
ferry-boat into the Ohio River,
where they would certainly have
perished had they not been rescued
by some gallant by stander, who
always proved to be a personal
friend of Mr. Bennett. One of these
a Mr.. KelIum, who had
several times figured as the savior
of drownding innocents, got tired
Of the distinction, and demanded !
that the joke should not be repeat
ed. He was assured that hisrequest
would be complied with, and com
Piled with it was; for he read in the
next days Enquirer that. on the
previous day, beautiful little girl, /.
child of prominent citizen of New
port, had fallen into the river; and
hat Mr.. Kellum. who was standing