The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-11-25
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Among the South Carolina Congress.
men elect is Robert Smalls, the famous
J "nlored steamboat pilo:.
A Vermont legislator, aged so, made
his first railroad journey few days ago,
vile on his way to take his seat for the
present session.
A Colorado paper says: 1.-The Canon
City girls don't take kindly to croquet.
They say it is too heightened for them.
Leap-frog is their best hold"
Kansas is noted as the State of broth
erly love. The other night. one Mr..
johnson shot one Mr.. Parker in order to
prevent him making a fool of himself
and thereby injuring his reputation
Morally speaking, the difference be
tween robbing a hen-roost and telling a
lie to make dollar is not very great,
and yet there are plenty of good peo-
pie" who take to the latter as naturally
as duck takes to water.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says that General
George Nancy, of Nashville, has been
at the capital several days, and has had
frequent consultations with the Presi-
dent, adding: "RumOr has it that Nancy
is to be offered Cabinet position or the
the post at st. Petersburg. Gen. Nancy
was Confederate officer, is Republi-
can, and is held in the highest esteem
by the President
The Alabama papers say that it is. no
uncommon thing to find soiIed paper
collars, fine tooth combs and old carpet
bags, scattered promiscuously along
their roads, since the result of the cleo
tions became known. The tracks of the
owners point towards the north
There are Of Governors and Governors
elect at present twenty Democrats, if
teen Republicans, and two Independents.
OF Legislatures there are thirteen Re
publican, twenty-one Democratic and
three Independent
There is a split among the Baptist
brethren of Boston on the subject of
close communion-similart to that which
recently occurred at Brooklyn, New
York
An exchange says the Freedmens
Bank is likely to prove the grandest
swindle of this decade The Receivers
have been at work upon the assets now
for nearly year, and have not realized
more than three per cent. of the liabili-
ties, which are somewhere in the mil
lions
The Jonesboro' Herald and Tribune
saws: Our merchants are offering eight
cents per pound for net pork. No change
in the wheat market this week. White
is worth 81 90; red, 80 cents
We published a statement week before
last that resistance had been offered to
the action of Sheriff Swan, of Knox
county. in obeying an order of the Su-
preme Court placing Maj. Robert Rey-
nolds in possession of property held by
Gen J. A. Cooper by purchase. 1t is
but just to the Coopers to state that they
deny the averments of the Press and
Herald's article which We copied.
Where skill and experience are requis-
lite it is not safe to. change official in
cumbents with every passing year. But
there are cases sometimes where it does
Il fellow good to rotate him out
4 stranger is in Jonesboro', who pro
poses to expend SO, 900 in starting a man
of farming implements, if the
citizens viii take an equal amount Of
stock in the enterprise The Herald and
Tribune urges them to do so.
J. d. White, Republican, is elected to
Congress from the Ninth Kentucky Dis
trict Ivy a majority of 449 votes. Like
Tennessee, that State hSs one black
sheep in her Congressional delegation,
Judge Dillon, of the United States
Circuit Court, decided at Omaha last
week that county taxes can be collected
from National banks, whose capital con-
sists of government bonds. OF course
city and State taxation follows. The
same points have been decided affirma-
lively by our State Supreme Court, and
the question has gone up to the United
States Supreme Court.