The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-12-30
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Luther used to drink wine and
j dance, and Calvin 20 play cards, or
Sunday AFTERNOONS. iiH 4s9w .saT
/ The steamer Mongel, from sShapg-
hal for New York, has been wrecked
and sixteen persons perished-,
/ The public printing in negro-rid.
den South Carolina. for three years,
amounts to the astounding sum OF
80, IO8,629 /. ea as.tisn5gz97 Ha f9c
The Champion Cotton Press in
Charleston, caught fire on the l4th
and was destroyed, with 5000 bales
Of cotton. Loss $25O.000.
The prohibition of marriage among
enlisted men. by the War Depart
ment, is scarcely calculated to pro-
mote recruiting for the infantry. SER
| vice. ..H ~. ...s,... ..r
A large tuFpentine farm, covering
sixty thousand acres of land, is to be
| opened on the Brunswick and Alba
n.y. Ga. road, covering the track be-
| tween the Alapaha and Willachoo-
chez rivers. &-,r, ..t -.
Michael Bion, once a member, of
the French Legion of Honor, has
gone to the Connecticut State Prison
for ten years. He was accused of
burglary, and inlreyenge he tried to
blow up the house of his accuser with
gunpowder. .r..s..1 - f..-;,,-.
Mr.. Banning, of Ohio elected to
the present Congress as q Liberal Re.
publican. comes to the next House as
a square-out Democrat. lie left the
party at the time of the wa, and has
now returned to the true faith.
A paper has been prepared, signed
by the stinfnential ofVicksburg' s
residents, explaining the origin OF
the difficulties. The record of frand
and corruption by Radical officials is
conspicuous in the document.
The average price of British wheat
for the week ending November 28th,
1874, was ABS cd. This is Is. lid.
below the lowest average price in the
corresponding week of the previous
four years, and Us. Cd. below the
. = 2
highest.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has
reduced its freight tariff between
Baltimore and Chicago, and thus
thrown down the gage of battle to
the Saratoga combination. This is
the Inauguration of railroad war,
upon which the public will look with
decided interest. ''
A resident of SeweHs Point, Va,
who has been the husband of seven
wives, and is the father of twenty.
seven children, has obtained q license
to marry again. And yet the stony
hearted clerk had the audacity to
charge retail price for the eighth ii.
cense.
The crop of cotton this year at the
South will reach at least 1000, ,000,-
600 pounds. And at fifteen cents q
pound-the price anticipated for it
the round little sum of $300,000,00O
will flow into the country, of which
/ 1925, 100000 will come from abroad,
mostly from England.
They were a Des Moines iowa
couple. Happily they lived together
for thirty-three years. 1t was all 6
pail of milk. She left it at the cellar
stairs. He stepped into it. He was
very wet and white when he got up
but all dripping as he was, he wen'
immediately to see. his lawyer. 1aa
There is nothing like Christian re
signation, and Rev. DIR. Sunderland
chaplain of the Senate, gave a swee
example of it in his prayer on tht
opening Of Congress, After return
ing thanks to the Almighty for th'
many blessings bestowed upon -th'
country, he saids ave acknowledge
our chastisements, and pray we may
be corrected through them"
The Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives is preparing the roll o
members elected to the Forty fourth
Congress, with their post-ot1ce ad
dress, and requests members Eesid
ing in the States in whichto Gotern
ors do not issue proclamations to for
ward their Individual certificates o
elections
l's.l A man, and his negro servant werv
lately travelling in Tennessee, whel
their horses were stopped by tw'
highwaymcn with guns in theirhands
+ Instead of surrendering,i the maj
/ leaped out Of his wagon and attackeC
his enemies with a hammer, knockeC
them both A down before the,
could recover from their surprise
and binding them, carried them K
Jail. 4 l3 5sg
e8 The criminal mismanageKnent o
the Freedmen's Savings and Trus
| Company. a corporation to which
thousands or ignorant negroes hav,
confided their hard-earued pennies
is pretty fully set forth in the repor
of the commissioners of the compa
ny. In The Washington branch alon
there was found discrepancy o
over $4,000.
Another. duelist is in trouble = MI
James G. Dow, who is one of the new
Neglected members of the Nevada
Assembly. Its alleged that he sen
I q challenge TO Lieut.. Gov. Franl
Denver, when both were residents O
Ell0o, some time ago. aad is there
fore prohibited from holding Office b,
the constitution.
The negro Legislature Of Soutl
Carolina has been simple enough Z
petition Congress to Indemnity de
positors in the E'reedmen's Saving
/ Bank, who were led to deposit mon
ley there by the belief that the fed
4 eral government would be RESPONSE
hle for its safe keeping.
MEnPH1s. Dec. 23--Last weel,
Wm. Kingsbnry. Jordan Ivey. Wm