The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-01-20
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

I SquaW ana DuTIe4 lleI uHuSA d SHO's
drift Then he made tracks.
The Boston Glo5e publishes its literary
criticisms in French, greatly to the re-
lief of its constant readers. -,. ......
The Rev Federick Bell made sixty
! New Years calls in BrookIyn without
once seeing anything Intoxicating -
/ Mrs. Clarke, of Syracuse, lured BY the
false notes of one Drum, elOped with
/ him, and now has to face the music
SO many women leave their manners
at home when they go out, it is won
der their little childrent do not pick up
some.
There are moro dogs than students at
Harvard. Like the Mexicans, our peo-
pie require something for their emotion
al nature. ...-
A good deal is said of the deadness of
Cincinnati, but there is a city in Ger
many which hasn't had new house in
one hundred years.
There is moro proof that a mother is
not the proper person to train her child.
The maternal Butler designed to make a
minister of Ben ..--.
The Indianapolis Ners, apparently un-
aware of the fact that Daniel Webster
never paid his debts, advises young men
to begin the new year by paying what
they owe.
1t is supposed that sidewalks, like
street cars, were invented for the ex-
elusive benefit of women. When THE
fair creatures ride they occupy all the
seats, and when they go on foot they
occupy all the bricks.
John Erode is no more You proba-
bly, didn't know him. lie lived in Wes-
tern Missouri, and on entering the
snoke-house of a friend to see how the
hams got along a trap-gun blew his head
Off
Old Probabilities has been very sue
cessful in predicting bad weather We
should like to see what he would predict
if he were to be set down cross-leggcd
in the EDITORS easy chair at this office,
and asked to tell how long the Louisiana
Government would last the way things
are now running. ...
Julia, who had been in Knoxville for
several days, left for her h0me yester-
day il was the intention to place her
at one of our schools for young ladies,
but the mountain nymph became home
sick, and it is now proposed to give her
On eslucatioSaG a Bristol school, which
is nearer hcyfhomc. Knoxville Press
md Herald
The Reporter who so 1asEly penned
the above paragraph, no doubt has ref
erence to Miss Julia Whalen, the rail
road heroine--a girl of pluck and good
sense. If she thought the hospitalities
of the Knoxcalains insufficient to her
taste and pleasure, who, we ask, had
better right than she to suit herself
An item is going the rounds about Il
girl dying from tight lacing. An edi-
tor, connecting on the fact, says:
These corsets Should be done away
with, and if the girls can't live without
being squeezed, we suppose men can be
found who will sacrifice themselves. AS
old as we are, we would rather devote
three hours u day, with farthing to
pay as brevet corset, than see these
girls.dying'On in that manner. Office
hours almost any time"
A mysterious basket, addressed to the
station master at Clapham Junction, in
England, on being opened, was found to
contain living child. The station
master declining the gift, porter vol
unteered to accept it, and took the bas-
ket and child, $500 ga, ,OOO) was found
in the basket. The story goes that the
station master then demanded the bas-
ktt and It's contents, which the porter
very properly refused to give up. One
can hardly doubt to which of the two
the mother would entrust her child.
The Boston Globe notices that
i" New Orleans now takes the place
of Winchester" i'm "Sheridan Twen.
ty Miles Away" There comes q
day, o Globe, when much warmer
place will, in its turn, be substituted
for . New Orleans with little Phil
much nearer.
There is honor amongthieves, and
tLACAC 10 bOtlOt SOiNllCIS. III Is
said that Gen. Trobriand, after the
infamous work which he did "under
orders" la New Orleans the other -
day. proceeded TO q newspaper office
ana humbly submitted his person to
a Bogardus Kicker for ten or fifteen
minutes.
The cause of a leak in a relief
Iight-boat at New London is found
to have been a hammer Which was
probably leftin the bottom when the
vessel was built, thirteen years ago.
By the continual motion of the YES
sci. it had worn through planking
and kcelto the copper plating. which
only has kept the vessel from sinking.
Our Daniel Webster would have
,ut sorry figure as q Roman. In n
I'D Roman days +" the debtor could
1e taken home by the creditor and
Kept sixty days, fettered with irons
lot exceeding fifteen pounds i'm
weight; at the end of which time, If
he debt remained unpaid, he could
'e brought before the people on three
market days, on the last Of which his
,ody could be cut into pieces ac-
ording TO the number of creditors;
II, if they preferred, he could be sold
nto foreign slayere.
Saturday night sixty able bodied
'orers and mechanics applied for
odging at the station-house. As
hey we're about retiring a well-known
itizen came in search of forty hands
D load several hundred bales Of cot