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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Property Exempt from Taxation.


An act passed by the General As
sembly declares the following prop
erty to be exempt from taxation:
/. One thousand dollars worth of
personal property in the hands of
each taxpayer, and the direct pro-
ducts of the soil in the hands Of the
producer and his immediate vendee.
2. The property belonging to the
United States and the State of Ten
nessee.
5. All property belonging to any
county, city or town, and used ex-
clusively for public or corporation
purposes.
4. All property belonging to any
religious denomination, and used for
the worship of God, not including
herein any other property than
churches proper and the furniture
thereof.
5. The property belonging to any
public charitable corporation, char
tered by the laws of the Sta,e and
used for such purpose.
6. All property belonging to the
public schools of the State, or to the
schools carried on By the neighbor-
hoods, where no profits are derived
therefrom to the owneror owners by
way of rents. dividends or incomes.
z. All property belonging to uni
versities, academies or other insti-
tations of learning of public rpri-
vate character, from which no peeun-
iary interest is sought to be derived
to its owners or stockholders.
8. ALI property held and used for
scientific, literary or educational pur-
poses purely. from which no gain is
sought to the owner or owners there
of.
8. All articles manufactured ofthe
produce Of the State.
10. All cemeteries, places of buri-
al and monuments Of the dead as
such, except the property Of a ceme-
terry company, for which profits are
sought for the benefit of the owners
or stockholders thereof.
II. The property of all agricultar-
al associations. fair grounds. etc, for
the development of scientific farm
ing, where no dividends are sought
or desired.
II. One thousand dollars in the
hands of each tax payer.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
A Case of Hanging.

PoTTsvILLE, PA, March 24.-James
Brown was hanged here to-day for the
murder of Daniel 5. Krammer, his wife,
her mother, Mrs. MachemOr, and An
nette Krammcr on the night of Febru-
ary %, 1872. Brown was only eighteen
at the time of the murder, and at the
time of his death twenty-one, his case
having been twice taken to the Supreme
Court All trains arriving this morning
were crowned with people anxious to
witness the execution.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Postmaster Sentenced

MEMPHIs, March 2S-In the United
States Court, Judge Emmons presiding.
III. T. Tuckens, Postmaster at Mason's
Depot, on the Memphis and Louisville
Railroad, was sentenced to one years
Imprisonment in the Penitentiary, for
embezzlement.
M. FL. Koch, letter-carrier in this city,
was found guilty of embezzling money
from letters, and judgment suspended.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
wOn the 21st a terrible hurricane

w On the Z1SC aterrlOie hurricane
passed over portion of Georgia,
doing fearful damage to property
and killing a great number of peo-
pie. At Camack every house ex-
cept one is destroyed, The terrific
ry in the line of the tornado is q
desolate waste. and great distress
prevails in the devastated districts.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

An Iowa judge named Noble, re-
Gently sentenced a man 10 three years
in the Iowa Legislature, but the
enormity of the punishment drawing
upon him. commuted it to the pen
itentiary. "A second Daniel come
TO judgment"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

Another $4,000 COW will never
more be bothered by blue. bottle
flies In this world. The Fourth
Duchess Of Oneida has been driven
by the Angel Of death.
Il Is noted that great humorist sare
sober and sedate. with a melancholy
cast Of coHutenance. 1t is rather
serlons business to be funny Rick-
moad EaaRfrer,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

~ Senator johnson has appoint
ed Mr.. Livingston Browning, young
lawyer at the Washington Bar, his
private secretary. A. Browning, who
officiated in the same position to
Mr. johnson when President.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

ES The Rochester Democrat man
is disquieted by Miss Eastman s
allusion to buttons on angels under
clothing. He had hoped that, as an
angel, he would be spared their
uca
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

10 Victoria Woodruff is where
she was before. She is editing the
dirty weekly. and has a brokers'
office at No. 49 Broad Street, New
York
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Irishmen Paving Tribute.

SeRANroN, March 29.-The Irish-bOrn
portion of the population of this city and
Vicinity, have resolved TO honor the
memory of John Mitchell by abandoning
the street parade and raising fund for
his widow.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Three Men Burned to Death.

SAN Francisco, March ga board
ing-house filled with occupants was
burned this morning at / O'Clock at Be-
nicia. The inmates escaped by jumping
from the windows. Several were severe
ly burned. Three men, Finnerty, Shea
and A. @. Henson, perished i'm the flames.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

~ Gov. Taylor, of Wisconsin,
has concluded to advise the railroad
commissioners TO construe the late
Onerous railroad legislation not ac-
cordiing to the text of the law, but
the obvious intent of the Legisla-
turo.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Missing Bonds.

ST LOUIS, March 24-The Senate
committee having charge Of the matter
of the investigation of the alleged alb
straction of State bonds from the Treas
urer's vault, express the belief that the
bonds reported missing were destroyed
by a committee of the Legislature, al
though no evidence was found to estab-
lish this as a fact.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

"a The st. Louis Democrat says
that fspeculating with otherpeople's
money is wrong, the Legislature
should wall in Chicago as branch
penitentiary.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

"a Ex-Comptroller Connolly, one
of the Tweed ring, is in Cairo, Egypt,
living in gorgeous style. He intends
to build an expensive villa there.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
An Act

To secure reduction in the standard
weight of oats in this State.
Sec. 1. Belt enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of the State of Tenn
essee, That the standard bushei or
weight of oats shall be thirty-two
(32) pounds instead of thirty three
(33 pounds.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted,
That this act take effect from and
after its passage, tile public welfare
requiring it.
Passed March 18, 1875.
LEWIS BOND.
Speaker ofthe House of Representa-
tives,
THoMAs TT. PAINE,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved March 10, 1878.
JAMES d. PORTER,
Governor.
I certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of an act OF the Tennes-
see General Assembly, the original
OF which is on file in my office.
CII4RLEs n. GIBBS.
Secretary of State.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Photographic News
Heavy ON the Aged.

NEW YoRK, March 30.-A breach OF
promiae suit for $50, 900 damages,
brought by Mary Chamberlayne, aged
16, against John B. Holmes, aged 60, re-
suited in a verdict for the plaintiff for
S6, coo.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

V A. t. Steward is said to con-
template building a hotel at Wash
ington after the plan of the Grand
Union at Saratoga.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

"a The New York Tribune says
Pinchback is a man and brother.
but Casey is a man and a brother-in-
wand since 1869 that is stronger
claim
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

A school in Vermont Is presided
over hy a cross-eyed teacher, "A few
DAYS ago he called outg "Fhat boy
that / am looking at viii step out en-
the lIoor." immediately twenty
seven lads walked out in front Of the
astoaished psda5ogne-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

~ A Rhode Island woman says
that she'd rather have the nightmare
seven straight nights than tell her
husband that the flour barrel is emp
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
A Missouri Town DESTROYED,

SEDALIA, Mo, March PA fire at
Montana, Henry county, at two O'clock
this morning, destroyed twelve business
houses, leaving but two standing in the
town. The people have not enough TO
eat. Loss 5000 to $50, 900; insurance
~
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
The Morristuwn Gazette.
ADVERTISING RATES.

One square, (teRlnes, or less for first insertion
One Dollar, each subsequent insertion Fifty cents
Ahberal discount from the above rate will be
made to yearly advertisers.
Obituaries Of over ten lines Will be charged as
advertisements.
All bills due upon first inseEtio of advertise
naent, unless otherwise contractor for.
All announcements Of candidatdes must be paid
for in advance.
JOB WORK must be paid for on delivery
THE GAZETTE is a permanently established
newspaper with paying and constantly increasing
list of subscribers It's circulation in the counties
of Hamblen, Hawkins, Cooke, Jefferson. Granger
and Claiborne is more general than any other pa
per-making it the best advertising medium in
Upper East Tennessee.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Helm for the Snffarers.

AUGUSTA, GA, March 24-The citi-
zens here have contributed SO, 600 to the
sufferers from the tornado, which has
desolated several counties in the State
from Chattahoochee to Savannah rivers.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

70 A Washington dispatch says
United States Treasurer Spinner has
signed his resignation, to take effect
JuIV1
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
Suspended PAYMENT.

BosroN, March 29.-The liabilities of
the banking houses of s. p Burt, New
Bedford, which suspended to-day, are
$500, 900; the assets are claimed TO be
$3.50, 900. The house will pay in full if
extension is granted - -..-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

~ Philadelphia has just turned
out sixteen more lady doctors, and
is as proud of them as if they were
another centennial.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

The Obion County News says the
wheat crop in the county is looking
fine and no doubt but what they will
make a very large crop.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
A Fatal Whack.

LITTLE Rock, March 29.-CoI. d. A.
Butterfield, in personal difficulty with
one of his employees, was struck on the
head with stick and killed, at Hot
Springs, on Saturday night
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

Bishop Huntington defines ritualist
as a modern Anglican sentimentalist
making postures in the grave clothes
of death delusion."
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
A small Hell In the west indies.

A man named Merritt, from Troy,
N. Y has been proving around the
Island of Dominica. in the West In
dies, and has discovered something
which very nearly resembles the BIZ
BILE description Of hell. It is q bot
tomless Jake Of red hot water. boiling
savaeely, half mile wide and two
miles in circumference. Ia the cen.
ter the seething mass shoots far into
the air. and the arid. desolate shore
IL layed by sfeam- The water il
heavily charged with sulphur. Mer-
ritt is the only American who has
visited the horrible place. An En-
glish company is going to try To-
manufacture sulphur at tie burning
lake.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
TALMAGE ON A TEAR.
He Raves Against the Newspa-
perS for Publishing the Beech
er EYidRnce

/ CT I1ElI011cO.
BROOKLYN, March 28.-Dr. Tai
mage has got disgusted with the
developments of the Beeeher trial.
He raves against the newspapers for
printing the evidence, and prophe-
sizes ruin and damnation to the edi-
tors who priut it. A queer COM
mentary on his state of mind, is the
fact that he himself has repeatedly
been in attendance at the trial. Now
he breaches against all papers which
publishes the news of the trial.
Among other things he says:
Down at our Court House, day
after day. there is uncovered the
corpse of an abomination, vaster in
blight than Sodom ever knew. 1t is
not q corpse two or three days ling.
ering, waiting for a Christian burial.
but for eight months since last mid
summer it has been rotting in the
face of the sun, and thousand pens
are stirring it up. and a thousand
gibbets are lifting it up on exhibit
tion, and the printing presses are
cutting up the loathsolne carcass
and making it into minoe-meat for
savory repast morning, noon and
night; and as the periodicals don't
turn it out fast enough to satisfy the
public appetite they had to publish
it in book-form, so that we can carry
it about with us for a lunch between
the morning breakfast and the even
ing supper Of putridity.
Brooklyn to-day eats scandal,
drinks scandal, talks scandal, swears
scandal, lies scandal, sleeps scandal,
and from Fulton Ferry to Bushwicl1,
and from Gowanus to Hunters Point
the city is paved with scandal and
reel1s with scandal, until one is
tempted to go over to the Five points
to get a breath of pure air. Sensa-
ton There are five thousand car
rion crows which alight every morn
ing at II clock on the top of the
Courthouse, and remain there until
o'clock in the afternoon, and these
carrion crows flies North, South.
East. West, with an exultant cav,
cav. cav. Applause Eternal
God, when will this surging, groan.
ing, stupendous, overwhelming nasti-
ness come to an end? The city
needs q thorough fumigation. Will
somebody burn rag laughter or
carry about a shovel and lighted
charcoal for the stockholders of
newspapers, which build themselves
up on such hell-broth. | prophesy
eventual bankruptcy or domestic
ruin. or discontinue in the world to
come, or all three. God will be even
with you in some way. Money made
by the publication of these perpetual,
pestiferous indecencies will, in the
end, be not only death to those who
read them, but death to those who
print them. God will get it away
from you, if he has to chase you intoa
hell for it. Waiting for no other
man to do his duty, let US do ours.
Kick the internal stuff out of your
house" Applause.]
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

R@- People who argue that fires
in sleeping rooms are unhealthy, gen.
orally speak more freely on the sub
ject in the summer season.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07

The song ofthe Washington youth
~ want to be a lobby man and in
the lobby stand. with brass upon my
forehead and Ereenbacxs il ny hand.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
CHANGED HIS MIND.

"The glad spring time has come
at last y soliloquized q citizen, as
he paved around with his snow-shov-
eI yesterday to open the gutter in
front of his house. YES, this is the
joyous season when the notes of the
red-Oreasted robin and the bluebird
fill our hearts with glee, and
The shovel slipped and he fell in-
to a pond Of icy slush, and when he
scrambled up he was heard by man
two blocks away saying he'd start
for thunder and Texes before he was
a week older.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
FUN ON THE WING.
BY the Detroit Free Press Fiend.
HOW HE EXPLAINED.

HOW HE EXPLAINED.
A resident of the Sixth Ward has
been missing wood from his pile for
several weeks past, and the other
night he watched and caught negro
loading up big armful. Springing
out, be cried:
.'Ah hah! I've caught you, have
I?'
us dat you?'' asked the negro, as
he dropped the wood.
"Yes. this is I. and want to know
what you are doing here?''
"Doin' heahF
Eyes, sir .
..You see dis yere wood pile,
doesn't your inquired the darkey.
"Yes, / do"
"Well, ,dere's new family into dat
shanty over dar, and / don't like der
looks one bit. l believe dey'd steal
wood quicker'n lightning, and 1 cum
over to warn We. If ye miss any
wood don't say didn't tell ye what
kind of folks dose are"
And he walked away, leaving the
man QumDlounded.
AN IGNORANT MAN.
A woman called into a commits
sion house on Michigan Grand Ave-
nue. the other day, and made for the
rear of the store without stopping
to wait for any one. The proprie-
tor followed her and inquired:
did you wish to look at some
butter, madame?'
mo, sir" she curtly replied.
"W ant some eggs r he continued.
mo, sir.''
''Prhaps you'd like some of these
dried peaches? ?"
mo, Sir
There was painful pause, but she
braced her nerves and said:
'There's something w-wrong with
with my skirts, and-and if you
wiIP'-
Thunder what fool am p ex-
claimed the man, as he got into his
Office and left her in peace.
lie WAS THE ONE.
Seven or eight boys were rushing
around the Post-office Saturday, head
ed by yellow-haired youth who was
saying:
''All want in this world, is to lay
my hands on him."
Presently he came upon a boy
weighing about ten pounds more
than himself, and rushing at him he
exclaimed
Ibid you lick my brother Benz"
"Yes, | did,. replied the boy,
his bundle and splitting on
his hands.
WELL" continued the other lad
backing slowly away, "he needs q
licking once a week to teach him to
be civil y
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
BEN. F. MITCHELL,
CARPENTER & BUILDER,
M0rristOaCm, Tenn.

PROPOSES to the citizens Of this community to
contract for the work of every description of
Buildinaa upon the most favorable terms. Parties
vhc contsror,lafe the erection of houses would do
we'll to call on him. He is prepared to furnish all
ths necessary material for buildings upon such
terms that cannot fail TO be 70 the advantage Of the
rereon bufl5ing Those who doubt this. can be sat
iEaed of its truth By consulting the une rsigned.
uaG-svI ID. II. MITCHELL.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-04-07
RATHER DOUBTFUL.

A morning or two since man en-
tered barber-shop on Michigan Av-
enue, and asked OF the. lonesome
looking boy who was sweeping out: !:
Sonny, can get a shave here
this morning."
''Looks rather dubious replied
the boy. "De latest time | seed de
barber he was falling down and
purleeceman was hittin' him, and it's
likely he was fotched to de stashun."
HAD HIN THERE.
A lover of good coffee who had
been several times swindled, entered
a Woodward Avenue grocery yester.
day, and holding mp a handful of
ground coffee from the big can, he
inquired:
s'Are there any beans in this cof-
fee?'
mo, sir" promptly replied the
grocer.
How do you know asked the
man.
because was out of beans and
had TO put peas in ]" was the answer.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-04
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CLIPPED AND CONDENSED.

A. d. Amlisr has been telling the
Eureka Sentinel about big rattlesnake
which he saw at the base Of Peel Stick
HILL on the Secret Canyon road. He
describes the monster as being fully as
large as On ordinay mans arm, at least
eight feet in length. with string Of rat
yes as long as q neck chain. Mr.. Amliar
states that he had good view Of the ser.
pent as he crossed the road In front Of
MS horse and Is confident that his de-
scription Is not exaggerated. The nara.
tor dismountsd from his horse, but before
ne could find clnb the snake had made
us escape IN the rocks on the hillside.
Ile must DC the great. greater. greatest
gIsn1 daddy OF oil the rattling reptiles on
me Ease Range. and Mr.. Amiiar will
give any man leave to charge him with
the photography Of his name IL he is
found to have exaggerated.
The Eureka Sentinel says. In the XII.
Carson mine, on the west eide OF Pros
poet Mountain, 10 . curious cave. Within
i've feet OF the surface M aperture was
struck which extended down distance
OF eighty feet, varying in width from one
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-04

The San Francisco papers are just now
barring polities-in virtuous strain,
and in fit Of moral indignation point at
Nevada and her petty Shortcomings.
When they pause for needed wind they
may find time for few commenting re-
marks on Woodruff or Miller or what
ever else be may be called We mean
the defsuliing Secretary CT the Finance
Company Of the Central Pacific. The
San Francisco Post is stricken with hor-
ror IL Nevsdsn bets a $40 gold piece at
faro, but we have thus far failed to see
any editoria! remarks in that high-toned
and yirtuous journal relative TO the ac-
ton OF the Railroad Company in that
little matter OF their Secretary. Miller's
defalcations amount TO the trifling sum
OF $1,000, 600, and 'twould seem as
though the company were trying little
game, sometimes called eompounding a
felony. If Miller is guilty the States
Prison is the proper place for him; IL he
is not the company has no right to i'm
prison him in their Office. Whether in
nocent or guilty, they have used unwar-
rantable authority and abused justice in
the manner they have managed this
matter. IL a man Is thief, the prison
Is the place for him; if he isn't, he is
entitled to his liberty. No mans So
cial standing or financial ability should
protect him from the law, and in thus
violating the statutes the Railroad Com
pany certainly leave themselves open to
grave suspicion rs compounder in the
matter. The thief that-oft impelled by
necessity natches loaf Of bread or a
few cents, is with oil due formality SEN
fenced to the penalty provided for such
cases, but the accomplished scoundrel
who makes use OF his position and OPP
portunity to embezzle hundreds OF
thousands is too fine-skinned an individ-
ual for such penalty to be enforced upon
and is accordingly handled with kid
gloves. We would suggest that when.
ever the San Francisco press feel one Of
those virtuous fits coming on, they car
always find sufficient matter in the
Golden State for comment without Gran
ing their necks over our mountain peaki
to see If there are any notes glisteninl
in the suns rays.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-04

"h'sa poor rule that wont work both
ways The Hon. Sargent has brought
all manner Of charges against Bidwell.
misunderstanding TO Sargent, is
an outcast, monopolist. a Mexican citi.
zen, man without legal title to his land
and hard case generally. Isn't Il abou,
time for Sargent to clear himself from a
few little charges. There remain but
twenty.seyen days till the election comes
off, and it would be eminenily proper for
the exemplary Christian statesman 10
explain to an inquisitiye people abou,
that mineral land bill, and how he came
by that thousand acres in Nevada county
A man that hiss flung whole cairn Of
stones at his opponents ought to have 9
wire grating Of conscious morality ovel
the windows o! his own actions to guard
against retaliatiug missiles.