The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-03-10
General News


Democratic Mayor was elected by ma
jority of 436, against Republican ma
jority last year of 507.
Lewis E. North, assistant postmaster
at Pittsheld, Maine, who was repently
arrested for robbing the mails has con-
tossed his guilt.
Through late act of Congress, the
political disabilities of Charles Fl. Smith,
of Virginia, and Robert III. Anderson, OF
Georgia, have been removed.
In the United States Senate recently,
an amendment to the tax bill to tax tea
and coffee ten cents pound, was losti
yeas 6; nays So.
In consequence of the Civil Rights
Bill, and fearing trouble, both the prin-
cipal hotels at Alexandria, Virginia have
cancelled their licenses and closed. This
Is just the beginning of what will be ex.
tensively practiced throughout all the
Southern States.
And so we hear that our vicinity sports
a man that drinks sixteen cups of coffee
every day.-SttrTy IN. CO. Visitor.
Forty girls viii run after snOb with
a gold-headed cane, where one viii shy
up to fellow with sound horse sense.
Valentines day has passed and gone,
and we are mad. We sent out about
forty. leven and didn't receive a darned
one.-lsurry IN c. VTsitor.
Mr.. Joel Wright, most estimable res
ident of Liberty, Va, died on Thursday
at the advanced age of 80 years. He
leaves a widow and large family of
children.
The Culpepper (Virginia) Observer says
that Rev. Joseph Carson celebrated his
nintieth birthday on Friday.
In Culpepper county, Virginia, few
days since, COW that had been bitten
by rabid dog was attacked with hydro
phobia, aud died
Two San Francisco capitalists recently
bought two hundred thousand acres of
land in Oregon, at 81 per acre.
A Canada paper lately recorded the
death of young woman in Tilsonburg,
caused by her sleeping with her corset on.
Mrs. Captain Jack, in her lonely Sc
clusion, may take comfort in knowing
that it cost the government $411 900 to
make her widow.
The New York Journeymen Stone
Cutters Association, in view of the de-
pressed state of trade have reduced their
wages IL per cent.
NFs.o III l. o EOn r-ool-
and doesn't care for men, She did not
come of very romantic family, and
never could see any poetry in skirmish-
ing with a needle and thread around the
ragged edges of husband's shirt button
holes.
A gale in New York few days since
blew down one of the walls of a recently
burnt store. 1t crushed through st. An
drew's Church, Duane street, which was
crowded, mostly with women and chill
dren, at vespers. Seven persons wers
killed and many wounded
A person of an inquiring turn of mind
asks, "Does the Lord love a man who
spends at a church festival the money he
owes to his washerwoman?" We pass
the conundrum to the next man.
A Kansas farmer purchased revolver
for his wife, and insisted on target qrac-
tice so that she could defend her house
| in case of his absence. After the bullet
was dug out of his leg, and the cow bur
led, he said he guessed shed better shoot
with an axe.
There arc three citizens in Dublin, Va.
whose combined ages amount TO 260
years. They are aged respectfully 81,
IS and a. They all use the weed"
and yet still bid fair to enjoy the breezes
Of many a returning autumn Lynch
bnTg RepG6lScan.
Mr. Robert Fl. Colhoun, the father of
Mr. Charles A. Colhoun, of the Mont
gomery White Sulphur Springs, died at
Shawsville, ON Friday, aged ninety
years. His remains were brought down
to Bonsack's yesterday, en- route to Fin
castle for interment. He was highly re-
spected d.-LyRch6urg Republican, Feb. %.
MIssIssIPPI-The spirit that animates
the black legislator in his wise law max
ing, is thus illustrated:
Mr.. Speaker, de wife folks owns de
Ian, don't dey, an don't we make de lawsg
OATS what / ak you. Now, Mr.. Speak
er, if de wife folks owns de Ian and we
make de laws, how we gwine to live
'cept we take de land?
A dispatch from Florence, Arizona,
states that man recently arrested as
Bender, the Kansas murderer, escaped a
few days since, and wandered four days
in the mountain, when he was driven in
by starvation, and was recaptured. He
gives his name as Henry de RockmiIaler,
and is very reticent. He answered the
description of Bender.
At o'clock yesterday morning, says
the Lyncb6uyg Republican, the river was
precisely Is feet above the ordinary tide,
and remained at that height for nearly
an hour, when the waves began gradual
" to subside. During the day the tur-
bid waters receded inch by inch from
the banks, and the roar of the stream
grew perceptibly weaker. AT night the
flood had subsided five feet, and was
still slowly falling. All danger Of de-
structive flood being understood to bS
over, persons residing in the vicinity Of
the river turned in" and gave them
selves up to pleasant dreams.