The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-09-15
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


Four children of Mr. Wafer in Ascen-
sion parish Louisiana, were poisoned
recently by eating French worm lOZen.
| gers and died in a few hours.
The National debt statements shows a
| decrease during the month of million
and half
The island of St Thomas, West In
dies, was visited by a shock Of earth
! quake at 3 O'clock on the morning of the
| 30th, but the damage was tritlling.
Charles Bonaparte, grandson, of King
Jerome Bonaparte was married August 80
at Newport, II. l., to Miss Ella Charming
| Day of Boston.
| Some GeOrgians lost very heavily by
the failure Of Duncan; Sherman u Go.
| Andrew Low, Of Savannah, had the
modest sum of $345, $50. IL deposited with
the firm.
Mr.. Beecher being introduced to a
! Quaker gentleman at the White Noun
tains, said to him: ''I understand your
belief deprives you of some of the pleas
ures of this nfe." The other replied:
''It shields us from some of its tempta-
tions, also"
Four of the editors of the Vicksburg,
| Miss Herald have been killed within az
many months; but the Her0Jd says that's
nothing compared with the mortality On
| the Vicksburg iScntsaeI, which lost five
editors and then died itself journalism
| at the South is u rather eXhilerating pro-
| fession.
Theodore TiltOn is visiting his parents
| in Keyport, N. j., and his daughters,
| Florence and Alice are with him. He
| has suspended work on his new book,
and has been preparing his new lecture
| on the ''Problem of Life" Every night
is engaged from September Goth through
! the season.
Seven members of the Forty fourth
] Congress are dead, and yet the regular
| labors of that body will not commence
! for months. The vacant chairs are those
! of Senator Andrew johnson, and Of Rep
rescntative Mcmillan, OF Georgia, Buff
/ ington of Massachusettf, Hersey Of
| Maine, Allen of New York, and La
/ Dow of Oregon.
Near Knoxville, the other night, a
young girl, who was unexpectedly in
| terviewed by the family as she was about
clipping with the object of her virgin af-
| fentions, knocked the old man down,
| laid out two brothers with cistern pole,
! kicked the hired man in the stomach,
| and got away with her lover, and "mado
the rifle" We wish that Heaven had
sent us such a woman as that
1t is stated that Mr.. Ed. Mercer,
! capitalist of Atlanta, Ga, has been con
| NCNAON AiAN ~ llNAANs5C va ttbNlliR a. AGhltttl-
rant on the Centennial ground. Mr..
Mercer was in Philadelphia on Tuesday
| of last week, with Colonel Robert A.
Alston, of the Atlanta Ierald. They in
tend to establish o headquarters for
| Southern citizens-a sort of intelligence
bureau, in which every sOutherner com
ing to the Exhibition shall he registered,
with his address. Their influence i'm tho
| meantime is being used to arouse an in
terest in the Exhibition in the South!
Some years since, it will be rccollect-
| ed, a faYorite method of committing sui
| eide in Paris was to throw ones self
from the top of the Vendome Column
After tine Communists pulled the column
| down the suicides were compelled to
give up that model of destruction; but
now that it has once more been set up
the unfOrtunates have begun to precipi-
tate themselves from it to the pavement
below. The column should have an iron
grating placed on the top.
Captain Webb has succeeded i'm swim
ming from Dover to Calls; and this is
certainly a great feat and exhibits the
| wonders of which human endurance and
strength are capable. 1t is, perhaps, not
so useful an achievement as BOytOn's for
| Webb cannot communicate his faculty
to Others for the price of an india rubber
suit; but it is far superior as an evidence
| of human capability to wrcstle with adj
verse circumstances. Every one must
rejoice in one aspect of the case. 1t
seems to hold out the promise that we
! have at last got rid of Leander and Lord
Byron as the typical great swimmers.
Who will dare mention the swimming
over the HellespOnt now that man has
swum across the English Channel?
They tell pretty story of a Chicago
girl at Watch Hall, II. /. She is said to
be about 1S years af age and the pretti-
est girl at the place. For a long time
a young doctor followed her about,
though keeping a respectful distance.
He had never been introduced. But
one morning the sly miss went bathing
when the young doctor was within easy
hailing distance. Young miss waded
into deep water lost her footing turned
her pretty toes up TO the sun, and dug
gravel with her taper fingers. HorTi-
blcl The young doctor rushed to the
rescue pulling the girl ashore, revived
her and is going 10 marry her. Was II
maiden forethOught, or innocence?
There is a girl living at North BeYer-
ly, Mass, whose brief life of three yeara
has been an evetful one. She was born
on board ship in the Pacific ocean.
Before she was three days old her moth
er died. Before she was seven days the
ship was wrecked and sank. The babe
was wrapped in blanket and keptwarm
and the sailors paid every attention to
her. and kept her alive with biscuit
soaked in water, and were hardly less
attentive TO the little ones wants than
her father. Ten days after the wreck
they were picked up by an English ves-
sci and taken to Liverpool. Thence
they came to this country and tile little
one has been brought up,at the house Of
| her grandparents.