The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-13
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= There is nothing like. beginning
with settled economical principles. Ex-
travagance is habit easily contracted,
and goes on increasing in volume as a
snow ball docs when rolling down hill
Don't take anything that belongs to
your neigh bor-not even his newspaper
Come to the GAZETTE office, leave your
subscription money, and take a paper
for yourself
= Says the Sparta Iader, the produe is
of Rutherford co., may be roughly esti-
mated for this year: Wheat, 100000
bushels; corn, 500, 900 to 1, 900, 600 bush
els; cotton, $4,000 bales; hogs, 10000
head, and other things in proportion,
= Rev Mr.. Murphy, a Baptist preach
er at Meridian, Connecticut, has. become
a Roman Catholic, and will soon be or
dained to the priesthood.
= A saying prevails in Turkey that 1t
takes two Turks to swindle Greek, two
Greeks to swindle Jew, and one Jew
to swindle two Americans.
= An Irishman complained to his ply
sician that he stuffed him so much with
drugs that he was sick long time after
he got well,
= George Washington's library was
sold ut public auction recently in Phila
delphia, by order of Lawrence Washing
ton, great-grandson of George Wash
ington'ss ssbrother. The library compris-
ed $50 volumes, and the total amount re-
allied was 81 ,933.
= Mrs. Mary G. Gale, of Manchester,
N. H., died recently, leaving among
other bequests $5o,OOO to found home
for aged and INDECENT women in that
city.
: Benjamin Franklin evinced his rug
ged honesty even in boyhood, and never
had to get out of watermelon patch
faster than an active dog could drive
him.
: Miss Anna Bruner died at the In
firmary lately at Lancaster, Ohio, in the
one hundred and eighth year of her age.
She made suit of clothes for Washing
ton during the Revolution.
- Nashville american: The bank at
Lebanon paid out $12, 900 last week for
hogs. Twenty-four car loads of swine
per day have been brought here over
the Tennessee and Pacific for the past
two weeks.
= In his lecture before the school
teachers of New York city in Stcinway
Hall recently, DIR. Lambert said: SIT re-
quires just as much labor on the part of
the rich man to get an appetite for his
dinner as it does on the part of the poor
man to geta dinner for his appetite.
- We should select our friends with
great caution, for it is they who deter
mine our own character; others look for
US in them. 1t is giving to the public
our own portrait, and anavowal of what
we are.
Words are things, and small drop
of ink, falling like dew, upon thought,
produces that WHICH makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
"Did you do nothing to resuscitatc
the body?" was recently asked of Bos-
ton witness alta coroner'sinquest. Yes,
sir; we searched the pockets" !" was the
reply.
3 = Henry Astor, son of John Jacob
Astor, for maltreatment of little girl
named Josephine Ash, !. of Rhinebeck,
i New York, has had verdict of guilty
brought against him, the jury awarding
the girl $50, 900 damages. a1
) - "8fan is carnivornus production,
and must have meals, at least one meal
day" The average printer gets grub
struck three times a day.
= Congressional Luttren, of Califor-
MIA, was thus introduced to Democrat
ic audience in that State: "Fellow
zens, this is our Congressman, Hon. J.
X. Luttrell-the orator who draws the
cork of mirth, knocks out the bung of
pathos, aad slaves in the head ofielo.
quence.p
THE world must turn upon its axis,
and all mankind turn with it, heads OF
tails-for either way we must die, make
love and pay our taxes. ia
= An Irish gentleman of mechani
cal turn took off his gas meter to repair
it himself, and put it on again upside
down. At the end of the quarter it was
proved with arithmetical correctness
that the gas company owed him e37s Sd
= Sweet is a legacy, and passing
sweet the unexpected demise of some
old lady or gentleman friend who have
nobly passed over their stamps into oul
hands for safe keeping e.al
= Butler declares that Tilden wa
elected President on the 7th of Novem
/ Der, but that he will be counted out
Ben understands the capacity of the Re
publican party
- The world never harms Christian
so long as he keeps it ont of his heart
Temptation is never dangerous until i
has an inside accomplice. Sin within
betrays the heart to The outside assail
ant
We Southerners, says an exchange
1 can't help feeling considerably welfisl
when we see Grant lighting his ciga
with leaf of the constitution; but W
| have schooled ourselves to get mad will
out fighting anybody.
Grant says he viii head the arm
in person and see that Hayes is ihaugu
rated, should Chandler, Kellogg Sc &C
/ giyethe votes of Lolisiapa and FGorid
to Hayes, fair or unfair
- # there is anything that win a,
tract from a mans dignity, his coinfer
| and morality, it is to have a miserabl
toothache which sends butcher knfve.
brickbats and saw logs through his jaw
every time he attempts to respond to
talkative person. a M