The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-13
GAZETTE NEWS ITEMS.

- OuI llIc 10 Il IdISC iidtdICs
= Tennyson is about to publish new
drama, entitled Harold"
= The electoral vote will be counted
on the 18th of February next.
- The rottenest log in Louisiana
Kellogg.
: Must we but weep DER days more
blest
= 1t is very certain the desire of life
prolongs it.
= What a strange thing is man and
what a stranger is woman
= The next Legislature of Delaware
will be unanimously Democratic.
= Country "shindigs" will soon be
fashionable and thick.
= 1t was not Gen. Hampton's house
that burned, but the residence of his
sister.
Don't publish your acts of charity.
The Lord will keep the account straight.
- Pay off your little debts and the
big ones win be reached in time.
- To keep your secret is wisdom, but
to expect others to keep it is folly.
= To cure the people of their woes,
give fair count and don't bulldoze.
- 1t pays to make people happy. and
it can be done on small capital.
= Be patient, gentlemen, everything
will come out all right. We will have
fair count.
In her first passion woman loves
her lover, in all the others ali she loves
is love.
= The time to knock at poor mans
door is when it is cold, for then he needs
an outside wrapper.
= The county of Warren elected
''Blue Jeeans" (Col. John II. } Savage to
the Legislature from that county.
= Miss Mary Fletcher has just given
| $780, 900 to found a public hospital,
bearing her name, in Burlington, Vt,
: Another Mormon wife, encouraged
by the success of Brigham's Ann Eliza,
has sued her husband for divorce.
= Mr.. Bigge and Miss Small were
married at Keokuk the other day A
medium-sized notice is all they can ask
for.
= The Rev. Preserved Smith, aged
eighty-eight, voted at Greenfield, Massa-
ehusetts, on the 7th ult.
= Gold in bars to the amount of $435,-
900 was withdrawn from London bank
recently for shipment to New York
- Campaign subscriptions are now
out. If you wish the GAZETTE contin
ued TO your address, renew your sub
scription. a
r.- The difference is, that in the days
Of old men made the manners-m manner,
now make the men.
~ Boss Tweed declines to see the re
porters This is hard on enterprising
editors vino insist upon reported inter
views, and need them to bolster up thei1
sensational predictions.
= Mr. ]. Proctor Knott received (
larger majority for Congress in thu
Fourth District of Kentucky at the re
cent election than his entire vote tive
years before.
= There are good many recipe
floating around for packing butter, bu
none of them can beat the old-fashioneC
way of packing it-on hot biscuit.
- It took a man-of-war, 519 men ant
500 tons of coal to bring Tweed and lii
i two pieces of baggage home from a for
! eign shore.
- A cautious man says he once pre-
vented a severe case of hydrophobia b.
simply getting on high fence and wait
ing there till the dog had gone away.
= Judge Trigg of the United State
II District Courts at Memphis has issue
an order for the sale of the AIemphi
and Paduea Railroad on petition of tn
first mortgage bondholders. { a0
- One good action in the midst {
crime is quite refreshing in the affecte
phrase of these ambrasial, Pharisai
times.
i = A panther seven and a half fer
long and weighing loo pounds was II
Gently killed in Copiah county, AIisei
8 sippi. a
"A Nevada man died a few days ag
from the effects of gun-shot wound r,
ceived in 1852. the bullet remaining
his lungs for twenty-four years.
Lucinda Nancy Matilda is the nam
Of baby Of whom Washington Warrel
of Griffin, Georgia, aged seventy,
father, and who is named after his thTe
deceased wiYcs.
Six criminals were whipped and e.
exposed in the pillory at Newcastle
Delaware, few days ago, receivin
from twenty to forty lashes each.