The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-03-08
The Morristown Gazette.
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28 cases mentioned 8 were fatal
Ii is denied in authoritative quarters ir
Washington that the President contem
plates removing District Attorney Dyer
1t Is said that figures wont liei but the
figures of some women are very decep-
tive, to say the least.
The Pacific Railroads have received
from the Government s65, 600, 600 and
go, ,O0O, 600 acres Of land.
Ohio supports 116, 600 dogs Georgia,
with less than one-half the population,
has $50, 900. More dogs than voters.
Mr. Entrils has been appointed Private
Secretary TO Western railroad Presl-
ident. Why wouln't he be good man
for Secretary Of the Interior
Portland, Maine, under the enforce
mant of rigid prohibitory liquor law,
was enabled last week to show among
her public drunkards three boys under
twelve years Of age.
Gen. Babcock has returned to Wash
ingtou. He is reported as saying in con
versation with friends that he has no in
tention at present to resign his position
as Private Secretary to the President.
An exchange says In our notice of
the late Mr.. -, in yesterdays issue,
for the phrase { he was a noble and pig
headed man read, he was 4 noble and
big-hearted man.
The Legislature of Maine has passed
law abolishing capital punishment, and
it has received the sanction Of the Gov
ernor. The Iowa Senate has refused to
d pass the bill restoring the death penalty.
General Babcock may plead in ex-
tenuation of his imprudence that he has
been no more reckless than the Presi-
dent Keeping bad company is the be-
.@setting sin of General Grants Admins
t-ation.--N Y Tribune.
A tornado passed through portions Of
Henderson and Christian counties, KY,
the 28th ult., destroying everything in
its path, two miles wide. At Princeton,
Indiana, thirty-uine houses were destroy
ed, and a number Of horses killed. Sew
crsl persons were injured, some fatally.
g What do YOU think Of the present
fury system?" inquired a man of an old
ex-Julge the other evening. Think y /
echoed the old man in disgust. 'Why, /
] think il is getting SO that if a man
should plead guilty Of murder and try to /
get hung, the jury would, somehow or +
other, manage to acquit him.
Z. C. Longley, while preaching in the /
Methodist Mission Chapel, Brooklyn, /
Sunday, Feb. p, dropped dead in the
pulpit He had nearly finished his ser
mon, when he paused suddenly, threw /
up his hands and fell back in his chair, /
Medical aid was given, but the minister
was dead from heart disease.
Fresh | wonder why my mustache !
doesn't grow under my nose as well as /
at the corners of my mouth ?" SOph.- /
. Too much shadeF' (Crics of more.) |
The want of snow in the lumber re-
gious of Michigan viii, it is said, serious |
" affect the lumber business. 1t is esti- !
mated that not more than one-third of |
the estimated crop of logs to be cut this !
winter will reach the streams Of the /
State. OF 65, 900, 600 feet intended to be /
put in the Ride river, only TO- 600, 900 are
on the banks.
The Danbury Netcs says the revival
feeling is spreading, but it hasn't yet
got down deep enough to affect arIear-
ages on country newspaper books.
The mysterious disappearance of Levi
George, a well known farmer of KRox
county, which has excited the liveliest
interest in the press and people of his
for week past, was abat-
ed last Wednesday by his discovery at
whittier he had fed in
of financial iembarrassments
and conduct unbecoming a moral man.
When s'Spivins," was editor of the
Wheeling Register, he wrote one even
ing: /" To-day is the anniversary of the s
death of Louis Phillip" When the
proof came up the name read Sam Phil .
iips." Spiv" thought mere note of
The mistake would be sufficient, and so
wrote on the margin: " Who the h-ll is s
Sam PhiIlips?" Next morning the item /
came out To-day is the anniversary ;
~ the death of Sam Phillips. Who the
h-II is Sam Phillips p
The Nashville Daily An'ert1an of the
10Th announces that Col. James L. Rice,
Chairman of the Democratic State Cen
raj Committee, will in few days issue !,
. call for meeting of the Committee,
10 arrange for calling a State Conven- q
ion, at which delegates to the National '
Convention, which meets in Il
It. Louis, June 27, will be appointed. n
8 They have found a petrifed Mormon "
n Utah, and from the number of dents y
n the head, evidently made with po- j.
Ter and fiat iron, it is thought he had Il
preceded at least thirty-three wives
At Cincinnati recently an assessment
# 10 cents a scholar was levied in one e
# the schools for the purchase of Cen RI
enpial stationary. The parents of one tC
title girl declined, on principle, to send oI
he dime, holding that the tax was an 81
sumption and presumptuous. Another al
title girl could not get the dime, per- h.
APPS because her parents were very poor, il
nd the pamos of the children were dis HI
laved for several days on the black CT
oard under the words very conspicu- ly
usly written, NO Money" The Com K,
ls,ciaE very justly characterizes the pro- II
eeding as an outrage. d;
The time for a man to stand firmly by m
obs example is when he washes his it
zee with homemade soap and begins To q
aw around over the chairs with his eyes
lut, inquiring for towel, quick, and -
told that the towel is in the drawer, th
ut the keys are lost. ri
James NJ. Tomeny, prominent citi- p
IN of Memphis, and formerly U. s. "
.arshaI of that district, was arrested eJ
le night of Feb. n and put in Jail, at
.e instance Of Judge Milton Brown, of :,
lckson, Tenn, who charges Tomeny II
ith7 7assaulting him with club and rob- ii
mo- him while he was senseless of a