The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-06
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two dollars, and don't barrow any more
- Do not express your opinions too
freely and decidedly when il differs from
those around you, for it does no good.
"A singular accident has happened tc
man in London. He was smoking 9
clay pipe in the street, and was run
against by another man. The pipe was
thrust into his jaw and could not be ex-
tracted. 2ng a
= A prophetic itemer remarks: sfPal-
estine is TO have railroad, and the cry
will soon be, sAll aboard for Jerusalem.
Passengers for Moab and the Dead Sea
will please remain in the forward ear.n
"A boy was much exercised for fear
he would not know his father when they
both reached Heaven. His mother eased
him by saying, ''Al you will have to do
is to look for an angel with red nose. "
- Grant has introduceda new method
of avoiding trouble from his political OPP
pnnents. It is to call in the army and
navy to help him defend himself when
he is in tight place. How do the peo-
pie like the new idea sn5s -
3 The Rev Benjamin F. Vile, for
over forty years Presbyterian minister
died at his residence at Highland, Ulster
county, New York, recently aged seven
ty-two years.
MIR. James O'Meara, of Hoopestown,
Illinois, is the last gentleman of high
reputation who knows that Wilkes Booth
is still alive, having seen him and con-
versed with him recently during a visit
to the South. ems $50 E ia
i'm case the election for President
goes into the House, as it may do, the
Democrats will vote % States and the
Radicals 15 A clear majority of eight
States for Uncle Sammy. oai
- A brother said, in the conference
of the Methodist Centennial Temperance
Convention, held recently in the Forty
third Street Methodist Church, in New
York city ''Where is the Republican
party, so far as temperance is concern
ed !? Willingly gagged and bound hand
and foot You tell me that the Repub
lican party is full of temperance men
I tell you that hell is full of temperance
men. ~ if3sy
A late decision of the Court of
Kentucky, that one of the principal
gamblers in Louisville must pay fine
and suffer six months Imprisonment on
account of carrying on game of faro
has produced considerable stir among
that class because of the precedent it es-
tablishes
An ounce of experience teaches a
man more than a pound of advice.
While we theoretically know that a
knife-blade is sharp, we toy with it, but
when by cutting our fingers the theory
becomes a fact of consciousness, we use
it more carefully.
= Information has been received at
Washington that number of members
of Congress have already signified their
intention to offer amendments to the
Constitution of the United States for the
purpose of avoiding in future the diff
culties and dangers now attending the
election of a President. ss
--CIeaveland (Ohio) Pttin Dealer: The
Democracy ask for nothing but the right.
They demand fair count and no cheat
ing. If they are beaten honestly they
will yield gracefully. But no two mig
gers will be allowed to make President
for forty millions of people.
= In Knoxville, Illinois, in 1865, Mr..
Baker and Miss Spaulding were married.
In 1865 they were divorced. In 1867
they were married again. In 1873 they
were again dieorced, and in 1874 again
married. In 1876, again, they have just
been divorced.
S. A sure cure for chilblains and neu-
ralgia Take one ounce each of chloro-
form, hartshorn, turpentine, oil of spike,
and sweet oil; shake well, and apply
three or four times day; heat it by the
fire. One who has tried it after suffer
ing for eleven years, pronounces it a
permanent cure. HH
- The Nashville papers say large
numbers. white and black, present them
selves daily for enlistment in the u. 8.
Army, but few are taken on account of
either moral, mental, or physical disa-
bility. A good many tramps have made
their appearance at the recruiting Office
and expressed desire to enlist, but not
more than one out of hundred sue
ceeds in passing the rigid examination
required by the regulations.
= Grant said: "Let no guilty man
escape" except Babcock, Avery and
Mckee. ''Lct us have fair count
in secret session and Representative
men of influence of both parties" on the
outside Also ''let us have peace, -
anywhere but Louisiana and Washing
ton City.
A new explanation of the move
ment of troops to Washington has been
afforded by Zach Chandler. 1T is just
as WELL" says honest Zach, 'sto have
these companies stationed in Washing,
ton as elsewhere, and, in fact, better,
because it is cheaper to feed them here
than in most places. Gen. Sherman,
on the other hand, asserts that artillery
is brought to the capital, all the way
from Louisiana and Kansas, in order tc
protect the Treasury against burglars.
- A woman's hand. How beautiful
ly moulded How faultless in symme
try How soft and white and yielding
and oh how much of gentle memory iti
pressure conveys. Yet we don't ike il
in our hair. m s
- Chas. Langheimer, aged seventy
four years, was brought to trial few
days ago, in the court at Philadelphia
Pa, to answer the charge Of stealing al
overcoat- Langheimer is the man de
srsril,ed nv Dickens in his A Faeviea,