The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-20


! Tennessae, for Secretary of State. ss5ess1zs
War has ibegHminthe White House !
Grants colored -ceok1. LIucys struck the
colored waiter over the head with roll
ing pin few days ago, The walter re-
taliated, and threw a aplatc at head
Here is a field for Shermahas military
operations Let him pine no longer 81.
= Knoxville citizens are laying in
their ice. supplies. It is 4. good thing TO
have-especially in hot weather.
The nation will be shakenf from
earth to olofreumforenoesw with joy, when.
the glad tidings of rs Inauguration shall
be heralded March 18th, 1877. 4ss. IL.
The trouble in. oregon--that's
Watts the matter.
- Old Mr.. Asberry, says the Kingston
Fast Tsns,essedn, is quite i'll, and appre-
tensions are entertained as to his recoy-,
cry He has reached four score and up.
ward. .4 ast -a..f..ss, ,f..-.
: The Nashville Sabbath-schools are.
preparing to have Christmas trees and
festivals. | = {4
The jackson Whtg and Tribune is
for Isham G. Harris and Judge Turney
for the. q. S. Senatorship. ..a ff
I - King. John of Abyssinia has. APP
pointed Major Barlow, an English officer,
to be Cofnmander-in-C Chief of all his
force. He has started for the seat of
war in Africa s as1raE al $50
- Col. Thomas Bowling, member of
the Democratic National Committee,
died at Terre Haute, Indiana, the 9TH
inst. He was the founder of the Terre
Haute Express.
~ Tramp printers are numerous in
these parts of late They always come
with an empty stomach, and get away
with enough grub to enable them to
knock the sap out of the railroad ties
or anything else. If they keep it up we
fear we Shall get grub-struck ourselves f!
5E- A Washington special of late date
to the Alera11dria( Et.g Gazette states that
Mr.. Cox, of New York, gives assurance
to his Democratic, friends that ''all is
right, /" and that Tilden will be inaugu-
rated next Presidento of the United States.
- franklin Reo56ao and Jour71ag: One
of the oldestpreachers in the Tennessee
Conference says that the Rev, John w.
Hammer, DR., is the best preacher of his
age he ever heard, -
- The Sullivan Landmark states that
| the Circuit Court, in the case of Sophia
Rhea, admix's, VS.. East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia Railroad, has return
ed verdict for 1890 for plaintiff. The
defendants appealed to the Supreme
-Court.ia es.a ses ra e7 er.r
= The Franklin Re0ieao AID Journal
says Mr.. James Knox Polk McEwen's
thirty hogs that averaged two hundred
and fifty pounds, were just ten months
old. And asks-ewho can beat that
w. r. Brownlow, of the JQnesboro'
ILauld and Tribune. is responsible for the
following "An old man died in this
county last summer, and although born
S;{nd having always lived in it had not
visited Jonesboro' for forty years. and
9ueEer saw a train of ears. yet he lived in
esix miles Of the railroad" t,.af,s s.s,5
k-z-.W William Cobb, Esq, of Cobton, N.
| G., raised so cars OF. corn on one stalk
The ears were small, but most of the
kernelslooked plump and fun, as.if in a
healthy condition. so388ig ts9l BFaasI
/ ~ This country will be governed, =
Ifsays Samuel J, Tildep, as far as | am
concerned, upon pure, fair, Democratic
principles of justice to all men of al
I colors, % Lord, give US Uncle Sammy
sg--zThe monk Nicolari, who fought Sc
= well under Admiral CanaEis.in the GFeei
- wal ofssindependence, and was. concerned
in the affair of the fire-ships, has jus
died at Athens.
= w. A. Walsh, veteran book-kcep
er and highly respected citizen of Nash
4 willie, died recently at the advanced agt
of eighty years. eaf anI s7ss
! "A sad but profitable lesson! Mrs
Mary Adkisson, Nashville lady, few
days since, while making a fire, unpru
Z IDENTIFY poured coal oil upon it with tile
= usual lamentable result Her clothes
caughtlon fire, nearly burning her into {
crisp. People should be careful in hand
ling coaloil cans about stoves and fire
places, lest, they meet the same result
Since the above was in type, the Btnne
announces her death osl1 a1atee.
q Mr.. S. L.. Graham. of Hickman
county, recently Slaughtered 81 hog
ilthat averaged 1885 pounds net. Also
the tax collector. of said county sold 12
of one litter, that averaged little owe
240 pounds Hamblenians, exert your
sclvesr Give your porkers plenty o
corn, and you'll have a tsfair cOuntf
= Mr.-John Ms Meel, of Strawberr.
Plainsnop the. 9th instant, while feeding
cattle, was attacked by q large lJerse,
bull aud seriously Wounded, But 70
the timely. aid of friends he doubles
/, would have been killed. AZ ae ,sag
: ao- A lucky type ! Mr. Joseph Routh
aeompositor in the dye office at Knox
vile, has just drawn. $3.50 cash priz
!, from the Kansas. City Lottery. Next
-Joseph Ellington, lad of Kno
county, met with a horrible death o
/. the 10th inst, by falling two hundre
feet down spreoipice, at the bend of th
Holstou Rivera few miles below Kno,
i vile. a ttt7s.a 80 &. 1aitA.
v = The Knoxville ITi5Hne of the lot
contained "a call on eit- Mayor Pete
Il .staub. signed by so7 Intelligent votel
d. of that city for Mayor ~ the. aensttlin 4st
4 election, fegaFdless of politics. creed {
: nationality. aeia sft4 a2t = fssaasse
u a=e
& a--- The Jackson Hhsg qsad, Tribune .sas
ri Mr. Ans. Stobaugh recently killed
q i barrow which weighed 500 pounds gro
q and roo pounds net. i Tt was a Berkshir