The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-11-29

and a half cents bushel, and departed
this existcnceth possessor of So, ,250, 600
i - Names potato. crop is very large
this year. 1t will reach 1850, 900 bush
els, worth 81, 900, 600. Aroostook coun
ty starch mill will take 100000 to 500,
| 600 bushels. A great many thousand
bushels will be exported. 81 ass
= The State Constitution of Minneso
to has been amended forty-eight times
since she was admitted to the Union.
and the people only want fifteen o.
twenty more changes before they will
be entirely satisfied. ta
s 1t is expedient to have an acquaint.
ance with those who have looked into
the world; who know men and under
stand business, and can give you good
Intelligence and good advice when they
are needed.
- A Connecticut company is getting
up something to protect trees from
worms. The invention is rubber band
with a single bristling row of brass pins
set very close to each other, like the
teeth of comb, in the middle of the
strip, and worms cannot crawl over it.
- Four hundred thousand pounds of
mustard seed were harvested during the
summer, in the Salinas Valley of Cali
fornia, where Chinese farmers make the
cultivation of mustard their sole pursuit.
THE Arabs, who have many good
proverbs, have one which is found true,
and truer the more experience we have
of life. "While the word is yet un-
spoken, !" they say, 'you are the master
of it; when once it is spoken, it is mas
ter of you"
Says the Loudon Times, some fifty
thousand pounds of shucked corn has
been weighed, for transportation, on the
public scales during the last week.
Bruce had recourse to the sword,
Tell to bow and arrow, and Washing
ton appealed to the God of battles, but
when woman strikes for liberty, she
uses anything she can lay her hands on.
= According to Section 146, of the
Revised Statutes of the United States,
in case of removal, death, resignation
or inability of both President and Vice
President of the United States, the Pres
ident of the Senate, or if there is none,
then the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, for the time being, shall
act as President until the disability is
removed or President elected.
= An Atlanta lover, who was made a
lunatic by rejection, determined to kill
everybody who might be his successful
rival. He met two young men in the
street soon after coming to that murder
GUS determination, asked them if they
were acquainted with the young wo-
man, and shot them upon their answer
ing in the affirmative
A young girl in Stamford, Conn.,,
was whipped by her father for allowing
an Objectionable fellow to court her.
She retaliated by putting arsenic in the
parents coffee twice, but each time
made the doses so large that he was not
killed.
- On the first Wednesday in Decem-
Der, according to law, the Electors OF
each State must meet at their respective
capitals and give their vote for Presi
dent and Vice President So the Re
turning Boards must hurry up theil
work.
- Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Method
ist Church, South, is nearly rs years OF
age, and has been fifty-three years in
the itinerant ministry. sE8s
A Little Rock paper says that
"Texas immigrants are returning by thu
gia. They complain of mo water il
Texas. And the Knoxville 75a5ua,
adds, cit is a mystery why men leave
the fertile lands of Tennessee to go tt
Arkansas or Texas" ..-...
! - The New York Sun says when any
body goes crazy over religion there is
great outcry about it. But we have M
doubt, it says, that more people have al
ready been sent to the madhousl
I through the excitement of the late elec
tion than have been put there for yea
on account of religion.
= Alois Brauer, the founder and pro
/ A[tBtCfGFCbG,
leading German paper of San Francisco
died in that city on the 9th inst Braue
was native of Frankfort-on- the Mali
and resident of California since 1850
where he occupied respectable and in
fiuential position among the Germans
= There is building in New York
on Third avenue, used as church, il
one portion of which is a wine shop
This fact suggests the following qua
rain, written apropos of a similar cir
cumstance al
Spirits above and spirits below, fgsi azs
Spirits Of veal and spirits of woe
The spirit above is the Spirit Divine,
But the spirit below is the spirit of wine.
, The Queen of Madagascar has i
} sued a forcible proclamation on total al
{ stinence, prohibiting the sale of run
because the rum does harm to yoI
I persons, spends your possessions in vaii
Z harms your wives and children, max,
/, foolish the wise, makes more foolish Il
foolish. - t2' ~
8 = Mr.. Spurgeon, says London CO
: respondent, passes his life, when not a
1 tually preaching, in a pony ehaise, V
t ried by occasional Hanson cabs. Wra
I ped in a rough blue overcoat, with
species of soft deerstalker hat on
i head, loose black necktie round h
y massive throat, and q cigar burnil
) merrily in his mouth, he is the most u
n clerical of all preachers of the Gospel.
It DIR. John Dove, the Oldest natl
male citizen of Richmond, and Graz
Is Secretary of the Masonic Grand bod
le in Virginia, died in Richmond the MOI
rs ing Of the 10th instant, i'm his eighty-fii
year He was for 63 years Mason, dl
C. ing which time he held high positie