The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-11-07
The M0PfiSt0Vl Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. NoY.7, 1877.
NEWS ITEMS.

Coal Creek coal reJalIS III Abiantoi
Ga, at 25 cents a bushel s
ssThe Sweetest Little Girl in Tennes-
see, is the title Of 4 new song just out
from Memphis publishing house.
When Bishop of Ohio is tnaugurated,
there will be twenty-four States with
Democratic Governors. fsmf
General Bedford Forrest, the great
Confederate cavalry officer, died on the
evening Of the 29th instant, in Memphis,
at the residence of his brother, Col.
Jesse Forrest.
Diptheria prevails to such an extent
at Hanover, Mass, that one of the ,prin-
cipal schools there has been closed, af-
ter it was reduced by illness and fear of
infectionfrom 81 to 10 pupils.
A comparison of the coal discovered
in the far north by the recent English
artic expedition with coal from thirteen
different seams in Great Britain, shows
that the composition is very nearly the
same. MNH s
The managers of the Philadelphia Per
manent Exhibition say that, unless the
people rally in its support, it will neces-
sarily be closed very soon. They appeal
for an extraordinary attendance on
Thanksgiving Day.
Prof. J. Z. Todd, has critically ex-
amined the ''petrifed man" with
stump of a tail, that is said to have been
found in Colorado He says that it is
clumsy, hewn out of stone, and that it
is probably not more than a few years
old. -
Out of the eighteen Governors that
the State of Tennessee has had, only five
are living. These are Neill s. Brown,
d. w. C. Senter, Isham G.. Harris, John
G. Brown and the present incumbent,
Jas. ID. Porter.
Mrs. John Hamilton of Fork Creek,
Loudon county, who had become slight
ly insane, hanged herself to cross beam
in a smoke house on her husbands
premises recently. She had been mar
ried three years, and was the mother Of
three children.
The chief exports of the United States /
to Russia are moving machines, loco
motives, railroad cars, cotton (this is by
far the heaviest item) firearms, leather, /
naval stores and petroleum. Cotton /
supplies nine-tenths of the value, and
petroleum, nearly one-twelfth, these two
making nearly eleven millions Of the
gil, 1926, 900 shipped in 1875.
The venerable Prof Dana of Yale
College has distinguished himself by
chasing through the streets a sharper,
who nearly cheated him out of $5 by
profeasedly soliciting for sick fireman,
catching him and lodging him in jail.
The owner of one of the most fashion
able barrooms in Chicago is bankrupt.
Among the claims against him is one Of
a druggist for 81 900 "for materials used
in compounding liquors. /" A clergy
man made this fact the theme for an un-
commonly effective temperance sermon.
The Free-will Baptists, recently in
session at Tunbridge, Vt, say that they
have in this country 165 quarterly meet
ings, 1,343 churches, 1 ,188 ordained min
listers, and over 70, 900 communicates,
together with colleges, seminaries, and
newspapers second to those of no other
denomination.
The Association Of the Graduates of
the United States Military Academy
have determined to remove from South
Braintree, Mass, to West Point, the re-
mains of the late Col. Sylvanus Thayer,
BreEet Brigadier General United States
army, and to erect over them suitable
monument
Every Russian soldier actually pres
ent at the seat of war will, according to
the terms of a decree just issued by the
Emperor, be capable of Promotion to an
officers rank for distinguished military
service. Further advancement win be
dependent on their successfully passing
the usual examinations.
1t is said that the Chinaman is incapa-
BILE of civilization. Facts disprove this
assertion. All Chung had been working
in San Gabriel, Cal, and received
check for $151. The figures were raised
by Chung to 1851, and the amount was
paid on demand at the Farmers and
Merchants Bank OF Los Angeles. No
trace of the Chinaman has since been
discovered.
A Boston drummer, who prides him
self on his charms, forever lost his pride
the other day He drove his fellow
drummers wild in car by his attentions
to a comely maiden, to whom he show
ed his samples, and whose hand he
squeezed for half an hour. But when
the train stopped quiet old fellow step
ped forward and thanked him for enter
tanning the girl, remarking; "She is
hopelessly insane, and | am taking her
to.the State asylum here"
Col. Kings farm on the Rio Grande
consists of 16O, 900 acres, all fenced. It
has been growing in wealth since the
war with Mexico, and now owns, be-
sides the land q, 900 horses, 80, 600 COWS,
$4,000 sheep and 10000 mules. He em-
ploys 800 Mexicans as herders. Most of :
the land has been fenced at an enormous
cost He despises "book learning" but
has become well educated in the ways |
of the world lie lives extravagantIy,
and Is literally monarch of all he sur
veys." r
A singular rumor has gained currency !
in Limerick, Ireland, to the effect that
the late Viscount EitzGibbon, a gallant
cavalry officer who was supposed to have
fallen in the celebrated charge Of the (
Six Hundred at Balaklava, did not meet
that fate, butts at this moment on his +,
way home to claim his estates. It is
stated that when last seen he was lean