The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-17

her seven children, have died Of diptheria within
month.
The daily newspapers in DeadHood are not Inuc
larger than a sheet OF foolscap and are delivered
for $Is year. Every subscriber Is required, q
announced in the prospectus, to "down with th'
dust"
The Trustees Of the Peabody Fund have re-eIect
ed the old of1eers. President Hayes elected q
trustee, vice the late Matthew Aaury.
When a man is making love to widow he aIwayI
feel as if he had to begin where the other fellow
left oR-says one who seems to know.
Friday, one of the largest iron manufacturing
Oncerns in the United States, Ielegraphed Mr.. 8
b Lowe, Of Chattanooga, Tenn, for one thousand
tons Of No. foundry iron recently.
Bella RedmAn, OF Cincinnati, has brought suit
against DR.. J. T. Canine, for $4,000 damages, for
alleged malpractice
Three-card monte sWindlers operate on the Hud-
son River Railroad, and the brakemen hold la
terms SO that they see to play
Twelve thousand sewing machine needles are
made daily at the Domestic needle works, Middle
bOro,' Massachusetts,.
Forty persons had drunk milk that had
stood for tine in porcelain lined jars Cam
den, Ne, were seriously though not fatally poison
ed few days ago.
There are now but two Catholics in the Senate
OF the United States, since the death of Senator
Bogy. Those two Herman and Spencer.
The late Rev. DR.. James A. Duncan, the eminent
Methodist divine OF Virginia, was so an accom-
pished instructor that his friends voted against
him for Bishop order to retain his services as
President of Randolph Macon College.
A vicksburg man mads his suidide remark
able by tieing heav- .one to himself before he
jumped into the r, T.
The ex-Queerf OF o4in has lost none Of her
1nPudsnce- She orders trains Of brought
arouud, demands al II -oon in hotel and stands
of her creditors wit ,lliles Of contempt.
The lecture season is well under way Beeoher
ia making from s2o1 20 $3.50 night in the West.
An affray occurred at UniHa, Blount county,
Tenn, recently in which young Matthews, a son
Of Hon. Stephen J. Matthews, shot his assailart,
named odeneal, inhicting probably fatal wound.
A female postmaster in Maine has been fined
&11T.sOfOr opening letter passing through her
Office. She probably thought she was on his track
and had caught him writing to another girl.
The top OF the great dam at Gileppe, Belgiurn,
is to be crowned with colossal lion cut from 2Os
huge blocks of stone. A win be able hide
easily behind each claw.
convention of colored people viii bs held at
Raleigh, N c., October 1s, to consider the
present condition Of the colored race, and to de-
wise for its amelioration, morsIand physical
Ths Secretary Of the 0. S. Treasury has de-
elnsd the proposition to compromise the tobacco
suits now in progress at Greensboro, N. G. There
are eighteen such cases, and the amount involved
Is $19O,OOo.
The damage to the Ninth and G streets wings OF
the Patent ONCE from the heavy rains the other
day is very great, many records and public papers
being thoroughly saturated.
az viii give you just Ave minutes to retract that
article said fellow to the editor OF the Chicago
Times, the other day. 81 viii give you just five
to get out of this building" responded the
editor. He ''gOt-"
The Raleigh Observer claims to have informa-
ton that there in operation eighty-one
gold mines in North Carolina, some Of which are
operated on very extensive scale.
samuel stickney, Of Waterloo, Iowa, recently
hugged girl so hard that revolver in his pocket
was discharged, seriously wounding boy who
was passing the gate where the pair stood.
Itis asserted that many of the barrels of Aour
shipped from Boston to Maine contains demijohns
Of whisky, and that it is to carry the liquor that
the shipments are made.
Wade Hampton, Jr., son of the Governor, and
once aid the staR'of Gen. J. E. Johnstoa, has
received, without asking, nomination to the
Mississippi Legislature from the Democrats OF
Washington county, where he is planter.
A DO, named Hall, nineteen years Of age, was
caught by mill saw at Lebaron, Ky, last week.
and his body cut almost in two parts.
Browns Gorham, fruit importers, New York,
have failed. Liabilities, 100000; assets not yet
made known.
The western abutment of the great iron bridge |
across the Missouri river, at Atchison, caVed in
the Attn instant, with terrible crash
Brumide, the artist, has been engaged for the !
last twenty years freseoing the Capitol at Wash
ington, and he estimates that he put in about /
forty years more tit
THE Narragansett Whitehead Works, at Brook /
Iyn, n. Y were destroyed by fire the 5th instant.
Loss, $4,000.
The Union Oil Works Williamsburg, N. "
were damaged by fire last week to the extent OF 4
5000. No insurance.
Savannah, Ga, is becoming important cigar
manufacturing place. and ''genuine Havanas" are
turned out by the thousand ms
man who edited paper in Texasfor two years
IS one OF the curiosities travelling with Bar
NUNS show. He carries thirty-seven bullets in
bis body, hundred and sixteen bOwie-knife
scars, has eye gouged out, one ear bit OF, his
nose twisted around his left cheek all his teeth
knoeksd out and LIS skull trspanned At the time
OF his leaving Texas he was the veteran editor Of
the State press.
Some person sensibly says Of the Savings Bank
What shall it profit the young man
Who ssveth up his cash,
If, after saving It for ten yeas,
The bank doth go to smash7
whersso shaH be advantaged be
II, having taken care
OF the pennies, the dollars shall make them wings,
And vanish IN thin air Z "
Suppose he should dollar week
In savings bank invest,
with a semi-annual p c.
In the way Of interest,