The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-14
NEWS ITEMS.
Athens has q minstrel troupe.

Athens has minstrel troupe
The State Penitentiary now con
tains /, 020 convicts.
= Theo. Tilton delivered lecture in
Knoxville last Monday night.
- A fire destroying million dollars
worth of property occurred in st. Louis
the 9Th inst
The annual value of the oyster fish
cries of Virginia has been estimated by
Gov. Kemper at $50, OO0, GOO
Two inches of snow fell at Jonesboro,
last week.
Boston had a $500, 900 fire Friday
at which five lives were lost by falling
wall
The Legislature of Ohio has passed
a compulsory educational law.
"A Nevada bank has closed sale of
one million ounces of fine silver to the
Government at terms withheld.
= Charles Dickens, Jr., has forsal1en
literature, and become the chief partner
in London printing firm.
= Husbands and fathers lSill be pleas
ed to learn that small cIe-.9ks' are to be
fashionable for silks nest summer
The Republican, 5tate Convention
of Rhode Island, last week nominated
Gen. Vansant for Governor and Albert
G. Howard for Lieutenant Governor
A large number of the most prom
inent business men Of Memphis met at
the Gotten Exchange in that place last
Saturday and endorsed the policy of
President Hayes, indicated towards the
South by the appointment of ex-senator
Key in his Cabinet and his inaugural
address.
At meeting of the Board of Trade,
in Leavenworth, Kansas, last Saturday,
the Cabinet appointments of the Presi-
dent were unanimously endorsed The
nomination of Schurz, Key and Evarts
were generally approved by the peo-
| pie.
John r. Bynum, jeweler of Boil
var, Tennessee, and leader of the Boil
| var brass band, was locked up in the
calaboose of that town on Friday night,
the 23d, and the key carried mile away.
During the night the calaboose took
fire and was consumed, burning the un-
fortunate prisoner before relief could be
obtained.
A serious ARRAY occurred the other
day at Fayetteville, Lincoln county,
Tenn. A son of Hon. Jno NJ Bright
shot a lawyer by the name of Mr. E. L..
Allen, who died almost instantly
= Min Wilson, who murdered Officer
Perkins, inJackson, Tennessee, has been
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree, and will swing on the gallows,
April 18th.
= Sixty Indian convicts are in the
old fort in St. Augustine, Fla, and the
guard is daily selected from their ranks.
About once week each shoulders a
musket as one of the garrison, and does
sentry duty over i,is comrades. They do
not escape, because they prefer to stay
and be fed
= 1t is generally believed in political
circles that it is Gov Hayes purpose
either to recognize both Nichols and
Hampton, or to allow the people of
louisiana and South Carolina to adjust
their State governments for themselves.
In the last case it is well understood
that Packard and Chamberlain would
quit the field
- New York has just discovered that
the map makers have made her geogra-
ply crooked. Whole cities are misplace
ed. For Instance, Buffalo is two mile S
from where it ought to be, and the New
Workers are trying to decide whether it
would be cheaper to move the cities and
towns to correspond with the maps, or
to make new geography to fit he towns
and cities.
On Thursday last, negro attempted
to murder white lady, in Williamson
county, Tenn, with anax. Her screams
brought assistance, when the scoundrel
and an accomplish were arrested and put
in Jail for trial A plan had been laid
by the negroes to rob the lady's house,
in the absence of her husband