The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-24
The MorriStOWn Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. "a, 1877.
NEWS IN RRLEF.


juice on the floor of church in Cham
bersburg, Illinois.
The South Park, Chicago, will soon
be beautifed by the planting of 5000
choice trees.
San Francisco papers chronicle with
much enthusiasm the first arrival of a
car load of lager from Milwaukee.
All the glass manufactured on the
South Side, Pittsburg, Penn, are run
ming double time on account of large or
ders.
Ann Murrin, a venerable lady Of
Blount county, Tenn, fell dead recent
ly. Supposed from an apOpletic stroke.
A Mrs. Smith, living in Stewart coun-
ty. Tenn, adjoining Montgomery coun-
ty, committed suicide recently by shoot
ing pistol-ball through her lungs.
Lewis Schaler, a farmer of Salisbury,
Penn, shot and killed a tramp recently
whom he had ordered out of his chesnut
tree.
Mrs. Ruth Marian Washburn, an es-
teemed lady of Knoxville, the wife of
w. p. Washburn, Esq, died on the 14th
instant, from wasting-away disease
The Rev. Silas E. Shepard, D. D., a
leading Christian divine and scholar,
died in Troy, Penn, on the 18th inst,
of typhus pneumonia, aged seventy-six
years.
Rev. F. A Ross, D. D., delivered
free lecture at Knoxville last week, in the
Board of Trade Rooms, on 'SOuthein
Aristocracy as it was; and Shoddy as it
is" The subject was handled in mas
terly manner, and the audience was
pleased.
w. J. Guild recently sold fifty head of
Durham cattle at Gallatin, Tenn, the
average weight of which was 1875
pounds They were sold at five cents
per pound gross, netting nearly four
thousand dollars, and were sent to the
Eastern markets.
Mrs. Mary Humes Boyd, wife of w.
f. Boyd, Esq, of Selma, Ala, died in
Knoxville the 18th instant, at the resi-
dence of her fathers, Rev. Thos W.
Humes, D. D.
A strange phenomenon recently oc-
CURED on farm just west of Port Jer-
Wis, in New York. A plot of ground
thirty feet in diameter suddenly disap
peared from the surface of field, leav
ing hole in the ground upward of fifty
feet deep.
1t is understood that the Secretary Of
War will estimate two millions for forti-
fications and thirteen millions for rivers
and harbors in his two estimates for the
fiscal year ending in 1878. The Secre-
tary merely submits these figures with
out recommendations.
The fatal hour for wealthy English la
dies is the dinner hour, when the bur
glars ladder is put up to my lady's win
dow, and by the time dessert is over,
all the diamonds are gone. This has
Just happened, for about the hundredth
time. Lady Hardwicze being the victim.
Miss Nary Coleman received the
s'Habit" of the Sisterhood, at the Cath
oIic church in Knoxville, Monday night,
last week, by Rev. Father Marion She
chose the name of Sister Mary Aloysiqs
The ceremonies were very impressive
and largely attended, being the first af-
fair of the kind ever witnessed in that
city.
Miss Minnie E. Hodges, who has just
resigned the position of cashier and
money order clerk in the Des Moines,
Iowa, Post Office, handled and paid out
during six years $4,000, 900, and never
made a mistake of cent. At times she
had charge of the whole office, with
twenty y-five or thirty clerks under her di-
rection.
Mr.. Jacob Benziger, popular sales
man of Cowan, McClung 81 Co., Knox
Vile, was united in marriage to Miss
Annie Ruggles, at the German Lutheran
Church in that city, Monday night, last
week, the Rev. J. G. Schaide officiating.
George Washington is in the Virginia
penitentiary, and Andrew Jackson, of |
Louisiana, has been stealing hogs, and |
Andrew Johnson, of North Carolina,
has been stealing sheep, &c. How the |
mighty have fallen
A little boy on his way to mill, near
McMinnville, Tenn, went under tree
to pick up some apples, and found sew
eral pieces of silver. These he carried |
lone, when further search was made, !
and over six hundred pieces of silver, |
buried thirty-five years ago by an old |
miser, was uncarthed.
The will of the late Archbishop Bay |
lev reads: I'm the name of God amen. !
First and principally, 1 commend my !
soul to Almighty God, and my body 1
resign to the earth" His property is
held in trust for the church, and his |
personal property is bequeathed to the
the church.
The following additional officers of
the House were appointed last week by
resolution: Clerk, G. NJ. Adams, OF
Kentucky; Sergeant-at-arms, Jno, G.
Thompson, Of Ohio; Doorkeeper, Jno.
w. Polk, of Missouri; Postmaster, J. ID.
Stewart, of Virginia; Chaplain, Rev
John Poissel, of Baltimore.
A child in Pepperell, Mass, who had
a sore on his lip caused by diptheria was
kissed by two little girls recently, one
of whom died of the disease in few
hours, while the other did not survive
hasty transportation to her home IN New
York.
The latest estimate of Bishops MAORI
ty by the Democratic State Committee
Of Ohio, is from % 900 to $4,000. In
the Legislature, the Democrats have go
in the House, the Republicans 80. and
IL. Croo.,I,n clara . The Snnafn afnnds