The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-07
The korristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. Z. 1877.
NEWS ITEMS.

w lLH a CAeaE eye anu upElSht ASait iO
sist every wrong.
4 Western Granger has written to
Memphis for some Mardi Gras seed.
There were 1 ,3s1 marriages in Maury
county, Tenn, within the past six
years.
Think for yourself, and think much
more than you talk.
Sir Shaw Stewart has been reappoint-
ed Grand Master of the Masonic order
il Scotland.
In French family, who work at a
mill in SIatersville, r. l., there are four
pairs Of twins.
The criminal laws of Virginia are un-
dergoing a revision.
Oranges sell at fifty cents per hundred
in Columbus, Georgia.
The shop girls of Boston number near
" one-tenth of the entire population of
the city.
Pope Plus TX has just founded a
home for old men in Sinigaglia, his ma
tive town, in Italy.
BE proud Of your calling; if a shoe
maker, strive to make better shoe than
enybody else.
The best blankets in the United States
are manufactured by the Navajo Indians
of New Mexico.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, is a
jealous Baptist, and breaches every Sun
day to the negroes he employs.
Go not to your grave one-third tobac-
co, one-third whisky, and the other
third a composition of corruption.
While a Texas jailer was gone to a
balloon ascension his prisoners all got
out and left the country.
General Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky,
who is about eighty-five years old, has
just married lady of the same age.
Spread of American ideas. Young
Arabs now greet the traveller in Egypt
with the familiar salutation, "Black
your boots 81
Mrs. Boots, of Philadelphia, has run
away from her husband, and a fippant
"Go it, Boots !" arises from the thought
less crowd.
An Irish monk once called on his con-
gregation to thank God that death had
been placed at the end of life instead of
the middle.
A colored woman of BelltOwn, Va,
a few days ago left her nineteen-months-
old child alone in the cabin, and an old
SOW entered and ate it up, all except an
arm and the head.
We never could believe that Provi-
dence had sent few men into the world,
ready booted and spurred to ride, and
millions ready saddled and bridled 10
be ridden.
Changers, if you want early Irish po-
tatoes have your ground and manure
prepared by the dark of the moon in
February, as that is the time we have
set for pitching the early crop.
Be something-be somebody. Set
your mark high in the world, and then
move toward it. Don't wait for some
body to lift you up to the place you as
pire-lift yourself.
a lady who assumes to know how boys
ought to be trained, writes as follows:
"Oh, mothers hunt out the soft, ten
der, genial side of your boys nature"
Mothers often dO-with an old shoe.
A Missouri pig lately rooted up two
thousand dollars in gold which was bur
led by its owner during the war. The
owner was killed, and his heirs would
have missed their Inheritance had it
not been for the pig. Moral keep a
pig.
q The Butcher Knife" and Bulldozer,"
printed with pen, are two publications
which have recently made their appear
ance in OOltewah. They are edited by
everyb ody and published by nobody in
particular
Horace Greeley said that of the
thousands he lent the most he ever re-
ceived back was a $5 note inclosed in
letter, and upon tracing out the writer
of the letter he found that it came from
q lunatic in the Utica Asylum who new
er owed him a cent.
Eph Horns last joke was made on his
death bed. On leaving him two hours
before his death, Tony Pastor cheered
him little by expressing the belief
that soon he would be well again. The
dying minstrel's eyes frightened, and
he said, Il guess SO, Tony; was always
a good man at the end" These were
his last words.
Norristown Herald; ''Love makes 12S
pounds Of girl feel no heavier than a
feather on a fellows knee" Fulton
Times: And the same fellow would
have his leg eramped all out of shape
by seventy-ive pounds of wife" Dan
bury Meas: THAT would depend some
what upon whose wife she was" Not
at all. A fellow never puts himself to
the trouble to find out whose property
he lays his hands upon.
We viii never be self-sustaining and
prosperous people as long as we send
abroad and pay high prices for articles
that we can raise ourselves. During the
coming spring thousands of dollars will
be sent North for Irish potato seed, |
when, by a little trouble and care, as
good potatoes can be grown here as
there. An acre of potatoes, rightly put
in, will pay better than five acres of
corn. If our farmers would do more
garden farming they would find it more
profitable than putting the whole world
in corn and wheat.
Those who "grope," sometimes
grope wilfuIly. A man who feels |