The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-13
The MorristOVn Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 6, 1877.
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Queen Victoria has granted a pension
of 75z to each of the Misses DeFoe, de
scendants of the author.
Twelve counties of lower Michigan
are again undergoing the same fiery
scourge as in 1871.
Sophia Frederika Matilda, Queen Of
Holland, died at The Hague, June 8,
aged fifty-nine years.
Senators Morton, Salisbury and Win,
dom have gone to Oregon to investigate
Grover.
Mr. G.. A. Butler, brother of Hon. r.
r. Butler, died of paralysis on the 2ath
ult,, at Newport, Giles county, Va.
Gen. ]. B. Hood, of Confederate fame,
recently realized, it is said, 100000 in
a speculation in Louisiana State securi-
ties.
John G.. SAKE, one of the greatest of
American humorists, is reported as ly-
dangerously i'll in New York. He is said
to be in very limited circumstances.
Four car loads of Knox county marble
have been shipped from Knoxville, to be
used in the Stock Exchange, in course
of erection at San Francisco.
Rev. J. G. Froker, who was cashier of
bank at Wichita, Kansas, found to be
a defaulter in the sum of ninety thous-
and dollars, absconded, but was recent
ly captured at Ell Passo, Texas.
The prospect of large fruit crop in
Georgia is reported good, and unusual
facilities are being made by the South
ern Express Company for its transpor-
tation to market.
Boston had sixty divorce cases in one
week and Chicago is jealous. But then
there's the twelve hundred and forty col
umns of tax sales. Boston will never APP
proach that.
The Nashville AnaerIcan says there is
a man in Dyer county who has lived
there fifty-three years without having
been ten miles away from home. He is
a farmer and has never been even as far
as the limits of the county.
On the Cd instant, George Sanderson,
residing fifteen miles from Memphis,
took shelter from storm under tree,
which was struck by lightning, and his
body so horribly mangled as to be hard
ly recognizable.
Ten States VIII hold elections before
Congress meets, viz Oregon in June;
North Carolina and Alabama in August;
Arkansas, California, Vermont, Maine
in September; and West Virginia, Ohio
and Indiana in October.
In an election for school trustees in
Denver, Colorado, votes were cast by
323. women Only one was challenged,
a miss of eighteen, who knew she was
old enough to marry and thought she
old enough TO vote.
Forty-eight Presbyterian sects, of diff
ferent organizations, though founded
upon the same basis of genera. belief.
will be represented in the council of the
Pan Presbyterian Assembly, which will
be held in Edinburgh the I'd of July.
If we may credit the foreign kilograms,
the Gar has determined to cross the
Danube on the 18th instant. This noti-
fcation in advance shows candor, even
if not discretion. The gen tie Tnrk can
now be preparing for the shock, and will
not suffer from unpleasant surprise.
Gov Robinson, of New York, is the
champion vetoist. He has refused his
signature to about fifty bills, and over a
hundred are still in his hands, many of
which will share the same fate. The
want of the veto power by the Governor,
or a man with the stamina to use it, has
been felt in many of our States.
A Paris grocer offers for sale small
bits of macaroni, for use in soup, which
are stamped with the image of Napoleon
III. instead of, as ordinarily, with the
letters of the alphabet. When the mac
aroni swells the features enlarge until
the nose, mustache and profile of the
late Emperor stand in relief.
The Memphis appeal has lengthy re-
port of the financial condition of the
Memphis and Charleston road. The
prospective lease to the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia road is the only
hope of salvation. Five hundred and
twenty-four thousand dollars to be rails
ed by the 1st of July, will prevent this.
The American whaling schooner, .El-
len Rizpah. of Provincetown, Mass, was
boarded by Spanish cruiser, while TAX
ing oil on the keys, south of Cuba, and her
demanded under penalty of pun
The Captain produced his pa
pers, but they were considered INSULT
cient and he was detained four days in
close confinement, until the arrival of a
Spanish frigate.
NJ. Gambetta, in a recent congratula-
speech to the students of Paris on their
firmness and patience under the present
attitude of French affairs, gave it as his
opinion that legal bounds would not be
the judgment of the
people would decide the matter. In case
of MacMahon's resignation, the French
would again find a Constitutional Presi-
dent in NJ Thiers.
A furious STERN struck Mount Carmel,
Illinois, about o'clock, p M, June 4,
causing great loss of life and destruction
of property. Twelve persons are known
to be killed, thirty.to fifty wounded and
about twenty missing. Among the build
Jugs destroyed are the Presb yterian and
Methodist Churches, two school houses,
and several stores and resi-
dences.
An amendment to the Virginia Con-
recently adopted makes the pre-
payment of a capitation tax condition
of the exercise of the right of suffrage.
This the New York Sun very correctly