The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-09-12
The MOrFiSt0Wl Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 1a 1877.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1t is generally DelleFeu III ClHCihhatA
the city will soon raise the $4,000 600
necessary to complete, the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, erect shops, dePots,
and furnish such rolling stock as Will
be needed, and will then either run it or
make a permanent lease. So says a
Chattanooga contemporary.
Bishop Haven is in favor of annex ing
Liberia to the United States. He thinks
he saw great deal in that sunny land,
while on his recent visit there, which
would make it very desirable addition
to our territory. Probably the next
thing Brother Haven would favor annex
ing would be the rest Of Africa.
1t has cost the State of Maryland a
hundred thousand dollars to pay her
militia employed in suppressing the late
riot. The rate Of pay allowed for men
and officers was the same as in the reg
ular army. Subsistence and transporta-
tion bills and incidental expenses will
probably amount to as much more.
A young man giving his name as
George King and claiming to hail from
East Tennessee, was caught by the Nash
Vile police few nights ago, apparently
attempting a burglary in that city and
was sentenced to the work house to
work out the small sum Of 800, which
will deprive his folks wherever they are,
the pleasure of his company for few
days at least.
! Nashville started a special train laden
with / 200 barrels of f1Onr for Port
Royal last evening. The flour will be
| loaded on the steamship Mexico at Port
] Royal and carried direct to Liverpool,
the consignment having been made di-
rect from Nashville to Liverpool by a
party of Nashville merchants. It is an
experiment, and we hope it may be a
successful one.
Jas. II. Taylor, one Of the proprietors
Of the Sweetwater Machine Shops, was
fatally injured last week by the explo-
sion of an emerystOne at which he was
at work at the time. He is said to have
been badly mangled, aud suffered IN
tensely until death released him. Mr..
Taylor was worthy, enterprising man.
He leaves a wife and children.
The tax aggregate of Knox county is
published in the Tribune. The total
value of town lots in the country is as
sessed at So, ,532 ,2GO Total value of
other real estate, S3,686, ,954. Other
property, $8O9, ,891. Grand total 50, 031,- !
1O5. The assessments for 1876 were as
follows: Town lots, 50, 935, ,8O4. Other
real estate So, ,954, go. Other property, |
81, ,041 ,O62 Grand total, $8.931 ,521. |
The net falling off from the assessment
Of last year is 5000, 41J, or q little more
than 10 per cent.
Many leading members of both branch
es of Congress have appealed to the
President to revoke his proclamation |
calling an extra session of Congress in T
October, considering the session unnec- /
essary, and no account or interfering /
with their fall business before the !
Courts, many of them being lawyers. 1t
is stated that the President says he made
the call after maturely considering eve
~ point and that there are good reasons
why an extra session should be called
The Chicago Inter Ocean having adj
dressed circular letter to various mem
bers OF Congress asking them tOindicate
their position on the subject of remone-
tizing silver, has received replies from
1877. OF these 131 favor repeating the
law of 1873, and restoring the silver
dollar to it's old place in coinage, 10
favor remonetizing, with conditions at
tached; 19 oppose renonetizing; 81 are
undecided, and 2 decline to answer
These answers represent every State, and
include 81 Senators and 1856 Representa-
tives. OF the latter 113 advocate the
measure and 13 oppose it.
The London Economist OF Aug. 4, has
elaborate comparative tables of prices,
from which it appears that the present
price of wheat in England is sixty four
shillings and six pence per quarter,
while six months ago the price was on
ly nfty-two shillings and three pence,
and year ago forty-eight shillings and
two pence-that is to say, the price OF
wheat is thirty-three and one-third per
cent higher than it was year ago,
which will be a great stimulus to acttvi- |
ty in forwarding the new crop.@The |
price of cotton is not so high as it was |
year ago, nor is it likely to be should the |
Turkish war continue.