The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-01-03

--.Almanacs for 1877 are ripe,
- Rabbit-hunting has commenced.
= The thermometer stood at zero last
Sunday.
There are $4,000 able-bodied men
out of employment in New York.
How can people put coal on : der
when they can't get it
A $50, fire recently occurred in
Collierville, Tenn.
- Our merchants report a lively trade
during the holidays.
A North Carolinaian has married
his mother-in-law.
= Santa Claus has been very good to
our people on the whole.
Show us the man who composed the
poem entitled 1.-THE Beautiful Snow!"
If any man says the weather isn't
cold, buss him on the snoot-hard.
= Fifty Cincinnati tramps refused
two weeks work in coal yard.
"A party of illegal voters in Cincin-
natl have been sentenced to year in
prison.
- "The snow, the beautiful snow" is
now lying OF the ground to the depth of
10 inches.
Mrs Jemima Letter, a grand niece
of Daniel Boone, died in Caldwell coun-
ty, N. c., few days ago, aged 81.
Kansas City claims to be the largest
horse and mule market west of Saint
Louis.
The oldest member of the United
States Senate is Simon Cameron Of Penn
sylvania, who first took his seat in 1915.
Hayes is dead He got killed on an
Ohio railroad accident the other day.
But he is not Rutherford B.
Nothing is worse for those who
have business than the visits Of those
who have none.
: Gov. Hayes personally denies the
rumor of his intention to resign the
Govcrnorship of Ohio.
- John L. Helms, editor of this paper,
left last Sunday week for the Capital,
where duty calls him.
- The season for going to candy-pulls
and getting into fight over a freckled-
face girl, with blue boa on, has struck
this section.
= Hon. E. O.. Tate, our Representa-
tive elect, left last Thursday morning
for the Capital
The festive boy is perfectly willing
to remain indoors at nights now. Cold
weather.
- Since the cold nights have set in
the mewsic of the Theo. Thomas cats, in
the streets, has lost its usual charm.
This is the. severest winter the old
est inhabitants have experienced for a
number of years.
A wagon load of turkeys came into
town last Saturday. Christmas has Gre
ated turkey-fever among our people.
- We notice paper shirt-fronts are be-
fashionable with some of our
nice young men.
: The man who keeps the coolest
stove nowadays is troubled the least
by loafersl Try it.
: The sum realized from the Good
Templars' superior the benefit of the
widows and orphans-we learn amount
I'd to about $2S.
The Colorado House of Representa-
ives has woman for engrossing clerk.
The principal thing she engrosses is the
attention of the members.
= Charlie Sewers, of Bristolon-the-
inc, has our thanks for an appropriate
Christmas present, in the shape of fine,
dressed turkey.
= Mike Foggarty, of Knoxville, last
week received flesh wound in his
high by the accidental discharge of a
pistol in his pants pocket.
- Morristown Stayed as many turkeys
Turing the holidays as any other town
# its size or wealth in the State.
''He lives in vain, alas
Who leaving life,
Has missed on earth
The love of child and wife"
= Rev, o. G. Pope, editor Baptist Re
Iector, returned from Georgia, accom-
panied by his wife, last Saturday, where
hey spent the holidays with relatives.
= Rev. Mr. Kennedy, of North Caro-
ina, delivered an interesting sermon at
he Methodist church in this place last
thursday night
A Kansas railroad brakeman let go
is hold to pick his teeth, and he lived
nst long enough to explain how it hap
ened
We understand that the amateur
FANATIC club of New Market purposes
living an entertainment in this place at
n early day. Let them come, we will
" to give them full house.
= The matrimonial disease is again
reyalent in Morristown. 1t is operat-
lg chiefly among our. bachelor friends,
nd bids fair to take hold We thought
he last move of ''old prob" would stir
lem upl
= The ladies of Morristown are all
allowed with a goodly quantity of en-
,gy. They can face the bleak, chilly
inds any dayS to purchase a wooden
etticoat or new pair of patent hose.
= If the cold spell continues, we think
essrs. Rowe g. Butt might do profit ;
Die business in making tin snout-
oughs for persons laboring with bad I
lids. Il
- Two Tennessee cx-convicts are now /
.stors of Methodist churches in the far I
-estern States. They reformed while t
the penitentiary, and became teach
s of the convicts' Sunday y
. The Knoxville scavengers devoted I
lie entire day last week in trying to t
,ep the crossings clean, but gave it up I
disgust as a bad job. What a sad i
mmentary on the enterprise of that
"! $
. Who is he ? The Detroit Fres Press t
Us there is man in Tennessee with a
ch big feet that if he gets them wet in c