The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-28
The Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. FEB. ;. 1877.
NEWS ITEMS.


tinued story on fourth pnge. com
mencing 10 to-day's GAZETTE.
Hats with blue glass crowns vii
be worn this spring by weak-mindeC
persona. ~
Thirty-fve thousand valentine
passed through the New York post
Office on the l4th, the greatest mum
Der ever received there.
A Texas physician recently raised
a sweet potato that weighed 184
pounds.
A parrott is said to live to be 2OO
years old. A barber does not live
SO long, but he talks more.
The Kansas Legislature has ex-
eluded a reporter from its sittings
because he called it unintellectual.
By the dismissal OF the music
teachers in the schools of Brooklyn,
that city is saving $4,000 year.
America is now furnishing Nor
way with her agricultural impIe-
ments, chasing England from the
field.
In Texas wild turkeys are a dol
lar dozen, and whisky is fifty cents
a drink-toe much turkey.
They say the new Cabot bonnet"
makes lady look like an overgrOwn
baby or an old aPple-woman.
Widow Van Colt says there are 400
miles Of rum-shops and $4.OOO,O00
drunkards in the United States, and
she calls this temperance.
An Indian local reporter. in Oma-
ha, for his first days work. got thir-
ty-six other Indians into a.fght for
the sake Of the paragraph.
In about a fortnight the new COM
ct will be visible in the evening sky.
AS yet the astronomers don't appear
to recognize the visitor at all.
Two dogs fought in a Kentucky
pit until both were disabled; and
then their masters fought with pis-
tolls until one was mortally wounded.
FOrty-four female Treasury clerks
have arrived in New York to count
$2,OOO.OOO worth OF revenue stamp
paper.
What this country needs is re-
lieion which will make a man feel
that it is just as cold for his wife to
get up and make a fire as it is for
himself.
1t is not proper to pick your teeth
with jack-knife, unless your are the
agricultural editor of a city paper
and want 10 assert your rights.
Two tin boxes, containing over
$160.000 in bonds, mortgages, ETC.,
have mysteriously disappeared from
the safe of King Brothers. bankers,
New York.
Miss Annie Brogdon died of hy-
drophobia at Hyde Park, New York.
Saturday, resulting from the bite of
q pet Spitz dog.
The operatives in the Wamsutta
mills Of New Bedford. Massachu-
setts, $500 in number, have struck
because the company now refuse to
restore the ten per cent. reduction
on the 1st Of March according to
promise.
A large number efNew York busi-
ness men have signed memorial to
Congress to pass the bill appropriat-
ing $50, 900 for the establishment of
@ colony in the arctic regions to ex-
plore those regions and for the dis
covery Of the North pole.
A. AT;.n,xoTt, AFirn Er;Jo-
evening. VIM. II. Sidle, young man
or high position in society, and as
sistant cashier Of the First National
Bank OF that city. was shot by
young woman named Kate Noonan,
who alleges that he had ruined and
then deserted her. Sidle died Sat
urday morning. Miss Noonan was
arrested. She betrayed no remorse.
a frightful famine is reported as
prevailing in Southern and Western
Indies. The London Times states
that in little more than a couple of
months 100000 people must abso-
lutely trust to the Government for
the barest necessaries of existence.
Describing a similar aff1iction, Burke
once spoke Of "a nation in beggary,"
"a whole people stretching out its
hands for bread" These phrases
are not the exaggerations OF rhetor-
ic, says the Times; they are severe
ly accurate descriptions OF the ca
lamity which now threatens a large
part Of the Indian Empire. !
The Centennial peeuniary steal
was appropriately committed in Phil
adelphia, and in connection with The
exhibition. The State tax payable
by the 1000 hotels. most of which
sPrang into existence for the Cen
tenulal was 500. Not more than
$50 was paid in any case. The
Sta'e therefore loses about 81 ,OOO,-
600.
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