The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-17


illness at Washington.
Memphis, Tenn was excited the other day over !
ahydrOphObia-stricken mule, that went foaming |
around trying to bite any and everything. 1t sue
CSC 4 in biting horse and then died.
re Nashville American thinks the Deadwood
coach appears to be run for the express purpose
of being robbed. Its passengers are generally
deadheads before the journey is over.
The prisoners in the Jail at ST. Louis, Mo, es-
peciay the negroes believe that it IS haunted an
are in state of abject terror. woman died
from the effect of fright.
DR.. H. W Hasslock, prominent citizen of
Nashville, Tenn, and Postmaster for four years,
up to last spring, died recently Of apoplery.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Schultz has been appointed
Postmistress at Salem, Illinois.
Springfield, Tenn shipped 615 hhds. Of tobacco
during the past season.
Manchester, Tenn, shipped 1886 pounds of
dried fruit in day recently.
Plans are maturing among Republican politiei-
ans at Washington to bring forward General Grant
as Presidential candidate in 1880.
The air pump is the most dangerous tool en-
ployed by burglars.
Michael Kuhn, butcher, was thrown from his
| buggy recently in Cummingyilie, Ohio, and in
stantly killed.
Hon John F. House is favorably spoken of as a
candidate for the next Speaker of the House
Dartmouth students have decided to wear caps
and gowns.
| Cordelia Howard, the original Eva in tn play Of
''Uncle Toms Cabin" is wife now, with two
children.
! Look out for horse thieves-they now on the
rampage.
Gen. n. B. Forrest, whose life despaired of
several weeks ago, is getting well.
Rev. J A Hyden has severed his connection
with the HoIston N. E. Conference, and been
transferred to Kansas.
! A youth found dead. recently, in Memphis
Tenn, lying upon wood-pile the bank of the
river, near the Pamela Oil Works. Letters found
on his person, showed him to be j. D. Laughln,
of DR.. R G. Laughiin, of Bloomington, Ill.
An old man named Carper, living in the 5th civ
il district of Bradley county, Tenn, the night of
the 9Th instant cut his daughters throat, struck
her child on the head with smoothing iron then
cut its throat, and afterwards killed himself He
| was avowed atheist.
The Court House at Maynardvine, Tenn, was
recently fired by an incendiary, but the flames
| were extinguished without much damage to the
building.
| Inc Gait House, LOUISVILLE, n.y., was sold the Sd
inst at assignee's sale for $4,000. The orig
inal cost exceeded a s, 100000.
Jack Hunt, the Monroe county, Tenn, wife
murderer is under sentence of death and will ex-
plate his crime November 80
Diptheria is reported raging in several sections
of North Carolina.
The Dahlonega (Ga.) Signal is enthusiastic over
tue gold region Of that section, and believes the
gold-felds to be rich those Of California.
Seven hundred and eighty delegates recently at
tended the General Episcopal Convention at Bos-
ton.
An excursion train on the Pickering Valley rail-
road, badly wrecked the 4th near PhosnIxviIle.
Twelve persons killed and fifty wounded.
U. S. Senator J. J. Patterson recently ar
rested at Washington upon a requisition from
Gov. Hampton, Of South Carolina.
Special detectives have no authority for serving
State warrants. Seven arrested at Nashville
recently for undertaking that business.
Mr.. W. I. Parham, of Maryvine, Tenn e, received
1900 pounds of honey from SIS hives this season.
Joseph Molash killed VIM. Mohour with bill
lard at Fort Wayne, Ind, recently. Molash
escaped.
DIR. Thompson Senator Morton's ply siciAn, says
the Senator will probably be able to take his seat
in December, but viii not be able to use crutches
or canes again.
"we've had a fight" says Howard, Though
I've not yet learned our losses
They're heavy. But we killed one squaw
And captured seven horses"
Diptheria raging at Columbia, Tenn, last
week, resulting in a number of deaths.
The Woolen Mills at Trenton, n J., were de-
stroyed by FIRE few days ago. Loss, $4,000.
Sixteen tramps were recently arraigned before
Mayor Rankin, at Milan, Tenn, and not being able
to pay their fines were placed in the chain gang.
A tramp shot Alfred H. wyant, constable of
Washington, Conn, the other day, mOrtally
wounding him in the right lung. wyants dog
sprang upon the tramp. and dragged him to the
earth. The prisoner was then secured
John O'Brien, the head OF the Pay Division of
the Sixth Auditors Office, Washington, dis
charged recently for reckless dishonesty.
Col. J. c. Stanton one of the enterprising giants
of Chattanooga, has leased the street railway of
that city.
The sorghum crop is reported unusually large in
Gibson county, Tenn. Sorghum sells at % cents a
gallon there, and considered fair price
The recent storm in Virginia did considerable
damage to railways by wash-outs.
The Car has concluded not to have Turkey for
his Thanksgiving this year.
Several cities in Georgia are hghting til . Central
Railroad ON account Of Its extortions. At Jones'
boro' cotton is being hauled to Atlanta, twenty
miles, in wagons, and goods are taken back in the
same vehicles.
The steamer Massachusetts, from Providence
for New York, went ashore Horizons Point,
Long Island Sound, at midnight, last week. The
passengers, 200 in number, including rs Indies
were landed by surf boats. She lies 400 feet from
shore fun Of water.
The Knoxville Tribune reports ffty-seven pris-
oners confined in the county Jail, and twenty-nins
in the workhouse.
DR.. G. n. whitthorne, OF Fayette county, TIE nn
died last Sunday week. He brother Of Hon
W. C. whitthorne, NJ. c., from the Maury district
large number of persons were accidently
poisoned few days since at reception given &c
Mr.. Jas Culbert and wife at the residence of bis
father in Washington county, Tenn.
bold attempt was made last week to destroy
the Knoxville Iron company's property at Goa
Greek, in Anderson county, by arson and moi
violence. Twenty-Five thirty men came down
from the mountain, captured the guards, and fired
the Iron company's office, which, together with
she Company's books and papers, was consumed
They then made an unsuceessfuI attempt to FIRE
the ''shute," frame structure used for sliding
coal ON to the cars. No arrests were made. GOV
Porter has issued proclamation, Offering two
hundred and hity dollars reward for the principals
in the move.