The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-07-18
NEWS ITEMS.


the South. 1t has 343 factories, giving
employment to II, 900 persons.
Deputy Marshal Frank, of North Caro-
lima, charged wi tn defrauding the Gov
eminent by false vouchers, has been held
to bail in the sum of s., OOO for his APP
pearance in Ashville, to answer the
charge.
special Washington dispatch states
that the President is tired of the impor-
unities of office-seekers who still be-
| siege BIN in crowds, and has announced
his intention to make at once the bulk Of
the appointments which lie viii make
before Congress meets.
The Pierce City CIo.) Record says
When a good many people get to
heaven the greatest surprise will be to
learn that the recording angel had cred
tied the occasional dollar for a subscrip-
ton to a country newspaper to the ac-
| c cunt of just debt, and not to charity.
President Hayes has appointed Mr..
George G.. Tanner formerly of Augusta,
now of Spartanburg, S. c., Consul to
Verviers and Liege, Belgium Mr. Tan
| ner was recommended to President
Hayes by Gov Hampton. He was
! gallant Confederate soldier during the
war Tally one more.
The announcement of the proposed
Democratic gathering at White Sulphur
this month is not received with favor by
Democrats at Washington. Several pro-
minent Southern Democrats, including |
Senator Ransom, dcnounce the contem- |
plated gathering as very unwise and i'm |
polite
There are upwards of 100, 900 head of
cattle in the immediate vicinity of |
Dodge City, Kansas some of the herds
running high in the thousands There
is a single herd numbering LOCO, an
other Of Fl, 900, and one Of II, 900 The
Texas drive into Dodge City this year
will run close to two hundrf Thousand
Oakley S. Barker, aged % grand son
of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, has
been arrested in New York on the
charge of stealing "A gold watch, chain
and lOcket from a young woman whom
he knew. 1t is said that Barker, the
day of his arrest, came into possession
of an annual income of $4,000
The Savannah Nelcs believes that the
lands of northern Georgia are based
upon a gold-bearing stratum quite fabu-
lous in it's richness. At Dahloncga the
other day, directly after the falling of a |
heavy shower of ram, little barefoot
street urchin found fifteen or twenty
large PARTICLES of gold in about half Il |
gallon of earth, scraped up in front of
the Court House door.
The wife of Gen. Sherman, who has
been Jealous in the service of the RO- /
man Catholic Church, is to receive from
the Pope in consideration of that zeal :. :
the " Golden Rose" which has hitherto f
been bestowed only upon very great
persons. The Empress of Austria has
it-sO has the Queen of Naples and the L
Empress Eugene. Don't bet on it.
Among hcnary degrees lately confer
ed by Amherst College, Massachusetts,, q
vas that of d. d. upon Roman G lth-
bic clergyman, Father Hewitt, of New
Ork. This is a long advance in the di- q
ectiOn of liberalism AMI Is worthy of
uch an institution Father Hewitt is IL
me of the Pauiist fathers, a ripe Schol- b
II, and a Jealous Clri,tian minister, be- al
owed by all ProtestIats who know him.
1t is announced that Elg land will not 6
leclare war or interfere The decara-
ion of Russia with re gard to Egypt ap-
'ears to have been satisfactory, although p
Ter nOn-cOmmittal utteranc1 concerning al
jOustantinople was not. Russia has of
cred Egypt to almost every European =,
'ower, and none would take it and leave =.
jonstantinOple to Russia Perhaps a
England is disposed to make virtue of g
necessity and take what she declined i'm M
854 "
The grand jury Of Blltim pre- county,
Id, has presented two Judges Of the
county Circuit Court for malfeasance C.
n office. The preseutment was agreed y
pon while four of the grand jurors were
bsent, and it is understood that three
f those present obtained the action
The whole thing is a ctmpIign dodge to
elp on the election of certain members &C
f the grand jury, who are candidates g Tt
or county offices. Ia reply to q repor- tn
er, Judge Hellott said that if he does DC
Ot have these grand jurors indicted for Vi
erjury he will be liable to Indictment uI
or felony, and that he means to do his ~
uty. The penalty for perjury is not cl
ess than five nor more than ten years in "
he penitentiary. ~
Henry Perrean, news OF whose cor Nj
cmnatiOn to death liz Austria is hrnnnht