The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-01
NEWS AsunGMARY.l


The first regular passenger train over
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad left
Ludlow for Somerset on the 23d ult., at
O'Clock, with about forty passengers.
Gov. McCreary, of Kentucky, declines
the invitation to the gathering of Gov
ernors al White Sulphur, on account of
official duties and personal engage
ments.
The two foremost actors in the Gin
cinnati crowd that sought to fire the
Ohio and Mississippi depot were noto-
rious professional thieves, and not rail-
road or working men at all.
1t appears that Spain is making des-
perate effort to suppress the Cuban re-
bellion. There have been nine years of
war, and its suppression is no nearer
than at first.
The Cumberland (Ky.) Courier says
that the Cumberland river is now COW
cred for miles with oil from the new
Crocus well. At SCOTS Ferry it has
been floating fully half an inch deep on
the river surface, from bank to bank.
DR.. Theodore w. Fisher, of Boston,
report eight cases of insanity that have
come under his observation during the
last two months, all caused by undue
religious excitement growing out of the
Moody and Sankey revival.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is in
Washington He says he is not sur
prised at the alarming proportions the
strike has assumed. He charges it to
the ruinous policy of the Government in
shrinking values and enforced contrac-
ton.
The officers of the Pennsylvania Rail
way Company avow their intention to
make not the slightest concession to the
strikers Col. Scott, President of the
Company, says if the people can get
along without his roads, the roads will
try to get along without the people.
A Washington special to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer of the Gath ult., says the
events of the last five days have settled
definitely that the specie resumption act
must be repealed as soon as Congress
meets. Further, that Secretary Sher-
man must call halt in a ruinOus finan-
cial policy which has contributed not a
little to bring about the chaos and dis
order now upon the country.
A Washington special says there is a
general feeling there that the present
strike will convince Secretary Sherman
that his ruinous policy of contraction
and forced resumption which has been
sown to the wind is reaping whirwind.
If the trouble now upon great railway
corporations, and which threatens all
diversified channels of skill and labor,
is not sufficient to convince Mr.. Hayes
that Sherman's policy is ruinous one,
nothing certainly can. The impression
is that the only good thing which the
strike has brought about is the demand
ofthc people forther repeal of the resump-
ton act in October, 1t is regarded as a
wise lesson, but brought with sad and
bloody experience"
John Stable was sent TO the Chicago
lunatic asylum about a year ago. Six
months afterward his wife was inform
ed by the authorities that he had died,
and been buried. She put on mourning
and went to work to support her family.
Recently she went to the asylum to learn
exactly where he was buried, and was
astonished on hearing her husbands
voice She was hustled away, but a re-
sort to Law enabled her to release him.
He was sane when arrested, but his mind
had not been clear long enough for him
to remember much of his experience in
the asylum. Six hundred dollars that
he had when incarcerated was missing.
The Sazarac Lying Clubs meetings
are reported in the Austin New Re0eile.
The members are very able liars, ac-
cording to what we read about them.
One of them stood up in recent meet
ing and said: " The telegraph COM
pany are now using the quadruplex sys-
tenn over the Virginia and Salt Lake cir
cult, by means of which four messages
may be sent simultaneously over single
wire. The increase strain on the wire is
not visible here in Austin, but ! was out
at Dry Creek yesterday and in that
vicinity the wire was just humping it
self, and groauing and straining, and
dropping words off in chunks. I cx-
amined the wire and found knot N it,
and came to the conclusion that qua
druplex message had struck the knot
and got tangled up and struck at
wire out, but section of an account of
a battle between the Turks and Russians
struck me on the ear and knocked me
down, and I concluded that it was not
advisable to fool with the thing
The King of Gaboon, the oldest ma
tive Prince on the African coast, died
about the beginning of May at the adj
vanoed age of 100 years, and was sue
ceeded by his eldest son, Andaunte, who
at once broke up his fathers harem and
oashired the women to the number of
100, liberated all the deceased Kings
slaves, and abolished the sacrifice of
human beings at religious rites. He has
also informed the traders on the Gaboon
river that he will take Immediate steps
to facilitate and open up the trade of the
river and the roads leading to the inte-
rior.
Lafayette Hughes registered in the
LindelI Hotel, St. Louis, and told the
clerk that he had come there from his
home in Chicago to stop drunkenness.
He had been on long spree, and was
very nervous from the effect of it. He
deposited all his money in the safe, so
that he could not buy liquor, and went
to the theatre, hoping that the enter
tainment might divert his thoughts from
his craving for alcohol. Late at night