The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-01-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

i Mr.. Lavinder, formerly OF Lynchbnrg,
Va, through Col John 8. Mosby, has
been appointed postal agent on the
Lynchburg and Bristol railway post
Office.
Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, one Of
the oldest officers in the United States
Navy, died the 10th in Washington,
aged IS years. @
Bennett, mt last accounts, now turns
J up in Jacksonville, Florida Do tell
/ John Corbett. Nashville steamboat
clerk, lately attempted suicide, and win
probably not repeat the experiment.
Nashville sells eight hundred barrels
of beer and ale per month.
Fears are entertained that damaging
overflow in the lower parts of Edgefeld,
opposite Nashville, on the Cumberland,
viii ensue If the rains continue.
Milton and French, of Kingston, Ten
nessee, recently lost 90, 600 feet OF lum-
Der, in logs, carried on with the ice.
The East Tennessee University, al
Athens, has 1875 students enrolled
The Jonesboro' Journal states that
Mrs. J. F. Grisham, of that place, while
walking last week fell and broke her arm.
Films Walker was recently elected
Mayor of Athens, Tenn; N. G. Jones,
Recorder; and re-electing T. II. George,
as Marshal.
Good beef in Polk county, Tennessee,
sells at three cents on foot.
Thomas Melton, an old and respecta-
BILE citizen of McMinn county, died
few days ago.
| Eight Polk county men, according to
the Cleveland Banner, were recently
weighed and averaged 2s7 pounds each.
Mr. Elliot Spiller, . student of Hamp-
den Sidney College, Va, accidently shot
and killed himself few days ago.
Jack O'Leary, brakeman en- the
Knoxville and Charleston railroad, fell
from train last week, and was severely
bruised about the head and body
The Chattanooga Times says a negro
man lately shot aud badly hurt white |
boy on the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
and made his escape.
James G.. Blaine has been elected |
United States Senator from Maine for
the short term.
The Abingdon lVa.) Standard reports
the rivers and creeks are very heavily |
swollen from the effects of the rains and |
melting snow.
Bennett appears to be failure both
as sutton and shooter. |
Ten thousand dollars has been given
to the two boys of Mr. p. p Bliss.
-Four attempts have been made to de-
stroy the town of Darlington, S. g.,
by fire since election day.
Arms and munitions Of war are to be
removed from Baton Rouge to Fortress
Monroe, within a week.
The salaries of all the employees Of
the Departments of Charities and Cor
rections, in New York, were reduced 20
per cent. lately.
Senator Conkling is reported sanguine
OF successful termination of the labors
of the Committee on counting the cleo
toral vote.
1t is said Mr.. Tilden favors Nation
al Democratic Convention before the
4th of March.
The Republicans assert that Governor
Williams, of Indiana, is organizing the
State militia.
Delmonico uses one and half pounds
of coffee to a gallon of water, pouring
the hot water upon the coffee, which is
placed in strainer. The coffee is new
er boiled.
Messrs. Hall and Cree, evangelists,
will hold series of meetings in Knox
vile on the Esd and 24th insts. Norris
town would be another excellent field
for them to operatein, and we trust they
will come. h
At Athens, the Post says, on the morn
ing of the Sd inst, the thermometer
showed % degrees below zero; on the
morning of the 18th, il stood mt SO above.
The Greeneville IsstezfCencer says the
Eiizabethton Rept6lioGn has petered out,
which is to say, the long pole Of these
hard times has knocked its Fitzsimmons.
The Athens Post says 81 head of mules
passed through that place lately for At
ianta, Georgia.
The Republicans of the Pennsylvania
Legislature held caucus on the 18th.
They declared for Hayes-or blood. Il
The breaking of the ice gorge at Pitts
burg and other points on the Ohio river
entailed great loss to coal barges and
steamboats,.
All the Southern Pacific railway pro-
jeets seem to have finally been CONSOLE
dated and now stand good chance to
receive aid from the Government
Lucille Western, prominent actress .
and well known throughout the country, 3
died in New York, aged thirty
four years. "A
According to the Vicksburg Herald
The negro is learning that rolling stone
gathers no moss, something that many
southern white people have never UNI
ierstood,
In JoneshoFot Tennessee, Saturday !
before, last, the following gentlemen
Eere elected Aldermen: e. L. Blair, /. !
7. Babb, A. S. Deaderick, Z. d. Stem
ms, S. J. kirkpatrick, John'A. Grisham
nd q. @. Oakley. - IL
Rev. Enos. ID. Hopkins, Of st. Johns
,uFy. Vermont, charged with forging 7,
he endorsement on draft for $541, 'waa !
committed 10 jail IN that place the 10th n
Instant, in JeFault OF Of 800 bonds. "A 4
The Memphis Ledger says thu. town or y
Vest Tennessee and North Mississippi
re now infested by tramps and thieves,
nd the citizens of such. places are com
tanning londly about the robberies com
aitted almost nightly.
We. learn through the Jonesboro'
oarnat, little son OF Allen 7. Carriger
ear Elizabethton, Tenn, accidently