The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-27
ThG M0rPist0Vn Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 81, 1877.
NEWS SUMMARY.


Robert Rhodes at Wales Station, Giles
county, recently.
Mr. William H. Vanderbilt reduced
the rent of one of his railroad eating
houses from $4,000 to 81 500 on the
lessee promising to give up his bar.
John Lathrop Motley, the deceased
historian, was fellow-student at Got
tingen and Berlin with Bismarck.
According to the Washington Repal6-
tican Hamilton Fish could get the Eng
lish Mission if he desired it, but he has
determined to take rest.
Mr.. Bell, assistant Secretary of the
Interior, has brought suit for libel
against the New York Sun, assessing
damages at 800, 600.
Many Misses are putting on their first
long dresses, and are preparing to feel
insulted by the first thoughtless and in
nocent who speaks of one of them as "a
girl.
remarkable band of horse thieves
has been discovered in Missouri and
Illinois. One of them, named Lowe, is
preacher and recently got up a revival
meeting at Havana, Illinois, to enable
his associates to steal the best horses in
the neighborhood. He is in jail
An exchange says that silver half-dol-
lars have become a positive nuisance.
They have never been found to be
nuisance in this part of the world. Hap
py is the land that bas such an objection
to them.
A New York butcher lately bought his
cattle on thirty days, sent them to Eng
land, sold them, and was informed by
the cable that he had cleared sixteen
thousand dollars before the thirty days
had expired.
A New Hampshire paper relates that
at Newton, in that State, mad dog.
after having been wounded took refuge
in a barn, where some of the hay be-
came soaked with his blood. The hay
was fed to horse, which went mad.
The completion of the new building |
for the State, War, and Navy Depart !
ment will result in an annual saving to !
the Government of nearly 800, 900, now
paid for the rent of the building occu-
pied by the various bureaus of the War
Department.
A banquet was give to M. Gambetta
at Amiens on Saturday evening. M.
Gambetta made speech, in the course |
of which he declared that the Republi- |
cans must not think of any other means
beyond moral resistance in rescuing |
France.
AS a result of the recent visit of the |
Postal Commission to the South it has |
been agreed that hereafter the run from |
New Orleans to New York by the Ken
nesaw route shall be made in sixty-two |
hours. Pullman cars will be run be-
tween Philadelphia and New Orleans
without change.
1t is indeed gratifying to see that Mar
shall Pitkin, of Louisiana, has gone
down" 1t grieves Butler, which pleases
everybody Jack Wharton has his place,
and he is "a gay and festive cuss;" but
that's of no consequence. The worst
element that ever entered our politics is
being sifted out.
An extensive band of horse thieves
has been discovered in Illinois and Mis- !
souri,. VIM. Twedall, one of the gang |
arrested at KiIksville, Mo-, has made a
confession duplicating persons of hither-
to good reputation, among them apreach-
er who recently got up revival meet
ing, during which his confederates were
to steal horses.
Mrs Allen, wife of Rev. A. G. Allen,
who has been visiting her daughter, has
returned to Indianapolis. The Terre
Haute Gazette says that Mrs. Allen was
was born and spent her girlhoed in
Dumfries, Scotland When a girl she
attended the same kirk as Bobby Burns,
sat in the same pew and knew him
very well.
Beecher said to his congregation last
Sunday: 81 am a father to many of
you-a grandfather to some-and if the
Lord don't want me mean to work on
here until I am 80 or 90 years old.
Laughter But 1 don't care much
either way. If he wants me I am ready
to go. 1 seem to have my strength re-
newed day by day, and feel SO active
that sometimes wish had more to do.
A Chicago dispatch says confession
just made by two criminals, now confn-
ed in the Ohio penitentiary, if true,
proves that the wrong man has been
hanged for the murder of young girl
named Mary Murray, who was waylaid,
and murdered near Pontiac,
in 1859. A young man named
Wyley L. Morris was arrested, tried and
convicted of the crime, but soIemnly
asserted his innocence to his last mo
ments upon the scaffold.
Virginia Chronicle ]: The other night
a man whose head was almost completely
bald fell asleep in saloon, and some
wags, procuring a fine brush and some
India ink, penciled in delicate tracery
the words, /" use Wagner's Hair Inyig-
orator" The old fellow, who was
bachelor, never knew the difference, and
last night attended the theatrical per
formanoe at the National Guard Hall.
He occupied the front row, to the infinite
of the people just behind
him.
Paternal Feelings.