The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-02
NEWS SUMMARY:

There are at present thirty-seven In.
mates in the Knox county jail.
Scaled proposals will be received till
the first day Of June for leasing the PEN
itentiary. -
The State Railroad Tax Assessors are
to meet at Nashville on the 9th of May
to levy taxes on railroad property.
Gov. Porter has appointed DR.. Dun
can Eve to be physician at the peniten-
tiary, and Rev. ]. III. Sharp, chaplain.
The new postal cards are tinted-ou
one side pale green, on the other buff
They were to be issued on 1st of May
The amount received at the q. s. Col
lector's Office, Knoxville, as special tax
on whisky, tobacco, ETC., for the present
month, amounts to $13, 900.
Judge E. Fl. East, of Nashville, is IA
vorably spoken of for the vacant seat on
the Supreme Bench of the United
States.
Senator Blaine says the story that he
intends to introduce resolution in the
next Congress to question Hayes cleo
ton is the invention of an idiot.
Before the war the States of Missis-
sippi and Alabama, were the largest cot
ton producing regions of the South, but
neither one ever exceeded the $50, 600
bales produced by Texas last year.
Accounts of DR.. E. T. Baird, manager
of the Presbyterian Publication House,
Richmond, Virginia. are complicated to
the extent of $22, 900.
Senator Henry A. Chambers, of Lou
don county, has rendered his resignation
to the Governor, and it has been accept
ed. He has been placed in charge of the
postage stamp agency in New York city.
We've seen a man with ten-cent CT
gar in his mouth talk of hard times, but
a woman never complains until she has
turned the old dress twice, and can't
find another side to it.
Ben. Butler is preparing a speech on
the greenback question to deliver at the
extra session, if general business of any
kind is taken up; if not, then next win
ter.
Miss Katie Cooper, daughter of Gen.
Jos. A. Cooper, has just received an APP
pointment as postmistress at Cooper,
Knox county, Tennessee, vice Mr.. Jno.
P. Barger.
The difference between the cost of
production of cotton fabrics, North and
South, is from two to four cents on the
pound of raw'material.
The money collected up to date, for
the settlement of the Indebtedness of
the Southern Publishing house, at Nash
vile, amounts to $21, 79059.
The body of Frank Branner, the mute
who was drowned in the Potomac, near
Washington City, some weeks since,
was recovered, and conveyed to Knox
vile, where the remains were inferred
in Gray Cemetery last Thursday.
The Attorney General of the United
States has accepted General Gordon's
construction of the law to reimburse the
State of Georgia $500, 900, overcharge in
connection with the settlementof claims
on the Western and Atlantic railroad.
The Rogersville Spectator says there
has been considerable emigration from
Hancock county, this Spring, to various
parts of the West, Texas, Iowa, Kansas
and Missouri-most of them going to
Iowa and Kansas.
The contract foI the brick and stone
work of the custom-house at Nashville
has been awarded to Belknap & Mumes-
nil, of Louisville. Bowling Green stone
is to be used, and the price to be paid
for the work is $102, 900.
Bill Mockbee, colored, who was re-
Gently sentenced to be hung at Dover,
Stewart county, for the murder of Wiley
McClish, having been granted new
trial, was taken out of Jail at that place
by masked men on the Gath and shot.
Col. Killebrew says that ton of pig
iron can be made anywhere along the
line of the Cincinnati Southern, Knox.
vile and Ohio, and Nashville and Chat.
tanooga railroads at about what the ore
costs per ton in Pittsburg.
Three old women and lame man
constituted debating society at Dubu
que. The three old women live togeth
er, and their chickens scratched up the
lame mans garden. The debate is held
across the line fence.
/ A drunken legislator said that he was
| ttself-made man." t'That fact" SAID
Mr.. Greeley, relieves the Almighty o.
a great responsibility.
Miss Georgiana Boutwell,, daughter
of Senator Boutwell,, is at the head of ar
organization which is establishing {
normal school for the instruction of the
colored teachers, and large building
for this purpose is to be erected immedi
ately at Washington.
DIR. VIM. Morrow is mentioned in pri
Vate circles for Governor of Tennessee
He is our choice; we hope the people
will do themselves the favor at the
proper time to put SO good a man into
that post Of responsibility HoLsto'
Methodist
The last Virginia Legislature passed
law imposing tax on dram drinkers a
follows: On every drink of lager beer
cent; on whisky, brandy or other alec
holic liquors, 21 cents And it has rails
ed howl in Virginia as loud as the dos
law did in Tennessee.
An obituary of Mrs. Stone, of Taze
well, was received too late for this week
1t will appear in our next paper.
We learn that our friend, Capt. j. G
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