The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-12
NEWS ITEMS.

The sugar crop of Fort Bend county,
Texas, will average two hogsheads to
the acre.
There are more suicides being chron-
icled now than we have heard of for
number of years. os
On Tuesday, two men discovered in
the cemetery at Columbia, Tenn, CT
gar box containing the body of white
infant.
William Bergin, of Mount Vernon,
Ohio, found guilty of murder in the first
degree, was hanged last Friday at that,I
place.
Ex-Secretary of War Belknap is quietly
practicing law in Washington, and max
ing money. There is nothing new about
the size of Mrs. Befknap's shoes.
A Prussian military journal says that
France can put on war footing ,738,,
900 men and POS, 400 horses.
The total cost to the State of New
York of suppressing the railway riots
was $206,O This is less than half the
estimated cost.
Rat hunts are all the rage in Greene
county, Ohio, and the people want the
Legislature to authorize the payment of
ten cents for each rat slaughtered.
IF YOU hear a man say that life is but
dream, tread on his fayorite corn and
wake him up. It will probably convince
him that life is real
A reconciliation between Theodore
and Mrs. Tilton- is an exciting on dit in
New York.
Trains are now passing over the new
iron bridge just completed across the
Ashtabula death-chasm.
A dispatch states that the entire line
to Norfolk will be ready for trains to-
morrow, when the run of 404 miles from
Bristol will be made without transfer.
1t seems now quite certain that the
Senate viii reconstruct its committees,
and the Democrats viii undoubtedly
have greater proportionate representa-
ton than hitherto.
A cat show is fourishing in Philadel-
phia. The prize for the finest specimen,
fer which several enterprising gramal-
pins are competing, is a lady's gold
watch set with diamonds.
1t is estimated that the raising and
manufacturing of tobacco in this coun-
try furnishes employment to more than
one million persons.
A large shed in Somerville, Mass. has
been stocked with wood, saws saw bucks,
and tramps are at liberty to earn their
meals there, or go hungry.
Mr.. James Hammons, living near
Cleveland, Bradley county, Of this State,
raised and picked $50 bushels of peas,
which he sold for $1.00 per bushcl
Eight Of the principal business houses
and two dwellings at athens, Ohio. were
burned on the Sd inst. Loss from 500,
600 to $50, COO.
There is just one thing about it. The
lady who insists on carrying a good
share of her dress in her hands, has got
to keep her shoes tied up or let every
body know that she left home in a hurry.
| The following is the number of silver
/ pieces coined at the mint in Philadel-
phia, during November: Trade dollars,
100000; half dallars, 934, 900; quarter
dollars, 722, 400; dimes, 140, 0O0 Total
numberof pieces, 2,09G, 400; value, ST..
! oil, 900. No gold or base metal was
coined.
A Republican daily is to be launched
j at Chattanooga soon, to be called the
| Tennessee Journal. Nashville can't sup
port three dailies, neither can Chat
tanooga; the consequence will be that
the Tennessee Journal will go to mingle
with the EUeri1ag Record in a month or So
The Whitesburg Independent learns
that on the 2Sth of November in Lee
Valley, Hawkins county, Newton Willis
killed a young man by the name of Yves
ley Ferrell, first shooting him with
shotgun aud then six times with 2 re-
volver.
Upon the nomination of Fitzsimmons-
(Dem) to be Marshal of Georgia, there
were but FIVE majority for confirmation.
Messrs. Matthews, Conover and Patter-
son being the only Republicans who
voted with the Democrats for confrma-
ton
Mr.. III. B. Branner is a candidate for
Mayor of Knoxville, and a numerously
signed call on Col. Sam. Mckinney to
stand for the same position appears in
the papers of that city
In consequence of the passage of an
ordinance forcing them to sell in the
market and no where else, the butchers
of Dallas, Texas, rented all the market
house stalls, closed them up, and now re
fuse to sell any meat at all.
John Tolan, known to the shownanas
profession as Hog Jack, an attache of
the Great Eastern Circus, while on
drunken spree laid down on the railroad
track near Bridgeport, Alabama,
recently and passing train ran
over him and severed his head almost
completely frem his body.
The store of James II. Morton, located
at Berlin, Maury county, Tenn, and
owned by Berry Sc Demoville, of n ish-
vile, was robbed and then burned on
the 1st inst There was an insurance of
81 800 on the stock of goods, but none
on the building. The loss amounted to
500
Sunday morning, I'd inst, at Mont
gomery, Ala the bodies of Antonio
Nicrasi and Aurelia Sharp were found in
the cemetery with pistol-ball hole in
each head. A note from Nicrasi indi-
Gates that they were willing to die for
each other. It is supposed Nicrasi shot
her and then killed himself.
An unknown man, riding one horse
and leading another, was arrested a few
miles north of Hillsboro. Tex. The 7th