The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

said TO be the custodian of the origin
al Stanley Matthews document,
and which, it is alleged, is signed
also by John Sherman and Garfield,
is at White Sulphur Springs.
The descendant OF Sir Walter
Raleigh now living in England is
Mr.. Walter Frederick Carew Raleigh
a young gentleman, twelve years
old. He is the heir 10 very large
estate, part of which is landed pro-
perty worth $641, 1855.
Carriers of the James L. style
| (broad and gold fringed) are the
fashion, we are told. Some enter
prising news-gatLerers are always
making sacrifices to get the latest
intelligence.
Always take a rope in your room
at the hotel. 1t may enable you
to slide out even if there is no fire.
A big board bill is just about as
bad as a confagration.-Harttord
Clarion.
Some men can sit on a candle-boX
and lay out the European campaigns,
and tell almost every thing that is to
occur in the future except where
their next dinner is to come FROM
Graphic.
An Indiana girl at Vassar College
writes to her parents: This is the
most stylish hairpin of boarding
school 1 ever tumbled to. l can eat
four times day if I wish to, and |
get fair hack at the hash every
time.
The Religious Herald is response.
BILE for this Governor Letcher.
returning from a Baptist fair, was
asked by a friend what he had been
doing. Il have been eating oysters
for the Lord at dollar a Dozen"
was his reply"
The Bill of Rights adopted by the
Georgia Constitutional Convention,
now in session, contains clause as
follows:
Lobbying is declared to be crime,
and the General Assembly shall en-
f.. ce this provision by suitable pen
allies.
Ben Wade has gone into absolute
retirement for time. and is report
ed to be inventing a new and more
faciIe kind of profanity, which he
hopes to make equal to the emergen-
cy at the Cleveland Convention this
week.
A facetious physician. an old
said lately to a single lady =
50 How can you with a clear con-
science answer st. Peter when You
shall reach heavens gate, for your
in refusing so many
marriage offers" The lady archly
replied, = shall tell the Apostle
hat DIR. -- did not ask me-"
"Now, you don't mean to testify
hat my client looked like a hard
,haracter?" said a prisoners lawyer
n the general session yesterday.
He had patch over one eye, and
lis face was red," was the answer.
: Yes" yes-but wasn't he dressed
ike a gentleman when he was ar
ested?" "Oh, yes, sir; he wore a
nit that he had stolen from me-
Benevolent Clergyman to Joe
: Why are you standing there. little
nan p Cause I've nowheres to
% to-" "Where are your father
nd mother?'' DunnoP' Gone
way this ever SO longn "Poor
title fellow. Well, well, can you
nswer me this question? When
our father and mother forsake you,
tho is it that will take you up?'
The policeman -LOndon Paper.
Ex-United States Marshal Shaf-
'nburg. of Colorado, is now Ia the
-ansas penitentiary foe :.n,be12,>
n ooo @"'''' that he spent
oney bc own 'iioNeS u '''''e'
: stole from the Government,
carry Colorado for Hayes and to
elect Jerome Chaffee to the United
States Senate. His defaleation was
discovered and made public in too
manner for him to reap
any benefit f.om his investments
during the campaign.
Two men were sitting together in
smoking car on the Danbury Rail
way the other morning, when one Of
hem observed to the other: 81 lost
IS likely a colt as you ever saw, last
winter After pause the addressed
party inquired Did it die? Die?
epeated the loser, somewhat resent
'ulIy, how could | ave lost it If !
hadn't died?' 1 didn't know but il
clipped through a crack in the floor,
aid the other man in an injured tone.
Both lapsed into silence after that.
Curicusly enough people are now
the Cabinet deliberations
IN the subject of the extra session.
IN order TO avoid the necessity for