The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-28

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= Chamberlain has gone to Washing
ton.
-Aheavy snow in Chicago on the 90
tn
- San Francisco has over thirty mil
lionaires.
- The 10 per cent. law was in force
sixyears.
= Nashville is filthy, so says the Board
Of Health.
New York has furnished six Vice
Presidents.
A railroad is to be built to the Black
Hills.
- North Troy, Vt, had an earthquake
Wednesday
- The suits against Dom Pfatt are to
be dismissed.
- The Black Hills country is to have
a postal service.
~ Memphis owes SO, 900, 900, and still
she is not happy.
- Hopkins county, Ky, claims VIC
lin 1876 years old.
- Senator Lamar has been i'll, but is
now able TO sit up.
Corn in Southwestern Georgia is as
tall as a mans head.
I'M Ex-Gov Hendricks will spend seven
weeks il California.
- The memoirs Of Jefferson Davis"
viii DC published soon.
= The New York Legislature voted 8
to against pool-selling.
f. Old John Robinson, Of circus fame,
died at Cincinnati on the Goth.
Ten years in the penitentiary is what
it costs to steal Il horse in Nashville.
u The French are making prepare
tions for n Worlds Fair at Payis in 1873
T. The McMinnviile postofice was
robbed, last week, Of 80 worth Of
stamps.
= It will take $18, coo TO complete the
improvements on the Capitol grounds at
Nashville.
a new gold mine has been discover
ed in California, which is said 20 be
simply immense.
= Wan. VI. Evarts was once Il writer
for the New York Weekly. Moral
writes for papers.
- Tt only cost the Lord Mayor Of
London $135, 600 to give frst-class ball
10 the Prince Of Wales, the other day.
H. The Philadelphia Centennialists are
trying TO swindle the Government out
of 81 SOC, 600, which was advanced from
the Treasury rs a loan.
-Four ncgIo murderers were hanged
at Aiken, S. C., March 10th. They were
convicted By jury Of Their colortry-
men
Concord, \. H., March IG.-Jones.
Democrat, has forty-ive majority for
Congress Too bad No ReturningBoard |
a sea monster was recently caught
of the Isles Of Shoals, that weighed g.
600 lbs, and was IS feet long. 1t has
three rows Of teeth, and no one knows
what to call it.
Newspapers nave suspended, banks
busted, manufactures failed, commerce.
men broke, and now we see our rural
eZchanges-tllatt the farmers all over the
country arc breaking up"
~ The bill introduced by Mr. Overton
to lease the penitentiary passed its third
reading in the House of Representative
On the 10Th. This bill names fifty thou
sand dollars as the minimum amount of
which the institution can he leased, and
providing that the lessccs shall take
charge Of couvicts At the place where
they are convicted, thus saving to the
State the expense of their transporta-
ton.
- \ prominent lawyer named Hayes
entered the room of the editor of the
Alta, in San Francisco, the other day,
and demanded the retration of an often
sIve article. The editor knocked him
down, took lis pistol away from him,
aud walked him off to the police station
- The German authorities have re-
Gently ordered all residents Of Alsace
and Lorraine who served in the French
armies in the war of 1901 to quit Ger
man territory, unless they become Ger
mans. The order affects about five thou
sand families.
Strange as it may seem, the wolves
are sun Il S'Hl Cc VI great CdldLlIty ara
expense to Russia. Cattle and tie
smaller beasts are destroyed yearly, TO
the extent of millions Of dollars; and the |
number of human beings that yearly |
fall prey to the wolves is certainly not !
less than two hundred.
The French chambers Of deputies !
recently considered a bill for charging /
and strengthening the Notifications
about Paris The German government
sent word that such course would be
considered a cause Of war, and the bill
for fortifying was suffered to drop.
w. Z. Coleman, formerly of Greene
vile, Tenn, took a small dose of lauda-
mum, ut Memphis on Tuesday morning
Of last week. a shortsighted physician
three cups of hot water
and little mustard, and Coleman still
skips.
Richmond Dispatch: The law for the
protection Of fish exempts from the 1e-
imposed in the law the waters
running Kentucy and Tennessee. 1t is,
We believe, unfortunate that this ex-
emption was incorporated in the bill 1t
would be more liberal for Virginia 10
show her faith III those States by acting
IS il they knew she would cooperate
with her in measures for the protection
Of fish in the streams that water both
States We trust our contemporaries of
he press in both Tennessee and Ken
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lucky viii notice the passage of the bill
by our Legislature, and in doing so let
them not infer that Virginia has any
Gea of hostile legislation with regard to
heir States upon the subject She will
heartily unite with them in regulations
or the cultivation and pr election Of fish.