The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-01-17
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HAWKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT.
NEWS SUMMARY.

j. Peacock, has recently been APP
pointed postmaster at Gallatin.
Nashville is organizing Relief
Society to aid the poor.
James p. Polk, a horse car driver
in Nashville was badly frozen last
week.
A House bill granting the United
States a site for Custom House 10
the city of Memphis. passed on its
third reading, the 10th inst, at
Nashville.
The people at Vicksburg recently
crossed the Mississippi river On ice
in front of that city.
Alabama is about to adopt the
Tennessee famous dog law.
Distress among the poorer classes
of people still continues to increase
throughout the country.
The Memphis Ledger says if you
want to see human wrecks, just visit
the station-house of that city at
nights
M. r. Isley, a citizen of Meigs
county, was frozen to death Deem
Der 30th, while intoxicated.
Loudon is soon to have new pa
per under the editorial auspices OF
w. =. Russell.
DIR. w. A. Thompson, a promi-
nent citizen of Humboldt, Tenn,
was frozen to death last week, while
en- route distance of fifteen miles,
to render medical aid.
The Nashville papers report heavy
shipments of hogs North from that
city.
A slight rain fell in Morristown
last Friday morning.
The report that James Gordon
Bennett has sailed in the steamer
Olympus for Liverpool is unfounded.
The Rev. DIR. Deems. Of the
Church of the Stranger, New York,
will receive $4,000 by the will of
Commodore Vanderbilt.
Rev. Hugh Henry Blair died in
New York the 9Th inst. He had
been for the last Al years pastor of
the First United Presbyterian
Church of that city.
In the recent Bennett-May duel,
May was wounded in the right breast
near the shoulder joint. The sec
onds were men residing in other
States than New York.
The annual sale Of pews in Ply
mouth Church, New York, took
place the 9th inst. The total
amount realized was $48,421. which
was S15, 900 less than last year
It requires cologne by the barrel
to supply the United States Senate,
and yet all Of its acts do not smell
sweet.
The Philadelphia Ledger, during
1876. published notices of the death
Of 600 persons over so years Of age.
Eggs are forty cents per dozen in
Chattanooga, and but few OH the
market.
The bridge over the AshtabuIa
river is completed, and trains run
ming regularly.
The Porter Rifles Of Nashville
have reelected Sam Donelson as
Captain of the company.
Memphis theatres, having been
examined by competent architects,
are declared unsafe in case of panic,
unless additional doors, water pipes,
ETC.. are supplied.
a new revolutionary phase in
Mexican affairs: Diaz and Iglesias,
late victors over Lerdo, are now pit
tied against each other. Many of
IgIesiass troops are declaring for
Diaz.
Ex-Gov. Harris, U. s. Senator
elect, was the recipient of a sere-
made Tuesday night, last week, at
the Maxwell House, in Nashville. oy
the Porter Rifles. He responded in
very conservative speech, charac
terized by broad and National views.
The memorial services held at
Vanderbilt University, in Nashville,
last week, were largely attended and
impressive.
A Memphis man, who refused to
give his name, fell On the sidewalk
On Indiana avenue, in Washington,
D. c., the 10th, breaking his arm.
The Jonesboro' Journal has been
revived under the management of
w. r. Sewer.
A passenger car on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railoroad, the 18th
inst, went down forty feet into the
frozen GreenbrIer river. The ice
supported the car. Seven persons
were hurt, none fatally. Mrs. Hall,
OF White Sulphur Springs, had her
leg broken.
A night train over the Virginia
Midland road had two Of its sleepers
precipitated from the track the
morning of the 18th instant, occa-
stoned By broken rail near Manas-
sas. Among the wounded are Capt.
Stokes Boyd, of Florida. slightly.
". A. McAIister. OF Atlanta.
The New Jersey Legislature or
ganized the 18th, by electing a
Democratic Speaker and a Republi-
can Clerk.
Hon. William r. Barksdale, q
member of the Mississippi Legisla-
ture is dead.
Oscar Pollard killed J. NJ Car
Isle, prominent lawyer, at Okla
Iona. Miss. recently.
Whitesburg by MOonshine.