The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

s@-aAlct0f1asn mas S5f ,UUU,OVO OF SupJects.
- The Car of all the Russias has 3d.
600 600 per annum for pin money.
Victoria has about $3, 600, 600 for
herself and family.
- The Emperor of Austria has to get
along with 81, 100000 per annum.
@A brother of Fox, the clown, is a.
member of the Massachusetts Senate.
- Fourteen candidates have stepped
forward to succeed Ben. Hill in the low
er House Of Congress. nssf
A Cleveland democratic editor is
reported to have knocked down a wan
dering glazier for offering to put in some
missing window panes in the sanctum,
and asking if seven by eight would do.
B. s. Hicock, postmaster at South
bury, Conn, man much respected, has
been detected robbing the mails. He
confessed his crime
Pittsburgh, Pa, has, within few
weeks, rolled up list of 81, 900 persons
who have signed the temperance pledge.
A bears foot was found in steel
trap, in Vermont. by hunter, Bruin
having gnawed it off to set himself free.
"A gunpowder explosion occurred on
the 18th, at Adhemabed, India, killing
so and wounding 1000 persons.
About 10000 alligator skins are an
nually used in the United States, by the
manufacturers of boots and shoes.
From July to December 81, last
year, SO, 900, 900 of postal cards were sold
in the post offices of the United States.
1t is officially stated that the terms
of peace have been agreed upon between
Turkey and Servia -......
The Apache Indians in Arizona are
on the war path. A number of settlers
have been murdered.
A piece of Gobelin tapestry has just
been sold in Paris for the enormous sum
of $50, 900.
= In 1875 Paris ate 1896 horses and
mules. Last year she whetted her appe-
tite and deveured 9,171.
Seventy per cent of the civil and
military officers in the higher ranks of
the Russian service are Germans. The
proportion is about the same in the sub
altern posts. .a
- The University of Berlin now con-
tains twenty four hundred students, be-
ing the largest number in the history
of the institution.
= Brigham Young is now SO feeble
that he has to be rolled about in an easy
chair, being unable to walk.
-Moody's farewell meeting in Chica-
go was signalized by $67, 900 collection.
Fools not all dead.
1t was Jere Black who, hearing the
decision this time, remarked" 30, jam
the jam, jam, jam, to jel"
= Texas Jack gave a grand antelope
dinner in Philadelphia, last week, to
members of the press. 1t was glorious
feast, and much enjoyed.
"A telegraphic line is to be placed in
operation from the Mediterranean, ira
versing the African continent, to the
Cape of Good Hope
Another heavy failure was made
public on the 22d. James HI. Hubbard, a
real estate dealer, filed voluntary Pc
tition in bankruptcy. His secured debts
foot up a total of $246, $50, and his un-
secured debts $4s5, $50. His assets
amount to $261, 534, so.
Several large mills in various sections
have or are to resume under full time.
This evidences a renewal of confidence
that the political troubles will be peace
fully arranged.
Mrs. Eliza Greenwood, ever eighty
years of age, who fought beside her
husband at Waterloo until he fell rid
died by bullets, was sent to the aims
house in Jersey City.
"A company of mounted robbers
dashed into Eagle Pass, Texas, few days
since, and killed every domestic animal
in the place. including horses, cows, and
dogs, in revenge for the hanging of one
of thir companions
= Chattanooga Times: Rev. Enoeh
Wakefield, of Frankfort, KY. died late
ly. on sleeping car, this side of Allan
Ia, on his way home. He was Baptist
minister, and had been preaching some
thing over twenty years. Ee left home
about the first of last September, and had
been preaching IN the mountains all
along the line between North Carolina
and Georgia. About month ago he
was taken i'll, since which time he had
been confined to his room. His only
son, James M. Wakefield, had gone to
see him, and they were en- route heme.
He stopped over here until the night
train. Mr.. Wakefield was seventy years
old. 1t is thought that cold contracted
during the late cold spell was the imme-
date cause of his death