The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-10
The MOrFiStOWR Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 10, 1877.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Susan E. Dickinson, sister or Anna
has started on lecture tour.
Prof. Tice predicts killing frost, DC.
tober 12
There are II, 600 Indians in the Spot.
ted-Tail and Red Cloud tribe.
"Ten years in He'll" is the name of q
. book just out.
The cattle business in Western Texas
has played ont. Sheep raising is being
engaged in.
The Rev. Hubbard Minter eloped
from Nelson, KY, with fourteen-year-
old girl, deserving his aged wife.
Msmbrino Gift, the champian trotting
stallion of Michigan, fell dead in his box
recently. he had record of 2:20, and
was valued at 100000.
President Hayes will be fifty five years
of age on the 4th of October, and pre-
sents the appearance of a model SOL
dier.
John A. Tracy, who died recently in
Erie county, Pa, left an estate of $780,,
600 to be divided equally among seven
heirs. \
A young man hanged himself to abell-
rope in Knoxville, Ca, and the clang-
ing brought a sexton who cut him down.
His suicidal intention is doubted.
A great many cattle in Middle Ten
nsssee are dying of dry murraIn, dis
ease said to be brought into this country
| by Texas cattle.
Physical strength is blessing to any |
man. We witnessed Bill Towry, re-
Gently, carrying four fifty pound sacks
Of flour on his left shoulder and an axe
in his right hand, and he moved along |
with his load as easily apparently as
though it had been a bucket of water.
The printed invitations to negro ball
in this State recently, bore the advice:
ssLeave your razors at home for fear you
may fall ON them" a.
Gen. Forrest and his son-in-law have
800 acres of cotton and 400 acres of corn
just below Memphis. Eet i
Mr.. Irish, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Iowa, is the first native
of the State ever nominated for that
office.
A New York firm, driven nearly wild
by missing letters, have discovered the
cause of their trouble. They had a lazy
office boy who stuffed 2, 400 letters into
an unused desk.
Secretary Sherman has telegraphed to
the New York EUentng Post, over his
own signature, positive contradiction
of the report that he Says he will be
candidate for the United States Senate
Adam missed one of the Injuries of
life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve
st. Louis Journal. He didn't care fig
if he couldn't-Rentseky Neso Era. OF
course, he didn't. He was too busy in
looking after his apple crop.
Henry Ward Beecher lectured at
Brooklyn city recently on the problem
of Life, (" the same subject as that chosen
last season by Theodore Tilton.
An impertinent versifier in the Wash
ington Capital assures Gail Hamilton
that she can give Carl Schurz "tit for
tat" How does the i. v. know that Carl
would be willing to make such an ex-
change?
When Craddock read Professor Proc
tors prediction that the dipper constel- ,
lation of stars will be broken up in
about 1OO, 900 years, there was marked I,
expression Of dread, and uneasiness on
his countenance.
Montgomery (Ha.) Messenger There is
an old lady in this county, who has i
stacked up in one room of her house 2O7 {
quilts, coverlids, and such bed-cover- :
ings, made by her own fingers, which ,
have never as yet been used. These
have been made at odd times How Sec !
onds count
An Indian woman. while bathing at
Victoria, Cal, recently, was seized by '
an octopus, or devil fish, and drowned I
The body was discovered by Indians. q,
next day lying at the bottom of the bay .
in the grasp of the octopus They cut
the tentacles and recovered the body
The old story is told in the report of
the failure of the Fidelity Savings Bank 9
Of Chicago-the old story that men g
cursed and women wept over their loss. q
es as they stood in CROWDS at the doors
of the bankrupt concern.
Two girls in the seminary at Oxford,
Ohio, say that they became possessed II
Of devils" and their conduct warranted I
that assertion. They ran away from the f
school without money or extra clothing, d
rode on railroad train until put off by :
the conductor, and then took to the
woods, living on stolen corn and chick
ems until they were captured by rela-
tiVes. raF
An Illinois young lady is named Miss
Lucy Fame. She is quite pretty, yet no 7
moral young man would be willing to {
go for her for fear that some one would .
accuse him of being pro-Fane.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton and his son Car
roll have returned from Europe. His
daughters Misses Florence and Alice,
are at Stuttgart, Germany, where they
will remain for a year or more-the 7
former to continue her studies in music, G
and the latter her practice at the Art
School.
Bishop Marvin made the tour around
the world in about ten months. and
though travelling about %, 900 miles, he
did not miss single railroad or steam
boat connection.
Miss Phebe Couzins is lecturing {
Ohio and Indiana. She has
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