The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-14
NEWS ITEMS.

UNCLE Sam Tildcn challenges tn
Senate committee to investigate his banl
account.
DURING 1876 the taxable value of tn
property of North Carolina was increas
ed to the extent Of $13, 900, 600
JOE COburn, tho pugilist, has beer
sentenced to the penitentiary in New
York for ten years, for assault with in
tent to kill.
JUDGE Settle, the defeated Republican
candidate for Governor in North Caro-
lima, will soon remove to Pensacola
Florida.
MASSACHUSETTS pays $1s, 600 a year
for the encouragement Of horse trotting,
dividing the money among thirty So
called agricultural societies.
J& the Servian military bands the bass
drum is placed upon a twO-wheeled cart,
and is drawn by trained dog while the
drummer ponds it.
a western judge recently sentenced a
murderer for life, and afterwards added
two years more to the sentence because
the prisoner ctlled him no gentleman.
A reformed drunkard relates that he
cured himself of he:.taste for in.OXica-
ting drinks by eating an orange every
morning half an hour before breakfast.
The University of Berlin now Contains
twenty-four hundred students, being the
largest number in the history Of the in
sIitutiOn.
THE Egyptian Minister of Finance
married an economical wife and saved
two hundred millions Of dollars out of
his salary in few years. This beats
railrOading.
TIE principal occupation of q large
class Of persons in Maryland is to tell
bigger duck shooting yarns than any
body else. Two or three hundred ducks
more or less at one discharge of shot
gun is not considered remarkable.
IT has been decided by ''ye old inhabi-
tant" that the ground hog did see his
shadow on the End AT least we are hav-
ing some very cold weather, hog or no
hog
IL getting up the city directory for
1877 il appears that thr population Of
Memphis has increased during the year
70 about 5000, all of which increased
has been in the white element.
IT is reported that the German Post
master General will shortly propose to
the Postal Union for the introduction of
postal cards, serving for all countries in
thc Union at penny each
Mr. Merry, the Englishman turfman
and Scottish irOu-foundcr, left an estate
of about e., COO 600. His stable won
for him in stakes and purses alone during
his thirty years on the turf, e24O, coo.
IT is said that diamonds have lately
declined in market value The decline
is attributed to the large numbers recen-
tly found in Brazil and the South African
diamond fields 4 Paris jcweler says
the trade in diamonds is, after all, very
limited owing to the very few who
wear them; and that they keep passing
in rotation from hand to hand. OF fifty
persons who buy diamonds, forty pur-
chase to sell again, six buy to give away,
and four actually keep and wear the
gems. They pass, he asserts, from the
hair of the fine lady to the neck of the
bellies of the demi-mOnde, and rice re1'sa.
THE Hon. L. Q. c. Lamar and the Hon
J. B. Gordon are mentioned as possible
orators at the ceremony of laying the
cornerstone of the proposed Confederate
Monument at Chattanooga. The three
base stones of the monument are to be
of Tennessee limestone, the die" or
square block on which are to be cut the
words The Confederate Dead, " is to be
of Stone Mountain granite and tie shaft
Of Tennessee white marble or Georgia
granite. The die" on which is the
lettering is to be one solid block, the
sides being six feet wide and about four
feet high between the mOlding. this
block will weigh eleven tons, or $4,000
mounds