The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-11-21

nave DOeH Audue orphans Dy the famine /
in India.
President Hayes has sent his check for
800 to help pay the debt of Presbyte-
rian Church in Richmond, Va.
Minnesota voted 81, 176 for repudiating
her railroad debt, and 16, 5s4 for settling
the debt
Great Britain now cultivates nearly
1, 200, 600 less acres of wheat than she
did twenty years ago.
William Simpson, a temperance re-
former, well known in New England,
has eloped with girl of Midway, Miss.
Mrs. Bonham, lady of fortune, has
lately died in England bona fide case
of 102. She leaves a daughter of IS.
There are in the State of Tennessee
nearly one hundred Councils of the
United friends of Temperance, with a
membership of about six thousand.
Judge Green adjourned the recent
term of the Circuit Court in Hudson,
Miss, because the jury had been openly
and corruptly tempered with.
Three of the Hartford, Conn, militia
ry companies are forced to stop drills
because the gas company has shut off the
gas till the State pays the back bills.
Krupp is lucky man No matter
who goes a-warring, they all come to
him. Essen is said to be supplying $50
cannons month to the Gear, while fill
ing large orders for the Porte.
The salary of the Rev. Peter r. Simp-
son of the Methodist Church in Bollin-
ger, Mo-, was very small, and he increas-
ed his income by forging pension papers.
He is now in Jail.
sit is estimated that turbine water
wheels have, since their invention, saw
ed the country over $50, 900, 900 in the
single item off fuel" Why not build
few more and save it all?
Seven years ago Methodism was first
introduced into the dominions of Brig
ham Young. Now there are six Metho-
dist churches and fifteen Sunday-schools
in Utah.
Most of the great capitalists of New
York have petitioned to Congress to
take immediate action on the bull pro-
viding for American representations at
the Paris Exposition next year.
Mr.. Bayles, editor of the Iron Age, is
examining the iron and coal regions of
East Tennessee, North Georgia and
North Alabama. He is creating con-
siderable stur in Chattanooga.
Chas. Mcdonald was shot and killed
by Fred Hoehler, at the Etna Lead
Mines, near Chattanooga, last week.
Both were miners and had quarreled
about small debt Hoehler owed the
murdered man.
In September 121 emigrants settled in
Tennessee under the auspices of the
immigration bureau. A large colony of
Quakers, from Pennsylvania, is settling
in Blunt county. The Coffee county
landholders are donating fifty acres to
actual settlers.
A general inventory has been taken
by the French Ministry of all the public
libraries of France. More than zoe
towns have been found to possess a Ii
brary numbering from 10000 to 10000
volumes
The Mobile (Ala.) Register says that
that city has three times the population
it had at the outbreak of the war, and il
does not think that the falling off in the
cotton receipts is to be at all fatal of its
future prosperity.
Railroad travelling in France is very
safe. Between 1925 but one person
was killed out of 40, 25S, 270, and one in.
jured in ,024, $50. while in England dur
ing the same period one was killed in
$4,000 and injured in $780, 900.
Two negroes convicted of murder at q
previous term of the Chatham, Ga,
Court, but to whom new trials were
granted by the Supreme Court, have
been freed, the yellow fever having kill
ed off all the States witnesses.
The total nominal capital invested in
all the railways of Great Britain is near
ly SO, 200, 900, 000 This is at the rate OF
$500, 900 per mile of railway opened.
More than $3.50, 900, 900 of capital pay nc
dividend; $27O, GOO, 600 less than FIVE pei
cent, and only $50, 600, 900 mere than
ten per cent.
Not a drum was heard, funeral note,
As his corpse to the outskirts they hurried;
Not ranger discharged his farwell shot
Der the grave where the stranger was buried.
They buried him darkly, at the dead of night,
Apd without any pomp or pageant;
As they shoveled him in, they said, GAN right,
He was only lightning-rod agent"
Texas PAPER.
The Jail at Murfreesboro', Tenn, was
surrounded by mounted men last Thurs
day night, who took therefrom one Boo
Alexander, who was confined there fol
the murder Of Mr.. Dougherty. 1t wa.
their intention to Kill him, but he es
capped after having about twenty shots
fired after him.