The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-30
The M0friStDVn Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 80, 1877.
NEWS SUMMARY.

the opening of gold and silver mines.
True spiritual manhood deals with
principles and avoids personalities
Sherman favors making Washington
: permanent military post, with a gar
rison of six or seven hundred men.
There are more men on duty now in
the English army than at any time since
the Crimean war.
President Hayes is going to make a
Southern tour. He is preparing to visit
Richmond, Petersburg and other South
ern cities. ...--
Ben. Buffers brother-in-law is Post
master at New Orleans, and Washing
ton correspondents say it will be hard
to get him out.
Cornelius ]. and VIM. III. Wander
bilt have gone to law about 81 900, 600.
Some men will rush into court about the
most trivial affair.
| "A thousand tons of Alabama coal
have been ordered by European parties.
1t will be shipped on English vessels
from Pensacola.
AT midnight in his guarded tent the
Turk lay dreaming of the hour when
Russia's knee, in suppliance bent, should
tremble at the rise-in flour.
The Porter Rifles, of Nashville, and
the Chickasaw Guards of Memphis, are
to meet at Huntsville, Ala, next June.
and drill for the championship of the
State.
Professor Proctor says the earth is
growing larger. We are glad to hear it
adds the Danbury mani, for real estate
has shrunk fearfully in the past three
years --.
An English company with large
capital is now organizing for the pur-
pose of shipping beef and mutton direct
from Norfolk, Va. Cattle and sheep
will also be shipped.
One of Louisiana's first acts, follow
ing her redemption, is to see that her
credit does not suffer by failure to pro-
vide for the prompt payment of her OBJ
legations.
Under the modified marriage law
of Indiana, licenses may be issued to
youths of eighteen and girls of sixteen.
The tendency of this is to extend the !
divorce business.
Wheat in Sumner county is in a fine |
condition. corn is backward; the gar
dens are looking fine fruit will be
scarce; strawberries will be plentiful, |
and grass and clover abundant.-NaSls- /
UiUe Banner. .
-Barnum will make a personal offer !
of $4,000 for the recovery of Charlie !
Ross 1t is believe from recent evil |
dence that he is still alive and that the
reward with a guarantee of immunity !
from arrest, will induce the captOrs to
restore him. s..s rs
The name of Ed. Baxter, Esq. of
this city will be strongly urged by the
Tennessee Bar for the position made /
vacant by Judge EmmoDs This would
be a very strong appointment, not only |
in Tennessee but in the South generally.
-NdsbUSUe AnserScd7a @
viii our exchanges in the States, says
a Dallas, Texas, paper, warn their young
men not to come to Texas in search Of !
mployment-unlesst they want employ
ment on the farm. There is plenty of
work on Texas farms to be had, but un-
less a man desires to labor on farm, he
had better give Texas a wide berth.
The Crown Prince of Germany is a
compositor by trade and Kaiser Wilhelm
is glazier, though he has not practiced /
his profession for a number of years.
All the Prussian Princes have to learn
some handicraft, not in order to provide
against hard times, but that they may
lean on the feelings of the common
people.
1T is interesting to sit at a -four
store now as the proprietor receives
dispatch, and yells, They're throwin'
shells across Grassacoralitchzeftin
an some one is goin' to get hurt. Turn
out all hands ana mark every DANCED
bar'l up half dollar.-Ronse Sentinel.
"A swarm of bees were disloged from
Greenfield, Mass, after they had been
there three years. The removal of the
clapboards disclosed solid mass of
honey extending up between the stud
ding seven feet and five inches, two feet
wide and four inches thick. The honey,
which was of the very best quality,
weighed one hundred and fifty pounds.
Should war be provoked, Texas
would take the contract at low rates
for planting the stars and stripes on the
Capitol of Montezumas in ninety days
time, and ask no better fun. In view of
the sufferings of patriotic pioneers from
perfdious Mexico, it is due to the Lone
Star Republic that such means of salts
faction should be accorded to her, but
red tapeism would never sanction such
honor to a Southern State.-44t Gaz.
Senator Brownlow was six feet in
height and of spare, STOPPING figure.
His face was dark and smooth, and his
black hair was butiittle silver
ed to the last. His aspect was grave, and
he laughed seldom. He prided himself
upon never having played card, sworn,
drank a dram of liquor, except for me-
dical purposes, smoked a cigar or chew
ed. He never, he said, attended a theatre
or horse race, and never courted but
one woman, and her he married. He
had seven children. szefE
"A cotemporary asks: :" Does adver-
tising pay9" OF course it does. Only
a week ago man in New Jersey went
off with a handsome woman, and his
wife learned of his whereabout by see
ing few lines about the clipping couple
in newspaper She started in pursuit,
intercepted the truants, and scratched