The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
NEWS ITEMS.

Bob Ingersoll offered the receipts o
a lecture to San Francisco religious
charity, but the managers, deeming hin
a great sinner, refused to accept tn,
money. We believe this is the only in
stance of the kind on record.
Twenty-one Baltimore rioters are now
on trial In most cities, as in Pittsburgh
and Louisville, actual working men had
little to do with the riots, only instiga-
ting them, and afterwards taking but a
small part in the work of devastation.
There will soon be great many candi-
dates for the penitentiary.
President Vanderbilt has presented
the employees Of the New York Central
! and Hudson River Railroad 500, 900,
to be distributed rateably according to
their positions on the payroll, in recog-
milton of their forbcarance during the
late railroad troubles.
Secretary Sherman stated the other
day that the Treasury vaults contained
about $50, 1000, 900 in grecnbacks, depos-
feeling warranted in making invest
ments in ordinary business channels.
This fact is interesting in connection
with the demand for currency initiation.
st. Louis Globe-Dcmocrat: 1t is an
appalling and ignominious descent to
find the chivalry, which once aspired to |
rule the country, now occupied with the |
squabbles of the political kitchen and |
unable to rise to any loftier level of adj |
than merely settling a GUAR
rel between the cook and the house
maid.
Mr.. Garrett, the President of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad receives a
salary of $40, 900 year and all his under
officers are paid in proportion He's
one of Beecher's sort, who thinks that
man who can't live on bread and water
is not fit to live. Tommy Scott is an
other railroad officer who receives $50
900 year as salary.
The Turks are amusing themselves in
Bosnia by cutting off the heads of the
Christians and carrying them about in
triumph on sticks. The Bosnians and
do the same thing when
they get a chance at a Turks head. In
every cottage is said to be
adorned with dried Turks heads taken
in battle. Such country needs to come
under the domination of Il strong civili-
zing power at once.
San Francisco is the unfortunate pos
SCISSOR of class that has often threaten
ed to burn the Chinese quarter, even if
it had to tunnel it's way into Chinatown.
The Iaw-abiding citizens seem, however,
determined that this care for Johns
welfare shall not have an opportunity
or exercise. The companies organized
or the outbreak the other day will be
made permanent and the police force
doubled.
By direction of the Secretary of War
capt W. r. King, corps, of engineers,
United States army, has awarded the Z
of building five locks on the
Muscle Shoals Canal to James E
slaughter, of Mobile, Alabama, at prices
ggregating the sum of $3.50, 300 for the
Whole work. Mr. George Williams, of |
Zeokuk, Iowa, is now building three t
ocks of this canal, under contract of i
ompletion during the present year. {
Latest from Idaho reports that Joseph {
lade raid, getting away with four
undred ponies and otheE plunder.- {
he raid was in chastisernent of Indians
riendly to Howard. A dispatch from
)eadwood says intense excitement pre- 8
ails throughout the city. At short in /
ervals horsemen arrive from different /
owns and hay fields in this vicinity /;
ringing details OF fresh murders and
utrages by the savages, who seem to
ave broken away from the agencies in
lrge numbers and are infesting the L
Ountry in all directions. Up to this
our (seven o'clock p. IN. } at least twen- I
? murders have been reported. Some f
the killed are well known citizens of ::
eadwOod, who went to the relief of
ieut. Lemmis' surveying party. Near Q
every ranch along the Redwater and Il
Spearfish Valley has been devasta- n
ID. T
The position of Mehemet Pasha is a n
eculiar one. He has just relieved the
of the armies at Shumla,
Id now he is reported approaching
irnova. If the Russians are in force S
4 the line of the Danube TO the points
ley have reached south of the Balkans,
irnova is just half way on their line.
hey occupy the line of the Jantra and 3
.e on the route to Zeni Sagra. They {
so occupy the Lom further east and
Ieir forces at Rasgrad are then en- the
ank of Mehemct. He Is, however, L
riking the Russian communications, q
nd by a bold movement may utterly I
estroy their campaign, while Osman n
so strikes their communications from II
le west, at Plevna, near the Danube.
ne situation is unquestionabl, critical
Id perhaps the turning point in the 8
lmpaIgn. The Russians are MANAGED
i their advanced front at Zeni Sagra,
d the north of the mountains at two o