The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-14
HAWKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Judge Dayis made So, 200, 900 in land
speculations.
Nashville has a ladies' Pickwick club
Russia and Turkey are red hot on the
war question.
Tennessee Bank notes, new issue, are
only worth % cents on the dollar.
A night passenger train will be put on
the E. T., Va & Ga. r. r. about the
25th instant.
A car load of mules left Cleveland,
Tenn, last week for the Southern mar
ket.
Counterfeit silver half-dollars are in
circulation.
The Spirit is moving the people Of
Elizabethton, Tenn; 20 professions and
a change of heart has resulted.
Col. John O'Mahoney, a well known
Fenian of New York, is dead.
The new River and Harbor bill appro-
PIRATES 5000, 900 for the Tennessee river.
The laws of Tennessee make it a mis-
demeanor to kill game after March IN
til October. Take warning, boys.
Col. Perez Dickinson, of Knoxville, is
entitled to the belt and front seat among
the porcine raisers of East Tennessee.
He recently killed a hog that weighed
900 pounds.
l. N Talley, says the Kingston East
ISnnessean, has discovered gold on his
land in Cumberland county. He has a
mineralogist looking the matter up
The wheat fields in Bradley county
are looking green and thrifty, with an
excellent stand.
r. B. Irwin, of Crossville, Tenn,
Chairman of the County Court Of Cum
berIand county, recently while under
the influence Of strong drink, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head with pistol. He had been an act
i've politician, and was Treasurer of the
Masonic lodge at that place.
Miss Mary Quinn, a much beloved
Christian lady, was lately killed at
Raht's Mill, in Polk county, by getting
her dressing caught in an upright shaft
and wrapped around, crushing her to
death before assistance could be render
ed.
You can remove your freckles, girls,
by cutting them out and throwing them
away. If you don't believe it try it.
Judge David Davis is reported to be
the owner of fourteen improved Illinois
farms.
Bombay advices report continuous
rain storms, causing serious damage to
the cotton crop of India.
Tho IoCrc ara yK-r,rryiDr sheen in
Knox county. They should be given
dose, each, of strychnine and, probably,
their love for mutton would cease.
1877 is called 1.-THE washerwoman's
year because it has fifty-three Sundays.
The sheep in Clark county, Virginia,
are said to be dying in large numbers Of
some mysterious disease supposed to be
worm in the head.
George H. Corliss, the steam engine
maker, is talked of as the next Republi-
can candidate for Governor of Rhode
Island.
Richard T. Taylor, Cashier of the Ma
tional Bank, at Franklin, Indiana, is
short $4,000 Taylor has absconded,
and the bank has suspended.
The failure is announced of NJ. r.
BraZos, agent and treasurer of the Hart
ford and New York Towing and Freight
Line Company, with liabilities Of Sl17,-
600.
y San Francisco telegram of the 9TH,
states the Apache Indians killed ten
whites in Senitoria Valley, southeastern
Arizona, on the 4th inst. The Governor
has applied for authority to use volun-
teers.
Samuel Hall, of Nelson county, KY,
was stabbed fifteen times in Louisville,
last week by an unknown party. His
ears and nose were partly cut of, the jug
ular vein severed and most all parts of
his body severely injured.
Virginia steps grandly to the front
again. She is now conspicuous in the
settlement of the great and absorbing is
sue of the national Presidency. Tucker
and Hunton will go down to history
along side of Washington and Lee.
A New York divine has discovered
that each year there were $4,000 men
who died the drunkard's death, 500 muir
ders and 500 suicides and 100000 pau
pers, all directly attributable to rum,
during the year 1876.
1t has transpired that mail bag, con-
tanning letters and about twenty-five
thousand dollars worth Of bank checks
and private drafts, en- route from New
port, Ky. to Cincinnati, was a several
days ago opened and the contents alb
stracted. No clue to the robbery.
4 Richmond letter in the Baltimore
Sun says: The question as to who shall
be the next Governor Of Virginia is now
warmly and widely agitated throughout
the State Generals Fitzhugh Lee and
W. II. f. Lee, together with Gen. VIM.
Malone, Major John W. Daniel, Hon
F. w. NJ. Holiday, Ex-Governor VIM.
Smith, and host of others are named as
aspirants-
A sudden death and a wise motive
J. J. Mcconnell, a saddler and harness
maker of Chattanooga, died in that city
recently from a stroke of paralysis. The
night previous he had Joined the order
Of United Workmen, paying an initia-
ton fee Of 81. 05; went home at midnight.
and in less than twelve hours was dead.
His widow will get 50, 600 each from the
order of United Wo-kmen and knights
of Honor, to the latter of which he had
been a member about two months.
Those persons who failed to lay in
their ice supplies when they had
chance, can have the consolation of
knowing that they will be counted out
in July and August, or be forced to fork
over the highest market value for the