The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-01-24
THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE.
NEWS ITEMS.
The best thing for ! cold j. some:

Pride and poverty don't work to-
gether in double harness
Fifty thousand elephants have to
die each year to furnish the ivory sup
ply and by and by we shall have neither
elephants or ivory.
-Amateur theatricals, no doubt keep
many young men from bar-rooms
- We return thanks to Hon. William
Mcfarland, Washington, ID. c., for
Congressional documents
Arizona whisky is nine inches thick
and gaining.
The ghost of Gen. Scott has been
seen in Washington
Baltimore claims to have the queen
Of thieves, but the right bower is what
tells.
james Parton thinks David Crock
EFT was strictly honest, but an awful
wicked man. o ~
The new Turkish constitution says
Z q good deal and means nothing. The
Turks will still be Turks.
- Brazil. emuious of success in the
field of commerce, subsidies no less
than twenty light steamship lines. 81
- Somebody thought he saw General
Dix clerking in a Boston tobacco store,
but it turns out that he is still in New
York. Is -HiEsHaa fl-a iic1 o3 iesl11 slst.
A French resident in New York is
making guillotine and viii have it on
exhibition when. the next hanging comes
of. IT,
= One of the Spragues fell down on a
millpond and Jared the whole State of
Rhode Island the other day. Light man.
TOO. -
- They are so strict with students at
the London University that only two.
janitors have been shot at during the
past year. = EE
= The grave ofGen. Lee is kept con-
stantly adorned with f1owers.-
A fashionable London preacher re.
Gently said: ''Sts-Pau1 remarks, and l
partially agree with him
= The Rev. William Grey, pastor of.
a Baptist church in Lexington, KY, is
accused of rifiing the collection basket
- The violinist Wilhelm is about to
make a concert tour in the United States,
under the management of Bernard Ull-
mann.
An aged Philadelphian is so devout
that he often drops on his knees in the
streets and loudly prays for those whose
sinfulness he Witnesses 80 "a
The State of Maine pays So bounty
for every bear killed within its limits.
Last year was apparently fas good, or
rather bad year for bears, for $40 were
killed, costing the State 50, z25.
= A man calling himself the great
grandson of Tecumseh is Occurring in
Kentucky.
= Talent is good thing, and if you
have it improve it; but if you have not
got it, then make the best use of tact.
- Work is no dishonor and laziness
is no credit to any one.
1t is good to have wages, but half |
pay is better than idleness and vice.
VIM. Gibson, of Franklin, Texas, |
precocious child of eighty-six summers,
recently distinguished himself by cut |
ting four front teeth.
Hon. H. Y. Riddle has introduced |
bill in Congress appropriating $50, 900
for the Improvement of the Cumberland
river from Nashville to the Kentucky
line.
: Tom Miles, of Missouri, has stolen
as many as twenty horses in one night,
but his average work is to get away
with three. OF course he claims the
championship.
= Says the st. Louis Globe, the young
man who wrote and asked his girl to &C
cept ''bueket" Of flowers became lit
tie pail when she said she wooden ware
- MAN proposes" but there are
still 81, 600 more women than men in
Massachusetts. - nor ~ Es-Esx
A package of money said to con-
tain from eight to twenty thousand, dol
lars was recently stolen from the Treas
ury Department at Washington.
-IFhe. Rev. Joseph II. Rylance said
recently IN St Marks Episcopal Church,
New York; 'sThere is no recorded in
stance of Jesus addressing the Virgin as
mother. He always called her. w oman
when He spoke to her. This, said he,
refutes the Mary-olatry of the Roman
Catholic Church -6e1l a9 s61ial II
-ssSmack," writing to as from New
port, Cooke county, under date 10th,
says: "Who is the man with the big
feet in TennesseeP I'll tell you-'tis
John Smith, of johnson county, near
the Virginia line. He covers ground in
both States-his feet are so large he has .
to put his pants on over his head. he {
drives cattle, they look at his feet and, {
through fear, go right along. 49, ~-~ |
= In the United States Circuit Court. /
at Knoxville, the 18th inst, the follow /
internal Revenue cases were disposed: {
Issac Pollard, fined 800; Isaac Lane, c
fined $50; P. R. Smith, mol. pros. on a
costs; John Ridenour, fined 800 and !
imprisoned two months; Patterson T
Breeding, fined 500; Henry Yeary, ;
fined $50; R. w. Hughes, guilty; B. $
Wilson, not guilty; Fl. Blankenship, D
guilty.
1t is officially stated that, during
the past ten years, we have paid to for
eign governments the vast sum of six 4
hundred millions of dollars of interest q
alone, to say nothing of principal paid P
and unpaid. a
There are female pickpockets in y
Baltimore so handsome and lady-like a
hat it is pleasure to have them get
away with your watch.
= Racine, Wisconsin, has sold her old :
at auction for $50. The =
Toung man who bought it now wants :,
hirty or forty girls TO court =;
- Suspicious looking drop-letters :.