The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

- ne w 4tE1AtlStod t4f. y. ] oOttI1e1S heaS
again suspended on account of financial
embarrassment.
= The Trustee of the Cincinnati
Southern Railway recently, let the con
tract for the superstructure of the Ten
nessee river bridge near Chattanooga,
to Philadelphia firm.
Gov. Porter has signed the following
bills: To change the time of holding
the Law Court of Polk county; joint
resolution to appoint committee to
confer with the bondholders with re-
ference to the State debt.
= The Chinese of California use va
ter-melon seeds for food, and shipments
of thousands of pounds of these novel
provisions are made from one town to
another.
A young man at Dublin, Va, by
the name of Jonn Davidson, was instant
ly killed while carelessly handling pis-
tol. The ball passed Immediately
through his heart, and he died without
a struggle.
Vote of the Returning Board: Hayes
1876; Tilden 1874. Vote of the State;
Tilden, 1876; Hayes; 1866, doubtful, T. Vote
of the people: Tilden, 1905, 636; Hayes,
4, 1907
- The Cincinnati Southern Railroad
bridge over the Kentucky river is said to
be highest in the world. The distance
OF the river to the bottom of the bridge
is 275 feet. It consists of three spans of
375 feet each. The structure was com
menced in October and finished Saturday
February 18th.
A dispath to the Pail Mall Gazette
from Berlin says: 1T is believed here
that the Russian army will shortly be
demobilized. Lord Derby's suggestion
that years time granted the Porte to
prove the sincerity of its promises of re-
form meets with increasing favor. The
general aspect of affairs is decidedly
/ peaceable.
| - During the past year there was col
lected from whisky, tobacco, and beer
a revenue of 800, OOO, 900. Sixty-two
million five hundred thousand gallons of
spirits were distilled from grain and mo-
lasses, which, with 100000 barrels of
beer, would seem to be very extensive
tipple, even for sc, 900, 600 people
= A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature, and with prospect of be-
coming a law, to reduce the salaries of all
clerks of courts, revenue collectors and
attorney-generals to So, 500 per annum,
exclusive of pay for necessary clerical
assistance. The bill provides that all
fees over and above that amount be paid
into the State Treasury.
In the case of Mrs. Ann II. Sour
lock VS.. the Nashville, Chattanooga and
! ST. Louis railway for %, 900 damage al
legged to have been sustained by the
plaintiff having her leg broken in an ac-
cident in 1874, the jury returned YER
! dict of 81, 900 for the plaintiff in the
Circuit Court at Nashville the first of
last week.
Nashville Banner of last Thursday
says Six hundred and forty bills have
| been introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives. For several days past the
| House has been engaged in the call of
bills on their second reading, and No.
| 200 has been reached on the calendar.
The Legislature will probably adjourn
about the first of April.
The Tennessee Legislature has APP
pointed Senators Arledge Of Franklin,
and Martin of Weakly, Representatives
Shepherd, from the East, Savage from
the Middle, and Travis from the West
Grand Division of the State, Commits
sion to confer with the holders of the
States bonds, with a view to compromise
the debt. They are prohibited from
comforting with any persons represent
ing or holding less than seven million
dollars of the States Indebtedness. They
will proceed East at an early day to dis
charge the duty imposed on them, 50
as to be able to report, in part or in
full, to the present session of the Gener-
al Assembly.
j p Hassler, ex-cashier of the Car
Isle, Pa, Deposit Bank, committed sui
eide on Monday Goth inst. by hanging
himself to a rafter in the garnet of his
residence. About four months ago,
while he was cashier, an examination of
the books of the bank showed him to be
behind in his accounts to the amount of
eleven thousand dollars, he having drawn
that sum from the bank to engage, it is
stated, in stock speculations. He was
unfortunate and lost it all. About II
O'Clock Monday the Sheriff of CumbeI-
land county arrested him for embezzle-
ment, and fixed his bail at $4,000, to
procure which he gave him few
hours time At o'clock his accustomed
seat at the dinner table was empty. A
search was made for him, and between
8 and 4 O'Clock his oldest son discovered
him hanging to a rafter by a clothes line,
out of which he had formed a moose.
Willie Park, son of Rev. James Park,
of Knoxville, aged II years, accidentally
shot and killed Harry Baker of about
the same age, and stepson of Maj. r. l.
Wilson, on the ed inst. Bakers parents
were away from home, and he had in
invited Park to stay all night with him,
where, it seems, they got some pistols
out of drawer and were swapping at
each other, thinking the pistols were I'M
loaded, but the one Park had happened
to have two loads in it, and one of them
was discharged, shooting Baker through |
the head Baker was nephew of Rev.
G. A. Caldwell, of that place. A sad
fatality has attended the family of the |
deceased. His father, DR.. Harvey Baker,
was killed by the Federal troops on the
occasion of Saunders raid, in 1868, and
his ghalf- brother, Abner Baker (who |
killed young Hall IN self-defence) was
taken from the Jail by a mob and put to
death for it in 1865,
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