The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-09-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

An Atlantic CIby edltor2 remarks !:
Sunday is our fullest day" Well,
we wouldn't tell about it, atl
Edward H. johnson, the notorious ex-
| press robber Of Memphis, made des-
Derate attempt to escape from the peni-
tentiary at Nashville, but did not doit.
Senator Ham1in isreported to be as
strongly anti-Hayes as his colleague,
Senator Blaine The expression that
Hayes has proved a traitor to his party,
his country and his God, or words to
that effect, embodied in the resolutions
adopted by the Republicans of Etna, in
Maine, is said to have originated with
Hamlin. A #t
DR.. Roth, of Bloomington, H., died
Sunday night. A 7Dost-DsOrteDa revealed
the fact that the mucous lining of the
esophagus was transformed to scales of
pure bone, preventing the play of the
muscles, and producing death by starva-
ton. OssiAcation of this organ is anew
disease to the physicians of that locali-
ty. 4
Another centenarian has been discov-
ered-this time in Edgefeld. Her name
is Delilah Buchanan, olored. To an
American reporter, whointerYiewed her,
she stated that she was born on the Wa
tauga river, in East Tennessee. When
shout twelve years old she passed
through Knoxville, which, at-that time,
she says, did not contain single two
story house. -
The appropriation for, the payment OF
expenses of the Georgia Constitutional
Convention having been expended and
the concern being about to sbust' for
the want of per diem, Col Bob Toombs
run his hands down into his trowsers
pockets and proposed to furnish the mo
ney himself to .defraY further expenses.
which he did.
They were husband and wife, and as
they stood before the Capitol in WASH |
ington she ask: "What's that figure on
tops" That's a goddess, he answered.
"And what's goddess?" "a woman |
who holds her tongue, " he replied. She |
looked at him sideways, and then began
planning how to make peach pie with
the stones in it, for the benefit of his
sore tooth.
s. E. Hardman. manufacturer of Ken
yon's fire-escape, was giving an exhibi-
tiOn of his apparatus at the AstOr House
in New York recently, which resulted
IN him losing his life. He fastened the
to his breast and was lower
ing himself out of a third-stOry window,
when the brass band parted. Hardman
fell head-long on to the ground, and was
killed.
The city ot Memphis, which owes
b, 900 900, after protractcd negotiations,
offers to its creditors to pay fifty per
cent by funding the bonds at that rate
into thirty year six per cent loan OF
g, 900, 600, with coupons receivable at
par three months before maturity for
all taxes or debts due the city. The
city also binds itself not to issue any
more bonds or scrip of any kind. This
has been accepted by the
who are chiefly in New
York and Baltimore.
The Turks have German at the head
of the Central army, an Englishman in
command of the Black Sea fleet, two
Prussians prominent among the engi-
neers, an Egyptian taking the lead in
the artillery department, and another
handling the cavalry. The
Russians have five or six German gen
erals, Polish chief of staff, two Arme
mans in command in Asia, and variety
Of other foreigners scattered through
their service. ~ atA5sF
Alfred Jones, a colored resident Of
Worth county, Ga, bought on credit in
1871 alarm Of 10 acres, the price being
5000. He owned mule, COW and a
calf. In 1875 he had paid for the place,
and now has torn down the old house
and built two new ones, has three mules,
two wagons, seven cattle, twenty-five
hogs, one hundred apple trees and a
peach orchard, farms leased estate of
200 acres, is out of debt, makes about
twenty bales of cotton a year, and plants
corn, cane, chufas aud peas literally.
Here is an example worthy of imita-
tion. isz .a.,
A vivid idea of the expensiveness of
military operations was given in a re-
cent despatch of an English correspon-
dent with the Russian army at Kars.
He said that up to the time when the
siege of Kars was raised the Russians
had thrown into it $4,000 bombs, the
cost of which was l 500, 900 rubles, Or
about 81 200, 900. 1t is estimated by a {
British military writer that the cost to
Russia of the double war in Europe and
Asia Minor is considerably over one mil
len dollars per day This sum does not
come out of the pocket of the Car, nor
loes the Sultan pay the expenses of the
)ther side. II
Wells and Anderson, of the Louisiana {
Board, have gone to Wash !
ngton in the hope of doing something
o secure Intervention = in their behalf
With the Losisiana State authorities, so
hat the pending indictments against {
hem for alleged perjury in connection ,
With the Vernon parish electoral returns |
will not be tried. The term of the court
or which these cases are set down be- a.,
Rms in October. T .i5g ,
The New York STA sums up alsngthy
eview of the war situation in Turkey,
With the conclusion that the military
operations in Bulgaria for the remain
Ter of the year will be unproductive of I
my decisive result, and that. the Turks
will be able to hold thier defensive posi-
lions to the north Of the Balkans through
,ut the winter. Provided no European
.nrnnIinatinns rise in thren ear. firnea flle l