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

Stewards hotel for women will be
opened in October. A former hotel
keeper has been selected to manageit.
Captain John Smith used to swear,
steal, fight loaf around and lie like a
Chicago policeman. The Rev. Mcneil,
of Virginia, says so.
Judge e. H. East, of Nashville is now
spoken of as the successful candidate for
the vacant United States judgeship.
Senator Key supports him warmly.
Rev. w. G. Gray, rector of st. James
(EpiscopaD parish, at Bolivar, Tenn,
was united in marriage with Miss Fan
ME G. Bowers, of Philadelphia, last
Thursday.
The forests have ben on fire in Wis
consln for five weeks, and now it is des-
troying farm houses and villages Great
suffering prevails at Eaton and many
are homeless.
A crop of sixty-five acres of rye on the
farm of Col. Reypold, near Frankfort,
KY, was cut, recently, the average
height of stalk of which was eight and
half feet.
Farmers in some portions of North
Carolina are now making their own
fertilizers They collect laage quanti-
ties of forest leaves and cover them with
earth to decay.
The workman's ticket for State and
county offices was successful as against
the Democratic ticket last Monday, in
Louisville, KY. The Republicans went
solidly for the former of course.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania says
he is not surprised at the alarming pro-
portions the strike has assumed. He
charges it to the ruinous policy of the
| Government in shrinking values and en-
| forced contraction.
Vanderbilt has ordered 800, 900 to be
divided among the New York Central
employees who stuck to their post. The
stickers number II 800 and the strikers
500. The II, 800 will get about $3.50
apiece.
On the tenth ballot in the Mississippi
! Democratic Conservative Convention
1st inst Acting Gov. Stone was nomi-
mated for Governor over his chief com
petitor, Gen Robert Lowery.
Pittsburg taxpayers are consoling
| themselves with discovery that instead
70 300 locomotives destroyed by the
rioters there were but 102, and 1000
freight cars instead of 5000.
Preparations ought 20 be commenced
oI,1D, fl,o n
| Anniversary of American Independence
in 1876. Nothing like commencing in
time. We promised to be there, and
are anxious to hear some talk of it.
Sleeping turnip seed in spirits of tur-
pentine is a complete preventive against
the fly 1t does not injure the geITninat-
ing of the seed, and the young plant
comes up tasting and smelling of tur-
pentine, the odor remaining on it until
it is in the rough leaf.
Cleveland Banner: Luke Galloway, on
the Tennessee river, in Monroe county
raised sixty-eight and one-fourth BUSH
els of wheat on one acre of land. This
is about the best yield upon record, and
we don't think it can be beat in any
country.
Cleveland Banner: The news comes
from all quarters in this section that the
prospects for big corn crop were never
better, and with good rain or two the
yield will exceed that of any previous
year since the war. Everybody thinks
there will be world of corn made.
There has been shipped from Sweet
water, since July 18th, twenty four car
loads of new wheat, making about seven
thousand bushels Fourteen carloads
have gone east, to Richmond and other
Eastern markets, and ten car-loads to
Southern markets.
Athens Post: Mr. Fisher, the depot
agent at Athens, one of the best and
most accurate on the line, advises us
that he had received 359, $50 pounds of
wheat, new crop, up to last Saturday
evening. The number of pounds ship
ped during the last railroad year was
699, 211. The new crop has been sold at
an average of 81 10 per bushel.
The man who does nothing don't
amount to much. 1t makes but little
difference whether he is a millionaire
or pauper. He is only a stagnant pool,
without energy enough to start a ripple.
He diffuses moral miasma over
everything around him. Do something;
don't stand on the Ecorner gaping, with
your hands in your pockets, like an
idiot. The world was made to work in,
and if you fill your hearts with good an
gels, the bad spirits will keep out, be-
cause there is no room for them.
Prof. A. W. Brayton, of Chicago, and
d. S. Jordan, of indianapolis, accom-
panied by John Oliver, P. w. Ritter,
and O.. Fl. Gilbert of indianapolis, are
inspecting the various streams and riv-
ers of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
They are connected with the United
States fish commission, and are sending
specimens of the water of these streams
to Washington for the purpose Of hav-
ing analyses made of them with ! view
of supplying the streams with young
shad. They arc at present in Alabama,
having visited Chattanooga some days
since.
Miss Sallie Allen, one of Greene coun-
tvs sparkling jewels, is on visit to our
city. She is stopping with her relatives,
Mr.. Dan Briscoe's family, across the