The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-01-03
GAZETTE NEWS ITEMS.

= Goodbye, 1876l
- Be not wise in thine own eyes.
- Add to your faith virtue.
- Be not weary in well-doing.
= Resist the devil and he will flee
from you.
= Bad colds and coughs are the order
of the day.
- Small pox is spreading to an alarm
ing extent in New Orleans.
A good way to kill time now
sleigh it.
- Wade Hampton is Governor of
South Carolina. He is promised money
to run the machine and is now scientific
ally organizing county departments.
- The Democrats have a majority of
four in each house of the Florida Legis-
lature.
= Look out for poultry thieves /
This is the time they are usually busy.
- The wife of ex-Secretary Belknap is
writing book. The title has not been
announced.
- The fellow who writes for the press
on both sides of his paper, ought to be
bulldozed
- The Louisiana developments are
not conducive to the health. of the Re-
publican party.
Anonymous communications are
promptly consigned to the waste basket.
- A butchers sign out West reads as
follows: "John Jacobs kills pigs like his
| father"
Memphis AUalanche: The new way
not to suffer from corns is to have bay
windows on your boots.
= Grant thinks some one is trying to
assassinate him. '"The guilty fleeth
when no man pursueth"
- The millions who elected Tilden
will have an honest count in spite of
Grant and the army and navy.
Miss Anna Oliver, the first Method
ist woman pastor, is reported to bedding
exceedingly good work in Passaic, n. j.
- Mr.. Thos. T. McWhirter, editor of
the Athens Nears, was married in that
place on the 10Th ult The bride is Miss
Mary G. Crouch.
- The prospects of carrying Hayes
into the Presidency by fraud do not look
SO bright as they did to the conspirators.
- The Hartsville Sentinel states that
some kind of disease is killing hogs rap
idly in that section.
u. Chandler spends wakeful nights.
His dreams are filled with bulldozed
parishes and ineligible electors.
A granddaughter of Judge Jere
Black, it is announced, will make hel
debut in Washington society this winter
= Put Tilden and Hayes before the
people to-day, and the former would
carry ever State in the Union.
- Four hundred employees, mostly
poor women, were discharged on the
10Th ult, at Washington, from the Blu
reau of Engraving and Printing at the
Treasury Department
A Morristown man who slipped anC
fell on the icy pavement Christmas day
upon receiving expressions of sympathy
said he was used to the ups and downs
of life.
1t is reported that Secretary Dol
Cameron viii soon be married to hand
some widow in Washington.
= The country does not seem to b
ready to admit that the President of tn
Senate can be judge, jury and execu
tioner of the Presidential vote.
- Moses johnson, an uncle of the lat
ex- President johnson, died recently i
the second civil district of Carter coun
ty.
- The Elizabethton Republican an
nounces in its last issue that it will sus
pend publication only for few weeks
in order to procure the necessary appa
ratus for publishing newspaper.
= The cold weather has made differ
ence in the gait of our pedestrians
They make the regular time going an
coming from dinner. Politics are no
discussed along the way.
= The incrustations of ice on the in
eide of show windows can be prevente
by sponging the glass with alehhol