The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-10-31
lEAa MQFigt1El Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 81, 1877.
NEWS ~ BRIEF.

Der Oh uu6iS III AbAAA -
five q month
In France the copyright of an author
Iastssduring hisslife; and is secured to
his family for ten years-after his death.
Forty years ago missionary was not
allowed upon the FL Islands; now 49,
600 young Ffiians attend Sunday school.
The private contributions of money
in England for the relief of the starving
people Of India exceed 81, ,ooo, 900.
Judge Wright, of Indiana, recently as
saulted Columbus Delano, ex-Secretary
of the Interior, at Washington city.
The'ssason is almost at hand when the
new devifin a priating office is liable
to pi bucket of coal.
When four women are walking abreast
on the pavement, they viii break ranks
for nothing except a man with paint
pot--F,sck. EH
The beach at Galveston is the largest
and broadest in the world extending
twenty-five miles, fronting the unbro-
ken tide Of the Gulf of Mexico on the
south and east.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted fn-tobacco is 5Oper cent.
larger than last year, and yield promises
to be better in the same ratio.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that DR..
VIII. Hess, of that city, has cured Ser
geantSheffler Of an old and aggravated
attack Of neuralgia by the removal of
two nerves from his forehead and
temple.
joaquin Miller was so much amused
when he went into the gallery to see his
play, that policeman had to punch him
three times to curb his hilarious demon
stratious.
G. B. who was fat, being accosted by
a man to whom he owed money, with
how dye ? answered ''pretty WE'LL
hold my own"--"and mine too, to my
sorrow,n reieined the man.
''Now put down branded peaches"
says the Chicago Journal. Yes, beware
of them, young man-put them right
down and 60 away from them. Detroit
Free Press.
An exchange says; ''An Albany man
who used to live on ten cents a day died |
wealthy" remarked another) but wen |
bet money he didn't die fat.
'sWhen I die, - said a married man, 81
want to 90 where there is no snow to
shovel" His wife said that she pre-
sumed he would.
Il is the candid opinion Of Robert
Tooms that if he was working for man
at low wages he " ouldn't burn the mans
house down by way of hint that he
must pay more
fYes, ma'am, l broke the vase" said !
Bridget; ''but it wasn't worth anything
''What do you mean, Bridget ''Why, t
you told me, ma'am, yourself, never to
use it for anything" Sevres china
The Russians have 800 cannons in the
vicinity of Pleyna, frequently all in ac
tive use at once.
InvisW of the numerous murders in
Iowa. the Dubuque Times calls for the
restoration Of the death penalty.
A bunch Of grapes from the mammoth
grape vine of Santa Barbara is exhi-
bition at San Francisco tits three feet
long and six in circumference, and
weighs 126 pounds.
A queer mourner at a boys funeral in
Orangeburg, KY, the other day, was
small pig. Il followed itsIittle masters
remains to the grave, trotted along IN
der the hearse some seven miles to the
burying-ground-
ADemocratic politician who sued the
Springfield Qll) Jouynal for $4,000 dam
ages for calling him an intolerable nu-
isance, has been given by an appreciative
Jury verdict for one cent. Even this
the paper refuses to pay, and threatens
to'appeal the case.
Ia Luzerne county, Pa, about $4,000
men, accustomed to work in the coal
miles aud about them, have been idle
during the past two months, not having
earned dollar since the strike began,
and>at least -, 600 people in the Wy
oming aRd Lackawanna regions have |
not only been without the means Of sub /
sistenee, hut are becoming dependent en-
tirely upon charity for their support.
Gen. Todleben, who has been called I
upon, at the eleventh hour, to outwit |
Osinan Pasha is now an old man. In |
1913 he que1led the Circassians by |
mountain forts; in 1853 he awakened the |
wonder of the world by his stupendoua |
defense of. Sebastopol. If his faculties !
are Hnimpaired, Osman has more cause
J.sa.s L., than
wilderness of Grand Dukes.
To-a person who regretted to the cele-
br8ted DR.. Samuel johnson that he had /
not been a clergyman, because he .con-
eidered the life of clergyman an easy
and comfortable one, the doctor made
this.reply. "The life of conscientious
clergyman is not easy; have always
considered a clergyman as the father Of
a larger family than he is able to main-
tain. No, sir, do not envy a clergy
mans life as an easy life, nor do envy
the clergyman who makes it an easy
life.
Our citizens should bescareful to pur-
chase only tile pure cider vinegar. The
Board of Health of the District of Co
lumbia, recently condemned five car
loads of vinegar sent there from Chica-
go. on the ground that it was not genu-
ine and Injurious to health. 1t contain
ed, according to thereport of the Board,
81 54-1O0 grains per gallon of anhydrous
sulphuric acid combined with lime, to
form sulphate Of lime equivalent to
1T 26-100 grains Of gypsum per gallon,
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