The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-11

= Fifteen thousand applications for
office have been filed with Postmaster
General Key, during his short incum-
bency in office And the cry is, still
they come.
--Wades Hampton has appointed seven
colored trial justices in-one judicial dis
tFief .zaud celored treasnrers in several
counties. .sxaE W%k $50
a-Frank Branner. a deaf and dumb
young man about 10 years old from
Knoxville, who was attending the Deaf
and Dumb school at Washingtou.D. c..
was drowned in the Potomac river re-
Gently
: The amount of United States In
ternal Revenue collected at Richmond,
Va, during the past month, was 1910,
SEQ. 49, sa1ok
= Democratic legislation in Louisiana
has reduced the annual expenses of the
State and the city of New Orleans 800
600 7@
The cornerstone of the Confederate
monument at Waynesboro', Georgia,
was laid with appropriate ceremonies on
the 2Sth ult.
-Sheibyville, Tennessee. has, in
short time, shipped $40, 600 worth of
mules, and Il, 1873 skins of small ami
mails, or So, 600 worth of furs
Hayes has five children; EYarts, eleven;
Postmaster General Key, thirteen;
Schurz. two; Sherman, two; BTcCrary,
three or four; and Thompson, several or
more
The Danbury News says: t'There is a
thirty-thousand dollar tomb in Green
wood. A stone-mason made it. In the
outskirts pauper lies under a rose
bush. God made it.
During the last eight years, under
Republican domination, property in
South Carolina has decreased in value
500, 100000 The plundered State will
now have a chance to recover from the
accused abuse of the carpet-baggers.
"A Judge in West Texas on taking the
bench one morning, directed the Clerk
to read the minutes, when his honor was
Informed there was no minutes to read,
that his honor was drunk the day before
and no court was held Whereupon the
Judge ordered fine of $25, to be enter
ed up against himself, which was duly
paid
= The Governor has appointed Sam.
P. WINS, of the Athens Post, Railroad
tax assessor, under the act taxing rail-
roads and telegraph companies.
We understand that work will be
resumed on the new church edited
which is being built by the Church
Street NJ. E. Church, South, in few
days, and the building win be pushed
to completion. This church will be the
finest in the city when finished, We
hope to see the congregation in it before
many more Sundays oIston Methodist
The Cincinnati Enquirer, claims to
have anaate from a gentleman authorized
to speak for Governor Hendricks saying,
that Mr.. Hendricks will not in any event
be a candidate for the Uuited States
Senatorship from Indiana.
The new anaconda at the Geological
Gardens, London, is eighteen or twenty
feet long and measures two feet around
the thickest part of the body. He was
caught in South America and Shipped
to England in large box. He lies in
tank of warm water and eats a duck
every morning His voyage across the
Atlantic ocean was very uncomforta-
bic one, and his buff skin is shrunken
and tiavcl-staincd
The femii.Ine stock spectators of
San Francisco 10 not patronize the Wo-
mans Mining Bureau enough to make it
successful lis President, Mrs. Kellogg,
said to lie an aunt of the prima donna of
that name, explains the undeniable fail
ure of the Womap's Board to be the re-
suit Of the INABILITY of woman to trust
each other fully. The mania for stock
speculation is not subsiding, according
to San Francisco correspondent. Every