The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-02-27
NEWS ITEMS.

California exports $40, 200, 900 worth
of wool per annum.
Horse shoes are made in California of
compressed rawhide.
Three policemen of New York city
are now on trial for murder.
There are five hundred convicts work
ing on one North Carolina railroad.
The Maine state prison last year paid
%, $40 less than the expenses.
The first silk fabric woven in America,
in 1900, is still preserved at Salem,
Mass.
A very black couple in Columbus,
Ga, have three Albino children.
North Carolina has a91 convicts in the
penitentiary, and 700 at work on rail-
roads.
The tenderest tropical plants at Tam.
pa, Florida, were not injured in the least
this winter.
The Fort Worth Democrat is authority
for the statement that one of Davy Crock
ett's sons was in that town the other day
with load of cotton.
There were one hundred and thirty
failures in New York city during Jan
uary. Liabilities, 81, 113, 039; assets, 81,
4S3, s39.
The handRomest thing you can do jus
now is TO hand in some money on you
unpaid subscription to this paper.
The Peruvian mines that Henri,
Meigs was tunneling when he died hav,
yielded five million dollars in silver sine
their discovery.
In spite of the ratification of the reel
procity treaty with the Hawaiian king
dom, the imports of sugar from tina
country fell off considerably in the yea
1877
This country imported frem Japan
last year, through the port of San Fran
cisco, 100000 pounds of tea. From
China we imported only 926 900 pounds
A bill prohibiting the teaching of Ian
guAge and music in the San francisco
schools has been introduced in the Cali
lorna Legislature.
Mrs. John Deshler, wealthy lady o
Columbus. O., who died few days ago
| bequethed the sum of 1925, 900 to vari
GUS charitable institutions of that State
The Temperance movement has me
with quite success in St. Louis, ant
has already large Rumber of workers il
that city is being daily augmented b.
| fresh arrivals from other States.
Says Josh Billings; 1 always advIs
shOrt sermons, espeshily on hot Sun
daY-If minister cant strike lie in BIO
rim 40 minutes, he has either got a poo
gimlet, or else he il boring in the ROM
phase.
Fashionable ladies are reviving tn
old custom of piecing quilts. But in
stead of calico and delain, which thei
grandmothers used. they employ sill
and velvet.
An officia! telegram from zanziba
announces the death there Of Nm. Mar
and Crespel, who were sent by the Kin
of the Belgians to explore the interiO
of Africa,
Col Forney writes from London tha
he does not anticipate a general EurS
pean war, because Russia is too stron
Turkey too weak, and England too prr
dent.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, has at hi
splendid residence in Washington,
superb model of palace car compose
entirely of silver and plate glass. II !
inclesed in an elegant case of the sam
material.
William A. Howard, of Michigan
whom the President has appointed t
be Governor of the territory of Dakota
has been for MANY years ChairmaR 0
the Michigan Republican COMMITTEES
and was Chairman of the delegation t
the Cincinnati Convention, whicl
changed its vote to Hayes on the f1ftl
ballot.
Henry @. Moss was assassinated at hi
home at Venice, H., about o'clock OF
the morning of the 18th. He had arisel
to take some medicine, when he saV
two men pesring through the windo w
He opened the door thinking they want
ed his professional services, and one o
them fred, shooting him through thu
heart.