The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-29

Okubo, the Chinese Minister of Int.
rior, has been assassinated, and the muir.
derer arrested.
Kite Schafer has been sentenced to
be hanged at Chambersbusg, p, for the
murder of his wife, a new trial having
been refused.
Ira B. Wright, a prominent church
member and for ten years Treasurer of
South Hadley, Mass, has appropriated
$25, 900 of the town funds.
Miss Kellogg says that newspaper men
are just like lemons-ft only to be
squeezed as much as possible and then
tossed aside. ---. ... .........
The Charleston Is. CO. Neaos says that
what little opposition there was to the
denomination of Gov. Wade Hampton
has died out, and his reelection is as GER
tain as his denomination.
Miss Sarah Stewart, who was recently
murdered and robbed in Norfolk coun-
ty, Va, by tramps, was a noted belle, a
sreat-grand-daughter of Patrick Henry,
and cousin of Senator Withers.
The prayer of the Norman might suit
the spirit of our own time. Il was,
'Kind Heaven, 1 do not ask for wealth !;
only to be placed within arms length of
some man who has it.
St. Agnes Academy, Memphis, wa
burned on the 10th with the valuable Ii
brary and all the clothing of the pupils
and large portion of the furniture. The
buildings were insured at $50, 10000, and
furniture at $4,000.
Rev David Woods, an aged and high
ly esteemed colored preacher, dropped
dead on the street at Frankfort, Ky, on
last Monday evening.
Last Saturday night ten of the best
business houses of Pulaski were burned,
causing loss of .$85, 900, of which $52,
600 are covered by insurance
Ellington Fulton, nearly thirty years
associated with the Baltimore american,
and, until recently, its managing editor,
died on the 18th inst, in the sixtieth
year of his age. ....
New Orleans Picayltne.: The Collector
of the Porte has been lawyer, plan
ter, a surveyor, a member of the Legis-
lature, as editor and a member of Con
gress, and he is still young man. Age
cannot wither him nor custom stale his
infinite variety
A little five year old son of Frank
Gibson, near Huntingdon, was playing
with loaded revolver Sunday morning,
18th inst, when an older boy tried to
take it away from him. In the scuffie
the pistol was discharged, and the youn-
ger boy was shot through the head and
instantly killed.
The labor movement in England,
which promised such serious conse-
quences a few weeks ago, seems to be in
Il fair way to be settled. Employers and
employees appear to be actuated by a
mutual spirit of compromise and con-
cessIon. 1Ef r.- ~
Mr.. Hendrick B. Wright offered bill
in the House of Representatives. at Wash
ington on the 18th inst, to set aside
40, ,OOO, 900 acres of public lands for the
benefit of the poor, and to give each
head of family who would settle on
the lands an advance of $500 to aid in
starting a farm.
Inquiry is made for Confederate
flag belonging to the Dawson volun-
teers, Company f, Fifth Georgia Regi-
ment. 1t was lett in the care of a MGR
chant, who did business in two-story
building, near the depot in Morristown,
in 1862, with a lot of baggage, and
placed by the~company in the second
story of the building. Any one know
ing anything concerning this flag, may
communicate with Joseph Brown, the
postmaster, who will convey the intelli-
gence to the inquirer in Georgia.
AS three governments have accepted
the invitation of the United States for an
international monetary convention, that
convention will, in accordance with the
act of Congress. on the subject, be held.
Neither of the three nations which have
accepted have any commercial relations
of importance with the United States.
Neither Great Britain, France, Germany
nor Italy are likely to accept the invitas
lion, and therefore if the conference is
held it will be remarkable for the nom
of the important CONNER
cial countries with which we have deal
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