The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-02-06
NEWS ITEMS.
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The wife Of Gen. Marcy. Inspector
General, died at Baltimore, recently.
Three mon who gave their names as
John Owens, James w. Bryant and Jas.
r. Sullivan, have been jailed at Jackson
for swindling operations.
All thesbig guns connected with the
Eastern railroad lines were in confer
ence at New York, the other day, try
ing to effect compromise On the rate
cutting question.
J. Madison Wells, late of the Louisi-
ana Returning Board, has gone to that
bourne where Charlie Ross went, and
large rewards and good detectives can
not find him.
a raid was recently made into Mexico
by about fifty Nexicans from Texas I'M
der Colonel Saliaas. They captured
several towns, seized the principal men
and forced them to fork over $4,000.
The Nashville Banner says the fellows
| who bought Tennessee bonds during the
! extra session of the Legislature, are fore
ing them up to higher figures by some
process or other. They are now quoted
at SO for the old and 80 for the new.
At Bristol the other day, young fell
low was compelled, at the point of a pis-
tol, to marry a sixteen year old girl
whom he had seduced under the promise
of marriage.
Capt Thos McDermott, of Rogers
vile, is very favorabIy spoken of by
some of the Republicans of the First Ju-
diciai District .as a candidate for
the Judgeship at the ensuing August
election.
Queen Victoria's New Years gifts to
the poor of Windsor, eight hundred in
all, were Joints of meat and sacks of
coal-in all, three thousand two hundred
pounds of beef and sixty-fve tons of
coal were distributed
Says the New York Sun F: Perhaps the
weakest story ever told to advertise an
actress is one in the Nashville newspa-
pers about Mary Anderson being scared |
by mouse.
A Philadelphia advertisement starts as
follows: ''W. H. Stewart, a gentleman
of culture and refinement, has opened |
an aesthetic club ROOM" The conclusion |
is more practical; Always on hand,
the best wines, liquors and cigars"
A bill providing for the punishment
by fine and Imprisonment of persons
who sell or register bets, wagers, or
pools-being duplicate of the act that
was passed in Albany last winter-is be
fore the Massachusetts Legislature.
The Chattanooga Times learns that
Senator Isham G.. Harris will canvass
the State in behalf of the high tax party
Doubtful, we think.
A blast explosion in Chattanooga on
the 28th ult., hurled a rock weighing
twenty pounds through the Union depot
roof, two hundred yards distant. Sew
eraI persons narrowly escaped being
struck by the unexpected visitor.
T. F. Evans, wife, and two children
living at Bells, Tenn, were poisoned
Friday of last week. One of the chill
dren was playing with some arsenic and f;
h a childish way spilled it in the coffee
mill. The two children have about re-
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was improving, but Mrs. Evans was no
better.
A young man of twenty, named James j
Sale, from Plane, fifteen miles above
Dallas, Texas, who left home against
his parents will to visit relatives in
Kentucky, fell from a freight train on
which he was stealing ride at jackson,
Tenn, last Monday at 4 O'clock, p. m,
and was so badly injured by wheel
which ran over his thigh and arm that
he died that night at ten o'clock
A convention of wooden manufactu-
rers of East Tennessee met at Greene
Vile on the 23d. Representatives from
nine wooden mills were present. The
object of the meeting was to discuss
matters Of general interest in this bust
ness and to arrange a uniform scale of
prices. This is growing TO be an i'm
portant factor in the manufacturing in
tercsts OF East Tennessee.
Mr. James Organ, near Gibson, has
living in his family five generations
child, mother, grandmother, great
grandmother, great-great- grandmother
respectively the ages of
two, twenty-five, forty, seventy-seven
and one hundred. This is the most re-
markable coincidence on record.
j. T. s. Fall has presented to the His
torical Society of Tennessee a copy Of
Boulanger's Researches" on the Origin
of Oriental Despotisn," published in
the French language in London in 1853.
1t was printed and circulated privately
by the celebrated Alderman Wilkes.
Comptroller Gaines was quite busy
last week in canceling the bends that
were made over to him in payment Of
debts due the Stale from tho Mississippi
Central and Mississippi and Tennessee
When Mr.. Beecher is asked for the
DEVILS present abode, he is too polite to
say that letter might be directed ex-
to Chicago
Boston will contribute nothing to an
expedition to the North pole, because it
i sn't "a bean pole.
Mr.. TiIden's OvercOat.
New York star.
Early Yesterday morning a stout man,