The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-08
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

/ ~ II HC Z1AFAL VI AAA44k A 4 LING.
William H. Vanderbilt is understood
| to have an agent in Europe who is au-
thorized to eXpend $780, 900 for works
OF art.
Charles A Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, and Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
returned from Europe last week.
81 would rather" says the editor of
| the Okolona States, "be living ass than
| a dead lion" Nature having gratified
him in this particular, what in the
| world is he growing abOut?-BllfdLO
| Express.
A jeweler in Iowa advertises eye
| glasses thusly "Bear in mind that this
| is the only Eye-Glass ever invented
! that curls caressingly and cutelY around
| the crOokdest nose in creation"
The Virginia regulators are very
| active. The rank and file of the part y
there is composed largely of negroes
The negroes of Tennessee, when left to
| their own devices, voted reputation.
a Massachusetts man recently offered
! prize for the best essay on Honesty"
| Of the twenty-three essays sent in a
number were partially stolen and one
was stolen outright.
The fact that Brigham Young's grave
is neglected and he has not even a stone
to mark his last resting place, only SER
yes to call attention to the evanescence
of family greatness.
According to London letter to the
Brooklyn Eagle Victoria c. Woodhall
and Tennie G. Clatlin, now in England,
are to be married to members of the
British aristocracy.
A foreign apparatus, shaped like gun
and about as long, has recently been de-
vised for mailing down flooring boards.
This continuance can do, it is said the
work of six men, and the inventor ex-
poets ultimately to render it self feeding.
There is a six legged hog ON Major
VIM. Smiths farm, near Newport. The
hog is about six months old, and has
four well developed feet in front and
two behind.-NeaQpQrt Reporter.
A deed from w. A. and P. A. Slower
to ]. j. Gudger, of Marshal, N c., and
calling for go, 400 acres of mountain and
mineral lands, was registered at the
Registers office in Newport last week.
Newport Reporter,
Official statistics shows tina America
has realized an average of 800, 900, 900
per year from breadstuffs alone since
1865, the amount last year being 1881,
IN, 841, and 1913, 232 $40 was reafiged
last year from our animal Praduots, cat
tie, hogs, etG,
The South will raise this year over
6,OOO, 900 bales of cotton 100000 bogs. |
heads of sugar, and very nearly SOC. 600 !
600 pounds of tobacco. This will be a /
half a million more bales of cotton.
twice as much sugar, and IL, OOO, 600
more pounds of tobacco than she ever
raised before.
One hundred EHgligb fartaers arrived
al Montreal, Quebec, on September %.
for Little Saskatche wan, where
they propose TO settle. They bring cap.
ltal to the amount of $4,000. Among
The party are sons of English noblemen.
In Muscatine county, Iowa, recently,
COW switched her tai, IN the eyes ola
'arm laborer, who was milking her,
entirely destroying the sight of that or
gan, and now the man sues his employer
or $4,000 damages, with fair prospect
II getting at least part of that sum.
"Dick Woods, white barkeeper, ct
Whites Greek, on the G, 6. +. H., sixty
niles apofe chattanooga, was murdered !
n has salo6h by unknown parties Friday :
light. Chattanooga Times.
Nothing in regard to the cause and
of the murder could be
earned, except that the wound was ~
licted With CoEEl,Eg-pin, as lie was
I'd bis cellar, 1t is surmised
hat the incentive for the murder was
obbery. ]
A merchant sitting in his office in this
ity recently received an answer to a ]
ispatch sent to Shanghai, China, clz
lours previously. sh9pghsi is a6, 900 :
liles distant ftdfa New York by tele-
ralph, and the message mot making al I
lWapae for delivery at the two cities)
raveled at the rate of 100 miles a min /
te.-Nash0iUe Banner: a
The exciting walking watch for the
-stley belt and the gate money, oysT
'hich New York hes been 40 excited Z
pr;Rg the past week was brought to r
lose Saturday night when Rowell com B
leted his 530th mile, Merritt 5I5, and 9
-azale 500. Weston had previously re. :.
red on finishing 455 miles, The negro p
art made 49, miles, and the lowest Vas | y
aylof, WIS. made only 9s0 miles during n
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