The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-14
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NEKs AND orRKR ITRMs.


The South has not emily the capacity
40 grow cotton sufficient for the worlds
aupply, but to spin it also.
In 1850 only 500 persons were employ
cd in the executive departments of the
Government, now there are over. s,5OC
in the Treasury Department alone.
The Brookhaven Ledger says il the ne
gro exodus continues in Mississippi
much longer the State viii be entitled
to only five Representatives in Congress.
A bill has been reported favorably in
the Senate of Pennsylvania, which de-
clares that no policy in life Insurance.
company shall be forfeited by reason Of
non,payment of premiums, but that all
indebtedness by reason of such nOn-pay-
nnent shall be deducted from the policy
at the death of the insured. 8
A firm in statesville, N. O., sold last
year nearly half million dollars worth
ofmedicinal plants, roots and herbs, of
Western North Carolina production,
and firm in Bakersville sold $4,000
worth last year, and have received one
order for So, 600 worth, to be filed the
coming season. Some of the rarest and
most useful medicinal plants are found
in that State.
A bill has been introduced in the Mis-
souri, Legislature, to tax every pistol
and revolver carried in the State one
dollar. The st. Louis Republican says
the bill should be so amended as to ap-
ply to all such weapons owned in the
State This would bring in revenue
OF $500, ,O00 year. Such a law would
pay well in this State, if strictly en-
forced.
The ninth annual session of the East |
Tennessee Sunday School Convention
10 to be held at MaryviIle on Thursday I
and Friday, May 10th and 10th, 1879.
A new and interesting programme has
been issued for the occasion. According
TO a rule of the Convention, each school
Of fifty scholars OF less is entitled to one
delegate, and for every fifty scholars, or
fractional part thereof, one additional
delegate; provided, however, that no
school shall, in any case, be entitled to
more than three delegates. Delegates
should be elected by the first Sunday in
May.
Ben Butler is a shrewd old dog. He
has just donated 20, 900 acres of land in
Wisconsin to the fleeing negroes who
IRE too lazy to work in Louisiana. He
says he gives the land and now leaves it
to others to prove their zealons faith by
starting the freedmen, and providing {
them with means for utilizing the offer {
he has made. 1t reminds one of the gen ,
srous donation of gang plank to the !;
Captain out of employment, coupled ,
With the condition that some other large
hearted citizen would furnish a steam '
'oat to go with It,-AmerIcaR. c
1t 10 not easy to regard the striped and
deliberately decorated feminine stocking Y
IS modest or refined fashion. The Ia =
lies tell us that these expensive ard fre-
luentIy fashy articles are necessary for
he present low open shoess Probably; :
,ut they have been hanging at the store e
windows all winter, and must have o
1een bought by somebody before the t
OW shoes could have been worn with !,
,omfort. And the mode is going frem
'ad to worse. The Boccaccio stocking
8 that one is black and the other white. o
The idea came from the stage, from = p
omic opera, but it is cow the fashion of q
he draWinC-ro0m -. q
From a circular of Supreme Dicta- {,
or J. A. Cummings, of the Knights of :
Ionor, we learn that, during the "
months of July, August, September,
october and November. 1873, 836 mem Il
'ers of the Order died, 1913 of whom N
lied from yellow fever To meet the {,
alls upon the Widow and Orphans
3eneft Fund, $67o, 600 was paid by the : :
aernbers. The assessments were =
promptly paid. Aside from the pay @
nent of death benefits, about SIS, 900 ii
vas contributed voluntarily for the re- 81
ief of the living, who were in want and
by reason of the epidemic. In :
his record every Knight of Honor may "
AXE just pride. It places US in the D
'rOnt rank Is a great benevolent and v
business institution, and secures fu- il
.ure OF untold usefulness for our below n
"a 0rier. The Order has now about q
%, GOO members. aad is ia very -four :,
shlng condition. :
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GEN JAMES p RR0WNLOK Ii