The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-19
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


its capital from 10000, 900 to So, O00,-
900 on account of excessive taxation.
The President has issued proclama-
ton appointing the 9th of November
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
National banks, particularly in the
West, are increasing their circulation
very rapidly. This month the increase
will be over So, 500, 900.
The Spanish Abolitionists are prepar-
ing for great meeting in favor of sim
cere measures for the emancipation of
the slaves in Cuba.
A sheriff's posse stopped a train on
the Louisville railroad, and delayed it
twenty minutes, seeking for witness
who wasn't found.
Jesse James, one of notorious band
of robbers in Kansas. was shot and kill
ed, the other day, by one Of his COM
panions.
After eight years litigation over the
estate of the late James B. Taylor, Of
Jersey City, valued in 1870 at $50, 600, 900
the receiver reports that absolutely moth
ing is left.
According to an official report 100
Turkish mosques and holy schools were
destroyed in ROumelia and Bulgaria
during the Russian occupation of these
provinces; and about the same number
of mosques and schools have been des
troyed since the Russians left.
One of the brightest young lawyers in
Arkansas, j. P, Woods, of johnson
county, has been sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for stealing pistol. The pis-
toll was taken while he was drunk, but
the worst feature in the case was that
Woods did not tell that he had the pis-
toll after he became sober.
A manufacturer ia Sheffield, England,
lately showed a number of his wOrkmen
an assortment of American goods, and,
holding mp pair of tailOrs' shears, of
fered to give the trades union the men
belonged to $3.50 if any of them within
month would produce a pair equal to
them. The challenge was not accepted.
The Confederate Monument at Macon,
Ca, was unveiled October Goth, in the
presence of about %, 900 persons. Thirty
military companies marched through
the principal streets to the monument,
and there fired a salute, after which
Colonel Hardeman delivered an Grafton.
The city was Illuminated at night.
REYNOLDS used to court Miss Lancaster
at Jacksonville, Ind, but finally trans
ferred his attentions to Miss Brown.
That enraged Miss Lancaster, and she
has twice shot Reynolds as he parsed
her house on his way to visit Miss Brown,
who has thus far been able TO nurse him
through his injuries.
Mr., J. B. McCullagh, editor of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat, in explaining
the meaning of the term boom" in
politics, says he was the first to use it,
LoE Il oon1in1 he IN
the Grant movement in the same sense
that one would use it in speaking of an
irresistible rise in a stream in the spring
of the year. e., 1.-the river is boom
ing" (the river is rising).
A Salt Lake special says the Mormon
leaders are still defiant. At the late
conference five apostles avUwed their
determination to defy the Government
and live up to their principles. The
acQuittal of the murderers of Elder
Standing moves the church organ to the
intensest wrath. In an editorial 1t says
it is evident that jury cannot be en-
panelled il Georgia which will punish
assassins for killing Mormon.
A friend and neighbor has relative,
a practical Christian, who has fOrci-
BILE way of putting things. The other
udJ LlC SuOICCb Vi NACdIli-UCO
was under discussion, when he said:
"Some men think they can live any
kind of life, yet save their souls by a
so-called repentance few hours before
death, but have my doubts as to how
that kind of washing will dry when
hung out on the heavenly clothes-line.
Advlces from Northwestern Arkansas
says that tornado passed through part
Nrov for nUfv
stroying nearly everything in its course,
killing several persons and wOunding
others. The track was half a mile wide
and clear sweep was made of every
thing in the path. Trees were twirled
like straws, houses unroOfed and over.
turned and in places not even sapling
was left standing. A man named John
Newton was killed by his falling house
and quite a number had legs or arms
broken or otherwise injured.
Rev. Mr.. Allen, a colored man who
has been preaching to q church at Rus
sellYille, KY, for some time, and a
young, very handsome, and elegantly
dressed white woman, whose residence
is Nashville, Tenn, but who, a few
weeks ago, met the cOlOred preacher
while on visit to Russellville, eloped
from that place on the 18th, and were
married in Jacksonville, KY, it is said,
Sunday, taking the train Immediately
after for indianapolis. The preacher is
a fine looking specimen of his race, and
the woman gave evidence of accomplish
ments.
Quite sensation was created on Main
street, San Buenaventure, CAL, by the
appearance of one Ramon Boneas in
state of complete nudity, who rushed
frantically up the street from his resi-
dence and before he could be secured
dashed into the Catholic Church where
early mass was being held. Proceeding
to the altar where the astOnished father
was officiating he lay down at full
length, demanding to be nailed to the
cross. About this time a constable es-
corted him to the lookup. 1t is not
known whether insanity or dg,tardtente
was the trouble.
Frank Sinclair, of Lauderdale county,
recently committed suicide. The
Brownsville Bee says: Mr.. Sinclair had
been away from home, and returning
after dinner was oyer, enquired of his
wife if there was anything to eat. She
told him Eyes, go to the cupboard and
help himself" mo" said he "you go
and get it for me-" His wife told him
she was too busy to go just then, when
he remarked, eff you don't go now l
will kill myself" Said she, eff you are
that foolish. shoot ahead" He imme.
diately placed pistol against his head
and fired, literally tearing his head to
pieces, scattering his brains over his
youngest child, which happened to be
by him.
Nashville american, 8: Gen. James
L. Dunlap died at his residence on North