The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-03
The Norristown Gazette.
NHwa 80 0THER ITEMs.

NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Eleven hundred and thirteen person
were arrested during one week, recent
in New York city.
Nashville american, Sunday: Fift
converts TO MormOnisIT, from East Ter
nessee and Georgia, passed through her
Friday night, en- route to Utah Terri
tory.
Morgan Dispateh: The New rive
railroad bridge on the Cincinnati South
ern Railway is / 800 feet in length AM
1875 feet high About 90 men are q
work there.
West Tennessee has this year prOduc
ed the largest crop of cotton since TIT
war. The yield is remarkably fac
equal to that of the Arkansas and Mis-
siBsippi bottoms.
what is a gentleman?" asks the Oh
City Derrick. A gentleman is that sOrl
of a man who occasionally steps into s
newspaper office and pays for his paper
in advance.
The mild, ethereal Indian summer
has taken her departure, and winter.
with its chilly breath, now reigns su-
preme.
The laying Of the new French cable
was successfully completed on the 10Th
instant The steamer Fsradsy landed
the Western end at North Eastman,
Massachusetts,, on that day.
Robertson county manufactured in the
month of October, 1872, 1875 barrels
of whisS ey-cOntaining 302 gallons of
proof whisky, which at cents per gal
ION tax. will pay the Government the
neat sum of $44, 371.8O.
The number of uusealed registered let
tiers received at New Y DIRK alone exceeds
g. 900 per annum. In the last SIX months,
the letters of this sort left at that office
contained $211, AGA. n in money, checks
and drafts
The authorities in Rockford, Ill. have
issued an order that all saloon keepers
must remove all blinds and screens from
their windows, so that the public gener-
ally can see what is going on inside. A
good plan to stop visitors.
Eight years ago a man who was ready
to be married was sentenced to the
Pennsylvania Western Penitentiary, and
Thursday, October 23d, when his long
service ended, the faithful woman stood
at the prison door to receive her lover,
and there he found wedding garments
which friends had provided.
George w. ChiIds, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, has contributed five hundred
dollars to the fund for the support of the
children of General Hood. Dir. A. s.
Abel, OF the Baltimore Sun, has subscrib-
ed like amount.
Illinois is represented as the banner
State In the matter of total abstinence.
More than six hundred of its towns and
villages have nc license, and several
counties have no rum sold. The whole
State is alive to the cause of temperance.
During the last year there have been
/ 200 records of court martials in the
army. The chief cOuse Of the frequen-
CT of this discipline is drunkenness.
The oldest living Congressman in the
United States is the Hon. Peleg Sprague,
of Maine. He was a member of the
United States Senate from 1929 to 1886,
and had been a member Of the national
House of Representatives from 1925 to
1928. He is now eighty eight years of
age, and entirely blind,
Marshall Moltke, the great military
genius of Germany, never works on
Sabbath. He goes to church in the
morning and reads good books during
the better part of the day.
The distress in Hungary on account
Of the bad harvest is very great. The
Government has suspended the collect
ion of taxes till the next harvest is
gathered. In fiftyseven towns and vii
lagos in Themes county the greatest !
distress prevails.
Three girls of the Met hodist persua !
sion having met together, concluded to |
pray for the welfare of their lovers; but |
the first one had not got very far along |
In her petition when it was discovered |
that they were all engaged to the same
man. The religious exercises were at
once terminated.
The city Of Pittsburg is learning that |
q mob may be very expensive thing, I
even when its wrath is turned against
an obnoxious railroad corporation. The
disturbance in that city in 1877 is cost
ing the county of Allegheny 50, $50, 900.
The tax payers will hardly look on with
complacency, and wait for the militia
10 come from Philadelphia to quCll the /
riot next time.
The trousseau of the young Queen of
Spain, designated, is described by Paris
papers as exquisite. 1t includes a num-
Der of dresses devised from the fashions
Of the time of Louis XIII. At the we'd
ding mass she will wear dress of cloth
of silver, with garlands brilliant with
myrtle, orange flowers and lilies.
Ex-senator James A. Bayard, father
of the present Senator, Thomas II. Bay
ard, lives in Wilmington, with his chill
dren, at an advanced age and in feeble
health. He entered the Senate IN 1851,
and resigned in January, 1864.
Sum people marry bekase they think
wfmmin will be scarce next year, and
live to wonder how the stock holds out.
---.Josh Billings
A friend of the late Senator Chandler
says that he spent out of his own pocket
937, 600 during the last Presidential cam
paign There is no doubt that Mr..
Chandler did contribute very largely to
the Republican campaign fund in 1876.
When a Chinaman makes love to a
girl. he doesn't rave about his heart
nanting for her, etc. NO-he simply
tells her that he loves her better than he
does rats, ard she believes him.
A Washington special OF the 18th
SAYS The Grand Jury to-day found in
dictment against John HitZ, late Presi-
dent, and Charles +. Prentiss, late CASH
Ter Of the German National Bank Of this
city, for embezzling 500, 500 in cash aud
$1,000 I'm stock of that institution.
For the month of October the decrease
OF the national debt amounted to $lO,-
R52, 900. This is the largest amount ex-
oept once since 1872, when the decrease
was $4,000, 900.