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

a CAIN pnOf tree Is HOuIlsHILS III 1dLH-
Norfolk is to have a steamship line to
Liverpool
Grass is growing in the streets and alleys
of Memphis.
Charleston is to have a velocipede
Ournament
The cotton mills in the South are run
night and day.
Hon. S. McLin, ex-Secretary of State
of Florida, is dead.
Nashville has sent one hundred barrels
of flour to Memphis.
The bell-punch law Is shutting up
many saloons in Dallas.
The Norfolk peanut dealers have agreed
to sell peanuts hereafter by the pound.
Game was never 50 plentiful as now in
Mississippi river counties.
Ediscn's agent is hunting for mineral
platinum in North Carolina.
There is S4, 500, 600 in cash and bonds
an the State treasury of Texas.
Montgomery, Ala, has over one hun
dred new buildings going up.
The Indians Of Western Texas use cot
ton-woOd leaf tea for snake bites.
Quite a number of Texas farmers have
put in their second crop of corn.
In Mobile pickpockets are so numerous
that it is becoming dangerous for ladies to
walk the streets.
Jefferson parish, La, does large
100000 year.
Students who take the benefit of the
Texas State normal school are required to
teach five years.
Baton Rouge has appointed commit
tee to raise $4,000 for the repairing of the
old State~house.
The cotton factors at New Orleans be
Iieve there will be 100000 more bales received
there this season than last
A party of ninety emigrants from Eng
land and Scotland, bound for interior Texas
has just landed at Galveston.
There is a bill before the Georgia Leg
islature to divide the State funds and estab
lish repositories in the principal cities.
The planters of Point Coupe, La, are
discussing whether not they should bring
abor from Georgia to improve their lands.
The exodus fever has died a natural
death in East Feliciana Parish, La and
everybody, black and white, is picking cot
ton.
The New Orleans Board of II ealth pro
poses that hereafter no man shall stable a
COW within twenty feet of the lot of an adja-
cent neighbOr.
In order to rob the residence of Mr.
Theo SOniat IL Jefferson parish, La, the
burglars chlOrOfOrmed the entire family, con-
sisting of eight persons.
Among the colored refugees in Kansas
is an entire Baptist church of three hundrde
and nine persons from Delta, Louisiana, led
by their pastor and deacons.
A negro at Murfreesboro, Tenn, aged
one hundred and three has just marrie1, his
seventh wife, who is. thirty-twO. The old
man has twenty-seyen children
The widow of Alexar.der Campbell, the
founder OF the Ca-npbelIite or Christian
church, is livinc with her son-in-IoTT Coi
Barely, near Il1iI1sboro, in Alabama.
In TIE Hastings Court, Richmond, the
other day,a prisoner was both prosecuted
anf, defended by negro attorneys This is
probably the first case of the sort on record
A negro woman in the employ of DR.
Riggs, of Callerene, Ala, poisoned the whole
family by mixing morphine with the coffee
None have died, but several are seriously in
danger.
Natchez, Miss, has built cotton fac
tory, every dollar of the stock in which is
owned by her own citizens, and which n
yielding the very handsome return of nearly
twenty per cent on the investment,
A witness in case before Judge
Quarles, of Nashville, declared that he did
not believe in God, heaven or hell, where
upon the Judge ruled his testimony out of
court.
For months this year there has not
been drop of water in the Ric Grande for
a distance of about five huBdFed miles. There
IS great suffering of the people of that dis
trlct in consequence,
A member of leading cigar firm in
Jacksonville SAYS that it is susceptible of
proof that Middle Florida can raise as good
tobacco ter cigars as Cuba, but that the farm
ers DO not understand curing it.
Memphis Appeal: We are getting to
be a yellOw-eyed race Of people in Memphis
1t is the fever poison thathas been absorbed
into the system during the epidemic that pro-
duces yellow eyes; at least so say the dis
ciples of Galen. -z TE "
The last Alabama Legislature appro
priated $4,000 for the benefit of the manned
Confederate soldiers in the State, Three
hundred and thirty-twO applications were
made, and the pro rata share of each one was
fixed at $50 y.
Memphis Avalanche A sluggish filthy
stream is Wolf river. In fact, it is nothing
more than an extremely dirty bayou full of
vegetable poisOns Yet we are not only
compelled to drink Wolf river water, but
when there is nigh water in the Mississippi
river, our drink is diluted with the wash from
one thousand five hundred privy vaults.
Houston Telegram Two more gentle
men-innoeent, of course--are to stretch
hemp in Northern Texas-the Brown broth
ers, at Denton. This,is one of the results of
the health, anti-criminal views of the class of
immigration from the old states now drifting
into the northwestern counties, and who
don't relish the assassination business.
Harrison (Va.) Valley: A man named
VIM. Dean, living on top of the Blue Ridge,
above ROadsides is the father of twenty-One
children, all of one mother. His mountain
feet, and he and his family rejoice in good
health. His nelds can be readily discCrned
ia-the valley for miles away.
The Mexican citizens of San Antonio
celebrated the anniversary of Mexican indie |
pendence on the 18th instant. They had a
brass band and procession to San Pedro, |
Springs, where an oratfOn was delivered /
vivas for Mexico uttered songs sung, Hezeal /
drank and Greaser enthusiasm INDUCED in I
ad libitum. r
Corinth MISSY Record: Jack Har-
rell, in digging well on his place in Prentiss !
county, exhumed the skeleton Of a man at
the uepln OF IOftY-three AeeJ peIOW LH6 sur /
face of the earth. He also obtained several |
gold coins of the Fifteenth century, bearing /
the superscription aud coat of arms of Ferdi- |
nand and Isabella.
The Jacksonville (Fla) Sun and Press
asks: " VIII some medical man explain why /
or how it is that the negro is never known to /
sneeze? Ask any old planter, who owned |
scores of servants, and he viii tell you he
never heard one of his. servants sneeze. It
may appear avery singular fact, but it is |
none the less true; and we allude to it just to |
show how unobseTvant most people are"
Prof Bibikovs Of Columbia, S. c., went /
over to Georgia, and at place about sixteen |
miles from Augusta, on the Georgia railroad, |
he came to wall of Ignite in the side of a I
hill, about twelve feet thick, which proved to 1
he tirst- -cIass hrnArrl noaL He estinataa that |