The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-16
vEWe AND O1HBR ITEMS.

The Republican majority in Cincinna-
/ ii for Mayor was only 361.
The number of strikers among the
miners in Durham, (England), has reach
ed 30, 900.
Work upon the Lee mausoleum, at
Lexington, Va, is progressing, but 3d.
| 600 is still needed for its completion.
Seventeen thousand sufferers by the
flood in Hungary are still living on char
ity.
Miss Jennie O. Read, of Terre Haute
Ind, has brought suit against Thomas p
Murray for $25, 900 breach of promise.
| In Tennessee one hundred and forty
/ four papers are published. An average
of about one and half per county.
! Near Bradford, Pennsylvania on the
/ nth inst, the safe of J. H. Judd was
blown open and $25, 900 n bonds taken
from it,
A French dentist reports that lately in
opening an Egyptian mummy he found
several of the teeth which had been fill
ed with some kind Of metal. showing
clearly that dentists existed in the days
of the Pharaohs.
VIM. Harris, a pedestrian who took
part in the six days contest at Louis
Vile, has died from the effects of over
exertion. We feel sorry for the poor
fellow, but the precedent is decidedly
encouraging.
At a mass meeting of colored men
recently in New York, resolutions were
passed calling upon the Government to
inquire into the causes that have brought
about this great exodus from the South
ern States.
Edmond Kinney and Mary Hall, were
legally married in Washington, and re-
turned to Virginia to live. They were
arrested and sentenced to five years each
in the Penitentiary, on the charge of
miscegination, Kinney being proven to
have colored blood in his@veins.
The vegetable crops on the truck
farms near Charleston were seriously /
damaged The injury to potatoes is es-
timated at % per cent. The cucumber,
tomato and bean-crops are almost en-
tirely killed Strawberries are badly
hurt. Loss to truck farmers around .
Charleston is estimated at $50, 900.
'Gin"a body meets body
Going down the street,
Should body think body
Ought to stop and treat?
Wee blights many pleasure sweet,
And mist fills many an eye,
By men insisting, when they meet,
On going through the PHOTOGRAPHIC.
Sad accounts come from South Africa
Col. Pearson, who has been beseiged in
Ekowe for some time, was driven by
desperation to make sortie from the
place; but the Zulus proved too strong
for him, and fog coming up at the
same time, the English became scattered,
and the result was the killing of the en-
tire garrison.
The political and social Eden of New
is New Fairfield, in Connect
cut. The town, instead of being in debt,
has money at interest. Within its limits
it bas no distillery, grog-shop, no Court
house, no Jail, no doctor, no lawyer, no
policeman, no negroes, and only three
paupers.
A special from Marshalltown says a
terrible double tragedy occurred at Gift
ford, small station on the Iowa Cen
trail railroad. 'Jno Bell, Station Agent,
10 years old, deliberately shot Miss
Robb ms, his lady friend through the
heart twice. He then telegrap Pied tho
railroad official to send another operator
up as ne was going to kill hlmself
Shortly after he fired two shots into his
abdomen and is now in dying condition.
The girl was a most estimable daughter
of prominent merchant. No cause is
A New York dispatch of the 18th has
the following: 1t has been many times
said that at the death of Horace Greeley,
be held Vanderbilt notes for money TENT
the latter at different times, amounting
to many thousands of dollars. Satur-
day evening Vanderbilt met Greeley's
two daughters and after brief and
pleasant conference, paid over the en-
tire sum, principal and interest, amount
ing to SCI, 900.