The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-05
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS

Farmers the 1000. 900 voters in
this country, 5000, 600 till the soil.
James Gordon Bennett, Of the New
York Herald, will sail for India this
month, and be abseut a year.
The Cincinnati Gazette advises the
democracy to nominate Mr.. Groesbeck
in 1880
When David Davis wrote 20 the Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate for a bigger
chair he ought to have ordered a whole
sofa.
At Logan, Utah, the other night a
LimbeTger cheese factory was struck by
lightning and all the people m owed out
OF town.
Thomas Mast is not only famous as a
caricaturist, but has the reputation Of
drawing one Of the heaviest salaries In
the cOuntry-$425 a week.
State debt Of Mississippi has been re-
duced from 81, 707 056 TO $500, 354
hisrule raised il TO the first figures, and
honesty and economy have nearly paid
the burden off,
The last Legislature Of Texas fixed a
tax on public horse racing, which has
almost put stop to the diversion in that
State.
The Springfield (NIass.) Republican
thinks the South has now a chance 20
make its own candidate, and that Mr..
Bayard ought TO be the man.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, says Mr..
Sherman has no chance OF the Presiden-
cy. MIR; Blain, he believes, will beat
him, and Grant Blain
An exchange tells Of man who hug
ged bear TO death, and now that pa
per is receiving many letters, written In
feminine hand, asking for his address.
Philadelphia has just added eighteen
boa constructors to ITS Geological Gar
den. These sweet pets will require a.
600 rate year.
According to the Indianapolis Journal
the republicans Of Indiana fear Mr.
Tilden's barrel and Mr.. Barnum's mules
a good deal more than they do Mr.
Hendricks popularity.
Texas, which, before the war. raised
some go, 900 bales Of cotton, is now pro.
ducing nearly 500, 600 bales, four-hfths
of which immense product is the result
of white labor.
A correspondent wants TO know why
a woman always sleeps with her arms
over her head, and sits on the floor to
put on her shoes? We give il up. Ask
us something easy.
'Now will you admit that you are
licked, yelled the upper man in a street
fight. mo, sir" replied the under
chap, Il amt licked, but-but I'm sat
isfed."
One hundred acres Of wheat, cut with
reaper, keeping six binders going, was
the work Of Scotch lassie Of Lexing-
ton, Ind. She used three pairs Of horses
in relays, but tired them all out.
The estimates for all branches Of the |
postal service during the next fiscal year,
aggregate $50 800, 600. The postal rev
enues will amount to $32 ,2iO, 900, leav.
ing a deficit of $7,7l0,00 to be met by
Congressional appropriation.
An American engineer has been Study
ing the great wall of China. II Is !, 72S
miles long, and being built without the
slightest regard to the confguratiOn Of
the ground, is sometimes carried 900
feet down into abysses Brooks and
small rivers are bridged over by IL, and |
strong towers on both sides protect |
large rivers.
More than one-half the glass used in /
the United States is produced in Pitts 4
burgh, where over 1000 hanGs are en- /
plOyed in making IL. Twelve thousand /
one hundred and ten tons Of soda ash /
were used in the bus mess during last /
year, and the value Of the glassware 1
amounted TO nearly 50. GOO, 900.
The QHesHS and, published at Bris- |
baue. Austral ia, recently contained the 1
following advertisement: 81, Fanny 4
Harris, have not heard Of my husband, /
George Harris, for seven years, and i'll /
don't hear from him previously intend \
TO get married again in two months"