The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-10

shall, upon proof, be restored .four-fold,
a firm at Charleston has entered suit Tor
$40 900 against the proprietors OF two
fashionable resorts, the amount alleged
as having been lost. by young men IN
whom the firm was interested.
Farmers Crockett and Nichols quar-
relied about hog, at Lindale, MO-, ana
agreed to settle the difficulty with knives
One had dirk, and the other less
handy but larger pocket knife. Nichols
was killed on the spot, and Crockett
lived only two hours after the nghI.
Twentv-seven cuts were counted on
their bodies.
The wife of Judge Paine of the Cleve-
land County Court has left him TO De-
( come a variety actress. He was gu and
she 20 when they married, five years
| ago, and she gained a luxurious nome,
/ in which she was supposed to be con-
! tented. AS an amateur actress she was
/ successful, and this has led her choice
of the stage profession. Her husband
has begun proceedings for divorce.
New York World: A preacher the
! other day laid his hand patroniZingly On
| the shoulder of young Democrat who
! is a member of his church, aud said: Il
/ cannot understand how a Christian can
! be a Democrat" The young man re
/ piled: $50 long as Col. Robert 6. In
! gersoll, the most audacious intidel OF
/ the United StateF, stands out as con-
/ spicuous member of the Republican par
! ty, can well understand how Chris
/ tian can be a Democrat" This brought
! the conversation to an abrupt termIna-
ton.
Eight more lottery dealers have been
/ -, fifteen
in all. Most of the complaints are based
on mailed letters sent to Anthony Com
stock in answer to decOy letters. 1t Is
said that seven-eighths of the tickets are
sold in New York State.
( Anthony Trollope says that he has
| never been able to perfect a plot for a
novel beforehand. II have to confess, -
be continues, THAT my incidents are
fabricated to fit my story as it goes on,
| and not my story to fit my incidents.
wrote a novel once in which q lady fOrg-
ed will; but | had not myself decided
that she had forged it till the chapter
| before that in which she confesses her
| guilt | once heard an unknown critic
| abuse my workmanship because q certain
lady had been made to appear too fire.
quently in my pages. l went home and
| killed her Immediately.
A wild story is current in Owingsville,
KY, of man floating over the place in
the air Several persons declare that
they saw him. \ woman describes him
| as making eXtTavagant gestures awhile,
and then rising out of sight. One theo-
ny is that he was Wise, the missing
aeronaut; that he had let himself down
| by g rope from his balloon, which the
startled spectators failed to see, in the
hope Of effecting a landing,
A woman calling herself the Queen Of
| Cure is doing an enormous business in
| the Southwest, particularly among the
negroes She rides in a discarded circus
| chariot, wearing velvet and spanglcs,
and accompanied by a band of music.
! She has the reputation among the cred
ulous of possessing miraculous powers of
| healing, and multitudes flock around
| her wherever she goes She makes no
/ charge for her services, but sells vast
quantities OF liniment, to which she
ascribes marvellous curative qualities.