The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-15
VIEWS AND OTHER ITEMS


which the bicycle is coming into high
favor.
The Sheriff of Blair county, Pa, levi
ed upon a graveyard, and has advertised
it for sale.
Prof. Colgrove and G. H. Williams
were thrown out of balloon at San
Francisco, Sunday, and killed.
There is now a very general disin.
clination on the part of iron men to con-
tract for future delivery.
Gen. Atkins, member Of Congress for
the 9Th district, who has recently been
quite i'll, is cOnvalescing.
Henry M. Stanley has resumed Afri-
can explorations. This time he explores
the Congo.
Last week, on its monthly pay, the
Cambria Penn } Iron Company paid out
to its employees over $50, 600 in gold.
Twelve thousand dollars is the largest
sum ever found in letter at the Dead
Letter Office.
The report of the Librarian shows
that 566 applications for books were
made during August at the Knoxville
public library.
Gen. Grant has twice refused, week
before last, to see the great reformer,
Kearney, although the latter in person
sought interviews.
A dispatch from Naples says that
celebration is now being held at Pom
peii, to commemorate the destruction of
the place 1900 year ago.
DR.. Franklin's advice to a young man
was: IF you admire young lady and
wish to know her as she really is, call
upon her in the morning"
There is only one woollen mill in the
State of Texas, and it netted to its own
ers $01, 900 last year. 1t is situated in
New Braunfels.
Miss Aver, whose father made for
tune in patent medicines, is to wed
Count de Bourbon, of France, who is a
relative of Dom Pedro, of Brazil
There are three tobacco manufactor-
les in East Tennessee, sixteen in Mid
die Tennessee, including a snuff manu-
factory at Pulaski, and six in West Ten
nessee,
John E. Mason, an old and wealthy
citizen of Cannon county, has ordered
his coffin and tombstone made, and is
uperintending the construction of both
in person.
The most active statesman in New
Zealand is Sir Julius Vogel, Jew, now
Agent-General in London, who is about
to offer himself as candidate for the
House of Commons.
Seventy-twO thousand dollars is he
ieved to have been the highest price
ever given for a horse in England. 1t
was given by its richest peer, the Duke
of Westminster.
New York society is excited over the
report that an Ex-Governor of New Eng
land is engaged to the richest widow in
America, whose residence is in New
York.
1t is announced that at the Grant ban
quet in San Francisco Mrs. Flood, the
prospective mother-in-law of U. S. Grant,
Jr., will wear the richest dress ever
worn by woman.
Gen. j. A. Cooper, of Knoxville, Is
prospecting in Kansas with view of
purchasing a large tract of land and
emigrating to the West, and engage ex-
teusively in farming.
Congressman Burwel 3. Lewis, of
Alabama, will resign as a member of
the Forty sixth Congress, to accept the
Presidency of the University of the
State of Alabama.
The eldest of the daughters of John
q. SAKE, the poet, was buried in Green
wood cemetery Sunday afternoon, 6th,
by the side of her youngest sister, who
died four years ago,
Minister James Russell Lowell is said
to be tired of the mOnOtOnOus life of
Madrid, and as, besides, his wife is in
bad health, it is very likely that he will
resign his mission.
NJ. Daniloff, the eminent Russian en-
gineer, has begun the works by which
it is intended to unite the Black and
Caspian Seas by connecting various riv-
ers. Large parties of wOrkmen have
commenced work,
The evidence of John H. Dix, of
Nashville, was excluded by Judge
QuaTles the other day In a trial before
the Criminal Court, on the grounds that
Dix was disheliever in a God, heaven
or hell.
A true bill has been found against the
murderers of the Mormon Elder Stand
ing by the Grand Jury of Chattooga
county, Georgia, for murder, riot and
false Imprisonment. The cases will be
tried this week.
A notable even in Boston society will |
be the approaching wedding of Edward |
BalfO4r, of Scotland, nephew of the |
Earl of CoWdor, and Miss Alice Hooper, |
of the late Hon. Samuel |
Hooper.
The earnings of the A, NJ, and o.
abroad during the preceding year have
lcen 81, G72, 181 SO. All the expenses for
operating, including taxes and law fees,
ave been 1882, 973 Il. Leaving a rev.
niue of $780,973 70.
At the meeting of the Old Baptists'
Association, held near Pennington, KY,
sunday, fifteen persons were poisoned
The bread they eat was accidentally
made up with poison instead of soda.
The church Yves turned into q hospital.
Notwithstanding the large payments
f standard silver dollars, there are now
n the Treasury 81, $50, 900 of them. The
took on hand slowly accumulates. OF
tandard dollars and fractional silver
here is now in the Treasury vaults
early $4S, 100000.
Lady Ito a servant who has given no.
Joe three days after her ARRIVAL: "But,
you didn't mean to stay, why did you
axe the place." Servant "Well,
n, when ! saw you at the registry office
gu looked SO tired and tagged l took
our situation out of charity like"
Two girls who recently runaway from
Iong Island are thus graphically desert
ed by their father Laura, aged 18,
ressed in a straw hat Florence J =, age
:, blue suit" We tremhle in view Of
le possibility of the fair Laura's hat
lowing off.
United States Senator Isham G. Harris,
Tennessee is largely interested in
leep raising in Texas, whence he has I
Ist returned well pleased with his sue
ess, Notwithstanding heavy losses caus-
by deaths from the extreme cold last S
inter.
Theodore Tilton son Carroll has been
lptized into the sect of the Plymouth |
rethren, of which his mother was a !
ember at the time she made her con I
ssion, Young Tilton, who resembles a
s father much, is in college, and will L
obablY become a preacher in the sect. b