The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-28
The Morristewn Gazette.
NEKs AND 0TRER ITKMg.

NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
In Savannah, Ca, an anti-profanit
pledge is being circulated, and vel
generally signed. The signers we'
white ribbons.
Mr.. q. 8. Grant, Jr., the son of Ger
Grant, win be married to the daughte
of Mr.. James e. Flood, the San Francis
co, millionaire, next February.
A farmer in Massachusetts, has jus
ssld five hundred bushels of onions, tn
product of a single acre, most of then
bringing one dollar per bushel.
Gen B. J. Hill, who served with grea
gallantry and distinction in the Confed
crate service through the war, died al
his home in McMinnville, Tenn, Jan
5th.
Frank Leslie, the ell-known publish
er, died few days ago at his residence
in New York, after protractod illness.
He was the publisher of perhaps doz-
en- illustrated papers and periodicals.
N. Hirsch & Co., wholesale merchants,
Nashville, have made an assignment;
liabilities, $500, 900. Jas. NJ. Burns,
liquor dealer, has also made an assign
ment to B. w Mccain. 81
Hon. A. P. German was nominated
for United States Senator, in the Demo
cratic caucus of the Maryland Legisla-
ture, January 9Th. Before the war he
was page in the United States Sen ate.
The South Carolina Legislature, re-
Gently adjourned, sat just thirty days,
and cost the State less than $40, 900.
Two hundred bills were passed. A good
example of expedition of business for
Congress to follow.
Officials returns from Louisiana show
ing the result of the late election for
State and Parish offices in that State,
shows Democratic majority of 80, 75I.
The vote on the new constitution was
IS, $50 for its adoption and 81, 4sS against
il.
The negro exodus from Texas to Kan
sas continues. a considerable number
of colored people pass through Dallas
daily, bound to that State. On the
other hand, quite number have return
ed, stating that they had been deceived
concerning Kansas. Hrs
One hundred acres have been purehass
ed for a cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn.
1t is to be called the Forest Hill cemete-
~, and will be controlled by stock
company with perpetual charter. The
cemetery will be opened for the sale of
lots in April.
The December crop report of the De-
Partment of Agriculture places the acre
age of winter wheat sown in the United |
States at about twelve per cent. in ex-
cess of that of last year. The tobacco
crop Of the season just closed is estlma-
ted as nearly equal to that of last year,
the fetal yield being valued at about
twenty-one and half millions.
a Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch says that the Demo
cratic members of Congress are anxious
for an adjournment and win do every
thing in their power to bring it about.
The appropriation bills will be rushed
through, and in week or ten DAYS after
their passage Congress will be able to
adjourn. Speaker Randall, in CONVEX
DatiOn with a Southern Senator
an early adjournment, and
aid he was doing his best at his end of ,
congress to bring it about. The 18th {
It April is the date he now fixes for
adjournment, and will work 20 get ]
through business by that day. The
republicans express themselves as
aVorable to an early adjournment. Mat. A
ers are now going on smoothly. but }
vhen exciting questions are reached !
no appearance of things may change. ,
In December the Louisiana State Lot !
cry Company had drawing, the CAPT n
Il prize of which was 800, 900, and a t
ow days before that event the police of !
lew York city seized about $40, 600
nd alarge number of tickets belonging v
} the Company at the Office of the lat Il
r on Broadway. It now appears that e
'ket No. 9,S68, which drew the $780, !,
}. vas among the tickets seized. Re is
atlv /. he Board of Police Commission y
were a, 7plied to by the Charity Com .
asiOners /. Who desired to know wheth- !,
the prizes drawn by the seized tickets Al
GLIDING the 100000 do not belong m
the poor OF I View York. The revised o.
tutes of the law affecting lotteries !,
m to justify th opinion that they do, b,
section SO say :: ANY prize that t
II be drawn IN ~ lottery forbidden u
the law shall be 'Orfeited to the use 70
the poor" etc. N o decision has yet :,
IN reached in the M alter. N