The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-04-21
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

A knife was recently found between the jam
rocks of an old chimney, IN Hawkins county, which
bore the date of176O.
GreenevilIe Democrat: It is generally conceded
| that the peach crop will be failure throughout
this county, the recent cold spell having been too
much for them.
"A suit pending in the United States Court st
Chicago concerning olsomsrgarine patent has
brought out the fact that oIeomargs rine has sale
in this country of 90, OOO, 900 pounds per annum
The oldest living boatman is David Burns who
lives at Burns Landing, on the Kentucky River.
and is 80 years of age. He has walked from New
Orleans to Frankfort six times, distance of 1,5OO
miles.
For thirty years Mrs Martha P. Graves Of
South KiIlinGly, Conn.,, had been deaf She re-
Gently dreamed that her hearing was restored and
on the second morning following she swOke with
hearing perfect
"A young wife, with one chill, living at James
town, N. Y j, was sold to another man by her hus-
band for $50. She is now at the home of her pros.
pective father-n-law, waiting for the son to earn
money to close the contract.
- Telegraphic news last week announced eleven
deaths in New Orleans from yellow fever, and two
from the same disease in Memphis during the
month of March. This has been contradicted,
however.
The Georgia Central Railroad and the Georgia
Railroad have leased to the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad with the privilege of purchase, that
portion of the Western railroad of Alabama extend
ing from Montgomery to Selma
An Illinois youth, husking corn in field near
the railroad, saw = new locomotive, with q red
smoke stack. He became frightened, and ran to
the house crying: "Fhat ere engine is going to
bust, sure it's red hot clean to the top Of the
stOvepipe."
Florence seymark's father, Of Elizabeth City,
n. c. shot her lover in the shoulder the night be-
fore he was to elope with her She fed from her
room in her night clothes, and, joining her intend
cd, married before the father discovered her
absence.
Six hundred barrels of whisky were lost By the
sinking Of the steamer Arabian in the Missouri
river twenty-five years ago. All attempts to raise
It failed but now the course Of the river has
changed, and the whisky, which now lies forty
feet under the sand, is to be dug for
There has not been a Death in sthe old family
Of J. w. Mize, Sheriff of Sumter county, Ca, in
siKtythree years, and he ham six uncles and three
aunts whose united ages are $50 years. His uneIes
his cousins, and his aunts number, all told, $50
that live in Sumter county.
-ConBjdersble excitement prevails in White co.,
Georgia, the finding Of rich pockets Of gold in
Nacoochee Valley, Over one hundred nuggets
were taken out in four days, one of which, shown
in Atlanta weighs one pound The yield
grows richer as the washing proceeds.
"A Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia
Bulletin states on the authority of ga Democrat
who has held high position in the counses of his
party" that Mr.. Tilden has written lettor, to be
read at the New York Democratic Convention, de-
the reason being the condition of his
health
Chase worthen, a travelling salesman, has OBJ
tanned $4,000 damages at Boston against the
Grand Trunk railway, for damages for the loss Of
3 leg by collision in 1875. On the first trial he
awarded $4,000, and on the second SGT, OOO 1t
is thought the verdict will stand, though motion
viii be made to set it aside excessive.
Greeneville Democrat: Many Of our citizens
are discussing the subject Of transfer of the old
Marrow Gauge franchise to the North Carolina
road, which now proposes 80 connect with the
ATorristown road to Wolf Greek This opens up
.he subject Of direct route from the lakes to the
sea, and GreeneVille's advantages are not few in
that case.
On the It'll inst. Vice President Wheeler notih- |
ID the United States Senate that he would be alb
Isnt for few days whereupon the Hon. Allen G. |
Of Ohio, was chosen President for the |
lime Of Mr.. WheeIera absence. Mr.. Thurman |
Ein be prominent before the National Democratic |
which meets the 22nd Of june at Gin
,innzti, as q Presidential candidate.
The New York TRIBUNE prints two letters from
referring to the recent string change
a the prices Of coal and iron. Coal has risen |
hundred per cent, withip EsH months, ana is likely
o rule high for six months longer. The opera |
say that they had to sell for less than frat cost
asst year The price Of iron has, on the other |
land, fallen OF from t5 to 80 ton, restoring to
he market health and vigor.
Newport RsportaF; The Big Greek railroad
,ridge is rapidly progressing, The work is under |
he supervision Of Mr.. John Anderson. II is be- |
ng constructed Of very heavv tiEabeF and iron |
0olta. On last Friday night the house and goods |
Il David Cream living lathe 18th civil district Of
his county, were totally destroyed BY Gre. From
Inc best information we have from all parts nf the
county the greater portion Of the peach crop ia |
killed, and great damage done the wheat eFop:
"A dispatch from Rapgoo1t Bprmah, 20 the /
ONLx NEWS eorrects its former dispatch shst ans |
that 700 men, women, bays, girls, priests |
md foreigners had been burned alive under the /
,ity walls as sacrifice from the restoration Of the
Kings health from an attack Of leprosy, and that |
he panic in MandAlsy was frightfRl hundreds OF |
people leaving the city. II says that the 700 per-
ons were not burned, but buried alive under the |