The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-04-06
NE US OR THE WREK

The Wisconsin Legislature ha:
enacted a law fixing a penalty o.
| five dollars for each offense OF liquor
treating.
The emigration from Germany to
America is so large that the steam
ship companies are obliged to char
ter extra steamers.
The Arkansas Legislature has
prohibited the sale of ardent spirits
within three miles of the various
boarding schools and colleges in that
State.
The French Government has ac-
cepted the invitation of this Govern
ment to send delegates to partici-
pate in the Yorktown Centennial
Celebration.
Gen Grant, Mrs. Grant, u. S.
Grant, Jr., Mr.. Dawson, the Gener-
ais Secretary, and Senior Matias
Romero took their departure for
Galveston and Mexico from New
York on the Goth.
A Wisconsin farmer, twenty-three
years ago, planted.a piece of land
unfit for cultivation with black wal
nut trees. The trees are now from
sixteen to twenty inches through,
and have been sold for $27, 900.
The Rev. DR.. Newman, of the lI.
E. Church, Grants former chaplain,
is said to have declared his intention
to leave that sect and join the Uni
yersahsts. Which is hard on the
Universalists, if the report is true
The law in Rhode Island against
intermapriage between blacks and
whites has been repealed. There is
now no such statute in New Eng
land, but several Of the Northern
States still prohibit such marriages.
Mr.. William Lehman Ashmead
Bartlett, the husband of the Baro-
ness Burdett- Coutts, took out GER
tificate of naturalization on June 25.
1880. The country to which he be-
longed was the United States. His
brother, Mr.. Ashmead Bartlett, NJ.
P, obtained certificate of natural
ization three or four years ago.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor recently
sent another party of one hundred
children to homes in the West,
the agency of the Ch1dren's
Aid Society. The whole number of
homeless little ones thus provided
for by Mrs. Astor is eight hundred
and thirteen, at an expense of more
than $11, 500
A late dispatch from Rome says
that woman with a peculiar man
ner managed to get. to the Pope re-
Gently and informed him that she
had knowledge of a plan to murder
both him and Cardinal Pecci, and
the plot was on the eve of being put |
into execution. Leo XIII. did not
scare, but believing her to be of I'M
sound mind, sent her away.
Gov. Murray, of Utah, has been
n Washington, and had a long in
with President Garfield re-
'pecting the evil of polygamy in t
hat Territory. 1t is learned from
l trustworthy source that the Presi-
lent assured him of his determine
ion to. use every endeavor to sup
1ross the shameful iniquity. 1t is
llso said that the President has de-
:ided to re-nominate General Bane,
N anti-Mormon, to the position of I
Receiver of Public Moneys for the
Territory of Utah.
Kalloch, who killedDe Young in
San Francisco, Cal, has been acquit-
ed. The jury were out twenty four
hours and returned a verdict of not
,uilty. The verdict received much
pplause, and the defendant was
earthly congratulated by his friends.
When Kalloch was discharged and
,ot into a carriage to go home, an
immense crowd took the horses from
he vehicle and pulled him to his !
ONE, some miles. Kalloch was a
on of the mayor or the city.
A bully from Hayesville, Ohio, on !
Londay Of last week, went to Loud
nville and among other reprehen-
bile acts insulted the editors of the !
70 papers published there. He was
but a half dozen citizens
,Ok him away from the marshal,
nd, after a liberal castigation, put :
rope round the bully's neck, led
i'm beyond the town line, and made
i'm swear never again to show him