The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-09

An old thermometer is never very
popular Nobody wants to be a
thermometer over TO-
The loss of cattle by the severe
weather in the. Western ranges is
now estimated at 100000 head
An ''incomplete" list of Ohio office
holders at Washington fills four
columns of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Russian Emperor's new wife
is said to be remarkable for neither
brains nor tact, but nevertheless her
power over her husband is absolute
Twenty eight quarts of straw
berries, the first shipment of the
season from Jacksonville, Fla, were
sold in New York last week at $3.50
per quart.
Capt w. T. Lowry, Postal Clerk,
died at his home in Loudon, on Sun
day, the 9th ult He was in the
postal service for several years and
made an efficient officer.
While Mr. Gladstone was step
ping out of his carriage to enter
parliament, he slipped and hurt the
back of his head This confined him
to his house for several days.
The death is announced Of Mr..
Drouyn de IHuys, the well-known
French statesman, minister Oftoreign
affairs under the republic, and again
under the empire. He was in his
10Th year,
Postmaster General Maynard gave
two dinners the week preceding the
Inauguration on Friday a farewell
banquet to his brother Cabinet Off
GERS, and Saturday to the officials of
the Postofice Department
Sensational gold news has reach
ed San Francisco, from Alaska.
Some two months ago genuine
quartz groupings, it is said, were
discovered near the Token river,
about eighty miles north of Sitka.
Mr.. William Lehman Ashmed
Bartlett has the royal license of
Queen Victoria to make "Burdett-
Coutts" part of his own name, and
to quarter the arms of "Burdett-
COutts" with those of his own fami-
",
A girl put on mans clothes, at
Richmond, Mo, and went out for an
evening walk, in the course ofwhich
she rudely jostled a negro, who shot
her twice. She declares that here
after she will stick to the safety of
skirts.
The Pennsylvania State Temper
ance Convention, adopted resolu-
ton asking the Legislature to sub
NIT a constitutional amendment to
the people forbidding the manutAc-
ture and sale Of alcoholic liquors in
the State.
General J. D. Imboden has a bill
now before the North Carolina Leg
islature providing for a railroad from
Wilmington to the Cranberry Iron
Works, with view to an ultimate
connection with Cincinnati another
north and south line,
Mr.. Fred Becbtolham, who occu-
pied the position of Austro Hun
garian Consul at st. Louis, Mo, for
several years, has disappeared with
several thousand dollars belonging
to various persons, who have saHt
money t., and from, this country
and Europe,
AT Staunton, Va, last week, a
mother and daughter both stood up
with their afianced at the same
time and were married by the same
ceremony, the names only being
changed as the minister proceeded
The elder bride was not unused to
the ceremony, as it was the fourth
time she had stood before the by
menal altar.
The cOlored people in Davidson
county, Tenn, are in a state of
agitatation over the disappearance
of a young and comedy coIored wom-
an, wife Of Annaniaq White, who
had threatened to Kill her if she per-
sisted in getting a divorce from him
White has been arrested. His six
year-old son says he saw his father
knock her down with a club, put
shawl oyer her and take her away.
John ThackeraY of Good View,
Ga, kept $4,000 securely invested
for twelve years, and lived on the
interest He madeno effort to add to
the principal, and has morbid desire
never to lessen it. Lately he was
compelled to draw out 1000, and
this threw him into deep despon-
dency. He could be happy with
$50, 1000, but not with $4,000, and
so he committed suicide.
A Methodist revival at Bellefon-
tame Ohio, is conducted in vigor-
GUS manner. The minister in one
meeting got down on all fours, and
capered up and down the aisle, to
illustrate dog smile and on an
other occasion several Of the sisters
seized a young sinner of their own
sex and forcibly carried her to the
chanceI. She cried for help, and
was rescued by her mother.
Mrs. Armstrong, young and
charming widow with a fortune of
$4,000, was received into the best
society of Columbus, Ohio. She
married Herman Corzillins, the
Treasurer of the county. Two weeks
after the wedding she was arrested
for the murder Of her first husband,
whose father had for two years kept
detectives at work on the case, and
had at last discovered testimony
clearly duplicating her
The Tennessee Stock breeders
association met at Nashville on the