The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-30

Rev. A. J. (Father) Ryan is lee
turing through the South for tn
benefit of the Irish Land League.
Miss Potter, eldest daughter G
the Hon. Clarkson n. Potter, is en-
gagged to marry Mr.. Leslie Cotton
of Wyoming Territory.
The son of Gen. Ord took will
him to Mexico a fine Norman Mes
senger horse, as a present to hi
brother-in law, Gen. TrevinO.
The Crown Prince of Germany
has just bought for $4,000 RubenI
magnificent picture of Neptune
and Amplitude"
The Philadelphia Press thinks al
the indications point to the election
of Hon. Frank Hiscock, Of New
York, as the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
1t is stated that peasants are
f1ocking to st. Petersburg from all
parts Of the country as pious pill
grimage to the spot where the En-
peror fell.
Jacob Lovelace, of Fayette coun-
ty, Ohio, after a spree having been
refused liquor, drank a large quaint
ty of turpentine, and died from the
effects.
President Garfield has appointed
DR.. 10. L. Castor, member of the
State Senate from the Hamilton Dis
trict, surveyor of customs at the port
of Chattanooga.
1t is stated explicitly by the Gin
cinnati Commercial that, up to a
recent date, the Police Commits
sioners of that city were paid $4,000
a month as blackmail by gamblers.
Lucy Stone on the inaugural:
Eloquent for the rights of three
million coIored men. Dumb for the
rights of twenty millions of women.
God forgive him !"
Gen. Grant seriousl y contemplates
making his home permanently in
Philadelphia after the approaching
summer, which he will spend in his
cottage at Long Branch.
The Philadelphia Ledger says ex-
Speaker Randall is 'the single Phil
adelphian who has occupied first
class position in the National Legis-
Iature since the days Of Mr.. Dallas
The new Southern Hotel, at st.
Louis, erected by the Hon. Thomas
Allen, will be opened on the LIST of
May. The cost of the building is
about 81 100000; of the furniture
$250,000.
The cotton compress at Jackson,
Tennessee, was burned on Wednes-
day evening last. Five hundred
bales of cotton were burned. The
fire, it is supposed, caught from a
drayman's pipe. There was partial
insurance on the compress and cot
ton.
Gen. Ord has been received with
great honor in Mexico, gorgeous
banquets and special cars being of
fered to him. The General took to
Mexico with him quantity of Ger
man carp to be used in stocking
Mexican waters.
The New York Supreme Court
has rendered it's decision in
the case of Annie Louise Crawford,
whose father, Charles E. Crawford,
was accused of having ill-treated
her by claiming her to the wall,
that she had been guilty
of thetts and incendiarism. Craw-
ford was committed and the child
to her home.
The ST. Petersburg newspapers
report many arrests during the last
few days. At the house of one of
the persons captured the police
found 700, 900 roubles A man upon
whom was found arms, poison, and
10000 roubles was also arrested,
Two dynamite stores have been
Dispatches from Omaha state that
there is much excitement there over
the elopement of Miss Ellen M.
a public school teacher,
aged about 25, and one of her pupils,
4 lad of IS, named Charley Duke,
.on of prominent merchant. She
S not handsome, but is very clever
and a good talker, and was highly
Young Dukes family |
ire much distressed over the affair.
On Thursday evening last, at Gal
attn, little inofensive negro boy, |
by Col Thomas Boyers,
If the Examiner, was told to drive
he chickens of his garden. The
chickens belonged to Jim Baker, a
negro, and he hearing the mandates
old the boy if he obeyed he would
Kill him. The little fellow did as
but at his peril. Baker,
picked up large stone
md hit the boy on the head, mash
ne his brains out. Baker is in Jail,
md the boy is not expected to live.