The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The military reserve ofthe United
States reaches 100000 able-bodied
men.
Sir Francis Lycett of England,
has left more than S1,250,O0 for
the erection Of Wesleyan chapels.
The American Mills Company,
Warwick, Rhode Island, have made
an assignment. Liabilities 100000.
The Local Option law has passed
the Colorado Senate, and is pending
in the House.
About quarter Of the Vermont
towns have elected women as super
Of schools.
kilograms from the extreme
Northwest report the toughest
weather on record, the snow in some
places being twenty feet deep.
The Governor of Iowa has appoin-
ted ]: W. McDill to fill the unex-
pired term Of United States Senator
KirkwOOd
A fire on the night of the 9th at
Bolivar, Tenn, destroyed ten build
ings. The loss is about $4,000. In
surance ST. 900.
The cotton seed oil works, at
Hickman, Ky, burned on the 9Th,
and an employee, A. B. Jones, per-
ished in the flames.
The courthouse at Purdy, West
Tennessee, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the I'd. Loss, $4,000.
The records were saved.
Henry Tilden said, day or two
ago, that his brOther-Samuel J..
Tilden-predicts for Garfield the
stOrmiest term on record.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Churchill, a
well-known woman's right speaker
and writer, died in Providence, r. L.,
on the 18th.
The loss of life by the earthquake
in Ischia will probably reach 200.
The damage to houses-property IS
l,OUU,UUO francs.
It is stated that the government
has purchased the whaling steamer
Mary and Helen, at San Francisco,
to send her in search of the Jeanette.
Bishop Fahre, of Montreal, has
condemned the practice of swearing
Roman Catholic witnesses on Pro
testant Bibles as a sin.
Elk Vice President Wheeler will
soon depart for Europe, his arduous
duties to his country having broken
him down.
The editor of the New York Irish
World on the 9TH inst, sent 10000
francs by cable 10 the Irish land
league treasurer in Paris. This
makes $4,000 sent to the land
league through that office.
The Springfield Gllinois) iron
works have refused higher wages to
its employees and 5000 men are
thrown out Of work. The company
will employ only nOn-uniOn men in
the future.
President Garfield, in converse
ton last Thursday, said he saw no
reason for calling an extra session Of
Congress. He did not think that the
necessity of the refunding legisla-
ton was so great as to justify him in
calling an extra session.
A cable telegraph is to be laid
north and south of Isthmus of Pan
anna so as to connect the United
States of Colombia with the United
States and Europe via Central
and Mexico.
The cost of the railroads project
ed between the Mississippi river and
the Atlantic seabQard, the eonstruc-
ton Of which will be commenced
this year, is estimated to be in the
of $3OO,OOG,OOO.
A military drill is to come off at
the last week in May. A
prize of 81 1000 will be awarded to
-he best infantry company $500 to
5he second. The Chickasaw Guards
1T Memphis are preparing to take
n the first prize.
The cambridge Waterman and
records the death, from con
at that place Monday, 9TH
Instant, Of Mrs. Isaac Hoskins. Her
infant, about 4 months old, died
he same day, and they were buried
n the same grave,
The charter of .'the Lookout
railroad was registered
n the office of the Secretary of State
asst Wednesday. The road will be
from Chattanooga to
Point Lookout on Lookout Noun
ain.
Mrs lizzie Patterson, widow off
Patterson, a well known |
aerchant of Cincinnati, has given to !
he Children's Home of Cincinnati |
hirty acres of land in Hamilton !
Iounty, worth, with improvements
40, 600.
Speaking of the new railroad run
ing out from Johnson City, tho /
1lizabethtQl M0uatameer says, '.The
asst trestIe will soon be up, and we
nay safely say that the iron horse
vii be seen putting up the Wa
auga valley in the course of three
reeks. "
Knaxville, Tenn, was laid out in
791, and named in honor of Gene
al Knox, of Revolutionary fame.
he first Territorial Legislature as
there in 1894, the Constitu-
Ional Convention in 1875, and the
rst State Legislature in 1896. The
eat of government was removed to
Nashville in 1910.