The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-22
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

The Emperor Of China is dan
gerously i'll with smallpox.
Lady Allen, wife of Sir Hugh
Allen, of Canada, is dead
The Duke of Wellington has re-
turned to his Hampshire tenants
their half years rents.
A single robber stopped a stage
near San Antonio, Texas, and rifed
the mail bag, while four we'll armed
passengers sat idly looking on.
House linen in Germany lasts a
very long time from being so sell
dom washed It is sign of wealth
to wash such things but four times
a year.
Measels continues to be fashion
! able complaint in London, and is on
the increase, especially in the West
End, where the fresh cases are daily
occurring.
The exhibition OF wines at Milan
has never been equalled at any
worlds fair. All sorts are on hand.
Wine is the principal crop of Italy,
silk next.
When the proposition to erect
statue to Theirs was put to the vote
in the Municipal Council of Marseil-
les the other day, his fellow towns
men rejected it by twenty-four votes
to two.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale
says that the revision of the New
Testament ''will end forever the
idolatry of book which has been
dead weight on Professionalism for
three centuries"
The wife of Prof 10 of Harvard
has begun to compress her baby's
feet in the Chinese fashion, and the
cries Of the little sufferer are heard
day and night by the neighbors.
The Cambridge anti-cruelty society
is about to interfere.
John WEIGH, the notorious moon
sinner, who nearly killed revenue
officers Davis and Cambell early lasi
December, and who was captured
by Davis on Walden's Ridge near
Spring City, abont May 18th, and
shot while attempting to escape,
died of his wounds in Jail last week
at Nashville
The BIountvilIe Star gives the
following ages of some children
living in Sullivan county: Living
in the goth district Of this county we
find Betsy Dyer, aged years
was born in Ireland, airs Goodman,
80 years old, native born; Mrs
Berry, SO years, native; and Mrs
Gross, near 80, also native. Mrs Berry
was present at a sacrament meeting
last Sunday at the Popular Ridge.
Near the banks of the Holston Riv-
er, in this county, lives Abraham
Gross and the wife Of his youth,
both so odd,
Mr.. Gladstone's opinion Of Lord
Beaconsfeld, gwen IN conversation
a short time before the first Midlo-
THAN campaign. was not an un-
pleasant one "My belief" he said,
''is that Lord Beaconsfeld is not a
man of strong animosities, l don't
believe, for instance, that he hates
at all. And then the great Liberal
went on to expOstulate with some
degrees Of enthusiasm on Lord
Beaconsfeld's debating powers, his
splendid Parliamentary pluck, +"
and other qualities which command
ed his admiration.
A contract has been signed in
New York for the construction of
the Cincinnati & Southeastern rail
road, which rims from Newport, OPP
posite Cincinnati, along the Ohio
river to Maysviile, and thence in q
southeastern direction, on what is
called the Pound Gap charter,
through West Liberty, Ky, to in
tersect the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia and Norfolk and Western
at Bristol, Tenn. The officers of
the road are Charles G. Miller, Pres
ident; Charles r Mackey, Vice
President, both of Franklin, Pa,
and officers Of the Standard Oil
Company.
TheNew Orleans papers announce
that the Louisiana Land and Recla-
nation Company now have in full
operation their steam plows. The
traction engines are placed upon
model barges, which can be moved
along the canals that intersect the
land at intervals of 1900 feet, and
pulled by a steel wire rope, the great
pillow share moves through the rich
soil cutting a three-foot furrow, and
breaking twelve acres of sod land a
day in a manner that could not be
accomplished by any animal power.
The company will this year. seed
some hundred acres of land with
RICE, and prepare large area for
cultivation in the future. An eX-
perimental crop of ten acres Of jute
has been planted and is thriving.