The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-02-22
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS

= inch ahead of the Conkling boom
but neither is'in motion. -NeU Y0rI
: Tribune. a ara ,ssaay
A delegate from Alaska? What
l right has that S12,000,000 icicle2 to
4 q delegate in Congress ?-Bost9n
Post e., -asll
Adam Badeau will probably ap-
g ply for a pension on the strength of
9 the fact that he has been holding
Office without intermission for near
ly twenty years.-Atlanta ConSf.
A correspondent of the Chat
, tanooga Times says that the best
/ average uplands in East Tennes-
see will produce twenty TO twenty
five bushels of wheat per acre,
: Ex-Gov. Hendricks is reported in
Washington, and quid nuncs of the
capital say that he is anxious for the
Democracy to try the ticket ofl576
again in 1884.
| Mrs. A. T. Stewart has been or
| dered by the courts to pay $4,000
| to workman who was crippled for
life by the fall of q grain elevator
in her Garden City property.
Frank Dobson was allowed $4,000
damages at Knoxville last Wednes-
day for losing his eye at the Knox
vile Iron Works, after seven years
Of litigation. The ease will be ap-
pealed.
The caucus of Democratic Sena-
tors have nominated Neil S. Brown,
of Nashville, for Reading Clerk Of
the Senate. 1t is thought the Re
publicans will probably endorse the
nomination.
When the wicked reader chucllles
at the thought that Guiteau was
showed under the other day he
should not forget that the animal
will be fully thawed out by the, next
Fourth of July.-Phila. Times.
The Democratic party in Geor-
gia, looking for man under the
bed, has found the Republican par
ty, boots and all. The police will
be promptly called ih.-AtJanta
Constitution.
Senator Fishburne, of South Car
olina, is out of his latitude. A
statesman of his peculiar gifts is
better fitted to the readiusted Leg
islature Of Virginia. Wash. Post
The staid.ol New York Observer
doesn't believe that the newspapers
are growing worse all the while. 1t
says that the tone of the daily press
in Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and other cities is higher and better
than it was thirty years ago.
A new coal company di is being
formed in Knoxville to work the |
Empire mines at Coal Creek, with a
cash capital of $4,000. They have
leased from the Coal Greek Mining
and Manufacturing Company 1G6
acres ofcoal, adjacent to the railroad.
Chattanooga Times. Emigration
has again commenced in good earn
est. The East Tennessee train
brought down fifty yesterday, who
were gathered at the various sta
tions along the line. They were
taken down by Rufe Patty, general
emigrant agent. .ar |
The Roane Iron Company are
preparing to build some twenty five
or thirty tenement houses at Rock
wood, Tenn. Work will begin as soon |
as the weather will permit. By the
first of April they will be ready to
employ, in connection with their |
present force of some 450 hands an |
additional $50 laborers.
When Rev. Mr.. Yancey, pastor of |
the Campbell Street Christian
Church, at Louisville, KY, on the
night of the 5th, invited sinners to
come up to the altar and seek saliva
ton, "Abe" Buford, the noted sport
ing man, was the first to step for
ward and be baptized. He an
nounced his intention Of retiring
from the turf !
Ex-senator Platt, sometimes call
ed "Me Too" wrote to the Albany
Grant Club on the occasion of its
recent banquet that he would rath-
er abe one of the glorious BOG at
Chicago, even after the storm came
and the stampede ragged, or one o.
the Spartan band who at Albany
last spring and summer for many
weeks faced the fury Of crazy
press and people, than be a Senator
Mr.. A. J. Stops horse became
mired on Broad street yesterday
afternoon, and in trying to extricate
itself broke the traces and spilled
Mr.. Stoops into the mud, where he
sunk to his ankle, unable to move;
a colorcd man volunteered to rescue
him, took him on his back, and he
too mired, and for a while the situa-
ton was very embarrassing, but
both finally reached terra frma in
safety, yet we'll covered with mud
Chattanooga Times. g 81 as91ni
Edmund Burke, who died at New
port, New Hampshire, Feb. 1, was
the Nestor of the New Hampshire
Democracy. He served three terms
in Congress, nearly forty years ago,
was voluminous political writer, I
(his "Bundfecund Papers" inthe old
Richmond Enquirer, probably the
ablest of any, He was Commits
sioner of Patents under President |
Polk, and largely aided in securing
the nomination of Pierce for Presi- |
dent. eiH ta5 1sgs 4
Mrs. Eliza Garfield has beon pre-
sented by a number of Ohio women
in Washington with handsome
fire-screen. The screen is of glass
with the designs painted by hand,
then burned in. This glass part |
swings in a frame of carved ebony,