The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Washington Post: Since Chattanooga
went Republican The smallpox has bee
spreading rapidly in that city. viii
Doctor Hubb II explain this coincid-
anceg
The wife of Mayor-elect Edison, of
New York, is of what might be called
in this country royal descent Her
was Jethro Wood, the in
ventor of the modern pillow.
A syndicate of English capitalists
representing So 900, 600 has bonded
great part of north Georgia for gold
mining purposes. Ex-Governor Col
Quits last official act was the signing
of deed transferring the land TO this
syndicate
Mrs. Stonewall jackson and her
daughter, haye received the bequest OF
81, COG 13, under the viii of the late
Wade Fl. Bolton, of Memphis. The
county court of Memphis ordered the
payment or the 18th of last month.
From The 18th to the 10Th there were
very remarkable electric storms over
the northern part of the country The
currents were so strong as to alms>t
stop teIegraphing Brilliant auroral
displays were witnessed at many points
The revisers of the Old Testament
have made so much progress with their
work that it will certainly be finished
within a few more months. 1t is also
possible that the revised Old Testament
may be ready for publication by the
/ close of next year.
The Interior of Chicago calls attention
to the fact that zone of the peculiarities
of the next Congress will be the fact
that the Massachusetts district in which
all the literary lights of the Athens Of
America dwell, and in which Harvard
| College is located, is to be represented
| in Congress by Hebrew clothing mer-
! chant"
/ Miss Austin, of Muhlenburg county,
Kentucky, was visiting friends at Frost
burg, Kentucky, and while there
young man named Cook fell in love
with her. When Miss Austin started
home Cook accompanied her and her
friends as far as Pond river, then call
| ing her aside shot her first and theR
himself Both died in few minutes
On account of the prevalence of dip
liberia and other contagious diseases in
Boston the board of health has forbid
den public funerals where persons die
of contagious diseases. The health
officer of Philadelphia reports that dur
ing the year 1882 there were 730 deaths
from diphtheria, and that it is now
largely on the increase.
Jefferson B. Tinsley, of Knoxville,
formerly of Sewer county, presented a
suspicious check for TIVE thousand dol
lars, at bank in Cleveland, Tenn, last
week. He was arrested till the matter
could be investigated, and while under
arrest retired to water-closet and kill
ed himself by shot through the head.
His remains were taken to Knoxville.
At Somerville, Tenn, on Monday of
last week, James Burton and w. L.
Thorpe, brother-in-laws, quarreled, and
Burton threatened to kill Thorpe. In
the evening, Thorpe entered saloon
where Burton was playing billiards,
and fired both barrels of shotgun at
him, killing him. Burton was formerly
a member of the firm of Fulmer, Thorn
ton 6 Co.. of Memphis, and Thorpe is a
professor in female college at Som
erville
DR.. Henry Willis Bassett, promi-
nent physician of Huntsville, Ala, was
shot and killed on the 21st by Levi
Esslinger, "a farmer. The quarrel grew
out of bill presented by Bassett fol-
professional services. Bassett, who
had been drinking, threatened to cut
Esslinger's throat. Esslinger drew a
pistol and shot Bassett in the left side.
!, A masked robber stopped stage
coach near Campbellsvile, Ky, last
week, in which Mrs Dobbs, of Bloom
ington, Ind. and Moses II Rohrer and
]. O. Edwards, of Iowa, were passen-
gers. Mrs ID IBIS managed to save hel
diamond earrings but gave up hel
pocketbook NJ Rolrer lost his pocket
book and watch and Mr. Edward his
watch. The mail bags were opened and
the registered letters taken out
a horrible accident occurred ct tho
Sloss furnace, Birmingham, Ala, Tues
day of last week The ''scaffold' form.
ed in the stack of the furnace and the
fire in the stack apparently died out
Tive colored men, Robert Mayfeld and
Alex, King, were lowered 6y ropes from
the top, for the purpose Of removing thC
obstacle, 1t is supposed the men were
overcome by the gas from below, a.
both fell to the bottom, which wG,s {
fiery mass of ore and coal, and tht
bodies were reduced to cinders.
} In Nebraska, at the late election, thu
proposal to establish woman suffrag'
was defeated 1t is stated that the ma
iority against will not fall below 20, 00O
and may reach $4,000. The ladies ap
peared in force at the polls, and every 30
ter was importuned to vote for suffrage
, 1t is now admitted that had they re
j NAMED away, more votes would hav'
been cast for them. Men became dis
gusted TO find women sometimes goot
and bad tegether) "electioneering,
The defeat is so overwhelming tina
there can be no possibility of anothe
: submission at early date.
Thurlow Weed, the venerable jour
: nalist and statesman, died at his resi-
: dence in New York city on Tuesday o
last week. He breathed his last sur
rounded by his children, grandchildren
, pbysicIsns, nurses and attaches of hi