The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-01
NEWS AND oTHERITEMs.

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Mr.. BradIaugh was expelled from the
British House of Commons, hast We'd
nesday, by vote of 29f to SO.
! Gen. 1Fitzhugh Lee is announced for
series of lectures at different points in
the South the co1aing spring, for the
benefit of She Southern Historical So.
ciety.
Senator Pendleton and E. B. WASH
burne have been selected as the orators
at the La Sale bi centennial celebra-
ton, to Be held in New Orleans on
] April g..
The boiler of the Georgia Car Works,
at Ca rtersyille, exploded, Feb, II, kill
ing instantly seven negroes and injuring
/ q number of others.
A Monument in memory of the Con-
federate dead il to be erected IN Mt. Oh
ivet Cemetery. Nashville, Tenn. The
design was taken from the old Temple
of Theseus, at Athens, Greece, and the
monument is to be twenty-eight feet
ten inches in height.
We often hear of woman marrying
a man to reform him but no one ever
tells about man marrying a woman to
reform her We men are modest, and
don't talk about our good deeds much.
t-Ncao York Times. l.
Though the good may have little
wealth, yet it is useful to all, like the
water of a well. The selfish may have
much wealth, but, like the water OF the
sea, it quenches the thirst of nome
Buddhist Scripture.
Darwin says man sang befor he talk
ed. or course, they were forced to In
, vent language then. They had to ex-
t press the disgust which singers always
entertain for each others vocal efforts.
: Boston Post.
D. A Northampton (Mass.) man boasts
4 that he has attended Church for fifty
S years at an aggregate expense of one
S dollar. Does he fake "the beyond" for
e a dollar store ?--Neoe HG0en Register.
! It's a deep MYSTERY, tho way the heart
e of man turns to one woman out OF all
the rect he's seen in the world, ano
IS makes it easier for him to work sever
& years for her, like Jacob did for Rachel
l. sooner than have any other woman fol
y the asking.
/" Rarely does fate show crueler irony
, than in the death of Senator Wagner, O.
70 New York, who persisted in Il car of hi
- own invention, and which was supposed
" to combine the highest requisites o
= safety and comfort.
: We are grieved to hear of the death o
,a the esteemed widow of the late Bisho
40 Doggett. A special Communication t
% the Columbus EIs5airer Sam states tbs
"a she died in Richmond, Va, Feb, 18th
oh aged sixty-nine years.
lr. Enoch Plat, Esq, of Baltimore, hi
in offered to give 81 100000 for the esta'
nd Iishment of a free circulating ibrara
Ike on condition that the city shall provid
it'll an annuity of $4,000.
he The value of the tobacco factories
i've Petersburg, Va, was very largely i
a creased during last year, and is est
md mated at 5000, 600 of real estate. The
by are seventeen factories in the city, Ell
My blowing more than $500 hands. II
ind gross annual product is about So, 20(
But OO0
ian The Virginia Historical Society h
EN- petitioned Congress to publish the ma
can uscripts in the Congressional Libra
my bearing upon the Colonial history
chs Virginia, and to distribute the boo
the among the historical societies of
ARK several States. These societies are ai
am ed by the Virginia society to join in L
'in' petition.
70 The Department of Agriculture gil
the following as the percentage of j
? years cotton crop: North Carolina,
South Carolina, so; Georgia, SO; Fl,
da, 90; Alabama, Sc; Mississippi,
nty, Louisiana, So; Texas, 70; Arkansas,
rm- Tennessee, 60. Returns in area ma
ow- the increase in acreage, in 1881, abb
eral 5 per cent and the total, 16,5OO,
Ders acres. Returns of the loss by the c
,use ton caterpillar indicate an aggreg
loss of about 800, 900 bales.
Owing to serious disturbances ann
the Virginia oystermen in the RAP
hammock, the Governor had to call
military and naval force, and on I
10 they captul ed the whole oyster fl
consisting of six schooners and
sloop, and made prisoners the cra
.ott sixty-oue men. Eighteen shots v
a fired through the rigging of one sch'
err and she was chased thirty five n
before being brought to.
Not only have emeralds been dis
cred in Alexander county, N. c.,
they exist in such abundance that
erald mining is likely to becon
81. profitable industry. Mr.. Hidden, :
gives name to the mineral familia
lhiddenite, has just laid a description
his mining operations before the
York Academy of Sciences, accol
MED by large collection OF eme
prisms varying in length from on
two fingers, about the genuInenes
which no question can be raised.
Two clergymen of Fauquier,
wentinto court with their dispute
tue ownership of So calf. Each
ed cow which, he claimed, was
mother of the calf. The Justice
with the jury and litigants to pas
where the two cows were let loose
the youngster to choose between;
the question was SO quickly and VI
invo- takably settled by the brutes that
thout jury gave a VerdlcI Without luiene'
nes. itation.
One of the wealthy and fashioI