The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-26
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


The crop reports in Arkansas in
dictate a better yield of wheat anC
corn than for many years.
The charge is made that the ap
preparations for educating the In
dams are being used for sectariar
purposes.
The chief of police of San Carlos
Arizona, has been killed by the In.
dams. The Locas band is on the
war-path. Col. Schofieli is in per-
suit.
There was an immense rainfall In
Alabama Tuesday night, accompa-
MED by a wind-storm, causing some
damage to property.
In Haywood county, West Tenn,
there are so many candidates for
magistrate and constable as to i'm
pede farming. Every citizen except
six in one district is candidate.
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Del
aware, has. accepted an invitation to
deliver the grafton at the celebra-
ton of the Mecklenburg Declara-
ton of independence, at Charlotte,
n. c., May 20.
Violators of the Tennessee fish
law are to be called to court 10 an
swer for their offenses. There are
prevailing opinions all over the
State that offenders should be pun
ished.
Belle Rivers, colored woman
who murdered Margaret Washing
ton, colored, in Memphis last Sep
TENDER, was sentenced by the Su-
preme Court at Jackson, on the 18th
inst, to be hung in Memphis on the
End of June.
Capt. James A. Sylvester, former
ly of Cincinnati, the man who cap
tured Santa Anna of the battle of
San Jacinta, died in New Orleans
recently, and was buried in that city
on Monday last. He was a printer,
and enlisted in company raised in
Cincinnati to assist Texas in winning
independence.
The Utah contested case was de-
cided in the House on the 10Th inst,
by the adoption of the majority re-
port that neither Cannon nor Camp
bell was entitle to the seat. Cannon
made a vigorous presentation of his
side, but the report in his favor was
defeated by an almost strict party
vote.
The Philadelphia Press in motto
ing the late decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the New
Orleans bond case, in which the
court sweeps away the pretense of
the right of city to repudiate its
debt, says: alt would be refreshing
if the national Supreme Court could
take jurisdiction in the matter of
State debts as well as city, and COM
pei the State officers to levy a sufi-
Gent tax to meet their States out
standing obligations. To which
the Baltimore Sun pertinently re-
plies: This extract is certainly Ere
freshing" when it is remembered
that the Press was one of the most
active champions of the "readjust-
ment" cause in the late campaign
in Virginia, where the question of
was, to all intents and
purposes, involved.
Since Atlanta was won by the
ruse of the golden appels all sorts
of lovers have been up to all sorts
of tricks to entrap the sweetheart
or the swain. The most novel bit
of strategy in this line lately come
to light would seem to be that in
which Mr.. John Kloss was the vic
tim. Some time ago Mr.. Kloss, who
had gathered into his purse $40, 900
by selling muskrats caught from the
salt meadows near Newark, n. J.
made the acquaintance of Mrs. Lis
settle, a Newark widow Whether
the widow was with or without spe-
cial charms the reporters do not
tell, but it is clear that Mr.. Kloss
married her for an entirely different
reason than any connected with her
appearance. Mr.. Kloss was con-
cerned about his health, and one
day remarked that very likely he
never would see another Christmas.
Taking his right hand, Mrs. Lissette-
pretended to read his future. The
woman was bright and the old man
was so wrapt in his fear of early
death that when she told him the
only wrong thing indicated by his
palm seemed 10 be that he lacked
wife he believed her. off you get
married" she said, ''you will live at
least twenty years longer" Having
thus been invited Mr.. Kloss walked
into the spiders par'or. The fact
that the dupe and the trickster have
been divorced and the additional
fact that Mr.. Kloss is obliged to pay
heavy alimony serve to end this lit
tie romance of love and palmistry
with a nice moral.
Several attempts have been made
by Deputy Sheriff Cobb, of Ameri-
Gus, Ga, during the last few weeks,
to levy on a mule owned by Charles
Mansion, a colored tenant, who lives
near the Huouenin plantation house.