The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-02-07
Personal, VIEWS. MEsoELLANY.

Mrs. Custer, the widow Of Gener-
al Custer, is sightseeing in Rome.
Commissioner Pettigrew, of Utah
thinks that POlygamy will die out
of itself
General Fitzhugh Lee expects to
review the Brooklyn militia on Feb
ruAry 7th-
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes Is to
be appointed emeritus professor oil
anatomy at Harvard.
Rhode Islands fund for a statue
Of General Burnside now amounts
to moro than $4,000.
Miss Rose Eytinge pronOunces her
name a IL written Rose Etting, and
not rosy tinge.
Miss Mary Dickens, eldest grand
child Of Charles Dickens, is about
to become an actress.
The New York State prisons earn
ed nearly half a million last year,
but spent $4,000 more than they
made.
The monthly MAGAZINES are be
ginning TO discuss civil service This
would argue that genuine reform Is
further of than ever
Mrs. William i. Yancey, widow
of Senator William l.. Nancey, Of
Alabama, died At the residence Of
her son in Athens, Ga, 9th Janu-
airy.
Peter Cooper declines statue
and says @Such = monument would
cause me much pain, while 1 am NV
ing. The people can do what they
please when / am gone.
A Georgia photographer advises
people living in the country that as
small-pox is about to strike, they
should bring in the whole family to
have their pictures taken before it
is too late.
A South Carolina brides dowry
included a 81 900 set Of false teeth.
And her husband, when he speaks
of her precious mouth, knows what
he is talking about
The monster steamer, Great East
ern. is lying idle at Milford Haven,
England. The owners can neither
use her pro6tably nor sell her at
any reasonable price.
Father Martineau, g Romon Cath
olic priest in Montreal, is waking up
the churches of that city on the
temperance question, and has OBJ
tanned, in a very short time, 5000
pledges to total abstinence.
When Sir Rowland Hill introduc-
ed his penny postage, Lord Lch-
field, the Postmaster General SAID
8 OF all the wild and visionary
schemes which L have ever heard or
read of. il is the most extraordlna-
ry."
The business of canning fruits
and vegetables has grown to enor-
nous proportions. Over % ,OOO,OOO
cans of tomatoes were packed last
wear. making one for every man,
woman and child in the country.
The wholesale price for three pound
cans ranged from four to i've cents
Henry Edgerton, n Long Island
man, recently ate thirty-seven hard
boiled eggs and two mince pies,
washed down with two quarts OF ale,
on wager Of $40. He is still lIv-
ing-a remarkable instance OF the
survival of the unfittest.
Bismarck. it is stated, is visibly
breaking down, although he is not
vet sixty-eight years old. Emperor
William, who will celebrate his
eightv-sixth birth day on the 22d OF
March next, does not appear so old,
weary and worn rs the premier.
10 to Aaron V Brown no Cover
nor of Tennessee had ever worn
whiskers. His portrait shows a
smslI bunch on bis chin. lsham G
Hatris is the first TO wear simply a
meustache and General Bate the
nGxt. ID W. C. Senter in the only
one who wore full beard
An anonymous United States Sen
atOr tells g Gath George Alfred
To9nsend,) that Blaine Is secretly
as much of candidate for President
as he ever was; that Frye, of Maine,
is Blaine's bitter enemy, and that
Window. of Minnesota, has nightly
dreams of the White House.
Boston Corbett, the man who kill
ed Wilkes Booth, is living in Kan
sas. engaged in the cattle business
He has become a religsOus enthusi-
ast. and in a recent letter 10 a friend
in Camden he says that he has been
directed by God to infiiet daily cor
poral punishment upon himself as
pensnee for having taken human
life.
Red Cloud had an interview with
Secretary Teller, in Washington,
few davs ago. He complained that
six wears ago Gen. Crook took one
hundred horses from him, and he
asked TO be paid $4,000 damages.
This shows the folly of teaching the
Indians arithmetic A few centu-
ries ago il would have been very
easy TO convince an Indian that one
hundred horses at 800 apiece would
come TO five cents worth of beads.
An English company has applied
Cd the authorities having in charge
the demolition of the Tuileries for
the material contained in the two
lateral pavilions. It is proposed to
remove them piecemeal 70 London
and rebuild them at the crystal pal
acc. Some Russians have applied
for part of the main building TO de-
post in a museum at st. Petersburg,
and Ar American virtuoso Is max
e. ae..-.., - nurf.haSe the great