The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-12-19

never uncertain, being either per-
petuaI summer or eternal spring.
VIM. Ramsey, head book-keeper
of Wells, Stone & Co., at Saginaw
City, shot his brother Monday night
installing him for a burglar, His
brother died in thirty minutes.
The Georgia colored convention
at Atlanta adopted resolutions ask
ing for colored representation on
The boards of education. An organl-
zation was effected with the view Of
casting the coiored vote for men
who will pledge themselves to in
crease the school fund.
A Young man named Blair, clerk
in store at Casky, Tenn, on the
18th, returned to the store after it
lad been closed. The proprietor
saw light in the store, and think
ng there were robbers got friends,
ali armed, who, when Blair came
out, riddled him with bullets.
A man became frightened on the
18th; while in a colliery hoist in
Pennsylvania and jumped out of the
cage, fell distance of $50 feet. In
credible as it may seem, however,
ne was not fatally injured, the shaft
not being perpendicular so that he
had the benefit of a little friction in
his descent.
One of the largest sales of cattle
on record was made at Denver, Col,
on the 18th. III. ID. and J. w. Sny-
der & Co., of that city, bought of
Snyder Brothers, of Georgetown,
Texas over 10000 head of cattle
and 400 horses for 100000. The
former firm now own nearly a.
900 head of cattle and 10, 900 horses.
In the United States Supreme
Court a decision has been rendered
in the contested will case of Stephen
Percy Ellis, ct al, the collateral heirs
of Sarah Ann Dorsey, against JEFF
ferson Davis to receive possession of
certain and personal property left
to the latter by Mrs. Dorsey at her
death. The judgment of the court
below in favor of Mr.. Davis is af-
frmed.
The clergymen of Indianapolis
have formally recommended that
funeral services shall be performed
on secular days in private dwellings
and not in the house of worship;
that the friends shall take leave Of
the dead in private; that the remains
shall not be exhibited to the public,
and that, and with a view to reduc-
ing the burden of expense, the SER
vices shall be on one day and the
burial privately performed on the
next.
cit has been remarked upon as a
circumstance, writes the
Petersburg correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, chat Senator Ma |
hone, who so boldly and confidently |
walked our streets prior to the cleo
ton, has scarcely been seen at all |
since the 9th of November, except |
by his most intimate personal and |
political friends. His great and |
singing disappointment at the re-
suit of the election has probably
forced him to privacy for a while"
A Washington date of the 9Th
says the Mexican veterans call
ed at the White House, in the after
noon of that day, in a body, and
paid their respects to the President
They were received in the east room
md presented individually to the
President by Gen. Denver. The
President said that he was glad to-
zee them and felt it an honor to
hake each by the hand. The vete-
ans were escorted to and from the
White House by the several Posts
# the Grand Army of the Union
Veteran Corps. The veterans hold
heir next annual meeting in st.
souis i'm October, 1884.