The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The United States has paid its sol.
diers 500, 0O0, 900 in pensions.
A Georgia water melon vine is l ,70t
feet long, and has produced 400 pounds
Of melons.
Flour made from peanuts is used in
some portions of Virginia. II is said tC
be very platable.
The Georgia Legislature will visit the
Louisville Exposition in body imme-
diately after adjournment.
Chattanooga is worse than Chicago.
There are ninty-six applications for di-
vorces in the Circuit Court.
Miss Fannie Barrett, who once had q
prolific silver mine in Colorado named
after her, with present of q large block
of stock, is now a seheol-teacher at
Tombstone, Ariz.
Longfellow's two unmarried daugh-
ters will be absent from their CAM
bridge home during the coming year,
having, in company with sister of Mr..
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dents at Newman College, England.
Spurgeon says that it is possible for
man to be Christian and belong to a
brass band, but that it would be difficult
for such mans next-door neighber to
be as good Christian as he ought to be.
Suppose Mr.. Sturgeon was an editor,
vhat uauId he the rasult
The Mormon missionaries s'showed
shrewdness in going to to Massachu-
setts," says the New York Sun, owing
to "the remarkable lapse of religious
faith" and the lowered standard of
domestic morality" which prevail there.
The Nashville W.rld mentions that
Mr.. 81. M. Deak has been succeeded as
editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Meas
Journal by George Shanklin, formerly
editor of tho Evansville Courier. Mr..
Doak still retains ponition on the edi-
torisl staff, however.
A register of the interior depart
ment st Washington has been prepar.
ed for the blue book. There are 1901
persons on the rolls, of whom 621 are
women, and 204 negroes. Seventy-one
clerks receive salaries ranging from
500 to 81 500, one lady frem Illinois
drawing 81, 600.
The shortage in mackerel is extra
ordinary, less than 100000 barrels
having been caught by the New Eng
land fishermen up to September 1,
while during the corresponding time
last year 264 900 barrels were caught.
The Canadian mackerel catch is a
small one, and high prices are certain
to prevail next winter.
In paper read before the Geneva
Hygienic Congress DR.. Daily main
tains that the deformities of people
may usually be traced to the positions
in which they were kept while at
school. That children, are, as rule,
well formed at the commencement of
school lille, is indicated by the re-
searches of DR.. Chaussier, who found
that only 1872 out of %, 200 newly -born
infants examined by him possessed alb
normal peculiarities of any kind.
Sitting Bull who has lung disease,
and fears that he may not live long,
said to a correspondent of the st Louis
Republican,: Ell don't knew how to speak
to the white people. We were once en-
emies, but now are friends. / camp
over the hill; but commanded the
tribe with my chiefs. do not know
who killed Custer, nor do any of my
braves, because we knew that he wore
long hair. We afterward learned of
his death, and that few days before
the battle he cut off his hair. One of
my men got his buckskin coat; but the
brave has since died and been buried
in it. This is all 1 know about the
battle"