The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-11-26
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

fertilizer.
Three engineers, who have reck-
oned the quantity of water flowing
over Niagara Falls every minute,
differ only two quarts in the high
est and lowest estimates.
A tunnel, measuring about 5000
feet long, and constructed at least
nine centuries before the Christian
era, has just been discovered by the
Governor Of the island of Samos.
The sawdust and refuse of the
saw-mill is now made to yield IA
gallons of turpentine, three or fonr
gallons of resin, and quantity of
tar, per cord.
About 100 Mormon converts left
Chattanooga last week for Utah.
In the party were three negroes,
two men and one woman. These
are the first converts to Mormonism
from the race.
One hundred and fifty pounds of
pure gold and basketful of rubies
were among the valuables of the
dowager Queen of Burmah before
she was removed from power.
A train on the Northern Pacific
road brought to Fargo, D. T., re-
Gently, 10 cars filed with wheat
the greatest wheat train on record.
At Duluth the same road delivered
on the same day 206 cars of wheat.
A German doctor has discovered
that never to eat and drink at the
same time, but to let two hours in>
tervene, will reduce human flesh.
He has, it is said, cured Bismarck
of tendency to obesity in this way.
California is now sending to the
Atlantic coast more wine than is
imported from France 1t is esti-
mated that last years wine crop
yielded the growers S3,5O0,000.
A large freight depot belonging
to the Louisville & Nashville road,
was burned at Birmingham, Ala,
Nov. IA Thirty thousand dollars
worth of freight and the books of
the Office were totally destroyed.
Spurious SO bills on the Third
National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio,
of the issue of 1882, are being ex-
tensively circulated in various cities,
and the public are advised to be on
the lookout The front is rather
poorly executed, but the back is an
avoalIaDt imitation
Mai. Gen. w. S. Harvey was mar
ried on the 18th at the Cathedral in
st. Louis to his former housekeeper,
Mary L. Cyrs. The groom is "a,
and the bride As. Harvey is the
oldest General on the retired list,
and his marriage is creating a great
deal of comment. He is very veal
thy. The pair left for New Orleans.
S. Fl. Greene & Sons, cotton fac>
tors, of Riverpoint, r. l., are charg-
cd with having discharged forty
five men from their employ because
they voted for Cleveland and Hen
bricks. Patrick Fitzpatrick one of
the prescribed men, says; ~ think
it rather hard that the State of
Rhode Island permits within its
limits greater system of slavery
than ever existed in the Southern
States, and by men who preach a
free ballot and fair counts for the
South"
The trustees of the Congregation
al church at Dubuque, Ia, met in
special session on the 10Th to cons
slider the action of the Rev. G. E.
Harrington, their pastor, in not
voting for Blaine. 1t is said that
Harrington declared that be would
rather cut off his right hand than
to vote for either Cleveland orr
Blaine, and particularly the latter.
The discussion was a hot one, and
resulted, it is said, though not def
nitely known, in discharging the
pastor.
The marriage at Albany, on the
10th, of Mr.. Daniel Manning to Miss
Mary Margeretta Fryer was char
acterized by elegance without osten-
tation. There were no bridesmaids
and no best men. Mr.. Manning
and his bride simply stood before
the Rev. Wesley Reid Davis and
were united according to the ritual
of the Reformed church. Governor
Cleveland was the first to offer con-
gratulations. Among the many
rich presents were remembr ORANGES
from ex-Gov. Tilden and Governor
Cleveland.
There is a block in New York
city bounded by Fourth street, Fifth |
street, Avenue A, and First avenue,
which is solidly composed of six
tory tenement houses, each twenty
FIVE foot frontage, representing four
on each floor. The number
of residents is estimated at over =
900. The people are Germans,
Irish, Poles, and bern Americans,
with ne Italians, Chinese, or Afri- !
cans. They are industrious as a
rule, and well behaved on the aver /
age. There is a savings bank
around the corner in First avenue,
and no pawnbroker in the immedi-
ate neighbcrhood.
A special from Chicago Of Nov.
18th, states The Cook County Cam
Board met to-day and dis
covered that the figures for State
Senator in the second precinct OF
the 8th ward had been reversed. /
Those belonging to Brand, Demo
GRAFT, having been credited to Le-
man, Republican, and vice versa.
The aIacfa Rrond hv 10 mainrifv +