The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-03-19
NEWS FROM OYER THE UNITED
STATES AND WORLD.
The Sultan of Sooloo is dead.
Cholera nravails at Asninwall.


Cholera prevails at Aspinwall.
Two German Anarchists have
been arrested at Fribourg.
Navigation has reopened between
Poughkeepsie and New York.
A bill to fog wife heaters passed
the Massachusetts, House last week.
Gladstone is suffering from ca
tarrh and is confined to his room.
The treaty of peace with Chill
has been ratified by the Constituent
Assembly of Peru.
The police of Vienna and Pesth,
are busy unwilling extensive An
archist plots.
The murder of a policeman at
Brunn, the capitol of Moravia, is
announced. 1t is believed to be the
work Of Anarchists.
The Fenian O'Leary, writes to
the Pail Mall Gazette that the do
ings Of the dynamitsrs are utterly
abhorent to his nature.
Seventy picked detectives have
been collected in London, and ia
structed in a system of espionage in
regard to the dyn&miters.
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock of
an honorary member of the Tilden
and Hendricks club, of San Fran
cisco.
There is a serious snow blockade
in New Hampshire, and trains are
greatly impeded.
Giuseppe Guidici was sentenced
in New York last week to be hang
ed May 2, for the murder OF Mag
giovini Daghairo.
Rev. DIR. Watson, Bishop elect of
east North Carolina, will be conse-
Grated at Wilmington, N. c., April
II.
The Texas Republican State Exec
utive Committee, on the 10th, de-
cidsd that the State Convention
would be held at Fort Worth, April
%.
Bishop Robert Clarkson died at l
o'clock on the morning of the 10th
instant at Omaha, Neb.
Charles Kosten was found dead
in his bed at Elgin, ILL.,, from the
effects of coal gas. His wife and
two children are in precarious con-
dition.
In a dispute regarding property,
Miss Harwell stabbed fatally her
sister, Mrs. Hughes. Both lived in
Coffee county Ala.
Oxford University has decided to
grant women the same examination
that is given to men.
The Car has received an auto
graph letter from the Emperor Will
liam eongratulating him on the an
niversary of his birthday.
The Republicans made a clean
sweep in the Middletown, n. Y,
election on the 18th. Last year the
Democrats carried everything.
Father O'Boylan of Corning, o.,
was found not guilty last week on
the charge of conspiracy to lynch
A. J. McDevitt, and was discharged.
Mrs. Herman Zimmerman of Can
ajoharie, N. Y, who was bitten by
a dog four years ago, died on Mon
day, last week, of hydrophobia af-
ter terrible suffering.
Ten train robbers broke Jail at
Silver City, A T., one night last
week. A Sheriff's posse overlook
them, killed two, wounded another,
and captured the rest.
The members of the Copiah coun-
ty committee deny that they have
been attending eolored balls or con-
Quoting themselves in an unstates-
manlike manner.
A spark from a locomotive kim
died a prairie fire at Kinsley, Mo-,
on the 18th. Mrs. G. w. Matheny
was burned to death while trying
to save her home.
Capt. James Hunter of the Saliva
ton Army has sued Chief of Police
Marsh of Bridgeport, Conn, for
$4,000 damages for causing his ar
rest and Imprisonment.
Commander William Bainbridge
Hoff, now on special duty in the
Navy Department, will probably be
ordered to command the Alert en-
her cruise to the Arctic regions.
Slavery still exist in China. The
female slaves are by far the most
numerous. The average price is
from $50 to $50 per head. Young
and healthy girl of II sometimes
fetch as high as 500.
John R. Mclean, editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, is only thirty
three years of age. He has made
money rapidly in the past five years
both from his newspaper and by |
fortunate speculations. His wealth |
is estimated now by some of his
tewnsmen in the millions.
Hiram Jacobs, oldest citizen of
Sturgis Mich, had the novel expert
ence of being buried, a few days
ago, in ga coffin make of wood from
a walnut tree ofhis own planting.
The tree was planted upon his re
turn from the Back Hawk war, in
1892"
The Grand Duke Alexis, who was
only a Lieutenant when he visited
this country few years ago, is now
High Admiral ofthe Russian navy.
He is going to England in May,
partly to see his sister, who lis the
of wife of the Duke Of Edinburgh,
but no inspect the latest improve
ment in the British navy yards.
Andrew ]. Weaver of Greenville,