The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-02-04

els.
P. 7. Barnum's show property at
Bridgeport, Conn, which is on the
list Mt 100000, has finally been ex.
empted from taxation by the Board Of |
Relief. ASSOC
ST. LOUIS, January 30.-Gen Sher-
man and wife will soon give up their
residence here and go to New York,
where they will live at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel
One Of the questions upon which
the North and South differ il peace
Th' South wants peace, while ppr-
ton Of the North does not Turn the
rnscals out
The Misses Tillrn, nieces vf s. j. !
Tildcn, who are now the guests Of
Mrs. Secretary Manning, resemble one
another SO closcsy that it is difficult to
tell them apart.
Pierre Lorillard, whose retirement
from the turfe is announced, is aleg-
ed to have project for enclosing as a
game preserve an enormous private
park in Rhode Island.
"Why do all the cold waves come
from the northwest, my dear?" ask
ed fond husband. "Oh, because
there is so much GOODNESS between
st. Paul and Minneapolis" was the
reply. ....
Miss Lizzie Blizzard was recently
baptized in the Patapsco river This
is probably the first instance on record
where anything got the best of a biz
zard, and it naturally created quite a
breeze.
Tucson, A. T., January 30.-Mexi-
cans arriving from Nocori say the rea-
son Crawford's troops were attacked is
that the American soldiers are as
mnch Of a nuisance in Mexico as the
Apachcs are.
The President has presented gold
watches to Captain F, NJ Hughes and
Second Officer Edward Y. Roberts, of
the British steamship, Lord Cough,
FOR rescuing the crew of the American
schooner Chaptra in December last.
= John L. Sullivan says he will "take
drink whenever he wants it, and its
nobody's business" Those who have
: seen the "thumper" in his native ele-
? ment says that he practices what he
breaches and Is drunk most of the
. time. k1
= Mr. w. D. Howell's daughter is
about to try her hand at fiction; Will
liam Blacks son writes children's
!, stories, and boy of Justin Mccarthy
is going to publish novel; which il
Ndduced as evidence of heredity from
q literary progenitors.
Mr. B. F. Butler is suggested as thu
proper person to appear at the New
q Orleans Interstate Tournament, Feb
% 13, as a Massachusetts knight, but the
trouble with Butler in New Orleans il
|, that instead OF heing knight III
u might find it all day with him.
Mast is said to he gathering impres
" Sions" at Washington. An impres
II sion he is believed to have gathere,
some time since is that the Mhgwuml
route is cold and improbable on
= for Il commercial artist to travel
indianapolis Journal. t.
WASHINGTON, January 30.-Anotf
:" or horse to match the Presidents wei
: known seal brown team is ekpecte
Ut the executive mansion stable in
in lew days. The horse was purchase
lc recently in central New York and
ic now on its way to Washington.
Civil-Service Commissioner Edge
e ton fluids himself famous for havin
la delivered an address to the publ
,ir schools at Furt Wayne and not en-
ploying in his entire discourse a wor
ty OF more than two Syllables. Lectul
ar committees all over the country al
-, putting in word for his services.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell has d
st- clined to be orator at the Lowell sem
,al centennial celebration, so it will n,
re-, he GOALS to Newcastle, or Lowell
Lowell, as when the celebration taxi
place Mr.. Lowell will BE- on the broa
!, Atlantic on the way for thr'
!, months visit to his beloved England
Lynchpurg, Va, has added to h,
E flourishing tobaccoindustries the ne
70 one Of cigarette making, which no
~ employs many additional hands chic
" ly young women. Thertobacco grow
in that region during the past seast
las was Of an unusually dine quality, al
on the fall business was unexpected
o.
to good. /"
The litigation in yhiph Myra Cla
Ays Gaines spent the mpstspf her life d