The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-07-19
Cnn,lensed News.

queen victoria Is Il colonel IN lhe
German Army,
Levi P. Morton was formally notiti-
ed Saturday of his nomination.
Walt Whitman, the venerable poet,
is not expected to live long.
A great number of comparatively
short railroads have been built this
year.
Eighty public buildings, costing the
government $22OO0,00O, are now in
course of erection.
The rumor that smallpox prevailed
in the Nashville penitentary proves to
be unlounded
Two hundred car loads of water
melons are received and shipped from
Chattanooga every day.
General Sheridan arrived at Sun
quit Sunday and is now resting un-
der his own vine and fig tree.
Maude SIS fastest trotting time was
mile in 2:0S24, made at Cleveland,
O., July 80, 1885.
Hon. Creed F. Bates was endorsed
Saturday by the Hamilton county
democratic convention as the nominee
for congress.
Warrants have been issued by the
secretary of the treasury for the pay
ment Of 19,767 ,OS9 on account of pen
sions.
John w. Judd of Tennessee has been
nominated by the president to be asso.
ciate justice of the supreme court Of
the territory of Utah.
Gov. Taylor has during his admins
tration extended executive clemency
to 2l7 persons. Many of these were
for carrying pistols, ETC., and were
never in the penitentiary,
H. W. Moon, managing editor of
the St, LOUIS Post-Dispatch, and a
man Of family, has elOped with the
wife of Il prominent theatre man
ager.
The storm OF last week did great
damage to farmers about Charlotte,
n. G. sixty five farmers of that vicini.
ty loosing all their corn, oats and cot
ton.
Malone and Riddleberger have
shaken hands across the bloody chasm,
They were both snubbed at Chicago
and there ls a sort of fellow feeling be-
tween them.
John J Mahoney, Il retired book
maker, bet $4,000 to $4,000 Satur-
day with Frank T. Huntoon, OF the
Hoffman Club, on Cleveland 5 re-elec-
ton.
4 general drop in freights--to 30
cents in first class, % cents in second,
20 cents in third, 10 cents in fourth, IA
cents in fifth, and 13 cents in sixth
isreported from New York.
One hundred large nloccasin snakes
more than fifty alligators, besides one
bear and u panther were killed by en-.
giueers who were running line re-
Gently through Southeast Georgia into
Florida.
Gov Taylor has written and for
warded letter inviting the Nationa
Educational Association, now in ses
sion at San Francisco, to meet il
Nashville to hold their next session.
The Sullivan county republican
? convention has instructed for Baxter
: The party prophets about Nashville
, predict Baxters nomination on thu
5 first ballot
The Jackson Dispatch says Senate
: leham G. Harris addressed a small
audience on political issues OF he da,
at the Court House in Jackson las
Thursday
+ A Correspondent writes Evil
= you tell me in five words what tn
chief characteristic Of Grover Cleye
y land ISL"
+ That he never Aops ovor.-Nev
y York Herald.
81 guess it's bout time for that iele
Harrison to pull down his shingle a
The Boy Preacher said old Uncl
Oatcake as he laid down his paper
"When a mans old enough to get th
= Presidential nomination his whisker
: ought to grow, even if they DON'T
Puck.
'e There are seven Presidential ticket
rs in the field, Wig; democratic, ClevC
land and Thurman republican, Ha
rison and Norton industrial, Rec
stone and Calvin; union labor, Stree
10 er and Cunningham; prohibition