The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-05
State Superintendent Smith has


water-works at Shelbyville,
Girl White Caps have "given warn
ing to some Of the mashers OF An
sonia, n Y.
Senator Quay receives more regis
tered letters than any other individual
in Washington.
The senate passed the Marshall
house bill to release the penitentiary
six years by vote of 10 to TO-
Governor Taylor has approved the
bill making women eligible to be
county superlntendents of public ir-
struction.
Eddie Gould has gone to St. Louis,
it is said, to succeed A. L. Hopkins as
second vice president of the Missouri
Pacific system.
The impression is growing stronger
that Robert Lincoln will decline the
English mission because OF his wife's
confirmed illness.
W. S. Upton, editor OF the Cleve-
land Herald, has been appointed
United States marshal for the eastern
district OF Tennessee, vice w. M.
Nixon.
Another Southern Outrage,-A New
York white man stabbed negro in a
Long Island smoking car last Thurs
day because the darkey did not remove
his hat when he sat down.
Mrs. Lizzie Van Dyke and her two
children, of Atlanta, Ga, has fallen
heir to a fortune OF 100000. The
property become theirs by the death
of Mrs, William Alsop, of New York.
The republican who would resign
under democratic, and a democl at
who would resign under a republican
administration, is generally the repub-
lican or democrat who is not in office.
The total production of distilled
spirits from July |, 1888, to January
l, 1889, was ~, ,39l 1886 taxable gallons,
being the largest production for a
similar period in any year since 1888
AT Kansas wedding the other day
the brides father gave the happy cou-
pie check for $3.50. The urbane
bridegroom raised the cheek to $500
and started off on solitary wedding
tour,
A former Terre Haute shoemaker is
running mining camp saloon out in
Arizona. He used to sell boots and
shoes. But as a wild and woody ex-
change put it, he now sells booze and
shoots.
William Walker Phelps, John A,
Kasson and Mr.. Bates, of Delaware
who are to represent the United States
at the Samoan conference at Berlin
will sail from New York on the I'm.
bria on April Is.
Miss Ida Small, the sister OF Sam
Small, the evangelist, is going to util
ize the gifts bestowed on her by ma
ture, thought in widely different
field from her brother. She has join.
ed an opera company in Texas,
A New York girl who advertised
that she would marry Christian with
a dimple on his chin, has compromised
on saloon-keeper with rum-blosson
on his nose. She can wear finel
dresses than il she had married {
dimpled-chined Christian.
Amos j. Cummings, the journals
Congressman, has been presented will
a beautiful combination field, operi
and marine glass by the pages of th'
House of Representatives as testi
monial Of his efforts in having thei
salaries increased last year
Tenderioct Gn new Kansas town.
Where is the postoffice?"
Resident" Over there"
Where?"
"D'ye see that man saving wood
He's the postmaster"
Yes, but | don't see the postoffice.
"Of course you don't. It's in hi
hat"
Miss Braddon has written over fift
novels and given more than five hur
| dred characters to the world Of fictior
She has an Independent fortune an
one of the loyelest houses in England
which may in part be owing to tn
fact that she married her publishe
her real name being Mrs. John Ma,
we'll.
Two quiet and unsuspecting farm
ers have been duped by sharpers j
Monroe county. They were offerin
, to sell the rights for patent harrov
After much talk about the value an
superiority OF their implement, the