The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-11-24
STATE NEWS.

a mammoth pumpkin, weighing one hun
Ired and a-half pounds, Il raised
in Knox county.
Maj r. NJ. Bearden, whom everybo-
dy knows and likes, asannounced him
self as a candidate for Mayor OF Knox
vile. He viii make a strong run.
A great revival has been going on in
the Presbyterian Church at Kingston.
About forty new converts have united
themselves with tine Church, while MANY
others are deeply anxious on the subject
Of their souls salvation.
The election last week in Chattanooga
resulted all right, Notwithstanding the
multiplicity OF candidates. WI Rath-
burn, esq, WIS elected Mayor, and Jesee
H. Allison, esq, Marshal. The Board
of Aldermen elected does very well for
Chattanooga.
The work on the great wholesale house
Of Cowan, MeClung L Co., is progressing
rapidly. 1t is an object of general sur
prise and establishment to all strangers,
who are not pr pared to see a building
Of such gigantic proportions and stately
elegance bong erected in a city the size
Of KNOXVILLE, When completed, it will
be a building creditIble to any city on
ohe Continent.
Judge Thos, A. r. Nelson delivered,
one night last week, before the Young
Peoples Christian Association, of Knox
vile, an address on "The Bible" which
IS pronounced to have been eloquent, in
jtructive and convincing. Judge Mel
son has devoted much of his time to the
study of Bible History, which added to
ms great oratory, peculiarly hts him for
,he delivery 0! such lecture Us the above.
A bold robbery took place at Chatta-
nooga about "A week ago. The parties
focused Of having perpetrated it, are
Geo. d. Critchett and Scotty Mcintosh,
both of whom have hitherto borne good
'haracters. The persons operated upon
we're Alabamians, who with the assistance
Of the police, succeeded in recovering
.ho money taken from them. They have
ncoE LATED until the case comes up for
rial. n.
The proposition to subscribe $4,000
for the purpose Of building a bridge over
The Ho!ston River, at Knoxville, was car
rcd by atlree fourths vote. Speaking of
The bridge tho Wing and Register says:
at will be n decided Improvement, and
besides, will facilitate the ingress and
ogress to and from the city. 1t cannot
lall to be looked upon i'll o favorable light
when W. think for amomont of the great
convenience it will afford to those who
orln8 their produce to market, and we
nope that the work will commence at an
Early day, and the bridge become a sub
tantial realty"
An old man named Adam Hasler, liv-
ng two Or three miles North of Kings
,on, committed suicide last Sunday week
by hanging himself. The fainily had
gone to church, and on their return.
'omo boys going into the mil for the
purpose OF Weighing themselves, found
.he old NAL suspended from Il rafter by
| rope. Life was extinct. Mr.. Hasler
vas eighty years of age, altogether "a
%ional, and his family are at a loss to ac-
count for his rash act.
The plans and drawings of the Knox
7ille Custom House have been approved
ny the proper authorities. Mr.. A. B.
Mullett, the Supervising Architect, will
visit Knoxville this week, and do what
is necessary to get the work under way
The building is to be of stone, three sto-
res high. The first story for the post
Office; the second, Offices for Federal Off
cers located at Knoxville, Jury rooms,
Sc., and the tlrird for a court room. Mr..
Maynard has recommended as material,
i quality Of stone found i'll Roane corm-
~, near Kingston. .r.t.
James Robinson's Circus disbanded
last week at Murfreesboro,' thus throw
ing up its Southern engagements. It
mas been stated by,some papers that Mr..
Robinson was frightened out of keeping
his Southern engagements by warlike
manifestations in DIupfroegboro,' and by
Col Ames' fate in Georgia. There is no
truth in such fumors. He was induced
to go into winttf quarters in conse-
luence of the very apparent fact that
money WIS too scarce in the South to
make his further travels profitable.
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