The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-20
THE ENTERPRISE.
WHITEWATER, THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1870
Items, from our Exchanges.

city haye gone to Atlanta, to get the Leg
~islature to take sOme action lookingto the
annenntiOn of that city to the State Of
Georgia. We presume these gentlemen
fancy It will be easier to get office in a
State under the power of reconstruction,
with Bullock to dispense the Offices, than
in Tennessee. We don't think these little
games will work. We have had one re-
construction here, and that will last a
lifetime, aud if Georgia is willing the peo-
pie Of Chattanooga are not, just now, at
any rate. We don't believe even Fitch,
Of the Griffin Star, has money enough to
ihdueeu us to make the trade as matters
stand now.-Chdi Times.
A man named Shaver was accidentally
killed at Jonesboro', last week we are iu-
formed, by falling from a dump car, break
ing his neck.
We understand hat one Mr.. Hulsc, of
Chattanooga, is engaged in circulating u
petition requesting Ben. Butler to use his
influence to have the State of Tennessee
reconstructed. He finds hard work in
getting signatures, and we advise him to
give it up. That thing can't be made to
work.
The employees in a Providence tannery
have sent Ida Lewis an apron, made of
cream colored morocco, with a border in
gold and colors.
W. johnson was elected Mayor of Mem
phis on Thursday last.
The New York Sun Eauls Mark Twain
over the Goals for sneering at the Cuban
patriots.
Miss jeff, of Elisabeth, New Jersey /;
owns up that she is one hundred and fur
years old.
Squire Jos. H. Davis has been elected
Mayor of Cleveland and Ed. Burgess
Town Marshall.
The press and type on which the Athens
Republican was formerly printed have
been sold to Representative Mcconnell of
Blount county, and moved to Maryville.
A young man in Cleveland announces
as his "mission," to marry the widow Van
derbilt, when the Commodore passes his
chips.
Immigration societies are being organ
lied all over Mississippi.
For the encouragement of immigration
into Texas, the Galveston and Houston,
the Texas central, and the Buffalo Bayou
and Colorado railroads charge European
immigrants entering the State only hall
price for passage, and baggage thrown in
1t is reported in W. ihington that Sen.
ator Ross, af Kansas, is about to institute
libel suits against the New York Tribune
Ohio Stale Journal and Lawrenc e Ky,
Tribune, on the ground that they charged
him with having been bought to vote fol
the acquital of President johnson.
TIE veterans of the war Of 1912 re.
siding in Missouri, whose ages range from
seyenty-twO to ~ninety-one, met at st. Lou
is on the 9Th, and drew up a memorial tt
Congress, asking that all surviving soldier
be placed on the pension list.
The London Times says that, ow in
to fears of reputation, the American
bonds, though bearing twice the interest
are not so near par as the English %consols
"A movement is on foot by the citizen
of Morristown and surrounding coun tr
looking to the establishment OK Il net
county from fractions of Jefferson, Greene
Hawkins and Granger, with Morristow
as the county site Of the I'M
The composition of the United State
FIVE and three sent pieces is oEe-fourt
nickle; the balance copper.
The London Spectator considers SCI
rotary Boutwell, a child in finance. Eli
plan, the writer continues, of forbidden
interests on deposits and limiting advance
on collaterals, is idiotic.
Specie payments have been resume
in Hannibal, Mo, to some extent. A fe
evenings since a negro woman paid a stol
bill with $3.50 in gold. Almost the sam
time R. 7. Campbell, a farmer, paid $l,2C
in silver for a similar purpose. Thel
was some talk of sending these two parti'
to a lunatic asylum.
"A respectable farmers wife in Ill. WI
in the habit, until caught, Of dressing
male habit and stealing apples from
neighbours cellar.