The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-04-23
All Over the state.

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The wheat promises wellin Greene
county for an average yield.
| Old John Robinson's Circus is
moving in the direction Of Nashville.
Smallpox still prevails in some
portions of West Tennessee.
A barrel factory company has
been organized in Lebanon.
There are now 100000 in State
warrants out.
Ninety-two prisoners are within
the walls of the Shelby County Jail.
Lager beer is superceeding nearly
all other beverages" in Memphis.
Another weekly paper is to be
started at Kingston. in short time.
The Jenesboro' Flag reports wheat
in upper counties as very promising.
The brick-makers in Chattanooga
arc preparing for big season.
Green peas from Alabama sold in
the Nashville market last week at
$500 peck.
Hawkins county gives its Super
intendent of Public Schools $500 q
year.
The Lodge of Coed TempIars at
GAINESVILLE numbers over one hun
dred members.
The Examiner says large num-
Der of buildings will be erected in
Gallatin this year.
The Union City Courier reports
the wheat prospect in Obien county
unfavorable.
Loudon county has levied a tax
of ten cents on the 500 of taxable
property for schools.
The new Welsh Presbyterian
Church in Knoxville was dedicated
on Sunday, the 14th inst.
The Rogersville Reporter has been
removed to GreeneviIle and comes
out as the National Union.
A young man-Mont Davis-fell
dead in a ball room, at Gallatin,
recently.
About $4,000 has been subscrib-
ed toward establishing a cotton fac
tory at Greeneville.
The Blount County Court refuses
TO tax dogs by vote of eight for
taxing to sixteen against.
The Internal Revenue collected
$18,427 Is last month in the Fifth
Tennessee District.
Bolin & Co.'S Touring mill at
GAINESVILLE, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss $4,000.
A few days ago Shelby county
sent 10 prisoners to the penitentiary
for an aggregate of 63 years.
Some of the Giles county farmers
say the col0red laborers are working
better this year than usual.
The property, stocks and machin-
cry of the Methodist Publishing
House at Nashville is valued at
100000.
A fire in the Furniture Store of
Messrs. Ristine & May. at Knoxville,
on Monday before last, resulted in a
loss of about $4,000.
There are sixteen licensed rum
shops in Humboldt, and the Journal
says $3.50 a day is paid there for
liquor.
"a murder occurred in Bledsoe
county on the 4th instant. The muir
derer's name is Pleasant Price-the
victim was Pearce SOnger.
AS many as 40 young ladies' have
undergone the rite of baptism. at
Winchester, within the last three
weeks.
The sale of the A. & C. Railroad
to the New Orleans and Northwest
ern Road, has been ratified by the
Alabama Legislature.
Blount county proposes TO pur-
chase the Knoxville and Charleston
Railroad if the State will accept
100000 in the bonds of that county.
Tennessee money is growing
scarce, there being only about $685.
900 of it in the State. Very little
of it is now paid in as taxes.
State warrants at Nashville are
dull, brokers paying from 9s to 95
cents. The new issue of the Bank
of Tennessee notes are worth 25
cents in the dollar.
c. w. Charlton is canvasing East
Tennessee in the interest of agri-
culture. and viii address the people
of every county in this division of
the State on the subject.
Finley d. Hale. who was charged
with the shooting and killing of
Rufus Bailey at Johnson City, some
three years since. was tried in the
Circuit Court at Jonesboro' week
before last and acquitted.
The Knoxville Chronicle. of last
Wednesday morning, reports diff
Guilty at Concord. between Hugh
Bowling and Zach Galloway. in which
the former was wounded by pistol
shot. Galloway is nephew Of
Bowling.
The Knoxville Iron Company is