The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-04-30


In Davidson county during the
ensuing year $4,000 will be expen-
ded for public schools.
The Governor of Tennessee has
ordered the bonds necessaryfor fund.-
ing the State debt.
There are eight churches and four
schools in Trenton; it also boasts of
eighteen lawyers and ten doctors.
A clock costing from $1,000 to
81, 400, has been ordered for the
courthouse in Shelbyville.
The Lebanon post office was bur-
glarized and robbed of thirty dollars
in stamps and money recently.
Fritz. on trial at Kingston recently
for the murder of Cocker, was ac-
quilted by the jury.
James S. Bridges, an old and res
pected citizen Of Athens, died on
the 21st instant, aged 20 years.
During March there were 2,258
hogsheads of tobacco shipped from
GAINESVILLE.
Mart Teasley attempted to kill a
barber named George Carter in
Knoxville on the 22d inst, by shoot
ing at him with pistol.
A negro named Samuel Hooper
shot and killed another negro named
Oren jackson aat GAINESVILLE on
Saturday night. the 10Th inst.
A fellow was fined fifty dollars
and costs, the other day, by the Re-
corder's court at Chattanooga, for
carrying concealed weapons.
An East Tennesseean has been
telling the Petersburg Mde1 that he
has corn that weighs 81 lbs. to the
bushcl.
The P. o. at Paperville. Sullivan
county. has been re-established, and
john NJ. Buckles appointed Post
master.
The digging for gold, in Monroe
county is doubtful venture. The
people will do full as well to try the
pillow.
The Whjg and Tribune has discov-
cred a young man in Jackson who
has just become heir to an estate
worth $150,O0O,0o0 bequeathed by
a relative in England.
Hon. w. c. Whittherne. of Maury
delivers the annual address this
coming June, at the commencement
exercises of the East Tennessee
University.
Robert II. Armstrong, of Knox,
and Fl. B. Clay of Hawkins county.
have been appointed additional Com
missieners to the Viena Information
al Exposition from Tennessee, by
Governor Brown.
A respectable German. named
Hitler. was severely stabbed several
times at Knoxville. Tuesday night
before last. by a worthless fellow
named Gentle-who certainly belied
his patronymic in this instance.
The Board of Mayor and Alder
men of Chattanooga passed an or
dinance to issue $4,000 in bonds.
$4,000 for school purposes. $4,000
for streets, $4,000 for sewers and
$4,000 to pay off the floating debt.
Knoxville is making rapid strides
in substantial improvements at the
present time. New and elegant
dwellings are going up in all parts
of the city. and several large build
ing on Gay street, are contemplated,
Nashville is making great prepar-
alton for May. The Exposition
the meeting of the Methodist Bish-
ops--the final location of the Wander.
bilt University-and the Races
enough for one month. certainly.
OF making many newspapers in
Tennessee there appears to be no
end. A new one shortly is to be
established at Alamo. Crockett
county. There are now about
seventy-fve newspapers in the State
outside of Knoxville. Chattanooga
Nashville and Memphis. Before the
war there were less than forty in the
whole State.
A special term of the County
Court of Blount was held on the 18th
inst. for the purpose of taking some
action in regard to the sale Of the
Knoxville and Charleston railroad
Resolutions were adopted looking e
the purchase of the road in order tc
save the one hundred and ninety thou
sand dollars which the county already
holds in the road. An election wa:
ordered to test the wish Of the PEG
pie Of the county IN regard TO tht
matter.